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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1949)
Serving the North Santiam Valley The North Santiam’s Mill City Enterprise VOLl ME V. NUMBER 8 Looking Up and Down the Canyonl MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY. OPEN DETRC1 •an*, wan u By CHARLES WOLVERTON Today, perhaps even while this is being printed, the contract on the big Detroit Dam may have been let. Opening of bids was scheduled for Feb. 24. This projeet poses for the North Santiam Canyon and its people the biggest problem they ever have been faced with. It is the largest single undertaking ever attempted in the state, if one considers that the dams on the Columbia are two-state un dertakings. In a few weeks or months we won’t know what hit us. No one can know the answers to all the questions that are to come. Fortunately, there are several or- ganizations leady to meet the tasks. The M.U City Chamber of Commerce is back on its feet, and now its or. its toes. Detroit has a businessmen’s group which has the ability to handle many of the puzzles that will con front that area. We don’t know what’s coming but ther's a disposition on all sides of willingness to tackle problems and not hide from them. It’s fortunate that Mill City in corporated two years ago. Without a city government, we’d be pretty helpless in the face of things to come. The town, rightly, has been cau tious about biting off more than it could chew. But now there ought to be a greater boldness. City improve ments which have / en on the shelf need reviewing again. The time to begin on them is approaching. Theie never will be a time in the future when this community, after the dam is built, can expect as gre;* an ad- tion of capital and development as in the next three or four years. FERRI ARY 21. 1919 Petition Seeks Dog Performs As Broncbuster To Revoke EXTRA! B>M*I Pile Up Roads, Snarl Lines Portland Firm Low With $28 Millions $3.5 Million Below U. S Estimate Red Cross Seeking Local Chairman Rockets W1 n League Trophy Mills Ending Long Layoffs State to Study Davis Ail port i ill mt’llll IIM IMMII' miWWHWlIlillWHW 111' iig til I H UMI DAM BIDS City to Buy Gravel Truck Spook Takes Over At Local Mill! nli U1 mt . ................. Slides, Snow Increase Shown In Construction I iu tfl $2.00 A YEAR. 5 CENTS A CfPY Stony Wells’ three-year-old dog Mike ought to join the rodeo. When Mr. Wells says “Jump” the dog will leap up on the back of his horse. Then Mr. Wells hollers “Buck” A petition to disincorporate Mill to the horse and it really rears and City has been drawn up and is be bucks. Mike, however, calmly remains ing circulated throughout the town. on its back, in true bionc-buster style Finally at the command “Down!” The petition alleges improper pro- Consolidated Builders Inc., a Ne- ceduie in the original incorporation Mike jumps off as nonchalantly as ' id.i corpor.ition with office« in Port- Roy Rogers climbing off a wooden Snow and slides kept the Detroit Hod. was low .if four bidders for the petition. studio nag. Telephone Co. staff busy last week i construction of the Detroit Dam on Henry Baltimore, an old resident, repairing lines. Mrs. Johnson report the North Santiam River. I’h* hid had a petition in his possession Wed ed only ten local lines in working which »as opened in the office of the nesday, and he was offering it for Older Monday, after the storm. Lines \rmv Engineers in Portland Thurs signature. between Mill City and Detroit were day. was $28,230,509, about $3.5 mil News of the petition was told Wed knocked out by slides. A crew of ten lion below the engineer’s estimate. nesday night at the city council. The men and four trucks were busy re council members withheld comment. The bids were opened by Col. O. E. pairing the damage. Petition circulators, it was saiu, Wa! h, district Army engineer at 2 Telephone lines between Stayton spoke of a $200,000 bond issue con « and Mill City were out over the week I p.m. templated by the council. No such The Consolidated Builders is man- The city council Wednesday night end and had not been restored Mon item has been discussed or even in any way thought of, council members authorized the purchase of a gravel day evening. However, the lines to ai-i'd by Al Bauer, president of the P >t land Chamber of Commerce. truck needed for the city streets. Salem were in working condition. said. The company includes several con • Mayor Harold Kliewer said the ve- 1 hide would pay for itself in less than Rain, snow and slides dominated tractors, and the Henry Kaiser in a year by savings on hauling giavel. the Elkhorn scene the past week. A terests aie report« Ily part of the The pickup now owned by the city steady rain Wednesday and Thurs group. Tl e engineers’ estimate was $31,- may be traded in on t..e truck, he day turned the loads into rivers and I 511,856 bused on a fair cost to the , said. the bridge areas into veritable lakes, The council also interviewed G. C. where the water was trappe 1 by snow • ontractors. Other bidders were Guy A Marion County Red Cross official McKinney, Salem civil engineer, for F Atk'nson with $.'12.722.282; San- was in Mill City Tuesday seeking a a possible post as part-time consul banks on each side. The county crew was kept busy tin-i Constructors, $34,798,775 and local chairman for the drive which tant on city construction problems. M risen Knut-on, .'