January 5, 1650
4—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
SPORTS PAGE
SPORT SHORTS
Wolves Play
Tigers Here
Friday Night
Semi-pro Basketball To Open
Rockets Open Dimes Drive
Season Here To Kick Off
With Detroit With Parade
By HOPPY
f
The new year has started off with
a bang already with the opening of
play for whistle toters and off-court
Mill City’s own home town basket
referees and high school basketball.
The annual March of Dimes cam
ball team will officially open the 1950
Now we have the inauguration of a
paign
will get under way for the 1950
semi professional circuit in the Can The Mill City Timberwolves will go , semi-pro circuit in the Canyon area activities with a parade Saturday,
yon area with home town teams from into action again Friday night when , tonight, Thursday, with a game with January 14, in Salem with all com
Detroit, Aumsville, Turner, Scio, they meet the Turner Tigers in a k the Detroit hometowners on the high munities in Marion county participa
Sublimity and Mill City in a six team southern section Marion county B ; school gymnasium floor at 8 p.m.
ting, it was announced by Howard C.
Santiam valley league.
league tilt on the Mill City high t Last year's Santiam league cham Ragan, county chairman.
pions are out again this year to take
Most of these fellows turn out on school gymnasium floor.
The parade will start at 10:00 am
their own time to practice and play.
Turner, with one victory under . the trophy and the trip to the A.A.U. in the capital city with Governor
They enjoy the game, and would not I their belts over the Gates varsity, I meet in Portland at the close of the Douglas McKay leading the affair.
play if they didn't, but they also put will be out for their second win of » season.
Also other state, county and city of
in their own money.
' the season over the Wolves. Mill I This year’s Rockets are made up ficials will participate.
Last year the biggest gate taken ' City, on of the other hand has won ( ' of some of the fastest moving mate The several high school bands
at the home court in the high school eight games in eight starts, has vic rial in the area with many of last throughout the county will also
Where were tories over the power ridden Sublim- year’s members again on the squad j participate as well as Boy Scout
gymnasium was $10.
All of the players give their time and
the local sports fans?
' ity and Aumsville squads.
own money to get the season started, units, Girl Scout units, 4-H, Hi-Y,
These boys are out to give you a j This game will mark the first ap
and various other organizations.
, and then its play for pay.
good game of ball, and your home pearance of new uniforms for the
The parade forms at 10 A M. in the
,
One
of
this
year
’
s
standouts
on
the
town team took the league cham local team, purchased with money
Marion
Square on North Commercial
Mill City court ball handlers is big
pionship last year. They also went from various projects by the student
street and will end at the March of
Bob
Bowling,
six
foot
four
inch
cen
to the AAU meet in Portland, but re body.
Dimes booth on the county court
Game time is 7:15 for the preliml- ter, who formerly played on the house lawn.
ceived no support from the local
I
Santa
Clara
varsity
squad.
Also
[ nary "B” game while the varsity en
area.
the two speedster brothers, Gale and At the same there will be a Dimes
They are again out this year, with counter starts at 8:30 p.m.
contest with Girl Scouts competing
many of last year’s participants, and The Chemawa game, originally , Don Carey, are on the varsity again against Boy Scouts to see which or-
,
this
year.
Their
brother,
Norm,
is
additional talent. Give them your scheduled for Tuesday night, was
ganization can lay the most dimes
support and see the home series postponed to a later date because of > now playing for Stewart’s Chevrolet in a straight line, a block long.
in
Portland.
Professional basketball is a game bad road conditions.
Other’s turning out for the squad The parade will be followed by
that needs the support of the local
are
Leland Manning, Joe Lalack, entertainment. The activities will
citizenry, and it gives you the chance last year’s standouts.
take place in the Armory if it rains,
to feel that you are in the game, be Don’t forget the high school game Eugene Armstrong, Ronnie Johnson, Ragan reported.
Joe
Boyle,
Stayton
high-school
coach,
cause it is your friends in there this Friday night on the local court
Monday and Tuesday, January 16
fighting for the glory of your town.
with Turner. The charge is only 50 Woody Heller and Tom Shelton, and 17th, opening days of the cam
shortie man of the outfit.
The fellows this year have paid out cents and the preliminary and var- |
paign, there will be a Talent discov
Of their Avn pockets to get suits sity games are well worth the price Coach Ken Chance, who last year ery show for Marion county with
cleaned, rent thé high school gym- I to see your own teen-agers in action. engineered the team to ten victories $100 in cash prizes for the winners.
nasium, and carry on advertising to The ''B” game starts at 7:15 and the and only one defeat in league play, This will take place at the Salem
made up of Aumsville, Turner, Sub
let you know when they play. Sec varsity at 8:30. See you there.
limity, and Mill City, is again at the high school auditorium. All are in-
basketball at it8 best with such stars
vited to participate in the no-age
as Bob Dowling, who formerly played About 2,600 wooden crossties are reigns of the hometowners.
limit contest. Register for the con-
Plenty
of
good
basketball
is
in
with the national leading Santa Clara needed for every mile of railroad
store for local sports fans to follow test by writing to the 1950 March of
Bronco’s, and Don and Gale Carey, | track in the U. 8.
in the semi-pro league and if a big- Dimes, 409 Oregon building, Salem.
