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Senior Citizen News - - - Report, Program DCE Workshop 0” Agenda To Aid Women The Senior Citizens could use Vernonia Study Club met at the more newspapers Anyone who has home of Mrs Owen East January 4 any, please call 429 3912, and they Mrs Ralph Reynolds reported on will be picked up the food baskets delivered prior to The library at the center has kept Christmas to various families The many folks reading during the cold group worked closely with other days organizations and churches to de Transportation was at a standstill liver baskets of food and toys to during December but several trips families needing some assistance at are scheduled for later this month this time of year Paper rollers are always busy Mrs. Ralph Reynolds gave the Arts and Crafts and the Flea program on Dr Mary Calderone, Market are doing quite well regard who is a controversial figue in the less of cold weather area of sex education in the school Bible study, and children's Happy system Hour bible Club will continue now The next meeting will be Febru that school vacation is over ary 1 at the home of Mrs Bill Horn January 18, Wednesday, a car load of Senior Citizens will take a trip to Salem A legislative program is being held there The next social potluck will be held at the center January 19, F r i day, at 12:30 p m Entertainment The Vernonia Extension Study will be provid«*d after lunch Group next will meet Thursday Come in. browse and get ac January 18, 10:30 a m . at the West quainted. the Seniors invite. Oregon Electric building A lesson on wigs will be given by Mrs Janet Norniand and Mrs Teresa Jones The ladies will be prepared to answer questions re Clayton J Gardner, state water- garding care and use of wigs A potluck lunch will be served at master. is at room 308, Columbia County Courthouse, the third Wed noon. All ladies of the community nesday of each month from 10 a m. are welcome to attend until 3 p m to answer any questions THIS LAND pertaining to water rights Is 5 our Land • His next visit will be January 17. Which Wig?' Lesson Set for Unit Study January 17 Next Visit By State Watermaster KEEP IT 4 LEAN EMERGENCY SERVICE PHONES VERNONIA AMBULANCE Dial 428-M1I (If mi answer. <28-5061) VERNONIA FIRE DEPARTMENT Fire Alarms Only - Phone 428>8131 VERNONIA POLICE DEPARTMENT Dial 429-5141 (If no answer. 428-5812 or 428-7881.) la Emergency ■ Call 84. Helens » 7 -8 8 » far central COLUMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF Phone: St. Helens 887-2511 OREGON STATE POLICE 8 a m. »• 8 a.m . . West Slope office - Dial P o r tla n d ___ 8 a.m. to 8 a.m. - Dial “O” . ask far Oak Grove (54-4555 St. Helens office • Phone: 887-3131 To assist women who are looking for a "next stop, ’ whether that means going back to school, en tering the labor market, developing a plan for personal enrichment, Women’s Programs of the Division of Continuing Education will pre sent a series of six sessions entitled Search and Discovery: New Direc tions for Women. Topics to be covered include ex ploration of alternatives open to women, small group discussions with other women having similar concerns, testing, decision making skills, and workshop will culminate with an individual planning session Sessions will be held on Wed nesday mornings. 9 a m. to 12 noon, beginning January 31. in Room 26L Division of Continuing Education Building. 1633 S.W. Park Avenue, Portland 'Additional information may be obtained by calling Wo men’s Programs, 229-4849 Slides. Talk On M R P Bill Colored slides and a talk on the Holy Land by the Reverend Arthur Hoenish of Portland will feature the January session of Columbia Coun ty Chapter 499, American Asso ciation of Retired Persons The meeting will be held in Shrine Hall, St. Helens, Tuesday, January 16 beginning at 1:30 p.m. Tlie Rev. Hoenish is presently engaged in evangelistic work with young people in Portland. A year ago he made a trip to the Holy Land, Egypt. Israel and adjoining coun tries. He took many excellent pic tures and had some very interesting experiences which he will relate During the business session, elec tion of officers for the next two years will be held These will include a first vice-president, sec retary, treasurer and a trustee. Installation will take place im mediately after the election. Plans will be announced for a bus trip February 27 to Salem to visit a session of the state legislature We I Deliver, AT LOW COST! ~ IM SCÀtiîoOM PM. 543-6333 ELECTRIC WATER HEATER $5999 Left Hand Only GRADE B BATH TUBS 5-Foot Compare Quality and Price Beverly Brand CAST IRON PIPEi No Hob DO IT YOURSELF WOOD GRAIN Antique Kits Rag. _ ...._ $ 3 .9 9 $5.99 Check our Price of 4- Inch ABS schedule 4 0 Plastic Sewer Pipe for your hook-up. — ClOM-OutS STORE HOURS Temporary’ Tax Oernonia Caqfe THURSDAY, JAN 11, m > To Be Reduced Benefit Section A “temporary" wartime tax on telephone service that began in the 1940’s as an emergency measure is Checks Frauds finally on its way out. G AVEL IS passed frem outgoing Incoming officer at Monday eveeisg Commerce session. Officers, from let, tary Evelyn Heath, oatgoing president Loa nett. Incoming p r a y Tam Tomlin, board Ham- Dave are Peggy Jack Seeley aad The alligator's chief weapon is his tail, which is so large that it can be curved around to reach