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Entered as second class mail
matter August 4, 1932. under the
act of March S, 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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A guest at the home of M r and
Nunda v dinner guests at the
Mrs Frank Serafin for the past
week was their daughter Vickie
Notestme from San Mateo. Cal
ifornia She enjoyed this year's
Friendship Jamboree w h i l e
here
home of Mr and Mrs Lewis
Morgan were their da ighter
Darlene, and Miss Cora Extine
of Portland Mr A Mrs Max
Snook and children of Deer
Island and Mr A Mrs Virgil
Snook
Mr A Mrs Erk Olson and
sons spent the weekend with her
parents Mr A Mrs Otto Boeck
at Seal Rock
Mr
Mr
Dane S. Brady
Selwva G raves
and Mrs. Graves visited
the Thacker's again Sunday p m
on their way home from spend
ing the weekend at Seaside and
other beaches
Celeste Poetler visited
Don George at the Portland
Veteran's hospital on Monday
He sends his best regards to all
of his friends here He will be in
the Hospital for some time vet
M r and Mrs Terry Ellis spent
Sunday at the home of his sister
and husband Mr & Mrs Ronald
Koch, at Milwaukie
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Rites Held lor
and M rs
and family of \ eneta spent the
weekend with the Wilbur Thack
e r s for the Jamboree Vickie
came up the week before and
stayed with her grandparents,
the Thacker s going back home
Sunday Her boyfriend. Aaron
Doughty cam e for the weekend
M rs
Phone 429-J372
M r A M rs l.onme Rogers and
family of Portland spent Satur­
day at the home of her parents.
Mr A Mrs Dick Baker
Visitors at the home of Mr A
Mrs Adrian Logan are her
grandaughter and family . Mr A
Mrs Colin Palmer and 2 child­
ren of Hailsham Suffex E ng­
land On Sunday Mrs Logan s
daughter and husband Mr A
Mrs Larry E m s ter, of Los
Angeles also visited them
Final rites were performed
Wednesday. July 31 at the Beth­
any Lutheran Church at Warren
for Dane Saxton Brady who
passed away July 28
He was borr February 10. 190?
at Orange. Texas and death
cam e at the age of 67 He had
been a resident of the Warren
Mrs Marge Stafford disclosed
area for the past 11 years and
Monday, that the committee
prior to that had lived at
seeking the recall of the County
Vernonia for 40 years where he
was active m the logging indus­ Commissioners has reached its
goal of 1800 signatures by August
try
1. 1974 and that the committee
Survivors include his wife.
has decided to seek 200 more
Martha children Terrance of
signature by August 20 due to
Kandali Washington Mrs Don
State regulations
Cline. Tacoma; Dane A of
The 90 day deadline for filing
Portland Elizabeth and James
the petitions is August 22. 1974
at home two brothers Jerome
According to Mrs Stafford the
of Shelton, W a s h i n g t o n ,
and Donald of Longview : a sis­ recall committee will hold a
meeting in Vernonia at the Ver­
ter Mrs Harvey Young Long
nonia District School Office on
view, seven grandchildren and
August 13. at 8 p.m Mrs Mary
three great grandchildren One
Kangas will be speaking on
son preceded him in death
CRAG Regional Government
The deceased was a member
of the Bethany Lutheran church,
a past m aster of the Vernonia
Masonic Lodge and f o r m e r
county commissioner
Rev Jam es L Seiffert offi­
ciated at the church services
which were followed by Masonic
Crown Zellerbach has an­
graveside rites at the Vernonia
nounced the hiring of Kenneth
Memorial Cemetery The family
L Stayton as new resident
suggests memorial contributions
to the heart association or the manager of the company 's Co­
Bethany church if friends so lumbia City sawmill
Stayton. 51. joins CZ from the
desire
Edward Hines Lumber Com­
pany in Hines Oregon, where he
has beer, lumber production
manager since 1971
He re­
places W H Wright who has left
the company
Stayton will be responsible for
Ffpmona met at
Vernonia
overall operations at the Co­
Grange Saturday. August 3 Due
lumbia City sawmill which pro
to a shortage of help. Vernonia
duces approximately 100 million
Grange members were unable to
board feet of dimension lumber
attend the meeting, but worked
annually Designed primarily
in the kitchen preparing and
for high-speed conversion of
serving the noon meal as is
small logs the mill has 190
the host Grange s duty
employees who share an annual
The Grange ladies discussed
payroll of 2 4 million
having a rummage sale the first
Prior to joining the Edward
part of October
It will be
Hines Lumber Company. Stay-
brought before the rest of the
ton was plant manager for a
ladies at the regular Grange
Georgia-Pacific mill in Pilot
meeting on Aug 10 Hope to see
Rock Oregon He worked for the
all members out
Hammond Lumber Company in
Vernonia Grange members
Samoa. California, from 1947
are proud to have a nice coat of
until joining Simpson Redwood
paint on their hall now es
Company in 1957 He joined
