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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1945)
School Boards Offer Contracts To Teachers Booster Club Gets Incentive To Continue Consolidation of Districts Discussed By Local Directors . The school board of Union High School District No. 1 meet ing last Saturday evening and directors of School District 47, Jt. a short time before that have both offered contracts to their teachers for the next school year Tn both the grade and high school districts some teachers have not elected to return. Grade instructors who have already signified their intentions not to return are: Mrs. Rose Steen, Mrs. Waneta Lam pa and Mrs. Ruth Van De Mootele. In the high school, Mrs. Alvenia Martin will not return next year. The high school board met with a delegation from tha Woodland district which com prises the • area around Sunset camp to consider the consolida tion of that district with these districts. The boards here have expressed themselves favoring the change and the high school will consider the matter further at a future meeting before district action is taken. In addition to considering the consolidation the high school board issued a call for bids for wood and named its budget com mittee which is: Judd Greenman, R. M. Aldrich, J. C. Moran, Claude Johnson and S. Golden. Wildlife Picture Scheduled Thur. Moving pictures of Oregon wildlife will be shown here Thurs day, March 29th, at the Wash ington grade school, by Frank Wire, state game supervisor. Two showings are planned that day, one at 2:45 in the afternoon to the combined assemblies of high and grade school students and the other at 7:30 p.m. that evening. The latter is open to the public at no charge and sportsmen are invited to attend and bring their friends. Following the pictures the Ne halem Valley Rod and Gun club has a meeting scheduled at the Bush Furniture Store at which time election of new officers is intended. The meeting has also been called by the Club Presi dent, Jewett A. Bush, so that members may meet Mr. Wire for a discussionn of fish and wild- life problems. Diphtheria Victim Buried Here Tues. Funeral services were held Tuesday mcrning for Wayne Ed ward Meyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Meyer, who passed away a victim of diphtheria, March 25, at the age of one year and 18 days. Survivors in addition to the parents are a sister, Donna Jean; a brother, Richard, Jr.; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Kelly, Kingston, Wash., and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Meyer, Ver nonia. Interment was at the Ver nonia Memorial cemetery and ser vices were conducted by Rev. W. 0. Livingstone with the Bush Funeral Heme in charge. Sale of Bakery Effective April 1 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burt have announced the sale of the Vernonia Bakery to E. W. Peter son of Portland. The change of ownership will become effective April 1 when the new owner will be here. Mr. Peterson has been employed by Langendorf Baker ies and has operated a bakery of his own in North Dakota pre vious to purchasing this porper- ty. Mr? and Mrs. Burt have owned the bakery here a little over a year, taking over the work in January a year ago. Their plans now are to purchase a ranch in central Oregon. Friday Sewing Set Red Cross sewing at the high school is scheduled again this week, Mrs. Harry Culbertson an nounces. The work will start at 1 p.m. and will probably be for hospital supples. As many as can come are wanted to carry on the work. Cooperation of Many Assured; Future of Valley Upheld Mon. Volume 23 Number 13 Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon Committee Urges More Support of Red Cross To all good, red-blooded, residents of Vernonia. Do ycu know our Red Cross quota is $5,500? Do you know that to date the collections stand at $3,409.69? Now that we know it, what are we going to do about it? We have some 12 million of our boys and girls in the armed forces fighting our battle for us to make this world a decent and safe place to live in. Each and every one of the men and women in the armed forces is the father, mother, son or daughter, husband or sweetheart of some one here at home. Hundreds of thousands have given their all and before this mess is cleaned up thousands more will go and all they ask of us is to work and furnish them ‘tuns, ammunition, planes, food, clothes, tanks, ships, blood plasm*?, medicine, hospitals and nurses. It should be our priveledge and it is our duty to furnish all of this and right now is the