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MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 23, 191»
VO’ UME V. NUMBER 25
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Lyons, Mehama. Elkhorn
Mill City Gates. Mongold
Detroit and Idanha
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Looking Up Paul Smith to Race
and Down Lebanon Horse July 24
the Canyon
By CHARLES WOLVERTON
The taxpayers of the Mill City
school district owe a certain gentle­
man something in the neighborhood
of $35,000, but it’s a debt tbat never
will be paid, because 'he’ll never bill
them.
I’m refering to Don Sheythe, who
as chaiiman of the building commit­
tee of the board, has guided the con­
struction of what will be one of the
most beautiful and practical school
buildings in the state.
When the credits are passed around
a proportionate share of praise and
thanks are due to Chaiiman Ramon
Roberts of the board, and to Al Ad­
ams, who has superintended the con­
struction of as fine a piece of work
as has been erected in this Canyon.
But here is the reason why Don
Sheythe has a special claim on $35,-
in change. When the bids were open­
ed, the lowest contractor’s estimate
was almost $200,000, or more than
$35,000 above what the board could
spend on a much needed school. The
board, although inexperienced in the
vast details of building, felt sure the
building could be erected for the am­
ount set asirle. Al Adams, a young
Stayton contractor, who couldn’t put
up the required bond but had done
a lot of preparatory work and study,
also felt that $165,000 would do the
job.
So the board took the long
chance that it could build the school,
and Don, as chairman of the building
committee, was assigned the respon­
sibility.
For the past three months, Don
has had but little time for his own
affairs. Working out contracts, buy-
ing materials, shaving a dollar here
and a dollar there, it’* been a full-
time job.
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But the results are already mani­
fest in the fine building that now is
shaping up so beautifully in a pic­
turesque seting near the park. Our
children will enjoy school now—per­
haps. At any rate, the surroundings
are such as to make school a pleas­
ure. Every room will be almost as
bright as the out-of-doors. It will be
heated by a system that’s the last
word in moiiem design. Warm water
surges through miles of pipe imbed­
ded in tihe flooi—the most economical
method of heating yet devised,
They’ve thought of about every-
thing. An emergency room for the
sick child, A A display window for
trophies. Everything that goes for a
big modem kitchen. And the best
gym you’ll ever see.
It’s a vast building, too. Looking
down its long coiridore, it’s a full
city block from one end to the other.
There is boldness and modernity
in its design. It’s functional, and be­
cause of that, beautiful, for it’s a
school building not trying to look
like anything else.
Landscaping will extend from the
front of the new building all the way
to the athletic field. Such a building
deserves the proper setting.
Don, and Al Adams, althought they
have their fingers crossed, believe to­
day, with the building now far en-
ough along to hazard a guess, that
it can be built for the $165,000 allot-
ted for it If it should run a few
thousand over, no one should kick.
The community is getting the biggest
bargain in a school building that is
possible in these time of costly con­
struction.
There’s one change I’d like to see
in the new school building. I’d like
to have them rip out a wall and in­
stall there a cornerstone, with the
names of the board and Al Adams
inscribed thereon. And with no re-
flection on anyone, the name of Don
Scheythe should be carved in largest
letters.
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To the horseburger merchants in
Portland the authorities are saying:
“Neigh! Neigh!’’
Al Ge«ides, duly elected as Demo­
cratic precinct committeeman in the
last election, has been summarily de­
prived of office. His name has been
scratched. He <rualified in all respects
—except he's a registered Republi­
can.
The big race between man and
horse in on at last.
Finally the long standing challenge
of Paul Smith, Mill City’s 64-year-
old iron man and marathon walker,
has been accepted. He’ll race a horse
and rider on the Lebanon Meadows
track July 24.
It’s really not news to the people
here in the Canyon. For Paul has
been observed by hundreds almost
every evening, striding it off at a
pace that makes young men blink
with wonder, up and down the high­
way, above and below Mill City.
The race track will give Paul a bet­
ter break than he had last Fourth of
Jungwirth’s
New Grave)
Plant Opens
July, when he had to dodge holiday
traffic in his jaunt from Albany to
Mill City, 40 miles of gruelling test.
And at that time 'he had to nace
against himself, finding neither man
nor beast to accept his challenge.
The Lebanon race will be for 75
miles, quite a day’s hike for a horse,
but no problem for Paul. Wanna bet?
Paul Smith’s prowess as a walker
and athlete of great endurance are
well known to the Canyon, but for
newcomers, here’s a brief outline of
the man:
He went the full distance from Los
Angeles to New York in the Bunyan
Derby 25 years ago and came in 19th
(he’d have done better, but his man­
ager was too tight to keep him in
shoes; he won many long distance
hikes in the Northwest, or was high
in the money; he toted provisions to
miners here in the Canyon for many
years, once cairying a stove from
.Mill City to Quartzville, 15 miles of
rugged mountain walking.
