Demonia Eagle
2 THURSDAY.
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FEB
1774
SEL-MOR INC.. Publishers
OFFICIAL NEW SPAPER
Vernonia. Oregon
Entered as second class mail
matter August 4. 1922. under the
act of March 3, 1879.
Published weekly on Thursday
at 721 Madison Ave.. Vernonia.
Columbia County, Oregon 97064
and paid at the Vernonia Post
Office as second class matter
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TOW N TOPICS
C.J.
Nance
received
word
February 5. of the passing of his
brother Flovd Nance of Tacoma.
Washington
Recent visitors in \ ernonia
were Mr and Mrs Ben Smith
Thev visited with Lola Chnsten-
C.J. and Essie Nance report
they are coming along fine
although Essie still spends a
great deal of time in bed The
Nances are recuperating from
injuries suffered in a December
26. 1973 accident. 10 miles from
Vernonia when their van struck
ice and turned over.
ST. MARY S THRIFT SHOP
Open second Saturday of each
month
6t3
Sunday dinner guests at the
home of Mr and Mrs Frank
Schnudlin were Mrs Donna
Snyder and children of Hillsboro
On Monday Mr and Mrs Don­
ovan Reynolds and Roberta of
Riverview and Mr and Mrs
Bert Snyder and son Carl of
Scappoose had lunch with the
Schmidlins
Mrs Harold Shipley was taken
to the St Vincent hospital last
week Monday she suffered a
relapse and is critically ill.
COMING SOON The Ameri­
can Legion Auxiliary will hold a
Rummage Sale. Hatch for an­
nouncement of date and time.
Those attending a buffet din­
ner at the home of Mrs. Sam
Devine Saturday evening were
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Stunkard.
Mrs Lois Klessig and daughter
Karin, and Joyce Danielson all
of Astoria. Mr and Mrs Ted
Gernhart of Hillsboro: Mrs
Ethel Hirtzel and Mrs. Doug
Ashpole of Portland; Mr and
Mrs George Devine of Clatska­
nie Sheryl and Carla Devine and
Marie Lipset of Eugene Mr and
Mrs Claire Devine. Sandra and
Rodney Joining them in the
evening w-ere Mr and Mrs Don
Bennett and two sons of Eugene
Extension Meet Set
For February 12
Due to bad weather. January's
Timber Route Home Extension
Study Group meeting was can­
celled iherefore the February
12 meeting will be a combination
of the two It will be held at the
West Oregon Electric Building
starting at 10:30 a m with a
potluck lunch at noon
Zola Christensen will be giving
the lesson "Communications, is
anybody listening0" Helen Hall
plans to demonstrate the line art
of cake decorating
Genie Marxer and Helen Hall
will be hostesses
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MELVIN SCHWAB C om posita
$3.00 Per Year — In the Nehalem
Valley
$4.00 Per Year Elsewhere
36 Oregon Counties
Receive T ax Funds
Those people attending the
CCOG meeting the fateful night
of January 23, 1974. saw SiL
Helens city and a Columbia
County representative barely
able to contain their feelings of
jubilance Following the vote
CCOG officials announced a
CRAG banquet to be held at the
Quay resturant in Vancouver
The same representatives men­
tioned above were seen tossing
quarters into the air. we under
stood, to see which one would
buy the drinks And someone
was heard to yell, “ I’ll bet that
was a Canadian quarter. Fred ”
People of our free republic.
Mr Editor should not relish the
idea of joining a governance of
oppression, in fact they should
have been sad When your stop to
think of it though, has there ever
been a dictatorship that did not
exist for the sole reason that
something was to be gained by
those in power"
Services H e ld
Distribution of 6.721.108 07 in
highway-user tax funds to the 36
counties of the state was an
nounced recently be V.E Skoog.
fiscal officer for the Oregon
Department of Transportation
Columbia county, with 24,392
motor vehicles registered in
1972. received $96.356 52
The allocation is based on the
statutory 20 percent for the
period October 1 through Dec
ember 31, 1973 The funds come
from the following sources
motor vehicle registration and
operators' license fees, gasoline
tax. use fuel tax, motor carrier
fees, and fines and penalties
collected for violations of the
size and weight statues where
complaints are made by the
Highway Division weighniast
ers
Dear Editor,
our duty to work for it. or we will
Yes. Columbia County was
indeed go down in history as the
thrown into dictatorship the
worst parents of any generation
night of January 23. 1974, when
Sincerely,
the Columbia Council of Govern
Marge Stafford
ments, (CCOG >. voted us into the
Rte 1. Box 475
Columbia Regional Association
Warren. Ore 97053
of Governments. (CRAG)
CRAG is our state regional
agency second only to DEQ in
Editor's Note: The following
Regional power It dictates and
letters were received at the city
or co-exists over the following
hall and provide an interesting
agencies at the local level
view
of how much people reallv
CCOGs. planning commissions.
