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Library, U of 0 “Vernonia, Gateway to Nehalem Valley Lumbering, Farming, Recreation.” VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTV, OREGON VOLUME 28, NUMBER 16 Paper Drive Plan Given Outline Mon. May Queen, Princesses Chosen by Students Fri. Miss Beverly Brady will pre side as queen of the May over this year’s program marking the observance of May day. The naming of the queen was carried out at an election last Friday in which ballots were cast only by the boys of the high school student body. The boys of the 4-H Pheasant Project Open Raising pheasants can be car ried as a 4-H club project again this year, according to word just received from Burton Hutton, state 4-H agent, Corvallis. The Oregon state game com mission is again cooperating to make this project possible. Phea sant eggs are supplied the game commission to 4-H club mem bers who have the proper facili ties for hatching the eggs and raising young pheasants. The birds will be purchased from the club member by the game commission at one dollar each when ten weeks of age. Any boy or girl between the aces of 9 and 19 on January 1, 1950, is eligible for 4-H club work. To carry the pheasant project a boy or girl must have a setting hen to hatch the eggs. A wire enclosed pen is also necessary for raising the birds. About 16 eggs can be matched under a hen of a standard poul try breed. For a bantam, eight or nine eggs are recommended. Further information and instruc tions concerning matching, rais ing, etc., can be obtained from Harold IBack, 4-H club agent, St. Helens. Meeting Date Set High school P.-T.A. members will meet next Monday evening at the high school and part of the evening will be devoted to the showing of two films on cancer. The high and grade associations arc uniting to sponsor a ham dinner May 7 at the Legion hall for the purpose of increasing the summer playground fund. senior class selected the three senior girls as candidates for the position. Barbara Bass and Bonnie Wil- coxen will be Senior princesses and the princesses from the other classes will be: Juniors — Tempie DeHart and Nancy Fletcher; Sophomores — Edna Fuller and Doris Hahmeyer and Freshmen— Patricia Bass and Faye Millis. The May day program this year will be under the general supervision of Mrs. Nadine Stan hope assisted by Mrs. Winn Kelly who will have charge of the music. Five Scout Patrols To Compete for Trip To See Beavers Play Arrangements whereby the five Scout patrols of troop 201 will compete in the collection of waste paper were completed earlier this week after further discussion of the proposed col lection at Monday’s Lions club session. The club announced plans for the drive last week, but details of how the Scouts would carry out the collection were not completed then. Boys in the various patrols will pick up paper and place it at several depots and from the depots the salvage will be loaded for shipment to Portland. The Scout patrol making the largest collection will win a free trip to Portland to see the Bea vers play. All expenses for the trip will be paid by the Lions club. Scout patrols participating and the Scouts to call are: Tiger pa trol, Charles McAdam, Mist route, Pittsburg; Beaver patrol, Claude Gibson, Box 85, Mist route; Eagle patrol, Pat Lloyd, O-A hill; Wolf Patrol, Bruce Hoyt, Ver nonia and Panther patrol, David Strong, Mist route. People having waste paper to contribute to the drive are asked to have it sorted so that slick magazine paper is seperate from newspaper and also to have it tied. People having paper are asked to notify any one of the above boys so that the material may be collected. Annual Senior Banquet Dated The Senior class and faculty members of Vernonia high school will be entertained with a ban quet prepared and served by the American Legion Auxiliary on Thursday evening, April 27, at the Legion hall. Religious, fraternal and civic organizations have helped finan cially in making the affair pos sible. The class colors of blue and silver, the class flower a red rose will be the motif used in the decorations. Speech Contest Scheduled Fri. Scheduled to take place at the high school Friday evening is the annual speaking contest of the Knights of Pythias, an event that has been sponsored here for the past several years by the lodge. Announcement of the contest was made earlier this week by George Johnson who heads the Pythian committee in charge oi the affair. Mr. Johnson said he would attempt to have the dis trict elimination here also. Topic to be followed by partici pants this year is “Fifty Years Hence.” '49 Series to Be Film Topic Tues. A movie of the 1949 world series will be shown for the Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Odd Fellows and their friends next Tuesday at the I.O.O.F. hall ac cording to Jim Davies, Scout master. Sherman Fisher ar ranged for