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THURSDAY, AUGUST I.
1974
Conncilmen Approve Figure for Automation of City
Water Plant, Plan Drainage Study, Grant Increase
The regular city council meet
ing August 5 was called to order
by Council President C.E Miller
in the absence of Mayor Sher
man Fisher Councilmen L E
Atkins. L G
Bowerman and
Lucille Tomlin and Attorney
Allan Coon were present Ap­
proval was voted the minutes of
the July 15 meeting
J.J Thoenes complained of
extremely noisy cars nightly at
First and Nehalem
Streets
Councilwoman Tomlin stated
that tlie police would check this
out
Norman Davis, representing
the Senior Citizens, rose to thank
Everyone involved for helping in
their transportation but asked
that possible abuse of their van
and extra cars by younger
passengers might be controlled
He then asked for voluntary as­
sistance in clearing thistles and
repairing the roof on the Grange
Hall
Pat Goodman asked why the
boys working for the city were
allowed to drive the city trucks
on weekends Roy Sanders de
fended this question by replying
the boys were working unoer his
direction and the trucks were not
misused
A letter from Henry Anderegg
asked for inspection of the finish
job done by North American
Contractors on his property be
fore a release is made A copy of
his letter was forwarded to the
engineers and contractors.
A communicaton from Bump,
Young & Walker. Attorneys at
Law. representing Charles and
Margaret Stith claim ' sewer
work on their property resulted
in great damage, no improve
ment Attorney Coon will as­
sume the necessary legal cor
respondence and action to be
taken.
Z M Dutson. representing R.
E Meyer Engineers. Inc , pre
sented their proposal regaraing
overtime costs of North Am eri­
can Contractors incurred in
October, 1972. when crossing the
river A decision was made to
forward the unapproved propos
al letter to North American for
their comments before action
would be discussed.
Mr Hergeschemier. of White-
ly, Jacobsen & Associates, sub­
mitted an actual cost figure of
$10,172 80 for the automation of
the water plant Tomlin moved
and Bowerman seconded the
motion to go ahead with the
project Motion was carried
Councilman Miller asked Roy
Sanders for a report on the
drainage problem on the Essie
Nance property Sanders report­
ed drainage is coming from sur­
terms Bowerman moved, A t­
kins seconded Motion carried
William Nelson submitted a
General Telephone reouest to
bury a telephone cable along the
North and east side of East St.
Moved by Atkins to grant per­
mission. seconded by Bower
man Motion carried
A Federal Grant was received
by the library and notice of
insertion to the ‘74-‘75 Budget
was requested by William Nel­
son Publication of a supple­
mental Budget Hearing on Sep­
tember 3,1974, to appear in print
August 15, and August 22 in the
Vernonia
Eagle.
Bowerman
moved, seconded by Atkins.
Motion carried.
Phyllis Woods was sworn in as
the new City Recorder by A t­
torney Allan Coon, Fred Oviatt
was introduced by Chief of Po­
lice Cunningham as the new Co­
lumbia County Deputy Sheriff
replacing Ozzie Ray
Upon payment of bills, the
meeting was adjourned at 10:15
p.m.
Meeting Reveals Need For More
Communication And Understanding
Members from state depart
ment offices and the Columbia
County Commissioners met with
the staff of the Vernonia Eagle
and Scappoose Spotlight in V er­
nonia. early Wednesday after­
noon, July 28. to clarify some
points of contention and to an­
swer questions the news media
Don Lawler Named As
IMC Director For IED
Dan Lawler, director of the
Intermediate Media Center for
the Columbia County Intermed
■ate Education District-disclosed
in an interview Tuesday. that the
new Intermediate Media Center
will be in operation at the
beginning of school The Media
Center (IM C ) will have avail
able at least 1000 16 mm film
titles which schools can borrow
for their use The IMC film
library wiU have titles in a
variety of curriculum areas both
the elementary and secondary
levels According to Lawler, the
1000 titles have been purchased
for an average co6t of $183 per
title.
