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L ib ra ry U n iv e rs ity o f Oregon Eu.:«ne, Oregon Pond Project Gets Approval Of Commission At a meeting of the Oregon State Game Commission Thurs day of last week, approval was given to the Vernonia mill pond project. All that remained was concluding of lease agreements with the city before work could begin, according to A.V. Meyer, game commission representa tive who has been working on this matter. The game commission agreed to pay the city $200 per year for the lease, which will be used by the city to pay the taxes on the property. The city holds the lease agreement with Internaional Paper company. Don Holm, wildlife editor for the Oregonian, made mention of the pond approval in his col umn Monday and stated that it will probably be a bass and panfish show when stocked. Waltons Slate Films Tuesday A film entitled “The Forest and Woodland Manners” will be shown at the monthly meeting of the local chapter of the Izaak Walton League of Amer ica on January 16, this evening, at 8 p.m. at the West Oregon Electric building. The Izaak Walton League of America was organized in 1922 and is primarily interested in the preservation and conserva tion of all natural resources. All interested persons who have ideas on maintaining and ma king better use of natural re sources in this area are wel come to attend these meetings. Building Permits The Columbia county building department report for Decem ber, 1968, shows 16 permits is sued during that month for a valuation of $55,050. This brings the total for 1968 to 313 permits for construction outside incor porated cities with a total value of $1,563,827. In December there were five permits for new residences, bringing the year’s total to 79. Other permits in December were seven for plumbing, other than the five included with the new dwelling permits; one mis cellaneous, one for a residence addition, one for motel and trail er court and one for addition to a commercial building. Goodwill Truck Due The Goodwill truck will make its next visit to Vernonia Febru ary 19. Persons who have clo thing, household articles or use- able appliances and wish the truck to call for them may call the local representative, Mrs. Frank Lange, 429-3161. Ocrnonia Eagle VOLUME 47. NUMBER 3 VERNONIA, OREGON «7064 Two Acclaimed as Year's Citizens Acclaimed as Vernonia’s Citi zens of the Year at the cham ber of commerce dinner Mon day evening were Mrs. Mabel Graves and C.E. (Ed) Miller, bo*h of whom were recognized for their many years of ser vice, not merely things that were done during the past year. Mr. Miller was present at the dinner to receive his award, but Mrs. Graves had not been feel ing well and could not be in- veigeled into attending so Cham ber President Sam Hearing went to her home Tuesday mor ning to present her with her plaque, a corsage and the cen terpiece from the head table. Selection of citizens of the year were made on the basis of letters of nomination written in by local residents. When Mrs. Graves was in formed of her selection, she stated, through tears of sur prise and pleasure, “Vernonia is my home and I love it and everyone in it, but that doesn’t mean they have to love me” . Mrs. Graves has been a resi dent of Vernonia since 1925. She states that in the summer of 1924 when the mill started operation, her husband, Webb, came here to work. She was taking summer school work at Monmouth that year and had a contract to teach that winter at Mills City. Mr. Graves kept one of the boys, Morris, here with him that winter and Tom and Hale were with her. Mr. Graves and Morris joined the rest of the family on week ends, and the next summer, they all moved here to make their home. Mrs. Graves taught for a time in the Vernonia schools, then took a contract at the Rock Creek school where she taught nine years. Another three years was taught at Natal, two at Clatskanie, and a final 12 years in Vernonia where she retired in 1954. Mrs. Graves is active in the Evangelical church where she has served in many offices, in cluding Sunday School superin tendent; Mt. Heart Rebekah Lodge, Vernonia Grange and the Vernonia Action Group for which she is now chairman. Letters of nomination gave recognition of the many things Mrs. Graves does for others, assisting in illness, using her car to do errands and take others on errands, taking fruit- baskets to those who are ill and doing much to spread cheer. Mention was made of the times during her teaching career when she supplied clothing for child ren, and even kept it clean and in repair for them in cases (Continued on Prge 6) mittee to choose films and help set the project into action. Since good films are expensive there will have to be a small ad mission charge. The films will be chosen for their entertain ment value and wholesomeness. If attendance is good so the project can run on a break even financial basis it will be a continuing project. It was reported that Vernonia businessmen donated $204.50 to the PTA for Christmas candy for the school children. Ap preciation was expressed for their generosity. A committee is to be appoint ed by Mrs. George Mack Brown, PTA president, to sel ect a representative to the sta te PTA Congress. A book Fair report stated