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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1957)
Library, U of 0 Council Issues Order to Form Planning Group; Swings Given to School CiU councilmen gave consid eration to the setting up of a planning commission as one ot their main items of business Monday evening when they met for the second time in February. Suggestion that thought be given such a group and a presentation to details on the duties of a com mission were given councilmen by Mayor Don Bayley and Louis Towne. The mayor presented a sample ordinance which would provide for the commission and Towne explained that such a group is composed of citizens who recom mend city improvements to the council. Recorder Sam Hearing was instructed to draft an official ordinance establishing the right Leake Services Held Thursday Funerab services were held last Thursday afternoon at the Fin ley's Morninglight chapel in Portland for Reverend Ervin F. Leake, 79, who passed away on Tuesday following an extended illness. The Reverend Harold Brown of the First Christian church in Portland officiated. In terment was in the Riverview Abbey mausoleum. Rev. Leake had been a minis ter for the Christian church for 62 years and had served pastor ates in Missouri, Iowa, Oklaho ma, Colorado and Oregon. In 1928 he began seven years as pastor of the First Christian church in Portland. From there he went on to Hood River, and later came to Vernonia where he served almost three years until his retirement last summer. From here he moved to Portland to make his home. Rev. Leake was an active mem ber of the Lions club both in H'xid River and Vernonia and three members of the local club. 7. ibur Davis, Glen Hawkins and Bill Horn, acted as pail bearers w th three members from the Hood River club. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge at Hood River. Survivors include his wife, Gladys; four sons, Richard W. of Portland; Lowell L. of Waverly, NY.; Leslie R. of Eaton. Colo., aed James D. of Denver; three daughters, Mrs. Robert H. Golli- hur and Nancy, both Portland. a’id Mrs. A. T. Avey, Idlewild, Ca.1.; two brothers and a sister Primary Grades Plan Assembly The first grade taught by Mrs. Daxter and the second grade V. ight by Mrs. Green will present an assembly program tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 in the Wash- inrton school auditorium. An additional feature will be a skd on the history of scouting w.-ich will be presented by Cub Sends. for the council to appoint a com mission and describe its powers and duties. The frames, now located at *he city park, that have been used for children’s swings were donated to school district 47 and will be re paired and used at the Washinc. ton school as playground equip ment. The addition of these items to the school playground is one of the requirements the district must make to comply with regulations in order to be come standard. Councilmen felt the swings would be of more value at the school than they have been at the park. Frank Hayes asked the city to tell him when he should start paying rent on the airplane hang er he built last year at the air port, This hangar was con structed at his own expense as an addition to the old hangar and he therefore was told there would be no rental charge for the first year. Councilmen read a proposal by Cecil Huff, which presents a plan to take over the garbage dispo sal business. Huff’s proposal set forth a 10-point program where by he would take over the pick up and disposal of garbage undei private arrangements. The coun cil pointed out that a legal fran chise was now m effect. Two ordinances were adopted during the evening, one' to set forth charges to property on South First avenue for curb con struction appears elsewhere in this issue, and the other to es tablish standard and oversize grave openings at the city ceme. tery and the charges to open these graves. Mrs. LeRov Cook and Mrs. Omar Vernon appeared before the council to ask for a street light at the corner of Clatsop and Bridge streets and also to point out the bad condition of the street on Second Avenue. Councilmen also heard a re quest from John Honeywell, own er of the Honeywell Amusement company, that the license fee on pinball machines be reduced, on which no action was taken. Lee Rogers asked if it were lawful for tavern windows to be covered and was informed that the Ore gon Liquor Commission has au thority on this matter. Band to Play Drama Club West Coast to Slates Play Spend $8500 In Ninties Parade Again On Exchange CHARLES E. BRYANT. Fire man, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Bryant of 728 Rose Avenue. Vernonia, Oregon, is now at the U. S. Naval receiving station, Norfolk, Virginia, awaiting trans fer to USS Coral Sea CVA-43. The Norfolk Naval receiving sta tion processes approximately 8.