Oregon H is t o r ic a l S o c ie ty 2J5 SW Márket S t ' ’ ‘ ’ P ortlan d , Oregon 97201 Demonia Eagle VOLUME 42, NUMBER 45 VERNONIA, OREGON THURSDAY, NOV. 5, 1964 Grades Work On Education Week Theme LYNDON B. JOHNSON Elected President of the United States ELECTION RESULTS PRESIDENT Goldwater Johnson REPRESENTATIVE Short Term Whipple Wyatt REPRESENTATIVE Long Term Whipple Wyatt SECRETARY OF STATE Corbett McCall STATE TREASURER Belton Straub ATTORNEY GENERAL Estep Thornton STATE REPRESENTATIVE Meissner Turner DISTRICT ATTORNEY Kalberer Williamson COUNTY JUDGE Sea wright Whipple COUNTY COMMISSIONER Clark Kerry Brady COUNTY TREASURER Gromachey Johnson SURVEYOR Wagner CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Yes No LEASING PROPERTY Yes No WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION Yes No PROHIBITING FISHING Yes No MAYOR Hobart TREASURER Gordon COUNCILMEN 2 to be elected Atkins Cousins BUILDING CODE Yes No County voting totals courtesy Station Service Established Mrs. Frank Hays announced this week that she now has office space at the Quinn Insurance Agency and is establishing a public stenogra pher service. Persons interested in such a service may contact her there. In the experience background for Mrs. Hays is included work in the Oregon-American mill office as a secretary. Veterans Day Due Next Wednesday, November 11, is Veterans Day and will be a school, bank, post office and legal holiday. However, most businesses rem ain op en, since that is the procedure fol lowed in surrounding cities. ’T C73 á 1 GJ .2 P ca E « > « E > G) > n > -3 H £ 5 <3 32 132 67 178 70 218 60 138 223 666 2489 7718 107 53 147 96 185 95 115 82 554 326 6079 3969 97 51 133 98 177 93 106 79 513 321 5810 3970 94 68 118 120 147 132 100 97 459 417 5204 4942 56 102 102 132 96 175 83 110 337 519 3664 6163 ca 1 g 5 > d co á « 1 31 131 65 173 218 - i42 211 4 2872 7216 38 117 60 175 72 202 50 142 220 636 2742 - 103 47 156 79 183 92 115 79 557 297 5706 4245 87 65 124 112 170 112 102 91 483 380 5434 4503 60 27 64 61 51 118 97 48 129 84 34 68 302 160 379 6161 2703 774 32 115 56 164 57 199 54 127 199 605 2172 7462 117 96 56 82 52 60 89 57 100 174 133 96 131 76 67 164 86 156 206 168 104 148 101 93 174 112 163 138 114 73 109 58 72 123 73 123 635 511 329 470 287 292 550 328 542 7758 5860 3827 5547 3249 3671 6000 3425 6579 140 142 129 76 487 135 145 126 77 483 127 117 56 79 KOHI 121 114 74 436 120 106 68 411 68 80 36 240 73 44 45 241 and St. Helens Sentinel-Mist Goodwill Sets Collection Date The Goodwill truck will be in Ver nonia Wednesday, November 18 to pick up Scout good turn bags and other items and this will be the last call m ade here until after the first of the year. Especially needed at this time are repairable toys, or even toys from which p arts can be used in repairing others. These are needed now to be prepared for the Christmas season. Clothing, household items, furni ture are always needed and persons having item s to donate may call Mrs. Frank Lange, HAzel »-3161 and she will have the truck call a t their homes. Activities of the elem entary school next week will center around Amer ican Education week. The theme this year is education pays dividends, with daily themes emphasizing these points as follows: Sunday: “ In Better Human R ela tionships” (All persons a re urged to attend the church of their choice); Monday: “In Improved Learning Power” ; Tuesday, “ In Personal Ful fillment” ; Wednesday, “ In Good Cit izenship” ; Thursday, “In National Economic Growth” ; Friday, “ In Better Communities” ; Saturday, “ In International Relationships. The need for a good educational program has been stressed lately in many articles one of which point ed out that the difference in the av erage earing power of an eighth grade graduate and a college gradu ate was a quarter of a million dol lars in a life time. The difference between the average earnings of an eighth grade graduate and a high school graduate was over $70,- 000 in a lifetime. Special feature of this y ea r’s ob servance of Education Week in the local schools will be posters on the theme as prepared by the students in the sixth grade class. Mothers of Mrs. Steen’s fourth grade room will visit the lunch room to have