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Ocrnonia Eagle
VOLUME 46, NUMBER 1____________ VERXOMA, OREGON 97064
THIS JEEP, which had been taken from the Davies
car lot, apparently early Tuesday morning, was found
in the ditch and burning between the Bob Borders and
Yalpiani places on Mist route. Who had driven it there
C of C Dinner
Will Include
Citizen Honor
The annual Citizen of the Year
dinner sponsored by the Vernonia
Chamber of Commerce will b c
Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the
IOOF hall and those in attendance
will hear the announcement o f
the man and woman named a s
citizens for 1967. Letters of recom
mendation f o r various persons
have been received during the
past several weeks to assist the
chamber committee in making the
selections.
Members of the board of direc
tors for the Vernonia school dis
trict will be SDecial guests of the
chamber a t t h i s dinner. These
men, who serve without pay, give
many hours to this work and the
chamber is taking this means of
recognizing their untiring efforts
on behalf of the community.
The dinner is open to the pub
lic and members of the chamber
have tickets on sale or they may
be obtained at the door. It is help
ful to the dinner committee if
tickets are purchased ahead o f
time. Tickets are $2.00 each. Door
prizes for the event are being don
ated by local merchants.
O'Connell Hears
Traffic Cases
A need for a local justice of the
peace was pointed up Thursday
of this week when Tom O'Connell,
justice of the peace for district 1,
St. Helens, traveled to Vernonia
to hold court in order to accomo
date local residents.
The cases heard were all con
cerned with charges of failure to
stop when school busses were dis
charging students and flashing
warning tights were in operation.
District attorney Donald Kalberer
handled the prosecution for t h e
state.
Diana L. Elton of Riverside
Drive pleaded guilty to the charge
and was fined $25 with $10 of the
fine being suspended.
Betty Lehn of Riverview Cabins
pleaded guilty and was fined $25
with the entire amount suspended.
Alexandra Higginbotham of Tim
ber route pleaded not guilty and a
trial without jury was held w i t'h
Mrs. Higginbotham being repre
sented by Attorney Agnes Peter
sen of St. Helens. She was found
not guilty.
Larry W. Lovegren of Clatskanie
pleaded guilty and was fined $25.
Lucille B. Greene of 854*A Bridge
street, Vernonia, declined to enter
a plea and a plea of not guilty was
entered by the court in her behalf
In the trial which followed, s h e
was found guilty and fined $25
with $10 suspended.
A minor pleaded guilty, was
fined $25 and the fine suspended
and the defendant sent to traffic
school
THURSDAY, JAN. 4, 1968
was not determined and the case is still under investi
gation. Davies reported the loss of batteries from oth
er cars on his lot, also. He had just pulled the burned
car into town when picture was taken.
C om m unity College A sk s
For B oundary E xtension
The Portland school board, dur
ing a special meeting Wednesday,
agreed to sever ties with the Port
land Community College if voters
approve formation of a metropoli
tan community college district at
the May primary elections.
The board approved the proposal
by a roll call vote, and formal vot
ing on the plan is expected at the
board’s Monday night meeting,
Jan. 8.
Up to now PCC has been a part
of, and operated by, the Portland
school district.
The proposed new district would
include all of Washington county,
all the Portland school district;
and land within the following other
school districts: Lake Oswego, Ri
verdale, Newberg, Scappoose, Ver
nonia, St. Helens and Sauvie Is
land.
Petitions are now being circulat
ed in all these areas to secure a
total of 2500 signatures by Tues
day for presentation to the state
board of education asking them to
call for a vote in May on the pro
posed enlargement of the district.
Loggers Host to
Warriors Friday
The Loggers will tangle w i t h
the Warrenton Warriors at Vernon
ia Friday evening, January 5. Sa
turday they will travel to H o o d
River to make up a December 22
cancellation.
Coach Kronmiller stated t h a t
the Warriors are extremely quick
and have a very effective f u l l
court press. They own victories
over Hood River and North Ca
tholic, but have been defeated by
Seaside.
Hood River has good height and
they are always tough in their own
gym. “We will have to put forth
two fine efforts if we are to remain
undefeated in league play,” Kron
miller stated.
Game time Friday is 6:15 p.m.
for the junior varsity, 8:00 p.m.
for the varsity. Saturday g a m e
times are 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.
