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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1949)
Serving the North Santiam \ alley The North Santiam’s Mill City Enterprise VOLUME V. NUMBE.l 2 MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY. Looking Up New School and Down Turned Over the Canyon To Detroit By CHARLES WOLVERTON BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE Mr. and Mrs. Charles Noel and In fant son who left here bimotor three weeks ago to spend the holidays with relatives in the warmer climes of Florida and Texas returned Friday. They report that while in Florala they experienced the coldest weather lecorded there in the last 22 years. On the return trip they were caught in the blizzard as they drove through Wyoming and delayed there until the roads could be cleared. They state that after experiencing the extereme col in other states and seeing the snow drift so 'high that the windows of the stallled trains were obscured, that Oregon looked mighty good to them. About 220 Detroit and Idanha pup The discourse today, scholars, cit ils began school after the holidays in izens and co-suffeiers in the current a brand new building, a »203,000 cold wave, is houses, and how not to structure just completed by the Army Engineers and turned over to the build ’em. district Jan. 3. I have learned a great deal about The new building, located on the the construction of homes the past few days. Y’ou might say, from the site of old Camp No. 17, will take bottom lap. For when you’re crawling care of pupils from the first to eighth among the cobwebs underneath an grades. It was built to take care of old Canyon home, you have a chance, the additional pupils to be brought in bv construction of the Detroit hy while you hold a blowtorch on frozen droelectric dam. pipes and drains, to learn the secrets Still to be comp'eted at the new of const: uction. school are a cafeteria and auditor • • • ium. Some folks might object to the iway The building was built in part from our house is built. But I’m sure you materials salvaged at closed army could lay their criticism to tiheir nat camps in the Northwest .It will take ural dislike for fresh air. Personally T. C. Moore, forest ranger of De care of much moTe than the (present I like fresh air. It brings blooms to pupil load. troit, has been informed that fees the cheeks of the young, invigo: ates The area near the school will be will be charged campers on certain the appetites of all and is highly re ¡the site upon which Detroit will re- camps under the jurisdiction of the commended by physicians as a cure ' locate, because that town is in the Forest Sendee. for nasal disorders, the heaves and reservoir area of the dam. Mr. Moore d'd not know which perhaps mange. On Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. the Parent- camps, if any, would go on a fee ba Our house is designed especially Teacher Assn will hold open house sis in the Canyon. Rates will bbe 50 to bring you all the salubrious bene at the new school. The public is in cents per car party of not more than fits of the out of doors. Fresh air vited. six person a day, or $3 a week; pic- pours through the walls in the many High school classes will continue nicing will be 25 cents per car. places where paper felt doesn’t cover in the old building at Detroit. Forest camps in the Canyon region the shiiplap interior, it descends from include Humbug Creek camp, Brei- DETROIT or wnnfr the attic, it seeps through numerous Jerry Noble and his friend, John tenbush Forest camp, and forest cracks around the windows and doors Thompson, of Salem, spent the holi camps at Big Springs, White Water and oozes up through the floor. I days at the home of Jerry’s mother, and Marion Forks. would venture, without fear of con The plan to charge for use of the Mrs. Nolan Rasnick While here they tradiction- as politicians say in des enjoyed skiing at Hoodoo Bowl. areas came as a result of suggestions cribing ther voters as the be 4 -people of Congress that some revenue could in the world—that our home is the I be derived from them. most perfectly ventilated one in the town, if not the Canyon. • * • No".' ii ! jU, vov, «ouid nlPF""t-- en joy the good sealth and vigor which brings to us blooming cheeks and Unemployment rose sharply during vigorous appetites, I shall imps t to December in the Salem district of the Standing committes were appoint you the details of how to build a State Unemployment Compensation ed Friday night by the Santiam fresh-air home. Commission. Grange for the new year. First of all, you select a site where “A general shutdown in logging They are: there is plenty of moisture in the and lumb<rihR. hoaviet*’ than ^a’ Agricultuie, Frank Baal, Lloyd ground, for the admixture of the cool lay-offs in retail and wholesale trade Sletto and Olin Spiva; building, Mr. dampness qf the earth with th«' air together with the noimal slackening Sletto, Elmer Taylor, Johnnie Lam below the floor is good for the lheu- of activities at this season caused brecht, Tony Moravec, Frank