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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1949)
or e SERVING THE NORTH SANTIAM VALLEY Mill City Enterprise MILL CITY. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1919 VOLUME V, NUMBER 36 Looking Up Surface Work and Down On Highway the Canyon To Start Soon By CHARLES WOLVERTON Wags about town, seeing me the Crusher equipment is being moved past two week ends somewhat be into the Canyon rapidly by Rogers daubed with paint, weie asking. How much did you get on the ¡Construction Co., preparatory to the ‘job of surfacing the new North San- house?” If anyone can tell me how you can tiam highway between Niagara and paint above your head without get Detroit. ting paint rolling down your arm. Crusher installation is about half I’ll give him a gold - handled paint a mile above the Detroit damsite. brush. Or how you can keep the han Florien Mills, distiict Bureau of dle dry. Or what you can do to pre Public Roads chief, said surfacing is vent daubs on the boor. Scheduled to begin about Sept. 12. He I’ve heaid tell of a new plastic you ¡reported completion of the Breiten- can put on outside and in that lasts 'bush and Tumble Creek bridges. forever. If I ever paint again, it will be forever. Considerable progress was being ♦ • ♦ made on the Gates - Elkhorn road by A newcomer of recent months re Marion County crews. Elkhorn resi- marked the other »lay : 'dents reported that the road was like “Mill City could be one of the most ly to shape up into an all-year-round beautiful towns in the countiy. Its ! route for the I.itle North Fork com- setting is perfect. A few hundred Vmunity, which has, in the past, been gallons of paint, a few miles of pav- | isolated for weeks in the wintertime ing, and a few more touches here and l!by slides and bridge collapses on the there and it would be a dream of a 1 hoad into Mehama. I i _______ town.” He’s got something there. An in- vestment in beauty will pay dividends | The state highway »lepartment was in more homes, more businesses and , ‘-ont.nu.ng to dicker for certain yet greate, number of jobs for the fut- ^npurehase»! portions of right-of-way ion the Marion County route of High- ure. ... 1 way 222 between Mill City and Meha In not too long a time, there will be a fast, modern highway into the ma, and some surveying work was Valley. A quick half hour will take continuing. CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT The winning side of a contest for membership in the Santiam Aerie, F. O. E., ate turkey at a banquet last week concluding the drive. The losers ate beans. Deer Leaps, Wrecks Auto q Completion of the diversion tunnel ahead of schedule at Detroit dam Fri day morning pave« the way for major excavation woik to be done at the axis. Within a few weeks, after the com pletion of a coffer dam that will di vert the North Santiam river into a 1400 foot tunnel penetrating the mountain on the south face at a point above the damsite and emptying out into the channel below it. The blast which holed through oc cupied at 12:01 and 58 seconds Fri day morning. The final blast was 30 days ahead of schedule. Work was dpne under subcontract bv the Shea Co., Ahambra. Calif., in 57 working days through an unvaryingly solid ■i ock. Chester Deatrick of Marion, a tunnel worker, made the nearest guess on the finishing time. Present for the finale were a numbei of offi cials of the Shea Co., including Ed mond H. Shea, vice president, of Los Angeles; W. F. Rennebohm, general superintendent, and Hank Ewert, su perintendent. ic The Third Rail WaytoNiagara Union Chief Grabs High Climb Prize Tunnel Finished, Dam Speedup Seen Auto Overturns; Two Injured LYONS, MEHAMA, ELKHORN MILL CITY, GATES, MONGOLD DETROIT and IDANHA WMUFJIFI I2.M A YEAR. 5 CENTS A COPY Rails Fight Trucks On Haul to Damsite Except for the results of bad judg Don Downing, local IWA business ment on the pa.:t of a two-point buck agent, won two second place P' izes deer, the week end accident totals for the Canyon — with the heaviest at the Waldport logger carnival with holiday traffic on record—would have out even doing it on purpose. He and his family were vacationing been nil. But the buck spoiled the at the coast over