securing the film and will show it on his 16mm pro jector at 7 p.m. The picture is about an hour in length and the public is in vited to the showing. The Scouts of troop 201 will participate in a court of honor review Monday night of next week and also the names of boys wanting to go to Camp Merri weather will be taken. Commit teemen are requested to be pre sent to assist with the review. Club Members Name Delegate The Vernonia Townsend club will send a delegate to the na tional convention of the club when that event takes place at the end of May and the repre sentative from here will be Mrs. George Nichols. Decision con cerning the sending of a delegate to the affair was reached last Friday evening when club mem bers met at the IWA hall. The convention will take place at Denver, Colorado from May 29 to June 2. Two out-of-town Townsend club speakers were here last Fri day for ’.he meeting. They were Earl McDonald, state Townsend club manager, and Henry Menas- co, representative for the 11th I regional district. REUNITED after 50 years are Mr. and Mr». Bert Makinater, left, of 536 Weed avenue, and Mrs. Bertha Manry, right, now of San Diego. California. Mrs. Makinster is Mrs. Manry’s only living blood relative and the two had not seen each other since Mrs. Makinister left Blackwell. Oklahoma in September of 1699. Mr. and Mrs. Makinisier have made their home here for the past seven years and have spent all of the past 50 years in Oregon since leaving Oklahoma. Mrs. Manry has been here visiting since the Sth of this month and plans to remain until May 1. (VE Photo and Engraving) Carnival Date Set | | I I I Announced this week as sched- uled to take place on the evening of May 12 is a high school cami- val. Funds from the event will go to build up the athletic fund of the school. Commander THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950 Redevelopment of Airport May Be Possibility Here Because of a letter written a cil in May. After the curbing short time ago by Mayor Sam has been installed it will be Hearing, repairs and improve possible to pave the street to a ment of the Vernonia airport greater width and thereby in may become a reality. Result crease the parking area to re- of the letter so far was a response i lieve congestion. from the Oregon state board oi Councilmen also named the aeronautics that an engineer will budget committee and alternates be here this month to examine and gave their aproval to the the field and determine the purchase of several pieces of equipment for the fire depart cost of repairs. A drainage culvert across the ment after the need for the equipment was pointed out by center of the field has partially Chief Jim McCrory and Assis caved in and makes landing tant Chief Bob Curl. MRS. REATHA HORN hazardous. The reply from the state board stated: “This office has been interested for sometime in the redevelopment of the Vernonia airport as it does lie in a strate Census operations in this dis Volunteer workers are now gic flyway between Portland and trict are ahead of schedule, Ly busy in Columbia county for Astoria. man Ross, district supervisor, the 1950 fund raising campaign “It is felt that a site investiga states despite some areas in the for the American Cancer Society, tion and check of field conditions five-county district where roads according to Mrs. Reatha Horn, can be made sometime after the are still impassable. middle of April. Mr. Hill, our county commander. “Tn behalf of our staff and The drive in this area will be engineer, will contact you for a especially the census field creW3 handled by Mrs. Horn and edu joint inspection of the field and I want to thank the people of cational material will be dis a discussion of the possible use this district for their fine co tributed through students of the of city equipment and personnel operation and assistance in help Washington grade school. Plans for the more simple construction ing us maintain our schedule,” for the county campaign were required to repair the cross-run- Mr. Ross stated. worked out Thursday of last way damage. If the cost of this Most of the urban districts week when county and state repair is not reasonable, it may have been enumerated or wiU officials met at St. Helens. Mrs. be that funds from this office have been by the end of this Caesar Crosta will captain the may be used to cover the cost of week and the rural areas are drive in St. Helens, Mrs. Vern these repairs.” well underway. Editing and tabu Possibility of improving the lating of completed portfolios has Soley at Rainier and Mrs. James field was a topic of conversation begun in the district office in Bailie at Clatskanie. In the Nehalem valley, Mrs. at Monday evening’s council Astoria and some preliminary Marie Bellingham is the captain meeting when councilmen dis figures may be available in a for Birkenfeld and Miriam Corll cussed improvements