pecially in time for Remona
Georgia-Pacific in 1959 as saw ­
Also at the fair. Vernonia
mill superintendent of three
received second place on its fair
northern California plants and
booth
transferred to Pilot Rock in 1970
Stayton and his wife Agnes
Babe , have three children-a
son age 27 anjLtwo daughters,
ages 24 and 17
Recall Committee
Reaches Goal
CZ Announces
New Manager
Vernonia Hosts
Pomona Meet
MFW
Council Discusses
Needs of Elderly
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Ron M ever and
spent several days last week
with his grandmother. Mrs Leta
Whiteman Sunday visitors at
her home were Mr A Mrs Tex
Whiteman and son. Ted. of
Tigard and Mr A Mrs Lyle
Hathaway, sons Jeff and Brad,
of Tualatin
Sunday visitors at the home of
Mr A Mrs Will Harders were
Mr A Mrs Gene Ward and
grandson. Troy of Cedar Hills
Mrs Monica Quint rail came
home Thursday after visiting
her two sons Albert and Jack
Quintrall. and daughter and
family. Mr and Mrs Mark
Townsend, at San Clemente
California
Mr
A M rs
M atte r Mathews
and their daughter Marian spent
from July 27 to August 3 at their
cabin on the Lewis River near
Battleground Washington They
attended their church meetings
Marian's husband Melvin »join­
ed them on the w eekends She is
visiting in the Tacoma-Seattle
Area this week while Melvin is
teaching at V.P.S.
Services Held
Here Saturday
Wesley L Bolmeier. 72-year
old retired merchant and a for­
mer member of the North D a­
kota House of Representatives,
died July 31st at his cottage at
Watesco near Rockway His
death was attributed to a heart
attack
Funeral services were held
Saturday. August 3 at the Ver
noma Memorial Cemetery with
interment following the services
Rev Jack Carlson pastor of the
Vernonia Evangelical Church,
conducted the services with
arrangements in care of the
Fuiten Mortuary Chapels John
Holt. Jerry Dinger. Richard
Bush Ben Bnckel. William N el­
son and Richard Berkenfeld
served as pall bearers
Mr Bolmeier was a native of
Hunter. North Dakota where he
was bom May 31 1902 the son of
the late August and Caroline
Alberts Bolmeier He received
all oi his education and grad­
uated from high school at E n e
North Dakota He then was in the
grocery store with a brother in
Erie for a number of years and
then later had his own store
there During these years he
served as a representative in the
North Dakota Legislature for
four terms
In 1946 he cam e to Oregon and
a few months later to Vernonia
and purchased the Mill Market
He owned and operated the Mill
Market until he retired in 1966
Mr Bolmeier especially en­
joyed reading, hunting, sports
arid politics He was a member
of the Vernonia Lions Club and
the Vernonia Cemetery Board
He was married to Ora Ham-
merud at Detroit Lakes. Min
nesota of May 31. 1936 who
survives at the family home in
Vernonia
a daughter. Mrs
Richard (Gretchen i Bush, Hills
boro; a son Linn Bolmeier,
Beaverton; and three grand
children Rebecca. Adam and
Rachel Bush
Also surviving are four broth
ers William Bolmeier, Yuciapa
Calif; Dr E C . Bolmeier Dur
ham. N.C. Haven of Salem
Oregon and Melvin. Vallejo
Calif; and two sisters. Mrs
Emma Beckmeyer. Oceanside
Calif and Mrs Erie < E ster) Hill
Salem
The family suggests contri
buttons to the Vernonia Ceme
tery or Ambulance funds by
those who wish
Orlando Cepeda has a lifetime
record of 37R home runs
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Oregon Stale officials toured
Columbia County last Tuesday
July 30. held a number of press
briefings with local county
newspapers and held an open
meeting Tuesday evening which
was billed as a conference with
stale administrators, county of­
ficials and the city mayors and
councilmen
Present for the afternoon
sessions with newspapers were
Kess Cannon, Director of the
State Department of Environ
mental Quality; Laverne Miller
Chief of Sanitary Services for
the State Health Department
and Robert K Logan. Admin
istrator of the Local Government
Relations Division of the Slate
Executive Department
Due to illness and other com
mitments only Robert Logan and
Laverne Miller were present for
the evening meeting
The evening meeting which
was attended by officials of the
county and officials from three
of the five cities of the countv
and about 25 citizens began with
opening remarks by Logan in
which he noted that the purpose
of the conference was to answer
aue<
uestions regarding the role of
the state and the role of the
county
Logan then discussed the rea
sons for the establishment of
state administrative districts,
councils of government and re
gional councils of government
He cited the fact that there are
200 state agencies, boards and
commissions and that these of­
ten overlap and duplicate efforts
and the governor established 14
administrative districts to deliv­
er the services more efficiently
Regarding regional planning
Logan stated that the purpose of
