Installation Dated for Local Odd Fellows Lodge Officers for the 1965 term will be installed for Vernonia Odd Fellows lodge No. 246 next Tuesday evening, January 19 at the local IOOF hall. Lester Galloway of Clatskanie, dis trict deputy grand master for the Clatskanie and Vernonia lodges will be in charge. Lloyd Quinn is to be seated as no ble grand and other elective officers to be seated with him are Percey E. Markham, vice-grand; Harry Cul bertson, secretary and Henry Ander- eggj treasurer. Vagabonds Plan Saturday Dance The Vernonia Vagabonds announce another square dance for this Sat urday at 8:30 p.m. at the Scout Cab in in the city park. All interested persons are invited to dance to the calling of Jack Korff from Astoria. Refreshments, as usual, are potluck. Anyone interested in learning to square dance or in a brush up course in either square or round dancing is urged to get in touch with Don Cameron, HA 9-3693, or Lloyd Quinn, HA 9-5211, before next Thursday, January 21. 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Other distinguished guests attend ing the meeting were; Mrs. Edna Throne, past grand matron, and Mrs. Rachel Humphrey, grand rep resentative to Kansas in Oregon, who received her official appointment dur ing the evening. The officers of Wabanang Chapter initiated John Wolfenbarger into the order and the officers of Nehalem chapter performed a clever degree in honor of Mrs. Lamar, using styro foam trees which, when put together, formed a star. Mrs. Florence Brunsman was din ing room chairman and served cake and coffee after the meeting as well as a potluck dinner before the meet ing, with the assistance of some of the other members. The next regular meeting of Ne halem Chapter will be January 20. Baskets Given For Christmas While there seemed to be less fam ilies in the Vernonia area who were really in need of baskets at Christ mas time this year, a number of organizations and individuals found those for whom to do things in order to also make their own Christmas happier by having thus fulfilled the true spirit of the holiday. Many older people and shut-ins were cheered by visits from a Lions club committee which delivered fruit baskets. The Lions club also contrib uted toys for baskets. These toys were brought by Lions and their wives to the Christmas dinner party in lieu of a gift exchange. Other who reported preparing bas kets were as follows: Rainbow Girls, Christian church groups, Rebekah lodge, the Vernonia Bible church, EUB church groups, St. Mary’s Catholic church, LDS church and the American Legion. Other persons were cared for by individuals. German Art Is Studied by Club The first meeting of 1965 for the Vernonia Study Club was held Thurs day, January 7 at the home of Mrs. Harry Culbertson. During the business meeting, a review of names of families and others given Christmas baskets was heard and recognition was given to individuals and groups who contrib uted to the needy. It was agreed those names should be publicized. For the program, music of Ger many from the days of the Meister singers to the 19th century was traced by Mrs. Marvin Kamholz. On February 4, Mrs. ■ Owen East will entertain the study group ana Mrs. Launee Cousins will give the program on Shakespeare. A book becomes *a blassic when people who haven’t read it start pre tending they have. NOTICE NOTICE: Dog owners are reminded that ORS 609.100 requires that all dog tags (licenses) “ shall be fastened by the licensee to a collar and kept on the dog at all tim es when not in the immedi ate possession of the licensee.’’ All dogs not wearing a license in accordance with ORS 609.100 will be treated by the Dog Control Officer as an unlicensed animal. APPLICATION FOR DOG LICENSE (Clip and Mail) To: ROY NELSON, County Clerk of Columbia County, St. Helens, Oregon: Please send me a dog license for the ensuing year as follows: Check Proper Classification Schedule of Fees Before Mar. 1st After Mar. 1st Male .............................................. $1.50 Spayed Female ............................ $1.50 Female ........................................ $3.00 THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1965 3 Is your home UNDER-INSURED? 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Brunsman of Vernonia are listed on the fall term honor roll from Oregon State University, Corvallis. To be eligible for honor roll list ing, students must make at least a B plus average for the term. Crowston is majoring in the school of science. Brunsman is in the school of humani ties and social sciences. Christmas. The brightest part of the disas ter by far has been the reaction of the general public, including people from Portland, Lake Oswego, Gresh am, Sandy and other places as well as the local citizens in rallying to help the victims of the flood. The re sponse to the need of cur people has been nothing short of fantastic. Our first rough estimate is that we lost over a million dollars in as sessed valuation in the Welches school district alone Our wpter is still impure and we have ter boil every drop. Astonishing as it may seem with the heavy loss of permanent homes, we will lose less than ten students from a student body of about 200. Payable on minimum quarterly balance ZONE. .STATE. This offer is limited to residents of Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Limit I p i e r family. Offer expires March 31, 1965. Name A woman in the Zig Zag area refused to come out without her cats. So she loaded her nine cats into a gunny sack and climbed into the helicopter. There were also a couple of dogs aboard the helicopter at the same time. A grand time was had by all! I have been unable to sub stantiate the rumor that the pilot had a nervous breakdown immedia tely thereafter! Meanwhile, at the school we were busily feeding all evacuees os well as findfcig them a place to sleep,and sometimes digging up clothes for ■them. We must have fed 75-100 peo ple each day for the first three days. We had people sleeping in practically every