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VOLUME 31, NUMBER 15 10c COPY VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY. OREGON ARE IN IT . . THOSE WHO Army Pvt. Joel D. Blount, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Blount of Vernonia, recently arrived in Japan, and is now serving with the 1st Cavalry Division. He entered the Army last Sept ember and was stationed at Camp Roberts, California, before join ing the 1st Calvary. Pvt. Lester L. Wells. Jr., spent the week end at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Wells, coming from Ft. Lewis. M Sgt. Gordon (Jim) Lousignont received his discharge from the army last week at Fort Lewis. He visited with his brother. Pvt. Leo nard (Chuck) Lousignont. while there. Chuck is taking his basic. Jim was in the valley at Birk.n- feld Sunday to see relatives and friends aft r spending 18 months in Korea. Jim Frank, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elgus Frank, will be sworn into the air force Monday in Portland and leave the following day for Parks air fore? base, California to begin a four-year term of en listment. PATTI ANN BASS, high school senior, was chosen as queen to officiate over this year's annual May Day festival when the boys ef the high school student body voted last Friday. The other candidates for queen were Mary Lou Fredrickson and Joyce Ho ward. seniors, who will be princesses in the queen's court. Prin cesses chosen from the other classes are: Juniors. Margaret Bris- sett and Dawn Lousignont; Sophomores, Dorothy Gwin and Margaret Cook and Freshmon, June Jones and Gretchen Bo.'meier. Sgt. Roy Frank will leave Tues day to return to Parks air force base. He has been home for 30 days following his return to this country from the Philippines. Golfers Named On Committees Golfers who will serve on four committees for the coming sea son were appointed Tuesday evening by Club President Bob King. Interest in reviving club activity points to a much more The gathering of figures tram active golf year for the club this part of the county that will j which has the distinction of hav be used by the county health ing the only course in the county. council in determining health con- ■ Men named and the commit- ditions of county familj?s has tess were: greens, Ben Brickel, A. been completed here Mrs. Bill L. Kulland.r, Bill Nelson and Horn said Tuesday afternoon. Da Bien George; tournament, Tom ta obtained from the survey is Bateman, Connie Anderson, Loel being tabulated under the direc Roberts and Ed Ade; entertain tion of Dane Huxtable, state ment, J. A. Bush, Jr., Guy Thom board of health and W. B. Back as, Bill Horn and Bill French of Oregon state. and membership. Sid Sorenson, They will explain the informa Bob King. Joe Magoff and Wes tion revealed by the survey to ley Bolmeier. council members and other in- i terest d county people April 13 at the court house at 8 p.m About 80 people were contacted in the valley by Mrs. Byron Kirk bride, Mrs. H. H. Anderegg. Mrs. L. L. Wells, Mrs. M. B. Steers, The annual crusade of the Ore Mrs. Charlie Minger, Mrs. Charles Sundland and members of the gon division, American Cancer Society, will be held in Columbia V. F. W. Auxiliary. county and the rest of the state _____ • during the month of April, which has been designated cancer con trol month by the U.S. Congress. The campaign in Columbia coun ty will be under the direction of Bill Horn, of Vernonia. The crusade has a two-fold This week’s Boy Scout fund purpose: to raise funds to sup drive was launched officially on Monday evening when Lions club port the various research, educa members were handed cards tion and service programs of the society and to acquaint persons upon which the solicitation will with the facts about cancer, the be based in the business district area by Chairman Tom Bateman. nation's No. 2 killer. The answer to the disease still He heads the committee named a ' rests in the research scientists' short time ago to conduct the campaign which will end tomor laboratories, however, and mil lions of ACS funds have been row. granted to scientists throughout Jim Cox. Jr., member of the the nation in past years to aid committie, said earlier Monday them in their work. that petitions were to be circula- ted among Oregon-American and Columbia Tree Farm employees for them to decide whether they would contribute by means of