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Page 2.. WILLAMINA TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON, Wednesday, October 10,1973 VFW Boxers aired Like, What’s happening There will be a regular monthly V.F.W. meeting Monday Oct. 15. The District President will be present. AU members are urged to attend. Wednesday night four of the V.F.W. boxers participated in the first taping of the Winter Amateur boxing shows to appear regular every Sat. on Channel 12. Television. Taping was in Portland. Jim Sabey of the V.F.W. club lost a close split decision to Andy Minsker of the Mt. Scott club. Mark Olgevie, V.F.W. making his debut lost on a split decision to Gary Youngman of Multnomah. Johnny Sabey, V.F.W. won a unanimous decision over Bert Sutherland of Rivers End Club of California. Jacky Sabey lost to Mike. Newcomb of Mt. Scott. There are about thirty boys in the V.F.W. club this year, so watch for show dates so you can see these boys in action. Kilt me a b’ar.... A rummage and baked food sale wiU be held at the Fire Hall on Oct. 12, and 13th, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The WUlamina United Methodist Church is sponsoring the event and refreshments wUl be served throughout the day. The next regular meeting of the Women’s Society of Christian Service will meet at the home of Emma Shipley on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 1:30 p.m. On Saturday September 29, the president, Vivian Rogers and three other members, Mrs. JoUey, Mrs. Hummel and Mrs. Frink attended the Fall District meeting at Forest Grove. This was the first meeting held in the newly formed Western District. 256 Women were present. Christmas tree growers and people with timber holdings are invited to at tend a meeting at the Marion County Extension Office, 3810 State Street, Salem, according to Ken Brown, County Extension Agent. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 16. The program wiU be “ Douglas F ir Variability and Adaptability” . Gold Star Mothers wUl meet at Legion Hall in Sheridan, Friday, Oct. 12 at 2 p.m. to organize a chapter. All mothers who have lost a son or daughter in the service of their country are eligible to join. Good Shepherd Catholic Church of Sheridan will resume its monthly FUN NIGHT this coming Saturday in the Parish Hall, East Main and Ash Sts., beginning at 7:30 p.m. There will be games and prizes and free refreshments. The public is invited. Fun Night is always on the First Saturday of the month unless otherwise announced. This past decade has been the decade of the “Gaps.” First, we started off with the “missile gap,” then worked our way to the “credibility gap” and the “generation gap” and so on, until the word ‘ ‘gap’ ’ got pretty well overused. After reading this week’s newspapers and magazines, I have come to the unhappy conclusion that we have yet another “gap”—a “leadership gap”, if you will. Just as it appeared that the Watergate mess was about to quiet (town, along comes the Agnew problem. Now, I’m not about to commit myself, nor do I think it proper that anybody else commit himself on whether or not he considers Mr. Agnew guilty of chrages pending before a grand jury. Guilt or innocence is up to the courts to decide,— but public confidence is nofc- A friend of mine recently voiced the opinion that the Watergate hearings and the Agnew investigations are hurting America. I do not entirely agree. True, there is always tne nsx mat wnat is happening to Washington these days could make cynics out of a whole generation, but it is a risk worth taking. Why? Well, for one reason, you can bet that all presidential (and other) elections are going to be so clean that they Squeak. No politician in the near future is going to want to take the risk that he may have to face the kind of grilling that the present administration is undergoing. Secondly, I feel that the Watergate hearings, the Agnew investigation and the resulting constitutional crisis has been providing the American public with a civic lesson the likes of which was never taught in school. Before the hearings began, how many people knew what the 25th amendment to the con stitution was? I didn’t know. How many people had heard of the doctrine of executive privilege or argued its limitations? I hadn’t. How many people were fully aware of the separation of powers between the executive, Letter to the Editor The Sheridan Woman’s Study Club will neet at the home of LuciUe Belieu on rhursday October 11 at 2 p.m. Guest speaker will be Sheridan city manager Bob Hendricks. I kilt a bar; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis, Rt. 1, Willamina, pictured with a 300 to 325 ib. black bear Mr. Lewis shot while hunting deer Sat. evening Oct. Mn. « was killed with a 45-70 single