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'Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.’
VOLUME 27, NUMBER 52
VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
4-H Clubs Total 70 in
Couuty; More Expected
Seventy 4-H clubs have been
organized and are now active
throughout Columbia county, ac
cording to figures released this
week by Harold Black, exten
sion agent in charge of 4-H
club work. A total of 600 boys
and girls are now enrolled in 4-H
c'ub work.
Clothing clubs claim the larg
est number of any project. There
are 18 clothing clubs, as compar-
Special Singing
Program Enjoyed
The Vernonia Community Sing
was held at the Christian church
December 18 with Barbara Bass
as leader and Mrs. Kaspar,
pianist.
Since this was a special Christ
mas program the audience enjoy
ed singing the old familiar
Christmats carols. Special num
bers were sung by Sally Roe-
diger, Robert Kimball, Patricia
and Margaret Wells, Mrs. Alfred
Jones and her sister. Mr. Russell
; iayed an instrumental solo and
little Max Snook gave a delight
ful reading of “Twas the Night
Before Christmas.”
A gift offering was taken to
g.ve Christmas cheer to some
ieedy families and Mrs. Bass and
Mrs. Russell were appointed to
e that gift baskets were sent.
The next meeting of the Com
munity Sing will be held at the
Assembly of God Church, Jan
uary 8 at 2:30 p.m.
Sings are ordinarily held every
other Sunday, but due to the
Christmas and New Year’s holi-
lays, they were held three weeks
apart. This first Sing of the
New Year will be under the
leadership of Mrs. Irma Chance
and Marshall Crowell, president,
urges everyone who likes to join
in congregational singing or lis
ten to special numbers to attend.
Sportsmen to
Meet Jan. 7
1
According to an announcement
made early this week by R. M.
Aldrich, secretary of the Ver
nonia Rod and Gun club, mem
bers of the organization will hold
their annual meeting at the high
school Saturday, January 7 at 8
p.m.
Purpose of the meeting will be
to elect officers, make any neces
sary changes in the by-laws of
the corporation and transact any
business that may come up at
that time.
Voters to Decide
Fund Use Sat.
ed to 16 cooking, 14 health, 10
dairy, six forestry, fivo knitting,
one homemaking and one rabbit
club.
This is a much larger number
of clubs than was organized at
this time last year. Black stated
that by getting organized earlier
the clubs will have more time to
complete their work. This will
not only result in better quality
work but will give the clubs
more opportunity for outside pro
jects.
Other clubs will probably be
organized soon. These are ex
pected to swell the number of
4-H clubs and club members to
the 'argest number in the history
:f c;ub work in this county.
Clubs now active in the Ne
halem Valley include cooking
clubs led by Mrs. Florence Kirk
bride, Mrs. Violet Aldrich and
Mrs. Virginia Walker, Mrs. Bes
sie Tapp, Mrs. Alice Garner, Bir-
v<*nfeld; and Mrs. Aldon Ashley,
Mist.
Clothing clubs are being led by
Mrs. Virgil Snook, Mrs. Alice
Gwin, and Mrs. Helen Spofford.
Dairy clubs are under the
leadership of Ralph McKee, By
ron Kirkbride, Henry Anderegg,
and E. T. Johnston, Birkenfeld.
Robert Lindsay and Robert
Mathews of Mist are each leading
forestry clubs. A knitting club
is also being organized.
GLEN HAWKINS is shown standing beside a two-year-old hybrid
poplar tree which Columbia Tree Farm officials are watching with
interest because of its phenominal growth. The tree is located on
the Farm cottonwood plantation on Pebble creek. The growth was
92 inches in the fjrst year from a rooted cutting. (No. 3)
Two Amateurs
Get Mention
County Loses
Top in Mint
A reminder to the people interested in the business
of school district 47, Jt., was given earlier this week by
Glen Hawkins chairman of the board of directors,
when he emphasized the importance of the special
election Saturday evening, December 31. It is sched
uled between the hours of 8 and 9 p.m.
The December 31 date for balloting was set recent
ly by the board in order for people in the district to
Stores to Be
Closed Mon.
Most Vernonia places of busi
Because of losses sustained dur
Final competition to determine
ness
will close their doors for
the winners of cash prize awards ing the flood last year, Columbia
will take place at Hillsboro Jan county fell from its position as two days this week end because
uary 25 for 24 amateur acts number one producer of pepper the New Year holiday falls on
which were selected from 65
mint oil in the state of Oregon, Sunday. As has been customary
participants who recently audi
in the past, doors will be closed
tioned there and of whom two it was revealed last week in an also on Monday.
were from here. All the other Oregon Stat? college statistical
The Oregon-American Lumber
contestants originally entered in yearbook on specialty field and
Corporation
mill will also re
the amateur program held earlier drug crops.
this month were from Washing
sume
operation
Tuesday morn
Columbia county had led the
ton county with the exception of
ing
after
closing
down for the
state in both production and acre-
Lois Schwab and Jean Turner.
week end and the same procedure
I
age
for
more
than
10
years,
but
Both local girls will compete
will be followed at Camp Olson.
in the finals at the program in 1948 gave up first place to
scheduled late next month at the Marion county, which had 31 per
Hillsboro high school auditorium. cent of the acreage.
