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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1949)
medical care for the I which re the home of relatives. BRO' lE iHOCD WEEK downs in which sound wood remains, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kelle of Suth quired nine stitches to close. wood that can be utilized and sold. so.»», »«♦ Word has been received here of the erlin were in Gates at the home of By reclaiming the oldest material serious illness of Carl Knutson, at his her parents, -Mr. and Mrs. Hollis in the forest first the growing trees home in Salew. His brother, Chi is Turnidge but cut their visit short be can be left undisturbed, to add wood Knutson, was called to Salam to be cause of the flooded condition of the annually. Thus a tree farm harvest ' with his brother. Mr. Knuson and highways. Carl Jensen of Salem was goes on while the tree farm is im- family were residents of Niagara for also a guest at the Turnidge home. pioved. Seveial «members of the Gates Wo 'many years before moving to Salem STUMP BANKING famed as the world’s largest. But Garrett Eddy and Gordon men's Club attended a meeting of ( after their home had been taken for The Port Blakely Mill Co. has a But the company itself is still alive Balch, who are managing the farm, right-of-way for the Santiam high the Mehama C'ub at Mehama Tues proud place in all the history books an 1 going forward on the forest side. have another angle on it. This is to day evening. Many who had planned way through Niagara. on the Pacific Northwest. Back inthe It has joined the tree farm move see the conserving of the growing to go were prevented by illness and Mrs. Chris Knutson has returned 1870’s this Puget Sound sawmill was ment as a good business proposition. timber for as long as possible as the inclement weather. from a vacation spent in Portland at More, it is carrying out a logging banking on the stump. The standing plan on a 1,500-acre tract with ideas trees iepresent deposits. The annual that are as younge as any on parade growth represents interest on de am-ong the young bloods of the posits. Stump banking, that is. forestery schools. Plenty of Problems. The tract has a thrifty stand of The plan sounds simple, but it is Douglas fir sawtimber which is add by no means as easy as falling off ing good growth year by year. The a log. The average yield per acie logging plan is to take all the wood from dead timber is about 15,00 boaid Green Promise. GENERAL AUTO out of the tract that can taken feet. Much of this comes from blow So the story sketched, and only AND TRUCK REPAIR without distuibing the growth rate downs of 1934, when a gale slammed big drama, seems sketched. It is of the stand. There are numberes of into the area. ARC AND ACETYLINE great lumber com- to me, this of dead trees, both standing and blow- Salem As it usually is with storm-«tmck pany of bygone day standing forth I 163 N. Commercial WELDING Phone 21588 stands, the down stuff hère is spotty. anew to exemplify the most progres PHONE 3452 This means that a good many miles sive phase of the industry of today. of trail roads have to be built through There is a prime example of t f ¿ur- acres of tiees which have little wind ability of our Douglas fir, in trees Real Fatale & Insurance ♦ damage to reach the bad spots. Just wind-killed in 1934 and yet sound figure on this one a little bit. If you wood for the most part. And there STAYTON ’ve only been hunting in the timber is a perfect \lemonstration of the you can still see that the boss logger real values of managed tree grow there has plenty to think abojt. ing—which is better called wood M r. Balch, who does the worrying growing. on the job, has another headache in Keep a tree that scales 3000 board that he can cut no lives tiees around feet and in due course it should his landings — where the logs are scale 4000 feet. That added thousand loaded on trucks after they have been feet will provide real good interest brought in from the cuttings by trac over quite a long period. Stump tor haul. This haul has been as long banking is the new name for the idea. LET US GIVE YOU a free estimate on overhauling vour an 2100 feet but commonly lSOO^e'-'t motor. All work guaranteed. We ran promise you the is the limit. QUICKEST SERVICE IN TOWN. This means that the loading spot has to be moved as the operation ASK ABOUT OUR BUDGET PLAN and pay a small progieses through the tract. Now There was little activity of any * then, in order to load his logs effic kind in Gates the past week due to 'amount each week. i iently in the heart of a virgin stand the snow an I high water. Several of Douglas firs without injury *o homes were surrounded by water up these “stump banks,” Boss Logger to the foundations fiom drainage off Also Estimates on Frame Straightening when you send Balch has designed and built a port the higher elevations about town. The able self-propelled heel boom. jolly Hallmark opstoffice and three dwellings we The boom is monnted on a tiu«k those most affected by the storm. St. Patrick's with an A-frame rig. hooked to a Two families were left without heat Day Cards to 145 horsepower