i>rary. university nt Or«
Ol)e Willamina Cimes
VOLUME NO. 39 NO. 1.
WORLD WAR TWO
VETERAN INJURED
FATALLY
WILLAMINA. YAMHILL COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21. 1947
SEPTEMBER 6. LAST DAY FOR
REGISTRATION ERE ELECTION
Septem ber 6 is the lent day voters
can register for th e special election
O ctober 7 sin ce the poll book« close
30 day« before election.
W illam ina voters living In Yam-
b ill county will register at the city
hall. W. B. M atthews 1« authorized
to register those living In Polk Coun-
ny. M atthews m ay be found during
! working hours at the W illam ina Feed
and Seed Store. Any person who did
' mot vote here at the last election
j should register, or ascertain If his
: nam e Is on the poll books.
TAX REGRESSIVE
FRANCIS STATES
IN ADDRESS HERE
A nniversary
This week m arks a m ilestone for
the Tim es w hich Is beglnnlg its 39th
con secu tive year of publication. This
month also mark« th e first anniver-
i «ary o f the present publishers who
! purchased the T im es last August.
The T im es was established in
1909, with J. A. Hart its first editor.
It 1s a coincidence that one of its
first subscribers w as a visitor in W l-
larnna this week from San Diego.
Mrs. M.A. N icol, w ho is looking after
property in terests in W illam ina and
is a house g u est o f Mrs. R. H. Mul
len, recalls that sh e and her fam ily
were am ong the first one« to sign a
petition favoring the establishm ent
of a new spaper here when Mr. Hart
was considering th e proposition in
1909. Their subscription began with
the very first issu e, she said, and
they had been constant subscribers
ever since. She said they look for
ward ea g erly every week to the ar
rival of the Tim es in their San Diego
hom e and ap preciate new s and pic
tures of old friends.
lllllle Duwuyne Bate, 22. died at
Carl H. Francis, »tate representa
ft: SO thin morning nt n M cM innville
tive from Y am hill county, «poke b e
hospital from Injuries received yen
fore the K iw an ls club at It« noon
torduv m orning about eleven o’clock
tim e m eetin g at the bark Cafe, T u es
In a loggin g accident »even or eight
day. on the proposed sale« tax, which
mllon from Grand Ronde. He wan
will be up before the voter« at a
fulling tree« In the L ong-B ell area
special election , Octaber 7. Mr. F ran
for bln em ployer, Ted W elty, when a
cis said It was his b elief that a sales
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fallin g tree «truck a «nag, causing
tax was unn ecessary to the financial
4-H COOKING CLASS GOES TO well being o f the «¿ate: that It was
It to fall unexpectedly, and «trike
M c M in nville t o m o r r o w
him, cnunlng Internal Injuries.
He
a regressive m ove; and he also be
w as taken to the honpltal In the
Mrs. W arren C. Kngdahl will take lieved It w as o f the utmost Impor
Grand Ronde am bulance and It waa
1 het 4-H cooking club to M cM innville tance that voter» atudy the m erits
thou ght last night that be bad a
tom orrow to the junior fair where of the proposed law and vote at the
chance for recovery. Arrangement«
Norma B usw ell and Itoyallne Cook, October electio n .
were being m ade for blood donor« . . .
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P resid en t o f th e club, A. D. Newby
both member« of th e club, w ill dem-
trotn here, when word cam e of hl«
announced
an invitation had been re
onstrate th e m aking o f cinnamon
death.
ceived
for
tw o couple« from W illa
rolls Seven of the member« will a t
T he deceaued was born A ugust 1.
mina to attend th e charter presenta
tend.
192ft at Gopher, Houth Dakotu and
O ther W illam ina clubs will be rep tion celeb ration of the newly formed
cam e w ith hl« parent« to Oregon
resented also w hen six Frndall club E«>acada K lwani» Club on Septem
w hen he waa tw elve year« old. The
m em bers will put on dem onstrations. ber 9.
fam ily moved to W illam ina about .
Carol Spicer and Carol M atocha
K le t ^ r . visiting Klwan- LIBRARY OFFERS SAVINGS
three year« ago. lllllle served In the w lll give a dem onstration on Ironing
’ from M cM Inville Invited .upport
"Why pay o u t hard earned dollars
Navy during the war with a rating
for
the
Y
am
hill
county
junior
fair
for
best sellers when you can rent
and folding a sh eet.
of gu n n er’« m ate, third cln«a and «aw |
Ixirralne Matocha and Glenva Ma- now being held at the county seat. them at the local library for ten
action In the P acific on the aircraft ,
The club extend ed it« thanks to the I cents per w eek ,” th e city library
! >|trs w ill m ake a furnitu re polish.
carrier« Cow pen« and Belleau Wood. I
1
Susan and Richard Johnson wll picnic com m ittee for thetr efforts In board asks.