Even though cash receipts from
The program of events is being
sponsored by the Hillsboro junior farm marketing of peppermint
chamber of commerce and judg oil in Columbia county dropped
ing will be done by an applause nearly 50 per cent, the pepper
Dr. Pettr Handel-Mazzetti and
meter.
Master of ceremonies mint crop still yielded $710,000.
Arnold Alsaesser, Austrian for
will be Johnny Carpenter, an A normal year, 1947, showed the
receipts at $1,400,000 to give an esters, visited the Columbia Tree
nouncer for KOIN.
Farm recently to study me
Tickets for the program Jan indication of the value of the
thods being employed in this
uary 25 are available at the Ver mint farming to the county.
area in the logging, transporting
Other
figures
x>n
the
pepper
nonia telephone office.
mint crop in Columbia county and milling of second growth
These two European
showed: Area harvested, 1947, timber.
1,000 acres; 1948, 3,220 acres and foresters are visiting timber-pro
production, 1947, 200,000 pounds; ducing areas of the United States
to study mechanized logging
1948, 130,000 pounds.
The increase in acreage in methods and report their find
January, employers who are li mint in this county in 1947-48 ings to the Austrian government.
able for more than $100 of these compared to to the 1940-44 aver They will recommend specific
taxes in one month are required age is about 40 per cent indicat types of machinery and equip
ment to be purchased by Austria
to deposit them in either a Feder ing that the industry is becoming with ECA funds. Such equip
of more and more importance to
al Reserve Bank or a commercial the county.
ment will be used to mechanize
bank authorized to receive such
Most of the mint growing in Austrian forest operations.
deposits for transmittal to the the county is in the Clatskanie
The visiting foresters reported
Federal Reserve Bank.
that logging in their country is
and Rainier areas.
Deposits are required for taxes
done with horses, oxen or even
resulting from wages paid in the
by hand. No machinery is now
first and second months of each
being used. Many of the steep
quarter. Each such deposit should
est slopes, in the Austrian Alps
be made not later than the fif
country are logged by means of
teenth day of the next month,
sliding the logs down the slope by
but may be made earlier if de
hand.
sired. Taxes for the third month
Funeral services for Samuel
The tour included a visit to
may be deposited or paid with Hyett Stowell were conducted current thinning operations going
the quarterly return.
at the Buxton Assembly of God on in the Natal area, thinned area
The year 1950 also will mark church Tuesday following his north of Mist, a stop at Garlock
the nationwide adoption of a death at Salem December 23. His and Clausner’s mill aqd a look
combined form for quarterly re death came at the age of 77 at the new Crown Zellerbach
road being constructed near Na
porting by employers of income years, 10 months and 19 days.
tax withheld and the employer
Mr. Stowell was bom at Yuba. tal. Mr. Alsaesser reported that
and employee F.I.C.A. taxes. The Wisconsin February 4, 1872 and prior to the end of the war, v.-hen
new form. Form 941. and detailed is survived by three daughters, several bull-dozers were made
instructions will be mailed to Laura Thacker, Nellie Thacker available by the U. S. Army, all
employers late in March, in am and Sylvia Falconer and one son, road construction in Austrian
ple time for use in making the Otto Stowell.
forests was done by hand. The
return for the first quarter of
Interment was at the Buxton purchase of several war-surplus
the year. This return, covering cemetery and the Bush Funeral bull-dozers has literally revolu
wages paid in January, February home was in charge of arrange- , tionized road construction in
and March, is due by April 30.
I ments.
; their country.
Austrians Study
Timber Methods
Social Security Rate Increase
Effective on Wages in 1950
Hugh H. Earle, collector of in
ternal revenue, reminds employ
ers and employees of the Oregon
district that the Federal Insur
ance Contributions act provides
for an increase in the tax rate
under that Act to one and one-
half per cent on employees and
one and one-half per cent on
employers, based on all taxable
wages paid on and after January
1, 1950.
Ever since the beginning of the
social security program, of which
these taxes are a part, these
rates have been one per cent
each on employees and employers
and Collector Earle called at
tention to the change in order to
prevent confusion in preparing
January payrolls.
This change does not affect the
rates of income tax withholding
from wages, which are the same
as they were in 1949.
