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Lxbraxy, U of 0 VOLUME 33, NUMBER 7 Grade Budget Tax Levy for Year Drops VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON PHONE IM ' STAMP CLUB I 2700 BIDS JUVENILES The Stamp club will meet Fri- I Pounds Of Seed Now In Storage day evening at 7:00 o.clock at the city hall and more juveniles are invited to attend. Different adult ' members are sponsoring them Tree Farm Men End School Meeting Due and helping them with their col Cone Processing Job; March 9 on Proposed lections. 6000 Bushels Collected 1955-56 Cost Sheet They should bring albums and Crown Zellerbach reports com Prepared at the official budget trader stamps. Some free stamps will also be available at the meeting Tuesday, February 9. meeting to help them get started. pletion of the processing of tree seeds from cones collected by all and published this week is the tree farms of the company in proposed 1955-56 budget for western Oregon and Washington. school district 47. The listing of The local Columbia Tree Farm each year extracts the seed from proposed expenditures will be the cones and cleans the seed for presented to voters of the district all divisions of the firm. This at the annual meeting March 9 year more than 6000 bushels of Lloyd Quinn, new manager for I cones were processed to procure The expense and income sheet for the coming fiscal ysar shows the Vernonia Country club, issued I a total of just over 2700 pounds ?.• ne changes, first of which is a statement Tuesday which listed 1 of clean seed. an increase in the amount of fees for the club for the coming Seed is sent to Portland for money expected from sources season and announced the date ' cold storage until needed for seed- i c t ier than property taxes. More of April 17 for the J. A. Bush Jr. ing in the tree nursery at Nis- r ?ney will come from the basic spring handicap. qually or for direct seeding on His schedule of fees is: family school support fund to account areas needing seed. f : over $8300 more estimated membership including children Species of seed cleaned this re -eipts for next year than was under 18, $50; non-playing mem year included Douglas fir, west bership, $25; green fees, 60c for received last year. ern hemlock, sitka spruce, noble nine holes, $1.20 all day; green The budget list of expenses fir, silver fir, grand fir, and wes also shows an increase from $155,- fees, under 16. 35c nine holes, 70c tern red cedar. all day; rental clubs, 50c day; 990 last year to $163,350 this The cones were collected last I year, made necessary by the need junior membership, grade and fall, dried to make them open high school students, $15; college to employ two new teachers to and then the seed extracted. The handle a steady enrollment in students membership. $25; out- extracted seed must be carefully crease in lower grades and to of-town guests with member, $1 cleaned to produce a high quality day. ra.se teacher salaries. seed with top germination test. I The high school golf team, Enrollment at the end of the which will be coached by Bill Local crews have been work last school year stood at 509 while this year the figure is 537 Johnson, will play free, on week ing at the seed cleaning since days, but pay the regular rate early November. ar. d a further gain is expected. Another change in the faxpens"' on week ends or holidays, or, if holding a junior membership, I list /tails for a reduction of $900 for the school lunch program will be allowed play anytime. Work on the course will start leaving S1000 budgeted as a r®- s ive fund for this item. Present this week end and Mr. and Mrs. plans for the lunch program Quinn will be assisted by Mr specify that it is to be self-sus- and Mrs. H. J. Buffmire in the • operation and maintenance. ’ Knights of Pythias highway’’ tatnirtg. courtesy week which has been Residents of the district, established by proclamation of h> wever, will face a lower tax all the governors and the pre bi, l on property than they had miers of the provinces of Canada last year. The 1954-55 budget is being spotlighted this week on listed an amount of $73.012 02 to many radio and TV programs on be raised from taxes, while the all networks. The Supreme proposed new listing calls for Custom planing of lumber is a Chancellor Commander will ap taxes totaling $71.996.80. new service that has been added pear on the 20 questions TV pro to the saw mill operation owned gram. Other programs giving by Jim Smith, he announced spots are State of the Nation, earlier this week when he out Road Show, and a great Pythian lined the work it is now possible founders day show on the Mutual for his mill to produce. network Sunday, February 20. He emphasized custom work The program of the Knights of for farmers or anyone else hav Pythias is based on the theory Approximately 15 teachers from ing logs which they wish pro that courtesy is contagious and it the local schools attended a din cessed. With addition of the is better to yield a right-of-way ner meeting of the Columbia planer, he makes available a com than to die taking it. County Education association at plete sawing and refinishing plant, Mr Bride school in St. Helens on the only one in the valley where M nday, February 14 at which an individual may bring his own about 125 teachers and their logs and have them cut to ord ?r. wives or husbands from all over The planer can surface timbers the county gathered for the an up to 4 by 10 inches and up to nual social night. A variety pro 18 feet in length. gram was presented by groups Latest tabulations show that «from the Rainier schools and Vernonia residents have contri b.ngo was played afterwards. Historical Group io Meet buted $714.87 to the 1955 March Business conducted consisted of The Columbia County Histori of Dimes, according to Mrs. Frank the election of the following of ficers for the coming year: Dar- cal Society will meet Tuesday, Serafin, local chairman. In ad r< d Proehl. Vernonia, president; February 