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io « o x » x < « » x » x o x o x « .x « : Vernonia Eagle : T H U R S D A Y , M A Y M , lf7 3 IlL M O » , IM C ., LARR Y G A R N E R , I * M R L V IN SCHWAB, Tlie People Speak. . . T O P IC S O F T H E T O W N M r and M rs. Robert C ad w altad er R. RHOADES, TTS O F F IC IA L N R W SPA PRR Entered as second class m a il m atter August 4, 1822 und er the act oT M arc h 3, 1ST» Published weekly oc Thursday at W Madison Ave., Vernonia, Co- Mmbia County, Oregon 97064 and paid at the Vernonia Post Office aa ascend class m atter. «•90 P er Y e a r - In the Nehalem Valley $4.00 Per Y ea r Elsewhere O F F IC E H O U R S Ban., Tues., Wed., F ri.—S a.m . te 4 p.m. "hura. A Set.—I a.m . ta 12 m e n Pham 429-3377 To the Voters of School District 47J On June 5 you w ill be offered the second opportunity to vote on the Columbia County IE D Equalization Levy On May 7. this levy and the local bodge! were passed by a sub stantiai margin in this district For this, we thank you However, the IE D lost on a county wide basis Next Tuesday , the voters of the county w ill again vote on this issue and to be approved it must be approved on a county wide basts The Vernonia School District is a receiving school district and the taxpayers w ill have $168.000 00 deducted from the tax payments if the measure is approved county wide You can help bv voting "Y es' on Tuesday June 5 NO T VO TIN G or voting NO costs the T A X P A Y E R in this SCHOOL D IS T R IC T We urge vou to vote on June 5, 1973 Norm an Hansen Chairman School District 47J Bill Hom Chairman of Budget Com School District 47J High School June L 1973 THEATER Frw Sat. June 1-2 SHAMUS A note of interest With the high cost of living in the last five years, taxes the price of beef, and 5b cents a pound for lettuce m aybe you would like to know that with the present gas rationing, we are still selling gas for one cent per gallon less than we were in 1951. Bob Thompson MOTOR FR EIG H T, INC. Phone 429-3462 «250000 + $ 3 0 7 JM a mo. to join TODAYS ARMY Call today for more information 206-423-3090 [CHRYSLER GARY DAVIS Davis Tops at District Meet 440 N. Nehalem CLATSKANIE. QBE. Your Local Rep. ART LAMPING PH. 429-5671 G ary Davis, son of M r and Mrs Sam Davis of Vernonia, grabbed first place in the high jum p at the M ay 19 District I I track and field meet at Oregon College of Educa tion. Davis's leap of 6’5' helped OCE to a runaway over the ottier nine teams in the competition M ore than 100 points behind OCE's 227 W was Linfield with 118 and Southern Oregon College barely made three figures with | « t , . VETERANS SERVICE OFFICE ORBGON 397- ST M A K I'S Thrift Shop open first and third F rid a \ of every month 5(f'c V E R N O N IA M E M O R IA L rod a * fa m ily mcnthe was busy place ever past week- » decorate graves sf deceased e. l a addRisu te flowers. T A K E A SHOW ER W IT H A F R IE N D AN D OR P I T A BR ICK IN Y O U T O IL E T Putting a hrick tn the toilet tank isn’t a new idea Many people make adjustments or bend parts in the tank to conserve water With the talk and concern of this coming Geoffrey Proehl son of M r and su m m ers water scarcity, conser M rs D arrold Proehl. 1032 N ehalem , ving water in any way w ill help Vernonia, is a 1973 graduate of Oddly enough, the amount of water George Fox College that can be saved in just the toilet Proehl received a Bachelor of does add up Arts degree with a m ajo r in L an g A brick in the tank displaces uage Arts Teaching; D ra m a about one quart of water per flush Proehl is a 1968 Vernonia High ing The water department here School graduate services about KO households in Graduation was Sunday. M ay 20. Vernonia that each have at least with 1.200 persons hearing com one toilet .Assuming every house mencement speaker Tom Skinner hold flushed a toilet a conservative New York author and evangelist eight times a day. an astonishing that "Time' magazine calls one of 5.200 flushings would take place the most influential evangelists in daily If there were a brick in every Am erica today. toilet tank, about 1.300 gallons of George Fox is a four-year. Chris w ater would be conserved per d a y ; tian. liberal arts college founded in a savings of about 117.000 gallons New berg by the Friends Church in during a three-month period 1891 According to a licensed plum ber. It is governed by the Northwest toilets with bricks in their tanks Yearly Meeting of Friends Church would function adequately without which includes the states of Oregon. causing