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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1953)
Race Promoter To Open Track For Summer Five Achieve Berths for District Meet Loggers Take 2nd Place in County Track Event Monday The Lions roared again Monday when they successfully defended their Lower Columbia league track record by capturing 75 3/5 points, well ahead of the other county teams. Th? Loggers cap tured the second place spot with a net of 52Vi counters and they were followed by Clatskanie with 29. Scappoose with 27 3/5 and Rainier with 25 1/5 points. The Logger squad as a whole show.d surprising strength in the meet, displaying a marked im provement over ths start of the season. The Loggers' great weak ness is in distance running and the pole vaulting events. In all other events the Vernonia team are breathing down the first- place Lions necks, making the highly talented Lions do their v.ry best to keep that title. Vernonia will send five men to the district meet to be held at Beaverton this Friday at 1:30. Those qualifying Monday and who will make the trip will be Braun, who took a second in the 100- VERNONIA'S candidaie to compete for the title of Miss Columbia yard dash and ths discuss and a County will be Miss Barbara Howard, who was selected Miss Ver first in the 220; Jerry Herrin, first nonia at last Thursday evening's talent show at the high school. in the discuss; Schaumburg, The selection was made by five impartial judges, who gave their second in the javalin; Ozzie Ray, decision while the talent show provided by Miss Elaine Haling. second in the shot put and Ken St. Helens, was viewed. ny Nanson, scoring an upset and taking a second place in the broadjump. The Loggers going to th? dis trict meet are looking forward to this event, whose other members arc teams from Washington and Clatsop county schools. Billy Thinning sic nd growth Doug- | methods of marking trres to be Braun, Logger speedster, will lar fir just as it might be done in cut. falling, bucking, yarding, and have a very good chance to quali a farm woodlot will be d:mon- loading. This meeting is being fy in the 220 to go on to the state strated at the Columbia county held in response to suggestions i meet if the present statistics hold fairgrounds on Tuesday, May 12, that an actual thinning job be up. according to Don Coin Walrod. demonstrated to show the me Last Monday’s meet was the thods used. county extension agent. last for the local track team, Starting at 10:30 a.m. on May [ which did a much better job this This demonstration has been arranged by the Columbia county 12, a small plot of unthinned 30 year under the tutelage of Coach farm forestry committee to show and 60-year-old timber will be Jack Reynolds by placing five to marked for thinning. The prin go to the district, compared to two ciples used in marking timber fot last year. thinning will be discussed by Paul Goodmonson, extension for- I ester OSC, and Bob Lindsay, Vernonia. Following marking, Glen Hawk- | T’-e Commercial Bank of Oregon ins. Vernonia, will discuss laying 1 will open it’s 10th brancn at out roads and otherwise, organ H">d River Monday, May 11. izing a cutting to make yarding the proposed Corey Hill sewer Jhe new bank will have it’s and loading easier and to avoid system to a vote of the people quarters in the old Butler Bank injury to remaining trees. was taken Monday evening at building which was recently pur Falling and bucking trees will the first council session for this chased from Hood River county be demonstrated by Ron McDon month. and which has been used as i ald. Vernonia. It is intended that At that time the order was is courthouse for the past few yeats. the use of a chain saw and hand sued that will ask City Attorney Concurrent with the op ning of tools will be shown in actually Carrol Bradley to prepare a re the new branch, the capital struc falling some trees. How to get solution calling for the project to ture of the Commerical Bank ot trees out and down in dense go ahead. Following adoption of Oregon has been increased from second growth stand presents the resolution, preparation will two million to two million, two some real problems in making begin for the election at which hundred and fifty thousand dci thinning cuts, r; ports Walrod. city residents may decide whether lars. McDonald will also demonstrate they wish the project to continue. Donald B Peterson, vice-prtsi- Full details of costs and plans dent and former manager cf the buck'ng up trees. Yarding trees with a farm wheel for the project will be prepared T: iamook Branch of The Com mercial Bank of Oregon has been tractor and possibly with a team prior to the election by the city transferred to Hood River and will b? demonstrated. This type engineer. will be the manager of the new of light equipment is actually Counci Imen chose th? date of being us'd very successfully in branch. May 11 for the meeting