the week end and accident-free week end. Ralph Morgan, Mill City, with Carl noticed banners in Waldport announc- Stavang, about 12, as his passenger, ing the carnival. By the time Don had were pioceeding up the Canyon Mon got on the gtound. friends entered day evening, facing a constant stream him in the high climb. In Sunday of traffic returning to the Valley. At clothes, a pair of borrowed calk boots the outskirts of Gates, just opposite and climbers rig, he race up to the the Gates Cafe, a buck deer sudden top of a big tree just six seconds un ly lunged in the path of the car from der the winner. a ditch alongside. Morgan could not His othei second prize was in splic avoid washing into the animal. ing, and he had to team up with a Then the car got out of control, stranger while competing with teams and dived over the bank. Morgan’s who had experience working together. jaw was broken in four places. The MW SWIH»» boy was badly cut. Chief of Police J. T. King rushed Morgan to the hos pital in Salem. Bob Steele, state patrolman, picked 1 up the deer. a resident here to a job in Salem. If the town is attractive, it will at NLRB VOTE ORDERED tract the Valley businessman anil AT OREGON PULP MILL worker, not only on week ends but A National Labor Relations Board election has been ordered at the local year in and year out. Two men were injured, one serious , The example set by property own 0 egon Pulp and Taper Co. mill for ers, the school district and the city , Sept. 20, it was announced in Wash- ly Saturday evening when their car blew a tire and overturned near Stay- of paving Evergreen St. is turning ington this week, the minds of many towaid what they The election will include employees 'ton. Injured were Melvin (Woody* ,can do for their neighborhood. New- of both woods and mill crews. The streets would pay property owners . International Woodworkers of Amer- Woodrum, who escaped with minor far more in increased value the cost[ica petitioned for the vote, and a for- cuts and biuises, and Leo Spriggs, of paving. |mal hearing was held in Salem earli- 'who sustained a broken hip and was taken to Salem General Hospital. That is why it is most essential that ’ er in the summer. Woodrum and Spriggs, with the theie be no further delay in a city . Another NLRB election is pending latter driving, were returning fiom charter election. ;on the M. & M. logging of Noyes Without it, there can be no special VFhitten, Idanha, but no date has been Salem to Mill City Saturday nighe, and after the blowout, Spriggs lost assessment bonds issued. Without | se set j because because the the operation operation has has been been control of the car. such methods of financing, many of suspended, Both are residents of Mill City. our streets will remain unpaved. < ------------------ Through special assessments the VFW MOTEL OPENS IN LYONS LYONS PT A TO MEET cost can be spread out over a ten- or| Verne an«l Betty Kiuse have com- First meeting of the Lyons Parent- 20-yeai period or those that wish ^»leteri four of eight units of Apple Teacher Assn, will be held at Rebe may pay cash. But no street woulld jree courtt a new motel and trailer kah Hall thete Friday evening to dis have to be held up because one or »park near Lyons on Highway 222. cuss plans for the coming year. As two property owners were unable to The building units, which are now a large enrollmetn is expected, it is pay the bill immediately—as now. ready fat- occupancy, are of Californ hoped that every parent will attend. A charter also would give us a ia roof design, and each unit is a com- /.V» tv chance to undertake other improve- ffvlzxFr» p]e»e Vxzvrrto home. TP Each is finished with a CROWDS AT BERRY PATCH ments almost as urgent as streets. different interior. The huckleberry patches were busy POTTER ooowobnf eeo , |. arw| Mrs. Kruse started con- ( laces over the wee eknd. One hun Willis Potter, former general man- struction in June and, doing most of dred and thirty-seven cars were le- agcr of the Mill City Manufacturing »he woik themmselves, completed the gistered for Monument Peak Satur Co. and now an officei in the judge four units in three months. day alone. advocate unit in the army, lost most of his personal belongings in the