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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1950)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET MILL CITY, OREGON Tragedy at Central Park Zoo Exists in Mind of an Old Man DON PETERSON, Publisher Entered a. aecond-claaa matter November 10. 1944 at the pout office at Mill City. OreK»n, under the Act of March S. 117» C'LA»NII'l»:i« 4D4 KHTUIWUt On. Ina.rtlon for 50c or three for 41.00. The Knterprl.. will not be reepon.lble for more than one Incorrect in sertion Errors In advertlslna should be reported Immediately. Display Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. XNf WIPAPia NATIONAL k PUSIISHII8 "ASSOCIATION •THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” —George Putnam. Why Not Wednesday? For Mime reason an editorial of a New York (taper made the national news wires after a suggesUon that congress nail down Memorial day to the last Monday of May. This action, the editorial continued would prevent Memorial «lay from wandering over the various days of the week. All the advantage« of such a suggestion appear to be rather small, however, when the National Safety Council released the figures of well over 500 as the hoUday’a death toll. An extended weekend was said to have made a contribution to the high rate of snlcide and murder. When Memorial day fell upon Thursday some five years ago employers gave the majority the rest of the week off. The practice has continued during the succeeding years always offering an extended "weekend".. The only day that seems Immune from the extended practice seems to be Wednes day. Were Memorial day to fall each year during the middle of the week the death rate could undoubtedly be reduced many fold. Perhaps with only one day to see Aunt Sarah, who Ilves several hundred miles away, more folk would have a tendency to stay at horn«- or at least not be tempted to overstep their distance limitations. Such a plan would of course seem to penalize those who drive sanely, but the sane are not always safe on the highways either. As many inno cent victims meet their death on holiday highways as do those who perpe trate holiday deaths. Thinking people know that congr«*ss would n«*ed take no such action, nor would anyone else if all drivers would Just think Think of what a poor combination gasoline and liquor makes. Think, that safety Is the driver's Mill City Plumbing & Heating “We Aim To Please” FOR FREE ESTIMATES SEE MARTIN J. HANSEN Friday Ô* Saturday Specials FREE With $10.00 or More Order | 4 Rolla COMFORT TOILET TISSUE HINT'S CATSI P _ 8 for HI NTS I’F-ACHEs _ 8 for .39 .27 .39 .29 .27 .35 .49 8 for .27 .27 NALLEY'S TANG quart «55 pint NALLEY’S BlNqi'ET OR KOSHER IU1.I-S AIX8WEET. lb SI NSHINE VANILLA W \FFRS SNOWDRIFT or SPRY. 3 Iba. Pl REX or CLORAX, i, fallón FRISKIFS CANNED IHM» FOOD HILL TOP GENERAL STORE MILI, cm ALBERT TOMAN. Prop John Feeley. In general company he was quiet. But when he felt that anyone was Interested in ideas beyond 4 To the Editor: th commonplace, he'd well up with a Many of you in the Canyon knew ! rush talk—of great books, of esoteric John Feeley. He was to his hundreds ideas. He'd argue, he’d dispute, he’d of friends just a construction worker, declaim. But those who would listen a sort of fellow who got along with could learn. his mates, a good guy. I say that an age that could con But I belive I knew John Feeley demn a John Feeley to a miserable better than most of you, for I knew death as a construction stiff would his other side, apart from the com put Ralph Waldo Emerson in a rade and fellowship of his life here. haberdashery, Walt Whitman writing Hence my grief is deeper, for I know advertisements for ladies frocks or that a man who was a great deal more Edgar Allen Poe on the green chain. than a construction worker has died. I grieve for John Feeley, but In an John Feeley was a man of extraord other sense I grieve more for an era J inary culture. As such he was out of too blind, too ignorant, too insipid to key with his times, or to put it more appreciate him. truly, the times were unworthy of - CHARLES WOLVERTON him. He was a profound scholar, who • • • had read deeply into the culture of To the Editor: the past, a man who knew better than I believe the time has come to let anyone I have known the real spiritual and intellectual heritage of our conscious guide us and speak mankind. It is an indictment of our ! right up for what we know to be age that we could permit such a man, the right side in Mill City's school who had so much to give to the ad board scandal. vancement of this era, to work as a Of course we can take the attitude common laborer on a construction “1'11 Just sit here on the fence and job. A great university would have watch 'George do it’," and one can been honored to have had John Feeley hardly blame "JM." for there may in its faculty. A far greater audience be such a thing as persecution in than the few friends who knew him our school, or the loss of a job, or well deserved to know him and to i perhaps a financial "squeeze", though hear him speak. The present age had no place for John Feeley and that is what's ? wrong with it. He had the lofty contempt of a philosopher for the shabby standards now propped up as profound He was a latinist. and could speak and write the noble language of that great ancient cul ture. He might have been a success ful man if he had gone along with [ the prevailing mediocrity but he [ was too honest , I have spent many an evening with PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC Lyons — A pre-school clinic for those that will enter school in the fall was held at the old school house in Lyons. The Linn county health doctor assisted by two nurses from Albany were present and checked 18 pupils. They were assisted by Mrs. Arthur Olmstead, Mrs. Orlin Elwood, Mrs. Jack Goodell, Mrs. Robert Feth- erston and Mrs. Lucille Nash. I c c c UTTLE ILLS