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Ol)£ Willamina Dimes VOLUME 31, No. 28 WILLAMINA, YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1940 CIVIC CLUB WILL G IV E COOKING DEMONSTRATION W illam in a D u rin g W eek A highly fatal disease known as agranulocytosis developed in the 3- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Murray of Willamina this week. This rare disease is usually caused by some drug which acts as a poison to certain individuals. The disease is character ised by the abaeace of a certain kind of white corpuscle without which one cannot live. As soon as the diagnosis was made by Dr. Tomlinson, the child was im mediately rushed to a children’s hos pital in Portland. W illam ina School New» The following students, on the semester honor roll, received all l ’s: Anna Ruth Cook, Helen Wyss, Ilene Thomas. The following received all l ’s and 2’s: Rogene Ross. Lamar Shi vely, Glenn I^irkins, Mildred Latvala, Dorothey Baunach, Pauline Wright, Richard Buswell, Dorothy Beard. Merdith Clark, Goldie Hulett. Bruce Brown, Lynn Greene, Fay Larkins, Dorothy Klees. Wanda Newland. Lyaette Shetterly, J a c k Shetterly, Virginia Ray, Alice Bedortha, Urban Miller, William Perry, Harold Ste C ounty T«‘arlierH M eet at BiVeranle Seh<M»l Thurtwlav phens. Kenneth Stanenko, Margaret Baunach. Retha Blanchard, Helen A group of teachers met at the Whistler and Charles Chamberlain. A new student, Betty Elaine Zet Riverside schoolhouse last Thursday terberg, transferred from Silverton where they discussed problems of high school to Willamina high school. ■ interest to teachers. This group wishes She is a sophomore. This brings the to invite other teachers of southwest enrollment in Willamina high school Yamhill county to future meetings up to 19R, but the actual number in nt the Riverside school on the first ' and second Thursdays of each month. school is 177. RURAL DISTRICT NEWS HAPPENINGS BY COMMUNITY CORRESPONDENTS ♦- E A ST CREEK GOOSENECK 1 • ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Russell Taylor spent Friday with Mrs. Taylor's mother, Mrs. H. B. Puckett at Bellevue. Mrs. Chet Petersen and baby have been spending the past week with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Lanofe Shively and parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Shi vely. Sr. A board meeting was held last week to hire a new janitor for the district school. Irene Davis was hired for the remainder of the year. Miss Ruby Merchant, teacher of this district, ¿pent the weekend with her mother in McMinnville. Bell Mountain was covered with snow several days the first of last week. Laverde Shively and Carley Pet erson were home from their work over the weekend. They are buck ing timber at Timber, Oregon. Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Puckett included Mrs. Hazel Puckett and son Dean of Belle vue and Mr. and Mrs. Charley Peter son and baby Jimmy. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bakolas will run the cookhouse for the mill crew when the mill starts up. Plans were made to start up a few weeks »go when the dam broke out. No definite date has been set since. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Shively Sr. and son Lamar spent Sunday with L. L. Shively Jr. COMMERCIAL CLUB HEARS FIGURES VOTERS FAVOR ON BONNEVILLE POWER DISTRICTS ANNEXATION OF NEW DISTRICTS The Willamina Commercial club met in regular session Monday noon WPA Sidewalk P roject I» A pproved fo r Willamina Mayor C. R. Stiles received word early this week from Washington D.C., advising him that a WPA side E lectric C ook in g F eatu re to walk project had been approved for the city of Willamina. The project B e DcnioiiHtriitcd ut provides for approximately 4000 lin H igh S c h o o l 11« ire eal feet of concrete sidewalk, ma terial for which will be furnished by MONARCH RANCES USED the property owners and the labor by WPA workers in this area. Mayor Stiles reports that work on S h etterly • B ryant to F u rn ish this project will get under way im E lectrical E q u ip m en t mediately since nearly all property owners have previously signed up and For A ftern o o n agreed to furnish the materials. The Willamina Civic club wil' sponsor an electrical cooking dem Judge F. It. S a ck ett I^tid T o Beat ut A lbany M onday onstration and silver tea at the Wil lamina Union High school next Wed Funeral services for Judge Fred B. nesday afternoon at 1:46 o’clock. Sackett, 80, former Yamhill county Thia demonstration is for the benefit judge, who died at his home in Me of the home economics department of Minnville early Friday, were held at the Methodist church in that ctiy last the school and the community activ Sunday with interment in the Masonic ity of the Civic club