ty phoon which struck Japan several /3y weeks ago. L eo C Dr. \ Mrs. Willis Potter, who was visit- I ing here last week, reported the ac- Side Roads and Short < uts. good neighbor, without the hint of count of her husband being caught in Oregon Republicans are pointing a jail or confiscation." Ralph Waldo a typhoon. Mts. Potter said ha Fas [quivering fingers at Oregon Demo Emerson. been assigned to Korea, where he had ic ats, notably Mike Elliott, Multno- served at the close of the war as a | mah county sheriff, and sniffing some The Haywire Histoiian. colonel. Mr. Potter, an attorney, had thing gamey as old limburger. while Christopher Columbus, the first It a part in drawing up important legal i Oregon Democrats are lifting out alian immigrant to this country, was pape: s and treaties then. raged snoots over the action of Ore an egg candler by profession. Being His family will join him in Korea gon’s Republican liquor bosses in at an engaging young fellow, he was in about a year. Willis Jr. will return tending a party in Chicago to which popular with the ladies, and went to a preparatory school in Californ they were summoned by the .Seagram ovei tig with Isabella, queen of ia. vhisky interests. Have a care, men. Spain. One morning while Isabella I You don't want the sterling voter to was sitting on his lap in the break !suspect something stinks in both fast nook, her husband, Ferdinand, amps, do you? ... A man in Cali quite unexpectedly entered the room. fornia was bitten by another man’s Noting the royal flush on the mon bo se. When he went to complain arch’s map, Chris passed, as he held about it to the other man the latter’s only one queen. This was the tuining dog bit him. Question: Are the horse point in Columbus’ career, and Ferd in» q»**g really man’s best friends or inand wj»* agile enough to hand him d d the complaintant just taste good? a couple of swift kicks as he made A five-mile stretch of ti e North ... Headline says, "Barkley to Spend the turn. Ferdinand, to hush up the Santiam highway between Gates and labor Day with Pietty Widow.” Nice affair, agreed to furnish three ships Niagara got electric power for the • ork if you can get it .. . Headline to g<t Columbus out of the count y. first time last Thu sday. opening a :n Salem Capital Journal, “Bovine, The ships were Cholera Infantum, the large new area to resort homes and Ovine. Porcine, Equine Vie at State Hell and Maria and the Pinto. When Fair.” . .. Let us no* ignore Porcu half way across the Atlantic the sail highway businesses. ors mutinied, «iemanding time and a The power line, installed by Moun pine. Ouinine and Asinine. half for overtime ami six gallons of tain States Power Co., carries 2400 rum apiece to bind the bargain. To volts five miles above its existing cir “And We Quot»—” “We live in a veiy low state of the dis* act and amuse th»m and stall for cuits to a population of about 10O in the a ea between the two communi wo. I- , and pay unwilling t ibute to t me Col- mhus taught them how to governments founded on foice. T ete ext n- -be»» knit one and perl two. ties. Im«ne ,li 'y se.-el bv t'e line, j not. among the most religious ard A***- -rrt<ing n N“w Y-r*: Colum- which was cut over Thtirsdav, are ! d-dl nations, a reliance on the moral bts c-d a ioh in a fruit s»ore and by •> number of farm families and two ei»»‘mm»t and a sufficient belief in n "i tr- an, tbri't managed t"> save businesses. Gessner’s court and The jt' e unitv of things to pc-.»ia<‘r them t»’l. wit!- w’ r-b ho ho'-ght e hrr l‘tha* neiety can be maintained with- 'I- ■ st'- oreo red the next day when Maples tavern and trail: court. But the development doo'rt’ei« a ill «w»t artificial estraints, a« well a* >• a*em ted ♦ *> pass between a taxi- .»pen up for home sites a large area ‘he solar system, or that the private • b »nd a load of hay. His heirs di- |-!t-'ver! -r’ght be a reasonable and •ded t’-e <1 otorcyrle among them. . long the river. Power Lights anuam s Ready for Festival The Santiam Valley Grange fair board and heads of the various divi sions completed plans Monday for the Fall Festival to be held Saturday af ternoon and evening, Sept. 24, at the Grange Hall between Mehama and Lyons. A total of $250 has been set