L ib ra ry
U n iv e r s ity o f Oregon
E uçene, Oregon
Demonia Eagle
VOLUME 44, NUMBER 3
VERNONIA, OREGON
THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1966
IFeJ/are Labor
Firemen Aid
In Rescue of
Pony Monday
Use Discussed
The Vernonia city council met
Monday evening with Mayor T. M.
Hobart, Councilmen C. E. Miller, D.
G. Roberts, L. E. Atkins and H. C.
Hertel and Attorney Robert R. Vagt
in attendance.
Under unfinished business, the pos­
sibility of using the labor of welfare
recipients through arrangement with
the County Welfare Department pre­
viously discussed at the December
20 meeting was re-opened with the
appearance of Roy Smith from the
welfare commission. After Smith’s
presentation of the features of the
plan as developed through question­
ing by the councilmen, it appeared
that the cost of accident insurance
which would have to be borne by the
the city cannot be paid by present­
ly budgeted funds. Since an agree­
ment for the utilization of this labor
can be entered into at any future
Service Read
On Wednesday
Funeral services were conducted
at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the E van­
gelical United Brethren church for
E. V. “Lige” Robertson, 48-year-
old resident of 159 A. street, Ver­
nonia, who passed away Monday
morning, January 17, at the Vet­
erans hospital in Portland follow­
ing an extended illness.
His minister, the Rev. John Hag­
er of the Vernonia Bible church,
and the Veterans Hospital Chap­
lain Rev. Dwight Kinman officiated
at the services with Robert Sarg­
ent as soloist and Mrs . Lloyd Thom
as, organist.
Concluding rites and vault inter-
oent were at the Vernonia Memor­
ial cemetery with Everett Brown,
Gene Weller, Dick Nightwine, Ir­
vin Leffler, L. E. Atkins and Jim
Brewer serving as casket bearers.
Arrangem ents were entrusted to
the Fuiten-Friesen Mortuary.
“Lige” Robertson was bom at
Louisville, Mississippi March 16,
1917, the son of George and the
late Virena Robertson. He spent his
early life in that community and
then as a young man he joined
the C. C. Corps and was sent to
the camp that was near Timber.
After leaving the C. C. Camp he
remained in the Vernonia commun­
ity as the rest of the Robertson
family moved to this area. He
served in the U. S. Army during
World War II andw as a seargent
with the third infantry division.
Mr. Robertson returned to Ver­
nonia after his military service and
was united in marriage to Arvela
Christensen at Vancouver, Wash­
ington on January 10, 1948. For
a number of years he was dis­
tributor here for the Shell Oil com­
pany and in recent years had been
self employed in the logging in­
dustry. He especially enjoyed hunt­
ing and fishing and was partial
to this area for its abundance of
game.
Surviving is his wife, Mrs. Ar­
vela Robertson and three children,
Gary, Buddie and Jodi Ann, all
at the family home; his father,
George Robertson, Lake Grove;
four brothers, Cleveland and Ray­
mond Robertson, Vernonia; S. L.
Robertson, Longview, Washington;
and five sisters, Mrs. Charles (Es­
ther) Ruth and Mrs. Larry (Vir
ginia) McMahon, both of Longview;
Mrs. George (T haris) King, Cor­
vallis; Mrs. Don (M ary) O’Connor,
and Mrs. Virgie Pugh , both of
Lake Grove; as well as a host of
other relatives and friends.
Webb to Head
Firemen Group
Vernonia firemen elected their
1966 officers at their meeting of
January 10. Those selected by vote
were: Don Webb, chief; Don Tif-
fney, captain; L arry G arner, lieu­
tenant; Homer Fuller, secretary-
treasu rer and Gene Weller, drill
m aster. Chet Ray was appointed
by Chief Webb as his assistant.
The selection of Webb as chief
was approved by the city council
at their meeting Monday, January
IT.
time it was the concensus that the
matter should be left for possible
action when funds may be made
available.
