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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1949)
Seri in g the North Santiam Valley The North Santiam’s Mill City. Colts. Mon ¿old Detroit and Idanha Mill City Enterprise MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY. VOLI ME V. NUMBER 11 Looking Up Kimmel Heads and Down New Planning the Canyon Commission By CHARLES WOLVERTON J, C. Kimmel was elected prseident of the Mill City Planning Con.mis sion at its first meeting Wednesday night at the City Hall. Frank Rada was elected vice pres ident, and Earl Ragsdale, city recor der, was named secretaiy-treasurer. Members of the commission include Roy Bedbe, Neal Marttala, Arlo Tuers, Lee Ross and Charles Wolver ton. Mr. Rada, "Mr. Beebe and Mr. Mai- ttala were appointed by Mr. Kimmel to get data for a building code, first project of the commission. As soon as a satisfactory code can be written it will be submitted to the city coun cil. Problems of zoning and special as sessment financing of a paving pro gram were discussed, but members felt that a building code was the most urgent matter to prevent the erec tion of low-standard dwenning and business buil.lings during the Detroit Dam building period. Mayor Harold Kliewer and Coun cilmen Robert Veness and Arey Po- dratsky represented the city council at the meeting. C. A. McClure, engineer of the Sa lem Planning Commission, spoke at the meeting, and advised no delay in establishing safeguards against undesirable additions to the town. He agreed that a building code was a prime necessity at this time. Mr. Kimmel said the zoning prob lem would require lengthly study. The Planning Commission will get maps drawn of the town and sur rounding area, at least six miles east and west, and shorter distances to the north and south. The building code, as proposed, likely will contain a building permit system. (2.00 A YEAR. 5 CENTS A ( •PY MARCH 17, 1949 CBI Maps Dam Plans It’s pretty hard to stop Ed Vickers and Frank Wilson, upper Canyon businessmen, once they get started. Even all the hard luck two men could have, about, hasn’t fazed them. Several years ago work was begun on a theater in Detroit. It burned down before it could be finished. This winter, with the heaviest snow ever recorded, played havoc with the build ing they had erected in its place. The roof was completely crushed by the weight of snow. But this week there was the build- in/ standing again, plenty strong this time. It won’t be many weeks before it will be finished. I Montag Low Bidder On Bonneville Line Housing Affairs of some importance have occupied this column for the past few weeks, and no doubt it's been dull leading. So it’s time to get to more interesting, and still just as The Montag Construction Co. was The bid was reported at about important, topics of the day. low bidder on the construction of a 1800,000. • > • 230 kv power line between Lyons and The Montag firm has been working Key personnel of Consolidater I went over to th« beauty parlor the Detroit dam, it was learned here on concrete bridges and viaducts on last week and made an appointment. this week. the highway for the past two years, Builders, Inc., were laying out plans What for? What do you think? For The Montag firm has been working as subcontractors f<*#- the Kuckenberg an<i making technical studies this week for the construction of the De- a permanent, of course. in the Canyon as a subcontractor on Construction Co. Those of you who have seen the Tower fixtures have been spotted troit Dam. Mij'Wi TMr»il—«fili I the North Santiam Highway. Robert Veness, a member of the editor without his hat on might have along the route of the line, for which Lions Club which owns the Mill City .luted that in the past the.e\*as a right of way is being cleared, at site considered' by CBI, talked brief somewhat sparse growth. Some evil several places. minded detractors burr been so rude The line, scheduled for completion ly with Mr. Hoffman about it this as to suggest I was bald. They’ll in August, will carry 115 kv to the week, but no final plans were reached. Thursday Mr. Veness talked with have to eat those words, come a few damsite for use in construction of months, after my permanent has the dam and will be converted into Edgar Kaiser, of CBI, here and was been welded to the place where to- a 230 kv line when the dam is com told the company would make a final decision on the selection of a hous day a luxurious growth is being cul pleted. Harold Morris, 16, youthful offen- fused. tivated. Another line will be built by the ing site, perhaps Friday. der, made his second escape in two [ Morris fled the school soon after Bonneville system northeast across No definite* plans have yet devel It all happened because there was weeks Sunday, this time from the | he was released from detention there the Cascades, to Goldendale, Wash. oped on the contemplated housing around the house. (Not the a bottle State Industrial School in Woodburn. Another juvenile got away with him. project of 25 homes. Still under con kind of bottle you might have had No trace of the boy had been found The week before the foimer Mill sideration were a site in Mill City, in mind.) It was a new concoction, City High