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nr. m w f .y < . y i ^ X K e ie ie x e ie x e x e x e x e x e x e x e x e x ^ ^ ^ i i i r.i ‘i i b AROUND THE FARM — j XnEBQQS*' EBZXXZBB1ZXIS ras*» C O AST TO COAST STORES BRUNSMAN By Don Coin Walrod HARDWARE & ELECTRIC F IN E Concrete fence jwsts will last 100 rnate and common table salt gives years if made from quality concrete an effective treatment that may ex and reinforced according to accept tend post life up to 25 years. How ed practices was the conclusion ever, since there is no treatment of reached in an Iowa State University the top portion of the post, failure of study. this portion of the post often occurs At about the same time a Univers before the treated portion fails. The ity of California report states that salt treatment is more costly and wood that has been heavily treated hazardous than the 'penta' treat with a preservative may last as long ment, as corrosive sublimate is very as 100 years. The durability of most poisonous, but it does have the ad kinds of wood is in direct proportion vantage of allowing treatment of to the amount of preservative ab green timbers. sorbed. With our abundant supplies of suit In the light of the two studies, it would seem to us that there might able materials, more extensive post be same justification for the use of treating activities could go a long concrete posts in an area like Iowa way toward saving landowners dol where there is a lack of natural ma lars in fence construction and re terials and freight is an important pairs. Material for treating with factor in bringing them in. At the ‘penta’ runs about 15 cents per post, same time we would wonder if a but this may be more or less, de treated wooden post couldn’t be de pending upon post size. livered to point of use for less than Many farmers over the county the cost of a concrete item. have followed a practice of post To take up enough preservative to treating. With Ralph Kleger, Clats give approximately a life of 100 kanie, this is a continued process years, pressure treatment is requir with a few posts soaking all the time. ed. Most pressure treatments are Bill and Jack Minkoff, also at Clats controlled to the point that a definite kanie, used pressure treated poles amount of preservative is retained by for the basis of a new pole-barn. each cubic foot of wood. However, for the mangers inside, Cold-soak and other home treat they cold-soaked sawed timbers to ments are not likely to give a treat lengthen the life of the structure. ment of such quality, but in most cases they ought to be approaching A post treating demonstration at the 25-year figure. Here again, the the 1949 Columbia county fair re amount of preservative retained will sulted in the placement of treated determine greatly the length of ser posts in most all positions of the vice of the post or pole. Some may livestock show ring. Examination of fail early in life while others may all these treated posts in the show go well over the average. ring by OSU Extension Forester On-the-farm treatcmnts are not Charlie Ross and your author show difficult, but they may involve some ed no decay. Posts that had not been time and labor. For cold-soaking treated were in various stages of with pentachlorophenol, generally re decay. ferred to as just ‘penta’, posts need A ‘post farm ’ at the fairgrounds to be dry and seasoned so that no entrance further serves as a further further checking or cracking occurs. demonstration of the effectiveness Otherwise new, untreated wood of treating native woods. This trial would be exposed to moisture and was stablished in 1959. The plot in decay organisms. cludes pressure-treated Douglas fir, Incising the portion of the post to old-growth cedar with any treatment, be treated is usually desirable so metal posts, and cold-soak treat that case hardening, a phenomena of ments of Douglas fir and alder with Douglas fir, is broken. Otherwise varying methods of preparation and soaking time frequently is used to times of soaking. None of the posts make up for the lack of incising, but in the 1959 trial show any signs of this may not be entirely satisfactory. failure at the present time. Even Salt treating green posts or poles the alder posts, which would be ex with a mixture of corrosive subli- pected to fail within a year or so, are still serviceable. Oernonia Eagle 8 THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1964 first new antiknock compound since Ethyl! Methyl steps up octane performance! Methyl stops power wasting knock! Methyl exclusive in all three Chevron gasolines — at no increase In pr.co! 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'1 0 4 « . k v e p r f a t r v y » U l i 4 .^ IT’S A PRIVILEGE D a u g h te r R eturns F ro m V is it in C a lifo rn ia MIST—Miss Hattie Roberts and niece, Bonnie Dumont of Valejo, Cal ifornia arrived Sunday afternoon to visit Hattie’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. L. Roberts. Bonnie is a grand daughter of the Roberts. Hattie had been in California for several weeks visiting relatives. Mrs. Charles Drake and Lanny of Las Vegas, Nevada arrived Monday in Portland by bus to visit her folks, the Howard Thompsons of Clatskanie and sister, Mrs. Norman Hansen and family of Mist. Mrs. Drake and Lan ny and Mrs. Hansen and children enjoyed Friday at Seaside. Mrs. George Mathews entertained during the week: Mrs. Sam Devine, Mrs. John Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Vic Berg, Mrs. Elmer McCrone, Mrs. Maude Rogers, Mrs. Robert Mathews and Mr and Mrs. DeeVeere Hershey and Dee. Mrs. Howard Grimsbo will be in Portland Tuesday with Shorthorn Lassie Queen Rogdaleen Johnson of Monmouth and Lassie Princess Mar garet Swanson of Apiary, to film a tape to be shown on Channel 8 later this week. Mrs. Grimsbo and girls represent the Western Oregon and Washington Shorthorn Lassie Auxil iary association. Ivan Jones of Api ary will interview the group Mr. and Mrs. Walt Bateson. Hills boro, were dinner guests at the Ro bert Mathews home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Shalmon Libel were Sunday afternoon guests at the Law- ton Waddell home visiting Marlene Kahoe and the Waddells. That even ing the Wayne Reynolds were visi tors at the Libel home. Mr. and Mrs Walter Mathews joined the Vernonia group at Ander son park Sunday afternoon. They en joyed meeting old friends and re newing acquaintances. Later they were dinner guests of the Noble Dun laps at the Spar Tree. TIMBER — Mrs. Marjorie Wilcox returned home Thursday from Cali fornia where she has been for a check up after recent surgery. She came as far as Portland Wednesday. There she met a brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barto of Seal Beach, California, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barto oi Ellensburg, Wash ington. They had dinner at the Hil ton hotel and visited. Mrs. B. Clay, a sister at Wheeler was unable to attend the reunion due to illness. