Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” F.O.E. Aeries To Convene Here Sunday Portland Drum Corps, Officers Are Invited Members of the local aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles will be hosts to aeries in this district Sun day, April 20, for a district con vention Harold Carrick, president of the Vernonia aerie, said late last week. Present plans call for registra tion to take place at 10 a.m. at the building housing Lee Motors and for other festivities to follow through during the day. Other parts of Sunday’s program are scheduled to be held at the I.O.O.F. hall starting at 1:30 p.m. and end ing with dinner at 5:00 and a dance at 7:30 that evening. Drill team competition is scheduled for 3:30. Club room activities will take place all day with the exception of a closing time from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.' Expected to be present during the program is M. L. Shepherd, state president of the F.O.E. from Klamath Falls, and other officers of the state organization. Also on the day’s program is an initiation of new members of the F.O.E., George Armtrong, secre tary, said and part of the day will be devoted to that purpose. This convention is the first of its kind since 1939 to be held here. • Long Service On Board Ends The resignation of Mrs. Frank lin Malmsten as secretary of the Vernonia Library board was ac cepted at the April meeting of the group held last Thursday. Mrs. Malmsten has served as a member for over 20 years and recognition of her services for such a period of time was voiced by members of the present board. Election of officers to serve the library for the ensuing year resul'ed ns follows: chairman, Mrs. Marvin Kamholz; secretary Mrs. Paul Gordon and treasurer ♦ Mrs. Harry Culbertson. In the future, new books will be purchased each month, it was decided. Previously purchases of new books were made several times during the year. Prom Grosses $200 The Junior Prom held Saturday evening of last week was a suc cess Principal Ray Mills said Mon day. Gross revenue from the affair was $200 he said. • Lee Bus Sold The school bus owned and oper ated by Mr. and Mrs. Ira Lee for the past several years has been sold to Loel Roberts the owners announced a few days ago. Driver of the bus now is Claire Sunnell. R. C. Fund Rural School Is $1259.85 Law Changes Board Set-up Council to Vote Change Of Fire Rnle Zone Residents to Select Members for Governing Board Protection Outside City Limits Due Property Owners Contributions to the recently- completed Red Cross fund in the Nehalem Valley reached the total of $1259.85 Vernonia Chairman Ray Justice said Wednesday morn ing. Final turnover of funds to Mr. Justice was made only a few days ago. , From the different districts and sources the amounts contributed were: $61, Birkenfeld (half of the fund from that location was credit ed to Clatsop county); $125, Mist; $280, payroll deduction at O-A mill; $58.85, dime bottles; $735.00 direct donations and post office booth. The auction sale at Natal accounted for $100 of the collec tion from that area, the chairman said. Mr. Justice expressed ap preciation for the cooperation re ceived from ladies groups taking care of the post office booth and to Mrs. Culbertson for her work in arranging for the booth, to Bill Horn and the Woman’s Relief Corps for the business house solicitation and for the response of people contributing. • 8th Grade Plays z Coming Friday Two eighth grade plays are scheduled for staging this Friday evening Superintendent Paul Gor don said Tuesday when he listed the casts for the one-act present ations. Appearing in “Aunt Adeline’s Heir” will be Nancy Fletcher as Mrs. Harriet Stone; Tempie De Hart, Irene; Marvin Brissett, Tom; Georgia Miller, Dorothy Lane; Virginia Robertson, Aunt Adeline and James Middleton, officer. Mrs. Harry Sandon is acting as coach. Mrs. Lillian Akers is coaching the play "Where’s That Report Card?” The cast of characters is: father, Harold Schmidlin; mother, June Mulkins; Helen, Joan Berger; Mary, Janet Peterson; Junior, Gerald Millis and Alice, Lois Schwab. • The rural school district law, as adopted at the last legislature, creates a rural school district which will have bearing upon District 47 Jt. by setting up a governing board. The board, which does not replace the boards of directors of each district, will act somewhat as an equalization group by checking and approving bud gets and acting as a final judge of them. The law sets up a rural school district which embraces all terri tory within the county, except first class districts and union high school districts, where the sum of the number of children of school age on the last cenus in the compone.nt districts is equal to the census required for a first class district. The governing board will be the rural school board composed of five members, one from each of the five county zones. The mem bers will he elected at the annual meetings June 16 held in the school houses in each of the ele mentary districts. School officials here are of the opinion that zone 5, the Nehalem valley should be represented by an individual who is capable of upholding the objectives of the districts in the zon*. In order to be prepared for the election, some consideration should be given previous to the annual meeting of the man to represent this zone, school men believe. Small Fish Being Caught In explaining the new ruling, Loii D. Kent, county school super intendent has pointed out to the boards that the chairman of the board