.2.8X9,995. clearing out the old slide and o, begins March 1. I il ' - a! of ■ bid must be ing culverts. The bridge on Lainphe Mrs. Alex Bodeker again has Ac made by Col. Theron D. Weaver Pa- hill was deluged with rocks logs and une uiieur inaiinuip tut t chairmanship for louiib Lyons. . * cepted the l cilic district engineer. The Portland water. In a ] ! office expected action on the bid in A new- slide blocked the road on las McKay said: Lumpher hill, caving in and sliding ‘ three or four days. Inasmuch as it •fn Oiegon we need no reminder is below the federal estimate, ap from way up on the hill. of the magnificent work of the Am The small bridge at 'Frank’s mill I proval appea s asured. erican Red Cross. We have experi The Detroit dam will require 1,500- has been completely «wa-K-d away Brotherhood Week is being obseiv- enced at first hand the geal meaning ind the road to Sischos and the Elk 000 cubic yards of concrete, will rise of Red Cross disaster relief. ed throughout the nation. The Rockets, Mill City’s town bas horn Guest Ranch is impassible. A 429 feet above the North Santiam “Linked with the memory of last We hope the week won’t go by ket ball team, won the Santiam slide actoss the road further up the and w 11 be 15X0 feet across at the with nothing more than a few pious year's Columbia River floods is the League championship with a on?- river completely isolates the guest crest. Claude Beck, resident engin- and well-meaning phrases about tol- memory of the tireless efforts of the , sided record of ten victories and one e r at Mongold for the Army Engin ranch. es . told a Chamber of Commerce erence and good will toward other Red Cross in providing food .and shel • defeat for the season. than one’s own national or racial or ter, comfort for shattered families, | The league trophy is now in dis The alternate truck route above I meeting here last Thurs lay. Mr. Beck, who has been in the igins. You can't just let it go at that, anti long-term aid in .econstruting play in the window of Miss Hendric- the downtown area was a shambles Canyon area for the past two years any more than we can dismiss the lives and homes. from the heavy flow of water off “Continued disaster pteparetlness ! son’s store. % parable of the Good Samaritan as Turner, Aumsville, Sublimity and bluff. in the months ahead is a vital nec- * story work on the $60,000,000 hydro- a mere sentimental idea. for this Tony Ziebert was kept busy Mill City made up the league I e'e t ic project, gave a comprehensive If there is anything of m?rit in the essity. To carry out these essential year. Idanha, which has ben in the several days when water coming off picture of the work ahead, stressing principle upon which our nation was activities in the coming year, along •' lantiam group, had to stay out this the hill flooded his place and filled I ' ifeguar Is which have been tak- founded -“that all men are created with programs of health and safety year because of highway difficulties up his basement. ' on in the planning to assure a sound equal”—it follows that we have cer education, the Red Cross will seek pumping Chart« s Kelly also was and squad disagreements kept out j dam structure. tain obligations to insure that right a minimum of $60,000.000 nationally : water from his basement over the in the 1949 fund campaign beginning-' on ' for ethers—whose skins are of a dif- Mr. Bock a vised the local Cham- Ken Chance managed the local five. week end. erent color than ours, whose speech March 1. 