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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1949)
MILL CITT ENTERPRISE, JULY 28. 1949 Democrat Asks Party Aid Earl Mason, Jefferson, chairman of the Linn County Democratic Commi ttee, today called for a full county alate of his party in the election next year. Listing the needs of the Democra tic party in Linn County, he pointed out that there a reactually more re gistered Democrats than Republicans in Linn, but the party has entered recent elections with but a handful of candidates. The Democrats, he said, need: 1. An active precinct organization. 2. Active efforts to increase Demo cratic registration. 3. Capable candidates. Mr. Mason pointed out that sev eral terms of office expire next year, including those of County Commis sioner Wayne Downing, State Senat or Orval Thompson, Democrat, State Senator Angus Gibson, Rep., State Reps. Warren Gill and Max Landon. He said it was the party’s respon sibility to seek actively these posts. Democratic clubs have been set up in Albany, Lebanon and Sweet Home and Mr. Mason said he would like to see other communities follow suit. Paving has beeen completed up to the Beebe apartments. The Anderson I Paving Co. «lid the work for Roy I Beebe. The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Co. has completed a pole line, carrying four circuits from Mill City to the Detroit Dam, according to H. V. Collins, Salem district manager for the utility. The present pole line between Mlli City and Gates was rebuilt, and a new line was built from Gates to the 1 dam. The new pole line beyond the dam will be extended to Camp Mongold by Oct. 1, and to the new site of De- troit by Nov. 1, Collins said. R. D. Johnson, owner of the De- j troit Telephone Co., shortly will ee- tablish an exchange at Detroit Dam, which will be in addition to his ex change at Detroit. The new exchange ! will piovide service for the Army Engineers and the contractors at the Detroit ami Big Cliff locations. CARNIVAL MEN HURT Two men were injured Friday in Gates while working on a ferris wheel being assembled at a carnival there. One worker suffered a broken leg, the other a broken arm. CORRECTION Albolene I.iq. . ... 69c Darol Caps. Alimin Cap». MILL CITY PHARMA<A wmom Featuring ç Unusual Cards for birthdays. anniversaries and birth congratulations MEDIEVAL FEUDS SO FREQUENTLY RESULT ED FROM SEATING GUESTS INCORRECT LY AS TO RANK, k THAT KNIGHTS AND LADIES WERE EV- CHINESE COOKING, BE i CAUSE OF POVERTY, UTILIZES EVERYTHING, ' EXCEPT CHEESE-WHICH THEY REFUSE TO EA T. MU rr’.o®« UIOM* to eat ii. Store-Bought Cakes • • r -4 ' > EV. ' ~ /JUNE 24ty, MOST CIEN T SCAN DINA VIAN FESTIVA L, GR EA T WL F!RES LIGHTED THE 1 HILLTOPS, WHILE BEER TOASTS WERE DRUNK TO BANISH FLYING PIGEONS, FAVORITE SPANISH DISH, ARE INGENIOUSL Y HUNT ED BY SCARING THEIR migration flights THROUGH BOTTL E- f 4 NECK MOUNTAIN « s J PASSES INTO NETS. Copyright- >9*9 J. VCMt hl/ Real Quality Cakes cost no more at . . MUIRS BA K E R Y ....... ...... -«Mi "US. (Continued from Page 1) . it—coming from nowhere and going nowhere—just to pie-empt the route ! for future development. It was not until 1925 that a high- way was cut through t'he rough part ’rom Niagara to Detroit. It was » Willamette Valley. Between Mill City , na: row, winding, dangerous road, but and Detroit the colossal Detroit Dam (' the upper Canyon people who had is being built. And the highway, now , settled there and cut the timber, were lifted almost 500 feet above the riv happy to have any road at all. It is related by older residents in er for several miles from the dam site eastward, will follow the shore the Canyon that three contractors line of a lake that deep, when the wa went broke tiying to build the curv ters of the reservoir of Detroit Dam ing and perilous grades, and that the begin backing up just two years a- bonding company had to finish it. the splendid road from Sisters to De head. In the depression of the early 30s This great new highway has a his- tory which was shaped by people who troit gave woik to the unemployed. pioneered the Canyon country, One Part of the same project was the of the pioneers, Ehh Henness, for- South Santiam Highway UJS. No. 20 merly of Gates, died just last year from the Santiam Junction to Leba just a few months short of the cen- non. Many in the Canyon worked tury mark. He, with a brother, first on this project, especially the log discovered what later became called ger who cleared the right of-way. But the stretch between Detroit Minto Paas. Judge Minto, of Salem, and Niagara got worse and worse. found the Cascade opening some few years after the Gates pioneers made The accident toll was heavy. Slides and freezes wrecked the roadbed al the discovery. most every winter. And with thg com That was in the 1870s. In the lat ing of the great projects to the Can ter part of the 19th century a trail yon —• the Detroit Dam, Big Cliff was broken through to the Bend re Dam, and others, the road would no gion, but it remained only a trail for 1 anger do. many years. .Moreover eight or nine miles of it Meanwhile, logging interests went were due to be under the water level ahead with a line which led into one of the reservoir. of the richest lumber stands in the So, as part of the Detroit Dam world, the upper Santiam country. project, the Corps of Army Engin- Even in the early days railroad en eeia decided to rebuild the road. The gineers were aware of the natural actual responsibility, however, was advantages of the pass and its ap given to the Public Roads Adminis proaches. For more than a decade a tration, with funds appropriated for great railroad line maintained a few the dam. rods of track, with a car or two on The Kuckenberg Construction Co. of Portland was low bidder on the biggest part of the route. Guy At kinson Co. had a three mile stretch between th«. Breitenbush River and the existing highway above Detroit. That company found, if they did not know before, that the job they 11ALLMAM picked was as rough a one as they would ever do. Construction was dif 1 ficult, not only because of the ter rain, but because the railroad had to be kept in operation. A cut made at one point above, meant avalanches of TT CARDS .rock below, on the railroad bed. Even worse handicap was the need to keep the old highway open- which meant detours, flagmen, pilot cars—and lots of lost time. Although injuries were frequents among the road builders, only one fatality was recorded. In fact, the old highway took a heavier toll than the building of the HALLMARK ne.r < ne. In a single week end, three TT CARDS men went over the bank to their l aths last summer. ■ T e Canyon, while realizing the impo tance of the highway to the state an 1 nation greets it as a tie again made among its various com munities. M ll City and Detroit, for CARDS instance, not long ago an hour to two hours apart, are now but a swift .“0 minute' away from each othe . Or will 1 be when the surfacing is co r - plrte. Highway Ushers Modern Age FAMOUS MAKE GAS RANGES 9995 Formerly $179.50 LESS LAMP AND CLOCK ’21.00 down Balance 18 month» « NEW RANGES/ featuring all white Porcelain, Large full size Oven, Flavor Seal Broiler, Storage Space Cabinet See them on display at L PROPANE -1 ^^SALES • SERVICE «. Gas Heat, Inc. SAM BRIDGES, Prop. hallmark The Enterprise Is Growing IIALLMARK " CARDS Circulation in three years has trebled Advertising lineage has quadrupled lie K North I OOKOI I S M WXED Edward Williams 3.30 Court i SAI EM ten lookouts controlled by the Service hf\e been mar ;ed I ve smoke chase s have been summer season, ec Moore, district ran- LYONS, Ore. We're growing with the Canyon
