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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1949)
OHcGON STATELA Appeal Made By Officials For Safetv Serving LYONS, MEHAMA ELKHORN, MILL CITY GATES, MONGOLD Governor Douglas McKay and Sec DETROIT, IDANHA retary of State Earl T. Newbry to- day joined in an appeal to motorists to use extra caution to avoid need less death and injury in traffic over the New Year's holiday. Vol. V—No. 52 "Our police officers are always on thealert for the reckless or intox- cated driver,” Gov. McKay pointed out. "But experience has shown it is the occasional and unforeseeable chance-taking of the average driver which causes most of our accidents.” "The best enforcement is that which the individual driver imposes Newbry’s statement. "We know the danger of taking chances in traffic, and only by constantly reminding ourselves to drive carefully can we do our part to keep the highways safe!” Don’t let death take your holiday! T he MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY. OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1949 LET GEORGE DO IT By rights, I’m a pretty good guy, but yet one of these persons who is always opening his big mouth and perverbially putting my big foot in it. A second hand car is my biggest cause of worriment. Leapin’ Leana, as I call her, can find more ailments than a woman at a bridge party. Everything will be going along swell FIRST CITIZEN AWARDED—Robert Veness is congratulated by J. C. Kimmell, outgoing president and then, bingo Leapin’ Leana devel- of the Mill City chamber of commerce. Pictured w th them is Albert Bauer, guest speaker and general superintendent of (BI. Veness is incoming president of the of C. and past secretary of the organi ops gas rhumetism. zation- (Picture courtesy of Capital Journal) Now, I don’t know anymore about an automobile's insides than what could be written on a postage stamp, including a written statement of the Constitution of the United States. Guess Tm just like the fellow who attended school to learn about radio. Said he was going to school because everytime he took his radio to a re pair shop, they would add another resistor. He wanted to know what the heck these new resistors did for It still didn’t work. the radio. Last week Leapin' Lean a decided she wanted more petrol than she ' could digest, at least my pocketbook could digest, I drove her to Port- land, and it cost me four smackeroos for fuel. That was too much for me to digest. I wheeled her into a garage and found that the choke had broken lose and with a quick flick of the wrist, the blue rocket was ready to behave. This week the old battle-axe got To award prizes to the winners of the Christmas tree outdoor lighting content and to honor the First stuck in a ditch on mud hill, over ____ _____ ___ _____ ______ Citizen of Mill City, nearly ninety _ guests gathered at a chamber of commerce banquet Wednesday looking our beautiful metropolous evening, / _ those present ‘ were __ ~~ the above: ~____ ~ Russell ____— Hoffman, ** Among superintendent of construction at I spun, dug, and squirreled, but to no the Detroit dam. Mrs. Robert Veness. Mrs. Al Bauer, Al Bauer, . „ general manager of Consolidated avail. Finally my good landlady Builders. Inc., contractors for the project and gue 4 speaker for the evening. J. C. Kimmell, outgoing president of the C. of C., Mrs. Kimmell and Mr». Agnes Nhucking representing the Salem chamber of came to my rescue and had her hus commerce. (Picture courtesy of Capital Journal) band pull me out. All was fine until the radiator heated up and then found out the hose line attached to Orchids To Those the radiator had broken. Much new Who Serve Us! anti-freeze flowed freely to its free dom on the ground. More money, Al and Clara Shelton feel, as the money, money to pay out. What community should feel, orchids should happened to Christmas. I don’t know. be handed out to Mrs. Gladys Mason, More bills no doubt. local chief operator of the telephone This week I opened my big mouth company and to the volunteer fire and put a bigger sized shoe than department. By GEORGE HOPKINS even I wear into it. Have you heard Saturday morning about 5:00 Voters will go to the polls at the of this sprightly young feller of 65 o ’ clock the Shelton's had a fire break who prances around tracks, racing Mill City high school tomorrow, be- out in a sofa from a hot cigarette, ginning at 8 A M. to decide the fate horses hereabouts? Mr Shelton rang only once and Mrs. He dropped into the good ship of consolidation into one district of Mason took the call, The fire de the Mill City and Elkhorn school ays Enterprise office the other day and partment was on the scene in full began talking about how fast he terns, with much controversy sur force before he had time to leave the rounding the proposed issue. (Continued on Page 10) house after making the call for help It was brought out this week by a We of the Enterprise staff say statement issued by Donald E Sheythe, local school board president, orchids to those who serve with such that there is at the present time only quick and prompt service. eight pupils in the Elkhorn district 1 FRIDAY— which does not warrant the