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.
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