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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1951)
Library, U of O * Point of Law Victory Over Westport Explained by Lengthens List of Wins Representative Social Security Application to Farmers Outlined > 4 Persons in Columbia county employing regular farm help were reminded that they should learn if such work is covered by the new social security law which became effective January 1, 1951. Kenneth Deming, who repre sents the social security admin istration in Columbia county, ex plained that beginning January 1 cash wages paid regularly em ployed farm workers must be reported to the collector of in ternal revenue by their employ ers on or before July 31, 1951. How do you determine whether or not taxes are due? Agricul tural labor is not taxed until after the worker has been con tinuously employed (whether or not in farm work) for a full calendar quarter by the same employer. This is called a “qua lifying quarter” and no tax is due for any farm work in that quarter. However, after the “qualifying quarter” has been ob. tained, taxes will be deducted and paid for each quarter there after that the worker is paid wages of at least $50 in cash and is employed by the same employ er for at least 60 days in the quarter. Beginning with the first cal endar quarter in which you pay taxable wages to one or more regularly employed farm em ployees you must file quarterly returns on form 941, reporting tho taxable wages, if any, paid in each quarter. Form 941 is called “Employers Quarterly Federal Tax Return” and should be filled in accord ing to the instructions printed on the form. Near the end of each calendar quarter, the collector will mail a form 941 to each farm employer on his mailing list. If taxes are due from a farm employer who is not on the mailing list, the employer should ask the collec tor for Form 941 and should ad vise the collector of the name and address to be added to his mail ing list. The Form 941 which the col lector will send to those on his mailing list will be preaddressed with name, address and identi fication number. If the pread dressed form is lost a new one should be requested. The calendar quarters of the year and the last day for filing a return for each quarter are as follows: Mos. in Quarters Returns Due April 30 Jan., Feb., March April, May June July 31 July, Aug., Sept. October 31 Oct., Nov., Dec. Jan. 31 Those of you who have prob lems to discuss should either contact the collector of internal revenue or contact Mr. Deming on the first and third Mondays of each month between the hours of 1:00 and 3:00 in county court house, St. Helens, or write to social security administration, Room 104, Old Post Office Build ing, Portland 4, Oregon. Swimmers Notified Swimmers who wish to com pete for the tenth annual Colum. bia county swimming and diving championships Sunday at St. Helens are asked to be at the Vernonia pool tonight. Thurs day, at 6:30. At that time they will plan for entering the com petition Sunday. Recruiter Here Mondays I Sgt. Richard L. Matney, new recruiter for the army and air force, will be in Vernonia each Monday from noon until 5 p.m. and later by appointment. Sgt. Matney can be contacted at the post office. Vernonia stretched a winning streak to five in a row by down ing Westport 12-5 last Saturday evening when the two teams met at Clatskanie at 8:45. Wesley Hunt led the Vernonia batsmen with a triple and two singles in six times at the plate and John son and Langford collected two for four times at bat. Johnson smashed out a double with the bases loaded and Lang ford was chalked up with two singles. < On the mound Langford gave up three hits for two runs in six full innings, walking two. Office Totals Years Receipts Business for the fiscal year 1958-51 ended for the post office department as of June 30 and figures for the year were re leased earlier this week by Post master Emil Messing. Postal receipts for th? year total $15,761.43. Included in that figure are such items as stamp sales, newspaper postage, meter ed and non metered mail, box rents and permits. These are the determining factors which set the rating of a post office. To obtain a second class rat ing, under which the Vernonia office is listed, postal receipts must amount to $8,000 a year. The three largest items of postal r°ceipts, stamps, metered mail and box rents total respec tively for the year: $13,275.67, $1600 and $444.45. During the year the local of fice wrote money orders total ing $231,502.76 for which the fees charged amounted to $2,644.- 75. Bid Awarded for Apiary Oil Work The low bidder for the job of oiling 5.5 miles on the Rainier- Apiary road was awarded July 18 by the state highway com mission, according to an an nouncement received here the latter part of last week. Call for bids for the work had been issued earlier by the commission. The work will be done by Harr & Horton, Portland for the amount of $16,873. This state project is the Apiary section of the Rainier-Apiary county road and extension about seven miles west and south of Rainier. Brandow relieved Langford at the start of the seventh, allow ing one hit. Two walks and two Vernonia errors were good for three runs. Vernonia will meet Cornelius there next Sunday in the final league gam? of the season. R H E Westport, 5 4 7 Vernonia 12 11 2 Batteries: Westport — Welch 7, Eibertson and Colbertson; Ver- nonia — Langford 6, Brandow and Byers. Batting averages through July 22 place Johnson at the top of the list. The averages are: AB R H Ave Johnson 20 2 7 350 Hartman 47 11 15 340 Hunt 33 6 11 333 14 2 Somfleth 4 296 Gwin 4 0 1 250 Brandow 42 5 10 238 Nance 23 3 5 217 Byers 55 8 11 200 Langford 25 2 5 200 Desordi 38 6 190 7 Galloway 37 1 6 162 