1 am sure that our Oregon the b>r to contact the contractoi who Tom Both spent Sunday The squad included Joe Lalack, Don w ns the bid and offer him help in varies from our speech, whose ways citizens will respond wholeheartedly Roy, Woody Heller, Lee Manning, fire department pumping water out the solution of his housing problems. and beliefs differ. in the coming fund appeal.” (lale Caiey, Don Carey, Ronnie John of the basement of his home. It flood The re dent engineer stated that no Race prejudice is mainly economic. ed out his furnace. son, and Joe Boyle, further expansion at Mongold, the Race hate stems from envy of those LOT WINNER TO BE PICKED CHILD HURT IN CAR FALL government construction camp, is The American Legion has announc whom we feel might be better off Mary Delaney, daughter of Mr. and contemplated, and that it would be than we. or from motives, also ec ed that the winner of the lot in the Mrs. S. E. Delaney, Lowell, Ore., up to the cont actor to house his onomic, of exploiting the labor of a Shepherd addition will be picked at was injured Sunday when she fell workers, which Mr. Beck estimated minority we believe to be inferior. the new servicemen's hall on the Mill from the family automobile near Jef Booker T. Washington once said, road March 3. "If you wish to keep the Negro in The lot is 50 by 100 feet and is a ferson. while en route home from a visit in Mill City. the ditch, you have to stay in the good homesite. The injured child, who was taken ditch yourself.” What idea better typ to a Eugene hoipital, is a grand ifies the South, which has been be Frank’s mill resumed operations daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Da guiled by a tradition that part of Tuesday morning, and the improve vis of Mill City. its people are inferior and necessar- I The Davis Airport here will be re ment in the weather indicated that ily the servants, of the other part. view« I soon by state aeronautics of lumber operations would beg n to get Yet in most respects the South is ficial* for its suitability for commer back to normal fairly soos. behind the rest of the country—in Warmer days this week increased cial uses. The mill had to halt work after a wage rates, housing, education, etc., the tempo of building activities in William Bartlett, -tate aeronautics few hours because of high water, but for both white and black—proof that the Mill City area. director, informed Byron Davis, own- called back its crew Wednesday. the false theory of racial superiority Under construction by Frank Rada Willis Potter announced that the >r of t e landing strip, that his staff fails even to benefit even the so-called is a gioup of three tourist cabins T. J. Stock, watchman at the Mill Mill City Manufacturing Co. which w uld inspect the field and work out superrace. The late Herr Hitler also on his property on the Marion side City planing and Processing Co., was with Mr. Davis such plans as are did not succeed in making the idea of the river. Roy Bevbe and Martin enjoying the evening in his quarteis had planned to begin production on ne'-e- .»ry to quailfy it for commer March 1 had to postpone the date to work any better. at the mill during a recent snow March 7 because a heavy coat of ice cial use. Hansen are doing the work. Equality is not a phoney phrase, The cabins will have abbut 600 storm when he heard a strange rack- emains on the mill pond. The airport, upon which a new and and wasn’t meant as such in the Am square feet of floor space each, plus et. »trip is now being graded, is wider the planer and At the local mill erican tradition. Equality means: It sounded like the crane was oper- loading crews will start Tuesday, | 1 kel; to be an imp rtant strip dui- ear poits. Floor will be of cement. That a Negro, for instance, has a Mr. Beebe recently completed the ■ting. S nee the mill wasn’t going, March 8. ing tl ie da is building period. Con- right to as good an education, as first of several planned small homes the mytery was really confounded. down about the tract o rs UM nearby fields to speed The big mil closed • •- «a» good a job—if he’s qualified, as good on property near his apartment. The So Mr. Stock said, “Confound it!” '.rest of December, partly b cause of up th« »bn it in a 9 houses, scheduled to be built at a and went out to see what was the i falling market. This has tern it.- wren breakdowns delay -hort, an equality in the pursuit of cost of between $3500 and $4000, arc matter. uction work. ongewt shutdown in many years. happiness. He went out of doors. For a watch planned as perm inent homes, now The new strip w 11 be bladed and That those who deprive him of temporary cabins for the dam build man, he hid more than an ordinary .on as weather perm'ts. ACREAGE SOLD those rights, by personal prejudice ing period. amount of watching ahead of him. tlne run way will be seeded for a Dr. David J. Fergus 1 has ; r 1 and tampering with the Constitution, Mr. Beebe also has completed a There was thee rane, bumping back chased about 50 acres of land n ' e are breaking the law of man if not cabinet shop on the*sgme property and fourth, an 1 not a soul in sight. North Santiam River below Mill < ty the law of the land. The little man «who wasn't there 'rom Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ward. He !