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VOLUME, 33. NUMBER 41
VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON
Bank Deposits
Show Increase
In 12 Months
Predictions
Fulfilled in
Friday Game
Lions Topple Logger
Eleven 33-6; Reserve
Lack Very Evident
Resources Up Also
Statement Realeased
This Week Indicates
Figures released to th ’ comp
troller of the currency as of Oc
tober 5 indicate that the United
Slates National bank has marked
up a better than 12 per cent in
crease in deposits since the Oc-
ober, 1954, report.
U. S. National deposits now to
tal $762.003,269 which is a gain
of more than 86 million dollars
during the past 12 months.
The Vernonia branch reported
deposits in the amount of $1,678.
¿69 12. according to G. A. Rem
nant. manager.
U. S. National also showed
gams in total resources which
rose from $732.933,021 a y ar ago
to $827.562.848 at present.
Leans and discounts for the
state-wide banking system in
creased more than 46 million dol
lars. The 12-month gain gives
U. S. National a loans and dis
counts total of $292.505,416.
Since last October the U. S. Na-
t.onal has added 16 new branch
bringing to 62 the total number
of offices serving the state.
“The increase in both deposits
and loans and discounts clearly
pcmts out the vital role this home
owned bank plays in meeting the
financial needs of Oregon busi
nesses and individuals,” Remnant
commented.
Vaccine for Albert Schmidlin
Polio Here i Dies Wednesday
Services Read
For Earl Dial
Funeral services for Earl Leslie
D.al were read October 4 at Med
ford with Rev. Hillman of the
Z.on Lutheran church officiating.
Interment was at the Memory
Gardens cemetery, Jacksonville,
Oregon, with the Jacksonville
Masonic Lodge conducting the
graveside services.
Earl Dial was born March 4,
18991, in Spokane and died in
M dford, Oregon, September 30.
He came to Vernonia in 1923 to
work on construction of the Ore
gon-American mill and remained
«Í foreman of the stacker sheds
until he moved to the state of
Washington in 1942. For the past
2 years, he has made his home
in Jacksonville.
Survivors are the wife, Anna
M , Jacksonville; a son, Robert.
North Hollywood, California; a
daughter. Mrs. Earl King of Ver-
nenia; 3 brothers: Elmer, Chet-
eau, Montana; Cecil of Spokane,
Washington; John Stark, Waukon,
Washington, a sister. Mrs. Harry
Burtraw, Warrenton, Oregon; 2
step-sons, Carl Allen, Pasco,
Washington and Roy Allen. Jack
sonville and 6 grandchildren.
Mr. Dial was a member of the
Z.'n Lutheran church at Medford
and the Masonic Iodg? at Kenne-
w.ck, Washington.
National Assembly Dated
Grade and high school students
will assemble at the Washington
schol auditorium at 1 p m. Friday
fcr a National School Assembly
program entitled, "Out of This
World." They will hear a scsen-
t.f.c lecture on space facts.
Friday night proved to be as
the armchair experts predicted
when the St. Helens Lions invad
ed the local turf and downed a
tired, but game Vernonia elev
en by the resounding score of
33-6.
The Loggers played heads up
i ball but couldn’t qujte cope with
the depth of the St. Helens Lions.
Lack of reserves could be given
as the main reason for the de-
leat of Coach Vlcek’s gridders.
The Loggers received
their
counter in the socond period
of play after holding the much
heavier Lions to a standstill in
first quarter play. Vernonia's
TD was set up when the Log
gers recovered a Lion fumble
on the St. Helens 35-yard stripe.
A fourth down pass from Shaw
to Crowston completely fooled
the St. Helens’ secondary and
was good for the TD. Try for
point failed.
Midway through the second
quarter the Loggers punted to
the
visitors
10-yard
marker
where a fleet Lion back picked
up the pigskin and rambled 90
TOP PHOTO: Unidentified Lion back is brought abruptedly to the
yards behind excellent blocking
turf by three Logger linemen in action last Friday night. Bottom
for the TD. Try for point failed,
photo: Mike Shaw, Logger back is brought to earth by a St. Helens
making the score stand 6 6.
line backer after a four-yard advance.
