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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1949)
Serving the SJorth Santiam Valley The North Santiam’s Mill City Enterprise VOLUME V, NUMBER 23 MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY Lyons, Mehama. Etkhorn Mill City. Gates, Mongold Detroit and Idanha »2.00 A YEAR. 5 CENTS A C*PY JUNE 9. 1919 Bonneville Set Fish Hatchery Bid Looking Up Canyon Towns Plan and Down Highway Opening Fete To Build Line Far Below Estimate the Canyon Over Cascades I By CHARLES WOLVERTON The Canyon Commercial Club in Detroit and Idanha announced plans for a big celebration in the upper Canyon when the North Santiam highway is completed, sometime in early July. Ed Vickers, piesident of the club, said a meeting was to be held this Thursday evening in Detroit to ar range for the affair. The Mill City Chamber of Com merce, at the suggestion of Clay Qochrane, secretary of the Salem or ganization, has been working out de tails for a big barbecue at the west approach to the new highway, one of the most difficult feats of engineering ever undertaken in highway building history in the west. Now. with festivities being plan ned for both ends of the new road, a real celebration will be due for the Canyon. Hill land, superintendent of the big construction job for the Kucken- berg Construction Co., said this week he believed the job would be com plete, so far as its contract is con cerned, by early July. “It’s been a tough one,” he said. Mr. Vickers said he planned to in terest eastern Oregon towns such as Bend and Redmond in joining in the celebration. Notables from the state, the Army Engineers and from the Oregon del egation in Congress will be asked to participate in the opening of the new highway, which gives Oregon its fin est route through the Cascades. Plans and charts showing layouts and stastics on the Detroit Dam will be on display at the damsite when the caravan arrives visiting Willamette Up to now, the towns which have repeatedly asked the State Highway Commission to put the Mill City-Sa- lem portion of Highway 222 on its “agenda” have been told there was no money for the job. But what about after the first of July ? Then the highway department (Bal dock & Co.) will start collecting an other penny a gallon on gasoline; an extra five bucks on license plates; and PUC and fines will provide a somewhat bigger take. Revenues of the commission will rise from »28 million annually to an estimated »35 million. Surely, all that extra cash won’t be needed for the Baldock Plan. We in the Canyon offer the state: 1. The only all-weather pass over the Cascades. James Cooke, graduate of Salem 2. A modern highway for 100 miles from Mill City to Bend, thence con high school’s class of ’49 and son of necting with the best routes to the Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cooke of Mill City, will be one of two major speakers Eastern states ami to California. 8. An inexpensive job of road mak at a Washington, D. C., conference ing, which with the expenditure of of “boy governors” later this month. Young Cooke, a former Mill City little over a million dollars would student, was Oregon "governor” for do the job that tens of millions, try a week end this spring at the annual ing to patch up 99E. The town of Detroit, which will be Mr. Baldock and members of the Youth and Government conference about 50 feet under the surface of commission, you’re invited to attend sponsored by the YMCA. He has been public school corres a lake five years hence, isn’t just go the grand opening soon of the North Santiam Highway—if you can nego pondent for The Statesman the past ing to fold up and die. About 40 old residents and property owners indi tiate the stretch between Salem and year. W>th 25 other boy governois of cated that this week when they pe Mill City without injury to life and limb—to see the possibilities. It’s a western states, Cooke will make a titioned the Army Engineers for a chance to win fame as discoverers. 25 day tour of southern and eastern townsite above the waterline of the John Minto won fame as the discov states en route to the nation’s capi lake to be formed by the Detroit tal. Dam. erer of the pass. Renowr. awaits you, The petrtien was started because gentlemen, if you discover the same GATES SCHOOLS HOLD of reports that the shoreline of the one. From here it’s easy. The main new lake would be restricted to re problem will be getting up from Sa GRADUATION EXERCISES Combined commencement exercises creation area. It was signed by res lem. ♦ • * for Gates grade and high schools idents, some of who have been in De I’m indebted to one of the C. B. 1. were held last Wednesday in the aud troit for 30 years, and others who boys foT this apt commentary on cer itor.urn there, with the Rev. Willard have come here recently but have tain local housing, for which rentals Buckner, Stayton, delivering the ad decided that the upper Canyon coun- tiy would be a good place ta settle not far below an apaitment on Fifth