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“Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreatio^ Volume 24 Number 5 Vernonia, Columbia County, Oregon Health Group THOSE WHO Asks Visit of ARE IN IT X-ray Unit Seal Sale Amount Less Than Figure For Previous Year Residents of Columbia county will have the opportunity of an other chest x-ray soon if a re quest of the iCtolumbia County Public Health association is gran- ed. The association asked at its meeting Monday for the unit to come here during the last week in April or the second week in May, President Paul Gordon said. The first visit of the unit was made last year. The association members, who met Monday even ing at St. Helens, also heard a report by Otto H. H. Peterson, county school superintendent, of funds on hand from the Christ mas Seal sale up to January 18. A final report on the sale will not be available until later, but leturns to dat: are: 1914 1945 Rainer $ 545.67 $ 761.05 Scappoose 545.80 438.90 Clatskanie 564.05 666.80 Vernonia 648.51 551.81 1070.84 St. Helens 984.40 Warren 335.40 304.85 Mist- Birkenfeld 111.25 113.00 Schools (Sale of Bangles) 233.90 138.46 Columbia City 100.50 82.00 Yankton 173.23 173.90 Deer Island 104.40 94.40 Total 4433.55 4309.57 Health association members al so heard Wallace McCrae, St. Helens school superintendant, ask the group’s cooperation on promotion of the physical educa tion and health program in schools. The program is required by law for all public schools. A representative of the state voca tional rehabilitation office was also present to ask the health unit’s assistance in reporting cas es needing the attention which that office can give. Several peo ple here have received assistance from that office, Mr. Gordon said. A vacancy which arose due to the resignation of the unit’s sec retary, Mrs. Gladys Durrant, was filled by the appointment of Miss Velva Ramsey who will serve until the July election. State Tax Aid Itinerary Told Assistance jn the preparation of forms for state income tax will be available at several near by points, an announcement from the state tax commission this week states. The auditor will give help in preparing reports for 1945 returns, it is mentioned. The itinerary includes the fol lowing dates and places where this aid may be obtained: Clats kanie, city hall, March 14, 8:30 to 5:00 p.m.; St. Helens, court house, March 15, 8:30 to 5:00 p.m.; Forest Grove, Forest Grove Natonal Bank, March 18, 9:00 to 4:00 p.m.; and Hillsboro, court house, March 19 and 20, 8:30 to 5:00 p.m. Students Hear Union Official Stanley Earl, secretary of the Oregon State industrial union council, Portland, was here Tues day morning to speak to high school senior students of the social economics class. An invitation had been sent Mr. Earl to speak to the stu dents, giving them information as a pact of their course of study. He spoke on the function of unions and what they stand for and answered questions of class members. EXPECTS DISCHARG E Pfc. Irvin M. Armstrong, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Armstrong, was scheduled to arrive in Seattle eally last week from Okinawa aboard the USS Admiral Benson. Armstrong was scheduled for discharge according tu a public information office release. HOME FROM EUROPE Eigus Frank, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Frank, has received his discharge from the army after 42 months of service of which nine were spent in Europe. He held the rank of T4. DISCHARGED Staff Sgt. Luke Ball arrived home here Saturday evening with his discharge from the army. He spent considerable time in Eng land. ENTERS NAVY Bill Hall left last Friday for Seattle to begin his service with the U.S. navy and from there expects to be transferred to San Dirgo for basic training. A card received here by his mother, Mrs. Geneva Kill ngburg. gave the in formation ab ut his future ac tions. ARRIVES IN S. F. RIVERVIEW — Vernon Lind- sley, WT2c, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lindley, arrived in San Francisco from Japan on the LST 1082 on January 9th but due to scarcity of WT’s, he is frozen there and will not be able to get a discharge before March 15. SENT TO PANAMA Joseph Roberron, son of Mr. nr.d Mrs. Hamp Roberson, now has the rating cf petty officer, having been promoted from Fla. He was recently sent, to Pana ma from San Diego and writes that