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Children's Story
Hour To Start At
VOLUME 62
DAYTON, OREGON 97114
THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1975
Girls Scouts To
Organize For
Eventful Year
Santiam Girl Scouts are once
again getting ready for an event-
ful year. There is something for
everyone! Brownie Scouts are 6,
7 and 8; Junior Scouts are 9, 10
and 11; Cadette Scouts are 12, 13
and 14; and Senior Scouts are the
senior high school age. Santiam
Council'is a URited Way agency
serving girls `and adults in Mar-
ion, Polk, Lynn Benton, .Lincoln,
a~d Yamhil counties. The Coun-
ci office is located at 2410 Turn-
er Rd SE, Salem:
In Dayton the Brown and Girl
Scouts organizational meeting
will be Sept. 25 at 7:30 pm in
the Grade School Cafeteria. Girls
entering the first thru the sixth
grades are invited to bring their
morns and sign up for a year of
fun in Girl Scouting.
For more information, phone
'Carol Jensin, 864-3535; Jan Clev-
enger 864-3639 or Ann Evers 864-
3455.
Film To Be Shown
At Dayton Church
"Peace Child," a masterful film
of primitive life in the jungles of
Irian Jaya, wil be shown on Sun-
day, Sept. 28 at 7:30 pm at the
Dayton Baptist Church.
Filmed in Che mtspoiled jung-
les of what was formerly Dutch
New Guineal "Peace Child" doc-
uments the startling reaction of
stone-age people to the message
of the Gospel of Christ.
Missionaries Don and Carol
Richardson respond to the call of
God to work among these people.
After careful preparation and a
10-thousand mile journey, they
find themselves in the shadows
and sunlight of a. rain forest in-
habited by primitive head hunt-
ers. P~nstakingly they learn the
language but are. shocked when
their account of Judas' betrayal
of Jesus makes him a hero to
people whose highest attribute is
to be ma~ters of treachery.
An inter-tribal war continues
until a warring chief offers his
con as the means of bringing a
lasting peace. The war ends and
a primitive tribal custom makes
~he C~spel undemtand~bie.
ortment Com|
DownByCoc
At
The Dayton City Council voted
down the proposed 24-unit apart-
ment development at the exten-
sion of Third Street near Mill
Street on the grounds of inade-
quat safety of access to the area.
The Council was in special ses-
sioR Monday night to decide on
the apartment proposal. Thirty-
two citizens were also present
for the meeting.
he motion of denial, which
was passed unanimously by the
four councilmen present, also
mentioned the concern of the
city land use plan for safety and
growth in the dity and recommen-
dation from the State Highway
Division and the Yamhill County
plannin~ office which stated that
,the Third Street access to the
area was inadequate.
The city planning commission
had approved preliminary plans
for the apartments but left the
decision on access to the area up
to the council.
A. H. Krake, owner of the
property, explained that the
apartments would be rented to
people of 62 years of age or old-
er and said that he beieved that
the Third Street access was safe.
Duane Barnes of 300 Mill St.
presented a petition with 15 sig-
natures opposing the dibvelop-
ment because of unsafe access.
Mrs. Stephen Lindell of Third
and Mill Street spoke against it,
citing the safety of her children.
Floyd Lacey, district engineer
of the State Highway Division,
said that there was m) safe ac-
Cess to Highway 221 in that area,
and a letter to the same effect
was read from the Ymnhill Coun-
ty planning office.
ARer the apartment plan was
denied by the council, Krake
asked if Third Street was no long-
er a street in that area.
Mayor Patti Jellum said that
he assumed that it is no longer
a street for further development,
and Lacey said that there was no
change in its present status.
This was the main action taken
at the meeting, but sparks flew
when the Palmer addition was
brought up.
Councllma~ Paul Jensen said
that MaFor Jellum was not re-
specting the wishes of the court-
cil in the matter of placing of
sewer and water lines and issu-
ing of building permits for Pal-
mer additi~. Counciman Forfest
Lien agreed.
The other two Councilmen pre-
sent, Rex McElwain and Norman
McGrew, supported the mayor.
Two councilmen, Rick Freeborn~
and Arthur Johnson, were not
present.
The mayor said that he would
offer his resignation if the coun-
cil disapproved of his action.
Councilman~ Lien said that he
might offer his resignation at the
next council meeting.
The mayor noted the suit of
Fred Bienz against the city to
stop the Palmer addition devel-
opment and said, "We're putting
ourselves in a very touchy lia-
bility situation if we continue
with the expansion now."
The council agreed to take the
matter up again at the next regu-
lar council meeting on October 6.
A. H. Krake, former mayor,
spoke from the audience in sup-
port of Mayor Jellum, and then
tendered his resignation as city
building inspector.
