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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1957)
Library, U of 0 ’56 STORIES TABULATED County Survey .000 See Fireworks Intended by Dimes Group Awards Dinner Held July 5, 1956 — The fireworks <««play at the Washington school grounds the night of July 4th was viewed by an estimat ed 1000 people. The event was sponsored by the VFW who so licited cooperation from organ izations and business firms. □,N. Delegate Leaves July 12, 1956 — Marjorie Rey nolds left Portland today on the :.-p to the United Nations. C ayliie Has Open House July 19, 1956 — The Caylite Candle company held open house today with an estimated 300 being shown through the factory. July 26, 1956 — The Crown Zellerbach awards dinner was held Friday night at which Glen Hawkins received a 25-year pin; Robert Lindsay, Frank Floeter and Merle Cline, 10-year pins and Henry Boden ha mer a 5-year pin. Gov. Names Lindsay August 2. 1956 — Robert Lind say was appointed by Governor Elmo Smith as Columbia county chairman for this year’s Red Hat days campaign. Local Depot Now I Club Re modeled In Alert System August 16, 1956 — Extensive Effective January 2. the local S. P. & S. office became a part a the CONELRAD alert warning system which would be used in cr.se of an emergency involving the country's safety. To comply with FCC CONELRAD alert re quirements, a monitoring sys tem has been established in the S P. & S. “Go” telegraph office ir Portland for the purpose of : isseminating a CONELRAD alert to all S. P. & S. facilities. The local S. P. & S. office will b° in direct contact with the .'-»rtland office. Aliens Required To Register Now A notice has been issued by the >’.ited States Immigration and Naturalization service that all ti'iens within the United States must register with them before the end of January. Aliens in thia area may obtain forms for • egistration at the Vernonia post Office and also turn them in there according to O. T. Bate- man, postmaster. System Rates Raised remodeling was underway at the Vernonia Country club which had been purchased in May by Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meadows. Neil Lloyd, Cathy DuPuis, Marvin Crowston and Dougl is Johnson won bikes in the Eagle subscription contest. Girls Take Fair Honors August 23. 1956 — Two Nehal em Valley girls took top honors at the Columbia county fair. Donna Buckley was named win ner of the champion livestock showmanship award and Cathy DuPuis of Birkenfeld won cham pion beef showmanship. Annual March of Dimes Campaign Underway io Raise Needed Funds I ' j FUND TOTALS FOR TWO DRIVES LISTED Results of two drives io raise funds were released this week after figures had been totaled by chairmen of the two under takings. For the United Fund. Wilbur Wilson named the figure of $1859.80 which is over $1000 less than the amount of the quota established for this area. Counter containers were dis- played in business places some time ago for the muscular dys trophy fund and were picked up, with the exception of three, last week by Bob Curl, chairman of the drive. The total of the con tainers so far was listed by him as $54. A survey of all persons in the county who have or have not re ’ ceived polio vaccination will be undertaken by the Columbia > county March of Dimes commit tee next week. The survey will be in conjunc tion with the annual March of Dimes drive held during January each year and survey cards will be mailed out with the March of Dimes cards. The card asks for the number of persons immunized and not immunized in the age brackets of over 40 years of age, over 30 years, over 20. 14 years to 20 years of age, eight years to 14 years and six months to eight First traffic fatality in Colum years. bia county for 1957 claimed the The card also requests the life of a former Vernonia resi number of snots given in each dent last Thursday when the bracket. car driven by Mrs. Sarah Smith With the information from tne of Goble went out of control on cards, the committee will be the Fern Hill road just as it en able to tell where to concentrate tered Rainier and went over a their efforts and what other 30-foot embankment and struck measures are necessary to get a small barn which collapsed adequate polio protection for the from the impact. Her late model members of the county. car was also demolished and the accident was attributed to brake failure. She was taken to the hos pital at Longview where she died a few hours later. Mrs. Smith, nee Sarah Baker, was born in Hillsboro November 14, 1901. When she was a girl Roberta Lloyd, sophomore at Vernonia hjgh school, is entered her family moved to a farm near in the state wide cherry pie bak the county line on Timber road. ing contest which will be held She was graduated from Ver nonia high school about 192b at Eugene at Chapman hall on the University of Oregon campus, She and LeRoy Smith were mar Saturday, January 19. Only oth ried at the Baker home and er girl from Columbia county spent the early years of their married life in this community. included in the 42 entries from Mrs. Smith had taught for a throughout the state is Joyce Wo. mack of Raimer. Both are sched number of years at the Apiary school, and during an interlude uled to compete at 12:00 noon High school entrants are chos from that position taught a term en on the basis of local baking at Birkenfeld a few years ago. contests. The state winner will She was on her way home from receive a $25 cash prize, and an the Apiary school when the ac all-expense paid trip to Chicago cident occurred. She is survived by her hus for the national contest for her self and her home ec teacher. band. LeRoy; six sons, Ronald, That contest will ba on February St. Helens; Kenneth, Warren; Delmer, Rainier; David, air 21. The national w nner will re corps in Japan; Jerald, Goble; ceive