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Library, U of O 9á VOLUME 31, NUMBER 24 10c COPY THOSE WHO ARE IN IT Force Base train automobile me chanics, powerman. electricians, teletype operators and repairmen. MMFN Tom Peters, son of Mrs. Ma;va Brimmer, left here last Friday to return to Long Beach. California where his ship, the U.S.S. Hamul, is docked. He was here on leave from Thursday, May 21, after returning to this country from Japan and Korea. He expects to be stationed in this country until November. Carl Wikstrom, Mist, is home on a month furlough from Geor gia. He is stationed at Moody Air Base, Valdosta, Georgia. A/3c Clyde I. Thomas, son of Chtirlie W. Thoma» of Vernonp, is pressntly training as an air forte technician at the USAF technical school at Warren Air Foice Base, Wyoming. At this historic former cavalry post out- sidf Cheyenne, the air force is train.ng young airmen in th many specialties needed for air power. Besides clerical skills such as clerk-typist, clerk steno grapher and administrative spe- ciaJist, the schools at Warren Air David Closner, Mist, left last week to begin his term of service in the army. Pvt. Lester L. Wells returned ,o Ft. Lewis Sunday after spend ing a 10-day leave at th? home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Wells. He has finished his basic training and has been assigned to duty in Alaska. M/Sgt. George Peachey is sta tioned at Frankfurt, Germany, wh.re he is doing office work at th? present time. Valley Pioneers Slate Meeting The annual meeting of the Ne- haitm Valley Pioneer association is scheduled for Sunday, June 14, at Birkenfeld starting at 11 a.m., according to word voiced Wednes day morning by Robert L. Berg of Birkenfeld, president of the association. The meeting is open to anyone interested in attending. Pot-luck dinner with coffee furnished by Wioerna grange will be served at noon and the day’s program will beg n about 2 o’clock. Fart of the meeting will be de voted to memorial services for four members who passed away j dur.ng the year. They are Mrs. Jane Harvey, Martin Van, Mrs. Clec Banzer and Frank Van. Committees in charge of ar- Dick May QM3c, arrived at th? ra gements and the program are home of his sister and family, headed by: kitchen, Mrs. Ethel Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Minger, Tues Larson; memorial services. Mrs. day evening for a 30-day leave. William Jones of Clatskanie: and He comes from Newport, R.I., decorations and flowers, Nehalem where his ship, the U.S.S. Han Valley Gard n club. Officers of cock, is docked. th' association are: Gus P. Wan- j strom, vice-president and James . Cahill, secretary-treasurer in ad dition to the president. O.dest member of the associa tin' is Grandma Carl, 100. who wi i not be able to attend this This year’s contest to select year because of illness. Miss Columbia County is sched uled for staging at Clatskanie on the evening of June 20, according to an announcement made last week by Miss Elaine Haling, St. Helens. She has sponsored the candidate contests in county com The Scappoose PeeWees defeated munities during the past two the Vernonia PeeWees Monday months to choose contestants for in a tight 4-3 game here in the [ the county affair which is backed season opener. Jim Nanson, Ver- ' by the St. Helens Chamber of noma hurler, allowed only six . Commerce. Five candidates will compete, hits in striking out_ seven Scap- ■ pocse batsmen. Orr, Scappoose representing the cities of Ver southpaw, allowed nine hits in nonia, Scappoose. St. Helens, Rai nier and Clatskani?. They are striking out six. reading Vernonia hitter was | Barbara Howard, Arlene Wedell, Dale Frye who collected two Catherine Fleury. Barbara Run sing.es and a double in four times • dell and Donna Johnson. at rat. Batteries for Vernonia | The evening's program will in were Nanson and Savage and for . clude several talent numbers done with black lighting as well as the Scappoose, Orr and Kessi. The Cubs will travel to Scap appearance of each of the contes poose Thursday evening for their tants in evening gown and bath opt-er slated to start at 6 p.m. j ing suit. The candidates for the George Peters is coaching the i county title will also entertain PeeWees and Pigmies, who are ; with a talent feature. Clatskanie won the honor of ytt to play an outside game, and having the Miss Columbia Coun Bob Cline is coaching the Cubs. