Oregon H is t o r ic a l S o c ie ty
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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.
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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.
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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.