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About The Beaverton enterprise. (Beaverton, Or.) 1927-1951 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1947)
W IL L V IS IT Y E L L O W S T O N E i I Joyce Parmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parmer is ac companying her aunt and uncle t * Yellowstone National Park. • • • HOSTESS Mrs. Frank Laukat was hos tess for Grange Home Economics Club on Wednesday afternoon. • • • LEAVES FOR W Y O M IN G Mrs. T. C. Gallagher left Wed VOL 20, NO. 2» nesday for Laramie, Wyo., where E ST A BLISH ED 1927 she will be a guest at the home of her sister. Her brother whom she hasn't seen for 17 years will also De [ present. luncheo n g u ests BEAVERTO N, W A S H I N G T O N C O U N T Y , OREGON, FRIDAY, A U G U S T 15, 1947 Workmen Find Original Well ,,m ~ m r t Residents Ásk for Street Surfacing SU B SC R IP T IO N IN A D V A N C E S2 00 PER YEAR SIN G LE COPY FIV1 C E N T S Washington County Adds Ten New Voting Precincts i When the workmen «ere dig- At the last Beaverton City ging for the foundation of the Council meeting, a group of del- Ten new voting precincts have ¡third largest in the county with t addition which is near the loca- legates from the Hazelwood addi been added to Washington a registration of 7 <5. V tion of the old grade scho. l that j tion, situated on Hazel road be- County an IV t if ê to the county | South Tigard precinct No. 5 is being added to the Beat. rton tween Erickson avenue and Men- court. This n of precincts was divided into Southwest Ti f High school they cam. upon lo streets asked that Erickson Is necessitated bv the great in gard precinct 5 and South Ti V A C A T IO N IN G an old well that had been in avenue be resurfaced, crease iti population mostly in gard precinct 59. V use at the time the orign ! farm Street Superintendent Goyt was the east end o f the county, since The Arthur Pearson family are V % No. 59 will vote a tha Tigard \ J vacationing In Washington and [ house stood on the spot requested to prepare an estimate 1941, when the la.-t changes were Grade school. * y on Vancouver Island. The first house was built by of cost for this project and then | made. Beaverton, West Slope, Ti Metzger Precinct No. 7 was 1 * While in Washington they are Samuel Stott who took up .i do meet with a special committee! gard, Ccxlar Mill Metzger Multno- divided uito East Metzger pre- visiting relatives at Port An nation land claim there in the from the district as soon as pos- | mah Club, Reodville and Forest einet and West Metzger Precinct g e l e s Bellingham and Olympia. early ’50's. Later the Stotts mov sible. Grove are the sections affected 00. The new precinct will vote ^ * • • ed to Gaston, Oregon. The precincts affected by the at the Metzger school. court order turned in heavy reg HOSTESS TO C LU B The second owner of the place Garden Home precinct 8, was »stration;. of voters in the No- split to add precinct 61, voting was Ross Welch who Bold out a The birthday club met Sunday | vember 1940 elections. good many years later to Meier to be at the McKay school house. evening at the Fred I.undahl Until these changes were made and Frank Co. It was from them A lso divided was Cedar Mill home in Bethany for an evening Multnomah Country club precinct precinct 40, West Cedar Mill to that the high school bought the , A refreshments and pinochle, i 58 was tHe largest in the county 1 remain precinct 40, with voting land. m * * with a registration of 907 for the to take place at the Union school, Tests for the volume of watet F A IR C H IL D S TRAVEL last election. Second largest pre-1 and East Cedar Mill to become In the well are to be taken to j Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Fairchild cinct, City of Beaverton precinct | precinct 63, voting place to be in see if there is enough to use, have recently returned from a it for Irrigation. However, Mr. j Oren Sudtell has started con 56, had a registration of 830 1 the Grange hall. trip to Seattle to visit Mr. Fair West Slope precinct 43 was Metzler is skeptical as to wheth struction of a 40x60 foot building Cedar M ill precinct 10, also child’s brother, W. B. Fairchild. or there will lie enough because! on the S. v\ Canyon Road across changed by the order, was the changed to take in only the west They also drove up to Canada, I part of West Slojx*, the east por at the time the well wa- nit in. I from Haskell Center. The store leased to going to Vancouver, Harrison tion of West Slope