3 Idanhans
Hurt in Crash
A $75,000 industrial enterprise be-
gan operation in the Canyon this
week—the biggest rock and giavel
plant esat of the Willamette Valley.
The new plant, located on the Mar­
ion County side of the North Santi­
Three men were injured, ona ser­
am. was built by the Jungwirth Con­
iously Saturday evening when the
struction Co. Increased demand for pickup
they were riding in collided
gravel, sand and rock in connection
with a truck three miles west of Id-
the rise in building operations here,
anha.
decided John Jungwirth and his son,
Calvin Cannon, 18, of Idanha, un­
Clarence Jungwirth, on their expan­
derwent surgery in a Bend hospital
sion plan. They had been operating a
to release ipresure on his brain due
much smaller plant in Lyons for a
to a skull fiacture. He had not re­
number of years.
gained consciousness early this week
, The new plant is located on a ‘huge and his condition was reported as
gravel bar about thiee miles west of grave.
Mill City. There a large quantity of
Richard Cannon, 21, also -a passen­
natural sand, as well as rock of var­
ger of the pickup, was confined to
ious dimensions.
the same hospital for 96 hours. He
At its highest point the plant is suffered a minor concussion when he
about 60 feet high. The gravel pit was thrown from the truck by the
area is about ten acres.
' impact. His condition is reported as
The rough rock and sand is entered ! satisfactory.
in the plant by truck at a ramp.
Charlie Cannon, 26, who was in the
Thence it is conveyed by rubber belt ; same vehicle, was taken b y Dick
to a separating assembly, where the
i Haseman to Memorial Hospital in
sand drops to the bottom and larger
Salem' for treatment. He was released
rock is screened by size. The boulders
but is confined to bed.
then fall into a hammermill, powered
Norman Bowers, driver of the flat­
by a diesel engine. The rock is brok­
bed truck owned by Milo Harris of
en by large bars revolving at a high
Idanha, was uninjured.
The truck
rate of sipeed.
was badly damaged; the pickup was
The crushed rock then is conveyed demolished.
on another rubber belt to a somewhat
lower height. There it is screened POWER BREAK CLOSES MILL
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and separated into hampers.
The Jungwirths devised a large
The Idanha Veneer Co. plant was
wheel which revolves slowly, drawing forced to suspend operations for a-
the washed sand and lifting it into while last Wednesday when a fire in
a sand hopper. The silt and dirt aie the Idanha Power Co. plant reduced
drained off.
current too low for operation.
Clarence Jungwirth said that there
are only a few deposits of sand in LOGGER BREAKS ARM
the Canyon and that they are fortun­
Keith W’hite, Detroit logger, broke
ate to have such an ample source.
his
right arm Friday when he was
The plant can be seen from the
highway about thiee miles west of thrown from a log while setting
chokers for Noyes Whitten. His arm
town.
A large fleet of trucks will carry was set by Dr. Andeisen in Stay-in.
the product to construction jobs here He was taken there by the Industrial
Hospital ambulance.
and in the valley.
Highway Fete
Given Eastern
Oregon Boost
An enthusiastic eastern Oregon it
leady to pitch in to make the open­
ing of the North Santiam highway
sometime in August a rousing affair.
That was the report of an upper
Canyon delegation after conferring
Tuesday in Redmond with a Cham­
ber of Commerce council of several
cities across the Cascades. The dele
gation, headed by Ed Vickers, pres­
ident of the Canyon Commercial Club
included Mrs. Ray Johnson, Otto Rus­
sell, Howaid Baldwin and Mrs. Gor­
don Skidmore.
Mr. Vickers reported that the re­
presentatives from Bend, Redmond,
Burns, Madras, Prineville and other
towns consider the new road their
own—the fidst time they’ve had a di-
recet route to “their capital." Bands,
paraders and caravans of cars were
promised.
On the othe’r side of the Cascades,
enthusiasm was not lacking. Robert
Veness, secretary of the Mill City
Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Vickers
and Clay Cochrane, manager of the
Salem chamber, worked out plans in
Salem Monday night for invitations
to a long list of notables, Chambers
of Commerce, private citizens who
have contributed to the drive to get
the road, and to many who person­
ally or by family connection contrib­
uted in the early discovery of Minto
Pass.
Tentative plans are for an east-
meets-west motif, and invitations are
being prepared to have both Gov.
Douglas McKay an dthe governor of
Idaho participate by meeting the day
of the celebration.