he doesn’t know when he will rece ve his release from the service as his present rating of petty off cer is frozen. ELECTED TREASURER Arthur Tousley, son of Mrs. Leathe E. Tousley, has recent ly been elected treasurer of Taj Beta Pi at Case School of Ap- pl::d Science, Cleveland, Ohio. Tau Beta Pi is an honorary scholastic fraternity. Before en tering Case, Arthur attended the University cf Washington. GETS PAPERS RIVERVIEW — Mancel Lse Rose received his discharge pa pers from the navy at Bremerton, Wn. last week and is with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Rose. LINDSLEY BACK ON JOB RIVERVIEW — Pfc. L. M. Lindsley USMCR who was here on leave a short time ago, wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W, J. Lindsley, that he was fourteen hours late in arriving at his post at Oceanside, Cal., due to floods and slides. Mr. Lindsley is now working in the Hdqr. office of the redistribution regiment at Camp Pendleton. When he wrote he was engaged in making a muster roll for 800 men, which requires a personal record of each man. Lee likes his work and says he will not be sent overseas again. DISCHARGED Pfc. Claire Sunell received his discharge from the 11th airborn division at Ft. Lewis January 19th and is at his home here. He served as a paratrooper in the 11th airborn division, first in New Guinea then saw action in the invasion of Leyte, Luzon and Manilla, and was later trans ferred to the 1st convalescent hospital and the 118th general hospital at Leyte as athletic in structor. His decoration and cita tions include combat infantry man's badge, parachutist’s badge, American theater service medal, Asiatic - Pacific service medal, Philippine liberation service medal with one bronze service star, good conduct medal and victory medal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Sunell of Timber route. c Thursday, January 31, 1946 Cody Flying Banquet for I.O.O.F. TO AID SCOUT TROOP Service to Football Is Start Training Club Decision Lease of Airport Effective February 1st; Repairs Made The Cody Flying Service of St. Helens will begin operation here February 1st according to terms of the lease between the ser vice and the City of Vernonia and as indirated by Lester Cody who signified his intentions of arriving here early this week. Negotiations for leasing the field were carried on for s'.me time previous to signing at the last council meeting and will pro vide revenue from the field for the city. L.ster Cody, one cf the part ners cf the concern, called Geo. Johnson Monday stating that he planned to arrive Tuesday but weather c"nditions were some- w’at unsuitable for landing that day. A drain culvert must be re- pei”ed by the city before the field will be fully ready for use b t that repair work does not h;nder landing there, Mayor Johnson said. Dance Adds $80 To Polio Drive The Nehalem valley’s portion of the Columbia county ma ch of dimes quota received substantial assistance last Saturday night from the benefit dance sponsored by the American Legion and Auxiliary. The local fund was swelled by a total of $80 of which $60 camo from net pro ceeds of the affair and $20 from members of the Rhythm Vendors orche tra, each member contrib uting $5 to the polio fund. Paul Gordon, local chairman of tht drive, said Tuesday that over 200 cards had been mailed to rural route boxholders and re turns from the cards were sur prising. Up to that time about half the cards had been returned with contributions ranging from $1.00 to $10.00. He estimated that, should the cards continue to be returned in volume, the total would exceed the collec tions of dime boxes placed in local business places. The dimes boxes will be gath ered within the next few days and contents totaled so.,that Ver nonia’s share of the march of dimes will be known. Kullander Names Jewelry Associate Kent Bauersfeldt, who was re cently discharged from the ser vice, began his work as an as sociate in the A. L. Kullander jewelry store, Mr. Kullander said this week when he announced future plans for the business. Mr. Bauersfeldt will spend much time acquainting himself with the jewelry business and with the repair work and will receive his instruction from Mr. Kullander. He is a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Kullander. Ambulance Called The Bush ambulance was sum moned to an accident which oc- cured about 3 p.m. Monday