Cline 49 5 7 140 McCammon 19 2 2 101 Mills 6 0 0 000 Fulton 2 0 0 000 4-H Picnic Ends Summer Camp Over 250 persons attended the Columbia county 4-H picnic held at Camp Wilkerson Sunday, July 22. The event took place on the last day of 4-H summer camp. The picnic lunch was followed by a program arranged by Mrs. Aldon Ashley, Mist. The program consisted of: two numbers by the summer camp choir; a short talk by Rev. Paul Sisler, Vernonia; saxophone solo by Mrs. Darrell Baker, Birken- feld; talk by Albert Palmblad, Gresham, vice president of the Oregon 4-H leaders association; skit by Susan Gill and Sally Blackburn, campers; history of Camp Wilkerson, Mrs. Pearl Becker, St. Helens; saxophone solo by Kenneth Asburry, St. Helens; and a skit by Andy Riggs, Gary Leinonen, Dick Woo- tan, Dale Thompson, Sammy Baker, Jay Zimmerman and Larry Leinonen, campers. One year leadership pins were awarded by the United States National Bank to Mrs. Ruth Cox, Scappoose, Mrs. J. E. Norred, Goble, Mrs. Eleanor Petersen, Shilo Basin, Mrs. Margit Peter sen, Delena, and Mr. J. E. Nor red, Goble. A five-year pi« was presented to Mrs. Aldon Ashley, Mist. Two Listed on Roll Cora Duscnberry, Keasey, and Examiner to Come Margie Roland, Vernonia, have A drivers license examiner been listed on the spring term will be on duty in Vernonia Fri scholastic honor roll at Oregon day. August 3 at the city hall State college. Both earned a from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Per grade average of 3.5 points or sons wishing licenses or permits better. A 3.5 is halfway between . to drive can get them at that an A and B average. time. Strike Stops Most of Phone Service Here Emergency, Long Distance Calls Given Priority All Vernonia telephone calls, except of an emergency nature and long distance, were discon tinued over the local telephone system Tuesday night and Wed nesday and that situation will probably continue as long as the current strike is in force, Mrs. Silvia Turner said Wednesday morning. The strike became effective on the entire We%t Coast Telephone company system at 8 o’clock Tuesday. During Tuesday Mrs. Turner, manager for the Ver nonia exchange, handled the board alone, but because she has been on duty continuously, it was necessary to curtail the num ber of calls made locally so she can continue to handle the board alone. She is accepting emergency calls such as those where medi cal attention is needed, fires, etc. Friends have been bringing Mrs. Turner her meals. The entire West Coast system is in the same condition includ ing exchanges east to LaGrande, down to Crescent City, California and in Washington. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph has been out on strike since Monday morning, but employees of that company belong to the CIO while employees of the West Coast are members of the AFL. No word of a possible settle ment had been indicated by radio reports up to noon Wednesday. Library Buys More Volumes Four new books have been placed on the selves at the Ver nonia public library, according to Mrs. Ben Brickel, assistant librarian. The new volumes are: The Demon’s Mirror by James S. Wallerstein; The Provincials by John Cornish; A Woman called Fancy by Frank Yerby and A Shroud for Grandma, Douglas Ashe. Copies of the Christian Science Monitor have also been obtained for the convenience of library patrons. To Be Reassigned Pfc. William M. Shipman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Shipman, is being processed at Fort Lewis for reassignment. Cpl. Shipman recently returned from Korea where he served with the 77th Field Artillery Battalion and left for Fort Lewis after spending a month here. Writer Protests Desciiption of Town Note—The objection voiced be low was written by a local man in protest to a description of Ver nonia which appeared in a recent Sunday edition of a Portland daily and which created a lot of unfavorable comment, especially as to the terming of the town as “dirty.”) “The article appearing in a re cent issue in the Sunday maga zine section of the Oregon Journal certainly portrays an impression of Vernonia to the rest of the world. True, this is only one reporter’s opinion, but he has given it to every corner of the state. "The article says we are a friendly people. Truer words were never spoken. Then it says the city is unkept. Well!!! Is there any civic pride among us? We are pictured as a sleepy back- woods town. “What can be done about this? There are many signs that indi vidually something is being done: 1. Th? mayor and city council are going ahead with plans to improve our natural swimming pool and are going to give the small children the benefit of a pool they can enjoy; 2. The school board, backed by the voters, is going to give this town a fine, modern high school; 3. The more aggressive mer chants and owners of business buildings are repainting and brightening up Bridge street; 4. The individual home owners are modernizing and painting many of their homes and beau tifying their premises. “However something is wrong somewhere to convey such an impession as our town did. Do we need more cooperation among business men themselves or among business men and citi zens? De we need an active organization of business men and citizens to promote and sponsor the welfare and future of Ver nonia? Th? whole issue depends on everyone of us so that such a derogatory article will never ap pear in print in the future. “Lets have some expressions of feeling to try and see if a sense of civic pride and accomplish ments can be developed among us so that the next time the Jour nal or any other newspaper takes a survey they will say, “Ver nonia, the greatest little city in Oregon, friendly beyond compare, an industrious, clean and well kept city, a