U n iv e r s i t y o f Oregon
E u g en e, Oregon
Councilmen Act
On Many Items
At the meeting of the Vernonia
city council Monday evening of this
week, a check for $161 was received
from the Terra Installation, Inc. as
reimbursement for the cost of re
finishing work to be done by the city
on the completed contract for instal
lation of the mainline of the River
view water system.
A miscellany of other business kept
the council busy for almost two
hours. The council decided to call for
bids for redecoration of the fire hall
meeting room when specifications
for the work to be done are provided
Offices
M oved
Administrative offices of school
district 47J have been moved to
a new location at 374 Bridge
street across from the high
school. This facility will provide
room for the superintendent’s of
fice, an office for the clerk, a
board meeting room, and stor
age for district records.
This move enables the daily
business of the district to be
carried out in one location with
out interfering with the instruc
tional program of the schools.
Light Contest
Entries Wanted
Entries in the annual Chamber of
Commerce lighting contest have be
gun to come in, according to Mrs.
Charles Minger, chairman, and indi
cations are that many more families
will be decorating their homes this
week end to add to the festive ap
pearance of the community for the
Christmas season.
Mrs. Minger also announced a
change in deadline for entries from
the previously announced December
17 to 5:00 p.m. Saturday, December
18. The entry blank is placed else
where in this paper again this week
to assist people with making their
entry in correct form. These may be
handed to Mrs. Minger at Sam’s
Food Store, mailed to her, or left
at the Vernonia Eagle office prior
to the December 18 closing hour.
While schools are not included in
the contest, the decorations going in
to place there add greatly to the
appearance of the community and
are appreciated by everyone.
by the fire chief. Purchase of six
spanner wrenches for the fire de
partment was approved.
A decision was reached to rein
vest approximately $14,000 of city
funds in time deposits with the US
National Bank. The time on present
deposits has expired.
The council refused acceptance of
the extension of E street as a city
street because it was not satisfactori
ly prepared. A drainage problem on
F street was called to the attention
of property owners and proper bill
ing for pipe in addition to the regu
lar sewer charge was decided for a
new connection being made.
An offer of $700 by Ray Mattson
for property at 30 Mississippi ave
nue was tabled indefinitely. This pro
perty was repossessed in default of
payment on a previous $1300 con
tract.
Permission is to be asked of the
highway department to rearrange
drainage on Rose avenue between
Cougar and Maple streets where
problems have arisen.
The council voted to ascertain why
the new water department pick-up
was not equipped with seat belts as
required by statute.
After discussion and a second vote
which resulted in a tie, the council
refused the request to allow $17 for
replacement of bulbs in Christmas
lights on downtown streets. An opin
ion voiced was that this was out of
the jurisdiction of the city funds.
Routine payment of bills concluded
the business and the council was ad
journed until December 20. C. E. Mil
ler, council president, presided over
the Monday session in the absence of
Mayor T. M. Hobart.
PE Instructor
Takes Position
Demonia Ea
VOLUME 43, NUMBER 49
Postmaster O. T. Bateman an
nounced this week that in order to
give added service to Vernonia area
patrons and facilitate the sending
of Christmas mail, the post office
will be open from 9 a.m, to 4:30
p.m. the next two Saturdays, De
cember 11 and 18, for stamp sales
and to receive parcel post. The mon
ey order window will remain closed.
Bateman expressed his apprecia
tion for the way residents of this
area are mailing early. He stated
that Monday of this week was a very
good day with a large volume of
mail moving through the office.
Distance addressing and the use
of the zip codes in addresses are
urged to help mail reach the proper
destination also.
Students Earn
Listings on Roll
There was a total of 36 students
who earned grades sufficiently high
to place their names on the honor
roll at Vernonia high school for the
second six-weeks period of this
school term. That is an increase of
three over the number appearing
on the first one released this year.
However, some names which ap
peared then are missing this time
and some others have been added.