a $500 scholarship, a new two daughters, Beverly Davis, G E. range, and a trip to Wash Newport and Harriet Smith, grandchildren; her ington, l5 c and New York City. Goble; 12 Mrs. Frances Baker, Miss Lloyd's instructor at Ver mother, nonia high school is Mrs. Mar Forest Grove; four brothers and two sisters. jorie Bassett. Attending the funeral services Tuesday at St Helens were Mr. and Mrs. Ben Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Powell and Harve Christensen. Mrs. Powell and Ben Smith are sister and broth Appointments for 1957 were er of LeRoy Smith. Accident Fatal To Sarah Smith Girl Enters Pie Thirty Loggers Report Baking Contest August 30, 1956 — Thirty Log gers turned out for initial foot ball practice. Registration Noted Sept. 4, 1956 — First day reg istrations at Vernonia schools was 194 in the high school and 518 in the grades. Ground breaking Seen Sept. 13, 1956 — A special electric heat edition announced the incentive plan of West Ore gon Electric to encourage instal lation of electric appliances. Ground breaking ceremonies Feld Friday for the new West Oregon building were pictured. Announcement of new rates for the A. F. Schalock water sys tem is listed as being effective nr v as the result of a hearing at t -»c system office November 9 before a public utilities commis- - '.n representative. New rates Sept. 20, 1956 — Glen Hawk for residential service by the Monday as system is listed as $3 per month ins was installed and for commercial service as Lions club president at the first i fall meeting. $4. Hawkins Heads Lions Cooperative Incentive Plan Nears Deadline; 1357 Use Program Noted Vest Oregon Electric Coopera- I to make the plan effective and t vg members were reminded they may be obtained from the th.. week that the incentive plan cooperative office. Over 90 families have taken ♦*’ purchase of electric heat or rr ajor appliances is nearing its advantage of the incentive plan i adline. Manager Guy Thomas to date. The cooperative urges p-ented out that the highly suc- all those interested to get their . ■ ssful program will end on appliances early so that they can Ft bruary 28 and that anyone be included. At the same time Thomas an p.anning to buy appliances - - uld purchase them before that nounced a program of power use promotion to be carried out date. The incentive program was through 1957. During January and February automatic laun r erigned to help pay the mstal- ■aiicn costs of major appliances dry equipment will be featured in a program working with the ■ , that one of the major prob- r-ns in connecting new equip appliance dealers and manufac ment would be taken care of. turers. From April through June Tits program, which started September 1. 1956. calls for the much time will be spent on ir ft/',owing cash amounts as credit rigation and farm uses of elec tricity. This will culminat- in a • ards installation: Electric range, SI5 credit to field trip where actual installa wards installation; water heater, tions will be inspected June through August will be clothes dryer. $15; electric brat, $5 per kilowatt of installed the period given to food freezers, ranges and water heaters. Coop onpacity. In addition the following erating with the dealers, exten ?mounts of electricity will be sion service and manufacturers, credited toward the member’s the cooperative plans to put on amount on the purchase and in a number of food cooking and. freezing demonstrations stallation of the appliances listed Again next fall the cooperative Water system, 50 kwh per r-ortth for six months, automatic plans to promote electric heat. washer. 20 kwh per month for 12 During the entire year users will rrmths; food freezer. 75 kwh p"r have the importance of adequate and proper wiring brought to jrnnth for 12 months. * • Certain other rules also apply their attention. Court Makes '57 Appointments made by the Columbia county court at its meeting of January 7, according to an announce ment by Judge John W Whipple Wednesday. For this area Oren Weed was named constable for district 4 and Ben Smith was listed as road supervisor for this area. Clyde Henderson, retiring as commissioner from here, was ap pointed to the county dog con trol board and Robert Mathews was nbmed budget committee member The court accepted the resignation of Vilas Shepard, Clatskanie, as civil defense di rector for the county. Roads Slippery Monday Morning Flurries of now and freezing rain which fell Sunday night combined to make all travel in the Nehalem valley and across the hills to other communities extremely hazardous Monday morning. Light flurries of snow which have continued this week have not stayed or amounted to much so far. but predictions are for more tn come Amateur Hour Entries Asked Plans for the amateur hour to bp sponsored by the high school band and Timberline are shaping up This talent show is to be held in the high school gym at 8 p.m. January 17 Admission prices are 25c for grade school children and 50c for high school students and edults. Entries are still open to any one who would like to prepare an act of any sort: vocal, instru mental, a humorous or serious skit, an impersonation, or any thing along that line. Persons who wish to enter may see Wm B. Johrvon or phone the high school and leave their name and the type of en tertainment they plan to present Prizes will be given to the winners in each of the three di visions: grade, high and outside organizations or adults. The program committee would appreciate having the names of all contestants in as soon as pos sible. New City Posts Taken Monday Two city councilmen and the mayor elected in November of last year took their positions as members of the city council on Monday evening at the first 1957 session after being sworn in by Recorder Sam Hearing during the early part of the meeting. The meeting