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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1945)
T.«Tr»ry, UofO Eut«*«, W ill ami na O imcs VOLUME 34 NUMBER 44 WILLAMINA, YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1945 $2.00 A YEAR SHERIDAN’S TWO BIG SHOWS WILL T wo Local Boys Summer Comes at Last 5000 EXPECTED Brings Water Problems Put on Civics ATTRACT FRONTIER-LOVING CROWD FOR “INFANTRY SHOW WED’DAY ! Sheridan's two big shown be gin tomorrow, when the Phil Sheridan Days program starts and runs through two days, Fri day and Saturday. On Friday’s program are the opening events, Junior parade, and judging of historical costumes and award ing of prizes. The afternoon pro gram begins at the city park with an address of welcome by President James McCoy of the Chamber of Commerce, an add ress by Pearl Blackwell and the crowning of the Pioneer Mother. Saturday the Grand Parade will be the big feature and is scheduled for 10 o’clock in the morning. The parade disbands at the Rodeo grounds where a band concert and other entertainment will be featured. In the afternoon of Saturday the big Rodt-o will be under way and will be, according to offi cials, one of the most outstand ing events of its kind in the country. The best of cowboy tal ent with flocks of horses, cattle and wild cattle to thrill the lov ers of the frontier days. The ro deo continues on Sunday with some of the biggest attractions scheduled for that day. The Sheridan Rod« o Associa tion have elgant grounds and im provements and this year the management is announcing that p tpular prices will prevail. Be ing so near Willamina, hundreds from this section will avail Them selves of the opportunity of see ing this show. Sgt John Butnwell is at home —NOTICE— with a discharge, having pent Water in the city mains will be | the past 38 months overseas in shut off at 12 midnight Satur day June 2-’5rd while the reser the New Guinea theatre of war. voir is being cleaned, and pro This is Johnnie's first visit home bably will not be turned back on and is meeting with the entire until sometime after 7 a.m. Sun approval of his family and hi. day morning. Patrons will take many friends. He I’Pgnn his sol- notice and reserve enough water licring career way back when for use during those hours, and he belonged to the 41st Div. Ore turn off electric water heaters. gon Guards and was among th, Sprinkling will positively not be first of the boys in action after war was declared. permitted Sunday. S Sgt. Newland Neely arrived O. K. Brock, City Marshall home Wednesday with an hon orable discharge from the Army. Body of Grand Ronde Newland’s service began five years, eight months, and eight ago and he’s been through Boy Gets Escort Home days three campaigns, and wounded The Fabian Quenelle Family twice. Newland’s service was in of Grand Ronde have been noti the Pacific theatre of war. fied that their son Albert died at tiiv Ind-oendence Army Air Field, at Independence, Kansas, Bible School Program June 13th. The body is being shipped here under military es To Be Thursday Night cort and the funeral will lie held Sat unlay at 10 o’clock from the An interesting program is be Catholic Church at the agency ing arranged for this everting, n old Grand Ronde. Albert was Thursday, at the ME church by a Sergeant and had spent 34 the pupils and teachers of the Summer Vacation Bible Cchool. month.; in the South Pacific. Besides the program numbers there will be on display the hand Floyd Erickson Gets work accomplished by the stu dents. Promotion to A-M 3c The enrollment has reached 122 pupils and 14 teachers w-ith Floyd J. Erickson, age 23, of an average daily attendance of 9111 .35th NE. Seattle, Wash., 115. has been promoted to Aviation Metalsmith 2-c in the U. S. Nav al reserve, at Naval Air Station, Fox Family All Home Seattle, Washington where he is Scottie Mothers on duty in A & R. Before pro Together For a Day motion he was a S 1-c. Baby Squirrels Erickson whose parents, Mr. E. Fox S 2-c, son of Mrs. Earl Harper was a p and Mrs. Matt Erickson live at Mr. David and Mrs. D. W. Fox, arrived prised one day last week to see Grand Ronde, Oregon, has,been heme Wednesday morning and their little scottie dog “Skippy” in the Navy 11 months. Before will have a 21 day leave. His between 2 ami 3 years of age. joining the Navy, he was a Met brother Laurice RDM who bring in a very small gray dig alsmith employed by Boeing came up from California 3 earlier ger (squirrel. The dog gave the Aircraft Co. He is a graduate of in the week, was here for the squirrel to Mrs. Harper and then ¡Taft High School. day but left that evening to re- disappeared, only