of directors of each ele mentary district shall act as judge and the other members of the board as clerk of the election. The nomination of any candidates to serve as a member of the rural school board shall be made by petition filed with the county school superintendent not less than 30 days prior to the date of the election or not later than May 15. Reports reaching officials of the Nehalem Valley Rod and Gun club late last week .indicate that some of the younger people in the vicin ity are not' waiting for the open ing of trout season April 26. Several club members have seen small boys taking fish from the streafns in recent days and the size of the fish is such that they would not reach the legal size of eight inches for some time. Club president Harry King said Monday that some of the boys names are known and that action to contact parents on the matter would be taken. Planting of fish by the state game commission was made in Rock Creek earlier this year to re stock the stream for anglers. Petitions must be signed by not less than 25 voters. Members of the rural board are subject to re call by legal school voters in the zone from which elected. The districts in the Nehalem valley which comprize zone 5 are Vernonia 47 Jt., Birkenfeld 42 Jt., Mist and Natal. Other zones in the county are: zone 1, Scappoose, Sauvies Island, Chap man and Warren; zone 2, Yank ton, Deer Island, Canaan, Beaver Homes, Goble, Columbia Heights, Neer City, Treholn, Shiloh Basin, Columbia City and Bachelor Flat; zone 3, Rainier Hudson, Fem Hill, Apiary Prescott and Delena and zone 4, Lost Creek, Clatskanie, Quincy, Westport, Bradbury and Mayger. Trucks Damage Streets; Dredging Asked 30 EMPLOYEES AFFECTED BY WALK-OUT ST. HELENS—The abrupt pa ralysis of the telephone strike hit St. Helens early last week as all but supervisory workers walked off their jobs. Telephone pom- munication at St. Helens was im possible except for emergency calls—and it had to a bona fide emergency or the call did not go through. At St, Helens, the strike affects about 30 employees of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, the majority of them being oper ators. Picket lines, run by mem bers of the National Federation of Telephone workers were formed promptly. POSTAL RECEIPTS rilT BIC, TOTAL ST. HELENS — Business is THURSDAY APRIL 17, 1947 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON VOLUME 25, NUMBER 16 booming at the St. Helens post office, for the first quarter postal receipts were $13,618.95—which is nearly as much as receipts for an entire year used to total. Postal receipts represent money taken in from stamp sales, box rent, parcel post packages and postage on per iodicals. Receipts at the local post office for the quarter ending March 31, 1946, were $7,432.24, so this year’s business is up more than $11.000. SCAPPOOSE COUNCIL ACTS TO SAFEGUARD STREETS SCAPPOOSE—In an. effort to protect the streets of Scappoose from some of the damage that is being done them by truck operat ors, the Scappoose city council de cided to require the truckers to have a permit to operate on the streets. This action was taken after it was mentioned that some of the streets have suffered ex tensive damage from logging trucks in paticular. It is expected that the council and the truck operators will meet in the near future to discuss the problem. DREDGING OF RIVER HINGES UPON FUNDS CLATSKANIE—In response to a request from the Clatskanie city council that the Clatskanie river be dredged the War Department dis trict engineers have informed the city that the river will be dredged as soon as funds become available. The city called the engineers attention to the fact the. the river is becoming so filled that even fishing boats are experienc ing difficulty in getting into Clatskanie. X-ray Unit Dated Monday, Tuesday The annual visit of the mobile chest x-ray unit to Vernonia is scheduled for Monday and Tues day of the coming week, April 21 and 22. The unit will be here all day Monday and will be located at the high school. It will move to the O-A mill Tuesday morning. Arrangements for the visit in order to carry on the x-ray work speedily is being handled locally by High School Principal Ray Mills who will enlist the aid of high school girls to work out many details. Registration of the times for individuals to visit the unit is 9 Scouts Go to Court of Honor Nine Boy Scouts of the Ver nonia Troop and their Scoutmaster, Ed Frazee, were at Forest Grove last Thursday evening where the scouts appeared before the dis trict court of honor. Appearing for advancement in rank were: Fred Lundgren, life scout; Bill Shipman and Kenneth Lindsley, star scouts; Jerry Oakes, first class and Larry Gamer, and Robert Allen and Jerald Dusek, second class. Merit badges were awarded to Donald Renfro for bugling, wood working and reading, to Lloyd Worley for civics and swimming and Billy Wells for public health and safety. The Vernonia troop spent Sat urday at Camp Hawkins, the scoutmaster said, and were busy cleaning the camp site and build ing trails. • District Music Tourney Entered Nearly all the entrants from Vernonia in the district music tournament held at Estacada last Friday and Saturday were award ed ratings of two for their num bers High School Principal Ray Mills said Monday. Going to the conference from here were the high school girls chorus, the sextet, the grade girls sextet and four soloists, one of them from the grade school. Composing the high school sex tet are Sally Kaspar, Delores Johnson, Barbara