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To the
Consumer
THURSDAY. JU L Y
Camp Eight Scholars
Plan 'Get-Together'
Plans are being made (or a
get together of all persons who
attended the Camp 8 Caboose
and Cookhouse schools It w ill be
held during the “ Old Tim ers’
Picnic," August 19
Those who would like to attend
or would like more information
may contact Donita (Brison)
Robertson, 52-1 West 11th Street,
Medford. Oregon. June (Atkins)
Ray, Bud Atkins or Dorothy
Sandon. all of Vernonia
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953 Bridge Street
Vernonia, Oregon
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One hundred and six members
of the American Association of
Retired Persons participated in
a picnic at Scappoose Airport
Park on Tuesday, July 17. It was
the seventh annual picnic for
Columbia County Chapter 499
Special guests were members of
Tualatin Chapter 510of Hillsboro
who arrived by chartered bus
Park tables had been arranged
to provide a long table for the
many potluck dishes and an even
longer one for the picnickers.
Other tables were brought up to
take care of the overflow.
Following the luncheon the
tables were taken over for cards
and Aggravation. Horseshoes
and croquet were preferred by
the more active.
President Marge Malone of
Chapter 499 was in general
charge of the a ffa ir with Marion
Andress and AJ Borjesson a r
ranging the tables and taking
care of m ajor details including
the public address system. Oth
ers who assisted included M ar
garet Brady. Fern Fisher and
Blanche Borjesson
In place of the usual Friend
ship Meeting on Thursday, Au
gust 2, the annual watermelon
feed w ill be held at Bayport
Marina park All chapter mem
bers are welcome.
Organist to Provide
Music for Jamboree
BILL J. HORN
Vernonia Insurance
Exchange
100-Plus at
M R P Picnic
Ron Russell, son of M r and
Mrs Gerald Russell and a
graduate of Vernonia High, w ill
be in Vernonia for the Jamboree
providing music at the Rife's
Conn Organs booth on Bridge
Street The booth w ill be located
next to Brunsman Hardware.
In addition to playing for the
ente rtain m e nt of Jamboree
guests. Russell w ill place an
organ at the Bible Church for
their Sunday morning services.
Born and raised in Vernonia,
Russell continued his schooling
at Northwest Nazarene College
at Nampa. Idaho, from which he
graduated.
THIS LAND
Is Your Land
K E E P IT C LE A N
Msrtfort IS. Conn.
Consider House Brands. Dis
couraged by escalating food
costs? Try “ House Brands,”
foods sold under the super
m arket’s own private brand
name. Retailers say food bill
savings of 15 to 20 percent can be
made by buying house brands
rather than nationally advertis
ed brands.
Savings
come
through lower advertising, re
search and distribution costs.
Try several brands and com
pare quality. Then decide how
much you want to spend for
foods sold under different labels.
Know What You're
Buying.
Sometimes purchasers of health
and hospitalization insurance
wind up with less protection than
they think they’ve bought. Many
mail order insurance compan
ies. for example, promise “ up to
$1.000 a month” for hospitali
zation. The letdown comes when
the purchaser, if he’s hospita
lized for the typical eight-day
period, received only a fraction
of that $1,000—perhaps $270. Yet
his brief stay in the hospital
could easily cost $600 to $800.
So take a hard look at the
policy if this w ill be your only
insurance coverage. Check too,
for coverage of pre-existing ill
nesses, waiting periods, and
other lim itations or exceptions.
Avoid Accidental Poisoning.
VETERANS SERVICE OFFICE
Old Courthouse Basement
ST. HELENS, OREGON
Phone 397-2268 - Alter Hours 397-1730
Monday - Wednesday - Thursday
9:30 a.m. to 12 Noon
YES
More products are being sold in
child-resistant packages. Last
April the Food and Drug Ad
m inistration set standards for
packaging household substances
containing methyl alocohol and
turpentine and lye preparations.
In July, aerosols and paste-type
oven cleaners w ill be packaged
in child-resistant packages.
