l i b r a r y , U of 0 Phone Service Repair Gets Help of Many AT THE reorganization meeting of the West Oregon Electric board following the annual meeting Saturday, George Smith, outgoing president, passes the gavel to C. L. Wooden, Jewell, newly elected president. O ver2 0 0 Vote A t Annual M eet Over 200 members and their fa Fred Knox, treasurer, reported milies attended the West Oregon income of $320,152.46 for the 12 Electric cooperative annual meet months ending August 31. Ex ing at Vernonia, October 20. penses for this period were $335,- Directors re-elected were Noble 403.92 for a net loss of $15,251.46. Dunlap, Mist route, Vernonia, for Gerald F. Diddle, director West district 2, and George L. Smith, ern area (electric) REA, was the Timber route, Vernonia, for dis principal speaker. He pointed out trict 5. Dunlap received 121 votes that all the initial capital of the while his opponent, Robert Ma cooperative was borrowed from thews, Mist, received 60. Smith re REA and that this money plus in ceived 122 votes while H. O. terest must be paid back. A total Slette, Timber route, Vernonia, of just over one million dollars in received 39 and Dudley P. Spof principal and interest have been ford, Vernonia, received 20 votes repaid to August 31. in the three-way race in district Introduced to the general mem 5. bership was R. B. Fletcher, Mist Members heard reports of opera route, Vernonia, who was appoint tions for the past year from the ed at the board meeting October directors and Manager Guy. -I. 16 to complete the term of E. G. Thomas. The recent storm came Roediger Jr., Mist route, Vernonia, in for its share of comments as the who resigned earlier due to the operations of the cooperative will pressure of his own business. be greatly affected. There were 208 voting members George Smith, board president, plus their families who attended in opening the meeting stated that the meeting to make the largest while 1962 was a bad year due to attendance for a meeting in sever storms and economic problems, al years. Approximately 300 per conditions indicate a turn for the sons were present. better in the near future. Entertainment highlight of the meeting was the appearance of the Vernonia grade school chorus of, 51 students under the direction of John Jensen. A large number of entries for the cake contests were present to be judged. Mary Ann Dennis, Ver nonia, won the radio given as first prize for the junior division. Lin da Norman, Jewell, won the sec ond place clock. Imogene Slanger, Jewell, won the third place heat ing pad. In the senior division, Mrs. J. M. Peachey, Vernonia, won the first place steam iron. Second was won by Mrs. Myrtle Slanger who re ceived a roto-broil. Third place heating pad was won by Mrs. Charles Minger of Vernonia. At a reorganization meeting fol R. B. FLETCHER. Mist Route, lowing the annual meeting, the was appointed recently as direc board of directors elected C. Lee tor for district 3 of the West Ore Wooden, Jewell, president; Lewis gon Electric Co-cperalive to com Kelly, Banks, vice-president; O. T. plete the unexpired term of Ed Bateman, Vernonia, secretary and Roediger Jr., resigned. F. M. Knox, Gaston, treasurer. Oemonia £a<jie Frantic efforts to restore tele phone service between Forest Grove and Vernonia typify the tougher side of the storm damage repair task to which West Coast Telephone company in Oregon has committed a work force of 400. Division Manager Jean Good rich described these efforts to the Eagle earlier this week. In the first place, he said, the 27-mile line between Forest Grove and Vernonia, via Timber was bro ken or knocked sagging in 130 places by as many fallen trees. So the repair assignment became what Goodrich called “a muscle job.” A dozen men wrestled recum bent trees for three exhausting days before service was restored even on “a ticklish footing.” It kept flopping in and out until Thursday when two regular West Coast crews came on the scene and effected more permanent re pairs. “I don’t know what we would have done with that wild tangle of trees without a helping hand from the state forestry depart ment,” Goodrich commented. The West Oregon Electric man ager at Vernonia, Guy Thomas, al so rendered considerable assis tance. In making repeated trips to Forest Grove to telephone, Thom as reported trouble spots to Good rich and this information aided in effective deployment of workers. “I am not sure, actually, how many worked that job or who all of them were,” he asserted. “One of our janitors was gone a couple of days; he might have been there for all I know.” Contest Finals Listed Again VOLUME 40, NUMBER 43______ Totals Up In Schools Of District Enrollment figure» for the schools in district 47 joint show an increase over first week fig ures, according to Superintendent J. W. Acaiturri. The totals now stand at 658 for all schools in the district with 175 in the high school and 483 in the three ele mentary schools, Washington, Lincoln and Mist. This is 23 above the first day registration figures which were 167 for the high school and 468 for the grades fbr a total of 635. Cancer Society Meet Attended Mrs. B. J. Horn and Mrs. Lynn Michener spent Thursday and Fri day of last week at Cottage Grove attending the convention of the Oregon division of the American Cancer Society. The meeting drew the largest attendance of any such state convention held by the socie ty in Oregon. Special guest and speaker at the sessions was William Garger, TV and movie personality who has un dergone surgery for cancer of the larynx in which the voice box was removed. His example of how one can learn to talk and surmount the situation was an inspiration to all who heard him. VERNONIA, OREGON____________ THURSDAY, OCT, 25, 1962 Hotcake Feed Project By Lions Raises $200 The Vernonia Lions club held another successful hotcake feed Saturday which netted over $200 for another community project, the purchase of hospital beds which will be mode available for use in the community by those who have temporary need of such equipment. Members of the Lions club