Whit-, matism. the estimated number of unemployed George Berry and Wilson Stevens; In order to make f ire that plenty to rise to as the year ended,” legislatives, Albert Julian, Elmer Tay of wind blows in from below, a ce the Salem office reported. lor and Wilson Stevens; reception, ment foundation is to be avoided, as Construction in the area remained Caspar Gerath, Ed Taylor and Geo. is a basement, or a two-layer floor. at a relatively high level during De Berry; business agent, Ed Taylor; In order to insure six-way ventila cember, although employment drop fire insurance. Albert Julian; musi tion—from the floor, ceiling and four ped from the summer high. Weather cian, Leora Sevens and France- Mor walls—double construction or insu anil material shortages accounted for avec. lation is to be shunned as a scourge. part of the layoffs. Home economics piesident is Mrs. You finish off the house with felt W. H. Baillie, Salem district man .Melvina Franklin; vice president. El -paper, wall paper, and perhaps a coat ager of the bureau, advised employ izabeth Taylor; and secretary-treas of paint. Anything more than that ers to use a maximum of labor at urer, Frances Moravec. keeps out the air. this time. TTe «aid: Tony Moravec, master, and Olin If you are hardy, a wood stove will “Many families, who in the past Spiva, overseer, presided over the suffice. Mainly, because for true have been able to lay aside sufficient meeting, which made plans to attend physical wellbeing, it is not good to funds to carry them through their Pomona Granje in Scio Monday. have the front and back sides of you usual slack season, were unable to war - \t the seme time. How, I ask, find steady or regular work last sum can you maintain a -well-ventilated mer. These people went into the win home if your’e going to succumb to ter months short of unds and without the vitiating but comfortable tem the usual full larder. It has been perature of 72 degrees, evenly dis hard on them. tributed -throughout your rseidence. “Wide-awake farmers, household After you have built your house ers and iegular employers of labor so—letting time and weather com are aware that this supply of avail plete the job by adding a few cracks able, well qualified workers and are In h s calked boots Joe Carn oily for additional ventilation, you have beginning to emplay them on extra a property which you need not be jobs that have'been held up for lack was hardly five inches over five feet. asamed of asking at least »5000 for. ■ if suitable v %<men. Skilled crafts CCertainTy he would not tip the team There is one necessary precaution men, husky laborers and conscienti of the hay scales to more t> an 130 in the Wolverton Home Building Plan ous workeis of all types are stillav- pounds. The tote teamster, on the other —you should use rubber hose for ailable. however, and the fact should hand, was built like one of his own plumbing, for rubber will expand as be recognized by all who have work the water freezes, and you will not to be done. We will need these people draft horses. He was new to the I^ake be bothered with leaks. during the spring and summer - they Huron side of the M.chigan woods. • • • • will not be available for odd jobs Moreover, he had taken three deep morning's .-«wigs from a gallon jug Now that the Wolverton Dream then.” of Thunder Bay City’s most potent house is completed, its walls naw and redeye. He was in a humor to bully sweating as the No. 4 lumber gives somebody, especially a rurt of a riv- off swp and water, and the air inside I er boss like thia Carimdy. is fiesh with mountain breezes, you “Understand, or d n’t you.” he are ready to move in. But don’t. Buy | Funeral service« were held M nday growled, scowling down at the Little yourself a tent, at least for the win m the VTeddle funeral Farions for I Red. “Know what it means, this ter. Selas Roda 72. farmer, of Staiton. ¡warnin' from Rafter Mullane? When • • • % I he sends word he’s goin' to mop up That Fern Ridge man. again! He's Jan. <• I all the sawdust in River Street with got a new fruit angle hen fruit! A F Ro.'a, a brother, of Mill City your mackinaw, ami while you are • • • There’s a rumor around that Mill survives h m. He also leaves his wid I st 11 in said ga ment, when you get City High School has a good basket ow, a daughter, another brother and down with the Ryder drive, that I means for you to steer clear of Thun- ball team this year, but they’re keep two sisters. | der Bay City? Yessir! Well, I’m a ing the story secret. We hope to i Ryder man.f The teamster winked DETROIT MAN INJURED have a report eventua’ly. over Carmody’s head at the silent J. Fisher, who was injured when a crowd of rivermen. “So I’m warnin’ lodges to install ladder broke New Year’s evening, is I vou. Mullane’s the worst bully on The Santiam Rebekah Lodge and confined at the Salem Memorial Hos , seven rivers.” the Odd Fellows will hold joint in pital for po»«:bly two months, w th Pint of Dynamite stallation ceremonies Saturday night a fractured vertabrae. The Detroit The tote teamster