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Library, U of O 10c COPY VOLUME 34, NUMBER 25 VERNONIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON PHONE HA 9-3372 THURSDAY. JUNE 21, 195« I Highway Men Hear Dana Ralph Kletzing of Carlton, pub lisher of the Carlton-Yamhill Re view, vice-president of the High way 99 West Alternate Road as sociation, Northwestern Oregon area group dedicated to the im provement of state highway No. 47 from McMinnville to the Long view bridge, presided at the quarterly business meeting Wed nesday, June 13, at Watts Com munity hall. President Art Os trander, of Vernonia, could not attend, A sumptous dinner was served by the Watts organization, topped off with strawberry short- cake. A highlight in the challenging program was an address by Mar- shall N. Dana, assistant to the président of the United States National Bank of Portland and secretary of the Oregon Highway Lifesavers, returned not long CROWN HEADS VISIT FARM Officials who visited the Crown Zellerbach tree farm here Tues day included J. D. Zellerbach, San Francisco, president of the corporation; E. P. Stamm. Port land. vice-president; John Fulton, Portland, corporate represents - tive in the northwest; Ron Rich- ardson, San Francisco, public re Nations department; Clase nee Richen, administrative assistant to Mr. Stamm; H. P. Miller, chief engineer; Robert Fuller who is in charge of acquisitions; George Schroeder, chief forester; Lou Rees and Charley Nichols, log ging managers; Chet Boddy, sup erintendent oi safety and other tree farm superintendents includ ing Bert Ross and Wally Miller, Clatsop; Howard Peterson, Clack amas; Dean Prater, Cathlamet and Brig Young, Tillamook A tour was made of the tree farm with time out taken for a sack lunch in the woods. During the lunch time, Mr. Zellerbach spoke to the men on experiments being carried out by the com pany. plans for the futur'» and es pecially emphasized the need for good management. From here, Mr. Zellerbach and his party went to St. Helens to inspect the new plywood plant and other properties after which a dinner was given in his honor at the Moose club. Besides Crown men, city and county officials were invited to the dinner. At tending it from Vernonia were Glen Hawkins and Robert Lind say. I since from a meeting in San i to represent these drivers and Francisco of the fourth regional | also the pedestrians who rely on conference of President Eisen the courtesy and ethics of the hower’s advisory traffic safety people at the wheel. committee. Over and above the safety pro Dana revealed how nearly the visions already established in federal government has come to Oregon, Governor Elmo Smith is interceding in the regulation of now considering a new official motor vehicle traffic, and indi traffic safety commission made cated that a strong push in this up of top state executives and direction may ensue from the bolstered by laymen which will entry of congress in the highway add a new voice to the state traf financing picture to the tuns of fic regulation, Dana revealed. $38 billion. He indicated this is no mere EACH STATE ITS OWN gesture, but has been brought on It has been the contention *hat by increasing death statistics and state authorities are capable of property loss figures on the high handling their auto traffic regu ways of Oregon. While Dana lations, Dana said, but he warned apologized for mentioning the that it is a full time job and one two statistics in the same breath, calling for eternal vigilance. he pointed out that in 1955 pro He said 800,000 now are li perty loss from auto v accidents censed to drive in Oregon, and went to $46,000,000 in Oregon the Highway Lifesavers attempts and the death rate was increased 11 per cent on the highways. LEADERSHIP PRAISED Dana commended Highway 99 West Alternate Road Association for its splendid leadership and i particularly for the splendid re Th? PeeWee baseball team met cords spread on the minute bool'.s Clatskanie Saturday on the West by Mona Gordon of Vernonia, port field since high water had secretary. He acknowledged the rendered the Clatskanie field un graphic presentation of the as usable for the time being. Clats sociation’s goals by Cliff Elliott kanie won 6 to 1 although Leon of McMinnville. ard Hunteman struck out 9 Clats. "You are campaigning for good kanie batters in six innings. Ver roads, a commendable goal,” Da nonia was leading 1 to 0 going into na said. “I think you’ll get your the fourth inning but two bases highway. If your cause is good, on balls, two 3-base hits and two and you are organized for it, and errors proved costly to the Ver you conduct a fair and vigorous nonia team and lost the game for fight for it, you will prevail.” them. "Sometimes I feel we’re getting Transportation to Westport for a lethargic attitude regarding our the team was furnished by Mrs. highway safety,” Dana comment Henry Anderegg and R. B. Flet- ed. "It is like the feeling combat cher. troops adopt when they go into Schedule for the PeeWees calls battle, a sort of fatalistic view. at St. Helens June 22, for a game “Now we are determined to tomorrow, at 6:30 p.m.; Scap- deal with the drivers and alert poose here Saturday at 4:30 p.