shot rifle. It took three shots to stop him. The bear was taken about 6 p.m., a mile and a half off of the Fort Hill Loop road back of the Kenneth Larson farm. The Pest Certainly do m iss my Gourmet Calendar this year. Do any of you have one? I kept my ’72 for the recipes, some of which I’ll never use or even be able to pronounce. It’s been so cool for Tillamook that we’ve had our steam heat on early in the mornings. Meeting new people every day is still one of my favorite “things” which has fascinated me from the age of five. I thought I had met most kinds but I’m beginning to wonder. One acquaintance makes me cringe when she talks because her language would lay any logger to shame. Not that all loggers use profanity such as she does! Now I’ve met a new breed. At least I hope it’s new and dies out soon, I might add. She’s a bellowing whiner who must have at least 12 or more hours sack time a day. If her hubby or, her under-two year old son disturbs that gal, I’m sure every tenant in all 14 units knows it, day or night. Her bellowing four-letter wordsa are especially an noying at two in the morning since their bed is next to ours on the other side of a tissue paper (more or less) wall! What is trailer living like, friends? Enough nonsense for one week. ; Our sincere sympathy to the Colton family who have.certainly had more than their share of tragedies in such a short time. It is especially sad to know their áre still so many bad feelings among former friends when Bob was released from police chief duty. Talking to him afterward made me believe he was a much happier husband and father without all the pressure his many years of police work put on him. Bon voyage, Bob. Some of my favorite people are having birthdays and anniversaries this month. Birthday people include one of my best friends, Verda Fetch, Veneta Buswell, Marie Swanson, Charlene Brown and Harold Fox. Then Charlene and Bob and my Ray and I share anniversary dates the eleventh. Other special anniversaries include the Griffiths, Fowlers, Simon sons, Nunemachers, Delkers, and cousins Jim and Shirley Glass. Have happy ones, all of you! (I’m hoping for a shrimp “dinner blit” .) God bless all. The Pest P.S. I knew I was forgetting something in Tillamook Friday! My recipes for te recipe book the Willamina Community Civic Club is working on. How many of you have yours ready or would be in terested in sharing your special ones? They can be turned in at the Drop-In Center. V a nce V .'slty •Editor a n d P u b lis h e r Rod Whitesmith Advertising Manager The W illam ina T im es is published every Wednesday at W illamina- Oregon, entered at the P o st Office at Willamina as second cla ss m atter. . The local suoscription ra te is $2 00 Pe r ye a r - All correspondence should be addressed to W illam ina T im es P.O. Box 127, W illamina, Oregon 97396. The Well Child Screening Clinic will be held at the United Methodist Church, at 224 North Bridge Street, in Sheridan, on October 18, 1973. It will be for Children ages birth to 6 years old. For appointment call Mrs. Doris Haqsen, 843-3813. The annual Cub Scout Leaders Pow Wow will be held on Saturday, October 13th from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Sylvania Campus of Portland Com munity College, 12000 SW 49th Avenue in Portland. This special training event for adults will include sessions for Den Leaders and Assistants, Cubmasters and Assistants, Pack Committee Chairman and Committee Members, Den Leader Coaches, and Webelos Den Leaders. Dear Editor, This is to announce that the Yamhill County Charter Committee will meet on Monday, October 8, 1973 at 7 p.m. in Room 106 in the County Courthouse. This is an open meeting and the public is in vited to attend. This Committee was established by citizens’ petition to study the desirability of a Home Rule charter for Yamhill County. Members of the Committee include: Mrs. Cathy Haugeberg, Rural Mc Minnville, C hairm an;' Lon Fendall, Newberg, Secretary; other members include Dudley Sutton, Waldron Johnson, Dan Currigan, Tom Bessonette, Werner Stork, Mrs. Elaine Craig and Levi Carlile. It would be appreciated if this an nouncement could be published in your paper prior to the meeting date. For the Committee, , Levi Carlile 421S. Cowls McMinnville Ore. 97128 Third Thoughts By BETH GUNDERSON I once wrote about clothes dryers being anti-social. When housewives used to run their wet laundry to the backyard on Monday mornings, they would exchange news and pleasantries over the lines. Dryers work at all hours, not just in sunshine and fresh air, and keep housewives (or whoever is doing the laundry) indoors. Now the power crisis is going to make us Washday friendly again. The clothes will flap on the lines and linens bleach white in the