Friday, December 26, 1947 [VU S chool P o p u l a t io n ~ à /- 1100 Published Friday of each week by The Pioneer Publishing Co., at Beaverton, Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office Beaverton, Oregon. 1000 S TA N LE Y W. NETHERTON .................... Editor and Publisher MRS. EDNA BLACK ______________ Associate Editor-Office Mgr. W A L L Y K A IN ____________________ New, EditOl 800 / ✓ r t _____ / / à I d W a .M n «ton and Multnomah O d » Year Two Y e a r. . . . . Three Y e a n ( M onth« ____ . ............... Countl.« !2 N IN ADVANCE OUTSIDE T E R R ITO R IE S One T ee r MKMKEit ............ .............. ! / / Orecon Newipeper Aeeoc letton / / / 600 •TM PuUUher’ l / A 900 700 IN 48 1200 BUSINESS OFFICE AND P LA N T Tualatin Valley Highway and Short Street — Beaverton Phone 2321 SUBSCRIPTION RATES— PAYABLE L ist . WASM/HGTON C 0 U H T Y , O fiiG O " RPRISE B a tta tiers worshipped God in their, ganized in 1943. and has been The Church of the Nazarene cabins from 1852. The first meeting on a monthly basis to|0f Beaverton, Oregon was organ- church building was erected in plan community efforts The ized April 14, 1926, holding meet­ 1865. The present building was Rev. Everett Bowers is president. ings at the Loslie Brothers Hall built in 1891. Capacity attend- Each vear Thanksgiving and| . ~ ,, f months Soon ance in church and Sunday Holy Week are observed bv Un- *or * eW 1 n boon school has required the beginn- ion services. A daily vacation j thereafter the present p arc of ing of the third plant this year Bible school has been a major worship was purchased from the The roof is on and we are await enterDri, e for several vears and Congregational church. Four of ing windows and doors. has ?rown steadily umil it will the original 17 charter members. Cedar Mill Community church become necessary to divide it still retain their membership in has capacity attendance in into two schools next year be the local church. At present church and Sunday school, with cause no church is large enough there are 80 members in the classes in two additional homes The drlve for church World church’ Top attendance reaches 160. Service collection under the The Sunday School began with The, * o ™ °ns glving has av chairmanship of the Rev. Ever *n enrollment of 25 and an at- eraged >300. monthly this year. ¡tt Bowers included all the .tendance weekly of 20. At the with partial support of five mis- (.hurches Two projects are un- present time there is an enroll- sionanes in Japan, Mexico, Idaho (ier way now si„ ns to ^ piaced ment of 150 and a weekly at and Oregon at three entrances of 0Ur city,. tendance of 126. R e v Homer C. W e anticipate a greater New and in January a unlted effort Williams was the first pastor. ei|r' i on i .ri behalf of our ohnrrh church schools. I Rev. Leonard C. Johnson, the Rev. Simon E. Forsberg is min­ present pastor, is the ninth to Beaverton may well be proud ister for edar Mill Communitv. serve the local congregation, of the friendliness and coopera „„„ . | The present facilities are PII.GKIM LU TH E RAN Pilgrim Lutheran Church, the tion among her churches. This is proving inadequate to house the Church of the Lutheran Hour, a community well supplied with 1 mowing Congregation and Sun- School> and plans are ^ m g located on Farmington Road, at active and growing churches | d Menlo, is one of the youngest with a variety to meet each | laid for a new church, as well churches in Beaverton. Work spiritual need. They provide a was begun on a canvass basis healthy religious atmosphere for as a new parsonage in the near future. in 1941. Tha first service was the community. held in the Kiwanis Hall in April, of 1942. The congregation was organized on November 23, 1942 and the first pastor called in January of 1943. The lot on which the church is lcx-ated was purchased in February of 1943, and the present budding was ded­ icated on June 20, 1943. The present pastor Rev. Erwin Gerkin, was installed in Septem­ ber of 1945. One can catch a glimpse of the progress and growth of Beaverton when one realizes that today the mem­ bership of Pilgrim is 120 com­ municant members, and well over 200 souls. The present budding isn't large enough and HARRY M. SEABOLD, Realtor Pilgrim is In the midst of a budding campaign. We hope it isn’t too long that this may be accomplished.. Graph Shows School Trend \ BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE — „ . f 500 400 The Job Yet To Be Done 300 m The Beaverton Enterprise, in this edition, presents its Progress YtA K-19?) 40 At 42 43 44 45 46 47 Edition, a serious presentation dedicated to the best interests of the community. c en su s Following the theme of Progress, the staff has sought to de­ D o t t e d l in e s n o w s — pict some of the shortcomings which must be overcome before the SOHO LIN E SHOWS ------------------ ENROLLMENT development of this vicinity is ready for orderly Progress and real­ Census of the allowed school population, between the ization of its rightful destiny. Using such a theme, there are many bypaths which we might ages of 4 and 20 years, which has just been completed for have followed— by-paths that might have led us along ways of School District 48, Washington county, indicates a sharp in­ self-justification and self adulation. Those are the by-ways to crease since 1946. The accompanying graph, prepared by falsity and deception! Rather, the staff chose the less congratulatory side of the pic­ Maurice M. Romig, school board member, traces the course of census and school enrollment since 1939. ture, to assay the course of developments to com e. We believe Beaverton is