Councilman Roberts had reached
a tentative agreement with Cecil
Huff for modification of his lease
agreement for use of airport proper­
ty which lease has expired. The pro­
posal is designed to lessen the
amount of fencing required by ex­
tending a fence northward from the
existing corner to join with the pre­
sent fence and also to repair the ex­
isting fencing. The council voted to
have a lease drawn incorporating the
proposal, said lease to be for five
years.
In the m atter of the proposal by
the Vernonia Golf Course manage­
ment that they lease a small area
from the airport property for the es­
tablishment of a tee for one of the
nine holes of the course, they are to
stake the boundaries of the area de­
sired so that a decision may be con­
sidered by the council.
The Planning Commission is pre­
pared to submit names of citizens for
consideration for appointment to the
cemetery management committee as
soon as the persons have signified
their willingness to serve. Cemetery
operating problems are to await the
establishment of this committee un­
der a recently passed ordinance.
It was agreed, on the recommen­
dation of Councilman Hertel, to
move the existing street light in
the area of Block 26, Second Addi­
tion, to a site near the comer of
East avenue and F street.
An ordinance selling Lot 10, Block
2, Oregon American Subdivision, to
Ada Croeni was given final reading,
adopted and ordered enrolled as No.
421 in the Book of Ordinances.
Mayor Hobart reappointed Don
Webb on the budget committee, and,
for the Planning Commission reap­
pointed W. F. Aldrich and appointed
Darrold Proehl to succeed Mrs. Iris
Hobart. Appointments were approved
by vote of the council. The reap­
pointment of Don Webb as fire chief
was also approved.
Discussion was entered into con­
cerning the garbage collection con­
tract which expires at the end of this
year. It was suggested that public
opinion be sounded on the possibility
and desirability of a compulsory gar­
bage collection and disposal ordi­
nance wherein the city would un­
dertake the collection of garbage
either directly or on contract, service
to be billed to each residence and
business along with other utilities
billings.
Routine payment of bills conclud­
ed the meeting which was adjourned
at 10:05 p.m.
Chamber Plans
Citizen Awards
Two Citizen of the Y ear awards
will be made next Monday even­
ing at the annual dinner of the
Vernonia Chamber of Commerce
and the public is invited to at­
tend and learn who is to be so
honored and to share in extending
congratulations to them. One of the
persons named will be an outstand­
ing man in the community and
this year, for the first time, a
woman will also be named. The
selections are carefully guarded se­
crets until the actual hour of an-
nouncement at the dinner.
In addition to this announcement,
the chamber has arranged for an
interesting program concerning a
problem of vital concern in this
day and age. Vernonia Chief of
Police E arl Ray will show films
on shop lifting and conduct a dis­
cussion of the problem and meth­
ods of controlling and combating
it in Vernonia.
There will be three door prizes
awarded and a recently compiled
chamber of commerce directory
which gives information on that or­
ganization and its scope will be dis­
cussed at the dinner, also.
The dinner is scheduled for 7
p.m. and tickets are $1.75. Persons
who are unable to attend the din­
ner but wish to see the film and
hear the discussion are welcome to
come a t 7:45 p.m. The meeting
will be held at the I OOF hall on
North street.
Members of the Vernonia Volun­
teer Fire Department expect to be
called out at all hours for fires, but
Monday evening of this week, a call
added variety. Their aid was enlist­
ed to rescue a pony from the waters
of the Nehalem river.
L. E. 'B U D ' ATKINS
Atkins Files for
Primary Race
The first candidate to file in Co­
lumbia county for a place on the
May primary election ballot is a
Vernonia man, Loran E. (Bud) At­
kins, who will seek the nomination
for county commissioner on the Re­
publican ticket. At present he is a
Vernonia city councilman.
Atkins was bom at Birkenfeid and
has lived all of his life in Columbia
county in the Nehalem valley area.
He is 45 years of age.
He has taken an active part in
community life in Vernonia. In ad­
dition to his work on the city coun­
cil, he was one of those instrumental
in starting the hunter safety pro­
gram for that area and assists with
anything pertaining to that program
and other youth programs.
He is a member of the Odd Fel­
lows lodge.
