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WHY THE MARCH OF DIMES
NEEDS 5QS MORE IN '54
LARGER GIFTS FROM EVERYONE NECESSARY
TO FINANCE FULL PROGRAM PLUS POLIO PREVENTION
POLIO
PREVENTION
PATIENT AID
MUST
RESEARCH
PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION
USED
IN
1953-
FOR
1954-
AT LEAST
SERVICES &
OPERATION
Social Security Importance Grows
For Women; Labor Ranks Increasing
Jld-ag? and survivors insur-
?<•
is of increasing importance
i .he working women of th? na-
■ - because more women of ma
rc age are ent?ring the laboi
r. -:ks.” Ev. Cummins, field rep-
. tentative of the Portland so-
. ■ . security office, said this week.
'Vhil? the number of single,
•¿owed and divorced women
. kers has changed but little in
c nt years, there has been a i
■ ,-ked increase in the number '
. 'larried women workers. “This I
umber has grown from
mil- i
■> in 1947 to near 10's million |
Xpril 1952,” Cummins said.
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Amateur Program
To Be Staged
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~ he high school Timberline I
arateur hour program, which
, s postpon'd from January 23
January 30 will take place
S-urday of this week. Some
a ration arose earlier this week
--- to the possibility of a further
r •• :pon”ment, but another change
v as ruled out because of other
¿ ’lairs planned by the school.
S -.ould another postponement
hive been made, there would
- ave been no open date again |
u ■ ;1 the last of February.
The amateur program is spon-
s-..-cd annually by the staff mem
bers of the Timberline, high
schc'nl newspaper.
Seagulls Down
Loggers 64-61
' ast-minute scoring spree gave
fVe winning side of the score for
:-t Seaside Seagulls last F.”day,
tk-11, when they entertained the
. Aggers in the only game Coach
Z < Reynolds boys played last
• ; k. The game was a see saw
‘‘air. especially in the last half
a-o was knotted near the final
gur., but the Loggers couldn’t
¿iter enough of a punch to take
t-c lead and hold it.
'it the half-time. Vernonia led
Gulls by five points with the
'• , "nt scoring of Nar.son who
cd a total of 33 for the < ven-
-g. The Loggers made the trip
2i"Ut the services of Hank
3as*, who was hindered with an
a *ack of pleurisy. Another high-
- ;ng Logger, Bill Braun, wasn’t
3 to par because of a recent flu
attack.
The Loggcr-Clatskanie game
: “ally schedul.d for Tuesday,
dre ’ a postponement, but it is
•rely the locals will travel Fri
day to Warrenton.
He pointed out the tendency
during the past decade for wo
rn ?n to return to work or to take
jobs for the first time aftei
reaching middle age. This trend
contrasts with the pre-w'ar period
when it was largely young wives
in their twenties and early thir
ties who went into outside em
ployment. Today, the greatest
proportion of working wives are
in their early forties; even mar-
ri d w’omen in their early fifties
are entering the labor force in
about the sam ? proportions as
younger women, an April 1952
survey reveals.
"A women now age 50 will b.
fully insured for old-age insur
ance payments at age 65 aft°r
about 7’2 years of covered work,”
Cummins said. An amount of
covered work equal to at least
one-half the time after 1950 and
age 65 or death is required to be
fully insured.
Cummins said that around 5.3
million women work.rs have
children under 18; over two mil
lion of these women have young,
sters below school age for whose
care the mothers must provide
during the hours they spend at
work outside the house. As sur
vivors benefits are payable to
children if the supporting parent
had at least a year and a half of
covered work during the three
years ending with death, mothers
now engaged in covered work
are building this social security
insurance protection.
Those who wish to file claims
or obtain aocial security informa
tion may meet the representative
during one of his regular weekly
Columbia county visits. Mr. Cum
mins may be contacted on the
second floor of the St. Helens
Courthouse any Monday 1:00 to
3:00 p.m. or local residents may
wish to visit or write to the Port
land office located in Room 104,
Old Post Office Building. Port
land. Oregon.
