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About The times of Willamina. (Willamina, Oregon) 1972-1974 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1973)
Page 2 WILLAMINA TIMES, Wednesday, May 16, 1973 Wayne Potter Editor's comment Pipes needed Perhaps we’re a bit premature with this editorial, but we feel that the issue is important enough to mention now. The Willamina' City Council will be meeting tonight (May 16) to discuss financing of the $250,000 bond issue proposed for the purpose of replacing much of the existing water pipeline in the city. No matter what means of financing is decided upon, we urge the voters to approve the measure. The sooner new pipe is put in, the sooner we stop losing fifty per cent of the treated water supply due to leakage. Also, fire insurance rates will either go down or, at any rate, not go up. Willamina High School now has to pay prohibitive fire insurance premiums because of inadequate fire-fighting water supplies. When those premiums are reduced, the school budget can be put to other uses. The City Council has gone out of its way to be fair and to listen to all sides in the debate over how to finance the proposed bonds. We have confidence that whatever, final decision they arrive at will be one we can live with.. This is definitely not a case of anybody trying to “ ram something down our throats.” New pipelines should have been put in long ago. We are not laying blame on anybody for that. The fact is that the Council is presenting us with an opportunity to install them now without raising taxes. Each year the project is delayed, the cost goes up at least ten per cent due to inflation. The TIMES urges support for the bond issue when it comes before the voters. Fitting memorial One news item that we feel deserves more than passing mention is the statement by Mayor Jordan at the meeting of the Sheridan City Council that some money had been turned in to City Hall by individuals who expressed a desire that it be used in the Moore Park as a memorial to Norman Agee. Such a memorial would indeed be fitting. Flowers at a funeral express a nice sentiment, but they are all too soon wilted and gone. Norman Agee loved the outdoors and we could think of no more fitting memorial than the enhancement, in some manner, of a park to give pleasure to others who enjoy the outdoors. We have no specific suggestions as to the exact nature of the memorial. Other people who knew Norman Agee better than we did should decide that.. But certainly Sheridan should have some sort of a lasting monument to a man who did so much for hisj community. And what better place for such a monument than in i park rieht next door, to his former place of business. We have been advised that anybody wishing to contribute toward such, a memorial can do so by turning in whatever he wishes at Sheridan City Hall and specifying that it is for a memorial tc Norm Agee. That’s all there is to it. Wayne Potter was named gen eral chairman of Phil Sheridan Days by Sheridan Chamber of Commerce president Mel Agee. He wjll be assisted by Doug Parker. Clarence Shuckar, president of the Phil Sheridan Rodeo Associa tion, told - what the Rodeo Court was doing by appear-, ing in various parades through out the state. He asked the chamber for funds to purchase a hat for each of the three girls in the court. These funds will be donated by the Phil Sheridan Pageant committee. The members voted to spend $20 to advertise for a doctor in the Consolidated Physicians Placement Magazine. Ted Mayfield announced that the Oregon sky diving champion ships would be held on the local airfield on July 14-15. The next meeting will be on May 21, with a tour of the Lib erty Homes plant following the business meeting and lunch. ball-hatted lefty, Ray Anderson now of Salem, was announced win ner of a horse race test, in golf, that is. Not being a golfer, I’m not sure just what he did, but reports have it he birdied five of six holes! Good luck, Ray. Mount Hebo is shining in the sun like a favorite relative’s bald pate today. The fellas up there are planning an open house soon with a planned program, guided tours, and -ah!