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Library, U of O I 9i VOLUME 33, NUMBER 21 PHONE 191 99W Alternate Group Plans Sale Oí Memberships; Separation Okehed VERNONIA. COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON THURSDAY, JUNE I«, CHAMBER CELEBRATES 1ST YEAR; ELECTS GROUP District to Pick Board The Highway 99W Alternate nier and the Longview bridge, Road association met at the Banks to be marked as Highway 99 i chamber of commerce gun club, West Alternate road Member- Wednesday night, June 8 at 8:00 ship cards are available at the p.m. with representatives. from local chamber off.ee. Voters in school district 47 Jt. As the result of work done in will go to the Washington school Longview. Forest Grove, Carlton, Banks, and President Art Os conjunction with Oregon High next Munday between the hours way Lifesavers, State Highway of 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. to cast their trander. Guy I. Thomas and Mona Engineer R. H. Baldock rccom ballots for three directors to fill M Gordon from Vernonia pre mended and it was approved, a sent. out the five man board specified grade separation structure on the The association will become in Wilson river highway at its cros by the last session of the state corporated and plans were com sing of the Nehalem secondary legislature Polls will be in the peted to sell memberships in the highway near Banks. Est.mated lobby or front hall. Names appearing on the bal organizations. Individual mem cost of grad? separation and the lot will be. for five year term: berships will sell for $1 00, busi interchange is $150,000. Sam L. Hearing; for four y ar ness. corporations, association, Th“ next regular meeting of th? term, Wilbur Wilson and Stephen $5 00 and chambers of commerce association will be a dinner Sept Waite; for three year term, Loel at the rate of 10c per member. ember 14 in Forest Grove. In Roberts, Ralph A. Sturdevant and Memberships are open to any the mean time work is going on. Joe M. Johnson, Other names person interested in working for Ralph Kletzing, chairman of the may be written in for any of th«- the state highway from McMinn roads and highway committee, three positions if the voters so ville on to Forest Grove. Vernonia with Homer Waltz. Forest Grove desire. and across Apiary road to Rai- and Art Ostrand’r, Vernonia Other matter appearing on the have a meeting date with Baldock ballot will be that of exceedin to discuss future plans. the six p ?r cent limitation in the Everett Haney, Forest Grove, amount of $4,749 92 in order to chairman of the civil defense care for the budget for the com committee, has arranged to have ing year. a program in conjunction with Horseback riders in the Ver- Leonard Dunlap, Forest Grove r. ria area are invited to partici civilian defense coordinator. F. H. Anderson, Longview, re pate in a trail ride next Sunday along with horsemen from oth ’I ported that the toll bridge au I surrounding communities. All thority would meet in Jun? and who wish to take part are to be | it is hoped that car fare for the I at the city park ready to start at j Longview bridge will be cut to Candidates for Miss Columbia 50c and that truck fees would be 10 00 a.m. County are now being selected lowered. Following the trail ride, the in communities throughout the riders will return to the city county and the final selections park for a pot luck dinner and will be made at St. Helens June Radiosonde Found Here I play day. All who com.’ for the 25. Winner of the Miss Colum Last Friday, June 10, Frank bia County title will go to the dinner are asked to bring their Slemmcns found a Radiosonde Miss Oregon fete at Seaside m own dishes and silver. In the afternoon, a discussion on the roadway < the Vernonia July. w,il be held on organizing a rid Memorial cemetery, It is a wea- Any Vernonia girl who is in ing club here and all persons in ther testing device which is at- terested in competing for the tached to a balloon and had been title may get information on how terested are asked to come. released in Portland by the U.S to enter from Guy Thomas, presi- Army Signal Corps. Attached dent of the local chamber of W. D. Steele Called to it was a report card which Mr. Commerce. Slemni. ns filled out and s nt in. Word was received here on Monday of the death of W. D. Steele, former Riverview resi- Picking Starts Monday dent. 1 For the past two years Strawberry picking is slated to he and his wife had resided at the Oregon-Washington Pythian t .Rin Monday, June 20, at the heme at Vancouver. Gravesid’’ Asburry Farms near St. Helens. The clinic for second shots of services were held at the Crest Austin Corll’s bus will transport Salk polio vaccin? will be held pickers from l^tist and Vernonia view cemetery at Vancouver on here at the Masonic Temple next to the fields daily. Tuesday. Wednesday morning, June 22. from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m. Both Dr. R. D. Eby and Dr. F. C. Nachtiga will assist with it and sufficient vaccine will be on hand for all children who previously receiv d the first shots. Any child who is ill and un able to have the shots on this date can be taken to Scappoos-’ July 1. at 9:00 am for the make up clinic which will be held th ’re. Trail Ride Set For Sunday Ä.M. Miss Columbia County Sought Wednesday Set For Polio Shots Youngsijrs Invited Boys under 16 years of age who would like to participate in city league baseball this summer are asked to be at the high school field at 6:30 tonight, Thursday. If enough boys signify interest, several teams will be formed. Doctor's Olfice Closed WILLIAM G. JOHNSON, d.rector of Vernonia high school band, b-. ng kn ghted Ly Citacn Sharon of the Junior court of Rosaria at r-rtmon’cs in Peninsula Pi-k Sunday. 