that a total of $503.29 worth of books were sold giving the PTA a pro fit of $85.83 on the project. It was voted at the November meeting to appoint a committee to choose books for the city library with the PTA profits. While the committee has not been completely formed those already chosen are: Mrs. Sam Hearing, Mrs. Maude Wells, Mrs. Bill Anderson, Mrs. Brail- lier, Mrs. Olivia Brickel and Mrs. George Mack Brown. In summing up problems created by the snow up to Wed nesday, uy I. Thomas, mana ger of West Oregon Electric, stated: “Thanks to the welcome help of our good neighbors, Portland General Electric Co. of Hills boro, City Light of McMinnville and the City Light of Forest Grove, West Oregon Electric Cooperative was able to re store electric service to its con sumers much sooner than if we had had to do it alone.” At that time he hoped to have most consumers back in service by VSP&SSRR Will Sponsor Trip MRS. MABEL GRAVES, named as woman of the year at the Cham ber of Commerce dinner Monday night, received her plaque the fol lowing day when Chamber President Sam Hearing went to her home to inform her of the honor and make the presentation. The Vernonia South Park and Sunset Steam Railroad, Inc. has announced sponsorship for a “Snowflake Limited” for Sun day, January 26. The train is scheduled to leave the Union station in Port land at 7:15 a.m., travel through Vancouver, Kelso, Chehalis and Centralia, and on to Cle Elum. Arrival time there will be 1:45 and it will stay there until 4:30 p.m. and passengers will dine, have time to look over the town and throw snowballs. The train will arrive back in Port land at 10:30 p.m. Reservations are now being taken for the trip and tickets are $17 for adults, $10 for child ren 5 through 11, and $5 for those under five. Tickets in clude the 486 mile trip on de luxe Northern Pacific stream lined train, with all seats re served, Sunday dinner at Cle Elum, box supper and enter tainment. Reservations are available at Northern Pacific Railway, 439 SW 6th Ave., Portland. Beaver Films Set Wednesday C. E. (Ed) MILLER, right, was named as citizen of the year Monday evening at Chamber of Commerce dinner and received plaque from Sam Hearing, chamber president. Loggers Seek Revenge Friday In North Catholic Encounter The Vernonia Loggers were handed their first Cowapa Lea gue loss of the season by the hot-shooting band of Clatskanie Tigers. The Tigers jumoed to a 19-6 first quarter lead and from Future Teachers Prepare Program of Information, Entertainment for PTA The executive board of the PTA met January 14, in the teachers’ lunch room at Wash ington grade school. A main point of interest of the meeting was a legislative bulletin. There is to be a legis lative workshop Monday, Janu ary 20 at the State Capitol in Salem. PTA members were in vited to attend this session. Car pools are being formed and those interested in attending should call either Mrs. Bill Harkson. 429-7974, or Mrs. Geo rge Mack Brown, 429-5631. This workshop promises to be ex tremely interesting as well as informative as it includes a tour of the capitol building, a legislative briefing, a bill hear ing and an address by Dr. Dale Parnell. The Community Action Team has invited a representative from PTA to sit on their coun cil. The executive board ap proved and the matter will be brought before the PTA next Monday night at the regular meeting. TTie matter of Saturday after noon films for children to be shown through the school was discussed. Mrs. Bill Harkson will be chairman of the com- THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1969 Storm Continues To A d d Problems For West Oregon The next regular PTA meet ing is Monday, January 20 at 8:00 n.m. in the Washington school gym. An interesting and informa tive program has been planned by the Future Teachers of Am erica club. There will be a short session on the place of future teachers in the com munity, a discussion on how teenagers feel about such con troversial issues as drugs and Viet Nam, an entertaining skit and a question and answer session. This program is pro duced by serious minded, re sponsible teenagers and should give parents and teachers a better understanding of teen agers and the problems they face. Everyone is reminded that a vote will be taken at this meet ing to decide whether or not to change the PTA meeting from the third Monday to the fourth Tuesday night of each month. Those interested should make a special effort to be present. There will be free babysitting in the kindergarten room. While arrangements have not been confirmed, the PTA hopes to have films for the older child ren. Refreshments will be ser ved at the end of the meeting. then on were never headed. From all indications it looked like the fourth ranked A-2 team in the state had come to show the pre-season league favorite Loggers that Clatskanie was the team to beat. The Tigers were red hot from the field and seared on 24 of 47 attempts for a fantastic 51 percent. They did equally well from the free throw line as they made 21 out of 36 for 57 percent. Late in the fourth quarter the Loggers narrowed the lead to seven points, but several men tai lapse on the part of the I-oggers gave the Tigers three easy baskets and from then on there was no