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THURSDAT, MAT »9, 1947
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
Never Too Old
To Learn
Rons Morri* Workman,
Boulder Cam»
Dallas, Oregon
I have been a discouraged wo­
man. Always, heretofore, I have
dug in the dirt, planted seeds, and
by the strange and wonderful al­
chemy of nature, flowers grew and
bloomed, and my only difficulty
came from the way the weeds also
grew and put forth whatever a
weed puts forth—usually other
weeds. I am afraid that I also, dur­
ing those years of flower and
shrub luxuriance, developed a ra­
ther conceited notion that I had
the proverbial “green thumb” and
assumed, with true egotism, that
it was I who really produced the
blooms. Since coming to Boulder
Camp I have learned just where
I stand in regard to nature. In oth­
er words, I tack a whole lot of
being as smart as I thought I was.
Maybe that is a wholesome condi­
tion of mind, but nevertheless it
does give one rather a discouraged
feeling, amounting almost to a
complex.
I think I told you that I had a
handkerchief-sized bit of lawn, the
only one in town. I learned later
that the top soil had been hauled
fourteen miles for that lawn, but
the salient fact in that statement
didn’t register, and I very much
fear that when I saw the total lack
of any attempts at raising flowers
and grass in the rest of the camp,
I had rather a superior feeling to
ward my sister-women here and
condemned them in my thoughts
NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION
UPON QUESTION OF INCREAS­
ING TAX LEVY OVER AMOUNT
LIMITED BY SECTION 11, ART­
ICLE XI, STATE CONSTITU­
TION
Notice is hereby given that an
election will be held in School
District No. 47 Jt. of Columbia
County, State of Oregon, at Ver­
nonia in said district, for the pur­
pose of submitting to the legal
voters of said district the question
of increasing the tax levy for the
year 1947 Over the amount limited
by section 11, article XI, of the
Constitution of Oregon.
The reasons for increasing such
levy are: Our lax base is large
enough to support only a two-
room school.
The amount of tax, in excess of
the 67, limitation, proposed to be
levied for said year is $26,849.05.
Dated this 20th day of May,
1947.
ATTEST:
R. M. Aldrich,
District Clerk,
Glen F. Hawkins,
Chairman Board of Directors
6-29, 6-12
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL
SCHOOL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
i compliance with Sec. 111-908,
O.C.L.A., to the legal voters of
School District No. 47 Jt, of Co­
lumbia County, State of Oregon,
that the ANNUAL SCHOOL
MEETING of said District will be
held at Vernonia, Ore.;to begin at
the hour of 8 o’clock p.m. on the
third Monday of June, being the
16 day of June, A. D. 1947.
This meeting is called for the
purpose of electing I Director for
term of 3 years ami 1 Director for
term of 2 years, and one Director
for Rural .School Board and the
transaction of business usual at
such meeting.
In districts of the second and
third classes the ballots shall not
be counted until one hour after
the time set for the meeting to
begin. Until the count begins, any
legal voters of the district shall
be entitled to vote upon any busi­
ness before the meeting.
Dated this SBth day of May,
1947.
ATTEST:
R. M. Aldrich,
District Clerk
Glen F. Hawkins,
Chairman Board of Directors
5-29, 6-12
for having such an uninterested at­
titude toward beautifying their bit
of ground. Lately I have gone a-
bout muttering apologies for my
unspoken thoughts of them.
With the first warm days after
my arrival in camp I had gone a-
bout arranging flower beds in
the somewhat limited space at my
disposal. About six feet from my
kitchen window and on one side
of the bit of lawn was a sloping
boulder-studded embankment, the
“fill” of a road that runs by the
house. I attacked this fill with pick
shovel, dragging out rocks for a
tarrace wall and cutting into, the
bank for dirt to fill the terrace.
With complacent confidence in my
flower-growing ability, I set canna
bulbs in the terrace, planted aster
seeds and tucked in a lot of nas­
turtium seeds, thinking they would
be a bright bit of color. I also
worked in plenty of commercial
flower-urge and looked forward
to something really worth while.
