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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1949)
MILL CITY ENTERPRISE, SEPTEMBER 22. 1919 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Out ot the Woods i is directly attributable to the timber Alaska, joined his wife at her home industry is in the diveisified manu here and*will remain for an indeft- By JIM STEVENS facturing and distribution concerns 1 nite time. which cater to the material, supply Thurlo Cole, son of Mr. and Mrs. OTHERS LIVE ON TIMBER Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Siltala of The wood-using industry of Oregon and equipment needs of loggers and Burrel Cole, is home on leave from Salem have taken over the manage the Almeda Naval Air Station in Cal ment of the cafe and fountain in Gar and Washington is a giant customer lumbermen. The logging camps of the Pacific ifornia. Cole was a former student at rison’s variety store. Mr. Siltala for for the services and products of oth Northwest aie the main users of pe Gates High. er employers in the northwest. merly was employed in the Salem troleum products of all kinds in the Mrs. Cole, of Molalla, mother of Hardware store in Salem. They will In 1948 the total tonnage of reve region. Petroleum products are used nue freight originating in the two as fuels and lubricants for the tens Burrel Cole, is a guest at the home live in the Oaks Court recently com pleted by Montag and Co. They have states — freight carried by Class I of thousands of internal combustion of her son and family. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hackenberg a small daughter who will attend -team railways- was 37.620.000 tons. engines used to power yarders, trucks About 58 per cent of this payload pumps for both domestic water and and daughter, Sandra, of Portland, school here. have been guests at the home of her Miss Virginia Wilks, recently of was forest ptoducts. forest fire protection, light plants, father, Walter Brisbin. Ann Arbor, Mich., left this week to It is an old saw that without the towboats, locomotives, tiactors, com Mr. and Mts. Rains (Betty Syver- enroll in Oregon State. Her parents, tonnage provided by timber, the fine pressors and power felling and buck son) and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Bur who were living in the Hontag motel, railroad systems in these states could ing saws. gess. anti her son, Donald Case, all have moved to one of the log cabins not exist, unless they were heavily The wood-using plants, too, are big of Klamath Falls, were guests at the between Gatesand Mill City. subsidizes by the public. The number customers for internal combustion en- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Green of Day of railway employees affected by tim gines. This is particularly tiue of the Merle Devine home. Mrs. Devine and Mrs. Burgess, who will be remember ton, Ore., were guests last week at ber products is more than 20,000. great number of small sawmills. ed as Genevieve Bevier, are sisters. the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Harold In noral times 8o per cent of the The logging segment of the indus A family dinner was held at the Wilson and Mrs. Martha Bowes. Mr. revenue tonnage of water carriers try has to have quantities of steel from Washington and Oiegon is for in the form of rails for logging rail home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Millsap and Mrs. Green are former residents est products. This relation has exist roads, culevrts for truck roads, ma Sunday as a compliment to Wirt of Gates, when they lented and op erated the old Larson farm east of ed from the first water shipments of terials for repairing equipment of all Millsap of Woodland, Calif., who has Gates. been a guest at the Millsap home the wood even made from this region, sorts, as well as being the principal Tilmon Rains, son of Mr. and Mrs. when the Hudson Bay Company be user of such hand tools as felling and past two weeks. Those present were gan to export lumber from their saw bucking saws, axes, mauls, wedges, Mr and Mrs. Ralph