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1974
SEL-MOR. INC.,
Police Have
Quiet Month
THE PEOPLE SPEAK - - -
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B. RHOADES.
MELVIN SCHWAB.
To the Federal Energy Office:
I as a merchant in Vernonia
OFFICIAL NEW SPAPER
representing Sears Roebuck &
Ver»«aU. Oregaa
Co feel that our little commun
ity i s being discriminated
Entered as second class mail
matter August 4, 1921. under the against by your office in its
allocation of gasoline to the
act oi March 3. 1879.
people of this remote commun­
Published weekly on Thursday
ity
at 721 Madison Ave., Vernonia
In behalf of the people of
Columbia County, Oregon 97064 Vernonia, I wish to register a
and paid at the Vernonia Post
formal protest to your actions
Office as second class matter
The gasoline crisis in Vernonia
demands an immediate investi­
SiibscrtptloBs
gation by your office to relieve
83.00 Per Year — In the Nehalem
the human hardship the shortage
Valley
has created for all our citizens
the few, for the few and at the
expens«* of the people as a whole
A government, which is all-
powerful. and over which the
people have no control, has up to
now been called a dictatorship
Double thinkers and Double
speakers are still just plain liars
or dupes and (he CCOG and
( RAG type units of regional
government all over the nation
are just exactly the small units
and forerunners of a DICTAT­
ORSHIP
Dale N Brooks
Scappoose. Oregon
84.00 Per Year Elsewhere
Sincerely
Edward Balia
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TOWN TOPICS
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Mrs
Bruce
McDonald
has
been hospitalized with broken
bones She has enjoyed receiving
all the cards and letters from her
old friends in Vernonia and
would like to hear from them
again Her new address is: Mrs
Hazel McDonald. Gateway Care
Center, 39 N.E 102nd Ave.,
Portland. Oregon
COMING SOON - The Am eri­
can Legion Auxiliary w ill hold a
Rummage Sale. Watch for an­
nouncement of date and time.
Mrs Frank Schmidlin visited
Mrs Albert Reynolds on Thurs­
day and found her much im ­
proved since her recent hospital
stay . On Saturday M r and Mrs
Howard Seal and fam ily of
Hillsboro had dinner at" the
Schmidlin home
M r and Mrs. Luther Herrin of
Dallas visited at the home of her
son and fam ily. M r and Mrs
Gene Weller Thursday and F r i­
day.
Editor:
National politicians are not the
only ones who have become very
good at talking out of both sides
of their mouths The practice of
telling the people one thing to get
a vote and then proceeding in the
opposite direction has
been
standard practice for
local
elected officials more and more
of late.
Concerning CCOG and its big­
ger and more potent parent,
CRAG, both are units of non-
elected Regional Government
Most if not all officials of local
governments w ill endorse the
one-man. one-vote concept in
elections Yet these same of­
ficials are actively pushing for
the units of regional government
to gain greater and greater
power These local officials
know fully i unless they are blind
and deaf' that regional govern­
ment intends to completely re ­
place all of our legally elected
units of government and that the
regional government officials
w ill be appointed, not elected
Thus we have men who public­
ly profess to believe in the
one-man. one-vote concept, but
who are engaged in bringing into
being a system of government
which w ill have all-men. No Vote
practice It is very pertinent at
this point to note that Regional
Government is called “ The Quiet
Revolution" by those who have
made serious studies of it and
therefore oppose it as being of
Death Takes
J. Wilcoxen
ST MARY S THRIFT SHOP
Open second Saturday of each
month
6t3
M r and Mrs Roscoe Nice of
Goshen visited their son and
family M r and Mrs Melvin Nice
Friday until Monday. Fndav
evening Mr and» Mm," Clarence
Wakefield of Longview also
visited the Nice’s
Waiermasler Slated
Clayton J. Gardner, State
Watermaster. is in Room 306.
Columbia County Courthouse
from 10 a m until 3 p.m to
answer any questions pertaining
to water rights His next visit
w ill be on February 20.
LCHKÏSLER
Plymouth
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Larsen's Inc.
440 N. Nehalem
C L A T S K A N IE , ORE.
Y o u r Local Rep.
ART
L A M P IN G
P H . 429-5671
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Funeral services for John
Wesley Wilcoxen 47, Seattle,
form erly of Vernonia, were held
Saturday, February 9 in Seattle
Graveside services were held
Tuesday February 12 at 1 p.m
at the Vernonia Memorial Cem­
etery With local arrangements
entrusted to Fuiten Mortuary
Chapel.
