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Page 2 WILLAMINA TIMES, Wednesday, August 1, 1973 behind "The Times Willamina Whoosits and Whatsits by Vance Welty by Mrs. Kenneth Shetterly 876-3403 Mr . and Mrs. Frank Girard of Wil lamina took a nice trip with Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Girard of Forest Grove recently and returned home Friday morning. Gordon is a nep hew of Frank’s. .They visited a siste r of Frank’s in M ilton-Free water, and another siste r in Lewis ton, Idaho, where it was 105 de grees.. They also visited other relatives in Grangeville, Idaho. Frank celebrated his 82nd birth day in Kenniwick, Wash., with his siste r and other relatives. *** A family picnic for the Shetterly’s was held in the Dallas Park on Sunday. * * * We are pleased to report that Mr. Howard Wilmarth was dis charged from Oregon Medical School hospital and returned home Friday quite improved. *** Mrs. Angie Johnson of Los Angeles has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Gardner. Mrs. Johnson is a siste r of Mrs. Gardner. She visited with her brother over at the coast and other relatives while here last week. / * * * Mrs. Pat Grace (Laura) returned home Saturday from the Oregon Medical School hospital, where she was a patient for a week or so, and wants her friends to know she is feeling much better. *** Mr. and Mrs. A1 Newby flew down to Las Vegas Sunday where they will vacation this week. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Reed Cook of Mason City, Iowa and Mrs. Lloyd Bare of Sheffield, Iowa arrived at Mrs. Sterl Bare’s last Wednesday and spent a few days,. Mrs. Cook is a niece of Mrs. Bare. While here, they were taken to the beach, which enthralled them. They thought the Pacific Ocean and our trees and country were interesting and beau tiful. They had dinner at Spanish Head on Wednesday evening and visited Lacey’s Doll House. Thurs day they visited Silver Creek Falls and had dinner at the Town House in Silverton. They visited re la tives in Salem and enjoyed the rose gardens and the Bush House. ' * * * Rev. and Mrs. Eddy Moore of the Baptist church of Sheridan, and their two children, Mark and Timmy enjoyed a delicious dinner at the home of Mrs. Sterl Bare on Sunday. *** Mrs. Emma Shipley and her grand daughter, Mrs. John Alden of Salt Lake, Utah, and her two children Wendy and Christine spent a few days at the Alden summer home at DeLake, last week, Mr. and Mrs. Alden are moving to Portland, O re gon where they will make their future home. , ■ ,' . * * * Mrs. Iva Ellingsworth spent ten days at Canterberry Crest,- near Tigard and enjoyed it very much. * ♦* Mrs. Pauline Carmin of Palm De sert, California is on an extended visit with the Fox family and Mrs. Iva Ellingsworth. Mrs. Ellingsworth and Mrs. Carmin are sisters. At present these two ladies are, en joying a few days at Surf Tides. *** Mr. and Mrs. Laurice Fox have returned from a delightful ten day vacation. They went to Madras where they joined their daughters, Betty Murray and Mr. and Mrs. Doug McConnell (Pattee) and a friend, Mr. Ernie Koshney. The entire party went on a camping and fishing trip at Cow Camp, near Lava Lake. Fishing was pretty good. While they were camping, Mrs. Murray’s daughters, Mindy and Cheri, visited their grandpa and grandma Bowers at Yacolt, Wash. * * * Word was received by Mrs. Amy Fox, that Mr. Laurice Knutson of Roseburg passed away Sunday night. He was m arried to Mrs. Fox’s sister, Alpha, and they were former Willaihina residents. Mrs. F ox,, Laurice and Ellen went to Roseburg to attend the funeral Wednesday. * * * Mrs. Betty Murray and daughters of Madras, arrived at Mr. and Mrs. L, D. Fox’s home Thursday for a few days visit. . *** Mr. Joe Powers was admitted to McMinnville hospital for surgery Monday. He got along exceptional ly well and will be home this week end, probably. * * * Lt.(jg.) Jens A. Jensen, serving on U. S. S. Albert David, arrived at his parents’ home last Saturday and enjoyed a short visit. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jensen and brother of Nels. He left here Wednesday morning to spend a few days camping in the S ierra’s before returning to duty at Long Beach, California. * * * Mrs. Alline Skinner of Evansville, Indiana has been visiting Mrs. Jac kie Kelson and family and renew ing acquaintances in Willamina. Mrs. Skinner livdd here many years ago and was known then as Mrs. John Mullins. *** Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lyda are spending some of their vacation at the beach this week. Last week they visited in Kennewick, Wash, with their son. Weather was real ly hot. *** Mrs. Dan (Kathy) Coblenz under went surgery at McMinnville hos pital, Friday and is doing quite well.' ,** * Pleased to report that Scot Olson, patient in the McMinnville hospital is improving daily and that Tommy Davis who has been in Oregon Medical School hospital with se r ious injuries was able to return to his home on Friday. Mr. Vern Slack was home last weekend, but has returned to the Oregon Medical School hospital for more treatm ent., * * * Mrs. Kenneth Holmes, Mrs. Verda Felton and Mrs. Darlene Holstad have not been feeling up to par this past week. I** Mr. Kenneth Holmes, Mr. A1 Felton and Mr. Ricky