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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1957)
Library, U of 0 Rainfall Light, Temperature Readings Down A summary of the w. ather for the past three months compiled from records kept by Frank Siem- mons shows very little precip. tation in the entire period. In August, there was a total of 1.18 inches with .32 of an inch on August 7 the largest amount on any one day. In September, a total of .75 of an inch was mea sured and in October. 2.71 inches for a three month total of 4.64 inches. In August, the highest temper ature recorder was 85 degrees on August 22 and the lowest was 38 degrees on August 16. In Sept ember. the mercury climed to 92 degrees on September 14 and had been in the 85 to 90 category on the four previous days. Low in September was 32 degrees on September 19 October’s high was 73 degrees on October 10 and the low was 25 degrees on Oc tober 21. November has had more of a foretaste of winter with 21 de gree lows on the third and fourth. High November 3 was 63 de grees. Service Held F or E. Knight Funeral services for Elmore Knight, 59 year old purchasing agent for the International Paper company at Vernonia, were held Wednesday, November 6 at 2 p.m at the Christian church in Vernonia. Concluding services and interment were at the Ver nonia Memorial cemetery with Fuiten's Chapel in the Hills mor tuary, Vernonia in charge of ar rangements. Mr. Knight, who had been in poor health in recent months passed away at his home in Ver- nonia Sunday evening. He was born August 5, 1893 in Alexandria. Louisiana and spent his early lifetime there. Following his marriage at De Ridder, Louisiana to Muiel Hunt er in 1920 he moved to California fC” several years. In 1924 he started to work for the Central Coal and Coke com pany in Louisiana and then trans, ferred with the company to the Oregon American mill at Ver nonia in 1925. where he had lived and worked for the past 32 y'ars Mr. Knight was a member and past master of the Vernonia Ma sonic Lodge No. 184 A.F&A.M.; e member of the Royal Arch chapter No. 54 and of the Nehal- ere chapter No. 153 O.E.S. Surviving besides his wife is a ' on. Truman Knight, Vernonia: r daughter, Mrs. Joyce Culbert son. Medford; one brother. James Knight, Ferndale. Michigan; four sisters, Sadie Knight. Port Ar thur. Texas; Mrs. Maude Waters, H 'uston, Texas; Mrs Elizabeth Hambrick. Sulful, Louisiana and Mr- Nellie Morgan, St. Louis. Missouri and seven grandchild ren Mrs. Cassie Livingstone, pas tor of the Christian church of- fie.ated at the services with lodge rites under the auspices of the Masonic lodge Serving as casket bearers were .1 E Tapp. E East. G L Hieb’r. b G. Dickson. R L. Watson and V. E. Linn Juniors Prepare For Annual Play high school junior class stu- d‘-its are preparing,for their an nual play to be presented this year on November 22 The play i’< udes a cast of 12. eight girls a'.c four boys, and will be a three act comedy entitled “O Promise C aching the cast is Kerry Mor. ar who has acted in this capa city for the two previous years. Schools Plan Open House During Observance of Education Week Next week. November 10 through 16. is American Educa tion Week and marks the 37th an niversary of such an observance by schools and various education organizations. Cecil Posey, executive secre tary of the Oregon Education as sociation, and Governor Holmes, who has issued a proclamation asking observance of the week, both urge parents to visit the schools during the week and be come better acquainted with their children’s teachers and the program of the school. In line with this, all the schools in Ver nonia are inviting parents to visit and will in effect maintain open house Them’ for this year is "An Educated People Moves Freedom Forward”. Win B. Johnson from the hign school and Mrs. Velva Christen sen from the elementary school are committee members for the local observance and plan as a part of it to place exhibits of some of the work done in the schools in down town windows. Thursday, November 14. the parents of the fourth grade- stu dents of Mrs. Mathilde Berger- son's room will be guests for lunch at the Washington school cafeteria. There will be a kick-off for the observance at the assembly tomorrow at the Washington school and a follow-up program is expected at the P.T.A. meet ing November 18. Decisions of Contest Judges Expected Soon Grid Eleven Achieves Win Friday 13-7 Over Tigers Coach Vlcek's victory starved Vernonia Loggers finally broke Winners of this year’s