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About The times of Willamina. (Willamina, Oregon) 1972-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1973)
10’ New budget set for Willamina will also be checked for height, weight, nutrition and speech. Parents are asked to bring immuni zation records of their child, urine samples should be brought in a clean container. Mrs. Vinson can be called at 876-5203 for an appoint ment. A well child screening clinic will be held at the Miller House at F irst and C in Willamina on Thursday, March 15 from 9 a.m. to noon. Chil dren up to the age of six may attend. Children can be immunized, have their vision checked by the Pacific University Optomertry School, have hearing tests, blood tests and urinalysis. They By Berneiece Soules A $1,049,800 budget proposed for the Willamina School Dis trict for 1973-74 has received final approval from the district budget committee. The committee approved the figure Wednesday night after transferring $5,000 in the pro posal from the instructional e- quipment category. The $5,000 will be divided equally between the professional services for buildings and the daily supplies categories. The proposed budget represents a ten per cent increase over the current budget of $952,406, according to school board chair man Elsie Werth. Some $683,- 495 is to be raised by the tax payer as compared to $607,116 this year. She said the tax rate is estimated at over $18 per thousand true cash valua tion. A public hearing on the budget will be April 9 in the high school at, 7:30 p.m. A. May 7 budget election is scheduled. The proposed budget has $29,- 233, in teachers’ salary in creases, including a $3,477 in crease in fixed charges of Social Security and teachers’ pensions. Local w om an goes to confab Marjorie Reid, Grand Ronde 4-H Community Coordinator, (left in picture) was selected to attend the 1973 Western States 4-H Leaders Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico on techniques in understanding oth ers, how to identify community needs and resources, how to develop a program to work with all people and develop action plans for training other leaders. March 1-5 reports Roger Flet cher, Polk extension agent in 4-H. She is one of a three mem ber leadership team selected during the state 4-H Leaders Conference in Salem. The other two members are Pat Smith, Monmouth'(center in picture) and Lydia Gertsen, Falls City (right in picture). The Albuquerque conference is designed to develop competence in how to use human relations Marjorie Reid is the Grand Ronde 4-H Community Coordin ator. She believes in 4-H and has been at it for a long time - ( “ longer than I can remember,” she says. As 4-H coordinator she organized 4-H in Grand Ronde. “ She does an outstanding job,” Fletcher notes. “ In fact, she and the other 4-H leaders in Grand Ronde pioneered the Com munity Coordinator concept by assuming organizational respon sibility for 4-H many years ago.” No vote heeded Scouts honored Sheridan budget w ith in lim ita tio n law A 1973-74 budget of $852,795 Was approved by the Sheridan School District budget coihmittee at its last meeting. This figure represents an increase of $88,- 000. Due to increased revenue, the amount of local taxes neces sary to balance thè budget is within the six per cent limit ation. Therefore, there will be no need for a budget election. Major items necessitating the increased funds are: plans to employ a part-tim e school nurse; building of a second house by the construction class; install ation of shower facilities in the Faulconer building for better u- tilization of district gymnasiums by after-school athletic groups; an approximate five per cent in crease in salaries for district employees; increased social se curity and retirement costs; pur chasing necessary materials, textbooks, and equipment; per forming maintenance work to the three buildings; increased em ergency funds. and unappropriated A public hearing is scheduled for the approved budget. This meeting .will be held in the high school library at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5th. Petitions for position #2 of the Board are available in the dis trict office. The deadline for submitting petitions is 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 6th. The elec tion will be held on Monday, May 7th, in the high school. Glen Dickey, Jr., presently holds this position. His term expires on June 30, 1973. Composing the budget commit tee are: Richard Nimrod, Chairman; Mrs. Glen Grauer, Secretary; Anthony Eisele; Jan Wepster; Craig Norwood. Board members are: Glen Diskey, Jr., Chairman; Ralph Matlack, Vice- Chairman; Russ Taylor; Bruce Williams; Kenneth Knutson. Willamina High drama students work on the set for the annual Fun Night show. This year’s show will be on April 12, 13 and 14. Theme of this iar s show is souna o i m e u ic a v m m ..»j- ickets for the show are available at the office the high school. Council active in m onthly m eeting The following business was con ducted at the regular meeting of the City Council on Thursday, March 8. The fire department was author ized to purchase a new fire truck in the amount of $17,000 from Western States Fire Equipment. to the council soon. The next regular council meet ing will be held on April 12. Cub Scout Pack 452, Willamina area, held their Blue and Gold dinner February 22 in the Wil lamina Grade School cafeteria. Special guests for the annual event included Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gardner, Yamhill District director of Cub Scouting, and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Paul. Among the awards presented by Mr. Jack Antuor, Cubmaster, was the Arrow of Light, highest rank a Cub Scout can earn. The honor was presented to Jack Scott as he ended his Cub Scout career and entered- Boy Scouts. Mr. Gardner presented Steve Lacock with the Scouter Train ing award, given after three years leadership experience, and Alice Lacock with the Columbia-Paci fic Council, den leader training award and the Den Leader coach es training award. The program for the evening included a skit on famous Ameri cans, depicting Lewis and Clark, presented by Den I, Mrs. Mc Gill leader; presentation of aw ards, and a film on Scout fund raising. Den I exhibited a Cub Scout centerpiece; Den II, leader Mrs. Alice Lacock, displayed safety signals; and Webelos, leader Steve Lacock, exhibited knot- tying. Authorized the old Willamina Times office to be torn down. Granted Red George’s Union Service Station the bid for gas, oil and services for the coming year. Councilman Eddy was elected to be representative for the city in all negotiations between city ant} the State Highway Division, regarding streets and paving. Approved by the council were the liquor application renewals for Bob’s One Stop Market, South- side Grocery, Benny’s Tavern and Hal and Thelma’s. A bid was accepted from Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hill of Newport in the amount of $2510 for prop erty on Cherry Street. The m u d fle w S a tu rd a y a n d S unday as the H illto p p e rs e n te rta in e d o th e r a re a 4 -w h e e l d riv e clubs a t the W in te r M u d d e r h e ld n e a r G ra n d Ronde In other business, Gary Cle ments gave a talk on saving wat er by placing a brick in the toilet tank. Permission was granted to Gary and the Boyscouts to sell bricks for 11(5 each for this purpose. Property owners attended the council meeting to voice their opposition on an eight-plex that a Dallas contractor plans to build on Willamina Drive. The Plan ning Commission is studying a rezoning plan and will present it What is and isn’t at the same time is our riddle of the week. The answer is Stone’s Fuel Oil. It still exists, but now it isn’t owned by Rocky Stone. Effective March 1 the business was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baker, formerly of Harrisburg. Baker worked in a plywood mill in Harrisburg before coming here. They moved to Willamina in December after buying a house here in June. Up to the time they took over Stones, Baker had worked at US Plywood in Willamina. He bought the business because he wanted to go into business and this was available. The Bakers enjoy fish ing and hunting in addition to treasure hunting and stamp collect ing They aren’t planning on changing the name of the company “ because everybody knows it.” Nor are they going to make any other changes, at least not “ for quite a while.” Meanwhile Rocky and Patricia will help the Bakers run the shop for the next couple of months. After that Rocky, at a youthful 70, will take it easy doing some ranching, fixing up his old cars and pulling fellow Hilltoppers out of the mud.