his great mouth. Our Special” Children (Third in series of eight I not as smart as he, learning, yet there is no avenue that opens the printed symbol to him. It remains a mystery. If dad were to suddenly discover his sports page printed in Chinese, or mom found her recipe book w rit ten in Russian, neither would be more bewildered or unhappy than the child who suffers from a severe reading disability. Without the basic reading skills so necessary in life, he finds he cannot spell, write, do arithmetic when it comes to written problems, nor can he engage in many things so dear to the heart of a child. How can he read his Scout book? Directions to classes? Even a comic book” If he grows up, passed from class to class, until in sheer misery, he drops out, he finds he can’t get a job because too often such a simple task as filling out an application is beyond him. Even the service may turn him down simply because he cannot read. Life isn’t easier for the parent of a child who suffers from a reading disability problem Once they re cognize that the child—for some reason—can’t read, they too suffer disillusionment, frustration and an ger, as they struggle to understand The Special Reading Program: Today, the United States has one of the finest reading programs ever developed for elementary students but, unfortunately, it has its weak nesses. Too many schools still treat all children as if they were p ri m arily visual learners They do not take into account those who are more auditory oriented or those who learn more by the kinesthetic method. To continue to leave this area un recognized seems gross negligence yet it is hardly possible that all teachers will receive the benefits of reading programs designed to teach by other than visual learning pro cesses. There is also the unknown factor—the highly professional edu cators—the school administrators. They are the most organized, the most versatile of all educators yet too few have more than a few hours in one or two reading courses while in college Tragically, this can lead to examples such as the adminis trator who assigned 72 remedial readers to one teacher per half day session; or the principal who said. “If they haven't learned to read by the fourth grade, chances are they ’ll never learn so why waste the time and money on them.-” Evident ly, none of those children were his. A good educator understands that reading is too important to every phase of living to leave its teaching I to chance. In Vernonia, the students U.S. Bancorp, parent corporation are lucky to have a school adminis of United States National Bank of tration which recognizes the fact Oregon, reports consolidated in that some children will have prob come before security gains and ex lems in reading—normal, average traordinary charges for the year everyday children who just don't ending December 31, 1972, of $16,- learn. 664,395, or $4.11 per share, com Because of this understanding, pared to $14,539,759, or $3.59 per Washington Grade School is equip share for 1971, according to LeRoy ped with a special reading room, B Staver, chairman of the board and a special reading teacher, to and president. The increase re aid these children in taking their presents a gain of 14 48 per cent place among their peers. over 1971 on a per-share basis. The Special Reading Room at U.S. Bancorp’s net income after Washington Grade School is a security gains and extraordinary cheerful room, with light green charges was $16,421,419, or $4 05 per walls, gaily decorated with posters share, compared with $14,956,869, and drawings; one wall filled with or $3.69 per share for 1971. The windows to let in the outside world, extraordinary charge, Staver not while against the opposite wall are ed, consisted of the net after-tax individual booths where a child may writeoff of the depreciated book study and learn privately. value of buildings razed to clear the A relaxed atmosphere, the large site for the bank's new headquar round table unlike standard school ters building development. desks, and an abundance of books The average number of shares create a soothing counterpoint to outstanding was 4,050,257 for both the child who may be frightened the periods first few times he finds himself The Banks and Vernonia branch entering this new and strange es of U.S. National, on December world, where he is to learn to read 31, 1972, reported combined de For the special reading class posits of $6.251,119.68, according to there must be a teacher She is Miss Ron H. Rexroad, manager of the Patricia Wise, graduate of Pacific Vernonia branch. He also reported University at Forest Grove, with a combined loan total of $1,176,801 - special training in the field of read 20 ing disabilities through Portland State University. Miss Wise is employed through Title I funds provided by the federal government as are the aides at Lincoln and Mist schools. The materials for her special reading program are also paid through this funding. As a good remedial teacher she seeks to reinforce the child’s image of himself, to show him that he is not alone with his problem, and that she understands that, although he wants to read, he just can’t find the key to unlock the words She is there to help him, and slowly, through individual attention, devices such as flash cards, Skill Tapes, the language