10c COPY <• office will be weeks Galesburg, mother. of Dr. closed while Illinois D. E. Hamp- for the next he goes to to see hie The Vernonia chamber of com merce celebrated its first year of operation with a dinner meeting of members and families and I friends, Friday night, June 10, a» lot owners in the vicinity of _ the Legion hall. The Legion aux Crown Zellerbach nulls and tree iliary ladies served turkey din farms These trees are put up ner to 73 persons. Guy I. Thom in bundles of 200 for $1 and mad 1 as, president, was master of cere available through county agents monies. Committee chairmen or the nearest Crown Zellerbach office as a part of the company's Lyamn Hawken, industry; Art effort to assure the forest future Ostrander, roads, highways; Har of the communities in the region low Hotrum, agriculture; Jobss where it operates. Thompson, retail trade and Pete Lindsay said that trees for Brunsman, membership; gaw? x this extensive planting program short resume of the years activi are grown at the Forest Indus ties of their individual commit tries Nursery at Nisqually, Wash tees. An impromptu talk by Judd ington. The Columbia Ti ?e Farm Greenman was very gratifying.. Thomas stressed that ths» serves as a gathering point for cones collected by Crown Zel- chamber of commerce is workur. lerbach’s timber department. The for the whole Nehalem Valle} local operations processed over not just for the city of Vernon’a 6,000 bushels*of cones weighing alone, and outlined the working* 125 tons during a banner harvest of the group. Perry A. Newport season last fall. The company of Oregon City, baritone, sang has now accumulated over two several numbers, accompanied by tons of the precious material valu Mrs. Newport. Clifford Elliott, manager of the- ed at from $5 to $30 a pound, de pending upon species. “It is the McMinnville chamber of com largest cone collecting and seed merce told about the “McMinn extraction operation of any pri ville Plan” put into effect m the vate timber grower in th? West, ' last three years and of the aoc said Lindsay. cess it has had He stated that Columbia county planting plans there are five factors that play as for next year include the plant active part in attracting indus ing of non-stocked areas near try to an area: natural resources, the summit of the old St. Helens favorable tax base, cheap fuel, road and a continued re-stocking good transportation and avail of cut over ar“as where nature able labor pool. Elliott told of the industrial failed to do se. development corporation organ ized in McMinnville, a non-profit organization, with money to loan as risk capital to persons want ing to expand, those who did not have a work record, or for other : reasons could not borrow from Keeping Oregon Green is the | the banks because of risk capita/ job of every citizen in Columbia | j restrictions. As result of this plan county states Albert Wiesen- I I two hundred new jobs have been danger, executive secretary of the brought into McMinnville in the Keep Oregon association, who last year and a half. A cookie was in Vernonia recently to con firm baked 75 thousand cookies fer with Glen Hawkins, chairman last week; this was the first of the Columbia county KOG company furnished risk capital by the organization. This is n» committee. give away program, but is ba»<-;l Several minor fires have al ready been reported in various on good solid business arrange sections of Oregon according to ments. He ended his talk by saying, Wi?sendanger. Campers and fishermen using “the thing to do is just not sit Columbia county's forest areas there—do something.” The Ver over the week end holidays must noma high school band, directed take particular care to protect by Bill Johnson resplendent in their recreation areas from fire, their new uniforms played a This they can de by being care- i rousing marching tune, then snap- ful with their campfires, careless I pily marched out to continue flipping away of burning cigar with drill practice. It is hoprd ettes. Any of these causes can to make a similar event an an start a fire causing losses run nual part of the chamber pro ning to many thousands of dol gram. The oath of office was given lars and threaten fine stands of the newly elected board of dirre timber. Logging and sawmill crews tors: John Thompson, Mary Drip-. whose bread and butter depend Ed Ruediger Jr., and Sam T. on this county’s timber harvest Hearing, by president Guy Thon have an excellent motive for pre- as, who also introduced the di rectors who have served throurh venting forest fires. Lookouts, forest rangers, log the year, Wesley Boimeier, 1st ging crews are all trained to vice-president; James H. Smrth. quickly report and extinguish 2nd vice president; Marvin K.