- 000 men a month on their way to and from naval activities all j over the world. IFYE Student Speaks Friday A reminder is given of the meeting announced last week for the Union hall tomorrow. Fri day evening, at 8:00 at which Ward Armstrong of Newberg, In ternational Farm Youth Ex change student who spent six months of last year in India, will talk. The :«ffair is sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Eagles and was arranged by W. E. Pond, 4-H club leader. Mr. Armstrong was here Mon day to talk at the high school where he was very warmly re ceived and all who heard him ac claim him as a very interesting speaker whom it is worth while to hear. He also shows films with his talk During his stay in India, he .lived, worked and ate with different families and shar ed their family life. Following Friday" nights meet ing. Glen Hawkins will call for square dancing. Log Conference Event Planned The Willamette Valley Log ging conference will be held on February 28 through March 2 a' the Lane county fair grounds at Eugene, according to Ervin Smith, president, of Seaside, who will open the conference Thurs * X Members of the board of direc day. February 28 with his ad Stephen Waite of Ver tors of the Cavlite Candle com dress. pany, elected at the annual meet nonia was at Eugene last week ing of the corporation Tuesday end to meet with Mr. Smith and night of last week, met last Fri other committee members to day night to organize the board. complete conference plans. Such timely subjects as insur Named to the board at the an nual meting were J. D. Caywood. ance and bond^ burn or not burn, Dwight Strong. Sam Hearing Jr.. salvage logging, chips and fibre John Thompson and Marvin and equipment will be consider Kamholz. At the organizational ed. Robert C. Lindsay, resident meeting Friday, Kamholz was forester for the Crown Zeller- ejected president of the board. bach Columbia Tree Farm here Strong was named vice-president ' will present the subject of thin and Hearing, secretary-treasurer. ning. Firm Directors Select Offices Nine Girls, a royalty play, is to be presented by the Vernonia high school drama club Thursday evening of next week. February I Brady Invited to Installation Plans 28. The play is a drama-mystery Play in All-State Call for Direct ir. which one of a group of col Band March 15 Distance Dialing lege sorority girls disappears. The Vernonia high school band The unfolding of the plot in ap West Coast Telephone com will march again this year in the prehending the guilty party is pany's 1957 construction budget, Gay Ninties parade at Forest announced Monday, allocate- very captivating as the audience Grove which will be on Saturday. $8500 to the company's Vernonia March 2. This will be the third tries to guess the outcome. exchange for direct distance dial Characters in the play are: ing equipment and trunks be participation for the band which brought home the band trophy Jane, played by Ruby Daniels; tween Vernonia and the Beaver two years ago and the sweep Alice, Lee Ann Livengood; Eve, ton exchange. stakes trophy last year. The company will establish Judy Strong; Sharon, alias This year, the band has also "Glamorpuss,” Sunny DeHart; Beaverton as a major toll center by November of this year, ac been asked to give a one hour concert before the parade. This Betty, a southern belle, Carol cording to District Manager Lyle will be on the lawn of the First Cotton; Stella, Joyce Thompson; E. Cross of Beaverton. The cen Patty McEntire and I ter will accomodate Vernonia and Congregational church in down Phyllis, nine other company exchanges town Forest Grov" and will be Mary, Janelie Thomas. which will feed into it. from noon to 1:00 p.m. Other en Judy Towne is student direc Purchase and installation of di tertainment features will be pre tor of the play; Larry Hickman rect distance dialing and toll cen sented there also. is in charge of lighting and Mar The band will again be ap garet Miner made the posters, ter equipment at Beaverton will propriately costumed for the using photographs by Danny come to $378,000. Included will event and are practising march Fletcher. Connie McKenney is be the first automatic toll-ticket ing equipment the company will ing in readiness for it. in charge of sound effects and employ in any of its four Oregon The Vernonia band is also proud Julia Waite is prompter. districts. of an honor which has come to one Mrs. Bernard Dowling is ad “The new system will enable of its members, Dane Brady, who visor for the flub and has gen subscribers at Vernonia and the has been invited to play in the eral supervision of the play. nine other exchanges tq dial sta- all state band at the O.E.A. meet tion-to-station toll calls direct to ing in Portland March 15. Mem all points in the United States bers of the all stale band are se and Canada equipped to recel** lected from the outstanding mu and connected to the direct dis sicians from high school bands tance dialing network," Cross ox throughout the state. They will plained. “Subscribers will find go to Portland for registration that the service cuts down ma March 13 and the first practice As a part of the observance, na will be that afternoon. Practices tionally, of Future Farmers of terially on the time it now takes to complete long distance calls,” will be held also during the next America week, February 16 to The $9,000,000 West Coast con. two days and the concert will be 23, the FFA chapter at Vernonia presented at th.