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Library, U of 0 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 25 Jalopy Race Fans See Jack Gates Win Sunday Event at County Fairgrounds Jack Gatss, Vernonia, cap- i Third and fourth places went to tured the featured Class A main H. Pellham and Clyde Lamping. In addition to winning the fea event Sunday in the second of a tured race, Gates also won the series of jalopy races scheduled trophy in the helmet dash with a during the summer at the coun time of 1:48.5, in addition to win ty fairgrounds by the St. Helens ning the first heat race with the Junior Chamber ol Commerce. At the finish of the 35-lap event he led by three-quarters of a lap over Walt Waldron who placed second. Waldron’s second place win came over Paul Brasmer and Behind the three-hit pitching Dick McNair, who finished in that order. Several spills pro of Fisher, Forest Grove d?f ated vid'd extra thrills for the 1500 Vernonia 8 to 5 last Sunday when or more fans who saw the races. the locals traveled to the Wash Gat A raced for Chuck DuBois, ington county town for another contest in the Tualatin Valley St. Helens. The 15-lap Class B event was league schedule. It was a no-no game up until won by Frank Walborn and second went to Jack Lehman. the fifth frame when Vernonia broke the ice. Hunt tripled over the left fielder’s h:ad and scored on a wild pitch. Forest Grove came back in the last half of the sixth with six runs on two hits and five Vernonia errors. The Grove nine scored two Columbia county taxes for the 1951-1952 fiscal year will be in more runs in the eighth on a creased about two per cent over walk, a hit and two more Ver the current year, according to nonia errors. However, Ver recommendations of the county nonia came nearer to evening budget committee, made public the score in the ninth with four last week. This will mean ap runs on two walks and two hits. proximately .4 mill on taxable Langford pitched five-hit ball for the losers, but seven errors property. The general fund tax levy as were too much to overcome. Next on the sch;dul° for the recommended will be $163,981.90 and the road levy $167,272.87 Nehalem valley team will be Cor for an increase of $6,495.20 over nelius, which team will make the trip here for Sunday, June 24. the 1950 budget. R HE Included in the above is an 8 5 4 item of $62,860 the $10 per capita Forest Grove 5 3 7 elementary school fund item V.rnonia which has been assumed by the Batteries: Fisher and Nosac; Langford and Byers. state for the past two years. Estimated expenditures for the coming fiscal year are listed at $326,217.60 for the county general f«nd and $325,546.56 for the gen eral road fund. City roads will take $27,740.05. Estimated receipts outside of The Vernonia Junior Legion taxes, for the county general fund are $191,742.74 and for the team won one and lost one in road fund, $188,382.55. their last two games, the first The budget committee recom with St. Helens here last Sunday mended a 10 per cent increase in and the second with Rainier there the salaries of all clerks and dep uties in the county offices and a Tuesday. In the former, the Saints tal $300 increase for the office of agricultural ag nt and $100 in lied five runs as compared with ’ creases for the offices of both Vernonia’s 12. In the second the home demonstrator and 4H game, played Tuesday at Rai club leader. The hearing on the proposed i nier, the story was different. Rai budget will be held July 9 at the nier crossed the plate eight times to the locals three. courthouse in St. Helens. Clatskanie is scheduled here Members of the budget com mittee are J. C. Moran. C. R. this coming Sunday at 1:30 on Evenson and Walter Erickson the grade school diamond. and the members of the county court. Grove Captures Sunday Game 2% Tax Raise in County Expected Juniors Split 2 Game Scores day’s best time of 2:59.5. Top time in the time trials went to Paul Cade with 34.3, three- tenths off the record set two weeks ago by Oscar Roth. Close behind Cade in the time trials was Walt Waldron with 34.5, Gates with 34.7 and Oscar Roth with 36.0. The second heat race was won by Dick McNair, who raced for Caton’s Automotive Service, Ver nonia with a time of 3:06.4. The condition of the track Sun day was greatly improved by the application of diesel and crude oil to hold dust to a minimum. The next racing date will be two weeks from Sunday on July 1. Legion Poppys Bring in $135 The recent sale of poppys by members of the Am rican Legion Auxiliary brought a gross amount of $135, according to an an nouncement earlier this week by Mrs. H. H. King. A total of 1259 ponpys were sold and cost the Auxi'iary $31.25. Half of th? remaining amount of money has be.n sent to the state department for rehabilita tion and child welfare work ex penses. The local unit will have $45.87 to us? for rehabilitation and child welfare work. In addition, ten cents per capi ta in the local unit was sent to a “Dimes for Disabled” fund. Building Front Being Improved The exterior of the building in which Hawken Motors is lo cated is being improved this week with painting of the wood work, the job being done by Bill Shafer. Other plans for improvement call for changing the name on th? neon sign from that of the former owner of the business to Hawken Motors and redecorat ing of the show room. REPORT ALL FIRES I I’ KEEP OR l CO^GREEN Park Pool to Be Ready by End of Week In the Service The summer swimming season will open officially as%far as the city park pool is concerned, by the end of this week when the dam across Rock creek is sched uled for placing. An order that will bring about the pool was issued Monday evening by city councilmen. At Monday evenings session the council also arranged for a guard to be at the pool during the swim ming period by accepting the ap plication of Mrs. Paul Dyer for the job. She will begin work as soon as the pool is ready, but will be on duty only during a part of each day. The hours will be posted at the pool so swimmers, especially youngsters, can know when the protection is available. A provision whereby men who are signed with the civil defense po’ice force may receive first aid training was given council approval Monday. An instruc tor will come out from Portland to give first aid lessons and the council agreed to reimburse him for traveling expenses in order to make the training available for policemen. The civil defense police force has been organized under the direction of Marshal J A. D. Lolley, who asked the council’s approval in paying the expenses incurred. Not only will th? next council meeting be the time of the bud get hearing, but bids will be opened that