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WILLAMINA TIMES, Willamina, Oregon, Wednesday, November 29, 1972
Inside
Times sold;
goes offset
The Times
Last week, after nearly three de
cades of publication by Mr. and
Mrs. Orval Thompson, the W illa
mina Times was sold to Frank
Parchman.
The Thompsons received state
wide publicity in recent weeks when
they thought they would have to
shut down the Times for lack of
a buyer.
An obituary for the
newspaper had already been pub
lished in the Nov. 2nd edition of
the Times.
The newspaper was immediately
converted to off-set printing with
this edition to insure the highest
quality printing reproduction poss
ible, according to Parchman.
“ A good newspaper is the back
bone of a community,” said P ar
chman, ‘ ‘and we believe we can
provide Willamina and the surroun
ding area with a good newspaper.”
However, the survival of the W ill
amina Times rests as squarely with
the people of this area as it does
with us.
‘ ‘We need the support of the peo
ple through subscriptions and th
rough partronage of our adverti
sers if we hope to succeed here.”
He said that the response of ad
vertisers and townspeople to the
prospects of the ‘ ‘new” Willamina
Times has been very gratifying.
Ray Horn, a form er free-lance
photographer and w rite r has been
appointed general manager of the
newspaper.
M erchants m ake
C hristm as plans
Santa Claus w ill be the honored
guest of the Willamina Chamber of
Commerce when the chamber’s
annual Christmas program gets un-
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December 16. Santa, ’ w n ^ rc S P
reportedly been plagued by a short
age of reliable sleighs this year,
is expected to arrive in Willamina
via a bright red fire truck. A high
light of the Chamber’s program w ill
be a drawing for numerous gifts
and cash prizes. One lucky ticket
Tickets fo r the draw ing' are free
and w ill be g iy e n a w a ^ D ^ ^ffls m ’
merchants beginning December 1.
C ouncil m eets in
special session
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A dryer fire at the U. S. Plywood
plant was quickly extinguished at
8:30 a.m., November 23rd.
Thé
fire
did minor damage to the
roof of the plant.
A farm tractor owned by W illiam
Tolivar caught fire on November
19th.
A faulty electric furnace motor was
the suspected cause of a fire which
broke out at the Bob Colton home
in Willamina on November 5th.
Firemen suspect that hot vapor
izing gasoline in a pair of cover
alls
may have caused Gordon
Fowler’s washing machine to ignite
on the evening of November 14th.
the sun g litte rs o ff the w a te r
The Willamina city council met
in a special session last Monday
evening.
The council heard and
discussed a proposal that W illa m ina
might save money by purchasing
surplus water from the proposed
Grand
Ronde water system.
The proppsal was presented by
engineer M. G. Boatwright
of
Salem
who is assisting Grand
Ronde residents in securing fed
eral assistance for the Grand
Ronde water system.
(see ac
companying story this page)
Other matters considered by the
council were;
Accepted Marion Pond’d bid to
build cabinets and panel two walls
in the M ille r house at the cost
of $260 plus the cost of the paneling.
Accepted a twenty five dollar check
from Allbaugh’s for pest extermin
ation services.
Instructed the city recorder to
w rite , a letter to the state public
employees
retirement
system
asking that a study be made to
indicate
the cost of the public
employee benefits program required
by law after July 1, 1973.
Instructed the city recorder to
notify
Raymond B arry of Los
Angeles, California of the condem
nation hearing which w ill be held
at city hall at 7:30 p.m., Dec.
14th to determine if B a rry ’s cabins
at 212 NE D Street should be
condemned. '
Passed a motion to accept bid
f° r t ? new chl°rine contract at
the Decmeber 14th council meeting.
Tabled an application by Henry
Mitchell to place a tra ilo r house
on SE
Washington St. until the
city s ordinances on tra ilo r houses
are revised and clarified.
Mayor Schoenborn and councilman
D rill
were not present at the
meeting.
W a te r problem s
"A so lu tio n
m ay be in s ig h t i f . . .re sid e n ts
can d e ve lo p an u n d e rg ro u n d s p rin g "
A partial solution to Willamina’s
water supply problems may be in
sight if Grand Ronde residents
can develop an underwater spring
near Grand Ronde and sell some
of the surplus water the Willamina.
The feasibility of such a scheme
was explained’ to the city council
last week by Salem engineer M.
G. Boatwright. Boatwright, whose
firm recently completed a water
resources and
utilization study
in the Grand Ronde area, said that
Grand Ronde
would not begin
construction of i t ’s proposed water
system until Willamina decides
whether or not it w ill buy some
of the anticipated surplus water.
Boatwright said Willamina must
make a decision on the matter
during the next four to six months
because the project engineers would
have to plan the installation of
larger sized water lines if W illi-
mina
decides to participate in
the project.
Boatwright acknowledged that some
aspects pf the proposal could not
yet be discussed because Grand
Rhonde
had not yet set up a
political entity which would enable
it to apply for federal assistance.
However, he was extremely optim is
tic about Grand Rhonde’s ability
to secure the federal funds. He
suggested that Grand Rhonde’s water
problems were severe enough to
constitute a substantial danger to
public
health and that this fact
alone would almost certainly induce
the federal government to grant
the funds necessary for the.project.
Boatwright estimated the cost of
Grand Ronde’s system would run
around 460,000 dollars.
When the Grand Ronde. system is
completed, Boatwright estimated
that Willamina would be able to
buy 200 gallons of water per m in
ute at a cost of $200 to $400
per month, fo r the next ten to
fifteen years.
The time projec
tion was based on an economic
study which foresaw a slow, steady
rate of economic growth in the
area during the next decade. Boat
wright said the rate of $200 to
$400 per month for 200 gallons
of water per minute was extremely
low when compared to the rates
charged by other municipalities
around the state.
Salem, for
example, would charge 800-dollars
for the same amount of water.
Boatwright said the low rates would
be possible
because tests have
indicated that spring
water on
the International Paper Company's
land is a soft, unpolluted water
which would not have to be treated.
An additional cost reducing factor
cited by Boatwright was the eleva
tion of the spring water on Rock
Creek road.,
Pumping stations
would not be required because the
water source lies at an elevation
of 1800 feet above sea level and
would be used at an elevation of
around 500 feet.
However, the
high elevation of the water source
would require the installation of
a pressure reducing valve in the
W illim ina system,
Boatwright expressed his w illin g
ness to confer with the city council
and the city engineer in the future.
The council moved and passed a
motion instructing the city engineer
to meet with Boatwright and to
report back to the council.