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Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Wednesday, June 23,1976
calendar Tonight's events Alcoholics Anonymous and AlAnon groups, 8 p.m., basement. Federated C h u r c h , M i l t o n Freewater, United Way of Walla Walla County, public hearing on admitting the Family Planning Center as member agency: 7:30 p.m.. First Federal Savings Bldg.. First Avenue and Alder Street. Waitsburg School Board, 8 p . m . . W a i t s b u r g School superintendent's office. Walla Walla City Council, 7 p.m.. city hall council chambers. Third Avenue and Hose Street.
Wagon Wheelers, host of posses, have long history
HrescoU School Board. 7 p . m . . P r e s c o 11 S c h o o l conference room. Prospect Point Grange. 8 p.m.. Prospect Point Grange Hall. S. Howard Street: Gail Zimmerman. Grange master, to give report on state Grange convention. Walla Walla County Park •Board, 7:30 p.m.. Walla Walla County Courthouse.
By BARB REYNOLDS Of the Union-Bulletin When the posse rides into town Thursday, it won't be after outlaws — or lost children in the mountains. • Even though the 27-year-old Washington State Sheriff's Posse may be on call for search and rescue missions, the horsemen will be in Walla Walla wearing another hat — that of riding teams. But if there were a contest this weekend for the most hats worn by any posse group, the Walla Walla Wagon Wheelers would win hands down. The Wagon Wheelers started out in 1936 as a community booster group that met on foot in Wildwood Park. The group, which hosts the competition for the ninth time, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year. The group claims it is the oldest of its kind in the United States. They have been community boosters, a horse drill team and a search and rescue outfit over the four decades. Organized originally to help celebrate the Whitman Centennial in 1936, the Wagon Wheelers didn't mount up until 10 years later. "I used to cover the Wagon Wheelers for the paper/' said longtime member Claude Gray, a retired associate editor of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. "We were entirely different back then." After the Whitman Centennial, Gray said, the group picked up other projects to publicize the community. By 1940 they were designated an official booster group to preserve Walla Walla history and develop a greater community consciousness. Gray said. A 1941 list of activities for the year included the "initiation of outstanding figures of national importance" and the "establishment of at least one important historical marker." The wheelers were still on foot that year, but Walla Walla being a horsey place, that started to change. "I guess the horsemen took over by the late 1940s." said Gray. Posse members have been mounted deputy sheriffs of Walla Walla county since 1953. participating in search and rescue missions that have included lost hunters and hikers and drowning victims. . The focus this weekend, however, will be on the riding skills the Wagon Wheelers have devoted so much of their time to. About 500 persons from 14 Washington counties are expected to participate in more than 20 riding events at the Southeast Washington Fairgrounds that range from Parade Drill to a "Fourman Flying Baton" event. A barbecue beef dinner, ladies brunch and banquet are planned between the three days of riding. And chances are, there will be some birthday singing — for the walkin'est. ridin'-est booster group in Walla Walla.
Friday's events
Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington, Chapter 12, 2 p.m.. Pioneer Park Garden Center; officer installation. PEG, CI Chapter, 10 a.m. with Mrs. John Brownell. S. W i l b u r Street: convention Thursday's events report. Triple Link Club, 6:30 p.m.. Baha'i Faith fireside 1629 Pioneer Park Garden Center: picnic: business meeting. Walla Walla Avi;.. 8 p:m.
1). Sumcrlin. all of Walla Walla: C.-iyetanoU. Andrade. Milton-Freewater1, • Mrs. John L. Hunt. Dayton; Mrs. George A. O'Neal. Connell. Wash.
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Dayton General Hospital
(Tuesday) Walla Walla General Hospital •\dniuted Id:i Chase. Liridj L. Austin. huth iif Walla Walla: Otto Sthcidcr. LaVonm- B. Lee. Lillie B. Mourn, all of ('ijlk'ge Place: Dorothy Towslee. Brian Byington. Deanna Ryinelon. Rhonda Hyrngton. Tara L Byinglon. all of Milton I-'rt-ewater. Bisrharm'd: Irnia LX' Dios and son. MilI<>n-FreL'w;m>r; Jose A. Montiel.
