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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1948)
MILL CITY ENTERPRISE, DECEMBER 30. 1918 Mill City will get a new grade school (pictured above) in 1949 (Continued for Preceding Page) and “It stinks,’’ regarding the zoo. The small lumbermen were keep ing up the fight against the timber monopoly threat, with increasingly wider support. In miu-month the Canyon exper ienced a spectacular, but not serious forest fir e. Bone dry brush caught, fire arount the new highway project and roared up Mayflower Creek. A thrilling sight was the crashing of blazing snags. State and federal for esters fought the blaze and had it under control in two days. A prominent West Coast lumber journal publisher, Car Crow, cited Mill City’s rise after the company town era as an example of what a free and unmonopolized timber eco- nomy could do. A kid paiade rjpnsored by the aux liary of the firemen went over with a bang one Saturday. Again the question of a new Mill City-Mehama road was revived, this time by county officials, with a hint thsjt it might be forthcoming next year. We’ll wait and see. The Canyon was busy, and the em ployment official« in the state office said the future outlook was good. The PT A under tok an ambitiuos plan of taking many children to Sa lem for swimming lessons. The pro gram was quite successful. The council studied a proposal to survey the town, but had to set it aside because of the expense. Vernon Todd announced that a complete high school faculty had been hired. Bob Mather, the «proprietor of the jewelry store, was a lucky man. He entered a radio contest anti won a Toni permanent wave set. He is bald. AUGUST By August, with legal technicali ties out of the way, the school board announced further plans for the new grade school program: It would be located on a tract just east of the new park, it would contain 12 rooms and cost about $142,(XM). Lyons, too, began its plans to build a larger structure to accommodate its increased pupil load. Citizens had been called to a meeting to decide. , On a half acre patch along the riv er, an experiment was going on that night well influence the whole future of the Canyon. W. R. Olmstead had proven, with an unprecedented fi st year crop, that Canyon soil was tops for kingberries and boysenberries and many, healing of his success, had become interested in fruit farming up the Santiam. The Fern Ridge -‘.rawberries were counting their in come f om the *48 crop in tens of thousands. Paul Smith was set for another marathon at Portlands— he lost this one to much younger men At long last R. L, Heacox, whose logging operation was halted by in ability to use the detour, got into operation again. Lyons got quick approval fiom its residents of the plan to build a I ig new school house, which will be built in '49 on property located between Mehama and Lyons. A Portland man plunged to his death in a car, off a rteep fill on the Canyon road. In Detroit, the people were happy to know that a physician ranged to locate there. He E. E. Willgutt of Sisters. A little girl, daughter of Mrs. Joe Podrabsky, was te cued af volt power line to "the damsite, and woikers began, in the middle off the ter falling in a well. The editor was expecting momen month, to cut a wide path through tarily a visit from a newspaper col the brush. The vacation came to an end, and league in New York, and decided he would turn the editing over to him Mill City high school was offering a wider Tange oT subjects than ever for the week. It didn't work. Next week after a wave of phoney before. checks, and the aTrest of one forger, The city was getting more improve merchants got pretty wary. ments, newly bulldozed streets ano The estate of William L. Quinn the council adopted a garbage code. was valued at $107,871.30. Lyons bad a new phone cable to Throughout the summer there bail Mehama ready for use. been numerous power shortages, and Schoolb egan with about the same utilities officials agreed that the re enrollment as the year before. Many gion had gotten too big for its kilo families had moved away because of the discouraging logging season, but watts. Two bears had been killed in the new resident had filled their places. unper Canyon region in the past few The long fight against the timber monopoly was nearing an end. Hear days. On the 21th the peaceful town of ings were being held in Eugene by Gates was aroused by gunplay. Carl a U. S. Senate committee. Testimony Harden, 23, a highway employee, was there put the co-op plan under wraps the center of a fearful ring of on Tony Moravec, master of the San- lookers in a trailer camp there. He for a long time to come. held a Japanese rifle in his hand as tiam Grange, won honors by being he stood over Clifford Harden, a cou appointed an advisor to OSC. sin. whom he had shot. While Carl’s ’ Dave Epps was blanching out, ad attention was momentarily distract ding another furniture store in Sweet ed, Clifford made