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New Book Details Olympic Program OUT OF THE WOODS . . . The public library is now dis playing a book of interest to all sports enthusiasts because of a presentation made recently by th'? Lions club. The story is in ful. detail of th? participation by 27 United States teams in 24 dif ferent sports on the 1948 program of Olympic competition. Title of the publication is “Re port of the U.S. Olympic Com mittee 1948 Games XIV Olympiad. London, England. V Olympic Winter Gam s, St. Moritz, Swit- zerland. ” Other new books in the library are: Beckoning Waters, Robert Carse; Marooned on Mars, Del Ray; Five Against Venus, La tham; You Shall Know Them, Vercors and two party booklets by Dennison, Parties with Pur- pos? and The' Bride’s Party Book. Another booklet of interest is “Raising Christmas Trees for Pro fit,” a Pacific N.W. co-op. ex tension publication prepared by Knut? Lunnum, extension fores try specialist, state college of Washington, with the assistance of forestry specialists of Oregon and Idaho. Also available i$ a booklet on “Christmas Tree Grad's and Cultural Practices.” FULLY AGED for Richer Taste ! i | | Group Meets at Park Gathering RIVERVIEW — Mr. and Mrs. I I | i I I KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY THIS WHISKEY IS 4 YEARS OLD 86 PROOF • THE HILL & HILL CO. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY I Cleon Woodruff and sons of Port- I land sp-mt the week end at the home of Mrs. Alice Mills. On Sunday they were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Woodruff and Mrs. S. J. Parsons and all en- joyed a picnic dinner at Dass park. Mrs. Gilk'rt Abney and child- ren of Wishram are visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Welter. Mr. and Mrs. Myron Vlcek and daughters spent the week end at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Vlcek, at Idlewyld Park. They brought their son, Chuckle, home with them after he had visited there two weeks. | Cows noses. VERNONIA, ORE, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1953 gon empire but it did act as guardian for the first overland party, the Red River train of covered carts in 1841, and gave hospitality and help to succeeding U, S. wagon trains. Glory Due Announced this week by Mr and Mrs. William Helvie i* the marriage of their daughter, Vivian Louise, to Alvin Backman of Bea verton. The ceremony took place Monday, July 6 at Vancouver. Washington. The couple will make then home at 425 Main, Beaverton after returning from a two-week honeymoon which they are spend ing at the beaches. Mr Backman is employed by Sawyers Viewmaster company at Progress and she is a steno graphir for Refrigeration Dis count corporation. Portland. The American newcomers were welcomed by Hudson’s Bay Ca nadian and Indian families who were the first farmers of the Willamette Valley and the Cow litz. And this peace on the land was not due simply to one man. Dr. John McLoughlin. He was under the authority of Governor Sir George Simpson, who, in turn was governed by the company’s directors. Today the vital fact of the early history of this state, as of Oregon, Idaho an<j Montana, is that the Club Discontinues world’s greatest institution of pri. vate enterprises of the tune es Dancing for Summer tablished civilization in the re- I The r e g u 1 a r twice-ainonth gion. dances of the Do-Si-Do square The Pacific Northwest was a dance club will not be held during going concern before the politi the summer. Dancing will re cians, the missionaries, the mili sume this fall, th? date to tie an tary, and the everyday pioneers nounced later. cam? ashore or drove in. Busi ness men had made it so. And One of Oregon's most unique while they were running things events is the Shakespearean Festi there was peace on the land. They val, Ashland, August 1 36. in fostered education and the arts which the famous plays of the and sciences too. bard are presented in authentir Of such was the Hudson’s Bay old English style in beautiful company down to 1846. I.ithia Park. SHOP NEH M EM J^\ RE CAREFUL WITH FIRE \ kííp OUR STATE GREEN You Needn't Dig in the Ground for TREASURES When many of them may be found in Nehalem Market and Grocery. Some of them are extra- delicious food products; others are price bar gains; and still others are in the form of time saving preparations. Try us TODAY! NEHALEM MARKET AND GROCERY For Delivery Every Day Phone 721 Be careful with fire when you go on a picnic or a hike in the woods. Remember: the forest is full of living things—birds, K3TVH3N HOHS — WHTVHHN HOHS — K3 IVHHN 4OIIS animals, trees, flowers, ferns. The forest is a pleasant place and a happy place when it's green. Please do your part to keep it that way. Be careful with matches, cigarettes, pipe heels and campfires in or near the woods. Help Keep America Greens It’s Here! HOMELITE’s New ALL-ANGLE Chain Saw . . . t KEEP OREGON U’e’ve got this rugged, quick-starting f h.p. HOMELITE with the wtr diaphragm carburetor that gives full-power performance at any **gle or in eny potitio*. Standard equipment includes (at no extra coat) special handle for all-poeition felling •nd Sucking . . . massive spiked bumper plate for big timber cutting—EVERYTHING you need for cutting big trees! Don't wait—ask for a free demonstration TODAY! , j | TED'S SAW SHOP i RIVERVIEW AT FIRST VERNONIA, ORE. PHONE 775 3. Parents Announce Daughter’s Wedding perspire only on their - SHOP NEHALEM - nor and Company of Adventurers Trading into Hudson's Bay." Chartered in 1670. with gallant Prince Rupert as its first Governor, the Duke of York (later James II) as the second, the the great John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, ancestor of Winston, as its third chief, the company was by 1825 an empire in itself. The plain facts of the enter prises and growth of the Hudson's Bay Company in “the Oregon country" were weighty evidence indeed with leaders of American business and government from 1821—when the Hudson’s Bay and North West companies merged— to 1846. year of original U.S.— Canada boundary agreement and the moving of the Company’s h adquarters from Vancouver to Victoria. And then it was another ten years before the vast and complex property settlements were con cluded. with Hudson's Bay quit ting the country. The company created agriculture and the ship ping and timber industries in the region. It kept peace with the Indians throughout Canada, down the Columbia River and around Puget Sound, and was a peaca- maker between tribes. The Hudson’s Bay company did not invite immigration to its Ore- EAGLE, Dominion Day in Canada is on July 1. SHOP NEHALEM — SHOP NEHALEM — SHOP NF.HAI.EM SHOP NEHALEM On From Jefferson Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt agreed with the Presi dent who ordered the Lewis and Clark Expedition on it way west when he said, "I view a great, free, and independent empire on the Columbia River." Lincoln fathered a northern railroad route. A century after the Lewis and Clark exploration Theodore Roosevelt set in motion national policies on Federal commercial forest reserves, national parks, navigation, land reclamation and water power projects, that remain the most powerful political and economic influences within Ore gon and Washington. So Thomas Jefferson’s vision fills us. Many more mighty men of his tory gave strong hands to the making of the Pacific Northwest as an economic entity of the Unitzd States. One to note is King Wilhelm I of Germany, whose royal hand completed the northern boundrv line of Washing ton Territory in 1872—influenced, says legend, by a victory of the Olympia Bas? ball Club over Vic toria. The Great Company Most of all, there was the giant that grew in the land of the Co lumbia and Puget Sound, from the Western outposts of "The Gover- THE GREEN Sponsored by the Vemoni i Eagle as a Public Service
