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Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VOLUME 26, NUMBER 25 THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1948 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON 3 Wrecks Sat. Water Stops Grange Women Pioneers Hear Program, Meet Friends Sunday Cause Damage, 1 Mail Trip Give Relief Center Help Some Injuries Boy on Horse Mctst Seriously Hurt When Hit by Truck Three wrecks involving two cars a truck and horse in addition to the people concerned occured here Saturday afternoon and night to mark last week end’s toll of dam age. Starting the day’s list was a Washington car and driver who eased off the highway at the corner of Bridge and Rose to avoid hitting two children who were on the road at that point. No damage resulted to the car, the driver or the children and the car was towed back onto the road. Later Saturday between 6:30 and 7 o’clock the young son of O. W. Meier while riding a horse on Capitol hill was struck by a truck. He suffered scalp and right knee lacerations and a slight concussion. The horse was killed after the accident because it suf fered four broken legs. About 11 p.m. a head-on col lision of cars driven by George Henderson and Ed Smejkal took place near the sawmill between Vernonia and Treharne. Smejkal sustained a cut lip. Both cars were considerably damaged. e Unit Ends Work During Summer The Vernonia extension unit met last Thursday at the Legion hall for the last time this spring. The next meeting will be held on the second Thursday in October At this last meeting there was an attendance of 16. Thirty-one different types of vases and ar rangements and nine different nose-gays were displayed. Mrs. Wauneta Timmons and Mrs. Dave Marshall were project leaders. Honorable mention at the judging of the flowers was made for Hazel Bergerson, Mrs. Timmons and Mrs. Ortner. Splendid arrays of the flowers made the meeting a suc cess. • Pastor Resigns Post Rev. H. G. McIlroy announced last' Sunday, June 13 to the As sembly of God church his resig nation as pastor to take effect 30 days from that date. As yet no plans have been made towards obtaining a new pastor. • Timber Fire Controlled MIST—Fire broke out in the timber holdings of L. P. Wikstrom last Thursday evening and it re quired the assistance of about 100 men before it was brought to control. Not much damage re sulted due to the quick assistance of the men. Vernonia post office patrons are receiving one less mail service from Scappoose as the result of high water in the Columbia. The routing of mail from Portland has evidently been hindered due to the emergency, making two de liveries from Scappoose impossi ble. Shipment of mail down river from Portland is being made by truck instead of train at present. The situation will probably con tinue until flood conditions have hbated. Final Rites Read For Mrs Counts Final rites for Mrs. A. B. Counts an old settler of the Nehalem valley since 1904, were carried out Sunday, June 6 at 2 p.m. at the Bush funeral home. Rev. W. A. Hudson delivered the funeral sermon. Mrs. Counts passed away at her home here at the age of 71 years Friday morning, June 4 at 2:30 a. m. She and her husband came to the Nehalem valley from Ken tucky making their home here and living here since that time with the exception of a few years. Mrs. Counts is survived by her husband and 11 children, all grown to adulthood, the youngest now being 28. They are: Julie Boeck, Vernonia; Bettie Johnson, Glendale, California; Pearl Gor den, San Francisco; Millard Counts, Valsetz; Herbert Counts, Vernonia; Orlean Altman, Arcata California; Clifford Counts, Can non Beach; Johnie Counts, Eureka California; Arnold Counts, Ver nonia; Halie Counts, Roseburg and Eva Jean Devaney, Keasey. There are also five brothers and one sister: John Hall, Boise, Idaho Evan Hall, Orick, California, A. D. Hall, Winchester Bay; Lee Hall, Vernonia; William Hall, Boise and Mrs. Hala Linquist, Burley, Idaho. Interment was at the old Ver nonia cemetery. • Cancer Fund Total Is $90 » The totaling of funds received from people in this community as part of the recent Cancer fund drive is listed at $90 by Mrs. Judd Greenman who acted as the chairman for the campaign in Vernonia. No house-to-house solicitation was carried out because of the number of other fund seeking campaigns which had previously been conducted, but bottles were placed in many business places and voluntary contributions were accepted. Both IWA Local 5-37 and the Oregon-American