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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1953)
■M THURSDAY, NOV, 5, 1953 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, Eiden* ion Committee Start* Festival Plan ORE. Illness Causes Hospital Trip AROUND THE FARM Home gardeners who still have green, unfrosted, tomatoes in their Plans were started for the an gardens can still ripen them nual May Festival by the Co BIRKENFELD — Mr and Mrs. without the danger of rotting if lumbia county extension commit Guy Bellingham went to Port certain precautions are followea tee at a meeting held on October land Friday where Guy entered I Only undamaged and unbruised i3 at Mrs. Kenneth Beesons in the hospital for medical treat fruits should be picked, and the Clatskanie. ment. He became quite ill Sun picking needs to be done when A Mexican theme was suggested day night and was placed in both the vines and the tomatoes the units in Columbia county an oxygen tent. are dry. After selecting the best will be studying Mexico under Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Elliott, Mr. tomatoes, wrap them individually World Citizenship this year. Coun and Mrs. Ted Bellingham and in newspaper or any other com ty extension units will be asked Mr. and Mrs. Don Jensen went mon paper, thus preventing ad t<> submit suggestions for a title to Hillsboro Saturday on business. joining fruits from touching. 1<>r the theme. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Stuve and Storage of the wrapped toma Repors on officers training day Mr. and Mrs. Fred Busch re toes should be in a dry, cool and chairman training day were turned last w.ek from their trip. place, such as a basement or a I :ven by members. The commit- Mr. and Mrs. Randy Gabrielson porch but avoiding moist loca 1 -e decided to hold these meet of Portland spent the week end tions. Hasty picking and storing ings in the middle of September with Mrs. Adah Hoberg. Randy of unwrapped, moist tomatoes ¿«gain next year. came to do some hunting. in a carton or box may result in Mr. and Mrs. Art Bellingham the entire picking being lost due The Library of Congress sub and Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Parman to breakdown and rot caused by scribes to about 850 American attended the football game in the late blight fungus which has < newspapers Portland Saturday. | be»n prevalent in Western Ore gon during the past summer. If space is available, spreading the tomatoes on a basement table in such a way that they do not ( touch, gives fairly good results. In som° instances pulling the whole vine, tomatoes and all, and hanging the vine from a rafter | of a garage, etc., has worked : successfully, but probably wouiu ONE FREE GAME not b b as good a method in a I TO ANYONE WHO year such as this when the blight j fungus has been so prevalent. HAS NEVER BOWL- Many farms of Columbia Coun- ■ ty have livestock of one type or ED WHEN ACCOM another that is being fattened either for sale or foi use at home. PAN1ED BY SOME- We are often asked whether or ONE WHO HAS. not a certain grain can be fed, for naturally everyone would pre fer to f'ed home grown grains 1 rather than having to buy grains I Open Bowling Friday, unless there is a price advantage I I Saturday Evenings in selling one grain at home and | Open at 2:00 P.M. On buying another feed. Barley, corn, and wheat are ' Sunday very nearly equal in feeding 1 value as far as fattening of live stock goes. This shows up quite ' clearly when the total digestible ' nutrients of the three are com- ' pared. Pacific barley has 7a.7 : per cent total digestible nutrients, number two com has 80.1 per cent, and Pacific Coast wheat has 79.9 per cent. For most Western Oregon livestock feeders this will give the preference to barley. At the present tim ■, and generally it is lower in price than corn or wheat but about equal in feeding value. Oats are one of the important grains pioduced in this area. They contain about 72.2 per cent total digestible nutrients. When they are low enough in price they can be used m a fattening ration, making up not over one-third of the total grain ration. Oats are No other »aw can match if ... for power per pound or for especially good for growing ani »peed in cutting. Cut» 20 inch tree» in as little at 20 second». mals. Cuts down and cuts up any tree, any size quickly and cauly. Austrian field peas are a grain I that may well be worth consider ing, especially at the prices that have prevailed recently. These peas contain about 70 per cent total digestible nutrients, 20 per cent of which is protein. Beet cattle and sheep can utilize as much as 40 per cent peas in their MXHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZH J DESSY'S I DESSY'S J M H z Bowling Alley Tavern x J X JJ H J X H Try One of Our « BIG TUICY County Extension Agent •Gifts from Cloth" will be the grain ration, whereas hogs can I I subject for the November meet use up to 30 per cent. ing of the Mist-Nehalem exten sion unit. The meeting will be at 10:30 a.m. at the home of Mrs. Fred Busch, Jr., November 13. Virginia Hansen, and Della Wil son are Project Leaders for the Christmas tree harvest will not day. Supplies needed for the be long in starting, as contacts lesson are pencil, paper, prefer are already being made regard ably waxed or thin for tracing, ing the purchase of trees. Insist upon careful selection and sissors for cutting patterns. before cutting to prevent exces The child care program will be sive culling when the trees are changed from Mrs. Robert Rey loaded, advises Don Coin Walrod, nolds home to Mrs. Wayne Kyser county agent. If the owner is going to do his own harvesting in Mist. She lives next to the he will wan to be certain that Reynolds. Sack lunches should there is complete agreem.nt with be furnished for the children as the buyer on what types of trees w.ll as for adults. are merchantable and what points mak1 a cull tree. The Boston News Letter is the Stunmpage rates have not been oldest newspaper on file at the determined so far this season, but in years past, rates on Doug Library of Congress. las fir have varied from 5 cents to 30 c:nts per lineal foot, the Three U. S. Presidents, Wilson true firs (white, noble, Shasta, Arthur and Cleveland. were red and alpine) have brought preacher’s sons. from 15 cents to 50 cents per lineal foot. If the farmer sells tre.s to a dealer, the price has Phone 3713 run from 25 cents to $1 per tree for Douglas fir and from 50 cents to $3 per tree for the true firs. Easy Terms DuMont - RCA Will Travel Within 20 Miles Radius L. E. Ellis Open from Noon Until 1A.M. I TED'S SAW SHOP The Vernonia extension unit will meet at the Christian church November 12 at 10 o’clock for rtudy of the topic, “Gifts from Cloth.” People attending are asked to bring a sack lunch, scis sors, pencil and thin or waxed paper for mark.ng and cutting off patterns. Factory Authorized Sales and Service H the new HO MELITE model 5-30 November 12 Date Set for Unit Meet BIZZY’S T-V J JXHXHXHXHXHXHXHXHZHXHXHXtf NATAL — Ike Dass had the misfortune to fall and hurt his side one day last week. It is thought a rib is fractured. Mr. and Mrs. Max Oblack were last Tuesday evening callers on Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wolff. Remember the program and brzaar at the Mist gym Novem ber 21, at 8 p.m. Mrs. Bill Pringle and Billy were in Eugene recently to visit her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Whteless. Tree Harvest Advice Voiced HÄMBURGERS « H X M X Fall Is Cause Of Side Injury Unit to Study Cloth Gift* November 13 BY DON COIN WALROD Mist Route Vernonia XHXHXHZHXHXHZHXHXHXHXHXM Winter Ahead! WHAT’S YOUR TYPE? RANCH, colonial, Cape Cod, no matter what style you own , . . it’s worth plenty! Rebuild ing after a fire would cost a fortune. And fire may strike. The best type of protec tion? Strong and ade quate insurance. Gasco Briquets are the Northwest’s favorite solid fuel. More than 100,000 tons are manu factured and sold every year. Briquets are small pillow-shaped lumps of carbon, scientifically designed to give more VERNONIA heat than wood or coal. Briquets hold fire 8 to 10 hour*... leave no ashes for you to carry out. 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