dress. Receiving high school diplomas permanently. Avenue are being asked: About two years ago a similar pe were Norma Jean Devine, Edward “Four rooms and path.” Keith Oliver. Daniel Romey and Wi tition was started when the Forest • • ♦ Service acquired a site for a ranger There’s a man down in Mehama ley Muise. Grade school graduates were Don station that the Detroiters had had by the name of Philippi who’s solved the problem of time. He wears one ald Mates, Isabelle Blackburn, George in mind for a townsite. The proposed townsite would be wrist watch with standard time, and Bui ton, Joan Ryan, Dolores Smith, on the other wrist wears one with Joe Ed Thomas, Betty Tucker and on a peninsula jutting out into the Dillard Weathers. new lake, in the vicinity of the netv daylight saving time. A program was yresented, includ school building. If he’s late for dinner he can say ing: processional, Barbara Haun; in Natives felt that it would not be he lifted up the wrong arm. vocation. Rev. Buckner; valedictory, right to “shove them aside to make • ♦ • Forrest Baker, the local jeweler, Norma Devine; “Thanks,” Isabelle a recreation area for city people.” tells me that the Swiss produce 90 Blackburn; accordmn trio, Norma De percent of all the watch movements. vine, Lorena Devine and Wiley Other statistical sources tell us that Muise; commencement address, Rev. the Swiss produce 10 per cent of the Buckner; presentations, T. R. Burton Jack Griffith, construction worker, world’s cheese. My watch is probably and Elmer Stewart; class gift, Dan iel Romey; benediction, Rev Buck- was gravely injured Monday when a part of the latter production. • • • ne:; and recessional, Barbara Haun. caterpillar tractor he was driving plunged over an embankment on the Oregon judges will soon be pro new highway giade above the Detroit IDANHA LEGION. AUXILIARY nouncing sentences like this: damsite, crushing him in the cab. "You are hereby sentenced to life ; INSTALL OFFICERS The Kuckenberg Construction Co., imprisonment or until somebody ; Joint installation ceremonies for the Idanha American Legion and Aux by whom he was employed, reported comes along with a hacksaw.” he sustained a possble punctured lung • • • iliary were held there June 4. Robert Full, District 12 command and broken back. He is hospitalized Whenever the Reds are about to slip into an obscurity usually reserved er, was the installing officer assisted in Salem. for Single Taxers, Technocrats and by the ritual team of the Roy John vegetarians, they can always count son post of Redmond. Mrs. Full, pre on some congressmen to put them sident of District 12 Auxiliary, in stalled the new officers of the unit. back in the limelight. • • • Legion officers are: Commander, Quincy Smith; first Hats off to The Statesman for its editorial on that brilliant diplomat, vice commander, Holland Storeyjsec- An attack of measles, two days be- Ralph Bunche, who refused a state ond vice commander. Ben Barber; ad I fore the expiration of the school department high post because a Ne jutant. John Weisgerber; finance offi [ term, ruined a five year perfect at- gro in our national capital connot cer, Chester Cole; chaplain, Chester | tendance record of a 11-year-old Elk Storey; historian, Edison Vickers; horn girl. live except as a half-citizen. Sergeant at arms, Charles Whitaker Jackie Bickett, daughter of Mr. and Auxiliary officers are: > ELECTED IN FIRE DISTRKT Mrs. Bill Bickett, was just short of Resident. Bernadine Stoll; first , completing the fifth grade at the one- A special election was held in the high school building in Gates last vice president, Burley Hansen; sec- loom Elkhorn school last week with Tuesday as directors in the newly- retary, Elsie Girod; treasurer, Thel- out an absence or a tardy mark when formed Gates Rur^l Fire Protection ond vice president. Jean Cannon; sec measles caused her to lose the last ma Storey; chaplain. Ella Peeler; his i two <iays. It was a tough break for District. They were: Glen Henness and Har torian. Geneveive Bangs; and serg the little girl who had spent her en old Heath, for Marion County; Hollis eant at arms, Roselle Vickers. tire five years of school there, where Tu: nidge and Oswarld Hirte, for heavy snow and frequent road wash Linn County; and Elmer Klutke, di- SCOUT PICNIC PLANNED outs make her record all the more Cub Scout committemen and .Jen difficult to attain. recter 3t large. Next steps are setting up a dist- mothers met Monday night to plan a Her sister, Phyllis, age seven, is r ct and organization of a volunteer picnic in the park Thursday evening i following in Jackie's footsteps. Dur Cubmaster George Ditter appointed ing her first two years at school she fire department. (. \TES < \FE LEASED. REOPENS Arey Podrab»ky. Harold Kliewer, Al has never been absent or tardy. Gates Cafe, which has been closed Haun to plan the picnic program. It When Jackie first .