18 The INDEPENDENT, October 21,1998
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With regard to Colleen De
Shazer, when she was asked it
she would have personal gain
if she was elected, her reply-
was no. I believe that she
would be using the office to
help stop her neighbor from us
ing his property as he desires. I
also believe that Colleen does
n’t have a good grasp of the is
sues involved in this county,
nor does she havethe experi
ence necessary to run an en
tire county smoothly.
We need someone with ex
perience, and I feel neither Rita
nor Colleen have that.
Debbie Rhodes
St. Helens
Support for 9-1-1
great; do it again!
To the Editor:
I just wanted to say thank
you to all the citizens who vot
ed in this past mail-in ballot.
After a long day of motor
vehicle
accide nts,
child
abuse, runaway teenagers,
drunk drivers, and house
fires, it is an inspiration to
know you support us.
Thank you, let’s do it again
in November!
Julie Pelletier
Columbia 9-1-1
Communications District
St. Helens
New jail is needed
for safety of all
To the Editor:
Columbia County needs a
new jail. The current jail is too
small, leading to early release
of inmates. It is unsafe for citi
zens, corrections personnel,
and inmates. It has inadequate
space for medical services and
programming.
The jail has been over
crowded almost every day of
this year. Numerous offenders
have been released early from
serving their sentence or sanc
tion tor violating their parole or
probation. Many of these of
fenders are in jail for commit
ting person to person crimes.
I have worked as a parole
and probation officer for about
25 years. At the present time
Columbia County Community
Corrections supervises approx
imately 400 individuals on pro
bation, parole, post-prison su
pervision and pre-trial release.
Our primary responsibility is to
monitor the individuals compli
ance to release conditions.
When they refuse to comply
with the conditions, they are ei
ther sanctioned or referred
back to the Court or Parole
Board for a hearing. Some
times non-custody sanctions
are used and are effective.
However, compliance to sanc
tions appears to diminish as
more and more inmates are re
leased early.
It is very important that the
most restrictive sanction (jail) is
available for the offenders that
do not follow their release con
ditions. Due to the size and
overcrowded condition of the
current Jail, offenders that
should be in jail, are not in jail.
BERNICE L AGEE
Bernice L. Agee, 79, North Plains, died
Oct. 9, 1998, in North Plains. Private ser
vices will be held at a later date. Disposition
was by cremation.
Mrs. Agee was bom Jan. 29, 1919, in
Hebron, Neb., to Leroy S. and Lois F.
(Dyer) Logan. She grew up in Hillsboro and
attended Hillsboro High School.
She married John W. Agee in 1937 at
Vancouver, Wash.
Mrs. Agee was an office clerk for Mont
gomery Ward & Co. during the 1950s and
60s, and worked in the cafeteria of Hills
boro High School in the 1980s.
She was preceded in death by a son,
Terry; and her husband, in 1993.
Survivors include her son, John W. Jr.
of Vernonia; daughter, Karlene M. Lepley of
Vancouver, Wash.; brother, Wayne of Gran
by, Mo.; sister, Doris Tobler of Yelm, Wash.;
nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren.
Remembrances are suggested to
Washington County Hospice, 427 SE
Eighth Ave., Hillsboro, 97123.
Donelson, Sewell & Mathews Mortuary
was in charge of arangements.
KAY V. KUYKENDALL
Kay Vernon Kuykendall, 62, Oregon
City, died Oct. 11, 1998, at his home, of
cancer. A potluck party will be held in cele
bration of his life on Oct. 24, beginning at 2
p.m., at Carpenter Hall, 276 Warner Milne
Road in Oregon City.
Mr. Kuykendall was bom March 18,
1936, in Oakland, Calif. He served in the
U.S. Navy. In 1958 he married Betty Colby.
He was a truck driver in the Portland
area for 28 years, most recently for Distrib
ution Trucking Co. He retired in 1990.
Mr Kuykendall was a member of the
Beavercreek Lions Club.
He played mandolin and harmonica in
the Cabin Fever Band at Clackamas Com
munity College during the 1980s, and, most
recently, with the Herring Family Band.
Survivors include his wife; daughter,
Karrie Nations of Banks; son Kelly of Port
land; mother, Lorraine of Canby; brother,
Kerry of Woodburn; and two granddaugh
ters.
Remembrances are suggested to the
Beavercreek Lions Club or the American
Lung Association of Oregon for Research.
HOWARD E. NELSON
Howard E. Nelson, 72, Hillsboro, died
Oct. 9, 1998, in Portland. Funeral services
were Oct. 13 at Donelson, Sewell 4 Math
ews Mortuary. Interment followed in Moun
tain View Cemetery.
Mr. Nelson was bom May 10, 1926, in
Hillsboro, to Alfred and Agnes (Anderson)
Nelson. He was raised in the Dixie Moun
tain area and served in the U.S. Navy from
1944 to 1946.
Mr. Nelson married Ruth Wold in 1947.
He was a farmer, raising strawberries,
hay and cattle. He had also worked in the
logging industry.
