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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1949)
Looking Up and Down the Canyon T he MILL CITY ENTERPRISE By CHARLES WOLVERTON Serving LYONS, MEHAMA BLKHORN, MILL CITY GATES, MONGOLO DETROIT, IDANHA I chink The Enterprise can express the pride of the whole town in our beautiful new bank building. For a NOLI ME V, NI MBER 12 MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 194» »2.00 A YEAR. 5 CENTS A COPY home-town bank is truly an institu tion in which everyone has a partial interest. The new building, which adds al most 200 feet of new business front age to this growing trade center, is a compliment to the town and the Canyon. It marks the end of a long period when pievailing opinion was that there is no future for the area. It betokens the beginning of a new era, when sound and conservative , business judgment says: "We’re no longer an overgiown logging camp, waiting for the end, but a strongly based community with a prosperous future.” A banker is supposed, according to popular opinion, to look down his ; nose and say “no” when ambitious undertakings are proposed, But when the bank itself takes the lead, the , trail has been blazed. To the directors and management of Mill City State Bank we all say, “Thank you for your belief in the Governor Douglas McKay and two eommunitj—our goal is to fulfill in The upstream coffer dam at De- Democrats prominently mentioned concrete accomplishments the faith trait damsite was nearing comple ' as candidates for governor have this building exemplifies in the fut tion this week, and work was begun ' agreed that the completion of the ure of Mill City.” on the carpenter shop and the warej (North Santiam highway from Mill • • • The Mill City State Bank will hold oped for the banks quarters, now al deposit vault, and a new safe house, Consolidated Buihieis, Inc., City into the valley is uigent. There has been considerable spec its formal opening in its new build most tripled from its previous loca i door, equipped with time devices. A reported today. The Democrats were State Sena ulation of late, since The Enterprise ing Saturday fiom 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. tion. Imorde.n oil furnace heats the build A cable has been strung at about tors Richard L. Neuberger and Aus The bank’s fixtures were mover! in passes into the capable hands of Don The remodeling program opened up ing. the height of the cableways connect- I Peterson next month, upon the sub to the new quarters this week, and a hundred feet of additional store Additional office space is provided ing the two sides of the canyon, and tin F. Flegel. I All three responded to an editorial ject of “what will the Wolvertons business was being conducted there frontage. [in a balcony. powerful lights will be strung across In the “Up and Down the Canyon” by Tuesday. do.” The interior of the bank is decor The Santiam War Surplus has ta The bank is one of the most mod ated i »green and cha treuse.and all ken the former quarters of the bank. it to light the entire damsite area. column of the Enterprise a few For a time the Wolvertons were Jack Murray, public lelations ex likewise speculating, But tbat’t all ern in the Willamette Valley area. It counters and tables are in bleached In th eremodeled building, besides ecutive, reported employment Thurs weeks ago, asking for a definite com- . mitment on the question, over now. was remodeled an:) completely ebuilt birch, which also is used for wains the bank, will be located the Mill day at 496. I The Governor’« letter, addressed The erstwhile managers of The En from the old Hammond' general store cotting in the lobby portion. I City Furniture Co. and Baker’s Mill Heavy excavabion work has been tothe publisher of the paper, said: terprise have pondered long. Jack buih.ing, the south end being deveH There has been added a large saf- City Jewelry. halted on the graveyard shift and “If your letter of September 26th Colburn suggested raising frogs, pro I ------------------------------ that work has been shifted to the is intended as a query as to whether mising he would market the froglegs day side, particularly where big e- or not I favor the earliest possible but the idea, although possessing quipn.ent is used. completion of the North Santiam great merit, was rejected on the highway, then my answer is a pos grounds that the croaking of frogs would be reminiscent of the rumbing ENGINEER TELLS DAM PLANS itive “yesi." I consider it one of the most important highway job« in the of the press at The Enterprise, and (From The Canyon Castle) state and one that should be pushed we wanted to get away from that- An informative talk on the Detroit as rapidly as fund* will permit. or its memory. Dam was given before a Mongold Barbara Hirte, five-year-old daugh “My home and besinea* an* located Another proposal was that the ed audience last week by Ken Ramsey, in Salem. Thi* toad mean* as much ter of Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Hirte, itor hire out as a linotype operator, construction engineer. HU talk was to Salem aa U dq*a to the eastern of grates, who was stricken with >w- but that too was .retoed Lecauae his part of a series sponsored by the part of Marion Coimty. The Detroit . 