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Thursday March 19,1981 Page 2— Vernonia Freedom Richard Pau! fatally injured as tractar overturns Richard Paul, 70, was fatally injured last Saturday night at his home of 35 years when his tractor over-turned on him while he was trying to pull a pick-up truck out of the mud. According to firefighters, first on the scene, Paul was trying to free a pick-up that had become stuck in the mud near a creek on his property near Fishhawk Lake. Although others at the scene told him it would be unnecessary, he apparently didn’t hear them telling him to stop when he backed the tractor onto a knoll near the stranded vehicle. As he backed the tractor onto the knoll, witnesses say, the tractor’s center of gravity shifted and started to flip the vehicle. Monty Tunnell rushed his truck to the tottering tractor and tried PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT The Columbia County Historical Society is pleased to welcome all interested historians to join them in a visit to the colorful Tillamook Museum, Wed. March 25. If you plan to attend it is important to be at the Vernonia Museum, before 10 am, as we will leave together by van at that time for the round trip. Everyone is welcome. Come and bring a friend, or make a new friend by inviting your neighbor. Sack lunch. COUNTY COLUMBIA SERVICE EMERGENCY ORGANIZATIONS NEED HELP FOR STREET ADDRESSESS!! Representatives of the Columbia County Fire Chiefs, along with local law enforcement agencies and the Department of Emergency Services, have asked the County Commissioners to adopt a grid-street numbering system. This system, similar to those already in use in other areas, will provide numerical addressing throughout the unincorporated areas of Columbia County. It is planned to replace the existing old rural route system, and would put an end to changes that are made when a postal route is revised and changed. The organizations are sponsoring the change because it proposes an end to the sometimes confusion of the old route system, and replaces it with one/ which is in order and has continuity. Incorporating a system such as the new one would enable responding emergency units to locate an area and pin-point a residence immediately. This will enable ambulances, fire apparatus, and police vehicles to eliminate a great deal of time in their response, providing faster emergency services to the tax-payer. unsuccessfully to nudge it back into balance with the nose of his vehicle but the. tractor rolled over, crushing Paul. Paramedics at the scene found a pulse when they first arrived but it PUBLIC FORUM GRATEFUL APPRECIATION TO OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT We would like to personally thank each one who came to put out the chimney fire at our home Sunday evening. Everyone was so efficient and showed excellent teamwork. God loves you and so do we«4 John, Elaine & Johnny Young EMT class scheduled An Emergency Medical Technician I Class will be held in Hillsboro beginning April 27,1981. Class times will be from 7 pm to 10 pm Monday and Wednesday evenings. The class is Washington County EMS and Oregon State EMS approved and will be coordinated by Jimmie L. Floyd, EMT IV-Paramedic with Metro West Ambulance. The class will meet Department of Transportation standards and provide inservice both on a paramedic ambulance and in the emergency department of Tuality Community Hospital. The class will also prepare those interested in being able to take the State and/or National Certification Examinations. Those interested may call 648-1808 or 648-6656 for registration information. PUBLIC NOTICE This is to notify all residents of this area who are using city water that the water charge will increase by $1.00 on April 1st, and again by $1.00 on July 1,1981. This increase has been made necessary by increasing costs of electricity and supplies Don Dunaway City Recorder 3-19,3-26 Stolen van continued from page 1 they then tried to run the van over the sundial and in the process got the rear end hung up on the monument. Finding it impossible to remove the van from its position on the sundial the thieves just left it there, its rear axle centered on the sundial, and hanging two feet off the ground. The Vernonia Police Department has no firm suspects as yet, but the matter is under investigation. Vernonia Freedom W Published weekly in Vernonia Oregon, 97064. on Thursdays at 825 Bridge St. Serving The Upper Nehalem Valley. Phone 129-81H. Subscriptions, $8 per y ear. Deadlines for copy and classified advertising: Monday at > pm for the following Thursday's paper. Deadline for display advertising: Friday for normal material and Monday for after-weekend copy. Second-Class Postage Paid at Vernonia, OR 97064. Publication \o 474-690. POSTMASTER: send address changes to Vernonia Freedom. 