«tailed at Elk for aeveial months for redecoration, will .nclude knot tying, races, games horn there were only four pupils. has been leased by Fred Butler, its presentation of advancement badges Now there are 11. and more are ex earner, to George Hollingworth and and a banner for the most parents pected next year. Jackie was awarded Elias la Haie. Opening was held last present. The Cub Scouts will have a a bicycle last year as reward for her Wednesday, with a large crowd at concession at the Santiam Riders ro attendance record. tending deo June 18 and 19. Janies Cooke Will Talk at Capital Detroit Fights For Townsite Worker Injured Measles Ruins School Record All surveys are completed for the 66-mile Maupin-Detroit section of the Goldendale-Detroit 230,000 volt trans mission line and bids for the initial right-of-way clearing contracts o n sections in the Mt. Hood National Forest area are to be issued within the next 30 days, according to W. E. Trommershausen, Bonnevill district manager. “One of the key links in the ‘back bone’ transmission line carrying pow er from Grand Coulee dam to cen tral and southwest Oregon, the Mau pin-Detroit section is scheduled for energization in December, 1951,” he said. He added that clearing would proceed soon and that the line would be built next summer. Nearly all the right-of-way goes through feerally - owned ami Indian lands. The Breitenbush area is about the roughest terrain. The forest ser vice has opened bidding for contracts on logging prior to the clearing op eration. Negotiations for right-of-way are being held with the tribal council and individual land owners in the Warms Springs reservation. Engineering for the line is 25 per cent complete, and materials for it. a tower line installation, are on or der. Estimated expenditures for the 1950 fiscal year are »1,644.000 cash and »948,000 contract authorization on the Goldendale-Detroit line. New School Ends First Lyons Term First graduation exercises for the new Consolidated District 29 J were held at the Santiam Valley Grange Hall. The Rev. Willard Buckner was commencement speaker. The program included presentation of the gavel by Ronald Lengacher, student body president, to his suc cessor, Dean Mansveld; music by a girls chorus; musical selections by Mrs. Hargreaves, Mrs. Wirth, Mrs. Lafky, Mrs. Wilson Stevens, M r s. Brown Mrs. Poole, Mrs. Marvin To land; and a boys chorus accompanied by Cecil Bassett. The valedictory was delivered by Sally Studnick; Salutatorians were Shirley Johnston, Janet Huffman and Shirley Weidner. Paul Johnston, chairman of the school board, presented diplomas to: Donna Bass. Margaret Hall, Janet Huffman, Ruby Naue, Shirley John ston, JoAnne Kunkle, Sally Studnick, Shirley Weider, Lucille Williams, Ve ronica Quinter. Leonard Boatman, Richard Baltzer, Paul Duman, Har vey Grimes, Ronald Lengacher, Wil liam Morgan and Larry Nydegger. Ronald Nydegger was awarded a certificate for perfect attendance, his fourth year. Mrs. Bessie Allen Dies in Seattle Funeral services were held last Thursday in Seattle for Mm. Bessie Allen, 62, who died there May 26. Mrs. Allen who was a resident of Mill City for 20 years had beeen ser iously ill for two months. Tom Allen, her husband, wa« sup erintendent of the Hammond Lumber Co. mill here, was owner of the light plant until it was sold to the Moun tain States Power Co. They left here about five years ago. Mrs Allen was a member of the Mill City Women’s Club, the Bridge Club, was past matron of Marilyn Chapter, OES, Besides her husband she is suiviv- ed by a son, Ralph. MT. JEFF TRY FAILS Four boys from the Salem visinity failed to reach their goal, the top of Mt. Jeffersn, last week. They got to the top of one of the smaller peaks and couldn’t get across. They stayed all night at Pamelia Lake and crossed the Whit Water Glacier and climbe-i to a post on the north side. They said they would at tempt it again this summer. I » Respirator Pays Its F'irst Dividend But It’s Strictly Salmon, No Rainbow Prout Game fishermen apparently lost out to commercial fishing interests in the new hatchery planned at Mur ion Forks. Bids were opened Tuesday with Gaasland Construction Co. of The respirator Mill City folks Bellingham, Wa-sh., low bidder at bought a few months ago is paid for »310,622. —in more ways than with cr.s’-. The new hutchery will lx- exclus iAst winter a little boy di owned ively for propagating salmon. in a millpond here. The tragedy got Col. O. E. Walsh, Portland district people thinking: Maybe if we had a engine« rof the Corps of Engineers, respirator we might prevent another said the government estimate was such tragedy. »394,592. There wasn’t a long time to wait Bids will be referred tv Col. The till that idea was proven. , run Weaver, Pacific division engin- Tuesday morning James Wright, f 1 eer. 23, of Idanha, stopped here for a wink The hatchery is above the damsite of sleep after a long drive. He was 1 instead of below, as usually is the so drowsy he forgot to turn off the I case where dams are erected on .sal- engine. A deeper sleep than he had mon streams. Reason for location at planned on slowly overcame him. Marion Forks, according to the en Before long he was unconscious gineers, is that suitable water for gas fumes seeped through, into the propagating fish can be found only car. in the Marion fork of the Nos th 8;.