A
Zz
ger audience does not show at the The 1950 campaign will be clim
home games, the squad may have to axed in Marion county with a public
drop participation in future years. dance January 31, at the Crystal
Gardens in Salem, sponsored by the !
• Chance said.
This year’s home schedule is as fol Elks. Two bands will entertain the
dancers, with dancing to be held on
lows;
two floors.
Detroit here, January 5.
During the 1950 campaign a travel
Turner here, January 12.
ing
entertainment unit will visit the
Sublimity here, January 19.
various communities in the county.
Scio here, January 30.
Also 16 millimeter films of various
Aumsville here, February 13,
polio victims in the county will be
available to all civic and fraternal
clubs.
Ragan said the '49 funds are com
pletely exhausted and the organiza-
■ tion is now in debt. He has issued an
emergency plea to all citizens in the
OPEN !»:»0 A.M. to 5 P.M. Week Days
county to back this year’s drive.
Charles Kelly, local postmaster, is
11:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. Saturday»
Oregon
state
"don
’
t
allow
no
danc-
j
___Í
1 chairman of the Mill City drive.
ing done in here after midniglit on
V:
Saturday nights”, was the cry of a COUGARS TO PLAY
deputy sheriff at the Idanha fire SUBLIMITY CAGERS
man’s dance New Year’s eve night.
The Detroit Cougars will meet the
The 400 participants, however, car.
Sublimity courtmen in
lied on and everyone had a happy Friday night at the a league tilt
Detroit high
and enjoyable New Year beginning'
gym with the "B" squad taking
by dancing through the twelve bells
to the floor at 7:00 p.m. The varsity
on the new high school auditorium
will begin play at 8:15 p.m., accord
floor.
ing to Coach Stan Whipple.
The Rhythm Makers, a small band
from Portland, furnished the music Jlm Poole, Jr. and a friend. Miss
for the dance and the firemen Lloyd Hayes, both of McMinnville
grossed nearly $400.
were visitors at the James Poole
home
during the holidays.
I Following a visit with relatives in
I Mill City. Mr and Mrs Robert Swift
and family .Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hath
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away and family of Emmet.Idaho,
left for Oklahoma, where they will
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band of Klamath Falls spent the holi
days with their mother and father,
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Morris.
The Carl Chance home was the
scene of activity for many relatives
during the holiday week. Guests in
cluded Mr. and Mrs. Percy Chance of
Sweet Home, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Carey
and Diane of Portland, Mrs
Mr. and Mrs Jim Swan spent New
Year's weekend in Eugene visiting M. Miller of Salem and Mrs. Velma
their daughter and family Mr. and Carey of Gates.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Budlong and
M rs. C torge Gillenwater.
daughter
Claudia were in Salem
Miss Lucille Corbin left for San
Francisco after spending the holidays over the holidays with her parents,
with her parents Mr. and Mrs. R. S. the Percy Budlongs.
Corbin and sister and family Mrs.Don- Miss Betty Class of Salem spent
the holidays at the Charles Day
ald Sheythe.
At the J. B. Love home were his ne home.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Rogers, Sr.
phew Bob King and wife of San Obis
po, Calif, and niece and nephew, Imo spent the holidays in Portland at the
home of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
gene and Bob Love of Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton Boroughs and Troy Wambaugh. Also present were
three children motored to Eugene Mr. and Mrs. George Bertillson and
during the holidays, accompanied by daughter of Oregon City, another
his mother, who spent Christmas day daughter and family.
Miss Isabelle Mason of Salem and
with them.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell King and Mrs. Delos Hoeye, two children and
daughter, Marian have just returned husband, daughters of Mrs. Harry
after spending the holiday season Mason, spent the holidays with their
mother.
with his mother in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson and Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Cree and three
family attended a family reunion in 1 children spent the holidays with
Waterloo at the home of her sister, relatives in Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mercer, during Mr. and Mrs. Kuhlman spent the
holiday week in Idaho. They also
the holidays.
Mrs. Belle Hawkins was in Salem took their three sons, Arlone, RonalcJ
during the holidays to be with her and Charles,
daughter and family.
Mrs. Bertha Shepherd spent the
Miss Eleanor Simmers of Portland holidays with her son, Richard, in
and Mrs. Everett Hoover and hus- Junction City.
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