Turner have been1 working near Big Fort, Mon tana the past two weeks and will return home this coming week. Well, we went and did it. You are reading the first edition of the new, locally-owned Willamina Times. If it doesn’t look very dif ferent from the Times you’ve been reading before, that’s because it isn’t supposed to. Except for a few technical changes due to a different press, the only thing that’s changed is the ownership. A couple of weeks ago, I ran in this space a column which certainly drew attention and quite a bit of reaction. The column, as you may recall, dealt with local merchants’ adver tising and involvement (or lack thereof) in certain community af fairs. I hereby take the opportunity to apologize to anybody whose toes might have been trod, but the article was necessary. You see, my family and I have more or less “ fallen in love” with Wil lamina. We wanted to make it our permanent home, arid it seemed that the best way to do so was to buy the Willamina Times. Because of the extremely favorable reaction to the article I wrote, we bought the Times and are now solidly committed to this community. I’m afraid you’re stuck with us for quite a few years to come. I think you might get a kick out of how all this got started in the first place. Last December my wife and child ren and I were planning to go to Ontario, Oregon for Christmas. A- bout a week before We planned to leave, I got a phone call (in Med ford) from somebody named Frank Parchman in Monmouth. He said he wanted to talk to me right away, but was not very specific as to what about. Well. we planned to spend a couple of days in Salem visiting relatives before going to Ontario, so I decided we might just as well drop in at Monmouth and see what the gentle man wanted. *** So on December 21, I left my Mr. and Mrs. Dean Van Leuven wife and children in the car and walked into the offices of the Polk and children, Lloyd and Deanna, were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Sun expecting to spend at most a Lewis this past week. They left, few minutes talking with Mr. P arch on Friday for their home in Cuper-'' man before continuing on to Salem. tino, California. Mrs. Van Leuven I was sure that he was looking for (Caroline) is a daughter of Mr. and an advertising salesman or a part- Mrs. Lewis. time reporter. Not being interested in either position, I expected the in terview to be a short one. Honestly, now how would YOU feel if somebody told you that he wanted you to be the editor and publisher of a newspaper? The title alone would make your head swim, right? any ability to get along with others, Well, it made MY head swim, any schedule and supervise the work way. properly etc. so a good mechanic He then informed me that the posi is turned into an inefficient shop tion was open on the TIMES -- a foreman who loses business for the weekly he had recently bought in owner etc. Applied to the schools - - Willamina. a good English teacher, if “ Willamina?” I asked (pronounc “ promoted” may be hopelessly at ing it Will-a-MEE-na). sea trying to be a principal and “Yes,” he replied. “ Have you the analogy can be continued up ever been there?” through the various levels. “ No.” We have had excellent teaching So he pointed to it on a map and I found out for the first time where staffs and good adm inistrators be fore and will again provided the Willamina was. There was one condition to the board members can broaden their outlook and if unable to choose qual job. If I wanted it, I would have ified adm inistrators and principals to begin the following morning (Dec on the basis of their own exper ember 22). It was already 2 p.m., ience and knowledge, then to seek leaving me with three hours to make advice from those whose judgement the most important decision since they respect. The tragedy is, until proposing marriage. this can be achieved the youth are So my wife and I drove the 26 short-changed and deprived of the miles from Monmouth to Willamina. proper opportunity to learn. The situation did not look prom is I have also observed the corrosion ing. The office consisted of a small of our language and am quite fam cubbyhole at one corner of the Nice iliar with “ educationalese.” The Electric building and the newspaper battle may have to be carried to our didn’t even own a typewriter. In fact, all the equipment the paper State Board of Education which, un did own consisted of a somewhat fortunately, can use the club of with battered desk (which I still use) holding state support funds if their and a chair, nothing more. directives are not adhered to. Well, to shorten the story, I spent In the meantime, for my grand about an hour in Willamina that children, there is Sesame Street day, and made my decision not on and the Electric Company on public television from which programs they the basis of impressive equipment, run-down office of fancy title, but are learning phonies - - even the three year old. on the basis of the people I met during that hour, Several dropped With the budget finally being pas sed with thè slim margin of two in to sign up for subscriptions and I talked with several others while votes rather than to ask board mem walking around looking the town bers to spend so much of their time on school