Earlier in the meeting attorney
Stan Bunn was present to discuss
the bend issue for the new city
f~e hall. The council voted to is-
sue the bonds in $5,000 denomi-
nations in a 13-year pay period.
Dayton WCTU Elects
Officers For Year
The Dayton WCTU met at the
home of Mrs. Zella Bilke last
Tuesday afternoon with ten mem-
bers present.
The meeti ,rtg was opened by the
president Mrs. Wilma Liebenow.
The members sang one verse of
"This ,/s My Father's World" and
gave the three flag salutes.
It was time to elect officers
for 1975-1976, and it was voted
to keep the same officers. They
,are: Mrs. IAebenow, president;
Mrs. Gracie Phelps, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Buna Remme, secre-
tary and treasurer.
Delicious refreshments were
served during the afternoon. The
October meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Mariam Krake.
NUMBER 39
coming . . .
The Dayton Planning Com-
mission will meet next Mon-
day, Sept. 29 at 7:30 pm. On
the agenda will be a new sub-
division ordinance.
The Dayton Area Planning
Advisory Committee meets
Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 8 pm in
Room 51 of the Dayton High
School.
Dayton School
One o~ the newest additions to
the Dayton Grade School is the
beginning of a Media Center
which will supplement the pres-
ent library collection of mater-
ials. With this addition of an ac-
tive area for student Use ,comes
the addition of new and innova-
tive programs.
One of these programs that is
being offered is not only for stu-
dent use but is also being offered
to pre-schooters that are not stu-
dents at the Grade School. This
new program is a special Story
Hour geared to the imaginations
of any person that would like to
attend up through grade three.
The Story Hour is under the
direction of Ed Meier who is the
Media Specialist at the Grade
School. The story tellers wil be
the staff members of the Media
Center, students from the High
School and student volunteers
who will take time to offer their
services. The stories will begin
,at 12:00 and will be every half
hour until 3:00.
The stories will be offered on
the follo~ng d~tes:
Sept. 26, 1975
Jan. 30, 1976
Feb. 27, 1976
March 26, 1976
April 30, 1976
May 28, 1976.
All pre-school children and
parents are welcome to any one
of these Story Hours.
on si eli
By CARL FRANCIS
As the summer ended, my wife
and I were enjoying the Tilla-
meek coast when we met a for-
mer Dayton school teacher, Es-
,ther Schlaback. I told her of my
interest in locating the grave-
site of Courtney Walker, one of
Dayton's very earliest and most
forgotten citizens. She knew the
people upon whose farm we must
go; and there on the side of a
small hill a couple hundred yards
from 'the road, between Beaver
and Blaine, we found it. A small
metal sign pIaced on a decaying
log marks the spot. "Courtuey
Meade" says the sign -- the ele-
ments or vandale have removed
his last name. The forlorn gran-
deur of the setting is appropriate
to his life.
What was there ebout this man
that caused hi Into become in-
volved in so many tldngs, to be
in so many places, and to become
all but forgatten? The fates cer-
tainly smiled upon him at his
birth. His grand-uncle was Presi-
dent Andrew Jackson; his father
w~ a lawyer, veteran of the Rev-
olutionary War and the War of
1812, both a State Senator in
Kentucky and a U.S. Senator
from that state. Walker was him-
self certainly well educated --
while ht this area he both taught
school and surveyed land. He
joined the Jason Lee missionary
part yand in 1835 was part of
the mission at Wheatland when
he left to become business agent
for Wyeth's Columbia River Fish-
ing and Trading Company, then
later became employed by Hud-
son's Bay Company. Just when
he came to Dayton itself is not
certa n. The Dayton Reading
Club's research suggested he was
the first person to live within the
city limits. There is an ancient
deed to a portion of Dayton from
David McLaughlin (the Hudson
Bay Chief Factor's son) to Walk-
er. My copy of the 1850 censue
of the Oregon Territory shows
"Cartney Walker" a resident of
Yamhill County. (Yamhill Coun-
ty then ran to the Pacific Ocean).
The State archives disclose~ that
in July, 1849, he was elected
Chief Clerk of the Territorial
Council, in which capacity he
signed over 50 documents having
to do with the Territorial govern-
ment. His many activities were
recounted in a previous column
but unmentioned was that in
1858 the Probate Court appointed
him a Commissioner to divide the
estate of Polly Chrissman among
her heirs. In the 1870's he moved
his family to Tillamook County,
where he appears to have been
~]ess active in public affairs and
where he died in 1887. As' part
of the Bi-Centennial observance
~he Daughters of the American
Colonists have placed a memorial
plaque to him in the Tillamook
Pioneer Museum, but his life, so
difficut to trace, is almost as
unnoticed as his grave.
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