- food’ Wish I could go, since I’ve never been near the radar station since its installation. Guess I should have at least gone up there when my nephew was stationed there. Maybe -- one of these days. I shudder to think of all the persons killed out here this past few weeks in automobiles. Five at onCe this past weekend! I certainly take my time and drive with my lights on each trip over on Monday and back to Willamina on Friday, hoping some of the drivers in a hurry will see them and wait to pass. Take care and God bless. - - The Pest The Times* HI •Xÿ*î S bb S? Vance W elty |f Editor and Publisher The Willaniina Times is published every Wednesday at Willamina Oregon, entered at the Post Office at Willamina as second class matter. The local subscription rate is $2.00, per year. All correspondence should be addressed to Willamina Times P.O. Box 127, Willamina, Oregon 97396. I 1 u H o by Vance Welty I’ve had quite a bit of comment, good, bad and indifferent, about the “ Bo-Roark” comic strip that I put in the paper more or less regularly. One person asked why I would want to do a strip about frogs. Well, I’ll tell you. I’ve got this thing about frogs. I am an inveterate frog hunter (as well'as a connoisseur of frog legs). Let’s face it -- any man who would give his new bride a frog gig as a wedding present is incurable. Right? Anyway, back when I was but a tad of twenty-one, a friend of mine (the same fellow whose fishing trips I jinxed) said that some of the men where he worked Willamina court news Billy Dean Vaughn, Dallas, driv ing while license suspended. Plea of guilty. Fined $160, 10 days in jail, 8 days suspended. Billy Dean Vaughn, drivingwhile intoxicated. Guilty plea.- Fined $50, 60 days in jail,- 50 days suspended. Cleve Martin Smith, Grand Ronde, no operator’s license. Bail forfeited, $12. Ruth Lee, Sheridan, overtime parking, $5 bail forfeited. John E. Robertson, Grand Ronde, overtime parking. $5 bail forfeited. Billy Earl Cottier, Grand Ronde, no operator’s license. $27 bail forfeited. James Warren Hill, Willamina, unnecessary noise, dog barking. $17 bail forfeited. Jerry Wayne Brandon; Grand Ronde,’ no motorcycle endorse ment. $22 bail forfeited. Billy Earl Cottier, Grand Ronde, minor in possession of liquor by consumption. Plea of guilty. $37 fine. Bruce Allan Mercier, Grand Ronde, minor is possession of liquor by consumption. Guilty plea, fined $37. Gary Nathaniel Butler, Grand Ronde, minor in possession of liquor by consumption. Guilty plea, fined $37. Joyce Marie Piccetti, Sheridan, violation of the basic rule, speed ing. Guilty plea. Fined $16. Loraine Mooney, Willamina, il legal parking. Plea of guilty. Terry L. Canby Hello again! Another week has flown by over here and it seems I have accomplished nothing but house cleaning and messing up the hem in a new orchid dress I have been “ finishing” since I took that sewing course last year. One of these weeks I will be able to tell you about an anti quing excursion some gals and I are planning. We’ve postponed it three weeks now, but one of these days -- Our latest contact with our Prinevilleans found them all down with throat infection, too. I didn’t go near them, so help me! We hope by the time they read this, they will have forgotten they had it and are getting ready for our “ mob” to descend on them over'the Memorial Days. More than a dozen on this end are planning to check out the Prine ville Dam’s vacation facilities, if we can get close enough. Just in case we can’t, we are thankful our McDaniels have a yard large enough for our tents and vehicles. It sure seemed natural to see in the Salem news that smiling base - behind "The new chairman to graduate LINFIELD COLLEGE, McMinn ville, . . . Terry L. Canby, of 191 S.E. Franklin St., Willamina, is among some 140 Linfield Col lege students who will be candi dates for degrees oh Sunday, May 13. Canby is a candidate for a Bach elor of Arts degree with a major in business administration. The traditional commencement and baccalaureate services will be on the Linfield campus in Mc Minnville. Baccalaureate is at 11 a.m., and commencement is at 3 p.m. Linfield President Gordon C. Bjork willpreside at both services. The baccalaureate speaker will be Rev. JitsuoMorikawa, associ ate executive secretary of the American Baptist National Min istries, Valley Forge, Pa. Marcel Marceau, the interna tionally famed French mime, will give the brief commencement ad dress. Marceau is widely ac knowledged as the world’s great est practioner of miming. At the commencement service both of these speakers will be honored by Linfield. Rev. Mori- kawa will receive the honorary doctor of divinity degree, and Marceau will receive the honor ary doctor of humane letters de gree. Smile a while Best place to look fqr a helping hand is at end of your right arm, Fined $5, suspended, pay court cost