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Newspaper Page TextSalem, Ore.,-Friday, December 28, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 2 Ps$ 8 New Detroit Has Grown By Leaps and Bounds Since '52 Area Growing As Resort Center By BEN MAXWELL Capital Journal Writer DETROIT (Special) -There is an old Detroit and a new Detroit. One is Marion County's newest town, the other lies submerged be neath the impounded waters of De troit dam reservoir. New Detroit is located on a 6fl 34 acre site called Hammond addi tion about a mile removed from the old town. Hammond addition plat was recorded Aug. 16, 1950 and illustrates curving streets with colorful names: Tumble, Boulder and Humbug. Some ol these streets exist only on paper, they are out in the- brush, still a, part of the primeval forest. 274 In Town A highway sign at the entrance to this incorporated town pro claims the population to be 274. Cecil Briles serves as mayor. Earl Layman, Otto Oja, Wallace Rhodes and Raymond Sophy are aldermen and Betty Dean is city recorder. But there is an election coming up Dec. 27, and there may be new faces in Detroit's municipal gov ernment in 1957. Besides the agony of moving it self in 1952, Detroit had to clear the site for its new existence. The cement mixer followed the bull dozer. Some new homes were built, others were moved from the old site to the new. Re-located Detroit spent its first winter in the mud. Only the district school built by the corps of engineers in 1948 had an appearance of belonging to an established community. Now Detroit has paved streets, a water system, fire protection and, to some extent, street illumi nation now being installed. A municipal building is under con struction but a sewage disposal plant and system belong to a pat tern for the future. Relocating Expensive - Re-location and rebuilding Itself in lour years did not come cheaply for Detroit. In 1955-56 the tax levy was 225.1 mills. The levy for 1956 67 was down a bit to 150.5 which most residents in the community consider as high enough. Big bulge in Detroit's municipal budget is a special levy for support of the dis trict school. During 1955-56 this amounted to 178.3 mills and some bug-eyed residents hinted that they might move back into the old town beneath the waters of Detroit reservoir. Low property values and a chool designed for boom popula tion times, when the dam was un der construction; accounts for the shocking special school levy, re ported highest in the state. Even so, Detroiters know they have a good school under the direction of Supt. Harold E. Rcgele and his six compctant teachers. The special levy for its support has inflamed a few ulcers but a lot of folks newly settled in Hammond's addi tion think the school is worth the price. District school 123-J has 102 pupils in primary grades, 19 in the high school division. .Changing Economy Problem Detroiters are experienced with headaches. Now, they have an other. Detroit is confronted with a changing economy. Sawmills that used to furnish employment for much of the community s man power arc quitting business. Two at Idanha have already folded There remains in Detroit about 25 men still gainfully employed in the timber industry. In the end, most Detroiters be lieve, the changing economy comes as a blessing in disguise. The com munity's great asset for the future is big Detroit dam reservoir "the Lake", they call it 8.5 miles long and covering 3.580 acres. Now it is regarded as a fisher man's paradise and this is only a beginning. Detroit looks to its fu ture as a growing and prosperous resort area. Already a number of summer homes have been built in the new town, two docks furnish fishermen with 80 boats, the two general stores are heavily stocked with sporting goods and all enterprise is looking toward the Lake front for prosperity in the future. Al ready a fine, all season road has been built into an extensive forest resecve area where sites along the lake may be obtained for summer homes, business or social usage. Don Hiner. new president of the North Santiam Chamber of Com merce has committed his group to the support of Detroit as a re sort community. Two Civic Organization Two local civic organizations are also dedicated to this purpose: Detroit Civic club with 25 mem bers and the FOE auxiliary of comparable membership. The auxiliary for the Fraternal Order of Eagles in the Detroit area is unique. The auxiliary is there but there is no sustaining lodge of male members. Detroit had its origination when the Oregon k Pacilic Railroad the "Frustration the locality about 1890. Then the place was called Coe. But the post office department objected to this name since it was easily confused with Cove elsewhere in Oregon. So, they changed the name to De troit and the reason why, oldtim ers say, was because a fellow from Detroit, Michigan, had a saloon there when the place was a railroad construction camp. No passable road other than the ; railroad reached Detroit until the .' 