time to help our boys through the Red Cross. And don’t forget that there are several hundred boys from Vernonia out there some place, and who knows, they may be the next to need just the things the Red Cross can give them? We here in Vernonia and Nehalem Valley arc proud of our bond buying record, our war chest and Red Cross records of other years, and of topping our war chest quota this year. So let’s go and let’s give and be proud of our Red Cross record this year and later years to come. We gave loyal support to our football team. In re turn they gave us a great team of whom we are proud. Some of those same boys are now serving us in the army and navy. Are we going to support them? We had a basketball team who played in the state champ ionship. Some of these boys will be going soon. Are we going to support them now with a few extra dol lars? There is only one answer. That is Yes! Now! Your Red Cross committee has worked hard, and walked many miles, canvassed all home^ and business houses. They have gladly given hours and days of their own time, have given dances, fraternal organi zations have given dances and donated the money. Mist and Natal held auctions and donated the mon eys. Still the quota is not reached. Let’s not force the committee to do their work all over again. Let’s all join the committee. Let’s all go to one of the author ized places of collection listed below. Give $1.00 or more, knowing that your money is going to help some boy who so badly needs it. Who knows, our dollars may save one of our very own? . Do we want to look our boys in the face when they come back and tell them we did not meet our Red Cross quota? If we can’t do it any other way let’s give up a couple of shows or a few foaming glasses or some of several other items we can do without. Come on now, let’s go.— We all can spare one more dollar bill and fill our quota and buy 13 minutes, 20 seconds of Red Cross service for our boys at six dollars per second! Leave your contributions at one of these places: Vernonia Citv Hall, Vernonia Eagle, IWA Hall, Ver nonia Drug Co., Post Office, Light Office, King’s Grocery and Market, Vernonia Service Station or Vernonia Auto Co. —The Vernonia Red Cross Committee The following names are mem bers of the Red Cross committee which has donated its time to soliciting in the drive: Amy Kamholz, Grayce Bundy, Helen Spofford, Alice Gwin, Georgia Mellinger, Bonnie Hol comb, Dorothy Sandon, Evelyn Heath, Lena.Schroeder, Mrs. Har ry Hall, Minnie Hughes, Isabel Culbertson, Florence McDonald, Vivian Counts, Mrs. B. Tisdale, Zelda Lamping, Mabie McCord, Lona Wiidman, Margaret Sturde vant, • Olivia Brickci, Mathilda Bergers n, Rose Valpiani, Grace Cantwell, Fay Davis, Eda Par ker, Hazel Shipman and O. E. S. members at the Vernonia Post Office. Symptoms of Diphtheria Readily Determined Medical authorities here have released statements regarding the symptoms and treatment for diphtheria although they believe there is little likelihood of anoth er case of the disease. Listing of the symptoms will give parents the information necessary to de termine early the possible onset of the disease and make arrange ments for treatment. If the symp toms are ignored, recovery is prolonged or not possible, but if early treatment is made, chances for recovery are good. Symptoms to be watched for are: (1) a sore throat sim ilar to that of the flu; (2) white spots in the throat, patient may have no temperature; (3) patch es enlarge in day or so and have fetid odor and have distinctive gray color not like tonsilitis which is white; (4) pulse is rapid. The disease doesn’t come quickly but the _ earlier > the treatment is started the bet ter the chances are for recov ery. Early administration of an titoxin will control diphtheria and is effective for two to three weeks. The innocvlation of two shots is effective for the lifetime of the person and can be tested aft er being administered to deter mine its effectiveness. School children who have been immun ized can be tested to* determine if the shots will protect them from the disease. So far as is kne-rn only two cases have developed in one fam ily in this vicinity. Thursday, March 29, 1945 THOSE WHO ARE IN IT PROMOTED Pfc Milo J. John was promot ed to Technician Grade Five, on January 1, 1945. T5 John was inducted into the Army of the United States at Portland, Sept. 2, 1942, and received his basic training at Camp Roberts, Cal. At the present time, he is a member of Service Battery, 191 Field Artillery Battalion, which is somewhere in France. An nouncement of the promotion was