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Tlie People
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vernonia Lodge No. 246
Jim Norwood, W.M.
Walter E. I . hin. Sec'y.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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