1 - ft J: If a 1" I 1 M!m O -rn J stouts asam , , i Part of the town's new and growing business area is shown at this street intersection. Detroit has a population of 274 and is an Incorporated town. "PR 13 uj".n"iu J.' m Vf : V .1 Facilities for a growing travel and resort patronnage are avail able tn this part of new Detroit. The road sign says the distance 77i jrm T ' ' T- to Salem la 56 miles., available. At right la Fisher! landing wtth M boat Vt- ' Old Detroit had this appearance In 1914. Then the only road to town was the railroad with tracks shown in this picture. No passable public road reached Detroit until the 1920s. Old Detroit, or the remnants of it, are now submerged beneath Detroit dam reservoir. i - - ii Coordinated Recreation Year Long Program in This Area Mrs. Mabel W. Moore, postmistress at Detroit for the past 26 years first In the old town and then in the new occupied this neat federal build- in. 1891 Detroit poslofflce was established Oct. 18, with Vanness G. Danforth as postmaster. I ,A-rv t tf " imimi -- II 1 1 Ml I lJ IU-w-n I i By FRED ZIMMERMAN Capital Journal Writer Salem's program of coordinated recreational activities in the field of amateur athletics is a good example of what can be ac complished when various politi cal subdivisions pool their re sources. v While Oregon's winter season is not conducive to anything like an organized program of outdoor activities, a well developed sched ule of indoor sports is carried on in this locality. ' Salem could appropriately be termed the "basketball city," dur ing a good portion of the winter, judging by a report of Vernon Gilmore, director of recreation for the city and the public schools. All Gymnasiums Open With the gymnasiums at North and South high schools, Fairish and Leslie junior high as well as the Salem YMCA available for the casaba sport, most of the boys and young men who wish to engage in competition arc given the opportunity. One very illuminating state ment contained in Gilmore's re port, shows the effect of care fully supervised recreation In connection with the control ot Volunteer labor has brought Detroit's municipal building to near completion. The structure will be used as a fire hall and serve for civic affairs and municipal business. ; ,-np Among Detroit's several lunrh rooms and cafes, open seasonally for travel and resort patrons, Is Ketchum's new place on Detroit avenue. .Mia,sr.--'' iliir't,irt-a-t'- Detroit district school has 12 grades and seven teachers including Supt. Harold E. Regele. Ele mentary pupils number 102, high school enroll- men! is 19. The school was built by the corps of engineers In 1948. Fred Snider's boat dock, one of two near Detroit's lake front; has 50 boats for accommoda tion of resort fishermen. Another boat dock sup plies 30 boats for those eager to fish in Ihe well stocked lake. 9 California Mayors Ask Prayer for Rain Threat of Severe Dron fill I Losses Over State of water in the state's majorlcmpty. Four arc emptying fast.lunlrss heavy rains come, reservoirs Rut (here is nn rav In San Dieso County, where Mayors of nine San Diego rf uetline il tn ihe areas that!nnlv .18 of an inch of rain has'County cities called nn 500 nnorl ii mnti I fallen in twn mnnths. the towns churches to open a water-saving Santa Clara County, which has 'of Vista and Fallhronk are bor-i drive this weekend with prayers to re v on its own reservoirs, is rowing and Buying iniorann i"r ram. hoping for clouds that can he i River water from San Diego. A 'This is certainly one of the in Dinion ganon snnnage is ; nnesi prccipiiaiion seasons in dieted for the county next year j date over much of California said Robert Dale, U.S. weather seeded. Three reservoirs are Bomb Threat Is Telephoned Bethlehem Steel Will Expand Seattle Plant SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AD Thf threat nf rlmucht hung Thursday over much of parched j California, which a year aEO was j suffering from disastrous floods. I Farmers have been hoping for d-.,," months lor rain uiai u f-j -y , Route reached: nl rr,r,iv is Drav-I 'V. I 1 ..v . n ing for it, at the urging oi nine - " - capacity of its Seattle plant by mayors- ,. , , , hvino PORTLAND ll A calm-1 70 per cent with a 23-milIion-dolIar, Some livestock men are buy mg telephoned The Ore- year expansion