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i Taken to Hospital
Harold Dow was taken to St.
Vincents hospital, Portland, last
week after a heart attack which
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took place Wednesday. His con
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shown some improvement.
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Marvin Eby will leave here the
j latter part of this week to r port
to Ft. Bliss. Texas where he ex
pects to receive training in either
radar or artillery. He has been
horn” since Wednesday of last
week after completing his basic
training at Ft. Ord. California.
VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
Grade Rules
Explained to
Operators
Many Defects Found
Corrected Following
Early Cafe Survey
Those attending at th? food es.
tablishment operators
meeting
held at the city hall January 14
at 3 p.m. were Regena Vike, Ma
Vike’s Caf ; Jay Hall, Jay’s Cafe.
Henry Gallegly, Lew’s Place. (
Desmond Laird. Dessy’s Tavern;
Don Bayley, Pine Cone and Luel- i
la ?Xnd:rson, Palace cafe.
William Bower, chief of the •
restaurant section of the state
board of health, and Ben Rine- I
hart, county sanitarian, explained i
th” grading system of eating es
tablishments in Oregon and Co- ■
lumbia county. Each of the 24
items of restaurant sanitation were I
discussed separately.
The state of Oregon has re
ceived high praise from all parts
of the hation in regard to its
restaurants. Part of this is at
tributed to th” activities of state
and local health departments, but
most of the credit is given to the
op rators themselves for th” de
sire and co-operation on their
part.
Many of the establishments j
which have received low scores
on rec:nt surveys have already
corrected the sanitary defects
which were found.
To receive an “A" rating,
which is considered a merit, the
establishment must have no ma
jor violations of sanitation.
A "B" rating, which is still
good, means that the establish
ment has minor violations, usu
ally due to construction; but not
due to factors which would en
danger th:- public's health. There
is essentially no difference in the
two ratings aside from minor
items.
A “C” rating is posted in es
tablishments which do not satisfy
the major requirements such as
dishwashing techniques, storage
of food, and refrigeration of per
ishable foods.
Posting of ratings will begin |
the latter part of January.
120 Here for
Masonic Dinner
Vernonia Lodge No. 184, A. F.
and A. M. staged their 22nd an
nual Old Timers night Saturday
by serving the usual dinn:r, tur
key and all the accessories, to
120 people.
The turnout was
considered very good considering
the weath.r at that time.
Of the attendance there were
58 members and 62 visitors, the
latter representing 33 different
lodges. The most distant was
Nova Scotia. There are no for
malities connected with the af
fair.
Catch of Week
Tops 16 Pounds
PHONE 191
THURSDAY. JANUARY 2«. 19
Snowfall Causes Utility
Outages, School Closure
The week’s weather since Wed. service could be restored to any
nesday of last week brought dif rural areas. As of Wednesday
ficult:, s for county road crews, morning, the only phone service
power and ph<>ne linemen and available
was
in
the city.
school authorities not to men Twenty-one party lines were
tion individuals due to the heavy down and the service to Mist
fall of snow during that time.
was listed as requiring the re
Both grade and high school setting of 15 poles as well as
classes were dismissed Monday other work before service could
afternoon
when electric line be restored.
troubles brought power outages LONG DISTANCE OUT
that stopped heating facilities.
Long distance calls were im
Both institutions opened again possible for the same reason, but
Wednesday morning with atten effort was being made to restore
dances at less than half the reg
ular numb:rs.
SCHOOLS REOPEN
The decision to resume came
after consideration of the extent
of snowfall since roads had been
plowed and because of the un
The state board of forestry an
avoidable closure of the high '
nounced in Salem last week that
school during December.
Due
a total of 16,232 logging and mill :
to the lengthy time during which
permits were issued during 1953, '
classes were not held and al
or practically the same number I
lowances already made by the
that were recorded in 1952. zX
state, it was believed advisable
total of 16,272, highest in the j
to reopen so that school will not
date's history, were issued in |
be necessary during the early
1952.
part of June.