motor. It can reel when floor furnaces were put out of your friendsl up logs, swing them over and set commission by water. them down with the neatness and Ned Richards and Joe Joaquin dispatch of Van Brocklin passing spent the better pa it of two »lays over center. Boom and fran e can be opening culverts that had become nested against the back of the truck clogged and digging trenches to car SALEM 510 N. Commercial St. PHONE 3188 cab for a move. ry the surplus water away from the Mr. Balch i* his own bullbuck, 'eg flooded areas . ging engineer and master mechanic. He is the eternal American know- Mrs. Claud Alexander of Kodiak HALLMARK CARDS hower and doer, a credit to our age Island, Alaska, has returned to Gates and breed. from Seattle where she spent several weeks and is a guest at the home of Mrs. Lula Collins. While here she al so will visit other friends and rela-| tives. Mr. Alexander has returned to Alaska where he is in business. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Henness and two sons took possession of their new home here Thursday of last week. They are making some improve SALEM 330 Court ments to the place, forriterly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Cooper. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper left for Lake view where they will make thefi new home. They had been residents of Lakeview for a number of years be fore coming to Gates. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Lanphear went calling Sunday evening on Miss Georgia Shane. Their car became w stalled in the snow and mud as they attempted to drive into the Shane driveway and they were compelled to spend the night at Miss Sane's. Mill will resume operation Mon. March 7th Mrs. Clarence Johnson returned on Monday from San Francisco where Planning and Ixiading crews to start Tues. Mar >he had visited at the home of I «laughter and son-in-law, Mr. Mrs. Robert I«evon for tfie past A«lverti-«ement Advertisement weeks, Mrs. Levon accompanied mother home for a short stay. Mrs. Harold Patterson suffered a painful accident at her home when she struck her right forefinger with an ax while splitting wood. She was taken to Mill City where she received O utcptke W qodí SANT I AM GARAGE TOY & HOBBY SHOP Geo. FREE M Irish eqes $ ** : THE DOUGLAS McKAY CHEVROLET CO Freres Building Supply ( <> Building Materials of All Kinds Edward Williams Earl Smith, Mgr Notice to Mill City Manufacturing Co Employees I I Stayton Hardware and Furniture STAYTON, OREGON Coil Spring Woman Sues for $20,000 After Using Home Hair Kit You'd surley know which one had the Toni Permanent after she had used the home waving kit on her hair, a New Hartford woman says in a .-uit against half a dozen defendants, which was docketed this week tn Hartford Superior Court. According to Mrs. Lilian Prout, use of the chemical waving kit left her sick and partly bald. In the suit drawn by Atty. Charles N. Segal the first against the com l-any in this area Mrs. Prout asks for 320,000 damages to pay for pain an 1 suffering and humiliation, and to re.-n burse her for medical care. FOLLOWED rules Accotding to the complaint. Mrs. Prout bought a "Toni Home Perman ent Wave Kit" last Dec. 22 at the Beira Pharmacy, at 15« Park St . Hartford, and "appli*»! th* contents thereof in a«e-or<iance with the in " struct ions in the package." Immediately afterwaid, she com plain*. "«he experience»! an intense ummg and inflammation of the scalp and surroun ling tissues; short ly thereafter her hair began to break and fall out; her scalp became ten der. itchy and scaly; bald areas of the s<alp resulted and are multiply ing; and there is grave danger she wil become completely bald”; and in ad ¡♦on -she suffers severe hca laches and has suffered S severe shock to he. nervous system. The lawsuit is directed against the Toni Co., which does a multimillion dollar business in manufacturing the kits; Edward F. Heirs, who runs the drugstore where it was bought; and f>ur w’u lesule firms as list .butor* Sisson Drug Co. of Hartford. Da vid A Ros.»*, Inc., of Hartford. Me Kesson A Robbins of New Haven, and Kate and Farley Shapiro, owners of t'-c Crown 1» ug and Sundry Co. of New Haven. Sh«> also garnished any funds of t Tini Co. that may'*« n the han l- of the wholesalers, or of the two II trtford departmertY stores. Sage Allen an 1 G. Fox. She mses her act.on on the charge that the kits contained dangerous chemicals and ingiedients, and that *e didn't know the danger of them but that the efendants did, or should have. GOOD SELLER E. Gieon Milne, assistant treasurer <>f Sisson Drug, an I Gerald Rosow ot Rosow. Inc., said as wholesalers they bail heard no complains about the kit, which is a very popular sellei. Milne pointed out that, though the wholesalers are named parties to the action, there is no indication the kit wa« sold by them. Wallace Arnold of the United ''tate* Fii e) ty A Guarantee Co.. in- surance firm clai r handler for Toni, expressed surprise that a suit had been filed. lie said other complaints about the waving kits ha i beert -ettle i be fore reaching court. 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