of $5. Harold E. Fox, Willamina, vio lation of the basic rule, speed ing. Plea of guilty. Fined $11. Edgar Otis Sims, Willamina, vi olation of the basic rule, speed- Edgar Otis Sims, Willamina, no- op Edgar Otis Sims, Willamina, no operator’s license. Plea of guil ty. Fined $11. Edgar Otis Sims, disobeyed stop sign. Plea of guilty. Fined $11. Alfred Eugene Stacey, Willa mina, no operator’s license. Guilty plea. Fined $11. Alfred Eugene Stacey, failed to leave name and address at the scene of accident. Guilty plea, fined $58. Right to apply for a license is suspended for 60 days. Aaron Olson, Grand Ronde, ov ertime parking. Plea of guilty. $5 court costs. Joyce Waggoner, Willamina, al lowing a dog to run at large. $6 bail forfeited. Honey, J. Vogal, allowing dog to run at large. $6 bail forfeited. George Loren Eckerson, Willa mina, illegal parking. $11 bail forfeited. Harvey Otto Weber, Tillamook, violation of the basic rule, speed ing. $17 bail fon ited. John Emil Gustafson, Willa mina, violation of the basic rule, speeding. $17 bail forfeited. Walter L. Myers, Sheridan, al lowing dog to run at large. $6 bail forfeited. Willamina Honor Roll These students made the third nine weeks honor roll at Willa mina High School: Freshmen -- KimNaslund(4.0), Tim Bqinter, Debbie Bergan, Ri chard Clardy, Barb Delaney, Brenda Hale, Rick Heimeyer, Janelle Hertzler, Judi Jahn, Joe Krehbiel, Dean Lee, Roberta Locke, Susan Lundmark, Pete Mack, Rick Reznicek, Roger Riv ers, Ginger Schoenborn, Nita Schunter, James Smith, Debbie Veilleux, Marsha Wagler. Sophomores -- Lillian Fuller (4.0), Donna Colby, Liz Corrick, Marie Durant, Cindy Eggert, De nise Felton, Nancy Franssen, I- lona Fry, Janice Grimm, Debbie Hale, Sherry Hampton, Karin Heimeyer, Brenda Ridenour, Laura Sullivan, John Shoff, Joyce Thomson, Ann Wilhelm, Scott Wright. Juniors -- Sharrey Beck, Rod Fillible, Jeff Johnson, Rick Kreh biel, Linda Sue Laurich, Charles Lonsford, Gwen Lundmark, Jerry McKern, Bev Naslund, Ken Payne, Denise Perez, Laura Rey nolds, Lora Schmitz, Donna Sch- uerch, Gary Schultz, BeckyShaf- er, Leslee T erriere, Linda Wil helm, Bill Willis, Bev Wolfer, Phyllis Yates, Cristi Zimbrick. Seniors -- Kim Greb (4.0), Ma rie Vinson (4.0), Brenda Ander son, Dan Barnes, Roxie Bett, Debbie Bowman, Deby Coblentz, Laura Commerford, Jeannie Daniels, Pam Fillible, Dan Grimm, Ken Larsen, DanaMato- cha, Eileen McCurry, Ginger Mi- shier, Virginia Pratt, Evelyn Robnett, Chris Schmitz, Vickie Schukar, Jim Thomson, Sharon Wilson, Dave Worrix, Donna Wright. I went out at night in the swamps to hunt bullfrogs and that it sounded like fun. Little did we know of the pit- falls to come. On our first expedition, we learned why frog hunters always take gunny sacks with them (we hadn’t). Do you have any idea how hard it is to kill a frog? Each . time one of us would suçcees in gigging one of the croakers, we’d take off the gig and he’d hop merrily away. We finally had to hike back out from the lake to the car each time, ungig the frog, throw him (it?) in the trunk, and hike back to the lake again. Af ter catching enough to make a respectable dinner, we drove to his home with the car trunk thumping and banging with our frisky friends. When we got to his place, we had to round up the frogs and put them in a plastic hag. We threw the bag into the freezer confident that that would do the trick. Not so. A couple of nights later, while my friend and I sat in the living room while his wife prepared din ner, we suddenly heard a shriek from the kitchen followed rapidly by his wife tearing by us in the living room. She vanished out the front door, still hollering, while my friend and I headed to the kitchen to see what had hap pened. The air was filled with frogs. They were all OVER the place. Even freezing hadn’t killed them. We rounded them up one at a time and had to remove the legs and get them ready for cooking be fore his wife would re-enter the house. With the incident all over (we thought), we went back to playing cards only to be interrupted by another shriek. Stepping aside to let his wife tear through the liv ing room, we then entered the kit chen and nothing seemed amiss. Not, that is, until we looked in the frying pan. So help me, the LEGS were twitching and jumping around by themselves. We’ve eaten a lot of frog legs since then, but we’ve had to cook them ourselves. 