adjoining the 1 Hot Springs, and Victoria. W htle of Charlie Collins who will open a Multnomah county line to be made with an auger. R« su in Victoria they saw the Burch- War Surplus store. come precinct 04, voting to be at the tests are lieing awaited. art Gardens. J. M. Ayers, contractor says The Beaverton American Le I the Shell Oil station. Mr. Fairchild has just receiv the building which is to be con gion Post 121 will hold a meet-. Precinct . _ 58, formerly the Mult V. OF F. W. L A D IE S ed confirmation on reservations structed of cement blocks will ing throughout the summer o n 1 " ? ,,,uh 5 ° unV„y ,Uub’ Wa* chan* ‘ starting Sept. 12 and returning lx1 done by Sept. 5 ami ready the first an<l thud. W ednesdays!^ ,to Multnomah Country A U X I L I A R Y 1947-48 Oct. 10 for a trip east. He and for occupancy. of the month Wallv Ehlert is 1 blb; vot|nt»' booths to be lo- Mrs. Fairchild plan to go by TWO WELL k n o w n young people of Beaverton who were married This Is the first unit of a commander and Fred Scheller caltHl “ the ° ubel bch°o1- Allded way of CPR over the Canadian Saturday, August 2, at Pilgrim Lutheran Church, are Mr. and Mrs. C O N T E ST I*,“ 8, W**i Multnomah Country group of buildings Sudtell plans Jr is adjutant. Rockies to Detroit where they William 11. Moore. Mrs. Moore was Dorothy Mae Jellum liefore her The post will start work on C ub ^ ^ 1 6 5 voting to take I to put up on his land. marriage. will visit their daughter and son- The Ladies Auxiliary of thc| their new building next week, on place in the L-B Tractor Equip- in-law. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Well Veterans of Foreign Wars of the the 100x100 lot on First and inent Co. on S. VV’. Canyon road. man. They will return by Great City of Beaverton precinct 56 United States are announcing B E A V E R T O N A CCEP TS Washington ;n Beaverton. was changed to West Beaverton, Northern route. the ope»ing of their 1948 *ssay The lot has been cleared and They may go on to New York contest open to high school stud G A R D E N H O M E will be bulldozed. The lumber has voting to be at the city hall. East while they are in the east. ents. The subject for th< essay is already lieen delivered and they Beaverton precinct 66 was added, * * • to be ‘‘Human Rights The Key TO D IST R IC T are about to start digging for the with the voting place to be in (0 World Peace. " The Milne IN S A N F R A N C IS C O foundation and the cement floor thte I. O. O. F. hall. Ueedville was divided into two for turning in the essay is May Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Bennett Beaverton voted to accept and are ready to build the forms. precincts, that area north of the 15, 1948. Much of the work will be done are vacationing in San Francisco Garden Home School district railroad tracks to remain in pre $2,000 in prizes will be given: bv the members of Post 124. into the Beaverton Union High The home of Miss Alice Cle this week. On Saturday, August 2 at 8 cinct 14 and the area south of • • • o’clock in the evening at Pil ment was the setting for a bril the first prize will be $1.000, the School District 10 Joint Wash- the tracks to become precinct 62. second, $500 the third $250 and ington-Multnomah county by a FR O M C A L IF O R N IA grim Lutheran Church of Bea liant formal piano recital by her Voting in the new precinct will T R A IN A U T O A C C ID E N T the fourth $100. The balance of vote of 29 to 0, on Tuesday, Aug Caryl Jean Short, daugh Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Shafer, verton, Miss Dorothy Mae Jel pupil bo at the Witch Hazel school. the |2,000 will l>e given In 20 ust 5. and daughters Ann and Sharon lum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Short, consolation prizes. Two more precincts were added A C C O R D IN G TO DRIVER The consolidation will not go visited at the home of Mr. Shaf Ben G. Jellum of Beaverton be Friday evening. in Forest Grove, giving that city This contest hag been a nation into effect until July 1, 1948, and Miss Short opened the pro er’s brother, Guy Shafer, on S. came the bride of Mr. William five voting places. Wes Forest al event for the past 12 years in the meantime Garden Home Last week’s issue an article Grove p recinct 67 and East For with three Preludes by VV. Brentwcrid avenue, this last H. Moor*, son oi Mr. and Mrs. gram Essays are not to exceed 1,000 B B. V oor*> a .