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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1949)
MILL CITY ENTBRPRISI u SEPTEMBEK 29, 1949 Mr. and Mrs. Alex Muzechenko candidate for thinning and other for 1 Roberts and family. M. and Mrs. Carl estry experiments. At his age he can J Longnecker and son Billy, Mr. and who have owned and operated the afford to take the risk of long-range Mrs. Ike Myers and Mr. and Mrs. A. Lyons Garage and Mill Supply have By JIM STEVENS sold their business to Tony Reed and experiments, particularly if he is one ' M. Myeis and children. | FARM AND PUBLIC FORESTRY of an organize.I group, a 4-H Club Mr. and Mi*. M. H. Black of Oak John Henderson. __ __________ ___ of Mr. and Six years ago I wrote a column on or Future Farmers of America chap- Grove Following the meeting of the men’s visited at ___ the ___ home tei-which is having the benefit of Mrg [ zlrvn Chamberlain. Jasper Stoim ’ » half-section tree farm Mr. Black Fellowship grow'p Sunday evening the For vour excavating On a recent trip 1 found that his sal- ' skilled technical guidance, Rev. Jewell was surprised by a sup 1 is a brother of Mrs. Chamberlain. and dump truck work A modem Motel and vage logging and wood-sawing oper- Trial Runs. per honoring him on his birthday. | A dinner was held Sunday at the 3-8 yd. 10-B Shovel. Mrs. Jewell served oyster stew and |ation had grown into real lumbering, Back in 1987 1 took a trip to see the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bevier Trailer Court Baaements, Trench j Forestry too. Down nigh his giove start of a thinning experiment in a Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. two large birthday cakes. and General Excavating | of cascara trees seven men were at stand of Douglas fir about 38 years I Darwyn Raines of Lacomb, Mr. am! Mrs. Albert Carr underwent a ma Lyons On Highway 222 Silver Saddle Trailer Camp jor operation in Salem Memorial Hos work on a sawmill which Mr. Storm ow m lJJp vl y nlpla nallo(HU rvn»>. ¡.uu. v irgu rioos, Lorry ana oihu - uu , old in the Olympia National Forest. ] Mrs. Virgil Cribbs. Larry and Sharon, MUI City, Ore. Ph.9O3 PO pital Monday morning. had built.p in the timber his ingen- spot was ln canam County Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bevier, Gary uity and logging experience had been (Washington). It took in ten acres. ¡and Jimmy, Ms. Arnold Syverson, applied to a gin-pole rig for skidding There weie four plots. Three were , Harvey, Dickie and Rodney, of Mill logs and loading them on a truck. , in the thinned tree crop, one was left City, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bassett of All of the trees of sawlog size were to grow the way that millions of Corvallis, Mi. and Mr«. Merle De being harvested. There were wide acres of second growth were grow vine, Norma, Lorena, Bobby and gaips between the lemaining trees in ing in the region—in the w-ild ways Wayne of Gates, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd the harvest strip. But on each side of nature. All wass a picture of de Bassett and Cecil, and Mr. and Mrs. there were seed sources. tailed arrangement over many years, I Walter Bevier. The occasion honoied “This will mean a new crop of Tse re were numerous camera points, Walter Bevier and Mrs. Floyd Bas- Douglas fir,” the farm forester, my Trees boie metal ilentification num-1 sett on their birthday anniversaries. Authorized Frigidaire companion, said. “Fir seeds and seed bers. Mis. Paul Gerath of Lyons is con- lings do poorly in shade. If Mr. Storm The program was for a scientifi- valescing in the Salem Memorial hos- Commercial Refrigeration was to log selectively, taking just a cally controlled study of thinning a major operation, 11I1S and anti I I P>tal «------ following ....... „ -- few trees, the forest would finally pruning work, strictly on a basis of Mr. and Mrs. Logan Julian of Shel- 1----- — be Western hemlock, which thrives improving the stand. On the three I ton, Wash., visited at the home of Sales & Services in shade. Then, more practically, he plots the three types of Douglas fir ; his brother, Albert Julian, and mo is no longer young. He wants to cash thinning were tried. ther, 'Mrs. Catherine Julian. in on his sawlog crop while it will I860 State St. Through the years important facts , Mrs. Alex Bodeker and Mrs. George do him some good. But he is not have been demonstrated in this ex Berry went to McMinnville Saturday SALEM, OREGON butchering the stand to do it. The periment. Otheis have been worker! ♦o attend the wedding of their niece, land is left in good shape for the up from stndies of thinnings of 311 1 Miss Loiraine Bierly and Winslow Phone 3-6900 new crop of Douglas fir. Let the I acres of 90-y«?ar-old hemlock in Grays Knutson. younger men raise it, he thinks.' »» Mrs. Pat Lyons returned home on | Harbor County. Yet