of the William L. Henry, formerly as many second growth operations budget committee and offered sociated with the Lewiston in Columbia county. Leslie McMullen the job of city Branch, Idaho First National . utilities man. He was chosen i Ba_k, will be assistant manager. from a list of five applicants. D. A. Hanners, former county i assessor and well known in Hooi River county will be in chai ge 1 of field work and public relations j May 24 Set as First Race Date of Season At Fairgrounds Oval i I 1 ‘ i THOSE WHO ARE IN IT Demonstra ti on to Show Methods of Thinning 10th Branch of Bank to Open Early Closing Set Tmployes of the Safeway store i wi.l go to the Multnomah hotel. I Portland. Wednesday. May 13. for 1 the annual Safeway banquet, ac cording to Fred May, local mana ger. who said yesterday the store would close that day at 5 p.m. I Auxiliary Plans Sale This year's sale of popp.es by the V.F.W. Auxiliary is being planned for Friday and Saturday, May 22 and 23. according to an announcement from the organ iza. Won this week. League Diamond Decision Near April Rainfall Totals 4.94 Inches Council Orders Sewer Resolution Small Boys to Start Play Soon First word of this summers small boys baseball league ac tivity came Tuesday afternoon from Mrs. George Peters who an. nounced th? registration date and place for the youngsters who wish to play. The Pigmies, PeeWees and Cubs will start practices seen and will get their practice times at the meeting. This session is scheduled fot Friday evening. May 8 a- the union hall and will open at c o’clock. She stressed as impor tant that parents attend with the boys to learn new rule revisions. Game schedules will be an nounced and insurance will be discussed also Friday. Schoolmasters Name Officers The Columbia County School masters club, meeting here Mon- day afternoon and evening, elec- ted Eug ne Dove, high school superintendent, as the club presi- dent for the coming year. Other officers, all from Ver- noma, elected at that time were Sid Sorensen, vice-president, Dar- rold Proehl, secretary and Harold McEntire, treasurer. Monday's gathering of school mtn opened with a gotf tourney in the afternoon and was followed by dinner at the grade school cafeteria. Jalopy races will be nin at the Columbia county fairground.?, track this summer under spon sorship of a Portland racing pro motor, it was announced Saturday by Jewett Bush. Clatskanie, chair man of the fair board. The board met with Paul Ail, operator of the Portland Speed way, at the fairgrounds Saturday An agreement was reached that will make it possible for him to schedule races at the grounds this summer. The first race will be ! staged May 24 with a schedule ' for the rest of the s ason to be A TOTAL of 125 youngsters brought their bikes to the high school worked out later. parking area Saturday afternoon for free Scotchlite tape, accord The board had negotiated ear ing to Sid Sorenson, driver training class instructor, who directed lier with the St. Hi lens Junior application of the tape. The bikes were also inspected for safety Chamber of Commerce, but the by state and city police who gave safe riding instruction to the Jaycees lack manpower to handle youngsters. Both Sorenson and Merle Graham, city policeman, the races. The Columbia County were applying tape to bikes when the picture was taken. The Drivers' association had also tape was cut for application by Margaret Buckley, center, and mad • an offer for the track, but Sharon Hult. Katherine Leonard. Peggy McKee and Yvonne Rus- the drivers' offer did not provide som, members of the driver training class. for insurance and was not ac- | ceptable. Ernest Shaffer, president of the driver’s association, was also pres ent at the meeting. Ail offered AT/3 Earl Wantland left Wed the track to the drivers, saying Pvt. Kenneth L. Lindsley, 21, the group could sponsor races and son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lind nesday for Alameda, California, receive 50 per cent of gate re sley, is attending Southwestern having been transferred there ceipts. The drivers, meeting later, Signal school at Camp San Luis from Whidbey Island, Washing ton. He has been assigned to a voted down the proposition, how Obispo, California. ever, since they had already made Pvt. Lindsley, who recently jet fighter squadron. commitments to run their jalo completed his basic training at pies at McMinnville this year. Bu/3 John Carmichael left last the Southwestern Signal Replace ment training center, also at Camp Monday after spending a few San Luis Obispo, is now enrol days at the home of his parents, led as a field radio repair stu Mr. and Mrs. Louis Carmichael. He has been transferred to the dent. U. S. Naval Base at Seattle for As a field radio repair student, 18 months in the public works he will learn how to repair field d partment. Last Thursday th? Loggers typ> (movable) radio equipment. journeyed to Seaside and split This course also includes instruc. W sley Hunt was inducted Into a doubletheader with that team. tion in the principles of electricity, the regular army and left April The first game ended in the fifth radio-electronic theory, amplitude 22 for Fort Lewis where he is re inning with Vernonia well ahead and frequency modulation AM ceiving his basic training. 