22 at the Yankton dition to this is the $176.50 at Mrs. Edith Inga'.d. Rainier, vice, Grange Hall. A potluck dinner Ma Vike’s Cafe which will be president; Mrs. Evelyn Heath, at noon will be followed by the turned in with additional dona Vernonia, secretary and James regular session of business and tions made there later this month. This will put the Vernonia total program numbers. J ins, Vernonia, treasurer. near or over the $900 mark. Mrs. Serafin expressed appre ciation for the excellent support of both individuals and organiza tions which made such a fine showing possible. Fees Listed for Golf Course Radio and TV Note KP Week Planer Added to Mill Operation Proehl Elected CCEA President Dimes Response Here Good Over-Expenditures of Welfare Funds Noted in Report from Commission According to information re- bia county needs an organization l.ased by Mrs. Eva L. Tice, ad- to act as “clearing house" for all rr.nistrator of the Columbia coun service agencies. ) The commission is seriously ty welfare commission, Columbia ccunty completed the first half concerned about the foster care of the fiscal year with a total program, which threatens a short net over-expenditure of $1.803 43. age of some $3,300 00 by the end Vernonia grade school Toppers which included an over-expendi of the year. Children placed by ture of $257.60 administration ex- the commission are generally played Rainier at Rainier Friday, court committed, have no avail February 11th. The second team pe nse. won 34 to 23 and the first team The items over-spent consti able parents, are in school and came from behind to win 42 to 30 should remain in school. There ' tute a serious threat to further in their game Halftime score expenditures, inasmuch as short can b-- no curtailment in this area. was 14 to 12 in favor of Rai Until the present over-expen age of state funds are limiting nier. transfers from on? program to diture is adjusted, programs must McBride grade will play here be limited to “ dire ” emergency another. needs, with the hope that their Friday, February 18 in the last An effort has been made to needs do not precipitate emer- : home game of the season curtail assistance by eliminating Plans are being made to hold gencies. help to persons able to wort and Over-expenditure of adminis the Columbia County Grade by limiting medical care to emer tration expense results from re School Basketball Tournament gencies only. Both restrictions placing worn out office equip here March 9, 10 and 11. The first must be tightened until costs are j ment and from the need for ad two afternoon sessions will be within funds available .Some help has come from ser- | ditional equipment, such as in held at the Washington grade terviewing room desks and chairs, school and the finals will be held vice group*, church auxiliaries I as well as a tabie for commission at the high school gym Friday evening Merch 11. end individuals (Again Colum- I meetings. Toppers Tally Additional Wins 10c COPY THURSDAY. FEB Change for Highway 99 W Topic of Meeting Due At Hillsboro February 23 Court Given Statement of County Funds There will be a meeting of the chamber of commerce and inter ested civic minded groups front the towns from McMinnville along the highway thiough Ver nonia to Rainier, Longview and Kelso February 23 at the Forest Grove high school at 8:00 p.m. to discuss with Albert Skelton, state highway engineer, the plan of either re-routing highway 99W or making this an alternate route through from McMinnville to Kelso. This alternate route would join the highway north, according to Art Ostrander, chairman of the roads and highways committee of the Vernonia chamber. He announced the Forest Grove meeting at the membership meet, ing Monday night at the I W A. hall and emphasized that inter ested parties are invited to at tend this meeting. He also told of the new Ver-. noma signs placed at much need ed spots at Rainier and on the Apiary road due to the highway committee requests. COMMITTEES REPORT Harlow Hotrum, agriculture committee chairman, again an nounced that if anyone interest ed in growing strawberries or caneberries will leave their name and address with him, or at the chamber office, the names will be sent to the Hudson company and their field representative will call and give any assistance pos sible. They will test soil free, purchase plants for prospective growers and assist in financing the project. The industrial committee has been busy. Committee guests last week were Dean McCallister of the Lewis and Clark college business administration school, and Frank Seeley, student at tile college. They were here to check this community preparatory to drawing up a tentative program of work which will result in a labor survey. Students in the school of business administration at the college will prepare a questionnaire suitable for use in Three members of the Vernonia conducting the survey. fire department, Dick Gwinn, Lyman Hawken and Marvin Horner Fuller and Larry Garner, Kamholz plan on meeting with attended a meeting of the county them in Portland again Thursday. association at Scappoose last "LUCKY DOLLAR" POSSIBLE Wednesday evening. Jack Thompson, chairman of Discussion was held on the ad the retail trades committee, re visability of having a vocational ported having sent out another training class for firemen in this dodger containing merchant’s county some time this year. The specials and that his committee St. Helens firechief reported on a is working on a “Lucky Dollar" meeting he had attended in Port project. A clearing opinion from land dealing with civil defense the post off’ce department is and mutual aid between cities in awaited on this project. case of attack. Chamber members were urged Rainier reported acquisition oi to support and boost the Ver a new truck and several of the nonia golf course, one of this departments announced plans for area’s big assets. Manager Lloyd Firemen’s Balls as fund raising Quinn plans