Millsap, Betsy and Tilmon Rains, is at their home. He was formerly employed in Sweet mill at Vancouevr, Wash., in 1827. files and a host of other manual im Robert, of Portland; Miss Carol Klecker of Salem; Mr. and Mrs. Ed plements. Pumps and Petroleum mund Klecker and family of Stay Another large group of wage ear Just Look! ton. Wirt Millsap left for his home ners and a substantial payroll which Donkey engins for logging, wire Tuesday morning. JERRY'S CAFE rope, shingle machines, rolls and Illi HimHniimiiinii Mr. and Mrs. Riley Chammp at 8c TAVERN chain for moving logs and lumber, tended the reunion of the old students complete sawmills, planers, molders, of Bethel school, four miles east of Serving Turkey Dinner bolters, dry kilns, lift trucks, winches, Four Corners, Salem, last Sunday. cranes, logging blocks and rigging, Friday, Saturday, Sunday The Gates Womans Club is spon welding outfits— COMPLETE DINNER Yes, sir, and bulldozers, drill steel, soring a reception for the teachers dynamite, safety appliances, signal of the local schools Friday evening in Commercial Refrigera systems, telephonic and radio equip the social rooms of the high school. tion Sales and Service ment, logging and lumber trucks, rail All parents and friends of the toch Gates, Oregon ers are invited to attend. log cars, railroad spikes, nuts and itti numin. un ¡'i/ 1:r. ini'iuiiiuinnnusiuiiiiuiuiiiiiiiiiMiiiuiiii 2134 Fairgrounds Road Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Fancher of Is bolts, sanders, knot borers, assorted saquah, Wash., were recent guests at glues, limestone, chlorine— Salem, Oregon Phone 7193 And this list doesn’t begin to be the homes of his sisters and families, IIIIIIUUIIUIHU: half the material needs of the forest Mr. and Mrs. Ebner Stewart and Mr. imujuuiu: Mr. and industry which are manufactured in and Mrs. William Athey. Mrs. Fancher made the trip here in the Northwest. There are no reliable data as to their private airplane and while here For Guaranteed the number of people employed in the took Mr. Stewart and son, Billy, over manufacture of these items, but it much of the Canyon. Fancher is in Cleaning, it's the has been estimated at between 30,000 structor at the Smith Airpoit at Ren SOFT DRINKS ton, Wash. and 35,000. CANDY and CIGARETTES Mr. and Mrs. Charles Timmons who LIPPOLD - BRENNER had been at the Stewart home for Accountants several months, left for their former Detroit Carl M anasco * Bookkeeping Service ’Auditing home in Iowa last week. 48-HOUR SERVICE ’Payroll Reports ’Income Tax Claude E. Alexander of Kodiak Is., Phones: Mill City 207 MILL CITY Salem 3-7615 Gates Davis Electric & Tavern Supply 95c CARL’S PLACE Pool Hall NU-METHOD >*■ Home but is now with the Golliet last week with her daughter. Mr». store in Mehama. T'-e «lore Hu ton, and family. Mis. Louis Stoffel and daughter, Mrs. VernaHunieker and her son. Wayne, all of Portland, were week end visitors at the homes of Mrs. Anna Nystrum and sons, M an i Mr- George Stafford and at the Delbert Jenkins home in Mill City. Mrs. L. M. Hill of Seattle spent It’s New ’ It’s Smart ! MEANDER INN Vi HERE FRIENDS MEE1 On Highway 222, Linn Countv side MILL CITY Tony Ziebert George ‘Sparky’ Hitter H. E. Martin’s Body & Fender Shop COMPLETE PAINT JOBS Oil SPOT MATI U—ANY COlAHl FREE ESTIMATES ::: ACETYL1NW WEI '»’NG Mehama, Ore. Phone 88 Thomas Housing Projet LOTS, HOMES FOR SALE If You’re a G. L, See G. E. Thomas, Mill C:tv 'UU WHY THE JUNGWIRTH Sand and (¡ravel Co. Washed Sand, Cement Rock, Crushed Road Rock, Oil Rock, Fill Rock ■ Shovel and TrucksJforJHire MILL CITY -Phone 9212 Days LYONS ; alk'Sl'i. RAILROAD STRIKE? Mill City Plant 2 miles west on River Road L 1 Mick’s Midway Cafe and Boarding House 0 ?er twentv years ago. the Congress of the United Sta.es passed the Railway Labor Act. It was hai!ed by union leaders as a mouel tor the settlement of labor disputes. WEEKLY RATES. ALL SHIFTS ACCOMODATED ON HIGHWAY 222 Midway Between Mill City and Gates MILL CITY TAVERN BYRON DAVIS, PROP. he leaders “At the Bottom of the Hill” Order oi Railway Conductors, and the Brotherhood ot Railroad Trainmen on the Miss >uri Pacific Railroad have refused to avail themselves of the peaceful means provided by this Act for settling their dis putes. They insist that they be the sole umpire of their own disputes over the meaning of contracts OREGON MILL CITY SALEM TENT & AWNING CO. There is no Seed fot MANUFACTURERS OF TENTS. AWNINGS & CANVAS GOODS Tents For Rent By The Month I Tel. 3-1788 SALEM 729 N. Liberty. 