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Library, U of 0 ■ VOLUME 29, NUMBER 10 Workmen for Drive Start RC Campaign Safety Award Presented Preparation for Work Nearly Done At Wednesday Meet è Preparation for this year’s Red Cross campaign was nearly com pleted Wednesday evening of Iasi week when volunteers met at the West Oregon Electric office to select workers who will ask gifts from people in various areas of the valley. General chairman for the entire valley this year is George A. Remnant and work ing with him in preparing for the drive is Guy Thomas, coun ty chapter chairman. A quota of $1500 has been es tablished for the valley includ ing Birkenfeld, Mist, Vernonia and to the Washington county line. IWA Local 5-37 and the Oregon-American Lumber corp oration are cooperating in ar ranging for gifts the workmen rr«3ke to the campaign. Official start of the drive was March 1 and it is scheduled to end March 15. Volunteers Assigned Workers who will ask Red Cross help and the areas they will cover are Mrs. Guy Bellingham and Mrs. Lawrence Jepson, Bir kenfeld; Mrs. Robert Mathews, Mist; Glen Hawkins, Riverview and Stoney Point; Vernonia busi ness district George Hahn and Kent Bauersfeld; Vernonia resi dential area, Mrs. Guy Thomas, Mrs. Gerry Rickie, Mrs. Charles Wall, Mrs. Harry Culbertson, Mrs. Ben Brickel and Mrs. Marvin Kamholz; and Treharne, Mrs. Mary Dripps. Mr. Remnant indicated that letters asking support of the campaign would go to granges, lodges, associations and other or ganizations in the effort to achieve the quota. Further evidence of the need is indicated by the work that the Red Cross has been asked to do, first for the civil defense effort and then in the fields of nurs ing. providing blood and plasma^ and in helping veterans. Program Efficient The Red Cross has been asked to train 20,000,000 persons in first aid, offer home nursing in struction to 1,000,000, train more than 100,000 nurse’s aids and help prepare for emergency feed ing, clothing and shelter by civil defense authorities. From the standpoint of the blood program, whole blood and plasma flown across the Pacific directly to combat fronts in Korea have helped save the lives of thousands of wounded service men. So far the blood program has worked so efficiently that not one bottle has been wasted by being outdated. Trained Red Cross workers no* * only help in veterans’ hospitals and in claims work in VA of fices, but in the veterans' home communities as well. Last year Red Cross workers assisted in an average of 138,300 cases and ser vice requests from veterans and their dependents each month. Financial assistance from the Red i Cross totaled $2,814,300. State Tax Men Schedule Visits * THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1951 VERNONIA, COLOMBIA COUNTY, OREGON Summer Street Work Topic Of Council Fall of Snow To Wednesday Totals 41 In. Police Work with Juveniles Draws Favorable Comment Ground Depth on Tuesday Morning Placed at 19 In. PAUL E. GURSKE, chairman of the state industrial accident commis sion. right, presented the governor's safety award io Glen Hawkins, left. Friday night at the Columbia Tree Farm safety achievement din ner. Mr. Gurske complimented Tree Farm employees on their ac complishment of preventing a lost time accident during the two years from March. 1949 to March. 1951. indicating the achievement was unheard of before in the logging industry. This winter’s snowfall, oi spring snowfall, whichever most appropriately describes the late season storm, had reached a total of 41 inches up to 12 o’clock noon Wednesday. Official measure ments have been taken regularly by Mrs. Helen Spofford, co operative observer, and that is the total she has recorded since the first flakes came down Iasi Thursday. On the ground the depth stood at 19 inches Tuesday morning, that measurement indicating the d=pth after -the snow had packed and after some melting had taken place. Sidewalk and road clearing came into vogue as soon as the snow depth began to go up and has been a daily task so far dur ing the week. Moisture content of the 41 inches of fall amounted to 2.24 inches of water. Mrs. Spofford’s weather report for the month of February listed the minimum temperature at 21 degrees on February 27. The maximum reading was 58 degrees on February 9. During that month total precipitation amounted to 7.23 inches. Service Pins Awarded 16 Boys Receive Badge Awards TWO five-year service pins were presented to Columbia Tree Farm employees last Friday night at the safety achievement dinner by E. P. Stamm, general logging manager of Crown Zellerbach corporation. Standing from left is Gordon Collard. Merle Cline and Mr. Stamm. The dinner, prepared by the Nehalem Social club, was served by Rainbow Girls