the councils of government is to
strengthen local governments,
to help local governments to
work together on common prob
lems He noted the fact that
there are 24 federal programs
that require regional planning
They include programs in water
highways, sewer districts, aging
etc The governors purpose he
said is to create an umbrella
organization to aid planning
At this point the meeting was
opened to questions from of­
ficials and citizens present
One citizen raised the ques
tion. “Why do we have to be in
CRAG?" Logan's response was
that a city of county does not
have to have a CCOG or a CRAG
Another citizen asked "By
what authority did the governor
set up the administrative dis
tricts” ” Logan s response was
that this is a management func
tier, and that manv of the de
partments already had districts
and they have been in existence
now for 74 y ea rs
A citizen asked how many
states have administrative dis­
tricts’ Logan s response was
that 44 other states now have
sub-state districts
"Why has the governor 's office
persisted in wanting us to join
CRAG?” another citizen asked
Logan s response was that Co­
lumbia County does not have to
belong to CRAG
The sam e citizen then alluded
to CRAG literature and asked
"Whv do all the books say we are
numbers?” To which Logan re­
plied that he did not care what
the books say They are wrong
He then went on to say that to
participate in certain federal
programs the local government
must belong to a regional plan­
ning organization He cited the
Fanno Creek and the Tigard
Metzger sewer projects as reas
ons for the need for planning
A citizen made a comment
concerning a Preliminary Hous
mg Plan for the CRAG region to
which Logan responded by say
mg tha- there are certain broad
national problems that do not
stay within boundaries
Coming back to the reasons for
CRAG and CCOG Logan noted
that what the state and federal
agencies are try ing to do is to see
that the money given them is
used wisely.
He then cited the Trident
facility as an exam ple of the way
regional government is putting
the control back into the hands of
local government He stated that
local people, local government
elected officials have to approve
the project before it can be done
In response to a question
concerning the splitting of the
county and placing half of (he
county in one administrative
district and half in another
lxigan noted that Columbia
County is not an easy geographic
area to deal with and that the
governors office has been re
luctant to split any county “We
are looking for something work­
able and reasonable. ' he said
A citizen asked what was the
purpose of the administrative
districts Logan responded that
state agencies have to know
where to send services and the
districts give the state one con
slant base for the gathering of
data needed
A citizen questioned the need
for efficiency and said. "Dic­
tatorships handle things much
more efficiently than do de
mocracies " Logan responded
that he did not think this to be so
A citizen asked. "Where does
Columbia County sit as far as
federal funding’ " Mr Frank
Corsiglia who is on the St Helens
City Council and is a repre
sentative of that body to CRAG,
stated that when you don't have
a member you don't have anyone
there to plead your case
Regarding a question con
cem ing domination by Portland
Corsiglia stated "I didn t see
any indication in four years that
Portland was trying to dom ­
inate "
A citizen then asked. "Does
every region have a CRAG’ ”
Logan responded that 33 of 37
counties in Oregon belong to
som e regional planning organ
ization, and that 140 of the 240
cities of Oregon are mem bers of
CRAG
A citizen questioned Logan
concerning the financing
of
CRAG Logan responded that
CRAG'S are financed on a per
capita assessm ent of the mem
bers of the association of gov
ernments The Columbia Region
assesses members 37 cents per
capita He noted, however, that
the per capita assessm ent does
not pay the total CRAG budget
but that most of the money
com es from state and federal
funds
A citizen asked if per capita
taxation was not illegal and cited
the exam ple of Mrs Kangas
who. she said, receives a rebate
from the state government
Representative Dick Magruder
who was present at the meeting
stated that Mrs Kangas was
way off base in that statement
Logan commented that the
CRAG assessm ent was not a
capiiatiun lax and was sim ilar to
dues paid by nearly every city to
the local Chamber of Commerce
A citizen then asked if some
federal programs
require a
CCOG Logan responded that
some such as Highway require
planning
A citizen asked. "Did we have
to be in any district’ " and then
made a statement addressed to
Logan "You are advocating
that we are in districts.” Logan's
response was that the governor
does have the legal authority to
establish districts and cited At­
torney General Johnson's opin­
ion to that effect.