room of the school although we moved people out into private homes whenever possible. Susie worked steadily from early in the morning until late at night in the kitchen. On Wednesday, a representa tive of the Red Cross showed up and designated me an official of the Red Cross, giving me authority to buy provisions and charge them to the Red Cross. The bridge at Rhododendron across the Zig Zag river did not wash out, but the approaches on both sides did. The western side had a gap of about 50 feet, while the gap on the eastern side was 100 feet or more. Susie and the kids were able to walk across over the fill at about noon on Monday the 28th. I came home that night about 9 and we finally had Let US Help You Thrive in '6 5 ! CITY____ Enclosed find: Draft, Check, Money Order for $ $1.00 Penally after March 1st, 1965 children started on their way home I headed for Sandy. When I got into Sandy I was only partially able to convince the high school Supt. of the gravity of the situation. He agreed to send the youngsters home, but insisted they should have their Christmas dinner first. I started back immediately, but was turned back at the edge of Sandy by city offic ers. By the time we got to the bridge at Rhododendron the officers wouldn’t even let the children walk across, so wc turned back to Welches school. We had kept our children, Stanley and Eric with us at school and Becky came out on the high school bus, so at least we were all together. Throughout the afternoon, people straggled in who had either lost their homes or had wisely decided to move to safer ground until the danger was over. Early in the afternoon we learned that Pat (Caton) Aeppli, who had been helping with the program, had lost her home. Her home, furni ture and land had all gone down the Zig Zag river. Slowly, reports trick led in of other homes lost. Many peo ple came in who had gotten out with only the clothes on their backs. Many times, even these clothes were soaked, making it imperative that we find dry clothes for them. We lost our electricity at the school at about 4 p.m. and never got it back until Wednesday evening. In the meantime, the Forest Service brought down a gasoline-powerea generator, so we at least had lights and enough power to make coffee, even though we had no heat. Luckily it was not very cold. Tuesday night at Wildcat creek, Harry Engols, a resident of that area, heard a noise in the back of his house and stepped out on his back porch to investigate. However, the raging creek had already taken his porch and Mr. Engols was swept away in the torrent. To this date his body has not been found, but it is thought that it may be at the bottom of the log jam. The permanent residents of the area had to be flown out by helicop ter. One man, upon being told to bring the most valuable possession he could carry in his hands, brought out a bottle of imported whiskey! ADDRESS. Name of Breed of Dog............................................. REMIT BY CHECK OR MONEY ORDER DO NOT SEND CURRENCY. Lyle Frazier, former teacher at the Washington school, this week wrote a letter to Mrs. Launee Cous ins with whom he and his family had planned to spend New Years, in which he gave an account of the Christmas week flood in the Rho dodendron area in which he and his family live, and the part played by the Welches school where he is principal. Also, another person men tioned in the letter, Pat Caton Aeppli, is a former Vernonia resi dent. Excerpts from the letter are given here: Before the rain started we had about 12 to 15 inches of snow here at Rhododendron. Government Camp had 38 inches and Timberline had 48 inches. It started to rain, and rained hard and steadily for a week. Within a couple of days or less all the snow at Rhododendron had gone. Before the rain slacked off all the snow at Gov. Camp had disappeared and Timberline had just 4 inches left. The ground was frozen, causing the water to run off even faster than it otherwise would. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, I went to school early. The wind was blowing quite hard, and we didn’t have any water at our house, so I was a little concerned as to the advisability of holding school that day. As a conse quence I crossed over the Rhodo dendron bridge too soon to notice any damage taking place. Shortly after I got to school Susie (Mrs. Frazier) called and said a woman had called her and said Mar mot Bridge, which our bus had to cross, was washing out. I immedia tely jumped into the car and drove down to check on it. The bridge, however, was all right (It never did wash out), so I returned to school, made a few phone calls to check on conditions, and finally sent the bus ses out. At about 9 o’clock Pat (Caton) Aeppli and Susie, who had been work ing on costumes, came down to help us with the dress rehearsal for the Christmas play, scheduled for that night. We commenced our rehears al and everything was going fine, when a fellow came in and said the bridge at Rhododendron was wash ing out. I sent the custodian to in vestigate. He soon returned to say the bridge was critical. We immed iately stopped the rehearsal and, as soans as possible, sent the young sters home. By the time the bus got to the bridge the state police were there and wouldn’t let the bus cross the bridge. They did allow the chil dren to walk across, however. In the meantime the state police had asked me to see if I could get the high school at Sandy bo send the mountain youngsters home. As soon as I got the rest of the grade school NAME___________________________________ $2.50 $2.50 $4.00 Fill the above blank out in full and return with necesary fee licenses expire December 31st of each year. Form er G rade School Teacher Tells Experiences D uring Flood All I I I U SW IFT S BOLOGNA 4 9 c 3 Lb. $J Sugar NABISCO COOKIES Cinnamon 3 PkKs. $1 Betty 4 0 % TOASTED BRAN Crocked 2 /6 5 c Dry Cleaner GLAM ORENE For Rugs ........................... Qt. $1.19 Snow’s C LA M CHOW DER 15-oz. 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