to return with rn to his ship. It is the first another. She repeated this per I C. W. Stewart S 1-c and h«s t t' ’me in 18 months the family formance until she had brought wife arrived Saturday from Cal- has been and David in six babv grey squirrels and j ifornia on a 20 day leave. They came home together, bv plane in order to then proceeded to guard them «are visiteing at the home of his and proudly oversee their feed 'mother, Mrs. Wm. Stewart make this visit possible. ing which was accomplished by vhere his brother, Lt. Wm. a medicine dropper. Stewart and wife are also visi Wiliam ina Cafe Opens Two of the little squirrels have ting while on leave. survived and are now 8 days of age and Skippy is still mothering Miss Lynette Shetterly came Has New Management them. But they are now being home from Portland to visit ov Mr. and Mrs. Fred Borgman fed goats milk from a spoon. er the week end with her parents have opened up the restaurant Mrs. Harper states they are Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Shetter in th«' hotel and are serving very tame and eat heartily. ly an<l the family. meals from 11 a.m. to midnight. This restaurant was owned and operated for some time by Tod “ The Great American Odyssey" Sami o f Harroun who closed is several w eeks ago. Lewis and Clark to lie Told io Times This is a condensed history of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition which opened the way for ex ploration and settlement of the western United States. It will bi published serially in the Wil lamina Times. The author, Wal ter Meacham, is executive sec retary of the Oregon council of the American Pioneer Trails Association. CHAPTER 1 The urge of unknown lands has ever turned men’s footsteps toward the West. The land and water trails of long ago were b aversed by men of vision, cour age and determination. The V est was a great uncharted ex panse with no state boundaries t ■» consider and no fences to ob struct. Thomas Jefferson, third Pres ident of the United States, was a man of vision. He was keenly interested in the country which lay in the far Northwest. He foresaw that from North Pacif ic ports a great trade with the Orient would be established. He wanted that trade for America. In 1783, he wrote to General George Rogers Clark regarding the possibility of Clark leading an expedition to the West. In 1786. while Jefferson was minis ter to France, he talked over the matter with John Ledyard, one of the best-known American travelers whose ambition was to found an American colony on the Northwest coast of America. Jefferson’s ideas took on new life when he received news that Captain Robert Gray, an Ameri can captain on the good ship Columbia, had discovered the Oregon, the Great River of the West, in May 1792. He then plan ned to send out an expedition under Andre Michaux, a French botanist, but fate intervened and that honor and glory were not for Michaux. However, the vis ion remained and the idea grew, for Jefferson could not stand id ly by and allow’ a foreign power to gain a foothold in America. In a secret message to Con (Continued on page 3) Petty Larceny Brings Fine And Jail Sentence Jimmy Shantell was fined $14. and given five days in jail last week on conviction of petty lar ceny, having purloined gasoline from the trucks of the Harris Logging Co. New Auto Stamp Now Available The new $5.00 Federal Motor Stamp is now available at the Post Office and Esther Fawk. postmaster states that it is well to get the stamp early as there may be a shortage as the dead line, July 1. draws near. With the advent of warmer weather the water in the city reservoir, already low, reached a vanishing point Monday night, l he long cool spring and plenty if moisture had kept up the sup ply until now but with the heat nd dry weather, with all us ing water freely, the water in the reservoir has reached a new- low and folks on the hill south of the river were entirely with out water Monday evening. This, regardless of the new 8 inch main placed across the river last year. The situation was re lieved considerably by the cleaning out of the main pump in the pool above Willamina, which was found completely clogged up and out of order. “Here’s Your Infantry,” one of the most spectacular show ings of the army in action is coming to McMinnville next Wednesday night and will be t w-orth seeing. In this huge pa- peant almost a hundred infan trymen will stage real action, attacking pill boxes and demon strate real war time fighting conditions. The show will begin at 8 o’ clock on the high school football field and will have a band con cert by the 183 Infantry Band. At 8:45 the real show will begin