sun. And, after the clothes are hung, there will be cups of coffee shared on back steps and half forgotton pleasures will come back again. -o-o-o- Everyone I talk to lately has a project, is taking a class or has just knocked a hole in the wall to add a room on the house. I’m not going to be left out of all the fun so I have enrolled in an art class Oils! It looks so easy. Ha! If neatness counted, I’d have to sit out in the hall. Oil paint—I’ve found myself spotted in places it would take a con tortionist to reach. What looks good in class, in the light of the next morning looks like some thing Max, the dog, did during a nightmare. The instructor says we should not be discouraged and we are all doing very well. She sounds so enthusiastic I have to believe her. She also says that we will frame and hang our pictures. Well, I bet I’ll have the best decorated closet on the block. My mother has been doing things behind my back. When I groaned at the number of Christmas catalogs arriving in the mails, she said it didn’t bother her. She made out her Christmas list in January. She has nearly all her projects and shopping finished and feels her holidays will be without stress this year. Oh, Nuts! legislative and judicial branches of government?—Or cared much either • way? I didn’t. Thirdly, the presidency has been slowly evolving into a dictatorship over the past few decades. Perhaps the word “Dictatorship” is a bit extreme, but when a President can refuse to spend money appropriated by Congress, when a President can spend other money for projects which have been voted down by .congress, and when a President can carry on bombing missions and other military operations not only without congressional consent, but in secret, then the institution of the presidency is in bad need of inspection. It is now undergoing that inspection. During the era when the presidency was slowly gaining more and more power, the power of Congress has been just as steadily eroding away. Representatives and senators are sent to congress to represent us—the people—as directly as possible under the democratic-republic form of government we have. The scales are now tilting back. The Congress,-our closest representative body in the federal structure—to regaining its rightful power while the presidency—originally designed to carry, out the wishes of Congress—is being- whittled back to its proper size. So I hope my friend is proven wrong. I hope that our young people can see the present situation in Washington for what it is;—a government re-establishing its original purposes and eliminating abused of power—rather than drawing the cynical conclusion that “It just goes to show that all politicians are crooks.” Sure, it’s difficult to go through a period like this one? It’s all to easy to divide the situation along partisan lines are to throw up one’s hands and give up on the whole thing. But the very fact that our form of government can adjust abuses of power, correct possible corruption through due process of law, and still function as a viable nation dem onstrates the strengths, not the weaknesses, of the system. 5555S65S:SSS5SSSS in earlier days Local Happenings The Union High School District No. 7 budget committee, composed of Phil Booth, R. E. Ellingsworth, Frank Smelser, Paul Blanchard and Richard Miller, met with the school board last Thursday and prepared the budget for the coming year. if^T otal estimated expenses for the year $11,492.50 Total estimated receipts, not including proposed tax $120.00 Balance, amount to be raised by district . tax $11,372.50 Willamina Day draws near with fun and frolic for all. It is being sponsored by the Commercial Club and the Retail Merchants Association. According to plans, Main Street bet ween B and C streets will be the site for the program of events. This portion of Main street will be cleared of cars and detour signs placed at the above men tioned intersections. The vacant lot adjoining the Willamina Cafe has been cleared and will be available for parking. One of the highlights of the afternoon’s entertainment will be when a greased pig will be turned loose and the person catching and holding it will he entitled to take it home. Another event will be a ' greased pole on top of which will be a five dollar bill. The person climbing the pole will get the money. Another event will be the log chopping contest. Men are asked to bring their own axes, and the winner will receive $5.00 in cash. Many chickens will be thrown from the top of a building and the persons catching them will be entitled to take them home. There will be, a ladies nail driving contest with a cash award of $5.00 and a pie eating contest with prizes totaling $3.50. These are only a few of the events scheduled for the afternoon program. A public dance will be held in the Willamina hall starting at 9 p.m. We are glad that Wm. Newbill is at home again. He returned Saturday morning from the McMinnville hospital where he was several months very ill. Maxine Shetterly has been working in a dressmaking shop at Juneau Alaska, since the ninth. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lady of Gopher Valley were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. Lady’s mother, Mrs. Roxip Mendenhall. From M. Petersen of Old Grand Ronde: Dan Major killed a 22 pound bear on old Salmon river road. When Petersen established a dairy on Lost Prairie, Polk County he had an Indian road to his ranch. Some women bought the land from an Indian, where Petersen rode to his ranch, threatening him with a gun. Polk County attorney threatened Petersen with prosecution and jail if he traveled over her land. He had to carry his milk on his shoulders on a made trail. Later the county felt sorry when they learned Petersen had a road. Mr. Bones of Taft done service with his Morgan stallion at Madison, A1 Miller and Ivan Dent places. -o-o-o- Bargains from EUingsworths: 1 corn starch 1 glose starch 1 paring knife all for 19c! Raisins 4 lbs. 19c! milk 3 tall cans 19c; Picnic hams 19c per lb; From the Willamina Market: 2 bars Maxine toilet soap 1 pkg. soap flakes Honey Oysters 2 cans both 51b. ( A woman always thinks she is better-. than other women. A man hopes he’s no- worse than other men. -o-o-o- The Willamina Townsend Club is planning an entertainment ft Wed nesday, Oct. 5. A beautiful hand made rug will be given as a door prize. Refreshments will be served free of Oregon Quiz Who was the first U. S. district Judge to! be appointed in Oregon? Ans. Judge Mathew P. Deady. Information source Oregon historical Quarterly, page 60, March 1972. f I i Pastor's Corner 1 1 Each week one of the local m inisters contributes a column to this space «SB N m J® îSiSiÿftS! I had a roommate who was always organized and did everything ahead of time and with no apparent effort. Marge wrote birthday cards on the first of the month and mailed them on , the proper days. She shopped all year and wrapped her Christmas presents the first week of December. All her handcrafted gifts were done during'the summer because she felt she could not take the time after classes started in the fall. Over Thanksgiving weekend, she addressed and stamped all of her Christmas cards. One year, after she had them ready, she put the cards in the bottom dresser drawer until time to mail them and of all things for Marge—she forgot them! She found them in May when we were packing to leave for a vacation. I laughed so hard I could hardly stand up. IT DIDN'T FAZE HER. She popped them in the mail and dared me to make something of it: Her m istake m ade Marge more loveable but, I bet she doesn’t have nearly as much fun as I do wondering how everything is going to get done. It usually does and we laugh a lot. looking for a change You don’t have to be the way you are. . .don’t have to keep bumping along in the same old rut. You don’t have to be the way you are . . . don’t have to keep bumping along in the same old rut. You can change . . . if you are willing! God can and will change your life. . .if you’ll allow Him. He can make you a new man in Christ. Your age is immaterial. Your condition is immaterial. Your condition is im- material. No matter how deep your rut—how long you’ve been in it—God is able to change you! Question is—will you put yourself in God’s hands? What is your weakness? Are you secretly afraid you are a failure? Are you fed up with yourself? If you really want to change, God has power to do it. God will not violate your personal sovereignty. He will not make a puppet out of you. But if you sincerely ask His help—God can restore your love for your wife—your husband. He can help you shape up in your job. He can give you back self-confidence. Better still, He can teach you God-confidence—which is infinitely better than self-confidence. The crux of the matter is your WILL! Will you give yourself to Christ—allow Him to work His miracles in You? “If any man be in Christ he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things are become new . . (ICor. 5:17) Jesusissay Jesus is saying to every person; “Behold, I stand at the door (of your life) and knock; if anyone hears my voice and will open the door; then, I will come in to him and fellowship with him and he with me’ ’. Rev. 3:20 Jesus said ‘if you will’ then ‘I will’ . . . He has opened the way by dying on the cross—the next step is yours! ‘Will you’ simply say “yes Lord Jesus,” I need you. . .”?? Those words will open the way for God to show Himself to you! Pastor Bob Roome Free Methodist Church 8 | | | 8 • 8 i | 1 g | a I 8 ;
