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I X ' - . - i, I etroit and Idanha Should 1) Sepa t M i W ' M ,. W f ,:W M 4. M. 1 a t A. A A I 2 S II VoWV. X V AAV i I rate Ways; Incorporation Controversy Is Heating Up Canyons of the North Santiam Br Wendell Webb Managing Editor. The Statesman downstream from here. The other is figuring in the con-1 troversy as to whether two com munities and in intervening four mile wilderness should be wedded into an incorporated city. The com munities are Detroit and Idanha. (Combined population estimated all the way from 1,000 to 1T500). Question Nat Simple But the question isn't that sim ple, either. In fact, Idanha now seeks to Incorprate all by itself. The noise from the arguments Is thundering far beyond the green walls of the canyon country. It will find echo in circuit court Mon day in Salemr where Judge Rex Kimmell must decide whether Idanha can so act- If it can, Idan hans will vote December 8. If it can't, they'll vote anyway on Dec ember 13, along with Detroiters, as to whether there should be joint Incorporation. To untangle the complex situa tion means untangling a 1 genial, graying, middle-aged chap named Edison E. Vickers, extensive prop erty owner In both communities and in between, justice of the peace for the entire canyon, and espouser of plans to make the North Santiam the common man's Coney Island. Untangling Vickers is no small Job. Incoperation Opposed Vickers, according to Vickers and a lot of other people, two years ago wanted to incorporate Idanha where he maintains his home. But he han into opposition Then, from some source of in spiration now lost in time, was born the thought to incorporate both places Into one. After all, lots of Detroit will be many feet un . derground when the lake, forms behind the huge dam in a year or two, and the remainder of the pic turesque town might not be large enough to become a city by it self. .; It was a polished idea. But voters of the two towns polished it off with a 206 to 99 "no" vote a few weeks ago and incorporation -went poof. Vickers didn't go poof, however- He found out where most of his opponents lived and merely counted them out. Then he asked and received sanction for a new vote in which about half of Idan ha can take no part. It is set for December 13 two weeks from Tuesday. ' Idaahans keve-U That was too much for some of the Idanhans. They might have fought off Vickers a couple of years ago when he wanted to get them all mixed up with mayors, councilmen and city laws. But they weren't going to have him scranv Lie them with problems of another community four miles and a nice stretch of forest away. Besides, they didn't want Idanha chopped, I up. t IDANHA, Ore., Nov. 28 The keeping idanhans Igot the tree-clad canyons of the North COUnty court to set in intorpora Santiam are echoing to more than tion election solely for that com one kind of dynamite these days. 1 munity, for December 9 four One kind is blasting out roads days priqr to the oni, Vickers fos f or the great Detroit dam 1Q miles jtered. P 5 Vickers. no man!; to dodge a scrap, didn't like that, so 'Monday Judge KJmmell will et I himself in the mess about which election should bi held if any. I unless a pody: wants to listen, aJot in the canyon and hear what's beneath it. S ft Some Contradictions Who stirred it all! up? fVickers, and he's j proud of it. But he also contradicts himself a bit, as do some of the more fervent members of both I factions. f j For instance, here's an exact quotation, from a conversation with vickers; as we sat in a booth at his new night club Here: "Mr- Vjickers, what do you think about Idanha incorporating alone," Why, that s the most practical. of course. I wanted that two years ago." I j j I I .. "Then !why not join in that move instead of pressing for the Detroit Idanha incorporation, if you feel that way? 