and is being held cemetery at Albany Monday morning through the cooperation of the Judge Sackett served as county Shetterly * Bryant Hardware store. judge for a six-year term beginning Mrs. Beth .McWhannel of the Port n 1926. Formerly he had been in land General Electric company’s horns business in Sheridan, and also been service department, will conduct the justice of the peace in Sheridan. demonstration, und electrical equip Three children survive, Leland R ment will l»e furnished by Shetterly & Sackett of Sheridan, Vernon M. Sack Pryant. Specifications of this equip ett of Salem, and Sheldon F. Sackett, ment will be found in an advertise publisher of the Marshfield Coos Bay ment on another page of this issue. Times. All of the housewives of Willaminu and the surrounding communities are B are D isease D evelop a in invited and urged to attend. .............. ................................. * c'vVr-nt «♦ Wood home Sundav were Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Trine and Mrs. Roy Lambert. Callers at the Kosack home S”"-’"” were Mrs. R. M. Johnson and chil dren and Misses Alice and Annie Lambert. Mrs. Ora Francis visited at the Wood home one day during the week. Mrs. R. M. Johnson and Mrs. Helen Cornaway attended club at the David Seth home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kosack and daughter, Kathryn nnd son Jack vis ited a t the Chas. Eilen home Sunday evening. Mrs. A. J. Wood and daughter, Wanda, and J. V. Johnson were in Willamina and Sheridan Friday on business. Edith Burkey started to school on Monday. She is in the sixth grade. This makes 30 pupils enrolled. $1.50 A YEAR in the basement of the M.E. church with 27 members and guests present. City V oters Cast 4 4 B allot» Among guests introduced were Mr. Johnson, Mr. Peterson, A. E. Frack. F or A n n ex a tio n and Lee Ladd and Norton Tompkins. O ------------------------------------------------------ 3 A gainst Mr. Tompkins, who is the field representative of the Bonneville 57 BALLOTS ARE CAST Power Project, was the main speaker of the day and outlined briefly the purpose and pos.ibilities of Bonneville O u tsid e D istrict V oters Cast power. When congress Appropriated 8 fo r A n n ex a tio n an<l $76,000,000 for the Bonneville dam T w o A gainst it was primarily for navigation pur poses fee eastern Oregon farmers. It Voters in this city and in the ad was brought out that three times as jacent districts chose to annex the mucn wheat was now being exporter properties which are described in jiom eastern Oregon arm irnporu:, Ordinance No. 157 at the special have doubled. Of the $76,000.000! election held last Saturday. The bal appiopiiuU-d lor navigat.on, onl. lots cast in the election at the city $26,000,000 was used for this pur hall showed 44 for annexation and pose, hence the possibilities for ex three against the annexation. The tremely cheap power. • N E X T IS S U E i H . V . election for the outside districts held K a lte n b o rn , n o te d ra d io Tompkins stated that at present at the Just Lepage home in Polk Ad new * a n a ly s t, w ill review Bonneville power was being whole- dition showed eight for annexation th e firs t six m o n th s o f aled only to existing agencies at the E u ro p e 's w a r f a r e — a and two against. cheapest rate in the United States special a rtic le exclu sive Plans aare already made to extend $17 per kilowatt-year. He said that la th is p a p e r. city water, light and road facilities when the Northwest’s chief industry A c o m m e n ta ry on to the new districts. With the new w h at’s h a p p e n e d , a dis umbering, bad been exhausted it annexed districts, the city now boasts cussion o f trend s and a jvould be necessary to bring in new a population of nearly 1000, an in forecast o f the fu tu r e industries and t h a t cheap power on E u ro p e ’ s fa r -flu n g crease of approximately over 600 in vould be an inviting factor. b a ttle fie ld s a n d d ip lo the past year. m a tic fro n tie rs — a ll d i “Bonneville power must be dis gested fo r you by the tributed through some agency, either m a n whose d a ily ra d io A pp lican ts fo r P ostm aster municipal, private or cooperative,” c o m m e n ts a re a w a ite d said Tompkins, “and it is up to the M ust F ile by M arch 1st by m illio n s . public to decide w h i c h of these Wrdi far tlw Ijxlnatm« agencies it wishes to purchase power An open competitive examination •rtic:« m our from.” He said $6,000,000 had al-* to fill the vacancy in the position of NEXT IS S U E I ready been appropriated to coopera- j postmaster in this city has been an tive districts for transmission lines. nounced by the U.S. civil service com Mr. Tompkins urged the club mem- i mission at the request of the post hers to bear