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SERVING THE NORTH SANTIAM VALLEY The North Santiam’s Mill City Enterprise VOLLME V, NUMBER 34 Mil l CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY. tUGl’Sl Looking Up Big Rise Seen and Down In School the Canyon Enrollment Traffic Hits Record on .-..1919 LYONS. m I^HAM. a " ELKHOR?? MIU. CITY, GATES, MONGOLD DETROIT and IDANHA .rwMMgHkMWMM »2.00 A YEAR. 5 CENTS A COPT Dam Tunnel to Be Finished by Sept. 2 By CHARLES WOLVERTON Have you taken a trip around town Traffic on the new North Santiam lately ? There are many wonderful School registration in the Canyon things to see. New buildings, new this fall is expected to reach an all- highway more than doubled in the people, Everything new but the av- time high, and school officials are ten days since its opening Aug. 14, enues. waiting for registration day with a a spot check revaled this week. Last Let me suggest an itinerary. Sunday more than two and one-half feeling of dread. Y’ou start out north on Springbus An estimated 75 to 100 additional times normal travel took to the new ter Drive, then turn left at Rattle students aie expected in Gates. Up ' route. Road. You proceed slowly, trying to the Canyon, in the Detroit - Idanha | Already heavy trucks going to Cal decide which of a row of chuckholes district, scool officials anticipate that ifornia and the east are seen in in to hit. then you turn right at cordu even the facilities of the new build creasing numbers. roy Street. All along the route you ing will be taxed. I Sunday, tourist and recreation tra The diversion tunnel for the North The Bonneville Power Administra will see beautiful new homes, partial vel boomed. Traffic was far heavier Mill City doesn ’ t know quite what Santiam River through the mountain tion Tuestlâÿ Swarded a low bid of ly hidden by piles of excavated dirt even than it was for the opening day $52,760 for clearing a portion ofrug- on the south bank is scheduled to be along new water mains. Now you to expect. Over 100 new dwellings the previous Sunday. completed Sept. 2, according to the come, after changing three tires, to have been built since the close of the Request of the Marion County ged land on its right-of-way from Local restaurant and tavern trade court for immediate construction of the Detroit Dam over the Cascades Mill City office of Consolidated Build Highway 222, especially engineered spring term. Trailer camps are fill ers, Inc. by R. C. Baldock for oxcart travel. ing up. At least 150 of them are park jumped considerably during the day. a new route for Highway 222 on the to Clem H. Eslinger, of Hillboro. The ed in the Mill City aiea. Charles Kel The cars of picnickers and fishermen Marion side of the river was put on bids on the portion ranged as high (In Washington this w’eek an ap Thence across the bridge and up Bal propriation of $9,500,000 for the De dock Curve, a gentle incline for which ly, postmaster, estimated to the pos were rolling up the Canyon bumper the agenda of the State Highway as $400,000 . one is advised to hire a tow truck tal department that there are 2500 to bumper, from early morning, and Commission this week for “earliest I The area in question, a 175 foot troit Dam was approved by a joint people in the Mill City area—the last the stream of traffic both ways did possible attention.” before attempting. right-of-way, is from the damsite and confeience of Representatives and Senators. The sum is lower than the You have now taken in the sights official census in 1947 showed 1223. not subside till some time after dusk. In reply to a strong demand from I Breitenbush. All this indicates a tremendous in The use of the road since the open Marion County officials, Secretary of Mill City along its famous boule The contractor was given 360 days $11,300,000 sought by the Army En vards. If your credit is good at your crease in the school population and ing appears to be but a preview of Glayser said the matter would be i to complete the job. Announcement gineers.) The tunnel, 25 feet in diameter and local garage. I’d suggest an overhaul. enrollment. Even a voluntary kinder what it is expected to be as soon as put up to the commission at first op-1 of the award was made by W. E. • • ♦ garten registered 40 pre-school child surfacing is completed. Trommershausen, Eugene, district 1400 feet long, is being excavated by portunity. the Shea Co., Alhambra, Calif., one The Linn County courthouse oper ren—more than the customary first A crusher is being set up along The court contended that the pres manager for BPA. Comment of contractors engaged of the principals of CBI. Ed Shea of ates on the theory that the North grade figure, the unsurfaced portion and Bureau ent route would not carry the big Lyons, too, has noticed what indi- of Public Roads officials are hopeful equipment and installations for the in clearing work for Bonneville and the Alhambra firm vistited the tun Santiam Canyon is out of bounds, al though that which lies south of the cates a larger enrollment. that the final surface can be laid be Detroit Dam, and pointed out that the Detroit Dam reservoir was gen nel job Thuisday. Every district in the Canyon anti- fore the fall rains set in. The high two bridges, in Mehama