The complete list is as follows:
Freshmen: Dado Briones, Zenda
Ellis, Dan Hearing Kathie Hender
son, Joyce Knowlton, Matthew Koch,
Douglas Koski, Debra Miller, Cathie
Reynolds, Fay Russell;
Sophomores: Steve Curl, Becky
Henderson, Sandra Lindsley, Geof
frey Proehl, Carmen Rundle;
Juniors: Linda Armstrong, Albert
Brunsman, Candie Glick, Bill Han
son, Randy Holce, Kathy Jensen,
Sally Knowlton, Ann Sargent, David
Serafin, Sherry Sutton, Ken Vealey,
Judi Weller, Don Wilson;
Seniors: Beth Ann Ambrose, Chris
tine Bender, Jerry Hanson, Mike
Laws, Robert Mattson, Roger Medg-
es, Fred Smith, Bob Wood.
Safety Council
Changes Meet
Santa Expected
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1965
Lion Diabetic Clinic Tests 213 People
Post Office
Schedules
Late Hours
Mrs. James Johns, girls physical
education instructor for the Ver
nonia elementary schools, was at
Corvallis last Friday and Saturday,
December 3 and 4 for the meeting
of the Oregon Association of Health
Physical Education and Recreation
which was held on the Oregon State
University campus. There were 376
physical education instructors from
grade schools, high schools and col
leges throughout the state in atten
dance.
The association is divided into
various sections and at this meeting,
Mrs. Johns took over the office of
president of the division of girls and
womens sports in Oregon.
Business sessions were held by
the different groups and there were
discussion groups dealing with swim
ming, new rule for girls' basketball
and health sessions. The conference
concluded with a banquet Saturday
evening.
Word was received here Wednes
Of special interest to Mrs. Johns
day afternoon of the death of Bert was the fact that one of the speak
Tisdale the previous day at Canby. ers, Bob Wilder, who is now head
He had suffered a heart attack sever of the recreation and parks depart
The Vernonia Hunter Safety Coun
al months ago and had been in stea ment for the state of Oregon, was cil has changed their December
dily falling health since that time.
a former Vernonia high school stu meeting to next Tuesday, December
Tisdale formerly was a Vernonia dent. He was a member of the class 14, at 7 p.m. to avoid conflict with
resident and for many years was a of 1952 but moved from Vernonia Christmas events. The program for
city mail carrier. He began that job prior to graduation.
the evening will include a demonstra
when house to house delivery was
tion on hand loading of ammunition.
first started here in 1932, then after
All persons interested in hunting or
a number of years took a leave of
shooting are invited to attend and to
absence and was gone from Vernonia
join the organization.
for a time, only to return and again
The group will also formulate final
Vernonia firemen are awaiting
become mail carrier. He retired se word from the North Pole to confirm plans for their turkey shoot to be
ven or eight years ago and had since the time of Santa’s annual visit to held December 19. The contest will
spent considerable time following the fire hall. The firemen annually start at 10 a.m. and continue until
the horse racing game since his sponsor a visit from Santa to give shooters have all competed.
prime interest was horses.
The rules committee has announc
lccal children a chance to talk to
Services for him will be held Fri the old gentleman and to make their ed that there will be both junior and
day at 1:30 p.m. at the chapel of desires known to him. The time and senior divisions and all shooting will
Holman, Hankins and Rilance Mor date will be given next week when be done at 50 feet with small bore
tuary at Oregon City.
rifles. Ammunition will be furnished
word is received from Santa.
and target rifles available for use.
Bert Tisdale
Service Friday
VERNONIA, OREGON
Members of the Vernonia Lions sent, a fact that had been unsuspect
club, at their dinner meeting Monday ed. The Lions feel that even this
evening of this week, heard a grati one case detected and placed under
fying report from the diabetic clinic treatment makes the clinic worth
held last Saturday at the West Ore while.
gon Electric building.
Dr. S. A. Thiringer was in charge
There were 213 persons who took of the clinic and was assisted by
the test which involved the drinking Mrs. Thiringer and Mrs. Richard El
of a special heavy sugar solution, ton.
then reporting back in two hours for
Sunday, members of the Lions club
a simple blood test which involved put into place the street decorations
taking a drop of blood from a finger. for the Christmas season and erect
This test makes possible the pin ed the Christmas tree on the lot at
pointing of the need for more ex the corner of Bridge and Jefferson
tensive tests.
streets. Tracy Hanson and Ed Roe-
There were 13 persons whose tests diger chairmanned the project and
indicated possible diabetic condition.
