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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1951)
County Assessed Value Down; Millage Rates Up An indication of what proper ty owners may expect as far as taxes are concerned this year is •contained in a release of infor mation by L. W. Mickelson, Co lumbia county assessor, earlier this week. His report shows that assessed value is down while levies are up and also explains the reasons. School Field Work Underway The greater part of the grading work for shaping up the football field on the site of the new high school plant had been almost completed by the middle of this week because of the work, done over the Labor day week end. Work on the field is being con tinued to complete the grading this fall so that turf seeding can be done yet this year. Plans for the field were drawn by Coach Lee Panele and the engineering field work was com- p’eted last week by Glen Hawk ins and Merle Cline so that the equipment could go to work over the week end. Bulldozers were donated for the job by Carl Enneberg, Mist; John Serafin and Bud Atkins: graders by the Columbia Tree Farm and the county road district and the trucks for hauling by Cloice Hall, Glen Hawkins and Ralph McKee. Only cost to the district for shap ing up the field will be the fuel and lubricants used in the equip ment. The overall plan calls for the football field to lie east and west, the baseball diamond to lie north and south with the outfield being part of the football field and for a triangular track around both fields. Other work of removing fences end debris and staking has been done by numerous individuals including Bob Cline, Albert Ful ler and Donald Cook. The big need now to complete shaping up the field is heavy equipment so that the seed can be applied before winter. ‘'The total assessed valuation of the county this year is 815,887,- 050.00. a decrease of 8728,150.00 from last year. Utilities assessed by the state tax commission drop ped from $3,069,310 to $2,411,320. Of the decrease, $528,000 is ac counted for by loss of the Long view Bridge, and the balance by a decrease in state ratio from 48 per cent to 43 per cent. “The City of Vernonia consoli dated levy this year will be 136.2 mills as compared with last year’s 104.2. Your new high school building accounts for the in crease. Millage rates, except in a very few cases, are higher this year. This is due in large part to the fact that the state is not paying the 310.00 per child for the county school fund.” Season Tickets Placed on Sale Season arthletic tickets which will admit adults to all the local football and basketball games are on sale by the high school for $5.09. This ticket will cover four home football games for which the admission would be $1.00 per ticket and ten home basketball games at 50c per head. Savings to fans who buy a season ticket will amount to $4.00. At the present time two high school girls are s=lling the tickets. Those wishing these tickets are urged to contact either Alice Da vis or Leona Hoehn r. Warne Empev. high school principal, said Wednesday of this week that several more students will also participate in the distribution of tickets. The first football game for which the ticket can be used is with the Forest Grove Vikings on Sept;mber 14 at 8 o’clock on the local field. Coach Pangle had a turnout Tuesday night of this week of 28 men. The ending of the state fair and students not yet registered for other reasons should swell the ranks to ap proximately 40. Bank Redecorated Teacher Hired For Vacancy The one vacancy on the teach ing staff of the grade school was filled after last week’s listing of the instructors who will serve for the coming year. Paul Gordon, superintendent, announced Tues day that Miss Joanne Grabel had been hired as a first grade teacher. Miss Grabel holds a Bachelor's degree from Marylhurst college. The interior of the bank build ing was redecorated during the Labor day week end, George A. Remnant, manager, pointed out Tuesday. The work was done by C. J. Schaumberg. Meetings to Start Meetings for Lions club m-ru bers will resume next Monday evening at 7 o'clock at the Pa’ace cafe. Announcement of the time and place was made Tuesday by Cecil Johnson who is the new president of the organization. Registration At Opening of School Varies Grades Decrease on Opening Dav from Last Year Figures Registration figures for Ver nonia high showed an increase of one student Tuesday over last year while the grade schools were down considerably from the 1950 opening. At the high school, the first day registration totaled 198 students, one more than the opening a year ago and again the freshman class was the largest. Enrollment by classes there was: seniors, 35; juniors, 47; sophomores, 49 and freshmen, 67. As has been the case