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Oernotiia Eagle
THURSDAY, DEC. 21, 1961
VERNONIA, OREGON
VOLUME 39, NUMBER 51
Closing of Miller's Ends Business
History Here of Nearly 38 Years
When the doors of the Miller’s
store in Vernonia were closed to
customers for the last time Tues
day evening of this week, It
brought to a close a business his
tory covering about 38 years, since
the store was opened here in
1923 or 1924 when the "big mill"
was built here and Vernonia be
gan to grow from a small isolated
village to a busy industrial com
munity.
When the store first opened
here, it was in the building now
owned by Richard Burns and
included groceries as well as dry
goods and clothing. C. F. Hieber
was the first manager.
The store weathered the de
pression when the mill was closed
and various strikes and other
business hazards which caused
other businesses to close. In the
depression years, when the J.C.
Penney store was taken out of
Vernonia, the Miller store moved
to the present site.
There were a number of mana
gers, including Dave Kramer, Joe
AUen, and then Leslie Dewey
who came about 1930 and was
here until 1941 when he was re
placed by Cecil Johnson who lias
bi>en here since that time.
All of the original Miller bro
thers who owned the chain of
stores bearing their name are now
gone and Floyd Miller, son of one
of them, LeRoy Miller, is the
present president of the Miller
company. He was in Vernonia
Wednesday helping with the fi
nal moving out of merchandise
not disposed of in the closing sale.
He stated that the company
had 15 remaining stores in Ore
gon, Washington and one in Idaho
which have now been sold to P
N. Hirseh and Company of S t
Louis. Missouri who are the own
ers of 88 department «tores in five
or six mid-western states,
Floyd Miller will continue in
Yuletide
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essentially the same capacity in
the new company, as an execu
tive in this area. Also with the
company is Frank Miller, a cou
sin of the original Miller Brothers.
Lions Entertain
Wives at Party
Members of the Vernonia Lions
club, their wives and several
special guests enjoyed a Christ
mas party Monday evening at the
Masonic temple which started
with a dinner served by the ladies
of the Nehalem social club. Spe
cial guests were Rev. and Mrs.
Bruce Roberts from the Christian
church, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Nance
and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Kepner.
The club expressed in this way
their appreciation to Mr. Nance
for helping them out as chef for
their hotcake feed and on other
occasions.
Special Christmas music was
provided by John Jensen who
sang and Rev. Roberts spoke on
the story of Christmas as given
in the Bible.
Fun was provided in a gift
wrapping contest in which each
couple wrapped the gifts they had
brought which are to be used in
Christmas baskets. Prize for the
best wrapped package went to
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Acaiturri and
the door prize was drawn by Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Magoff.
The next Lions club meeting
will be January 15, 1962.
The annual Christmas program
will be presented by the Vernonia
schools this evening at 8:00
o’clock at the Washington school.
The program will be opened by
the kindergarten groups, directed
by Mrs. Launee Cousins and will
present scenes from Santa’s work
shop on1 the day before Christ
mas. Fred Smith will be the read
er.
This will be followed by the
presentation of “ ’Twas the Night
Before Christmas” by the chorus
directed by John Jensen, music
teacher.
There will be selected numbers
by the Choralaires directed by
Rudy Dimitrovich, and Christ
mas insfrumentally presented by
the grade school band, also di
rected by Mr. Domitrovich.
The Nativity scenes will include
The Christmas Spirit presented
by a 100-voice speaking chorus;
the story of the first Christmas by
Ann Bergerson and Christmas
songs by the junior choir. Agnes
Pelster will portray Mary and
Willard Haverland, Joseph.
The finale will feature the com
bined choruses in Christmas ca
rols.
Then, comes the highloght of
the evening, the visit of Santa.
Cubs Get Badges
At Pack Meeting
The December meeting of Pack
201. Cub Scouts of Vernonia, was
held last Friday evening at the
Washington grade school.
Andrea Bell, eight-year-old
After the roll call of scouts and
daughter of Mrs B R Normand, their parents, the Mom and Dad
who has been a patient at the award was presented to the Wehe-
Shrine hospital in Portland for the los led by Lynn Michener
past two months for correction
Badges earned during the past
of bone defects, has been chosen month were presented to Gary
to take part in a Christmas pro Michener, Terry Ellis, Danny Bur
gram on KO1N radio this Sunday ton, John Knowlton, Eric Ander
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evening. She is to be on the son, Mike Hunt, Emo Pelster,
SEASONS G R E E TIN G S
Johnny Carpenter program and Timmy Johns, Steve Poetter, My
will tell the Christmas story. Time ron Dennis, Wayne Cameron, Nor
FRI., SAT.
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Keep your tree out of doors un
Plus
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til just before Christmas, And
er, presented a Christmas skit.
ON THE DOUBLE
keep it standing tn a pail of wa-
Santa Claus arrived, gave each
Danny Kaye
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child a gift and took time to listen
to all the small children's Christ
mas wishes.