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Council Favors
I Traffic Lights
Manolis Dies
At Cafe Site
Funeral services for George Mano­
lis, 58, Silverton restauiatuer who
diedwhile supervising work on his
projected cafe near Gates Tuesday,
will be held in Silverton Friday at 2
p. m.
Mr. Manolis died unexpectedly at
the site of thediive-in restaurant he
had set out to build when his lease
on the Capitol building coffee shop
in Salem was not renewed.
Mr. Manolis is survived by his wi­
dow, a son, George Jr., and two bro­
thers.
Third Santiam
Rodeo a Success
The thitsi annual rodeo and horse
show of the Riders of the Santiam
at the lazy Maple Ranch between
Mill City and Lyons, was successful
and well attended.
The rodeo played to a huge crowd
Sunday and a somewhat smaller on*
the day before.
Mrs. Everett Limbeck was queen
of the rodeo and Margaret Nietiing
anil Carolyn Turnidge were princess­
es.
T. Henness, 95, one of the oldest
residents of the Canyon, rode in the
grand parade Sunday. Events includ­
ed bareback ridng. calf ropng. bronc
bustng and races.
By JEAN ROBERTS
“Whata yuh mean, young fellow ?” | Commtteemen n charge were Bert
indignantly replies the small fry,1 Karr, president, as timer; Jess Tay­
Strawberry season soon will be
lor, announcer; Fiak Studnick and
“
over, and the cry of “Carrier!” will don’t you know. I’m 10?”
Y’oung ami old, mostly women and | Happy Coville, judges; Jim King and
be a dying echo in the hills of the
children,
people from all walks of Barney Barnard, pickup men; Morris
Fei n Ridge country—until next year,
Howe, game chairman; and Fred
life form the army of pickers
Bent backs and blistered knees will
Gnuschke, director. Pete Peterson is
Strawberry
picking
by
no
means
soon heal, but it will take a litle I
depicts ones’ monetary status. One secretary-treasurer of the riders.
longer for the stained hands of the
Stock was furnished by Ellery De­
young girl, who arrived each morn­
strawberry picker to be white again,
Lashmutt
and Barney Barnard of
ing in a new Buick 8, was working
reminding him meanwhile of the
to earn extra money to attend norma! Sheridan.
miles of rows he crawled along.
school this fall; a young chap of 12
Strawberry patches are many but wanted a bicycle; a housewife — 3 CARS COLLIDE AT ELKHORN
they are much alike. From the far new carpet; another, some new
The cars of George Pettingill and
comer of the field one can hear the clothes.
Ike Myers collided Sunday night, just
disconsolate tones of th^ weary pick­
One boss remarked. “The ones that below the Sischo home in Elkho.n.
er as he laments. “Oh, Those Straw- work the hardest aren't the ones who Mr. Pettingill*« sister, who was rid­
be ry Groans.”
ing with him, was thrown against
need it the moat."
Nearoy a youngster shouts, "Hey,
(Tony Moravec, Fem Ridge berry the winshield. The Pettingill car was
Richard, are you working hard?’’ grower, •«aid that over .300 regular badly denttd and the front fender
“Naw,” Richard replies. “Come on, picker» were fumiehed to the Fem of Myers’ car crushed in. Consider­
young frilow. let’s get this patch Ridge growers by the Canyon this able time was spent prying the two
don.”
cars apart.
season.)
Berry Picking’s Rough
On the Knees, Says Here
Bids Called July 7th
For Paving Highway
State Will
Surface
New Road
The City Council Wednesday eve­
ning took action to install stop lights
in the business section on the Mar
The North Santiam highway be­
ion County side to eliminate a ser­
tween
Niagara and Detroit will be
ious traffic hazard.
pa veil soon. Bids were called July 7
Carl Kelly, stieet commissioner, by the Public Roads Administration
was instructed to work out a plan in Portland Wednesday for the sur­
with the state highway commission facing of the 13 miles, which has
to place stop lights at the top of the been hacked through the North San­
highway grade above the Red & tiam Canyon by the PRA and shaped
White store and on the bridge. May­ into a first class highway. Grading is
or Harold Kliewer's proposal, which scheduled for completion sometime in
was outlined to the council and to July.
the City Long Range Planning Com­
The paving program is the last
mission the night befoie, was to have phase in the completion off one of
th«> two lights syncronized so as to the most difficult highway jobs ever
keep one way traffic around the dan­ undertaken in the Northwest. Relo­
gerous corner and at the same time cation of the North Santiam high­
providing for safe crossing of the way was necessitated by the Detroit
street below by pedestrians.