Mr. Nelson was a member of Jehovah’s
Witnesses, attending the Hillsboro congre
gation
Survivors include his wife; son, Steve of
Dixie Mountain; daughter, Barbara Conklin
Please vote “Yes” for the
County Jail.
Sincerely,
Cliff Multanen
St. Helens
Background given
on new jail proposal
To the Editor:
About two years ago I at
tended a meeting regarding the
Columbia County Jail. I wanted
to see what was going to hap
pen with regard to a new facili
ty. I wasn’t sure if we needed a
new facility and I didn’t want
my property taxes to go up. At
the second meeting we decid
ed to form a citizens task force
to see if we needed a new fa
cility or if we could survive with
the present facility. I was invit
ed to tour the existing facility
and I did. What an eye opening
experience. I saw the sheriff’s
staff working in conditions that
would drive most people up a
wall. Some offices were no big
ger than closets. They have
of Dixie Mountain; mother, Agnes Harms of
West Union; sisters; Ella Roe of West
Union, Betty Comstock of Banks, and Don
na Verhoef of Battle Ground, Wash.; seven
grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Memorial contributions are suggested
to the American Cancer Society.
Donelson, Sewell 4 Mathews Mortuary
was in charge of arrangements.
MANFORD “JONNIE" JOHNSON
Manford Warren “Jonnie” Johnson, 69,
Warren, died Oct. 14, 1998. Memorial ser
vices were Oct. 20 at Calvary Lutheran
Church. Burial of cremains was in Bethany
Memorial Cemetery.
Mr. Johnson was bom July 24, 1929, in
Pierpoint, S.D., and moved to St. Helens in
1942. He graduated from St. Helens High
School in 1947, where he lettered in music
and won the state solo award for tuba.
He worked as an assistant manager for
Safeway stores, then opened the first Shell
service station on Hwy. 26 in Manning. He
worked for Marex Bakery and returned to
the St. Helens area and worked for Gain
er’s Grocery. He began work for Crown
Zellerbach paper mill (now Boise Cascade)
in 1960, and became an environmental lab
technician. He retired from Boise Cascade
after 31 years.
Mr. Johnson, a well-known jazz musi
cian, had performed with many bands in the
Portland area and throughout the North
west, including approximately 12 years at
the Mt. Angel Oktoberfest with various
bands. He performed with Dr. Jon's Jazz
Band at three Sacramento Dixieland Ju
bilees and at the Kobe Dixieland Festival in
Japan in 1986. He also performed at the
1986 World’s Fair in Vancouver, British Co
lumbia.
While with the Capital City Jazz Band,
he performed at a number of official func
tions, including Gov. Neil Goldschmidt’s In
auguration Party and during an official visit
to Salem by then Vice-President Dan
Quayle.
He was a member of the American Fed
eration of Musicians Local 99, and a life
long member o, the Lutheran Church,
where he sang in the choir for many years.
Mr. Johnson was a former member of
the Association of Western Pulp 4 Paper
Workers Local 1, where he served as a ne
gotiator and on the grievance committee,
the Tualatin Valley Rabbit Breeders Assoc.,
and Hummingbird Motorcycle Club of
Longview.
He married Aleene Hudson of Vernonia;
that marriage ended. He and his second
wife, Mary, were married in 1960.
Mr. Johnson was preceded in death by
a son, Paul, and a daughter, Nola.
Survivors include his wife; sons, Mike
W. of Portland, Allen O. of South Africa and
John J. of Beaverton; daughter, June Brady
of Warren; brother, Harold of Atlanta; sis
ters, Pricilla Kimball of Milwaukie and Mary
Ann Stein of Aloha; 13 grandchildren.
Columbia Funeral Home was in charge
of arrangements.
services were Oct. 18, at Laurel Communi
ty Church with Pastor Mike Moore officiat
ing. Interment was in Buxton Cemetery.
Mr. Crowthers was bom Jan. 29, 1921,
in Payette, Idaho, to Dr. Earl J. and Lina
(Hancock) Crowthers. He moved with his
family to Portland at age three. He graduat
ed from Washington High School in 1939.
He attended several colleges, including
Multnomah School of the Bible in Portland,
Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Western
Baptist Seminary and Oregon College of
Education. He finished his degree at Lewis
and Clark College.
Mr. Crowthers married Betty in 1944, at
Tacoma Wash. They lived in Forest Grove
until moving to Cornelius 19 years ago.
He and his wife served as evangelical
missionaries in Mexico for a year.
Mr. Crowthers worked for J.C. Penny
Co. in Portland and Forest Grove before
becoming a teacher. He taught fifth and
sixth grades at West Tualatin View, Barnes
Elementary School in Beaverton, Vernonia
Grade School and retired from Joseph Gale
Elementary School in Forest Grove in the
mid-1970s.
After retiring he drove a taxi in Beaver
ton and taught for a short time a, Banks
Christian Academy High School.
Mr. Crowthers also served as an interim
pastor at several metropolitan area church
es, including Vancouver and Hillsboro and,
most recently, the Tigard Family Baptist
Church, of which he was one of the
founders.