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Williams at tended a birthday party Sunday at the Donald A. Williams home in Port land. The party honored Mrs. Carol Hickman and Don Williams. Bridge gang number 13 moved from Timber to Whiteson recently and Larry Sponsel who has been visited at the parental Vern Sponsel home has secured a jot) with them He started work Monday. Bradley and Dennis Carson of Mon rovia, California came Tuesday for a visit with their grandmother, Mrs Marjorie Wilcox. A former resident visiting in Tim ber was Mrs. Zodrow of Concord, California, She was accompanied by Mark Zodrow and Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Weita, also of Concord Mr. and Mrs. Linton Brown of Rockaway purchased the property ¡ ktoss the road from the church, owned by Mrs Lee Bronson, and are busy painting and repairing it. Mr. Brown works for the railroad. READ ADVERTISING — IT PAYS. N e w T im b e r Residents E m p lo yed by R a ilro a d TIMBER — New residents in Tim ber are Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Tabor and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stain who were transferred here from Lake side. They are in the B and B depart ment of the railroad out of Cochran. Both live in Timber houses on prop erty owned by Miss Gladys Johnson. Alva Williamson and Carl Nickens of Portland returned home Friday from a weeks vacation trip to Reeds port, Roseburg and Medford. They fished the Rogue and Umpqua rivers and visited old friends. Mrs. Fred Brehm had a slight ac cident this week. She hit loose gra vel with her car and skidded into an embankment. There was some damage to the car and Mrs. Brehm suffered muscle spasms in her hip from it. She now rides back and forth to work at Forest Grove with her husband who works in the college library there. M issionary Society H olds W ednesday M e e t BIRKENFELD — The Ladies Mis sionary Society met at the communi ty center last Wednesday with Mrs. Griffin of North Plains and her daughter-in-law and two children of Hillsboro as guests. Mrs. Griffin showed pictures of her daughter's missionary life. The next regular meeting of the missionary society will be work day at the center. Miss Mary Ann Nordstrom return ed to work in California Sunday. Erik Berg and Dave Larson were in Tillamook Saturday. They went to the fair and were on the FFA live stock judging team. Mr. and Mrs Francis Nordstrom and Mary Ann spent a couple days at East Lake on a fishing trip. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Johnston left last week for Warm Springs where he will be employed indefinitely. SHOP LOCALLY FIRST! Congoleum vinyl Fore cast floor covering. Square 5S Yard__________ 9x12 Plastic 15 Surface Rugs.— 1 '7 AND A PLEASURE Class of 1954 Holds Reunion RIVERVIEW — Those attending the class reunion of 1954 were: Mr. and Mrs. Loren Mills, San Jose, Cali fornia; Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Smith (Alice Steers», Sweet Home; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Higley, Hillsboro; Mi-, and Mrs. Dick Gwin (Kathy Sauer); Don Shafer, Hillsboro; Miss Marlene Grey and escort; Mr. and Mrs. Marion Grant (Jeanette Dass); Mr. and Mrs. Don Wantland (Jody Webb); Mr. and Mrs. Homer Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Krieger, Mr. and Mrs. Dick May, Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Lusby, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Nor and Ken Nanson. The dinner was held at Dessy’s Saturday evening and several of the group gathered at the Don Wantland home Sunday afternoon for further visiting. Mrs. Ruby Normand became the grandmother of another girl who was born August 14, to Mr. and Mrs. El mer Goodman of Prospect. She weighs 8 pounds 9 ounces and is named Pollyanne Elizabeth. She joins two brothers and a sister. READ ADVERTISING IT PAYS. Batteries — Group 1 $099 15 Mo. Guar. Exchange__ ’8’ TO LIVE IN VERNONIA F a m ily R eturns F ro m B ritis h C olum bia T r ip CAPITOL HILL — Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grey have just returned from a trip to British Columbia into the rather wild country 200 miles north west of Prince George. They made the trip with friends from San Diego, California, Mr. and Mrs. A. Rovik. Together they visited mutual friends, the Simpsons, who own a 100-acre ranch bordering a lake in this re sort country. Fishing was real profit able and boating one of the favorite pastimes. They talked with some na tive Indians who still remain there and learned much about living in re mote country. It was a thrilling ex perience as well as being education al. Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Meier called on the DeHarts Saturday afternoon, and Sunday called on Mrs. Otto Holmberg on Mist Route, who has sold her home to move to Scappoose to be near her husband who is in a rest home there. Charles and Velma Harders and children, Carol and Donnie, are spending a few vacation days visit ing relatives in Vernonia, enroute from a trip to Lebanon to visit her brother, George Snyder and family. KING’S Grocery-Market Phono H A 9-6015 "Where Your Money Buys More" R iv e rv ie w A l lhe Mile Bridge A L W A Y S — Top Q u a lity A L W A Y S — Best Prices A L W A Y S — Phone and D e liv e ry — F ro m your hom e-owned, independent grocery— S H O P B Y P H O N E — Y O U R IN G . W E B R IN G