-.o of Beav- ^'on. Bach, will remain tn a non high school was published concerning the N. est Grove preciuet fig were added then two numbers hy week end. *- » “X L. Swagger accident, which oc by the court order. Yhe (Toubie ring ceremony was Beethoven, his Rondo In C and words in length, and any high district status. 4They arrived Friday, AUgusi 8, curred Wednesday, July 30. performed by candlelight amid Bagatelle in C. After a selection school student carrying a full and left Sunday inmost 10. course is eligible to compete. Mr. Swagger says he was go visit relatives in Chehalis, Wash, white gladioli by the Rev. Er entitled Lento, by Cyril Scott, Essays will be judged on literary TO PLAY N O R T H ing north on St Mary’s road arranged for piano and organ, in before returning to their home win Gerken. construction, i n t e r pretative crossing the railroad tracks. He The bride was given in marri which Miss Clement assisted at views, and patriotic inspiration. in San Rafael Cs’ 1* PORTLAND said he hail crossed the track • * * age by her father and wore a her Hammond organ, Miss Short and slowed down to avoid hit traditional white satin gown en continued with the Sonatina in H O SP IT A L IZ E D F minor by Kuhlau. Miss Cle train of princess design with The Beaverton I. O. O. F. base ting another car coming west on '47 M A R C H OF D IM E S Nancy Shofner of Beaverton is ment played an organ solo. In Valencia lace insets and sweet ball team played the Oregon City the Tualatin highway. He states doing nicely at St. Vincent’s hos The English dandy with his termezzo by Macbeth, following heart neckline. Her full length Trailer men at Oregon City’s that his car was “ lilt In the T O T A L REA CH ES 17 pital following an operation. She sword, and his select chorus rear end by the steam chest of which Miss Short closed the pro Kelly Field, last Wednesday expects to be home Thursday lace edged veil fell from a crown made up of Henry the Hols», the engine,’’ gram with Mazurka in B flat M I L L IO N M A R K of seed pearls. night, August 13, at 8:15 under j August 21. Gretchen, and Ugh! the Indian, • * • She carried a bouquet of white by Chopin, Caravan by Crist, the lights. were a welcome surprise at the Londonderry Air arranged for asters and gladioli centered with They will play the North Port A T C R E SC E N T L A K E The 1947 March of Dimes Campfire sponsored play day in cream rosebuds and long stream left hand alone by W. H. Thomp land team at the Beaverton grade Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Diller, Bob the Beaverton City Park Wed reached an all time high in rais son and Etude Opus 47 number ers of white satin ribbon. school grounds on August 17, at j by and Judy of S. W. Cashmur nesday August 6. They perform ing $17,987,800.66 for the Na 2:30 p. m. Miss Elaine Bowman a cousin 25 by Stephen Heller. Lane, returned Sunday, August of the bride was maid of honor ed beautifully, with the aid of An enthuiasttc audience from According to Hall Luck “You’ll their black strings and their 10, from a four day vacation at and wore a blue taffeta gown and Beaverton, West Slope, Capitol tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and its 2,719 chapter miss a good game if you don’t L U N C H E O N HOSTESS Crescent Lake, Oregon. manipulators who had made carried a bouquet of pink glad Hill and Portland congratulated to carry on the fight against * * * Mrs. Bill Parker gave a get them. turn out to see it. ioli and white larkspur. Miss Miss Short on her artistic and poliomyelitis throughout the na • • • acquainted luncheon last Wed V IS IT IN C A L IF O R N IA Shirley Hannen and Mis Maxine fluent interpretations. tion, Basil O’Connor, president nesday for Mrs. Fiddler and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kramer, Huth were bridesmaids and wore This was the first of a series of the National Founadtion an A T HOME Raymond Huber. They are both Penny and Beverly, new residents identical gowns of yellow taffeta. of residence-studio recitals to be nounced today. new nelghlHjrs In the commun on Sunset Road, returned this They carried bouquets of pink given on Miss Clement’s Stein The friends of Mrs. Herbert Oregon’s contribution of $351,- last week from a two week’s visit fringed white gladioli and pink way grand piano which she this 781.05 puts her 15th on the Spegeleberg will be glad to hear ity. * • # in Fresno, Calif. larkspur. Little Miss Donna Fay summer brought from her studio list of states though she is com she is home again. F A M IL Y R E U N IO N • • • Dreyer was flower girl and was in Linfleld