Vernonia eagle., January 18, 1951, Page 2, Image 2

■2 THURSDAY, JAN. 18, 1951
THE EAGLE,
TOWW TOPICS
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Graham
of Portland spent the week end
at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D. P. Spofford.
DANCE February 3, Masonic
Temple. Nehalem Social Club.
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Miss Donna Bennett of Port­
land visited her sister and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Bass, over
the week end.
DANCE February 3. Masonic
Temple. Nehalem Social Club.
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Miss Neomi MrMullen spent the
past week visiting at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Morgan,
leaving Sunday afternoon for
Portland where she entered the
Powellhurst Bible College on
Monday.
WE HAVE JUST received and
will continue to receive new
cress patterns. Popularly priced
at 25c and 35c. Nichols Variety
Store.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ed Salomonsen
left here Tuesday on a vacation
trip that will take them to Ari­
zona. They plan to be away at
least two months.
DANCE. I.O.O.F. hall Saturday.
January 20. Old time music.
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Mr. and Mrs. William A. Larson
and two children, who formerly
«■sided at Birkenfeld, have mov­
ed to Orenco.
Wayne Shafer, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Lankston, suffered an
acute appendicitis attack last
Thursday. He was taken to the
Emanuel hospital for the opera­
tion and left there Sunday to
stay with his aunt, Mrs. R. L.
Wallizer, in Portland. He is ex­
pected home this week end.
DANCE. I.O.O.F. hall Saturday,
January 20. Old time music.
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How Many Do You Remember ?
VERNONIA. ORE.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Kit tieton. who
reside on Stoney Point, were in
Vefnonia Wednesday to visit
friends.
DANCE. I.O.O.F. hall Saturday.
January 20. Old time music.
Stic
Peachey Escapes
Entrapment
News was received from George
Peachey who is with the 31st In­
fantry of the 7th Division in
Korea.
He was in the December en­
trapment but got out safely, the
only man of his outfit to get out
on his feet. Several of his bud­
dies were in the hospital in Ja­
pan and many failed to return.
He stated that they traveled
without food or rest for two days
and nights and endured much
hardship.
Writing Christmas day he said
the day was sad for him thinking
of the men who were lost and
their folks at home.
He planned to go back into fire
in a few days with a new outfit.
DATES TO REMEMBER
Sun., Jan. 21 — Community Sing.
Asembly of God church..
Mon., Jan. 22 — Public installa­
tion of Rainbow officers. Ma­
sonic Temple.
Mon., Jan. 22 — High school
P.-T.A. meeting, high school. 8
p.m.
Fri.. Jan.. 26 — Civilian defense
meeting, Washington school.
7:30 p.m.
OUT OF THE
WOODS . . .
STEP OUT IN STYLE
Red Gold
It was old Puget Sound cedar
country. Stumps weathered to
SMILE
a moldy gray and coated with
moss stood from 6 to 12 feet high
Being and feeling well-dressed
in the second growth forest. The
deer not always mean new
whine of a power saw came
clothes . . . but it does mean
through the drizzle. It faded
immaculately clean and well-
and a maul thumped a wedge.
.pressed clothes . . . and that
The stump toppled, cut off close
is what our dry cleaning
to the ground. The butt loomed.
service gives you.
Inside the mossy rind cedar wood
shone, sound and strong.
‘Red Gold,” said Ed Kittila,
forestry man of the Soil Conser­
vation Service.
“Prime wood
for the rustic shakes they like
on the walls and roofs of fine
homes all over the country. So
money not only grows on trees
but in old stumps.”
The treasure hunt in the gray
and mossy ghosts of great wilder­
ness cedars was on the 40 acres
of Paul Lehmeier, northwest of
Sedro Woolley. Washington.
Neighbor Frank Taylor, owner of
an 80-acre “stump ranch” was
running the power saw. Leh­
meier himself was splitting off
“blanks,” each one good for three
shakes.
