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öc meni a Eagle - - - THE timberline I THURSDAY. MARCH 1. 1973 31st Place In Seaside Race COMPILED BY THE VERNONIA HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM CLASS Second Place In VHS Gym Still Uncertain W ith the predictions from last week only 60 percent accurate, dropped the season's average from 83 Io 75 percent Incorrect pre dictions for last week were Portland Christian at Corbett (Portland Christian beat Corbett by a score of 64 to 58», Vernonia at Concordia lAitheran. (Vernonia Io6t this im portant game. 49 to 50). Other results for league games noted home team Knappa beating Catlin by a big score of 65 to 46 Knappa had another easy victory- beating P C. 71 to 50 and Concordia wrapped up first place by heating Warrenton. 60 to S3 The predictions made Monday will not he out in tim e for the V e r nonia-Catlin game, and the big one between W arrenton and Knappa These two games were changed to Wednesday because if Warrenton beats Knappa there would be a three-way tie for second place, and Friday and Saturday are the days set aside for the play of games For the only F rid a y game, the new league champions Concordia Lutheran w ill be the heavy favonte over Portland Christian; the game will be played at Concordia V e r nonia. playing at Catlin, should have an easy game and beat the unvictorious Catlin team W arren ton. playing Knappa in one of the league's most important ana exciting games this year, and W a r renton who seems to always be able to gel super-psvehed when playing Knappa. is the favonte. The VHS annual Popcorn Concert was held in the high school gym nasium Tuesday. F eb ru ary 20. di reeled bv W ard Nelson < M a M O T M o s M M M m a M M e o o e M s a e M a e i« e iM iM M m o c a M M M M m M M c « a M im M a o K The gym was brightly decorated with stream ers and helium -filled balloons White paper tablecloths covered the tables The gym was decorated by the students p artici pating in the program The eighth grade* home economic students served popcorn, punch, and coffee to the audience The high school band, high school chorus, and advanced grade school band perform ed at the concert There are 27 people in the Wash ington Grade School hand They pertorm ed “ Soul Trum pets ’ fe a tu r ing the seven trum pet players; “ Yellow Rose of T exas.” “ Close to Y o u ." and “ Black and White ” The VHS 37-piece band perform ed the popular piece. “ Highlights from Jesus Christ S uperstar,” "Blue F an tasv," and "C o I o u r M v W orld." Then Don K ahler, VHS A g ri culture teacher, played a lively melody on the piano. After K ahler had entertained the audience Nelson announced the winners of the door prizes Mrs Orlean Smith won a big sound band album . Jim Smiley won two free tickets to enter the Nehalem R iver race, and Carlene W arburton won a moody blues album There was an old-fashioned "sing along." directed by Nelson The wards Io the songs w ere printed in the programs and the audience joined in with the chorus in singing "A ura L ee." “ C lem entine.” and “ G randfather's Clock.” Then the band fimslied with "Beatles M ed ley." and a popular m arch, “ Circus D a ys ." The 45 voices of the VHS chorus sang six songs. “ M an and His W orld ." “ One Tin Soldier." “ Let Us Rejoice T od ay.” “ Hava N a g ila ." “Thank You Very M u ch ," and ended the program with “ Battle Hym n of the Republic “ Sophomore Pat Curl placed 31st in the fourth annual Trails End Marathon in Seaside last Saturday. February 24 This was Pat's first m arathon since lie is only a sophomore in high school With some 535 entries from all over the country. P at's 31st place has to be considered very excellent Most of the entrants had run a marathon before. The Trails End M arathon is the second largest marathon in the I'rrttod States, second only to the Boston Marathon There w ere more entrants this year than in previous Jnd said he felt good and strong aO ecfive miles, but after eight he d^teiotM-d cramps in his side At the I »♦-m ile m ark he said he still felt g a d and after about 22 miles his e a r g y dropped and his legs felt riA>ber> After he finished he said i>$ legs were very tired and sore. (>♦ he felt okay. P at finished the 26-mile. 385 yard rare in two hours. 41 minutes, and cijtlit seconds, which was about 21 nfnutes behind the winner. Pat taut several college students and otfcer runners who have been run- iiihg for a few more vears than he. aijri received a Trails End M a ra - i I n ii , T-shirt and medal from the AAU (Am ateur Athletic Union» which was a big honor When asked if he w ill enter the ra te again. Pat responded w ith a very definite "yes.” and he hopes and wishes that more people from Vernonia would enter When asked what he thought of the race. Pat sa id . " I liked it. It is my favon te race, besides the pain involved It's a good challenge for anybody Pat wants to thank the people Irani Vernonia who were yelling and cheering him on “They really iiehx ‘d me keep going.