Lumber corpora tion contributed checks of $25 towards the fund. Flood Damage High; 4 Charged DAMAGE IS $3,000,000 CLATSKANIE — Flood damage in the Clatskanie diked lands has reached the total of $3,000,- 000 during the past ten days with the flooding of 1050 more acres of rich bottom lands when the Johns and Marshland drainage district dikes failed to hold and were completely inundated. And the crisis is far from over. CoL O. E. Walsh, in charge of the Portland district of the U. S. Army Engineers, visited Clats kanie Wednesday evening and stated that ten crucial days at least were ahead with high waters continuing. The force here fighting the flood waters under the direction of William Owens, army engineer, was strengthened last week with the arrival of three units from the army although the navy, which had been bearing the brunt of work since the beginning with drew 200 of their enlisted psr- sonnel but left 130 sailors here on regular duty with 100 more on immediate call from the base at Astoria. FOUR LOOTERS ARRESTED CLATSKANIE — First arrest for looting of homes in flood stricken areas of Columbia county was reported last week when four sailors from the Tongue Point naval station at Astoria were picked up by state police near Clatskanie and charged with lar ceny in a dwelling. Each of the men were given five years’ probation by Judge Zim merman and released to naval of ficers from Tongue Point, where it is possible that further disciplin ary action will be taken. All loot taken by the men was recovered. While there have been rumors of other looting in the county, Sheriff M. R. Calhoun said yester day that all of them have proved unfounded. Flood Help Extended To Marshland People By Vernonia Ladies Vernonia Grange women have been driving to Marshland two nights a week to help the Marsh land women feed the men working on the dikes and so relieve the local women for some much need ed rest. Most of the work there was done by women whose homes had been abandoned and whose poses- sions were stored at some neigh bors place. They had no home to keep up, all livestock having been moved to high ground. The center was conducted as ef ficiency as a well ordered cafe, with everyone busy at assigned tasks. Mrs. Eddie Condit, Clat sop county nurse and one of the refugees, was given the credit for a big share of the work of setting up the center. The Con dit place was one of the first in that locality to go under water. Mrs. Condit will be remembered here as the former Nettie Alley and of course most everyone has heard of Mr. Condit. • The Nehalem Valley Pioneer association’s meeting Sunday at Birkenfeld was well attended al though not too many of the old pioneers remain for the annual affair. Grandma Carl, who will be 96 on her next birthday was present as was Andrew Nord strom. The Pioneers named new of ficers, enjoyed their dinner and listened to an afternoon of enter tainment, a special feature of which was the mentioning of the five couples who had observed their 50th wedding anniversaries. The couples were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ward, 65 years, of Clats kanie; Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Melis, 54; Mr. and Mrs. Austin Dowl ing 52; Mr. and Mrs. Bert East man, 50; and Mr. and Mrs. West- ley Garlock, 50. They were pre sented with corsages. Numbers on the program in cluded: group singing; accordian selections by Mrs. Wedge of Elsie; two numbers by Elsie school children; several solos by Prof. Coffy,. Portland, accompan ied by Mrs. Coffy; two numbers by Mrs. Bern Bliss, Tillamook, ac companied by Mrs. Robert Berg; numbers by Austin Corll, Jr., sing ing and playing the guitar; two numbers by Bernard Dowling ac- Services for Son Read Fri. Candidates File Election Costs Funeral services were conducted at the Bush funeral home Friday, June 11 for Larry Dibble, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Dibble. Interment was at the Vernonia Memorial cemetery. The boy was born October 23, 1945 at Washougal, Washington and passed away June 9 at the age of 2 years, 7 months and 15 days. In addition to his parents he leaves a brother, Kenneth, Dibble. • Candidates for the several of fices in the county’s government have filed their expense accounts of the recent election with the county clerk, as the law requires. In several instances where the expense is given as $20, it covers the filing fee only. Statements filed by the follow ing show the amount of expenses incurred in the campaign: War ren Forsyth, republican