'untile paralysis last .week and was years of sanity are perhaps numbered A motorist Tuesday night mirac A young mother braved heat and Army Engineers and the Detroit Dam Dam and the great increase m pop anyway, and there was no good in ulously escaped injury when the car hospitalized in Salem, has been re ulation adds to thi* need, as well as hastening hi* appointment with the he was driving .plunged off the high turned to her home and is reported flames in her burning house Tuesday Recreation Assn. to ibe recovering as rapidly as could to rescue her baby and got the child Mr. Ramsey said that preliminary the vital need of connecting up this man in the white coat. way grai.e, roiled over the railroad safely into her car where she fainted work on Detroit Dam began as early cross-state highway. At long last just the right idea has tracks and stopped almost at the riv be expected. The little girl is still in bed and away. The home, owned by Bud Hen- as 1935, and that final plans were “My interest in thi* whole picture come forth—the Wolverton« are go- er 75 feet below at a curve just east has difficulty in the use of one of her ik> son, located west of Mill City, was approved in 1945. dates back to the years I seived a* ing to manufacture wood blocks for of Mill City. completely destroyed. legs, although it is not paralyzed. he kiddies — with scraps of lumber The engineer said that originally chairman of the Willamette Valley The driver, Bob Roberts, Gates, was Mrs. Henderson had prepared ail- Her case is the first of that i supplied by R usb and Carl Kelly, only merely sc ! etched, but the car, a '29 it had been planned to divert the riv- , Project Committee. I devoted a great breakfast for her husband, three er with flumes above the present bed, deal ment ever reported in this area. they don’t know about it yet. time, effort and personal ex- Ford, was demolished months old baby and two year old I but that specifications were amended penwe to the Willamette Valley Pro I I shall be head of the block com Police Chief J. T. King of Mill child, and returned to bed, because to permit use of the diversion tun- j*rt, building of the dam being part pany—and there are some of my de City said the wreck was not discover she had been up most of the night. nel, recently completed. tractors who will say that that makes ed until the next day. The driver of of the outcome of the work carried ot She was awakened by the intense me the blockhead. But what are such the car, wlhidh belonged to Francis The upstream coffer dam is being <”» *> loyally by a great many re*i- heat. She then got both children out constructed of 12” x 12" tinxbero laid petty libels to a block magnate. of the Wilhamette Valley. It il Nosak, Gates, apparently had gone of the house, but was scorched about loghouse fashion and filled with rock.' nlT hope that this road will be built Because of previous experience in home after c arwing out of the car. the head. the same post in The Enterprise, Leo The beams are sheathed with 2 inch •• quickly as feaaible, due omsider- The Henderson family is staying lumber and sealed with concrete. The ' atton being given at the same time C. Dean will become the stumbling The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. with Mr. andl Mrs. Eldon Hutchinson. temporary darn provides a dry work-, to the right« and welfare of the pee block. Elsbeth Wolverton, none too Don Hatman was seriously injured A tax rate of over 100 mills was The fire was be lived to have origin ing area. outstanding as business manager of Sabur day when the Flat man car and I N* in other sections of the state.” the forecast this week for the cur ated from papers behind the stove or the Enterprise, will be the vice pres one driven by Al Ziebert. Gates, col Mr. Ramsey .said that considerable ' Mr. Hegel, in hie reply, denied ha rent fiscal year in Mill Cily, in Linn fl om a burning chimney flue. ident and first block in the path of lided east of here. thought and planning was given <o *** a ean'hdate for governor “or for County. progress, and our two daughters, Pa the cableways before the two-tower ( *nF other public office. ~ Police rr ported that Flatman turn H. A. Southard, sheriff and tax col “I am a member of th* State Sen- tricia and Mary Jo, will be her as ed off the highway into a driveway at structure for pouring gconcrete was lector for Linn County, announced sistants. From that point the block Manolis Santiam Cafe and that the decided upon. The towers will be ' ate,” he wrote, “and a Ufe-long cit taxes for the various subdivisions. business will be pretty well blocked collierion was unavoidable by the car similar to those used at Shasta ami izen of Oregon, interested in Che de / Mill City’s special city levy was off. Except for my two sons, ages 4 that both head velopment of the state and doing ev Boulder dams, except behind. lowest in the county, except for one and 7, who will be blockbusters. be movable to erything practicable to make Oregon and tail towers will The infant gill was released from town, Brownsville. Harrii4>urg was We will sell Hocks of stock before the hospital and was reported Thurs Date has been set for Nov. 19 allow more flexibility in pouring op- a better state in which to live. high with 67.4 mills. Sweet Home had “7 was over the North Santiam the fifth annual firemen’s ball, an any serious work is done, because, day to be recovering. elation*. 