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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
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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.
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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.