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2—THE MID. CITY ENTERPRISE The MILL CITY ENTREPRISE BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET MILL (TTY, OREGON Entered a. n»<-«nd-<la»e matter November 10. 1 Sii at the poet office at Mill City, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLAMII M l» ADI r:i«TIHIN«ii One ilirre for 11 '1‘he Enterprlee will not be responsible for more than one Incorrect In sertion. Errors In advertising should be reported Immediately. Idsplay --------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE---------------------------------- There was a lot of talk on Broadway in recent weeks about the incident at the El Morocco club where Humphrey Bogart was caught with his pandas down, and to hear the prissy boys tell it, unless Bogey stops acting up he's a cinch to finish behind the well- known eight-ball. Weil, mebbe so, but I wouldn't bet on it. It's my belief that, if any thing. his daffy didos will help his pulling-power at the box office, very much as they helped John Barrymore. W. C. Fields, and other talented screwballs who had the nerve to do what the rest of us only daydream about. Advertising 45c column inch. national editorial PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION We Represent 1 he People Its un old «-MablUlied rustoni, this thinfc of choosing men to represent the people in public office**. It would be nice at times If everyone could be president, or senator, or mayor, but there Is no question in our minds that laws would never be passed or official action would never I m * taken. It would be an impofadbility for so many to come to an agreement in time to accomplish anything. Nevertheleaa it must not lx- forgotten that public officials are placed in office for .only one reason and that of course to represent the public. | It is a negligent and “laxidasií-ai" people who refuse for one reason or another to meet their responsibility In demanding representation from office holders. It is when such an easygoing policy is followed by the public that nauseating policies are followed by the “people’s choice”. Recently when a serious discipline problem faced the schoolboard rumers of unpleasant nature permeated the community. Now their policy of discipline, while open for qwstlon, is not under consideration in this editorial. Rather the fact that when the board was notified from a bi partisan concensus that public opinion was running high and a statement should be nutde the chairman chose to state, "If the public wants to know they can com«' to us.” This writer in no way suggests that personal discipline problems should be aired through the press but does express the opinion that it is not the duty of the |*eople to seek out the men they placed in office to find out what is going on. It Is true that school board meetings are open to the public. When do they meet? Th«- answer is whenever there is pressing business. How can you know of these meetings? Again you the public must seek out the men you placed in office to find out. To lx- sure to hold the position of a member of the school board Is a thankless on«' and the problems they face are not small. Certainly they work against difficult <xlds. Such things art- not under editorial comment. Only this, If they are to represent th«- people, then they should do so without equivocation. Violation of Basic Traffic Rules Drivers who misunderstand or fail to obey three basic rules of the road are responsible for more than half of Oregon's traffic accidents, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry estimated today. Despite a common belief that traffic laws vary widely from state to state, these three rules are virtu ally the same across the nation, the secretary said. He pointed out that violators lucky enough to escape injury may still be liable for damage to others. He listed the three rules as follows; The laterOeeUon Uuioi If two cars arriving at an uncon trolled lntenqpliW (no stop signs or signals) at about the same time, the car on the right always has the rightof way. Two out of five Ore gon accidents occur at intersections. The Following Rule; If you run into the rear of another car, you are always at fault. It doesn't matter that the car ahead stopped suddenly or that the driver failed to signal. He may have had no opportunity, and the law requires that you drive far enough behind to be ready for any emergency. After failure to have right-of-way. follow ing too closely is the most frequent single Oregon traffic violation. The Speed Rule: Speed must be adjusted to condi tions regardless of posted or desig nated speed limits, which are con sidered maximum for ideal condi- ons. If traffic Is heavy or the road way is slippery, you may be charged with driving oo fast for conditions even though you did not exceed the apparent legal limit. On rural high ways without posted speeds, the 'reasonable and prudent” rule still applies. Excessive speed is respon sible for one out of four traffic fatalities in Oregon. Friday & Saturday Specials TOMANS HILL TOP STORE FREE ITH $10.M OR MOKE ORDÌ 1 lb. S. & W. COFFEF 19 39 SWIFT'S RATON ENDS and PIECES. lb SWIFT’S SLICED RATON, lb. CIGARETTES, carton .25 *» f<s .35 .25 .25 1.09 •69 .25 .67 .39 OF.I. MONTE SLICED PEACHES HI NT’S HOT SAUCE SEXTANT TUNA, White and Dark Moat SOAP Large Package FISHER'S PANCAKE FLOUR. 