Hie «hip wa« once «truck and severe
The W illam ina Library has five of
‘ give a health dem onstration with the m aking arrangem en ts for the club
ly dam aged by a suicide Japanese
i picnic last Friday.
th e ten m ost popular including "Mrs
seven basic foods.
plane, but he escaped Injury altho I
N on-m em ber g u ests were Dr. Ford Mike,” "The V ixens,” “T h e Story of
he had several narrow escape« dur- I
A.
C heney and Robert Harris.
Mrs Murphy,” “The W ayward Bus,”
NARROW EH4’A P E
Ini. th e war He received his dl«- I
“ Lydia B ailey” and “T he Miracle of
Lew Palm er. W illam ina IGA 8tore
ch a rg e In March o f 1946, follo w in g !
the B ells.”
m anager, ran Into a bit of a squall
27 m onth« service and returned to
Som e of the new ones in goon w ill
Sunday on hla return from Hood
WHIamlna w here he w as m arried to
be "The Tin F lu te ,” ’ The Big Sky.”
R iver In hla plane. As an oth er filer
Ml«« Sue Tlllla, who survive« him,
"W ife’s Eye V iew ” and “T h e Che
who had m ade the trip to Hood R iv
togeth er with their infant «on. Gary. 1
quer B oard.”
er in another plane was attem p ting
O ther survivor« are hla parents,
Mrs. Suda Comstock, president of
tv land, a sudden down draft caught
Mr and Mr«. Hertnnn Bate, two «In
hlo plane and caused It to ground th< R ebekah A ssem bly of Oregon, NEW PROJECT PROMISING
ters, Lola and Viola (Mra. Gordon I
loop, d am agin g the plane a lth o th e ’ paid her o ffic ia l visit to the local
Mr. and Mrs. V irgil H eider drove
Sink I, tw o brother«,
Kenneth . ....u
and
-• ««.»CM
t MC4pe(1 w ithout Injury. Palm er : lodge. Prim rose Lodge, No. 184 at o v er to Redmond over the w eek end
¿ .er ? L hl* "r*ni1 "aien ts. Mr’. *n 'com in g in behind him. m anaged to a «pectal m eetin g "in her honor at
to look over th e new irrigation pro
Mrs. Chnrles Jenson of Independence
g e l his plane down sa fely altho he Pa bekah hall Monday evening.
ject around Culver and M etolius.
and a num ber of au nts and uncles.
Other g u ests Included Mrs. Vern- I Crops o f peas and alfa lfa are looking
said th e air w as rough.
An aunt, Miss Clara Jenson cam e
etla N ew by o f Amtty, past sta te pres very prom ising in the first year o f
thb m orning from Independence. Mr
ident and d eleg a tio n s from both irrigation under th e north unit of
YOl'XG VISITORS HONORED
and Mrs. Jenson are on a vacation
Hope and Connie H ulett o f Port Amity and Sheridan lod ges. All of the D eschutes R iver project, Mr
trip and could not be Im m ediately
A ngeles who are visitin g their grand th e local o fficers w ere p resent. F our Heider, ow ner of the W illam ina Feed
located.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Ruef, teen g u ests and thirty-tw o m embers and Seed Store, said upon their re
Funeral arrangem en ts have not
w o e the g u ests o f honor at a party | were at th e m eetin g, at w hich Mrs. turn. Mrs. H eider lived in Central
yet been announced. lllllle was a
nt the R uef hom e T uesday. Mrs. H. J. M. Olson, noble grand, presided Oregon during her girlhood and a
m em ber o f the Christian church tn
J. K ing of W illam ina took a group Miss Opal Spence, W arden; Mrs. Roy trip over there is in the nature o f a
South Dakota.
of Hope's and C onnie's form er p la y Durham , m usician and Mrs. Mamie hom e-com ing for her.
m ates from here and Sheridan g u ests Edm tston, Chaplain w ere in stalled In
Dr. Ford A. Cheney Inserted an were V irginia and S teve H ulett.
their o ffic es by the sta te president. O. W. H eider Jr. G ets
advertisem ent listin g a jeep for sale
F o llo w in g the m eetin g, refresh
Ontario A ppointm ent
In the Tim es classified colum ns n Ile h ls Bi-M onthly M rct
m ents w ore served
in the dining
Otto W. H eider Jr., graduate of a
cou p le of w eeks ngo with Instruc
T he Grand Ronde Saddle Club m et room by Mrs. l,o u ise Arnold, Mrs.
m
ortuary
school in San Francisco,
tions to run It until further notice. Sunday at th eir new club grounds, j L uzelle B e n efiel. Mrs. R obert Young
hac
been
accepted
as an apprentice
He sold the Jeep but forgot to order nnd had a potluck dinner follow ed by J »r*d Mrs. Roy Crichton. T he long ta
the ad out and now he says, he Is racing and
roping contest«.