Rev. Jack Carlson, pastor of
the Vernonia Evangelical Chur­
ch officiated
John Wesley Wilcoxen was
born in Picher. Oklahoma the
son of John Wesley and Madie
Irene Mackey Wilcoxen As a
young boy he moved to Oregon
with his parents in 1933 In 1938
the fam ily moved to Vernonia
He attended grade and High
schools in Vernonia. In 1944. he
joined the U.S. Navy serving
until 1946 At this " time he
returned to Vernonia, living here
until moving to the Seattle area
In 1948 he was married to
Patricia Hereth in Everett. Wn
M r WiJcoxen's life's occupation
has been working as a Seaman in
the Merchant Marines and in the
M ilita ry Sea Transport Service
In 1963 he was married to
Machika Yazawa in Yokahoma.
Japan
For the past eight years the
fam ily has lived at 4035 37th Ave
So. Seattle.
M r Wilcoxen died February 5
at the Manne Hospital in Seattle,
following a severe heart attack
one week earlier.
He is survived by his wife,
Machika. at the fam ily home
His also survived by one son
John Wesley Wilcoxen III of
Seattle Also surviving is one
brother B ill Wilcoxen of Verno­
nia and one sister Mrs Richard
(Bonnie) Benson of Renton,
Washington
are you a
SLEEPLESS SAL?
Y O U SHOULD
SEE YOUR
DOCTOR FOR
A CHECKUP!
If you're catching all the late-late-late
shows because you can't sleep, it's time you
saw a doctor! If he prescribes medication,
Dick Magruder
State Representative
Salem. Oregon
Dear Dick
Attached is a copy of a letter I
received from Vesta E Thomas
in Clatskanie and also a copy of
my answer to her in which I
promist»d to contact you about
what I feel is a serious injustice
to our senior citizens This is
probably just an oversight on the
legislatures part that nothing
has been done to relieve the
senior citizens of the hardship of
paying the current high dog
license fees The fees are justifi
ably necessary to run the dog
control program but certainly a
hardship on senior citizens on
fixed incomes who are having a
tougher tim e each and every day
making ends meet
In this case the lady is 76 years
old and a widow with a spaved
chihuahua dog It certainly w ill
not cause the county any dam­
age but s till under the law I was
forced to collect from her 84.00
as the county dog license fee and
if she had not payed she would
have been liable for the 85 00
penalty after March 1st plus still
paying the 84.00 license fee
I feel this license fee is an
unjust burden on this lady and
any other senior citizen on a
lim ited income I would propose
that you sponsor a law hopefully
in the special session starting
Monday or in the next regular
session of the legislature for sure
that would reduce the dog li­
cense fee to all our senior
citizens over 66 years of age to
$1.00 or less at your discretion
Our adm inistrative costs of dog
tags, license books and issuing
the license averages out about
$1.00 for each license issued
This way the senior citizens w ill
have met the letter of the law in
having a license on their dogs
and the protection factor is still
there so if their dog is lost we can
tell who the owner is for retum-
int the dog
This type of license is already
in effect for hunting and fishing
licenses which we assist senior
citizens in obtaining for 50 cents
each from the Oregon Wildlife
Commission. Also we have laws
that reduce or eliminate pro­
perty taxes for senior citizens so
I would expect favorable re­
sponse from the legislature if a
bill were introduced reducing
this financial hardship on our
senior citizens
Thanking you for myself and
our senior citizens for any
consideration and help
you
might render them
Sincerely
Roy A Nelson
Columbia County Clerk
Roy A Nelson
Columbia County Clerk
Dear Sir-
I am a widow 76 years old I
have a little chihuahua spaded
dog She never leaves the house
unless in the car with me. This
seems a big price to pay for a
license for her I just moved
here, and don’t know your laws I
though! Senior Citizens got some
reductions
Inclosed is check for 84.00
Sincerely,
Vesta Thomas
P.O. Box 506
Clatskanie. Ore. 97016
Vesta E Thomas
P.O Box 560
Clatskanie, Or 97016
Dear Mrs Thomas
We have received your letter
along with the fee for a dog
license We are enclosing your
license.
We have sympathy with your
request for reductions for senior
citizens that must buy licenses
for their dogs However, as it
stands now under Oregon Law,
there are no reductions and all
persons owning a dog must pay
the regular rate.
A copy of your letter w ill be
sent to Dick Magruder, State
Representative Perhaps if the
problem were brought to his
attention, he might start legisla
tion to reduce the fees that senior
citizens have to pay to comply
with the law
Thank you for w riting to us
Perhaps something can be done
in the future to help our senior
citizens
Sincerely,
Roy A Nelson
Columbia County Clerk
Road Deaths
Hit New Low
you can depend on us for immediate service!