School youth had, with an late this week. one n Gates, and, reportedly, one in containing one of the magic new Morris was sentenced after convic accompl ce, pried open the the bars Stayton. drugs. No one was using it. There of the county jail in Salem and hed tion for a series of burglaries in Mill Russell Hoffman, general superin is a fair abundance of hair upon the escaped. He was picked up by officers City, Stayton and Aumsville. He was tendent of the (28,(MM),000 first con pates of the whole editorial tribe. uniter a year’s suspended sentence not long afterwards. tract, was at the damsite several It’s a characteristic they get from from city court here for public drunk In the Salem escape young Morris days this week, mapping plans for me—as you will see in the months dismantled a jail bed and used the enness. roads and big equipment installations ahead. rods for a crowbar. A pile of mag and Vince Palmer, engineer, had al So just for the heck of it, I tried azines was used for footing. most completed !g>ecifications foi the the fluid. A growth of stubble began County officers asked the juvenile clearing part of the job. to appear in a few days. court to release the boy from its cus The OBI, to which the Henry Kai It was no freak growth like that tody, after the Salem escape, so he A public hearing on the question ser interests are allied, is studying which resulted from the stuff used of uniting Mill City, Gates, Elkhorn, plans tor tran.sport'ng the million or could be sent to prison. The couit re- in the recent movie, “Her Husbands This year’s snowfall in Detroit sur Fox Valley and Taylor school dis more ya.da of rock and gruvel that Affairs,” in which a little too much passed that of the record year of tricts in a union high school will be goes into the 429 foot dam structure. and at a little too fast a rate was held at Gates high school at 8 p.m. They were considering a construction 1937 by a margin of two inches. the result. road from the vicinity of Gates up The total inches of snowfall to next Thursday. I’m keeping the name of the stuff Invitation for the meeting came the Linn County side to the damsite, date is 132 1-2 inches, with the great secret. I’m going to find out the for- Also under consiileration was an ag- est depth of 53 inches of standing from the Gates board. mula as soon as I can, and start a Membora aX the Gates board met (ttgai in the Cumky Cicek area snow in Detroit proper. hair farm. Total snowfall for 1937 in the up- with the Mill City board, Superinten above the damsite. The town was treated to a wiener Other engineers heie were Scotty er Canyon town was 130.5 inches, dent Vernon Todd and high school roast last week by the Enterprise. Principal Henry Bayless Sunday to Wright, and Jack Lacey. Joseph Mc with a standing depth 1 ecorded at Probably you didn’t know your paper The problems of building a grade look over the facilities. Neely, housing engineer was here to had been the donor of good things, school, the lowest bffl for which was 59 inches. The unionization has been under day, and Elddon I^ents, office mann About a foot of snow still lies in so we’ll be frank about it. (No puns 199,000, with the (153,000 available, discussion for many years, and be er, was expected to locate here per please.) were related Tuesday evening at the the Detroit area. came an important issue last year manently Friday. This data was furnished by Mrs. There was a difference of 10 cents Woman's CltMb by Donald Sheythe. when a timber transaction took away Mr. Kaiser, Mr. Hoffman and oth Earl Parker, official weather report- in the price of the wieners and the building committe chairman of the tnuch of the assessed valuation of ers surveyed the damsite further on •r. way it came out Tn the paper. The both Mill City and Gates <ii-.tt. t- Thursday. A nominating committee was ap school board. advertiser sold 120 pounds, all he “Work has been started on the new At present Elkhorn, a small com had. We’re out 12 bucks. Next time pointed at an organization meeting grade school building "and the ‘cat’ munity on the Little North Fork, City at we put on a free wiener feast we’ll for a Garden Club for Mill has scooped the foundation and a has one student in the Gates school. the high school last Friday. furnish mustard. ‘leveling is in process.” he said. Fox Valley stutlents have been at perman- Final arrangements for a “Due to the fact that the lowest tending Mill City high school. ent club will be made this Friday bid was approximately (200,000 evening at 8 p.m. at the home of Commisioner Rice of the Marion which is almost (45,000 more than Mrs. Albert Toman. the school board has, the district it County Court announced this week On the nominating committee are self is building the school. The start that the building of an improved Mrs. Art Kerr, Mrs. Cuhtis Cline and was slowed down because union and road from Elkhorn to Gates would Three persons were seriously In Mrs. Lester Mason. Cecil Haun and Al Haun have been nonunion men were hired, but now get under way this summer. Members of the Stayton Garden the school is being built entirely by “It wont be a boulevard, but it circulating a petition for a permit jured Friday night when the auto Club gave a highly illuminating ac mobile in which they were riding nonunion men because we can get it will be a usable, year-round road,” to ereil and operate a dance hall in Gates. The building which will be lo struck a broken spot in the pavement Dennis Bevier, 9-year-old son of count of their club and the benefits done cheaper. the commissioner said. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bevier,, was derived from it. They sponsor a pe He said that rock surfacing to be cated on the Cecil Haun property and Clashed into a tree. In order to cut costs, many econ They are Harold Pugh, Bend, for drowned in a mill pond here Thursday tunia contest to encourage people to omies have been made, changing the used is shale in the Lun ker bridge west of Gates will have a floor space plant flowers. Their work received merly of Detioit and Mr. and Mrs. of 50 by 100 feet. Gates has no build afternoon after he ha appaiently fel- area. oigiginal plan, he said. statewide publicity. len from a log into the water. Suivey found that the top of the ing in which dances could be held John Young, both of Detroit. The in The Mill City Pharmacy will be The Stayton group said that they jured were taken to Mill City Hos "Dennis was playing with his bro closed Friday because of a death ir mountain is exactly two miles from since the IOOF hall bumel several pital by the Idanha ambulance. Elkhorn and two miles from Gate*, years ago. ther and cousin when the accident have a project for keeping fresh flo the Kimmel famdy. wers at thee bank there and that a Pugh received cuts, bruises and a occurred. The bovs ran for help, but possible leg fracture, Young suffere«! the boy was not revocered from the gteat deal of research is done in a broken nose and several facial cuts; woter until abut half an hour later. raising flowers. Trips are taken by the members and Mis. Young received a cut from Funeral services were held in the to see other garden projects, and the her forehead to the top of her head. Presbyterian Church Sunday. Sunday she was taken to Bend when The boy was bom in Mill City on Staytonites are prominent exhibitors a p ainin her chest developed, Oct. 15, 1939. He was in the third at the fairs. “A consciousness of all c’tizens to Pugh said the car struck a hole in grade. He is survived by his parents, result of the beautify a city is a the pavement left by the recent two brothers, Gary and Jimmie, his freeze, causing the auto to go out grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter efforts of a garden dug largely," at control, plunge into a snowbank Bevier, Lyons, and Mrs. Anna Sto- said Mrs. Inglis, who has charge of the flower show at the Oregon State and then cross the road and crash dola of Mill City. Fair. into a tree. The car was demolished. Stayton guests included Mrs Mi Deputy Sheriff Ijirry Wright made . Donnel, presirent. Miss Edna Eery a report of the accident. Mrs. Raleigh Harrfld. secr»tr*-y Mrs. GATES FIRE DISTRICT OK’D A 14-year-old Lebanon youth died Katy Fery. Mrs. Louis Freres pro- Marion County court has set Ap last Thursday of a gunshot w^und 1 gram chairman, Mrs. Jack Fta<n>er M 1 • y petunia contest chairman. Mrs. rii 11 as «late for heaiing on the es- after he had playfully held a pistol tab1 ’shment of a rural fire protection he thought was unloaded to his head Welter, Mrs. J. W. Peabody, Mrs. Fred Berger and Mrs. Inglis. district. and pulled the trigger. Attending from Mill City were He was J. Ford sun of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Ford, former residents of I Mrs. Lowell Cree. Mrs. James Swan Mrs. John Swan, Mrs. Cline, Mrs Mill City. I Ida Swift, Mrs. Ed Stone. Mrs. Lea- ' ter Mason. Mrs. Frank Blazek. Mrs. All Civic organisation* are t»r- Charles Wolverton, Mrs. Kerr. Mr«. d>lly invited to attend a jiont * ElrrerShav and Robert Veness, Mr. an,1 Xrs. William Samuels, oTanized che meeting msvting to he held in the Mill who reside at the former Keister ’ The Mill City group was asked to City Thmtcv. place east of Gates on the Linn side | give some thought to the selection are the parents of a daughter, born j of a eity flower. March 10. at Mill City Hospital. The Z mother was en route to Salem but ' evident beauty of Stayton showed II! 11OIT Mirrh »-Pictured above la the darlint of Detroit, pet deer Mary Ann, who co got only as far as Mill City where I the handiwork of an active garden of John Arthur'« cafe occasionally when hungry (as above) I row the Inside lookins out 1« I Purpose: to plan for pur the baby was bom. The mother and club. .w- Xriv aeeeptln« a Piece of bread from Arthur and po«ln« for her photograph by Lswreuce baby. Judy Ann. weight seven pounds WHgat a vtarion county deputy »herlff stationed ia the Detroit area. chase of respirator and 12 ounces, were taken to their Iton’t Borrow Suharrihe* -Courtesy the STATESMAN home. This io their second child. Plan Due, Kaiser Says Juvenile Offender Escapes Second Time in Two Weeks Union High Meeting Set For Sunday Snowfall Hits Record in Detroit Board Trims School Plans Cardan Club Plans Second Meeting Elkhorn Road Set for Summer Three Injured Bevier Boy Dancehall Planned In Car Upset I Drowns loung Doe Is Darling of Detroit Area Killed in Mishap 4 NOTICE t Sunday March 20, 2 pin