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About The times of Willamina. (Willamina, Oregon) 1972-1974 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1973)
Pai® 2 'VILLAMlNA TIMES, Willamina, Oregon, Wednesday, May 9, 19"< 8 A 11 as i a ... .. I B •> ‘........ '......... » ■ » ■ Times Moving to’ new location The Willamina Times is moving to a new location this weekend. Now that people have just got used to finding the Times right; next to Nice Electric Co., the paper will be located about a block and a half up (or down?) Main Street. JSr;/r ' SM r 8S1II _......... “ No, no, - Sheridan is that way!” Our photographer found these two boats in a bit of confusion Sunday during the Jaycee-sponsored boat race.' Actually, the canoe flipped around and the paddlers were frantically trying to get it pointed downstream again. The new office will be in the building between Willamina In surance Agency and Hummel’s Willamina Barber Shop. The new newspaper office was previously the Thrift Shop. Jim Boyer Bookkeeping service will also be moving to the same location. . Mrs. Vera Boyer w ilt serve as receptionist for both businesses. behind "The Times by Vance Welty Nobody had any disagreement that the city of Willamina needs the new water pipeline proposed by the Willamina City Council and open to public discussion last Thursday night at the high school. Over half the city’s distribution piping is now old wood pipe from 35 to 62 years old. According to the council, this pipe is rot ting and leaks badly. Over half the water which is treated for distribution is lost from leakage. The cost of treating the water and maintaining the old pipes is con- . siderable. The only point of disagreement at the public meeting was the proposed method of financing new pipe. All agreed that a solution W illam ina police report Last Thursday evening, April 26, at about 5 p.m., a car be longing to Wm. Boyd and being driven by his daughter T erri, was struck from the rear by another vehicle while turning into her driveway. On the 27th, through police in vestigation, Alfred Stacey, 17, the driver of the hit and run vehicle was cited for failing to leave his name and address at the scene of the accident and also cited for no driver's license. The car he was driving was owned by Anthony Sturtevant, who was cited for allowing an unlic ensed driver to operate his vehicle. Bail was set for Stacey at $172 and $27 for Sturtevant. ,'•##* i' Friday night, April 27, a car driven by Lucille and Kenneth Beldon, Port Orford, was struck from the rear' on Highway 18 B. The extent of damage to the Bel don car was, approximately $500. The other car left the scene of the accident, the Beldons followed and got the license number and contacted the Willamina police. The suspect vehicle was located abandoned on James St. in Willa mina, at 10:30 p.m. The sus pect, Cleve Martin Smith, was located on Barber Ave. and tak en into custody. He was charged by the Willamina police, with minor in possession of intoxi cating liquor by consumption. Through investigation by the Willamina police dept. and the Polk County Sheriff’s office, he was charged by the Polk County The It has been a very dull week for me, .being confined to this little apartment with throat infection and I couldn’t even sing to myself for company! At least, the neighbors lucked out, didn’t they? Did any of you perchance read the lists of doctor’s names in those passing the board exams to practice in. Oregon? It was very interesting to know that some lucky city will get Robert Young, George Hamilton, Robert Ironsides or one of our family names, James Thomas, for a doctor. One of the names I couldn’t pronounce I hear is going to be in the coast area, but none of the aforementioned, doggone it. Our deepest sympathy to the Agee family for their tragic loss of one of our favorite persons who used to cheer up Ellings- worths’ market when he worked there. Norm was always quick with a bit of flattery if he noticed I ■ Sheriff’s office with failure to leave his name and address at the scene of the accident. Damage to the Smith vehicle was estimated at $350. ### On Saturday, April 28, the Wil lamina police took into custody three minors and three juven iles, charged with minors in possession of alcohol by con sumption.