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The North Santiam’s
Mill City Enterprise
VOLI «E V. NUMBER 27
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gig Aviation Day Set for Sunday
Looking up
and Down
the Canyon D t jt wm
By CHARLES WOLVERTON
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John Outlander, construction Work
er, was waiting out the winter in
California when he heard of a gigan
tic new job, the Detroit Dam, about
to start in the North Santiam coun
try in Oregon. So he set out to get
a job.
John was an all-’round man. He
could skin a cat, run a power shovel,
drive a truck—so it wasn't long be
fore he ha«l a job.
But he found that his wages al
though as good as he had ever made,
ddn’t go very far. He had come to
the land of plenty—plenty of goug
ing.
<
First he got a room for himself,
until his family could be brought
from California.
The room, which he shared with
..ix or eight other dam workers, cost
him a dollar a night. There was no
bath, but there was a handsome little
building outside. A few inquiries dis
closed the information that the en
tire house, at prevailing rates, had
rented for $30 a month not long be
fore. The basement was bringing in
th«e landlotd over $100 a month.
This would not do, he said to him-
self, so he struck out to find a home
tor his family. The first one he in
vestigated was tastefully decorated
with hanging wallpaper, open air
windows, and he ran a splinter
through he's shoe walking across the
Moor. The exterior was attractivel*
lanscaped with a path learding to a
mall structure in the rear.
High
finish enclosed homesite, giving it a
hidden aspect—in fact, you couldn’t
fee the place fo. t’.. weeds. The
rent was reasonably priced at $85
a month. Said he:
• “Th:s mansion is for the well-to-
do, the high-born. It should be re
served for the upper classes. I am
owly working man. I shall have
to search further.’’
So he went on to other prospective
rental quarteis, but the grandeur of
the sites he found invariably were too
■ lazzling—or at least, the price was.
tit was astonishing how the mere
incidence of a government dam had
added to the beauty and luxury of
structure* which a few months be
fore and without any major repairs
—would have been impolitely called
da mps.)
But John was a simple fellow, and
the price tag lent beauty to the home
sites he sought.
So John bought a tent.
“I am just a working man. Such
castles aie not for me.”
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Other folks «roming in are not so
humble as John. They are rude en
ough to say that the mansions that
are renting for up to $100 monthly
are still dumps. They aie saying that
they are being taken by people in
Mil) City and the Canyon, ami some
unappreciative fellows are so bold as
to indicate that other prices, too, are
a little rough.
One fellow, for instance, told me
it was costing him $25 for five days
cf meals, but of course, he «ioubtlexs
»ax a man of voracious appetite.
• • •
Up here at The Enterprise, we're
not taking sides. Wouldn’t do. This
data on mansions and their lent—
¿nd aspersions that the mansions are
really shacks—is brought to you in
e purely reportoiial vein. Far be it
for the paper to say that “four rooms
and path is not worth $80 a month,
Sei iously. however, the talk one
hears in the Canyon and outside of
• eweomer« being gouged is not help-
•ig tht. future of the North Santiam
area, whch, by reason of being the
beneficiary of $100.000,000 in federal
a ejects. should go on to a glorious
future when the «tarns are built.
Profiteering now will drive out the
fine new people now locating here,
and they'll quit this Canyon as soon
ts the work on the dams is done.
But if the natural hosp tality
the West— and of the Canyon—
•-xtended to practices which make
possible for the new citizens to live
economically, many, perhaps mod of
them will remain »th us.
The warmest greeting we can give
them is a demonstration that we arc
’d roinr to take advantage of the
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Evacuate
Fall of 1951
The town of Detroit will be evac-
uated in the fall of 1951 if work on
the Detroit Dam goes on schedule,
Col. J. W. Miles, resident army en
gineer, told a public meeting there
Thursday.
The meeting, held to acquaint pro
perty owners in the upper Canyon
community of questions arising from
the acquisition of land which will be
covered by the reservoir of Detroit
Dam, was attended by about 200.
Representatives of the Army En
gineers corps explained plans being
made for payment and answered
questions from citizens.
In addition to Col. Miles, the En
gineers were represented by O. L.
Hoffman, director of the real estate
division, his assistant, B. L. Price,
H. H. Rockwell, attorney for the
corps, and Frank Meyer, assistant
U. S. marshall.
The resident engineer’s office at the
damsite is to be started this week,
the contract to build it being held by
the Rushlite Company. The same firm
has nearl ycompleted the new au«li-
toiiaum at the new school.