in previous years, the en- rollm.nt is expected to increase as soon as students at the state fair and at work return. Top enrollment at the high school was 203 last year and it is expected that that figure will be topped this year. In the grades the situation was different Tuesday. For the open ing day the total was 471 stu dents, considerably under last year’s figure of 528, which in it self was below the 1949 first day student enrollment of 548. A large part of the loss was attributed by S u p e r i n tendent Paul Gordon to a decrease in the rural areas. However, as in the high school, an incr; ase is ex pected during the year. Children who patronized the cafeteria Wednesday totaled 280, considerably more than the first day the lunch room opened last year and there, again, an in crease is expected as the year progresses. Shriners Back Drive for Paper People who have old news papers and magazines stored can turn them in to a good cause by making them available for the Shrine paper drive which is being conducted this week. The campaign to collect old paper here is being conducted under the supervision of Guy Thomas and William Bridgers who have made arrangements for it to be taken to Portland Sun day. However, people who have paper are asked to bring it to the Vernonia Trading company before that day so that it may be shipped Sunday. Funds earned from the paper will be turned over to the Shrine hospital for crippled children. Railroad Car Burns First Cement Poured at Pool THE FIRST cement went info the park swimming pool retaining wall Tuesday when the base for the wall was poured. Contract for the work was let last month by the city council to the H. and R. Con struction company of Beaverton, low bidder for the job of construct ing the retaining wall and wading pool. Walter Kent and H. H. King stand on the bank at left watchmg the work. City Asks Bids On New Truck Bids on the price of a new pick-up truck for ths city water department will be opened at the council rtieeting of Sept ember 17 as the result of action Monday evening when a call for bids was authorized. Specifications upon which the bid must be based appear else where in this issue of The Eagle and also call for turning in the truck now in use as part of the purchase. Councilmen gave their approv al to a request for transfer of tavern license to the* Schneibel brothers who are purchasing Lew’s Place from their father. Part of the evening was turned over to a discussion of the pro bable cost of applying stucco to the exterior of the bank building. Repairs to the exterior of the building will be necessary soon to replace mortar which is loosen ing between the bricks. Nine Receive Report Orders Nine county men have received orders to report for induction into the armed forces by the county selective service board, four of them on September 19 and five on October 17. Scheduled to report this month are: Robert Donald Potts, Scap poose; Raymond Martin Sasse, Vernonia; Joseph Anthony Tem- pelis, Clatskanie and George Lee Brown, St. Helens. On October 17 the five who will Lave are: Kenneth B. Lipid, Homer Harold Wainwright and Herman Wm. Frey tag, Jr., all of St. Helens; Alden Gene Palm- quist, Scappoose and Harry De Witt Miller, Clatskanie. Signatures for Crusade Wanted I CITY firemen were called into action last Friday morning when an alarm sounded for the burning railroad car above. The car was used as sleeping quarters for part of the S.P.kS. track gang working on the lina between here and Manning. Cause of the blaze was indefinite, but was thought io be either from a cigarette or fire in the stove. Railroad officials complimented firemen on the job they did in preventing spread of the fire to any of the other 18 cars on the siding of which this ear was in the middle. It was separated from the other cars by an O-A locomotive called from the mill. The track crew is rebuilding the line between here and Manning to make a 40 mile per hour track when completed. (Vernonia Eagle Photo) Arrangements whereby signa tures may be affixed to the Free dom Scrolls for the current Cru- sada for Freedom campaign were told earlier this week by Glen Hawkins, who is acting chairman here for the affair. The signature of every local person is asked for the Scrolls which will be placed on display in several public places. Also to be displayed with the Scrolls will be bell containers to receive the contributions of anyone who cares to assist financially with the operation of Radio Free Europe. Bid on Nehalem Bridge Awarded The state highway commission has awarded the bid for construc tion of a three-span reinforced concrete viaduct 260 feet long over the Nehalem river about 2.8 miles easterly of Birkenfeld. Low price for the work was submitted by Snook Brothers, Corvallis in the amount of $72,- 418.50 