-: civic auditorium high school has scheduled a re struction budget—largest in th- Friday evening before the O.E A. creational basketball game with history of thc Pacific Northwest's fastest growing utility—calls ft»» delegates. the Rainier high school chapter expenditures of $556,000 a in the The band will be directed by at the Vernonia gym this even Beaverton district on “routines” Mr. Moody, band director from ing starting at 7 p.m. This sum includes such district Gonzaga University at Spokane, The Donkey basketball game wide items as $328,000 for plant Washington. held last week was also sponsor routine projects and $228,000 fbr Dane is a junior at Vernonia ed by the FFA group and was to routine purchases of vehicles and high school and plays trumpet. raise funds to send delegates to truck equipment, subscriber sta the convention which will be tion apparatus and equipment, in held at I,a* Grande during spring cluding nearly 3000 new teln- vacation in March. This game phones. drew an attendance of over 600, one of the largest crowds to wit ness any athletic activity in the gym. Members of the FFA chap At the PT.A. meetrig held ter played faculty members but Monday evening at the Washing the spectators agreed that the ton school, a very impressive game was won by the donkeys. candlelight acrostic, conducted bv The grade school basketball The Vernonia FFA chapter ha.; Mrs. Robert Lindsay, was used 25 members. Welcome Rumbaugh, team will go to Clatskanie to in the Founders Day program vocational ag teacher at the high morrow afternoon to play with commemorating the sixtieth school, is the advisor for the the Clatskanie grade team. birthday of the P.T.A. The Vernonia team is now tied group and officers are Jerry To complete the program, the Buckner, president; Allen Fow with John Gumm of St. Helens high school ensemble directed by ler, vice-president; Glen Siedel for first place in the county Robert Kelly, sang "Mayday man, secretary; Byron Hawkins, league as a result of winning Choral” and "Charlotte Town,” treasurer; Walter Lankston, re from Rainier 36 to 21 on Febru and the film. Families First, was porter and Don Siedelman, sen ary 7 and from John Gumm, 25 shown by Darrold Proehl. to 24 on February 12. tinel. Mrs. Herb Heckenliable. chair man of the membership commit tee, reported a membership of 163, 13 over the goal of 150 previously set by the group, and a great increase over the enroll ment of previous years. Local Boy Scouts arc cooper last Friday evening at the Wash Room count resulted in the ington school lunch room with membership plaque being award ating with all Scouts in this area all nine Cub Scout dens and the ed to Mrs. Steen's fourth grade. in a special fund raising drive Webelos participating. Members were reminded of the to raise money needed for en Guests for the dinner included legislative meeting at Rainier larging camp facilities and for Mayor and Mrs. Don Bayley, Rev this evening. February 21. at 7:30 constructing a council building and Mrs. A. L. Argo; Mr. and for members of the P.T.A., the to be used as a headquarters in Mrs. Darrold Pri ehl and family, Oregon School Board association Portland. In order to raise th“ Mr and Mrs. Charles Minger and and the O.E.A., at which mea amount needed, shares in the family and Mr. and Mrs. Walter sures before the legislature will Boy Scouts of America are being Workman and family. b° discussed. sold at $10 per share and all per The invocation was given by sons interested 1 n building Rev. Argo who is pastor of th< America in this way are asked Baptist church, and Mr. Work man gave an inspirational talk to to buy shares Need for the drive is pointed the Cubs and parents on scout- up by the fact that camp sites | ing He is an Eagle Scout and was now owned are not adequate to one of five boys in the nation to Valley farmers and anyone pise allow all scouts who so desire to qualify at the time he received who is interested in getting attend them Also, land in Port this honor. Hf. is also one of the into the production of eggs are land has b“en donated for a coun most decorated scouts in Oregon invited to a meeting scheduled cil building and off street park and has served as patrol leader next Tuesday evening under the ing which is badly needed and and assistant Scout leader at For sponsorship of the chamber of $106.000 has been pledged to est Grove. He presented to John commerce agricultural commit ward these projects, mostly con Harris, local Cubmaster, a gift tingent on the remainder being for th(. pack of a flint and steel tee fire making kit * Don Coin Walrod, county agent, raked in this drive The Mom and Dad award was The United Fund contributes will speak on the subject and later participate in a general dis to the organization's operating presented to Mrs. E E Larson, cussion of the proposed industry. expense only and will provide no den mother for den 6 which had The meeting will start at 8 o'clock funds for expansion or building. 100 per cent attendance. Awards made during the even Th? annual Blue and Gold din- at the new West Oregon Elec ing will be published next wefk. net for the Cub Scouts was held tric building. FFA Game Date Sets Observance PTA Observes Founder's Day Need Cited for Enlarged Boy Scout Camps; Cubs Observe Anniversary Farmers Asked To Poultry Meet MRS. FRANK SERAFIM, local March of Dim»» chairman, receives from Lyman Hawken Jr., a check tor $84.50 raised by the Vf.W. at the dance given February 9. Looking on are Leonard Rauch. FJwin Ade. and Harvey Redmond, post commander. . Graders Tied For First Place