Vernonia eagle., October 11, 1951, Image 1

Library, U of O
VOLUME 29, NUMBER 41
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1»51
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTV, OREGON
Line Drive Play IVins Game
Third League
Try Nets Win
For Loggers
Loggers Show Great
Defensive Play Against
Tigers Friday Evening
ON THIS Logger play Lee Faulk plowed throug i the center of the line for Vernonia's only tally
last Friday night against Clatskan'e. The try f r point immediately following the TD was suc­
cessful, again with Faulk performing. That po -it won the game for the Loggers.
50 Farms in Co-op Area
Lack Electrical Service
In the annual estimate of the panized in 1944, 422 miles of
number of farms in th? nation power lines are serving 2129
without electrical service, as com­ cmsumer-membTS, according to
piled by the U.S. department of Manager Guy Thomas. However,
agriculture, is listed the figure of ’he--' stil' remains somn 50 farm
16 per cent. The report, dated families to be connected to co­
October 3, shows Oregon as stand­ operative lines as soon as ma­
ing high on the list of states as terials and power supply permit.
far as the number of electrified
For the state, the department
farms in concerned.
of agriculture report lists the
Records of West Oregon Elec­ number of farms as 59,826 of
tric Cooperative also indicate which 54,909 were electrified on
that the percentage of electrifica­ June 30 of this year. As of that
tion is high in the area served date 4,917 remained without
by th? organization. Ths co­ power service.
operative has brought electrical
Michigan has the highest per­
service to almost 50 per cent of centage of electrified farms with
the rural dwellings in its area. I 97.6 per cent and is followed by
The other 50 per cent, located in Iowa with 95.8. At the bottom
d-nsely populated areas, is being of the list are New Mexico with
served by other utilities.
| 60.5 per cent and Nevada with
Since the cooperative was or- 61.3 per cent.
Millis Runs 90 Yards
Death Claims 3
Former Residents
Last Friday evening the Ver­
nonia Loggers traveled to Clats­
kanie to play their third Lower
Columbia league game of the
season. Th? game was a slow
affair, plagued by penalties,
which ended up 7-6 in favor of
the local lads.
The Loggers scored within four
minutes of the starting gun as a
Tiger pass was intercepted on
their 40. Loren Mills skirted end
to the 20-yard stripe on the next
play. A pass from Mills to
Faulk was good and on the next
play the Loggers traveled down
to the one-yard line with Mills
again toting the ball. Lee Faulk
carried over for the Loggers’ one
and only TD and also made that
all-important point, which won
the game for the Loggers.
Tigers Score from 35
Clatskanie’s score came in the
second quarter when a Vernonia
Death due to a heart attack re­
gamble didn’t pay off on fourth
sulted last Thursday, October 4,
down which gave the ball to the
for Vina Hicks, a former Ver­
Tigers on the Logger 35. The
nonia resident and employee in
Tigers, taking advantage of this
the Oregon-American Lumber
break, drove the ball over in five
corporation office. The funeral
plays for their TD. The try for
took place Saturday.
point failed.
Mrs. Hicks had been an em­
Second half play of this game
ployee of the O-A for 10 years was very even with the Tigers
previous to retiring about five having the edge on offense and
years ago.
racking up a total of five first
Alton B. Lee, 47, former Ver­ downs compared to the Logger’s
nonia resident, passed away as three. Total first downs for
the result of a traffic accident Vernonia was eight with the
near his home at Cloverdale, Tigers netting 12.
California October 1. The family
The Loggers played a wonder­
moved to Longview from here ful defensive game, holding the
and services were held there. opponents on three drives within
Surviving are: his wife, Irene; I their own 10-yard line. Perhaps
mother, Mrs. Mary Lee; four the greatest goal line stand spec­
daughters and one son.
tators have witnessed for some
Word received here a f.?w days time took place when the Tigers
ago informed relatives of the drove to th? Vernonia three-yard
death of Robert Roediger Of marker early in the, fourth period
Phillips, Texas, former resident with a first in 10. Four times
of Vernonia who left here about the Tigers tried to dent the local
1929. He was the brother of line and four times thev were
Mrs. Marie Frazee and E. G. shoved back with the Loggers
Roediger. The death took place finally taking over on their own
October 4.
four.
Clatskanie Defense Good
New School Bus
Placed on Run
Students from the Mist area
'■•ho com? to Vernonia on the bus
driven by Austin Corll enjoyed
their first ride Monday morning
in the new bus he placed in ser­
vice that day to replace the bus
formerly used on that route.
Mr. and Mrs. Corll drove east
recently to take delivery of the
vehicle in Illinois and arrived
back here with it the last of last
week.
The new bus has caoacitv for
60 persons which will adequately
handle the run from Mist. The
load varies between 40 and 60
Mr. Corll said.
Chest Drive to
Open Here Soon
Gerald Millis, star Logger back­
fir'd man last year, scampered
90 yards on the opening play of
t!.’ Pacific-Willamette grid game
Saturday night when he took
the opening kick-off on his own
ten and ran unmolested the full
way.
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This game was the league open­
er for Pacific and the Badgers
started it with a score and point
within the first 11 seconds of
play. Millis also carried the ball
over for one of Pacific's later
touchdowns. Pacific won the
fray 26-6.
The annual community chest
drive is slated to open here, as
elsewhere, the latter part of this
month and tentative plans for
local participation have been
started.