VERNONIA DRUG
Oregon's January 1974 traffic
death total was the lowest for
any month since April, i960
according to the figures released
by the Oregon T ra ffic Safety
Commission
Keep Oregon
Green and Clean
C H IE F of Police Jack Cunningham gfvea Mrs. Laura Carmichael a
quick buss on the cheek after awarding her a letter of cornntendahon
for
<*o*votk»n of tlnn* and labor. She has been washing all tin*
bedding for the Vernonia Ambulance for the past several years at no
charge to the city.
Police Report
January 28. 1974. Wally Gros
che, EXXON, reported a man
drove off without paying for gas
1-28-74. Sool T Scheneider.
reported loss or stolen. $15,600 in
American Express Travelers
checks, sometime between Feb
ruary and June 1973
1- 29-74, Susan B Fenner, Ver­
nonia Court Apt 420 A Street,
reported theft of a rear view
m irror, value $10
2- 1-74. a man was arrested on 2
warrents from Washington Cou
nty Court Bail $900
2-3-74, a man was arrested for
D.U.I.L.
February 13. 1974, two city
employees w ill attend
the
meeting with the Washington
Medical Emergency Radio Sys­
tem (MERS) Public
Safety
Wing, Washington County Court
House, Hillsboro. Purpose of the
conference is approval of the
system to be used b> City of
Vernonia Ambulance Those who
w ill attend w ill be Tommy Bruce
and Ix.*^ Ackers.
TV Players
Set Auditions
Tualatin Valley Players w ill
lx* holding auditions for “ Happy
Birthday Wanda June", Satur­
day, February 16 and Sunday,
February 17 at 2 p.m in the
theatre at the Did Nut Loft. 17210
S.W Shaw. Alhoa
“ Happy
Birthday, Wanda June" was
w ritten by novelist Kurt Vonne­
gut. Jr
B ill McClane w ill direct He’s
directed at Mt Hood Community
College and he played the lead.
Harold Rvan. when Mt Hood did
this play a couple of years ago.
Actors are needed "to fill the
following roles:
Penelope Rvan. age 30 Paul
Ryan, her son. age 12, Harold
Ryan, her husband, age 55,
Colonel Looseleul Harper, her
husband's sidekick, age 50, Dr
Norbert Wixidly. a suitor, age 35
Wanda June, a ehost, aee 10
Major Siegfried Von Konigswald
a german ghost, age 50; Mildred.
Harold’s form er wife, a ghost,
age 45. three females, age 10, 30.
45; five males, age 12. 35, 50. 50
55.
Misdemeanor thefts headed
the police report for the month of
January as submitted to the
Vernonia City Council under (he
signature of Chief of Police Jack
Cunningham The record also
showed one hurglarv for the
month
T raffic violations totaled 26
with one arrest shown Then*
were four VBR’s, on«* disobeyed
tra ffic signal, one improper
turn one violation of vehicle
laws, two D U IL ’s, one violation
'»I municipal ordinances; 14
parking violations and two ex
cessive noise citations issued
The department investigated
four traffic accidents, assisted at
two fire calls and un.swer«*d six
ambulance calls with six assists
to other departments They also
made 11 home checks and locat­
ed two missing persons and
handled eight miscellaneous
complaints
Members of tin* department
spent 2‘** hours in St Helens for
in-service training on the handl
mg of mental patients in addition
to regular work
Officers contributed 22 non
paid overtime hours to the
department while reserve police
contributed 153 hours
Police car No. 130 logged 2,938
miles for the month of January
County Unit
Of ACS Holds
Crusade Meet
The Columbia County Unit of
the American Cancer Society
had their "lift-u p " meeting at
the Elks Club in St Helens
February 11. There was good
representation from each city in
the county.
Those attending from Ver
noma were Columbia County
Chairman Louise Hamnett and
volunteers Francis Lentz, Car
olyn Keasey, Evelyn Heath.
Leona Aldrich and Genny Han
son.
R«*staurunti*ur. Page Yaw,
vice chairman of the business
crusade and Nora Janik, vice
president of the Oregon Division
spoke on "What is Crusade.”
Also pr«*s«*nl from Portland were
staff representatives Lana Buck
and Eran Eckhart.
Louise Hamnett stated “ we
were going to tie in orbit during
the month of March with our
crusade, and our county sights
are set at $19,000. ”
The volunteers in Columbia
County are d«*dicating the cru­
sade this year to LaVerne
Crouse of St Helens A devoted
volunteer, who has for the past
several years done a te rrific job
in organizing the crusade for the
county, but has now fallen victim
to tin* disease she has fought so
hard to conquer It was mainly
due to her efforts that Columbia
county is considered as one of
the best organized in the state
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HELENS,
O R EG O N
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