and Mill City et ally skeptical that the job could be Hard Rock All the Way. river is — and we've got maps to The tunnel work has progressed cipipated the increase with building way will be black-topped. prove it—without doubt in Linn. were too narrow for many anticipated done for the contract figure. They pointed out that there are hundreds rapidly since it was started in July. Rogers Bros., Poitland contractors loads. The courthouse feels that what bus programs the past year. In Detroit iness there is to be transacted can a large building was erected for the for surfacing the 14 miles, shipped Locally theie has been further sur of snags—“widow makers”— tha are It will be completed on schedule. All be done by mail to this i emote pro district by the Aimy Engineers. Mill part of their crusher up the Canyon veying by the state, and property a menace and a chore in any logging the way the diggers encounteder only solid rock with no faults, indicating vince. City is completing a large 12-room today. owners of unpurchased portions of or clearing operation . that a solid foundation for the dam BPA also announced the opening grade school. Gates added this sum- right of way have been approached. I’m not kidding, that’s how they of bids on another section of clearing will be provided at the site. police this part of the Canyon. It’s ’mer to its facilitits. Lyons consolid Meanwhile work is going ahead on on the Maupin-Detroit transmission hard to believe but true that the Al ated district will have its new school I line—the Warm Springs portion. Low a coffer dam just below the upper bany officials are doing a mail order completed by October. bidder when estimates were opened tunnel entrance. When the hole is The Gates schools will open for the business in warrants for crime. I Tuesday was the V & M Operating cut through, the water of the river This is a tiue story. About a month fall term September 12. The grade will be diveited by the temporary Co., Oswego, for $129,000. ago three hoodlums went to the school has received a new coat of Three meetings of property owners The Contract was divided into three dam into the tunnel. Grange dance at Mehama. There they paint inside and a new oil burning and school and city officials were held At the'ex it'end of the hoik, a train j parts, and not all bidders submitted demolished part of the hall and, when furnace has been installed. The high this week in an effort to reach an an officer of the lodge tried to re school building has been, completely, •i agreement on paving Evergreen St. Résiliants of th- Elkhorn district ®; three schedules. Of ing wmi is being installed. This is to strain them, one of the rowdies slug renovated and the kitchen from which 1 I from the CBI addition to First Ave. voted overwhelmingly to Join the Mill those that (did, the foliowihg bids direct the water from the tunnel back into the channel below the dam. were made: ged him in the eye, breaking his the hot lunches are served has also The parties concerned were to meet City school district, in a special meet- I The tunnel is large enough that a Andre J. Schmid, Orchards, Wash., glasses with the blow and injuring ben painted and is ready for the op again Thursday evening. But chief ing at the school house. .car can turn around in it. $273,408.00; M. A. Pithoud, Vancou- ening of school. An addition of three obstacle so far has been lack of funds him. fortunately not seriously. In the final vote 13 ballots were The hoodlums were known. A for new dressing rooms and eight show in the school district, which has pro cast in favot of joining with Mill City vet, $296,950; and F. E. Wilder, 01- . .CBI Hiring 180. At present, 480 are on the CBI ympia, $297,500. mal complaint was signe 1 against ers has enlarged the gymnasium • d perty on two thirds of the stretch. and 7 for joining with Lyons. payroll here. In addition seveial hun them. So— brought the building up *o standard. i Consolidated Builders. Inc., has of Bill Bickett was chairman of the , Bids are being reviewed. dred more are indirectly employed in The district attorney wrote them It has been ceiled inside and newly fered to pay the cost of the pave meeting at which Mrs. Agnes Booth, | the Detroit Dam project by the Army a letter! Asking, please, Mr. Hood painted inside and out. A new roof ment past its addition and along the county superintendent of schools in Engineers, Bonneville and numerous lum, will you kindly give yourself up has been placed on the building and park frontage south of the centerline Marion County, and Walter Bell, of subcontractors. Stayton, attorney, were present. in the matter of a little mayhem, as an automatic oil burner installed. Oth of the street. Work started last week on disman er improvementB are cement side sault and felonious vandalism. The Elkhorn distiict has found it In meetings thus far, the school tling the railroad, which was closed The three accused men did not re walks and gravel placed over the yard board had to report, reluctantly, that increasingly difficult to maintain a above the dam when the highway was ply. Presumably, they didn’t have a in the back making a large parking it just didn’t have the funds for the school for the 15 or more children i Now you ynow where you