and when darkness comes will be under the bright lights of the field. J. L. Hornibrcok Dies The show will be absolutely free and no admission promises be exacted. During the eve Services to Be Friday will ning a bond rally will be staged Funeral services will be held and an effort made to sell 7th Friday Morning at 10:30 in the War Loan Bonds. parlors of the Sheridan Funeral Home for John L. Hornibrook, who passed away Wednesday af Yamhill County Bond ternoon, June 20th., at the age of 77 years and 4 months. Sales Behind in State John Lester Hornibrook was born February 20, 1868 in Tor Sales report to date from all onto, Canada and moved to a towns in Yamhill County that farm near Willamina seventeen the County sales quota is behind yiars ago. A short time ago he that of the state with less than and his wife moved into town, two weeks of the Seventh War and he went to the hospital in Lean campaign remaining for McMinnville, where he remained salesmen and women to put until a fortnight ago. He had their County over the top. been an invalid since he was Yamhill County’s sabs quota very ill about a year and a half to date in “E” bonds is 57U% ago. against the State’s sales quota Besides his wife he is surviv of 65*0%. Willamina sales quota ed by a sister in Victoria. B. C., just reported is 46%. a brother, in Vancover, B. C., Commencing this week an in and a brother at Cooce, B. C. tensive retailers’ sales program The services will be conducted will be initiated to help boost by Rev. C. E. Calame of the “E” bond sales for the remain Methodist Church and interment der of the Seventh War Loan will be in the Green Crest Mem Drive. Through the retail com orial Fark at Sheridan. mittees of the various city cham bers of Commerce, one hour of one day to be designated, will be Fred Hansen Gets Last devoted by merchants and their clerks to the sales of war bonds only. First In Hitler Palace Mrs. Frank Matocha spent the past week with her parents in Reedsport. They have just re ceived a letter from his comman ding officer concerning the death of her brother. Fred Han sen which was reported recently in these columns. The officer wrote that Fred was the first boy to enter Hitler’s palace at Bertchesgadcn and that a lone German officer shot him as he jumped in. Fred lived about 20 hours after being wounded. Mrs. Matocha recalls that Fred had often expressed his de sire to “get Hitler” and that he was up for a furlough the week before but decided to stay and “see it through.” Another broth er Orville, is with the 1st Army and still in Germany. CpL Haflinger Reports For New Assignment Red Cross News Yarn for ten sweaters is now- ready for Red Cross knitters at the home of Mrs. S. E. Bryant. There is also a number of gar ments ready to sew. Tuesday is Red Cross sewing day at the Re bekah hall. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 12—Cpl. Joseph A. Haflin ger, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Haflinger. Route 1, Wil lamina, Ore., has reported to the Army Ground and Service Forces Redistribution Station here for assignment to new du ties based on skills and experi ence gained during 36 months’ duty in New Guinea and the Philippines. The Redistribution Station, one of six established by the A rmy to receive service men and women considered essential to the prosecution of war, offers a comprehensive program of rec reation. athletics, and entertain ment to the returnee while he awaits new orders. Santa Bar- Bara’s famed vacation resort- hotels. now managed for the vet erans by the Army, are under direction of the Ninth Service Command. A1 Newby of Newby's Phar macy was in Portland Saturday “on a buying spree," trying to get items people would like to buy. As usual, he found them “hard-to-get.” Clifford E. Coon pharmacist at Parsons Drug Co. in Sheridan was in charge of the prescription case during his absence. Arthur Vann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vann, arrived home Wednesday with a 30 day fur lough in his pocket. Arthur re ceived an arm and hand wound in France, and was sent to a hospital in England, and later brought to the hospital in Walla Walla, Washington. Humidity Drop Brings Ixiggers Out of Woods With the coming in of a cool sea breeze Wednesday evening, the logging situation eased up in the woods in and around this community. The humidity had steadily dropped over the week Mr. and Mrs. A1 Endres and J. A. (Bud) Jensen, Jr. CTM end until by Monday afternoon daughters returned from a visit 1-c left last Thirsday to rejoin it was necessary for the loggers Eastern Washington Monday to come in, it is reported. his company on their ship. evening.