aside for premiums this year, ami a new feature will be cash prizes for two best displays of hobbies in the junior and senior divisions. There is no admission charge, ami no charge for entering exhibits. The following committees have been appointed: Flower division: Celene Taylor, Frances Moiavec. June Whitney. Baking: Goldie Peck. Ix>is Myers, Thelma Bevier. Canning: Bertha Bast, Grace Mil ler. Fancy work: Blanche Wagner, Bea Hiatt, Ida Free. Bazaar: Garnett Bassett. Livestock: John Lambrecht. Elmer Taylor, Joe Bowes. Warren Hampton Giles Wagner, Percy Hiatt. Vegetables: W. R. Stevens, Matt Bevier, Mrs. Warren Hampton, Mrs. Ernest Miller. Fruits: Frank White, Melvin Peck, Olin Spiva, William Whitney. Publicity: Tony Moiavec, Alta Bo- deker, Charles Wolverton, Elsbeth Wolverton, Jake Myers. Program: Elmer Taylor, Lloyd Sletto, Tony Moravec. 4-H Fait: Ieora Stevens, Estelle finiva. Fern Sletto. Reception: Caspar Gerath, Ed Tay- lor, George Berry, tltert Julian. Kitchen: Melvina Franklin, May ” ‘ton, Elizabeth Taylor, Anna II. Ju- Man. Lloyd .filetto will again di *ct the fest vai; Frcnk Basi is in charge of t*-e -igrculture divisions; Mrs. Mel- -ins Franklin, dorresti.- science divi- ■on«; Tony Moravec, publicity. Truck shipment of cement to the though not intending to send a repre Detroit Dam, vigorously opposed by sentative to the Portland hearing, is the Southern Pacific Railroad ami the interested in the outcome of the ce railway brotherhoods, was argued ment firm’s case. in an Interstate Commerce Commis- “After all,’” Mr. Hoffman said, sion-PUC hearing in Portland today, “we’re second cousins.” but the issue will remain in doubt From other CBI officials and Mr. for at least a month. Hoffman it was learned that the con The question of ti uck-vs.-train haul struction company had laid out its —vital to the progress of construc plant and already had begun instal tion of the dam — became an issue lations for operations based on a de »luring the past week as objections livery by truck. Its mixing plant ltas were raise»l by certain towns along been engineered to be set up on the 99E to use of the highway for the south side of the river. The old rail ’72,000 pound loads. lines or on the north side, and most At the hearing, R. 11. Baldock. en of them in the immediate damsite gineer for the Statee Highway Com area already have been dismantled. mission, and Joe Devers, its attorney, Decision to base operations on a did not categorically oppose the truck truck haul stemmed, according to the haul—about 12,000 loads are expect CBI, from unsuccessful conferences ed to be taken from docks in Port with Southern Pacific soon after the land to silos at the damsite. They did dam contract was let. At that time, state that pemtit to haul might be according to local CBI men, SP would subject to interi uptions, if roads not dicker lower than their existing were broken down or if weather con rates here on the 5000 ou more car ditions were unfavorable. loads of cement needed for the 450- The hearing was on an interstate foot dam. peimit to Miles and Son»« Truck Ser Then, the same sources reported, vice to haul the cement which is to contract for the cement was awaided be shipped by water to Portland, on to Permanent« on the basis of a low to the Detroit dam. The interstate bid and Permanente then sought and permit cannot hol«i if not in compli got bids on the haul from barges in ance to state regulations. Portland to the damsite. The winning The hearing was adjourned until transpoi tation bid, it was further re Oct. 10 to permit the interim filing ported, was substantially below the of briefs. rail rates. H. P. Boss of ICC and A. F. Harvey Thereupon, SP made another bid, of the Oregon Public Utilities Com- • substantially competitive to the truck mission jointly heard the petition of haul, but CBI repi esentatfres toki Miles ami Sons for a permit ami an the railroad that it was too late to appeal by Southern Pacific, the N. deal. Pacific Freight Bureau and the Paci Mr. Kriever declared that this was fic Southwest Freight Bureau to deny not quite the case. He said the rail- it. joad was not in a position to make Bauer Teatiiiea. an offer, not knowing what would be Albert Bauer, general manager