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About The times of Willamina. (Willamina, Oregon) 1972-1974 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1973)
4 V $o* ,lS 9 f e Û* The T im es WILLAMINA TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1973 of Willamina-Sheridan 10' VOLUME 64 NUMBER 50 W illam ina offices, Main St., undergo changes The old apple tree is cleared away from the M iller ‘House Friday as a finishing touch to the conversion of the old house, into city offices and meeting places. The city moved into the newly renovated house last week. New courtroom and city council chambers The former living room of the M iller House is now a spacious courtroom and city council meeting room. Not yet completed, the room will eventually include a raised dias. . ..... i.®Ä Willamina Police.C hief Hale sta rts work in his new office. The new, roomy police office used to be a bedroom. Chief Hale says he’s not used to having so much room, but will manage, somehow. After many, many years, the old Gay-Way theatre becomes nothing but a memory. The theatre has been closed for some time, but its sign was Carol Hecadon, city reco rd er, is hard at work in her new offices. Many of the furnishings, while appearing new, are the result of several coats of paint and varnish with a little volunteer labor thrown in. a rem inder to long-time residents of Willamina of many entertaining evenings spent at the old movie house. .'. ' The insurance sign at the corner of Main and “ B” comes down Saturday as Tom Allen and crew head acro ss the street to new quarters. Boyer Bookkeeping and the Times recently moved, too, signalling several changes on Main Street. With the sign removed, no visible rem inders rem ain of the old Gay-Way. Workmen already have the window painted for the new occupants of the remodelled building -- Tom Insurance Agency. Allen’s Willamina Sheridan City Council passes budget, votes on other issues The Sheridan city budget of $127,764 for the ’73-’74 fiscal year was passed by the city council at their meeting on June 25. No one showed up for the public hearing. No vote by the - people is necessary since it is within the six per cent lim ita tion. In other action the council,vot ed to / --grant an exclusive franchise to Sanitary Service, owned by John Funk and F red Greb, for ten years, with an automatic renewal. - -allow the Sanitary Service to increase rate s for garbage pick up from $2.00 to $2.75 for the first can. --se ll about seven acres of city property to G reencrest Memorial P ark for $6,376. - -r e s tric t water usage during dry spells. -- prohibit parking on Sheridan ROad, from Bridge St. to the. eastern city lim its. - -renew contract with Yamhill- Polk Rural F ire D istrict for one year, providing they pay Sheri dan $900 due on this y ea rs’ con tract by June 30. - - meet only once a month during July and August, which would be on the second Tuesday. Councilman Tatom, chairman of the library'com m ittee, reported trouble with the air-conditioning system of the new library. Bob Hendricks, cityadm inistra- to r, reported that the transducers in the automatic controls that work the pumps to the sewer lagoon system have not been op erating properly since June 17. These have to be used manually until the company can send out an expert to rectify the situa tion. Mayor Jordan suggested a letter to the Department of Environmental Quality in Salem would, put p ressu re on the com pany. Councilman Stork of the stree ts committee reported about $40,000 of revenue sharing funds would be used for stree t im provements. Streets having p rio rities are Sheridan Road, SW F irs t between Jefferson and Harrison, SW Second between H arrison and Railroad, NE Cen te r between Sherman and Van Ostrom, SW Jefferson - Third to Bridge, and SW Mill - Bridge to Mason. These are all fully improved streets. Stork also said there would be some money available for p a r tially improved stree ts if the property owner would put in curbs, gutters and storm drains This would be done on a first come, first served basis.
