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Library, U of 0 Routine Outlined for Last Days of School; Graduation Dates Announced The routine to be followed in the closing of Vernonia Jugh school was announced this week by Superintendent E. E. Dove as follows: Graduation exercises will be held Friday evening, May 25 a.id seniors will not need to return to school after that. For the other classes, final examinations will be held Monday and Tuesday, May 28 and 29. Wednesday, May 30 is the Memorial day holiday. Students will return to school Thursday. May 31 for report cards and the details of checking out and will be dimissed at noon. For the elementary schools, eighth grade graduation will be Tues day evening, May 29 and the speaker will be Cecil Posey of Portland, executive secretary of the Oregon Education association. There will be the usual exhibit of work of the students in classroom and activities displayed around the auditorium. The awards assembly will be held previous to graduation on Fri day afternoon, May 25 at 2:30. Students other than eighth graders will return to school May 31, the day after the Memorial holiday, for the class picnics and to get their report cards. This will be the last day of school. Annual May Event Due John Erickson Rites Monday Board Awards County Real Property Appraisal Done Contracts on Roof, Busses Davies, Johnson Get Route Contracts; New Vehicles Specified A special meeting of the board of directors of school district 47 joint, was held April 25 for the purpose of opening bids on two bus routes for contract services. The bids were called for in an official publication April 12. Six bids were submitted by Robert Curl, Charles Johnson, A W. Gardner, James Davies, William Wilson and George Johnson. The successful bidders were James Davies for the Keasey- Stoney Point combination run for the sum of $4341 00 per school year and George Johnson for the Mist-Scappoose run for the sum of $4176.00 per school year. The bids called for two new 66-pass- enger busses to be put in opera tion at the beginning of the school term in the fall. A roofing contract has been awarded to Bigonni Roofing for the sum of $10,980.00 as the re sult of a call for bids for the work in March and work will be started immediately after the close of school. The job is to be completed before July 31 accord ing to the terms of the contract, weather permitting. Under the plans, a complete roof will be in stalled. which will include re moval of the present tile and re placement with shingles. New gutters and downspouts were al. so included in the bid. Funeral services were held Queen Gretchen the First and Monday at 2:00 p.m. at the Bush her court are ready to reign over Funeral chapel at Vernonia for the annual May Day festivities John Arvied Erickson who pass at Vernonia high school which ed away at his home at Vernonia will begin at 1:30 p.m. Friday Wednesday afternoon following afternoon. Plans are for the pro an extended illness. Rev. F. M. gram to be held on the field but Knoll of the Vernonia Evangeli in the event of unfavorable wea cal United Brethren church ther, it will be moved to the gym officiated and burial was in the nasium. In any event, it will be Vernonia Memorial cemetiry. held Friday. Mr. Erickson was born in St. The theme, Spring Fever, will Malm, Sweden, June 15, 1880. He be carried out in the music and came to the United States in 1899 dance numbers which will m- and to Vernonia in 1926 where c iude a novelty pantomine by Pat he had engaged in carpenter work Brissett of the Chinese rock and and operated an apartment house roll and a Hawaiian dance by Ja and other rental properties. nice Garner and Virginia John He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Ellen Anderson, Hammond, son. Grade school students will pre Oregon; and Amy Carlson and sent square dances and the first Alma Adlund in Sweden; one grade will present tumbling acts. brother, Kalle Erickson, Sweden Other tumbling exhibitions will and a nephew, Kenneth Anderson • of Portland. be given from the high school. He was a member of the Luth The program will be followed eran church. by a baseball game with Scap The official announcement ol poose and in the evening, the i a change in ownership for a Ver queen’s ball will be held in the nonia business was made Monday high school gym under sponsor of this week by Mr. and Mrs. W ship of the Girls Athletic associa A. Davis, who have been negoti tion. The public is invited to at ating with Mr. and