Plans call for a film delivery
service to be established with all
of the schools in the county on a
rotating basis Monday
and
Thursday Scappoose. St Helens,
and Vernonia will be serviced
and Tuesday and Friday Rainier
and Clatskanie 5J Also an inter-
school service will be provided
Another service to be provided
by the IM C will be the repair and
renovation of audio - visual
equipment owned by the various
school districts This service will
be done at no cost to the districts
except for the cost of parts for
the repairs Currently the IM C
Technician. Kris Kern, is check
ing and repairing audio-visual
equipment in each school dis­
trict
Lawler noted that the film
service is a supplement to the
work of the teacher and should
help the teacher in getting con­
cepts across
By September the IMC will
have catalogs which will be pro
vided to each school listing the
film titles available
The films ordered for the first
year of operation have been pur
chased on an evaluation basis,
stated Lawler "If thev fit the
cirriculum we will keep them If
not we will trade them in," he
said The average length of films
purchased is around 15 to 20
minutes Few films have been
ordered which will run more
than 28 minutes
Lawler also indicated that the
IMC will provide cooperative
purchasing service of audio­
visual. office and photo equip­
ment through their office ‘TThis
kind of arrangement should re­
rounding buildings onto the low­
er Nance land Sanders stated
that correction of the added
problem involving the sanitation
system would require extensive
work by the city Miller made a
motion to change the sewer line
and Tomlin seconded
William Nelson requested the
monies be refunded to Wright
and Normand. parties who paid
sewer amounts but were unable
to be hooked up Tomlin moved
to refund, Bowerman seconded
Motion carried
Applications for the utility
man position were set aside for a
special committee meeting on
August 6 due to the number of
applications submitted Motion
by Atkins, seconded by Miller
Motion carried.
Increase amounts submitted
by Wilbur Davis to raise garbage
rates on business accounts and
dump charges were not approv­
ed. but a smaller rate increase
was presented and accepted by
Davis Attorney Coon will write
an ordinance stating the new
sult in considerable savings to
the districts in Columbia Coun­
ty," he stated
In the future it is planned to
have a production facility which
will produce audio-visual m a­
terials that are not easily pur­
chased Eventually a graphic
artist will be hired to do in-house
productions and productions for
schools and districts and teach­
ers Productions will include
overhead transparencies, slide
programs, slide copies, photo
graphs, charts and maps Also,
with the cooperation of the dis­
trict plans call for the house of
expensive models for coopera­
tive use
Lawler heads a staff of five
employees of the new IM C . a
courier, a repair technician, a
shipping clerk, a booking clerk
and an offset press operator The
clerks and press operator will
also be available to the IE D
office when necessary These
employees have all been hired
and are presently assisting Law­
ler in putting the new program
into operation.
Contingent upon a final agree­
ment between St Frederic P a r­
ish and Portland Community
College, the IM C will be housed
in several classrooms at St.
Frederic
Lawler comes to
the In ­
termediate Education District
program after four and one half
years as a salesman for BFA
Educational Media Incorpora
ted. a division of CBS and 20
years as an educator Prior to
assuming his new title as IM C
Director he had sold 16mm films
to IE D offices and school dis
tricts in the Pacific Northwest
Before that he had been a
specialist in the Beaverton
schools Curriculum Materials
center. 1966 1969 He taught for
13 years in Vernonia from 1953
1966 He began his career in ed
ucation in South Dakota where
he taught in the high school from
1949 1953
He is a graduate of Beadle
State Teachers College. South
Dakota and a graduate of Mad
ison High School, Madison South
Dakota
I^awler's wife Lois works at
Tektronics in Beaverton in the
shipping department His family
presently resides in H ills b o ro
felt pertinent.
Present at the press con­
ference was Kess Cannon, d ir­
ector from the Department of
Environmental Quality; Robert
K Logan, administrator of the
Local Government Relations D i­
vision of the State Executive
Department; and Laverne S.
M iller, chief of the office of
Sanitation Services of the Health
Division. Department of Human
Resources Also in attendance
were Columbia County Com­
missioner A. J. Ahi bom, Fred
Foshaug, and Jack Minkoff.
The conference led off with
Robert Logan stating that he felt
some residents of Columbia
County might not realize that the
county commissioners did not
have the authority to supercede
instructions and rules from the
state and of federal level.
‘ ‘The members of the Board Of
Commissioners can't decide
they’ll enforce one set of rules
then decide against another,
simply because they or the
county don’t agree on the sub­
ject,” Logan said. "They have
no choice in the matter and, if
they fail to enforce rulings from
state or federal departments,
then those agencies will step in
and do the enforcing.”
Discussion then ensued on
those areas affecting Columbia
County including the problems in
the disposal of solid waste with
Kess Cannon. DEQ. probing into
the dissatisfaction many have
found with Santosh Noting that
the DEQ wasn't aware of all the
problems in the state. Cannon
said, “ that’s why we came. To
find out for ourselves what areas
need clarification and to try and
find a solution to such things as
proper sanitary landfills.”