according to an announce, ment made by the commission August 22, the day after the bid was received. The new bridge will replace the old Banzer bridge and will lie about 120 feet south of the old bridge on improved alignment. Start of Band Planned at High School Parents, Students Asked to Meeting Tuesday Evening The start of a new class at Vernonia high school is being planned for this year and word of the new undertaking was re leased a few days ago by Lilias Peterson, high school instructor who will serve as band director. The new class in band instruc tion is expected to be of interest to many of the students who have not had the opportunity to par ticipate in band work here for quite a few years. It is also an opportunity for parents to pro vide their children with an ap preciation for music which they may enjoy later as well as to become active in a group which will bring recognition and honor to the school. Students interested in becom ing band members need not hesi tate if they have no musical background. Band work will start at the very beginning and progress will be made as rapidly as possible. Students will be sur prised at how quickly they will be able to play. A meeting will be held at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening, Septem ber Il at which time all parents and students will receive com plete and detailed information about the program and instru ments. Arrangements have been made with an Oregon music company so that students who do not have instruments may select them from new and used ones. A trial rental plan is being offered so that parents will have a chance to make sure of progress before purchasing any instrument. The meeting next Tuesday is open to all the students and par ents who are interested in getting a good band program started in the high school. i Bowling to Start Bowling fans will be able to i start the season’s pin activity Fri day, according to Dessy Laird who said Tuesday that the alleys New Home Occupied Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Mills com would be open that day. At the same time he asked that boys pleted moving this week into interested in setting pins be sure their new home located on the to see him within the next few baseline highway at Cornelius. They purchased the R. L. Piper days. acreage. The Millses have been commuting the past month to Corn Feed Planned and from their new business, the Legion post members are plan, Mills Hardware, formerly Hillis ning for the annual com feed Hardware, of Cornelius. The store again this year and the event is was purchased from Percy and scheduled to take place at the Gene Hillis who had owned and hall Saturday night of this week. operated it for ten years. Columbia Farm Crew to Process C-Z Seed Cones Crown Zellerbach Chief Forest er, Clarence W. Richen, stated Saturday that the annual forest cone harvest is now in full swing. Crews under the direc tion of company foresters are in the woods gathering cones from Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock, Grand Fir, Noble Fir, Sitka Spruce and Western Red cedar trees on several tree farms in the Columbia River District. Cones collected on all of the company’s tree farms will be dried and the seed extracted and cleaned by crews of the local Columbia Tree Farm. This seed processing activity has, during the past two winters, supplied slack-season employment to a portion of the tree farm crew during two winter months. The company objective is to secure between three and four thousand pounds (500-600 million viable seeds) of selected, high quality seed for storing in the "seed bank” at freezing tempera tures. At this time the company seed bank contains less than a ton of forest seed, which is an inade quate amount for even one sea- son’s reforestation effort. Plans call for helicopter reforestation work on between two to three thousand acres before the first of the year, and for early fall plant ing of some 290,000 two-year-old Noble Fir trbes at high elevations on the Clackamas Tree Farm, and for a total of one million trees in the ground before the rainy season is over next spring, on tree farms in Tillamook, Clat sop and Columbia counties in Oregon and Cowlitz, Wahkiakum and Pacific counties in Washing ton. The corporation has some ltfe million tree seedlings now grow ing in the Forest Industries tree nursery at Nisqually, Washing ton. These trees are from seed collected on company tree farms and will be sent back for plant ing in the areas from where they originated. In this way, superior trees adapted to soil and climate of specific areas are used for planting and aerial seeding. The cone harvest now under way is a vital step in the corpora tion's forestry program aimed at perpetual forest growth and in keeping their Tree Farm slogan, “Trees Forever.”