Mrs. Lew tend the ball as well as all other Choate for purchase of the Ver features on the agenda. Persons attend the annual Ju nonia Trading company. Mr. and nior Prom at Vernonia high Mrs. Davis have been operating school last Saturday evening the business for several weeks found themselves ushered into an pending completion of the deal. old world setting over a bridge The change will end eight years walkway which was the entrance of the store’s operation under to the Carnival of Venice, the the ownership of Mr. and Mrs. Choate. The grade school choruses of theme of the prom. Venetian buildings portrayed in Immediate future plans for the Columbia county will meet at Clatskanie on Saturday, May 5 for wall murals were the background store include preparation for the the county chorus music festival. for the sidewalk cafe under the annual free chick day May 19 Choruses from McBride and John canopy along the sides of the when each customer will receive Gumm Schools in St. Helens, Rai room. A fountain and flowers free 12 baby chicks. Waffles will mer, Scappoose, Clatskanie and and shrubbery lent a springtime also be served that day. The Vernonia will participate. About outdoors atmosphere to the whole new owners also announce that 40 chorus members will go from affair, and a carousel formed the flower and garden plants will here and will compete for judging background on the stage to add also be available by that time. Sam Howard, formerly of Seat- in the afternoon and.participate the definite carnival air over all. The junior class expressed ap tle, will be associated with Mr. ,n the evening concert which will feature a massed chorus of 325 preciation of the good attendance and Mrs. Davis in the operation voices, directed by Edwin Beach at the affair which helped great of the store. from the Parkrose high school. ly toward making it a success. Business Chanae Effected Monday Carnival Theme Used at Prom Grade Chorus to Go to Festival The Vernonia chorus, directed by Marvin Wiggans, will sing "They Call It America”, “He,” and "Listen to The Angels Shout ing.” Students Tour Forestry Plot e Vernonia seventh graders join ed the seventh grades of other Co lumbia county schools today as guests of the Columbia County extension division for a tour of the forestry plot at the county fairgrounds at Deer Island They made the trip by bus leaving here at 8:30 a m and will return early this afternoon. The eighth grades are again planning a tour of the Camas Paper mill, at Camas, Washing ton for May 11. Track Meet on Today Vernonia high school is parti- pating in a league track meet today at Scappoose in, which all the high schools of the county and several guest schools will participate. PeeWee Turnout Saturday George Peters has called for a turn-out Saturday of all boys be tween the ages 10 and 13 in clusive who wish to participate in PeeWee baseball this season. Those interested are requested to report at the grade school field back of the Washington school at 2:00 p.m. Schoolmasters to Goli The Columbia county school masters will come to Vernonia Monday for their annual golf tournament to be played on the Vernonia course. This will be followed by a dinner meeting at the grade school cafeteria at which the prizes for the tourna ment will be awarded. High Golfers Tie Match The Vernonia high school golf team composed of Jim Piters, Joe Taylor, Bob Drips, Bill Ostrander. Allan Fowler and Allen Ade met the Hillsboro high school team on the Vernonia course Monday in a match tyiat resulted in a tie. Wm. Johnson is Vernonia instructor. Loggers Edge Tribe Friday Bob Crowston pitched seven innings of two-hit baseball as the Vernonia Loggers defeated the Scappoose Indians, 2-1 in a league game played at Scappoose last Friday afternoon. The Loggers opened the scor ing in the top of the fifth when an Indian error and three succes sive singles were food for two runs, and as the final score re lated. the ball game. Crowston, a right hander, al lowed only two hits and one of these was the bottom of the sixth when Bob issued three of the seven bases on balls that he gave up in the game. The In dians succeeded in denting the platter once before the Loggers with airtight defense and clutch pitching threw water on the fire. Crowston issued seven free pas ses while striking out five. John son, for the Indians, struck out nine and issued only one free pass. RHE Vernonia 000 020 0 2 ,7 4 Scappoose 000 000 0 1 2 2 (Note: Of interest to people owning property in this county is a statement