>» F : 1 CEDING CON TIMED That persons of different tradition rights of those who became citizens was doing some fancy work with Another fee lint? of bay was dia- plans to build a house in the .»ture. such as Jews also have equal rights later. that ciane. and since Mr. Stock did t j, t$>«i al While Wat*•r, Mayflo..ir, Above this welter of law and right n't see him he did the next best under our laws with gentiles. ii »ul ier Creek and othe r parts of the SERVICEMEN BUY Bl 1LDI « G That those who sneer at Jew- are stands a higher edict— the Christian thing he called Carl Kelly, the man c r**<>n last week for the elk and The Amer can legion ami tl le Vet- likewise conspiring to deprive others precept that all men aie brothers. ager. eran» of Foieign Wars have foined deer. It ha.* been iepo rted the first Let those who condescend, who who possess the same precious priv- Mr. Kelly looked around for Ya- in the purchase of a bulking for a it E but ion was pretty well clean'd hate, who contemn and mock nation hoodi. couldn't find him. and then de ileges out of their r.ghu. EH B’lnfi, Detroit truckman, de- servicemen's hall. The b idding for That the foreign bon likewise are alities other than their own square cide to check the wiring. liven'd the hay to Iletro.t. The feed merly housed Don's Cabinet Shop. It equal to the native bom; that those their prejud.ces with Chri-liwn Am The crane motor was short-cir will be converted for a meeting and w. J fum bed by the game commis- whose families came over a geneia- erican principles and see how they cuited. ai on. recreation hall. t.on before are bound to respect the I far«. Incorporation Lyons. Mehama, Elkhorn, Mill City, Gates. Mongold, Detroit and Idanha would number at least 1500 just on the dam construction. (Mongold will house about 350 workers, and there aiv 48 apartment unit, which will be occupied laigely by Army Engineer personnel.) Mr. Beck estimated the reservoir area to be cleared at about 4000 acres not including the damsite area of about 78 acres. He «aid that 500.900 cubic yaids of dirt and rock will be excavated. The spillway will have a 370 foot drop. The employment of local workers will be stressed, he said, in order to decrease housing problems. Flood control and p<<wer are the primary purposes of the dam, he said. Three 50,000 kw generators will be installed, and Big Cliff dam, wich is to be constructed concurtently with the big project three and one-half miles above it, will be 150 feet high and will generate about 16,000 kw. Permanent housing, about 48 units is soon to get under way. This pro ject is for a permanent community for employees when the dam is finish- I. The dam is scheduled for com pletion in 1953. Mr. Beck sketched the recreation possibilities of the vast lake which will be created by the dam. In the case of Dorena reservoir, a much smaller ipioject and farther away from large population centers than the Del.•oil dam, ovsr 53 000 persons were registered as visitors last year and 2.3,000 boats were used on the lake. It twas his guess that the Detroit reservoir would be far more popular even than Dorena. WALSH’S AIDE GIVEN DETROIT DAM POST Lt. Col. John W. Miles, special as sistant to Col. O. E. Walsh, district army engineer, has been assigned as re i lent engineer at Detroit dam. He ha- b< en in charge of flood control design and construction programs in the Portland district. Col Miles is a native of Michigan ml a graduate of its university r*He pent four years at Bonneville and had engineering assignments in Mex ico and England during the war. He returned to Portland as a civ ilian engineer and was recalled to rv'.e first in Mitchell Field, N.Y., and later in Portland. Folk Dancers Star in Festival Mill City and Scio folk dancers were featured performers Sunday in Port land in a statewide festival viewed by an audience of more than 2000. The !<■ al group performed the Be- •oda. Czech national dance. Couples ' m M II City were Mr. and Mrs. Arey Podra' sky and Mr. and Mrs. Mlrert Toman. Alternates were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Veness and Mr. and Mrs. George Veteto. The local oi ganization, the Czech Jol'y Di i vers, are affiliated with the Folk Dance Federation of Oregon, which sponsored the festival held in ho new St. Johns Community Cen- t r. The hall was jammed, and hun dred» were turned away. The colorful program featured 17 to nalities in gay native costumes dancing to music characteristic of dr r< sportive countries. Besides the Bc-rtia there weie American square nice* by a Portland group, Swedish an I Ital an group dances in the feat ured acts. The federation co-ordinates the ac- tiriUes of many groups in th«, state. Mr. Podrabsky is president of the lo cal unit. Plan- a e be ng made for another festival in May. The local group has opened its membership to all who are interested. > .«•••*