St. ManCommunity Hospital Admitted: Mr.s. Danny Davis. Mrs. Michael Taylor. Ralph L.'Knudsen. Mrs. Curtis Stewart. Claire G. Martin. Harold H White. Mrs, Soledad Kios. John P. Kent Jr.. Mrs. Virgil Long. Michaelle L. Dobbs. Karl R. Sims. Wimford Myers, all of Walla Walla: Larry D. Dutto'n. Mrs. Richard Megy. Mrs. Michael Trover, all uf Milton-h'reewater. Troy F. Mason. I'malilla. Ore. : Henry !\:. Larom. LaCirande. Ore Discharged:. Lawrence Blue Jr., William L. Drumheller. Mrs. Lcman F.ads. Carlo Grassi. Mrs. Elmer Kern. 'Terry L. Lanning. Mrs. Ralph Littlefield. Nina O'Duffield. Alice M. Rogers. Ellen
Admitted: Michael Reddish. Ismael Fonseca, both of Dayton. Discharged: Arvil Ivach. Louise Nilsson. Denver Henry, all of Dayton.
Garfield County • Memorial Hospital • Admitted: Glenda Dbcson. Harold Nelson. Margaret Stahr. Ed Crawford, all of Pomeroy.
births St. Mary. Community Hospital To Mr. and Mrs. Danny Davis. 441 N. Sixth Ave.. a boy. Danny Keith, 4 pounds. 11 Vz ounces. June 22. To Mr. and Mrs. Michael Taylor. 172 Union St.. a boy. Scott Michael, 7 pounds. 12'.2 ounces, June 22. To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Megy. 102 Miller St.. MiltonFreewater. a boy. Michael James. 7 pounds. 2 ounces. June 22.
Posse competition to start Thursday U-B photo by ROD Carlson
City will receive totable trash cans Totable- trash may be "available sooner than expected in Walla Walla. The city is taking'delivery' this week of the new portable, plastic trash cans for the coming automated system, according to Verne Tompkins. Tompkins is general-services supervisor for the City of Walla Walla. And two new trucks bought by the city for the Rapid'Rail collection should be delivered within 30 days, he said. Walla Walla will be the first city in the Northwest lo have the automated system. City officials say it's faster and safer than the current one. The first phase of the p r o g r a m is costing the taxpayers S278.445. Most of that is for the trash cans.
Only one man will be required to handle a trash truck under the system. An automated arm will empty the containers. Alley pickups require one 300gallon container to every three families. It will mean a walk for some residents. "1 suppose probably 10 or 12 feet at the most," Tompkins said. "It's not a big problem." Other residents will receive 90gallon containers that can be wheeled to the curbs. Tompkins says the city's sanitation-crew employes have been informed there will be fewer jobs in the department. "They've been told that it would be done by attrition." Tompkins said.
"One man has quit to go to another job. It's a problem The cans will be distributed that'll be handled." without charge to residents. Next year another truck and Commercial districts and more trash cans will be bought, homes north of Rose Street will replacing the remaining threeman packer. get the first containers.
Skateboarding lessons for kids began Tuesday afternoon at Lions Park in College Place and Nancy Greaver, 6, was there to give it the 'ol College Place try. Nancy's long skirt, however, made it less than easy. Twelve youngsters tried out the
Neighbors' opposition builds to proposal for Eastgate motel WW region stays A proposed S850.000 motel-andrestaurant complex in the Eastgate area is meeting opposition. Neighbors in the vicinity of the Wilbur Avenue area where the project is to be built plan to speak at tonight's Walla Walla City Council meeting against the complex. The motel-restaurant is being proposed by the Bellevue, Wash., firm of Eberting and Thorpe, Inc. No one was at the firm today to comment about neighborhood reaction against the national-chain project, zoning. The council has been asked to rezone the property just south of U.S. Highway 12. east of Wilbur Avenue, to allow the new business. "The motel is an unidentified motel
chain," says one of the neighbors. Mrs. .Meal Swanson, 2095 Lark Drive. "The rate of the rooms will be $7 to $18. That sounds like a fleabag possibility." Mayor Harold "Nig" Gradwohl says he's heard the chain may be Motel 6. which offers low-rent accomodations. Eberting and Thorpe haven't revealed the firm's name and say their client won't spend the money to work up a building plan until it knows there's a place to build. Gradwohl says the council can approve the rezoning without having a building plan. "But any permit to build could be held up until they (council) know what's going on." he says. Mrs. Swanson says neighborhood
Mac-Hi board fails to agree on $24,000 cut from budget By JIM CARLTON Of the Union-Bulletin MILTON-FREEWATER — The fate of the McLoughlin Union High School budget for the 1976-77 school year is still up in the air. No decision was reached by the Mac-Hi b'j;:rd of directors Tuesday night following ;i two-hour discussion on a proposed S23.678cut. The board, meeting in special session, derided to meet again in one week to discuss cutting the budget, which has already been sliced by about $118.000 since first being proposed earlier this year. District voters have defeated two property-tax levies needed lo balance the budget. A third levy try js planned for Aug. 10. The first defeat was on March 9. and the
balancing-rolling act yesterday according to Charles Davis, recreation director. Next lessons in skateboarding will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Lions Park in College Place.