825 Bridge St.. Vernonia, OR 97064. Dennis Dobson... Ann Dobson........... Correspondents: Ruth Nogle Sandy Welch Randy Stevens turned out to be a false carotid pulse produced by the heart pacemaker Paul has worn for years. Paul is survived by his wife of more than 40 years, Alice, and their two twin children; Dennis, who was ....................... publisher-editor publisher-business manager MEMBER 429-8111 Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association STRICTER DOG CONTROL MEASURES Due to numerous complaints from local residents, Columbia County Dog Control officers will be working in Vernonia throughout all of next week. Citations will be issued to those whose dogs do not meet county ordinances. According to County Commissioner Marion Sahagian, “Their instructions are to be tought.’’ Sahagian also reminds dog owners that the license deadline was March 1, 1981 and that licenses purchased late will now cost twice the standard $10 fee. Owners are also reminded that they must bring a current rabies vaccination certificate with them when they register their dogs. visiting his parents when the accident occurred, and Diane, both of Portland. Paul’s body was * transported to Hawkins Mortuary in Clatskanie after the accident by Mist-Birkenfeld Ambulance. The funeral, held March 17 at the Little Mist Church, gave over 80 mourners a chance for a final farewell. Internment followed at Fishhawk Cemetary. Paul was described by many who knew him as a “Good friend and ' neighbor,’’ one witness said. “We’ll all miss him,’’ he added. HEARING NOTICE Notice is hereby given the Upper Nehalem Valley Citizen Planning Advisory Committee (CPAC) will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, March 25, 1981 at 7:3Q pm at the West Oregon Electric Building for the purpose of reviewing the Columbia County Comprehensive Plan. All interested local residents and/or property owners are invited to attend. For further information, contact the Planning and Building Department, Courthouse, St. Helens, Oregon’ or AL-ANON AVAILABLE call 397-1501. Coramae Freeman Does someone in your family have 3-19 CPAC Coordinator trouble with drinking? Inhere are over 12 million problem drinkers in the PUBLIC NOTICE United States. Every alcoholic The Annual Membership Meeting for affects the family members around United Way of Columbia County will him and often creates a need for help be held at a NO HOST luncheon on from clergymen, physicians, March 25 at 12 pm in the Agate psychiatrists, social workers and the Room of the Village Inn. St. Helens. law. More and more family members Oregon. and friends of the alcoholic are Annual elections for members of the turning to Al-Anon Family Groups. Board of Directors whose ’ term Al-Anon provides a fellowship with a expired 1980 will be held. Thereafter constructive approach to problem will be the election of officers who will . drinking. conduct the campaign in 1981. Al-Anon fellowship is made up of Persons planning to attend are the wives, husbands, relatives, , requested to make reservations no children and friends of the problem later than March 23, 1981, by calling drinker. The problem drinker may or 397-5442. may not be a member of Alcoholics Roberta M. Wood Anonymous. Members of Al-Anon Secretary share their experience, strength and 3-19 hop with each other in order to solve their common problems of fear, insecurity, lack of understanding of A special presentation, addressing the alcoholic and damaged personal drug problem, is lives resulting from alcoholism, the Vernonia’s scheduled for 7:30 pm on Monday, family disease. March 23 at the IOOF Hall. Anyone interested in attending Al- Presented by Officer Bud Ashcraft, Anon, a non-affiliated organization, or learning more about the Al-Anon the evening’s program is designed to program, may attend an Al-Anon present the realities of drug abuse Family Group meeting each among our young people. The presentation is free, but Thursday at 10 am, at the First admission will be limited to adults Christian Church. only. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT BIRTHDAYS CELEBRATED Chip Bubl, the Columbia County • Jack Hacksma, Jenny Mangat and Extension Agent, will be in Vernonia Mrs. Jessie Andrews celebrated their every other week starting Friday, March 27. He can be reached .from birthdays together at the Andrew’s 9:30 am -12 noon at the West Oregon honje last Wednesday. Mrs. Hacksma and Mr. Andrews Electric Co-op. The afternoons will be reserved for farm visits. If you would joined the celebrants for a spaghetti dinner and other festivities. like mdre information call 397-3462. 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