“ Pal said. The other Vernonia entrant in the race was Biology teacher. M elvin Nice, who had some problems with leg and side cramps and came in ,l55fh Nice said that he didn't train weft enough for the race and that '¡ns was the cause of the cramps. However, credit must go to anyone who even finishes the 26 m ile s ' Concert Held VERNONIA HIGH tnatmen closed out their season—with the exception at W -p o u d Robby Hanson, who qualified for state—at the district wrestling meet held at Corbett Sa turday. C o a c h M i k e Taylor’s charges attained the best record ever pasted by a VHS wrestling squad-7 wins. 11 losses for the sea son; 3 wins, four looses in league. Matmen Close With 46=33 Win The Vernonia m atm en played host to the Concordia Lutheran grapplers Wednesday. February 21. and sent them home with a v e n decisive 46 to 33 defeat Seven V H S matm en had victor ies. two by pin. one by decision and four by forfeits. B ill Rhoades and Loy Moore won by pins Danny McLean won by decision. 14 to 4 Robbie Hanson. Bob W'arburton. Jim King and Bill Price won by forfeits. Losing m atm en for Vernonia were Jeff Reck. M ike Johnson. G ayle Slaughter. M arty Koch and Don Knight Both Vernonia and Concordia forfeited at 191. Vernonia closed both its season 1 - < V and league w restlin g matches with L a s t F riday, a pep assembly was ibis m e e t. with the season record at iiefe before The Concot-dia Lutheran seven wins and eleven losses The VOrnonia game, in the VHS gym league record was three wins and The feature event of the assembly four losses. w as w hen M ike M cKee paid tribute The VHS wrestling team is losing io the Varsity players He and his only three senior w restlers this third period Physical Science class season, so next year's team is made up pictures from the Varsity- expected to be pretty decent The squads’ names to demonstrate their seniors are M arty Koch. Jeffrey basketball ab ility. Reck and Bill Rhoades Some of the names were quite humorous, while some of them were a little bit embarrassing {or the players For exam ple. Gordy Crow- sto p 's name had a little red-faced boy painted in the “ O ” and a Last Thursday night. February tiaakwards ' Y " out on the end of his 22 the prom comm ittee met to start na^e Another name was Ole B e ^ e rs o n s : which was put in a getting the Annua! Spring Prom un lieer bottle with a basketball going derway. The colors for this year are pink, in 0ie top of the bottle The funniest one was that of yellow and blue, both in bright an Coach Curtis, his was a big “C ” pastel shades The colors are mainly chosen to represent spring with a lot of symbols coming out of tim e in April the mou»K The date was argued about, but The pep assembly was quite finally a set date was chosen It is to a ¡success with this little added be April 28 attraction. Smith 1$ Playing As The Only Junior Pep Assembly Banks Defeats Big Success Young Loggers Colon Chosen For Annual Spring Prom ‘ N O T IC E * Personal Property Tax Return Due MARCH 3 ,1 9 7 3 The PENALTY for late filing (After March 3) of personal property returns shall be $1 for each $1000 (or fraction) of true cash value, but not less than $10 or more than $250. (ORS 308.295) We. therefore, urge you to file EARLY so that it w ill not be overlooked. ALL personal property must be reported on Form No. 1 or Form No. 2 not later than March 3rd. If you have not received a form, please drop us a card or letter stating the kind of personal property and we will mail you the proper form. DO ROT REPORT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE OR LICENSED VEHICLES FRANK H. LeMONT County Assessor The Freshm an squad dropped th eir fourth game of the season and their third gam e to Banks Monday night at Banks Led by the scoring of Schmidlin and Evers. Banks pulled ahead slowly in the fourth quarter to take a 66-59 victory from the Vernonia Loggers In the first stanza it was a seesaw battle with the score ending in a ten to ten deadlock In the second quarter both teams explod ed with high scoring as Banks outscored the local Logger bunch. 2D-18. to take a 30-28 half tim e lead Schmidlin of Banks led all scorers at halftim e with 12 points The local team was led by Bob Black with ten and Randy Ellson with eight points. In the third quarter the scoring slowed considerably and it was a defensive battle as Banks stayed on top of the local team by two points The score at the third stop was Banks 44 and Vernonia 41. In the fourth quarter Vernonia put themselves in foul trouble and had to play conservative ball throughout the rest of the game. Randy Ellson and Bob Black finish ed the gam e with four fouls, and Kris Crowston fouled out Schmidlin led the charge in the fourth quarter as they outscored the Loggers team . 