Refreshments were served by
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Monthly dues of a quarter paid
AZALEAS
by each scout were wrapped in
OTHER I’OTTED PLANTS V aluminum foil and used to deco
rate a small Christmas tree. These
WREATHS - SHRUBS
quarters will be used to help
«'me family in the community
have a happier Christmas.
The next pack meeting will be
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Extensive Line Council Appoints Men for
Damage Result City Planning Commision
Of Worst Storm
West Oregon Electric Coopera
tive employees worked virtually
around the clock from Saturday
to Wednesday to repair the ex
tensive damage to their system
which resulted from the Satur
day night windstorm.
Besides West Oregon crews,
crews from the City of Forest
Grove, McMinnville Water and
Electric Board, Portland General
Electric Co. and Barnes Construc
tion Co. helped to restore service.
Temporary repairs were made in
many areas.
A tree through the Timber-
Vemonia transmission line caus
ed a forty minute power failure
in Vernonia. Power was switched
to the Warren-Vemonia line until
repairs on the Timber line could
be made.
No complete tally of breaks
in the power lines has been possi
ble except to state that one time
almost all lines were down. At
least 10 poles were broken in
Scoggins Valley alone.
Service was restored to Keiasey
Wednesday.
An incomplete listing of lines
that were down included: the
Timber-Elsie transmission line,
all service in the Nehalem valley
below Pittsburgh, all Olney lines,
Hamlet, Timber Route, Pebble
Creek, Hayward area, Strassel,
three lines out of Chapman Sub
station, Scoggins Valley and all
Pike area. The area covered ex
tended from Northwest Clatsop
county into Yamhill county
through Columbia and Washing
ton counties.
Manager Guy Thomas Wednes
day expressed his appreciation for
the consideration of the members
during the extensive outages. He
also wished to thank the crews
and the other utilities for their
help in restoring service to all
members. He stated that this was
the worst storm in the history of
the co-operative.
At the meeting of the Vernonia
city council held Monday evening
of this week at the city hall, a
city planning commission was ap
pointed by Mayor George W.
Johnson and confirmed by the
council. Those named were Ro
bert C. Lindsay, Warren F. Al
drich, Bill J. Horn, Sam L. Hear
ing, E. Louis Towne, Roger J.
Whaite and Herbert H. Sturde-
vant. A meeting for organization
of the commission will be set for
after the first of 1962.
The recorder was directed to
write to Rev. William Delplanche
informing him of the decision of
the council to reject his proposal
for transfer of the former Inter
national Paper company office
building to his church, citing as
the particular reason a legal opin
ion that no governmental agency
may lend material support to any
private or secterian enterprise.
The request of Lloyd Quinn for
permission to play recorded
Christmas music audible in the
neighborhood of his home was
granted.
Gene Franklin, CPA in charge
of auditing the city books, con
ferred with the council to answer
questions and to elaborate on
things included in his finished
report He was complimented and
given a vote of appreciation for
the thoroughness of his work and
the extra effort expended in mak
ing statutory requirements fully
understood.
Three bids for the water pump
were read as follows: Fairbanks,
Morse and Co., $599; R. M. Wade
and Co., $399; Mitchell, Lewis and
Staver, $275. Since specifications
submitted, except those by Fair
banks, were very sketchy and the
price range was so great, the con
sideration Was tabled nutil ad
ditional data could be obtained.
The question arose as to the
property of the city furnishing a
sewer connection from the end of
property obtained from Frank
Lange to the new county building.
The council opinion seemed to be
that the city is benefitted by ex
change of favors with the county.
An ordinance for the vacation
of a portion of the alley in block
13, second addition was given
three readings under an emergen
cy clause and passed. Robert C.
Lindsay was present and asked
for postponement of the replat
ting and street vacation affecting
his property and others in second
addition because some documents
had been lost or mislaid.
The business concluded with
the payment of bills and the coun
cil adjourned at 11:20 p.m.
W e hope the Yule finds
all our friends rich in joy
and wonderful health.
Oernotiia Eagle
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kamholz
Melvin Schwab
Mrs. Lesta Garner
Larry Gamer
Mrs. Mildred Tupper
Miss Shirley Berg
Mrs. Grace Peachey
Mrs. Ellen Devine
Frosh Bow to
Tigers 43-18
The Vernonia Freshmen basket
ball team dropped their second
game ef the season Monday night,
December 18, to a strong Clatska
nie team by the score ot 43 to 18.
The freshmen from Clatskanie
jumped off to an early lead and
never last it throughout the game
The Vemorwa team trailed by 14
points at half time but was able
to close the gap to 8 points at one
time in the third quarter This
was as close as they came to
challenging Clatskanie.
High point men for the locals
wer£ Terry Smith and Terry Lar
son with 5 points apiece.
Christmas
tree decorations
should be flameproof Use only
decoration« made of glass, metal
or other fire-resistant material
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God grant you health and peace and cheer
At Christmastime and all the year!
THE MILL MARKET GANG
Lois. Bert. Jerry, Jim. Bill and Wes
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