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About The times of Willamina. (Willamina, Oregon) 1972-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1973)
PGE asks for 'needed' rate increase Portland General Electric com- E“ yT asked the Oregon Pub- he Utility Commissioner for a 5- percent rate increase with at least 15 percent to be effective on April 26. If the total in crease is not granted in April, PGE asks that the remainder be come effective in October. If the total request is granted in April, company revenues would increase about $18 million in 1973. if 15 percent is granted in April and 10 percent in Oc tober, 1973 revenues will in crease about $14 million. The initial filing provides for the 25 percent to be applied C hem eketa begins The Adult Basic Education clas ses of Chemeketa Community College are completing the Win ter term of 1972-73, with an en rollment of 90 students. The Amity and Willamina Centers have completed classes for the present school year, and students are urged to continue studying in other Yamhill County Centers. The McMinnville Center, F irst and Ford Streets, offers day classes Monday through Thurs day, 9-3:00, and Monday and Wednesday evenings 7-10 p.m. The community of Yamhill has a class Tuesday evening 7-10 p.m. in room 2, Yamhill-Carl ton High School. This program is offered to county residence is offered to interested in viewing 'basic ■ math, science, county residents learning or r e skills (reading, language, and so- cial studies), and will find tea chers and materials for indivi dual help. The Centers provide prepara tion for the High School Equiva lency Examination (G.E.D.), practice in taking test, diagnose ing of basic skills, and grade placement. Each month a coun selor from Chemeketa Commun ity College in Salem will be a ity College in Salem will be at F irst and Ford Streets to pro vide guidance in career oppor tunities, college transfer, and student financial aid. The next counseling date is April 2, 7-9 p.m. Chemeketa McMinnville office is open 8:30 to 5:00 Monday through Friday and will provide information on any of the college programs. 328 N. Davis, Tele phone 472-4406 CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE YAMHILL COUNTY ADULT EDUCATION Spring Term Starts Wéek of March 26, 1973 FOR MORE INFORMATION M c M innville “ across the board.” The com pany will file amended rate sche dules on April 2 providing for distribution of the increase in a slightly different manner.' In a letter of transmittal ac companying documents delivered to PUC Richard Sabin Friday afternoon, Robert H. Short, senior vice president and trea- a surer, outlined the factors prompting the request. They in clude “ . . . sharply increased capital requirements combined with the continuing high cost of money, a large increase in future power costs, and the need to maintain a reasonable credit ra t ing.” Short’s letter said, "It should also be noted that rate levels for the company’s consumers after the proposed increase has been made effective will still be amvug the lowest in the nation, The company currently sells en ergy at an average rate of 1.024 cents per kilowatt-hour. Assu ming our application for rate r e lief is granted, the average cost per kilowatt-hour will be less than 1.3 cents, well below most electric utility rates.” PGE filed for rate adjustments in April of 1972 and subsequent ly withdrew the request in Au gust of last year. The company serves about 365,000 customers in the northern Willamette Valley. PTO m eet set CONTACT THE CHEMEKETA ï office 328 N. Davis Street Phone: 472-4406 SHERIDAN Landscaping & Plant Materials for TIME TUITION Day Home Grounds 7-10 p.m. 15.00 T 7-10 p.m. 15.00 Fundamentals of Real Estate T Slimnastics 7-9 p.m. 10.00 W Tole Painting I 7-10 p.m. 15.00 T Students may pre-register for Sheridan classes by contacting the Sheridan Sun Office, 843-2312. The Parent-Teacher Organiza tion (PTO) of Willamina High School will meet on Noonday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the library at the high school-. The group will nominate a new slate of officers for next year to be voted on at their May meet ing. Horse show slated The eighth annual Spring 4-H Horse Show will be held at the DeLashmutt arena in McMinn ville on March 23, 24,! and 25. WILLAMINA On Friday the show will start Calligraphy Th 7-10 p.m. 15.00 Charm for Everyone m 7-10 p.m. 15.00 plus $3 Lab Fee with 28 classes for ponies un der 54 inches. Friday evening Better Buymanship for Homemakers t 7-9 p.m. 5.00 will be an all game show. Sat Spinning . T 7-10 p.m. 15.00 Fiberglass - Application & Repair Th 7-10 p.m. 15.00 plus $5 Lab Fee urday at 8 a.m. will be the be ginning of the All-Western Show. Basic Sewing jyj 7-10 p.m. 15.00 The All-English Show starts Sun - Flower Arranging Th 7-9 p.m. 10.00 day at 9 a.m. Willamina Department Store Brush Levis A ll Sizes WILLAMINA TIMES, Willamina, Oregon, If there is a similar corolary his collection, is worth several to “ You are what you eat” and thousand dollars. what a person , had for hobbies Because of the great value of it would be something very in his stamp collection he doesn’t teresting to take in Willamina just leave it around the house Mayor Richard Schbenborn. preferring to keep it locked up Mayor Schoenborn collects bot in the bank because “ while it’s tles, Indian artifacts, coins and insured if if were stolen that stamps. wouldn’t mean that I would get About the only thing that any all my money back from it and of his collections have in com probablv not the stamps either.” . Schoenborn also has quite a mon is that he only collects things that are old and rare. substantial collection of coins. Schoenborn’s pride dnd joy when He has not stayed active in this it comes to collections is his anymore because “ there are now collection of Indian artifacts. His so many people collecting the only collection pi Indian arrowheads way that you can get anything numbers over 500. anymore is to go out and buy Wednesday, March 21, 1973 Page 5 His collection now numbers over 1000 bottles of every shape, sort and description. Over half of these bottles sit on display in his living room. Among the bottles in his col lection are olive oil, pepper, ink, oils, whiskey, beer, soda pop, perfume and many other kinds of bottles. He also has several fruit jars in his collec tion. In addition to his display in the living room he also has another building