of the status of the Canyon branch when Consolidated Buiideis, Inc., main con it was officially abandoned. tractors of the Detroit Dam, testified Wheel* Within Wheels. briefly. Sin Moore, traffic manager The whole question has plenty of of Permanent Cement Co., Perman other angles. Reportedly officials of ente, Calif., »ieclaiedon the stand that the state highway department are di SP could not deliver the cement clos vided on the question of the trucks er than a mile and a half from the using the highways. R. C. Baldock is mixing plant, and that when Big Cliff said to be leaning toward the tiuck dam gets under way its terminus haul side, because of P.U.C and gas would be three miles away. tax revenues. Joe Devers is reported Pat L. Nolet of the trucking firm siding with the railroad. sai»l a maximum of no more than 40 Judge Grant Murphy of the Marion round trips a day would be made even County Court and other county offi at the peak of the pour, and that the cials have a stake in the matter. So trucks, about 40 of them*, would com far, they are reluctant to permit the ply with state regulations. He estim use by the 60,000 pound tiuckloads ated truck tax revenue for the state of Lancaster drive, a county main at $125,000 from the haul. tained route which would allow the Salem representatives withdiew big vehicles to bypass Salem unless objections to the trucks when an ag the state will keep up the road. The reement was reached with County state highway commission so far has Judge Grant Murphy to by-pass the demurred on that. state capital and use Lancaster drive “Marion County isn’t opposing the Trom 99E to Four Comers. bucks, and we in the county court W. C. Hefner, chairman of the Ore haven’t taken sides,” Judge Murphy gon State legislative board of the declared. Judge Murphy added he’d Brother! oo»l of Locomotive Firemen be glad to see the trucks used, if the an»i Enginemen, was in Mill City on added traffic would convince the state Sunday, conferring with railroadmen what is already apparent—the need and others about the cement hauling pf a modern highway connecting Mill question. Arthur Kriever, local rail- City and Salem. roadman introduced him to several people here. “Hauling the big loads of cement over these highways will break them down in no time,” Mr. Hefner assert ed. “You'll find them coming up one right after another, and the highway won’t be safe.” Mr. Hefne» said the railroad bro Beavers can build dams faster than therhoods would present a strong CBI. But the Colgan Construction Co. rase at the Portland hearing Thurs heie found their dam building too day, and would be supported by Sa dam much. lem, Canby, Woodbum and othei cit It started on the small creek that ies along the proposed truck route feeds off Rock creek through the sand from Portland to the Detroit damsite. and gravel firm’s location down to < Bl Not Involved. the old millpond. The beavers’ dame Consolidated Builders, Inc., officials started flooding the plant area, and here p ofessed to be not to concerned one beautiful structure almost inun about the outcome of the truck- rail dated the power plant. Finally the road controversy. Runsell Hoffman, Colgan company, owned by Mrs. Ray general superintendent of the Detroit Colgan of Mill City, had to call for dam building project, said CBI’s con help. tract with Permanente Cement Co. is W. E. Holderman, Corvallis, state F.O.B. “our silos at the damsite." In beaver trapper, came to the rescue other words, the cement company has He caught thiee, alive, in his first to deliver the product on the job. re trap setting, and a fourth one Tues gardless of the mean* of transporta- day. One of the dam builders was 60 •ion. pounds or more. The beavers have been transplant However, the Permanente firm is a Kaiser concern also and <BI al- ed to the Alsea area, where their con st uction work will not interfere with From NOTICE- All high school student*, practical human endeavors. old and new, must register Friday, the -peed they worked at the Colgan Sept. 9. from 9 to 4. Hour* changed plant, where dam after dam was bull- because of last week’» error in the dosed out, they must have been op erating a swing and graveyard ahifL announcement. Beavers Beat ( Bl on Dams