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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1952)
I »*r Churches Name Dates for Programs Marking Nativity STORES PLAN LATER HOURS Most stores here will remain open later than the usual six o'clock closing time from now I until Christmas the owners indi I cated earlier this week. The later time for closing, which in I most cases will be 8 p.m., is being I established in ord'r to make shopping easier for people of this area. This procedure is one that has been followed for the past several years. Readers of The Eagle will re ceive the paper one day earliir I next week. For the Christmas I week only distribution will be made Wednesday and the uslial deadline for news will be Tues day noon instead of Wednesday. Correspondents are asked to send in news items so that they may be received not later than Tues day. I Most of the churches of this area announced this wiek the dates that their special programs marking the dat? of the Nativity will take place and have also extended invitations to people of the community to be pres *, nt at the church of their choice. The Baptist church is to have its Christmas program Sunday night. December 21, at 7:30 p.m. It is to be a candlelight service, assisted by the choirs of the church and every attendant par ticipating in this service. Every one is invited to attend the ser vice. The members of the Nazarene Sunday school will give their Christmas program Sunday night at 7:30. The program will con sist of songs, £ xercises, recita tions, readings and a playlet. At the 11 o'clock service the pastor will bring the Christmas message. The annual Christmas services of the Jewell and Mist Bible churches will be held next Sun day, the 21st, at 11:15 a m, in Jewell and 7:30 p.m. at Mist. The Sunday schools will have a part in both services. Th“ Jewell observance will be highlighted by illuminated chalk drawings depicting the Christmas theme to. gether with a sound movie. At Mist the unique lighted drawings will again form the center of the presentation. Members of the congregation of the Assembly of God church will also go to their Christmas pro gram Sunday evening. This af fair is to start at 7:30 and will feature a pageant, "The Gifts,” in which the whole church will take part. At St. Mary's Catholic church Masses will be conducted on Christmas day at 8 and 9:30 a m. Confessions will be Sunday, De cember 21 after the 9:30 Mass and on Christmas eve December 24. A candlelight Christmas Vesper service will be held at the Evan- Rites Performed For Elmer Green A CHECK for $3,000 was handed io Mrs. Charles Ratkie Monday by Jim Cox, business agent for ’WA Local 5-37 as payment on the death benefit from the health and welfare plan carried by the •:nion. The benefit fund is provided from a 7‘j-cent per hour wage raise which,became effective in 350 and which is earmarked for this purpose. 25 Students Get Listing on Roll ¡THOSE WHO ARE IN IT . . The names of high school stu dents who earned grades entitl ing them to listing on the honor roll for th1; second six-wcek period were released by Super intendent Eugene Dove Wednes day. The list totals 25 with the juniors and freshm n leading with eight each. Only two seniors are named. Included are: Seniors — Jean Kirkbride and Ora May Smith: juniors — Wil liam Braun, Margaret Brissett, June Cunningham, Marylyn Good, Letha Hamilton, Joyce Jones, Kathleen Saur and David Strong; sophomores — Margaret Buckley, Margaret Cook, John Daniel, Harriet Heath. Sharon Halt, Kenneth Parker and Na- d.ne Tunnell and freshmen — Donna Bayley, Gretchen Bol- rr ier, Patsy Brissett, June Jones, Sh?l:a Parrish, Arlene Seibel Joe Taylor and Patsy Wildt. Floyd Snyd r, who has been 1 serving in the navy near Korea • for th? past several months, re turned home Saturday night. Loggers Achieve Second Victory By Joe Taylor On Tuesday night, December 16, Vernonia won its second game cf the season coasting along to < n easy 65 to 45 win over Banks. The Loggers built up a 32-6 lead n the first quarter and were nt ver behind«. Ray Chain of Banks was high for the game w th 16 points. Kenny Nanson was high for the Loggers with 12 Sweeter Gill was second with 11. The Baby Loggers won their th rd game of the season without a defeat by defeating the Banks JVs 56 to 16. Puting on a great defensive game they held Banks t* *> 2 field goals the whole game. Partee of Banks was high for the f.ame with 9 points. Bud Fulton was high for Vernonia with 7 p ints. Hank Bass was second th six. Everyone on the Ver- r .ria team scored. Date Set for Shoot Another in a series of several turkey shoots planned earlier this year by the Vernonia Trap cub is scheduled to take place Sunday, December 21. at the O-A bail park. People who like to shoot are welcome to the compe tition which will begin at 9 o'clock and last until 3 30 that afternoon. I I Fanner Sign-up Required by 31st Sign-ups for the 1953 PM.