yard-of- into the win column when thev the - month contest, a grand journeyed to Clatskanie last Fri award for the best home im day evening and defeated that provement and an award for the eleven 13-7 in a game whose out best building improvement wiil * come wasn't certain until the be chosen soon by committees final gun sounded ending the named last Wednesday evening contest. by the clean-up, paint-up, fix-up The Clatskanie Tigers scored | group which has been active dur- early in the period when they re • the past summer. covered a Logger fumble on the Th > improvement committee, locals’ 38-yard strip. From that point the Tigers sporting a strong of which Mayor Don Bayley r running attack and a pass com chairman, heard a report on fi pletion drove all the way for the nances showing a total of $59 02 score. Clatskanie’s points oc ' on hand, most of which came curred on a 2-yard plunge I from donations made by the Le through the center of the locals’ ' gion Auxiliary, Rebekah lodge, line. Once again the Tigers scored Lions club. PTA, Pythians, Ne halem Social club and Vernonia in first quarter play when the Further changes in the pro Loggers punted to the Clatskanie Study club. posed new garbage franchise 40. only to have the pigskin run Three awards will be made for back all the way for a T D. Bad were given city council consid the best yards of the month, one eration Monday at the first No luck in the way of a five-yard grand award for home improve vember meeting and these penalty, however, robbed the Ti ment and a certificate of merit changes will be incorporated in gers of the score and the local for the best business building im an ordinance to be drawn up for eleven heaved a sigh of relief provement. adoption soon Councilmen or and took over possession once Weed control on vacant lots again and punted safely, this time dered the recorder to have City More details were worked out again came up for discussion, Attorney C. F Bradley draft the to the opponents' 30. at the Lions club meeting held some of the most flagrant cases new franchise with the suggestd At the end of the first quarter Monday night for the pancake being pointed out by people the Loggers on a sustained drive changes included. feed which will be staged by the present after a suggestion from The council heard a request had penetrated from their own club Saturday, November 16, at the Study club was read to the from International Paper com 30-yard marker to the Tigers’ Kate’s cafe. Committee chair group concerning this problem. pany to supply water service to 30. men appointed by Pesident Tom The city has considered changes company property. As a result With the beginning of second Bateman who are active in the in the present ordinance gov of the request, a council delega preparation are Edwin Ade, work erning weed control so that ef quarter play, the Loggers, stick tion will meet with company of detail; Sam Hearing Jr., food and fective action can l>e taken, Bay- ing to a steady ground attack, ficials soon to discuss the matter. drove all the way to score with Wesley Bolmeier, publicity. ley told the committee. He also the try for point being good and Another item of business Mon Members of the club will work pointed out that further action sending the game into a tie at day was an order by the council to call for sealed bids for supply in two hour shifts and will be was being taken to remove or 7-7. ing river gravel. Details of the ready to start serving at 6:03 have removed old abandoned Once again in the second period call for bids appear in an official a.m. Those assigned to the first buildings. the Loggers crossed the Tigers’ notice in this issue. The grave! shift are Wilbur Davis, Jim Da-• goal. The second score occurred will be used as base rock for fu vies, Sam Hearing Jr.. Cecil when an alert Vernonia defense Johnson, Ed Roedigcr Jr.. Bob ture alley and street work. grabbed a Clatskanie toss on the Councilmen also approved two King and Clarence Nance. Tiger 20. The Loggers, wasting Some contributions to the fund applications for liquor licenses no time and with the clock stea for the coming year, one for John which is earmarked for young dily running out, drove all the Wilde, owner of Lews Place, and Danny Lawler have already come way for the score and crossed the Mr. and Mrs. R M. Burns have goal with one minute left in the in and because there are those the other for Sam’s Food Store. who wish to contribute but can announced that they are the new first half. Try for point failed not attend the hotcake