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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1954)
VOLUME 32, NUMBER 40 Engineer to Begin System Work Plan Contract Covers Details of Sewer Proposal Project The job of preparing detailed plans and specifications ’ for con struction of the proposed sewer system for the Corey hili area and other small sections of Vernon-s is scheduled to begin soon be cause of a contract that was con sidered and signed Monday even ing by city councilmen. The contract was the principal item of business at this meeting, -the first for October The agree ment was made between the en gineering firm of N. W. Haner and Associates and the city and calls for plan preparation, the making of an estimate of the pro bable cost of the project, exami nation of bids received, super vision of the job as it is being done and payment for all of these services. N. W. Haner and Associates is the firm that has in the past been employed by the city for the pre paring and carrying out of con struction work. It is expected that plan preparation will begin within a very short time. Bill J. Horn appeared before the council to explain advantages of blanket insurance and present ed suggestions for coverage that should be considered. This mat ter was tabled until a future meeting. Definite action was taken on the suggestion that the city pur chase a line marker. This piece of equipment will make possible the painting of yellow lines for crosswalks and special parking areas much easier than has been done in the past. Two other orders issued by the council provide for bus parking only in front of the bus depot from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and for no parking on the east side of First street between Maple street and the Legion hall. Data Confirms Cool Summer According to information com piled by Mrs. Helen Spofford, co operative weather observor, the warmest day of the year was on September 25 when the mercury climbed to 87 degrees here. Se cond warmest day was in May with a 85 degree reading. One day in June touched 84 degrees and one in July 81 degrees. Was it summer? We wonder. In September, the minimum temperature was 31 degrees on Septermber 29 when frost touched the gardens. Percipitation fur September was 1.35". PHONE 191 THOSE WHO ARE IN IT Pfc. Patrick Sauer suiprtsed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alois Sauer Saturday with a call to meet hirr at the Portland airport. I’' ar rived by plane from Fort Camp bell, Kentucky where h? is u member of the 601st Q M. Aerial Supply Co. and will have 20 daj s at home. VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY. OREGON 10c COPY Residents living within the pro posed rural fire district and who are duly qualified voters will have the opportunity to decid-' in favor of or against the question of forming the district when they vote next Tuesday, October 12. The district was proposed earlier this year and explained at a pub- lie meeting April 19 bv J J Hicks, deputy state fire marshal. Tuesday’s election will take place at the Nehalem Service station in Riverview and the polls will be open from 8 a m. to 8 p m. A map showing the sec tions to be included in the dig trict appears elsewhere in this issue of The Eagle. Shortly after the April meet ing petitions wore circulated call ing for a hearing and also for an election and sufficient signatures of real property owners were ob tained to make possible the hold LOGGERS HIT COME-BACK TRAIL FRIDAY EVENING; DEFEAT TIGERS 140-12 IN THIRD LCL ENCOUNTER Pfc. Darrell Borders spent the week end here from Fort Lewis. Pfc. Raymond Jones is spend ing a ten day leave here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Bay- ley. He is stationed at Fort Lewis. The Columbia County Com mission of the Highway Life Savers of Oregon met at the Scappoose City Hall on Thurs day, September 23, for their reg ular monthly meeting. A county Safe Driving Pledge was decided upon and it will be printed in all the papers of the county, along with information about the Life Savers program, early in No vember. Organizations throughout the county will be contacted to obtain the support of their member ships in publicizing the plans of the commission. A number of inspiring movies on highway safe ty were previewed by the group and a suitable selection made for showing at various public meet ings over the county. Teachers on Committee Two members of the Vernonia high school faculty. Myron Vlcck and David Turnbull, have be-n chosen to serve on the state text book committee and meetings are sch-duled to be held at St. Helens tonight and in Salem next Tues day and Wednesday to consider selection of new social science text books for use in Oregon high schools. gen first touchdown after receiving a paia from Hokey. ( i | ( Boys Like Style Revue Mrs. W. J. Lindsley received news from her son, Kenneth, re cently that he had been promoted to Corporal. He left Korea Oct ober 3 to return to his home her? • 1354 Rural Fire District