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
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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.