Following questions by Stan
Pmtarich and Rod Norwood con
cem ing administrative districts
Mayor Kinzig commented that
Scappoose has joined CRAG and
that no citizen of Scappoose had
been to the Council to complain
This was followed by a comment
from a resident of the Cedar
Lane trailer court 'which is out­
side the city* that he was a
citizen and complaining The
citizen followed up by saying. “I
am complaining-lf you aren't
representing Scappoose any bet
ter than you are then Scappoose
should find a new m ayor"
Logan noted that there are cer­
tain advantages to belonging to
CRAG and that many of the
problems are not contained
within boundaries
Frank Corsiglia, St Helens
responded to a question from a
citizen regarding the feeling of
CRAG on city memberships He
said. "They are very happy to
have city m em bership."
Logan then stated. “Govern­
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ment is made up of just as many
sincere folks as you are and
there has to be reasonableness
on both sides ”
A citizen then inquired con­
cerning the possibility of a vole
on CRAG membership His re
sponse to this was that a vole wa
taken in 1971 by the entire state
which approved planning
Another citizen asked con
cem ing the status of current
programs Logan responded that
certain federal programs de
ma rid regional planning Some of
these are in the areas of aging,
highways, and manpower
In response to another ques
tion concerning the purpose of
administrative districts. Logan
noted that over 500 different
prugrams have to be delivered
and administrative districts aid
the delivery of the programs
A citizen commented to the
effect that lxigan was here as a
bureaucrat and the only solution
offered were adding more Io the
bureacracy. Logan responded
that there are two ways to
handle the problems 11 to close
your eves to the problem and
pretend it doesn't exist, or 2» to
try to deal with the problem
A citizen asked. “With our
checks and balance system how
are they going to enforce it?"
Lxigan asked for clarification of
the question and another citizen
gave an exam ple of building a
garage and asked, "how can
they keep me from building a
g a ra g e” r lxigan repin'd, with
the police
A citizen asked regarding
flexibility of the rules within the
regions The response from state
officials was thal they will be
flexible from county to county
and within each county
line citizen said at this point,
"This is what scares me on
regionalism, the lack of flex
ihility "
At this point Magruder asked
what the governor’s position
would be if a proposal was
brought up in the next legis
lature concerning referral of the
CRAG question to the people’
lxigan responded that this would
be no problem
At tins point a citizen asked
where the new Unites Stall's
Police Cars com e from ’ lxigan
stated he did not know of the
existence of any such police
force
A citizen commented that "we
have county and state and the
whole business can
operate
without another layer of govern
ment to oppress us " lxigan
responded simply thal member
ship in CRAG is not essential
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In other business at the m eet­
ing Advisory Council members
discussed the needs of the eld
erly in the three counties and
proposed objectives for meeting
the needs in 1975
Ms T am e Wetle. Director of
the Area Agency on Aging at
CRAG announced her resigna­
tion as of August 9 to accept a
research position at the Institute
on Aging at Portland State
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At its July 31st meeting, the
District II-A Area Agency on
Aging Advisory Council elected
Charles Needham of Lake Os­
wego as Chairman and Seth
Jackson of Washington County
as Vice Chairman
The Area Agency or, Aging
Columbia Region Association of
Governments plans and coor­
dinates services for the elderly
in Clackamas. Columbia, and
Washington Counties
Mr
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Oregon State Officials Find Citizens
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