-wn- fires Speed in getting to the holz, treasurer; Bill J. Hewn, start of a forest fire is very es Floyd Bush, Louise Hahn, < - sential. The earlier a fire is re bert King, and C. J Schaumbur.:. port “d th? better are the chanc publicity. Pat Wallace, corpora es of keeping it from spreading. tion secretary, Henry Anderegg Anyone seeing a smoke curling and Dav? Brunsman were not up from the roof of a home present. On Monday night, June 13, the should sound the alarm; the least the traveler in the forest I chamber board of directors met can do when he sees a forest I at the West Oregon office for their blaze is to report it. Let's have regular bi-monthly meeeting. Ai another good season in this coun- ter the regular items on the agen ty for few man-caus?d fires. da were taken care of; it was de cidcd to hold the re-organization- al meeting with the newly elected board members. Wesley BoL meier Conducted the election of officers whoch resulted in the re-election of Guy I Thomas for ; president, re-election of James Smith, 1st vice-president, Recent word from Bobby Dean H Fulton who is now stationed in Louise Hahn, 2nd vice-president, Japan is that he has been pro Marvin Kamholz, secretary and d Ruediger Jr., treasurer. moted to corporal. 130,000 Trees Planted on 257 Acres 01 Columbia Farm; Seed Produced • A continuing timber supply in j the face of increasing demands ; for paper products is the objec tive revealed in Crown Zeller J bach corporation's announcements of the results of its 1954-55 re forestation program just released I by Glen F Hawkins, Vernonia, I superintendent of the company’s Columbia Tree Farm. “Nearly 1,000,000 trees were planted on our 14 tree farms dur ing the winter planting season which started last November an^i ended in mid-April," said Hawk ins. “H?re in Columbia county we planted 130,000 trees on some 257 acres, bringing to 1,496,000 th? number of trees planted since 1945.** Robert Lindsay, Vernonia, Crown Zellerbach’s resident for ester in general charge of plant ing operations here stat’d that the season's work makes a total of 2,716 acres replanted in Colum bia county since World War J!. “Most of our work this year was done in the upper Coal Creek area and the Natal area". “All of it was cut-over land, most of it in the last three years.” An 18-man crew of company employees and five additional part-time planters were required for the Columbia planting job. Pat Wallace, Vernonia, headed on? crew and Clyde May, Ver nonia, the other. Crew members were: Ray McCoy, Ed Hartzel, Lloyd Quinn, Jens Osulds-n, Bob Elton, Cass Bergerson, Ralph Valpiani, Earl King, J. B Gandy, Frank Birt, Newell Wood, Henry Bodenhammer, Erick Foasey, Os car Enstrom, W. M. Wilcoxen and Don Tiffney. Part-time planters hired just for this work were: D. B. Spofford, Ray Taylor, John Berge, Ray Branson bnd Delmer Michener. Hawkins reported that th? com, pletion of this year’s planting program brings to over 40,000 acres the area reforested by Crown Zellerbach in its South west Washington and Or ’gon tree farms since 1945. Of this, 13,000 acres were restocked by helicop ter, a seeding technique pioneer- ed by Crown in the Northwest, but effective only on certain types of land. In addition to its own refores tation effort, the company un nouncement i stated that 16 5 000 Port Oxford cedar trees w >re dis- tributed to employees and the public for planting this spring, This brings to over 2,000.000 the seedlings given away in the com pany’s gift tree program which began in 1943. An additional 35,000 Douglas fir and Grand fir seedlings, spe cies used in pap?r manufacture, wer? sold at cost to private wood- Two Go To Girls' State Shelia I’arnsh and V-nginia Ray went to Salem Monday tq attend Girls’ State on the Willamette University campus. Sheila is sponsored by the Rebekah lodge and Virginia by the American Le gion auxiliary. KOG Head Asks Fire Prevention THOSE WHO RRE IN IT THE VERNONIA HIGH school ba-.d as they appeared last Friday ercr.ng at their dress rehearsal before geing io the Rose Festival parade Saturday. They also played at Peninsula Park Sunday at lh: rose p'ant ng cetemony of the junior court. Following the Sun- day ceremonies, the band swam al Jantsen Beach and then enjoytd a steak dinner at Carmen's restaurant which they had certainly earned by their hard work. Full list cf the contributors who made these trips possible will be published next week. Twirling School Attended Historical Meet Tuesday Judy Featherston, baton twirl- cr from Vernonia high school, is at Lea vens worth. Washington this week attending twirling school on a scholarship awarded her by the student body. The school is for the Pacific Northwest and instructors come from ail over for This week of intensive instruc tion The Columbia County Histori cal Society will m 'et next Tues day, June 21, at the county fair grounds at Deer Island. There will be the usual pot luck dinner at noon which will be followed by the business meeting and pro gram All attending are asked to bring silverware for their own use.