Safely closures should help to
alleviate the accidental pois
oning problem, but they can’t
eliminate them. They w ill only if
parents buy potentially poison
ous products in safety pack-
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Savings Bond
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A M O N G th e G ra n g e e n trie s a t th is y e a n Co-
i C o m ity F a k a r e th e tw o displayed above.
T h e to p photo I t the South
G ra n g e
The Senior Citizens’ Center
w ill be open Saturday and Sun
day, July 28 and 29, from 10 a m.
until 4 p.m. “ Come in and
browse," the group invites.
The Seniors w ill have a table of
flea m arket items on display for
sale.
Dr. Joel Keller, podiatrist, w ill
be at the Vernonia Clinic F ri
days August 3, 17, and 31. Make
appointments early for either of
those days.
The eye d octor, W illia m
Thompson, w ill be at the center
Tuesday, July 31, to adjust
glasses - free of charge - from
9:30 a m. until 1 p.m.
The potluck last Friday was
attended by 22 members. A
better attendance is hoped for at
the next business meeting and
potluck Friday, August 3 at 12:30
p.m.
Story Lady to Leave;
Replacement Selected
The Community Education
advisory council announces that
Sally Brown, the story lady for
the Tuesday morning story hour
for children, w ill be leaving due
to the transfer of her husband to
another location
The new stofy lady to take her
place for the rest of the summer
is Nancy Eckland.
aging, keep the products in
them, and properly close the
containers after use. So the u lti
mate responsibility for prevent
ing accidental poisonings from
substances found about the
house belongs to the parents.
They must keep the items where
children can’t gel at them
Get Written Agreement. Buy
ing a mobile home requires
considerable forethought. Be
fore you sign any contract, be
sure all details of the sale are in
w riting. See that these are in
cluded :
A clear and complete descrip
tion of the home, furnishings,
appliances, accessories and any
other items you are buying; the
complete cost (including the in
terest ) ; number of payments
you w ill have Io make, amount of
each, and when they are due;
arrangements for transporting
the home to a lo t, and details of
warranty and service agree
ment.
Make sure you and the seller
both understand the sales agree
ment.
For further help, w rite for the
free publication, “ Buying and
Financing a Mobile Home,”
available from Consumer Pro
duct Information, Public Docu
ment Publication Center, Pueb
lo, Colo 81009
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Scappoose, Oregon
"Free Delivery"
Phone 543-6916
Senator Robert Packwood an
nounced in Washington, D.C.,
June 29, that the Council of
Senior Citizens, Inc. of Columbia
County has been awarded a
five-year grant from the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare to fund a Volunteer
Program for Columbia County.
The program is called “ Re
tired Senior Volunteers Pro
gram ,” or RSVP for short. The
purpose of the program is to get
retired seniors out of their
homes and back into the com
munity by placing them in
various agencies and organiza
tions such as hospitals, libraries,
etc. The recruited volunteers
w ill be covered by insurance,
provided transportation and
other out-of-pocket expenses.
As the grant was being w rit
ten, 28 community agencies and
organizations in all parts of the
county agreed to have volun
teers working in their agencies
and facilities.
The RSVP program is a spe
cial program of the ACTION
agency of the Federal Depart
ment of HEW. It developed the
RSVP program because it was
felt by Congress that retired
people s till have a place in
society and a valuable role to
play, but too often just “ drop
out" of society once they have
retired.
It is also the case that many
retired persons can’t afford the
costs of being a volunteer; this
program provides for such costs
for the volunteer. Work w ill
begin immediately to hire a
RSVP program director and to
recruit volunteers.
Elderly retired may call the
Council of Seniors office, 397-4000
for further information.
The securing of this RSVP
Grant is the first grant received
by the council in what Don Platt,
council chairman, hopes w ill be
the beginning of a long line of
programs and projects managed
by the council. The council is-
justly proud of its accomplish
ments over the past year. They
have secured Revenue Sharing
funds from each city and from
county government' (with the
passage of HB 3009. the legal
questions of the county giving
Revenue Sharing funds has been
removed).
The Council legislative effort
has also paid off with the pos
sibility of two other bills helping
the elderly of Columbia County.