program, hay for their cattle at inuaico. Thjap ,a ,m Mr I -.a ,u. ...,n- nriees Hnv or CCS skvrocxeietl ay ' .... . lm lumpaii boiu uic u..u r- - , -i;frtr. xnvpl a mrKprsnn. SEATTLE W Pacific Coast The Bethlehem Steel Corp. said Two Trainmen ftSL Die as RCAF Special Tips climatologist in San Francisco. San Francisco itsolf faces its second driest new year since rec- urus were iii Btui 111 joi'f. in . , . ij,t ,l ,oq (,. r carryine about 150 Koyal Cana- 12 Canadian Airmrn, Women Injured in Quvhev. Wreck BHOSSEAU. Que. m A train PORTLAND W Some 8,000 building and construction laborers in Oregon will kcI n 10-cent hour ly pay boost Tuesday. This Jan. 1 increase Is called for in the contracts of the heavy and building divisions of the As sociated (W-neral Contractors, the Portland Home Builders Assn. and the Concrete Contractors' Assn. AF to Display 3 of Missiles In Ike Parade WASHINGTON (fl The Air Force changed lis mind Friday and decided to show off its mis siles in the Inaugural parade on Jan. 21 just as the Army and Navy will do. The Air Force had planned no show of weapons in line with Pres ident Eisenhower's desire to tone down tho military aspects of his second inauguration. But last week the 1 Army an nounced it would hnve six missiles in the parade a Redstone, a Cor poral, two Honest Johns and two Nikcs. The Navy at the game time said It would display four missiles a Regulus, Terrier, Sidewinder and Sparrow. Maj. Gen. John G. Van Houten, chairmnn of the inaugural com mittee's Armed Forces Participa tion Committee, announced Fri day that Gen. Nathan F. Twining. Air Forco chief of staff, had agreed to display three of his service's missiles the Matador, the Snnrk and the Falcon. There will be no flyover of Air Force planes during the parade, as in tho past. juvenile delinquency. "Since the gymnasiums have been opened on this program, there has been no problem of boys breaking into the gyms as was done in the past," remarks the director. Churches Top List Church league basketball top the list in the matter of partlcipa- ' tion and attendance. Forty one teams competed in five divisions last winter and the program be ing carried out now ii equal in importance. ' ' , City league provides athletic competition for men on the high school and college levels. Then there is the program of Saturday afternoon basketball being car ried out during December, Janu ary and February. Volley ball is attracting mora and more attention with games being played under the aponsoi ship ot the churches, the YMCA and the coordinating agencies. March Tourney's Deadline 'With the March tournaments acting as a deadline for basket ball, attention is turned to soft ball and baseball. On the junior level two leagues of nine teams each functioned last spring. One league waa for boys in the i2-13 year bracket and the other for 14 and 15-year- olds. The "Fee Wees" were brought into the picture last spring as were the Midgets. These two groups provided baseball for boys from 7 through 12 years of age. Tho baseball program is car ried out through most of the sum mer, although the advent of warm days makes the swimming pool a counter attraction that draws par ticipation, from the diamond game. Tennis has been hampered by a lack of adequate courts, which means prospective players line up for a chance to show their skill. Softball has diminished some what as a spectator sport, al though it still gives ample op portunity for participation . on various age levels. Pools Prove Attraction Parrish and Leslie playgrounds and swimming pools prove cen ters of attraction during the sum mer. In an effort to provide re creational activities closer at home, several neighborhood play grounds opcrato at a number of the elementary schools. All have capable supervision. The city and the public school system divide the cost of operat ing the entire recreational pro gram on an approximate SO-50 basis. The annual cost is about $42,000. Attendance at all activi ties last year totalled in excess of 268,000. 23 AiiIoh Involved in Cli:iin-I!