feed, con owners of the Bush Furniture sending the Loggers ahead at tainers are being placed in some store building as a result of a halftime 13-7. of the business places into which transaction completed this week. Second half play was a see As soon as inventory has been saw battle with neither team gifts may be dropped completed, they will take over threatening to score seriously un the disposition of the remainder til the latter minutes of the game of the stock there now for Mr. when the Clatskanie eleven pene The 39th annual National Child Purdy of Portland. ren’s Book Week. November 17 trated til the way to the locals' Later, they plan to move their ten-yard marker, only to be stop through the 23rd. will be observ TV and radio shop into part of per by a stubborn Vernonia de ed in Vernonia by the usual cof the building and have plans for fense on the fourth down with fee hour to be held at the Ver Mayor Don Bayley issued a the remainder of the space which nonia public library. This event is sponsored jointly by the Ver proclamation this week asking will be announced later. nonia Study club and the library the people of Vernonia to observe board. The date will be given Monday, November 11 as Veter- [ ans Day in tribute to those who later. Art students of the local schools have defended our nation in the The days is a are participating in the annual various wars. Book Week poster contest which legal, postal, school and bank Funeral services are being held has been sponsored by the Ver holiday, but other businesses will this morning at St. Peters Catho go on as usual, with flags flown nonia library for a number of Time for the meetings of the lic church in Portland for Mrs. elementary school board hav«. Leo M V Rech. Vernonia teach years. These posters will be on in observance of the day. display during book week. The At the Washington school, an been changed from the second er, who passed away at Good slogan for this year is “EX assembly at 2:45 tomorrow will Tuesday of each month to the Samaritan hospital Sunday fol PLORE WITH BOOKS ’ commemorate the occasion with I second Wednesday. This change lowing an illness which occur a play, "The Talking Flag" and j has been made because one mem red shortly after the opening of other numbers including numbers [ ber of the board, Wilbur Wilson, school. Recitation of the Rosary Bank 100^ in UF Drive by the grade school band. is at present attending extension was held last evening at the cha Plans of the various patriotic classes in Portland on Tuesday pel of Hennessey, Goetsch and First business organization to -» McGee who were in charge of report a 100 per cent participa organizations had not been re evenings. Next meeting of the board will arrangements. Concluding ser tion in the United Fund drive ported but it is understood tha* was the U. S. National bank, both th’ Legion and VFW do be Wednesday of next week, No vices and burial this morning will be at Mt. Calvary cemetery. plan some observance of the day. 1 vember 13. Vernonia branch. Mrs. Rech was bom June 11. 1901 in Kansas. She was an hon or graduate of Ottawa University and had engaged in teaching in The report points out that pow Portland, Sandy and this fall Members of West Or -gon Elec, Oregon board of directors and a came to Vernonia trie Cooperative are scheduled member of the board since the er supplied by the- cooperative She had been an active worker cooperative was organized, was has been lower in cost to those to receive this year's annual re also a director of- the originai who were receiving service when in 4-H and had recently received port featuring a resume of 20 Nehalem Valley Cooperative the organization was formed and her 16 year pin. She had been years of cooperative power in The 1957 report will also tell that because Bonneville power both a local and district leader. the Nehalem valley This will be members the present status of became available, low cost power She had been an active member the seventh year the cooperative loans made to this cooperative, has been possible for all parts of of the Gilbert community club for 10 years and a member and has issued an artnual report to the amount of interest and prin the area now served. West Oregon rates under the chairman of the Gilbert school cipal repaid and other d -tails its members As of present schedule are from 30 to board She also worked in the Electric power supplied by an concerning loan funds REA cooperative was first sup September 30 of this year, the co 50 per cent lower than rates be Gilbert