released from the public relations office of the US army. IN ENGLAND Cpl. Middleton T. Crawford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Craw ford, recently arrived in England and has received a brief orienta tion course at a US strategic air force station designed to help him adjust himself to life in a combat zone. Crawford will soon transfer to his permanent sta tion from which America’s air force fighting planes cover the advance in Germany. PROMOTED Mrs. C. S. Hoffman, who re cently returned here from St. Petersburg, Florida, after visit ing with her daughter for sev eral mohths, learned after re turning that her son-in-law, Don ald Tower, has been pomoted. He is now a Lieutenant- Colonel ¡n the air force. He is stationed near St. Petersburg. GOES TO ST. LOUIS RIVERVIEW — Melvin Pow ell, AMM2c, who had been on leave for a month, left Portland at 6:30 p.m. Friday for Lambert Aviation Field, St. Louis, Mo. On being told that St. Louis was a pretty hot place, Melvin re plied, “After being in the South Pacific, I guess I can take it”. His mother, Mrs. Virgil Powell took him to Portland. HERE FOR VISIT T5 James L. R. Thompson ar rived here Monday for a 21-day furlough from Santa Anna, Cal. He has just returned from 33 months spent in the Southwest Pacific where he was a member of a signal corp company. He will visit his sister, Mrs. Vern Sykes, Robert, Dick and Rus sell Thompson and his mother Mrs. Millard Thompson. AT CAMP WOLTERS Vern Sykes and Walt Cham bers are both stationed at Camp Wolters, Texas now, the former with the 51st infantry and the latter with the 61st. PARENTS VISITED • Lt. Harry Culbertson, Jr. ar rived here last Saturday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Culbertson until Friday of this week. He leaves then for Kearns, Utah, his new station. TRANSFERRED T-Sgt. Walter M. Workman, USMC, has been transferred from Camp LeJeune, N. Car. to the marine base at Klamath Falls where he is receiving advanced training in motor transport. His course there will occupy three months time. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Work man, Timber Rt. HEALTH FINE Mr. and Mrs. Dan Casoon re ceived a telephone call from Capt. Byron A.. Houston, Salem, who had been with Capt. Harold Ca son in France less than two weeks ago. The caller stated that Capt. Cason is in fine health and spirit and that several members of his former infantry company, who like himself were battle casualties, are now part of his M P. battalion, and that he is very happy in his new job. FOOT SHOT Word has been received here from Lt. Charles McGraw, neph ew of Mrs. Frank Hartwick, that he has been injured and is now in the hospital. A bullet wound in his foot is the injury, requir ing a cast. He has been in active duty on one of the larger islands in the Philippines and this is his fourth year overseas. Easter Events Prepared for Congregations Special Programs to Observe Event During Present Week End Vernonia churches will observe the Easter event with special services, some of them beginning earlier in the week and contin uing through April 1. At the Evangelical church h Good Friday service and communion is planned that evening at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday an Easter program has been arranged for the regular Sunday school hour. On Easter Sunday evening, the Evangelical choir under the direction of Mrs. Delbert Dow, will give a cantata entitled, “Resurrection”. The Sunday school of the Christian church will present an appropriate program in keeping with Easter on Sunday morning during the school hour. In, this service the little folks are fea tured and the service will be interesting. The public is in vited. Previous to this on Thurs day evening, the Christian church will observe its annual communion service in the large auditorium. This is an outstanding service and has been observed as an annual event for the past 10 years. The public is invited to this service also. At St. Mary’s Catholic church Devotions are scheduled for 8 p. m. on Good Friday and Masses at 8:00 a. m. and 9t30 a. m. Sunday in observance of Easter. Other churches here also plan programs to commemorate the Easter event. Track Practice Slowed by Rain High school coach Orile Rob bins’ trackmen have been slowed in their early spring training by the excessive rainfall here since the close of basketball competi tion but will be given greater consideration as soon as the weather gives consent. Right now, distance men have started some training but can’t continue steadily until ground conditions improve. Robbins