\ program are under way in the Nehalem valley community, ac cording to Joe Banzer, chairman. Under the program for the com i Donald Via Bergerson, son of ing year it is necessary that all I Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bergerson, produc ?rs wishing to participate i and Harold Kenneth West, son of I must have their applications j Mr. and Mrs. Harry West, tn- completed and turned in before i t?red the service Monday, De- D cember 31. It will not be Icember 15. The former wished possible to apply for any prac to have his service time post- tices after that date. These sign I poned temporarily until his broth- ups must be taken by a member I er, Frank, returned from the I of the community committee. ! navy so that work on their farm Chairman Banzer also stated 1 would not be neglected. that, due to the larg? number of residents in the community, it will be difficult for the com mitteemen to call on all the farm- For this reason any pro I ?rs. ducer who has not been con tacted and who wishes to par ticipate in th; program for 1953, At the December 15 meeting of should contact one of his com the Vernonia P-T.A., Claude munity committeemen b fore the Shaw, state policeman, talked on closing dat > of December 31. Committeemen for Nehalem val. "Traffic Safety.” H? said he be. ley are: Joe Banzer, chairman; lieved that having drivers train Frank Schmidhn; C. L. Waddell; ing classes is making more adults Noble Dunlap and Richard Pet r- ' safety conscious and that all son. the people should give the pro gram approval as a worthwhile I project. Mr. Shaw also com mended the Vernonia grade i school saf.ty lane patrol. "They I show the results of good train- I ing,” he stated. The public is invited to at Sid Sorensen gave a report to tend the first formal Christmas i the organization on information ball to take place in the new I obtained about placing the te- high school gym on I Vernonia flector tape known as Scotch Lite th? evening of Friday, D"cemb?r on bicycles. This is a safety pro 20, from 8 to 12 p.m. ject the P.-T.A. is planning to I The ball is being sponsored by sponsor here. th» Girls League which plans I For the benefit of those not to make it an annual occasion. I present at the November meet- Admission will be $1.50 per I ing. the driver training instructor couple and $1 for singles. Music i explained again about the mental- is being furnished by the danc? | physical testing machines used orchestra from Cleveland high i in his classes. The AAA has school in Portland. | been loaning these devices, but All arrangements are being is now discontinuing this service. made by the Girls League. The The machines test such things as senior class will, according to distance judgement, glare acuity, tradition, decorate the Christmas color vision, sttadiness, reaction, tree which is placed in the center degree of side vision and visual of the floor. Other decorations acuity. will be in keeping with Christ I The local P.-T.A. has given mas. approval toward the project of purchase of this equipment so that it will continue to be avail Steelhead Running able for use as needed. Mr. The December run of steelhead Sprensm has obtained the help was reported the latter part of of several othfer organizations to last week as having ent?red the ward sponsoring the benefit dance lower Salmonberry. Word of the ' January 10 at the Legion hall. run came from Andy Brimmer. ; I iI Drivers Practice Greater Caution League Sponsors Christmas Ball I I I I I Services for Elmer Green, who passed away Wednesday of last week, took place Tuesday at the Bush chapel. Death came fol lowing a paralytic stroke over a week before while he was at work at his shoe repair shop. Elmer I. Green was born Oc tober 20, 1884 at Rockville, In diana and passed away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lee at 4:30 p.m. December 10 at the age of 68 years, one month and 20 days. Surviving the deceased are: a son, Orville of Salem and a son in Indiana, address unknown; a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Head of McBeth Hill, Brazil, Indiana and one nephew of Newberg as well as other relatives in Indi ana. He came to Oregon in 1940 and had l.ved in Vernonia since that time except for a short tim? while working in the ship yard at Van couver. Washington during World War II He was a shoemaker and did sho? making and repair work during his life in Vernonia. 