on the Sunset highway near the tun nel between Staley’s junction and Sunset camp. The car in which Mr. and Mrs. Louis F.. Otto were riding skidded on ice and left the highway seriously injuring Mrs. Otto who was taken to the Emanuel hospital. Mr. Otto is the northwest representative of the Oregon Journal. Officers, Directors For 1946 Elected At Monday Meeting Members of the Vernonia Booster club, meeting Monday evening at the Chat ’N Nibble cafe made initial plans for spon soring a banquet for high school students who participated in last fall’s football activities and ap pointed a committee to arrange for the event. The naming of the committee was the first step in attempting to car-y out this an nual honorary dinner for the squad. Named to head the committee is Lyman Hawken who will be a ded by Lou Girod, Cleve Rob ertson and Jack Nance, all of whom l:ave had previous exper ience with the handling cf such affairs or are familiar with such details. The club meeting Monday ev ening also heard and voted its approval of the nominating com mittee’s recommendation for club officers for the ccming year. The nominating committee, named at the November meeting, was Jack Nance, E. J. Douglas: and Mrs. Frank Hartwick who r omm nd- ed these offeers for 1916: pres ident, Lou Girod; vice-prcsideu.t, Cecil Johnson; secretary, Marvin Kamhclz; and treasurer, Edw. Salomonsen. The nominating com mittee also named a board of directors c-nisting cf: A. L. Kullander, Lymah Hawken, Emil Messing, E. E. Gieenwood and W. G. Heath. The remaining actions of the group included a vote to pay $11 for the balance of the guarantee of 49 plates for the dinner and a report by Rev. W. O. Living stone that he had been unable to obtain plywood for a ping pong table which, when obtained is to be used at the youth rec reation center. At the close of the evening the club expressed its appreciation to Rev. Livingstone for his work with the group. He plans to leave Vernonia early in Feb ruary when he and Mrs. Living stone will move to Hood River. Victory Clothes Head Is Named Although the drive for collec tion of old clothing is nearing an end, the name of a local chair man to arrange some details be came known early this week when Cleve Robertson mentioned • that he had just been appointed for that work. Collections of clothing have been started by the Masons, Eastern Stars, Rain bow Girls, churches and several other groups. Mr. Robertson announced plans for gathering this clothing for shipment to Portland an<F re quested that organizations hav ing colections call him to arrange for transportation. There is no charge for shipment. He also asked that these organizations place articles to be shipped in boxes and tie them securely. Should individuals have cloth ing to contribute they may bring it to the Chat ‘N Nibble cafe or to Peggy’s Apparel shop. Pomona to Meet The Columbia County Pomona grange will convene Saturday, February 2 at the Beaver Val ley grange hall three and one- half miles west of Rainier. The meeting begins at 11 a. m. and the Lecturer's program at 8 p. m., according to Mrs. Elsie Tracy, secretary. Vernonia lodge No. 246, I.O. O.F. agreed Tuesday evening to act as the sponsor for the local Boy Scout troop. Scoutmaster Ed. Frazee said this week when he mentioned the matter. C. By ron Walker, field executive of the Washington county district which includes Vernonia, was present at the lodge meeting to explain the duties of acting as sponsor. Carl Davis, Noble Grand of the lodge named the sponsoring com mittee cf Tod Bowerman, W. G. Heath and George King to direct the troop. Mr. Frazee accompanied five rcout3 to ForeSt Grove court of honor Tuesday of last week where Lloyd Worley passed r". quirements fo.- 1st class rating and wa appointed junior assist ant scout master. At that time Donald Renfro also passed his 2nd class requirements. Also at tending the court were Kenneth Lindsley, Calvin Mitchell and Loren Weidman. Red Cross Date Set for Meeting A meeting of people in this vicinity who are interested in carrying in the work □.