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. This will be the last
chance this year.
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OES Chapters
Meet Jointly
On January 6, Nehalem Chapter,
Order of Eastern Star, was host to
Wabanang Chapter of Clatskanie and
the two chapters performed the de
gree work of the order for inspection
by the worthy grand matron of Ore
gon, Mrs. Merle L. Lamar.
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.
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(Clip and Mail)
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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
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On OSU Honor Listing
Marvin W. Crowston and David F.
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.
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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
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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!
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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
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