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4 THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1953 THE EAGLE. VERNONIA, ORE. Banzer Elected Valley Head AROUND THE FARM Timber Route Unit Meets at Grange Hall BY DON COIN WALROD County Extention Ajent Pole-frame buildings, or rigid- sized corms can be cured and pillar buildings as they are some ready for cleaning after about Election returns from Columbia E T. Johnston, second alternate. largir times called, are bung considered three to seven days. The Delegates elected to attend the | county's five agricultural com sizes reouire fr>m seven to 10 by quite a few Columbia County days before they will be ready munities where farmers voted No. county convention for naming I dairymen at the present time. vember 3 for PMA committee- next year’s county committee are: 1 Some of these buildings are un for cleaning. High temperatures help to re- men are announced by Wm. Clatskanie, Earl Chartrey; Rai der construction and som: are duce the curing time, but they are Armstrong, chairman of the coun nier, George Cowles; Nehalem being contemplated. Some ot also advantageous in that they Valley, Joe Banzer ; Yankton- those folks who are either build, will effectively kill a number oi ty PMA committee. The following were elected to Goble, Floy Lee ver; Scappoose- ing or are considering building organisms present in the glad are: Hamman and Hunt, Sauvies husks. Fusarium, one of the prin lerve on the Nehalem valley PMA Warren, Loren Johnson. Island; Paul Borlin, Deer Island; community committee in 1954: The county convention will be R. Schimm.l, Beaver Homes; and cipal fungi invading gladiolus, can be killed by these tempera Joe Banzer, chairman; John H. held November 12 at the home i Fred Cooke, Delena. tures. Wh n the husks are re Brrttner, vice-chairman; M. P. of Joe Banzer, Mist. At this Pole-frame buildings hav- some moved in cleaning, the possibility Mills, regular member; Frank convention, the delegates will elect very definite advantages over of infection is still further re Schmidlin, first alternate and a county committee chairman, other types of construction. Gen vice-chairman, a third member erally, designs for these build duced. Thrips control on the stored and two alternates. Both com ings are simple, and they are munity and county committee- easy to construct with unskilled corms can be accomplished by men will take office January 1, labor. No scaffolding and forms thoroughly dusting the corms with 1954. Besides the Nehalem val are required during construction. 10 per cent DDT. This can b ley the four other agricultural A proportionately small amount done easily by shaking the corms in a closed paper bag with the A 4-H clothing leader training communities in the county are: of labor is required fur construc meeting will be held on Monday, Clatskanie, Rainier, Yankton. DDT before storing. Storage con tion of thistyp -, and many shapes ditions are best at 35 to 45 de- November 16, at the First Metho, Goble and Scappoos.-Warren. and sizes can be built. Most im gre.s with good ventilation. diet church, St. Helens, at 1:00 portant to most people is the I p.m., announces Harold Black, matter of cost. On buddings county 4-H club agent. that have b en constructed in the Miss Helen Sellie, county home past, the material costs have run agent, will discuss the clothing from approximately 50 cents per projects and how to present the square foot to one dollar per material to the 4-H club mem square foot. bers. She will also have samples BIRKENFELD — Mr. and Mrs. Experience with these rigid- NATAL — Sunday overn:ght of articles made in each of the Fred Udey of Portland are mov pillar buddings shows that they guests at the Noble Dunlap home rlothing divisions. ing to Birkenfeld this w ek. are well adapted to withstanding All persons interested in a 4-H Mr. and Mrs. Ceci) Elliott call floods and winds. However, we were Mr. and Mrs. Ja-par O’Hara and Mr. and Mrs. David O’Hara clothing club are invited to at ed on Mr. and Mrs. Fred Larson are frequently asked about th ■ all of Roy, Idaho. Other callers tend states Black. The meeting and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Larson life of the poles used in these will close by 3:30. Friday night. Mrs. Fred Larson buddings, as previous experiences Sunday w.re Mr. and Mrs. Ro bert Lindsay. Sunday evening is home with their new son, with wood plac d in the ground callers were Mr. and Mrs. Emil Donald Francis. has not been too satisfactory. Mrs. Jack Brittner had a Stan- Most plans for rigid-pillar budd Messing of Vernonia and Mr. and ley party Thursday with eight ings call for pressure-treated Mrs. Ira Peterson and Richard ladies present. Prizes went to poles. These poles have a service Peterson. Mrs. Mary Garlock of Mist and life of 35 to 50 years. Saturday is party night at th» Mildred Elliott. Sum. other methods of treat Natal hall and everyone is wel Mr. and Mrs. Ted Bellingham ing besides pressure treating may come. NEHALEM VALLEY spent Friday in Portland and be used1 in some cases, although A. Anderson spent the week ; MOTOR FREIGHT called on Guy at the hospital. the service life will probably be end at his home in Sandy. Guy came home Saturday night. shorter. Soaking s.asoned poles Among those who were in For « in “penta” solutions is good, The ! est Grove Saturday w.re Mr. and “salt” treatment of green poles Mrs. Max Oblack and Larry. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Peterson were is fairly good, and there are some other new methods that may be in Portland last Friday to attend satisfactory. A word of caution the funeral of the late Charles to anyone treating thair their own Ward, who was a former resident poles—panting th" oil soluble near Mist. Einar Danielson spent Satur preservatives such as penta onto the poles is NOT satisfactory and day night with relatives here. is v ry little better than no Sunday evening callers were Mr. treatment as far as increasing the and Mrs. Anderson. life of the poles. Crankcase oil Friendship’s a noble name, *tis adds little or nothing to the ser lov. refined. vice life of poles, eith'.r. —Susannah Centiivrc Gladiolus corms probably have A bill becomes law in the U.S. been harvested by most garden- when the president has signed it. ers, but, if not, now is a good time to get the job done, Tr.at- ment that these corms receive from now until next spring will determine to a large d.gree the quality of th? corms that come out of storage next spring and, consequently, the flowers ob tained. After digging, high temp.ra- tures end high humidities are desirable for the curing of the corms. Experiment station workers report that the best tem peratures for curing are between 85 and 95 degrees at a relative PHONE 102 FOR ORDERS humidity of at Last 85 per cent. At such temperatures, medium “Gifts from Cloth” was the topic of the Timber route exten sion unit me: ting November 10 at the Vernonia Grange hall with an attendance of 11. Project leader was Mrs. Oren Weed who gave the d monstra- tion. Mis. Ray Stanley gave a report on World Citizenship and also requested members to bring articles, pictures and interesting information on Mexico for a scrapbook. Mrs. Joe Baker gave a report on legislature and re 'O_ search. Mrs. Joe Johnson re ported on program planning. The n.xt meeting will be De cember 8 at the Vernonia Grange hall. The topic will be "Christ mas Decorations and Gift Wrap- Leaders Slated For Training Portland People Move to Valley Granger Party Open to Public PHONE 853 I I SHORT PILING 20 ft. to 36 ft PRICES: 25c & up per lineal foot with bark on ping." Each member is requested to bring an appropriate decora tion or idea on gift wrapping There will be an exchange of gifts for the Christmas party at this time. Everyone interested is invited to att nd. Society Sets Meeting The Columbia County Histori cal Society will meet Tuesday, November 17, in the basement room cf the Rainier Methodist church. 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