VETERINARIAN STAYTON PHONE 4148 Opposite LICENSED GARBAGE SERVICE 81 par month and up Also serving Gates and Lyons MILL CITY DISPOSAL SERVICE PHONE 2352 LEONARD HERMAN Open. Friday Afternoons McEWAN PHOTO SHOP Phone 8843 MILL (TTY lAHHrilCIStSi I I J REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m. Also Thursday evenings by Appointment. I HOME OFFICE: 313 W. FIRST, AIÆ.ANY Headquarters for (¡arden Seeds (Packet or Bulk Pack) ALSO FIELD AND GRASS SEEDS Various Types of Garden Tools, Etc SANTIAM FARMERS CO-OP STAYTON, OREGON CARNIVAL DANCE BENEFIT CIVIC CLUB’S BUILDING FUND Saturday, June 3 School Auditorium - Detroit FOOD SALE — HOT DOGS, DONUTS, and COFFEE FORTI NE TEI.UNG CARDS BINGO DANCING DOOR PRIZES ^'Nr a CALL US FOR CONSULTATIO NO OBLIGATION MAKE • True, that "little ill net« poa’vt beer nsentionin* in aa offbanC way, aay K« seem to amount to much— ^a lew faint «ymptom«. neglected, thew "linls Uta ' can lead to tug Kails tor doctormedicines, etc; rxs so mention needle«, «uttering and Io«« oi preciou« time. Coa.ult a Doctor now — you II »are by it in the end. Ami. .4 course, «re hope you’ll bring hi« preacriptKin to us tor rwrefid compoaodioa. J. W. GOIN DR. MARK Editor’s Letter Box: PHONE MS I’REM By BILLY ROSE Some of the sprightliest talk to be heard in Manhattan these nights is in the coffeehouses frequented by the talented and thread bare refuges of Mittel-Europa. Night after loquacious night, you’ll find them huddled over red - and - white checked tablecloths, and though many a cultural door has been slammed in their faces, they remain a spirited and sociable lot, short on money, perhaps, but long on banter and bravado. Most of the stories rpun by these continental katzenjammers are or. the comic side, yet, once in a while they come up with a yard which leaves a ping-pong ball in your throat. For instance, there’s the tale about the old gentleman and his The SS men searched the square greying wife who, during the sum and were about to move on when mer months, can be seen almost the boy ,to whom it was all a game, every day on the carousel near the reached out, and grabbed a brass ring and. turning to his parents, Central park zoo, shouted, “Look, look! Now I get a holding hands as adjoining free ride!” their ponies pump up Attracted by the boy'j cries, the and down. storm troopers dragged the doctor Who are they? and his wife from the carousel and Well, to tell you, were about to take the child when I'll have to go their leader, a youth with a hang back several man's sense of humor, stopped years and several them. “The kid got the brass ring," thousand miles. he said. “He's entitled to a free Shortly after Billy Rose ride.” the Nazi goose At the carousel started up stepped into Vienna and decency again, lb» tinny tlraint of "Chiri- went underground, a well-known biri-bim" drountd out the surgeon and his wife, both of mother’s tcreams, and th» last the frowned-upon ancestry, were urged couple taw of their ton he wat by friends to take their six-year- riding on the merry-go-round. old son and leave the country. The surgeon refused. “I’m need The surgeon was too valuable a ed at the hospital," he said, “and commodity to kill right off, and so I intend to stay as long as I can was his wife, a skilled nurse. They be of use.” were sent to a slave labor camp to tend those prisoners considered too Hit uttfulnett, howtter, CiiMt healthy for the ovens, and when the Io an end « few aflernooont later Allies marched into the camp in when 4 diltkhminl of SS men 1945, the couple were still alive. By rang bit doorbell. The doctor. this time, however, the surgeon's uho had been warned to »xpect brain was a bit misty, but friends in them, led hit wife and ton out New York paid his passage, and the rear door, but as they hurried he and his wife were among the up the tlreel a neighbor ipotted lucky one who got by the immigra them and gate the alarm. tion quota. As the hunted trio turned a cor Ever since, the pair has been ner. they came upon a small ca rousel which had been set up In a spending most of their summer public square to celebrate the ar days in the vicinity of the Central rival of the German "liberators." park carousel. The old boy is pretty and thinking fast, the surgeon much off his trolley, but his wife bought three tickets and climbed continues to humor him, and when aboard with his family as the bat ever he gets agitated and mutters, tered runabout started up. The ■'Where’s Otto? I saw him on the child was placed astride a gaudy zebra a minute ago," she patiently zebra while the parents sank way takes him by the hand and says, back in one of those chairs whose "Come along, dear, maybe he got tired and went horns" outsides made a swan. we hate to think of such fascist meth ods being wied. And It hardly seems as though the deal warrants those tactics, unless there are more serious [ charges than appears on the surface. Anyone can make mistakes in esti mating costs, I think everyone has had that experience, and I am sure that the board would have had every one behind them if they had laid their j cards on the table. I am also sure , that the people would have voted to sell that little triangle of school prop erty if they had been asked about it, as well as donate the land for the jail to the city. The high-handed method that the board used is typical of their atti-1 tude, and that is the reason I am, against them. When elected officers | of a towm, state, or nation, make j statements that they are accountable , to no one or that it is nobody’s busi- j ness what they do, I believe that is the time for every citizen to make I it their business to do something; about It. This is still our America . and the principles for which It was j founded are still worth fighting for. j So let’s not let our little corner of j it be tyrannized by school boards, j judges, banks, or teachers. 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