bound for an amazing future. Every Final figures on the district census reached 1131, while portent points to an increased density of population and business grade school enrollment is at 534. expansion, within ten years, that will seem unbelievable. One fact must be recognised, with such an outlook. As more people come, more public facilities and utilities will be demanded. Each additional 100 residents will strain existing facilities in pro­ portionate degree. H IG H W A Y C H A P E L First, Immediate acceleration of Beaverton’s development will — ★ “ The Highway Chapel opened come January 6, 1048, when the matter of annexing Kaiser Com­ their first service in the IOOF R E C O R D S I N D IC A T E C E D A R M I L L P IO N E E R E D munity Homes Pine Hurst Addition commands voters’ attention. Hall, October 14, 1945. Later we LISTING: Every indication |>oints to this as favorable to the well being of W IT H W O R S H IP IN IH.»2: O T H E R S F O L L O W E D purchased a lot on Tualatin Beaverton. Highway and Mill street in H O M E S BUSINESSES Any estimate of Beaverton’s one on alternate months, In the future, with the home-making nature of the area more progress would be incomplete Bethel Church outgrew the Beaverton. W e were enabled of A C R E A G E r A R M S and more emphasized, provision must be made for recreational without noting the founding and first building and in 1925 with a the Lord to build a chapel on this location, having the dedica­ facilities of the young. At present, no park space has been re­ growth of the religious institu- resident membership of only 40, COMPLETE COUNTY COVERAGE served, and it is sorely needed. tions in our midst. I built the present fine structure tion service Feb. 20, 1947. Our Sunday school began with 14 in From the existing records, the on 6th and Watson streets. The Plans should be made for a non-profit community center, to attendance and has been up to INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE LOANS serve indoor recreational needs of the area to keep our young First Methodist church was the building was completely paid for Our worship services have first in Beaverton itself, altho several years ago; the present people at home and as an insurance against juvenile waywardness the Cellar Mill congregation may chancel was planned and built had a high attendance of over and the heart-break such a false economy would entail. have been organized before. by the Rev. Willard Hall, who •r> a few times during the year. Poised on the threshold of a new and better area, let us take METHODIST CHURCH was pastor from 1940 to 1943. We look for greater things in the future. stock . . . of the Job yet to be done! — W.K. Four years following the con- Because of the rapid growth of Rev. Orville Poulin, minister. elusion of the great war between «he Church School, it has been DUANE D TR Y, VIRGIL M AFFET, Salesmen The past few years have seen I the states, Beaverton Methodism necessary to improve the un- a «toady increasing amount of fi On Canyon Road At East " Y " was i>orn. This was in the year finished floor of the educational // 18*19. Sixteen years later its plant, which has provided five inter-church connori,«'ri— Branch— Forest Grove first chapel was dedicated, and badly needed classrooms already the communitv. Ministerial Association was or now after seventy-eight years of and will eventually add a chap­ Last Sunday's helicopter tragi-dy, which snuffed the lives of existence this congregation and el and large Recreation Hall r3was»\a-az»8n>ttsi iBtv» «»* ar» era «»a wo a»« bwi m m*« iw> w«« a C. S. “ Sam” Jackson and Ambrose M. Cronin, Jr., was in the nature Its church school (out of which as well. A furnace room Is In of a major catastrophe in the ranks of Oregon journalism. In the late 20’s grew the local process of c«Znipletion beneath Church of the Nazarene) are seek the church, in which a central "Sam” Jackson, embarked on a brilliant newspaper and radio heating plant will be installed career, had proved himself capable and, by diligent application and Ing means of adjusting to tht rnpid growth which Its records shortly. study, had prepared himself for a dominating part of Oregon’s The congregation has grown i i v n L newspaper future. The shocking mishap which ended his life was During the past four years steadily, and we have 195 mem­ like the strong hand of Fate and his loss is a loss to a profession considerable money has been ex bers at present, with several of public service in which the young associate publisher had earned pended on the present church already planning to unite with an envious niche. plant which has witnessed the the Church at the Annual New ! school Year’s Communion Service. The Condolences go from this newspaper to Mr. Jackson’s Im­ growth o f the church present pastor, the Rev. Francis mediate family and to the larger family of Journal and K A LE em­ membership in the past twenty ployees whose bereavement at this time is one of real and personal seven months from 104 to 252 T. Sturtevant, was called m 1943 Simultaneously the average at- was given a leave of absence for loss. w . K. t«‘ndance has climbed from 55 to a year in the Chaplain’s Corps. 