required VOTERS TO REGISTER I.O.O.F. meeting. expenditures to maintain a standard AT KRIEVER HOME SATURDAY— school. The same money diverted to Registration to facilitate voting Santiam Valley Grange Dance transportation facilities would give1" U»« forth-coming council election, Santiam Riders Dance the children in the district the same anrt *ny other future election, will be Idanha Fireman's Dance advantage accorded those in the out- ( made on the Linn county side of Mill MONDAY— lying portions of the present Mill Oty at the Arthur Kreiver resident Boy Scouts 7:30 The Kriever home is located near the City district. TUESDAY— He added there have been adverse Hill Top store, turn left at the Cath Wooen'i Club meet 8 P.M statements about the road over tne i olic church. A sign has been posted WEDNESDAY— hill to Elkhorn by way of Gates. The 1 for convenience of registerants Idanha Eagles 8 p m. facts are that the road is passable TIH RSDAY— at the present time by light vehicles ton or 8alem but. it will definitely Chamber of Commerce noon and this route can without a great prove a detriment to the community (This is a partial listing. All or- expenditure of money, be maintained i Cbiklrm’a ReereaUoa Needed ganizations are invited to use this as a better road than that the bus He brought out the fact that mors gold camp, or let them stay in Stay-' (Continued on Page 10) space ) Voters Decide Consolidation Issue Friday (Homing fcuento: $2.00 a Year, 5c a Copy Construction Engineer Sees Great Future For Mill City eight hundred more men will eventu By GEORGE HOPKINS The Mill City chamber of com ally be employed in construction of merce climaxed its most successful the Detroit and Big Cliff dams. year with a banquet Wednesday night These men, he added will need places with more than ninety persons pres to live, and it is up to the community ent at Manolis Santiam cafe on high to make places for them to establish way 222 to announce the first citizen homes. Mill City can evade making of the year, award winners of the homes for this influx of future citi chamber’s Christmas lighting contest zens. he said, and let the army engi and hear a talk of benefit to the neers build homes for them at Mon- (Continued on Page 10) members of the chamber by Albert Bauer, geenral manager of Consoll- dated Builders Inc. and past presi dent of the Portland chamber of i commerce. J. C. Kimmel, the out-going presi . dent of the chamber, emceed the ban quet and first made the awards for I Funeral services for Louie Kanoff, > the lighting contest. First prize well known local pioneer, who died at went to Charles Kelly. Mill City post- I his home in Mill City of a heart at master. tack Tuesday afternoon, will be held ,. His display consisted of colored at the Presbyterian church Saturday [ lights outlining the entire front of at 2 P.M . with David Ferguson offi his home, showing Santa Claus in his ciating sleigh which was pulled by three ani Mr. Kanoff was born in Thurston, mated galloping reindeer. This was Oregon, in 1880, the son of a pioneer j topped off with a musical back family which was one of the first set ground from records. tlers on the McKenzie river. He Second prize wca|i to Roy Beebe, came to Mill City about forty yaers who had a colorful mass display of ago as a cook with the old Spaulding lights around windows and doors of , logging firm, whch drove logs down his carpenter shop and home, as well the Santiam river to Salem, as Christmas scenes depicted In the A follower of the logging industry windows. all of his life, Mr. Kanoff had been Mrs. Curtis Cline won third place caretaker of the pond for the Ham with an artistically decorated front mond mill site and was one of the porch, outlined with colored lights, first stock holders in the then Mill j some of which resembled candles. City coop-erative lumber mill, now Judges for the contest were George known as the Mill City Manufactur 1 Veteto, Mrs. Lowell Stiffler and Dick ing firm. Morse. He was a veteran of the Spanish First Citizen Named American war, a member of the local First citizen of Mill City for the ' American Legion post and belonged year 1949 was Robert Veness, who 1 to the Mill City Odd Fellows lodge. was recently chosen as president of Much of his time was given to com • the chamber for the coming year. He munity activities and civic affairs. was selected for his active campaigns The deceased is survived by his 1 for the chamber and extensive foot- | wife, the former Edith Stafford of work in carrying out the functions of ' Mill City, here and also three sons, j the organization. Veness is past sec- ' Howard, I^awrence, and Harvey of 1 retary-treasurer of the local group. ' Mill City He also had two brothers, Engineer Talks Turkey 1 James Kanoff of Lebanon and Har- Albert Bauer, main speaker of the vey Kanoff of Redding, Calif., and evening, talked on the importance of two sisters, Mrs. Grace Squire of San the chamber of commence to the Diego and Mrs. Theo. O'Hagan, also community and its influence to Mill ' of San Diego There are also six City and its development. grandchildren and one great-grand- He stated that between seven and child. Kanoff Rites Held Saturday Mill City’s Little Shaver!