Demonia Eagle
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THURSDAY.
N O V.
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1973
SEL-MOR. INC.,
B. RHOADES
MELUN SCHWAB, C
OFFICIAL NEW SPAPER
V r n w l i , Oregon
Entered as second class m ail
m atter August 4, 1922. under the
act of M arch 3, 1879.
Published weekly on Thursday
at 721 Madison Ave.. Vernonia.
Columbia County. Oregon 97064
and paid at the Vernonia Post
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Oregon
Newspaper
Publishers
*~~r~ Association
Lucia Rite
Opens Season
Coronation of the 1974 Scandi­
navian Luicia Bride and pres
entation of her court is planned
for Friday, November 23. at 7
p m at the Lloyd Center Ice
Pavilion
Sponsored by the Scandinavi­
an Men’s Club of Portland, this
annual holiday tradition official­
ly marks the beginning of
Portland’s Christmas season
Corinne Huffman. Oregon’s
1973 Lucia Bride and her court
w ill end their reign when a
successor is crowned and the
new court is introduced
CALL ON US
FOR A G H i
IN S U R A N C E
H e r e ’s w h a t o u r c h e c k -u p
w ill do f o r y o u : ( 1 ) Show i f
y o u can have bro ad er p ro ­
t e c t io n th r o u g h th e la te s t
package policies; ( 2 ) P o in t
o ut areas o f possible saving«
in y o u r present p ro g ram ; (3 )
U n c o v e r an y serious gaps in
y o u r p ro tection; (4 ) E x p la in
w h a t y o u r present insurance
does a n d does n o t c o v e r .
T h e re ’s no o bligation fo r this
service. C a ll to d a y.
BILL J. HORN
Vernonia Insurance
Exchange
Phone 429-6203
953 B ridge S treet
V ernonia, Oregon
The People
Speak. . .
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Editor's N o t e :
Wilaiwari
Wanasut was Vernonia’s foreign
exchange student in 1970-71 The
following account of the recent
overthrow of the government in
Thailand gives a very graphic
iicture as related in a recent
etter to the David Banta fam ily
November 6, 73
Dear Father & Mother.
I ’m still alive' As you know
October 14 was a big day for us
The students started to protest
and demonstrate on October 6.
According to the old schedule I
was to take the linal exam on the
eighth Since they had the pro
test at my university, all the
exams were postponed I joined
them on the 12th and 13th I think
you know what was going on I
was exhausted so I went back to
my dorm When 1 got up the next
morning, it was awfully quiet I
hxiked out from my window and
saw some cars parking on the
new bridge and I saw no cars
running There were thousands
and thousands of people running
in and out my university. It
seemed to me that they were
very angry Then 1 realized that
the students were facing the
worse situation 1 got up and got
dressed then my friend and I
climbed up on the top of the
building where we could see
everything Pretty soon we saw
the tanks coming with hundreds
of soldiers The great radio
station which belongs to the
government announced that the
students were wrong and the
communists told the students
what to do and tell the people the
wrong information so the stud
ents were going to take over this
station The soldiers fired at the
students who were trying to get
in. There were so many people
got shot I couldn’t believe what
appeared to my eyes
The
soldiers with guns were shooting
unarmed students. Where they
fight is about 150 yards from my
dorm At about noon the heli­
copter came and they fired from
it. A lot of people died. I jumped
down to the fourth floor Mv light
fought all day The best thing the
students could get were bottle
bombs A student got a bus and
drove right into the tank and he
got killed In the evening the old
government set resigned The
tanks went back to passing by
the dorm and fired to the people
at the bridge. 1 was scared to
death At night we still heard
they fired We slept on top of the
buiiding because we were afraid
that the dorm would catch on
fire. The students burned down
some of the government s offices
near where I live. At noon it was
quiet, no noise of a gun I decided
to go home I couldn’t find a bus
or a taxi and had to walk about
2‘ 2 miles Finally I got home My
parents were very happy. I ’ve
been home since the fifteenth
I ’ll go back to Bangkok on the
thirteenth. The exam w ill begin
on the twentieth I hope every­
thing is over That was enough
and too much
Please write to me again
Love always,
Willa
FO R EST GROVE
C O M M U N IT Y
HOSPITAL
The best excuse of all thes<
days for not cutting grass is th<
gasoline shortage
middle distillate fuel can be sub
stituted and jobs and production
preserved
If everything works right,
acccording to Piper, everyone
with a genuine need for middle
There’s a brand new govern
distillate fuels w ill have some
ment agency in Salem.