19 lb. SW 19T.NINU. A lha PENNANT STRAW KERRY JAM TASTY Ct P WHOLE REAN COFFEE. Ih. SPUDS. 1* ■«. HILL TOP GENERAL STORE ALBERT TOMAN, Prop. MH J. CITY Ry. DFJJVTR Open Week Day. from « A.M. to 7 :90 P.M. BDninnniní nw V n m o am a namuoin n a a cm n n n n a an a V o ci a oo Editors Letter Box Bogey and Pandas Were Tame Compared to J. Brutus Booth DON PETERSON, Publisher TOM COURTNEY JR., Editor NEWSPAPER _____________________ March 9, 19?frs vented from doing so by some legal entanglement. Such an entangle ment, it was believed could be 0 • • straightened out. Selling the com Dear Editor: I have lived in this pany, Mr Geddis stated would neces community now for nearly two years. sitate contacting all of the stockhold, During which time I have tried to ers. While stock was originally sold take my rightful place as a citizen for as little as $10, many of the hold and assume my share of community ers have allowed the stock to be con responsibility. sumed by non-payment of dues. It I would like to raise a question, was believed that there were only 12 however, without any personal re or 15 active members left in the flection upon individuals. Why is it Co-op and that the majority would in a community the size of Mill City be in favor of such a sale. The com and Gates we must suffer from such pany's only capital assets are in the inadequate telephone service. As I switchboard equipment and lines. tried to indicate, I am not trying to Mrs. Mason, stated she believed the be a crank or to find fault but I letter unjustified. She stated that am interested in seeing the commu delays on long distant circuits are nity that I have adopted for my home quite often due to faults outside of have the best facilities possible. this company's circuit. Mrs. Mason I have no doubt in my mind that continued that money could remedy the phone company is trying to do the majority of complaints and if i the best they can but be that as it residents wish better service they may, the service is not satisfactory. can pay for it. I have been told by proper author While there are now 366 telephones ities that the service is listed among in service at the present time it was the five poorest systems in the state. the concensus of the operator that Maybe I should be more specific. at least one third of them would be With the manual ringing system in discontinued after the Detroit dam ' operation one can never be sure was completed. ' whether it is their own ring or not. The Enterprise would be interested j That is, also if there are a dozen i in the viewpoints of other citizens. I other parties on the line, and there ■ usually is, it means a constant inter- GIVE to the RED CROSS I ruption with the telephone ringing. II know Rome was not built in a day, ! but some times it would be very nice , to complete a call in a relatively short period of time. Is there anything that can be done. Perhaps your newspaper could in form the readers of some action they might take. A lot of people I know would be glad to help. No hard feel- | ing I hope. Sincerely, Mr. Johnson. LICENSED P.S.: Perhaps if other readers would also write to you it would help. • • • Editor’s Note: Upon receipt of the above letter, The Enterprise, con $1 par month and up tacted Al Geddis, phone company di Also serving Gates and Lyoaa rector, and Mrs. Gladys Mason, local telephone operator for a statement. MILL CITY Mr. Geddis also believed something DISPOSAL SERVICE should be done. He stated the com PHONE 2352 pany, which is owned by a Co-op, LEONARD HERMAN had tried to sell out but were pre- And don’t let any old-timer with braid on his vest tell you that the entertain ment business wouldn't have tolerated a Humphrey Bo gart in the dear, dead days. Ac cording to the record, the an tics of yester day's stars make our pres Billy Rose ent crop of per as a ghost formers look as who has just seen a man. For easy example, take. say. the great tragedian, Junius Brutus Booth—a name to conjure with and make faces at. • • • JUNIUS BRUTUS was born in England a few years before the 19th century made Its bow, and by the time he was 13 a servant girl had accused him of being the fath er of her out-of-bounds baby. Dur ing the next four years, among other things, he took a crack at being a sailor, a sculptor and the husband of two ladies, without the customary divorce in between. None of this stunted his growth, however, because by the time he was 20 he had become one of the great stars of the London stage He appeared at Covent Garden as Richard III, and the following sea son at Drury Lane as Iago to Keane's Othello. And, unless the record is lying, his success was so great that a group of envious ac tors started a riot tn the theater and tried to bum it down. Of/iSege, Junius Brutus wot **•<* «wore s^erSerxLw then on, and sf laturen BocoU's busbessa bod boon sampling Ibo flesh end wsnopots of PiccodMy ot ibo time, ehaneot ore bis copers wouldn I bovo rated a morning-after thought. Booth, io goes Ibo story, made to many pastes and passed on! to many times that finally, at