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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1957)
LitTary, U of 0 Scouts Set Observance Of 47th Year July Fourth Event Talked Eight Dens Display Work Accomplished In Store Windows Cub Scouts, Webelos, leaders, parents and invited guests will gather at the lunch room at the Washington school Friday even ing for the annual Blue and Gold anniversary dinner which this year observes the 47th anniver sary of scouting. A program is being arranged, also, with speakers expected. In observance of- Scout week, eight of the nin? Cub dens have nad displays in various stoic windows showing the projects that they have had during the year. These have drawn much interesting comment from those who saw the displays and have stimulated a greater interest in the Cub Scout movement. The window space was arranged for by E. ’V. Robertson and he and his committee express great ap preciation for the splendid co operation of the merchants who gave window space. The dis plays will remain for the rest of this week and are worthy of at tention. Two car loads of Cub commit tee members attended the round table at Hillsboro Tuesday even ing where they received instruc tion for future activities. Indian Trails was the theme followed. Those who attended were: Mr and Mrs. John Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Meyer, Mrs. ¿dgar Hartzell, Mrs. E. E. Larson, Fred Roediger, E V Robertson and Robert C. Lindsay. Sweetheart Ball Saturday Night Week end social event at Ver- nor.ia high school to which the public is invited is the Sweet heart Ball which will be helc^in the high school gym Saturday evening. Dancing will be from 8 to 12 and an orchestra is being engaged to assure good music for the event. At intermission, announcement w 1 be made of the selection of the queen who will be crowned at that time. Candidates are the princesses chosen from the clas ses as follows: Senior, Margaret V -.er; junior, Darlene Bernardi; sophomore, Carolyn Garlock and freshman, Patty McEntire. Science Class Makes Trips Th? science class and club .TW'-nbers at Vernonia high school »cr«mpanied by science instruc tor Thomas Steyaert, will go to SV Helens Monday for a tour of the CrownZellerbach paper mill. Recently, the class made an other trip to Portland where they were taken on conducted tours through the Emanuel and Good Samaritan hospitals. Three car loads made that trip WARD ARMSTRONG Youth Exchange Student Slated Ward Armstrong. International Farm Youth exchange student, who spent five months in India, studying farm methods there, will b° in Vernonia Friday, February 22 at 8:00 p.m. at the union ha 1 to lecture and show pictures of his expenenc?s there. Since his return from India, Mr. Armstrong has visited quite a number of cities in Oregon, ap pearing before high schools and 4-H club groups. The public is invited and ad- missiop is free. Also, Glen Hawkins will be there with his square dance mu sic. and those who wish will en joy themselves dancing. This program was arranged through the efforts of 4-H club leader W. E. Pond, with the co operation of the Vernonia F.O.E. Mr. Armstrong will also be in Vernonia Monday. February 18 and will» be at the high school at 10:00 a.m. and at the Washing ton grade school at 1:00 p m. He will spent most of next week in Columbia county talking at schools and before various or ganizations. Ted Berg Author Of Travel Book Of interest locally is the infor mation that a book. “Sweden and Back on a Bicycle." by Ted Berg, has recently been publish ed by the Exposition Press of New York Ted is the son of Mr and Mrs. Willard Berg who were Vernonia residents iw the late 1930’s when Mr. Berg was li brary teacher at the Washing ton school. Ted, now 17 and a senior at Junction City high school, made the trip to Sweden alone when he was 14. His book telling of his adventures has received many reviews complimenting th" simple and refreshing language, the friendly humor and the homey warmth of the story. Berg is in St. Helens today to address the Kiwanis club, to visit the high school and to auto graph his books at the Davis Drug store. Rites Today for E. Leake Funeral services for Reverend Ervin F. Leake who passed away Tuesday morning in Portland, will be held this afternoon at 2:30 in Finley’s Morninglight Chapel at S W Montgomery and fourth street in Portland. Crusade for Freedom Jars Placed; President Points Out Fund Purpose The American Legion auxiliary is sponsoring locally the Crusade for Freedom drive which is being carried on nation-wide during the month of February, according to Afrs. Earl Atkins, auxiliary pre? dent for Vernonia unit No. 119. No solicitations will be done, but collection jars for those who w;sn to contribute have been placed in the bank and at Bruns- nr*n Hardware The Crusade for Freedom sup ports Radio Free Europe and Free Europ. Press, both of which take news about the free world to the more thap 70.000 persons in the satellite countries behind the iron curtain President Eiserhower recently stated that more than ever be fore contributing to the Crusade is an effective way for every American to reassert his belief in the indivisibility of human freedom and in the rights of people! wherever they may live, to havc governments of their own choosing Veterans of Foreign Wars Grove Gay Nineties parade, if Commander Harvey Redmond, director Johnson and the high Edwin Adt> and Leonard Rausch school wish to do so. met with the directors and com There will be a meeting con mittee chairmen, at this regular ■ ducted by Don Coin Walrod. meeting, Monday eve.. February county extension agent, for anv 11th in the West Oregon Electric interested farmers on laying hens Co-op, Inc., officek They told of production primarily. W A. Rum their ideas for a 4th of July cele