Atkins accomplished his filing Fri­
day of last week with the payment
of the required $20 filing fee.
Firemen received the call about 11
p.m. Monday from Bill Lunsford who
resides on Mist route about two
miles from Vernonia on the place
owned by Dr. T. M. Hobart. The po­
ny belonging to the Lunsford child­
ren had been turned out to pasture
that morning, and at dusk when the
stock was put in the bam, it failed
to appear. A search was instituted
and finally, Lunsford found it in the
river where it had apparently fallen
when a high bank caved in.
Lunsford got into the river and
kept the pony’s head above water
for about an hour and a half. A neigh­
bor, Frank Reed, was assisting him,
also, but they were unable to get
the pony out. It is thought the animal
was in the water for perhaps 10
hours..
The call to the fire department
brought Chief Don Webb, Don Tiff-
ney, Chet Ray, Homer Fuller and re­
tired member Bob Thompson who
had to literally pull the animal from
the water. A fire was built on the
bank and the group worked with the
animal until after 2:00 a.m. to get
it warmed and on its feet. A local
doctor was called to administer a
shot to help prevent pneumonia.
The great concern of the children
who own the pony is the unborn colt.
Loggers Roll Over Indians
At Scappoose Tuesday Night
The Vernonia Loggers rolled over
the host Scappoose Indians 80-67 in
action Tuesday night. The Logger
attack was led by Larson with 26
and Smith with 23. High point men
for Scappoose were Jim Hoag, 17
and Larry Peterson with 15.
The Logger quint started off big,
accumulating a 15-point advantage
by half time, then were outscored by
two points in the second half. The
big surge put on in the second quar­
ter spelled disaster for the Indians
as the local squad outscored them by
13 points in this time period. Larson
led the attack by stealing several
passes and taking them in for the
score. He stole 11 balls during the
game.
Smith led the rebounding with 13,
followed by J.Hanson and J. Curl
with 11 each. As a team, Vernonia
outrebcunded the Indians 51 to 42.
Also, their shooting percent topped
that of the hosts, Vernonia hitting
36 of 82 for a. 439 percent to Scap­
poose’s .329 percent. Vernonia’s sec­
ond quarter shooting from the field
hit a figure in excess of .650 percent.
Other Vernonia scoring included:
J. Hanson with 13; Elton, 8; J. Curl,
7; Pederson, 2 and B. Hanson, 1.
The Logger defense let down in
this contest, their having used both
man to man and zone against the
Indian quint. This is a point which
will need sharpening before encoun­
tering Seaside. Coach Kronmiller
stated that the team would work on
this as Seaside was capable of hitting
from outside, and would also floor a
tall team against the locals.
Vernonia’s JVs went down under
the onslaught of the junior Indians
Tuesday night in the preliminary
game. Coach Crowston’s squad was
felled by an attack led by Scappoose’s
Gary Wight who was high point man
for the game with 24. The Loggers
trailed at all quarter stops, although
they closed the gap by ten points
points in the final frame.
Logger scoring was as follows: P.
Brunsman, 11; Robertson, 8; Cam­
eron and Ellis, 7; Holsey, 5; A1
Brunsman, 4; G.Hanson, 3; Peddi-
cord and Vealey, 2.
The Loggers will have a full sched­
ule this coming week end, playing
host to the Seaside Seagulls Friday
and then travelling to Moro to take
on Sherman county high Saturday.
The Seaside game will be a decisive
one with them currently rated as the
fifth A-2 team in the state. Prelimi­
nary contests start at 6:15, with var­
sity play following.
Also, this Friday, as an added fea­
ture, the half time entertainment
will be furnished by teams from the
fifth and sixth grade basketball pro­
gram. This program has recently
been started by Kronmiller, with the
boys turning out on Saturdays.
C-Z Reforestation Program
Seeds 886 Acres in County
A mile-wide strip of maturing
trees extending from north of Se­
attle to Portland.