Home-made Hennery
A COSTLY CRASH
•'One stump yielded 200 blanks,"
Your car will come out he said. "That means $30. The
“second best” if it tangles original whole tree brought no
with a telephone pole. more dollars 50 years ago. And
I’ve sold 60,000 board feet or
You will find the repair sawtimber at $8.50 per thousand
bill* are “plenty”.
as thinnings from my tree crop,
Add collision damage along with 750 poles from second
growth cedar.”
to your Comprehenisve
"And Paul has built himself a
Automobile policy and all 50x24 feet poultry house with
pole frame and shake roof from
such losses will be paid.
his own land." said Neighbor
Consult this Hartford Taylor. "All he bought in town
agency NOW about com­ were nails, some siding and
plete protection for your cement. Now h- has 250 Hamp-
shires laying for him."
car.
"All of this,” said the SCS man,
“has left his tree land and its
new crop in better shape than
VERNONIA
it was before. That’s the beauty
INSURANCE
of it.”
Huge cedar stumps survive by
Bill J. Horn, Agent
the ten of thousands on the Pa­
905 Bridge Street
cific slope of Washington and
Phone 231. Vernonia
Oregon. Only sticking up like
sore thumbs for a half-century.
IN DRESSES THAT
iernonia Cleaners
THiS PHOTO was brougt to the Eagle by Mrs. Nan Hall Johnson.
It shows the students of Vernonia high school shortly alter the pre­
sent building was constructed and may be the group which first
attended school there after the buildistg was placed in use. Some
of the faces have been identified by people who lived here then,
but others have not. Information available to The Eagle indicates
the following names: back row from left—Loel Roberts, Eben John.
Evelyn Jolly. Ted Keasey. Julia Keasey. Myrtle John. Lora Van
they are now being taken into
the gigantically growing efforts
of salvage logging in th? big­
timber country of the Northwest
Coast.
Grays Harbor Example
This effort has been a lift­
saver for two of the West Coast s
oldest timber towns, Aberdeen
and Hoquiam, where 9,000 were
on forest industries payrolls 20
years ago. Then the best of the
Douglas firs were taken for mill­
ing into huge timbers, rough,
green lumber, and plywood. Vast
stands of hemlock were left as
“weed trees.” By 1930 the re­
servoir of big timber was low.
Then a block of the best of the
virgin forest was reserved from
harvest in the new Olympic Na­
tional Park — 18 billion board
feet, enough to build l,800,00u
homes.
Yet today the forest products
industries of the Grays Harbor
area employ about as many per­
sons as they did in 1930. And—
only a third as much timber is
being cut per year to provide the
raw material for the support ot
payrolls!
One of the greatest stories of
community reclamation ever told
is in the records of McCleary on
the easter end of the area, and
industry is the hero of the epic.
The story is simply another
chapter of the triumph of indi­
vidual enterprise and group or­
ganization against defeat. One
result is a pulp and paper indus­
try that uses hemlock, the one­
time weed tree. Other indus­
tries make use of hemlock lum­
ber. No marketable bit of Doug­
las fir is lost. One new industry
turns out 5.000 chairs a day.
Others, little and large employ
from 6 to 600 men. in the making
of a great variety of wood pro­
ducts.
On Paul Lehmeier’s 40 actes and
seldom err.”
-Confucius
CAKES TODAY!
You too will find it is much easier and just as cheap to buy
a cake hare, than making it vourself. The taste •« supreme,
with nothing but the finest ingredients going into our cakes.
Come in today and try our baked goods—
VERNONIA BAKERY
HOME OF BUTTER KRUST BREAD AND
ARDEN ICE CREAM
Recent Trip to Washington Made
RIVERVIEW — Mr. and Mrs.
Frank McCool and children of
on the million acres of Grays
Harbor County alike the people
of the woods are proving that
forest conservation pays.
Portland spent the wetk end at
the Louis Huntley home.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Mitchell
made quite a trip recently visit­
ing relatives. They visit d her
daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. E. W. Cooper, at Tacoma,
his nephew, Wayne Davis, at
Bremerton and Mr. and Mrs.
Melvin Kyser at Castle Rock and
her son and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis McCoy, in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Fraser of
Portland spent the week end at
the home of their daughter and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Wyckoff.
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