MILL CITY ENTERPRISE. SEPTEMBER 1. 194»
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Out of the Woods
By JIM STEVENS
THE OPPORTUNITY RESOURCE
There have been a pile of meetings
during the year in the Pacific North­
west on "conservation education.”
Some important progiams are alrea­
dy in action. One is an annual ora­
torical contest in the high school’s of
Washington in the state’s resources.
Thinking this program over, I’ve
come up with an original subject for
consideration as a major resource of
the entire Northwest. It is “oppor­
tunity” more specificall. economic op­
portunity.
Is opportunity not the major mean­
ing of all the region’s resources to
the individual ? As an American, he
is free to choose his way of life here.
Once the choice is made, he is fiee
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to utilize any honest opportunity that
offers itself in hia individual outlook.
This is especially true in the for­
est industries. The region has thous­
ands of small logging and wood in­
dustry enterprises. Many other fields
offe, examples of rich opportunity
here, even in the current economic
slump.
Clams, for Example.
Yes, take clams, for example, and
Ivar, whose "Acres of Clams' has
been sung thousands of times over
the radio, both regionally and nation­
ally. Ivar has built a big restaurant
business out of clams and his clam
song, not to mention two famous
aquariums.
I knew Ivar when—when he was
pearl diving with a gang of Russians
in the dungeon-like skullery of a huge
hotel. That was back in 1937. Ivar
had a university education, he was a
trained singer, and he had a modest
amount of capital tied up in real es­
tate that did not yield enough income
for meals. For many months he earn­
ed his meals and other necessities by
plain, brute dish washing.
Hearing Ivar sing "Acres of
Clams,” and similar folk songs, plunk
ing his own accompaniment on a pre­
Franco Spanish guitar, I thought him
the best balladier I’d ever known. I
still do, despite Burl Ives. I had an
opportunity to put him in the way
of radio auditions. They did not lead
at once to bigger and better things
for Ivar, but he did use them as a
ladder rung to ¡each opportunity.
The real estate market improved
in 1967 and Ivar invested his lots in
an aquarium. He bought bits of ad­
vertising space in newspapers and
spots of advertising time on the air.
He used the latter for his own sing­
ing commercials.
This was making more use of the
opportunity resource. It led to a spon­
sored radio program. Ivar started a
second aquarium. He kept on singing,
always ending his program with, “No
longer a slave of ambition, I laugh
at the world and its shams, as I sit
in my happy condition, surrounded by
acres of clams,”
And now Ivar can afford to give
generously of his time and talent to
forest fire prevention work.
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So the opportunity resource of the'
Pacific Northwest was made to grow
by Ivar into a prosperous seafood
restaurant called—“Acres of Clams.”
That’s America to me. A clam and a
song and free enterprise.
Man and Wife Teams.
At my right hand is a long list of
other examples, most of them out of
the woods and woods plants. A most
interesting group is that of man-and-
wife teams who have became working
partners in making furniture, cabin­
ets and other wood products which a
small shop can efficiently produce.
In each case the couple started out
by doing al of their own labor, pay­
ing wages to themselves. In one case
a single employee »'as added in six
months, in another two were taken
on at the end of a year.
So it goes in logging. The wife may
drive a truck. Or she does the cook­
ing for a crew anil all the paperwork
ami inkslinging. Often all is lost on
the investment risk. Often opportun­
ity leads to more oppoitunity and
success.
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By JEAN ROBERTS
The Gates hill road is rapidly
changing from a twisting, narrow
trail to the beginnings of a good road
Two “cats” are at work widening it
on the Elkhorn side while a main­
tainer is leveling and ditching the
grade on both sides of the hill.
Two sharp curves near the top of
the hill have already been eliminated
and the pitch of the road cut con­
siderably.
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John Payton left last week for Po­
catello, Idaho, where he will visit his
mother en route to Salt Lake City
where he plans to enlist in the navy.
His brother is stationed in Salt Lake.
Entering exhibits in the 4-H fall
show at Salem from here were .Jack­
ie Bickett in Canning 1 and Lois Rae
Roberts in Canning II. The exhibits
were taken to the state fairgrounds
Aug. 24 by Mrs. Bill Bickett.
Paul Payton of Pomona, Calif., ar­
rived at the home of his »laughter,
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Mrs. Bill Bickett, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Longnecker, Bob Van Eaton, Mr. and
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M rs. Ray Roberts. High prizes went
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