John Garcia, county chairman,
and Walter Cushing, member of
th? state board from Salem were
here last Thursday to arrange
for representatives in this area
who will be responsible for con­
ducting the drive. They are ex­
pected back again this week to
complete details for conducting
the campaign in this locality.
Offensively the locals couldn’t
seem to dent the Tiger’s defense
which had them puzzled plenty
during the entire game. This
week’s practice will seek to over­
come this weakness before the
next game which will be played
here with the Scappoose Indians
Friday night.
The Lower Columbia
standings to date are:
Wins
St. Helens ............ 3
Rainier
.. Î ..
2
Vernonia
2
Seaside
1
Scappoose
1
Clatskanie
Parkrose
1
0
Warrenton
League
Defeats
0
0
__ 1
_... 2
.... 2
2
..... 2
4
Deer Placed
In Lockers
The number of deer placed in
lockers at the Mill Market and
Lockers this year has exceeded
last year, Wesley Bolmeier said
Wednesday, the number so far
being 28.
The largest animal to go into
cold storage weighed 224 pounds
dressed, he said, but including the
hide and head. It was shot on the
first day of the season off the
Johnson road by Ambrose
Schmidlin.
Junior Loggers
Tally Win Mon.
Vernonia’s Baby Loggers, show­
ing plenty of scoring power id
their second game this season,
completely dominated the play
Monday afternoon when they
powered over the Clatskanie JC’s
27-7.
The Babes were red hot as
quarterback Fuller piloted his
teammates to the win with both
a passing attack and long ground­
eating runs by Speed Lusby. The
local lads scored four with three
of the points after being made.
Four Vernonia TD’s were called
back because of penalties against
the local team. The most out­
standing run was made by Speed
Lusby who traveled 70 yards
around right end with superb
blocking by his teammates only
to have it called back because of
an offside penalty.
Clatskanie’s only tally came in
the start of the fourth period
when they blocked a Vernonia
kick on the nine-yard stripe and
drove it over from there.
The Babe’s tallied 12 first
downs compared to the visitors
two.
Meter Reading
Change Decided
West Oregon Electric consumers
living in rural areas, with the
exception of a very few, will not
read their own electric meters
in the future, as the result of a
decision made Tuesday evening
by th? board of directors.
The board met Tuesday for it’s
regular October meeting.
Cost figures compiled as the
result of the five months trial
whereby meters were read by
consumers proved that the pro­
cedure was more costly than hav­
ing Cooperative employees do the
reading.
Isolated farm owners, however,
will be asked to continue to read
their meters and these will be
the only ones to follow that pro­
cedure. A check will be made
every three months of these read­
ings.
Student Council Due
Scheduled to go to Hood River
Saturday for a student council
meeting are five high school
students and Principal Warne
Empey. Students who will make
the trip are Martin and Mary
Tapp, Bill Braun, Kenneth Packer
and Phil Sisler.
Seed Being
Applied to
Grid Field
More Work Needed
On Baseball Part
Before Final Step
The last step towards bringing
a new turfed football field into
reality for next year’s grid games
was being taken this week when
work started in applying seed
to the area which has been pre­
pared by work during the past
month.
Farm tractors were busy the
first of the week mulching the
field preparatory to the seed ap­
plication which started Wednes­
day. Shaping up of the football
part of the site was completed a
short time ago, but work re­
mains yet to prepare the base­
ball diamond before it will be
ready for seed.
The three tractors used in pre.
paring the surface for seed were
donated by Charlie Biggs, Ralph
McKee and Glen Hawkins and
the seed will be broadcast by
high school boys under the direc­
tion of Lee Pangle.
Along with the mulching, 1506
pounds of ammonium sulphate
fertilizer were applied earlier in
the week. The seed will be a
mixture of 20 pounds of deep­
ing red bent and 200 pounds or
highland fescue.
First Aid Class
Starts Wednesday
The Red Cross first aid class,
which Mt. Heart Rebekah Lodge
is sponsoring in cooperation with
the U.S. civil defense program,
will start next Wednesday, Oc­
tober 17 at 7:30 at the Legion
hall.
Registration of members will be
made at this meeting and is open
to every man and woman in this
area who wishes to study the
work. Walter J. Shaw, Portland
will act as instructor. Should
the demand be sufficient, an
afternoon class will be arranged.
Those interested in an after­
noon class and those wishing to
be put on the mailing list for
further notification of the even­
ing class are asked to phone Mrs.
Bill Wilson, 1407.
Conference Attract*
Three high school students,
Alipe Davis, Barbara Howard
and Laura Steers, with Mrs.
Myra Sorensen, Memolog and
Timberline advisor, will go to
the Oregon Scholastic Press con­
ference at Eugene Friday and
Saturday.
Pool Cement Poured
Workmen for the H&R Con­
struction company completed an­
other phase of the swimming
pool construction work Tuesday
when they poured cement for
the bottom of the children’s
wading pool.
Students Study Bank Procedure
STUDENTS enrolled In the h'gh school general business course were guests of the Vernonia
Branch. Commercial Bank of Oregon last Thursday morning. They were given •" insight into
procedure* of handling bank business during th? visit conducted by George A. Remnant, mana­
ger. The class is taught by Mr*. Laverne Lane?. Refreshments were served at the end of the
visit.