to over 125 people who heard W. D. Walsh. CZ direc tor ot public relations, San Francisco, outline the complicated pro cedure of tree farming in supplying the raw product needed for paper making. (VE Photos and Engravings) Stealhead Derby Ends Sunday Sunday, March 11 is the final date of the V.F.W. steelhead derby and so far since the start a fish caught last Sunday by Andy Brimmer tops the list of catches at 18 pounds, four ounces. He made the catch in the Sal monberry. For last week, the largest catch was weighed in by Earl King at 10 pounds, eight ounces. Steel head were also weighed in by Wilfred Holce and Brimmer, the former eight pounds, two ounces and the latter at seven pounds, 12 ounces. All of last week's catches were made in the Nehalem. Ceremony Read At Chapel Sat. Road Crew Men Work Long Hours The men employed in the val- Final rites were performed for Margaret Matilda Brown at the i ley on the road district crew Representatives of the state Bush chapel Saturday, March 3 have worked long hours in plow tax commission will pay visits following her death here Feb ing snow, according to word Wed to two places in Columbia coun ruary 28. Commitment was at nesday morning that indicated ty during this month to give aid to those people who wish it in Forest View cemetery at Forest they operated equipment almost preparing their state income tax Grove following the services 24 continuous hours at one time earlier this week. returns. here. Tax assistance will be available Mrs. Brown was bom March 22. The workmen, under the direc- at Rainier at the city hall March 1869 at Amro, Wisconsin and tiqp of Ben Smith, road foreman 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and at passed away at the age of 81 St. Helens March 13 and 14 at years, 11 months and 6 days. for this district, began plowing the court house from 9 a.m. to Surviving are: a daughter, Mar about nine o’clock Sunday night, 4 p.m. both days. garet Walrath; a son, Roscoe worked all that night and all day The same help can be obtained . Brown of Madison, Wisconsin; Monday in order to have school at the Forest Grove city hall one brother, Thomas Peacock of bus roads open for traffic. The March 15 and 16 and the Hills Longpine. Nebraska; two grand equipment used includes a grader boro court house March 19 to 23 children and six great grand and two trucks equipped with inclusive. children. plows. Sixteen scouts of Vernonia scout troop 201 were awarded merit badges or rank advance ments last Thursday evening at the district court of honor at the Washington school. In addition, scouts from two troops in Forest Grove also received awards. Merit badges earned totaled 25 for the 16 boys and six Yank advancements as well were made exclusive of the Eagle Scout award which went to Earl Ray. The boys and the merit badges each received were: Chet Ray, civics, bookbinding, safety; Kenneth Nanson, scholar ship, firemanship, public health; David Strong, plumbing, aero nautics, airplane structure; Ken neth Parker, parthfinding, angl ing, marksmanship; Kenneth Ja cobs, bookbinding, reading; Roy Miner, reading, bookbinding; James (Pat) Lloyd, civics; Rich ard K6rns, safety, wood carving; Pete Norris, animal industry, reading, fingerprinting; Earl Ray animal industry, plumbing, elec tricity. Rank advancement went to: Donald Cook, 2nd to 1st class; Bob Fulton, second to 1st class; Bob Carson, tenderfoot to 2nd class; J. Taylor, tenderfoot to 2nd class; Pat O’Brien, 2nd to 1st class. David Strong received his life badge which he had earned in 1949 but which hud not been awarded due to an oversight of ! the scout committee. I Boys from troops 213 and 238, both at Forest Grove, also re- I ceived awards at the court. Two boys from the first troop were given one merit badge each and six from the second were awarded 10 badges. Town Baseball Club to Be Topic Whether to or whether not to attempt the organization of a town baseball te<m will be the topic of a meeting that has been called for Friday night of this week. Announcement of the meeting was made and at the same time a request was issued that people interested in the possibility be sure to be pr sent and express their opinions. The meeting is scheduled at 6:30 p.m.. Legion hall, March 9. EARL RAY, son'of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ray, was awarded the Eagle badge of scouting last Thursday evening at the distrct scourt court of honor at the Washington school. The pre sentation was made by his mother at the ceremony attended by about 200 people. He became a scout in March. 