lunch with their sons and daughters on Tuesday. Wednesday there is no school since Veterans Day is a le gal school holiday. A special assem bly featuring the band and chorus will be held F riday afternoon. A cordial invitation is being sent to each parent to visit school when it is possible, either during Educa tion Week or at any other tim e .' Friday Game Von by Gulls The Vernonia Loggers grid efforts suffered a setback Friday night when this team was host to the Sea side Seagulls in the next to last gam e "■ " ' e a r’s schedule. *• arently well fired —uied two TDs in the opening minutes of the first frame. However, the Loggers scored too, when they crossed the Gull’s goal line in the first period on a pass from Bellingham to Larson for 17 yards. Again in the second quarter Bel lingham’s 43-yard pass to Steele brought the Vernonia aggregation their second tally. By the end of the first half, Seaside had scored three more tim e and the count stood at 30-12. Final count for the evening listed another TD for Seaside and the score of 36-12. Vernonia’s total offensive gain was 223, 95 yards rushing and 128 pas sing. On offense the Loggers appear ed fairly good, but fell down on de fense. Coach Bob Wendel is placing heavy em phasis on blocking and tackling this week in preparation for the last gam e of the year Friday night here with Concordia. The visitors hold a 4-4 record as compared with the Loggers’ 3-3-2. An event for half tim e Friday will be the finals in the punt and pass contest for which semi-finals were held last week end. To compete in this event will be; Benny Fields, Steven Landers and Danny Elton, 11 years; Dave Von Heeder, Paul Nel son and Don King, 12 years; and Chris Smith, Fay Russell and Gary Davis, 13 years. Alumni Teams Slate Contest Vernonia high school alumni will tangle with Clatskanie high school alumni Sunday a t 2 p m . in a foot ball gam e on the Clatskanie field which is a benefit, with funds to be divided between the two schools, ac cording to Robert Wendel, high school coach. He stated that the Ver nonia alumni team wczJd include Leonard Schmidlin, Jim Mullins and Fred Mangat, members of the class es of 1961 and 1962. MISS Christine King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl King, was crowned as Homecoming Queen last Thurs day evening at a ceremony held at the high school prior to the rally. Runners up were Betty Jo Aldrich, at left, and Janet Bruce, at right. Their escorts, from left, were Charles Robertson, Raymond Hartzell and Mark Medges who were the GAA candidates for king. Charles Robertson was crowned at the homecoming dance which followed the game. City Changes Street Name Only two persons appeared at the public hearing Monday evening con cerning the change of nam e for the portion cf highway 47 which runs through Riverview. Both favored the change from Pomona Drive to Mist Drive. There were no objections raised to the change, which previous- Effort of Club Nets Over $200 The Vernonia Lions club met Mon day evening, November 2, in the fire hall. Vice-president Charley Hick m an presided in the absence of P res ident Robert Sargent. Featured speaker of the evening was District Governor Jadee John son of McMinnville who spoke on the topic: “The International Spirit of Licnism.” Other guests were Dane Brady and Ray Peterson. Business of the club included re ports from the annual hotcake feed in which it was reported that over $200 ’./as netted. The club approved an expenditure of $150 to provide a roof for the dressing rooms at the city park and pool. Upon completion the dressing rooms will provide a place for bathers to change at the pool during the summer. This is an addition to the swimming pool that has been needed for many years for both local bathers and out-of-town guests. UGN Fund Now Totals $417 ly had been asked by petition from people in the area, and the council, during the meeting which followed the hearing, approved the change which will make official the name of Mist Drive. J. W. Acaiturri, superintendent of schools, was present to urge the hir ing of a full time day police offic er. The council gave information that such a move is being seriously con sidered but present finances are not sufficient to