Cannon also mentioned one
point of dissention-that of those
who live in the area along the
Columbia River on the Oregon
side, who are forced to abide by
strict DEQ rulings on air po-
lutting while watching Washing­
ton. across the river, blissfully
pollute not only their own a ir but
that on the Oregon side also.
According to Cannon, meet­
ings have been held with Wash
ington and they will be expected
to adhere to the same air quality
regulations that prevail in Ore­
gon at present, hinting that if
Washington failed to meet these
requirements, then other action
might be taken
In another area of interest
that of septic tank regulations-it
was revealed that approval has
now been given for septic tanks
to be installed in rural areas
where property exceeds ten
acres regardless of soil condi­
tion Unfortunately due to soil
formation in Columbia County,
at present no sanitary system
has been found fool-proof for
Man Held On
Rape Charge
Vernon Dean Robbins, 21, of
Vernonia was indited by the Co­
lumbia County Grand Jury F r i­
day . August 2 on a charge of rape
in the first degree, following his
arrest by the Vernonia Police
Department Thursday, July 25
at the home of the victim
Following the alleged attack,
the woman, a 19-year-old house­
wife and
mother-apparently
managed to contact police who
arrived at the scene to find
Robbins still in the residence. He
was taken into custody and
transported to Columbia County
Jail Following a preliminary
hearing by Judge Don Kalberer,
he was bound over for the Grand
Jury
The youthful victim was ex­
amined at the Columbia County
District Hospital in St Helens
where she was treated for shock
then released
Robbins is presently lodged in
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sewage disposal.
"Even though land may seem
fine in the summer months.'
Cannon said, "with more than
adequate triculation, in the win­
ter months the rains force the
water table up until, in many
areas water stands one or two
inches deep and often flooding
occurs which pours raw sewage
into the waterways even when
areas have brand new sewer
plants such as the one at Scap­
poose. The plants simply cannot
cope with both the sewage and
the over-abunda nee of w ater.”
Logan then clarified another
issue that has caused unhappi­
ness in the area; that of the dif­
ference between belonging to
District 1 which includes T ill­
amook and Clatsop counties; or
District 2, made up of M ult­
nomah, Clackamas, Washington
and Columbia counties.
“ Actually there , no choice in
which district a county belongs
to, although we try to follow the
wishes of the residents,” Logan
said, adding, “the districts-all 14
of them-were formed mainly to
prevent an overlapping of agen­
cies and services. In that way a
person doesn't have to go one
place for one permit then an­
other for the grant to go with the
permit. It was simply more
efficient and economical to di­
vide the state into districts, and
it really makes no difference in
the performance expected by
state or federal agencies The
same rules and
regulations
pretty much apply in each dis­
tric t.”
Other subjects that
came
under scrunity
included the
burning variance needed in Co­
lumbia County. It has presently
been extended, due in great part
to the work of commissioner Jay
Ahlborn, and will again be
studied when the DEQ meets in
September of this year, accord­
ing to Kess Cannon.
Logan then said, “one other
fact I ’d like to point out is the
misconception many have about
CRAG and the Metropolitan
Boundary Board Perhaps the
fact that they are housed in the
same building has led to these
erroneous conclusions but in no
way are the two agencies con­
nected nor does CRAG have any
influence on decisions made by
the boundary board.
“They are two separate and dis­
tinct functions,” said Logan,
commenting, “in fact no person
can serve on the boundary board
who is connected with another
agency of governmental depart­
ment The boundary board is
made up strictly by laymen and
its function is to prevent cities
from making illogical plans for
expansion-the type that would
cause more problems than it
would solve.”
The press conference conclud­
ed with the state officials and
commissioners both assuring the
press that they are always
willing to listen to the problems
that county residents might have
and ready to answer questions
on these subjects That, in fact,
they desired more public input
since in that way, only then can
they provide the service and ef-
ficency expected of them.
Eum eno,
Girls Benefit
From Sports
Says Perry
Suddenly it ’s a brand new
world for girls Doors are open
ing to them, that were denied
their mothers and no longer is it
an unladylike thing to do. if a
female should desire to play
baseball or run the mile.
Still, many cluck their tongues
and claim that girls should be
content to be considered frail,
delicate bits of fluff, fit for home
but not for the rougher world of
sports Fortunately many others
disagree on this issue
One person who thinks girls
can do ail right in the field of
sports is Bob Perry, director of
P erry’s Basketball Camp.
