— I or a B i^ e r and B etter Willamina
VOLUME 22 — NUMBER 15
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WILLAMINA, YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY,
VACANIES NOW OPEN IN
DEFENSE TRAINING CLASSES
RAILROADETTES
DECEMBER 3, 1942
LEND
A
11.50 A YEAR
HAND
BILLY
SURGEONS
TRATION OPENS A
BODY FOUND NEAR
NEW OFFICE HERE
VALLEY JUNCTION
Vacancies in local national de-
I fense train in g classes were reported
by E. J. G reiner, co-ordinator of the
training program sponsored by the
The Elllngsw orth building on Main McMinnville school district and the
S treet formally occupied by the Willa- vocational division of the state de
niinn Bakery hns been recently reno partm ent of education.
Trainees— both men and women—
vated by the Bonneville Power Ad-
lu in intuit ion crew and will be their are needed for a general sheet metal
class. Application for the course,
main office till the duration of the
which is given without charge, are
r.ew Salem-Tillamook power line». being received a t the United States
The building will also »erve for equip employm ent service office.
m ent storage.
There is a definite call for such
by
Portland
industrial
Governm ent surveyors have s ta rt workers
ed working on clearing and staking plants. S ta rtin g wage is 96c an hour.
the rig h t away for the new project Trainees are placed immediately on
of which the construction will sta rt completion of the course, Greiner
at the P ortland General Electric Sub said.
station a short distance from the
Classes m eet Monday through F ri
Wallace Urid;:e.
day from (I to 10 p. m. at McMinn
The lot il office m anager Htates that ville high school.
there will h > a need for approxim ately
Applications also are being accep-
two hand* cd men a fte r the project ted for four welding classes. Men
gets under way, and th at anyone ; and women w II be trained. Place-
seeking em ploym ent may do so by m ent will be made in defense indus-
contacting the United S tates em tries upon completion of the course.
ploym ent offices in McMinnville.
Trainees are not necessarily sent to
the shipyards.
LOCAL DAIRY NOW SHIPPING
On co n p letio n of the course,
MILK TO CAMP ADAIR STATION trainees are rated as welders and earn
Three additional grade A dairies, a base pay of >1.20 an hour. If the
representing 120 cows« have been trainee only Completes part of the
oualifiad for shipm ent to Gfm p Adar course, he is rated as a helper and
and started m aking their deliveries earns 95c an hour. •
the first of November.
Applications are being received at
The three dairies are shipping the U niter States employment office
through the Farm ers Union Coopera or a t the school, which is located in
tive cream ery at Sheridan. The three the Tilbury Body and Fender works
are Howard McMillen's dairy a t De- on Third S tr e e t
Lake. tha G. H. C'.«uTJwd*iry a t Otis
and the Eben Ray dairy a t Willamina. WILLAMINA WELL-BABY CLINIC
O ther dairies within the Sheridan
TO BE HELD ON DECEMBER 10th
cream ery’s operating radius have as
M others of children up to three
ked for inspection and are on their
years
of age are invited to bring their
way to being qualified as shippers
youngsters
to the Well-Baby Clinics
to the m ilitary cantonm ent. All in
sponsored
each
month by the Willa
spections are handled through the
mina
Civic
Club.
state departm ent of agriculture dairy
The clinic for December will be
division, with final approval being
continggent upon the departm ent in held on Thursday, December 10th,
spectors and officers of the q u a rte r in the basem ent of the M ethodist
m usters corps stationed at Camp A- Church on the hill beginning at 1:30
p. m.
dair.
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To rel.eve the manpower shortage, Southern Pacific now has some
1600 women at work in its m echanical and store departm ents. Photo
shows Mrs. Ethel Moore, rivet heater, tossing a white-hot one a t the
railro ad ’s shops a t Portland. With 8000 o f its male employes already
in the arm ed forces. Southern Pacific is calling upon women to fill
a wide variety of jobs form erly handled exclusively by men.
WHAT NO FISH » ?
It seem as though “ Bill” Jarv is a t
a special Commercial Club m eeting
held two weeks ago made his brag
th at he would catch all the fish th at
could possibly be consumed a t the
meet next December 14. When asked.
“ the fish may not be biting?” Bill
rem arked, “ Don’t worry I’ll catch ’em,
’tia a cinch.”
We understand Bill and Fred An
derson have been at it since the last
m eeting and have eleven days to go.
We are wondering if it will be a
fresh fish dinner, and we don’t mean
fresh from the m arket? ? ? ?
MEN IN U. S. FIGHTING FORCES
ENJOY THANKSGIVING FIESTA
Richard Buswell now stationed at
the advance naval train in g station
school at T reasure Island, C alifornia
inform s us th at th eir Thanksgiving
d in n er was tru ly a fine feast and by
the looks of their Thanksgiving din-
ner menu, we don’t doubt it a bit.