The 27th annual 'Washington State Sheriff's Posse Competition opens here with a parade at noon Thursday. Track races and other events will be held at the Southeastern Washington Fairgrounds immediately afterward. The Parade will start at the fairgrounds, go east up Orchard Street, to Third Avenue, south on Third Avenue to Tietan Street then west on Tietan Street to the fairgrounds. A barbecue and dance that night will highlight the opening day of the show, hosted by the Walla Walla Wagon Wheelers. Gail Weatheriy is Wagonmaster of the Wheelers. Bob Stevens of Walla Walla is president of the statewide organization this year. Second-day events open at the fairgrounds with cow cutting competition at 9 a.m. Friday. Grand entries of all the units will be made Friday and Saturday at 12:30 p.m. • Saturday's events will start with cow cutting again at 10 a.m. The annual awards banquet will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Angus Motor Inn Saturday.
second was on May 25. The budget committee originally cut S89.938 from the first proposal. About $28.000 was reduced after the first levy defeat in March. Tuesday night, outgoing School Supt. E. R. Miller and incoming Supt. James Hitter, recommended to the board that S3.678 be reduced from athletic activities, $3.000 from administration, and $12.000 from a teaching position. Board members generally agreed on the cuts from activities and administration, but did not agree that a staff member should be eliminated. Board member Jim McWilliams said he thought the board should take the recommendations of the administrators. On the other hand, board member Bill Galbrcath said he thought the board did not h a v e to t a k e a n v b o d v ' s
objections include a lack of need for this type of business and a desire to see the property zoning remain multi-family. "Also a motel-restaurant would demand the flashing signs, neon lights, whatever." she says. "It would be a terrible thing to look at even- day." There is also the question of whether the restaurant will serve liquor and what kind of customers will be attracted, she says. "It's just a real, hazy scene." Mrs. Swanson says. "The residents are so deflated becailse everything they fight, it doesn't matter what happens." She says the attitude she gets from the city council is that any new business is just great.
Counties oppose federal land buys
recommendations. The proposed staff cut would be made in the language-arts department, according to Hitter. The board also discussed the importance of different programs at the high school as they relate to the needs of the students. "We're at the point where we have to decide which is the most important — whether it's history. English, art or careers." said board chairman Earl Brown. "We talk about reading, writing and a'rithmatic — just how important is art to us?" he asked. Galbreath said he thought the levy defeats didn't have anything to do with money. "1 can point to at least a dozen votes that didn't have a thing to do with money,"
DAYTON — The Washington Association of Counties does not want state or federal agencies to acquire more land for fishery and wildlife enhancement. • At an association meeting in Vancouver last week the group asked outside agencies to confine efforts to the more than 40.000 acres of land already acquired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for development of the lower Snake River dams. The resolution was written and introduced by Vernon Marll. Columbia County commissioner. Approximately 15.000 acres of the 40.000 are covered with water and facilities, leaving more than 25.000 acres basically undeveloped. In addition, other federal and stage agencies own large acreages in the same general area. The mitigation plan proposed by the corps of engineers for the lower Snake River dams includes acquisition of partial or fall ownership of more than 24.000 acres of private land, in addition lo the construction of fish hatchery and similar facilities, the resolution claimed.
atop jobless list It's another low insuredunemployment year for the Walla Walla area. The local Washington State Employment Security office remains at the bottom of the state's listing, with 3.4 per cent insured-unemployrnent in this area for the week ending June 12. That's one-tenth of a per cent lower than the previous week and 1.1 per cent lower than a year ago. "We became lowest in the state about April 15." Bill Klink said today. "We'll probably remain there until November." Klink is the assistant manager in c h a r g e of i n s u r e d unemployment at the local state office. Of the 476 persons receiving insured unemployment during the June 12 week here, about 300 were from Walla Walla.