Vote Due Oct. 12 A/lc and Mrs. Darrell Elliott are the parents of a daughter. Darnell Jean, born September 21 at Fitzsimmons Hospital in Der. ver, weighing eight pounds. She is the first grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Elliott of Birkenfeld. Highway Life Savers Meet THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7. CARL HOLSEY intercep s a Clatskanie pass and brought down aftir a substantial gain in the latter minutes of 'he first half in last Friday night's game which the Loggers won 40-12. Coach V leek’s Vernonia Log gers hit the come-back trail Fri day evening when they enter tained the visiting Clatskanie Tigers on the local turf and de feated them by the count of 40 to 12 The Loggers started their touch down parad ■ early in the game when the Clatskanie team kicked out of trouble from their own 20 after taking the kickoff and fail ed to make a first down. The Loggers took the ball on the visi tors 43 and drove all the way downfield to their three-yard stripe using a steady ground at tack. On the next play the local eleven fouled up the Tiger de fenders and passed over for the TD with Hols-y heaving the pig skin to O’Brien. The try for point was good with Bill Higley split ting the uprights. Once again during first quarter play the visiting Tigers ran into difficulty with the haid charging Logger line which wouldn't budge. Taking to the airlanes a Clatskanie pass was snagged by an alert Logger defender on the visitor’s 40. Staying on the ground, Vernonia proceeded to drive the ball all the way down to the nine-yard stripe. Vernonia scored from that point when Hol- sey took a lateral from Crowston • nd skirted left end. The try for point was good with Holsey passing to O’Brien for the extra counter. Second quarter play started with a bang for the visitors as they drove all the way from their own 19-yard stripe for their fir-: TD of the game. Th- scoring play occurred on a 39-yard pass and run play The try for point was no good. In the waning min utes of the first half Jerry Bush recovered a Tiger fumble on the 11-yard »tripe The Loggers fail 'd to gain and lost the ball on downs with the visitors taking over. Vernonia's hard charging linemen then tackled a Clatskanie back on the Tiger's own two-yard stripe forcing them to kick out. On the punt the kicker stepped out of th? end zone giving the local eleven a safety and two ad ditional points, making the score stand at 16-6 at halftime. Clatskanie kicked off starting third quarter play to the locals' 30 and carried to the 40-yard stripe From that point Holsey skirted end for 53 yards all the way down to the visitors seven before being downed On third down Ricky Bush scored for the locals from one yard out Try 1 for point failed. Twice again the ' Loggers scored in third quarter [ play. Midway through the quarter Vernonia intercept?d a Tiger pass at midfield. Bobby Crowston ran ■ all the way to the visitors’ 15 I before being tripped up. From | that point Holsey drov' down to I the one-yard stripe. The Loggers | scored from that point with Frank 1 doing the honors. Once again the ! try for point failed. Vernonia’s third TD in the third quarter came in the final minutes ' of that period when Clatskanie ' punted, after failing to make a ! first down, to the Loggers’ 25. ' Holsey, Ixigger safety man, took the ball from that point and ran it all the way back for a tally be- hind excellent blocking in the most exciting play of the game. Try for point failed as the quarter ended with the score standing at 34-6 Midway through fourth quarter play the Loggers scored once I again when the combination of I^Crowston’s lateral to Holsey 1 worked from 20 yards out for the 1 TD Try for point failed. Clatskanie scored their second ' TD in the final minutes of play ! against Logger reserves as a Tiger | back got loose from his own 25- Ivard stripe and galloped all the w'ay to the locals' eight-yard marker before being hauled down from behind. The visitors TD came on a pass play. Try for point failed. Final score 40-12 Vernonia will journey to Scap poose Friday night to engage that squad in the local eleven's fourth league encounter. Scappoose was defeat'd last Friday evening by the Seaside Seagulls and this game should be rated as a toss- up j | ' ! Final Rites Read Sunday 1 j > ' 1 Funeral services were held on j Sunday afternoon at the Bush Funeral home for Lee Franklin Wood who passed away last Thursday at the Bennett Nursing Home at Tillamook after an ill ness of about eight months. Mr Wood was born at Vernonia February 17, 1899 and had spent the greater part of his life in or near this community. He had lived at Tillamook for the past five years. He is survived by one daughter, Dora May Zeiler of Manhatten, hi» father, Albert Wood of Ver nonia, a brother, Everett Wood and a sister, Mary Schedwin, both of Vernonia, and two grand children. Services were read by Reverend Ervin Leake of the Christian Church and soloist was Mrs. Frank Serafin. Burial was at the Vernonia Memorial Cemetery ■ ■ » Telephone Co. Files for Raise Conference Attended Eugene Dove, Vernonia high school superintendent, spent Mon day and Tuesday at Salem at tending the twenty-sixth annual ' fall conference of the Oregon As- ' sociation of Secondary School Principals Principal topics used ! for study and discussion were i "Citizenship E d u c a t i on” and “School Mv»'- and Their Inter- I pretauon." Laws given special J study were the ones pertaining Ito compulsory attendance and new health education requirements. The style revue presented Tues day evening at th? high school auditorium under sponsorship of the 4H clubs was well received by a good audience. Harold Black, county club a- gent, opened the program and introduced Mrs. Allyn, county ex tension ag"nt, and Mrs. Turnbull, high school Home Ec. teacher who had been instrumental in getting the revue lined up here. With Marie Stager as reader of the script which introduced the models and Miss Wagner pro viding a musical background, girls from the high school home ec department and 4H clothing clubs entered one by on? wearing garments provided by the Sim plicity pattern company and made from current simplicity patterns. Styles shown included a coat, suits and dresses ranging from sports type through dress up styles and formals. Sports shorts were also shown. The fact that the boys are very interested in what the girls wear and like to see them dressed up was emphasized by the number of boys who were present for the show. i , , . Th'' West Coast Telephone Com pany has amended its current rate filing, according to Ray Dal ton, vice president and gen Tai manager of the company, and is asking for $250,000 additional an nual gross revenue This makes an average addition of about forty-three cents per month per telephone in Oregon Increased cost of operation and larger investment in plant addi tions have mad* the revised fil ing necessary. Dalton announced today ing of the election. To vote on the district quest is, a voter must have the qualifica tions of an elector of the stats* and have resided m the disirwt not less than 90 days preceding the date of the election. At next Tuesday’s election, a board of directors will also be chosen to manage the affair« of the district by selecting a fire chief, providing equipment, ci n tracting with towns regard-ig fire protection, providing an alarm system and levying a tax not to exceed four nulls to defray expenses. The names of those propose:! for the board of directors are; Albert B. Brunsman, Eug<.ne Drips, Desmond E. Laird. Jan -s H Smith and O. G. Weed. Indebtedness of the district shall never exceed five per cent of the assessed valuation for state and county purposes on all pro perty within the limits of the district. Four mills may be levied by directors and an additional 10 mills after special election an! approval by a majority of th» legal voters of the district. Reductions in insurance rat.** are possible in the district u» proportion to the fire protect; ; ii provided. Candidates At Republican Meet Many out of town guests, in cluding a number of candidates for office in the November 2 election, were present for the Re publican meeting held last Wed nesday night at the Legion hall. Present from Astoria were» Mrs. Laurence Jackson, president of the Astoria Republican dub, Mr and Mrs. S. H. Ixte, Mrs Fred Leudstrom and Mr. an! Mrs. Joe Dyer. Mr. Dyer is a candidate for joint senator for Clatsop and Columbia counti ».< From Clatskanie were Mrs C. Evenson, Mr. and Mrs. Haro'.d Aspinwall and Mr. and Mrs. An Steele Mr. Steele is a candidate for state representative. From St. Helens were Mrs. Mary Whittier, president of the Republican women’s club, wh.> presided over the Wednesday night meeting, Mrs. Harvey Jor dan, and Mr. and Mrs. Claude Poff. From Deer Island were cand date for county commissioner, Elmer Loyd and Mrs. Loyd. Principal speaker of the even ing was State Treasurer Si< Unander of Salem who stressed the accomplishments of Presider’ Eisenhower during his first 13 months in office and spoke of the sincerity and capability of Governor Patterson. He ala-» indorsed Guy Cordon, Art Steele and Joe Dyer. Also speaking during the even ing were Art Steele, Joe Dy^r and Elmer Loyd. Crew Leaders Trained Millard R Calhoun of St. Hel ens was chosen from Qplumb.a county to participate in a pre gram of training for crew leade-.s in the 1954 Census of Agriculture which was begun at Salem Mor day. After completion of the five day training course, crew leader» will return to their counties anj recruit and train enumerators fr the actual work of taking the census. Fire Trucks Get Call Both fire trucks were call'd out shortly before noon la*t Thursday when a trash fire near the Cedarwood Timber Company shingle mil) went out of control Because of lowered humidity and the dryness of surrounding brusn it spread rapidly and was quit? menacing for a time before being brought und“r control. It dem onstrated clearly that the fire season is not over and extreme caution is still required.