MAIL CHRISTMAS PACKAGES & TURKEY DINNER GIVEN IN THE
HONOR
OF
V
HANTZE-
J
HANTZE
For the benefit of the home folks,
CARDS EARLIER THIS YEAR
Richard
sen t their menu and asked
Mr. and Mrs. John Breeden en ter
The bulk of C rristm as mail m ust
tained
with
a
turkey
dinner
Sunday
in
th at it m ight be published. The boys
be in the post offices by December 1
this year if deliveries on tim e are to honor of Mrs. B reeden’s brothers,
enjoyed queen olives, sweet gherkins,
be assured, according to Smith W. Vilas H antze of Pickering, Mo., who
stuffed celery stalks, turkey gumbo
Purdum , Second A ssistant Postm as is spending the w inter in Oregon, and
soup, soda crackers, roast young
Junior Hantze, who has enlisted in
ter General.
California turkey, sage dressing,
Unprecedented w artim e demands the Coast Guard, and expects to
cranberry sauce, giblet gravy, baked
on the postal and tran sp o rtatio n sy leave for duty within a few days.
spiced Virginia ham, candied sweet
stems, plus a prospective record vo
Those present were Mr. and Mrs. CUBS’ FIRST PACK MEETING TO potatoes, buttered cauliflow er, q u ar
lume of C hristm as mailings, were Harold Hantze. Mr. and Mrs. Don BE HELD HERE DECEMBER 8th tered head lettuce, french dressing,
Ray C. Petersen, field executive ribbon layer cake, hot mince pie,
cited by Mr. Purdum ns necessitating Hantze, Miss Eudema Cromel and
earlier mailings than ever before. Ju n io r Hantze. of Lebanon, Mr. and of the Boy Scouts of America, will be neopolitan ice cream, mixed nuts,
“ It is physically impossible fo r the Mrs. M. W. Lawson, Miss Eloise H an a t the Willamina Church of Christ assorted hard candies, sunkist navel
railroads and air lines, burdened with tze of P ortland, Mr. and Mrs. Roland on Decem ber 8th at 8 p. m. to be oranges, cigarettes and cafe noir.
vitally im portant w ar m aterials, to H antze and son, Gary Lee, Mr. and with the Cubs for th eir first Pack
handle Christm as m ailings ns rapidly Mrs. Alva Spnrks and son. Duxel, of m eeting.
NOTICE
The fath ers and m others of these
as in normal tim es” . Mr. Purdum said. Grand Ronde, Arlie Belt of Yamhill,
Postm aster Fawk has announced
“ If the bulk of parcels and greeting Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Howard and boys are invited to be present. At that the Post Office will be open until
cards are held back until the usual children, Donald and Pauline, Mr. this m eeting, the boys will form ally 6:00 p. m. every S aturday until
tim e -- the period of about December and Mrs. Roy Howard, H arlan H an become Cubs if they pass the Bobcat Christmas.
15 to 23 — they simply cannot be tze of Valley Junction, Vilas Hantze requirem ents. The Cub books will be
distributed in time, and thousands of and Mr. and Mrs. Breeden and child given out and a program announced
UNION THANKSGIVING SERVICE
for the month of December.
g ifts will reach th eir destinations ren, Donna Ann and Johnny.
Renreber, Cubs, to bring your re LAST WEEK ENJOYED BY ALL
a f te r C hristm as.”
A fternoon guests were Miss Blon-
The Union Thanksgiving Service
In 1942, about 21.950 mail cars dena Lawson and Eldon Howard of gistration fee and your yellow slips
properly filled out. If you have any held at the Free M ethodist Church
were required between Decem ber 12 Lebanon.
questions see your Den Chief or the on W ednesday evening of last week
and 24 to deliver C hristm as mails —
was well attended and seemingly
enough cars to make a train 270 miles
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Arvidson had Cub M aster.
enjoyed by all present.
long. This year, the extra cars need as dinner guests on Thanksgiving Day
Mrs. Sm elser reports th at Mrs. A.
ed to move holiday mails are largely Mrs. Arvidson parents, Mr. and Mrs.
The program included a scrip
being used by the arm ed services, and F. G.. B ennett, and her sister, Betty E. W alker of Aumsville is quite ill. tu re lesson read by the pastor. Rev
Mrs. W alker is well know s here. .
Jane, of Eugene.
a severe shortage is in prospect.
erend P. J. Griffiths, two song num
Miss Doris Abderhalden visited her bers by a group from the different
The postal service usually borrows
Holiday visitors a t the O. W. Bene
about 2,500 trucks from the Army fici home were his m other, Mrs. M. parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A bder churches of the community, H arlan
and other Governm ent agencies, and E. Benefiel of Manning, who had been halden, a t Portland over the week Woodruff, pastor of the Church of
re n ts about 10,000 from private ow visiting there the past three weeks end.