issued earlier this week by O. A. Ridenous, county assessor, explaining the proced ures followed in carrying out the reappraisal program. His explan ation in the following statement and also in an official publication elsewhere in this edition points out that taxpayers may petition for relief by appearing before the county board of equalization.) “The reappraisal of the real property has now been completed and has been entered on the as sessment roll for the 1956-1957 tax year. “The assessor must, according to law, notify the taxpayers of any increase in their assessed Six Train for Naval Reserve Six boys from Vernonia high school enrolled in the naval re serve training program in Feb ruary and since that time have been going to the training center on Swan Island, Portland, each Monday night for instruction. They are Donald Cook, Bill Os trander, Darrell Fluke, Stanley Enevoldsen, Gary Wright and Jim Weller. Four of these boys. Cook, Os trander, Fluke and Weller, took preliminary examinations for sub marine duty and passed them with good records and have now had the experience of going down in a submarine. They must com plete other tests and training be fore being fully qualified for sub marine service. Gary Wright plans to transfer from the reserves to regular naval training when school is out. The other boys will go to San Diego for two weeks of intensive train ing during the summer. Rites Held for George Burns valuation of $100 or 5 per cent, whichever is greater. This is in order that they have have an op portunity to petition the board of equalization for relief in case of inequitable assessment. Postcard notices are now in the mail. “In the reappraisal process, many assessments have been rais ed. Many have also been lower ed. Some values have increased simply because they have been omitted from previous tax rolls. Most building assessments have increased as a result of computing their replacement costs using more recent cost figures. Build ings now are appraised on a re placement cost basis, then depre ciated as to age, condition, obso lescence, location, etc., to arrive Chosen to Go to State 5 Two boys from Vernonia high school have been selected to at tend Beaver Boy« State on the Oregon State college campus June 10 to June 16, inclusive, ac cording to information released this week. Marion Knoll will be sponsored by the American Le gion and Jon Bush by the Lions club. Wm. Johnson and J. A. Bush Jr. will provide transpor tation for the boys to and from Corvallis. Three girls will represent Ver nonia at the Girls State on the Willamette University campus in Salem June 11 to 17. They are Carol Ray, sponsored by the Am erican Legion auxiliary; De Ann Cook, Mt» Heart Rebekah lodge and Laurel Wycoff, P.E.O. x Three Attend Library Forum “Keys to Library Development” was the theme of the meeting of the trustees of libraries of the state of Oregon, held in Salem April 25 and 26. Mrs. Mona Gordon, Vernonia city librarian; Mng Lyman Hawk- en Sr. and Mrs. Marvin Kamholz, trustees, attended the Thursday sessions that closed with a din ner at which Wm M Tugman of Reedsport, publisher of the Port Umpqua Courier, was speaker. Of particular interest to every one is the movement to ask for additional funds in the 1957 legis lature for further improvement of libraries, particularly small ones, and establishing county and or regional libraries to be distributing points for books and references, pictures and records to which the smaller library doe not have access. / Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock at the Bush Funeral chapel for George Burns who passed away the previous Thursday, April 26, at the Good Samaritan hospital in Portland .following a long ill ness. Arrangements were in charge of the Coleman Funeral Home of St. Helens. Reverend L. A. Shelton of the Assembly of God church officiated and casket bearers Were Henry Anderegg, Archie Christensen, Thurman De Hart, Ben Smith, Harold Sfeipley and Albert Tandy. Committment was in the Vernonia M-morial cemetery. Mr Burns was born in Cook county, Illinois, July 24, 1880. At Band Cops First Prize arF early age he came with his family to the state of Washington Vernonia high school band, di where he grew up and received rected by Wm. Johnson, came his grade and high school educa home from St. Helens salmon fes tion. tival Saturday with first place He took up the trade of shingle honors. Other bands participat weaver and had worked at it ing in the parade were St. Helens, from British