21-18. The final score was Banks. 66. Vernonia 59. Schmidlin of Banks led all scorers with 24 points F o r Vernonia it was Randy Ellson with 19 Other scoring is as follows: Bob Black 13. Bob Brooks 12. Ron Gardner with 8. Randy Parrow added 4. and Crow ston threw in 2. Holsey Plays TV and Varsity Clinton Ray Holsey. a five foot- eleven inch. 16(1 lb . 15-year-old VHS sophomore, is a m em ber of the 1972-73 VHS Varsity basketball team Clint is in his fourth year of bas ketball. starting in the seventh grade Clint, like Gordy Crowston. is in his first year of varsity play, hu» unlike Gordy. Clint has played mostly on the JV team this season He plays the JV game, then dresses down for the varsity gam e Clint sees very lim ited action for the varsity, as he can only play five quarters of ball a night, and he usually plays in all of the JV 's four quarters of ball During non league action Clint scored three points for a point per game average of three and made one of two freethrows Through ten league games he has scored two points in five games for an average of 4 and has shot zero of two tree- throws Coach C urtis’ comment on Clint was “ Clint is the scoring punch of the Jayvee's. and has had little ex posure at the varsity level He has demonstrated on numerous occa sions his basketball knowhow and desire Potential starter next year and the year following “ iM Q O M Q O O M M M X M O O M ttttx LOGGER'S LOG Thursday. M arch 1-Northwest L e a gue meeting. 5:30 p.m. Frosh Basketball. Gaston at V e r n on ia, 6:30 p.m G AA basketball. VHS at W a r renton, 7 p.m F rid a y , M arch 2-State W restling meet at OSU T e n ta tiv e N o rth w e s t L eag u e Plavoff ¡In case of second place (tie» Väristy Basketball rescheduled to Wednesday, F eb ru ary 28 Saturday. M arch 3-Tentative N o rth west league tie playoff State W restling finals at OSU Monday . M arch 5-GAA Basketball Sem i-Finals at Jewell Tuesday. M arch 6-Regional Basket ball Tourney Wednesday, M arch 7-GAA Basket ball finals at Jewell Thursday. M arch 8-School Boa re Meeting. 8 p.m . M ike Smith, playing as a center this year on the varsity basketball team , is the only Junior on the team This is M ike's fifth year playing basketball, his second on varsity. He is a 6*3", 18U pound center, and is the only Junior on the team out of eight Seniors and two Sophomores M ike's only comment was, “ I don’t feel I'm rebounding well enough.” The coach had a few more things to say about M ike “ M ike has made a great deal of improvement in all phases of his game, most important he has increased his self-confi dence M ike works the baseline better than anyone in the league, which compliments our outside game An added plus is that M ike has not discovered girls or they haven’t discovered him . whichever That is good Graduale of VHS Aboard Submarine L a rry Klein, a 69 graduate of VHS. visited the school last week along with a friend. Kevin Turner of Burbank. California, while home on leave from the Navy. L a rrv and Kevin are both aboard the USS James K Polk. SSBN 645 (Submersible Ship Ballistic N ucl ear». and are in the blue crew. The submarine has two crews, a blue and a gold crew each con taining 125 men While one crew is out to sea for three months tl»e other crew has one month of R 4 R (Rest and Recreation i and two months of schooling, then it’s back out to sea when the sub comes into port When the »uom anne comes in, it is docked in Spain and the men are flown to the U.S. L a rry and Kevin left F rid ay. F eb ruary 23. for Charleston. South C ar olina where they will begin their two months of schooling Loggerelles Slaughter Bluejays 55-13 Once again the GAA basketball team the l-oggerettes. demonstrat ed their keen eye for the basket by- defeating the Jewell Bluejays. 55- 13. Thursday, February 22 The Loggerettes led’ throughout the game on the Bluejay's court. At the half. VHS's eight-woman team led 28-6 High point scorer for VHS was D arla Norm and with 15; followed by Sandy Tupper with 14. Penny Ham ilton pumped in 8; Carol Evans. 7; Sheryl Ray. 6: Marsha Sturdevant, 3. and M argie Tronson. 