a getaway. He was Home. not badly wounded. Big news! It was announced in the Gates, in fact, took over the head middle of the month by Col. Walsh lines that week. After colliding on that work on the Detroit dam would the highway with a car, a big gravel star in he Spring. truck cashed throug, special delivery, A god report was made on lumber the Gates Postoflice. wages which were, in 1947, $.316 per Keith Pratt, of Gates, who admit- man on an average. ted forging checks the week before, At long last the county acceded to got a stiff two year sentence. to Detroit and Idanha’s demand for SEPTEMBER help in law enforcement, and placed As the month began, the Detroit a deputy there on part time duty. dam did not seem any more such a It was about time. That week two remote prospect. For the Bonneville Detioit businesses had been entered Administration had let a contract for and over $100 taken. clearing a rigli of way for a 230,000 It was still Gates’ month for news. This time it was bears. Now that big things were in store for De Canyon, the question arose: What happens to towns when booms subsides. Appa'ently one answer could be found in the experience of Redding, which, like Mill City and other towns, was in the area where It's a regularly used landing field a great government dam was built. now. Redding kept right on growing after A ser.es of d^otuv^T --n Detioit the dam was finished. It would be culminated in tr.e arrest of Burdette worth something to know the secret \ ounge, hotel Keeper, lor assault of that growth. with intent to kill »•> teeling ran mgh Rev. R. T. Cooking ham of L J oras in the upper Canyon. Tied at the age of 73. He had an in It was Detroit’s week . | the news. teresting career, which included fou Bu;i..etsmen there foimed a Coon years as a sheriff of a wild western mercial Club. And the water works county, and years ,-tpent Tn work with contrversy theie had reached state prisoners. hearings. But as the month drew to a close, As the month drew to a dose, the thre wasn’t much happening. Every news that the Mill City Manufactur one was waiting for the deer season ing Co. would shut down indefinitely tc open. put a crimp in the coming Christmas OCTOBER season for many. Word of complete victory over the Work got under way on the new plan to monopolize the etimbe: for water system. big companies came as the month The last two major bridges on the began. The Interior Dept, backed North Santiam Highway got under down. construction. But on the detour, tra ‘T’ Henness, oldest native resident vel was still dangerous. An Idaho car of the Canyon, passed another mile got trapped in a slide an its occu stone, his 94th.. pants barely escaped with their lives. Three had concented to run for the (Continued for Preceding Page) two vacancies on the city council. A marked expansion of new busineses was reported up and down this gulch. But who cared about business? The main question of the day was wheth ART TILE SERVICE er you'd bagged your deer. Drain Boards and Bathrooms, Perhaps the best, or worst one, Tub Splash. Beautiful Per involved Ed Kellem, who scarcely be manent finish. Stops Leakage. stirred himself to get out of his car Fireplaces, Front and Hearth to get one—while hundreds traveled Free Estimates all the way to eastern Oregon with no luck—and Ed’s tale of a neighbor Call evenings 29F5 Stayton who shot one so close to his home Ralph Standley Rt. 1, Bx. 17 that it was retrieved with a wheel STAYTON barrow. nasi -w Contract was let and work would soon begin on a $20,000 water sys Weddle Funeral Home tem, which included a large settling basin and pumping system. MODERN FUNERAL More deer hunting stories poured SERVICE in—in one case three Mill City hunt Stayton, Oregon ers found a still which went back to prhibition days. Water Systems Sheet Metal A heated discussion developed at Oil Burners Water Softeners the PTA meeting over the lack of J U D S O N’S music in the public schools. Plumbing - Heating Already the declining pricese of “Service Anywhere” lumber was slowing the tempo of lo Tel. 414’ ‘-’79 N. Commercial cal production. Salem, Oregon Little morr than accidents account ed for most of the headlines the fol lowing week: Thomas Key of Meha ma was killed, a Detroit logger, Zea land Fryer, was gravely hurt and Mrs. T. R. Burton of Gates was in an auto collision. A Detroiter was hurt when a rail road speeder was derailed by a spike. The editorial neck was out a mile on election guesses, as the next few days would prove. Even the editor misguaged the local interest, which he said was quite low. Linn County loosened up with a few tax dollars we’d been spending PORTLAND AND MILL CITY down in Albany and announced that CHARLES LOVEL. MANAGER a bridge was about to be built over Rock Creek. STANDLEY mm Mwar/Mï A. M. McCUEN N ovember H w far the editor was off in his election guesses the first week in No vember would reveal in glaring out OPTOME TRIST line. 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