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The North Santiam’s Serving the .\orth Santiam Mill City Enterprise Valley MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY. M26. 1949 VOLUME V. NUMBER 21 Looking Up Timbers for Historic and Down Frigate Found Here the Canyon w By CHARLES WOLVERTON The other night, perfectly sober, I stuck my foot through a hole where a board used to be, on the sidewalk along the Daws building on the north side and just about left it there. I mean, my leg. The walk is a challenge to a vet eran mountain climber. When ven turing on it, carry ropes, hatchets and other paraphernalia of cliff scal ers. The matter wouldn’t be mentioned here but for a couple o f reasons. First, I consulted the mayor some time ago and he said that something was going to be done about it. He told me the building owners were going to do it. There had been a little discussion, 1 was told, that the walk was on the right of way of an old county road. Oh, Oh, I remaiked to myself, if it becomes a matter for the Marion County Courthouse, we’ ll be waiting as long as the people of Elkhorn have for a road across the hill. But it appeared that the pro perty owners had assumed the re sponsibility. There’s another reason, strictly humanitarian because it’s in the in terests of The Enterprise—and we’re human—why I was interested in a new walk. The newspaper office is at the top of that perilous walk. A sub scriber might break a leg or worse getting up to these parts. And we can’t afford to lose a subscriber, un less it’s a delinquent one. • • • I was a bit disappointed to read a rather peevish remark in ■pie column of my favorite Republican, former Governor Charles Sprague, about a good an honest man—although not necessarily my favorite democrat— Monroe Sweetland. Mr. Sweetland spent the past few months in Salem. He’s national committeeman of the Democratic party. He had good rea son to be there during the legislative session. But Mr. Sprague got light angry over the fact that Mr. Sweetland had no visible means of support. Who is paying Mr. Sweetland’ he asked querulously. It was a useless and ill-tempered slur. Mr. Sweetland, whatever his faults, always has and always will earn his keep honestly. If he doesn’t earn a dime, he’ll still keep on living honorably. Who pays Mr. Sweetland’ Monroe would keep on doing what he felt is in the public interest whether he got paid or not. His idea of what is the public in terest and mine don’t jibe all the time. For instance, he's for U. S. meddling abroad at five (billion a meddle. He’s got the Red jitters. But as an honorable man. Gover nor, you ought to recognize a gentle man, even if he is a Democrat. • • A nationwide search was conducted to find spars to repair the frigate Constitution, most famous of the old wooden battlewagons, and the hunt stopped right here in the North San tiam Canyon, it was learned this week from T. C. Moore, district ranger. They are being cut in the Marion Forks area, from the virgin Douglas fir forest there. Fred Westerberg, of Portland, one of the few men left who know the secrets of big wooden ship construction, was delegates! by those in charge of the historic ship, which saveci the day for America in the War of 1812, to find timbers of satisfactory size and strength for the vessel’s keel. Four were needed, each 70 feet long and 35 inches as the smaller end. They are being cut now. They will be shipped by truck to Idanha, thence to a mill in Westport wheie they will be surfaced on two sides. From West port they will go by sea to Boston. Although it would not have been hard to find trees of larger dimen sions in the Canyon, there was a par- Faust & Ross Building Store Faust and Ross Red and White stole will begin construction within a few days of a large general store to be located on the gr ade of the new highway on the Faust property. The building, on which the Yoder & Martin Constiuction Co. of Cor vallis won the contract, will be "0 feet long and will house the grocery department, an expanded clothing de partment, and an added dry goods section. A larger hardware section also is planned. The building permit calls for a $14,000 building. It will be one-story, of frame construction. Besides a large store loom there will be a truck port for unloading under