needed. few weeks. Monday evening’s meeting also for Mist. As a whole, the five-county dis Officials of the society remind brought out the need for com trict comprising Clatsop, Colum pleting another step in the im people that 22 million Americans bia, Tillamook, Washington and now living will die of cancer if provement of Maple street, that Yamhill counties has been free present rates continue and that of constructing curbing. A call from any serious incidents as far everyone can actively fight in for bids for the work has been as enumerators are concerned, issued and bids will be examined two ways to control the disease: Ross stated. by memorizing cancer’s seven at the first meeting of the coun- He said one report had been danger signals, thereby helping received that an enumerator had check the disease in the early been bitted by a dog, one had curable stage and second by trouble questioning a mentally supporting the work of the Socie unbalanced person, and a few ty in the present campaign. "rugged individuals” w|re en countered. One reported having Bicycle-motor vehicle collisions the door slammed in her face killed three riders and injured and several had to walk a num 207 others in Oregon last year, ber of miles in muddy roads and most of them children, the state trails to enumerate the house traffic safety division has re hold. Many people here will remem ported. Records show that the majority ber Rev. Ernest P. Baker who served as pastor of the First of such accidents stem from the Christian church for a year re bicycle rider’s carelessness or* cently and will be interested to disregard for fundamental traf know that he and Mrs. Baker are fic rules, the division said. Ore now living at Litchfield, Illinois gon law requires bicyclists to At the Pomona Grange meet where he has assumed charge of observe the same traffic laws ing scheduled for May 6, ■ the the Union Avenue Christian as motor vehicle drivers, except winning exhibit of embroid -red those regulations which by their church. cotton lunch clothes and napkins That church lists 1200 mem very nature cannot apply. will be selected and th-’ Juvenile Despite the law, the division bers, a very nice building and Grange declamatory contest win emphasized that motorists must parsonage, he stated in a letter not expect children riding bi ner chosen according to an an received here a few days ago. cycles to display the same de nouncement by Pearl Becker, gree of judgement and responsi Grange correspondent. noth the winning exhibit and bility as adult automobile dri the contest winner will compete vers. "Expecting the unexpected,” it was pointed out, will help to at the state Grange convention offset a child bike rider’s un in June. The May 6 Pomona meeting predictability in traffic. will take place at Fern Hill Parents were urged to make The Girl Scouts of Vernonia Grange hall and at that time were very successful in their sure their children know and there will also be a flower, seed cookies sale recently. They sold follow these rules: and plant exchange for those 1. Keep bicycle to the far right a total of 648 boxes giving them interested. a profit of $110.16. This money of the street and ride with traf will be used to buy tools and fic. 2. Ride in a straight line with supplies used in the regular Girl Scout meetings and to operate a out weaving or stunting. 3. Ride single fils. Day Camp during the summer. 4. Do not carry passengers on The Girl Scouts that sold ten boxes of cookies or more were I bicycles. 5. Unless essential, do not ride treated to a free show by Mr. People who reside in the city and Mrs. Harold Dow. The whole at night. If you must, have a limits of Vernonia ar? required community responded generously good light and reflector. by ordinance to obtain a permit in the sale. to burn before burning trash, according to a warning sounded Attend Council Meeting a few days ago by city police. Bond Sale* Totaled I Three Vernonia students were Reminder of the city law, Total sales of E, F and G representatives of the high school which requires that a permit be bonds in Columbia county dur at the regional student council made out before burning is ing March is $43,346 with $38,606 meeting in Portland last Friday. started, was made because of the Making the trip from here were number of rubbish fir'•that have of this sum being in E bonds. Marvin Eby, Loren Mills and been started in recent weeks Figures on results of the bond Harold Crowston. Purpose of without proper authorization. sales was released Tuesday by Permits to burn may be ob Irving T. Rau, county bond sale the session was to elect delegates to the student council meeting. tained from city policemen. chairman. Census Workers Beat Schedule Cancer Drive Now Underway Bicycle Riders Ignore Traffic Baker Starts New Pastorate Pomona to Pick State Entries Girl Scouts Profit by Sale Bum Permits Are Required a.