doubt as to the outcome of the gam?. About the only place where the Loggers came out on top was in the rebounding depart ment where they lead 59 to 34 Steve Hanson did an excep tional job on the boards but fouled out midway through the fourth quarter and this certain ly hurt the Logger cause. This Friday evening the Log gers host the North Catholic Royals and this will be a league encounter. The Royals are 1 and 1 in league play and hold an earlier win over the loggers The Royals beat the Loggers 75 to 61 and this is the worst beating the Loggers have suffer ed this season The Loggers will be out to avenge this loss and also to improve their 21 league record. Probable starters for this game will be Steve Hanson, Don King, Paul Nelson, Tom Hicks, and Gary Davis or Keene Forney Wednesday, January 22 has been set as the date for the showing here of the World Ser ies movies, courtesy of the Port land Beavers. The dining room of the Pine Cone has been made available for that date by the new owners, Mary I-ou and Tiny Normand. The Beaver promotion man, Chief Foster, will show the films and will be aecompanied by Jerry Waring, new Beaver man ager, and Lou Klimchok, play er for several seasons. The Beavers are doing this to show appreciation for ticket sales by the local boys who have enga ged in it the past several years The showing is slated for 7:45 p.m. and all boys from the Little League and Babe Ruth teams, and those interested in playing next summer are es pecially invited. Ice cream and cookies will be served to the children, courtesy of the Bea vers. Fathers of the boys and other interested adults are invited, also. Hunter Safety Class Planned The Vernonia Hunter Safety Council is preparing for the start of another series of gun safety classes for youths, ages 10-18. Boys and girls, under the age of 18 years, going afiel« with rifle or shotgun are re quired to have in their posses sion a certificate of competency from the Oregon state game commission. Those interested in the class es may register at either Wash ington grade or Vernonia high school. Close of registration will be January 31, with classes to start in February. Persons wishing further in formation as to class schedul ing, requirements, etc., may- contact L.E. ‘Bud’ Atkins, coun cil chairman. His phone number is 429-5032, evenings. today, Thursday, but further storms present more problems. In some places of West Ore gon’s area served, the snow was more than four feet deep with drifts going much deeper. In many areas the four wheel drive trucks could not negotiate the snow and the crews went on with snow shoes. This slows down the work considerably. Thomas also stated that after weather conditions have return ed to normal, there will be a month’s work on the clean-up. "When a storm hits, tearing up lines, crews take emergency- measures to restore service. At a time such as this the im portant thing is to get the con sumers lights back on as soon as humanly possible. Most of our trouble was due to the. heavy ice and snow loading on wires, and trees causing them to fall. In some places good healthy trees 25 to 100 feet off the right-of-way fell through out lines breaking wires and poles,” Thomas continued. “ In the event of future serious storm damages such as this one we will again ask the kind co-operation of the major radio stations in the Portland area to keep our consumers informed as to the seriousness of the situation and our progress in the restoration of service,” he concluded. Snows Pile Up To Complicate Local Activity Wednesday, the weatherman doused hopes that winter might be on the way out by dumping some six inches of new white stuff in the downtown Vernonia area and more in hill areas. Wednesday noon, snow depth on Corey Hill was measured at three feet, two inches. Reports from other areas are that there was over five feet in the Bacona area, from three to four feet on Clatskanie mountain, and as of Wednesday morning, the West Oregon Electric received a re port of some ten inches of new snow in the Yamhill area. A power outage Wednesday morning lasted long enough that children were sent home from school. Some busses en countered difficulty in covering runs. The Mist bus failed to make it in and Jim Davies re ported pushing snow all the way- on the Timber route run. Turner Named On Committees Rep. Wayne Turner, D., Col umbia county, was named in Salem Monday to three com mittecs in the Oregon House of Representatives. He will serve in the 1969 session on the labor and management, highways, and fish and game committees. Rep. Jason Boe, house minority lead cr, said that Rep. Turner will serve as vice-chairman of the fish and game committee. “We’re certainly glad to have Wayne return to the House,” Boe added. “This will be his sixth regular session and all of us have come to rely on his sound judgement and hard work.” Pine Cone Reopens The Pine Cone owned Thurs day of last week under new management, that of Mary Ixm and Tiny Normand who have purchased the business from Randy and Barbara Wallner. The business was closed while renovation and painting was be ing done. More work is to be done and when it is completed, a grand opening is planned in February, probably near Valen tines Day, Mrs. Normand sta ted.