m atters (without over. Everybody was so incredibly friendly; the town had such a nice pay), our efforts should be direc “ feel” about it -- something one ted to repealing the statutes that can’t put into words - - that when say we must provide schools and our children must attend them until they we drove back to Monmouth, the reach the age of eighteen years or decision had been made. have a high school diploma. Early the next morning, I was in for something of a shock. Decem A concerned ber 22 was a Friday, and the deadline Berniece J. Tydell for all news and advertising copy *The P eter Prescription - Dr. was Saturday night - - and the paper Laurence J. P eter - William Mor had to be put together the same row and Co. N. Y. 1972 night! I had exactly two days to do a week’s work. Worse yet, I had to gather and write the news of a town I knew nothing about, and talk to advertisers about running ads in a newspaper I hadn’t even seen! Sheridan Volunteer F ire Depart Those two days are something of ment was called out Saturday a blur. I got up at some indecent afternoon to extinguish a grass fire hour in Salem each morning, drove above the water reservoir north of to Monmouth where Frank Parch the city. About four acres of grass man and I decided what all had burned on property owned by Jim to be done that day, drove to Willa Sledge of Silverton. Our Readers Write Dear Editor: Thank you for the privilege of using the columns of your news paper to add my bit to the con cern expressed by others in the community about our schools. Our schools have been a major concern of mine since 1947 when my late husband returned to O re gon with his family to make his home. That concern has never lessened and is again heightened because of my grandchildren now dependent on the same schools. Not satisfied with the news rep o r ted in the columns of this news paper, I talked with parents of chil dren now in school, and with board members of divergent views. From the beginning I have never felt that the children of this school district are second class -- they are en titled to the best teachers and the finest schools we can afford. I also learned the repeated refusals of the proposed budgets this year did not express voter disapproval of the amounts requested but dis satisfaction with the quality of schooling furnished. With this in mind - - i n summing up the present situation: It is a clear case of the Peter Principle at work, to wit: “ In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of in competence.” * Dr, P eter thus defines hierarchy: “ Man orders his affairs in hier archies. His schools are ordered in grades from kindergarten through graduate school etc.* The practical application of the Peter principle of course is, i.e. a garage owner needs a shop fore man, he looks over his crew --, “ H ere’s a very good mechanic -- I’ll make him shop foreman,” whe ther or not the good mechanic has Willamina court report Thelma LaBonte - driving while license suspended - dismissed. Dave Zook - illegal parking - bail forfeiture $5., Loren Greenlaw - unnecessary noise - dismissed. Walter J. Herzog - no operator’s license - fine $5 - court cost $5 - assessm ent $1. Blanch Shatos - VBR 40 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone - found guilty by court - fine $6 - court cost $5 - assessm ent $1. Robert Wayne Mathena - disorder ly conduct - plea of guilty - fine $75 - court cost $5 - assessment $3, Ray Schlaepfer - dog at large - found not guilty. Edwin Ashman - minor in pos session by consumption - bail for feiture $25 - assessm ent $2. E ditor and P ublish er iÿÿÿ O Ä The Willamina Times is published every Wednesday at Willamina Oregon, entered at the Post Office at Willamina as second class m atter.' ’ The local subscription rate is $2 00>Pe r year. All correspondence should be addressed to Willamina Times P.O. Box 127, Willamina, Oregon 97396. Grass fire 4 news)., I was so groggy that I didn’t know or especially care what I was doing. When the paper was finally printed the next week, I was as surprised as anybody to see what it looked like. . The following morning, I started to drive to Ontario, made it about as far as Hood River, let my wife take over the wheel, and woke up som e place the other side of LaGrande. You’d think a person would learn, but not I. I stayed longer than I should have in Ontario, and got back over here just in time to do the whole blessed paper in TWO DAYS again! L et’s face it; after a sta rt like that, the paper had no place to go but uphill. mina and put in about 14 or so frantic hours, and drove back to Monmouth to slap together what ever news and ads I had managed to gather. Finally, back to Salem to get some sleep. But not for long. Saturday, De cember 23, was much the same, except that once I got back to Monmouth (about 10 p.m. or so), I got to put the whole paper to gether. Remember a few weeks ago, when I outlined all the fun we have each Monday pasting this newspaper to gether? Well, I got to do the same that Saturday night (and Sunday morning). By the time the paper was finished (the one that had ’72, Year in Review as the front page R iB i In earlierdaysl by Lee Mr. and Mrs. Green, our new merchants a re doing fine. They have a fine intelligent