has been busy for the past several days with freshmen and sophomore basketball pros pects, giving those having little opportunity to play this year, the chance to develop for future years. Fundamentals are being taught now. Office Being Remodeled The work of remodeling the of fice belonging to Dr. R. D. Eby is progressing but will require a week or so yet before being com pleted. Changes in the interior include lowering the ceiling two feet and covering all walls with fireproof sheet rock. Lower ceil ings will make a considerable saving in the amount of heat re quired in the office. New wiring has also been installed. Monday evening’s preliminary meeting of the Vernonia Booster club met with a lot of favorable responce from the 45 people who attended the kick-off dinner at the Legion hall. This first meet- ine- was held with one nrinrinal idea which was to learn if such a club was wanted here and if support would be given by people of this area. In order to start the move ment towards organization, tem porary officers were elected a week before the meeting Monday evening and they have undertak en the work of organization with the idea in mind that the Upper Nehalem Valley is in great need of favorable publicity. Much unfavorable publicity has been circulated, as was mentioned at Monday’s meeting, and a group such as this can do much to refute such ideas. Speaking to those at the din ner were J. T Glascock, field representative of the applications and loans division of the REA, R. M. Burley, attorney for the West Oregon Electric Coopera tive, and Jewett A Bush, local property owner who is one those instrumental in seeking to fur ther the Booster club. Both Mr. Glascock and Mr. Burley mentioned the REA or ganization here as highly im portant to the community, basing their statements on the fact that the government would not make loan funds* available if it did not believe in this area’s future. Both mentioned that a good supply of power, which the REA makes possible, is neces sary for the development of any community. Mr. Bush stated that many people inquire con cerning this valley but that no organization exists to answer those queries with the informa tion wanted. A petition was circulated among those attending and was signed to indicate the desire of continuing with the club so that a second meeting has been set for Monday evening, April □ at which time a permanent or ganization will be made by the election of officers. Blood Donors to Go Again April 20 Local people will make another visit to the blood bank at Hills boro on April 20, Mrs. Frank Hartwick, Red Cross motor corps head, announced this week. Mrs. Hartwick also urged that people knowing their type of blood, especially "O” type, re spond to the call. If enough peo ple will respond, Mrs. Hartwick will arrange transportation to Portland so that people here may give their aid in> meeting the de mand for whole blood. Services Held for 80-Year Resident Funeral acrvices for Quincy E. Crume, 84, were conducted Tuesday, March 20, at Hillsboro, Oregon. Interment was at the Hillsboro, cemetery. Mr. Crume was bom March 4, 1861, in Missouri and had lived the past 80 years in Oregon. He is survived by: two sons, Drury L. Crume of Glenwood, Harvey H. Crume of Vernonia; two daughters, Vida Jones of New berg and Trilla Anderson of Ver nonia; 15 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. X-ray Pictures Taken Mon., Tues. Total 623 The number of X-ray pictures taken to determine the presence of tuberculosis among local peo ple totaled 623 during the two- day visit of the mobile unit Mon day and Tuesday. This amount exceeds the quota usually ac cepted by operators of the unit, that amount being set at 300 pictures daily. Wallace McCrae, local head of the Columbia Coun ty Public Health association, ex pressed the appreciation of the local health group for the work of local people who made this visit successful. A number of high school girls devoted considerable time as did many others In ob taining the names of those wish ing to have the pictures taken. Cards will bo sent those who have been X-rayed telling them of the results and if the pictures indicate presence of the disease letters will be sent by a doctor. Some inconvenience arose due to the change in time of the unit’s visit but rescheduling of those to receive the tests gave all the opportunity to be X-rayed. The unit’s visit was made possible by the sale of Christmas seals which provided needed funds and it is hoped to carry on the work of the X-ray in future years to stamp out tuberculosis.
