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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1950)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY, OREGON BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET __ DON PETERSON. Publisher Enterwl an wai-ond-claaa matter November 10. 1944 at the post office at Mill City, Oregon. under the Act of March 3. 1379. <1. x*»IFIi:l> ADA KMTiaiNGi One Insertion for »’><-• or three for SI 0 ______ _________ ________ _ for mor* than one incorrect in- The Enterprise will not _______ be reeponelble eertlon. Errom 11-------- ... In — advertiMinK -— ......... should be reported immediately. Display Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. NiWSPAPIR NATIONAL EDITORIAL k PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION •THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” —George Putnam. Pardon Our Wonderment We hope that questioning motivations that Involve the taxpayers money do not fall in the ranks of the sacrilegious. And to make the point clear no one is even hesitating at the thought of school Improvement. .If more taxes are needed to carry on a better program we shall be the first to push the cause ... but pardon our wonderment when we question the amount of some *4,400 on this year’s budget for our school district. The school board listed an amount of *500 for repair and maintenance of grounds for the grade school. Certainly we should like to see a nicely landscaped and well maintained grounds surrounding our grade school. The racks and mud which now form Its environment give added testimony to the need. Pardon us If we wonder what happened to the *1,000 passed In last year’s budget for landscaping. Surely such a sizeable amount would have left more of a mark than Is visible at present. Also In this additional levy Is *100 for alterations on the new grade school building. But that’s only chicken feed. There Is an amount, though, of *3,500 for new furniture, equipment, and replacements for the newly furnishi-d grade school. Perhaps we should be naive and imagine that all of the new furniture is worn out and such an amount Is needed. Pardon us, on this we can't help but wonder just a little, also included In this addi tional «4,400 which must be raised by special levy is an amount for *800 for new furniture, equipment and replacement for the high school. Now this Is fine and we are proud that such a notation wax made. Just the one Interrogation though; what happened to the «6,500 passed for the same thing In last year’s budget. Has anybody seen «6,500 worth of furnishings hidden in some corner of the high school. Now this writing is not designed to cast aspersions, but a guy does kinda wonder, doesnt’ he? LICENSED J. W. GOIN UETERINARIAN GARBAGE SERVICE STAYTON $1 per month and up Also serving Gates and Lyons PHONE 4118 MILL CITY Opposite Claude lewis' Service Station June 8, 1950 S—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE DISPOSAL SERVICE PHONE 2*52 LEONARD HERMAN Out of the \\ oods Merge Television and Movies In a Marriage of Convenience By JIM STEVENS “Keep Green” and the Legion . . . ------------------------------------ By BILLY ROSE------------------------------------ You might not think it to look at them, but the two big branches of show business are in heavy trouble — movies and television broadcasting. The movies, a business with plenty of product. Is up against a rapid ly shrinking audience, and though some of the companies are still in the black, it’s a cinch they won’t be when there are 10 million TV sets in 10 million parlors. Judging by the financial pages, the people who own the companies agree with me because most of the movie stocks are selling for less than half of their 1946 quotations. The television business, on the other hand, has a rapidly expand pertly tailored for the small screen, skillfully staged and lighted, and ing audience but which, among other things, will darned little prod steer clear of the long shots which uct worth looking look like so much oscillating mush at. And, as I see Hollywood eventually can produce it, it isn’t the darn near every type of TV pro fault of the TV gram from the travelogue to the tycoon* — 1 there three-act dramatic play, but for just isn’t enough openers it might do well to con talent theatrical centrate on the popular classics a round to provide that people never seem to get tired good live i enter- of. tainment for the Billy Ruse For instance, the best of tb.a 300 half -hour shows which the networks must short stories of De Maupassant, O. Henry, Ben Hecht, Damon Run present each week. In other words, unless something yon and Somerset Maugham; dit is done about it and pronto, one to, a series of symphonic stand business will grow more insolvent bys with Toscanini and Stokowski conducting; double ditto, the in and the other more insipid. Is there a solution? Of course, spired antics of Jimmy Durui :. and like all good solutions it's a Maurice Chevalier and a hundred simple one: Television must mar others in the rhinestoned ho.’