This is the amount of acreage
reforested by Crown Zellerbach in
Washington and Oregon since the
company began its reforestation
program 41 years ago. At the end
of the 1965 planting season, the
company had seeded or planted
with seedlings more than 192
square miles of land on its tree
farm s in the two states.
During 1965, CZ carried out re ­
forestation on 11,282 acres of its
timberlands.
Breakdown of the 1964-65 refor­
estation program showed hand
planting was done on 6,872 acres,
helicopters were used to aerially
seed another 4,288 acres and 122
acres were hand seeded.
On the E. P. Stamm Tree Farm
in Columbia county, planting cov­
ered 885.9 acres. There were 322,-
800 trees hand planted on 798.9
acres and another 87 acres hand
seeded.
Oregon’s seven Crown Zeller­
bach Tree Farm s, Clackamas, Clat­
sop, Lincoln, Mazama (Klamath
county), Tahkenitch (Lane - Doug­
las counties) Tillamook and E. P.
Stamm,planted a total of 7,695.2
acres. There were 2,215,977 trees
planted on 4,973.2 acres; 2,630
acres were aerially seeded and 92
acres were hand seeded.
For Washington, the total acre­
age was 11,282 on four farm s.
There were 2,869,177 trees planted
on 6,872 acres; 4,288 acres were
aerially seeded and 122 acres hand
seeded.
Species used Included Douglas
fir, noble fir, Sitka spruce, grand
fir, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine
and Monterey pine.
Along with its reforestation pro­
gram , the company took another
major step in 1965 to help nature
produce better and faster growing
forests. For the first time in
Washington and Oregon, aerial fer­
tilizing of commercial timberlands
was carried out on a large scale.
The venture, which culminated
more than 12 years of research by
Crown Zellerbach foresters, was
carried out on 1,500 acres of se­
cond growth Douglas fir on the
company’s Clackamas Tree Farm
near Molalla.
“Just as agricultural experts are
continually working for better field
crops, we are striving to improve
the quality and quantity of the
forest harvest,” George H Schroe­
der, CZ’s chief forester, noted.
Garner Service
Set for Today
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon, Thursday, January 20,
at 2 p.m. at the Evangelical United
Brethren church for Mrs. Trenton
T. G arner of Birkenfeid. She pas­
sed away Monday of this week at
a Portland hospital just four days
prior to her 53rd birthday.
Reverend Raymond P. T arggart,
pastor of the church, will officiate.
Bernard Dowling of Vancouver will
be soloist and Mrs. Lloyd Thomas,
organist. Fuiten-Friesen Mortuary
is in charge of arrangem ents.
Concluding rites will be at the
Vernonia Memorial cemetery with
E. T. Johnston, Lloyd Beach, Roy
Stuve, S. A. Hoyt, Wally Noakes
and Robert Pollock as casket bear­
ers.
Alice Vernon G arner was born
at Lakeview, Oregon January 21,
1913 the daughter of the late Ster­
ling Price and Effie Downs Ver­
non. She spent all of her early
life there and graduated from
Lakeview high school after which
she attended and graduated from
Oregon State College at Corvallis.
She taught in the high school at
Sheridan before she was united in
m arriage to Trent G arner at Burns,
Oregon on July 25, 1935.
After their m arriage Mr. and
Mrs. G arner lived at Lakeview,
Klamath Falls and Medford and
then during the War at Vallejo,
California. After the w ar they came
to Vernonia and have lived in this
area since that time, living the
past 17 years at Birkenfeid.
The Vernonia Federal Credit Un­
Surviving is her husband, Trent
ion is continuing steady growth ac­ Garner of Birkenfeid; two daugh­
cording to reports presented to the ters, Mrs. Patrick (M arcia) Scibel
annual meeting held Saturday at of Vernonia and Mrs. W arren (Ja n ­
the West Oregon Electric building. ice) Haase, Los Angeles, and two
Savings shares increased during grandsons, Keri and Kris Seibel,
the year by 24 per cent to a total Vernonia.
of $43,251.74. There were 44 loans
Also surviving are four brothers,
made totaling $51,280.50 which was Frank and Willard Vernon, both
a 71 per cent increase over 1964. of Lakeview; Cecil Vernon of San
A 4 Vi per cent dividend on all Jose, California and Everett Ver­
savings shares has been declared non, Aloha; and three sisters,
by the board of directors.