- I each and every one to his respon m.; Vernonia at Holbrook Satur sibility. We have another apathy day, June 30 at 2:00 p.m. and to fight, the reluctance of busy Vernonia at Rainier Monday, people to join volunteer organ July 2 at 7:00 p.m. izations for the betterment of so ciety. » PeeWee Team Posts Schedule Firemen's Ball Saturday Night LEADERSHIP CITED “In this effort we are given a * terrific lift by the moral leader ship of President Eisenhower. We The Vernonia Fire department are bound and determined to will hold their annual Fireman's bring about a drastic reduction of Ball this coming Saturday night, auto accidents in Oregon. We June 23, at the Legion hall and appeal to the leadership in your' music will be furnished by the strong road association for help. Sunset Serenaders from Portland. Give us a lift in Western Wash Tickets for the affair are on sale ington county.” Special guests included Mrs. this week by members of the fire department, and money realized Marshall N. Dana; Rev. Ralph from it will be used for purchas. Walker, pastor of Madison Aven ing equipment for use in carrying ue Baptist church in New York City, who pronounced invocation; out their work. Two members of the depart Mrs. Hugh McGilvra, and Mrs. ment, Homer Fuller and Don Tiff- Homer Waltz. Toastmaster was ney, were at Seaside last Tuesday Homer Waltz. Those from Vernonia who at- to attend a part of the state fire association meeting heing held tended were E. Louis Towne and Mrs. Mona Gordon. i there last week. They heard lec tures on various phases of fire department responsibilities, and saw a demonstration by men from Anderegg Geis Office Vernonia boys and girls who Portland on speedy laying of hos Ron Anderegg, one of the eight returned last Sunday from at- j es. Also, a fire was set in the Nehalem Valley 4-H club mem tending Boys State and -Girls | attic of a house being destroyed, bers attending summer school at State sessions all voiced one opin- | and demonstration were given on Corvallis, was elected president ion, it was a wonderful exper methods of handling such a fire. of his living organization, Sigma ience and any boy or girl selected Nu. to attend was indeed fortunate. I Examiner Due June 29 Jon Bush, sponsored by the i Vernonia Lions club, and Marion. A drivers license examiner will Knoll sponsored by the Ameri- I be on duty in Vernonia Friday, can Legion attended Boys State | June 29, at the city hall between A Columbia county juvenile ad at Corvallis. The whole session the hours of 10 a m. and 4 p.m., visory committee was organized is carried out on the basis of a according to an announcement re Thursday evening, June 14, at mythical state and the 400 boys in ceived from the secretary of Rainier, according to an an attendance held offices in city, state’s office. Persons washing county and state governments. original licenses or permits to nouncement from Mrs. Eva L. Tice, county welfare administra Jon Bush was one of the repre drive are asked to file applica tor. The group contemplates the sentatives for Poling county. tions well ahead of the scheduled Attending Girls State sessions closing hour in order to assure study of conditions in the coun at Salem were Laurel Wyckoff time for completion of the requir ty to secure data on which to base suggestions and to give sup who was sponsored by P.E.O.; Ca. ed license test. port to organizations whose ob rol Ray sponsored by the Ameri jective is to improve the situa can Legion auxiliary and DeAnn Goodwill Asks Articles tion of children and enhance Cook sponsored by the Rebekahs. Housewives who are now en family life. Laurel was elected city recorder The committee as formed con of the town of Twinkle in Star gaged in housecleaning and in county. Carol was first a city sorting and putting away winter sists of: Mrs. S. J Martinson, commissioner, then a county com and school clothing are reminded Clatskanie; Sam L. Hearing. Ver missioner for Filibuster county that all articles of clothing or fur nonia; Rev. Raymond Otto, Rain and later, state senator. DeAnn niture they deside to discard will ier; Marco Mayer, Warren, and served as secretary for a state be welcomed by the Goodwill In Otto Petersen, Scappoose. County Judge