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VOLUME 36 NUMBER 8
WILLAMINA. YAMHILL COUNTY. OREGON. ÏH U R SD A Y?OCTOBER 10, £
$2.00 A YEAR
WILLAMINA ACHIEVES FIRE PROTECTION GOAL
BOY SCOUT DRIVE
FOR FUNDS SET
TO MOVE FAST
From a hose cart and 350 feet of
hose, valued In all at $200 in 1940
to $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 worth o f efficien t fire­
fig h tin g
equipm ent
Including
tw o
trucks and an am bulance is th e proud
record achieved by
the
W illam ina
F ire D epartm ent w hich, under the
T he W illam ina Scout execu tive
com m ittee will launch a "dawn to
d u sk ’* Boy Scout drive Friday under
the direction of K. E. Shetterly,
chairm an of the drive Mr. S hetterly
met In Sheridan. Monday even in g
with the Sheridan com m ittee to map
plana for the cam paign which la be­
ing carried out on a county-w ide
basis for the purpose of financing
Boy Scout activities.
Thia la the first cam paign in two
years in Y am hill county em bracing
fund» for Scout work and the first
tim e in three years that a separate
Scout cam paign hus been undertaken.
“ A ctually, residents o f Yam hill coun­
ty this year are being asked to In­
vest In the scou tin g program for a
tw o-year period. 194 6 and 194 7,“
exp lain s Don H iggins, assistan t ex­
ecu tive of the P ortland area council
and secretary of the local drive.
T lieee tw o fin - tr u c k s tx-lon giiiu to th e c it v o f WII* _,
Budget for th e en tire Portland
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'' anrfna h a v e a n ew ered «.5 ca ll» sim -e J a n u a r y . S ta n d ­
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area cou n cil, of which Harper Jam i­ in g r e a r H m iii fn»m le fl to rig h t a r c E. F o x . D. F<>- . . . . _
t h ie f A. D . N ew b y, to w h om m m h o f th e c r e d it
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son. M cM innville Is president and
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with which all county troops are a f­ p ro p er fir e p r o te c tio n fo r th e co m .„ u n ity ,
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— ITioto by G u nter S tu d io
filiated . Is »H1.II60 for 1946 and e s ti­
m ated at 1 1 10.000 for 194 7. During
th< past year Scout activities in the
county have been financed by funds
from the 1946 budget althou gh no i T h is Issue o f the T im es la dedlcat-
contrlhutlon was made by the county. eJ *° *be W illam ina F ire Departm ent
There are 2300 boys of the Boy In observance o f annual Fire ¿ reven-
Scout age group in Y am hill county, lion week.
P assag of the basic school snpport
according to fton H iggins. Around
C hief N e w h y - f c ^ ' h „
crew
of
j bill w ill be a boon to taxpayers in
,J4{Larc now enrolled in scout work,
between the chtnm un-
a n d s h i ' / o i ’ Indicate that over 1700 1
d istricts such as W illam ina, w here ,
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and the threat of fire loss, form ­
county hoys would lik e Yu be V . flits. ..
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population
is d en se in t om parson to
ing a staunch w all that g iv e s us all
Pla Ing of H. it. Quant at McMinn­
I
assessed
valuation.
Hubert A rm ­
a feelin g o f con fidence and safety.
ville as full tim e field execu tive in
Many an hour of d rillin g and many stron g, su perin ten dent of the New
this region. It is believed will facll-
an hour of hard work In the actual berg city schools, told m m bers of the
lutc settin g up a program to make
fig h tin g of fire, in clu d in g on a
availab le training for these boys if
local Parent-T eachers A ssociation
num ber of occasions, g ru elin g all-
ud quote funds are availab le.
m
eetin g at the sch oolh ou se. W ednes­
n'ght vigils, has gone Into the per­
day
even in g It Is only fair Mr. Arm ­
fectin g of a fire-figh tin g ma< hThe
PARKED CAS H.’T WHEN
that has won the p laud its of all con ­ stron g said, that school
taxes be
PASSING VEHICLE SKIDS
cerned for its fine record o f com m un­ equalized over the sta te so that prop­
A pick-up belonging to W alter F. ity service. W e're m ighty proud of erty ow ners, such as u tilitie s a n d j .
Sm ith w as the ‘ Innocent b stander" our fire departm ent.
holders of large acreages of tim ber
In a m otor accident. Monday a fte r ­
and grazing land w ill be required to
noon, when a car driven by Tony |
pay a fair share of the exp en seof ed u ­
Herr, (.»m a« W ashington, who was 1
ca tin g the youth of th e state, even
on his way to the roast skidded on
tho their property is located in th in ­
the freshly oiled pavem ent In front
ly settled areas, w here under the
A side from th e usual business of
of the W ilam lna Cleaners' building I
p resen t system , there are few if any
and according to Mr Sm ith, who Is
approving
b ills contracted during the
W illam ina Post No. 4 2 1 1 . V eter­ sch o o l levies made. Mr. A rm strong
th m anager of the clean in g estab ­ ans of Foreign W ars plan to hold a
m
onth,
the
city co u n cil at its m onth­
was in vited to appear before the
lishm ent, went Into a spin and c r a sh ­ m eetin g. O ctober 21. at th e Rebekah
group to discuss the m easu re which ly m eeting, Monday even in g, d iscu ss­
ed Into the pick-up parked in front
hnll when presentation of th e new w ill be on the ballot in Novem ber.