pleasure spot for Portlanders and Oregonians to visit.” Fires Out in This Area Artist's Work I To Be Placed On Display Several fires in this area which have plagued suppression crews were reported out in most cases or nearly so by the Pittsburgh guard station Wednesday morn ing. Sparks from brake shoes on the O-A log train were thought to have started the blaze between bridges 3 and 4 on the logging road west of Keasey Monday. It was brought under control by O-A workmen and men from the Jewell guard station. Pittsburg crews extinguished a slash fire last Friday at the Eagle Cliff Lumber company four miles west of Rainier and were also called to the Pisgah Home fire which burned five small outbuildings and spread spot fires below Dutch canyon, burning about three acres. A couple of debris burning fires, started without permits, were also put out by men from Pittsburg. Famous Paintings To Be On Exhibit Here Five Days Scheduled for showing here next week is an art exhibition of paintings and drawings by Jimmie James, outstanding char coal artist of the West. His work will be displayed on the second floor at Brunsman Hardware and Electric from July 31 to August 4 and Mr. James will be present at the exhibition August I to explain the pictures and answer questions about them. Arrangements for the showing were made several weeks ago by Mr. Brunsman and Charles Cast- ner, close friend of the artist. Mr. James is known and re ferred to as an outstanding char coal artist, having done large pictures in this medium. Char coal painting is man’s first art medium and few specialize in it' as he does. Most of his scenes are of places untouched by the hand of civilization. About 12 pictures will be on display including some that have been exhibited at the Hallmark company of Kansas City, Mis souri, some that have been re turned from the National Gallery in the east and some that have been reproduced in leading news papers and magazines. The Am erican Artists magazine repro duced “Licorice Creek” with a technical note in the April is sue. Mr. James studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Students League in New York and under such men as John T. Nolf, Otto Schneider and Eugene DeVoIe. He got his inspiration on to work in charcoal after viewing the primitive drawings in caves in New Mexico many years ago. He takes no part in modern art of any kind “that I simply cannot understand.” Realties are the only things he sees and his paintings ar? real as a result. Snow-covered moun tains and valleys are cold and contain the deepest of winters with the sun shining through the boughs of trees that have character, trees that have sur vived storms and deep snows. They cast their shadows across the snow covered earth. Each has a story and have been painted from real trees. Drowning Causes Death of Child Edward Lee Simmons, six-year old boy, drowned last Saturday afternoon when he fell into a pond at the L. E. Atkins home on Pebble creek. When the body was discovered, artificial respira tion was applied without avail. The child had made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Atkins foe several years. He is the son of Charles E. Simmons of Mc Minnville and the services took place at McMinnville with burial in the Evergreen cemetery there. He was born at Newberg Feb ruary 23, 1945. Following the death, numerous people have asked what has be come of the inhalator which was made available for use in the community a few years ago by the American Legion. The instrument was sent to Portland for repairs and improve ments some time ago, but the work has not been done because of the high cost for the work and because no method of financing the expenditure has been found. Former Resident Enlistment in Taken by Death Guard Open Now Death came to Nelson Moeller, a resident of Prineville for the past several years, several days ago according to word received here late last week by a friend of the family. The deceased was a former owner of the Sunnyside Service station at Treharne five or six years ago and will be well re membered in this vicinity. Death came as the result of a mill accident and the services were conducted at Prineville with burial at Salinas, Kansas. Surviving are: two boys, James and Leland; a girl, Inez and his wife, Agnes. James is in the armed forces and is stationed at the Portland airport. F. M. Ruhl Stricken F. M. Ruhl, treasurer and of fice manager for the Oregon- American, was stricken at his home Sunday with a heart at tack. He will be required to have absolute rest and quiet for several weeks. REPORT ALL KEEP ORECOH GREEN I Two representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard Recruiting Service, Portland, visited Vernonia Friday and related the following infor mation. Men 17 to 25 years of age can now enlist in the coast guard providing they can meet the rigid educational and physical stan dards. Men without previous service are enlisted and transfer red to Alameda, California for 12 weeks basic training. Ex-ser vice men are enlisted at the highest rate open at the time of enlistment and transferred to Seattle for assignment to a duty station. The two recruiters, Ed Swen son, Quartermaster first, and Harold Hand, Yeoman second, are at the present time canvass ing all communities within a 100 mile radius of Portland looking for men interested in the coast guard reserve (port security) unit. Men enlisted in the unit can re main in their present' jobs or continue schooling and be draft exempt, if they remain in good standing with ths reserve unit by attending meetings every Wednesday night at Swan Island in Portland. Further information may be obtained by writing or calling at 514 S.W. Salmon Street, Port land. The phone number is Broadway 5827.
