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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1950)
Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 28, NUMBER 4 Aftermath Ice Deposit Stops Power Use Thursday THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1950 Star Center City Water Use Stopped to Hold Emergency Supply BEN SMITH was busy grading snow from Maple si reel last Saturday to clear another portion of the town's street system of snow which had seriously h’ndered traffic in this area s!nce the heavy fall over a week ago. Residential areas as well as the busin ss section were cleared by workmen using the reader above, trucks and the scoopmobile._______________________________________ ___ _____ Country Club Change Made A change in the operation of the Vernonia Country club, was announced Monday of this week by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Vike who have taken over management of the concern for Mr. and Mrs Dave Howard who are said to be on an extended vacation in southern Oregon. A club room has been opened and is available to members ancf their guests every night and to organization- for luncheons, dinners and card parties. Mr. and Mrs. Vike have an nounced that members may make arrangements for guests by let ting them know in advance. As planned now, Mr. and Mrs. Vike will remain in charge of the din ing and club room and Dave Howard will have charge of the course when time for p'ay opens in the spring. Blanks Available The application blanks needed to apply for the Washington state soldier’s bonus and also for bene fits for the ’ex-prisoners of war are available in limited quantity at the Vernonia Insurance office. The applications were obtained by Bill J. Horn who announced Wednesday that they are avail able. Zero Reading Recorded Wed. Rites Conducted In Portland Tues. A low recording of zero was listed for the Wednesday morn ing reading at the cooperative weather station by' Mrs. Helen Spofford, who reported Wednes day morning the daily tempera ture readings from Wednesday of last week. • At 11:30 yesterday morning the thermometer had risen to 16 degrees, she said. Daily from last Wednesday up to this Wednesday th° maximum and minimum recordings have been: January 18 — 26 degrees and one degree; January 19 — 36 and 24; January 20 — 41 and 33; January 21 — 39 and 23; January 22 — 46 and 34; January 23 — 46 and 24 and January 21 — 31 and 20. Mrs. Spofford also said that 12 inches of snow and sleet had fal len during the past week. Death came earlier this month to Viola D. Tatro of Portland, mother of Vila G. Smith and Etta F. Wells of Vernonia. She passed away January 13 at the age of 86 years and nine months. Services were conducted Tues day, January 17 at the Little Chapel of the Chimes and inter ment was at Lincoln Memorial. Mrs. Tatro left a family of eight children, 10 gradchildren and 12 great grandchildren. She had been a resident of Oregon for 48 years. Surface Work Planned About seven miles of oiling for the surface of the Scappoose- Vernonia road is scheduled to take place later this year, pro bably in the spring, an announce ment by the state highway com mission indicates. Bids on the project are to be opened Febru ary 6 and 7 by the highway de partment, along with 15 other projects in the state. Next Cub Scout Meeting Set The monthly Cub Scout pack meeting will be held January 31 at 7:30 p.m. at the Union hall, according to Jim Davies, Cub master. The new Cub Scout flag will be viewed for the first time at the meeting. Also to be discussed is the coming Boy Scout and Cub Scout circus to be held sometime in February which wi'l be open to the public. This meeting will also serve as the re-registration for all den mothers, committeemen and scouters. Everyone is requested to attend. The meeting will be closed with a movie. More Logs Saved Electric service here, along with many other sections in this part of the state, was interrupted the latter part of last week be cause of the storm which left heavy deposits of ice on trees, poles and wires alid which caus ed two breaks in the electric supply line between here and the Warren substation last Thursday. The service break also made necessary the turning off of city water service temporarily to con serve what water remained in one reservoir for emergency use. One city storage tank had been drained when the service was stopped in order to save what remained in the other. Long-distance telephone service from here was stopped a week ago yesterday and had not been restored by Wednesday of this week. West Coast Telephone company workmen had been busy attempting to repair the long distance line from here through Timber in order to restore ser vice, according to Mrs. Tom Tur ner, manager of the local ex change. She thought service might be restored by today. The feeder electric line be tween here and Warren ¿tas broken in one place near the old Clark and Wilson tunnel and in another place near the substa tion at Warren. West Oregon Electric linemen started work on the breaks as soon as they oc- cured and continued through the night and all of Friday to make repairs. The Oregon-American mill, which shut down part of last week, resumed work Monday morning as did the schools which were also closed last week. How ever, school was discontinued Tuesday because of snow again Monday, but the closure was made for the one day only. No damage resulted to the contents of lockers at the Mill Market because of the power break. The temperature recording of the lockers never exceeded 14 degrees which was only two degrees above the highest point to which the temperature' ordin arily rises. No one was permit ted to enter the lockers during the interruption. The sale of candles for tempo rary lighting reached a high point during .the week end with some stores selling their stock completely. Kerosene and gas lanterns were also widely used. Ownership of Shop Changed