Christ, led in prayer and Reverend H.
ners, to handle the Christm as mails. and Mrs. B enefiel’s mothed, Mrs. L.
Guests at a fam ily dinner on H. Miles, pastor of the M ethodist
This year, it will be extrem ely diffi H. Stanenko of Portland, who came Thanksgiving Day at the home of Church, delivered the message.
cu lt to obtain enough of these vehic W ednesday. Both m others le ft for Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Drill were Mr.
les to m eet even a substantial p art their homes on Sunday.
and Mrs. C. R. F ast and children.
Mrs. F erris Swain of M arshfield
of the need. The Army needs its own
Mr. and Mrs. Benefiel received on K arlita and Conrad, of Portland, and Mrs. Roy F ryer of Yamhill, Mrs.
trucks and private owners are reluc Thanksgiving Day a fine enlarged Mr. and Mrs. Don Drill and Dick, Elena Drill of Portland and Mrs. Dale
ta n t to let someone else use their photograph of their son, Bennie, who Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Drill, Richard, Taylor of McMinnville visited the
tires.
is a t Pearl Harbor.
L arry and Gary Dale.
Drill fam ilies on Friday.
The body of Billy Surgeon was
found Tuesday afternoon about 2:25
o’clock by Lou H artm an of Valley
Junction, floating in the d rift ju st
back of his farm ripproxim ately three
miles below the New Grand Ronde
Lumber Company, where he was em
ployed with the pond crew. He was
ast seen walking on a boom log
guiding logs with a pike pole when he
fell into the Yamhill E v e r and dis-
ippeared from sight. The tragedy
«ccured about fo u r weeks ago; and
..nee th at t.m e, the entire personnel
jf the New Grand Ronde Mill as well
>s many friends have continued a
continuous search for the body, but
!ue io ra.n and high w ater were un-
ib.e to locate th e body.
Funeral s e rv e rs were held at the
Tree M ethodist C hurch in Willamina
jn Thursday, December 3rd, with
Reverend P. J. Griffiths preaching
the funeral sermon.
B.lly John Surgeon was born in
Luton, Iowa on Septem ber 25, 1920
.nd departed this life on November
1, 1942 near W illamina, Oregon at
he age of 22 years, 5 months and
7 days.
When Billy was five months old,
i:s parents moved to Sonnette, Mon-
ana. In 1936, the Surgeon fam ily
noved near Willamina, where he lived
in til the tim e of his death. Billy
graduated from W illamina High
School hl K>iC.
On Ju ly 31, 1942, he was united in
m arriage to Nadine Lavell Fouts. He
was a kind and loving husband and
ion. converted early in life and
was united with the Free M ethodist
Church.
L eft to mourn are his widow, Na
dine Surgeon, his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. L. W. Surgeon, three sisters,
Mrs. Gladys Henderson of Portland,
Mrs. Iola Bunn of LaFayette and Miss
V erna Surgeon, a brother. Kimsey,
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Surgeon of McMinnville and a gran d
m other, Mrs. Mary B urger of W hit
ing, Iowa.
Many h earts are saddened by his
1 early and sudden home going, yet we
know it is not goodbye fo r he aw aits
us in the m orning over there.
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METHODIST WOMEN’S SOCIETY
| TO HAVE CHRISTMAS MEETING
M embers and friends of the W illa
mina M ethodist Women’s Society are
i invited to atten d their annual C hrist
mas m eeting which will be held this
year on Friday, December 11th, at
2 p. m. in the parlors of the church.
I Each one is asked to bring an in
expensive g ift or toy for a child.
These g ifts are to be sent to the
C hildren’s Farm Home at Corvallis
following the meeting.
DAHL’S ENTERTAIN WITH CARD
PARTY LAST THURSDAY EVE.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Dahl entertained
with a card party Thursday evening.
Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Arnold
K outonen of Olympia, Mr. and Mrs.
F red Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. K. E.
S hetterly and Mr. and Mrs. R urick
Hendrickson.
F irst prize fo r the women w ent to
Mrs. S hetterly and the second prize
to Mrs. Koutonen. First prize fo r the
men w ent to Mr. Hendrickson and
the second prize to Mr. Koutonen.
R efreshm ents of coffee and cake
w ere served.
BUTLER WOMENS SOCIETY TO
HOLD THEIR REGULAR MEETING
The B utler W omen’s Society will
hold th eir reg u lar m eeting a t the
home of Mrs. Louis P ettyjohn on
Friday, December the 4th. This will
be th eir C hristm as meeting.