T he ble w as decorated w ith sin g le large at an Ontario funeral hom e, prepara
being b esieged by w ould-be jeep buy- j group m eets tw ice a m onth. T hey are [ dahlias placed at in terv a ls on the tory to takin g th e sta te exam ination
as a m ortician.
ers and he Implored the T im es to gettin g ready for a celebration In w hite cloth .
tell their readers he had no m ore ! Septem ber when they w ill d ed icate
W hile tn W illam ina, Mrs. Com
Jeeps for sale. This w eek's classified the new club grounds.
stock, w h ose hom e is in B aker, was TO BRING NEW PLANK
C ecil F letch er of the W ilsheron
page had already gone to press so
the house gu->st of her brother and
F
lyin
g Service is go in g back to New
Jeep - fanciers who don't happen to SALEM VISITORS H ERE
sister-in -law , Mr. and Mrs. McNeill.
i
Jersey to fly out a new plane over
see th is story m ay continue to pes-
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Beal and son,
tei the doctor.
S tevie of Salem were W ednesday EASTERN VISITORS AtXXVMI’ANY the week end.
REBEKAH OFFICIAL IS
VISITOR HERE
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dinner g u ests at the hom e of th e for NI4TIOI/4’ ON RETVRN HERE
m er’s sister, Mrs. Floyd E dnilston.
Mr. and Mrs. John N ichol returned
Ivan Dent caught a coyote In a P rofessor Beal is a m em ber o f the
last w eek from a three w eeks visit
trap In hla back pasture this week.
facu lty at W illa m ette U niversity.
in the east. T h ey went back by plane
to P ennsylvania and visited P h ila
delphia. N ew York and W ashington
Last Friday, local K iw anians sta g
D.C. T hey returned with Mr. and
Mrs. C. B. O af in the la tte r’s ear. Mr. ed a picnic at Jo h n sto n ” s Park on
nnd Mrs. Oaf are planning to return the W illam ina. T he attend ance was
to their hom e in Pennsylvania soon. good alth o not all the m em bers were
lly Mrs. Glenn E. .Menilenluill
Mrs. O’R eilly said that during the On the trip out here they v isited Y el
there. Due to the efforts of Ray Mor
U nusual as it m ay seem , a cou past several w eek s, four men, Mr. low stone Park, w here they found a
rison
and K. E. S hetterly, (hard
gar nnd her cub have been residents W h ite of Sheridan, Em ery Dentel. w elcom e re lief from th e heat o f the
on the O. K. O’R eilly place since Joe Matocha and Cy Clark all of central sta te s. It w as 107 in the w orking m em bers o f the picnic com
I hs I October. Tracks w ere first no W illam ina, have attem pted to tree shade during tw o days of their trip. m itte e ), the sta g e w as properly set.
T hey had provided excellen t coffee
ticed at that tim e by tile O’Reilly«, th e cou gars w ith their dogs. They Mrs. N lchol said.
Plans for rebuilding th e Cascade and trim m ings and p len ty of ice
althou gh It w as early sum m er before w ere tracked to th e highw ay op po
the quadrupeds grew bold enough site the Bunn sla u g h ter house, and H andle factory which w as destroyed cream. Did w e say “ P len ty” ? Thats
to approach th e house. Tunnels It w as thou ght they used th e by by fire last spring are in d efin ite as right, as who sh ould know better
than this w riter.
m ade In the briar th ick ets and brush pass under the highw ay lea d in g to yet, they said.
Before th e banquet started, Ken
on eigh t acres of their land sk irtin g the sla u g h ter h ouse. The cub is n ea r
Mr. and Mrs Andrew K ershaw and S hetterly laid claim to the horse shoe
the Yam hill River, w ere apparently ly as large as th e m other now and
cham pionship.
President
m ade by the cougars. T hey appear the O’R eillys are anxious to have son S k eeter are spending the su m pitching
unafraid of women but. keep out of them cau gh t before the scarcity of m er at W oods and will return to N ew by w as a little late in arriving
but w as forgiven w hen it w as d is
sig h t when men are ah out| Mr. O’ food m akes them bolder. B ecau se of W illam ina w h en school starts.
covered he had brought a large con
R eilly saw the m other leap out o f a all the a ctiv ity tn th e attem p t to
tainer
filled
w ith fried
chicken.
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tr e t one day, and this, with the track them and tree them , the Cou
Rf.