turn ed out almost 100 percent to work at the feed Saturday and those who were not there were detained by other work from which they could not be released or illness or other unavoidable reasons. Edwin Ade, general chairman for the event, and John Jensen, club president, have both express ed their appreciation this week fur the good response of the public to this annual fund raising project and to all those who donated to the club in other ways to make the hotcake feed possible. The use of the City cafe and its equipment was donated by Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Burns and oil for heating the building was provided by Joe Magoff, Standard Oil re presentative. Coffee makers were loaned by the Vernonia Fire De partment and the Veterans of For eign Wars. Two electric fry-pans were loaned by the Harold Mc- Entires. Dr. J. W. Buell provided the barrel that received contri- butions during the day. Curl's Grocery and Sum's Food Store do nated some of the items used. Electricity was donated by the West Oregon Electric company and water was made available by the city. Posters were donated by the Vernonia Eagle. Clarence Nance, chief cook, is given a special vote of apprecia tion by the club for his good job of organization and the long hours he put in cooking and supervising the event. He was at the City cafe before 5:00 a m. Saturday to have everything in readiness for the first customer at 6:00 a.m. and he stayed on the job until the doors closed at 6:00 p.m. It is estimated that approxi mately 900 hotcakes were flipped and served during the day. Almost 450 eggs were used. The gross take was $257.40 and expenses, over and above the items donated, amounted to $44.96. This leaves a net amount of $212.44 for the community service project. The community as a whole is appreciative of the work of the club which has sponsored many community projects over the years. Their support of the club last Saturday is convincing proof cf that fact. The punt and pass contest finals which were stormed out October 12 have been rescheduled for this Friday night at half time of the game to be played on Greenman field between Vernonia and Con cordia. The first, second and third place winners selected in the three age classifications in a contest held Saturday, October 5, will be issued numbered jerseys and sit on the Logger bench at the game. In the half-time contest, a deci sion will be reached as to which ones will have their names en graved on the plaque. Boys who are to compete are as follows: 11 years old, Chris Smith, Gary Davis and Doug Cay- wood; 12 years old, Jeff Proehl, Zachary Patterson and Eddie Bur ton; 13 years old, Larry Holsey, Sam Ceballos and Keith Camer on. V. J. Lindsley Taken Tuesday Warren J. Lindsley of River view who had been at Eugene and Springfield for some time with his children, passed away at the Twilight Nursing Home in Eu gene late Tuesday. Word of his death reached Vernonia via a radio message to A. D. Lolley. Services will be held here but time for services had not been set yet Wednesday noon. Soil District Sponsors Speech Contest on Water Conservation GERALD F. DIDDLE, director. Western Area REA, spoke Satur day at West Oregon Electric Cooperative annual meeting. Area Reminded 0 i Next Visit Residents of this area are re minded that the Goodwill truck will call here Wednesday of next week, October 31, and this will be the last call for house-to-house pickups until in January Persons who have items to be collected should call Mrs. Frank Lange, HAzel 9-3161 before that date. Furniture, toys, clothing and ap pliances are all urgently needed to provide employment for those on the Goodwill rolls this win ter. Marshall Takes Hospital Job Noell Marshall, an Independent candidate for Columbia county clerk, has asked voters to disre gard his name on the ballot and choose bstween the other two men seeking the post—Roy A. Nelson Democrat, and R. A. Welwood, Republican. Marshall, since filing his petit ion just prior to the deadline, has accepted employment as business manager at Columbia District hospital, and no longer desires the county clerk job. Don Leach from the Clatskanie Soil Conservation district office at Clatskanie visited the vocational agriculture classes of Welcome Rumbaugh at Vernonia high school Thursday of last week to invite members of the Vernonia classes to take part in a speech contest with members from Clats kanie high school Wednesday of this week at the Natal Grange. It is understood that Ralph Anderegg was the only one from Vernonia who entered the contest. Subject on which contestants were to speak was "Water Conservation.” Also, last Thursday, Walter An derson soil scientist from Hills boro was here to assist Leach and Rumbaugh in a field trip in which 24 sophomore and senior boys from Vernonia high school partici pated. They were taken to the Sword place across the river from Anderson park where they studied soil from the standpoint of geolog ical formation, soil profile, tex ture and structure. The demon stration was conducted by Ander son. Wednesday of this week, Rum baugh took five of his students, Gary Johnston, Fred Skidmore, Leon Welch, Robert Fuquay and Charles Robertson, to Tillamook to participate in a land appraisal program. Owners Reminded Property owners whose trees, shrubs and structures were blown onto county roads during the Oct. 12 windstorm must have them removed by October 29, accord ing to a notice published by the Columbia county court elsewhere in this paper. SOPHOMORE girl« football team, top, and their yell leaden, four boy» »landing, won over Junior team Friday night U-14 in fint powder puff football game here. Event wai sponsored by the two class»« and ha» been an avant considered by Junior» since they en tered high school, but one which they were unable to carry out until this year. Junior team, center, was coached by Miss Jacqueline Antles, girls PE and art instructor, and Sophomores were coached by Manning Bomberger, science teacher. Bottom photo shows some of action during game. Photos by Truman Jackson.