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Wednesday, March 28, 1979 - SEVEN
New Bank
To Open
Columbia Community Bank
expects to open in a temporary
storefront at the Hermiston
Plaza Shopping Center by the
end of April, according to Jim
Pratt, president and chief execu
tive officer of the new locally
owned bank.
Pratt said a vacant area be
tween T-Shirts Plus and the
Stereo Bird will be used by the
bank until a permanent facility
can be built on an empty lot next
to Shari's Restaurant (also a
plaza business).
The 1,400 square foot store
front will be equipped with two
tellers' counters, a new accounts
desk, a loan officer's desk and a
conference room. Pratt expects
that a "good portion" of the staff
will be hired by the middle of
next month.
The bank is presently selling
off the last of the $1.25 million in
stock required by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. Pratt
expects the bank will be "fully
subscribed" by the end of the
month.
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' Columbia Community Bank is
currently operating under "con
ditional approval" from the state.
The state's okay is contingent on
FDIC approval and this won't
happen until the stock require
ment is met, Pratt explained.
Stock subscription funds are
now being deposited in an escrow
account at the People's National
Bank of Seattle.
Pratt isn't tipping his hand
ahead of time but he says the
new bank "will be trying some
different things" when it opens.
Pratt has 14 years experience
in the banking business. He was
manager of The Oregon Bank in
Pendleton for about Vi years
before accepting the Hermiston
job. He was also a loan officer for
two years at The Oregon Bank in
Portland. ,
Stephen H. Golden was re
cently named vice president of
Columbia Community Bank. He
was an assistant vice president in
the commercial lending division
of Pendleton Banking Co. and
was with First National Bank for
16 years.
Shoe Store Boasts Quality For Less
Payless Shoe Source's selling
point is that, as one of 621 stores
that make up Volume Shoe
Corporation of Topeka, Kan., it
can sell quality shoes for less
money.
And there's not a customer in
the world that doesn't like that
kind of deal.
"We're real pleased with the
way the community has accepted
our shoes," commented assistant
manager Bonnie Ferguson.
Payless Shoe Source, which
opened in the middle of Novem
ber in the Hermiston Plaza, is
managed by Georgetta Risinger.
Mrs. Risinger managed the
Payless Shoe Source in Spokane
prior to coming to Hermiston.
Her husband had been trans
ferred by Union Pacific from
Spokane to Hermiston during the
summer.
Mrs. Ferguson's husband had
been transferred from Milton
Freewater to Hermiston by the
National Marine Fisheries Ser
vice. Before moving to Hermis
ton, Mrs. Ferguson was em
ployed at Griggs Stateline Shop
ping Center in Milton-Freewater.
Ferguson said Payless Shoe
Source offers a "complete family
set up" when it comes to shoes.
Their line includes shoes and
boots for casual and dress plus
athletic wear.
Sizes range from 0 in infants to
13 for men and 11 for women.
Shoe care items are available,
as is women's billfolds and
purses.
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A new manager has taken over
the helm at the Williams 1870
store in the Hermiston Plaza
Shopping Center.
Cecil Berry, a former buyer of
men's and women's clothing for
Burnham's Department Store,
began his new duties Monday,
replacing Lee Vetter.
Berry is a native eastern
Oregonian. He was born and
raised in Heppner and attended
Blue Mountain Community Col
lege. He started his retail career
with the J.C. Penney chain,
working at stores in Pendleton,
the Tri-Cities and Ellensberg.
He was involved in the com
pany's management and training
program and at 26 became
Penney's youngest manager at
its store in Molalla. He left the
company after declining a trans
fer out of the Northwest and
went into the CB business. New
federal regulations forced him to
abandon this career and he
eventually went to work for
Burnham's.
He and his family presently
live in Stanfield.
Berry's assistant manager is
Kirk Olsen, a Brigham Young
University graduate, who man
aged a jewelry store in Pendle
ton before coming to Williams
last year.
Williams 1870 opened last
September in a spacious, 14,000
square foot facility that accen
tuated its contemporary styles in
clothing and accessories.
Separate departments offer
customers a wide selection in
men's and women's clothing,
youthful fashions, children's
ware, shoes, lingerie and acces
sories (luggage, purses, jewelry,
etc.).
The store recently expanded
its services to include tuxedo
rentals.
The store's history parallels
the development of Eastern
Oregon when gold prospectors
journeyed to the hinterlands in
search of their fortunes. The first
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Williams store appeared at The
Dalles in 1869. Its founders were
Wingate and Williams, a partner
ship that also started the The
Dalles First National Bank.
The first Williams store sold
general merchandise and sup
plies to prospectors on their way
to Baker, Ore. and Idaho. The
store shifted to dry goods and
eventually evolved into a small
town department store.
Williams was sold to Idaho
Department Store in 1956. It was
resold several years ago to the
present owners, Don Williams,
president, and Bill Sugg, vice
president. Both are headquar
tered at The Dalles. Don was
Merchant of the Year in 1977 and
a recent winner of The Dalles'
Community Service Award.
Children's Clothes Sold
The Children's Den, originally
located in the Creamery Annex
and now in the Hermiston Plaza,
has been in business for a little
more than two years.
Owned by Tom and Sara
Kingston, the Children's Den has
become popular with the
mothers, the almost mothers and
especially the grandmothers.
The Children's Den offers Her
miston shoppers something that
has not been available before, a
shop that exclusively carries
infant and children's items,
clothes and accessories.
"When we arrived in this area
I found it difficult to shop for our
babies and toddlers. So my
favorite dream was to open an
exclusive children's shop," Sara
Kingston stated. "We have ar
ranged our clothes racks and
displays with the mother in
mind. The shop has a playpen
and other items that will keep
the baby or children happy while
mother shops.
"We have an extensive inven
tory in baby and children acces
sories, night lights, nursery
lamps, jewelry, silver cups and
spoons and banks, stuffed ani
mals and a darling wicker baby
basket lined with soft quilted
fabric."
A wide array of gifts and gift
certificates and the convenience
of lay-a way are all at the Child
ren's Den where a big happy lion
is the shop's logo and mascot.
Coming to Hermiston from
Longview, Wash., Tom Kingston
is with Portland General Electric
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