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
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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