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 RHE ty contest by the fact they sold the most tickets based on popula. 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 4 6 1 S. V. r 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 9 2 tion percentages for that local con test. County Contest Set for June 20 PeeWees Edged In First Try 3-Inch Fall Listed Sportsmen Slate Meet Rainfall for the month of May j Vernonia Rod and Gun club touted three inches, the weather members are scheduled to meet records at the cooperative station tomorrow night. Friday, June 12 show. Data is compiled by Mrs Helen Spofford, cooperativi ob for their annual meeting. A re server. Maximum May tempera minder of the meeting was issued earlier this week by Bob Curl, ture was 84 degrees, recorded on the fifth, and the minimum was 30 club secretary. The meeting will begin a* 8 p.m. at th« high school. degl les on the 11th. VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON PHONE 191 THURSDAY, JUNE 11. ’► First Data of Landscape Work Ordered ¡ 3 Instructors Health Survey At High School Grounds ¡For Staff 0Í Tabulated School Chosen Another step towards complet ing the grounds at the high school will be carried out in the next few weeks because of a contract that has been authorized by the Other Information district with Thornton's Nursery To Be Released as at Warren. Announcement of the Results Figured plans for landscaping was made An estimated 33.332 days were j earlier this week by Eugene lost due to accidents last year in | Dove, high school superintendent. Preparatory work has already Columbia county, according to a been started to pour a concrete recant health survey made here. skirt along the front of the build- That's equivalent to 91 years, or ing three inches thick and eight nearly a lifetim? and a half for inches wid? which will prevent one person. Life expectancy in grass growth next to the building. the county is 57 years. First in The nursery firm will plant the formation about the survey was lawn and care for it up to the time of the first mowing. released this week by Burdette I HEDGE PROVIDED Peterson, extension information , specialist of Oregon state. Care of the lawn will include The county health survey is now | watering and application of fer- completed. Jt was conducted to | tiliz.r, the superintendent said. In addition, the landscaping con study health needs in the county; i tract calls for the nursery firm stimulate public interest in health to plant a California privet hedge problems and their solutions; co along the walk in front of the building, provide basic shrubs in ordinate the work of all organiza tions and agencies actively in front and prepare two rose beds along the front walk. ti rested >n health and to assist The job of trenching for the con in developing a health program crete skit was started early this to meet the needs in the county. week by Bill Vlcek, high school A good start on tabulating and coach, and Bob Spencer, custodian analyzing the results has been of the building. Vlcek will be mad *. Other information on the results of this survey will be employed by the district to work at the high school during tho made public as.work on the data summer on several projects in progresses. tended for completion before ACCIDENT RATE HIGH school opens in the fall. One out of every eight persons in the county had at least one accident during the six months period surveys d. Clatskanie and its immediate area had the high est accident rate while more days were lost per accident by the people of the Goble and St. Helens areas. Nearly one-third of the total accidents in the county re sulted in the loss of a day or more. Mosquito control ranked first among the people surveyed as the main health need in the county. More doctors and dentists was next and health education third. Then came better sewage disposal and more hospital facilities. PEOPLE GO TO DOCTOR The survey interviewers, most ly homemakers in each commu nity. found that people went to se? the doctor rather than the doctor coming to sec them 85 per cent of the time. During the course of a year the people in the county called upon th? services of a physician on an average of two and one-half times. Less than a third of the inhabitants in the county visited a dentist during the past year and only one per son per family. About 63 per cent of the famili- lies surveyed had prepaid health and accident insurance with half being group plans. 