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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. A pot-luck dinner wit!
be served at noon, followed by the
business meeting and program,
according to Mrs. Pearl Becker,
secretary of the Society.
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