“ I feel sports for girls is
definitely to the good." said
Perrv, who was a basketball
coach at Beaverton prior to
accepting his present position in
the Guidance Department. “ It
teaches not only skills but brings
out the increased potential for
self-confidence and a more pos­
itive attitude ”
Perry backs up his words with
facts, the first fact being that
P erry’s Basketball Camp is the
first camp in the state of Oregon
to accept girls for sports training
and secondly, Perry's started
their program for girls last year,
long before everyone started
getting on the sports for girls
bandwagon.
“We have no special pre-
reauisite for either boys and
girls and they operate under the
same rules. Our first year we
sent home word with the boys
who attended camp here and
advised local junior and senior
high schools. Before we knew it,
we had fifty applicants for the
week of summer camp. This
year we had 70 girls turn out for
instruction in basketball and
volleyball. They also received
coaching in soft ball."
The camp, located in the lush
green of the Nehalem Valley
only one mile from Vernonia,
has been in operation for 11
years, providing an outdoor at­
mosphere with a homelike qual­
ity that makes all the kids feel at
home.
Famous throughout the north­
west for the quality of training
boys receive in the art of bounc­
ing ball, the camp has innovated
their instruction for girls basic­
ally because they too feel girls
are as capable and motivated as
boys in the area of sports and
should have an equal chance at
enjoying the thrill of compe
tition.
Sign-up Scheduled
The opportunity to learn to
swim will be available at a
two-week teaching session, the
sign-up for which will take place
next Monday, August 12.
The lessons are available for
all ages and the sign-up will take
place at the city pool from 10 to
12 a.m. Kelley Nance and Sue
Cavinee will be the instructors.
T H IS L IT T L E lady leaps but misses In an energetic game
of volleyball a t P e rry ’s Basketball Cam p which has opened Its
grounds to the Instruction and recreation of girls for the second
year in a row.
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A F A ST game of basketball is enjoyed at P e rry ’s Basketball
Cam p. This year 70 girls turned out fo r the week’s training and
enjoyed Instruction fro m experts In the field of both basketball
and volleyball.
County Charter Proposal
Submitted by Committee
The Chairman of the Home
Rule Charter Committee, Ted
White, presented the proposed
Home Rule Charter to election
officials at the Columbia Court
House, Tuesday morning, Aug
6 The charter report will now be
submitted to the voters for their
approval in November.
Election officials
indicated
Tuesday that, following the w rit­
ing of a ballot title by the District
Attorney’s office, the charter
will be submitted to the Sec­
retary of Slate for inclusion in
the November voters pamphlet
under ORS 203.790
The submission of the docu­
ment Tuesday, ends the work of
the nine member charter com­
mittee, headed by Ted White of
Scappoose. The committee has
spent 18 months drafting the new
charter proposal.
Hearings on the charter were
conducted in three areas of the
county following published notic­
F O R T Y CARS and approxim ately 160 people
converged oa Anderson P a rk Saturday morning.
Aagast I , to enjoy a coffee break. The group,
es in county newspapers.
One change in wording was
made by the committee follow­
ing the public hearings This
change concerns section 40, Re­
gional Government. The section
was changed to read, “The
county may not be a member of
an agency or organization whose
prima purpose is land use plan­
ning without prior approval of
the voters of the county unless
membership therein is required
by state or federal law .”
The charter submission con­
tained signatures of eight of the
nine members of the committee.
One member, Agnes Petersen, of
St. Helens, was on vacation and
unavailable for signing.
Citizens who served on the
committee in addition to Chair­
man White were Pete Bartlett,
Ben Coleman, Agnes Petersen,
Buford Hayes, Howard Hopkins,
E .T. Johnson, M B. Morton, and
David B Williamson.
which belongs to the Horseless Carriages of
A m erica organization, had traveled fro m Portland
for this 9th annual outing.
Society Plans
Annual Picnic
The annual Vernonia Society
and Old Grads picnic will be held
at Anderson Park, Sunday, Aug­
ust 18 with registration to begin
at 10 a m Coffee and cups will be
provided
The picnic provides an op­
portunity for present and former
Vernonia residents and school
students to meet and renew
acquaintances The Camp 8 Ca­
boose school group is also sched­
uled to meet at this time.
T H E O LD EST e a r a t the 9th aaaual outing of
Horseless Carriages ef A m erica, was a 19M
Batch bat ether well-kaowa ae w ell ae forgotten
aateaaehlee were represented including Fords,
CadBlacs, Stadehahers, Hapmobilee, Overlands,
M itchell-Chalm ers and more. The group left the
p ark to travel to Hudson P a rk for lunch aad
from there they planned to visit the Trojan
Nuclear Plant on Highway 30 near R ainier before
returning home.
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