The Frosh and Sophomores have
two games this week. Thursday
they travel to Scappoose and o n
Saturday they journey down river
to play the Jewell varsity.
Small Woodland
Group Sets Meet
The Columbia Small Woodlands
association will hold their annual
meeting on Tuesday, January 9 at
the Fern Hill Grange hall starting
at 6:30 p.m. with a dinner served
by the ladies at the Grange, ac
cording to Everett Skeans, presi
dent.
Forestry and logging methods in
the old south will be the subject
of a slide show by Glen Hawkins,
superintendent of the Crown Zel-
lerbach Tillamook Tree Farm
Skeans points out that Hawkins
is no stranger to Columbia coun
ty, having been superintendent of
the CZ E. P. Stamm Tree Farm at
Vernonia, and being a member of
the local association.
Petitions which are being circul
ated in St. Helens, Scappoose and
Vernonia this week seek 500 sig
natures from this area.
William Ambrose, superintendent
of the Vernonia administrative
school district, stated this Week
that representatives of the college
delivered petitions to him Tuesday
of this week. These have been cir
culated to some extent and will be
placed at the city hall to receive
signatures of interested persons up
to noon Saturday.
Presently the college is opera
ting in a vacated grade school
near Portland State College a n d
has nearly 10,000 students and 100
programs. The college in n o w
building a campus at Mt. Sylvan-
nia near Tigard, and it is anticipat
ed that in the future satellite cam-
pusses would be required. There
is already $9 million invested i n
the college and four buildings will
be completed at Mt. Sylvannia
this month and four more will be
bid in the near future.
If the state board of education
accepts the petitions and calls for
a vote in May on the enlarging of
the district, the expected cost to
the taxpayers is 1 mill of true cash
value.
If a vote is called in May voters
will also elect seven members for
a college board of directors.
Although the complete transfer
would not be until 1969, the elect
ed board of directors of the new
community college district would
have charge of the operation dur
ing the 1968-69 school year, in the
form of an advisory council.
Members of the Portland school
board made it clear Wednesday
that they want zoned voting areas
to insure that an adequate number
of members on the new board will
be selected from the immediate
Portland area.
About seven-tenths of the popula
tion within the new district will
be in Portland.
The board also wants assurance
that an appropriate share of the
curriculum at the college will con
tinue to be geared to the education
al and job training needs of a n
urban center.
Names Sent to
Governor for
Consideration
The Columbia county court took
action at the meeting held Wednes
day of last week to submit th e
names of Acel D. Lolley and Sher
man S. Fisher to Governor Tom
McCall for consideration for a p-
pointment as justice of the peace
for district 4 which takes in t h e
Vernonia-Nehalem Valley a r e a .
The office was left vacant b y
the death of O. G. Weed in Octo
ber. The Vernonia city council had
previously recommended Lolley
and other recommendations h a d
been made by individuals.
Members of the court have ques
tioned the need for a justice of the
peace here but local residents and
officers working in this area have
objected to having to travel to St.
Helens for justice court services.
Seawright and Violette voted to
send the names to the governor
but Glosenger voted against the
action.
At the same court session, Frank
Patton, roadmaster, reported that
a letter had been written to t h e
owner of property on Rock Creek
where a log jam was causing flood
ing of the county road in winter.
His letter requested removal o f
the obstruction.
Firemen Answer
Week End Calls
Council Action
Makes Possible
Statute Coding
The Vernonia city council took
another step Monday evening to
ward the planned revision and cod
ification of the city ordinances
when they gave permission f o r
the Bureau of Municipal Research
and Service to remove the c i t y
ordinance books from the city hall
for the necessary copying a n d
study.
Mayor T. M. Hobart, Councilmen
C. E. Miller, D. L. Bair, L. E. At
kins and D. G. Roberts and Attor
ney Robert Vagt were all present
for this first meeting of the new
year.
The mayor reappointed Walter
E. Linn as city recorder and Earl
M. Ray as marshal and the ap
pointments were approved by the
council. O t h e r routine appoint
ments that were made were Lee
Jessee, water superintendent; Roy
Sanders, street superintendent; Lee
W. Akers, deputy marshal; Ro
bert R. Vagt, city attorney; Oliv
ia K. Brickel, librarian; Bernard
A. Rice, cemetery sexton; a n d
Leon D. Welch, water plant and
equipment operator.
