Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974, April 17, 1947, Image 1

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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.