ed plans for fu tu re developm ent of
of the building. D am age to the Sm ith colors .will ta k e place. The m eetin g
P recedin g the d iscu ssion , a b usi­ streets and w aterw orks, decided to
car was set at $90. T he other car
w ill begin at 8 :0 0 p.m. and refresh ­ n ess m eeting took place w ith Mrs. fen ce the reservoir site w ith a sub­
escaped injury.
m ents will be served fo llo w in g the Gary L ovette, second vice-president sta n tia l w ire fen ce and proposed "re­
program .
in charge. Mrs. Edna Z um w alt, pres­ w ritin g a new b u ild in g code and a
LET S GO TO THE GAME
All m em bers are urged to attend, id en t, who has moved from W illa ­ new sid ew alk ordinance, covering
W illam ina stores and b usiness C harles H ofrlchter. post com m ander m ina to Sheridan, turned In her res­
w idth and m aterial to be used.
houses are planning to clo se Friday a d v ises and he a lso extend s an Invita­ ig n ation and a n om in ating co m m u ­
aftern oon from 2 :0 0 until 4 :0 0 for tion to all veterans to com e to the te w as instructed to present a report
Mr. and Mrs. D oyle Drill and ch ild ­
the W illam ina - Sherw ood
football m eeting. P resent m em bership o f the to be acted upon at the N ovem ber
ren Mickey and Gary made a business
gam e to be played here.
post num bers ap proxim ately 110,
m eetin g.
trip to P ortland Monday.
EDITORIAL
VFW SETS OCTOBER 21
FOR MEETING DATE
[RTA HEARS TALK
ON SCHOOL BILL
COUNCIL CONSIDERS
CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS
able leadership of F ire C hief A. D.
Newby, (w h o in cid en tally is also
W illam ina’s present m ayor) has set
an ou tstan d in g exam ple of com m un­
ity service d uring the past fiv e or
six years.
In Ju ly o f 1 940, a com m ittee
from the W illam ina com m ercial club
met with the city council to discuss
the p o ssib ility of organ izing a fire de­
partm ent for com m unity protection.
It w ould take, they estim a ted , about
$1500 or $2 0 0 0 to finan ce the n eed­
ed equipm ent. The city had budgeted
but $200 for th e fire departm ent.
Not ea sily discouraged, a group of
interested citizen s in clu d ing Newby,
( He and Martin Myers are the only
ones of th e charter m em bers still
with the d ep artm ent) kept up the
ag ita tio n for the project and on Ju ly
25, the W illam ina F ire D epartm ent
was organized with the aid of Frank
Sm elser, city councilm an and George
Linton, m arshal. Newby w as elected
secretary-treasurer. D rills w ere im ­
m ediately inaugurated w ith th e lim ­
ited equipm ent at hand which con­
sisted of a hose cart w ith 350 feet
o f h ose and one nozzle.
The n ew ly organized d epartm ent
staged a b en efit dance w hich netted
them over $500 and an oth er $500
was donated by the P acific Plyw ood
C orporation— now A ssociated Ply­
wood M ills Inc.— to r the purchase of
ad dition al equipm ent in clu d in g su it­
able clo th in g for p rotection a g a in st
the w eather. In the m eantim e, the
city cou n cil had considered the m at­
ter and voted to purchase a fire truck
at a cost o f $3 600. On Sept. 24, the
new Ford fire truck, b uilt oy H ow ­
ard-Cooper o f P ortland, arrived and
after having been tested by the Ore­
gon Insurance ratin g Bureau w as ac­
cepted by the cou n cil.
W ith th is help from th e city, the
fire d epartm ent, u sing th eir own
m oney bought a good deal of equip­
m ent in clu d in g a p ortable lig h t plant
co stin g about $ 5 5 0 and w ith a 1500
w att output. T h is en ab les the fire­
men to see their way about after a
n ight fire is stopped, thu s elim in a t­
ing accid en ts and m aking it easier
to pick up their equipm ent.
The need for an am bu lance in the
com m unity w as seen by the ever-
v ig ila n t fire dep artm ent m em bers
who noted th a t accid en ts are by no
m eans rare in a com m un ity where
loggin g and lum bering are im portant
in du stries and w aits o f several hours
som etim es occurred before the in ju r­
ed could be reached by am bulance
from other com m un ities. C ollections
were taken up at the various lo g g in g
cam ps and m ills and w ith d onations
from other public-spirited citizens,
(C on tinu ed on P age 14)
W ILLA M IN A ’S FIRE FIGHTERS
k ,|. row. ion to i ikiii : I m I.I ic lo x
J o h n .y B arkley, K enneth G riffith , Ed Npenrer. H o n o r Blerbaum , Dick S ch m id t, A l Endres, Harry Shipley,
Bottom row D onald M itchell, J o e M atocha, C harley Welib, Bud Benny D. W. Fox, Bob Denny, M artin M yers, Al T o a st, bVank K auble, B ill Lash
W arren Engdahl. Bob C olton.