extra problems The only Washington and Idaho The college warning the plumber suggests is the however, has students from 31 de importance of placing the brick into nominations and from 15 states and the tank carefully so there is no nine foreign countries interference or damage to the The college has a 9b-acre. $5 workings Once the brick is on the m illion campus and offers students bottom of the tank and free from all m ajors in six divisions, including moveable parts, extra useable w a education, fine and applied arts, ter is assured language arts, natural science, re Laura and Clint ligion and social science P.S Heard of one town in Oregon whose city government issued bncks I f you can't beg. borrow, or steal (? ) a brick, the old m ill site m ay not mind if you were to dig one up n nehalem U valley Larsen's Inc. Ronnie Quinn entered Physicians and Surgeons Hospital. M ay 17, and underwent surgery M ay 25 She is improving and is able to have visit ors She is in room 224 and hopes to return home this weekend M r. and Mrs Ralph Anderrgg and son, K irk, of Canby, spent the weekend at the home of his parents. M r and M rs Henry Anderegg. to help his father celebrate his birth day Vernonia Burt Reynolds Plymouth P . E O . R U M M A G E S A L E June 7 A K. a t the le g io n H a ll fro m 1« a .m . -4 p .m . HU Hags were placed at the grave sites of veterans aad After H oots 397-1730 M onday - W ednesday - T hursday 9:30 a.m. to 12 Noon Nordstroms at Home from Trip B IR K E N F E L D — M r and M rs Francis Nordstrom returned home Sunday from a trip through the southern states In New Mexico, they took a 'to u r of the Carlsbad Caverns, and saw lots of high w ater in Louisana and Mississippi. They stpyed several days with their son. Ronald, in Panam a City, Florida He took them for a tour of the N aval Ocean Simulation F a c ili ty where he is one of the engineers working or. a driving facility for the navy to see if divers can live several thousand feet below tne sea The Navy divers go into one of the capsules where they w ill live while testing They visited Clarence Borglund at Ponce De Leon. Florida He lived at Birkenfeld a num ber of years ago and was m arried to the late H arriet Rosenberg In Charleston. S.C.. they visited at the home of M r and M rs John Robertson ( T r u d y Birkenfeld. daughter of M r and M rs August Birkenfeld« Charleston is a very- old town built in the 1600 s. On James Island they saw an oak tree 22 feet around It is believed to be 1400 years old A boat tour took them to Fort Sumpter where the first shot was fired that started the Civil W ar They also visited the Old Slave M arket where slaves w ere kept until sold It is now a museum They returned home by way of the Ozark M ts., and ran into very storm y weather They had no trouble with gas rationing and were very glad to get back to Oregon They report a wonderful trip Howard Larson stayed at the Nordstrom home while thev were gone Final Services Read For Early Resident Graveside services for Ruth North w ere held Tuesday. M ay 29. at 1 p.m at the North Cem etery. Ruth North died M ay 25 in Cor vallis She was the last surviving child -six daughters and three sons —of Thomas and Sarah Humphrey North, one of the ea rly fam ilies living in the upper Nehalem Valley She was born Dec 31, 1886 at the fam ily home on D airy Caeek _ She was a student of the Bible and was one of the earliest members of •he Evangelical Church in Ver noma Local funeral arrangem ents for Miss North were in charge of Fuiten Mortuary Sandra Tupper. daughter of Mrs. Mildred Tupper, is working pari tim e, till school is out. in the Lloyd Quinn real estate and insurance office She is doing general office work and Quinn reports “ If y^ , hear a friendly fem ale voice over the phone it's probably Sandy." Visiting the G .B Sharer's over the holiday w ere Sgt Kenneth Mills, wife Kay and children from Fort Iz>wis Wash Also home on leave is Iheir son. Milton Abercrom bie from Homestead A ir Force Base. Florida Mrs Jean Burton made a trip to southern Oregon over the week end Friday night was spent at Skeeters Camp at the home of Olive Hervey Saturday, she visited old friends in Prospect. Ila Patterson. Madeline Poole. M r and M rs Dave Neville, and M r and M rs Bill la n ia r d From there she drove to T rail to see M r and M rs George Hamilton Saturday night was spent at the Ray Barnett home at Galice. then she made the trip home Sunday afternoon Phone th r Eagle if you have a news Item. 429-3372. As reported in the Oregonian, it is noted