was opened by the for mer council and minutes were read before the swearing-in cere mony, after which the new men began their terms of office. Mayor Don Bayley recommend ed the names he had chose a to fill appointive city positions, these being the same as had for merly held the jobs, and the council voiced its approval with the exception of the fire chief Bob Thompson, declined the po sition of chief and suggested the firemen appoint a chief from their membership, this appoint ment to be subject to council ap proval. The appointments were: mar shal, A. D Lolley; recorder, Sam L. Hearing; water superintendent, James McCrory; utility man, Lee Jessee: health officer. Dr R. D. Eby; librarian, Mrs. Paul Gor don; sexton, Frank Slemmons and attorney, Neal W Bush Marshal Lolley recommended and the council approved the ap pointment of Merle Graham and Jessee as deputy marshals and Slemmons as deputy at the ceme tery. Charley Hickman was elec ted president of the council. About 20 visitors were present for the evening and two of them asked for help with problems. Ross Meeker registered a com plaint concerning debris on First I-steeet and Jack Tomlin pointed out that cars were parked in the driveway to his home on the night of the New Year's eve dance at the Legion hall. Police help was offered to correct the problems. A request for final payment from Frank Kanehl on the sewer construction contract was pre sented and drew discussion ^hich resulted in action of the council requesting that Kanehl and S. A. Ross, city engineer, be present for the January 21 meeting. Ob jections to the condition of the streets since the work was com pleted were voiced by council men and will probably be a topic again when Kanehl and Ross are present. Councilman Sturdevant also mentioned the home of J. Rose at the south end of Rose avenue, just beyond the city limits, point ing out that it was not connected because the engineer stated the main was too small at that pom to handle one more home curt nection. He asked why provision had not been made for this cun nection. This also will probably be a topic for the January 21 meeting. The city ordinance providMg for the garbage franchise held by W A. Davis was read by the recorder after some discussioa, brought up by Sturdevant, that the dumping site was not satis factory. He pointed out that garbage was spread over much of the location and was not beina cleaned up and was not burned Davis told the council the site was not yet properly construct«* to handle garbage, that work with a large bulldozer would be necessary to bring it to prop«' condition and that a burner would be the only satisfactory means of handling the material so that sanitary laws and summit fire restrictions could be eor» plied with. The council will go to tt»r dump site for a survey of con ditions as the result of a suggvS tion by Mayor Bayley, who will arrange a date for the examina tion. The mayor also suggested plac ing several trash cans in the bust ness section as a means to keep city streets cleaner and Daihs informed the council he would get the cans and empty them without charge as part of th»- sanitary service. Final council action of the < vening was the issuing of an I order by the council that the on» 1 hour parking ordinance be '■» forced. CHAMBER GROUP TO DINE TONIGHT The quarterly membership du» ner of the Vernonia chamber of commerce is an event scheduled io take place this evening at the Legion hall. The dinner te- night will be served by th« American Legion Auxiliary at 7 p.m. for $1.50 per plate and in open to members, their familtea and friends. tn a letter sent members last week, the chamber asks for "ideas and suggestions that migiu be of help" and points out that support and cooperation is need ed now. more than ever, at th« beginning of the new year. Loggers Roll! Win Encounters with Seaside Saturday, Reynolds Tuesday Using a new offensive style, helped by the addition of Bob Crowston and showing a stron.j desire to win, th? Vernonia Log gers took to the local floor against the Seaside Gulls last Saturday. Jumping out in front on the strength of Jon Bush's jump shots the local five held a quick lead of 8-2. Maintaining good control of the backboards by Bush. Herb Bender and Larry Akers and with Crowston and Dick O'Brien running the fast break very well, the Loggers managed to lead at half-time by a score of 32-20 Following the interimssion th» Vernonia team showed no signs of slowing down and steadily- pushed on to their 60-47 win At times the Logger defense, headed by the ball stealing tac tics of Crowston had the visitors completely baffled, as time and time again the ball was stolen away by Vernonia This team showed vast improvement in the working of their new offensive patterns on the double post as well as getting a little tougher each game on defense Showing continued improve ment with each game, the log gers won their first league garor of the current campaign Tuesday at the expense of the league's newest school, Reynolds, by a count of 61-51. Confronted with a zone de fense used by 4he Lancers in the first half of the game, the Loggers with good outside shoot ing by Bob Crowston and Don Holsey maintained the lead, the scoreboard showing Vernonia out in front by a score of 26-23 at half-time. At the start of the second half, Reynolds cha nge* their defen sive tactics to man for man, and then the fireworks started. With Crowston. O'Brien, and Holsey on the outside, and Bender and Bush manning the double post, the Loggers cut up Lancers to win going away 61-51. Dick O'Brien was high point man for the evening with 16 points. Coach Moran agair pointed out that this was a good team effort with all the boys called on playing good sound ball. Vernonia is now ready to roll against the Hood River Blue Dra gons this Friday night at the local gym.
