Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974, June 07, 1956, Image 1

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VOLUME 34, NUMBER 23
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VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY. OREGON
PHONE HA 9-3372
4-H Calf Club Park Pool
Member Wins Ready Now
Dairy Award
Fitting, Showmanship
Crops-Wesds, Record
4 Eook Brings Gold Cup
Kathy DuPuis of the Wincma
4-H Calf club from Birkenfeld
won top honors in the livestock
division of the Nehalem Valley
community day Saturday, May
26. A gold cup donated by the
Pebble Creek dairy was present­
ed to her. The Winema club is
led by E. T. Johnston.
Glenda Robertson won top hon­
ors in the homemaking division
and was presented a gold cup
donated by the U. S. National
bank in Vernonia.
The livestock winner is the
high scoring club member in the
fitting and showmanship and
crops and weeds contests and
the record book 'exhibit. '!>•
homemaking winner is the high
scoring club member in the dem­
onstration and home ec judging
contests and the project and rec­
ord book exhibits.
Winners in the various con­
tests not reported last week
were: Carolyn Heath, Vernonia,
in home ec judging and Joanne
Johnson, Clatskanie, in crops and
weeds; beef demonstration, Lan-
ny McDonald, Gary Johnston
and Cathy DuPuis; dairy demon­
stration, Donald Johnson, Donna
Buckley.
In sheep showmanship, Dick
Magruder and Sherry Sather re­
ceived red awards.
Sportsmen Name
Officers, Board
Barely a quorum of members
of the Rod and Gun club met last
Thursday evening at Brunsman
Hardware to elect new officers,
a new board of directors and
consider what action to take
about the logging of the club
timber at Keasey.
At the election. Bob King was
named president; Lowell Hieber,
vice-president and Bob Curl, re­
elected secretary-treasurer. Elec­
ted to the board of directors were
Pete Brunsman, Bill Horn and
Earl King.
To this board was given the
job of checking the timber stand
at Keasey to determine whether
to log or leave standing and re­
port back to the club.
Operators, Wardens Dine
Logging operators, mill own­
ers, district forestry wardens and
other guests met at the Masonic
Temple Friday for a dinner and
introductory meeting arranged by
Glen Hawkins, Columbia Tree
Farm manager. Frank Sargent,
district warden
from Forest
Grove, introduced the men from
his office who will enforce fire
control laws and Hawkins intro­
duced all of those present at the
dinner, which was served by the
Nehalem Social club.
The dam was put in place at
the city park pool last week end
and Mrs. Betty Ellis has been
hired as pool guard again this
year, so when weather again
makes use of the pool attractive,
all is in readiness.
Mrs. Ellis has selected Margar­
et Miner as her alternate to serve
as guard whenever Mrs. Ellis is
absent from the pool.
Mrs. Ellis also has announced
that the pool will close each day
at 6:00 p.m. and how early in the
day the guard will go on duty
will be governed by the weather.
Swim lessons will be started after
June 10.
In addition to the regular rules
in force at the pool, Mrs. Ellis
emphasizes that diving from trees
and use of inner tubes in the pool
will be prohibited.
There are still some unclaimed
articles on hand from last year
which may still be identified and
claimed. Anyone wishing further
information may call HA 9-6436.
Flag Cleaning
Offer Is Made
In cooperation with the nation-
wid ’ program of the National
Institute of Dry Cleaners, Inc.,
Leonard Rauch of the Radiant
Dry Cleaners here will clean free
of charge any American flag
brought to him between now and
next Wednesday in exchange for
the owner’s promise to fly the
flag on Flag day which is Thurs­
day, June 14. Slogan for the drive
is “New Glory for Old Glory”
and is designed to get more flags
flying than ever before.
Steven Waite, American Legion
commander, has expressed hear­
ty appreciation of the plan and
hopes Vernonia people will coop­
erate.
Death Claims
Former Resident
Word was received here Mon­
day of the death of Thomas A.
McLeod, a former Vernonia res­
ident. He passed away at the
home of his daughter. Mrs. Pean
Hunt, 2151 N. W. Johnson in
Portland, on June 3 following a
heart attack.
Mr. McLeod was bom in Al­
pena, Michigan on March 27,
1880 and is survived by a daught­
er, Mrs. Pearl Hunt, one son,
two brothers, five grandchilden
and ten great grandchildren..
Funeral services will be held
at 9 a.m. Friday at the Immacu­
late Conception Cathedral at 18th
and Couch in Portland and he
will be laid to rest at the Mt.
Calvary cemetery in Portland.
Brunsman Cof C Officer
Dave Brunsman is the newly
elected second vice-president of
the Vernonia Chamber of Com­
merce instead of Don Bayley as
was reported last week.