Acquisition of property in the De
troit area is progressing satisfactor
ily, Col. Miles said.
Logs Pile Up
In Rail Mishap
A pileup of four ualloads of logs
halted traffic on Che North Santiam
Wrandh of the Southern Pacific rail-
road Wednesday.
Railroad men estimated that 20 or
moie l*tgs rolled off the train. The
pileup was caused by one log which
rolled off, and jammed into the dirt
and dislodged logs off other cars as
l hey went by.
The accident occurred between Ni
agara and Gates.
Railroad workers aie momentarily
expecting n«<ice to transfer tn other
jobs .
shortage of housing by undue tents.
Mi. and M rs. Harold Mason and
family went picnicking the Fourth
on the North Santiam. Alice Aplet,
a cousin of Aberdeen, Wash., went
with them. She is spending a few
lays here.
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Wer’re sorry! .Mechanical difficul-
ties prevented us from publishing a
larger paper this week—plus a last-
minute rush of advertising demans.
Bear with us a little while and we
will be squared off for a bigger and
better Mill City Enterprise.
Kniiing Charge
Holds Detroiter
Air Show
Breakfast
2.00— F-51 Fighters from Oregon National Guard based at Portland will
strafe field.
2:15 — Demonstration “Dead Stick Landing
2:15 — Demonstration “Dead Stick Landing" —Ken Chance, Mill iCty.
2:30 — It’s a Secret!
2:45 — Formation flight of light planes. — Hal Fisher, Ted Finlay, Silvei
ton, Ted Galbraith, Mill City.
3:00 — Parachute jump. — “Shorty” Stark, Silverton
Mill City's biggest celebration is
3:15 — Helicopter manuevers. —Capt. Hammons, 1st Lt. Maerls, both of
2nd Infantry at Ft. Lewis, Wash.
ready a unique event bringing to
3:45 — Pants race (a comedy act)
the Canyon its first glimpse of bril
4:00 — Precision stunts in AT-6. —Ted Galbraith
liant aerial acrobatics. For Sunday
is Mill City Aviation Day, and a full
schedule of events, from eaily morn
ing til late afternoon, is in store.
The Davis Airport near Gates will
be swarmed with 150 or more visiting
planes beginning at about 8 a.m. The
Mill iCty Chamber of Commerce will
act as host, and provide a barbecue
A total of $40,01)0 will be spent on breakfast for t)he visiting airmen.
improvement of Mill City’s water
The air show in the afternoon pro
system in the pioject now under way, vides a varied entertainmetn, with
Mountain States Power Co. officials helicopter manoeuvers, stunting par
1 Lumber companies using the Sou-
achute jumping, <lead stick landing,
said this week.
Riem Pacific branch above Gates le-
Construction of new mains and in and comedy acts.
ceived notice this week to prepare for
stallation of meters is on schedule,
The National Guard’s P-51s will
the abandonment of the line to Id R. L. Stewart, local manager for the
swoop down over the field to start
The steep grade on the corner on anha about Aug. 15.
company's Mill City-Stayton area re the program. They are the fastest
Highway 222 in Mill City was the
They were told that after that time
fighter used during the last war, ex
scene of another accident Wednesday logs and lumber shipments would ported.
Since
the
company
’
s
water
improve
cept
for jet plane«.
afternoon.
have to be shipped by other means of ment program was elaunched last
A committee of Chamber of Com
Henry Baltimore was driving his tiansiportation.
May to bring Mill City’s water sys merce members met at the airport
pickup up the dangerous grade. A
Several upper Canyon mills already tem up to the needs of an increasing Tuesday night for final plans. Mer
car was stalled half way up.
Mr. have procured rail loading sites in
Baltimore had to stop, and his car the Gatees area. These include the population, over 5900 feet of new chants and businessmen are publish
mains have been laid and about 160 ing a program listin gthe events of
got out of control, rolling backward Idanha Lumber Co., which has ac
the day.
until it crashed into a car parked by quire«! pioperty from Albert Millsap water meters installed.