Dam, the basin of which coveis the
Also, another question to be work­ route of the old road which was one
ed out with the highway commission of the most tortuous and dangerous
is the proposed closing of the under­ mountain routes in the Northwest.
Besides the paving, there remains
pass from the Shepherd addition to
Highway 222. The commission had the completion o f t h e Breitenbush
told Lee Ross of the planning conr- briilgr*«, and conside able grading and
mission it would install a drain at filling between Mongold and the dam­
that point on the highway anil elim­ site.
The Kuckenberr Construction Co.
inate the pool that usually collects
at the foot of the hill in front of the had the contract for building the ex­
Silver Saddle station if the viaduct isting grade and it's taken almost
were closed. By so doing, diainage two years to do the job. In addition
would be provided for the Shepherd to the rough terrain, the company
tract and the CB1 housing and park had other serious difficulties to meet.
The old highway had to be kep* open.
areas.
The railroad had to be kept in opei ■
The council, following a recommen­
atrin. Because of the steeip sides of
dation of the planning commission,
the'Canyon, moving off rock at the
voted to work out a plan with the
top usually resulted in avalanche-
state.
on the old road and railroad.
In connection with the same drain-
The new highway has given cen­
age aiea, some means vbill have to tral Oregon its fiist adequate route
lie found to eliminate a swamp that directly into the Willamette Valley,
forms against the railroad grade. Ef­ which means also that U. S. 97, a
forts so far to get the Southern Pa-, favored route to California, and an
< ti< rafh m ■ tn i>;a«-.- conduit ub A mt 'alternate road to eastern states are
the giade have not been successful, now soon to be opened.
although Councilman Robert Veness
has been in touch with the railroad
company.
Another request by the planning
commission to rezone an area ad­
jacent to the Thomas addision as
School district elections were held
residential, was tabled for further
throughout the Canyon Monday.
study.
In Mill City the budget was ap
The planning commission passed a
resolution addressed to the state high proved and two incumbent directors,
way commission calling for immedi­ Ramon Roberts and W. B. Shuey,
ate construction of a modern route were ieelected.
between Mill City and Mehama, cit­ GATES ELECTS 2 D'RE»T(>'.’4
The annual mee’i-g of Gatei
ing the hazards and inadequacy of
<choo! district was held Mo'idaj eve­
the pi esent route.
The petition was signed by J. C. ning. Two director« wert elected:
Kimmel, chairman, Roy Beebe, Neal Gale Oiivj u succeed Ebne- Kiutkc
Marttala, Lee Ross, and Charles Wol­ whose term xpi id: Mr Klutke wil1
complete ti * term of FrcJ Butler,
verton.
A regular meeting night of the who suomi.ted his resignation -.ftar
third Tuesday of the month was se- serving one year o* n three year
term.
lected.
Districts Hold
School Elections
LYONS RB-ELECTS JOHNSTON
Mill City Boy
Sees President
James Cooke, Salem high whool
’49 graduate and son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Cooke of Mill City, was photo­
graphed with President Truman in
Washington Friday as one of 19 boy
“governors” sent in a delegation spon
sored by the YMCA.
Young Cooke also ripok« over a
national network on yoth and citizen­
ship.
The North Santiam Recreation
Club will soon be ready to open on
the former Fred Gooch place, east
of Mill City on the Linn County road
to Gates, it was announced this week
by H. C. (Tex' Keller, of Salem, a
former Texan.
The club, which will have private
membership, will include a gun club,
saddle club, boxing an athletics of
various kinds. Mr. Keller said he
planned to have the dining room open
some time this week. The home is
being extensively remodeled.
The annual school meeting was held
at the Lyons school Monday evening.
The budget and tax were approved,
and G. Paul Johnston, whose term
had expired, was re-elected a direc­
to: for a three year term.
DETROIT ELECTS WHITTEN
At a school meeting Monday eve­
ning Noves Whitten, Idanha, was el­
ected to the three year term on the
board of directors of the Detroit dis­
trict, taking the place of Huber Ray.
Idanha.
CUB SCOUTS PROMOTED
At the pack meeting last week ad
vancement awards were given to a
number of the Cub Scouts.
They are:
Johnny Roten, Larry How, Terry
Muir, Charles Marttala. Lany Urban,
larry Bennett, Keith Powelson, Ar­
thur Webb. Ronnie Williams, Harold
Lee Kliewei, larry Kanoff. Jimmy
Baltimore, and Richard Ziebert.
A wiener roast was given by the
committeemen. There were 19 Cuba
present, an eat mated 45 parents and
chiHten.
The July 8 pack meeting will be
held in City Park with a 6:30 pot
luck supper for cubs and families.