He was preceded in death by a sister,
Cleo Sperl, in 1998.
Survivors include his wife; daughters,
Julia Dart of Portland, Joanne Petersen of
Beaverton, and Susan Dumford of Aloha;
sons, Steven of Lake Oswego and David of
Olalla, Wash.; sisters Loia Lehr of Portland
and Rita Schubert of Tacoma, Wash.; a
half-sister, Karen Tolman of Ohio; 13 grand
children; 10 great-grandchildren.
Remembrances are suggested to the
Laurel Community Church Memorial Fund.
Bronleewe-Bass Funeral Home of Hills
boro was in charge of arrangements.
MERLE J. CURINGTON
Merle Junior Curington, 74, Scoggins
Valley, died Oct. 10, 1998, at his home.
Memorial services were Oct. 17 at Fuiten,
Rose 4 Hoyt Funeral Home in Forest
Grove, with a flag honor presentation by
American Legion Washington Post 2. At his
request, his body was donated to Oregon
Health Sciences University for medical re-
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Jim Hancock Crowthers, 77, Cornelius,
died Oct. 10, 1998, at his home. Memorial
storage lockers in restrooms
because there’s nowhere else
to put them. They have a
kitchen
smaller than most
home that they serve 120+
meals per day out of. They
have a common area where
every person they arrest is
brought to and mixes with the
general public. There are no
electric locks on the doors so in
case of a fire, earthquake or
other disaster the staff has to
physically run in and try to
open each individual door on
the cells. I was overwhelmingly
convinced that we need a new
faclity. This one is overcrowded
and has served its purpose.
The jail committee then
turned its focus on the size of
the jail and the big issue: “the
cost”. After many meetings
throughout the county and dis
cussions with law enforcement,
citizens, and a jails consultant
the committee recommended
that the county build a 130 bed
facility. This will allow for
growth and not give us a facili
ty that will be obsolete in a few
years. We also suggested the
faciliy be built so it is easily ex-
pandable.The original price tag
came to around 18 million dol
lars. We thought that was too
much money so the county
commissioners went to work
and were able to cut the cost
back to 14 million. This is still
not a small amount of money
but if we build a facility that’s
too small or non-functional
what’s the sense of building it
at all? In November you will
have the opportunity to vote on
this bond issue. If you have any
doubts about the need for a
new jail, please take a tour of
our existing facility, ,’m sure
you will come to the same con
clusion I did and vote yes for a
new Columbia County jail.
Chris Iverson
St. Helens
“Vote,” says Demo
Central Committee
To the Editor:
On November 3rd, we will
search.
Mr. Curington was born June 9, 1924 in
Sturgis, S.D., to Stanley N. and Myrtle lone
(Brown) Curington. As a young child, he
moved to Oregon, where he attended
grade school in Banks, Mist and Orenco.
He graduated from Forest Grove High
School.
He served in the 43rd division of the
U.S. Army in the Philippines and Japan dur
ing World War II.
Mr. Curington then attended Pacific
University in Forest Grove for a year and
transferred to College of the Pacific in
Stockton, Calif. He graduated in 1951 with
a degree in music and played first chair
coronet at the school. He later did
post-graduate work in counseling and psy
chology at San Francisco State and Port
land State Universities.
He married Barbara Langford in 1957 at
Scoggins Valley, where they lived until di
vorcing in 1980.
In 1981 he married Marcia Demmer;
she died in 1991.
Mr. Curington worked as a teacher and
counselor, mainly in the Hillsboro School
District. During summer months he drove a
log truck and managed his own 120-acre
wood lot.
He was a member of the Oregon Edu
cation Association and the Small Forest
Woodland Association.
Mr. Curington was preceded in death by
a brother, Albert.
Survivors include his sons, Ian J. of
Windsor, England, Bruce J. of Sandpoint,
Idaho, and Christopher A. o, Cornelius;
daughter, Susan L. of Gaston; brother,
Stanley William of Oakland; sister, Mar
garet lone Koberstein of Hillsboro; 11
grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; a
niece and a nephew.
Fuiten, Rose 4 Hoyt Funeral Home of
Forest Grove was in charge of arrange
ments.
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have an opportunity to vote in
the 1998 General Election.
This is our chance to have a
voice in how we govern our
selves. Voting is not only our
right, but our privilege, and our
duty. We here in Coumbia
County have important issues
before us and many good can
didates, in key positions, to
vote for. The Columbia County
Democratic Central Committee
supports the following Democ
ratic candidates.
Ron Wyden, U.S. Senate;
David Wu, U. S. Congress;
John Kitzhaber, Governor;
Joan Dukes, Oregon Senate;
Jackie Taylor, Oregon House of
Representatives; Rita Bern-
hard, Columbia County Com
missioner.
Please join us in supporting
these candidates on November
3rd, and get out and vote.
Thank you,
Randy Peterson
Chairman, Columbia
County Democratic
Central Committee
St. Helens