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Band Practices for Jamboree Appearance; Chairmen Report Progress of Plans for Various Parts of Program
The sound of band music was bers.
The community remembers the ,
heard all over town Monday even­
effort
put forth several years ago
ing as the group of Vernonia band
students directed by John Jensen, to buy the band uniforms and
marched through town as a part will enjoy seeing them in use
of their practice for the Friendship again. Also, the music is the
Jamboree July 27, 28 and 29. thing that makes the parade and
Thsre were 23 band members everyone should let the band
marching Monday night and a members and Mr. Jensen know
group of rally girls. Several band they appreciate the effort put
members were absent that night forth. It is hoped that the march­
ing banner presented to the band
due to holiday vacations.
Jensen states that there are still by the American Legion auxiliary
15 band uniforms to fill. All the can be located and put to use, also.
small ones have been issued and Anyone knowing where it is stored
the taller players are now needed. is asked to contact Jensen.
The band will practice again
It is hoped that all uniforms will
be used. Jensen asks for those next Monday evening at 7:00
who are now out of school to turn p.m.
Several new ideas are under con­
out along with present band mem­
sideration by the Jamboree com­
mittee. One is for a teen-age
dance at the Legion hall Friday
evening, July 27, following the
Journal Juniors shew. The queen
will be crowned at the show and
she and her court would attend
the dance. Right new efforts are
being made to ascertain if the
teen-agers are interested and to
find a group to sponsor the affair.
The use of the hall and music by
the Combo has been assured.
At the meeting of the Jamboree
committee held Monday evening,
Dr. T. M. Hobart, parade chairman
reported a confirmation on the
participation of the Kelley Cadrts
marching unit and the Portland
done last year, exhibitors will re­
Scottish Bagpipe band.
The Vernonia World War I Bar­ ceive appreciation ribbons.
racks which will have use of the
The country fair, sponsored by
space in the Vernonia clinic build­ Natal Grange, will be held in the
ing next to the swim pool for a
hospitality center will also main­ Miller store building. Mrs. Ruth
tain an information center for the Steers and Laura Carmichael,
chairmen for the event ask for all
Jamboree.
Members of the Veterans of exhibits to be in by noon on Fri­
Foreign Wars will provide auxil­ day, July 27. The following classi­
iary police help for controlling fications have been set up: Textile,
traffic during the parade July 28 hobbies (junior and senior), culi­
nary, including baking and can­
and at other events as needed.
Mrs. Carl Davis, chairman of the ning, floral including both potted
window display committee, was and cut flowers, agricultural cov­
present and reported almost all ering fruits and vegetables, 4-H to
available space taken. Displays are include sewing, baking and can­
all to be in place by Thursday eve­ ning, miscellaneous and dairy.
Exhibits are to be judged Fri­
ning, July 26. There will not be
day
afternoon and first, second and
competitive judging, but, as was
Oemotila Ea^te
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VOLUME 40, NUMBER 27
Park Softball
Sign-up Asked
VERNONIA. OREGON_________ THURSDAY, JU1A o. V.H.2
Project Provides Experience
Bruce Roberts, city park pool
attendant and in charge of the
park recreation program for the
Aimmer, stated this week that a
number of boys aged 12 through
18 have signed up for the softball
program and several organizations
have indicated their willingness to
sponsor teams.
All other boys interested are
asked to contact Roberts at once
at the pool or at the Christian
church parsonage so that the pro­
gram can be gotten underway.
Also, girls 12 to 18 are asked to
sign up for volleyball. If enough
are interested, that program will
be started, also.
Roberts also gave the following
schedule for swimming classes:
Beginners, 5 and 6 years old, Tues­
day and Thursday, 10:00 a.m.; 7
years old and up, Tuesday and
Thursday, 11:00 a.m.; advanced
class, Wednesday and Friday,
10:00 a.m.
Mrs. Dent Dies
The Vernonia Lions club
will sponsor a bleacher work
night next Wednesday. July
11, according to John Jen­
sen, president. A11 members
and other men willing to assist
are asked by Ralph Keasey,
project chairman, to meet at
his saw shop at 7:00 p.m.
armed with electric drills with
three - eighths or five - six­
teenths inch chucks and paint
brushes.
Four bleacher units are to
be built and ready for use dur­
ing the Jamboree at the horse
and logging shows. Material
for three is being paid for by
the city and the fourth by the
Jamboree. All work is to be
donated.
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Oscar Shiffer
Services Read
Memorial Rites
Read Tuesday
Memorial services for Miss
Helen Morrell of 479 Rose Ave.,
Vernonia were held at Fuiten’s
Mortuary Chapel, Vernonia Tues­
day, July 3, at 2:00 p.m.
The Rev. Raymond Targgart,
pastor of the Evangelical United
Brethern church, Vernonia offic­
iated. Concluding rites were con­
ducted at Riverview Abbey in
Portland.
Helen Morrell was bom in Sol­
dier, Idaho and spent most of her
life there as an officer in a trust
bank.
She moved to Vernonia in 1958
and lived with her aunt Mrs. Lulah
Fullerton at the family home un­
til Mrs. Fullerton passed away in
December of 1959. Miss Morrell
continued to make her home in
Vernonia until her passing, June
30.