The
completed
program
will
have
Local fliers participating in the air
the Red and White store. No one was in Gates, The Ford Harvey Lumber
8000 feet of new mains and meters show are Ted Galbraith, manager of
injured, but both automobiles were Co. of Idanha which has asked for
the field, and Ken Chance.
for all consumers.
da maged.
a 150 foot siding, and the Idanha Ve-
“Mill City, like many other cities
Especially in the past few months
,neer Co.
in the Northwest, is going through MILL lTTY SHARE IS 8H458.4O
when traffic has tripled on the high-
The railroad was ordeied by an In a period of rapid giowth and expan
way, the steep grade has become a
OF HIGHWAY FUND
terstate Commerce Commission find sion which has taxed the local mains
serious danger spot. Trucks, and par
Mil City's shme
state highway
ing last year, to be abandoned when to the utmost,” Mr. Stewart said.
ticularly cars pulling trailer houses,
funds was *5453.40 for 1949, it was
the new North Santiam highway is “This growth is necessitating the
are stalled by the abrupt rise seveial
announced by the commission today.
declared
ready for travel. The Kuck- earliest competion of the improve
times daily.. The grade is so steep
Last year the city got $5229.65.
enberg Construction Co. is sheduled ment program. However, due to
that heavily loaded trucks will tip,
The allocation is made to lincor-
to complete the road in less than a I shortages of some materials, an ear
front end vtp, trying to make it.
porated cities and towns, The fund
lier starting date upon the project distributed totaled over .$8 million.
Despite frequent 1 equests to the month.
Uuder the plan for the abandon was not possible.”
State Highway Commission to elim
When completed, a considerable
inate the hazard or at least have it ment of the line, a railhead is to be
impiovement
of water pressure will ON HONOR ROLL
established
in
Gates.
marked plainly to divert heavily load
Delos Hoeye, who is attending Ore
Already
However, the poition of the branch be notices, he explained,
ed vehicles, nothing has been done.
gon State College under the GI plan,
the
some
parts
of
town
are
noting
between
Gates
and
the
site
of
the
A highway representative two
won a place on the honor roll Chis
years ago. after a request made by Detroit Dam will probably be used difference.
year. He had 4 A’s and 2 B’s. Mr.
for
the
duration
of
construction.
Mill City businessmen to Highway
Hoeye ia a son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Dont Borrow. Subscribe!
The portion of the line below Gates
Engineer Baldock, promised that
D. Hoeye of Mill City.
something would be done. Nothing t»s unaffected by the order. The line
in
its
pi
esent
route
will
be
under
has.
water of the reservoirs of the I>etroit
Ind Big Cliff dams.
The passing of the branch railroad
L eo C D ean
¡doses a chapter of histoiy in this
Canyon. The line to Mill City was
Many of us are, at times, nausea! Observatoiy. .Many cows give milk,
built in 1885 It was extended to De- end and disgusted by the vapid
lome with reluctance. If a cow’s off-
The Rogeis Construction Co. will troitand Idanha later by lumber com mouthing» of ’adio commentators. sirring happens to be a mule, it is
begin work soon on paving the new panies reaping the first rich harvest We know a citizen who will not per not called a cowboy, as would nat
ly completed portion of the North of the Canyon's old growth fir. For mit the voice of Gabriel Heater to urally be expected. A young cow is
Santiam Highway. The company was many years, before the completion be heard in his home. The Rail’s con called a heifer, and a mature cow is
law bidder with $1 95,995 on an as of the first North Santiam Highway ductor invariably tunes out all com called names that we cannot print
phalt surface for 13 miles, W. H. in 1925, it was the only access to mercials. We’d rather miss part of here.
Lynch. Bureau of Public Roads div the upper Canyon country.
a good program than to listen to
In its heyday, as many ax 150 cars some liar brag about the healing pro The randing Chute
ision engineer, announced.
The surfacing, which will begin in of logs were shipped out on the line perties of a cigaiet. But in Bruce
“Thiough the long windows the
10 days after the contract award, daily, and it seived the big Hoover Williams, Station KOCO at Salem sunny roofs off Chartres, far below,
will connect eastern Oregon and the company, as well ax the Hammond has a sports announcer who is one spun a fantastic rigolo.”—Christo
Willamette Valley for the first time Lumber Co. in big operationx from
the best in the business. If you're pher Morley.
with a modern road through the Cas- the turn of the century to the mid a baseball fan, and especially if you
RIGOIX>—An Italian round dance.
cades. The route from Mill City to Thirties.
have ever played baseball seriously,
Salem is still sulhstanda! d, however.
you will appreciate his work.