daughter as assistant at the store. ***** “ Kentucky Moonshine,” starring the Ritz B rothers will be playing at the Hi-Way Theatre in Sheridan next week. ***** From around the house: Children’s outgrown stockings that have holes at the knee can be made over into socks for younger children. ***** Nowadays the earth revolves on it’s taxes. EARLIER DAYS July 28, 1938 Mayor R. Y. Neely called a special council meeting on Monday night for the purpose of considering of fers for city property located just east o f . the Union service station. It is reported that the city was of fered $200 for these lots at the meeting but rejected this bid by a majority vote.' An offer for the corner lot at lot one, block four in the city, of A. B. Churchman for $100 was accepted by the aldermen. Anotner otter tor the adjoining lot, ’lot two, block four, by Frank Smelser for $50 was also accepted. These lots have been in the pos session of the city for the past num ber of years and the aldermen de cided to sell them and get them back on the tax rolls. ***** Safety lanes were painted across the highway on Main Street here last week and proved their worth last Saturday when the crowd gathered in town for Award Day, was well protected from the stream of tra f fic going to the coast for the week end. Pedestrians are not only urged, but warned to use these lanes to avoid accidents and personal in juries. Motorists who have driv e r ’s licenses know that the pedes trians on these lanes have the right-of-way, and slow down and in many cases come to a complete stop. People crossing the highway outside the safety lane do so at their own risk. The Willamina City Council has provided these safety lanes for your protection, so when crossing the street be sure you are inside the painted lines at the intersections. * * * * * Apparently distracted by the heat and the fact that his car wouldn’t start, John Tovo Niema, 53, shot himself through the head with a high powered rifle last Thursday evening while returning home from Willa mina. He had been employed by Amalie Selin, who lives in the Bell Moun tain district, for the past eight years. Niema is survived by a brother and sister in Finland. ***** Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of lim it ation of governmental power, not the increase of it. ***** One of the first things dictators and communists demand is the right of free speech, and one of the first things to which an end is put when they get into power is freedom of speech and freedom of the press. There is no freedom of speech or of the press in Russia, Italy or Germany. Dictators are afraid of the truth. - - Southwestern Oregon News Marshfield, Oregon ***** From M. Petersen: August 8, 9 & 10 the Oregon Real Estate Fraternity will hold a state convention at North Bend. I am invited to make a speech from memory, fullness of the heart, sub ject m atter of our home commun ity. They want to see our home community represented, so I guess I will have to go. Do you have any suggestions? Saturday evening Grand Ronde was a fine climate to live in. Saturday Alvina LaChance was at her old home, the Petersen’s. She enjoyed her dinner; she also pressed her mother’s coat and her father’s suit. Perkins ¡ The Pest I but only two things kept coming t , mind. Mainly, the question on you minds as to how we feel abou the a rre st. We are sicks of course as the other parents must be, bu he is our God-given son and w love him and will do all we can t help him. If only angels wer loved, there wouldn’t be a whole lo of loving going on, now would there1 I am terribly so rry to hear tha some of you felt God-like enough t< make harassing calls to one mother that I know of. As the Bible r e minds, judge not lest ye be jud ged. I also want to thank all m; dear friends for their prayers a this difficult time for us. My other thoughts and prayers this week were for all our friends ii the hospital. We were surprise* to see Vietta Hines “ exercising’ in the hall on our way to visit Scot Olson Monday. Harley and Susie Whitten were visiting her and som e one else on the third floor. We also spotted a duaghter on the waj to visit her mother, Mary Beachy who underwent eye surgery thai day. We all hope by this reading that those aforementioned are up and out, except Scott, who was still anticipating arm and ankle s u r gery . after his ordeal with interna] injuries and removal of his spleen. I m probably in the doghouse with my family for not mentioning our Angela being one year old Thursday and young Ray seven, on Sunday Hope they, Leona Z etterberg Ivar Dent and my ocean rescu er Roj Tucker all had happy days. An niversary congratulations to the Erling Jacobsens, Bill Bar- retts, Reed VanScoyks and Ernest HoDmans who will have celebrated next issue of the Tim es May God bless all THE PEST P- S; - Congratulations? Vance on becoming the new “ Papa” of tWs here publication. Your public fail ed me on an invite to go wild blackberrying with them so I had to settle for tam er varieties, m rn n Calf falls in well Mishler W reckers were tFhridf? , f°r a r * h e r 2 they had a calf to pull out Thomas Reed of Grand R< and informed M ishler tl was swimming around ii and that he couldn’t get it wet animal had evidently the well sometime the nig