Under the leadership of Senator
W illiam Holmstrom, the county
has been included in a special
pilot project in transportation.
With the completion of the
Comprehensive Plan for Senior
Citizens programs by the Colum
bia. Washington, Clackamas
County Planning Agency on
Aging (funded through a federal
grant to CRAG), the council w ill
begin applying for various other
special programs for the elderly
of Columbia County.
After three years of existence,
the securing of the RSVP grant
is its first reward. It is believed
strongly by the council that this
is just the beginning of a series of
programs and projects that w ill
make the last years of the
county’s elder citizens a joy to
live.
U.S. Savings Bonds sales in
Oregon continued their strong
upward trend during the month
of May. The U.S. Treasury sales
figures for May released today
by State Chairman Thomas Pri-
deaux reveal that Oregonians
purchased $4,338,315 worth of
bonds during the month. This is
an increase of $338,300 over May
of last year, boosting Oregon’s
sales year-to-date to $23,364,168.
Columbia County recorded $30,-
944 in May sales, bringing the
total for the year to $230,655 or 38
percent of the goal.
The true strength of the sti
mulated activity in Savings
Bonds is best attested to by the
fact that for the 32nd consecutive
month sales have far outstripped
redemptions in the state. Cur
rently Oregonians’ total holdings
of Series E and H bonds is in
excess of $500 million.
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Saturday, July 28, 7:30 P M
Featuring the Pixler Family
KUIPER LUMBER COMPANY
On U.S. Highway 30 South of Scappoose
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Senior Citizen Senior Council Receives
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Ixx>king for a better way to
beat the heat this summer? Don
Coin Walrod, agent with Oregon
State University’s Extension
Service, has a tip for a re
freshing — and entertaining —
change of pace.
“ The Extension Service Mar
ine Advisory Program is plan
ning a fam ily shortcourse about
the ocean at the coast on July
28-29," announces Walrod
The two-day session w ill meet
at the OSU Marine Science
Center in Newport and is open to
anyone interested in learning
about the ocean through firs t
hand experience.
Topics to be covered include
life in the sea, the action of tides,
commercial fishing methods,
and the nature of estuaries.
Participants w ill see movies
and slides during lectures on
these subjects, and w ill be led on
two field trips.
Highlights of the weekend are
a guided trip to explore the rich
animal life of a rocky beach and
a nature hike along the shore of
Yaquina Bay
Walrod recommends register
ing in advance because enroll
ment w ill be limited to 40
participants.
There is a charge of $5 per
adult, but no charge for children.
Consumer Credit Rig Busi
ness. U.S. families continue to
use* credit to obtain billions of
dollars' worth of cars and other
consumer goods, and loans for
various purposes It is an ac
ceptable and easy way to buy
gixids and services they need
These same families can save
money if they choose the least
costly source of credit. The
truth-in-lending law was passed
Io make it easier for (hem to
learn what it really costs to
borrow money or make purchas
es on credit The law requires
the lender to provide the annual
percentage rale for interest.
So Io get the most for your
fa m ily ’s credit dollar, use this
information. Compare costs
from different lenders
The Right to Cancel. An Ore
gon Consumer Protection act
passed in 1971 provides buyers a
three-day period to cancel sales
made by door-to-door salesmen
if the purchase price was $50 or
more. Now the Federal Trade
Commission has issued a sim ilar
regulation perm itting buyers a
three-day "cooling o ff" period,
without penalty or fee, for a
sim ilar purchase for only $25 or
more The buyer must cancel the
purchase by w ritten notification
(in person or by m ail) to the
salesman's office within three
business days.
At the time of purchase, the
salesman must give the buyer a
sales contract, an oral explan
ation of his right to cancel, and a
written notice with the form that
can be used to cancel the pur
chase.
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‘Beat the Heat*
Course on Tap
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LEATHER CRAFTSMAN David DtvingHone ant
Debbie Wataaa aad Jea O'HaUoraa take a break from thek
•bop work la downtown Portland D tvlngllone will participate
In the demonstrations during (be Vernonia Art Festival and
Friendship Jamboree, July 2 8 -» .
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No Admission Charge
No Reservations