Employers were also reminded,
however, that new regulations
will be effective January 1 re
garding the depositing and re
porting of both the F.I.C.A. taxes
and income tax withheld from
wages.
Starting with wages paid in
THURSDAY, DEC. 29, 1349
Services Read
At Buxton Tues.
decide what to do with $32,129.35
in funds available for expendi
ture. The amount remains after
* attorney fees from an award of
$42,129.35 made district 47 by the
state supreme court against the
U.S. National Bank. The money
must be spent or committed for
expenditure by June 30 of the
coming year or it will go to the
county for expenditure through
out districts governed by the
county rural school board.
Should the money revert to
the county, district 47 would pro
bably received between five and
six thousand dollars of the 32
thousand.
The proposal to be voted upon
Saturday will open the way for
the district to make several im
portant changes which are neces
sary because of increasing enroll
ment and out-dated equipment,
all being changes that can be
made without additional proper
ty tax levies.
Changes proposed by school
authorities include the addition
of two new classrooms, new light
ing for all rooms and provision
for playground space and equip
ment which is not now available.
Enrollment figure gains for the
past several years indicates the
need for more classroom space.
Data released by Superintendent
Paul Gordon on the enrollment
of students since 1946 indicates
a steady increase from 465 for
that year to about 555 at the
present time with the result that
a number of teachers are instruc
ting more students than specified
as the maximum by the Oregon
state department of education.
State requirements call for not
more than 30 pupils per teacher
in the upper division and not
more than 25 for the lower di
vision which is the first three
grades.
From the standpoint of lights,
Mr. Gordon has indicated that no
rooms now meet state require
ments. Complete new lighting
will be necessary to bring the
grade building within the law.
The state has also recommended
that the district provide play
ground space and equipment
which is not now available.
The election December 31 will
make it possible for residents of
the district to decide whether
they wish to spend the $32,000
remaining for improvements here
or allow it to revert to the coun
ty for the reduction of tax levys.
Merit Badge
Show Planned
A committee to be in charge of
arrangements for the coming Boy
Scout merit badge show was
named recently with Kent Bau-
ersfeld as chairman. Announce
ment of the committee was made
earlier this week by Lloyd Quinn,
Scoutmaster, who also released
the names of the other members
of the committee.
Working with Mr. Bauersfeld
will be Lew Choate, Bill Horn
and Tom Bateman. They will
be in charge of planning the show
while the regular Boy Scout and
Cub Scout committees will have
charge ef preparing the boys
for the event. The merit badge
show will take place during na
tional Boy Scout week early in
February.
Accomplishments
Of Month Noted
December has been a busy
month for the American Legion
Auxiliary.
The Christmas calender of ac
tivities which started early in the
month included over 100 assorted
gifts for the Veterans hospital
bed side gift shop and a cash do
nation of $28.05, also a cash gift
of $60.00 to the child welfare
center and $10.00 cash for the
Yanks who gave.
On December 17 a Christmas
party was given for the Teen-age
recreation center, the Auxiliary
presenting them with a record
player and serving refreshments.
A Christmas party for Legion
and Auxiliary members and their
families was enjoyed on Decem
ber 19. This affair was well at
tended.
Plans were completed for the
annual New Year’s Eve carnival
dance for December 31.
Qualifications for
Training Met
All the qualifications necssary
for entrance to army officer
training school have been met by
Albert Woolsey Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. A. Woolsey, who,
entered the army in October.
Young Woolsey returned here a
few days ago for the holiday sea
son.
/
He expects to be assigned to
the school as soon as he reaches
his 19th birthday. In the mean
time he will complete his basic
training in about a month and
then expects to be transferred to
Camp Belvoir, Virginia to the
engineer headquarters.
He is
stationed at Fort Ord, California
and returned there Wednesday
morning.
Sign up at 18
Still in Effect
The information reaching the
recruiting service is that all boys
who reach their 18th birthday
must report to the nearest selec
tive service board and register
for the draft. There may be
some changes made in the draft
law at the next session of con-,
gress, but the present law is
still in effect and will continue
to be so until changed by law.
Word of the requirement was
given in a reminder issued a few
days ago by Cpl. Keith Cowan,
recruiter who visits Vernonia
regularly each month.
Seal Sale Fund
Exceeds $3000
The total in the Christmas
seal campaign in Columbia coun
ty—one of the most successful
in history—soared past the $3,000
mark last week, it was reported
by Mrs. Estella Harris, executive
secretary of the Columbia Coun
ty Tuberculosis and Health as
sociation.
The Thursday total, as announc
ed by Mrs. Harris, was $3398. a
large amount of which will be
used for the 1950 program of
combating and preventing tuber
culosis in Columbia county.