After that was done, I took one
long, digusted look at the heap of
rocks and debris which sloped from
my bit of lawn in front of the
house to the underpinnings of the
commissary next door, hitched up
my slacks a bit more firmly and
started in making a rock garden,
with beds between, for the seeds
which were soon to be blooming
flowers. After days of work, pry­
ing out rocks and stacking them
into walls, digging and fertilizing,
and putting in more seeds and
bulbs, I sat back and waited for
nature to co-operate. Only nature
didn’t; nothing capie up. I sent an
S.O.S. to the Rocking W, demand­
ing some boxes of river-valley soil
and some beautiful barnyard grow-
all, and when it was brought up,
I spread it over this mountain soil
and planted it all over again. Still
nothing came up, not even a weed.
I bought husky plants at the
greenhouse, set them in flower
boxes and beds, and they just sat
there, making no effort to grow.
I fed and watered and gave them
pep talks. No response.
Then one day I climbed the slope
of the mountain above my house,
sat down on a heap of boulders
and looked down on my naked
flower beds. In the silence I
seemed to hear Mother Nature
give a low, throaty chuckle.
Thought you were smart, didn’t
you?” she seemed to say. “You
came to this three thousand foot
elevation with its red rocky soil
and thought you could do just as
you did in your river valley. You
human beings are certainly dumb.”
I didn’t argue with her. Couldn’t
think of anything to say. But I
can be just as stubborn as nature
—nature has always been consid­
ered female and perhaps it is from
her that we women get our stub-
borness—and as I sat there look­
ing about me, at the spread of
green over these barren hills, at
the blooming rhododendrons, the
wild huckleberry bushes, the tiny
young green trees, and the small
mountain flowers, that have come
into being with the spring, I found
the answer to my problem. Nature
was entirely correct in her bitter
sarcasm. I had thought I was
smart; I had tried to adjust nature
to what I wanted up here rather
than to accept of her age-old wis­
dom and adjust my plans to con­
ditions.
I straightened
up,
laughed and answered her. “All
right, old dear you win. I'll follow
your advice about flower gardens.
If you can take these shrubs and
mountain Gowers and make your
hills green and lovely, then I can
collect plants from your green­
house and make my garden bloom.
The wild huckleberry and feath­
ery-green white fir can be my
shrubbery, your ferns and water
plants can grow in the damp shad­
ed part of my rock garden, and
your wild vines can hide the bare
rocks and ugly spots for me as
well as for you. Come on, old lady,
start donating”. And she did. My
rock garden is filling with green
fems, tiny leafy plants, small
yellow flowers whose name I do
not know (and probably Mother
Nature doesn’t either), wild bleed-
Highway Deaths
Drop in April
Oregonians forced back the tide
of highway deaths in April, with
a total loss of only 20 lives, it has
been disclosed by Robert S. Farrell
Jr., secretary of state.
This is a sharp drop from the
ing hearts, and trailing vines. I
have my eye on some husky lupin
growing a few miles from camp
that will give color to the terrace
bed, and the mountain “rhodies”
will bloom for me in a corner of
the lawn. Maybe I am smarter
than she thought I was; at least
I can learn to adjust to conditions,
just the same as she does.
toll of 40 for the same month last
year.
During the first four months of
1947 Oregon cars took a total of
129 lives, as compared with 144
for the same period in 1946. Safety
men are expressing considerable
surprise at the decrease in fatal­
ities, since highway traffic is
booming at an unprecedented pace.
VWe can’t tell much from one
or two months,” Farrell said, “but
everyone is keeping his fingers
crossed in the hope that this is
the beginning of the pay-off for
our vast safety efforts.”
Non-city accidents continued to
take most of the lives. Of the 26
persons killed, 21 were killed out­
side any town or city. This ratio
of four-to-one exceeds even the
usual Oregon balance of three
LINE
WITH
SPRING
. . . and that means your car should
have expert Signal lubrication when
it start« to hum down summer high-
^ays.