w arrant it. Sebastian Klein, a recent new res ident of Keasey route who has hao police experience, made application fcr part tim e police work. His em ployment for a few hours at odd times was considered and the pay scale set at $2.00 per hour, without stipulation of number of hours or particular time of day. Police Chief A. D. Lolley was asked to check Klein’s qualifications and a deci sion will be reached later. The city has received a certifica tion of water purity for the new Riverview line and 14 applications have been received for service. Some are now being supplied with watci. Engineer Clarence Wagner recom mended that the council consider the Riverview Water Distribution contract substantially completed. No payment has yel been made on the contract and City Attorney Robert Vagt will attend to legal details be fore paym ent is approved. Other business included refusal of a $25 offer for let 10, block 8, OA hill as being too low; tabling until the next meeting of a petition by Ja y L. Misenhimer for annexation of an area north of the city limits east of the Nehalem river; the ap proval cf renewal for package store liquer license for Sam ’s Feed Store; first and second reading of the or dinance creating a fire truck fund; reports on work on drainage prob lems and refusal to refund a $25 deposit on a sewer connection con tract which had r.ot been completed due to the fact the sewer had been extended ready for the connection at a greater cost than that amount. The next meeting of the council will te November 16. Census Taking Nearly Ended Mrs. Robert Curl, president of the Vernen’a PTA, stated this week that members of the erganizatien have al most completed the taking of the t c h c l census fcr this year. Left to dc ere the call-backs made neces sary when enum erators did not find per pie home on their first calls. M s. Curl also asked that any fam ily who might have been missed call her at HAzel 9-6722 so an enum era tor may get the needed information. It is very important that every child in the district be counted because ihe distributicn of state school mon ey is based on this figure. As scon as figures a re complete and tabulated, they will be released, Mrs. Curl said. The district covers an area ap proximately 30 miles long and zo miles wide. It reaches from the county line below Birkenfeld to the Sunset-Timber junction, and out Scappoose route, up Keasey route and around the Pebble Creek loop, so extends over a wide area. The volunteer workers for the United Good Neighbor campaign have turned in a total of $417.00 to date. This is approxim ately one third of the quota for the Vernonia area, according to Mrs. R. M. King, chairm an of the local drive. Mrs. King stated that with a unit ed effort the local goal of $1200 can be reached and she urges those per sons not already contacted to make donations as soon as possible. Checks m ade out to the United Good Neighbors may be mailed to Mrs. R. M. King, Mist route, Veroo- ia. Cash donations to the fund may be m ade by calling Mrs. King at HA zel 9-5701 or Mrs. David Banta, HA zel 9-5275, co-chairman of the drive, who will pick them up. Youth Rally to Banquet Soon A rem inder was issued this week for the November Christian Youth rally which will be a banquet No vem ber 21 a t the EUB church din ing room at 6:30 p.m. Speaker for the occasion will be Je rry Johnson from radio station KPDQ in Portland. Tickets are now on sale by young people in each of the churches and those from age 12 through college are eligible to attend. Tickets must be purchased by November 17 as none will be sold after that date or at the door. The pre-sale is neces sary so that the number to be served can be determined. ROBERT FUQUAY, member of Vernonia high school FFA chapter, holds two trophies won at annual speech contest sponsored by Clatskanie Soil Conservation district September 28. Contest was held at Natal Grange hall and his competition included two high school girls who entered from Clatskanie. Trophy at left was presented by the district and la his to keep. Crown ZeUerbach presented revolving trophy on right which will be on displa yat school this year. He will compete in a district speech contest at Hillsboro this Thursday.