He Side lloads and Short Cuts.
knows sports, and can tell a chai ley-
Whatever became of the Hate and
horse from a flying mare ax sixty pencil so indispensable in the lower
paces. If you can’t see the Salem school grades in the long ago? Too
Senators play ball, listen to Bruce economical, we take it, and purged
announce a game- he not only tells by the paper trust. . .Or mush and
w-hat happens, but why it happens.
milk, which furnished the foundation
Two towns that made the bean fa-
F’aul Smith, 64 year old marathon
for many a supper in the day» when
er who will race a horse for 75 miles mous will get together—«with accre I “Breaths There a Man With Soul So men had enough vitality to work six
Dead’"
on a Lebanon race track Sunday, Ju d ted representatives next week in
full days a week’...And fried mush
y “Are we to ait back with baited for breakfast next morning Things
ly 24. took a little longer warm up Boston.
At that time Stay ton. Ore.’s, Jack breath. . . ”■ From a letter in Wil- we can do without — strawberries.
fr-.unt la«t week a mere 62 miles on
in
thP Beanstock, the lu«ky lad of 6 liam .Moyes' column. Portland Ore- Milton Berle, Al Jolson, Eddie Can
the read between Portland and Mill
or 8 chosen for the Ben Festival July ironian.
tor, Walter Winchell. Thing.« we ap
City.
P'eciate red raxplrerriev. Fibber and
The trial run of Mill City'» fam 27-31, will meet Mayon James Curley
.««»!>. after a trans-coun .Notes on the Cow.
Molly, Lum and Abner.. What Mill
ous walk acer was almost twice as J of Boston, Mass.,
The cow is a farm arrima!, of sol- ( ity man was «een climbing through
far as the previous week when he pry flight to th» eastern capital of
*mn and melancholy expression, but hi» neighbor*» bedroom window a t
The Bean.
strode off 32 miles in a day.
“I’m out fior a world'» record this I Mayor Curley telegraphed Gene don't let that fool you. A middle- daylight one morning last week?
Pvlalecki, fertival manager, that the aged cow, wearing a look of sodden Wasn’t any we know of, but we need
time,” he said.
Buck, the cowpony whose owner fcouthful representative of the West’» grief, can change gears so fast it ed a ’’snapper” to end this paragraph.
would make your head swim, and
lad challenged Smith a
<j»ita»l would be greetol
dropkick a weite weight hired hand1 "And We Quote . .”
to bet »1000 on the horae, is out of ?fullfle<iged I delegatioq. He a«kied:
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... ,etu
.eturn for the case of bean.« 26 feet. Nothing pleases a cow so
“A newHpaper far a rule unto it
the picture.
The _ horse
was —
injured
But four other horses im- I you propose giving us, we will pre- much as to spend the day dragging self. It has a soul for salvation or
on a fence.
1
mediately worp
were naît
put in to challenge .w-nt Jack w th a pot of the best beans her tail through a cockleburr patch. damnation."—Heywood Rroun.
Smth. Paul din’t know this week ’in the world: Boston Baked Beans." She will chuckle throughout t h 1 »
• Jack in the Bean Stock leaves on **Kr“ edure. and then at milking time
Uncle Henry Henstutter »ay»,
for sure who hi» opponent will be.
Thursday from Salem by plane and ! »wing the ta 1. which w e I g h e a 18 “Grampa Hardscrabble, who carries
( pound», against the side of Grampa’s hi» false teeth in hi» hip pocket, wax
James Pratt crushed two fingers wil be in Roxton the next day.
Stayton ia making this year’s fair | head, causing him to «wallow h I a severely bitten while tyin’ hia *hft>
last Wednesday at his job . n fie Id
its bigrest ever.
V* “ ' and see more »tars than Lick string yestiddy."
anha bumbe- Co. mill.
ATTACK
wl
John L. Paulson, 45, construction
worker, was held in $1500 bail this
week on a charge of assault with a
deadly weapon, following his arrest
early Wednesday morning in Detroit.
According to officers, Paulson at
tacked his wife with a knife in their
Detroit home. He was arrested by
Deputy Sheiff Edgar Scott and J. T.
Smith, Mill City police chief acting
as special deputy at about 1:30 a.m.
Wednesday morning.
Paulson was taken to the Marion
County jail in Salem. He is an oiler
on a construction job.
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Hop Coming
Water System
Cost $40,000
SP Branch
Due to Go
Highway Rise In August
Perils Traffic
The Third Rail /iv
High wav Paving
Will Start Soon
Smith in Practice
Walks 62 Miles
VICTORY I ng ri t Bergman, .«tarred
a.« Joan, offer« a prayer for the
vietoty of her armies, in “Joan of
Arc," coming to the Mill City
Theater July 26-27.
Air Show Program
Jack to Sample
Beans in Boston
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