Bloodmobile Unit Receives 53 Pints
Here; Some Donors Designate Use
Fifty-three pints of blood were
received when the Red Cross
Bloodmobile was here last week,
with nine people being rejected,
according to Mrs. Glen Hawkins,
local Red Cross chairman Of the
53 pints, sufficient was given >n
the name of Ralph McKee to
replace the 15 pints already used
for him during surgery under­
gone at the University of Oregon
Medical school hospital and to
build up a backlog for future
needs, and other donors designat­
ed use for the small son of Mr.
and Mrs Fred Drips to replace
seven pints used for him and to
cover future demands.
This visit was sponsored by the
Vemonia Odd Fellows lodge with
the work being carried out by
their auxiliary, the
Rebekahs,
under direction of Mrs. Perry
McFarland, noble grand. Those
who assisted with the work at
the hall during the visit were:
Mrs. Robert Cline, Mrs. Guy
Thomas, Mrs. R. D. Eby, Mrs.
Emil Messing, Mrs George Hahn,
Mrs. 5|yron Vlcek, Mrs. Frank
Serafin, Mrs. Henry Anderegg,
Mrs. Ed Buckner, Mrs. Sam Hear­
ing Sr., Mrs. Charles Minger. Mrs.
Dorothy Carter, Mrs. A F Swan­
son. Mrs. Walter Linn. Mrs. Ben
Brickel and Mrs Hawkins.
Donor response was also great,
ly aided by C. L. Anderson, Long-
Bell manager, by allowing men
to come to the Bloodmobile and
providing a car to bring them.
THURSDAY. JUNE 7. 19M
233 Acres of
Farm Planted
With Seedlings
Natal, Coal Creek,
Crooked Creek Areas
Restocked by Crew
LIONS CLUB members have been working evciy Monday evening since early in May on their cur­
rent project, a coir.mun.ty kitchen at the city park. This crew was busy framing the structure, pari
of the poles having already been placed as seen back of the man. From left: Lion President Bill
Vlcek, Jim Davies, Tom Bateman. Glen Hawkins, Kerry Moran and Cecil Johnson. Several more
Monday work evenings will be necessary to complete the project. Hawkins is supervising work.
Rites Friday
For Ben George
Funeral services will be held
at the Bush Funeral chapel at
2:00 p.m. Friday for Enoch Ben­
jamin George who passed away
in his sleep the forepart of Mon­
day night in his room at the Hy-
Van hotel where he lived. His
death was discovert Tuesday
morning when he could not be
awakened by other roomers who
knocked on his door.
Mr. George was born Decem­
ber 29, 1885 at Leesville, Louis-
lanna and was 70 years, five
months old at the time of his
death. He had spent about 20
years in Vernonia and was an
employee of the Long-Bell com
panv. He was a member of the
Vernonia Odd Fellows lodge and
of the National Rifle association
of America.
He is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. E. L. Hahn of Brownsville,
Texas; a sister, Emily Koonce, in
Louisianna and a brother, Oscar
George of Springfield, Oregon.
Bush Funeral home is in charge
of arrangements and Rev. E.
F. Leake of the First Christian
church will officiate. Burial will
be in the Vernonia Memorial
cemetery.
Two to Attend
Beaver State
Oregon State college will be
host to more than 450 Oregon
high school boys at the 20th an­
nual Beaver Boys State June 10
to 16.
The one-week camp is spon­
sored by the American Legion to
train boys in citizenship. Youth
attending from across the state
are sponsored by local service
and community groups.
The camp is open to boys 15 to
18 years of age. Dan McDade of
Portland is chairman.
For further training in govern­
ment, elections are held to deter­
mine city, county, and state of-
. ficials with each boy holding an
office. The boy elected governor
and one other representative will
attend Boys Nation in Washing­
ton, D.C. later this summer as
Oregon's delegates.
Attending from Vernonia will
be Jon Bush who is sponsored by
the Lions club and Marion Knoll
who is sponsored by the American
Legion. J. A. Bush Jr. will take
the boys to Corvallis Sunday and
Bill Horn will go for them at the
end of the session.
Two Candidates File
Two candidates have filed pe­
titions to plac? their names on
the ballot for election of direc­
tor for school district 47 Jt. They
are Glen Hawkins, incumbent,
and Dane Brady. The election
will be held June 18 and any
one else desiring to become a can­
didate must file a petition bear­
ing the names of at least ten
legal voters with R. M Aldrich,
clerk by midnight June 10. Pe­
titions may be secured at the
school office.
ROOF and part of sides of Lions park project will be finished
with shakes being split here by Joe Magoff and Bill Horn. Several
other crews of Lions have been busy splitting so sufficient shakes
will be available when framing of structure is completed.
! Hew Workman Employed by City; To
Ask Bids for Replacement of Furnace
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From a list of three applicants,
city councilmen considered and
made their decision on the hiring
of a man to fill a vacancy that
arose a week ago. Named to take
the position was Lee Jesse, who
will r?p!ace Leslie McMullen, re­
signed Jesse will begin work
this week to familiarize himself
with operation of the city water
pumping plant and with street
work.