(irtion Crush TACOMA m Twenty-three automobiles were involved in a "chain-reaction" crash at the entrance to McChord Air Force Base, south of here, Thursday ii. a heavy fog. Reports to the sheriff's office said a cattle truck and trailer jack-knifed and automobiles ran into it and into one another in the fog. Thero wero no Injuries. OtTlNa MUM 0ff' lICTlie COMPANY '4aRf TRICJIT rain has fallen in San Francisco dian Air Force men and women I JOHN KAMMONS 1)1 KS PORTLAND (A John S. Sam- mons. ('.a, a former president of Old Oregon Trail Furniture at Bend, died here W'edncs- the Co. inured, n imi " ". dui me city nas plenty oi water ""'"" " . , "" "r'.r , .. . dav. Simmons also had heen a in its Iletch Hctchy reservoirs in1 mg pomi ncre iai n,Km .nuns , - renrcsentative of Doern the mountains near Yosemite. it he engineer and fireman. iShS r ( k Los Angeles, with a bare .46 , About 12 of the KCAF passengers' II'd'ac.lu"n C.0 tJ an inrh f.f rain unrn .Inlv 1 stiff Prf-fi hrillSPS and aCerallOnS, X. ihfifor-nn cwiiv-hKnnrrf : ..." iaa 4 .ri-'is also fairly well oil with wa- The enmne and seven cars ol He was a brother of E. C. Sammons, 100-ton electric'" r,m.Z":r States National Bank. icr siiirifii nun, iirtivy nuns edi-'ine 10-car v.,ni(ijiiiii nmKiudi nreirlfnt nf fha llnilnrl on- ... - v ii- ii;i, . ...,;tv.Kr.n- ... . . "... ,-.:-it Un fair v we I oil with wa- '!! engine ana seven cars oil" : r S5 to $25 a ton because canior-: '"-rciwu, anitmuvaiu uon 01 iwo new iw-ion eieciric nia hav has been shipped to ; operator, that a bomb would ex- furnaces and other improvements drought stricken Texas. plode in the newspaper building- -will boost the plant's Ingot produc- Red Bluff, a livestock center one hour and 20 minutes later i lion to 420.000 tons a year. 130 miles north tf Sacramento at p. m. j reported its worst drousht in 80 Work was not stopped and police apt. ana nunoing niaimendnte men nui ftu rtI t-ii.J klnu-n flames racing fn,in nn knmh in fl cnnrrli . r. ,i .h. uaiihn section near tii usni.m n Cnu.. ' ....."'. . The baggage car and engine un- Ibe servicemen and women 1920s. Construction of the present A,i. inied uo the dry :j '....,i krf-' ,,,. months-old Joseph De Sciscinlo """ 'T'lp'. l p. ,omled when the engine left the Were being transferred from their highway, built about 10 years ago n(J, of cslifornia's hill and em- jnr(.ats Dad Dc(;n rec(.,VP( became excited and laughed so ! f ,eri'cu(re Ua- that while lratks and n"nl of lhc olh,'r car ,'!ls'', al ,st- jDh"'. fue-. t0 "I"" at a cost of nearly WOO.OOO a mile Dh,sjze(j the fire danecr in tin- p.,ua erh. aH hnine heartilv while nlavins with his two ; ,. n..,irf' in -.a main ori.i overturned, allhough they were stations across Canada. between Niagara and Detroit: was; dp,, dry forests .. i. !,.- ihe Meier k Frank little aistm that he lost his breath leuttnraf areasand needed urir-! tilted in two "7." formations along; ,A defective switch was believed ly in the year. Railway train left the rails. Wit- In two months only .28 of an nesscs said the engine seemed to I and killed were engineer John inch of rain has fallen in Sacra- jrap ,n (hP air as it reached the Kuttenberg and fireman Paul La mento, in contrast to a year ago swltch h gui up about 400 feet fontaine, both of Montreal. The in when as much as 40 inches fell , , Mnre overturning on its'jured RCAF personnel suffered in the mountains to the north . i.rtiio. ahj i..nr-,imn WlllllII I", Urt IIVIU I." 111,. ll DCiween Niagara ana uriroii; !0;cl. ory toresis . rated the toughest road construe- state-and federal officials say "" - job then underway in the the big rain that brought flc;dm1 ic Northwest. I in 1935 left an abundant supply April. W5S. tion Pacific Northwest. department store bombing in and firemen had to use an inhala enllv in some there has been no I the track. I tor to revive bim. Iseriouj damage to any crops. 1 Trapped to have caused the derailment insido the locomotive I police said. , I AUCTION LAND SALE AUCTION The Stole Highway Commission will sell at public auction on the property described below at 9:00 A.M. on January 4, 1957 A parcel of land lying in Section 19, Township 6, Range 2 Wait, W.M., Marion County, Oregon, and being a portion of that tract of land described in that certain deed to The State of Oregon by . and through its State Highway Commission, re- corded in Book 458, Page 169 of Marion County Records of Deeds; the (aid parcel being that por tion of laid property lying westerly of a line 174 feet westerly of and parallel to the north bound center line of the Portland-Salem Expressway, containing 2.94 acres. The property is a portion of the former Jacob Fall property on the West side of the relocated Porllind Sslem Express way, north of County Road No, 13, 0.75 miles East of Ouinaby. The minimum price which will be accepted Is 1150.00 Conveyance will be by Bargain and Sale deed, but the State will not furnish Title Insurance. The property will be conveyed subject to the Bonneville Power Administration transmission line easement. TKItMS OF KAI.K: Cash; the right is reserved to accept or reject anv or all bids. INFORMATION: W. It. Ilaskln, Property Manager, Oregon State Highway Commission, State Highway Building,' Salem, Oregon.