24. Lebanon 23.7, ranging down to highway from Staters to Salem a few like Mr. Tucker, it is better to pro ent really looked forward to in Construction of a road to the quar 9.2 for Brownsville. Mill City’s 11.3 Canyon. week* ago. It 1* one of the beautiful duce stock certificates rather than ry will be a major project, he raid. was actually below Brownaville be The annual t azzle-dazzle of the Location of the aggregate plan, and highways of the state and represents automobiles. OPEN HOUSE DELAYED cause of a | ec:el tax there for roads • • • Mill City Volunteer fire department rock storage area «re not yet decid an investment of many million* of Open house at the Mill City ele of 10 mills. dollars. We print with some amazement the generally <imws as many as 1200 Mill City’s fire district tax was people, and last year about $3000 ed. Tentatively, he said, the storage “That portion of the highway from letter from Gov. Douglas McKay ex mentary school has been postponed area has been located on the left second highest, with 8 mills to Idan Mil! City to Salem apparently follows pressing his advocacy of early com to Oct. 28, because of delay in the Wss grossed in a single evening. bank of Cumley Creek, which is a ha's 10. Fire district levies were as The Mill City area turns out be few hundred yanks east of the dam either an Indian trail or a wagon pletion of the North Santiam high completion of the kitchen and new low as .5 for Brownsville. auditorium. road of our pioneer*. It is narrow, way from Mill City into Salem. What cause the |>eople here know that the site. Despite the undertaking of a large T * public is invited to attend next crooked and dangerous, and of course befuddles us is why he’s never told local firemen spend all their proceed* Other details revealed by Mr. Ram new elementary school, Mill City dis Messrs. Banfield. Bakiock A Co. all F iday evening. A program presented on ad ng equipment and supplies for sey included plans for the finished should be modernized immediately to trict 129J was not much above the better fire protection. about it. He runs Oregon, doesn't by the first to sixth grades will be dam. It will have six galleries and justify the money already expended art of the program. PT A officers average with 42.2. District 55 had The affair will be held this year internal passages. One, following the on other portion* of the highway. he? 59.8 mills and district 5 had 52.0. will serve refreshments. "This is not the only highway in as before in the high school gym. contour of the bed, will be used for grouting and drainage. There will be the state that needs attention, how CLEARING BII>S OPENED a vertical «haft for an elevator afid ever. We need a four-lane highway Bids weie opened this week by one stairwell. There will be four 5- from Salem to Portland. The present Bonneville Power Administration x 10 foot gates for lowering the res Portland Salem highway is wholly clearing the right-of-way for the Eug ervoir, and six spillway gates at the inadequate, in my opinion.” cne-Goshen transmission lines No.l Sen. Neuberger wrote briefly but top to handle overbow. The crest of and 2 on Invitation N6.4831. Seven the tarn will form a bridge across in complete agreement with the load teen bids were received. Low bid was development. He sain: the canyon. that of \fike B. Po ter. Salem, Ore. “Dear Charley: I’m for completing Scheduled visitors at the dam last with $32f<6; r.Wrt were Devere D. 222. 1 agree it’s a separate problem Saturday were Lt. Col. Lewis E. Walker, Delmar W. Bkimhagen, W. Knerr, commanding officer of the from that of Detrvi Dam and abould- W. Voncannon, Sandpoint, Idaho, 6239th ORASU, Maj. B. L. Price, ex n’t be mixed up with it.” with $43.230; and third was R Mr. N'eubei ger’s reference was to ecutive officer, Maj. W. I). Smith, en Jones, Hillsboro, with »45.470 the stand of the state highway com- gineering division, and 1st LX. J. C. T. ese bids are being studied. mi*sion, which turned down the road Boyer, control officer. G of ’ en The grad'n Lt. Col.. J. W. Miles, resident en I project because it claimed that the gineer, led the visitors on a tour of ro«d would be used in connection with the construction of the Detroit Dam, the project. M anti hence was up to the federal go- or the Eugene-Goshn ll.-.gv ' venvment to build. SPECIAL DELIVERY e«, the McKenxie-Gosben sect o 1 Eugene Gregory and Bill Richards the Lebanon-Gosben line and the left for < istem Oregon Friday night. IM HOOL OUT TWO DAYS s'-en substation. Upon completion Elementary and high schools wiK In lew than two hours Saturday both the clearing of the Eugene-Goshen hunter* had their buck* and were on be closed Monday and Tuesday for rht-of-way. a 115 kv line will be Teacher institute. their way back home. week by Allen Keith, on the North Santiam Highway here. der construction. Mill City Bank in New Building Driver Unhurt Child Strickenl Mother Saves With Polio Infant from Road Plunge Blazing Home Lower Tax Bill Forecast Firemen’s Benefit Set for Nov. 19 Finish Road Leaders Urge CBI Nearing Highway 222 Windup of Vital, Say Coffer Dam Party Chiefs