that form er Vernoman Gordon L Cline, m arketing super visor at Crown Zellerbach’s Clatsop Managed Forest at Seaside, has tieen named supervisor for inland log sales LODGE & CLU B N O T IC E S Geoff Proehl GF Graduate 56th Annual JO T had a special visit over the Me mortal weekend irom M r and Mrs Jim DeMello of San Jose Cali forma M rs Cadwallader and Mrs DeM ello grew up together in B a lti more. M aryland and hadn't seen each other for almost four years VERNONIA JAYCEES NEHALEM VALLEY CHAPTER J.C. H a ll—Old M ill M kL , 7:99 P .M . Bob Carson. President Bill Hunter. Secretary 3-73 VERNONIA CLUB M E E T S A T P IN E CO NE F irst M o o d a y -7 a.m . Breakfast Third Monday— 6 : » p.m . Supper 3-74 AJ.&A.M . Vernonia Lodge N e . 184 A. F . A A M . V IS IT O R S T O the Pioneer Cemetery in Vernonia on Saturday, M ay 26. w ere greeted by the lndnstry af the Vernonia Jaycees. Annually, the Jaycees m aw the grass in the ceme tery fa r M em o rial D ay. Manpower fa r the project was provided by Jack Seeley. Bob Carson. M att Koch. Gene Basks aad Chris Boyle. The mowers were secured from to- dbridnal Jaycees, friends and fam i lies. Gas was generously donated by Daniel Koch. Inc. at maata m Robert K. King. President Ralph Bergerson. Sec’y. 3-74 VERNONIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE LIONS Art Parrow, President Ted Forbes. Secretary Meet* at West Oregon Elec. Bldg., third Thursday of each month. 7:39 p.m. l in t Thursday sf i a t l: M p.m. Board of Directors report to mem- b e n quarterly. Board m eet* the second Monday. B:M p.m .. nt West Oregon Electric office. Visitors In vited. T. F. Tomlin. President Mrs. Evelyn Heath, Sec’y. 7-73 MT. HEART REBEKAH LODGE NO. 243 Meets 2nd and 4th Thursday even ings of each month in the L O .O .F . Hall. Irm a Chance, Noble Grand Evelyn Heath. Sec’y. 3-74 Vernonia Lodge No. 246 Jim Norwood, W.M. Walter E. I . hin. Sec'y. 1-74 LO.O.F. IWA Local Firsl and Third Tuesday 3-14 M e e tin g 1st Monday sf each 8 p.m. Lloyd Quinn, Noble Grand H a rry Culbertson, Secretary 174 Order of Eastern Star A .F .L - C.I.O. 7:30 p.m. Nehalem Chapter 1 » , O.E.S. 4-73 Sweet Home Couple Visits at Larsons B IR K E N F E L D — M r and Mrs Jim Long of Sweet Home visited at the Francis Larson home Saturday They drove over in their motor home and did some fishing Later they and the Larson's drove to Seaside to visit at the Buddy Larson home Buddy worked for Jim in the woods at Sweet Home several years ago The Longs also visited Howard Larson M rs Lloyd Beach and M rs Art Bellingham were in Clatskanie Saturday M r and M rs W alt Tornblad visited Howard Larson at the Nord strom home Thursday- evening M r and M rs Francis Larson visited at the Fred Larson home Monday evening They went to greet Randy on his birthday GIRL SCOUTS The Junior and Cadette Scouts spent last weekend at Big Eddy Park for a campout It was planned for Wilkerson, but due to a mixup. it was held at Big Eddy All but two fifth grade scouts, six - sixth graders and five Cadettes were accompanied by M r and M rs Howard Hopkins They played baseball and M r Hopkins taught a knot tieing class Saturday Love Returned To Scout Post W illiam E Love. 10225 S.W M elnore, Portland, president of Equitable Savings and Loan, has been re-elected chairm an of the Sunset T ra il District committee. Columbia Pacific Council. Boy Scouts of Am erica Love said any boys interested in scouting, who are not acquainted with a local troop m ay obtain inform ation by calling Jim Watson district executive at the Boy Scout Service Center. 226-3423 Regular com munication the third Wed. each Vernonia Barracks Veterans of World War I Meet« 4th Monday each month at the IO O F hall, 12 Noon month nt Ma sonic Temple. AU visiting sis ters and bro thers welcome. Edna Linn. W.M Irm a Fisher, Sec’y. 1-74 Noble Dunlap, Com m ander L . H. Sargent, Adjutant AMERICAN LEGION A U X IL IA R Y NORM'S WELDING AND REPAIR Field Welding - 7 Dap-A-Week 446 Third Are. — Capital Hillside Call Anytime 429-7461 Vernonia, Ora. Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesday sf each month. Meets 4th Monday, LO.O.F. Hall Jessie Andrews, President Cora Lange, Secretary 8-73 VERNONIA POST PYTHIAN SISTERS V E R N O N IA T E M P L E NO. 91 Meetiaga: L O .O .F . H all Second and Fourth Wednesdays of each month at 9 p.m . Leona Haverland, M.E.C. Cora Lange. Secretary 3-74 119 Wilbur E Wilson, Commander Harry Culbertson, Adjutant F irs t A U X IL IA R Y and Third Tuesdays Reatha Horn, President Gertrude Schalock, Sec’y. 1-73
