Senator Wayne Morse Dead At 73
Demon I a Eagle
2 THURSDAY,
JULY
1974
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The Tiger is dead! Senator
Wayne Morse. 73. died in the
morning hours Monday, follow
ing a brief hospitalization Morse
had entered the hospital with
what was thought to be a res
piratory problem but later was
diagnosed as a severe urinary
tract infection He was given
antibiotics and was reported in
stable condition Friday and Sat
urday Sunday his condition took
a turn for the worse and he was
put on the critical list with
kidney failure. Monday morning
he was dead
Morse had been campaigning
hard in an attempt to defeat Sen
Bob Packwood who had un
seated him in 1968 by a narrow
margin Morse won the right to
face Packwtxxl again by de
feating State Senate President
Jason Boe in the May 28,
Democratic primary.
In 1972, Morse had made an
earlier comeback try against
Republican Sen Mark Hatfield,
but Hatfield had won easily.
Morse, termed the “Tiger of
the Senate” by his enemies, was
known for his independence and
forthrightness in speaking out on
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The People
County Charter Pros And Cons Speak . . .
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New ways of doing things or
new ideas always meet resis
tance before they are accepted
Columbia County voters will be
faced in November with a new
proposal; a charter of govern
ment that would bring about
basic reforms in county govern
ment.
It is our hope that the new
charter will not be defeated
merely by the fact that it is new
or because it is different or
because the opponents of the
charter use scare words such as
CRAG, dictatorship, land use
planning, administrative edict,
socialism, etc. in speaking
against it.
We urge you to look at the
provisions in the entire charter
as printed in the last Spotlight,
compare these to the present
county government then if the
charter is less effective vote
against it. If it makes for a more
effective government structure
vote for it.
It is also our hope that the old
saying "I don’t understand it son
I am going to vote against it,”
will not be heard and will be
dropped out of our vocabulary
This concept is a cop-out. It is
merely an excuse What the
phrase really means is “I'm ig
norant on the issue and choose
to the Multnomah County Juv-
vote on that basis.”
To sum up we are urging you
to find out. to educate yourself on
the issue, so that your vote will
not be made in ignorance.
DAVE WILLIAMSON, Charter Committee member and St. Hel
ens Attorney, explains the various sections of the newly pro
posed charter. Here he discusses the electoral districts es
tablished in the charter. Approximately 35 citizens of the
county were present to speak for and against the charter.
House Okays
Program For
Reforesting
The start of a ten year pro
gram to reforest all ravaged
Forest Service lands in the U.S.
was approved Thursday morn
ing July 18 by the full House
Appropriations C o m m i t -
tee. congressman W e n d e l l
Wyatt (R-Ore.i announced from
Washington.
‘This is the culmination of a
ten year effort,’’ Wyatt said.
“There are 3.3 million acres of
Forest Service land capable of
commercial growth of timber,
and it makes no sense at all to
waste this vast renewable nat
ural resource.”
The FBI says forcible rapes
increased 11 percent in 1971
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CZ Completes
Lumber Deal
The previously announced
acquisition of the assets of Tre
mont Lumber Company of
Joyce. Louisiana, jointly by
Crown Zellerbach and the South
ern Timber Trust was com
pleted recently with the delivery
of transfer documents.
Crown Zellerbach and the
Southern Timber Trust made a
successful $185 million bid to
purchase the Tremont assets-
mcluding 217.0«) acres of mature
pine timberlands, mostly in
northern Louisiana-in Novem
ber, 1973
The purchase also includes
two sawmills and a plywood
plant, as well as a number of
small oil-purchasing properties
Southern Timber Trust was
formed for the purpose of par
ticipating in the joint bid by
Brookwood Energy and Prop
erties, Inc., a real estate and
investment subsidiary of Leh
man Brothers. Incorporated.
Crown Zellerbach will manage
the timberlands and market all
Tremont lumber, plywood and
other forest products, including
by-product wood chips
D.S. Denman, Crown Zeller
bach senior vice president, tim
ber and wood products, said
Tremont’s operations would
continue under the same local
management
He also announced that a $5
million program is planned to
rebuild and expand the plywood
plant at Joyce, which was dam
aged by fire earlier this year,
and to modernize and enlarge
the sawmill there
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We w ill pay up to $55.00 per Ion (approxi-
nalely $1300 per load) for Douglas fir tree
length logs, 75' to 90' long w ith 8 m ini
mum tops. We can arrange loading and
hauling."