Klink said. The remainder were in Walla Walla. Columbia. Garfield and Asotin counties, which are handled through the Walla Walla office. "A conglomerate of different. occupations" make up the unemployed base here. Klink said. They include retired persons, new residents, some students from summer school closings and other persons, he said. "A lot of our unemployed are not counted because we are highly agricultural." he explained about the area's low insured-unemployment rate. • Agricultural employes aren't insured by the state. The area's unemployment " moves up in November when food processing industries and construction shut down for the winter. Klink said.
Inmate fafc to return from furlough A Washington State Penitentiary inmate was listed as an escapee at noon Tuesday when he failed to return from a furlough to Tacoma. Missing is William Frankland Medley. 30. who was imprisoned in November 1971 on a Pierce County conviction of car theft, according to A.J. Murphy, prison information officer. The escapee had been visiting his parents. Murphy said.
CP girl collects WWC grant COLLEGE PLACE — Shelley Rane Aronson. a 1976 graduate of Walla Walla Valley Academy, has received a $200 scholarship from Walla Walla College. Miss Aroason. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Aronson. 930 SE Elm Ave.. will major in biology.
West on passes levy
to balance city budget Health department may get home yet
"WESTON -- Voters here passed aa tax WESTON tax levy levyfor foraa3976-77 3976-77city city budget in an elf rtion Tuesday. The vot e was 6R yes. 53 no. At issue were $20.957 in taxes outside Oregon's six-per-cent limitation. An identical proposal was defeated May 25, HI] to 89, Total taxes will be $71.344. $5.007 more than the current year's. They will balance a $188.949 budget up $4,682 from current . expend itures, largest increases in the proposed budget will come in expenditures for materials and services — up $5.382 — and pcrsfrfinf 1 services — up $4.872. Thf city, will rwf-ivc $39.330 in revenue-sharing funds, $6.176 IB* than alloratt-d this year. Expenditures for street repair and maintenance in the city also will decline by $1 ,«50 lo $7.850.
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ByCAROLYNLOGAN Of the Union-Bulletin
Walla Walla County has moved a step closer to finding a new home for the city-county health department. "We're .wheeling and dealing." said commission chairman Franklin Cline after a closed session about negotiations for new quarters. B. Joe Younkers, administrator for St. Mary Community Hospital, attended the session. Neither party would comment further about the session closed for property acquisition, The brick annex to Ihe old St. Mary
Community Hospital is destined for the wrecking ball Nov. 3. As a result the health department is forced lo find new quarters. Cline said a decision should be made by next week. Behind a second, unrelated closed-door session, four Walla Walla County Housing Authority officials heard complaints about the Farm Labor Camp. The health department's annual inspection report said lhat mattresses should be replaced, and more effort is needed in maintaining the grounds. Litler and garbage should be cleaned ap regulartv and not allowed lo accumulate and garbage-container lids should be k<$l closed.
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Ihe report said. A letter submitted on behalf of the Washington Interagency Task Force for Agricultural Workers also noted overflowing litter, as well as excessively high grass and a lack of screen doors. The housing board plans lo meet on the subject. Personnel was the basis for closure of Ihe commssion meeting. " Another meeting — about the six-year road program — was an open hearing — bul almost no one came. Commissioners adopted the program, wrth two changes. Brant Hill. 1750 School Ave., had asked lo
have Byrnes Road by Troche! included, and it was. Hill said it was in an earlier road program but never done. Commissioners will also inspect the road. In other business, commissioners: — Held a public hearing on placement of sewer lines along county roads for a proposed Touchet sewer project Commissioners postponed a decision until next week. Vern Colwell. Route 1 Box 3. Touchel. raised some objections. Some of his land is threatened with condemnation for Ihr sewer lagoon. Commissioners wanted lo hear from Ihe project engineer, who was unable to attend Tuesday.
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