Columbia to Cali Rainier and Scappoose. Not us fornia. He was well known ?s ing music, precision in marching an organizer for the shingle wea- i and skill of rendition all were vers through the years. Wheeler factors contributing to the win. was the last place he worked, af ter which he retired to Vernonia in 1945. He mov’d here from Rockaway where he had lived for several years. Mr. Burns had three sisters and a brother, ail of whom preceed- Free Port Orford cedar seedlings ed him in death. are again being made available Persops from out of town who to any persoli interested in plant were here for the service were ing and caring for them, accord Mrs. Ruby Genung and son Ben, ing to an announcement this week Mrs. Charles A. Howard and Ross from the Vernonia headquarters Carter, Tillamook; Mr. and Mrs. of the Columbia Tree Farm. Those Newell Olson, Rockaway and Mr. trees are suitable for ornamental Combs, Jim Nehnng, Mervin or hedge plantings as well as for Kelley, Frank Wright and Ray field plantings to produce timber. Thompson of Portland. With a minimum of care they will grow rapidly and if desired, Goodwill Truck Coming may be easily pruned and shaped. Ttys will mark the tenth con As a part of Goodwill week ob servance, May 6 through 12, the secutive year that the Columbia Goodwill truck will call ..n Ver Tree Farm Division of Crown Zellerbach corporation has made nonia next Thursday, May 10 People wishing pick-ups may call gift trees available to the resi dents of Columbia county. It is Mrs Frank Lang at market value. Addition of timber inventories to the assess ment roll have increased some assessments. In addition, many assessments have been raised sim ply by standardizing the asses- ment ratio. Assessed values may be raised or lowered through ad justment of the assessment ratio. “In the past, ratios have varied with the different classes of pro perty. Building have been car ried on the tax rolls at around 12 per cent of market value; person al property at 25 per cent; land at about 30 per cent, but with wide fluctuations. A recent study of many sales in the county indi cated that the average ratio of assessed values to sale values was about 14 per cent. Assessed value is a percentage or ratio of appraised or market value. “The law now tells us that al» property shall be assessed at a uniform ratio. Accordingly, it has been decided that all property in this county will be carried on the rolls at 25 per cent of true cash value. 'True cash value briefly, is the value of a property in "nor mal” times and at present is set by the state tax commission reg ulation af 80 per cent of today’s market value. True cash and market or book value are the same for personal property ac cording to the state tax commis sion regulation. "The following is an. example to illustrate how these ratios are applied. Assume a property owner has: Real Property $10,000 Land 5,000 Buildings Timber 50<> Market Value Normal conditions Factor $15,500 True Cash Value Assessment Ratio $12,400 25 80 $ 3,100 Assessed Value Personal Property $5,000 Machinery 1,500 Livestock $6,500 Market Value 0 Normal Conditions Factor True Cash Value Assessment Ratio $6,500 25 $1,625 Assessed Value “A property owner’s tax is com puted by applying the district millage to his assessed value. As a result of the recent reappraisal, total assessed valuation has in creased which, it is hoped, will be offset by a decrease in millage, providing district levies remain normal. "However, increasing the as sessed value of the county i. only a secondary consideration of the program. The primary achievement was the equalization of assessments. We believe this has been fully realized. Limita tion of space prevent a full dis cussion of questions that w.ll arise. “The assessors office has ar ranged to remain open for the next two Saturday, May 5 and 12, to accomodate those who are un able to come in during regular office hours.” Free Port Orford Cedar Seedlings Again Offered Public by Tree Farm hoped that everyone who plan’s and grows a tree will thus be tak ing part in the current movement to grow more trees Everyone can be a tree farmer in his own right. The gift trees will be wrapped in peat moss in packages of ?.> trees. Normally this is enough trees to meet the planting need- of most individuals. Printed in structions for planting and car ing for the trees will be given with each bundle of trees. The trees are now ready for distribution. In this area they may be obtained at the Vernonia Eagle office.