Keasey, Maxine Hartwick, Shirley Bennett and Barbara Lolley and the accompan- iest is Alice George. Mrs. Mary Aronsen is the director. * Soloists competing at Estacada were Frances Kaspar from the grade school and Barbara Keasey high school, pianists, and Sally Kuzpar and Miriam Corll, vocal ists. high school. Composing the grade school sextet are Marguerite Thompson. Nancy Fletcher, Tempie DeHart, Edna Fuller. Mary Tapp and Phyllis I-aramore. Their director is Mrs. Maude Kobow. being cared for by Mr. Mills at the high school. Mrs. Wilma Borton, chairman of the home extension unit, is in charge of other arrangements including transportation and care of children and has named com mittees to work with her. The group to provide transportation is Mrs. William Ellis, Mrs. Macile Grady and Mrs. Lucille Lindsay. Requests for transportation to the unit should be sent Mr. Mills or Mrs. Borton before 8 o’clock Mon day morning, April 21. Those who will take care of infants while their mothers are being x-rayed are Mrs. Thans King, Mrs. Ray Justice, Mrs. Gra dy, Mrs. May Mulkins, Mrs. Ethel Landers and Mrs. Blanche DeWitt. Helping by supplying items are Bush Furniture, milk; Cason’s Transfer, graham crackers; Mrs. Mary Sawyer, straws and Mrs. Ernest Baker and Mrs. Tom Turner, cot and blankets. People who are providing their own transportation are asked to bring a neighbor whenever pos- sibe in order to save expense and time of the transportation com-’ mittee. Mrs. Estella M. Harris ex ecutive secretary of the county public health group has arranged to have reminder cards sent to all who have had x-rays in the past two years. Records show that the county still has too many cases of tuberculosis, hence the extra effort to interest more people in coming to the unit in order to discover prevalence of the disease. Grade school children are not being x-rayed unless they have been asked to do so by a physician or the county public health nurse. All high school pupils will be ex amined. However, adults especial ly are asked to have pictures taken because it has been proven that they are the ones most likely to have tuberculosis. • School Account Changes Made Added to the list of accounts already opened with the Vernonia Branch, Commercial Bank of Banks, is that of the Union High School district, William C. Christ ensen announced Tuesday of this week. The board of directors of the district made the decision at the last meeting a few days ago. Mr. Christensen also said that the bapk was appreciative of the response of local business firms, nearly all of which have now opened accounts with the Vernonia branch. To Attend Conference Three high school students who have been associated with the pub lication activities of the Timber line this year will go to Forest Grove Friday to attend the Pacific University press conference. The students are Barbara Keasey, Cora Dusenberry and Martha Wells. City councilmen will consider an amendment to city ordinance No. 278 at their next meeting. The ordinance, which was adopted last year provides for property owner» outside the city to obtain fire protection by signing a contract with the city for that protection. No contracts have been signed as yet by city officials say, but some are expected this season. The ordinance and amendment pro vides for fixing the charges that will be made and contracts will be available after the next council meeting. The amendent states that con tracts may be made with individual property owners on the basis of paying the City Fire Protective Service an amount equal to five mills on the dollar of assessed valuation of property at the time of the contract. In addition in dividual property owners shall pay $75 per hour for each piece of equipment furnished. • Tractor Saw Demonstrated Employees and contractors working on the Columbia County Tree Farm saw a demostration of the Little Giant Self-propelled Tractor Saw last Friday morning. The showing was made on a part of the Farm located near the old McDonald homestead southeast of here and which had been logged by Clark and Wilson. The machine was designed to operate both a chain saw and circular saw and was advertised as useful for both falling and bucking. Biggest obstacle for the machine in the logged over terri tory where it would be used, was the down trees that remained from the earlier logging. • Tasmanians Tour Crown Tree Farm Here Tuesday to tour the Col umbia Country Tree Farm owned by the Crown Zelletback corpora tion were Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Han sen of Burnie, Tasmania accom panied by «. F. Turnbull, senior research officer of forest product» council for science and industrial «research on lumber, who is tempor arily working with Mr. Hansen. Mr. Hanson is superintendent of the wood division of associated pulp and paper mills at Burnie. The methods followed in relog ging were of special interest for the visitors here and these methods will be followed in Australia Mr. Hansen said, where woodworkers have a varied handling job. Following the tour here, the visitors were taken to the Clatsop Tree Farm. • Infant Buried Here Friday Funeral services were held at the Bush Chapel last Friday for Jeffary Lee Lusby, four and one- half month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lusby. The infant passed away at the Good Samar itan hospital, Portland, April 9. Survivors in addition to the parents are the two grandmothers, Mrs. Jennie Lusby and Mrs. Minnie Killian. Interment was at the Vernonia Memorial cemetery.