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Dimes March
Activities to Aid
Annual Campaign
For Paralysis Fund
An increase in the activity of
g -ups and individuals is appar-
t ■ t during th" past week in re-
s; • ct to effort being d voted to
th's year’s March of Dimes cam-
p. ;gn to raise funds for the in-
fc-.tile paralysis fund. In addi-
t-. i to fund raising programs
p i.nned by several groups. Chair-
rr; n Jim Davits said Tuesday
C’lntributions were being returned
regularly from the dime cards
rr riled out last week.
At Natal Saturday th ■ ar.nt .¡1
I nge March of Dimes program
i‘ to take place featuring an
ar- ateur program,
pie social,
hi ch and dancing. This aftau
1 open to the public and the
t nge has extended an invita-
t> >i to everybody to attend.
A different aspect of the March
Dimes is taking place at Vike’s
ci e where several dimes were
i
d up on the counter last Sat-
i> -iay morning. Since then pa-
' • os of the cafe hav" been adm
ire regularly to the line which
h,' d reached a total of 180 dimes
f yesterday morning.
~he polio fund will benefd next
Sunday when a March of Dimes
t 'rnament will be rolled at
D -sy’s bowling alleys starting at
1 p.m.
Announcement of the
b -.efit affair was made earlier
tr
week by Charles Cederburg
retary of the bowling league,
me half of the prize money
j
. go to the infantile paralysis
und and Dessy Laird will lik.»
w:«e contribute a half of his in
come from the tourney to the
¿: -nes campaign. All bowlers ar*’
.' ited to participate in the com-
portion.
Annual Report Carries
Optimistic View for
1954 Economy of Valley
A note of optimism for the
coming year is carried in th? an
nual report, present , d Tuesday
evening at the annual meeting of
stockholders of the Commercial
Bank of Oregon, by George A.
Remnant, rr.anag.r of the Ver
nonia Branch.
His report co-
vered not only business and in-
dustry conditions of the area. but
pointed out the favorable stand
ing of the Vernonia bank.
The report in detail stat d:
"My report this year is not one
of new records attain, d As you
know, business nationally was
slightly down over 1952. I am
happy to report, though, for our
branch, that we held steady dur-
ing 1953.
Th ■ most gratifying
part was reflected in our savings
deposits, which increased $19,-
«38.30 as of December 31 and to
date they have shown a furthe.
increase of $23,067.17.
COLD DECK TO HELP
"Our local economy depends
mainly on the lumber industry.
Last May the Oregon American
Lumber corporation sold out to
the Long-Bell Lumber company
This change in ownership caused
some apprehension at th? time,
but, if anythin" it has proven
beneficial to us. For the first time
since I have been in Vernonia,
there is a s ven million board
foot cold deck of logs to assure
mill operations should weather
necessitate the closing of th ■
woods.
Long-Bell employs 400
men in th? Vernonia mill and has
a monthly payroll of $140,000.
"Another major producer of
forest products in our community
is the Columbia Division of
Crown Zellerbach corporatH.n,
which operates a 60,000-acre tree
farm.
During 1953 the capital
expenditure of this corporation
was $95,000. This included road
building, new equipment and gen.
eral improw'ments throughout the
operation, exclusive of any wages.
They have 33 regular employees
with an annua! pay roll of $97,-
000 in addition to their logging
contractors whose payroll is $140.-
000
Their ultimat ■ production
goal is 65 million board fe.t of
logs per year. For 1953 produc-
tion was 14 million board feet, so
you see they will be expanding for
some time to com-'.
BUSINESS REMAINS STEADY
“For the most part our m r-
chants did not complain about
last year’s business, The major-
ity held steady, with one report
ing a 7’a per cent increase. At
present Vernonia has but one
unoccupied building suitable for
business. Three have been rented
since the first of th • year for new
business enterprises.
"Our shingl" mills report a good
year and one operator who has
recently complet:d a survey of
the California market, reports
very good prospects for 1954.
“The dairy industry remains
stable, with seven good grade A
dairies which supply our two local
creameries as w.ll as shipping to
the Portland market. The beef
cattle population in our part of
the county has shown a marked
increase and while beef prices
have softened considerably, our
farmers are hopeful that prices
will build up again.