^ The youth was discovered about 7 tiam and in Horn Creek, which joins a.m. Chief J. T. King, who was calles! the bigger stream there. and told to bring the respirator, did The Army Engineers plan to build n’t know who phoned in the report. the hatchery 17 miles southeast of When he reached the unconscious Detroit and then tuin it over to the driver it looked like a pretty tough state fish commission for operation. job, even for a respirator. The North Santiam, one of Oregon’s “It took more than five minutes best rainbow trout streams, has two even to see much signs of life,” Mr. salmon hatcheries with this one King related. “It was more than two and none for trout. hours before he was really conscious The hatcheiy plan, as explained by enough to know what happened to Arne J. Suomeia, master fish warden him.’’ for Oregon, calls f«a trapping salmon Mr. King gave it as his opinion at Big Cliff d»m. extracting the eggs that youg Wright would have been a from the salmon at that point; then, “goner” had it not been for the res after "eyeing out,” the eggs will be pirator. transported by truck 30 miles to the Mrs. Bruce Wright, of Idanha, his atchery. The warmer waters of Horn mother, came later in the morning Creek will be mingled with the Mar for him. ion Creek stream to provide tempei - I ature control. PROTEST SAVES FARM OFFICE Both Detroit Dam and Big Cliff Effective petitioning by the Linn Dam will be too high for fish ladders. County Grange has saved the office of thg farm extension program in the county court house. Outcome of the protest was an- Marion County has proven an un nounced at the Santiam Grange last happy hunting ground for a former Fi iday, dice dealer from Las Vegas and Reno A circuit court was to have been who pleaded guilty and was fined set up in the farm office space and »150 for illegal sale of intoxicants at it was to have been vacated. Because the Cascade Rooms in Detroit. of the action of the Grange the farm "Things like that just don’t go in office will remain. this county,” said Judge Felton in Also at the meeting, Mr. and Mrs. district court in Salem Tuesday. Hr Matthew Beaver and Herbert Hamp told Ted Irzyk, 30: ton were obligated to the first and "If you want to stay in operation second degrees. better be legal.” Irzyk told the couit he had been MRS. STELLA MALLOY DIES I1’ craps dealer in the Gohlen Nugget, Mrs. Stella Malloy, Tormer resident 1 a big gambling establishment in l*M of Mill City, died at her home in Vegas and in other joints in Reno. Porland Sunday. He also said he and a partner had Mrs. Malloy woiked in the Ham purchased the Cascade Rooms, a mond store, which was managed hy small rooming house remodeled from her husband, George Malloy. a private dwelling, for $17,600 and She is survived by her husband and had spent »4000 remodeling It. In a brother, Carl Rankin. Miss Daisy two years the sate will be under the Hendricson of Mill City is a cousin. ! reservoir of the Detroit Dam. Funeral services were held Tues A Salem paper in error involved day in Portland. Interment was in Cascade Koon,« with another case in- Lincoln Memorial Park there. | volving inciilents in a Detroit hotel. It’s Not I ike Reno Millsap Retires After 50 Years One of his biggest achievements in Al Millsap was winding up 50 years of bartering this week 24 of this line is the development of a seed- them in the Canyon -and he figures | les* tomato. Along with this, Al ha> kept up a that’« about long enough. Folk’s hair is going to keep pn , wide range of rea<ling, and his view growing anyway, and he can’t keep point is that of a man of ciulure. Retirement is hardly the word for it all cut. Verne Shaw, his assistant, will take his future plans. For he plan* to go over the shop which Mr. Millsap has ■ on with his fruit growing, and his run here for almost a quarter of a days of rest will probably be more active than the average man's work century. BeCore coming to the Canyon, Mr. aday life. In etiring from his shop Mr. Mill- Millsap worked in San Francisco an I Portland shops. Years ago he bought sap wrote: “I wish to announce my tetiremrnt a place in Gates, which now has be come the center of business and res 1 from active buxines* in Mill City. “The long stretch of association idential expansion in that communi with the people of Mill City and vi ty- Al Millsap has maintained a wide cinity ha* been one of genuine pie* scope of interest* in hi* life here. He sure on my part, and it is my hope i* an accomplished musician, a com that the same relation may continue poser of many tunes, a violin maker, between you and Verne, who will be and lyric writer. His small farm in henceforth n charge. Thanks. Al Gate* reflected hss wide knowledge bert .Millaap." He an<l Mrs. Millsap are planning of horticulture fruit* and berries * short vacation trip to California. being hi* specialty.