Mathematically, it would ap
And despite presidential guar
pear no one would really suffer
anlees to the contrary, the new
more than a 10 percent lack of
agency predicts Oregonians are
these specific fuels And if we all
going to suffer (his winter Its
turn down our thermostats the
job is to make certain everyone
recommended number of de
suffers equally.
grees. we’d probably not even
Thursday, November 22, 1973
If is the state's Office of
miss our percentage of the
and a Happy Thanksgiving to
Energy Allocation and Conser­
shortage
everyone Count your blessings
vation. headed by Energy Coor­
But there’s a hooker And
and give thanks as we near the
dinator David Piper, former
Piper is quick to point it out All
end of a pretty strange year
assistant Public U tilities Coni
suppliers are not able to provide
Thunks that the war in Vietnam
missioner
that theoretical l(M) percent to
is over, that meat prices have
Piper’s office is part of the
their dealers und distributors
dropped, that despite energy
Capitol Building's buzzing ener
Some can but many are pro
shortages, gas shortages, und
gy Information Center and he's
viding somewhere in the neigh
even fertilizer shortages, we still
only Ixx’n in business since the
borhood of 85 percent One,
have one of the best ways of life
first of this month Already his
Piper said, is only able to come
in the world
function has provided creature
Give thanks that we live in a
up with 43 percent of last year's
comforts to many of the state's
country where we can knock the
middle distillate supply for the
residents individually and pro
government und complain to our
period in question
bably has done much to maintain
hearts content und know that
President Nixon told the na­
the present level of private
there w ill be no kixx’k on the
tion it faces petroleum shortages
door in the middle of the night
employment
of between Id and 17 percent this
telling us we talked once too
As the weather gets colder his
winter By the time crude oil is
often Thunks that even though
office w ill become more fam iliar
refined to its many bvprixlucts.
prices ure high, there is some
to more people.
specific shortages could vary
thing on the shelves to buy and
The office of Energy Coor­
greatly. And when the refine
we're a long way from the point
dinator evolved from mandatory
ment process und distribution
where it takes a week’s salary to
allocations of fuels issued by
factor are added to the equution.
huv a pair of shoes
President Nixon's energy czar
actual shortages could lx- mul
Änd we can give thanks too,
John Love. The allocations pre­ tiplied several times
that we live in u place like
dated the president's November
Piper and his counterparts
Vernonia where people are
7 energy statement and re­ across the country face a d if­
friendly und a walk down a dark
present the tangibility of those ficult task at best Tools are in
street isn’t tantamount to in­
remarks
short supply Budgets have not
vading u concrete jungle Where
Specifically, the allocation
the hustle and noise of the city is
yet been clearly defined Lines of
program currently involves pro
a sometime thing. not a way of
authority run directly from
pane gas and middle distillate
life
Washington. D.C but there is a
fuels Most people are fam iliar
So again. Huppy Thanksgiv
regional overlay The allocation
w ith
bottled gas. under­ process runs from month to
ing. 1973, and many more of
standing propane is no problem
them
month And there is a con
Middle distillates is something siderable lack of basic infor­
else again
mation regarding supply and
How's this? If you heat your demand
home with oil. your furnace is
But the problem is here now
burning a middle distillate fuel
and Piper’s office is assigned to
Fri.. Sal.
Nor. 23-24
Others include kerosene, jet fuel, deal with it m Oregon. He. along
range oil. stove oil. gas oil and with others attempting to cope
diesel fuel
with the crisis on the state
They are all in short supply.
government level, can be
At this point no one appears to reached by phoning the toll-free
know precisely how short But Energy
Information Center
C harlton H eston
some Oregon manufacturers number 1800-452-0340
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may have to close their plants
because of the propane shortage
And not a few residents of homes
less than a year old are having
fits obtaining oil to fire their
furnaces.
This is where the allocation
program and Piper fit in. Each
state has been allocated 100
percent of its 1972 middle dis­
tillate fuel use for the month of
N o ve m b e r
T h e o r e tic a lly ,
everyone consuming a middle
distillate in November 1972 w ill
receive a like amount this No­
vember
Each state has been allocated
__________Effective Immediately—
a flat 10 percent of that 100
percent to help ease the pro­
ALL PRODUCTS WILL BE
blem
Portions of that emergency 10
percent can lx- obtained, for
instance, by home owners or
businesses if they submit hard­
ship assistance applications
which are approved by Piper
These hardship allocations are
designed to provide dealers with
authority to serve new cus­
tomers in their areas containing
homes constructed after No­
vember last year
They also serve to keep the
dixirs open and machinery hum
ming at vital industries which
Route 2, Box 1
last year might have been using
interupptihle natural gas during
SCAPPOOSE. OREGON
November, but this year find
themselves without a source of
natural gas. In some cases, a
Footnotes
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Admitting List
November 13 - Harriett Bowers
Hartfort IS.
tteteoMmemoraeei
SALEM SCENE
FATHER Anthony Gussin holds Friendship Quill given him on
ils birthday from the ladles oi S t Mary’s parish. The quilt
sa s put together from blocks—each one pieced by a member
md embroidered with the name of the donor—then quilted by
Hrs. Louise Smejkal.