"The prices paid for mink pelts
is down 15', over a y.ar ago. Our
pelts, however, go mostly to
the Minneapolis mark'd where
they are commanding top prices
due to their sup rior quality and
preparation.
New Business Extensive Power, Phone
Firms Ready Line Damage Caused by
To Operate
New, Used Furniture
Offered by New Store
A new and used furniture store
is scheduled to optn its doors to
the public Friday of this week,
tomorrow, at 847 Third street the
owners indicated Tuesday morn
ing when they released an of
ficial announcement of the under
taking.
The business, which will feature
both new and used furniture,
will b? operated by Mr. and Mrs.
John Harris. They moved here
several weeks ago and are rnak
ing their home in the Mills house
on Park drive.
Th? store will be known as the
Vernonia Bargain House and 13
located in th" store building HI
the middle of the block back of
the Vernonia Bakery.
Portland Man Opens
Cleaning Business
A business which offers a clean
ing and tailoring service for this
area was opened Monday of this
week at 969 Bridge street in the
building just west of the doctors
offices. Own"r of the firm is
Edgar Stors.t of Portland.
The firm, known as Radiant
Clanei rs, is offering three-day
service on dry cleaning and also
will provide a laundry service for
patrons. In addition, clothing al
terations, tailoring and repairing
will be don? at the shop.
EXPANSION CONTINUES
‘ West Oregon Electric Coopera Station Offers Auto
tive is continuing its expansion
Service for Patrons
Two new substations, one at Tim
Saturday of this week, January
ber junction and one at Jew?ll
23,
has been set for the opening
will be put in operation this year
and 16 miles of new line con of the Hancock Service station at
struction in the Wilark area will the corner of State and Bridge
be completed. A n.w post office streets. Th" station, which has
is under construction and is ex been closed for sev ral months,
pected to be in use by the end is to open its doors und"r the
of February at which time the management of Bob Thompson,
Z. minimum temperature read-
West Oregon Electric office will owner of Bob's Union Service.
of eight degrees was recorded
The station will be operated by
bt> enlarged to take in the present
I
a' the cooperative weath r station
part of their building now occu Donald Webb and will feature
• -uary 20 for the low point so
Hancock products along with tires
pied by the post offic".
ft ■ this year and also for this
"All of these business istablish. and other automotive accessories.
v>'>ter. Station records are main-
This year's annual football ments and industries, large and
tf-.ed by Mrs. Helen Spofford.
basketball
banouet is scheduled small, serve to make up the econ
The maximum temp rature so
omy which supports our branch
ft” this year came January 7 for to take place on the evening of and w", in turn, endeavor to bring
Tuesday,
February
2.
Vernonia
5J degrees and precipitation had
them good banking services.
« • anted to 9.22 inches up to Lions club members d cided at a
At the conclusion of Remnant's
recent
meeting
when
men
were
7 dnesday.
Indicative of the
report
and through the coopera
nt weather is the record named to head committees that tion of Crown Zelleibach, over
Monday evening’s city council
will
handl'
arrangements.
vfall, which totals 30 inches,
meeting was a mild affair that re
Port
Orford
cedar
200
potted
The speaker, who was engaged
the temperature reading of 2a
trees were distributed to the quir'd only a short time to com
Wednesday afternoon, will be
• : ires at 11 o'clock Wednesday
as gifts from this plete the roster of business at
stockholders
- •rning when Mrs. Spofford re Bill MacArthur, football coach community.
hand which was principally a
of Oregon College of Education.
el the report.
hearing relative to the annexation
• ecords for the month of De- Monmouth and member of th
of the high school property into
c; 'ber list the following: maxi- Lions club there. His team has
city limits.
:rv n temperature 54 degrees De- won the Oregon Collegiate con
The annexation procedure was
. .ber 1 and 2; minimum 27 de- ference championship every year
started late in Decembc r by of
g: . s on the 13th and 20th; pre- for the past five years the league
ficial publication of a notice of
<tation 9.99 inches of which 1.70 has been in existence.
public hearing when objections
Lions Eugene Dove and Bill
inches fell December 9 and De-
could be voiced to the change.