To date, it is known that one of
these persons had additional tests
which proved that diabetes was pre-
U F G oal
Topped
Mrs. David Banta, local Unit
ed Fund Drive chairman, report
ed this week that cash and pledg
es to date have topped the $700
goal set for this area. A total of
$681.27 had been banked and $24
in pledges was still to be re
ceived. Several other organiza
tions and individuals have indi
cated that contributions would be
forthcoming which will help to
swell the total.
Mrs. Banta asks that all those
who plan to donate, send their
contribution now so that her
books can be closed on this
year’s drive.
JVs Remain
Undefeated
The Logger JV basketball team
started its season Friday night of
last week at Jewell, then played
Sherwood there Saturday and again
here Tuesday and to date remain un
defeated.
Friday night, they won by a score
of 56, doubling that of the Jewell
team. High scorer for Vernonia was
Pete Brunsman with 18 points and
Steve Curl was next, bringing in 9
points. Slanger was the high point
man for Jewell.
Saturday night at Sherwood the
JVs chalked up their second victory
by tripling their opponents score, 69
to 23. Dave Peddicord was high
point man for Vernonia with 13
points. Keith Cameron and Steve El
lis followed with 11 points each. Hank
Childs was the top scorer for Sher
wood, with only 6 points.
Tuesday, when Sherwood came
here, the JVs continued their win
ning ways with a final score of 53
to 24. High pointer for Sherwood
was Don Eaton with 6 and Jim San
derson was second with 5 points.
For Vernonia, Pete Brunsman tal
lied 16 points and did an excellent
job on rebounds. Steve Ellis was sec
ond with 11; Ken Vealey, who was
outstanding on passing tallied 10;
Gary Hanson, 6; Buddy Robertson
and Randy Nightwine, 4 each and
Albert Brunsman, 2.
In this game, the Vernonia team
was ahead at all times with a half
time score of 21 to 11. The JVs are
coached by Gordon Crowston.
GORDON CROWSTON, f o o t b a l l
coach at Vernonia high school, was
voted fifth place in the coach of the
year selection for A-2 schools of the
state on the basis of votes cast at
the end of the season by fellow prep
football coaches. Dick Sutherland of
Bandon won top honors in recogni
tion of regular season accomplish
ments with 21 votes. Alva Brown,
Sierra Catholic, 11; Bill McKibbon,
St, Mary’s, 10; Gene Morrow, New
port, 9; and Crowston, 8. Burnett
Stephens of Neah-Kah-Nie received
5.
Bloodmobile to
Take Donations
The Red Cross Bloodmobile has
scheduled a visit to Vernonia for
January 17, 1966, according to Mrs.
Charles Minger, local chairman in
charge of arrangements. The unit
will be stationed at the IOOF hall
again and hours and details of ar
rangements will be announced later.
A list of persons needing blood
replacements wiil be given later,
also so that those who wish may
give in someone’s name.
Vernonia has fallen short of its
quota on the last several visits and
it is hoped that there can be a bet
ter turnout in January.
Rales Corrected
A press release supplied the latter
part of November by the West Coast
Telephone company contained an er
ror which the company wishes to
have corrected. In regard to the re
duction in long distance rates sched
uled to go into effect December 16,
the reduction on daytime rates will
be five or ten cents on most day
time calls. There will no change in
night rates.
were assisted by other Lions. Bob
Curl, who is home for over the holi
days, was assisting on the ladder as
lights were put in place.
New items this year include sever
al strings of lights in the Riverview
section and several new center pieces
which will arrive this week.
The program for the Monday even,
ing meeting was provided by Pete
Brunsman who showed movies of
their recent trip abroad.
December 20, the club will meet at
the Masonic Temple at 6:30 p.m. for
their Christmas party at which the
ladies will be guests.
Cubs Prepare
To Sell Trees
The Cub Scouts will sell Christ
mas trees beginning Saturday, De
cember 11 according to an announce
ment made this week by Cubmaster
Don Tipton. The present plan is to
use the Lamping lot across from
Bob’s Union Service and trees will
be sold for $1.50 each.
Trees are being donated to the
boys by the Crown Zellerbach Cor
poration and money derived will be
used for Cub Scout activities.