40 per cent in dividual plans and 10 per cent individual and group plans. Near ly a third of those people not having prepaid insurance gave expense of the plans as their rea son. About a fourth gave no rea son and 18 per cent said they had never considered that type of insurance. A small percentage of those interviewed said they “didn't believe in it.’’ 28% GET X-RAYS I l I j ' ( | i I conference and also authorized the clerk of the board, Mrs. Paul Gordon, to prepare ballots for the election at the annual meet ing June 22. She will also pre pare petitions to nominate can didates for the vacancy on the board. Antone Smejkal, present board member whose term ex pires will be a candidate to suc ceed himself. Accident Claims Life of Logger A logging accident at Camp Olson at 10:15 Monday morning claimed the life of William Henry Weaver of Treharne and final rites have been arranged to take place today, Thursday, at the Bush Funeral home chapel at 2 p.m. Death came at the age of 47 years. He was born May 22, 1906 at Miami. Oklahoma, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Weaver and was employed as rigging-man in the logging industry. Surviving are: his wife, Rosa- bell of Vernonia: his parents; se ven children. Ruby Armitage of Salena, Kansas, David in the army in Korea, Martha Meier of Great Falls, Montana and Irene Hodson and Billy, Carl and Betty Weaver of Vernonia; three brothers and four sisters. The brothers are Claude, Lloyd, and Harry of Ver CHANGE OUTLINED nonia and the sisters, Lula Cham On? of the jobs will be to lift bers and Mabie Johns of Dallas, anj relocat" the crown of the Dorothy Reynolds of Mist, and football field and lay out the Mary Reynolds, Vernonia. track as well as lay drains for The deceased was a member of the baseball diamond. Relocation the Penticostal Ass.mbly of God of the crown will make possible i hui< h and th»- IWA io-v. w. A. better utilization of the field lights McBride will officiate at the ser. and will be done by lifting the vice and interment will take place turf in sections and replacing so at Miami, Oklahoma. that the crown will be in the proper position. As planned, the work will be done so that the field will be ready for use for football games this fall. Work on the track includes lay out of the pits and lanes for field i events. The three trophies won by three 4-H club members participating BOARD APPROVES TRIP in the annual achievement day i The district board, which met program at the Legion hall May Tuesday evening, gave it's author 16 have b. en placed on display at ization for the custodian to go to the Commercial Bank and will be Redmond June 18 and 19 where there for the remainder of this b" will attend a school custodian’s week. The three winners and the work for which they won were: Bertie Lu Ashley, Mist, home economics; Jerol Moran, livestock and Byron Hawkins, forestry. Trophy Winners' Cups Displayed Berry Picking To Begin Sat. Pickers who have signed to work at the Rolling Hills Farm at Banks for strawberry picking are scheduled to go to work Sat urday morning Hollis Hartwick announced Wednesday morning. Bus transportation is being pro- vid.d again this year on a sched- ule that calls for departure from Pittsburg at 6:30 a m., from Ver nonia directly for the farm at 7 a.m. In addition, the Dan Cason bus will also leave Vernonia at 7 a.m. and travel Timber route to Sunset Junction then to the farm. A new feature for the younger pickers at the farm this year is the offer of free bicycles to the boy and 8'1*1 picking the most strawberries during the season. The bikes are displayed here at Bush Furniture. ■ 1 Manager to Vacation ! Fred May, Safeway store mana ger, will leave Sunday on a two- week vacation he announced ear lier this week. During his absence | Larry Garner will act as tempo I rary manager. 