2. Jewell b lu ejay's top scorers for the mghl were W McGlothen with 6; D Olstedt. J Morgan. C Reison, two apiece, and S Kinkes with 1 VHS girls team made five out of 23 tries at the freethrow line and com m itted 14 fouls while Jewell had fouled 18 times * w Down Bluejays RICK DAVIS runs Into traffic in the form of a pair of Bluejay defenders in Friday night action at Concordia. The J ays closed the Loggers out by one polni Daria hit IS far the evening. Loggers Lose Heartbreaker To Bluejays The Vernonia Loggers, after com ing back from a 12-point deficit early in the second quarter, lost their fourth league gam e of the season when the hosting Concordia Lutheran Bluejays held on for the last half of the gam e to down the Loggers 50 to 49 Concordia’s Harrison opened the first period by hitting four cons? cutive field goals Tight defenses prevented any big scoring as the quarter ended with the Jays holding on to a 14-7 lead Concordia continued their hot streak into the second quarter After the Jays extended their lead to 12 points, the Loggers began to fight back with a pair of E a rl Abercrom bie free throws and a stolen lay-in by Rob Hahm eyer The first half buzzer sounded with Con cordia in a narrowed lead of 29 to 25 VHS Ftarted on the comeback tra il in the second half by slowly catching up With the score tied. E a rl Abercrom bie hit from the corner to give Vernonia the lead for the first tim e in the game However, quick shooting by the Bluejays gave them back the lead at the end of the period Concordia seemed to go cold in the last q uarter as most of their shots fell short of the rim . Junior M ike Smith kept VHS in the gam e with some strong offensive re bounding With tim e running out. the Jays tried to put into effect their press, but a steal by Rick Davis with 26 seconds left put Vernonia fans on their feet. After running the clock to a scant 13 seconds. VHS called tim e out. Coach Curtis' orders were to take one shot With six seconds left in the gam e. Rick Davis took the shot that could have given the Loggers the lead, but the ball fell short. The ball was rebounded by M ike Smith and a Concordia player, a jum p was called, and all hopes faded of taking home the win The " le a rje rk e r" gam e came to an end with Concordia on top, 50 to 49 Leading all Vernonia scorers was Rick Davis with 13 points E a rl Abercrombie followed with 12. Other scorers were M ike Smith, seven; Keith G ardner, six; Rob Hahm eyer and Gordy Crowston. four each; M ickey Borst, two. and Ole Bergerson with one point Top rebounder for VHS was M ike Smith with eight Top guns for Concordia were Harrison and Dressier Each con nected for 12 points 1970 Clan Picturei Finally To Hang In Hall t A X * '•s*. , T IM TITUS «Mo Logger JV effort la wta over joys, « - M . oe the locale record to lk-t Vernonia JV's Anyone who has walked down the halls of VHS probably has noticed that the 1970 class pictures are missing Bruno Studios, who takes the senior pictures and sends the class pictures, has misplaced the Class of '70. They told A rthur F arro w that they had found them and then told him that they loot them again. It has been three years now and the school still hasn’t received the pictures. F arrow cam e up with the idea that the Vernonia Eagle might have the pictures from the annual senior page in the paper Thanks to the Vernonia Eagle and the quick thinking of P arro w . the Class of 1970 w ill finally hang in the halls of VHS Student Council M in u te s --- The Student Council meeting was called to order on February 21. and the minutes were read and approv ed A suggestion was made to paint the suggestion box. This w ill be taken into consideration and discus sed again at the next week's m eet ing The Council then discussed how to encourage the band members to play at away games when we have Iteen granted the permission from our hosts to bring the band P rin cipal A rthur Parrow explained that all fees w ill be paid for the band members because if can be titled as a field trip The meeting was then adjourned Respectfully submitted, Kelly Nance Studentbodv Secretary F riday, February 23. the VHS JV's traveled to Portland to take on the Concordia Lutheian Bluejays and the Loggers came out on top with a 48 to 36 victory to raise their league record to J0-1. Vernonia, behind a well-balanced scoring attack took a quick lead and never let up as they jumped out to a 15 to 6 lead at the end of the first quarter After an evenly played second quarter, the Loggers went to the dressing room with a 25 to 16 lead The third quarter pace was slow, as neither team was able to muster much scoring punch Each team scored eight points in the third quarter, as Vernonia led by nine, 33 to 24 The Loggers outscored Concordia in the final period to bring home a 48 to 36 victory. The Loggers converted 8 of 14 attempts from the foul line, good for 57 percent. Scoring was as follows. Moisey 9. Kennedy 9. T iin ^ s Brqnsman 6. Collins 6, E llis 6. Allegre z /E n n e berg 2. Leading the scoring for Concordia was D erw in Dressier with 16 points M O N E Y S A V E R S FOR OUTDOOR SPO R TSM EN WHITE FLYER WINCHESTER CLAY BIRDS WILDCAT 22 SHELLS Reg. 89c Bx. BOX___ — Good Selection — WESTERN and WORK BOOTS Walk Into Those G reat Savings Today! ’/2 OFF! 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