In the waning minutes of first
half play th? Lions again cros-
I sed into payoff territory on a
combined passing and running
attack The St. Helens score oc
curred on a 1-yard plunge over
center. Try for point was good
Albert Schmidlin, a resident oi
Parents, whose children have
with the halftime score favoring
this community for well over 50
not received innoculations for
th? visitors 13-6.
years, passed away Wednesday
polio and who wish the preventa-
Third quarter play was rather
morning at the Veterans hospital
tive measure to be administered,
at the age of 84 years. He was even as a tired but game Logger
can now make such arrange-
born February 12, 1871 in Switz defense held several Lion threats
ments. Miss Grace Roumagoux,
erland. was a veteran of the Span but were unable to get a serious
county health . nurse, said Tues-
ish-American war and a mem- attack started. At the end of
day.
| ber of the Veterans of Foreign quarter play the Loggers punt
She indicated that polio vaccine Wars. He had resided here since ed from their own 10-yard stripe
is available now and that parents the 1890’s.
to their 20 which set up the
should contact their local physi
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Surviving the deceased are: his Lion's third TD.
cian.
Start of the fourth quarter of
wife; a non, Albert Jr., of Ver
play St. Helens took the pigskin
nonia; two daughter, Mrs. W M
Braun of Vernonia and Mrs. Os and in three plays drove over
car Sorlee of Portland and one for the counters. The try for
point was no good.
grandson, Bill Braun, Vernonia.
Arrangements are being handl
Midway through the
fourth
ed by the Bush Funeral home period the alert St. H’lens de
All Vernonia high school alum with details about the services fens? intercepted a Logger pass
on the locals’ 20 and ran all the
ni were extended an invitation /lot completed yet Wednesday.
way without being touched for
earlier this week to attend the
the TD. Try for point «vas good,
annual homecoming game and
making the score stand 26-6.
dance on the date of October 21.
This affair has becom? an annual
St. Helens last TD occurred in
event, since 1952, with the elec
the last seconds of the game as
tion of a queen each year.
the Lions scored from eight yards
Preparation for the coming year out after a 70-yard jaunt, making
Students on the Memolog staff
will sponsor the dance following of Boy Scout activity has been game’s end score stand at 33-6
the game and the football boys started and the registration com in favor of the visiting Lions.
have eleced Gretchen Bolmeier pleted for the charter for that
Friday evening of this week
period
Sponsor for the Scouts
as this year’s queen.
the Loggers will journey to Wy’
The Loggers will entertain Scao- again is the IOOF lodge, the East to take on that team in a
poose on the football field that members of which group named conference league tilt. Wy'East
as its committee as: Truman defeated Clatskanie last
evening.
week
Knight. Otto Cantwell, Lloyd
19-0 and will be looking forward
Quinn, Cecil Johnson and Charles to hanging another scalp on their
Movie Scheduled
Johnsen. Shelby Cook is acting
belts.
“Freedom to Learn" is the to as institutional representative.
Morale remains fairly high in
pic of a movie that PT A mem
The registrat.on was sent to
bers will see at their Monday district council headquarters the the local’s camp although the
night meeting at the high school. last of September and regular injuries of Don Holsey, Roy Hig
Also scheduled as part of the I meetings for the boys started ley and Dick Johnson will pos
program that night is a spelling I Tuesday at th? Scout cabin at 7 sibly hurt the Loggers Friday
night, but tne locals will try to
bee with 6th, 7th and 8th grade I p.m.
pull an upset and defeat the high
children participating. The meet
Jewell Lloyd is filling the posi
flying Wy'East eleven.
ing starts at 8 p.m.
tion of Scoutmaster.
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To Homecoming
Scout Charter
To Come Soon
Director's Hear Manager's Rapori, Plan Member Meet
The Vernonia chamber of com-
m:rce directors were given a re
port of the Oregon chamber exec
utives workshop held in Eugene
last Thursday. Friday and Sat
urday, by Mona Gordon, man
ager. when they imt Monday
evening.
