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
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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.
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