The
Vernonia
Community
Am
Vlcek was named to handle ar
,;- bcr 14. earthquake.
The date set at that time was
rangements for the speaker and bulance completed its fifth ali for the hearing Monday of this
for this y*ar when a patient was
C.cil Johnson will take care of
week. No objections were made
other details necessary to stage taken to Portland early this week and the council will complete the
and
with
that
trip
had
answered
the affair. Loggers who belong
21 calls sine? being placed in Op annexation at its next meeting
to both the football and basket
eration
in May of last year. Data by the adoption of an ordinance
ball squads will be guests at the
concerning the us? of the ve calling for the addition to tnc
dinner.
»
hicle was issued Tuesday even city.
Results of the third week of
Councilmen also ordered the
ing by James Cox, Jr.. IWA busi
current VFW steelhead derby,
purchase of two stop signs and
ness agent.
•> - ch ended Tuesday, gave the
The two most recent calls were authorized City Attorney C. F
< t kly prize to Earl King for the
for Al Shedwin, who was taken Bradley to start the work n ces-
• t he caught at the mouth of
to the Portland General hospital sary to again call for an election
R?c< creek and weighed in at 16
Sunday for an emergency ap- on the proposed sewer system for
■>-t.'ds. eight ounces. His prize
Corey hill and sewage disposal
p ndectomy, and Margaret Miner
was a casting rod.
Portland plant.
who
was
taken
to
the
TO FISHT FOLIO
Two other fish were weighed
Samtariam.
I
suring the week, one by Albert
Ambulance committee members
B ant at nine and three-fourths
are scheduled to meet Tuesday THOSE WHO ARE IN IT
- .-ds and one by Ben Fowler
evening of next week for the
Jack Gates, who is station'd at
M 2 pounds, one ounce.
election of offiers who will serve Ernest Harmon air force base,
this year.
Stephansville. Newfoundland, ha.«
McBride Victorious
received a promotion to staff ser
geant, according to word received
St.
school,
.'Bride grade
Join
file
Meeting Postponed
here a few days ago. Mrs Gates
H cns, was the winner of both
last
B
team
games
The January meeting of the will leave here about February 1
I
tr.t A and
F W1U 1
Columbia County Historical So- for Newfoundland to make her
Frday wh?n i they met th? Wash-
TAKE
OF
another
cietv scheduled for January 23 home near where he is stationed.
mgton school team in
hool
in St. Helens has been postponed Gates 1 ft here May 16 of last
.tr-e of the county grade
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on account of stormy weather. year for New Jersey where he
t;.. setball league. The A game
The meeting will not be held be remained for a month before
es were 26 to 29 and the B
Jonuory 2 to 31
fore February.
being shipped to the base.
¿a«» , 1« to 29
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Weather Records
8-Degree Low
Banquet Date,
Speaker Named
Annexation Not
Contested Mon.
Ambulance Goes
On 5th *54 Call
King Wins 3rd
Weekly Prize
Money fpen
in
MARCH
DIMES
Fall of Snow Past Week
The heavy fall of snow during | this direct short and residents .is
the latter part of last week re- far away as Pittsburg and Ter
suited in extensive damage to harne were inclined to believ •
power and telephone lines in this that the flashes were caused b <
area, some of which yet remained something in their own neighbor
out of service up to Wednesday hood.
noon as far as phone line repairs
The line crew replaced over 45
were concerned.
feet of wire to repair this dair
Long distance circuits between age. The continuing outage from
, here and Forest Grove were this break was caused by mecha:
j down from Friday evening until ical failure in one of the fuses a;
around 10:30 Wednesday morning the Riverview substation.
j with the exception of a short
SERVICE RESTORED TUESDAY
time Sunday afternoon.
The Mist toll line remained out
The snow loading caused such
| yet Wednesday and in addition extensive outages on outlym,
six main party lines with 10 or lines that it was Tuesday evenin4
1 more users per line remained out. before all these lines were bac
in use. The extent of damage
LIMB CAUSES TROUBLE
kept West Oregon crews working
Th" heavy snow likewise caused day and night to restore service
power failures throughout the The linemen and all Co-op per
West Oregon Electric Co-op sys sonnel extend th ir appreciate 1
tem. Vernonia’s three and half to consumers for patiently await
hour darkness Sunday evening ing repairs and also to Long
was caused by a 12,470-volt three- Bell for reporting a tree on the
phase line being hit by a falling line in back of the mill. Th:»
heavily snow-laden limb from a report prevented another severe
tree across the street from the outage.