live. opened. Local engineers said that the stamp. space free from mud. of permanent residents because of the This week porcelain, white-on-blue pavement. abandonment of the branch has help • • • street signs were installed on most ed to speed up work on the dam, and Also discussed was a plan to place teacher shortage. With a good toad across the ridge So, your editor, always ready to of the main streets in town, and the a stoplight at the school crosswalk excavation of the north face will pro oblige, has volunteered to reply in to the new school. Th«, light would —and one is now being constructed townsfolk, who up to now have had ceed soon after the tracks are re- his best English in behalf of the tree, be of a type that pedestrians could by the county the children can be a hard time directing strangers, will moved. as follows: served by school buses. find the job a little easier. ! epe ate when crossing the street. I raffle is being held up for brief Mrs. Ray Roberts and others from "Deor Mi. District Attorney: Robert Veness, councilman, had the periods on the highway while a pow The street has become increasingly Elkhorn conferred today with mem- "Thank you for your kind invita assignment of getting the signs and er shovel above loads big “Ukes” At a special meeting Wednesday in use with the building of 40 or more tion to visit you in Albany and dis aftemoon. plans were discus.-ed for homes in the area using it. Also, the be s of the Mil] City school board. installing them. with rock. The site 1 b being excavat cuss matters of mutual interest. A few weeks ago, in the Thomas ed for a tower—one of two which the new kindergarten which is being city council ha« previously studied a “It so happens that on the day sponsored by the Mill City Parent- plan for cutting a new street feeding AUTO CLIFF I’LUNGE KILLS 2 addition, the first street sign was in- A Portland couple, Roscoe Pierce i stalled there by a property owner, will hold cables that carry huge buck you suggest, I have another engage Teacher Association. About 40 chil out of the Swift addition into the ets of concrete to pour into the form ment. Some friends and myself were dren have been registered for the pie school area. This would further in ,and Mrs. Anna B. Pierce, both about George Steffy. for the dan. 30. were killed early Monday when ■ ;--------- planning to muss up a joint up the school instruction which will begin crease its use. Methods Still Under Study Canyon a piece. their vtation wagon plunged into a HOTEL INTEREST SOLD Monday morning, September 12, at <’BI engineers saivi that the meth deep canyon off Highway 22. "In the matter you mention in your the firehall. od of transporting rock, gravel and I FOOTBALL PRACTICE TO START Alva Johnston, formerly of Dallas, A motorist noticed auto lights still courteous letter, I wish to state that A charge of six dollais per month .has purchased the equipment and fix sand from the Cumley Creek quarry burning in the wrecked car and Les- I am considering filing a complaint will be made for each child, plus an * '>ach Burton Boroughs of the Mill has still not been decided. Either a over the events of that particular assessment for equipment as the need City High School has announced that ton Howell, county deputy, arrived tures of the Mill City Hotel and took over the management this week. He wide rubber conveyer belt will carry evening. We found the Granges most arises. Msr. R. L Ash. instructor, said football practice will start Sept. 1, at the scene about 3 a.rr. Apparently a tire had burst and ìecently operated a hotel in Truckee, the aggregate, or a truck road will unhospitable. In fact, they heaved us would order many of the necessary <* few days in advance of the open be used. More likely is the conveyor the brakes locked just before the two Calif., and before then ran the Im out of the place. Is that any way to sup; li on her visit to Seattle thi ing of school. syst-m. perial Hotel in Dalias. went over the cliff. treat a citizen, going about his busi week. Mr. Boroughs said the first meet ness tearing down doors and busting ing will be held at 7:30 p.m., pre windows? ceded by a practice period beginning “I plan to be in Albany sometime at 5. Equipment will be issued the in 1955. If you are still in office. I’ll same day. look you up. Coach Boroughs, who takes over “Please hold the war: ant till I ar- sports direction here this year after rive. several successful seasons in Sweet Home, s t essed the importance football prospects showing up nitial nr Meting. Ou bus ine Although Mill City High Sch man, fc l< -t some key plaver» bv gra- (I quote): last year, it still has a hard < round which tn m, with r ntity. On • Podrabd po-itir Verb rente . New Route More Clearing Old Railroad For Highway Bids Opened Taken Up Under Study Paving Plans Hit a Snag Elkhorn Asks School Tieup First Street Signs Installed Here Kindergarten To Start in Fall Work on Road To Elkhorn Begins t. 3 V IH»( h < Ol I MN logging I Ittle >i»y of the I960 Studebaker paaaenger eara la ahown In thia view of the Champion it<-d interiora keep pace with an advanced design which given the car« sweeping • eoed eoil spring front aiispension provides neak riding and handling . hour on display at Rangbn’s in Detroit.