do appreciate Vernonia Includ
Metropolitan Boundary boards,
ed is a letter of ap p reciatio n
and the Home Rule type of
from Mrs Ratkie for the aid
governments. City County Con
given her during the recent
solidation. city and or county-
flood
managers, and
Metropolitan
Service Districts
“ You niav wonder why 1
In Columbia County we have
should donate to this cause (the
the CCOG and the Planning
heart machine fundi since my
PCC Schedules Demo
Commission W’e have the Met
home is in L.A., California"
ropolitan Service District that
Well 1 am not a stranger here
On Zippers Feb. 11
comes up and tells us dumps a
I raised my children here Some
few miles out of town are
of you may rem em ber Charlie
The Portland Community Col­
unsanitary, and then show
and Mary Moulton0
lege will lie giving a short
movies of their planned oper
My two brothers. Ed and
demonstration on zippers Mon­
at ions such as nice brick g ar­
Charlie Poetter still live here
day evening February 11 at 7:30
bage dumps built right among
and my nephew and wife, Curtis
p.m. at the Vernonia High
our houses We are painfully
and Kathy Poetter. and Steve
school, room 8 A fee of $i will be
aware of the power of the
Poetter sometimes drives the
charged Both invisible and lap
Metropolitan Boundary board
ambulance So you can see I’m
zippers will be demonstrated
located in Portland The city of
very interested in what happens
St Helens is already under a
in Vernonia
house and soaked everything on
Home Rule Charter giving a
Just an old friend of Vernonia
the flixir I am still drying things
general grant of power to the
Lottie Moulton"
out Good things stand in boxes
city council, for the city citizens
But I still have lots to be
do not have a right to vote. This
thankful for For our wonderful
concept came from Europe
police force 1 haven’t met them
where it is known as the Univer­
“This small donation is in
all But John Norman and two
sal Power Grant
memory of George Snyder
other men came to my house ahd
A committee is now studying a
Vernonia will always be our
took me to the Norman home for
Home rule charter for our
home
the night then went back to my
county We are told it is a more
Best wishes.
house and put the piano, sofa. TV
simple and effective way of
Gene and Mary Drips
and other things up on blocks
government, and of course it is,
Lakeside. Calif
and chairs and table.
for when the people cannot
My heart is full of praise and
object to what the politicians do,
thanks to them and to all the
it is a very simple task to govern
“ Mr Nelson
police force Vernonia has lots to
That is why one city official
This morning 1 told you.,
be thankful for and I am. 1 want
stated that home rule and the
we've had many floods in all the
to say again “thank you" every­
recent laws passed m St Helens,
years
we’ve
lived
here
since
one
from the Oregon League of
1925 But I’ve never had one like
Gratefully,
Cities, went well together Of
this one The river came into mv
Mrs Ratkie
course he was right, for they are
all dictatorship
These local and state agencies
of Regional Governance all stem
from a centralized governance
office at 1313 E 60th Street in
Chicago. 111., a corner location
on the Rockefellar family's
University of Chicago
This brings alt our so called
local planning agencies. CCOGs.
etc to a recognized central
point Revealing their connect­
ion with world financiers whose
sole aim is to bring the total
world under the oppression of
control by law We can see at our
local level that an appointed
planning commission and CCOG
gives the right of a few. without
the vote of the people to govern
over all
H . E. Rasmussen
Henr
nry E Rassmussen. resi-
dent of 4002 E 15 Vancouver
Washington, passed away Jan
uary 23, 1974 in the Veteran's
Hospital. Portland. Oregon
Private service was held Janu
ary 25 at the Vancouver Funeral
Chapel, Rev. Lloyd Newton o ffi­
ciating and Dan Snively soloist,
with Mrs Elinor Stickney or
gainst
Graveside service and vault
interment were at Tahoma
Cemetery Yakima. Washington.
January 28. with Rev Leland
Gross officiating
Henry Rasmussen was born
May It, 1921 at Hespero, Alberta
Canada, but spent 45 years in
Vancouver
Henry served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II
Henry Rasmussen, known to
many as "H ank" was employed
as a truck mechanic until he was
hospitalized August 30. 1973
He is survived by his widow
Margaret at home Two sons.
Edward of Seattle and Dennis
with the U.S Armed forces, his
mother Agnes Sturdevant, two
brothers. E arle of Yakima. Wa
and Lyle Barker of Vernonia,
one sister. Dorothy Watkins.
Norwalk. California, one stepson
Dick Robinett and five grand
children
Vernonia Study Club
Holds January Meet
The Vernonia Study Club held
their January meeting at the
home of Mrs Owen East
The program consisted of the
showeing of slides and a descrip­
tion of her recent trip io Hawaii
by Mrs. Charles Minger.
The February meeting will be
Thursday the seventh at 8 p m
at the home of Mrs Mathilde
Bergerson on State Street Mrs
Darrell Proehl will give the
program
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