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About The times of Willamina. (Willamina, Oregon) 1972-1974 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1972)
Sample Copy /h e lim e s WILLAMINA TIMES, Willamina, Oregon, Wednesday, December 6, 1972 : o f W illamina Safety Volume 64, Number 19 IOC Robert Colton regulations dies in crash explained State Accident Department r e presentative George Gardiner met with local business officials hère last week to explain the la test federal and state health and safety regulations. Gardiner also advised area business men that the state legislature will have to décide during the next session of the legislature whether or not the state of Oregon will continue to enforce health and safety regu lations or if the responsibility should be assumed by the fe deral government. A number of local businessmen attending the meeting said they would be ex tremely apprehensive if the fe deral government assumed the enforcement responsibility. Se veral expressed the opinion that ;if the federal authorities were allowed to take over a function -that the state had previously han dled that the federal authorities would probably be more stringent in enforcing existing regulations. One local business man said that -Oregon has been one of the few ’ states which has had comprehen sive accident and health regu lations since the early 1930’s and that in the case of Oregon it was not likely that the federal authorities could do a better job. Gardiner urged those attending the meeting to communicate their views and feelings to their elec ted representatives at the state legislature. Twenty five year old Robert Francis Colton of Amity was killed early Sunday morning on highway 18 near Sheridan when the car he was riding in hit an icy spot, slid into a bridge guard rail and overturned. Colton was thrown from the car and trapped under the overturned vehicle. The car was driven by 29 year old Bobby John Fadenrecht of 1064 Cascade Drive, N. W. Salem. Robert is survived by his wife JoAnn and two young children; Carol Ann, age three, and Ri chard Daniel, three months. O- ther survivors include Robert’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Col ton of Willamina; three brothers, Dave Colton of Salem, Douglas Colton of Amity, and Richard Col ton of Willamina; a sister, San dra Lee Sherrill of Peach Tree City, Georgia. Robert Colton was an employee of U. S. Plywood in Willamina. He was born December 14, 1946 in McMinnville. Funeral s e r vices will be held Wednesday, 2 p.m., in Adamson’s Sheridan fu neral home. Interment will be at Evergreen Cemetary in Mc Minnville. RockCreek residence to buy w a te r system Everywhere we went last week it looked like the Times was here to stay. Post office open on Saturdays For the benefit of Christmas m ail e rs, the Willamina Post Office will be open from 9 AM until 2 PM on Saturday, December 9th and De cember 16th. You are urged to get your packages in the mail by December 10th and your out of town cards should be mailed by Decem ber 15th - M erry Christmas! Residents of the Rock Creek Hide- Out area west of Grand Ronde, voted to purchase the HideOut Water Sys tem during a. meeting at the Grapd Ronde library Sunday afternoon. Purchase price was $8,000. . ¿¡fhe system,.was turned Aver-- to- residents a year and a half ago on a trial basis by owners, Ralph and Ruby Alvord of Milqaukee, the area’s land developer. A corporation will be set up so each water user in good standing will be a stockholder. Anyone two months in a rears will be considered not in good standing. A flat fee of $4.00 per month is charged u- sers. There are no m eters on the system and no restrictions on the amount of water a patron can use. The source of supply is an earthen dam near the south boundry which is spring fed. There are 90 property owners in the HideOut area but only about 50 are presently using the service. The remainder have no buildings on their property. Jack Getzler was elected chairman of , the; Bferd-.pf serve with him are Wayne Hull, Mrs. Arva Ford, Don Fox, and Mrs. Elma Murray who is also secretary. The new Board has served in their same capacity as a temporary Board for the last year and a half. Roland Rasmussen, Henry Al brecht, and Darryl Hamilton were elected to the Board as alternate members. The first thing that will be done is to put a permanent cyclone fence around the facility. The group also approved a “ get tough” policy with freeloaders who have not been pay ing their water bill. ) A rch ite cts to be screened fo r d is tric t re m o d e lin g School superintendent Don Mit chell says that the process of screening architectual firm s for the districts proposed building änd remodeling plan is going well . and that it may be possible to authorize a firm to begin confer - ing with the d istrict’s personell about thè d istrict’s construction and re-modeling needs during January. The d istrict’s plans involve re-modeling and addi tions to the high school and the partial replacement of the Grand Ronde elementary school. It ' is possible that two to four of the Grand Ronde classrooms may be used adjacent to a new school. Mitchell said that school board members have already met with four architectual firm s and may meet with a fifth. Board mem bers have also made several trips to inspect schools constructed by the various firm s in other com munities in the state. Mitchell said that'potential firm s are eval- , uated in tehms of their ability to co-plan with local school per- ; sonnel and in term s of their past performance in making low and estim ates and bids. tó»; a. accurate \ I Being good sam artain doesn't always pay off With the current rate of high inflation Mitchell said that it was impossible to venture any rough estimates of what the pro posed construction cbuld cost the district. He said that the Willamina, Grand Ronde district has not un dertook any new construction since 1957 and that it is not like ly that the district will be faced with any accute classroom shor tages in the near future because the population of the Willamina area has been fairly stable in recent years. U S. Plywood installs a n ti-p o llu tio n u n it u. S. Plywood’s Willimina plant recently installed an $85,000 dollar pollution reduction unit. The ex perimental unit is called a “ w heeler-brator” and filters the exhaust of the plant’s dryers through a fiber glass matt which some what resembles the filters used on home furnaces. Good Smartain Loren Kirkland of Sheridan was nearly cited by Dallas police for excessive muff ler noise after he towed a Dallas police car out of a ditch in Dallas last week. Plant" manager Jack Bajus says 1 the unit has performed well and I greatly reduced visible, air pol tion from the mill. Workers opi ating the unit said there were a 1 minor problems with the unit sho ly after it’s installation but t most of the problems have now bt ironed out. Loren said that the police car slipped off the road while it was apparently making a U-turn. Loren drove to a i friends house and borrowed a chain, pulled the car out of the mud, and was then given an excessive noise warning by the policeman. City e n g in e e r studies w a te r plan City engineer Cambell Steketee says that he is studying the Grand Ronde - Willamina water utilization proposal made by Salem engineer M. G. Boat wright at the last council m eet ing. Boatwright had proposed that Willamina plan to purchase surplus water from the Grand Ronde water system when it is completed some time next year. Steketee said this week that he has not yet had an opporutnity to study all aspects of the pro posal but that he would make a full report on the proposal at the next council meeting. Board o f directors selected The Grand Ronde Water Associa tion met Wednesday night to elect a Board of D irectors for the legal formulation of a cooperative water district. Chairman of the group is Ted Smith. Others on the Board include Richard Doran, Mrs. Myr Peggy Johnston stands by her father’s antique sleigh as the year’s tle Otjen, Lloyd Lewis, Gary Baker, first snow fell last Sunday (See story on Leroy Johnston’s anti Rodney Haak, Raymond Holmsten, ques page 4). Douglas Campbell, and Alvin Hu lett. Mrs. Eloise Hulett was elec ted secretary of the co-op.