John W. Whipple dustries. The truck will call here i epresentative. was present and assisted in or again July 12 and persons who At both meetings, delegates were housed in dormitories and wish articles picked up may call ganizing the group. He will make available all possible material so Mrs. Frank Lange at HA 9-3161. other houses on the campuse«. Delegates Back From Sessions CANDLE PLANT WORK FINISHED City Budget Offer Accepted for Sprinkler, Heating Problem Discussed The last step in major construc tion of facilities to manufacture candles was completed this week with the building of cooling tank for the Caylite Candle company, J. D. Cavwood, general manager, said Wednesday. The only work remaining will be of a minor nature. The instal lation includes five large kettles for melting wax, an electric steam boiler for heating the kettles, as. sembly line trackage, a cooling room and storage facilities as well as office and display facili ties. With the completion of this work, the candle company is pre paring for an open house that will take place the early part of next month. The tentative date for the open house, as announced last week, will not be on July 6, however, but will be an- nounced definitely later this month. City councilmen. meeting Mon day for their second session for the current month, heard and ac cepted an offer for the purchase of the city-owned sprinkling sys tem as one of the meeting’s items of business. The sprinkling equipment was purchased several years ago for use at the city park when tha|, field was used as a football play ing field. The offer of $200 to purchase the equipment was made by Guy Thomas and accept ed by the council after it was ex plained that a thorough check of its value had been made. Thomas also discussed the problem of new heating equip ment for the city hall and bank building and offered the services of a heating engineer to deter mine which type of new equip ment would be suitable. Further discussion of the heating ques Robert Stevely, Columbia coun tion will take place after a re ty extension agent in charge of port is available from the heat 4-H club work left last Saturday ing expert as to the practicabili for Colorado A&M college at Fort ty of an oil or electric installa Collins, Colorado, for a special tion. summer school session. George A. Remnant, manager He will be studying under a of the Vernonia Branch, U. S. Na scholarship grant by the Horace tional bank, asked the council A. Moses Foundation. These to prepare information on a lease scholarshinps are granted only to for the bank building so that it those who spend at least part of can be forwarded to the head of their time in working with youth. fice. The present lease expires The scholarship is for study at a early next year and preparation special summer school session for of the new lease must be made extension service workers. well in advance of that date. This matter was tabled for discussion again at the next meeting. An ordinance setting the new salaries of city employees was read and adopted to conform with recommendations of the At the Lions club meeting held budget committee made at that last Monday evening, eight mem committee’s meriting in May. No bers were awarded pins for hav owners of property within the ing had 100% attendance during city appeared at this meeting to the year just being concluded. voice objections to the proposed They were Bill Hom. Bill Vlcek, budget for the next fiscal year so Art Gardner, Wes Bolmeier, Glen the budget will stand as pro Hawkins, Marvin Kamholz, Tom posed. Bateman and Floyd Bush. The club will have the last meeting for this year next Mon day evening after the regular work detail at the park at 6:00 p.m. Work details will be con tinued each Monday evening un til the community kitchen is com Appointment of Paul DeShazer, pleted and ready for use. Warren, as a member of the Co lumbia county fair board has been announced by the county court. Two Given Press Awards DeShazer succeeds Lou Choate, The University of Oregon has Vernonia, who resigned his posi announced that of the 187 gra tion on the board. Other mem duating seniors from Oregon high bers on the board are Jewett schools to win Oregon Scholastic Bush, Clatskanie and Elmer Loyd, Press awards, two are from Ver Deer Island. nonia. They are Patricia Wildt, who won the Erie Allen certifi cate of newspaper service for her Cubs to Skate Sunday work as Timberline editor, and Cub Scouts of Troop 201 will Gretchen Bolmeier, who was hold a skating party this coming awarded the George Turnbull cer Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5:30 tificate of yearbook service for at the skating rink at Shute park, her work as editor of the school