Officials indicated that both
Grade school attendance was years were exceptionally high |
somewhat below 50 per cent and
compared to previous years as .
the high school was listed at 1949 when 10,702 permits were |
42 3/10 per cent.
issued.
Telephone line crews faced a
Beginning January I of this ■
big task of repair work before
year, permits for all power-driven
operations will be required tor
both western and eastern Or gon.
Prior to this year, permits were
required only for western Oreg 1.1
op: rations.
Now, all operators
must get a combined forest and
Twenty-five new books for conservation permit from the state
reader^ have b en added to the forester.
shelves at the Vernonia library
Law requiring operations pei-
within the past few days and in mits came as an afti rmath ot
clude volumes for young folks the first disastrous Tillamook fire
and adults. A listing, issued by of 1933.
Mrs. Paul Gordon, librarian, Wed
nesday contained these titles:
Young folks — Nature Note
book, Robert Candy; Mystery of
the Hidden Book, Orton; The
Littlest Ange), Chas. Tasewell;
Miss Flora and the Baby New
Year. Mariana: Brighty of the
The community ambulance
Grand Canyon, Marguerite Hen board of directors will be asked
ry; Circus April First, Louis Slo. to be present for a special meet
bodkin; Reading Can Be Fun. ing of that group which has b-en
Monroe Leaf; Little House in set for next Monday evening at
the Big Woods, L. 1 Wilder, 8 o’clock, according to word from
Challengers. Jo Lundy; Royal Earl Atkins, chairman.
Canadian Mounted Police, Rich
The date of the meeting was
chard N uberger; Mama Hatties decided upon Tuesday evening
Girl, Lois Lensk and Vanishing when a meeting was scheduled
Point, Patricia Wentworth.
for the entire ambulance com
Adult non-fiction — New Plays mittee, but which drew too small
for Red letter Days, Woolsey an attendance to transact busi
and Sechrist; First Ladies, (from ness. This Tuesday evening af
Martha Washington to Mamie fair was to have been the an
Eisenhower) Jane and Burt Mc nual meeting of the corporation.
Connell and Dinner and Banquet
The board of directors, when
Book, Clyde McGuire.
they m ct Monday, will be asked
Adult fiction — Too Late the to set a future date for th” annual
Pharlarope, Alan Paton; Time meeting and plan for the coming
and Time Again, James Hilton; year as it will relate to ambu
Springs of Silenc". Madeline De lance affairs.
Frees;
Queen
Jezebel,
Jean
Board of directors members
Plaidy; Stand Up and Die, Rich are: Desmond Laird, Wesley Bol-
ard and Frances Lockridge; The meicr, K. G. Anderson, Henry
Third Angel, Jerom” Weidman; Ade, Sr., W. E. Wilson, L. O.
Sands of Karakorum, James R. Closner, Ed Burton, Sherman (
Ullman; Mustard Seed, Vicki Fisher. Pat Wallace, Sam Hear- !
Baum; So Long As Love Re ing, Sr., and Marvin Kamholz. i
members, Russell Janey and The Officers are: Earl Atkins, chair
Female, Paul I. Wellman.
man, Jewell Llovd, secr.tary, and I
Jim Cox. Jr., treasurer.
Logging Permits
Required Again
New Books for
Library Added
Ambulance Board
Asked to Meet
Date Set for
SS Claim Aid
Last week'» priz? fish for the
current VFW steelhead derby was !
landed Sunday by Jim Fluke and !
tipped the scales at 16 pounds 1
two ounces to win him a casting
Assistance with the filing of
rod. His priz? fish came during
Action was taken on a total of i
claims for social security has been
th? fourth week of the contest
arranged for people in this area 23 construction bids by the Ore
and was caught Sunday in Rock
on the dat? of Thur day, Febru gon State highway commission
creek.
ary 4. wh”n a representative of during its meeting in Portland
Other fish weighed in for the
the social security administration last week and among them was
week were caught by: E. V. Ro
the award for work to be don?
is planning to be here.
bertson, Ri>ck Creek. Saturday,
Announcement of the represen later this year on the Timber
14 pounds, four ounces and Al
tative's visit was received early road. Total amount of bids acted
bert Blount. Rock creek, Friday, this week from Everell Cummins, on by the commission was $2,-
nine and three-fourths pounds
field man for the administration l»l,027.90
The bid for the Timber road .
in this aria. Cummins will pro
bably be the one who will be work is specifr d by the commis- !