10 Go to Fifth Tax Men to Help Drama Clinic With Farm Forms I Children who go to next Mon day evening's annual Christmas program at the Washington school will each receive a sack of candy through arrangements that are being worked out by IWA Local 5-37 through the efforts of Jim Cox, business agent. Purchase of the necessary sup plies was made Tuesday so that sacking can be completed by the end of the week The job of sacking will be taken care of by grade school teachers. Supplies were purchased for 1100 sacks. Annual Football Banquet Talked The annual grid banquet will be an event sometime during th» month of January, the date t* be definitely set later when a film can be scheduled. That wae a decision Monday of the Lirxw club which named Cecil Johns », * to act as chairman of the ev; nt * High school boys who par ticipated in grid play this year as well as boys who are on the current basketball squad will re ceive invitations to the affair, the club decided. Arrangement- for financing and the program will be handled by the club while the dinner will probably be pre pared by the Legion Auxiliary, as has been done for the past few years. The chairman indicated that the film relative to sports, would be available next month, but-- he would have to negotiate a de finite date before the banquet date could be established. Margaret Miner, Bertha Keasey, Patsy Brissett, Margaret Wills, Rules Hearing Due Rosalie Kirkbride, Loretta Mills, A public hearing on the 1953 Vernon Orcutt, Virginia Ray, angling regulations will be he'd Priscilla Hickman and Francis W. by the Orr gon state game com Raines, adviser from Vernonia mission at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan high school were among 161 uary 9, in the Portland office at high school students attending 1634 S.W. Alder. At this time the fifth annual high school dra the commission will consider sea ma clinic at Linfield College, sons, bag limits and methods of McMinnville, December.6. I Highlight of the days events taking game fish. was a live radio demonstration by Portland radio station KEX. Ca Grange Plans Party reer possibilities in radio and People of the Natal area as well tel vision wer# discussed. The clinic was under the direc as members of the Natal Grang- tion of Professor Lester Schilling, and their friends are reminded drama department head. Lin of the Christmas program and field members of Alpha Psi party that is scheduled at the Omega National drama honor Natal hall this Saturday night. ary. and Cardinal Masque, local December 20. Attendance at the * drama group, assisted with the party is open to friends of th. Grange as well as members; meeting. Farmers can get help in pre paring and filing their forms 1040ES, declaration of estimated tax or preparation of their cal endar year income tax returns at St. Helens January 5 and 6. Int rnal revenue agents will visit many places in the state dur. ing the early part of January to give farmers help. *They may be contacted at the court house. The declaration of estimated tax must be filed on or before January 15th of next year and the calendar year income tax returns must be filed on or be fore Monday, February 2, 1952 if no estimated tax return is filed. Farmers who file an estimated tax return on form 1040ES will have until March 15 to file their final income tax returns. The help to be given at this time pertains to farmers only, as other taxpayers will be assisted later. Tree Treats for School Arranged | gelical U.B. church Sunday at 4:30 p.m. ' The singing of Christmas carets j the reading of the Christmas steer I * I from the Bible, and the showin of Christmas scenes in color w>l form the framework of the ves pers. Mrs. Sally Roediger wil» sing “Cantique de Noel" by Adams, “The Birthday of a King by Neidlinger, and "Star of Beth lehem.” Phil Tuttle will pla * Schubert's “Ava Maria” as an offertory solo and two piano organ duets of Christmas mrd leys will be played by Mrs. Lans Clark and Mrs. Louise Thomas. At the First Christian chunA the Christian Endeavor will pr sent a play. "No Room in th» Hotel,” and the juniors will pre sent a Christmas pageant. A * an added feature for members of this church, the Christian Exi dtavor will go carolling after th» program and return to the chun k later for the annual chili fern The program will begin at 7 pur. Council Rejects Bid for Cleaning; Orders Hose I i ! | I I j • I ' I ! I | j 1 City councilmen rejected the only bid received for cleaning the city sewage disposal plant whin they met Monday because they believed the price of $2000 was too high The bid was submit- ted by Lloyd Sams, Portland. Another call will be issued dur- ing the coming year, seeking a lower price for the work. The purchase of 250 feet of 214-inch fire hose was authorized to replace hose that is worn be- yond use and also ordered a 2 4- * gallon foamite fire extinguisher upon the request of James Mc- Crory, fire chief, who appeared before the council to point out the need for both items. Because of trouble which de veloped Monday afternoon at th ■ city water pumping plant, City Recorder Sam Hearing was au thorized to call the National Pipe company, Portland. requestmg that a representative be sent here immediately. The settling tank at the planz developed a leak that day and repairs were required as soon as possible to prevent further dam age Final action of the evening was a refusal by the council to agree to a request by three owners that the present license fee required for the operation of music ma chines be lowered. The present license amounts to $40 per year.