- The three minors were Billy Earl Cottier, 19, Grand Ronde, Bruce Allan Mercier, 19, Grand Ronde and Gary Nathaniel But ler, 20, Grand Ronde. ,### Billy Dean Vaughn, 24, Dallas, was arrested at 6:40 a.m. Sat urday, charged with driving while under the influence of intoxicat ing liquor, and a second charge of driving while license was sus pended. Bail was set at $460. ### Charles Leno, 22, GrandRonde, charged with furnishing liquor to a person under, the age of 21. ### Samuel Sparkman, 22, Wil lamina, charged with furnishing liquor to a person under the age of 21. ### There were also six miscellane ous traffic tickets issued. Pest you were feeling low. Bon voyage, Norm. Condolences also to the Delker and Leno families who have lost loved ones this past month. We notice by the community calendar that ten persons are listed on May 14, including a cousin. Happy birthday, Wesley, and a special birthday to one of our favorite pianists, Betty Tog- stad, on Thursday. A misprint on Friday, I am sure, tells us May and Jim and Della and George have been married a- nother year. Happy anniversary to you all and most of all Happy Mother’s Day to each and every one of you mothers and grand mothers! May God bless. ’Til next week, The Pest P.S. Saw the Bob Warrens’ and Judy Booth on my way home this week, so caught up some with former neighbors. Editor and Publisher The Willamina Times is published every Wednesday at Willamina, Oregon, entered at the Post Office at Willamina as second class matter. The subscription' rate is $2.50 per year. All correspondence should be addressed to the Willamina Times at Post Office box 127, Willamina, Ore gon 97396. ' Our readers write To the Editor: We New Yorkers are absolutely aghast at the changes made in the “ new” Times.. For many years now, my copy of the Wil lamina Times was passed around with great interest by . my count less friends in Show Business, for never before had they seen obituaries printed on the front page of a newspaper, side by side with new developments regarding the Willamina sewerage system and VBR offenders. Playwrights like myself were breathless with anticipation a- waiting the outcome of Floyd Crebinger’s injury (multiple fractured leg sustained in a fall while cherry picking). Actres ses during rehearsal breaks hun grily lapped up front page social events: Mrs. Bernice Orkin of Tacoma and her cousins, Ethel and Veda Louise Handloser of Gary, Indiana, visited this week end with her sister, Mrs. Olga Blotz of Willamina. Stagehands lamerited the fact they could not attend the Rebecca Lodge Dough nut Sale on Saturday or the Rebecca Lodge Pancake Break fast on Sunday. Set crews and stagehands alike saddened to read that Bob and Becky Slats had lost three acres of vetch because of a grass fire, and all- this on the FRONT page bf a two-page Willamina Times! , Now, lo and behold, a totally alien publication reaches our city once a week with a huge italics masthead, underscored with fea tured specials regarding import ant community projects, mass student demonstrations, hot school board disputes, photo cuts that would make the New York Times green with envy, 12 pages of well written, perfectly laid- out material and an obvious dis position towards developing com munity spirit. Finally, sin of sins, we receive your special Fun Nite Edition! Director Gerald Paine has been a close friend of mine for years and I am surd I can recall him swearing that his name would never appear on the front page of the Times unless he did one, or a combination or all of the following: a. illegally park his car. b. allow his pet to run loose. c. sustain multiple leg frac tures while picking cherries. d. or pass away (in which case he wouldn’t be around to read it anyhow). But I see that Gerry has sold out, too. How times have changed. And the Times, too! I don’t believe you realize what damage you’ve done! You have completely destroyed the Show Biz New Yorkers’ image of Wil lamina and Sheridan. No longer can they invision the cracker barrel, pickel vat, pot bellied stove dream of a general store, replete with post office. Gone is the one-room school house, the smoke house, the ice house and alas! the out-house. No more square dances, quilting bees, barn raisings! The new Times invokes visions of sleek vast shopping centers, neoned oriental restuarants, Hi- fi centers, split level ranch homes, a community of aware and concerned citizens who are in volved in growth and im provements. that that’s how New YorkCity got Smile a w hile ’:Xw One thing we know about the speed of light - - it gets here too early in the morning. II started and just look what hap pened to us! And remember that the New York Times was also once a small town newspaper but that Daniel Ellsberg still remains “ The Pest.” Take heed! Jeannine