Surviving is one sister, Mrs. F.
M. (Doris) Tucker of Twin Falls,
Idaho; and two brothers, Robert
and Ira Morrell of Vernonia.
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LIONS SPONSOR
BLEACHER WORK
LARRY OBLACK, above, is one of the FFA members busy on the
work-type project in which members get practical on the job ex­
perience building an addition to the high school shop. Here he
works on the concrete foundation.
Under the supervision of the izing student labor as carpenters
in the building of concrete forms,
high school vocational instructor
Welcome Rumbaugh, work is pro­ finishing concrete and the framing
gressing on the agriculture-draw­ of the walls. Boys who have work­
ing classroom addition to the pre­ ed on the project are: Harold Has­
kins, Dale Kennedy, Bill Pringle,
sent shop facilities.
The work started last spring Mike Delepine, Larry Oblack Jim
in the engineer drawing class, Hurtado and Jon Carter.
In years past, two other work
where working drawings were
made and submitted to the various experience type jobs have been
state inspectors for approval. Af­ completed for the school district
ter permission was obtained to by students. Six years ago the
begin the project, students in the welding-mechanics area was built
various vocational classes laid out onto the opposite end of the shop
the building, and began digging and the following year a green­
the foundation footing before house addition was built. Many
valuable learning situations have
school was out.
At present, a work experience been realized from this type of
type job is being carried out utiil- work.
Mrs. Mabel Dent passtd away
Tuesday night at Crestview Nurs­
ing Home at Scappoose where she
had been for some time. She had
been critically ill the past week.
Funeral arrangements are waiting
the arrival of relatives and no­
tices concerning them will be
posted as soon as possible, accord­
ing to information from Fuiten’s
Mortuary where arrangements are
being made.
POST OFFICES
OF EARLY DAYS
THE FISH being ad­
mired by Lyle Vroman
is a 29 U inch cutthroat
trout caught June 20
in Rock Creek by Terry
(Hotrod) Byrne«, aged
17, of 19760 S.W. Blan­
ton St., at Aloha. Catch
prove* there are some
good tired trout in thi»
area.
No. 2 of a series.
Pebble Creek post office was es­
tablished on January 31, 1891, at
the homestead of Richard J. Ty-
acke, at a point approximately
three miles south of Vernonia. The
post office was conducted in the
log cabin of Mr. Tyacke for a per­
iod of approximately four years
and was discontinued on Decem­
ber 18, 1895.
Thereafter mail service for the
area served by this pioneer P.O.
was consolidated with the Ver­
nonia P.O.
Richard J. Tyacke was the only
postmaster during the continuance
of this post office. Mail was de­
livered once a week by trail on
horseback from the Vernonia P.O.
Henry Hunteman lives on that
place now.
Funeral services for Oscar Shif­
fer, 78, who had resided in this
area since 1890, were conducted
at Fuiten’s Mortuary Chapel, For­
est Grove Saturday, June 30, at
2:00 p.m.
The Rev. Bruce Roberts, pastor
of the Vernonia Christian church,
officiated and Lodge rites were un­
der the auspices of Vernonia
Lodge No. 246 IOOF in which he
had held membership for over 30
years.
Concluding rites and vault inter­
ment were at the Forest View
cemetery, Forest Grove with Mike
Yunker, Clarence Blackburn, Carl
Davis, Bob Spencer, Charles Hick­
man and Newell Wood serving as
casket bearers and Elmer Hamil­
ton, Claude Lyda, William Marr,
Bert Fleskes, Claude Eslinger
Earl Waldron and George Gibson
as honorary bearers.
Mr. Shiffer was born Septem­
ber 23, 1883 in Polk county, Iowa,
the son of the late Charles and
Clara Stribich Shiffer. He came
with his family to Oregon in 1890
and in 1892 they moved to the
Banks community. He was united
in marriage to Rosa Mae Morris
in 1912 and they lived a few years
on the Lewis river in Washington
and for many years in the Strassel
and Timber communities where
Mr. Shiffer followed the logging
industry. She preceded him in
death in 1925.
Mr. Shiffer later had a garage
at Timber for a numher of years
and then traded it for a farm in
the Kansas City district north­
west of Forest Grove in the late
1930’s. He lived there until re­
tiring two years ago when he sold
his farm and moved to Vernonia.
He passed away at his home in
Vernonia June 26 following an
extended illness.
He was an avid sportsman and
a crack marksman. He did con­
siderable match shooting and was
one of the members of a five-man
match shooting team from this
area that was the world’s champ­
ionship gun team. He was a mem­
ber of the Portland and Hillsboro,
and Sunset gun clubs. As an ad­
ditional hobby Mr. Shiffer repaired
guns of all types and clocks.