another study So the facts of life rund head-on I has been made at the Wind River Sunday from Waldport after spend into the theories of forestry again Forest and Range experiment station. ing two weeks at the home of her daughter and son-in-law-, Mr. and and again. Foresters are the first to These studies unfortunately bypass Mis. Keith Taylor, caring for her new realize this. Good forestry, on the the marketing and money problems farm or elsewhere, is made to fit the which Jasper Storm has to lie awake granddaughter. The executive board of the Mari- individual forest situation. And good nights worrying about. The Clallam forestry was on display on the farm County experiment is paid for out of Linn school held a meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Toland of Jasper Storm all the way through, your taxes and mine. Wednesday evening. although is was not on the recom- Those from Lyons attending the mended pattern of forestry theory ? REMEMBER I for three kinds of thinning and a Methodist district meeting in Salem Fiiday were Mrs. Jim Lande, Mrs. uning program. LAST JANUARY p: Thinning By EVA BRESSLER laurence Walworth, Mrs. Willard a Ticklish Task. Hartnell and Mrs. Daisy Johnston. o- AND FEBRUARY The farm forester's advice i-s of Mrs. Glen Julian was hostess foi Students leaving for college were course, a first thing to consider in the meeting of the Women's Society Be comfortable now and prepared Lynn Roye, Billy Prichard, Willard starting a thining or any kind of log of Christian Service held at her home Berry, Jim and John Toomb, Juanita for the really cold weather to come. ging program on farm woodland. The in Fox Valley. Mrs. Otto, district pre Downing, to Oregon State College at Spark Oil Heater* always give forestr, in turn, will think first of sident, and Mrs. Gillison, retiiing Corvallis and Carroll Johnston to the 'ou just the temperature you want Come tn and see our Complete Assortment of the local markets in relation to the president, were guests for the after Oiegon College of Education at Mon when you want it. See them today. .Shower Gift I tews woodland crop and its condition. The noon. Mrs. Otto gave a very inter mouth. farmer s hookup with this wal of go esting talk on the activities of the ing about the project will bee the various societies of diftrict. Mr». need to make sure that the returns Julian was presented with a small from thinnings will make up the costs gift from the Lyons Society. She has and pay wages too. been treasurer since January, 1945. No forester would have asked Jas At the close of the meeting dainty re per Stoim, for example, to have freshments were seived to Mrs. Daisy changed h i s program without evi Johnston, Mrs. Albert Julian, Mrs. dence to demonstrate that the change Oral Toland, Mrs. Laurence Wal would at least cause no loss. worth, Mis. George Clipfell, Mrs. An But thinning on farm -woodlands na Johnson, Mrs. Willard Hartnell, in this region is still mainly theory. Mrs. Jim Lande, Mrs. Catherine Jul It is a ticklish task to tackle as an ian, Mrs. William Bradehaulf, Mis. investment proposition, for a faimer Walter Bevier, M r s. Wood Oliver, Spark deluxe Oij who always has ather work piled up Mrs. Charlie Cruso n and the hostess. Heater* give both that needs to be done. The young circulating «ndllllmejiate man or boy on the farm is the right Mi. and Mrs. Sid Gruggett of New radiant heat For port were Sunday dinner guests at complete comfort,1 you need both. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pen nington. Mrs. Gruggett is the mother of Mrs. Pennington and lemained for « few days with her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Knox were EToiL CIRCULATING HEATERS U surprised Satuiday when a group of friends gave a surprise dinner for them. Following the dinner pinochle was the entertainment. High raids T-SHIRTS ANKLETS were held by Mrs. Bill Bickett and BREAD Plumbing and Sheet Metal Work« JEANS BELTS Ike Myers and low by Ray Roberts. rot«» with Both $3.30 up Popular l>e< il’a Coo »at«« without Both $2.00 up FOR SCHOOL Present were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bick Ph. 505B ------- ----- --- -------- ... - In the Heart of the ett and daughteis, Mr. and Mrs. Ray At the Mill City Furniture Store STAYTON, ORE. Theatre and Shopping District Out of the Woods SEE Apple Tree Court John Adams INFANTS DEPT. Jones & Fagg Everything For the New Baby Diapers Gowns Shirts Blankets and Sheets Sweaters Dresses and Rompers Bathing Needs Bottles Panties LYONS OLESON’S Hendricson's _ SPARK Jacob Spaniol & Co. I Dry Goods, Notions MASTER In Salem For a comfortable and GREENLY’S Plumbing & Heating inexpensive place to stay LET I S FIGURE YOUR ESTIMATES ON PULMBING it’s- • - AND HEATING. NO JOB TOO LARGE AND NONE TOO SMALL Shop and Residence 4260 Macleay Rd. 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