O’Reilly a concerned New Yorker should be reached as soon as pos sible so that the bond measure could be put before the voters and the new pipe installed as soon as possible. The original council proposal was to raise the funds by the , sale of general obligation bonds worth $250,000 and to increase water rates by two dollars (for minimum usage) plus charging 45 cents per hundred cubic feet of overage. The Willamina Area Chamber of Commerce presented ,a position paper agreeing with the need for new pipe and in favor of the sale of bonds, but differing in the method to be employed in pay ing off the bonds. The Chamber recommended using revenue sharing funds to offset the cost of the bonds as they felt that a cost of ten dol lars per month (minimum) would be prohibitive to attracting new people to the city and would im pose a hardship on people on fixed incomes. The council argued that the only problem with this method was that the use of revenue sharing funds would put the entire finan cial burden on the people living within the city and would not affect those living outside the citv limits who account for from water use. „ , A comprise was finally reached which pleased everybody present and all hoped, would be accept- able to the voters. The compro mise was to raise water rates by one dollar instead of two, r e tain the raise in overage rates and use half the available reve nue sharing funds to pay off the general obligation bonds. The Willamina City Council will meet again this Thursday night to finalize the proposal so that it can be put before the voters as ion as possible. dayor Schoenborn added that the >w pipes could be in as soon as x months after voter approval id that each year’s delay would icrease the cost of a new wa- „ hv ahout ten per In earlierdays by Lee Perkins Postmaster Frank Faulk an nounced that the new air mail To the Editor: envelope displaying a cachet suit I would refer to the issues of able to Willamina and surround your newspaper published on October 9th and October 23rd ing district is now available and that they may be seen either at 1969, both of which- carried the Post Office or the Willamina columns on UFO phenomena by Sylvia Getzler. Since we are not Times office. The cachet in cludes a halftone photograph of sure whether your columnist then the Willamina brick plant with an is still with you or was an appropriate slogan at the bottom. occasional freelance, we are At the top of the envelope is writing to you direct? the name of the city, Willamina, We would also apologize for Oregon, “ Gateway to the dragging up such old news, but Pacific.” At the bottom is the copies of the above mentioned issues of your newspaper have line “National Air Mail Week May 15-21, 1938.” The entire’ only recently been passed to us. We are, incidentally, one of the cachet is printed in blue ink to harmonize with the attractive red leading British UFO research and blue border of the envelope. organizations, and, unlike so Postmaster Frank Faulk states many other groups, are trying that those who have seen the en to find rational explanations for velopes are highly pleased and the entire UFO problem. I am have put in their orders for sure I do not need to elaborate various amounts that they will on this point. > use during air mail week. Our main reason for writing is to enquire whether your files *** contain additional information on the events described in Sylvia The main topic of conversation Getzler’s columns, or, if not, whether you could direct us to at Monday evening’s council meeting was the matter of r e those individuals who might pos surfacing the streets where the sess it. Better still, perhaps new water mains were recently you have the address in your laid. The question arose as records of the Reeves family whether to use concrete or as whose amazing experiences your phalt to finish the job. Much newspaper chronicled. In any discussion arose and it was fin case, we should be extremely ally decided to use concrete. grateful to you for any informa tion you feel able to release. We ** * would, incidentally, continue to honor any obligations your paper National Progressives may have made respecting the Birth of a third party, known withholding of names of percipi as the National Progressive par ents requesting it. With regard to the foregoing, you ty, was announced at the much heralded meeting of the LaFol- may be interested to hear that lette followers in Madison, Wis. two very similar incidents have The party already has a sym occurred in Holland