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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1949)
Serving the .\rorth Santiam Valley The North Santiam’s Mill City Enterprise $2.60 A YEAR. 5 CENTS A CttPY MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY. MARCH 24. 1949 VOLUME V. NUMBER 12 Looking Up City Council Rushes and Down Through Building Code the Canyon struction projects. The code ts not severe, merely re quiring oidinary good building stan Today we are laying the founda dards. tion for a Mill City that’s going to Concrete founations will be tlhe emerge during the next five years rule henceforth for dwellings a-n d as one of the most prosperous can business houses within the city lim yon towns in the state. And the town its. Certain sanitary codes murt be and its leadership is deseiving of the observed, and construction must be highest praise for the wise and sen done to pass fire pievention codes. sible way it has taken the develop A building permit system is set ments of recent months. up in the same ordinance. Filing coBt There is a real basis here for a is 50 cents, and a permit will cost future boom. Yet the town has wise $5 for tiie first $1000 valuation and ly avoided- the negative byproduct $1.50 per $1000 for buildings over of that state of affairs—speculation, that. skyrocketing land prices, foolish ven Certain structural requirement are tures. in the code concerning the strength On the contrary, land is still avail of joists, etc. able at fair prices for business and The ordinance is modeled after one residential requirements. The minor Mill City saw a new industry, up written by the League of Oregon i ity that has ridiculous pi ices set on in the air, last Sunday. Cities. property in the Canyon just isn’t get There were four planes, from Sil ting it sold. verton, part of them being used as Noted als as a healthy sign is the trainets at the Davis Airport east of building now being undertaken by lo here. At least six local people have cal people. Small home and apart begun flying lessons, which are be ment units are going up, business ing given Wedt^sdays, Saturdays, blocks are being built, an expression and Sundays by Ted Galbraith, Sil Bids for the remodeling and ad of real faith in the futuie. verton flier. dition for Gates high school gymna The residential area is widening Considerable work is in progress sium were opened by the board of and filling out. And current and pros at the local field. A power line, which directois Monday, with tbe Butler pective buildings for business are de might have been a hazaid to 1 ” Construction Co. of Salam low with veloping a real trading center, almost has been replaced with an un, | • $15,669. as if planned. ground cable, and a telephone line The board has planned for the job The great Detroit Dam will pro also will be buried at that point. to be done by the opening of the fall vide the spur to the development of Work will proceed, as soon as the term of school. the city. The new highway, scheduled weather permits, on the- new strip, Plans call for an addition to the for completion in early summer, will which need« further grading and present building of 20x80 feet and do much to hold the growth which seeding. The new strip connects al installation of a new heating system, comes in the dam building period of ongside the existing one, thus more dressing rooms, and showers. four or five years. than doubling the landing zone. But to make this growth normal Byron Davis, owner of the airport, and lasting, two main tasks remain. has purchased a trainer plane to add First, is attracting industry into the to his present flying equipment. Cany«1,«So ih<u iW people who come The aiiyXrt has become increasing here to build the dam can see a way ly popular with Valley airmen, many to remain with us. Industrial devel of whom have recently landed there. About a third of the $600 quota opment cannot wait till the dam is for Mill City in the current drive of finished. It must proce_/ right now. the Red Cross has been raised, it Second, theie must be a better use was announced this week. of the fertile hill and mountain land Additional volunteer workers can in the Canyon. One does not have to vassing the town are Mrs. Ksiith Ma prove that the soil is good for fruits son, Leiter Hathaway, Mrs. and berries. That is being proven The Masonic Lodge Monday night Floyd Fleetwood and Mis. George year after year by the astounding crops raised by the Fern Ridge grow led off in the current drive to raise Stewart. funds for a respijtor, with a con Only about half tiTThe businesses ers. tribution of £50. have been canvassed so ar. Milk bot A stable agriculture, added to in The campaign to purchase for the tles have been placed in several of dustry, recreation, cheap power dnd tourist trade, offers Mill City anil community this lifesaving apparatus them. Mrs. Charles Wolverton is local the Canyon a pe: manent future of was launched by Police Chief J. T. King following the drowning recent chairman. stable prosperity. Let’s not settle merely for a lum ly of Dennis Bevier, 9, in a millpond LEGION HONORS RAGSDALE ber industry. Let’s not be satisfied here. The respirator is on display in the A charter member of tlhe American a tourist business. We ’ ve got with window of the Red and White store. Legion when it was organized in more in this region to offer than Chief King has been giving de France 30 years ago was given spe that. monstrations of the equipment. Last cial tribute at a local post meeting From Clay Cochran, secretary of the Sunday Mr. Blum, a fireman with here Thursday. He is Ernest Ragsdale, also a char Salem Chamber of Commerce, comes the Salem force, and Mr. Neep, an ter member of the local post. Mr. equipment