IieC us condition it for you
now.
•
Veterans Administration esti­
mated the World War II veteran
population for March 1 at nearly
VERNONIA
EAGLE
NOTICE OF SCHOOL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the legal voters of School District No. 47 Jt„ of Columbia County, State of Oregon, that a SCHOOL MEET­
ING of the saidI district will be held at Vernonia, Oregon on the 16 day of June, 1947 at 8 o’clock p.m., for the purpose of discussing the budget
for the fi!carschool yea*, beginning July 1, 1947, and ending June 30, 1948, hereinafter set forth, and to vote on the propos.tino of levying a
district tax.
BUDGET________________________________ ______
Estimated Receipts and Available Cash Balances
Schedule I
Total All
Funds
ITEM
Estimated Receipts from
Delinquent Taxes ......................................................................................................... $ 2,620.86
Countv School Fund ................................................................................................... 8.458.77
Basic School Support .................................................. .............................................. 42,400.63
748.93
State Irreducible School Fund ........ •.........................................................................
Elementary Transportation ....................................................................................... 3.954.78
Due fr<>m Bonding Company
.................... ........................ ;....................... 10,000.00
Estimated Total Receipts.......................................................................................... $68,183.97
Estimated Total Receipts and Available Cash Balance or Deficit___________ $68,183.97
Schedule II—General Fund
Estimated Expenditures
Expenditures for 3 Fiscal Years Next
Preceeding the Current School Year
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I. GENERAL CONTROL
Personal service:
$ 4,500.00
Superintendent ..............................................
720.00
Clerk ........................................ #............ • • ■ •
1,000.00
Stenographers and other office assistants
150.00
Compulsory education and census ..........
200.00
Other services ................................................
50.00
Supplies ..............................................................
150.00
Elections and publicity.......... .. ....................
211.00
Legal service (clerk’s bond, audit, etc.) ... .
Other expense of general control:
70.00
National assembly .........................................................
$ 4,500.00
65.00
65.00
$ 5,333.00
$ 2,450.00
160.00
300.00
$ 2,200.00
100.00
470.24
$ 2,850.00
$ 2,770.24
$56,400.00
200.00
1,000.00
1,000.00
$45,305.00
150.00
1,000.00
800.00
$41,208.00
150.00
1,000.00
900.00
200.00
200.00
200.00
$47,455.00
$43,458.00
$ 5,191.00
$ 5,191.00
1,000.00
600.00
600.00
375.00
150.00
1,000.00
$ 7,916.00
$ 7,216.00
$ 3,150.00
$ 3,450.00
$ 3,450.00
III. INSTRUCTION—Teaching
Personal service:
Teachers ............................................................................. . $56,400.00
200.00
Library supplies, repairs ...................................................
Supplies (chalk, paper, etc.)............................................. . 1,000.00
Textbooks................ .............................................. ........... . 1,000.00
Tuition to other districts
200.00
Work books ............................... .*...................................
....................................... . $58,800.00
$58,800.00
Total Expense of Teaching
IV. OPERATION OF PLANT
Personal service:
Janitors and other employees ..................................... .
$ 5,709.00
100.00
800.00
1,100.00
600.00
375.00
200.00
$ 8,884.00
$ 8,884.00
Telephone ...............................................................................
Total Expense of Operation
....................
.
...
V. 1MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS
Repair and maintenance of furniture and equipment $
Rppair and maintenance of:
Buildings ...........................................................................
Grounds .............................................................................
Total Expense of Maintenance and Repairs
200.00
$ 1,100.00
$ 1,100.00
VII . FIXED CHARGES
Insurance ............................................................................... .$ 1,265.00
Other fixed charges:
12.00
Boiler inspection ...............................................................
5,600.00
Retirement .......................................................................
.......................................
$ 6,877.00
Vili. CAPITAL OUTLAYS
50.00
Alteration of buildings (not repairs) ............................ $
New furniture, equipment and replacements ............ . 3,000.00
Other capital outlays:
200.00
Library books . ...............................................................