Crown Zellerboch Corp.
1 am about to accept a fine
offer of a principalship from the
Jefferson School District No.
14-J. Marion County. In ac
cepting, 1 must leave Vernonia
and the many fine friends and
associates I and my family have
made here A substantial in
crease in salary at this time
seems rather small compensa
tion for all that must be left
behind, however. I am grateful
for the wonderful memories that
I will take along with me
To all who have expressed
concern for my situation and
sought reasons for my leaving. 1
must refer them to pertinent
school board meeting minutes
My greatest problems, however
which tended to interfere with
the successful administration in
my opinion were those related to
my working situation with the
superintendent. I feel the lack of
given latitude to freely admin
ister the elementary schools
without restrictions, constraints,
limitations and obstacles which
rendered my authority and lead
ership ineffective, has prevented
real success
There must be free and
amicable communication among
the superintendent, principal,
and board if one is to succeed in
the administrative role. A prin
cipal must also have the author
ity to act equal to the re
sponsibilities he accepts; with
out which it eventually becomes
necessary to leave the prin
cipal’s role. This seems to have
become the case
I hereby reluctantly terminate
my long affiliations with the
school, community and county
and specifically my long en
joyable memberships in Ver
nonia Lions, Cub Scouts, Izaak
Walton. Vernonia Recreation
Committee as well as my as
sociation with the Columbia
County Elementary Principals.
I and my family are about to
embark to new lifes experiences
and we are entering this new
phase in a spirit of enthusiasm
and appreciate greatly the well
wishes of so many of you fine
Vernonians.
I sincerely hope that the new
principal enjoys the warmth and
support of the community and
staff that I and my family have I
offer him or her my best wishes
for a long and successful ad
ministration in Vernonia
sincerely.
Edward F. Forbes
Private property shall not be
infringed upon So says our
constitution of the United States
There for the Harry Franklin
Family of the Vernonia-Mist
area has started again, to con
tinue building their new home,
against the Columbia County’s
order to purchase a building
permit to do so.
Before we really knew just
what the Constitution really
meant, we had started our new
home without a permit, and after
being harassed by the Building
Inspector, we tried just about all
ways, to cooperate with him, to
get drawings and all completed
and turned in for a county
building permit, but the farther
along we got, the more harder it
got to be to complete because of
this lack of knowledge of the
Laws, which later proved un
available even in his code bwk
We also learned the State
Cod«-, for building was repealed
in 196.3. therefore we were hauled
into court, and fined for a Law
that wasn't in effect at the time.
So now after all the hassel we
will stand against even the new
Stale Law that came into effect
July the 1st of this year, for the
Constitution does not define any
means, or ways, that private
property can be infringed upon,
and that means it's (PRIVATE i.
Mary Kangas is our club
speaker, and has taught us a lot
concerning our private property.
Freedom of Private Property
Starts Here
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Col Harry Franklin
Vernonia, Oregon
issues He was one of only two
Senators who spoke out against
and voted against the Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution which gave
President Johnson the authority
to put American troops into
South Veitnam
In 1945, Morse became the
Senator for Oregon and retained
that office for 23 years until his
1968 defeat by Packwood
Morse was extremely popular
in Columbia County and often
carried the election here while
Mrs. Lida Mills
Passes Away
Mrs. Lida Mills, 87, who was
the daughter and granddaughter
of some of the Vernonia area’s
earliest settlers, and who was a
native and lifelong resident of
the area, died July 20 at the
Forest View Care center in For
est Grove. She was a lifelong
resident of the Vernonia area
until 1971 when she was scalded
severly and she had been in the
Forest Grove and Hillsboro area
for treatment and care since that
time.