130. The church membership has United States Navy, from which expanded from 117 full mem- he returned In May. 1945. l>ers to 160 members during the CHURCH OK CHRIST // same period if this be any indi­ The Chur«h of Christ was or­ cation the Christian churches of ganized in 1925 with a small the land are to know a new membership which has grown to There are beaten trails along which the feet travel as without «lay. a membership of 322 in 1947. In keeping with this optom The Bible School attendance av­ compulsion and without forethought. Such Is the trail of Yule- tide, when by mass reaction, the nation—and most of the world— istic note, the First Methodist eraged 155, with an enrollment recognizes the spirit of Peace on Earth, (iood Will Towards A L L church has entered upon a con of 241. The Church has a fine tract to purchase the quarter edifice, free of indebtedness and Men. And when the trad has been trod so many times, the expres­ block east of the present church due to increase in attendance is sion of the season often sounds hackneyed and as if by rote. location for future expansion. planning an addition. Its theol­ There are signs of the season Tinsel, glincracks. decorations Only in a modern, well equipptxl ogical policy is strictlv funda­ San ta is a t the throttle and g o o d fellowship and traditional bric-a-brac which Is added to each year. church building with sanctuary, mental Rev GtH-rge W . Springer In 1947, for Instance, there is resounding endorsement of these youth chapel. Sunday school the present pastor has minist­ has the right o f w ay. Full sp e e d ah e ad fo r the new bubbly lights and «he fascination «if their newness and move rooms, recreational facilities, ad ered to the church for a total ment will no doubt maintain them as a definite Christmas tree equate heating and sanitation of 12 years. provisions can we do our best CATHOLIC PARISH device. work today when the w«>rlds de Whatever might Be said of the Also to the forefront, there are Santa Clauses of all descrip­ mauds upon Us re«|uire the ut early Catholic pastors of the tions, presenting many interpretive characterizations to symbolize most that is In us community, certainly they could the traditronal spirit of the Noel. Yet, to them all, is wide eyed A warm welcome awaits you not tie called historians. There faith and trustfulness of youngsters, a joy to see and a revelation in the varied activities of this Is no record of how, when or to enjoy, even us an outside observer. growing church which seeks from whom the present property The bustle of Christinas shopping which, to « man particularly, through your cooperation and the was acquired However, the rec­ seems annually a cursed thing, wearies the feet and tries the bud­ guidance of God to minister to ords do show that all the bap­ getary lines. Yet, without it. s«imething in one's life routine would the whole needs of man— the so- tisms, marriages and burials clal, and the material as well as that they performed prior to seem definitely missing. the spiritual The Rev. Everett July 3. 1901, waere performed in It Is In the final week of this regime that the spirit bears L. Bowers is the present min­ St Anthony's church In Cedar thrilling fruit For, In the final week or so, the words. “ MERRY ister, now serving in his third Mills. CHRISTMAS" springs from the lips of those but casually known year. In June, 1901. Rev. I. A. Le- Times have changed since we started business in this com­ There ts an case among those who surround you that reaches CONGREGATION \L Miller acquired an abandoned Bethel Congregational church cheese factor\ located on thej out and touches you. if but briefly. And the path sti followed by munity many years ago, and we have seen a great many rote ceases to I k * beaten and deep worn, hut as if It is a delightful was organized in 1SS0 under the property now occupied by the were experience, a revelation which, l»ecuuse it is heartfelt, seems new guidance of Dr. George Atkinson, rectory. Divme Services changes. But one thing always remains the same. W e continue famous mlsslonar' and educator, conducted in this make-shift and shining. with three moml rs. The spirit church until the fall of 1912 to serve in the best possible manner the very best people it : it is with such feeling that this newspaper, and all its em­ of cooperation that has always when under the pastorship of i ployees who team up to bring you by their many contributions, a marked the relationship between Rev .1 O'Flynn. i the present . is possible to serve. W e could ask for no finer list of cus­ « publication of merit and public awareness, extends to its ever gr«'W- the First Methodist and Bethel combination of church and sch«x>l § i I I ing family of subscribers its greetings of the Season. Churches was shown even in were built. The following year! tomers, no better group of friends. « those early days, for upon the the present rectory was built. An«l to you all. with personal warmth and meaning, we say, purchase of the former Grange In 1901 our records show that "M ERRY CHRISTMAS. GOD BLESS YOU." \v k And to all of you our entire organization wishes loads l! Hall, n«>w the Church of the I there were nine baptisms. Thu<| Nazarene. as n church In 1881. far ,n 1947 have been fortv- jl of good cheer and a genuine old-fashioned merry Christmas! the trustees were directed to in-1 seven baptisms in 1901 t h e 'f Save 20 to 25% on your FIRE INSURANCE COSTS il vite "n is the pastor! a* monthly meetings of the com of the parish at present present. | • New Location 109 S. 2nd Ave. Phone 1732 « i d \ i; M in i »IMMUNITY "Every Form of Protection" Hilliboro, Oregon Relations, sponsored by Nul Cedar Mill was founiied by l 'hur«'h<- «nd meeting in each Flam Young in ISIS The -et Merry Christmas BEAVERTON BRANCH Washington County Agencies I Beaverton Ministers Assn. Traces Religious Growth f Newspaper Tragedy" December 19 Washington County Agencies i "Merry Christmas To All Merriest Christmas of them all! Oregon Mutual Fire Insurance Co. w. J. McCREAOY ! LUMBER COMPANY 1 j i ^|gr ^ j i pxf s*