Mrs. Dora Carriger, Vallejo, Cal­
Elections were held to olace new ifornia; Mrs. Mae Rehart, Medford
members on the board of direc­ and Mrs. Hazel Wilson, Aloha.
tors and the credit committee. Ed
Mrs. G arner had been under
Roediger, Robert McNair and Rich­
treatm ent for cancer the past 13
ard Peterson were elected to the
years and had gone through sev­
board of directors. Mrs. Helen
eral surgeries, also. Friends and
Spofford and Mrs. Edna Linn were
family have expressed the tribute
elected to the credit committee.
that through it all she never com­
Jim Reilly of Cuna Mutual In­
plained and always had a smile
surance gave a talk on insurance
for everyone no m atter how she
available to credit unions. All loans
felt.
carry life insurance a t no extra
Her family has suggested that
cost to insure that “the debt dies
those who wish to do so may make
with the debtor.”
memorial donations to the Amer­
Besides the life saving insurance,
ican Cancer Society fund in lieu
a family insurance plan is avail­
of flowers.
able to all members. Cuna Mutual
carries $9.7 billion insurance on
members out of which $62 million
was paid out last year.
After the membership meeting
refreshments were served and the
new board of directors elected of-
fiers for the coming year. George
Laws was chosen as president;
Doris Skidmore, treasurer; Richard
Peterson, clerk; Ed Roediger, vice
president; Dudley Spofford, assis­
"Maybe they’ll drop me
tant treasurer and Marion Steers,
a card on their trip”
loans officer.
Credit Union
Shows Growth
Music Study, Athletic Program Explained at Meet
The January PTA meeting was
held at the high school Monday,
January 17. During the business
portion of the evening, Mrs. George
Laws was elected secretary to fill
the position vacated by Mrs. Ber­
nard Gilliland.
The program began with an in­
terview conducted by George Laws,
president of the Music Parents
club. David Serafin, Randy Holce
and Mike Laws were questioned
about their stay at the University
of Oregon last year for the sum ­
m er music session.
They told about the very thor
cugh instruction given them by un
iversity teachers, the good food and
pleasant living conditions afforded
them and the recreational facili­
ties available for students there.
After the interview, the boys ans­ gram for a more rounded educa­
wered questions from the members tion in physical fitness Because of
and played portions of a recoid the lack of exercise in daily ac­
made at the concert at the te r­ tivities, the need for a better phy­
mination of their two weeks in­ sical fitness program is great­
struction.
er than it once was.
Don Young, athletic director, was
Three high school boys, Merle
then introduced. He informed the Long, Dado Briones and Keith
membership of his physical educa­
tion program. Young said that Seibel were on hand to demon­
there has been much improvement strate tumbling and weight lilting
in such program s across the na­ as they are taught in the high
tion since the m esident’s physical school.
fitness program has gone into ef­
Mrs. Catherine Howard, girls
fect.
physical education teacher was a l­
He stated that trends swing from so introduced. She gave a run down
an all-out program for nothing but on the year’s program for the girls
leisure time activities to the oth­ after which she brought out her
er extrem e of all strength and con­ A and B team s for an exciting
ditioning activities. Young prefers demonstration basketball game ref­
to use a middle of the road pro­ ereed by Marsha Kreiger. These
teams compete with other schools,
as do the boys, and Mrs. Howard
encouraged the membership tc
attend some of these games.
When Mrs. Webb, PTA president,
asked for announcements, George
Laws spoke on behalf of the Jam
boree committee in asking for help
from the PTA or other groups for
the betterm ent of the Jam boree
next summer.
With so many high school young
ladies and gentlemen donating
their tim e to entertain the mem ­
bership, it was regrettable to have
such a small group in attendance
The PTA hopes that many more
will turn out next month when the
Girl and Boy Scouts will present
the program for Founder's Day.