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VOLUME 16, NUMBER 51
Timberline
Editor
Mentioned
Joanne Nichols Mention
ed as One of Ten Win-
ners for Editorial
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Joanne Nichols, editor of the
Timberline, Vernonia high school
publication, won national acclaim
this week by being named as one
of ten winners in an editorial writ
ing contest sponsored by the Quill
and Scroll, international honorary
society for high school journalism
majors. Her editorial, which won
the mention is reprinted elsewhere
on this page.
The organization sponsoring the
contest awarded Miss Nichols a key
as token of her achievement. The
key will be presented Friday as
will a pen signifying membership
in the local unit of the Quill and
Scroll. On the same day three other
girls of the high school will be
given membership pins: Erma Kent,
Heidi Reich and Helen Romtvedt.
Qualifications necessary to be elig
ible for membership: must be in
upper third scholastically; must be
either a junior or senior; must be
outstanding in journalism writing
or management; must have laculty
advisor recommendation; application
must be approved by the internat
ional secretary or treasurer.
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Reorganization
Committee
Gives Facts
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Study Reveals Informa
tion on Organization of
County Schools
The County School Reorganization
Committee in the course of their
study have noticed some peculiar
facts in the organization of Colum
bia County schools.
Some "children need to travel up
to 15 miles and through one or
twc other districts to attend their
own school which does not provide
transportation.
The number of children of cen
sus age (4-20) ranges from 8 in
district No. 6 to 1158 in district
N->. 2.
The area of districts maintaining
a one room school range from 31
square miles in district No. 22 and
26 square miles in district No. 43
to about 1 square mile in district
No. 39 and 2H square miles in dis
trict No. 57. In the two teacher
school district areas range from
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VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1939
Chris tin as Entertainment Set For
Friday Evening, December 22
Forest Grove Last Classes
Wins from Oi Driving
Vernonia
School Held
Four-Point Margin Sep-
arates Scores of Two
Teams Friday Night
The Vernonia Gun Club met its
irst defeat of the season last Fri
day night, December 15, when the
Forest Grove Rifle Club won by
4 points, and those points which
resulted in the defeat, were gained
by the last man who shot. Emil
Messing acted as official score
keeper.
Forest Grove
Vernonia
Zimmerdahl 179
Walker 185
188
Fetsch
Upton 172
178
Nichols
Loomis, Jr. 184
176
Wagner
Wilson 179
Tomlin
172
McCormick 173
893
total 897
total
The local gun club, which is a
member of the Columbia-Willa
mette Rifle League made up of 20
teams, boasts 46 members all of
whom will have shot for required
qualifications to receive Expert
medals from the United States War
Department by the end of this
year. To date six have already
made the requirements; Harry Cul
bertson, J. W. Nichols, Ronald
Fetsch, Robert Tomlin, Harold
Kellmer and Ralph Zimmerdahl.
Of interest to the readers will
be the note that at the moment
the news story was being given, J.
W. Nichols received from the War
Department a card extending Yule
greetings to the Gun Club.
The future schedule of the VcT-
nonia Gun Club is given as follows:
Where
Team
Date
Jan. 5 Portland Am. Legion Here
Jan. 12 Canco
Portland
Jan. 19 Gresham
Here
Jan. 26 Hillsboro
Hillsboro
RAIN LEADS TO
UNUSUAL REPORT
OF WATER DEPTH
Adult Classes on Tues
day Evenings Well Re
ceived ; Manuels Given
This week marks the last classes
of the six weeks Drivers’ School
which has been conducted by E. L.
Van Blaricom of the State Depart
ment.
Interest in Vernonia has been
very high, according to Principal
McCrae, who states the enrollment
of 53 students in the local school
exceeds that of any in this district,
necessitating two hour classes in
stead of the usual one hour class,
A manual on driving is provid-
ed each student; in addition, actual
participation ldliows up the written
instructions, The six weeks course
has offered the following lessons:
first week, Clutch work; getting
away from the curb; Second week,
Driving into and turning around in
a 16 foot wide road; Third week,
Backing through an “S” roadway;
Fourth week, Parallel parking; Fif
th, Quiz over manual; Sixth week,
Actual driving, including stopping
and starting on hills.
The
Tuesday
evening adult
classes on driving problems has
been well received by people of
this community. The adults study
the manual' and at the meetings
hold discussion of actual driving
situations.
Steelhead Run in
Rock Creek—
Recent intensive rainfall suffic-
iently raised the waters of the
Nehalem river and Rock creek to
bring about a run of steelhead, the
first of the season, it was report
ed. Andy Brimmer and George Mc
Preliminary Audit
Kay were among those reported as
fortunate in making catches at
Made Last Week—
I. D. Wood and three assistants Keasey during the week.
were busy at the office of the
Oregon American Lumber Corpora- To Publish Day
tier for three or four days of last , Later—
week preparing a preliminary audit
Due to the Christmas holiday
for the concern, They will return ' Monday of the coming week The
shortly after the first of the year ■ Eagle will not reach its readers
) until Friday morning.
to prepare the final audit.