the roof of the main building. It will contain a self-service food department, i ncluding self-service meats displayed in open top fieezer units. The store’s management decided on building when bank remodeling plans in the front part of the space now occupied were decided upon. MOORES GROVE SOLD Moore’s Grove, a favorite Canyon picnic spot in Gates, has been sold. The grove was included in the sale by Miss Georgia Shane, former Gates school teacher, of her property to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Saunders of Salem. Miss Shane will live in Salem. The grove is one of the beauty spots of the Santiam area, and is a fiequent outdoor meeting place of many organizations. • BEN HOPPER DIES DEANHA PTA SEATS OFFICERS Ben Hopper, late resident of Mill The Deanha Parent-Teacher Assn, held its last meeting of the term City, died Saturday in a Salem hos Monday night at the high school pital. He is survived by a son. Roland Hopper, Mill City. Services were held building. Mrs. Raymond Sophy, president. I Monday in Baker, Oie. presided at a short business session ' terminating the year’s activities. In stallation of new officers was im pressive, under the direction of Mrs. A mobile x-ray unit will be in the Wise. Officers are: Tenny Moore, pre sident; Mrs. Edna Tucker, vice pre upper Canyon area June 13, it was sident; Mrs. Reba Snyder, secretary; announced this week by Mrs. Ray and James Gordon, treasurer. Mr. Johnson, Detroit, chairman of the Moore and Mr. Gordon were present ed carnations, ami Mrs. Tucker and Women’s Civic Club’s committee, Mrs. Snyder with gardenia corsages. sponsoring the free physical examin A vase and bouquet were given to ations. Final arrangements were marie at Mrs. Sophy, retiring president. Del bert Lewis played two accordan se a committee meeting Thurs- ay. The lections. Otis White presented a film, mobile unit will stop at the Girod •‘The Life of Stephen Foster.” Mr. store in Idanha from 1 to 9 p.m.. ft will come there from Bend. All peo Moore adjourned the meeting. ple from Detroit and vicinity are re quested to come to the Detroit Hard ware store, where transportation to the mobile unit site will be fumishe There will be a house-to-house can vass by member* of the club in bot1' Mill City grade school led by a communities. Mrs. Johnson and her wide margin in a six-school track committee have worked hard to bring the opportunity of a tuberrulosi- meet here last Friday. The local check-up to the people here, and they athletes added up 88 points; St. Mar urge everyone to take advantage >»f y’s was second with 37; Detroit had 27; and Elkhorn, Lyons and Mehama it The quota there is 400. so a full amassed but 16 points for all three signup is needed. ticular reason, Mr. Moore related, why too large timbers had to be re jected. That was because, for the sake of strength, the spars could not be cut from the heart of the tree. He said Mr. Westerberg would spot a fir and pick it even from a distance. In every case his eye was so true that the tree, for length and breadth, conformed to his measurements by inches. Mr. Westerberg is about 65 and has devoted a lifetime to the repair and building of sailing vessels. 1 k • kWSMNaaMMRMi Lyons, Mehama. Elkhorn Mill City, Gates. Mongold Detroit and Idanha »2.00 A YEAR. 5 CENTS A (»PY Airport s Plea CBI Homes Delayed On Power Line By Outside Strike Under Study Cabinet Shop Timber Up Tieup Slows For Bid on Local Project BPA Route Bonneville officials this week gave a friendly hearing to the request of the Davis Airport here to relocate a transmission line now under constiuc tion and regarded as a hazard to fly ing, but no definite answer was giv en. Di. Paul Raver, diiector of Bonne ville Power Administration, was in Mill City, along with other officials Work on 18 houses under construc of BPA, and viewed the site of the Gyppo logging companies, which tion by Consolidated Builders, Inc., line near the airport. He confe red with Byron Davis, owner of the field, have had it tough for the past year here was virtually halted this week Mayor Harold Kliewer, Ted Galb.a th finding good “shows,” are currently i when a Northwest strike of wood- pilot and flying instructor, and others. being given a good break by the For woikers held up delivery of window and door frames. Later, Mr. Davis