Surviving is his wife, Mrs. Le­
ona Scarborough Shiffer, to whom
he was married at Prosser, Wash­
ington on Septembtr 1, 1934; three
daughters, Mrs. Sylvia Quinton
Lyle, Washington; Mrs. Gladys
Foote, Canby and Mrs. Hazel Rich­
ardson, Portland; a step daughter,
Mrs. Gordon White, Ione. Also
surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
Grace Parkin, Forest Grove and
Mrs. Eva Kakalday, Portland; 15
grandchildren and nine great­
grandchildren.
third place ribbons will be award­
ed. Also, there will be a sweep-
stakes prize for person totaling the
most points.
Melvin Schwab, chairman for
the fishing event for kids 10 years
of age and under, stated that there
will be a greater number of fish
dumped in the pool than previous­
ly anticipated so all youngsters
should be able to catch fish. In
this case, the fish caught are the
prizes. That event starts at 5:00
a.m. Saturday, July 28 and it will
be completely supervised.
The Jamboree committee will
meet again next Monday evening
at 8:00 o’clock at the West Oregon
Electric building.
Council Studies
IVage Increase
The city budget as previously Robert Curl, the council approved
published was adopted Monday consulting the sewage lagoon con­
evening at the meeting of the city tractor, Havlik Construction Co.
council which followed a public of Scappoose, about reworking and
budget hearing at which no-one tamping a portion of the dried la­
appeared to oppose the budget as goon in an effort to seal it and
drawn. The budget calls for a tax the erecting of a temporary dike
levy in the amount of $14,205.00. to divide the area in order to carry
out the work.
First and second reading was
Published elsewhere in this pa­
given a salary ordinance imple­
per
is a notice authorized by the
menting the increase of salaries for
city employees as provided for in council calling for applications for
the new budget. The increases relief police patrolman to be utiliz­
are as follows: Water superinten­ ed two nights per week.
The next meeting of the council
dent $240 per year; street super­
will
be held July 16.
intendent, $240 per year; marshal,
$240 per year; librarian, $59 per
year; recorder, $100 per year; wa­
ter collector, $100 per year and
sexton, $50 per year.
Authoriziation was given to the
cutting of selected trees on un­
developed streets in the vicinity
Vernonia members of the Amer­
of Spofford’s Gardens on Corey ican Legion and auxiliary joined
Hill by the Boy Scouts. The wood delegates from all over Oregon in
recovered is to be used by the city the 44th convention of the Legion
at a reasonable price to the scouts at Seaside June 21, 22 and 23.
who are using this as a money
At the session, A1 Friesen of
making project.
Salem was named Department
On the motion of Councilman commander for the coming year.
Norman Happel, McMinnville, was
elected Department vice - com­
mander in a three way race. Other
state officers elected includeed
Percy Freeman, former Vernonia
member, department historian.
Commander for district one,
The Vernonia Chamber of Com­
merce annual membership dinner Don Hoyer of Astoria and the
meeting is to be held in the Ma­ three district commanders, Ron
sonic Temple Monday, July 9, at Dreesen, Tigard; Sid Hall, Astoria;
6:30 p.m. The public is invited. and Louis Towne, Vernonia, were
It would be appreciated if both also installed.
chamber members and others
New auxiliary officers were:
would phone Evelyn Heath, sec­ Department president, Mrs. Jack
retary, if they plan to attend so Larson, Springfield; Mrs. Arthur
that the women of the Eastern Weddle, Salem, vice-president;
Star chapter who are serving the Mrs. Grover Francis, Portland,
dinner may know how many to secretary; and Mrs. McKinley
Kane, Newberg, treasurer.
prepare for.
Installed as president for dis­
The speaker for the meeting,
Thomas Current, is field coordi­ trict one was Mrs. Louis Towne,
nator of the Area Redevelopcmnt Vernonia. District vice-president
Administration. He has lived in is Mrs. Phillipa Seabrook, Astoria.
Of interest to Vernonia members
Oregon since 1947, served in World
was
the fight to divide district one
War II and Korean War and
among his activities was secre­ into its old District 1 and 1-A. The
tary of the Portland area indus­ move lost.
Vernonia Legion and auxiliary
trial committee and chairman of
the migrant worker committee, members attending were: Mr. and
International Association of Gov­ Mrs. Fred Heckenliable, Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Towne, Mrs. Lona
ernment Labor Officials.
Other guests invited by the Wiedman, A. E. Wood and J. E.
chamber are Judge Whipple, coun­ Tapp.
Installation of the Vernonia
ty commissioners Louis Wasser
and Orie Clark and their wives. Legion and auxiliary officers for
Also, the girls who are princesses the next year will be held in the
for the Friendship Jamboree are Legion hall Friday, July 13. Bill
being invited to attend. They are Horn will be commander for the
Toni Monaco, Suzi Alexander and next year and Mrs. Fred Heck­
enliable unit president.
Patti Chandler.
Officers Take
Posts at Confab
Chamber Plans
Member Meet
DR. T. M. HOBART, outgoing president of the Vernonia Chamber
of Commerce, makes sure that Mayor George W. Johnson has one of
the new "I'm Proud to Live in Vernonia" stickers on his car. The
stickers are a project of the chamber of commerce and are available
in most local stores end service stations for the small fee of 10
cents which only partiaUy defrays their cost. Hobart and Johnson
urge all citisens of the area to put the sticker* on their cars, too.