Master, and many small successes where failure waited before, he begins to find the way Not all children can be helped, of course There are still many areas as yet unexplored-but the vast majority can attain basic skills which will enable them to take their Dlace according to their mental age Every child enters school with the idea already im planted-he will learn to read He has seen other children go to school and return, having learned to read; his parents expected him to learn, so did his teacher, yet he could not Why? He doesn't know! There can be nothing more frus trating to a child of normal, or better, intelligence than to discover he cannot learn to read All around him he sees other children, many a problem they never new; the years of conferences as teacher after teacher, says "your child just will not learn. He doesn’t try .” They talk to the child, drag him to psychologists, doctors, etc., only to hear that they have a child—nor mal, healthy, average, intelli gent—that can’t read. Then, perhaps comes the day when he becomes a disruptive in fluence in the classroom and the phone rings, letters come home, "Your child is a behavior problem. Do something.” It is at this point that a special reading program comes into its own. A teacher, trained to recognize the locked-up intelligence, the frus tration, learns his interests, his dreams and she helps. Her methods may vary—there are several—but she reinforces his ego as she teaches him from high interest-low level books—books that do not em barrass him with babyish titles suitable for first or second grade but, with stories written on subjects he knows in words he can master. And one day, as each small success builds toward its end, he discovers, with the same eagerness that the small boy grown tall once had, he can read. COMMERCIAL Oernonia £agfc r Fraud in connection with Un employment Insurance claims in Oregon during the fourth quarter of 1972 brought recommendation for prosecution of 20 new cases, bring ing total number of cases to 83, the Benefits Section, Employment D ivi sion has reported Twenty-two cas es were completed, leaving 41 cases pending The ratio of fraud cases to the total number of claims filed was a fraction of one percent due to the constant vigilance of local office personnel, tax auditors and benefit section fraud investigators, they state. During the fourth quarter there was one conviction each in Umatilla County, Douglas County, Coos County. Jackson County and in the State of Nevada; four convictions in Marion County; four convictions and three dismissals in Multnomah County; one conviction and one dis missal in Linn County; two convic tions in Washington County and one conviction and one dismissal in Clackamas County. The courts ordered restitution in 14 cases; imposed fines in eight cases of $25 to $210; set pro bationary periods from six months to two years in 14 cases; imposed sentences from 10 days to two years; suspended in nine cases and imposed no sentences. A total of 122 determinations were written in which 1,939 calendar weeks of unemployment benefits were disqualified for willful fa Iso statements or misrepresentation. A total of $33,343 was recovered in overpayments in unemployment insurance benefits. ALICE'S TIMBERNOOK - New Bund Saturday Open Daily — 5:30 aun. to 2:30 aun. 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VERNONIA Moedays 7 :N pun. - Starting Jaauary 28 in state Avenue O TH ER CLASSES IN A LL AREAS OP OREGON SO UTHERN WASHINGTON Jota any Class A lortfcer la fm a atfa e caN collect Portland It was a girl for M r and Mrs. Thomas Chavez. The baby, born at home January 8, weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounce, and has been named Chizuko Wild Flower. Grandparents are M r and Mrs. Ethor S. Chavez of Los Angeles, California, and M r and Mrs Don ald M Barrusof Endfield, Connec ticut! Weekdays or write BS8 N . E . Sandy Bird., Psrtiaad, Oregon 87213 & WEIGHT® WATCHERS. Atlas Batteries Just don’t know what season it i IT PAYS TO READ THE ADS! P H E PINE tONE^i I | | 7:30 A .M . to 6 P.M . Daily Sundays 10 A .M . to 4 P.M . General Telephone customers should notice slight reduction in' telephone bills, according to a company spokesman He said the ten percent federal excise tax paid on all local and long distance calls has been reduced to nine percent The reduction was effective Janu ary 1, 1973. The reduction will continue at the rate of one percent per year until the tax is completely erased in December, 1982 The tax, which is collected by the company for the government and which only applies to telephone uti lities, is a holdover from World War II. Telephone companies have long opposed the tax, since it is felt that the tax discriminated against peo ple who have telephone service. The reduction is a result of the federal excise, estate and gift tax adjustment of 1970. | NOW OPEN DAILY 5 AJVL to 8 P M D A IL Y S P E C IA L S TURKEY DINNER SPECIAL ON SUNDAYS | A j And they don't care. Their full size plates hold power in during cold morning starts. And their heat proof case helps keep that power there during hot summer driving. The Atlas is a battery for all seasons. That's why we're proud to offer it to you. I Chevron Car Care Service RALPH'S CHEVRON * Phone 429-6691 ■ t M l " A ll» ..- U S. P»l 0 « . M l» S .W I, I