to do a lot of im projects. proving and has many ideas for Entertainment was provided by the coming season. accordianist Brooky Brown. The A committee was appointed to next meeting will be in Rainier attend the hearing regarding a March 9. West Coast Telephone company request for a 20 per cent raise in revenue; tentatively set for March 2 at the Hillsboro city council rooms. Lyman Hawken Art Davis, Guy Thomas, Art Ostrander and Don Bayley were Founders Day will be observed named. , by the local PTA when it meets A letter from L. E Cross, dis next Monday evening in room 14 trict manager of the company said at the Washington school with an that after their meeting next appropriate program arranged by week a definite date for the cut- program chairman, Mrs. Jim over to dial phones will be an Smith. nounced. Also on the evening's program j John T. Wylde, Lew’s Place is will be the initiation ceremony . a new member. for the Vernonia high school chap- ' ter of the Future Teachers of I Management Changes America. A panel led by Mr. Walter New managers of The Shack Harris, library and reading in this week are Al and Iva Jane structor, will present a discus Velund who took over for John sion on evaluation or grading in nie Schramm who has gone to the elementary schobls. Follow Forest Grove where he is open ing this the meeting will be ing today the restaurant in The thrown open for questions and Home Bakery owned by Jim discussion and all interested per Peterson. sons are invited to attend. Road Work Expected To Deplete Fund by End of Fiscal Year Columbia county finances were reported a few days ago to be in good condition according to John W. Whipple, county judge. Tabu, lations from a financial state ment furnished the court by th? county clerk show that the gen eral fund amounted to $388,058 0!» as of July 1, 1954, had an unex pended balance at the half way mark of $224,207.06, and with six months of the fiscal year gon • the general road fund had an un expended balance of $211,140 08 against an original budget of $347,167.40. The Judge points out. however, that heavy road repair and con struction as well as commit ments for the purchase of neces- •ary road machinery and repairs for the remainder of this fiscal year will probably deplete the balance in the road fund. "A determination to keep the county budget in balance will make it necessary to forego im provements and facilities request ed by different groups of our citizenship", the Judge said. Firemen Attend County Meet PTA To Observe Founder's Day Treasury Bond Sales Increase 17. 1955 R M. Burns To Open T.V. Shop Scheduled to open Saturday, I February 19, is the radio and I television sales and* service store | of R. M. Burns at 763 Second (Street across from the post of fice. 1 Mr. Burns, who has been a resident of Vernonia since 1949, has recently completed a 14- months course in industrial elec tronics at the Portland Television College and graduated as a radio and TV technician. He has also received his Federal Communi cations license. He has the franchise for Hoff, man radio and TV sales and ser vice but is trained to service any make of either. Also, his shop is being stocked with all new equipment to make such service possible. The public is invited to drop in Saturday and get acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Burns and all who do so will be served doughnuts and coffee. Goodwill Truck Expected The Goodwill truck will be in Vernonia Thursday, February 24 to pick up the things collected last week by the Cub Scouts. Anyone having other things to be picked up may call Mrs Frank Lange at 273 and she will have the truck call. This will be the last visit of the truck hero until the last of April or in May. Win, Loss Mark Week's Activity by High School Team; Warrenton Next The Loggers started with a . Last Friday the Loggers jour- Treasury Savings Bond sales j neyed to Seaside to meet the se fast first quarter and led 25 to set a new record in January cond place Seagulls. Led by 8 and by the end of the half throughout the nation and the Dick Walsborn, the Seagulls built their lead was 44 to 22. The same fact was found to be true up a 31 to 17 lead by halftime. third quarter score was 59 to 40 in both Oregon and Columbia By the end of the 3rd quarter and Vernonia came back with 23 county The new series H bonds the Seagulls had increased their more points to total up the final are continuing to gain favor 82. Sales in Oregon in January lead to 51-33. Pat O'Brien set a school scor In the last auarter the Log totaled $5.481,659 as compared to gers rallied, but the Seaside lead ing record in the new gym by $3.602,118 in January of 1954. was too much to overcome and dropping in 24 points while Chucx Columbia county sales last month the final score showed Seaside Cunningham was right behind were $59,903 as compared to him with 23. Dick Chalmers on top 61 to 49 $46,435 a year ago. Dick Walsborn was high point paced the Pirates with 19. This Friday night the Loggers man for the winners and the Girl Geis Scholarship game with 14 John Riley had meet the Warrenton Warrior» at Margaret Buckley of Vernonia 12 for the Gulls. Rick Bush and 8:00 at the high school gymj In has b-*en announced as the Co Chuck Cunningham paced the their previous encounter with the coastal club this year, th? lumbia county 4-H member pick Loggers with 11 points each. Tuesday the Loggers won their loggers dropped a 48-47 heart ed to receive U m - scholarship for The two JV squadi 4-H summer school at Corvallis second game of the year over breaker. given by Safeway Store» Incor Neahkahnie by trouncing the Pi start things off at 6:30. Next By racking up Tuesday the Loggers will travel porated Safeway awards $25 rates 82 to 60 scholarships to outstanding 4-H 82 points the Loggers came with to Rainier to square off with th? livestock club members through in 7 points of the record they set Columbians. (Box Scores Page 6i at Scappoose last year out the state.