1 * ♦ Randall's Elkhorn » Guest Ranch Breakfast - Lun h - Dinners 15 Miles East of Mehama on the Elkhorn Road ot the Brotherhood ot Engineer!, Brotherhood T of .xicomotive Locomotive . ire men and ..nginemen. ♦ « ♦ ♦ rikes President Truman’s Hoard Condemns Strike rhere is an established legal method for handling disputes involving existing wnt ten contracts—just as there is such a method of settling any contract dispute which you may have in your daily life i he 1'resident of the United ‘ fates ap pointed a 1 act Finding Board to investi gate and adjust the Missouri Pacific dis pute This Rcird reported in part, as follows With all of the available methods for the interpretation of contracts, there is no need for a strike or even a threat of a strike, but the leaders ot these rail mad unions have ignored the ordinary pro cedures established by law and insist upon imposing their own interpretations of their contracts by means of a strike The wheels have stopped rolling on the Missouri Pacific. They may stop rolling on other railroads at any time. Recently the Wabash Railroad was forced to dis continue operation for several days under similar circumstances it is sitn a Jeep um - u. re<rel ibsl wi* are obliged to report the failure of our mis sion It nee.us neoneei»able lo or lha' raerrive -trike should ocrai on <> te ol the nation's major transports!>on «jaicm» with all ol the o.,e- enu osrd hips that would follow n new o. the lari .hat th» Delway Labor Art wovides an orderly, el .eiem ano rom-lete remedy for the fair and iu-i set tler ent oi the matters in «¡iapute Griev ance« oi the rhararler here under discussion arc o numerous and of such frequent occur rence on all radroada that the genera! adop tion ol the policy pursued by the org.-niia- tiona in thia case would -oon result in the complete nullification of the kailwar Laho» Act. HTiaf are These Strike» About? Obviously the railroads cannot 1« run These strikes and strike threats are not about wage rates or hours They result from disputes over the meaning of exist ing contracts. They cover claims for a full day's pay for less than a day s work, or for pay menu for services performed by or >ere who were fully paid for the work done. efficiently or economically if the leaders of tlie union« ignore agreements or laws. rrorisions oi the au winch are ¡lisrerjarded There are live ways under the Railway Laibor Act to settle disputes over t be mean ing of contracts 1 — Decision by National Railroad Ad lustment Board 2— Decision by System Adjustment lloard for the specific railroad. 3— Decision by arbitration. 4— Decis on by neutral referee 5— Decision by courts The Missouri Pacific Railroad lias been and is entirely willing to have these dis putes «ettled in accordance with the re quirements oi the .’ailway l-abor Act. Regar liens ot this fact, the union lenders have hut down »hat railroad innocent ..^i.uuuert Suffer I a sses atu. Hardships There are avout 5,1)00 engineers, t rumen, conductors and trainmen on the Missouri Pacific, i hey ar. known as Operating’ -n.p.oyes and ar< lie most highly paid of -all employes on th nation’s railroads but lu-.r «tri ■ action .ias resulted in the loss of work .o 22.500 other '•tnpioyea of the Mi- >ur Pacific In a< n they have moose 1 great nconvenience and hard ship upon the public and the communities ter «cd by that railroad l he Railway Labor Act was designed to protect the public against mt «uch n- terruptions of commerce If the -r men will not comply with the pro» is. on* •I the sw lor the ne'.l lenient of such disputes. I hen all thin,.Ing (me <an« must fare the ques tion. “W hat is the nett step?"