a payroll deduction. Others on the scout campaign i fund committee are Connie An- | The first practice preparatory derson and Charlie Wall. to starting this season's baseball i Health Survey Completed Here ' I ‘ I I April Designated As Cancer Month j Scout Campaign Started Monday 1 WEST OREGON Electric's con tractor, Walton-Brown Electric, Salem, started setting poles Wed nrsday forenoon for the field lights at the high school. The job was completed the following day. Preliminary work of get ting the poles ready had been done earlier by the Cooperative and the O A. Wiring, hanging transformers, connecting the fix- lures and guying will be done later by Cooperative workmen who plan to start this week. Archers to Compete The Nehalem Archery club has scheduled a two-day event to take place at the range below Mist April 11 and 12. All day Satur day will be devoted to novelty snooting. A field tournament has been arranged for Sunday start ing at 10 a.m. Pruts will be awarded. i j j 1 | PHONE 191 Unit Collects 61 Pints Mon.; Rejections Heavy Sixty-one pints were collected Monday, April 6. when the Blood- mobile visited Vernonia. There were twenty re jections, a high rate which was due largely to colds and slight enemias. The ordinary rejection rate runs slightly less than 10 per cent. Mrs. Byron Kirkbrid? was the chairman in charge of arrangements for the blood col lection program locally. The work is done largely by volun teers, and if the workers and donors did not cooperate so free, ly. blood procurement would be extremely costly. Individuals who helped at the Legion hall Monday were: Mrs. Molly Eby, Hazel Bergerson, Charma? Knight; nurses aides, June Ray, Virginia Walker; re ceptionist, Mrs. George Frye; traffic, Mrs. Charles Wall; re covery station, Eva Hearing and Nell Thomas; donor cards, Isabel Anderegg and Evelyn Thompson; station 3, Olivia Brickel and Irene Minger; typists, Beryl Cline, Dorothy Gwin, Francis Kaspar and Sharon Hult; canteen. Isa bel Culbertson. Alice Ade, Jen nie Lusby, Lona Weidman, Mar garet Walrath and Elsie Kimball; child care, Mrs. Don Campbell. The recruiting and publicity committee consisted of Guy Thomas, Ralph Aldrich, Jr.. Mrs. S. D. Waite, Mrs. L. L. Wells and Mrs. Sid Sorensen. THURSDAY. APRIL 9. 19->1 First Fire Protection Act Approved Council Moves to Raise Water Deposit Amount to $10.00 The first contract between the city and a property owner out side city limits was accepted by city councilmen when they met Monday evening for their first April session. This contract, drawn in accordance with a city ordinance which sets forth the conditions, makes it legally pos sible for city equipment U» answer a fire call outside city limits. The contract will provide pro tection for the property owned by Wesley Bolmeier and is the only one now in effect with the city. Because of an order issued by the council to change an exist The Lower Columbia District begin at 7:30. Each of the bands, ing ordinance, deposits for water Music Festival is being held at Astoria, Warrenton, Seaside, Til service will be $10 in the future Astoria high school April 10-11. lamook, Clatskanie, Nestucca, instead of $5 as is now required. The 30 members of the ad Rainier, St. Helens, Scappoose The change will become effective vanced band will leave here by as soon as a new ordinance can bus early Friday morning. At and Vernonia, will play one of be prepared and adopted. The 10 a.m. they will play three con their contest selections. The pro increase is believed necessary in test selections under the direction gram will conclude with the order to offset possible water rev of Miss Lilias Peterson: “Activity massed band performance of Micro enue losses which have resulted March," by Bennett; "Carnival of March by North; Instrumentalist in recent months because* the pre Roses,” by Olivadoti; and "Little March by Skornicka; Two Moods sent di posit amount is too small. Colonel” by James L. Traver. Overture by Grundman and Lan At the same time the council Marriage by Offenbach discussed a possible 10 per cent These selections will then be tern judged and criticised by one of under the direction of John Stehn upcharge on occupation licenses from Portland state university. the three instrumental judges. when those licenses become de Admission for the evening for linquent. Futher action on the From 10:30 to 12:00 and again from 3:00 to 5 00 