'Well, I don't want to? let De- After troit down and besides it's a ques tion of having two little towns that donft amount td much or one bigger one that could get state funds. Cites Utility Problems assuring Mr. Vickers we were nojt suggesting anything at an- in ract, that we weren't even sure about anything ourselves we asked what prompted his in terest ini Incorporation in the first place. , 1 I "We could get state funds, end besides I believe this area is going places ats a 'resort fareaj for the common) man. And :we are faced with a water and power problem that isay. now!" I Thipgl were starting to echo all right. Before we could say Thomas A. Edison, "we were! shown charts indicating power, provided by a private firm in both Detroit and Idanha, jwas about as unstable as the French cabinet bills? showing electric charges of $$0 a month for a restaurant! which! used. gas for cooking; comparative figures in dicating power ratis were three tunes those for West Salem. And. finally, we Were nffororf a chance to see a biochemist's report purporting to prove that Idanha water provided by a lumber mill was as ftill of life af an untreated fish boWl. Havinsr. iust hari drink of it (it tastedf all r)ght), we ucvuneu, nowever- Denies Loans Sous ht I Vickers didn't seem to mind ng questioned so we pjit a few ones. j wnats there to this story about you waiiting to get pome property into a city so you could get an rA loan on nouses to sell?" "Someone dreamed that up be fore the election! It hasn't i blankety-blank thing tot do with things lit all. I'm building 10 i - . houses and I don't need any more loans. If that land were incorpor ated, my taxes would go up like anyone else's, wouldn't they?" . "Well, what about you wanting to be mayor?" I Hell, I've been going to resign as justice of the peace, let alone take on anything else like that I haven't wanted to be mayor but I might be. at that, after all this fussing. But not now, of j course." "O.K., we'll pass that. But why s there so much opposition to the incorporation?" jj Opinions Divided I "I'll tell you. They didn't want to incorporate Idanha because they were afraid somebody would do something- And that's the reason they don't want to incorporate Detroit and Idanha just because they are afraid somebody would do something. "They," it appeared. Included most of the lumber interests in Idanha, and what "they" were afraid of appeared to mean city taxes, the loss of control over pub lic utilities, and Vickers.; The one-time Willamina busi ness man is a storm center in the canyon right now. He has friends who say he is a badly-needed spur t o badly - needed development. Many others say he's a thorn in the side of orderly progress. Whichever he is, the odds today seemed against him linking two ends' of a town with four miles of trees. But the vote isn't in yet. Victor Point Residents Host To Calif ornians Statesman News Berries VICTOR POINT Mr. and Mrs John Walker (Dorothy tang) of Crescent City, Calif., were guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lang over the Thanksgiving week end. Additional dinner guests on Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jones. H Thanksgiving Day dinner guests at the J. C. Krenz home were Mrs. Myra Fischer, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Doerfler, of Salem, Guy Scott, of Union Kill, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Humphreys; and son' Robert, and , J. Krenz, ox Silverton. Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Fisher and family and Mrs. Fisher's mother, Mrs. Nettie Downing of Stayton, spent the holiday at the home of Mr. and Mrsj Richard Phillips (Alice Downing) at Estacada. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Doerfler and Mrs Rosa Amstutx spent the day in Salem at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Guyer. Mrs. Guyer is the former Deuora Doerfler. Ava Jane Darby, ott Oakland, was here for the holiday week end at the J. J. Doerfler and J. O. Darby homes. Mr. and Mrs. Mar Ion Fischer and children Morris and Evlyn were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lambrecht at Sublimity Thanksgiving Day. "ilHiliillii ,i - 7 jmm - i W Compiles Report On VFW Building Statesman News Scrrira ' The VFW building fund com mittee pf the Civic club met Mon day to begin composing its re port on the Memorial building fund. The report will be sent to the General Federation Of Wom an's clubs contest. The contest is to determine the clubs which have accomplished; the most toward civic improvement in the past year. Attending were Mrs. Roy Durham, Mrs. George King, Mrs. J. L. Newton and ' Mrs. Rurik Hendrickson. Polk County Judge Returns from Meeting Statesman