baugh. high school ag teacher, bration, and a resolution was 1 will participate along with the made by the chamber directors, agriculture committee of the to cooperate and work with them chamber that is sponsoring the when their plans are made. Many get-to-gether. The meeting will of the merchants present agreed be held in the new West Oregon that a three day celebration Electric Co-op., Inc. meetin;’ would be a natural, since the 4th room. falls on Thursday. It was also announced that KGW—TV invited the Ver. there will be a representative noma Chamber of Commerce re from the county extension agents presentatives Louis fowne and office at the Co-op. meeting Marvin Kamholz to appear on room every Wednesday morning l> program "How to Attract New again, to help farmers or others Industry,” with Fred Bienne, Eu needing assistance, since another gene chamber manager, as dis county agent assistant has been cussion leader, and representa secured. tives from Astoria and Long Lyman Hawken Sr., chairman view, on March 29th at 2:00 p.m. This will be a half hour program arranged by Helen Platt, educa tional director at the studio, in an effort to help this area On March 22nd, this group will be guests of the station for lunch After a good first half, the Ver eon to plan the program and to nonia Loggers slowed down in watch a similar one. A report on the Oregon-Wash the last two quarters and met de ington Chamber Executives meet feat at the hand of the Hood Riv ing held in Portland February er Dragons by a score of 47-56 3, 4, and 5 was given by Mrs. Friday night. The Dragons, out to avenge a Paul Gordon who attended the whole conference and by Marvin first round league loss to the Kamholz and Louis Towne, who Vernonia team, quickly jumped out in front during the first attended one day. quarter by a score of 17-12. Ver The group voted to again spon- sor the Vernonia high school nonia not to be denied, took band to compete in the Forest command ofMhe situation during the second quarter and rallied to lead at half-time 32-30. The lead was gained again by of the industry committee, re ported that his committee is working on a facts and figure sheet in an effort to make a bid for some de-centralization busi ness for this area. Art Ostrander, roads, highway committee chairman, will attend a meeting of Highway 101 group at Salem Tuesday. They will discuss the feasibility of floating a bond to get money to do work on their highway immediately. Clean-up, Paint-up, F i x - u p committee chairman Don Bay ley gave a good report on the January 30 meeting of represen- tatives from the local lodges and organizations to make formal or ganization for the program. Hi expressed his appreciation and thanks for the cooperation re ceived from the local groups. This group will meet again Feb ruary 20 at 8:00 p.m. when they will formulate work plans. Dragons, Indians Overcome Leads in Games to Inflict Defeats on Loggers Estate Funds Given 3 GrouDs Leaders Urge Support of Bill James H. Miller, native of Latvia who came to Oregon and accumulated a modest fortune of $120.000. willed his money to Vernonia people who are in- charitable and educational organ terested in the work of the 4-H izations as a gesture of gratitude to his adopted country, it was clubs which contribute much to revealed Monday b/ the Bank ward the building of better citi of California which announced zens from the young people are distribution of the funds by its asked to write to their represen i trust department. tatives in the state legislature Miller, who was a resident of now in support of senate bill No. Vernonia and worked as a donk 9 which is now being i considered ey puncher for Clark and Wilson and which provides fwi Ir new fa- and Crown Zellerbach for many cilities at the state fair grounds years, died from cancer April for the use of club members at t 20. 1951 at the age of 66. fair time. Under the terms of his will, Facilities on thc fair ground his money was divided into three now date back to 1923 and have I equal parts, with one third going long since been outgrown. Sam- to th? American Cancer society, tary facilities in the 4-H dormi a third to the Oregon school for tories are entirely inadequate. the blind and a third to Stanford The bill would provide for new university medical school. housing and feeding arrange Miller became interested in ments for both F.F.A. and 4-H the stock market as a result of members and space for exhibit reading an investment publica ing as well. Also, if such build tion and about 1932 he began to ings are added, they may be used put his money in stocks. In this at other than fair time by groups way he was able to accumulate who have need for them. a total of $95,564 in securities by Letters may be sent to any the time of his death. legislator, and especially Robert Klemson, and Dan Thiel from this area The program is supported here by Mrs. Evelyn Heath, Mrs. J. Moran and Boone Johnson ?f Birkenfeld, all of whom are ac tive in 4-H work. This year's annual meeting of the Clatskanie Soil Conservation district is scheduled fo> the ev ening of Wednesday, Fe. ruary 20, at Clatskanie. Virgil Lance said Wednesday morning of this week He ft unit conservationist for the district and maintains Announced here a few days an office here every Wednesday. «go was the amount of money A dinner at 7 p.m. in the high West Oregon Electric Coopera school at Clatskanie will start tive had paid this year on the the affair and will be followed basis of its annual gross revenue by a program including musical to the Oregon state tax commis numbers by Mrs. Shalmon Libel. sion. Mist, and the finals of the FFA The figure was released b; speaking contest. Students from Vernonia. Clatskanie and Rain Guy Thomas, manager, who list ed it at $5445.70 which is two per ier will