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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1954)
< Seniors Win Scholarships At Graduation to Seek Title of Miss Vernonia Saturday Four Frederic Rcllin Olin Bulletin Board Given School by Class; Honor Speakers Heard At the high school graduation exercises held last Thursday even ing :n the high school auditorium, a numb-r of special awards were made by Eugene Dove, high school principal. The award for outstanding dramatic achievement v.as given to Dorothy Gwin. Wil- Ua mBraun received a scholar- sh.p to Pacific University; Pa tricia Hickman was .awarded a scholarship to Lewis and Clark college; and June Cunningham and Patricia Wells each received scholarships to Cott.v College. In addition to the Cotty scho larship. Patricia Wells also re ceived an award from the Ameri can Chemistry Society for being an outstanding chemistry student, and a James Harrison Collins scholarship for study next year a: Oregon State college. The latter is a $200 scholarship provided for in the will of Mrs. Gertrude F. C'.'.’.ns for th"1 benefit of gradu ate. of Columbia county high schools. G.ft from the graduating class to the school was a bulletin board, presentation of which was mad: by Kenneth Nanson, class president. Honor speakers for the class wen June Cunningham and Wil liam Braun, and the commerce- ment address was given by Dr. Erret Hummel of Portland State College who spoke on the sub ject. "A1 Big Pair of Shues.’’ D.plomas were presented to the 32 members of the class by Oscar G Weed, chairman of the board of directors. ■ ■ ........ —■ t Giant Pageant To Climax Fair <A giant pageant, featuring taler.t from every part of the cour.ty is slated to climax the centennial celebration of Colum bia county. The pageant will be held in conjunction with the Co lumbia county fair August 5, 6 and 7. Columbia county was organized Ja-.uary 16. 1954, while Oregon was still a territory. The pageant, "One Hundred Years of Progress." will tell the story of the county from the time the first settlers came up to the present day of indusrial and agricultural growth. A special director will be hired to stage the pageant. It will be produced by the Columbia County Centen- n;al committee and the Columbia county fair board. The committee is headed by Ben Coleman, St. Helens morti cian, who says that plans for other parts of the celebration will be announced as soon as they ma ter.alize. The Columbia County Histori cal society will work with the writer of the pageant so that it will be based upon historical far- Files of the county news papers will also be used. T.ckets for the fair and tne pageant will cost $1 a person. They will be good for the three n.ghts of the show ar.d will ad- m.t the buyer to the fair grounds, the show and other events plan ned during the three days. Members of the centennial com- m-ttee are W’ayne Bell, vice- chairman. St. Helena; Art Steele, measurer, and Fog-st LaBeck. Clatskanie; F. A. Bush and Glen Hawkins, Vernonia. John Whit- wer and Al Bustnn. Rainier. Members of the Columbia Coun ty fair board are George Becker, president, St Helens: Jewett Bush, manager, Clatskanie and Luth r Choate. Vernonia. Death Claims Three People During Week THIS ACT will be part of Saturday evening's talent program at the high school when Miss Vernonia will be selected. At the left ib Alice Jean Stroud and Patsy Bennett, both from St. Helens, wear the horse costume. Funeral services were read on Tuesday at the Evangelical Uni.ed Brethren church for Fred eric Rollin Olin who passed away Saturday at Port Blakely, Wash, mgton. Mr. Olin was born February 9. 1876 at Stevens Point, Wisconsin and was 78 years old at the time of his death. Mr. Olin came to Vernonia in 1935 as president of the Oregon- American Lumber corporation, which position he filled until the time of his retirement in 1947. Previous to that he had been gen eral manager of Hammond Lum ber Company properties in Ore gon. Mr. Ohn was a member of Mill City lodge. A.F.&A M ; Al Kader Shrine in Portland, and of the I Episcopal church. The Episcopal funeral service was read for him by Reverend Vincent Herbert Gowen, a son- in-law. and the Masonic service was conducted by Vernonia Lodge No. 184. A.F&A.M. Burial was in the Vernonia Memorial cemetery. • Survivors include his widow, Jesse of Vernonia; four sons, John Frederic Olin of Klamath Falls, Charles Herbert Olin of Kelso, Washington, Robert Baker Olin of Seattle and Daniel D. Olin of Grants Pass; two daugh ters, Mrs. Vincent Gowen of Port Blakely, Washington, and Mrs. William H. Manning of Falls Church, Virginia; a sister, Mrs. I James Mainland of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and nine grandchild ren and seven great-grandchild ren. competition. The Miss Columbia County con test will take place the last week in June and will be sponsored by the St. Helens Chamber of Will R. Chalmers Commerce. The winner of this Funeral services were held i county contest will represent the Wednesday at Hillsboro for Will I county in the Miss Oregon page R Chalmers who passed away 1 last Sat , May 29, after an ex- I ant at Seaside. Four girls will compete for the tended illness. Miss Vernonia title Saturday and Mr. Chalmers was born October the winner will be selected by 1, 1878 near Forest Grove where out-of-town judges on the basis he lived until 1936 when he mov of personality, poise and talent. [ ed to Vernonia to the farm located The girls will appear in formals about two miles below town. and bathing suits and will pre Mr. Chalmers was a member of ' sent talent numbers. Entered in the Masonic Lodge. Survivors include his widow, I Total expenses of the Columbia the contest are Jeycc Jones, Shir county public welfare commission ley Jones, Odean Blount and Marvel K. Chalmers; one son, i will amount to $34,237.33 for the Sharlee Powers. William K ; four sisters, Ann j Along with the comp titlon will Christine and Isabel Chalmers of month of May, according to Mrs. be a stage show produced by Miss Cornelius and Mrs. David Wiley Eva L. Tice, administrator. This was about $500 less than ’ Elaine Haling of St. Helens. She of Hillsboro; and two .brothers, was Miss Columbia County in A. J and E. John Chalmers o^ the amount budgeted. The largest expense for the 1950. The show will feature song Portland. month was to old age assistance, and dance acts including special Services were held at the Don- which totaled $16,970 for 299 costuming and blacklighting. elson and Sewell Sunset Chapel cases. The second largest figure in Hillsboro and burial was at was for aid to dependent child Tualatin Plains ren. amounting to $5,151 for 54 Glenn A. Mitchell cases. This d<»cs not include Services are being held this medical expense# afternoon (Friday) at 2:30 pm. Other costs included old age at the Willamette Natibnal ceme medical assistance, $1,869.16: me John D. Leland of Longview, tery in Portland for Glenn A. dical aid to dependent children. $339 25; aid to blind. $130; medi Washington, president of The Mitchell who passed away Mon cal aid to blind, $4 30; aid to dis Long-Bell Lumber Company has day morning at the Veteran's abled, $2,768; medical aid to dis announced the merger of The hospital in Portland after an ex abled, $800.47; general assistance, Long-Bell Lumber Company and tended illness. Arrangements are $2,154.02; general medical assist Gardiner Lumber Company. Gar in charge of A. J Rose and son He is survived by his widow, ance. $89 70. and foster care. $1,- diner, Oregon, a wholly owned 095.38 Administration costs were subsidiary. The Long-Bell Lumber Norah A. Mitchell and by two $2,866.07. Company being the surviving cor brothers and four sisteri. A new office building now poration. under construction in St Helens Gardiner Lumber Company, will be occupied by the welfare which has been operating a saw- I agencies about August 1. It is mill and plywood plant at Gardi being designed to give the ut ner and a sawmill at Reedsport, most in convenience and will re Oregon, will be known as the place the badly aver-crowded | Gardner Division of The Long- | Claskame M E. Church was the quarters now being used Bell Lumber Company A. J Myers, who was vice- meeting place of the Columbia , president and general manager, County Historical Society on Double Header Due J Gardiner Lumber Company, will Tuesday, May 25, with a good at The Vernonia Baseball club continue as general manager of tendance enjoying the day and will play a double header here the program prepared by W. C. | the Gardiner Division. Sunday with Castle Rock, Wash- Other Oregon operations of The Wood inrton starting at 1 30 p.m. on Art Steele reported on the pre Long-Bell Lumber Company in the high school diamond Games clude sawmills at Vaughn and sent plans of the Centennial Com scheduled for last Sunday with Vernonia and a logging operation mittee of the county as to the Rainier were called bccau.se of celebration connected with the at Grand Ronde. rtin. County Fair. Plans to- have a queen and the selection of the Payment Response Slow Jury Names Drawn candidates throughout the county Turn outs for Boys Baseball are were outlined Plans for the his Names drawn for the May term of the circuit court in Columbia being held up due to a lack of torical pageant were also ex county include Robert F. Curl. response on the insurance pay plained. Louise Hahn and Florence Mess ments. When enough boys to field Discussion of plans for a muse ing of Vernonia. Serving on the a team have paid their fee of um were next brought up with grand jury are Ina Bateman and $1.25, practice sessions will be the committee instructed to con annonunced Clyde Johnson. tinue their efforts. A Vernonia girl will win the title of Miss Vernonia and will represent this community in an all-county contest later when competition is judged at a pro gram being arranged by the F. L. club for Saturday evening, June 5, at 8 p.m. at the high school. This year’s affair will be the se cond at which a girl has been chosen from here for the county Welfare Lists May Expenses Long-Bell Co. Adds Plant Fair Plan Topic At History Meet Chamber to Be Formed Dial Phones Scheduled by May of 1955 Formal organization of a Ver nonia chamber of commerce it | scheduled to take place on the I evening of June 10, Guy Thomas Installation Cost said late last week when it be Estimated to Be came known that Guy E. Leonard $60,000 for Change of Portland could be here at that Vernonia ’s nt a g n e to-operated time. telephone system will be com Leonard is assistant manager pletely replaced by a new dial of the Portland chamber of com telephone system by May 1955. merce and had been asked to according to word received tram come here to help with the setting Lyle Cross, district manager for up of the Vernonia organization. the West Coast Telephone Com pany. Arrangements