that his wife calls “ the glass house,” where he keeps about half his collection. The glass house contains most You name it Schoenborn collects everything Schoenoorn also has a great number of beads, as well as hammers, choppers, bowls, pes tles, knives, tomahawks and gam ing stones all made out of stones. He also has a few Indian bas kets in his collection including one that is waterproof. The waterproof one was woven tightly so that water cannot, get through it. Among the prizes in Schoen- born’s collection of Indian a rti facts is a whale bone totem that was made someplace in Washing ton state according to Schoen born, “ probably somewhere a- round the Puget Sound area.” The whalebone is quite old and Schoenborn plans on varnishing it to further preserve it. Many of the artifacts in his collection are quite old and while he is unable to date any of them he claims that many go back to pre-whitemen days. Schoenborn even has somethings in his artifact collection that he doesn’t know what the purpose of them is, “ in fact nobody alive today can tell us what some of these things were used for,” he says. Getting his start in collection artifacts from his father Schoen born still enjoys going out and digging around for them. In addition to starting his son off on collection Indian artifacts the senior Schoenborn must also take credit for starting his son in collecting stamps. This is another hobby Schoenborn has stayed active in oyer the years. Among his prizes is one of the first stamps made in the United States. Schoenborn said that them.” Getting his start in collecting coins iri an unusual way Scheori- born said “ it all started one day when I was out fishing on the Willamette. It seems that some - body had dumped some stuff into the river and digging around in it I found this bid purse. When I openned it up there were some old coins inside' That’s what got me started.” Perhaps Schoenborn’s largest collection is also his newest one - - collecting bottles. The bottle collection began only five or six years ago accord ing to Schoenborn when one of the vocational-ag teacher’s stu dents discovered an old trunk with some bottles in it and talk ed Schoenborn into collecting them. of his larger bottles including the majority of the fruit jars and the whiskey, pop and other kinds of bottles. If someone thinks that all bottles look alike all that it takes is a look at Schoenborn’s collection to learn otherwise. There are countless different types of fruit jars in his collection. Each of them has a different design on the jar, many of them dating back to the mid 1800’s.. In his collection are some very old soft drink bottles. They had a type of top on them that was removed by hitting the top of the bottle against a wall which caused the bottle top to drop into the bottle while simultaneously giv ing off a. loud “ pop” . which is how, according to Scheonborn, soft drinks became known as pop. Mayor Schoenborn holds up his prize whale bone. Schoenborn stands surrounded by his Indian artifacts and bottles in his liv ing room. O b itu a rie s P e a rl W e a v e r Pearl Katheryn Weaver of Wil lamina, died Saturday morning in a McMinnville nursing home. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, March 21, 1973 in Adamson’s Sheridan Funeral Home with interment in Green . Crest Memorial Park of Sheri- ' dan. Mrs. Weaver was born Dec. 17, .1911 in Los Gatos, Calif., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe. She lived in California and then Oregon for the past 25 years. She has lived in Willamina since 1965. Her first husband, Ellis A. Brown died and she married Wallace Weaver, March 9, 1969 in Willamina. She is survived by her husband Wallace of Willamina; three sons, Delbert of McMinnville, Don of Lakeview and Dan of Willamina; four daughters, Barbara Myler of Albany, Evelyn Melody of On tario, Oregon, Dorothy Hamilton of Springfield, iandKatheryn Hur - st of Paso Robles; Calif., nine grandchildren; three brothers Milton S. Wolfe of Inglewood, Colorado, George Wolfe of San Jose, Calif., and Herbert Wolfe! of/ Salinas, Calif A; other more distant relatives and friends. Not only are there many differ ent kinds of bottles but there are also many different colors in cluding cobalt blue, olive or vasoline green and a black Mission Orange bottle as well as several green, amber and blue bottles. Some oi the bottles in his col lection are old druggist bottles from Willamina many of which still have the labels On them. Unfortunately according to Schoenborn they do not have dates on them, however the name Belt Drug Company, Willamina, Ore gon is visible on many. Other bottles in the collection are from China, some of them even having Chinese writing on them. Schoenborn said that the bottles were made in China and filled with a certain product, be it whiskey, soy sauce or what ever and then sent Over to the United States to be sold wherever there was a Chinese settlement. Among his collection of Chinese artifacts is a set. of home-made dominoes. Ranging from the rare to the un usual Mayor Schoenborn’s col lections certainaly have to rate high in interest and are in them selves an education by means of a trip into the past. Local rabbit groups meet The five 4-H rabbit clubs of Yamhill County met for the se cond time this year at the Yam hill County Fairgrounds, on Sat urday, March 10, at 1 p;m. The meeting was conducted by the Willamina Jumping Jack’s Club. The program was a butchering and hide stretching demonstra tion. . Mr. Vic Gardner of Grand Ronde did the butchering demonstration and Mrs. Sondra Cain, the hide stretching demonstration. The next combined meeting of the clubs will be in June at the county fairgrounds. Concrete Construction Freeestim ates -- Work guaranteed Garland Holt Sheridan 843-2948 I The second meeting of the Y.C.R.B.A. was held in the Lafayette Civic Center, Sunday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. The guest speaker was Mrs. Beà Getzler of the Getzler Rab- bitry and Processing Plant at Grand Ronde. Mrs. Getzler gave a talk on Care of Rabbits during the heat in Summer. Also how we can have plenty of water during the Summer and the bad freezing weather. She also discussed ways of vent ilation of enclosed rabbit build ings - also some helpful hints on getting non-producing does to produce. The next meeting is scheduled for April 8, at the same meet ing place. Anyone wishing to visit is welcome. 1