compete in the contest W. D Hagenstein. executive cent ot the revenue and is the vice-president of the Industrial largest peyment made by the Forestry association will speak cooperative since it began bus cn "The Future of Tree Farming iness February 1, 1945 The cooperative also pays a in the Clatskanie Soil Conserva two per cent tax to the city of tion District." The annual report of the dis Vernonia on its gross revenue trict will also be reviewed dur from electric sales to residents i of the city ing the evening. District Slates Annual Meeting Co-op Pays Top Tax on Revenue Budget Lists Reduced Levy For 1957-58 I Sinking Fund Use This Year Planned For Improvements A tax levy of $73,855.14 is lislad by the budget prepared last Tut« day for school district 47 and 55 which will become effective at the start of the next fiscal year July 1. The budget appear-, in detail elsewhere in this is*i- and was drawn up at the budget meeting last Tuesday. This levy is a reduction from the amount listed a year ago which then was $80,315 and is achieved even though the ex penditure for capital outlays is up considerably in the new bud get. However, the total proposed under this schedule is being off set by $15,000 from a sinking’ fund which the district board advocates be used this year to put the buildings in good physi cal condition for a good many years to come. By doing this work now. maintenance costa will be reduced in the future. Two uses proposed for this money are floor improvement by the laying of asphalt tile and installation of thermostatic tem perature controls. General control, instruction and operation of plant all show some increase bver a year ago and can be attributed to increas ed costs for materials and salary i increases. This budget provides I for a $200 per teacher salary ia- ’ crease which will still not main (tain this district on an average with the rest of the county ever» ! though it is an increase of be tween four and five per cent. Under the heading of mainten ance and repairs a reduction from $13,800 last year to $4000 this year comes about because ot the expense of a new roof in stalled last summer Auxiliary agencies are up slightly but fix ed charges show a decrease. The total of schedule two calls for estimated expenditures total mg $191,930, a figure that is up from $180,380 last year, princip ally because of the proposed ex penditures of the sinking fund under capital outlays. Residents in the two districts will have the opportunity to meet with members of the board on March 12 to discuss the proposed cost sheet. Hood River in the third quarter and after trailing by five to nine points, the loggers defense fell apart in the fourth quarter and they let the Dragons score 12 points in the last three minutes to sew up the victory and secón J place in league standings. Spence Erickson, with a big 12-point third quarter and Camp bell who tallied 8 points in the fourth quarter led the Hood Riv er victory parade. Don Holsey with 17 led the Logger scoring. Vernonia, for the second time in a row. managed to hold their own Tuesday night for most of a ball game, only to see it slip away from them in the final to minutes. This time it was Scappoose, highly rated Colum- bia River League leader, by a score og 57-46. Playing nip and tuck all the way, the Loggers looked impres sive throughout the first three quarters of action. Passing the ball very well against the Indians zone defense, Vernonia managed to time and time again op *n scoring opportunities and as a result held the lead several times throughout the league encounter, the scoreboard reading 38-37 ,,i favor of the Loggers at the start oi the third quarter. They managed to hang onto this lead through most of this stanza and with four minutes left to play, led by a count of 44-43 Then Bob Powell, Scappoose center, caught fire and poured most of the 13 points he scored in the fourth quarter through the With the completion of a room hoop to put Scappoose beyond range ot the local five. 1 at Vernonia high school, a new counseling and guidance service for students is being initiated with teachers who have com pleted a course on this work a* counselors. They include Carl ton Moran, who will act as ap pointment secretary; Thomas The faculty versus members Steyaert, Harold McEntire, Rob of the F.F.A. at Vernonia high ert Kelley, Carolyn Feaaey school will be the battle jot the and Eugene Dove Also counsel week tonight when they engage ing will be Mrs. Ora Bolmeier, in a game of Donkey Baseball >n dean of girls, who has had pre the high school gym. The event vious courses on this subject. Counseling tor students will is open to the public and pro ceeds will go to the F F A. which include vocational, educational- and personal problems. sponsors it. Counseling Is Added at VHS Donkey Ball Due At HS Tonight PTA Prepares Annual Remembrance Of Founder's Day with Film, Music Founder’s Day will be observed at the meeting of the PT.A. which will be held next Monday evening at the Washington school. An acrostic candlelighting cere mony will be used and a film. Families First will be shown. Music is being arranged by Ro bert Kelley, music instructor. A birthday offering will be receiv ed, as Is done each year by all PT.A. groups. This provides th« funds used for PT A extension work, i n cl u d i n g organization packets, state and national pub- lications, workshops and other promotional work. The PT.A. executive meeting met Monday and appointed as nomination committee Darrvld Proehl. Eugene Dove, Mrs Frank Serafin and Mrs. Earl King They will report in March March 21 has been set for the annual pre-school clinic and de tails of arrangements will be an nounced later. Also, investiga tion is underway of the possibib- ty for arranging for Salk vaccine .«hots fir high school students.