Reports showed that a pumping
deficiency at the water plant has
been corrected after several weeks
effort to locate the cause of pump
failure. Decrease in pumping cap
acity resulting from the dificulty
h a v e necessitated many extra
hours of work by city employes
to maintain adequate storage lev
els in reservoirs.
Repairs to the police patrol car,
damaged when side-swiped by a
logging truck, were said to be
nearing completion. The car has
been out of service over t h r e e
weeks and dilatoriness in complet
ing repair was scored by mayor
and councilmen.
The student job training pro
gram of the high school was again
discussed with the instructor from
the school and Mayor Hobart ar
ranged for a committee meeting
with members of the council at
which it was hoped some program
could be suggested for employing
students enrolled in the class.
The corrected deed for street
Two fire calls were answered
last week end by the Vernonia fire
department. The first, about 6
a.m. Sunday, was to the Totem
Summer Camp on Timber road
about four and a half miles south
of Vernonia. Fire in the building
which has been remodeled for use
in camp activities, suffered smoke
and water damage from a f i r e
which broke out in wood flooring
beneath a hearth-stone of the fire
place. Willis Harriman, owner of
the property, was at the premises
when the fire occurred.
The second call was at 4:30 Tues
day morning and was to an old
warehouse building back of t h e
Masonic Temple and facing o n
Shadey Lane avenue. Fire of un
determined origin gutted the build
ing and cause of the fire is under
investigation by authorities. The
building was used for storage by
Brunsman Hardware and contain
ed used appliances and some plas
tic pipe. The same morning, a hoi'1
was broken in one of the windows
at the Brunsman store.
The fire siren sounded several
Building in Columbia county for
times on New Years day due to a the month of December more than
fault in the system and work o n doubled the total reached for the
the lines to correct it.
same period in 1966. Twelve per
mits were written this year f o r
projects whose valuation totaled
$95,520, compared to 13 permits
and a valuation of $41,950 the pre
vious year.
Listed on the building depart
ment’s
monthly report were three
A new name for a business which
permits
for plumbing, valuce at
has widened its scope appeared in
$24,480;
four
new residences, $52,-
Vernonia’s business area last week.
500;
one
new
commercial, $15,000;
The shop formerly known as the
and
residential
alterations and ad
Rag Doll is now Lee’s Boutique
ditions,
four,
$3,540.
(and Rag Dolls, too).
For the 1967 year, 208 permits
Mrs. Lee Skeen, owner of t h e
shop, stated that she has branched were issued with a valuation o f
$895,293, department tabulations re
out into a variety of gift items
which made the Rag Doll name veal.
insufficiently descriptive of what
customers might expect to find.
Assessor Confers
She also stated that after the new
sign was painted on the window,
Taking part in the midwinter
an increased number of persons conference of the Western Oregon
were attracted to the shop to see Assessors association is Columbia
what was offered.
County Assessor Frank LeMont,
The trite question “What’s in a who has been named to the com
Name?” is one that bears thought mittec on machinery and equip
ful consideration.
ment.
1967 Totals of
Construction
Store Owner
Changes Name
right of way has been sent to Mr.
and Mrs. Baska for signature. A
similar deed is to be submitted to
W. E. Nelson for completion. The
deed for right of way from t h e
Hannula property is supposedly in
the hands of the Hannula’s but has
not been returned.
A card table license as an ad
junct of the E & B Cleaners estab
lishment was approved by the vote
of council after consulting t h e
police chief.
Councilman Atkins was authoriz
ed to arrange for a flood light for
convenience of the fire depart
ment when working on equipment
in the parking lot and on the truck
garage apron.
Permission was given the com
munity ambulance special equip
ment committee to replace shock
absorbers on the ambulance pro
vided use of the vehicle is not in
terrupted for any considerable
time.
Regular payment of bills con
cluded the business and the meet
ing stood adjourned at 9 p.m. The
next meeting will be January 15.
Petitions for
Recall Ballot
Ruled Out
Oregon’s attorney general, Robert
Y. Thornton, has ruled the petitions
presently being circulated for the re
call of members of the Columbia
county court to be invalid, accord
ing to an opinion delivered to the
Columbia county district attorney,
Donald Kalberer Tuesday of this
week.