statistical figures in BONE-CRUSHERS WILL master geneTaL mind when voting on the PUD ques- I M EET AT W ILLAM INA In order to be eligible for the ex tion in the May election. HALL ON W E D NESDA Y am nation, an applicant must be a | citizen of the United States, must A petition was circulated among have actually resided within the de the group^solicifcag expense fund« for the community band here. It war Yern Hutson of Sheridan announces livery of this postoffice, or within the reported that the funds were needed j that another thrill exhibition of the city or town in which the office is only for music, equipment and other bone-crushing profession will be held located for at least one year immed incidentals which are necessary if the jn wiJlan)ina halI next Wedneti. iately preceding the date fixed for band is to continue on. . . . „ , no . 1 the close of receipt of applications, „ . , , . . I day night. Feb. 28. Prominent wrest- which is March 1, must be in good The Commercial club will again , , meet in regular session Monday noon. •,er» on the Paclflc coast have been physical condition and within the pre March 4, in the basement of the local signed to appear on cards here within scribed age limits. Both men and M.E. church. The club rooms have re- the next few months, and fans in this women are admitted. Applicants will be required to as cently been renovated with plywood community are fortunate to get to see semble in an examination room for and are now extremely attractive. hea<J,iners in the art written tests, and will also be rated The card for next Wedensday night on their education, business or pro will match Prince Elacki and Eddie i fessional experience, general quali W holesaler's Sale Fenlnr'* Roberts in the main event for an hour and suitability. The com At Eairway Mkt. This W eek and a half or two out of three falls, fications mission will make an impartial inquiry and Silent Rattan vs. Bobby Chick among representative patrons of the On another page of this issue w 11 in the one-hour preliminary. Hutson office concerning the experience, be found an advertisement of the i reports that both matches will pro- j ability and character of each appli Fairway Market calling attention to vide plenty of entertainment and j cant and the evidence thus secured the big wholesaler’s sale to be he’d thrills for the fans. will be considered in determing the Another feature for this card will ratings to be assigned to the appli Friday and Saturday of this week. The s a l e merchandise cons'sts of be that one lady will be admitted free cants. The commission is not interest women’s newest coats and silk dresst-s with each admission ticket. Tickets ed in -the political, religious or fra which will be on sale at less than at popular prices, will be on sale at ternal affiliations of any applicant. wholesale prices. the door. Full information and aoplication forms may be obtained at the Willa mina postoffice or from the U.S. civil C R A C K IN G THE W H IP service commission. Washington, D.C. Applications must be on file at Wash ington not later than March 1. GILBERT CREEK •------------------------------------------- - Mrs. Ida Covey, who had been ail ing, passed away Thursday night, Feb. 16. The funeral was held in Sa lem Feb. 17, at 2:30 p.m. She was Mrs. Asa Smith’s mother and well known and highly esteemed by all in this neghborhood, having lived here most of the time for the past five or six years. Nearly all the folks in this community attended the funeral at Salem. Mrs. Rasmussen came home from C. W. Johnson has purchased C. A. Sheridan Tuesday evening where she Gilson’s share of the cold storage had been on a special case for the I locker business and is now the owner. past few weeks. j j W IL L A M IN A | H O S P IT A L NOTES ’ John Alden Smith, 9. son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde A. Smith, was treated at the hospital Wednesday aftrenoon for injury to the right eye. According to the report received John and an other small boy were playing with an air rifle when it was accidentally dis charge, the shot striking John in the eye. Although the eyeball was cut. Dr. Tomlinson believes the wound will heal satisfactorily. O. W. Cobb Is now in his third week in the hospital. He has improved sufficiently to be able to walk about the hospital on crutches. Last weekend more of Dr. Tom linson’s equipment arrived from Kan sas where he has had it in storage. In this shipment were more hospital beds and his 600-pound hospital sterilizer. Willamina Townsend Club Plans Social Wednesday Willamina Townsend club will hold its regular monthly social night next Wednesday, Peb. 28. There will be a fine musical program and the usual refreshments. The public is cordially 1 inv'ted to attend.