Persons who have no way to get
the trees and wish them delivered to
their homes may call either Tipton,
HAzel 9-6883 or M. C. Brewer, HA-
zel 9-6325 and place their order and
a tree will be delivered. The Cubs
felt this service might be of spec
ial help to elderly people or those
who do not have cars.
U. S. National
Dividends Due
U. S. National Bank of Oregon’s
board of directors has declared a
dividend of 35 cents per share
payable on January 2, 1966, to
stockholders of record December
10, 1965, President E. J. Kolar has
announced.
There are 3,000,775 shares out
standing, and the total dividend
payment will be $1,050,271.25. The
declaration was made at the
monthly meeting of the board No
vember 24.
smmK
DAYS
LEFT
Logger Basketball Team Opens Season with Sherwood Games
BASKETBALL community night Thursday was well received by parents
and fans who heard coach Bert Kronmiiler outline rules for the team,
introduce players and staff members and explain offensive and defemive
methods of play. Rule changes and referee problems were explained by
Francis Bruseo and Frank Perry from Ixmgview. Bruseo. left.
ex
plains one of changes using players Fred Smith and Jerry Hanson.
The Vernonia Loggers, in their
first two preleague basketball games
for this season, met tough competi
tion in the Sherwood team from the
Yawama league which has been pre
dicted as possible A-2 champions for
the state this year, and went down
to defeat in both games, but not
without a valient fight which showed
good potential for the Loggers in
their approaching league season.
In their first encounter last Satur
day evening at Sherwood, the final
score was Vernonia 31 and Sherwood
41. With the score 8 to 9 in favor of
the Bowmen at the end of the first
quarter, the Loggers moved ahead
by five points in the middle of the
second. Luck was with Sherwood,
however, when they moved to a lead
of 20 to 17 for the half-time score.
Once again on the court, Vernonia
managed to secure a 23-23 tie within
the first few minutes of the third
quarter. Sherwood stopped that
short, however, and at the end of it
the scoreboard read, “Visitors 24,
Home 31.” The Loggers’ full court
press held the Bowmen to 10 points
during the fourth quarter with the
Loggers totaling 7.
Dave Larson was high point man
for the Loggers with 10 points. Fred
Smith and Jerry Hanson were next,
each with 8, then Bob Mattson with
3, and finally Joe Curl with 2 points.
For the Bowmen, Brad Rossa was
high scorer with 18 points. Charles
Gardinier was next with 9, and Will
Coley made 6.
Fred Smith was high rebounder
for the Loggers with 11 rebounds and
Joe Curl was next with 8. Larry El
ton played a fine defensive game,
holding Brad Rossa to only two field
goals during the second half.
Tuesday night, a near capacity
crowd in the Vernonia gym saw the
Loggers play another good game
against the strong Sherwood team
which they lost by a narrow nine
point margin. The final score was
62 for Sherwood and 53 for the Log
gers.
The first half was a closely fought
encounter with the lead changing
several times. At the half the score
was 31 to 28 in Sherwood’s favor.
In the third period Vernonia lost
ground and the deadeye shooting flff
Sherwood's Brad Rossa resulted in
Sherwood outscoring the Loggers 13
to 9. The fourth quarter was fought
on almost equal ground with the
Loggers only two points behind their
opponents. Dave Larson sparked the
drive with 10 points
Rossa was again top scorer for
Sherwood with 25 points and Gardi
nier was second with 11.
Jerry Hanson was top scorer for
the Loggers with 17 points and others
scored as follows: Fred Smith, 13:
Dave Larson, 12; Larry Elton, 8;
Bob Mattson, 2 and Bill Hanson, 1.
Fred Smith did an outstanding job
on rebounding with 15 to his credit
and Reger Medges was the outstand
ing man on defense.
Coach Bert Kronmiiler stated that
he felt the boys played better ball
Tuesday night than they had Satur
day and that these games had point
ed up areas where they needed more
stress. One area found weak Tuesday
was the charity line for out of 30
chances from the free throw line, the
Loggers connected for only 17.
The Loggers offer fans two home
games this week end Hood River,
for which Kronmiiler coached last
year, will come here Friday and pro
mise stiff competition and Banks will
be here Saturday night. Varsity
game time is 8:15 p.m. after the JV
game which starts at 6:15 p.m.