The basis for the ruling of the
attorney general is a technicality
concerning the filing of the petitions.
The instigators of the recall, a
group called the Citizens for Econo
my in County Government, had fil
ed the preliminary statement of
merr4>ership, contributions and ex
penses on November 27 and the re
call petitions on December 6. Ac
cording to Thornton, the law requires
that both documents be filed at the
same time.
If the recall attempt is to be con
tinued, the processes will have to
be started over, according to the
present opinion.
Local Golfers
Enter Tourney
The Sunset Grove golfers hosted
the Round Robin Tournament play
ed December 31 at the Sunset
Grove course. Seventy-two players
participated from Orenco, Vernon
ia, Rock Creek and Sunset Grove
clubs.
Team scores were: Sunset Grove
428, Orenco 436, Rock Creek 440
and Vernonia 465. The best Vernon
ia low net scores were Joe Magoff.
76; Orval Clausen, 76; Walter
Berg, 77; Bill Horn, 77; Dan Flet
cher, 79; and Dave Knowlton, 80.
The best round of scores will be
tabulated at the end of play of the
next tournament which is to b e
hosted by Orenco January 14. The
total points by team for the first
three tournaments are Rock Creek.
1306; Sunset Grove, 1351; Vernon
ia, ¿364; and Orenco, 1372.
Loggers Capture Tourney Trophy In Championship Game
The Vernonia Loggers made a
clean sweep of their Holiday Tour
ney by downing Gladstone 73 to
39 in the first round, anti then, in
a cliff-hanger, nosed out Scappoose
60-59 for the championship.
The first evening the Loggers
used a full court press to over
whelm the Gladiators. With the
Loggers leading 25 to 5 at the end
of the first period, Coach Kron
miller substituted freely, and all
twelve squad members made the
scoring column.
Goeff Proehl and Rod Aldrich
collected 17 and 14 rebounds, res
pectively, while Steve Hanson add
ed another 11. The defensive play
of the Loggers was tremendous
as they did not allow Gladstone
a field goal until the middle of
the second quarter.
Scoring was as follows: Steve
Hanson, 16; Larry Elton, 12; Paul
Nelson, 12; Rod Aldrich, 7; Geoff
Proehl, 5; Randy Larson, 5; Pete
Brunsman, 4; Steve Curl, 4; Don
King, 4; Chris Smith, 2; G a r y
Davis and Randy Nightwine, one
each.
On the second evening Vernonia
again went to its full court press
and tough man-to-man defense to
nose out the Scappoose Indians in
one of the most thrilling games
this season.
With Larry Elton’s fine b a l l
handling and the sharp shooting
of Chris Smith, Gary Davis, and
Steve Hanson, the Vernonia quint
moved to a 16-10 first quarter lead.
Midway through the second qua
rter Vernonia had extended i t s
lead to 24-12, but then the Loggers
went cold and scored only f o u r
points during the next four min-
utes.
During this time Scappoose be
gan to hit from the head of t h e
key and roared back to trail only
25-28 at half time.
From this point on it was any
one’s game with Vernonia never
behind but never ahead by more
than five points. Scappoose h a d
a chance to win the ball g a m e ,
when Pete Brunsman missed a
free throw with six seconds re
maining.
Ron Winterfield rebounded and
called time out. Mike Hoag took
the ball out of bounds and passed
to Ron Winterfield, who missed a
six foot jump shot as the final buz
zer sounded.
Coach Kronmiller stated that
his entire squad did a great job,
but that Chris Smith played his
finest game this season Chris col-
lected 18 rebounds, several o f
which were clutch grabs in the
final period.
The taggers out rebounded Scap
poose 62 to 41. Other taggers, who
rebounded in double figures were
Gary Davis and Steve Hanson with
12 each and Pete Brunsman with
11.
Vernonia had their best game
of the year from the field by con
necting on 26 of 61 attempts for a
42.6 percent effort.
Scoring against the Indian con
tingent was led by Chris Smith,
who hit 10 from the floor for 20
points. He was followed by Steve
Hanson with 14; Gary Davis, 11;
Larry Elton, 8; Pete Brunsman,
3; Paul Nelson, 2; and Randy Lar
son, 2.
High point man for the Indians
and the game was Donn Pollard
of Scappoose.