Long-Bell Lumber company of
Unlike many localities, school«
fice.
here did not close Monday and
Brilliant flashes resulted from att ndane held up fairly we!
being reported at bt tween 75 and
80 per cent for the grades and 81
per cent for the high school. By
Tuesday attendance had returned
almost to normal.
School bus drivers made thin,
Two wins for th- two games route schedules on time, attribut
they played last week was the ing this to the fact roads had bee-,
record for Coach Jack Reynolds, ploughed out by county crews 11
Loggers, who have not faced lime for their Monday morning
County
workmen
ah
competition yet this week, but runs.
are preparing for their clash Fri ploughed city streets early in the
day night with league-leading week to relieve traffic troubles.
Seaside.
Both of last week's games,
played Thursday and
Friday
nights here, were non-l“ague. The
Loggers met Knappa Thursday to
win 65-59 after experimenting
with defensive unit combinations
that may prove useful later in
The amateur hour planned foi
the season.
Pat O’Brii n, even Saturday evening, January 23, in
though he wasn't high-point Log the Washington grad ■ school au
ger, earned praise for a good ditorium has be“n postponed un
floor game, his best so far this til the evening of January 30,
year, and the 10 points he tallied which is one week later. Due to
that evening.
weather conditions of the past f w
NeahKahNie came the next days and to the possibility of
night to lose 50-59 against a Ver more snow within the next diy
nonia team that lacked both Bill or so, it was thought best to poat-
Braun and O'Brien who were flu pone it for this week. A change
victims.
The locals trailed by in the date will also give organ
two points at the half, but over izations that had not b en able t
came the deficiency later, partly prepare an entry an opportunity
due to Ken Nanson's record of 11 to do so and will give those w;i >
consecutive foul shots and on? are prepared an extra week t-j
of his best performances on the practice.
floor this season.
Bill Higley
The Timberline staff at the
also turned in a top notch defen high school, which is sponsor in „
sive game and Rick Bush, sopho
the amateur hour, promises a good
more, showed considerable de
evening’s entertainment.
Prue*
velopment.
are adults 50 cents, high school
This Friday’s game promises a students 35 cints, and grad
tough battle for the Loggers who school students, 20 cents.
now hold fourth place in league
standings while Seaside stands
at th ■ top. By Friday Coach
Reynolds expects the squad to
be at full strength.
League standings
Won
Lost
Seaside
0
3
Announced here Monday morn
Clatskanie
1
2
ing was a change that will b
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St. Helens
2
placed in effect soon by both th>‘
Vf moma
1
1
Nehalem Dairy and Pebble Cre k
Rainier
1
2
Dairy. The owners of the two
Scappoose
0
2
businesses, Floyd Bush and H
Warrenton
0
2
H. Anderegg. plan to discontinu
deliveries at milk to ruitoim-i
on Sunday.
Dinner Place Changed
In their joint announcement of
Vernonia Lions club members the change they state; "Sunday
will change their place of meet deliveries will be cancelled cn-
ing for the coming Monday even til further notice due to high
ing as the result of a decision production costs and to allow a
made Monday of this week. The day off for our employees."
They plan to place the change
Lions will go to the Vem-Miia
Country club for their next meet in effect within a few days.
ing where the dinner will be
served by Mr. and Mrs. Bill John
Seal Money Asked
son.
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Loggers Tally 2
Wins for Week
AMATEUR HOUR
DATE DELAYED
Firms Announce
Delivery Change
First Robins Reported
First report of the appearance
of robins in this vicinity this
year comes this week from Mr
and Mrs. L. H. Cates, residents
of the O-A hill.
People who have not yet sent
in their contributions to Iter
Christmas Seal sale fund are
reminded this week to make
their donations as soon as pos
sible. The money may be sent
to Mrs. Frank Serafin, chairman
of the sale here this year.
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