THE PEOPLE SPEAK-
(Editor’s note: The following is
an excerpt from a letter received
by Welcome Rumbaugh, Vernonia
high school principal, which made
him proud to claim Vernonia as
his school and he wishes to share
it with others so that they can know
the impression Vernonia high
school students are making when
they are other places.)
Nehalem, Ore.
Rt. 1, Box 417
March 7, 1966
Dear Mr. Rumbaugh,
. . . We were so impressed with
both the students (of Vernonia
high school) and the players when
you played at Neah-Kah-Nie; our
players (we have a son on JV)
said the Vernonia boys were out­
standingly not only the best team
but the cleanest players they play­
ed all year, and the students who
attended the game were the best-
behaved and nicest looking kids
we saw all year. The kids who at­
tended the playoff said one of the
nicest things that happened there
was the chance to get better ac­
quainted
with “the Vernonia
bunch”, the nicest kids they’d seen,
and although everyone is elated -
naturally! - over winning, they are
also sorry they had to do it by eli­
minating Vernonia. With all the
kids from other schools we saw all
year at games, when a bunch is as
“outstandingly nice kids” as yours,
it seems only fair to tell them so.
More power to you. . .
Sincerely,
Jean & Quentin Smith
We had a pleasant surprise from
Zella and Truman Davenport invit­
ing us to visit them at their nice
home at 216 E. Merrill in Rialto
near San Bernardino. Zella saw
our address in the Vernonia Eagle.
While we were visiting our neigh­
bor who is in the Loma Linda hos­
pital recovering from a severe
heart attack, we gave Zella a ring
and drove out to visit them over­
night.
Imagine their little old cute red
head, Steven, trying out for Little
League baseball. He is now 9, and
a fine boy, tall and good looking.
Naturally, we had that good old
Southern breakfast, that Zella is
noted for.
Truman was having a bout with
that old Flu Bug, and very lone­
some for Oregon. ’Twas great being
with them for a visit. We also visi­
ted Zella’s father, Robert J. Whit­
mire, in his cute little home, with
yard filled with flowers. He owns
his home two doors from Zella. He
wasn’t feeling well at all, and Zella
was taking him to doctor that day.
He looked handsome though.
C. J. has had a second bout with
that old flu bug. So far I’m fat and
fine!
Had a lovely letter from my sis­
ter Esther Ring, about three weeks
ago, stating she was busy as could
be knitting, taking daily driving
lessons, making a dress, taking
painting lessons on velvet, learning
the making of leaded glass and
keeping house for our little mother
and our brother. Now today I learn
Esther has had another set back
and has been in bed at our niece’s
for two weeks, but is better since
being taken to a doctor in Bremer­
ton who took a cyst from her back.
She feels better than she had for
some time, but is still under the
doctor’s care.
When able Esther hopes to visit
her family in Portland, and then
back out to Vernonia.
We hear she misses us and
wants us home now but C. J. thinks
we will be here until June, so that
we may visit our son, Bus and fam­
ily at the time Sheryl graduates
from Santa Rosa Hi.
Vicki is still happy with her mar­
riage to Curt.
Oh, a butterfly just passed by
and I see the little tiny lizards mov­
ing today, but we don’t look for
rattlers until our cute turtles pop
out in our yard from nowhere. Just
all of a sudden there they are!
That’s where we take off for our
dear old Vernonia, Oregon.
We surely thank our friends for
the many anniversary cards.
Hope you are all with us for our
50th.
An especial thanks to Lester
Sheeley for the lovely antique book.
I never let go of it for a couple
days and two nights. It’s very edu­
cational. Thank you Lester!
Then, another most lovely sur­
prise was the big pot of golden
bronze chrysanthemums with ador­
able card which read, "God be with
you both, your other son, Robert
Weidman.”
Now that truly was thoughtful,
and we do thank you Robert! I
hope they live and grow forever!
I shall try to keep them.
Kate, you are going to be sur­
prised at the “old bull” I’m paint­
ing for you.