for sher iff, $84; M. R. Calhoun, republican for same office, $62.50; David R. Davies, democrat for assessor, $20; C. E. Throne, Jr., democrat for sheriff, $134.64; and L. A. DuBois, democrat for same office, $96.10. James Anliker, deputy assessor, spent $29.50, including the filing fee, as he sought the republican nomination for assessor and Er nest Carson, democrat aspirant for county clerk spent $20. Ben Coleman, candidate for cor oner, paid a filing fee of $20, as did Mrs. Gladys Peterson, treas urer. Both were unopposed. Clar ence Wagner, republican for coun ty surveyor, spent $25.95, includ ing the $20 filing fee, and C. W. Wickman, who sought the repub lican nomination for election to his present post of county clerk, spent $29.45. The statement of T. P. Johnson, republican candidate for county commissioner, showed he spent $80.20 and John Winslow, candi date for the same position, spent $73.55; Clyde Henderson, who sought the democratic nomination, expended $40.25, according to his expense statement. • 33 4-Hers Go to Summer School The Columbia county delegation of 33 boys and girls departed Tuesday for ten days of college at the 4-H club summer school at Oregon State college, Corvallis. The “students,” most of whom are attending on scholarships fur nished by various organizations, business firms and individuals, will get a real taste of college life. Every morning will be oc cupied with classroom or experi ment station work with most of the regular faculty on hand. The boys have classes in agriculture and forestry, the girls in home ec onomics. Afternoons and evenings are devoted to recreation and assemblies. Some of the 1800 club members attending will even be housed in fraternities and sororities, and each county has a part in a radio program from KOAC, the college station. Columbia County will be on the air at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 24. They return home June 25. Those attending from the Ne halem valley are Janet Siedelman and Darrell McKee. • Basic Training Done Private Richard D. Renfro re cently completed his basic train ing program in Company G of the 12 Regiment, 4th Infantry divi sion at Ford Ord, California and is on orders for further duty in the 82nd Airborne division. He received the rating of marksman with the M-l rifle. • Two Represent Vernonia Girls representing Vernonia at the Giri’s state session held at Willamette University, June 14 to 21 are Beverly Herrin and Mickey Hall. This program in the interest of good Americanism and good citizenship is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. Eagles Keep Record Clean The F. O. E. sotball team kept it’s season record clean by trounc ing the St. Helens all-stars 13 to 7 on the Vernonia field last Thurs day night. The boys take on more of a championship form each game and judging by progress this early in the season, may reach the national playoff to be held in Portland in September. Duke Byers made his initial ap pearance of the season by whack ing a home run into Rock creek. Circuit clouts were made by Bob Roeser and Lyfe Galloway. This year’s lineup is consider ably strengthened by a number of new faces: Bob Roeser, Ralph Hartman, Lloyd Quinn, Jack Riley and Ben Meiwea. Sunnell and Galloway are always in good form. companied by Mrs. Robert Berg; two selections by Mr. Clark. A poem written especially for the occasion by Mrs. Austin Dowl ing was read ,and Walter Corll gave an interesting talk on early days of the settlers. Next year the pioneers will celebrate their 25th anniversary of organizing. Service Officer Gets New Post D. G. Stuart of Hillsboro, coun ty service officer for Columbia county, has been named a volun teer veteran reemployment rights committeeman to aid veterans in obtaining reemployment and seni ority rights to which they are entitled under the selective service act. Mr. Stuart will provide advice and assistance to veterans who feel that they have not received reemploymeat and seniority rights to which they are entitled under the selective service act. The reemployment rights functions of the SS act were transferred to the U. S. department of labor when the selective service act expired last March 31. “Every effort will be made to adjust all cases amicably,” Mr. Stuart said. “This is in keeping with the policy declared by Sec retary of Labor Schwellenbach and Robert K. Salyers, director of the department’s veterans’ reemplyo- ment rights division. Investigation will be resorted to only when there appears to be a violation of