and Gresham PTAs. Surviving her are her husband, plied in this state 20 years ago to operative had borrowed $2.172,- fore 1945 Other parts of the report in Leo; a daughter, Cecelia Anne people in the Jewell area by the 232.82 of which amount $283.202 - Nehalem Valley Cooperative, the 72 of the principal has been re clude a balance sheet showing Pratt and a son Leo. both of first in Oregon to receive an REA paid or 13.03 per cent Total in assets and liabilities as of Sept Portland; and three sisters. loan Lines to members of that terest paid on the loan amounts ember 30 of this year, the sources cooperative received their first' to $175.245.94 and an advance of revenue and items of expen Flu Vaccine Arrives electricity June IS. 1937 payment to REA has been made ditures and photos of new deve A new shipment of ^sian Flu Later, in 1945. the N’halem in the amount of $137,576 30 In lopments in the cooperative area vaccine has been received here Valley Cooperative became a part addition, a renewal and replace during the year The report is scheduled for this week and is available at the of West On-gon Electric when ment fund of $30.000 and an em More is mailing the la Hr part of thia local doetor’s office it was organized. Lee Wooden., ergency fund of $48.500 has been also expected soon. week. treasurer of the present West set aside More Franchise Changes Ordered Lion Benefit i Date Near Burns Purchase Bush Building Book Week Tea Plans Announced Observance of Vets Day Asked Grade Board Changes Date West Oregon Members to Receive Annual Report Grade Teacher Succumbs Sunday two yards to go. With the local eleven gaining possession, the Loggers controlled the ball and lan out the clock to take posse, sion of their first game and hand ed the Tigers their seventh straight loss. This Friday evening Vlcek; eleven will take to the field fbr their final gridiron contest of th*, current season when they will en tertain the Nestucca eleven on Greenmail field at 8:00 p.m. Rites Held lor John W Scott John W. Scott, 74 year old i< ident of 714 3rd str id m V« m nonia, passed away late Wednes day evening at the St. Helens hos pital following an illness of the past several years. Funeral services were held, at Fuiten’s Chapel in the Hills mor tuary, Vernonia. Saturday, Nov ember 2 at 2 p.m. with the Rev> F M Knoll, pastor of the E.U B. church of Vernonia officiating Concluding services and inter ment were at the Vernonia Me morial cemetery. John Wesley Scott was born February 7, 1883 at Stanhope, Iowa and spent most of his early lifetime in Iowa. When he was- 21, he moved to North Dakota where for many years he was in the cattle ranching business with, his father and brothers. He later* lived in Dickinson, North Dakota for almost 30 years before com ing to Vernonia in 1952. Mr. Scute was a member of the Nazerine church in North Dakota. He was united in marriage to Lois Alverson at St. Louis, Mu souri on November 2. 1909, who survives. Also surviving are four child ren, Mrs. Esther Gieser, Belts ville, Md.; Stuart W. Scott, Ta coma, Wash.; Willard L. Scott. Vancouver, Wash, and Mrs. Pa tricia L. Pearson, Mount Lak" Terrace, Washington; a brother, Clarence Scott, Banning, Calif, two sister, Mrs. Laura Johnson, Atlantic, Iowa and Mrs. Myrtle Maloney, Pasadena, California and four grandchildren. Mrs. Shirley Bass was soloist at the services, singing, "In the Gar den" and "The Old Rugged Cross” accompanied by Mrs Lloyd Thomas. Serving as pall bearers were Donald and Wayne Shafer, Harry Keith, Joe Groschc, John Lankston and Herbert Counts. Injuries Minor In Truck Upset Ed Miller had cause to believe that the Halloween gremlins were on his trail last Thursday after noon while he was on the way to Portland with a truck loaded with shingles. A front tire bl ‘W out, overturned the truck, and scat tered the shingles. However, he crawled out with no injuries, the truck had only a broken glass and only six bundles of shingles were broken, so luck was really riding wit1, him. Serious Injury Narrowly Missed Frank Pongratz of Vemema narrowly escaped with minor in juries in a logging accident No vember 1 while he was working for the Fake Logging company near L«*es Camp. Pongratz saw a rolling log com ing toward him and he fell in a hole and let it roll over him However, a later smaller log which he could not escape struck him. He was taken to the Tuality community hospital at Hillsboro by Fuiten’s Forest Grove atnbu lance where he was found to have suffered rib and back injuries as well as minor facial lareratifwir.