Details O f A M A X Application
For DEO P erm it Disclosed
A M A X Pacific Aluminum
Corporation has disclosed de­
tails of its application to the
Oregon Department of Envir
onmental Quality for permits for
the proposed Warrenton reduc
tion facility.
The application r e q u e s-
ted permits for air. water and
solid waste: a n d indicated
AM AX’s progress in initiating a
study of the Youngs Bay estuary
in the area of the plant site.
AMAX plans to build a two
potline aluminum reduction pi
ant at Warrenton with an annual
production capacity of 187.300
tons Startup is scheduled for
1976
According to the permit appli
cation document, the AMAX
Warrenton plant w ill use "best
available technology’ ’ to control
a ir emmissions. and with a
combination of prim ary and
secondary scrubbers, bold fluor­
ide emisions from the plant to
less than 1.5 pounds per ton of
aluminum produced on a month­
ly average
Under normal conditions, the
plant w ill emit approximately
1.2 pounds of fluoride per ton
produced, but statistical varia
tions and operating upset pos­
sibility make the higher average
figure necessary
Also included in the permit
application is an atmospheric
dispersion model, prepared by
H E. Cramer Company of Salt
Lake City, which uses computer
modeling techniques to predict
dispersion of emissions from the
Warrenton plant
The model's calculations indi­
cate that concentrations of fluo
rides, particulates and sulphur
dioxide- in the ambient air w ill
remain well below harmful lev­
els. Ground level concentrations
of gaseous fluorides w ill not
exceed 48 micrograms per cubic
m eter-or one half part per
billion-anywhere around the
site
Except for sanitary sewage,
which w ill be treated by the City
of Warrenton, the application
indicates all wastewater from
the AMAX plant w ill be retained
on-site, treated and recycled An
ultra modern wastewater treat­
ment plant w ill continually clean
process water and return it to
the smelting operation No wa­
stewater w ill be discharged
Storm water runoff on the
plant site w ill he collected in
retention ponds to permit settl­
ing Some of this stormwater w ill
be used in the plant as process
water cutting demands on city
supplies _ the rest w ill be
allowed after settling to reach
the natural drainage system
The application calls for all
solid waste generated at the
AMAX plant to be sold, inciner­
ated or deposited in landfills
Some plant waste contains val
uable process materials and can
be reclaimed The remainder
after sales and incineration w ill
total about 4.500 tons annually
and w ill be disposed of in a land­
fill. An on-site landfill facility
w ill be used if necessary until the
proposed Clatsop County landfill
is developed.
Tiie Youngs Bay estuary study
w ill be an 18-month long effort,
carried out by scientists from
Oregon State University Objec­
tives of the study are to examine
existing life systems in the Bay,
determine the impact of the
plant on the estuary, and define
any corrective action that might
be necessary. Cost of the study
w ill be borne by AMAX. and w ill
total nearly $4OO.IN)O
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TOWN TOPICS
Jack
Christensen
of
Sweet
Home visited M r Mabel Graves
on M o n d a y .
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Lannie Itoss and fam ily w ill be
visiting here this weekend from
Olympia. He is former associate
pastor of the Vernonia Seventh
Day Adventist Church
Mrs. Kobert Andrews spent a
couple of days last week at the
home of her brother and wife,
Mr and Mrs E.F. Woodcock at
Hainier. On Wednesday they
visited Robert Andrews at the
Veterans hospital in Vancouver
They found him about as well as
usual On Thursday the Wood
cocks and Mrs Andrews visited
their brother and wife M r and
Mrs. Chester Woodcock at a
Silverton nursing home.
Mrs. M acile Roberts attended
the 50th wedding anniversary of
Mr and Mrs. Earl Washburn at
Union Gap Washington on Nov­
ember 10
Lloyd Center
Enjoy the Christmas Magic of Lloyd Center
£ Christmas Hours: M onday thru Saturday 9:30 to 9:30,
Sunday 11 to 6
Alpenrose Storybook Lane, Santa phones,
spectacular decorations, giant tree
Park under cover
Christmas isn’t Christmas
until you’ve visited Lloyd Center.
Mrs Trilla Anderson enjoyed
a protracted birthday celebra­
tion last week On Sunday, the
eleventh Mr and Mrs Chet
Anderson of Tillamook held and
all-day open house, with cake
and coffee, for her At one
o’clock a pot-luck dinner was
enjoyed by 31 relatives and
friends On Friday, her actual
birthday, M r and Mrs. Ed
Roediger served a fam ily dinner
for Mrs Anderson, her daughter
and son-in-law Mr and Mrs.
Sam Anderson and Mrs Chet
Anderson of Tillamook. Another
daughter called from Pearl City,
Hawaii and had the pleasure of
visiting with all of the relatives
at Koedigers.
Pope Urban V III began (he
custom of conferring the rank of
Emmmenee on Cardinals in
16.30
Vernonia, Ore
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