all the bands adults will be 50 cents and 25 upcharge will be considered at ia will participate in a massed band cents for non-participating stu future meeting. dents. Everyone is urged to at rehearsal. Two applications for class A The evening performance will tend. dispensors licenses were approved by the council, one for Lew's Place and the other for Mike Lucas. The applications are being made under the new state law which governs serving of drinks An official order was issued which requires the moving of a The new ambulance, which is the»? amounts are received they fence and garage located on the will materially reduce the amount south side of Columbia street. being purchased as the result of a Owner of the property will be needed to complete the fund. project started by IWA Local notified of the requirement. The 5-37, was taken to Portland Tues fence and garage are now situ day morning to the Pacific Body ated in the street. Another order Works where some of the equip approved the installation of a ment will be installed. An ex street light on the north end of We?d avenue. tra floor has already been placed Because of the need for extra in the body and in Portland a The rummage sale conducted help, the council will receive ap. cot and fastener, direction sig plications for work at its next March 26 and 27 by the Ver nals, blinker lights and cabinets nonia Study club netted the sum meeting April 20. Men interested will be added to the machine. are asked to apply at the city To date the ambulance fund | of $113.03 to be added to the hall before that time. stands at the figure of $2300, leav I library building fund which the ing $700 needed to complete the j club started February 17, 1949. To Attend Conference fund of $3000 that will be required With the addition made from Mr. and Mrs. George A. Rem to finance the project. Word of this last sale, the tund now totals nant left hure Wednesday for $1171.53. the amount in the fund was re The club's library committee, Pullman, Washington where he leased Tuesday morning by Jim Mrs. Harry Culbertson, Mrs. Ben will attend the 14th annual Pa Cox, Jr., IWA business a2ent who Brickel and Mrs. J. W. Nichols, cific Northwest conference on has been handling tne collection expressed their appreciation to banking today and tomorrow Bush Furniture for use of their Represented at the affair will be work. Some of the smaller logging building and to Miss Barbara bankers from Oregon, Washtn» concerns have not yet sent in the Erickson for posters publicizing ton, Montana, Idaho and British Columbia. money they pledged and when the sale. District Music Festival Attracts Vernonia Band Work on Ambulance to Prepare Unit for Use Sale Nets Club $113 for Fund Town Club Sets First Practice Fraternity Pledged Sixteen chapters of the national social fraternities on the Univer sity of Oregon campus pledged 35 men at the close of the- winter t rm open rush period. Among those men pledged was James Sozoff, son of Johnson Sozoff of Vernonia, to Tau Kappa Epsilon. Sozoff. a freshman in pre-law at the university, is a graduate of Vernonia high school. play was scheduled Tuesday afternoon by Chuck Johnson. He set the day for Saturday and the time for 2 o'clock and said the players who turned out would decide th'-n when regular prac tices will be held. Johnson will manage this year's team with the help of Ralph Hartman and Pidge Elliott will act as secretary-treasurer for the club. A decision as to the league in which the team will play has not yet been made. FOURTEEN Natal Granger* received 25 year membership pins March 25 and two more, who were not present then, will also get pin* for the same reason. The awards were made by Walter Tracy. Pomona Master. The ladies also received corsage* and the men carnation* at a presentation made by Mr*. Robert Mathew*. Grange Lecturer. About 95 Granger* and friend* were present. including visitor* from Winema. Beaver Valley and Fern Hill, to hear a program presented by youngsters, two solo* by Jewett Bush. Clatskanie, accompanied by his son. Floyd, and group singing. Receiving pin* were: Mr. and Mr* A R Molta. Mr and Mr*. Robert Lindsay. Mr. and Mr*. Noble Dunlap. Mr. and Mr*. Bert Eastman. Joe. George and Dave Banser, Mrs. Laura Carmichael and Ira and Richard Peterson. Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Jepson were not present, but are also 25-year member*.