The council also discussed a
proposal that City Recorder Sam
Hearing be authorized to act as
coordinateor of all city work so
that closer harmony can be at-
tamed by the various depart-
ments.
In making this change, the re­
corder will spend part of his
time supervising various work
projects that are planned for the
summer. He was also authorized
to employ extra help during the
time he will be out of the city
hall acting as supervisor.
Another problem facing the
city is replacement of its heat­
ing plant. The plant
supplies
heat for both the city hall and
the bank building and bids will
be asked for a new unit with
capacity sufficient for both build,
ings after an engineering survey
is made to determine the size of
unit needed.
Marshal A. D. Lolley pointed
out that dogs allowed to run at
large have caused some damage
to gardens and that action ’o
impound the animals will be tak­
en
if owners do not take better
Work is underway at Vernonia j
care.
high school on a 21-foot exten­
sion on ths east end of the shop
building which will convert it to
a combined agriculture and shop
building Work is being done by
Welcome Rumbaugh, ag - shop
teacher, assisted by Myron V)c*-k.
In a transaction closed last
Some student labor will also be
week, Mr and Mrs. Wm. Mea­
used.
Next week, Mr Rumbaugh will dows of Beaver, Oregon, became
attsnd the state vocational agri­ the new owners of the Vernonia
culture conference and work on Golf course. Th 'y are now in­
th' building will resume June stalling a sprinkler system and
anticipate numerous other im­
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provements on the course and
buildings.
McEntire Makes Catch
For the next few weeks, the
Harold McEntire had the good management of the course will
fortune last week end while fish, remain the same as at present
ing at Wickiup Dam to catch a with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Quinn in
German brown trout 26 inches charge, pending preparation of
long and weighing 61« pounds, the Meadows to move to their
the only such one caught thera. new home.
Shop Addition
Being Built
Meadows Buy
Golf Course
Completion of Crown Zeller-
bach corporation's annual refor­
estation program in Columbia
county was announced this week
by Glen F. Hawkins, superinten­
dent of its Columbia Tree Farm.
A total of 135.000 Douglas fir
and Grand fir were hand-planted
on 233 acres in the Natal, Coal
j creek and Crooked Creek areas
during the planting season which
started last November and ended
in April. Most of the area artific­
ially restocked was cutover land
which nature failed to reforest
after logging.
The over-all planting program
was under the supervision of Co­
lumbia Tree Farm resident for­
ester Robert C. Lindsay. Plant­
ing crew foreman was
Clyde
May. Other full-time planting
crew employees were Donald Tip­
ton, Raj' McCoy and Wilbern
Daffern. Part-time crew hired
for planting work included Nel­
son F. McDowell. Frank M. Reed,
Walter Floeter, E. V. Robertson,
J. E. McVay, Marvin Littleton,
Ormal Hutchins and George R.
Eliot.
Over l’a million seedlings have
been planted on CZ’s Columbia
county forest properties since
1945, according to Lindsay. Spec­
ies include Douglas fir. Grand
fir, Sitka spruce. Noble fir. Port'
Orford cedar, western red cedar,
I lodgepole pine, Monterey pine-
and maritime pine. Plans are to
continue the planting program
I next winter to .reforest non­
stocked lands on the St. Helens
road summit, areas near Wilark
guard station and some recent
cutover areas in the Crooked
Creek drainage.
Court Requires
Livestock Tests
Columbia county has been de­
clared a compulsory test area for
brucellosis by order of the Co­
lumbia county court following
public hearings held in April and
May at which time dairy and
livestock people voiced a nearly
unanimous request for such ac­
tion, reports County Agent, Don
Coin Walrod,
This action of the court elimi­
nates several areas that were pre­
viously exempt from testing, and
at the same time paves the way
for the county to become a modi­
fied certified accredited brucello­
sis free area under a cooperative
program of the USDA and the
State Department of Agriculture.
County veterinarians. Dr. C.
R. Howarth and Wm. Bayliss, St.
Helens and Dr. Gene Webb, Clats­
kanie, will continue brucellosis
testing as in the past.
Pee-Wee Game
Time Changed
Because of the Rose Festival
parade and junior Olympics
which will take place this Sat­
urday, the Pee-Wee
baseball
game with Rainier which had
been scheduled for that day will
be played Friday afternoon, June
8, on the local diamond, begin­
ning at 5:30, weather permitting.
The Vernonia team will go to
Clatskanie next Monday even
ing, June 11, for a game under
the lights on the Clatskanie field.
The traveling team will meet in
front of the grade school at 6:30
p m The game at Clatskanie will
begin about 8:00 p m.
Lions Slate Work Detail
Lions club members will go to
the city park at 6:00 p.m. Monday
for another work detail whicn
will be followed by the usual
dinner meeting at the V.F.W. haiL