the insistence of bushands, bar- r esod er s m U bobbies, bo packed •ad skedaddled to New York. Hero, he proceeded to revolution ise most of our acting techniques and. despite ti e enormous quanti ties of wooxle-water he consumed, be never let his audiences down. At one matinee, he was literally car- ried into the theater, and while the manager was splashing water on his face the customers began to yell for the show tb go on. Annoyed by their catcalls, the tragedian stuck hit face through the curtain and roared, "I'm drunk now, but in ten minutes I'll give you the greatest King Lear you ever saw," And he did. Another time, he went into a pawnshop to borrow $10, pledged himself as security, spent the ten ner on Jersey applejack, and then, as per promise, came back and squatted in the pawnbroker's win dow until his manager redeemed him. One night while playing "Rich ard III,” he suddenly decided to re vise Shakespeare’s script, and when it came to the duel scene in the last act he began slashing away at the young actor playing the role of Richmond. The episode ended with his chasing the kid out the stage door and several blocks down the Bowery. • • • AS THE YEARS leapfrogged on. Booth's capacity for nuttiness be came something of a national leg end, and any theater he was scheduled to play generally sold out the day the engagement was an nounced. Stories about the caper- ous crackpot were repeated around every pot-bellied stove—and little wonder. For instance, while taking an ocean voyage, the ship passed the spot where an actor named Conway had committed suicide by drowning. Junius Brutus suddenly appeared on deck and yelled, "I have a message for Conway,” and dove overboard. And for the next 30 minutes, he played water-tag with the sailors who jumped In to fish him out In bit finale years, Booth look up Ibo study of Buddhism and developed to grout a horror of inflicting death that bo would bun! into tears if someone hap pened lo slop on a bug. He fi nanced a campaign against bunt sag end. subtle on lour one un seam. enraged at the wanton killsag of birds, be bought a eometory plot end bold a femoral for soma pigeons a sports aeon bad ibol. • GARBAGE SERVICE Time’s NEVER A-Wastin | I Nor money either! When you Pluck the luscious dish you wish off Despite all thia hl-jinks and hoop la, however, he was quite a family man, and the 10 children be raised were devoted to him. Unfortunate ly. the final curtain on the career of the inspired looney who hated killing was that one of his children, John Wilkes Booth, was the man ' who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Census to Determine Representation The primary purpose of the 17th Decennial Census of the United States to be conducted In April, 1950, is to determine the population of each of the 48 staes as a basis for the division among them of the 435 seats in the House of Represenatives of the Congress of the United States. This is in accordance with Article I, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States. This section provides that representation in the House "shall be apportioned among the sev eral states—according to their res pective members" to be determined by an enumeration of the population. This section provided that the first census was to be taken within three years after the first meeting of the First Congress and within each sub sequent 10 years. Under this provi sion, the First Decennial Census was conducted in 1790 and the years end ing in "O" have thus become to be recognise.! as the Decennial Census years The Consitution provides hat each state shall have at least one seat in the House of Represenatives. After the 1790 Census, seats in the House were apportioned to the states at the ! rate of one per 33.000 populations. , In recent decades, because of the shifting population, some states have gained seats in the House and others have lost No reapportionment of seats was made after the 1920 Cen. sub . the only decade since 1790 in which this was not done, while after j the 1930 and 1940 Censuses the pre sent fixed number of 435 seats w’as I distributed among the states under what the Congressional Apportion ment Statute defines as “the method | of equal proportions”. It is estimaed that the population I grow'th in Oregon will have at least J one, and possibly two, new Congress- H I men. § annnoncooiniwaBnnnsrnnflnDn To accomplish this, the present Congressional Districts will be re- - shuffled so that the five, and possibly 16. Congressional Districts will be approximately of equal population. The Oregon State Legislature Is I charged with the duty of re-district ing the state and this task will con- from the 1951 session of the Oregon State Legislature, See Us From 11 through noon till 2. everyday bnt Sunday Down the famous Nohlgren's Alley Off State Street, SALEM Open Saturday Afternoons Your The Frosty Months are Costly and Long INSULATE WITH for all your ZONOLITE Plumbing and Heating Needs Spaniol & Co. I llumNnt aad Sheet Metal Works i ■ Q a a ■ e q n nsnu Stayton Befare yaa bay-tea tba SPARK GAS-MAKING »(MONSTRATION ¡mwBBBinniBaaBBHiionaviiBiiB« Hfarm Enough AT CARLOAD PRICES FRERES BUILDING SUPPLY Mill City Jefferson PHONE 321S Stavton