Ownership of a business es tablishment over three years ago was changed it was learned by an announcement made here Monday when operation of the Second Street Shoe shop was taken over by Charles Kelly. E. F. Chambliss, former owner of the business and who is em ployed at the mill, established the business at its present loca tion and has operated it since that time. Pomona to Meet THIS PULPWOOD loading operation scene was taksn in 1948 on the Columbia Tree Farm io show the results of relogging the land after completion of thi first logging operation. This show was located on the McDona'd road. The Columbia County Pomona Grange will meet at the McBride ;chool at II a.m. Saturday, Feb ruary 4 for the regular quarterly session with Warren Grange en tertaining according to an an- nouncement by Mrs Pear' Becker, correspondent. McBride school is the new building two blocks south of the St. Helens junction on the Columbia River highway. Services for Valley Pioneer Contacted Wed. Resident of Valley Since 1874 Taken by Death January 22 NET FANS will have the chance to see Silas Phelps, center for the Kansas City Stars, in action here Tuesday, February 7 when the colored team is scheduled to meet the V.F.W. eagers at the high school gym. Phelps stands 6 feet three inches and weighs 194 pounds. Colored Stars Billed by VFW A reasonable facsimile of the great Harlem Globetrotters with which it is associated, the fast and flashy Kansas City Stars basketball team has been signed to face the Vernonia VFW on the program at the Vernonia high school gym Tuesday, February 7 at 8:00 p.m. Originally formed to make places for some of the Globetrot ter players returning from ser vice, the Kansas City Stars prov ed such a hit from the start that they have been retained on a permanent basis and developed into one of the finest traveling teams in the country. Many rate- them -next only to the Globetrotters among the tour ing clubs. They are in demand everywhere in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The team had a four-year record of 481 victories against only 31 defeats going into this season. The first season they won 128 and lost 3. The following year it was 113 and 5. The 1947-48 campaign saw them victorious 109 times and defeated 11. Last year the flashy razzle dazzle aoes turned in 131 triumphs while dropping 12 games. Scouts Appear At Court Mon. Thirty Boy Scouts were present at the Washington school Monday for the first troop court of honor at which one Scout, Kenneth Parker, was advanced to first class rank and other boys re ceived merit badges. Mayor Sam Hearing was honor ary chairman of the court and presented the badges. D. F. O’Brien, Scout committee chair man, acted as chairman. The mayor also gave a short talk to parents and the boys. Cloth Star Scout badges were also presented to the five Star Scouts of the Vernonia Troop. Boys receiving merit badges were: Charles McAdam, Fred I i n d s I e y , Arleigh Laramore, Claude Gibson, Bobby Rose. Earl Kipp, Donald Morgan, Teddy Grice, Pat Lloyd, Earl Ray, Da vid Strong and Kenneth Jacobs. Funeral services were held Wednesday, January 25 at 1:30 at the Evangelical United Breth ren church for Mrs. Emma Weed who passed away Sunday,. January 22 at a Portland hospital at the age of 88 years, 6 months, and 27 days. Emma Van Blaricon was born on June 26, 1861 near Water ville, Minnesota. In 1870 she left there with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Van Blaricomv, who had felt the call of the West. They traveled by oxen-drawn covered wagon as a part of a covered wagon train and ex perienced many hardships in corssing the plains. They settled first in Wash ington near Walla Walla, but? when the crops were completely destroyed by grasshoppers in 1872, they decided to come to Oregon. In 1873 they settled in Benton county and in 1874 came to the isolated wilderness of the Nehalem valley to homestead. Entrance to the valley was made by pack trail over part of what is now Pebble creek road. The 13-year-old girl, Emma, walked and led a pack horse, wading Pebble creek many times even waist deep. The VanBlari- coms were the second family to homestead in the Upper Ne halem Valley, being proceeded only a few months by the Parkers. Their homestead was about a mile and a half north of the present site of Vernonia and the first summei they lived under a cedar tree near where Mr. and Olin’s house now stands. In 1879 she was married to Judson Weed to whom she had gone to school in the old log school house. They began their life together on Mr. Weed’s homestead four miles south of Vernonia and with the exception of a few years when the family lived at St. Helens and Philomath, she has always lived at that place. Mrs. Weed was a charter mem ber of the Evangelical church when it was established here in 1887 and has always remained faithful to it. She also was a charter member of the Women’s , Relief Corps and active in the Patriotic work of that organiza tion. She leaves to mourn: three children: Oscar G. Weed and Mrs. E. E. Garner, Vernonia, and Mrs. R. D. Kaufman, San Gabriel, California; one brother Samuel Van Blaricom of Orchards, Wash ington; five grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren, as well as a host of other relatives and friends. Services were read by Rev. Paul Sisler with J. P. Finley Co. of Portland in charge. Tax Return Help To Be Provided Assistance with the preparation of state income tax return forms will be available early in April at several places near here ac cording to a release of informa tion from the state tax commis sion earlier this week. In this county a tax agent will be on duty at Rainier, city hall, on April 3 ffom 9 a m. to 4 p.m. and St. Helens at the court house April 4 and 5 from 9 to 4. An agent is scheduled to be at the Forest Grove city hall April 6 and 7 and at Hillsboro at the court house April 10 to- 14 inclusive, ail times being from 9 to 4.
