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S A N D Y (O ie.) POST Thui».. June 2, 1977 (S tt. 2)
Oregon's First Lady has down-to-earth philosophy
when he took a job with Weyerliaueser in
Spi ingtield
She's seen a Io, ot the state since then.
She especially enjoys going to town hall
meet mgs w ith , he governor
"I mostly listen It s interesting to hear
what jxople limn different areas have to
complain about Mostly they're concerned
about prosperity m their own particular
area I line to watch Bob at these
meetings He shows them lie's 'jus,
people
Olten i, isn't the big issues that draw ire.
“ People can gel pretty hostile about
tln'ir secondary roads." she said with a
smile.
I lie Sirautis are par, nt Oregon, no,
ajKirt from it ITieir sprawling 183os farm*
iMHise where they’ve lived lor nine years
sits on i>.) acres No, for long
“ I, was already decided that it’d be
developed before we moved here," Pat
said, echoing sentiments similar to
by Suzanne A s h m u n
Oregon First l«ad\ Pal Straub met
husband Bob on a mountain, but her ideas
are strictly down to-tuilh
■'I'm one m those live-ofl-thv land
types, Pat said “ One of the original
hippies or whatever w u want to call
them .”
Oregon isn't really that far «'.field from
S en England w here she collected some of
her foiklest memories
“ Bob was a student at Dartmouth and I
w a s a junior camp counselor when we met
on that New Hampshire mountain I was
pretty tired though we were only par, way
up The kids said ‘Miss Pat can stay here
and we'll finish the climb with him ' ”
She seldom tails to keep pace today.
“ I never imagined we'd hem politics for
22 years, she said
The Straubs came to Oregon in 1947
County residents who bemoan the berry
fields that have gone tosuburbia
For now. she's enjoying the hilltop view
and the lush vegetation that surrounds the
rambling house. The guardhouse* beside
the driveway is the only give-away that the
Straub farm is also the home ot ttu*
governor.
Most of the farmwoi k is le, out, but Pa,
lakes responsibility as egg seller and
prune picker
“ You lH*t we have chickens hens , ha,
eluck and roosters (hat crow Weget about
H to 10 dozen eggs Occasionally Bob will
tell somebody, * Ask Pa, to give you a dozen
eggs ' Sometimes I could strangle him for
suggesting we give them away We sell our
eggs I have to buy chicken fix'd, after
all "
Worry ing about where the money for the
next load ol chicken feed is coming from
may seem a long wav from Pat's years at
Smith College or University of Wisconsin
“ I was raised kind ot like, well, a
play g irl,” she said “ M y mo,tier could
afford to have things done and I guess I
kind of overreacted
I wanted to do
everything for my fa m ily ."
She baked bread, raised and preserved
her own fruits and vegetables. I t ’s
something she hasn't completely given up
as the governor’s wife
“ 1 can when 1 can,” she said, wrinkling
her eyes at (he corners. "M ostly 1 do the
things I really like— tomatoes and peas I
make applesauce and freeze my own
herbs.’’
There was one summ er when there was
scant time to plant. She grew a book in
Pat Straub
better.
It might have been a coffee klatsch with
an old school friend. Talking with Pat
Straub is a two-way street. Her disarming
frankness puts people at ease
She sprinkles the conversation with
anecdotes about Bob Her sense of humor
surfaces often.
“ When Bob proposed, he called me
stead.
says "S u m m e r is near
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" I had signed a contract to write a book
right after Bob was elected governor—and
no time to write it.”
The garden went untended while the
gardt*ncr researched and wrote. “ From
the Loving E a rth " was an expansion of her
first book, written while her husband was
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Pa, said yes but “ He got the bill later."
The Straub’s six children are grown now
but she still takes an interest in education
When she found out Chris White, co
owner und manager of a Gresham
bookstore, was the mother of daughters 7
and 11, the talk turned to schools.
“ I have a negative feeling about junior
highs. It seemed each of our children went
off like comets as soon as they got into
junior high."
She talked about her son i now a college
graduate) who had a reading problem
How did he finally solve it?
"H e got a teacher who cared, ” she said
state treasurer.
“ It took discipline to spend the two to
four hours a day w ritin g ," she recalled " It
was nice weather and occasionally a page
or two would blow- out the open window. I
was happy about that because I could run
downstairs and get the pages, pulling a few
weeds on the w ay."
She makes no claim about the book being
the end-all for expert gardeners
" I t ’s a good book for beginners,” she
said of her treatise on growing and
preserving which includes many recipes
"People might learn a few new things "
The organic gardener is pretty salt-of-
the-earth herself
She has an oft-photographed wood stove
and the fam ily farmhouse is decorated
with colorful crafts from many lands
Each seems to have a story.