Draws
Note—The following article is the
editorial written recently by Jo
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anne Nichoh and which gained
Two Arrested for
national recognition by being judg
Bicycle Violations—
ed one of ten winners in a contest
Dean Lionberger and Lester Gal sponsored by the Quill and Scroll,
loway were arrested by city affic- an honorary for high school journ
jato recently for violation of the alism students.
city
ordinance
regulating the
WE GIVE THANKS FOR A
equipment and use of the vehicles.
PEACEFUL AMERICA
“Peace is more than just a word;
The machines of both boys were
taken by the city for a time as it is a whole series of words, Peace
the violation. Both is opportunity—the chance to work,
penalty
for riding on side- to improve, to win success, Peace
charges
prosperity—for we
Intensive rainfall recently led
to high water in both Rock
creek and the Nehalem river
but the most unusual report
this week was that of the
depth of water in a 12-foot
well as being 14 feet. The oc-
curance was that taking place
at the Bill' Reed place where
he had recently completed dig-
ging a 12-foot well. The welt
bad been walled to a heighth
of two feet above ground and
was full' to the brim following
several days of rain.
Committee
Holds Last
Meet Monday
Names of Donors to Ac
tivity Fund Given; Suc
cessful Drive Reported
The Christmas Activity Commit
tee held its last meeting Monday
night, December 18, at the Oregon
Gas and Electric office. Final ar
rangements for the program to be
held Friday night at the Washing
ton Grade School were made, fol
lowing the report of the successful
benefit dance given last Saturday.
The Committee wishes to thank
the following who contributed to
the cause of a community Christ-
mas tree, making the 1939 Ohrist-
nia;; a most successful one:
Sunset Logging Company, Lester
Products, National Hospital Associa
tion, Dempsey, Kinsey and Downs,
attorneys for Local No. 37, C. I. O.,
Camp Fire Girls, Vernoniai Busi
ness Women, Cleve Mellinger, R.
I. Hall, Oregon American Lumber
Corporation, Industrial' Hospital As
sociation, Ben Bennett, Mike Will
ard, American Federation of Laboij>
Matt Gibson, Miller Mercantile
Company, Pumphrey Hospital Assoc
iation, Wilson and Valpiani, Christ
ian Church, and Vernonia Laundry.
Recognition
a permanent peace without prosper
ity, nor a lasting prosperity without
peace. Peace is freedom—the right
of every man to live as he himself
desires, free, if he so wishes, from
the influences of the desires of
ethers. Peace is friendship—the one
cannot exist without the other,
Peace is kindness—it means char
ity, sympathy, consideration, hum-
aneness.
“Peace is all of these, and more.
It is one of those vague terms one
cannot define except negatively.
is not fear; it is not bloodshed; it
is not the bombing of women and
children and quiet towns; it is not
destruction and desolation and death
—it is none of these.
“Peace means smiling mothers and
laughing children running to greet
bappy fathers coming home from
work to a small house on a quiet
street. It means the town where
you were born; the home in which
you spent your early years; the
place where you loved best to play;
the school you remember fondly;
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Schools to
Provide
Program
Treat« for Children Slat
ed to Close Affair; Santa
to Be Present
The Washington grade school will
be the scene of the most looked-
forward-to and most talked of
event in the lives of the school
children, little brothers and sisters,
mothers and fathers, and even the
teachers this coming Friday night,
Decemlber 22.
A grand program is being given,
Miss Grace Condit, general chair-
man of the production, has told
The Eagle about the affair. As you
know, during the past few years,
since Vernonia and surrounding vic
inity has been fortunate enough
to have a community Christmas
tree, the schools have always pro
vided the program, and every year
the Christmas program has been
one of the most outstanding
biggest public demonstrations
schoils of Vernonia offer for
year. “The Christmas Truants”
be one of the most entertaining,
according to all reports.
The story centers about three
boys who decide the traditional
Christmas is too much to contend
with. They want adventures. They
find them, 'but not until they spend
part of a frightful night in the
woods and creep home to find under
their Christmas tree a television
set or Santa had left. The televis-
ion set reveals Christmases in Beth-
lehem, Italy, Sweden, Holland,
Spain, Old England and in the
deep South. Music throughout the
play will be provided by the High
School' Glee Club under the direct
ion of Miss Alvina Connell and by
an orchestra under the directiion
of Miss Barbara Sneath.
And, of course, after the pro
gram Santa will be there to give
goodies to all the boys and girls—
candy, nuts and oranges. There’ll
be an evening filled with entertain
ment and fun and sweets. Be there!
Returns Being Received
By Commission—
Returns are beginning to be re
ceived by the state game commiss
ion on a number of tagged rainbow
trout ten to twelve inches long that
were released about a year ago in
the Alsea river near the location
of the trout hatchery. Three of the
tagged fish were recently caught
in the Siletz river, the fish having
traveled to spawn in a stream 47
miles farther north than the one
in which they were released. All
fish had made a good growth, one
of them weighing approximately
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