College. Other pro paratively lower than this in She still has to remain in I hh ! The Cedar Mill Garden Club Mr. and Mrs. Henry Friesen, dressed in a gown of blue or grams will Include numbers for population. HOSTESS but is very much improved will hold its regular August Mrs. Claude May and Mrs. Lyle Miss Florence Thomas enter gandy. two pianos and piano and organ meeting in picnic form on the Smith and Suzanne and Lyla Audobon Society Bird Sanctuary The groom was attended by his duets, as well as piano and or tained the members of her cere- Jean Smith attended the Trachsei amics class Monday .afternoon, brother Robert Moore. Wallace gan solos. grounds, Wednesday, August 20. family reunion at Sellwood Park August 11, at her home on S. W. Bowman, a cousin of the bride Bird study will be the subject on Sunday. and Harold Jeffords were ush Murray avenue. of the day. A pot luck luncheon • * • Forty attended the reunion ST AT E FAIR OPENS ers. will be served at 12 o’clock noon. which is held every year in hon Mrs. Roland Wollmuth was or • • • R ET U R N FR O M C A M P or of the late John Trachsei Sr. ganist and Earl Dreyer sang “O j SEPTEM BER 1, 1947 Gretta Robinson, Patricia Mad den, and Carolan Popp returned Perfect Love” while the bridal Mrs. Rasmussen spoke,” every The news that City Recorder Oregon’s great fair which opens R. C. Doty had re igned was body hates to see him go. He’s N E W H O M E Sunday, August 10, from a week couple kneeled at the altar. A reception was held following in Salem on Lalxir Day is ex- Mr. and Mrs. Sigvard Kleppe ¿ t Camp Namanu. the ceremony at the home of the l>eeted to attract over 5,000 greeted with constei nation by the done a lot for the city. People have sold their home and will * * * haven't begun to know that he’s most of the residents of Beaver bride’s parents. A Beautiful three head of prize livestock Manager V IO L IN C LA SSES Mileage speed signs with a ton. Suggestions were made that tried to do for them. 1 don’t move into their new home with tiered wedding cake was cut by designated speed limit of 25 he be given additional help, or know where this town will ever in a month. Mrs. Ruthann McKenzie is con Mrs. Erwin Gerken. Mrs. George Leo Spltzbart has reported. Mrs. Sigvard Kleppe and Hel miles per hour have been placed ducting her violin classes In the Bowman, aunt of the bride pour Manager Spitzbart has named that the d t j b« put undo I get anyone to replace him to do en visited In Seattle last week. on roads entering the Cedar Mill Bethel Congregational Church ed. Assisting were Mrs. Arthur the followiing livestock judges City Manager form of govern what he’s done.” Mr. Kleppe returned home business district. Jo Merrill, in Carr Chevrolet during August. W. Carlson aunt of the bride and superintendents for the fair ment and that Doty be made with them after two months • • • when he first heard that Doty Excess speed through this dis manager. It was generally felt which will continue through Sept. and Evelyn Mergel, sister of the trict with increasing traffic has that Beaverton would suffer a had resigned exclolmed, “Oh no fishing in Alaska. N E W R E SID EN T S groom. made enforcement necessary, Sheep—George Philip, Davis, great loss if Doty 5 allowed to — I don’t like that at all. I’ve Mr. and Mrs. Bill Drager and The young couple left on a e • • known him for a good many A T C A M P children Michael and Kathy Jo, short honeymoon at the Oregon Calif., Judge; J. J. Thompson, resign. years and I know he’s very con Following are some of the Virginia Tonges sjient last have moved into the Rosslter beaches after which they will be Salem, Supt, Ouemseys-Dtedrich scientious, reliable and capable." week at Trout Creek, Bible Ulken, Trail, Oregon, judge comments mad** by citizens— home on S. W. Murray avenue. at home on Menlo Drive. Mitz Alexander said, “ I’d like Camp “ We will never get anyone like • * * Milkiing Short Horns and Red Mr. A1 N. French accompan • • • Polls Hobart Hunter, HeabA»- Mr. Doty. He does things far be to see him stay. He’s done a good W E ST D A L E M O T H E R S C LU B ied by his brother-in-law, C. H. Job here. If Beaverton were con yond his line of duty. He is so Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Winterly burg, Calif., judge. No one would suspect that the kind, he does favors vou would templating a city manager no- and son Alan, of Seattle are Ashley and a friend spent the Swin*—Wade Wells, Boise, judge; Kiwanis Hall in Beaverton could bodv would be better