said that until est Service. About 25,000,000 board feet of tim the matter is settled and the line re About half the crew of 50 men was located out of the path of planes ap ber, mostly old growth fir, will be laid off Monday, ami carpenters re proaching the field from the east, the offered for sale this year, and sever tained will finish the rougs work on future plans for the field will have al million feet are currently up for several homes. bid, T. C. Moore, district ranger, an Special frames were being manu Mill City bowed to the inevitable to be held up. Mr. Davis and Mr. Gal nounced this week. braith had planned 1 a G1 flying train- I Wednesday night when the council ing program to begin this summer, I The timber lies in the right-of-way factured by Oregon Pulp and Pa; er Co. When a strike closed its cabin voted reluctantly to adopt daylight an exanded student training project; t of the Bonneville transmission line et shop, the job was transfened to saving time, beginning Monday. slated for construction between De ” ’’ Consolidated Builders went on fast an a statewide breakfast hop of am- | troit Dam and Maupin, Ore., where a Yakima, Wash., plat. ateur airmen was scheduler! for July | factory is closed by the strike of Am time this week, and local restaur it connects with the Bonneville grid. erican Federation of tabor unions. ants were serving two sets of meals. 17, with an air circus the same day. The right-of-way is 500 feet wide Also held in abeyance aie many pro The delay in the delivery of win A paving contractor talked to the and extends for about 10 miles along dow and doo: frames tacked up work jects for improving the field. council, proposing the use of an as the Breitenbush road below and ab on the houses all along the line. Plas Bonneville’s problem arising from phaltic concrete. Councilmen have re ove the springs. Up for bid now are tering could not be started, although quested leal property owners who the request to relocate the line, is tracts in the lower area. Mr. Moore want paving to get in touch with the not easy. BPA is required to have said the stands are ideal for smalle: several of the structures were ready city. Although a special assessment a 115 kv transmission line completed logging operations. The entire right- foi it. And flooring, finishing, etc., plan has not been worked out, it is to the Detroit Dam by August 15. of-way must be cleared within two has to await plastering. The 18 homes have been about a possible for property wners t pay for Power will be user! there by Consol- years. The initial job, however, is paving directly, residents in one sec Builders, Inc., for construction of the strictly a logging operation, not a month in construction, and the first of them would have been ready for tion, about three blocks, previously dam. clearing job. occupancy next month, had no delay A change in the line will involve asked for paving. Bonneville Power Administration A telegram from Gup; Conlon, U. acquiring a new right-of-way and en has allocated to the Forest Service been incuri ed. The saw rig which was, used to S. senator from Oregon, to Robert gineering revisions. These problems, about *2'6.000 ’y rebuild the Brei Veness promising t help in the air father than questioning the need of tenbush forest load. B1AA needs a pre-cut thP home* wm Nmoved this a new route for the line, were the better route when it starts the 230 kv week to the Detroit Dam where it port problem was read. will be used in the e ection of a ma main concern of the BPA staff. line, scheduled for next year. Trie CBI representatives here denied present route, which is adequate for chine shop and other buildings theie. Heavy equipment was at last taken reports publisher! several times this tourist travel but wouldn’t stand th. week in a Salem paper that they beating of heavy trucks, will be wid to the south side of the Santiam Riv er over a newly constructed bridge intended to base three planes at the ened to 20 feet and graveled. The at the Detroit damsite, ami already field. completed route will connect with the Dr. Raver was cordial to the plea Skyline Trail and ptovide a loop from considerable excavation at the portal Fifteen grade school pupils were of a diversion tunnel has been done. given perfect attendance awards