17-5 while the Gulls defeated the and FM equipment, the use of locals in the second contest. various testing equipment and Vernonia batters found the Sea how to read schematic circuit dia side hurler for 18 hits while the grams. Upon graduation, Pvt. home town Gulls tabbed Logger Lindsley will be qualified as a ! pitchers for only seven in both f;eld radio r: pairman in a signal games. Twice th’sc games were corps unit. called on account of rain, but the Pvt. Lindsley, a graduate of Rainfall during April totaled local lads continued to fight it Vernonia union high school, was 4.94 inches, the records at the out with the Gulls regardless ot employed as a logging truck cooperative weather station show. the weather. driver by the Spofford and Tay Tu-‘sday the Loggers defeated The figures were released Mon lor Logging Co., before entering day by Mrs. Helen Spofford for th ' Rainier Columbians in a mara the army November 10, 1952. weather data during last month as thon 12-11. The visitors tagged the locals for only two hit«, but recorded at the station. Sgt. 1 /c Albert F. Woolsey, son Top temperature reading dur bas s on balls and errors enabled of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Wools' y, ar ing the month was listed at 70 them to keep up with the local rived here Wednesday evening degrees April 19. The low point sluggers. from three yr,ars spent in Okin The local nine looked pretty came on April 2 with a reading awa. He will be at home until rough, but then again Vernonia of 24 degrees. the 29th of this month when he April’s high point was exceeded has to date had only four infield is scheduled to report to Fort by quite a bit earlier this week practices because of the weather. Lewis to continue his term of when an 82-degree maximum was With nice weather the local hors? service. hide enthusiasts will show marked Sgt. Woolsey reenlisted about posted for Sunday. improvement in fielding of the a year ago while in Okinawa and ball. . five years remain of his present Funds Returned The Loggers will play host to term. Warrenton Thursday, today, in a All funds that were collected double-header, which will pro M/Sgt. George Peachey left several years ago for project work bably be their last game befor? Thursday by plane for N°w York planned by the Vernonia Com the district representative is munity Recreation association, City. From there he was to go picked. To date the Lions and w re returned, effective Friday of to Camp Kilmer. New Jersey the Warrenton team are tied to After about a week he is to go last week. Announcement of the see which will represent this dis on to Europe for a two-year refunds to organizations which trict. period of time. He had b?en on contributed to the projects, which leave for 38 days, which time he were not carried out, was made spent at the home of his parents, by Fred Lundgren, treasurer of the association. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Peachey. j Hearing Defects Found At Pre-School Clinic i Last Thursday’s pre-school clin I ic brought out evidence of hear j ing defects in about 15 cases of ' th? 67 children that were tested. I The clinic, an annual affair to which parents may bring their 1 children for free check-ups, was sponsored by the Parent-Teachers association under the chairman ship of Mrs. H. L. Russell. A doctor's «»amination was made of each child and Miss Grace Roumagoux, county nurse, also interviewed each. The few children who evidenced possible hearing loss will be check d again by an audiometrist who is scheduled to be here May 19 Parents ot these children will be notified by mail before this test is due. Working with Mrs. Russell in conducting the clinic were: Mrs. L. L. Wells, receptionist, Mrs. Vir ginia Walker, Mrs. Hazel Berger- son. Mrs. Blanche Miliis, Mrs. Charles Wall, Mrs. Meyers and Mrs. Art Nanson Case history data was taken by Mrs. Ralph Lais, Mrs. E. Hibbs, Mrs. Roy Leonard. Mrs Faith Reynolds, and Mrs Warren Aldrich. Korea Bundles Help Requested Becaus? of the urgent need of i food and clothing for children in I Korea, a move is being made here by the Rainbow Girls to organize a miniature bundles for Korea program. They are asking help with the program from prop I ? in this area so that the community can do it's part toward helpin? fill the need. The bundles will help material ly to provid? for Korean child ren who have been victims of war Rainbow Girls who may be con tacted by those wishing to help are Dorothy Gwin and Patsy Bris- sett and Mrs. George Peters at ths IWA hall will also help witn the collection.