Shot Cause* Injury
»ion as: "Treharne-Washington i
here.
Madison Augustus, colored, was
In addition to assistance in fil county line section of the Na- |
taken to a Portland hospital Sat. ing claims, people interested will hal?m secondary highway, about
urday as the result of a bullet be able to obtain information re two miles southwest of Vernonia
wound in hi* left arm and chest. lative to the social security pro Federal aid project. 4 86 mil s of
The »hot was fired by Geotge gram.
The representative will pavem»nt widening.”
Johnson, another colored man. as make his office at the Legion
The award went to Acme Con
the result of a disagreement b - hall and may be contacted be struction company. Eugene, for
tween the two.
tween 10 a.m. and noon.
the amount of $81.814.
Timber Road Bid
Work Awarded
line* for those calls Wednesd.i e.
Likewise telegraph line« elnr.
nated that service to the area.
Mail delivery from Scappoow
to Vernonia was hindered earlier
in the week, being an hour late
Tuesday because the truck was
unable to make the trip unt I
roads had been cleared. Wed
nesday mail came in just b«for*
12 o'clock and star routes from
here had been run each day ai
though carriers were sometime
behind schedule.
LIMBS CAUSE TROUBLE
Snowladen limbs continued t >
cause power outages throughout
the entire West Oregon Electric
system, coming to frequ.ntly for
line crews to repair without son:?
inconvenience to Cooperative con
sumers. Some outages remained
longer than others where they
occurred on branch lines near
the same time as breaks on feeder
lines.
Linemen worked as fast
as possible to repair breaks, th?
most urgent receiving first at
tention and were on call 24 houi .
a day during the storm period.
Two Events to
Aid Dimes Drive
Two more events that are
scheduled to provide additional
income for the current March of
Dimes Drive were announced
earlier this week.
The first, a dance, is plann i
for the evening of Saturday, Jan
uary 30, at the Legion hall with
the Legion as the sponsor. Bil1
Durbin’s orchestra will provide
the music.
The second event will provide
entertainment for trap shooter*
who are informed that a shoot
is scheduled next month on the
Nth at the () A ball park,
weather permilting. Income from
both affairs will go to swell this
area's contribution to the dimes
drive.
Another part of the polo
undertaking that may material-z?
later is participation of this vi
cinity in the annual mothers’
march, a feature of the annual
campaign that has not been ob
served here before.
Campaign
Chairman Jim Davies has asked
the PTA to conduct that featui ■
and to plan for it at the next
meeting of the association.
If the PTA docs decide t<
carry out the march, details will
be announced lat r.
By the middle of the aftermx i
Wednesday the lin
of dime-»
along the counter nt Vike’s Cat?
had stretched to the total of $34,
probably the biggest collection of
money for the polio cause in any
business place in town. The lin •
had almost trav led the length
of the counter and probably will
increase that far and farther b
fore the campaign ends.
Walker Service
Being Arranged
Death claimed E. E Walkr
Wednesday morning ot th» week
at his home in West Rivervi« w
and arrangements had been mad
tentatively for the final rites ta
take place Saturday afternoon
Th • service will be handled by
the Bush Funeral home.
Surviving the d"ccascd are: hi*
sons. Eldon, Kenneth, Winston
Lyle and Keith Walker and
daughters. Olive Hankel and lrn
Carlson, as well as numerous
grandchildren.
Interment will tak? place at
th? Vernonia Memorial.
Grade Game Postponed
The Washington grade who, 1
basketbail team's game with
Clatskanie, scheduled originally
for last Thursday, has been post
poned until later in th? season
The Washington team is slated tu
go to St. Helens to meet Join.
Gumm Friday of this week.