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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1950)
Library, U of O » in, wuuiuuxn uuunii, VlvriljUl'l Strategy for Friday Game Jobs Available; Voter Sign-up Pay Is Great Time Near End Want a job? Three of them Clock and Mail Changes Slated Clocks are slated to be set back an hour Sunday and as a consequence a change is sched uled for the daily mails, Emil Messing, postmaster, said Tues day. The changes come about with the change from daylight sav ing to standard time. As far as the mail is concerned it will be received here an hour earlier by the clock or 10:30 a m. instead of 11:30 as has been the case during the summer. The dispatch time will be 3:30 the postmaster said. First Fall Cub Meeting Due The start of Cub Scout activity for the fall and winter is sched uled next Tuesday evening when the Cubs and their parents are asked to be at a meeting at the IWA hall at 7:30. Word of the meeting was voiced by D.F. O'Brien, assistant cubmaster, Tuesday and at the same time he stressed the importance of a turnout of parents that evening. A change is planned for the Cubs in that those boys eligible to receive badges must be ac companied by a parent. An ex planation of the procedure will be made at the meeting. The time to register in order are available and the compensa tion you get if you accept one to vote in th? November general election is nearing an end and is satisfaction. Besides you can the final date is Saturday, Oc be pretty sure of holding down tober 7. People living here who your post for four years with the must register in order to cast chance that you can continue their ballots can sign up either for longer—that is if you haven’t with Albert Childs at the city had enough and want to quit. hall, with Jewell Lloyd at the IWA hall or with Walter Math The jobs are two positions on the city council and the mayor's ews at Mist. post wheih have to be filled Whether it is necessary to when the votes are cast in register is determined by several November. The pay amounts to factors. —nothing and the jobs are for Qualifications for a voter are four year terms. that he must be 21 years of age, If interested, there are two a United States citizen and a ways to go after these highly resident of Oregon for six months lucrative posts: be nominated at prior to the date of the election. a mass meeting of citizens of Thos? who have registered pre the city or seek signatures on a viously, but who must re-register petition nominating yourself. arc persons who have changed There’s also a moneyed job their place of residence or who open and for it a petition has have changed their name. Also, already been filed. C. F. Hieber's anyone who has not voted at name will appear on the ballot either of the last two general to seek the treasurer job, the elections should check to see if only one open with pay in the his name has been dropped from form of money. the poll books. Up to Tuesday no petitions had Anyone who will have reached been filed for councilmen or the age of 21 by the November mayor and October 6 is the dead election date can register now. line. Local Delegates Back from Meet Logger Gridmen Prepare For Annual Lion Fray The Vernonia Loggers started practice this week, after the trouncing received at the hands of Banks, with a determined lodk in their eyes which will spell trouble for the St. Helens Lions who will invade the city Friday night at the local city park field. As far as injuries go the most serious suffered to date were colds and pulled muscles, and the Loggers will probably be at full strength when they meet the Lions. This week's activities were spent by the locals brushing up on plays, blocking and tackling practice, and taking care of the weak spots that showed up in the Banks game Friday evening. The Vemonia-St. Helens game has developed into one with much rivalry between the two schools for the last ten years with the Loggers winning five of these gridiron specials and the Lions winning two with three being tied. Results of the last ten Delegates representing Local 5-37 of the IWA-CIO at the 14th annual convention of the union at Minneapolis, Minnesota last week were Elmer Koplin, business agent of the Local, Charles Duncan and Jewell Lloyd, local president. Also present from Local 5-37 were Al Hartung, now of Port land, and Chet Dusten, CIO re gional director of the CIO for Oregon. Hartung is first vice- president of the Union. Sixty- five delegates attended repre senting Locals of the Columbia River district. years are as follows: Year Vernonia St. Helens 1950 T? 1949 6 26 1948 7 6 1947 0 33 1946 34 0 1945 13 13 1944 38 0 1943 13 6 1942 6 6 1941 18 0 1940 0 0 Total Pt*. 13$ 90 It is also interesting to notice that in the last ten years the A first aid course of study Lions have yet to beat the locals started at the Washington grade as the Loggers have won three school Tuesday evening, primarily and tied two. So all in all the for Columbia Tree Farm em game Friday evening should be ployees but open to anyone else pretty good. interested. The classes will also To date the St. Helens team be held Septembr 21, 26. and 29 has played two games. The game in addition to the Tuesday even played with Grants Pass ended ing session. up with a 26 to 6 score in favor Instructor for the classes is of the Cavemen and the game Fred Pontin. Those completing last week with Tigard ended up the work will receive first aid 13-0 in favor of the Bulldogs. cards. First Aid to Be Study Topic i j ; ! 1 oEri, Zl, iy«M MayorPicks Cave-in at Vacant City Council Chair Special Day Tunnel Stops Filled Mon. Train Runs Bid Rejected for Park Pool Work Due High Cost Figure COACH LEE PANGLE, left, is giving his Logger backfield men some pertinent instructions for Friday's game when the St. Helens Lions are scheduled to take the field here against the Loggers in that annual county classic that's unpredictable as to outcome. The backs from left are Loren Mills., Bobby Adams, Gordon Crowston and Gerald Millis. InUnoUnI, The council chairs for the city of Vernonia will all be filled again at the time of the next official session as the result of an appointment made Monday evening naming Paul A. Gordon to take the place vacated by Bert Brunsman. Mr. Brunsman resigned a short time ago because of a call to re turn to service, hence the va cancy. The appointment was made by the council upon the suggestion of Mr. Gordon’s name by Mayor Sam Hearing. Bids for work on two different jobs the council has in mind were opened Monday. One pro ject, that of constructing a retain ing wall and wading pool at the park swimming pool, received an order that bids be called for again because of the high price of the one bid submitted. The figure for the work was over $8,000. The other bid for the work of changing the creek, bed