Teachers' reference books
Total Capital Outlays
$ 3,250.00
$
$ 3,450.00
$58,800.00
$ 8,884.00
200.00
500.00
400.00
Total Expense of Auxiliary Agencies .............. ............ $ 8,580.00
Total Fixed Charges
$
500.00
400.00
VI. AUXILIARY AGENCIES
Health service:
45.00
Personal service (nurse, etc.)....................................... $
25.00
Supplies and other expenses .......................................
Transportation of pupils:
Personal service ............................................................... . 8,010.00
Other auxiliary agencies:
500.00
War surplus ...................................................................
$ 7,051.00
300.00
5,709.00
100.00
800.00
1,100.00
600.00
375.00
200.00
Janitors’ supplies ...............................................................
Fuel ....................................................................................... .
Light and power...................................................................
200.00
50.00
$ 5,630.00
II. INSTRUCTION—Supervision
Personal service:
Principals ......................................................................... $ 3,150.00
Supervisors .................. .. .................................................
300.00
Substitutes ...........................................................«......... .
Total Expense of Supervision................................
$
150.00
50.00
70.00
$ 7.051.00
....
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$ 3,650.00
540.00
1,000.00
156.00
25.00
720.00
1,000.00
150.00
200.00
50.00
150.00
211.00
$ 7,051.00
Total Expense of General Control
X. EMERGENCY
ÜN
rural crash deaths for every one
in a city. Speed also continued
to play the leading role in bring­
ing death to motorists.
$
$ 1,100.00
45.00
25.00
100.00
$
$ 3.487.00
$ 2.866 80
$40.637.38
$38.200.65
t
$ 1,000.00
$ 1,500.00
$
$
8,000.00
$ 8.139.02
$ 7.775.36
$
$
100.00
1,000.00
400.00
8,910.00
$ 4,832.10
600.00
275.00
150.00
500.00
400.00
45.00
25.00
$ 4,320.00
856.21
686.75
45.00
100.00
8,000.00
500.00
200.00
$ 8,580.00
$ 8,580.00
$ 1,265.00
$ 8,270.00
$ 8,145.00
$
$
12.00
5,600.00
$ 6,877.00
50.00
3,000.00
300.00
14.00
3,500.00
$ 6,877.00
•
10.00
$
485.00
$
$
100.00
350.00
!
200.00
$ 8,120.51
475.00
$ 3,814.00
100.00
2,000.00
$ 8,177.45
150.00
$
482.46
$
831.16
$
836.39
$
415.71
150.00
60.00
$ 3,250,00
$ 3,250.00
$ 2,250.00
$
$ 3,000,00
$ 3,000.00
$ 3,000.00
$ 3,000.00
660,00
$ 3,000,00
$ 3,000.00
Schedule_yj—Summary of Estimates of Expenditures, Receipts and Available ( ash Balances, and Tax Levies
ESTIMATION OF TAX
LEVY
Total estimated expenditures ...........................................................................................
DEDUCT:
Total estimated receipts and available cash balances (Schedule I)......................
Amount necessary to balance the budget .....................................................................
DEDUCT:
Balance to be raised by taxation .......................................................................................
ADD:
Estimated amount of taxes that will not be collected during the fiscal year for
yhich this budget is made ..........................................................................................
Total All
Funds
$100,992.00
68,183.97
32,808.03
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32,808.03
—
Total estimated tax levies for ensuing fiscal year.......... ................................................
Heath’s Service Station
Phone S711
At the Mile Brige, Riverview
Analysis of estimated tax levies:
Amount inside 6% limitation ...........................................................................................
. $
Amount outside 67- limitation ......................................................................
.... ,
___________________
Dated this 20th day of May. 1947
Signed: R. M. Aldrich, District Clerk
Glen F. Hawkins. Chairman, Board of Directors
6,958.98
Approved by Budget Committee May 20, 1947
Signed: J. J. Grady, Secretary, Budget Committee
^___JL_ÇL_Heath, Chairman, Budget Committee
5/29, 6/12