for the meeting, a Costing an estimated $60,000, place for which will be announced the installation calls for rep’ac next week, are being made by ment of all telephone operating Thomas who was recently named equipment in Vernonia with the chairman pro tern of a group of exception of the outside wires and cables connecting the central business men who are interested office to telephone subscribers’ in starting the chamber. herpes and places of business. The telephone building on Bridge Street will be remodeled exten- * lively prior to installation of the automatic dial equipment. Over 500 wall crank telephones in Ver nonia will be replaced by dial telephones. Pvt. Henry O. Pearson is now “We will begin installation of continuing his army career as the new dial system in February,” paratrooper in the famed “All Cross states. “It will improve Vernoma American" 82nd Airborne Divi service considerably; subscribers will be able to dial all sion at Fort Bragg, North Caro local numbers direct without hav lina. ing to signal an operator. We As a member of the 82nd, he are also planning to put addition will make periodic parachute al long distance facilities into jumps, receive advanced training service for Vernonia by May, in military tactics, and partici 1955”, Cross concluded. The West Coast company, in pate in the training* exercises and common with some 5,300 other maneuvers held by the division telephone companies in th? throughout the year. United States and Canada, in He received his basic training course of a major conversion of at Ford Ord, California from No its equipment, its operational vember, 1953 to April 1, 1953 and methods and its commercial sys- tem. This conversion was com attended airborne school as well. menced some years ago. Its ul He served in Adak, Alaska for timate completion will be one of two years wjth the Navy prior the greatest triumps of human achievement in communication to his army career. Prior to entering the armed The objective, which will not b." fully achieved for many years to forces he attended school in Ore come, is known to telephone men gon. as "National Customer Toll Dial ing." Two Vernonia soldiers are par Installation of the system calls ticipating in Exercise Hill Top, for the closest sort of coordination large-scale training maneuver between the Bell system com panies and the thousands of in near Yakima, Washington. dependent telephone companies They are PFC Wesley D Hunt, and will greatly affect th • com 20. son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred R munications habits of everyone Hunt and PFC Patrick D. Sauer, in this country, yet very little 20, son of Mr. and Mrs Alois J. is known about it by the general Sauer, 341 C St public. Battle testing the 44th Infantry When the national toll dialing Division and special support conversion is completed, any tele units, the exercise stresses tank phone used in the United States infantry coordination in simulat will be able to dial direct to any ed combat operations including oilier telephone in the country gas attacks and mock atomic without the service of an opera explosicAis. tor. His call will be automatically Hunt. a radio operator in timed and checked and recorded. Headquarters Company of the The relevant information will be 44th's 123d Infantry Regiment, mechanically transcribed on the entered the Army in April 1953 bill that will be mailed to him. and completed basic training at About the only human functions Fort Lewis, Washington. He is a left in the entire process will be 1951 graduate of Vernonia Union those of technical supervision and High School and former employee maintenance of the complex ap of the Oregon-American Lum paratus that will translate his ber Corporat^>n dialed impulses into «impleted Sauer, who completed basic connections and properly pre training at Fort Campbell, Ky., pared bills. is a supply clerk in the 601st Quartermaster Aerial Supply! Company of the 11th Airborne | Division from Fort Campbell, Ky. ! Before entering the Army in | March 1953, he attended Seattle | University and worked for the The cost of installing a fence Uingbell Fiber Co. 1 along the south side of the paved area back of the high school will Pfc. Max Buckner and Pfc Bobby Fulton left Thursday for be considered by directors of th • high school district when they Camp Pendleton, California. meet again b-cause of action that A 2c Billy Wells of Paine Air was ordered Tuesday at their Force Base at Everett, Washing June meeting. Th" board requested Superin ton spent the week end at the home of his patent«. Mr. and Mr«. tendent Eugene Dove to obtain L. L. Weil«. Sunday evening data for the cost of this work so L. H Shelley accompanied by that, if possible, fencing can be Ole Jacobson took him to Olym installed to prevent cars from pia, Washington on his return to being driven onto the athletic field back of the school. his base. Board members expressed the Gerald Mdli« of For“st Grove opinion the field should be made left Monday to take training at available for summer recreation th- marine base camp at Quantico, purposes, but that the fence is Virginia He will be there dur needed to protect the property ing the summer and return to from damage A gate will be in Forest Grove this fall to continue stalled across the driveway at the west end of the property. hi« studies at Pacific University ARE IN IT THOSE WHO Cost of Fence Sought by Board