One of the main problems over
the state is the large number of
families moving out of tbs cities
into the fringe areas, creating
transportation , police.
water,
sewage, streets, schools and oth
er servie? problems. This trend
started in 1920 and it is thought
that in another 20 years there
will be more people living out-
s.de cities than in them. Oregon
is fifth, percentagewise, in the
United States in growth.
George Lewis, Tigard C of C
president and an instigator of
the Litter Bag item told of the
success these bags are having
The state of Oregon figures that
by the end of the year they will
have saved $50,000 on cleanup
work at the expense of only
$7.001 This latter amount of
money was spent for litter cans
placed along highways as de
positories for the bags and for
the maintenance of the
Other subjects were industry,
legislative action and tourist bus
iness. Bob McCoy of the Oregon
development commission, told of
the Stanford research survey be
ing made now to evaluate the
list of candidate industries and
asking the cooperation of the
various managers to get valuable
information to th?m regarding
sites, buildings, etc.
The workshop covering hud-
reds of topics, was attended bv
about 25 managers and other of
ficers of chambers of commence.
The membership meetipg of
this chamber will be held the
first full week of Novembei
Plans have been made to have
as speaker for a dinner meet
ing, Representative Walter Nor-
blad. when he returns from Ok
inawa.
County Polio
Head Named
Earl Seawnght has been nam
ed county chairman for the Na
tional Foundation of Infantile
Paralysis to succeed Ben Cole
man who resigned this year after
15 years of service for polio work,
according to an announcement
made late last week
A new system for handling the
annual campaign is planned
It
is proposed to appoint campaign
directors for each county com
munity, these directors to be in
charge of their respective areas
and also to be members of the
board of directors of the county
chapter.
10c COPY
Natal Meet
Set on Soil
Farmers residing in the Neha
lem valley will have the oppor
tunity of attending a soil conser
vation
district
meeting
this
month without traveling to Clats
kanie. This month’s session will
be held at the Natal Grange hall,
according to M. P. Mills of Bir-
kenfeld, on October 19 at 8 p.m.
This meeting is to take plac?
at Natal primarily for the benefit
of farmers in the valley. To be
discussed at that time is the dis
trict program and needs in the
area.
Mills also reminds farmers that
a technician from th? soil conser
vation service will be at the West
Oregon Electric engineering office
Friday to give assistance to far
mers wanting help with soil or
conservation problems.
Death Claims
Ralph Aultman
Ralph Conway Aultman. a resi
dent of this community for the
past six years passed away Oc
tober 11 at the Physician and
Surgeon» hospital after being ser
iously ill for a week.
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He was born October 11, 1920
at Seminary, Mississippi, th;’ son
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Aultman.
Death came at the age of 35 years.
He had been employed by the
Long-Bell Lumber company as a
fireman’s helper and had served
in World War II.
Funeral services will take place
today, October 13, at 10:30 am.
at the First aBptist Church with
Rev. Everett Murray officiating
The body will lie in state from
9:30 to 10:30 at the church
Surviving are: his wife, Tessie
one son, Randall; a daughter,
Jeanette of Vernonia; his mother,
Mrs. Alice Aultman of Seminary,
Miss; three sisters, Mrs. L. J. Hall,
Memphis, Tenn., Annie B. Camp
bell of Atlanta, Georgia and
Gloria Sue Aultman of Poplar
ville, Miss; two brothers, W. M.
Aultman and S. P. Aultman of
Seminary.
Arrangements are being handk
ed by the Forest Grove Under
taking company and remains will
be forward?d to Hattiesburg,
Miss., for interment.
Firemen Called
For Home Blaze
Volunteer firemen were called
into action again Sunday night
at 10:30 to extinguish a fire at
the Sam Cebellos horn ■ on the
O-A flat. Flames started in the.
car parked in the garage at that
place and ignited the gas tank
which exploded, showering the
garage and a house wall.