* the Led Crc.is scheduled for next Tues day evening at the city hr.ll, Mrs. Flank Hartwick mentioned again this week when she announced the meeting. Time for the meet ing is 7:30. The business to occupy the evening will .be an election of officers to carry on local Red Cross work, Mrs. Hartwick said. Freshmen Place Highest on Roll The Vernonia high school freshmen class students topped the honor roll list for grades at the end cf the third six-weeks period by placing seven names and wire followed by the juniors who placed four. The senior and s phomore classes listed two each according to Principal Ray Mills. Students who won honors were: freshmen—Arlene Kirk, Sally Kasper, Delores Johnson, Maxine Hartwick, Beverly Her rin, Georgiana Mills, and John Berg; juniors—Elna Morris, Cora Dusenberry, Miriam Corll and Barbara Keasey; seniors—Pat Berg and Mary Pat Caton; and sophomores—Theresa Schmidlin and John Carmichael. Nichols Ends Co-op Service Members of the board cf di rectors and Frank D. Seelye, manager of the West Oregon Electric Cooperative met in a special session last Friday even ing to discuss policy and proced ure for the cooperative and for the board to express its appre ciation to J. W. Nichols for his service in that office. Mr. Nichols’ resignation was accepted at the November meet ing of the board and was to be effective January 1st. At the request of the board he agreed to stay until February 1st. Mr. Nichols has resided here since 1936, coming from Longview to act as manager for the Oregon Gas and Electric company that year. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols plan to make this community their home but he has not announced any other future plans. Shelves Painted An improvement carried out a few days ago at the Nehalem Market and Grocery was the painting of some shelf space. Picket Line Closes Joy Theater Sat. Students, Owner Meet, Discuss Grievances Saturday Afternoon A representative group of stu dents of the Vernonia high school formed a picket line in front of the Joy theater Thurs day and Friday evenings of last week with the result that the theater has closed its doors and will remain closed, according to Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Dow, owners, until the changes can be worked out. A student delegation, meeting with the owners last Thursday afternoon, presented their re quest for a stud, nt admission price of 35c, which they men tioned, was charged by a number of other theaters. Such short notice for making the change was insufficient it was said, so students placed their picket line before the theater that evening and also again Friday night. Too small a number of adults passed the line to make possible the showing of that right’s picture. Students and seme adults met Saturday afternoon at the IWA union hall to discuss their griev ances and to hear an explanation of why the price change could not tc arried out on such short notize. A vote at the close of the meeting was unanimous for con tinuing the picketing that even ing, but Mr. and Mrs. Dow de cided to cl ore the show until new arrangements can be made. Statement’ by I th the stu dents and Mr. and Mrs. Dow re garding the situation appear un der ti e forum heading in this issue of The Eagle. Wood Services Read Monday Funeral services were held at the First Christian church Mon day at 2 o’clock for William Wood who passed away January 25th. The deceased was born August 21, 1855 and came to this valley when 19 years old from Browns county, Ohio to build his home and spend the rest of his life. He was married to Iva Janette Sheeley in 1876 and who preceeded him in death only 17 days. Immediate survivors of Mr. Wood are: his children, Mrs. T. B. Mills, Mrs. Claude Hillsberry, Mrs. Gaynell Reed, Mrs. Vera Aldrich, all of Vernonia and Mrs. Niescn, Portland, and Newell and Bert Wood of Vernonia; a broth er, A. E. Wood; 18 grandchild ren and 12 great grandchildren. Rev. W. O. Livingstone offici ated at the services which were in charge of the Bu.-h Funeral home and interment was at the Vernonia Memorial cemetery. Students See Play, Plan Trip Sat. One group of high school stu dents was in Portland Tuesday night of last week and another will go there Saturday of this week to see the mechanical de partment of the Morning Oregon ian in operation. The drama club attended “The Old Ladies” last week at its showing at the civic theater. Drama students made the visit as an addition to their regular club work for which Mrs. Betty Jean Sherman acts as advisor. Timberline staff members now numbering 20 students will have the opportunity to visit the Ore gonian. Miss Doris Lacy acta as advisor for the student news pub lication.