than Dick spending a few weeks with Mrs. week end fishing at Diamond I Ben Riddor, Sherwood supt. never dream of he used as a picnic place, but “The Job has grown beyond a Doty.” Winterly’s parent, the Leonard Lake. i Beef C W. Hickman, Univercity that is the use to which it was Mr. Ashley is on leave from "I don’t blame him,” was the Hauks. one man Job and he has always , of Idaho, Judge. put Sunday, July 27, by the West- Guam where he has been sta 0 0 0 had a hard time to get help with noncommltal remark of Bruce dale Mothers Club members and tioned with the navy. The regular meeting of B*.a , Dairy— Ben Newell, Salem, supt., what they could pay. But no one McMahon. EM PLO YED « • • their families. verton Rebekah Lodge 248 was Harry King Vancouver, B. C. can stand that pace tl it he goes” Paul Knepp, one of the Bea Ray Huber started work for It was so crowded that it was held August 5. I judge such were the comments of Mrs verton City Councilman said, McCall Oil Company in Beaver impossible to count noses, but Initiation was for two candi- “ Personally I feel it Is a great William Gratier. ton on Monday. Judging from the amount of dates from Beaverton and one FLIES T O C A L IF O R N IA Mr. Hunkapillar nd “ Doty Is loss to the city. It will be hard * * * ham and ice cream consumed, from Hillsboro. to replace anyone as efficient the most valuable man In this Mrs. !»evo Best left Friday via C A L L E D TO T IL L AMOOK the turn out was excellent in Guests were present from Hills plane for Southern California the brains | and loyal as he has been whole busine— lb spite of the rain. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Andross • • t boro and Marietta and Acme | "I also think that his work On Tuesday, August 5, a of the whole works • * t and Otto Aschoff of Aloha were group of relatives surprised Mrs. Lodge from Portland. has gone a lot unappreciated and “What the city needs Is a head W EEK E N D GUESTS to Tillamook Tuesday Leonard Uppinghouse with a pot EAST FOR V A C A T IO N At close of lodge refreshments What would a busine-s be with unnoticed in the past. If we are called Mr. and Mrs. A V. Butts had out a head you could ito to? We going to lose him as a city rec morning to be with their broth luck luncheon honoring Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Osborne were served by the committee. her Our next meeting will be as their week end guests their need a city manager ’ order. I hope w’ e won’t lose him er Henry Aschoff who is very birthday. and daughter, Doris have return ill in a local hospital. ed from their vacation trip which Friendship Night held August grandson, wife and baby, Mr. and She was presented ’with a When Don Walker heard Mr. as a citizen • • • «*‘ "ok them as far east as New 19 at 8 p m. All members are Mr*. Stanley Best of Longview, Doty was resigning be said, "I j “ I feel that it would be a good monetary gift from the group to I Wash. Tork City. They visited Wash urged to attend. don’t think he should He’s done thing for the City of Beaverton R E T U R N S T O N E W Y O R K purchase something for her new a w-onderful Job. He lives it day i If he could be kept as the City ington, D C.. St. I»ouIs and Chi Harold L. Price, Jr., returned home. Mr and Mrs D P MacDonald C O N V A L E S C E N T and night The city will have to Manager because at the rate that I to New York last Sunday after Her sister, Mrs. Don Miller cago They returned via Southern have returned from Seattle where i Miss Betty Cox and brother go a long way before they can I Beaverton is growing his knowl- noon after being with his par was also honored in the ‘ after California and Southern Oregon they visited their daughter and j Jack are convalescing from a find anyone who can take his j edge of city affairs woud be a ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. noon with a pink and blue show Price for almost a month. er of gifts. place even in a small way.” |big help for the future.” i other relatives. tonsillectomy. visiting relatives enroute. Mrs. W. J. Lindsley and daughters, and a friend from Vernonia were luncheon guests Monday of Mrs. James Walters. V y V & Building to House W ar Surplus Store To Start Building Candles Light Church Altar For Nuptials Caryl Jean Short Presented In Formal Recital Play Day At City Park McKinley Elmonica CEDAR MILL Club to Picnic Citizens Loath to Lose Doty; Suggest City Manager Speed Limit 25 M. P. H. Here from Guam Rebekah Lodge Has Initiation Sisters Are Guests of Honor