strutted and he in IOOF Hall A pot luck dinner will camp operator may have to be in a i grinned with a self-satisfied air. He cast for six months. be served. felt ttiat he had well earned the gal- Forest Camps To Levy Fees Jobless Total Up; Hiring Urged Selas Roda Dies 4 Grange Names Committees JANUARY 13 Brrrrr! The North Santiam Canyor shiver ed through a week of the coldest days on record and ice formed on the river for the first time in many years. But somewhat warmer temperatures had come by mid-week. In Detroit, the official weather re porter, Mis. Earl Parker, recorded a low of 2 below Sundayy morning. It was the coldest for all time in that upper Canyon community — at least by official record. In Mill City, unofficial lows were about 2 above zero. Local hardware merchants ieported a rush on plumb ing supplies, and Bill Dotson, local pipe fixer, worked overtime for sev eral days. Mountaoin States Power Co. employees were kept busy turn ing off water for residences whose' pipes had frozen and, in some cases, impromptu fountains burst forth on outside hydrants. Lyons, a little lower in altitude, got by witi a mere 6 above, the low est reading since January in 1943. when the mercury’ dropped to about that reading, residents there remem bered a record 6 below zero in 1930. A survey of the snow in the Marion Forks area, and elsewhere in the Cas cades brought worry to the federal flood experts. In the upper Canyon settlement, there was 30 inches of water to 100 inches of snow; or a good deal more than the known re cord of 18 inches to the 100. What worries the expeits is that the spring thaw / going to let loose a tremendous volume of water. Gates and Elkhorn also reported f w temperatures. Freezing weather virtually shut down mill operations in the Canyon this week. Millponds were, in most cases, a solid mass of ice, and it was too hard to break loigs loose. Logging operations had to halt, in the few camps still running. The Kucffbnber Construction Co., Santiam highway contractors cut on- erations to necessary maintenance, as did the H. O. Montag Co., subcon tractors. The Port Construction Co., which is building a bridge across the Breitenbush River, likewise shut down. Work on Mill City’s settling tank and water system by contractors for ' ■ Mountain States Power Co. did not resume. The charter was draped in remem- biance of the late Chester Kubin. At the lecturer’s hour a program led by Alta Bodeker and Gamette Bassett was presented. IN» r 1 u:: .ul.UUlttM lllhanHHBBB»»»"»"**» Lyons, Mehama, Elkhorn, Mill City, Gates, Mongold, Detroit and Idanha ■■»•*■■>■■■■■ ««»■■■»•••■•■•■■si »2.00 A YEAR I CENTS A COPY 1*4» Canyon Feels Record Cold Of -2 Degrees «MMtUt i.ll Uli $11,300,000 Sought For Dam in 1949-’5O Kliewer Again Elected Mayor Truman Budget Also Calls for New Power Lines A request for »11,300,000 was made by Piesident Truman for Detroit dam construction in 1949-50 in his budget message this week. The sum is about »2 million less than the request of the Army engin eers, but more than three times any previous allotment for the big power dam on the North Santiam River. Congressional delegations of the Northwest aie pledged to seek a big ger appropriation, and the final fig ure appropriated by Congress may bi1 above the Presiilent’s recommend ation. The »11.3 million sought in the budget is »300,000 above that sought for Meridian dam, the other big unit of the Willamette Project. This is the first time the Detroit dam has taken precedence. Aside Oom McNary dam, which is a two-state project, Detroit dam comes in for the biggest budget re- qest of any federal undertaking in Oregon. Bonneville Projects Supported For the first time in many years, a disposition has been shown to give the Bonneville Administration a break. The President's budget recom mended »33 million for construction, operations and maintenance, ami »18 million for contract authorizations. Transmission extensions approved include a 230 kilovolt line from Mid way to Goklendale, Wash., thence to Maupin, Ore., and across the Cas cades to the Detroit dam. A line now is under construction from the dam- 1 site to Ijcbanon. via Lyons. Thu line would connect up a power grid to University extension classes have .«Lengthen voltage in western and been offered to Mill City and Gat< s southern Oregon. by the state, H. R. Bayless, principal Right-of-Way Granted. of the high school, announced this The Marion County Court Tuesday week. granted the plea of a Bonneville A'l- The history of the Pacific North minfstration representative and gave west will be taught as an introduc an easement across land east of Ni tory class, with other subjects forth agara for right-of way for the power coming providing sufficient local in line new being built to the dam. terest can be aroused. The credits The county quit claimed its inter can be applied to college work if de est, if any, for the ownership of the sired, although students need not , strip is in doubt. meet college entry lequiirements. The BA representative explained T. R. Burton, Gates^ principal, also that this line will eventually serve is interest«! in the class project, to a dual punpose: it will provide cur be under the supervision of the state rent for constructing the dam and board of higheT education. Applicants later will be used to carry power may leave their names either with from the dam's generators. Mr. Bayless or Mr. Burton. Under the deal with the county, Bonneville gives a nominal fee for a 150 foot strip about one-fourth mile long in a heavily timbered area. The easement provides, however, that if the land is in fact owned by the county BA will pay the prevail Gus Kirsch, Stayton, escaped ser- ing rate for easement in this area. iuos injury’ but the vehicle he was Gravel and Rock sought. driving was badly damaged in Lyons This week in the Canyon army en Saturday when he swerved off the gineers were searching for gravel highway to avoi hitting a dog. I and nxk in many places here. No Mr. Kirsch is an executive in the decision has been made, it was te- new Feres and Frank Lumber Co. 1 ported. The engineers must locate mill in Lyons and was driving a com rock and gravel of a type suitable pany truck. for the concrete part of the dam. The youngest son of Mr. and Mis. Etlward Chance of Gates was seri BABY BORN TO I Ol Pit ously injured Tuesday when he fell ON NEW YEAR'S DAY out of the family car en route from Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jackson Jr. of Salem. He was in the back seat ard Astoria are the parents of a daugh fell out a floor which had s< mehow ter tom early New Year’s day at St. come open. Mary’» Hospital. Grandparents sre Mr. and Mis. Frank Jack-on and Mis. Charles Sullivan returned on Mrs. Mattie Murdock, of/d 41 City. —... . Monday from Memorial Hospital in Salem where she had been for tw<> Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rugh were week*. • «fir, callers at the Wolverton* Sunday. Mayor Harold Kliewer was re-el ected unanimously for another term at city council meeting Wednesday night. Carl Kelly, newly elected council man, was elected as street commis sioner, filling the post vacated by Councilman l«ee Rvss who resigned because he had moved to a home out side the city limits. Mr. Kliewer’s nomination was made by Mr. Ross, seconded by Albert To man, and unanimously passed by the •ouncil. Continued work was done in pre paring the city charter for submis sion to the state legislature in its current session. A special meeting will be held Feb. 2 to speed up the work. Mr. Ross repotted that the streets may be in a deplorable condition af ter the thaw. He recommended con stant grading when they can be woik- ed. The council also approved the va cation of an alley between the Pres byterian Church and the manse. The manse will be moved nearer to the church and the corner property offer - ed for sale as a business site. Arey Podrabsky was chosen sani tation commission!» and Albert To man retained his post as police com missioner. Extension Class In History Offered Child Falls From Auto the highbanTer, bad given him to de- liver the message to little Red Car- mdfly. The runt of a river boss seem ed to Iw smitten numb by the threat. He stood’with his hand« on his hips, his booted feet set apart, the up turned collar of his mackinaw brush ing a shaggy shock of red hair, on which a Scotch cap was so cockeyed that its bill was tipped over h i s right ear. He looked woefully puny and spindling before fhe six-footers of his crew. The teamster raised his gaze for another prideful «tare at the lumber jacks. It had hardly passed the tassel of Carmody’s cockeyed cap when it seemed to the swaggering team «ter that seven herses kicked him at once, heaved h m up, turned him over four times, then smashed him down and began to trample him with their 18 hoofs. That impression, the stable boss informed hrm some 20 m nutes later, had bean the result of Carmody do ing a few square dance steps on his prostrate frame. The stable boss was reviving the victim with something like sweet spirits of nitre. “Puh-foo!” the tote teamster moan er and wheezed. "Git me to a hos pital I’m done for.” “Sho' now,” protested the stable (Continued on Bark Page) Granite Deposit Located An Albany businessman has locat ed a mass of granite in the North ' Santiam Canyon, within easy ap proach from the new highway, which I geologists said was of high commer I cial qual.ty. He is F. K. Bickford, who is an gaged in the roofiing business in Al bany. and formerly was in busine « in California. Mr. Bickford said he prospected for granite about two miles above Niagara on the Marion County side of ti e river. There he found subetan- tial quantities of the rock. He took «ample« to the U. S. Geological Sur- veyin Portland, and their experts re- ported the granite of high commer cial grade. The rock look a high pol ish and was finely grained., he .«aid. He became interested, he said,upon learning there was no granite quarry in opeiation in the state, ilespite its natural resource*. Tombstone« in the -date are shipped from Vermont and Georgia, he said.