firm representative, show a suggestion—and an offer. Here it ed the machine at a meeting in the Ragsdale displayed membership pa is: pers he received 30 years ago. When comes the time, i n early Mill City Theatre. He served in France under Gen. Chief King was optimistic that the summer, for the North Santiam High White, whose former private secre town would respond with enough way to be opened for traffic, it ought tary, Mrs. O. K. DeWitt, was pres to be done with a flourish. Mr. Coch money to buy the machine soon. The respirator is useful, not only ent at last week’s meeting here. ran suggests that a big barbecue be The local post has gone over its held in the Canyon, with Salem, Stay in cases of drowning, but also of attack, quota of 30 members. Guy Sorensen shock, strangulation, heart ton and other cities along the route, is commander, Dr. David J. Fergus plus the Canyon communities par and gas poisoning. The respirator attachment is auto- on, adjutant. ticipating. His offer is that Salem will pitch in to help make an event matic, and adjusts itself to the lung ROAD CONDITION PROTESTED of it. Notables will be brought here capacity of an infant or an adult. George Ditto, Niagara, this week to cut the tape officially opening the complained to the Marion County route, which provides the best and Court that the hill road there had lowest pass through the Cascades to become nearly impassable due to use California and the East from the by heavy equipment of the Bonne- Northwest. vifle line clearing project. The court The publicity for this area would A suggested first project for the ordered rock work on the bad stretcdi. he worth more than any single event newly formed Garden Club will be could bring. And it would be the chance for landscaping the steep bank just to this region, if it had a pavilion show I the North of the downtown section ing what the Canyon has to offer, to on the Marion side of the river. Although the project ha» not de sell this beautiful area to thousands finitely been decided upon, there was of visitors. much concurrence with the idea at The Enterprise can claim a wide last week’s meeting. About 25 persons joined and the readership. Mort distant of its read ers is Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, a young charter officers are: Mrs Ftances German who is a friend of Lt. Lloyd Dolezal, president. Mrs.. Maggie Hoeye, a local boy who served in the .Shaw, vice ^resident, and Mrs. Vir- ! ginia Robison, secret«) /-treasurer. occupation force. A special meeting has been called Karl is already fairly handy with the English language, but there are for Thursday evening. March 31. at a few things in The Enterprise that the Albert T »man home By CHARLES WOLVERTON Ài/// City. Cates, Mongold, Detroit and Idanha A model building code for small cities was passed unanimously Wed- nesray night by the city council, and an emergency clause put it into ef- feet immediately. The council chose to act swiftly because it wanted to stop before it ever got started the election of sub standard homes and business places, a common practice around big con- Davis Airport Given Boost $250,000 Housing Project On Way r COUGAR STALKS MAN LEAVING BREITENBUSH •M Jake Prince, an employee at the Lower Breitenbush Springs by E. C. Kennedy, was trailed by a cougar as he made his way by snowshoes from the resort after being snowbound since last fall. He got out last week. Mr. Prince, who left for Albany after he made it to Detroit, said the cougar followed him most of the way. Deer and elk, he said, were feed ing happily on hay which was taken into the area by volunteers several weeks ago. Mason’s Give $50 For Respirator 1st Project Studied Bv Garden Club Edison Vickers of Idanha has an nounced the formation of a company to build homes in uhe Upper Canyon area for the influx of population ex pected soon in that area A $100,000 housing project of 12 homes is plan ned. Parents Face Rap if Kids On Tract In Park A $200,009 to $250,000 housing pro ject for Mill City awaited this week only a few details of land transfer to set the vaat home development on its wby and under construction burly next month. Go Astray Gravel Firm Starts The Colgan Construction Co. has leased a quarry and gravel site from Al Geddes, near MW City, and will set up soon a rock crusher, screening plant and maintain a fleet of trucks. J. R. Colgan, formerly of Pendle ton, is manager of the new business. He had been engaged in similar bus iness there. Mr. Colgan has pureha - ed most <>f his equipment and was awaiting a fheport on the rock at the site. It passed a favorable gov ernment teat last week. Mr. Colgan is making his home in Mill City. x in his precise English, something of WITNESS CALLED IN CASE this nature: . OF SPOTLIGHT HUNTING “I like to nead about Mill City and | Bill Bi. kett. Elkhorn, was subpoe- I understand most of what is in the ned to appear in court Friday as a newspaper. However, I have looked i w tness against Bill Rciwrts of Aum» in my dictions y ffnd I canr->t find rill who is charged with spotlighting any such words as ETAOIN or deer on the Bickett property last fall. The case was postponed for the SHRDLU. Will you tell me what they third time. mean?" Price OK’d Agreement upon a price of $2400 for three to four acres of park land was made between the Santiam Lions Club and Consolidated Builders, Inc., contractors for tlhe $65,000,000 De- i From now on, it’s going to be the I troit Dam 12 miles above Mill City. By JEAN ROBERTS parent who will be penalised in the Al Bauer, general manager of the With the advent of spring, the delinquency of a minor. contracting concern, and a commit night hunter will again be on the The Mill City Council Wednesday tee of the Lions Club including Ro