As befits the Straubs, who want to set
energy-saving examples, it was somewhat
frosty in the sitting room Wednesday, a
day that started as spring but ended with
sleet.
" I turned the heat on just for you," she
said.
To offset the chill, Pat served steaming
coffee in handmade mugs Each cup was
different.
She got herself situated in a comfortable
set June 25
Oral Hull Foundation tor the
Blind in Sandy has set June 25
as the date for the annual Oral
Hull Straw berry Festival
Homemade shortcake with
fresh strawberries and real
whipped cream w ill be served
from 3 to 6 p m Saturday a f
ternoon. Coffee and tea will
also be available.
U v e music by an Oral Hull
group w ill be featured during
the afternoon.
The event,
sponsored by the Special
Activities Committee for Oral
Hull Foundation, w ill benefit
the foundation.
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that I don’t want to tell people more than I
ever knew m yself." she laughed
The First Lady of Oregon may not be a
native webfoot, but she's close to the grass
roots
She worries about forgetting people’s
names and if there's going to be enough
w ater for the garden this summer
Being the governor’s wife isn’t always
easy.
" It's hard no, to ge, over-egoed," she
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Meeting people has been no problem for
Pat, who said her husband has an innate
ability to help her keep things in per
spective.
"When you’re the governor's wife,
people are always asking your opinion
about things Bob's always reminding me
collect."
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When her children were raised, whole
new areas opened up for her, she said
" I t ’s difficult not to get over-involved,"
she said
Her book is an example of her new
vistas
" I t ’s kind of neat the way these things
peek through I didn't graduate from
college but, If 1 had, it would have been in
writing and landscaping "
chair, took a sip and im m ediately recalled
the coffee. Her visitors might no, have
complained about the strong stuff, but she
scurried back to , he kitchen to fix it up Ah,
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W illiam E Bews died recently
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fam ily resided in the Dover
area from 1934 until moving to
George in 1962 because of his
health M r. Bews operated an
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Survivors include his wife
Pauline,
a daughter Jean
Jordan of Prineville, sons
W illiam E. Jr. of Ellensburg
and Bruce Alex of George
Aslo surviving are foster
children Ronald Murphy and
Colleen Murphy Mullens of
Cornelius and Duane Barnes of
Kelso, Wash
He had ten
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren
Carl Tomlin
C arl Alfred Tom lin, 18964 SE
Carm el Drive, Boring, died
M ay 24 in a Portland hospital
after a short illness. He was 84
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there and in Grass Valley,
Tom lin moved from Eastern
Oregon to Portland in 1911. He
moved to K lam ath County in
1927 and later lived in Medford
and Bend before settling in
Boring in 1973.
He m arried Alice Clark on
April 26, 1925 in W alla Walla,
Wash She died in 1967
Tomlin served three years in
the Navy, and was honorably
discharged in 1918 He worked
many
jobs,
including
bus
driver, mill hand, cook and
custodian.
He was a m ember of the
Veterans of World W ar I, of
U S . Inc Barracks No. 0925,
K lam ath Falls, and was a
lifetim e member of A F and AM
No. 77 of K lam ath Falla
Survivors include: a son,
Charles Daly, The Dalles; a
daughter, M rs Carla Mundt,
Boring, three grandchildren,
I^aura Mundt, Pam Boon ham
and Christine Anderson; and
two brothers, George Tomlin,
Oroville, Calif.,
and Jack
Tomlin, Centralia, Wash.
Services were Friday, May 27
in
K la m a th
F a lls
w ith
arrangements here handled by
Carroll Funeral Home.
Contributions may be made
to the M em orial Fund of the
Boring F ire Departm ent for a
rescue tool
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Isabel Lake, 69, of John Lake
Road, Rhododendron, died at
her home May 23. She was born
in Portland and attended grade
school in Lusted.
She later graduated from
Gresham High School She was
m arried June 21, 1937 at
Pleasant Home to John Lake,
who died in 1974
Mrs. Lake was active in the 4-
H , was a den mother for the
Boy Scouts, a m ember of the
Hoodland Garden Club and a
lo n g -tim e m e m b e r of the
Rebecca Uxlgc of Sandy.
Survivors include two sons,
John
and
C h arle s
of
Rhododendron, two brothers,
Tom Newlands of Fairview ,
and Bill Newlands of Portland;
and three grandchildren.
Services were Saturday at
the Carroll Funeral Home with
burial in F ir H ill Cemetery in
Sandy