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Betweenthe Bookendl
By Nancy Burch
Vernonia City Librarian
Effective Wednesday, February 21, the li
brary will be open for business as usual. No
flood damage was suffered by the building or
the books, but the library has been used this
past week as one of the meeting places for ef
forts needed to help resolve the problems re
sulting from flood damages to the community.
No one will be held accountable for books
that incurred water damage beyond repair, but
please try to keep lists of the books that could
not be saved so those titles can be pulled
from the card files. The State Library will be
sending some information on restoration of
books (drying methods, etc.) which will be
available shortly.
Since the library was closed today, (Mon
day) a shopping trip to Costco and to Barnes
and Noble was on the agenda. New books by
C ity was ignored
during flood crisis
To the Editor:
As an A m erican, I am
ashamed! Your city was ig
nored by every faction of the
PEOPLE’S government dur
ing the recent floods. All the
tax dollars you have sent to
the state and federal govern
ments got you nothing! Even
your National Guard finds it
self without amphibious vehi
cles to help people in the
Columbia River valley.
Now w ith Sen. W yden,
Jon ath an and Faye K e lle rm a n , LaV yrle
Spencer, Robin Cook, J.A. Jance, Nancy Tay
lor Rosenberg, and Lillian Jackson Braun (the
cat stories) will all be available when the li
brary reopens.
After the experiences that Vernonia resi
dents suffered this past week and a half, some
quotes on adversity, compiled in a book by
E.C. Mackenzie, seem appropriate:
“Your character is what you have left when
you’ve lost everything you can lose."
“Trouble is what gives a fellow a chance to
discover his strength — or lack of it."
It certainly appears that the citizens of Ver
nonia have lots of strength and character.
......................................
Don Schwarz
Stoughton, Mass.
Writer says country
is lulled to sleep
To the Editor:
Many centuries before the
birth of Christ there lived a
Chinese warrior whose name
was Sun Tzu. Tzu is w ell
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can and Russian troops train
tobether at Ft. Riley, a Rus
sian government official was
destroying an U.S. nuclear
silo. On Oct 29, Russian de
fense minister Pavel Grachev
detonated a charge that de
molished a U.S. Minuteman
silo, about sixty-five miles
from Kansas City.”
The same article goes on
to quote G rachev’s boast,
“The first foreigner to blow up
a U.S. missle silo is the minis
ter of defense of Russia, Now
how about that?”
W illia m Perry, U.S. d e
fense secretary also partici
pating remarked, “A great act
of symbolic significance.”
This should have been
front page news, but what pa
per carried it? This should
have shocked congress and
the nation to the core. Has
the C.F.R., who has been do
ing the thinking for Washing
ton so easily lulled us to
sleep?“
Thank You,
Juneious F. Harty
Scappoose
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p.m., Wednesday 9 a.m -5 p.m „ Saturday
10 a.m.-2 p.m. P reschool S tory Time:
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more of your tax dollars will
be wasted on failed social
program s. Now you know
why citizen m ilitias are re
forming.
The INDEPENDENT, Feb. 21,1996 Page 3
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known today for his teachings
on military strategy and the
art of warfare.
Military instructors believe
his tre a tis e s are u n s u r
passed. One of his dictums
reads, “To overcome and de
feat an emeny without com
bat is the acme of great skill.”
Tzu is teaching his students
th a t a nation can be c o n
quere d w ith o u t fo rce or
bloodshed. This is called to
co n q u e r by p a rlia m e n ta ry
procedure.
This is a quote from the
Dec. 11, issue of The Ameri
can Magazine, “While Ameri
Pacific presents Children’s Hour
The Children’s Hour, Lil
lian Heilman’s drama set in a
girls’ boarding school, will be
performed by the Pacific Uni
versity Theater Department
March 1-3 and 7-9 in Tom
Miles Theater.
Curtain time is 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $3
fo r stu d e n ts and sen io rs,
available at the door or in ad
vance through the box office
by calling (503) 359-2918.
The play follows the events
in a boarding school after one
of the girls begins spreading
a story that two women have
an abnormal attachment for
one another, according to
Merrill Lynn Taylor, who di
rects the production. It was
first performed in 1934 and
ran fo r nearly 700 p e rfo r
mances.
F U R N IT U R E
Am ong the cast are
G enevieve G ard ne r and
Heather McGarvey, portray
ing sch o o lte a ch e rs Karen
W right and M artha Dobie;
Nikki Abel as Mrs. Lily Mor-
tart; Kelly Larson as Agatha
the housekeeper; S teve
Gilbert as Dr. Joseph Cardin;
Barbary Story as Mrs. Amelia
Tilford; Josh Myers as a gro
cery boy; and Naomi Halsey,
Marcy Morgan, Maggie Fran
cisco, Tiffany Taylor, Joy Holt,
Tasha Roberts and Elizabeth
Edwards as students in the
boarding school.
Merrill Lynn Taylor has di
rected and acted in the Port
land area at the New Rose
Theater, A rtis ts ’ Repertory
T heater, and C lackam as
Community College.
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