prowl. An honest citizen by day, but night passed an ordinance, following bert Veness, Albert Toman and Carl an illegal marauder at night the line of one passed recently in Kelly, negotiated the price of the Last fall, the buzzards circling a many Oregon cities, including Salem, tract this week. hundred feet from the Gates hill tes that holds a patent responsible for Agreement also was reached for tified to a night hunter’s careless aim child delinquency. the purchase of several small adja A big 4-point buck had been wound If parental neglect is the cause, cent tracts, one tbe home place of ed with a small caliber gun and left they must face the courts along with Leonard Herman, who agreed to sell to die. their children. virtually at cost to help get the home Not only do the wild creatures project here. suffer, but no one’s property is safe. ELECTRICAL FIRM TO LOCATE Coatly Homes Planned. One of Bill Bickett’s cows died last Robert Taylor, a former Mill City CBI representrtives have stated it year on his Elkhorn farm as the re resident, ha« arranged to establish is their intention to build homes in sult of a “spotlighter’s” bullett an electrical contracting business in the $8000 to $10,000 class, and to The year before a goat was killed. Mill City. He has several local con develop the entire area into a planned Why can't people realise that Il tracts at this time. He is from Leba section, with landscaping and other legal hunting only deprives everyone non. featubaa. of game that is rightfully his, and About 25 homes for key personnel can be had in abundance if the laws OUT OF HOSPITAL are to ba built. Company representa are obeyed? Mrs. John Young, one pf three in tive« said CBI elected to build per Educate your children to enjoy and jured in an automobile wreck last manent homes instead of temporary conserve the wildlife— a rich herit week above Detroit, was- released le- ones because they felt the resale val age! i cently from a Bend hospital, after a ue after they have completed the dam (Mrs. Roberts is Elkhorn corre«- few days Nervation. She tx^Rcts would he greater than cheeper con pondent of The Enterprise.) to return home sooji. struction and would well pay over She has been staying at the home what the extra cost might be. DETROIT COMMERCIAL CLUB of Harold Pugh in Bend. Mr. Pugh, Russell Hoffman, general superin ELECTS OFFICERS with John Young, were the others tendent of tffe job, has been in Mill Edison Vickers, upper Canyon bus injured and are making satisfactory City or the damsite most of the week inessman, was elected president of recovery. and other engineers have been assist the Canyon Commercial Club at its ing him in planning for the construc last meeting. BOY SCOUTS HOLD COURT tion procedures. Other officer« include, Ray John The Boy Scouts Monday night held Vince Palmer assisted by Carl Pal son, vice pi evident, Nolan Rasnick, court of honor and presented a pro- mier last week completed the spe< ■ secretary-treasurer, and Otto Russell gram here. Participants in the pro- I ifications on the clearing to be done and Len Davis, directors. gram included June and Lorena De at the damsite and the Cundey Creek vine, < Gates, Ernest Podrabsky, Don quarry area. The two tracts are about PLUMBING SHOP PLANNED Ficek and Kirk Wirick. Police Chief 140 acres, of which over 25 must be Clarence Nidhol, Silverton, recent J. T. King demonstrated the uses of grubbed. ly purchase prodperty in the Gates a respirator, a fund for which is now Six or more concerns had indicated section on Highway 222, for the er being sought. interest in bidding on the subcontract ection of a plumbing shop. The pro and the company will open bids this perty was owned by Al Haun of Mill 70 AT LYONS X-RAYED Friday at 3 p.m. City. Seventy persons took the ebast X- In the meantime very little hiring David M. Reid was the broker. ray examination when the county mo of workers has been done, although bile unit was in Lyons Thursday. hundieds of applicant« came here the COMMENCEMENT .SPEAKER Mrs. Geoge Huffman was local past week. Dr. Chester Hamblin, pastor of the chairman, and several women assist From Washington came news of First Presbyterian Church of Salem ed her. the approval by the House appropri and president of the Oregon Feder ations committee of the fund sought ation of Churches, has been selected CAR DAMAGED IN HIT- RUN by the Army Engineers for Dstroit as speaker for the Mill City high Mr. and Mrs. Bob Carleton had Dam in the fiscal year of 1949 *50. school commencement May 26. Mor their car badly damaged Thursday The full amount of the request-$11,- ton Boothe, Albany, a former Navy evening when struck by a hit-and-run 380,000 was approved. The deficiency chaplain, will give tbe baccalaureate driver when they were returning to appropriation of $2,000,000 for the address here May 22. their home in Fox Valley. No one <iam this fiscal year met similar ap was injured. proval by the Senate appropriations FIRST LUMBER SHIPPED body. The season's first commercial load ELKHORN TEACHER SIGNED of lumber left the upper Canyon via Mrs. Patrick of Mehama has sign truck March 15. Production ie almost er a contract to teach school at Elk back to normal this week. horn next year. Spotlight Hunters Salem Firm Low Called Spoilers In Gates Gym Bid Red Cross Drive Third of the Way Plans Housing 3 PASS BROKER TESTS THIS VIEW, taken with a small camera by Bust Fleetwood from Byron chure prepared by the Mill City Ch amber of Commerce. Davis’ plane, appea « in the bro Mrs. Barbara Pennick, her partner, Mrs. N. L. Pennick, botti of Gates, and Fred Lindemann, Lyons, passed examination« last week for real es tate brokers’ licenses. The Pennicks operate their busi ness in Gates and Mr. Lindemann has an office in Lyons.
