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About The times of Willamina. (Willamina, Oregon) 1972-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1973)
Keith Lam son Rt 1 Box 5$$ x 5364 Wayne Pyzer to speak to local area students Wayne Pyzer, president of the Decision for Destiny Youth Outreach program, will speak to assemblies at both Willamina Sheridan and Grand Ronde area. Wayne Pyzer was student body president of his higti school in 1958. As an all- state selection in football, he was selected to play in the North-South All-Star classic during his senior year. Before starting his school assembly appearances, he pursued a law-enforcement career at Santa Rosa Junior College in California. He later joined the ministry and has spoken to over 100,000 young people in various juvenile facilities, detention homes, peni tentiaries and assemblies. During the past fifteen years he has traveled throughout the country speaking, counseling, laughing, joking and just plain being a friend to teens. According to the M inisterial Association announcement, "In high schools every where, he has received standing ovations during his talks. Youth respect him and what he has to say...and they enjoy the way he says it. Wayne also hosts his own radio talk show, is Editor of Straight and Narrow magazine and is president of Decision for Destiny." Decision tor Destiny is the official name for the Wayne Pyzer Youth Outreach. It is a non-profit organization incorporated in California for the purpose of working with young people and dealing with the issues that purplex the teenage society. A full-time staff of trained leaders, aided by several volunteer assistants are cur rently working with Decision for Destiny. The organization is not sponsored by or affiliated with any political o r church denominational organization but strongly believes in the local church ministry. Wayne Pyzer Paige tells Chamber of problems of aged T erry Paige of Salem, hired by Cog as a specialist for aging, spoke at a meeting of the Sheridan Chamber of Com m erce on Monday noon. He has been working with a 25 member committee from the tri-county area of Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties to pin-point areas of concern and need for senior citizens. Olive Haugen of Sheridan and former senator Arthur Ireland of McMinnville are members of the committee, and were also present at the meeting. Paige said this tri-county area has 38,000 senior citizens, of which 12 per cent are house- o r bed-bound, or partly immo bile. In addition 26 per cent of them have incomes under $1750. Open After extensive remodeling and instala- tion of new typesetting equipment, the Willamina Times will hold an open house at th eir new offices at 122 N.E. Main, Willamina, from 10 a.m . to 6 p.m. According to Paige, high priority problems of this group are transportation, nutrition, housing and communication. The committee is working on a tri-county nutrition program, and will have a com prehensive plan to Cog by November. Sheridan is one place designated for a nutrition program, and it is hoped to have one going by February. M rs. Haugen announced that the Sheridan city council has $500.00 set aside toward this food program. The program is funded 90 per cent by federal monies and 10 per cent local. The local share can be either in money o r work donated by volunteers, which will count at the mini mum hourly wage. house During the past year, the Times has had three different locations, but has finally settled into permanent headquarters. A year ago the paper was located in the old tin shed on "C " Street, where it had been produced for several decades. Last Dick M ishler, new associate editor at the Tim es, looks as confused as every body else while starting to paste together this week’s newspaper. Taylor wins rifle Three kids caught in bam fire Three Sheridan juveniles, ages 12, 13 and 14, have been apprehended by Sher idan police in connection with a fire which destroyed a bam on N. W. Fal coner St. Wednesday afternoon. Th three boys were smoking and play ing with matches when the fire started and they were unable to put the blaze out. Owner of the bam , Joe Grimm of Riverside Lumber Co., said he will not press charges. He also said that the insurance on the building had lapsed. The only thing of value in the bam was an antique wagon belonging to M rs. Florence DeL ash mutt. It was purchased by her late husband, Elry DeLashmutt when they were first m arried. IT HAS APPEARED IN Phil Sheridan Days par ades and M rs. DeLashmutt once recei ved a $500 offer for the wagon, but she preferred to keep it for sentimen tal reasons. S. and Se Distributing Co8 is offering a reward of $100.00 for information re sulting in a r r e s t and con vi ction following a second theft of th eir vending machines at Willamina Union High School last week. During the early morning hours of Oct. 11, thieves broke through twindows in the school auditorium and made their way to the hallway where the vending machines are kept. They robbed four ma chines, making off with about $25 in change and a large number of candy bars. Dam- ...Under new age to the school and to the vending machines was estimated at $100. This i s th e second tiipe in two weeks- - that the machines have been broken into. Only the week before, three machines had been hit, resulting in the loss of about $10 in change and approximately $75.00 worth of damage. Owners of the vending machines said that if this happens one more nm e, there is a good possibility that the machines will be removed from the high school. management Leon Taylor Leon L. Taylor, Assistant V ico-Presi- dent of the Willamina Branch of the Lin coln Bank, won the Savage .308 Cen tennial model rifle awarded by the Willa mina Booster Club as part of a fund raising project. Second prize, a toaster oven, went to Don Stuck. Both were presented during half time at the Willamina-Banks football game. Proceeds form the Booster Club lUnd- raising activities will be used to buy film for Bulldog games. slated for November, the operation was moved into a small office in the Nice Electric buil ding.' At that tim e, the newspaper facil ities consisted of two desks, two chairs, a cam era and (eventually) a second-hand typewriter. High school robbed again Dale and Lorene Schmitz are the new owners of the Willamina Wash *n Dry, located right next to the Hi-Spot. Reopened on October 4 following extensive remodeling and redecorating. The newly remodeled Willamina Wash ’n Dry features new Speed Queen washers and Econo dryers. new Times In May, the newspaper offices were moved to the back half of the building now oc cupied by the Times, while Boyer Book keeping service occupied the front half. After the paper was sold in late July, Looking like little more than glorified typewriters, these machines set the type and justify it into neat columns of print ready to be pasted to the twee. facilities expanded out to fill the re st of the building. With the gradual addition of office furniture, darkroom equipment, drop tables, addressing machinery and typesetting equipment, it is now possible to see the paper go together from no offices thing more than an idea to a finished product all in the same building. The public will be welcome Thursday to see how the paper is put together and to meet the members of the staff. Refresh ments will be served. Peeking away at a column, Editor, Publisher and Chief Bottle-Washer Vance Welty discovers that a new typewriter doesn’t improve his spelling at all.