Both car and garage were a
complete loss firemen estimated,
but most of the house damage
resulted from fire. Total damage
was estimated at $1000
Sunday night's fire was the
ninth for which the new rural
fire truck has been called into
action, a listing from the volun
teer department indicates. Since
the truck was placed in operation
earlier this year these calls have
been answered:
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Bud Larson home, Riverview,
Oveson house at A and Grant
streets; grass fire, Trehame; grass
fire on highway 47 just south of
town; brush fire end of 7th street
in Riverview; city dump. Peachey
home in Riverview: Long resi
dence on 2nd avenue and the
O-A flat home.
4-H Clubs
To Meet
The 4-H Achievement meeting
will be held at the Washington
grad’ school Wednesday, October
19 at 7:30 at which time pins and
awards will be given those who
have completed their 4-H pro
jects
In addition, Mr. St'-vely,
county agent, will give informa
tion on organizing 4-H clubs.
Children desiring to form a
club for next year and parents of
those children are urged to com»'
to the meeting.
TftURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1955
City Levies
Higher for
'55-56 Year
County Assessor
Lisis Millages
For Municipalities
The tax millage for all muni
cipalities in the county show an
increase for the 1955-56 fiscal
year, over the previous year, ac
cording to figures released by the
county tax assessor's office.
St. Helens nullage for the cur
rent fiscal year will be 107.3, as
compared to 96 1 last year. Scap
poose jumped iron» 115.2 in 1951-
55 to 125.4 and Clatskanie millage
will be 119 1, only a slight in
ctease over last year’s 118.1.
Millage for Columbia City is
set at 171.7. up from 133.6; Pres
cott, 134.8, up from 118.1; Rai
nier 138.7, up from 119 3; Goble
114 5, up from 110 5 and Vernoma
157.3, up from 144.3.
According to the assessor’s re
port, th? valuation of the cities
includes Vernonia. $368.630; Clats
kanie. $427,780; Columbia City,
$140.855; Goble, $71,525; Prescott,
$36,190, Rainier, $840,330; Scap
poose, $419,360 and St. Helens,
$2,850,300.
St. Helens still has the lowest
millage of any municipally in the
county. Highest millage is De-
lena, where taxes are levied on a
basis of 181.5, an increase of 68 6
mills over last year.
According to County Assessor
O A. Ridenour, the increase in
the districts and the levying cf
a non-high tax this year amount
ing to 64 0 in some districts, a
substantial increase over last
year's non-h>gh of 35.6 mills.
The county assessment or levy
this year will be 13.4 mills, and
the district road fund millage
will be 6.0 in all areas of the
county, 6.2 less than last year’s
12.2 mills. A 2.5 millage will be
levied in St. Helens, Scappoose,
Columbia City and Goble for th«
hospital district.
Other millages include, Ver
nonia: rural 35.5, school district
3.0, union high 65.4, city 34.6.
St. Helens: school district mil
lage, 52.7; city millage, 29.1.
Scappoose: union high 25.5,
school district, 49 3, city 28.7.
Clatskanie: rural elementary,
35.5, rural high school 12.9 school
district 6 9, union high 26.7 and
city 17.7.
Prescott: rural elementary 35.5,
school district 183, union high
40 5, sinking fund, 7.2, city 13.9.
Raimer: rural elementary 35.5,
school district 18.3, union high
40.5, sinking fund 7.2, city 16.5,
cemetery 1.3.
Goble: rural elementary 35 j ,
school district 166, union high
40.5, hospital 2.5.
Rainier Mill
To Be Rebuilt
Scheduled to go to Rainier Fri
day afternoon is a small delega
tion that will represent this
chamber of commerce at a meet
ing of the Raimer commercial
club. That club is asking dele
gation from other county com
munities to be present for the
session at which an explanation
of the rebuilding of the Van
Vleet mill will be explained.
The Raimer community ha»
been assured that the mill will
rise again, but certain require
ments of the conc’m must be met
by Raimer
Senator Richard
Neuberger is slated to speak dur
mg the meeting.
The meeting will start about 1
o’clock at the Rainier grad .•
school.
Examiner Sets Date
A drivers license examiner will
be on duty in Vernonia Friday.
October 21, at th? city hall from
10 am to 4 pm. Persons wish
ing original licenses or permits to
drive are asked to file applica
tions well ahead of the scheduled
closing hour in order to assure
time for completion of the requir
ed license test.