1 Three of the vacant positions it the teaching staff of Vernon high school have been filled f<w the coming year because of con tracts that have been signed tj date Eugene Dove, superinter dent, said Wednesday. Thero still remains three other vacancies to be filled and it is expected that these will be taken within a short time. William Johnson of Kelso, Washington has been signed tc fill the position of instructor for band and vocal music, the teach ing post that was held last year by Miss Lilias Peterson. Through an exchange agreement with school district 47, he will instruct a grade school band for one peri od and the grade school will nt turn provide an art instructor for the high school for a like period His work will include instruc tion of both a boys and girls glee club, two sections of band as wet! as preparation to organize a school orchestra. Two University of Idaho gradu ates this year will fill two other- positions. Miss Mary Harding will teach home economics, re placing Mrs. Marie Raines. Her sister, Miss Ann Harding, has- been hired to teach girls physical education in place of Mrs. Mary ‘ Sempert. Change Made in Bus Schedule A new schedule of trips is announced this week by Dent Bayley, who took over Sunday the transportation of passengers and express by bus between here and Staley’s junction. Authority for the bus service he will operate was granted as the result of a public hearing of the public utili ties commission in Portland May 22. At the hearing Oregon Motor Stages petitioned to abandon regu lar route service between here and the junction and Bayley ap plied for the service of transport ing passengers and express. The schedule now lists bus de parture times of: 9:45 a.m., 1:45 p.m. and 6.00 p.m. Arrival times are: 11:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Connections will be made with every Oregon Motor stage bus run between Portland and Astoria and with two busses going into Forest Grove. Summer School to Take 45 4-Hers from County ; ' ' 1 The survey also showed that of those over the age of 15 in the county, 28 per cent had chest X- rays during th" past year. This compares with the state figure of 32 per cent. A small percent- , age of those living in the county ! have or have had tuberculosis, diabetes, brucellosis (undulent fever), polio, rheumatic fever, or Columbia County Tree Farm cancer. was represented from Thursday | through Saturday of last we~k by Ralph Hartman who was one ot Superior Rate Won 2C3 representatives attending the , Greg Kamholz. son of Mr. and forest products safety conference Mrs. Marvin Kamholz, won na in Portland. This meeting, dr- tional honors in the elementary II voted to serious discussions on piano division of the Oregon state ways and means ot reducing in junior music festival held in Port dustrial accidents, was the 19th land last week. He has been annual conference on safety. Representatives of logging and judged superior for three consecu tive years. The festival is spon allied industries were present sored annually by the National from the western states and Brit ish Columbia. Federation of Music clubs. Safety Discussed At Conference Other Positions on Roster May Be Filled Within Short Time Forty-five 4-H club members and one club leader from Columbia county will leave for Corvallis next Tuesday, June 16, where they will spend ten days on the Oregon State college campus at tending 4-H club summer school. During the mornings, the club members will attend classes on all phases of agricultur? and home economics. These classes are taught by members of the faculty at Oregon State, representatives of industry and members of the extension service. An assembly program is held each afternoon for all the club members. This is followed by organiz'd athletics. Special pro grams, partits and other activities are scheduled for each evening. A highlight of this year’s sum mer school will be a performance by the 100-piece US. Army field band from Washington, DC., on June 24. Radio broadcasts will be mad * each day ot parts of the program at 4-H summer school over radio sat ion KOAC. The assembly pro- grams will be broadcast from 2:15 to 3 p.m. and county program« will be from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Th.- radio revue will also be broadcast on June 23 from 8:00 to 8:45 p.m. and the program by the US. Army field band on June 24 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Mrs. Evelyn Heath, Vernonia, will be the official chaperone from Columbia county. Harold Black, 4-H club agent, will also attend. Club members who will be at tending from the Nehalem vail y and the sponsors of their scholar ships are: Ronald Anderegg, Ver nonia. county fair board; Bcrtt.- Lu Ashley, Mist, Pomona Grange; Robert Bates, Vernonia, Vernon a Grange; Janice Gamer, Birken feld. Mist Young People’s club; Carolyn Heath. Vernonia, Ver nonia Pythian Sisters; Harriet Heath, Vernonia, county fair board; Ella May Kyser, Mist, Na. tai Grange; Loretta Mills, Bir kenfeld. Winema Grange; Delore-» Wilson, Mist, Safeway Stores and Mist P.-T.A.