and Yugo bol, a red circle on a white slavia during the past eighteen background with a blue cross in months, and that the astounding events at the Reeves’s home were the center. Basic principles of the new not wholly unique. Just what all party, the governor said, include: this bizarre activity signifies, “The ownership and control of of course, is another matter. At money and credit, without quali present we don’t know the answer. fication or reservation, must be We look forward to receiving under public and not private con your reply shortly. trol. The organized, power of J. B. Delair this nation must stop at nothing (Research programme co short of necessary steps to r e ordinator) store to every American the ab 19 Cumnor Road, solute right to earn his living Wootton, by the sweat of his brow. We Boar’s Hill, near Oxford, flatly oppose every form of cod ENGLAND dling, or spoon feeding the Am erican people - whether it be (Editor’s note: Do any of our readers know about this? We’d those bn relief - whether it be farmers or workers - whether appreciate any information you it be business or industry. Our have.) hemisphere was divinely des tined to evolve peace, security and plenty. It shall remain in To the Editor: violate for that sacred purpose.” I don’t know who entered the *** subscription for us but we really enjoy it - what a change in the paper! Local Happenings - - We live in a log house in one Wednesday, while at his ranch of the very few unspoiled areas on Bell Mountain, Ira Yocom ac of B. C., 90 miles from Vernon, cidently shot off his little toe. our nearest real shopping area. He was attended by Dr. RusselL If you follow the Columbia up Adolph Sundrud and wife left from Castlegar you will even for Gondick, Minn., where they tually come to a little village were called because of the criti called Fauquier and that’s it. cal illness of his father. C A Our home. I suppose you might Morgan took Mr. Sundrud’s place call it a homestead, it’s a beau at the Willamina Market last tiful piece of property and will be Saturday. moreso when we are finished. We Fred Rhodes killed a five-foot have our chickens, dog, cat, rab cougar, Sunday afternoon on Lower bits and two dairy goat kids, so Gooseneck. our homestead is ‘ ‘gettin there’ ’ -, *** See you the last of June, will be down for our' youngest son’s wedding - From the pen of M, Petersen of Old Grand Ronde - - Overdoing smoking tobacco causes throat cancer. U. S. Grant died that way. So did Napolean I and Emperor Fred erick of Germany. Inhaling smoke from cigarettes' causes stomach cancer. Mr. and Mrs. David Weisner were Sunday visitors at Grand mother Petersen’s. Mrs. Weisner was born at Bordeaux, France. Mr. Weisner was born near Mil waukie, Wis.; his uncle was a singing partner of M. Petersen at Milwaukie, Wis., in 1877. M. Petersen has very valuable land for sale at three and four dollars an acre. Everybody should buy a ten-acre tract fpr their own fuel cutting. Right on the highway. Don’t forget the June 18thSher idan Day. M. Petersen and wife, if alive, will be there doing their best at the celebration. They will have something new to su r prise all. * * * Tempting bargains from the Willamina Market: Corned beef, 2 cans 35? . . . Pride washing powder, pkg. 12? . . . Honey, 5 lb. tin 53? . . . Oranges, 10? doz. *** From Ellingsworth Market: Kitchen flour, 49 lb. bag $1.29 . . . Corn flakes, 3 pkgs. 15«? . . . Hams, half or whole 29? lb. . . . Pork chops, 20? lb. *** From around the house comes - If you dust your cake with corn starch before icing, the icing will not tend to run. A good way to keep raisins from going to the bottom of a cake is to roll them in butter before placing them in the cake. *** Uncle Phil says: The average citizen is one who reads the headline threatening economic disaster and says “ my, my, and turns to the funnies. * * * Willamina’s F irst Post Office In observance of Postal Week, the following article was sub mitted to the E arlier Days col umn by Wilma Yocom, great granddaughter of Jeremiah Lam- son. The Willamina post office was established May 29, 1855, with James Brown as the first post master. The office was on the Brown claim about a mile east of the present town of Willamina. On January l, 1863, Jeremiah oamson became postmaster and the office was moved to his claim nearly two miles west of thè Brown claim. Mr. Brown had 18RR °fflCe 3gain °n MarCh 24, on,,, 1K1L wmamii without a post office, am ust 29, 1878, a new po was established with ( “ Willamina” and Jacks noe was postmaster.