night for construc- ! tion of the filter tank at the pumping plant. Bids for th? work were asked for in a notice which appeared in the Daily Journal of Com merce. Portland, with the opening scheduled July 2. Girls Go to State Th? three girls chosen to at tend Girl’s State at Salem this year are Margaret Michener, Alice Davis and Mary Tapp. They left Monday for the ses sions which started June 18 and will continue through Saturday. Th? girls from here attending this event, which is held each year, are sponsored by the Legion Auxiliary. Water Minimum Amount Raised Double the amount of water regularly allowed as the mini mum for city consumers will be available for this month and the ■following three months, they are reminded this week. The change in minimum amount comes about through a procedure which has been in force for several years whereby city water users may consume cOOO gallons of water per month instead of 4000 and not exceed the minimum charge of $3.25. The increased amount for the minimum charge will be available during the months of June, July, August and September. One of. the largesj turnouts of voters in many years appeared to express an opinion Monday evening at th? annual meeting of district 47 when the question of filling a vacancy on the board of directors was th? big question of the session. Only one nomination for the post, T. F. Keasey, was made previous to the balloting and he received the unanimous backing of the 183 votes cast. Two other questions to be settled Monday were also given a favorable vot?. A total of 151 ballots favored exceeding the six per cent limitation on taxes and far outnumbered the 12 votes which objected to exceeding the limit. Likewise, by far the greatest number of votes favored giving the board of directors permission to sell an acre of property for merly belonging to district 27. Opinions on this subject totaled 169 in favor and five against. Mr. Keasey’s position on the board will be for a term of three years. Following the election, mem bers of the board and Superin tendent Paul A. Gordon, expres sed their appreciation for the vote of confidence which was evi denced by the large turnout of .voters. v 4 PVT JACK MAY, above and SA Dick May, below, frothers, are both serving with the armed forces. Jack is with the Third division seeing action in Korea. He trained at Camp Pickett, Virginia. Dick is stationed on a destroyer at Long Beach, Cali fornia. He entered the navy in October last year and has receiv ed three months training in journalism school at Great Lakes, Illinois. The boys are brothers of Mrs. Charles Minger and Mrs. Arnold Counts and made their home here before entering the service. Election Slated By High School The electors of union high district 1 will decide two ques tions at the annual school meet ing scheduled next Monday and the meeting will be conducted rom 2 to 8 p.m. daylight saving time. Th? reminder of the meeting time was given earlier this week so voters would not be confused as to the hours of the meeting. The balloting will call for the naming of a director to serve a five-year term and the name to appear on the ballot will be Harry Sandon. Voters will also be asked to decide the question of exceeding the six per cent limit. Son Home from Stay in Korea G. W. Biddle, FC3 c, has re turned from Korea, arriving here Monday after spending H months there and has been transferred from the U.S.S. Comstock upon which h? was formerly stationed. He is scheduled to report to San Diego July 3 and will take additional schooling. Biddle is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Biddle, Sr., who re side on Timber route. Group Adds New Bank THIS was the J. O. Libel sior< at M>st some 35 year i «go. Mr. Libel can be seen standing on the porch between the leader and the pole team of horses. Austin Dowling, driver of the rig stands by the scat and Bernard Dow.ing ii cn the s;de of the wagon. Two trips a week and sometimes more were made to haul freight from the boat "Steamer Beaver" at Clatikanie. Then there were those days when a load of supplies, feed, machines/, etc., had to be taken to cveral ranchers. The work took long hours and the pay was small but steak wasn’t a dollar a pound ei her. This photo was subnrtted for publication by two valley residents. County Commissioner Clyde H idzrson and Mrs. Austin Dowling. District 47 Director for Year Chosen Voting Monday Give« Three-Year Post on Board to T. F. Keasey Guard Hired by Councilmen at Monday Meeting Haulin j Freight 35 Years Ago The Commercial Bank of Til lamook held open house at its new Cloverdale Branch Satur day, June 16, after which dinner was served at th? Naval Air Barracks at Tillamook. This event was attended by Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Remnant of the Vernonia Branch, Commercial Bank of Oregon. The opening of this new branch brings to ten. the num ber of banks in the Commercial group. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1951 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON KEEP < OREGON GREEK'* Red Cross Board To Name Officers The annual meeting of the Co lumbia County Chapter of the Red Cross is scheduled at St. Helens June 25 at 8 o'clock, ac cording to an announcement by Betty Simeral, executive-secre tary of the board. The election of new board members will take place at the meeting. Two speakers are scheduled to be heard that evening, one of them a World War II and Korean veteran now recovering from wounds in Korea and the other the civil defense coordinator from Portland. The former is Lt. Donald Burr and th? latter Fred Weisenheimer. The election will choose board members from names suggested by the nominating committee and from nominations from the floor, if any. The receipt received by donors to the Red Cross during the March campaign entitles them membership and a voice at the meeting. Cutting of Grass Required by Law City residents are notified this week of a job they are required to do in accordance with a city ordinance. The job is th? cutting of grass where it has grown excessively tall as well as any other noxious vegetation. The requirement is explained fully in city ordinance number 163 which explains that the grass and vegetation must not only be cut and removed from the pro perty, but also from the half of the strreet abutting the property. The offiical notice concerning the regu'ation appears on page six of this issue of The Eagle. Cub Pack to Meet The attention of the Cub Scouts is asked, in that they are to attend a pack meeting sched uled for the city park Tuesday of ] next week, June 26. A wiener and marshmellow .roast is plan ned that evening. -The meeting will start at T:30. *