1948 and since that time has participated in paper drives, attended Camp Mer riweather twice and been ad vanced to patrol leader and then io senior patrol leader. He par ticipated in the merit badge show in 1950. Merit badges and rank advancements were also awarded at the court to members of the Vernonia troop and two troops from Forest Grove. The awards and the boys who received them are mentioned in a news story elsewhere in this issue of The Eagle. (VE Photo-Engraving) Attendance at Meeting Zero Attendance at the recreation leader training meeting scheduled at the Washington school Tuesday evening drew a blank as far as local people were concerned, ac cording to a report Wednesday morning. The meeting had been called so that instruction could be given on party games ror older youth and adults. Present to give the instruction were Miss Jessalee Mallalieu, recreation specialist from Oregon State college, and Miss Frances L. Gallatin, county extension agent in home econom ics. Two delegates from extension units active in this area were ill and unable to be present and delegates from other groups did not put in an appearance. Preparation for the work of graveling and paving city streets during the coming year was started Monday night by city councilmen when they ordered City Recorder Sam Hearing to place an order for gravel from the crusher being set up on the Apiary road so that the material would be on hand when it, becomes possible to do the work. Ccuncilmen discussed the cost of the gravel and looked into the possibility of having enough money to pay for it. The money is available from the special high way fund and road district 16 and after that purchase is made the money remaining along with a turnover expected soon from the county treasurer will provide enough for summer paving work. Street Work Planned The streets in several parts of town will get attention, some of the work being repairs to streets already improved and some being new paving. A new procedure being fol lowed by city police has been successful in dealing with juve niles when they have been ap prehended on minor charges. The police have ordered the youngsters to report to their parents the reason why they were apprehended and tell their par ents to write back to the police that they have been so informed. Two such letters were read to councilmen who were favorably impressed with the procedure. In neither case were the boys local residents. Police started the pro cedure to be sure parents are in formed of the actions of their youngsters. Dogs Bring Complaints Several complaints of dogs run ning at large and creating a nui sance have been heard by coun cilmen and that topic was heard at the meeting. A city ordinance applying to dogs was read, but the council learned the difficulty of enforcing the regulation be cause the city has no pound. They were informed of regulations that must be abided by should dogs be impounded and the dif ficulty ended the discussion. The final action of the evening was a favorable vote that writes off $692.84 of delinquent water bills. The delinquent accounts are those of people who have moved to another locality or have died. The move was recom mended by the auditor who re cently examined city books. Board Talks Loans The making of small loans was the principal topic of dis cussion Friday evening when the board of directors of the Ver nonia Federal Credit Union met. Funds to make the loans are available, the board indicated, for people who need assistance. Licenses Obtainable A drivers license examiner will be in Vernonia Friday, March 16 at the city hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Persons wishing licenses or permits to drive arg asked to get in touch with the examiner that day. Rainier, Scappoose Win Logger Tourney Games The Vernonia Loggers dropped out of the district 14 basketball tournament Saturday night when they met their second def-'at at the hands of Scappoose after leading the Indians all the way to the final minute. The tourna ment is a double elimination af fair that requires a team to lose two games before dropping out of competition. The Loggers, played their first fray Thursday night against Rai nier and lost that encounter 61- 48. Their second game came Saturday night and the final spurt of the Indians gave them the lead in the 50-46 final score. Both Rainier and St. Helens were undefeated up to Tuesday night and were to play in the final action of the evening while Scapoose and Clatskanie met in the first game. The Loggers held a six-point lead over Scappoose Saturday with three minutes left, but were unable to check the Indian's drive to win. The fatal last three minutes resulted when two Log gers left the court on fouls. Mills went out at three minutes and Crowston with two left, but they accounted for 12 points apiece for top individual scoring honors along with Patterson of Scap poose. Halftime score stood at 30 for Vernonia and 27 for Scap poose. -r