Funeral services were held at
the Fuiten Mortuary Chapel,
Vernonia Tuesday July 23 with
Ralph Stone, one of Jehovah
Witnesses’, officiating. Conclud
Clarence Reed, 90-year-old ing rites and interment were at
resident of Keasey Route. Ver- the Vernonia Memorial Ceme-
ninia for over 86 years, died July terv
18 at the Forest View Care
Mrs Mills was bom at the
Center following an extended family home on the Stoney Point
illness
near Vernonia January 6,
Funeral services were held at road
1887. the daughter of William
the Fuiten Mortuary Chapel. and Iva Sheeley Wood Both her
Vernonia. Saturday July 20
maternal and paternal families,
Gene Church, one of Jehovah the Wood and Sheeley families
Witnesses’, conducted the ser
had been early homesteaders in
vices with concluding rites and the Upper Nehalem Valley Her
interment following at the Ver maternal grandparents, the
nonia Memorial Cemetery
VanBlaircom family had taken
Mr Reed was born July 4, 1884 up the homestead that is at
at Newton. Iowa and moved present the main part of the city
from Iowa to Kansas and then of Vernonia.
Forest Grove, before moving up
Mrs Mills was married to
Rock Creek out of Vernonia, in Thomas Bert Mills at Vernonia
1888 The family later moved on in 1910 and they spent their
the Throop homestead here and married life on Keasey Routt-
farmed and worked in the Log Mrs Mills spent her lifetime all
ging industry most of his life within a mile of her birthplace
time
Mr Mills died here in 1954
Mr Reed was married to Gay-
Surviving is a daughter. Mrs
nell Wood on November 5,1911 at
Frank (Georgia) Enyart. Ver
Vernonia and they celebrated
nonia; a sister, Mrs J.B (Shir
their 35th wedding anniversary-
ley) Roddy. Portland, a brother,
before her death in 1966
Newell Wood and two izrandsons
Surviving are four children,
Monte Kelley and Timothy En
Mrs Kenneth (Bernece) Bodle,
yart, all ot vemonia
Malibu. California, Ivan C.
Reed. Sherwood; Mrs Harold
(Beulah) Maikin and Robert M
Reed, both of Vernonia; a
grandson, Kent Battrick, Ver
nonia; and three great grand
children.
Three lifelong residents of the
community. Bill Braun. Clar
ence Reed and Lida Mills whose
combined years of residence on
the community totaled 250 years,
died on July 15, 18 and 20 re
spectively
Bill Braun, and Lida Mills
William M Braun, 76, who was
a native and lifelong resident of were born here and children of
earlv homesteaders here while
the area, known for many years
Clarence Reed came 86 years
as Braunsport. between Buxton
and Vernonia, died July 15 at the ago when he was 4 Clarence
Tuality Community Hospital fol Reed was married to a sister of
Lida Mills so these two families
lowing an illness of the past six
were close relatives and lived
months.
their lifetimes on Keasey Route
Funeral services were held at
Considerable history and the
the Fuiten Mortuary Chaper,
Vernonia Thursday July 18 at 1 hardship of early life in the
Community was witnessed by
p.m with Rev Father Michael
those folks and a chapter of this
Raleigh, officiating A r c h i e
life style is closed with their
Christensen, John Siedelman
deaths
Richard Lee, Edison Aldrich,
Cecil Huff and Earl Ray served
as pall bearers with Lloyd
Thomas. Cass Bergerson, Roy
F<xxi prices jumped 20 percent
Nesbity, Edwin Schedwin, Bill
in England last year
Nichols and Clyde May and
Floyd VanDomelen as honorary
bearers. Mrs. William Kretsch
In some areas of the Atacama
mer was soloist and Mrs Lloyd
Desert in Chile it has not rained
Thomas, Organist Concluding
rites and interment were at Ver for 20 years.
nonia Memorial Cemetery
His parents, the late Johan and
Victoria Braun moved from
Cedar Hills to a homestead
North of Buxton in the mid
1880's, their homestead papers
being signed by Grover Cleve
land, president. William M
Braun was born at the family
home on September 17, 1897 and
received his education in a
school that adjoined the family
farm They also had a post
office, bearing the postmark
"Braunsport” in the family
home.
