Camp Training
Selection Made
Steffen Serves In
Vietnam Operation
Mental Health
Money Received
Tomlin Completes
Recruit Training
Marine Private Billy F. Tomlin,
Seaman Gary L. Steffen, USN,
son
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. G.
Tomlin
of Mist route, has graduat
Columbia Pacific Council of the Steffen of Timber route, has re
Columbia county has recently re
Boy Scouts of America has announ turned to Yokosuda, Japan aboard ceived a check in the amount of ed from Marine recruit training at
ced the selection of Scott Davies the Seventh Fleet destroyer USS
$2,278.51 from the State Mental the Marine Corps recruit depot at
as a counselor-in-training (CIT) for
San Diego.
two weeks this summer at one of Higbee, after completing 34 con Health division on the dollar for
During his eight weeks of inten
the four council camps, Camp secutive days of naval gunfire sup dollar matching agreement as re sified recruit training under veter
imbursement
for
Mental
Health
Baldwin. Scott will begin his two port operations off the coast of
an noncommissioned officer drill
Clinic expenses for the months of
Vietnam.
week stay at camp July 26.
instructors, he learned small arms
October,
November
and
Decem
Nearly 7,000 rounds were fired,
During this time, Scdtt will give
marksmanship, bayonet fighting,
one week of service to the camp in bringing Higbee’s total to more ber, 1965. This money will be de and methods of self-protection. He
the kitchen. After that time, he than 8,500 rounds fired against the posited in the county’s general also received instruction in mili
will spend a week in the program Viet Cong. The list of destruction fund.
tary drill, history and traditions of
During the same period the in the Marine Corps, and other aca
ming of scout activities, such as now includes 664 structures des
working with the horses, on the troyed and damaged, numerous come from fees paid by clients demic subjects.
rifle range, archery range, cooking, bridges, sampans, bunkers, radio of the clinic was $251. This amount
He will undergo four weeks cf
antennas, mortar positions, sus was also deposited in the county’s individual combat training and four
pioneering, or waterfront.
general fund. The income from
Scott was selected from among pected VC headquarters, fortifica nominal fees based on ability to weeks of basic specialist training
tions, and other unspecified struc
in his military occupational field
several hundred 14 year old scouts
pay averages about six percent of
tures.
before being assigned to a perma
of star rank who applied for these
On several occasions, Higbee hit the total clinic budget, according nent unit.
positions. If the CIT’s prove their
to Miss Anita Niewoehner, ACSW,
worth this summer, they are usual communist targets in coordination psychiatric social worker for the
with
Army
artillery
and
Navy
air
ly among those selected in later
strikes for the Navy and Marine county program.
years for the staff of summer
Corps.
camps. Scott is the son of Mr. and
Higbee’s supplies were main
Mrs. Jim Davies. He is a senior
tained
through 25 underway replen
patrol leader in Troop 201.
ishments, involving new techniques
Judge J. S. Bohannan sentenc
such as simultaneous refueling and
ed Joseph W. Hauxhurst of Port
helicopter ammunition transfer.
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land, to 90 days in the Columbia
Cub Scout Den 3 for which Mrs. county jail for failure to pay his
Sharon Gibson is den mother, won child support as had been previous
the mom and dad award for the ly ordered by the court when he
most parents in attendance at the appeared before Judge Bohannon
Vernonia is twice included in the
pack meeting held last Friday eve on march 28.
revised edition of “Oregon for the
ning at the Washington school.
However, Judge Bohannon sus
Curious,” just off the press. It is
Cubs who received special award pended execution of sentence on
The
Columbia
County
Historical
described as part of an off-beat
were Gregg Brewer, Randy Hend the condition that the defendent
road between Astoria and Portland Society will meet Wednesday of
ricks, Richard Tipton and Brad pay into the clerk of the court,
next
week,
April
20,
in
the
4-H
and is mentioned in a special trip
Garner. Candy bars were given to as originally ordered, the sum of
building
at
the
county
fair
grounds
section under “Steam Train Excur
all
who observed birthdays in $100 per month for the support of
at
Deer
Island.
There
will
be
a
sion.”
February and March.
his minor children, according to
potluck
dinner
at
noon
and
this
The book, said by reviewers to
Dens 1 and 6 presented skits, information released by Donald L.
will
be
followed
by
the
meeting.
be the best travel guide on Oregon
Persons who have material for “Knights for Hire” and “Dragon Kalberer, Columbia county district
in 30 years, sold 10,000 copies in
Volume
5 of the Columbia county and the Lady.” The closing cere attorney.
the first edition, published last
mony included the singing of the
year. The revised edition contains historical booklet are asked to de
A man doesn’t necessarily have
Star
Spangled Banner.
liver
it
to
the
society
secretary,
more than 100 new off-the-beaten-
Following the meeting, refresh to be in a key position to open the
path places and of the 75 photos, Mrs. Pearl Becker, by May 1.
All persons interested in history ments were served in the cafeteria. door of opportunity.
25 are new. The book has section
maps, an index, and a table of of the county are invited to at
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The Portland U. S. Army Engin
eer District has invited bids for
furnishing two pumps for the Mid
land Drainage district on the lower
Columbia river, about one mile
downstraem from Clatskanie in
Columbia county.
Colonel William J. Talbott, dis
trict engineers, said bids will be
opened at 2 p.m. April 28 in 628
Pittock block. Completion time is
six months. The pumps must be
designed, manufactured and de
livered freight on board to the U.
S. government moorings at the
south end of the St. Johns bridge
in Portland.
The pumps will be installed in a
new pumping station which will re
place two existing pump stations.
The army engineers plan to open
bids in late May for reinforcing the
drainage district’s seven-mile long
levee. Some 15,140 cubic yards of
levee, embankment from borrow
will be required, and the existing
tide box will be removed.
Improvements to the project will
be accomplished under authority
of the Flood Control Act of 1950,
army engineers said.
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