News Service DALLAS -4- County Judge C. F. (Jack) Hayes has returned from a session of the Highway 99 asso ciation in southern Oregon and northern California early this week. First meeting of the three-day conclave was scheduled Monday at a point just beyond the Cali fornia border, and subsequent iiillilPWH'j'fi PrograniSet! At Roberts i Statesman News Service ROBERTS Mothers ciub Of Ro berts school will start their hot lunch program Monday- Hot lun ches Will be served on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the remaining days hot soup will be prepared by the teachers as a supplement to the students own lunch. t At the last meeting of the. Mo thers club, members planned to make all costumes of the children for the Christmas play. Addition al equipment for the needs of the school will be purchased includ ing sheets and pillow cases for the First Aid cot which was donated recently by the club. Next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Carl Heyden, December 16, at 1:30. GERVAIS PLAY SET GERVAIS The junior class of the Gervais high school will pre sent' a three-act comedy play en titled "Grandad Steps Out,": at the high school auditorium on Friday night, December 2 at 8 p. m. Ad- dyse Lane, dramatic teacher, is meetings were due at Yreka, Calif,; directing the cast. I f!IFi!lll!jl!!jl!'l! galley Obituaries niijir .Th.Sta .1. Silver Oscajr Goodman ALBANY: Funeral services for Silver ! Oscar Goodman. 84. killed in front of his home Wed nesday byil a car. will be held from the fisher Funeral Home at 11 a.m. Monday, November 28. Buriaif will be in the Al ford cemtery. Goodman was born at Harris burg June 17. 1885. and had lived in Harrisburg, Brownsvill. Eastern Ore eon, as well as in iLane county. The past Rosedale Family Visiting In Eastern Oregon Statesman News Servtee ROSED AiLE Mr. and Mrs. For rest Cammfck and family and his mother, Mjrs. Mary Cammack, spent inarcsgiving with the Al bert Camnfacks near Vale. They plan to go n to Greenleaf, Idaho, to visit Mrs. Cammacks relations before returning. .Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cole and sons spent: Thanksgiving day in Portland wfith Mr. and Mrs. Or ville Gleason and family. 10 years he had lived near Al bany where he was engaged in dairying. He was a member of the Christian church. In Albany on Aug. 3, 1922, Goodman married Katie CochelL She survives as do three child ren, Mrs. Neil Shepard of Tan gent, and June Rosetta Goodman and Lenora Goodman both of Al bany. Surviving also is a sister Mrs Rena Carroll of Harrisburg, and ia grandson, Tommie Shepard of Tangent Goodman, who was totally blind and hard of hearing, started across the highway to his bam located across the road to do the evening milking, when the accident occurred. His father, the late I Charles W. Goodman, was killed at almost the same spot on Jan. 28, 1938. He also was starting across the highway, and stepped from behind a parked car and ; trailer, directly in front of an oncoming car. Dr. W. O. 'Powell McMINNVELLE, Nov. 28 (Spe cial) Funeral services were held at the McMinnville Funeral home Saturday for Dr, W. O. PowelL pioneer Oregon chiropractic phy sician and former Yamhill county judge, who died here Thursday at the age of 80. Committal was at Mt. Crest Abbey, Salem. Dr- Powell took his degree in chiropractic in 1904 and practiced in McMinnville from 1904 to 1909 i at which time he assumed the ' presidency of the Pacific College of Chiropractic In Portland, hold- ' ing the post for seven years.; f He continued the practice ;f i his profession in Worland and Laramie, Wyo until 1925, at which , time he returned to McMinnville, living here until his death, j . He served as Yamhill county 1 judge from 1935 to 1941. i : Born Jan. 9, 1869 In Mason, Ef fingham county, I1L. hf was the . son of Cornelia Wintringer Pow- -s ell- He married Anna Peterson at ? Butte, Mont, on February 24, 1900. - r ' He is 'survived by his wife, Anna; two sons, Curtis of San Die go, and William of McMinnville: two daughters. Mrs. Edwin Knapp r of Lakes Charles, La, and Mrs- , Paul G. Warren of Salem; a bro ther, ArthuKof Dover Plains, ; N. Y, and two sisters, Angie A. Belk of Boise, Idaho and Mrs. Mat tie Hadley, Seattle. 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