1 1 ft In earlierdays by le e Perkins EARLIER DAYS May 12, 1938 *** “ Tarzan’s Revenge,” a corking action drama from the book by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is playing at the Gem Theatre this week. Admission 10 cents and 35 cents. “ You can’t beat the stork” says Manville Robinson, Taft, general chairman of the Redhead Roundup association. Robinson’s remark, relative to the invincibility of the well known bird is due to the fact that, for the second time, Clara Bow, the famous red-headed “It” girl of the screen, has canceled an en gagement made the previous year, to appear as the featured attraction at the roundup, due to an anticipated event, supposed to take place about the time of the titian festival. In a recent letter, Miss Bow states, “That inasmuch as the stork has again decided to visit the Bell family, at a time which will conflict with the Redhead Roundup, I must forego the plea sure of attending the celebra tion.” Miss Bow was prevented from appearing at the Roundup three years ago when the birth of her first child forced her to cancel a date to appear at the redhead show. Robinson vows that he will ev entually present Miss Bow to Roundup crowds if he has to shoot a flock of storks to do it. From around the house: To peel oranges quickly, put them in boiling water for five minutes or so. This will also make them juicier. A badly stained enamel bath can be cleaned by being rubbed all over with a cut lemon. Leave for a short while and then clean in the ordinary way. ***. . *** Paul Franklin, son of Mr. and Mrs. K. T. Franklin, is in the McMinnville hospital suffering from injuries received in an accident on the highway Saturday afternoon. Paul and Dale Mode and Ray mond Rehfeldt were riding bi cycles along the highway single file on their way to Valley Junc tion. When they had cleared the corner near the John Breeden place, a car going the same d ir ection they were, passed them. A car driven by John Berstad of Tigard coming from the coast was forced ,off the road, it was reported. When Mr. Berstad attempted to return to the road he lost control and the car shot across the road hitting Paul, who was the center cyclist, and threw him 34 feet up the bank, his head going through the wire mesh fence. F irst aid was given by a phy sician in a passing car and the boy was taken to the McMinnville hospital where it was found that both bones of the left leg, be tween the knee and ankle were broken. *** Happenings in and around Will amina: There was no school Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at Goose neck as Miss Schneider, the teacher was ill. Marvin Barrett of Hubbard, a former neighbor, had dinner with the G. M. Larkins family Thurs day as he was driving through on his way to Seaside. John Herring, Jr., who is a candidate for the republican nom ination for the office of county clerk, was a Willamina visitor Saturday. Mr. Herring is a na tive of Yamhill County. He hails from Dundee and attended Lin field College. He is married and has two children. *** Specials from the Willamina Market: Washing Powder, 43 oz. 12<?; Dill Pickles, bring container, gallon 19p. *** From Ellingsworth Market: Orbis Hardwheat Flour, 49 lbs. $1.19 . . Sugar, 100 lb. bag $5.29 . . . 1 box rippled wheat plus 1 bag marbles, both for 10?. . . . Pork Steak, 20? per lb. *** Then there was the man who was so lazy he bought a Great Dane so he wouldn’t have to stoop over to pet it., Phyllis Dalton at library Mrs. Phyllis Dalton, former a s sistant California State Librarian for 17 years, visited the Willa mina Public Library on Friday, May 11 and met with the local librarian, speaking of the possi bility of a tri-county Regional system. Mrs. Dalton has been retained as consultant by the Mid-Willam ette Valley Council of ciovern- ments to help set up a plan whereby the local residents will receive better library service through the cooperation between libraries in Polk, Yamhill and Marion counties. Mrs. Dalton said there are 100,000 people in Oregon in small towns and rural areas who don’t have a library service. She is trying to get ideas about what the people want so better service can be given. She spoke of bookmobiles, tele phone references, copying s e r vice, records and films, all to be in the libraries. Hopefully a trained librarian could be hired. But she said it all costs money. It could come from revenue sharing, tax mon ey and city funds. This plan is in the early stages and would involve the schools also. Mrs. Dalton will be visiting various libraries in Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties during the next three weeks. I