the veteran’s rights which cannot be resolved otherwise. We believe, however, that such cases will be rare.” • Astoria Legion Juniors Win Sun. The Vernonia Junior Legion baseball team encountered an other defeat Sunday when the team met Astoria on the Wash ington grade school diamond and lost 20 to 6. Errors plagued the Vernonia eleven throughout the game, eight being tallied on the official score book against the local team as compared with two for Astoria. Three Vernonia Juniors, Ralph Sawyer, Deryl Roberts and Earl Wantland, occupied the mound during the afternoon, to be re ceived by Gene Wall behind the plate. Another home game is scheduled for the coming Sunday when Tillamook is slated to meet Ver nonia at 2 p.m. at the Washington field. Road, Street Pavement Is Summer Plan Rock Crushing to Start Again Soon; Bridges Repaired Rock crushing at the Apiary pit is scheduled to start within a short time to provide rock that will be needed for this summer’s road and street paving program ac cording to Cleve Mellinger, road supervisor for this district, who outlined in general the plans Wed nesday for this summer’s work. Rains earlier in the season left so much watei in the rock pit at the crusher site that crushing was hindered, but it will be pos sible to start again soon to get out the material needed, he said. At present the road crew in this dis trict is busy repairing broken places in pavement and repatring bridges and culverts. The paving in the city will cover between one and one-half and two miles, Mayor George Johnson said the same day and will be placed on those street» that received heavier rock earlier this year. • Approval Rated For Writing Mrs. Dora Washburn, former Vernonia resident now living at Albany, has received the official Certificate of Approval from Va liant House, publishers, New York for poetic work which she sub mitted recently to the firm. She mentioned the honor after arriv ing here last week for a short visit with friends. v Mrs. Washbum’s work will be included in a volume to be pub lished by the concern entitled; ’’Important American Poets and Songwriters of 1948.” The. Certificate of Approval reads: “Your fine material, sub mitted for “Important American Poets and Songwriters of 1948”, shows the sincerity and keen per ception which mark the true poet. If you can interpret life as you see it; if you can paint, in verse, the beauty of the universe; if you can offer a solution to the prob lems plaguing your fellowman: if you can distinguish the truth from the mass of false propa ganda; if you can express the desires and emotions of those who feel but cannot express; if you have this divine gift of writing, then the name “Poet” is indeed a mark of great distinction which sets you aside from your fellow man . . . ” 4-H Club Members Achievements Shown June 5 at Legion Hall The accomplisments of members of Nehalem valley 4-H clubs at the achievement day event held June 5 at the Legion hall were released early this week by Mrs. Florence Kirkbride who tabulated the work for the occasion. Seven clubs were represented at the event. The Delicious Cooking club un der the leadership of Mrs. Grace Boyer demonstrated cooking; Roselie Kirkbride—Scottish fancy cookies; Barbara Wilbur and Nina Boyer —• cub cakes and Marcia Gamer and Joan Peters — table setting. The Busy Bee Cooking club, led by Mrs. J. E. Tapp, made the following demonstrations: Patricia Stiff and Nadine Tunnell—angel food cake; Beverly Cline, Joan "Roediger and Dorothy Gwin— cup cakes and Harriet Heath and Patricia Hickman—table setting. Clothing club No. 2 exhibited pot holders made by Patricia Stiff and Alice Steers and club No. < i 3 demonstrated patch sewing by Janet Siedelman and Phyllis Lars more. The Happy Sewers of Mist led by Mrs. Alton Ashley, sang "Dreaming” and gave the 4-H pledge. A demonstration, "Con tents of a Sewing Box,” was made by Adelle Cochram and “How to Put in Hem by Hand,” was dem onstrated by Margaret Waddell and Beverly Closner. The latter also sang “When You Were Sweet Sixteen.” Members of the Nehalem Valley Dairy club, led by Ralph McKee, who exhibited stock were Marg aret Buckley, Robert McFarland, Darrel McKee, Peggy McKee, Clif ford Rowe and Donna Buckley. Nehalem Valley Livestock club beef exhibitors were Betty Counts and Jerrol Moran and dairy ex hibits were made by Jean, James and Rosalie Kirk bride. There were also two other dem onstrations: how to make a rope halter and how to make a calf blanket. The members practiced judging and showmanship.