Tp. Frank Barrett, by the way, had just
tracks, the disnppearence of chick
gars have not been seen for the last
en s and tw o pprsinn kittens, the sk it tw o w eeks or so, but one n ig h t last August 12 — Clear ..... ...00... ...6 0 rem arked after loo k in g at th e groan
tish n ess of their horse and the wo w eek th eir horse jum ped
three A ugust 13 — Lt. F g ...... ...0 0 ... ...6 7 ing tables, th a t the only thing m iss
Clear..... ...0 0 ... .68 in g w as a platter of fried chicken.
m en -like cries in the night, con firm fen ces, so they feel sure the ca ta A ugust 14
C lear__ ...0 0 ... . 64 Mrs. N ew by and Mr. and Mrs. E A.
ed the story of Mrs. O’Reilly, her m ounts are still In their vicinity. T he A ugust 15
dnughter, Jeanlne, and Miss Ilarleen governm ent h u n ter C. E. M ullins has August 16 — Cdy .......... .00... . 60 ! Spencer accom panied Al. and to Mrs.
...6 2 Spencer go the la u rels for a ch ick
B ristow who stays with th e O’R eilly been called In to try his sk ill at ca p A ugust 17 — Clear ..... .00
en -fryin g job that co u ld n ’t be topped
C. E. Saw telle, Observer
tu rin g them .
fam ily.
$2.00 A YEAR
SCHOOL TO START
SEPT.15,FACULTY
IS COMPLETE
H is sta ff of teachers is now com
plete, Lloyd A. Parsons, principal
of the W illam ina union high school
announced this w eek. N ew teachers
include Miss Mary Ellen Cary, N ew
berg, for the scien ce departm ent;
A rthur F isher, M cM innville, m anual
training and sh op; Miss A nita Jos
eph who has ta u g h t th e past three
years at M yrtle Creek in D ouglas
county for social sciences.
E. D.
K eith w ill be in ch arge of th e band
and chorus. Mr. K eith com es to W il
lam ina from E u gen e w here he was
first assistan t to th e band director
in th e E ugene schools last year.
R eturning teachers are M i s s
Phipps,
Miss H arnsburger,
Miss
Stevenson, Miss A ertz and P. S.
G ietsch, coach. Mrs. Parsons, the
principal’s w ife, w ill be secretary and
librarian. A janitor, L. D ell Land,
Portland, has been engaged to h andle
th e new h ea tin g plant.
Altho school will not begin u ntil
Septem ber 15, Mr. P arsons is plan
ning to call th e fa cu lty to g eth er for
its first m eetin g Septem ber 11.
The school building
has been
cleaned and repaired and a new p ar
tition has been placed, sep aratin g
th e library from th e stu d y h all.
J. C. Ramey, grade school princi
pal is expected to arrive Monday, and
has rented the N icol house, form erly
occupied by Mr. and Mrs . M elvin
D uggan. T he sta ff o f teachers is
com plete, J. A. Matocha, chairm an of
the school board said.
Mr. M atocha said th e new class
room s provided by the quonset hut
building now being erected w ould be
ready for school w hen it started . The
com pany putting them up prom ised
com pletion in nine days. The school
buildings have been cleaned and r e
paired and the floors are being re-
finished.
STATE GRANGE OFFICIAL
VISITS KINFOLK HERE
R ecent g u ests at the R. Y. N eely
hom e were Miss B ertha Beck, P ort
land and Mrs. Pearl Shedd. P h ilo
m ath, cousins o f Mrs. N eely.
Miss Beck is th e sta te secretary
of the Oregon G range, a position sh e
has held for the past 27 years, and
is w id ely know n thruou t th e state.
W hile here, th e sisters a lso visited
another cousin, W infred B eck and
h is w ife.
Ixtcal F in n F u rn ish es Brick
For P ortland H ospital IT oject
T he W illam ina C lay P roducts Co.
are trucking brick into Portland for
the new addition to P rovidence H os
pital.
I f« n I>ent Traps Coyote
Lots o f Food, Lots o f Fun; K iw anians and
Families Picnick on Batiks o f W illam ina
Cougar and Cab A pparently at Horne In
Brash Thicket Just Ourside City Limits
by Aunt Jem im a herself.
F inally the d essert sta g e w as
reached and S h etterly stopped la d
ling coffee and started slicin g w ater
m elon s generously provided by Earl
R ichardson. T here was no butcher
knife in sig h t but w ith typical A m er
ican ingenuity, Ken did a cred itab le
job with an axe. By this tim e, horse
shoe pitching had started again and
it was soon evid en t that lo ts of real
talent w as present. A gam e of catch
w as interrupted w hen som eone m iss
ed the ball and it rolled into th e w a
ter. Ed Spencer rushed to retrieve
it before it flo a ted aw ay and wras
able to do so w hen Earl tossed his
cane to him.
It w as a p lea sa n t occasion until
the- end o f th e evening w hen little
April Endres, sm all d au gh ter of Mr.
and Mrs. A lbert Endres, fell again st
the stove and burned the palm of h er
hand. That rather put a dam per on
the sp irits of the crow d but they
were cheered next day to find April
had slept w ell during the n ig h t and
the burn w as not as serious as it had
been considered at first.