at the city dump was tabled temporarily until city officials can make further examination of the job and the amount of dirt and rock it will be necessary to move to change the creek. It is possible also that a different dumping spot may be obtained, thereby making it unnecessary to make the change at the pre sent site. A bid of $80 for two parts of lots was accepted by the coun cil for city property located at the corner of Rose avenue and Columbia street. The bids were submitted by Bud Borton. Other business of the evening was the reading and adoption of an ordinance setting the salaries of city employees and the issuing of an order that river gravel be applied to Maple street as base rock. Both County Commission er Clyde Henderson and Ben Smith, road supervisor for this district, were at the meeting to talk over th? gravel proposition with the council. Gravel Remains For Six Miles The road between the St. Helens junction near Pittsburgh and Scappoose is paved now with the exception of about six miles just this side of the summit as the result of work done a short time ago by the state. Part of this end of the road, which was paved last year by the county, has been repaired by the county road oiling crew which completed the work a few days ago. As a result of the additional paved surface, auto speeds have increased so that there is a greater danger of accidents, es pecially on corners. Some con cern has been expressed by the county officials that collisions will result unless speeds are re duced. Other county work now in pro gress is construction of the Fish hawk bridge across the Nehalem near Birkenfeld. Work has been underway there for five weeks on the structure which will be 186 feet in length. Saturday of this week has been set aside as a special day here by Mayor Sam Hearing for obser vance of the Crusade for Freedom and extra effort will be devoted at that time to pointing out the purpose of the Crusade and the obtaining of signatures on the freedom scrolls. Special arrangements for the day are being made by Bill J. Horn, chairman of the Crusade in this locality. Rev. Paul Sisler will speak at the Saturday after noon gathering and in addition, the Legion and V.F.W. will op erate booths where people may sign the scrolls. A booth at the post office has been maintained this week for the same purpose and school students have had the Crusade explained to them also as part of the effort being devoted to obtaining signatures. Mutual Bombing Aid Planned Mutual aid plans in the event an atom bomb attack should ever take place was the topic of a Red Cross meeting which took place in Portland last Fri day. Six people from Columbia county, among them Mr. and Mrs. Guy Thomas, were present to hear plans for action in such an event. Mr. Thomas is chairman of the Columbia County Chapter of the American Red Cross. First charge of the Red Cross would be provision of food, clothing, shelter and supplement al medical supplies. The efforts of the Red Cross would be co ordinated with the civilian de fense organizations. A second coordination meeting on the same subject will take place in Portland October 6. Blood Bank to Come Another visit here of the Red Cross mobile blood unit is sched uled Monday, October 16, ac cording to Guy Thomas, chair man of the county Red Cross chapter. Definite plans for the visit will be work d out and an nounced shortly before the date for the ^information of donors. Train service here was inter rupted unexpectedly last Satur day because of a cave-in at the tunnel and as a result operation of the Oregon-American mill was stopped yesterday morning. Workmen have been busy on a 24-hour basis since the trouble occured and expect to have the track open by Friday of this week if no further trouble should develop. The cave-ln was 150 feet long, 10 feet deep and 40 teet wide and probably resulted from work that was underway previously. Before the trouble, workmen had been busy digging out the tunnell and it is thought that the cave-in might have resulted from weakening of the support ing structure. Freight cars are scheduled now to be here Monday morning if the road can be opened. Hardware Store Owners Change The ownership of Hoffman Hardware was changed this week with the announcement that Mr. and Mrs. George Hahn of Forest' Grove are the new owners. Nego tiations for the business trans action were underway the latter part of last week whereby Mrs. C. S. Hoffman of MacKenzie Bridge, former owner of the business, disposed of the firm. Mr. and Mrs. Hahn have leased the building. They will make ♦ his their home, moving here from Forest Grove where he was formerly associated with Drake Auto Parts. Change Announced Mass at St. Mary's Catholic church on Sunday, September 27 will be held at 9:30 standard time. . Cone Crop Good Here but Some Trees Destroyed the person on whose land the trees are growing. In a few instances, however, complete de struction of trees at the hands of the cone pickers has resulted. The above picture shows a de stroyed tree which happens to be on Crown Zellerbach lands, but similar damage has been reported by other landowners. Would you cut down an apprte tree to pick the apples? In the >»me thought, is it reasonable to destroy a fir tree to pick this year’s cone ctop? A large second-growth tree may produce as many as 200,000 sound seeds each season—200,000 young trees. If the tree is killed by careless' cone-pfcking, further seed pro duction halts. But, proper pick ing of cones will leave the trees in condition to produce a veri table young forest of its own season after season. Examiner Slated The drivers license examiner wiil be on duty in Vernonia Fri day, September 29 at the city hall between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Persons wish ing licenses or permits to drive are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead of the scheduled closing hour in order to assurg completion of their applications with a minimum of delay. Clean-out Expected By Friday Barring Unforseen Trouble The Nehalem Valley has been blessed this season with the best Douglas fir cone crop in the state and, 83 a result, several thousand bushels of cone* have been collected in the area by Crown Zellerbach corporation and by Woodseed company of Salem. The majority of the cones have been picked with proper con cern for the property rights of To destroy a tree today de stroys a potential forest. Eaeh individual tree is important, cone pickers are asked to leave every tree in a healthy condition to grow and produce many more large cone crops. Experience has proven that cones can be picked either from squirrel cuttings, by carefully climbing the trees, or by picking in areas where land is being cleared or where logging is going on. In any case, cones should never be picked without permis sion from the land owner.