Bill spent his entire life on this
farm and farmed until his re
tirement. He also worked many
years in the Logging Industry
and in a shingle mill with his late
brother, Fred Braun When he
sold tne tarm a tew years ago he
built a new home across the
highway, that was the fifth
Braun home built on this proper
ty.
He was married to Anna L.
Schmidlin at St Helens on Nov
ember 4,1934 who survives at the
family home. Also surviving is a
son, William A Braun; ana two
grandchildren, Christopher and
Jennifer Braun, all of Sunny
vale. California and a sister,
Mrs Marie Christensen, Ver
nonia .
Services Read
For C. Reed
Death Takes
Oldtimeis
Wm, M. Braun
Services Held
losing in other areas In the 1972
election Morse lost to Hatfield by
a wide margin in the State but
carried Columbia County by
nearly a thousand votes
Morse c a r r i e d Columbia
County easily in the 1974 Dem
ocratic by winning every pre
cinct but one and in that one he
tied
Heart Attack
Takes L Smith
Graveside services were held
Saturday, July 13 at 11 a m at
the Vernonia Memorial Ceme
tery with the pastor Jim Kent of
the Forest Grove Church of
Christ officiating Funeral ser
vices were entrusted to Fuiten
Mortuary Chapel in Vernonia
Louis L. Smith died Tuesday,
July 9, 1974 at Livermore. Cal
ifornia following a heart attack
Mr Smith was visiting his
daughter in Pleasanton at the
time of his death.
Mr Louis L Smith was born
June 17, 1916 in Cornersville,
Arkansas, the son of Manual and
Ethel Smith As a young boy he
moved with his parents to Ari
zona where he attended schools
and grew to adulthoixi He later
moved to California Mr Smith
worked as a carpenter most of
his lifetime.
Mr Smith is survived by his
widow, Nettie of Hillsboro; Two
sons, and four daughters; Ken
neth Smith of Vernonia, Oregon;
Eddie Smith. Hyland. Califor
nia, Nettie McMurry, Hillsboro;
Lillian Mixire, Vernonia; Alice
Morrison. Pleasanton. Calif.;
and Barbara Benneti of Hills
boro Mr. Smith is also survived
by his parents; Manuel and
Ethel Smith of Fresno, Califor
nia Twenty-three grand and two
great grandchildren survive as
does two brothers and five sis
ters all of California
It is estimated there are 23
million youths in the U.S be
tween 12 and 17 years of age
About t.2 million overseas
tourists came to the US in the
first half of 1973
The Clifford Isaacson family
visited Yellowstone National
Park in Wyoming and took the
145 mile loop around the area to
see the many scenic wonders the
park offers while on their vaca
tion They returned home by way
of Glazier National Park in Mon
tana. where they camped out in a
thunder storm which added ex
citement to the vacation trip
They visited the World’s Fair at
Spokane, ending their camping
trip at Sun Lakes Park, Wash
ington. returning home July 16
Registration For
PSU Classes Open
Registration is open up to the
day classes begin for nine spec
ial programs and the third and
final concentrated short term
which runs Aug 8-20 at Portland
State University’s Summer Ses
sion.
During the third short term,
courses are available in ac
counting. biology, chemistry,
earth sciences, economics, En
glish. foreign languages, geo
graphy. physics and sociology
Among the special programs
yet to be offered are: "Con
servation of the Oregon Envir
onment,” Aug 4-10 with geo
graphy professor John Dart;
“Consumer ~ otection Work
shop,” Aug 5 .6 with marketing
professor Jack Taylor; “Com
munication Problems in State
Government,” Aug 11-17 with
speech professor Ted Grove;
“Learning About the United Na
tions,” Aug 12-23 with North
Carolina Central University his
tory professor Helen Edmonds;
"Crime Prevention," Aug 12-23
with administrator of justice
nrofessor Gary Perlstein, and
"Politics of Equality: Chicano
Politics in the U .S .,A u g 12-23
with Rudolph de la Garza, vis
iting instructor from Colorado
College
Anyone may register to attend
the PSU Summer Session For
mal admission is not necessary
For further information, contact
the Summer Session Office
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The Veterans Service office
will be closed for the week of
July 29-August 2 according to
Veterans Service officer Robert
Tolleshaug.
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Vancouver businessman Jam
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