Love to all and don’t forget
our beauty operators.
C. J. and Essie Nance
March 10, 1966
Star Rt. 2B Box 716
Yucca Valley, California
Hi, All our Friends in Vernonia
and Elsewhere!
Marvin, I hope you don’t mind
I’ve been asked to write another
letter through your fine paper The
Eagle!
I’ll hurry and write this as I sit
in the hot sun. It is a perfect day,
like we had the first years we came
to the H i,Desert, calm, sunny and
not a so®pd, except, off in the dis­
tance, »"occasional cooing of a
dove. It is truly heavenly calm, but
tomorrow? May be snow. On our
46th wedding anniversary, March 2,
we woke up to everything white
with snow. Looked beautiful but
was gone as soon as the big sun
came up, which now is about 6:15
a.m. Soon it will be coming up be­
fore 5 a.m. It is always such a big
round sun.
Oernonia Eagle
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problems,
physicians
agreed this week at an Oregon
State University conference on
chest diseases.
"Don’t smoke” educational pro­
grams are making headway in
America, the six participating doc-
tors said.
“Stop smoking” campaigns are
far less effective because few per­
sons who have smoked for a long
period of time can stop, they add­
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Dr. R. Bruce McFadden, heart
disease control officer with the
Oregon Board of Health, said a
person who smokes two packs of
cigarettes a day has three or four
times the chance of having a heart
attack when he reaches age 50 as
a non-smoker.
Emphysema is increasing at a
frightening rate, it was noted.
Deaths from the disease (which
causes the lungs to become great­
ly enlarged) have increased six
times over in the last 10 years
In Oregon, emphysema has moved
into the top 10 causes of death.
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year, Dr. Wilcox said. Five cases
were reported in 1965 compared
with only three in 1964. Oregon
recorded one case during each of
the past two years.
The state’s most recent polio vic­
plete polio vaccine series, prefera­ tim is a four-year-old boy who was
bly within the first year of life.
stricken in September. 1965. He
“ It is a misconception to believe had not been immunized.
that polio has been completely
Several of the nation’s leading
stamped out,” he declared.
medical authorities have in recent
Within the past two years, pol­ weeks publicly expressed concern
io epidemics have occurred in over the mounting population of
England, the Bahamas, Jamaica. unprotected children.
They in­
Chile and Nicaragua-all within clude Dr. Albert Sabin, whose re­
a few jet travel hours from our search led to development of oral
own country, Dr. Wilcox pointed polio vaccine: Dr. Aiex Langmuir,
out.
epidemiology chief of the U. S.
Paralytic polio in the United Public Health Service Communi­
States last year numbered 43 cas­ cable Disease Center; and Dr.
es, according to preliminary re­ Jam es H. Sterner, chairman of
port information from the Com­ the American Medical Association
municable Disease Center, Atlan­ committee on environmental and
ta, Georgia. During 1964, there public health.
94 new victims of paralytic polio.
Dr. Sterner has been quoted by
But on the West Coast, polio ac­ the official AMA news publication
tually increased during the past as stating that, according to data
Pre-School Immunization for
Polio Decreases, Doctor Warns
The level of immunity against
polio among Oregon’s preschool
population appears to be decreas
ing, warns Dr. Richard H. Wil­
cox. state health officer.
He stated that survey figures re­
cently compiled by the Oregon Im­
munization program indicate near­
ly 32 percent of all children under
the age of five years have never
received polio immunization. An
estimated 50.000 preschool children
in the state are currently suscep­
tible
The buildup of a new popula­
tion vulnerable to polio enhances
the danger that further outbreaks,
or even epidemics, could occur
again in Oregon,
Dr. Wilcox
said. He urged that parents make
sure their children receive the com-
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available to his committee, “there
now exist areas in which the level
of polio immunity is so low that
the possibility of an epidemic is
a very real one.”
A girdle underneath stretch pants
keeps women from extending the
truth.
Experience ripens judgment—it
teaches to live and let live.
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