annual, The Memolog. Hillsboro. Agent Stevely Receives Grant Eight Lions Given Awards Co. Fair Board Vacancy Filled County Juvenile Advisory Group Organized Thursday the group may have full informa tion on juvenile court processes and activities. In discussing the addition of a tax-supported pro gram, he pointed out the release of regular, needed county em- ployees because the county will have insufficient money to pay for them. The first meeting took note of law violations which may be re duced by publicity, such as auto mobile drivers picking up chil dren on highways. Two such children, ages 8 and 10, were re cently given "pick-ups” by three different drivers in a single morning, making it possible for them to get some 35 miles from home. Columbia county has a juvenile counselor who is on the staff of the welfare commission and whose expenses are paid by that group She is a caseworker well trained and under continuous training from the field staff from the state commission With the regularly appointed officers of the county, the juvenile couselor constitutes an efficient working juvenile department. A few children are institution- alized. Some are placed on pro bation and these may remain in their own homes or be removed from parental oontrol to foster homes The juvenile counselor is given custody of children on pro- bation and the counselling pro- cess, one form of casework ser- vice is undertaken. The next regular meeting will be held in the welfare office in St. Helens Thursday, July 26 at 1 pm Brady Named To District 47 Board Place Clock System Approved As Final Step Towards Standardization Two hundred nineteen votes were cast at the school election Monday for district 47 Jt. which saw Dane Brady elected to a po sition on the board to succeed Glen Hawkins. One hundred thirty-four votes were tallied for Brady and 85 for Hawkins. At the same election, voting for director for the rural school dis trict showed 124 votes for Harry Sandon, 40 for Robert Berg and 18 for Howard Jones and a num ber of single write-in votes for other persons. These votes wil be tallied at the county superin tendent’s office in St. Helens with those cast in the Mist and Birkenfeld districts to determine final results. The question of exceeding the 6 per cent limitation to provide funds for the school budget was approved by a vote of 120 to 93. T. F. Keasby automatically be comes chairman of the board since he is the oldest member in point of service. Other members of the board are Sam Hearing Sr., Ralph Sturdevant and Wilbur Wilson. R. M. Aldrich was re appointed as district clerk. At a meeting of the board of directors held Monday evening, Mrs. Carolyn Feasey was hired as arts and crafts teacher to replace Mrs. Nancy Chalmers, resigned. Mrs. Feasey taught art at the high school this past year and will di vide her time between the two schools this year. The resignation of Marvin Wig. gans was accepted, releasing Mr. Wiggans to accept a position in the Redmond school system. The noon lunch bus run to Lincoln school was awarded to Bob Curl for the coming year ftir $45 per month. Approval was granted to the request of the custodians to at tend a custodial service school to be held in St. Helens Juno 25, 28 and 27 which is sponsored jointly by the county school superinten dent's office and the St. Helens district. All custodians in the county are invited to attend. As a final step in meeting re quirements of the state for stan dardization of the school, the board authorized the purchase of an automatic clock system which will place a clock in every class room. Also, purchase of an irri gation system was authorized and approval was given to summer work projects which include con struction of additional rooms in the basement to house the band and possibly another class, and installation of a new front walk at the Lincolh school. The local bank was designated as depository for district funds. Due to unfavorable weather conditions, work on the school roof has not gotten underway but all is in readiness for starting it as soon as more settled weather conditions make it advisable. Plans for 4th Include Band Plans are going ahead for th-» fireworks display on July 4 and the representative from the V.- F W. {eports excellent response from organizations and indivi duals which promises to make an excellent display possible. The Vernonia high school band has been asked to participate and Wm. Johnson has asked all band members to contact him as soon as possible as to their willingness to play and to arrange for time of meeting Calls to Mr. Johnson should be made after 5:30 pm. Music by the band would add much to the celebration which it is hoped will be an outstanding community affair.