at of the local field representatives and Portland, to Mt. Hood, to Breitenbu-1 Another bridge has been started promised a thorough study of the the Mill City grade school graduation and thence t return to the Willam about one-fourth mile below the axis problem. exercises Thursday evening by Vern ette Valley via the North Santiam of the dam, a $60,000,000 hydroelec The mixup in building the iin ■ so highway. on Todd, superintendent. tric project in the North Santiam Perfect attendance constituted be close to the field was a fluke that i Although intended as an aid to the Canyon. hardly can be blamed on anyone. Th I ing on time and present each day of transmission line job, its benefits to I Contract for digging the diversion the school year. Receiving the honor line was surveyed years befo .- the the tourist business in the Uunyon tunnel, which will carry the water certificate were Gene Yeager, Jessie airport was built. Mr. Davis was un ate incalculable. from the river to a point below the aware of the route of the transmis Hellyer, Lauien Dart, Joan Turnidge A crew already is at work on the dam, has been let to the J. F Shea Charles Keever, Ernest Andersan, sion line. His first hint that the line forest road. Construction Co., Alhambra, Calif., Thomas J. Fencl, Larry Kanoff, Ro would be dangerously close to the one of the principals of Consolidated field came only after workers started nald Williams, Arthur Webb. Richard STORE INSTALLS WINDOW Builders, Inc., dam contractors. The Crook. Philip Carey, Vernon Arnold to dig holes for footings aoerss the A new window was installed on the tunnell will be about 1400 feet long Kings Prairie country east f the air Webb and Hazel Caudle. Of these south side of the Mill City Meat Mar and 25 feet in diameter. Jessie Hillyer, Lauren Dart, Joan port. ket this week. The local CBI office indicated that Turnidge and Ernest Andersen were the tunnel job will begin soon. holders of two year attendance re Completion of the bridge has has cords, and Richard Crook and Philip The human Race tened the work of excavating the en Carey, three years. trance to the tunnel, because a big Certificates of merit were given to shovel ia now in operation at the nine patrol boys:: Vernon Christen site, about 1000 feet above the axis. son. Dan Roten. Richard Kanoff. Le A change in plans by the Corps of roy Podrs.bsky, Maurice Bassett, Dar Army Engineers has held up clear rell Williams, Bobby Howe, Elton ing of the Cumley Creek quarry site. Gregory and Richard Verbeck. Aggregate for the dam will be quar ried there, but possibly not at the VETS Pf.A.N DANCE SATURDAY exact area which CBI sublet to the A dance sponsored by' the Sei vice Byers Construction Co. for clearing. men’s Club will be held Saturday at The aggregate will be transported Veterans Hall here. Music will be from the quarry to the concrete mix furnished by the Wonder Valley Boys. er by conveyor belt or cable car, de Tickets ai e now on sale. pending upon the final decision on the quarry site. Sand, as well as gravel of various dimensions, will have to be manu fafetured there. Many local loggers, who have been waiting beyond the normal time for the woods to open up, have taken jobs with the Byers firm clearing the damsite area. It’s Daylight Time, We Gotta 15 Are Graduated In Grade School ('hestmobile Coining to Idanha Mill City Wins Canyon h ack Meet (Continued on Back Page» Dont Borrow Subscribe’ WORKER HURT IN FALL Miniature chest X-ray films c developed each night and sent Tcrliand to be read by tubare. is specialists. The ANNUAL ’ t ; X RAY SURVEY is a Sir: 3 procosi" by which un- lasewa cases of tuberculosis are pcinted out ’■< fu. f *r study. .Votek for i.-x . .ay vnit when 1 conies to * , . ■' wun t •. H. D. King, Vancouver, was injur ed Monday in a 40 foot fall when a bank on the new highway caved in. He was tushed to a Salem specialist. Extent of his injuries was not known at the time of the accident. He is an employee of the Public Roads Administration and A. Hansen ; is his foreman. Mrs. Joe Lies fell from a ladder ■ while papering her home Saturday. X-rays showed no broken bones in her injured leg but tendons were badly torn. MRS. < OI.I.INS HURT IN FALL Mrs. Lula Collins was painfully in jured early Friday morning when she fell, at her home.