.re-' ry the movies, or vice versa—and podge that makes up show businesj. Access to such a stock pile of if there are laws on the books which get in the way of these nuptials, film classics would, among other then in the public interest the laws things, take the bone-crushing pres sure off the TV programmers and will have to be changed. allow them to concentrate on a few The ads ant age of this alliance really good live shows. ere many and obvious, First. through the sale or rental to tele casters of film expressly made for the foot-square TV screen, the movies can start recouping some of the money that the home sets are siphoning out of their box offices. Second, on a give-and- take basis, the film companies will be able to run off their trailers in millions of living rooms, and the feu tests of Ibis type of ad vertising indicate that it’s plenty potent. Third, the midget screens can be used to develop new pic ture personalities, and this, as movie men svili tell you, is the real life blood of their silly busi ness. What can Hollywood do for Tele vision? Plenty. A sufficient amount of the right kind of film will solve better than half of its program ming problems—and I’m, of course, not referring to the grade-Z vintage stuff which certain stations now run as a last and ludicrous resort. I'm talking about pictures ex- And before long, if they use the sense that God gai e geese. the blending of the reel and the real would add up to entertain- men! which one could watch without rushing for the rail. The overall consequence would be that two businesses u hicb gii e employment to lens of thousands would once and for all climb out of the red ansi into the pink. Paramount Pictures, which pa’d $560,000 for an interest in DuMon< some years ago, is angling to sei. its holdings for $12,000,000. Th.it would be a nice capital gain, of course, but I wonder if it wouldn’t be smarter for Paramount to hold on to this stock and invest a few extra bucks in a film library to make DuMont the first TV network worth a second look. Who knows—it might be a hanuy hedge against the time when there are 20 million television sets, and DuMont is considering the purcha e of Paramount for $560,000. There is need or a history straight ener on how the “Keep Green' l" citl- zens' forest-fire prevention move- ment, now in force in 26 states, came to get its start. Until a more able straightener of this variety comes along, I expect to work at it some. Whoever the expert historian may be, he will find the sources of Keep Oregon Green and Keep Washington Green—Keep Maine Green, too, Keep Florida Green, and all the others— in such men as American Legion naires Babe Munson of Shelton and Charlie Hanson of Fall City, in Wash ington State. It was Keep Washing ton Green first, beginning in April, 1940, and its strength was built up by Washington American Legion Post Forest Marshals, with the then—and now—Department Adjutant Col. Fred M. Fuecker promoting the program and appointing a State Forest Mar shal on it—me. A broad-beamed ex-top sergeant of artillery, Hols Holbrook, was the in auch men as Ameriican Legion- first state director of the Keep Wash ington Green program. He was at it for four years and he and Fred Fuecker kept it up front as a Legion project during the first two. Don’t let anyone tell you that Keep Oregon Green was started in 1941. It was in full operation after July 1, 1940, and in this drive the Legion also had a place of leadership. What happened? I don’t rightly know. The encouraging thing, the great thing in sight now. is that the American Legion in Washington, under the 1950 state commander, Herbert L. Davis, is fighting the ac cursed forest fire again. The 1939 Beginning ... The American Legion in both Ore gon and Washington was well-nigh the whole show in the actual birth and infant growth of “Keep Green”, which was in 1939. The name the movement went under in that year was “The Junior Forest Council.” Niel R. Allen of Grants Pass was Oregon state commander of the Le gion that year, and he made the JFC a chief concern. Washington Com mander Arthur J. Hutton was also active on the board. The state for- esters of the two states were co- chairmen. The Junor Forets Council was formed and fostered by the West Coast Lumbermens' Association, which has been the No. 1 supporter of "Keep Green" all along. The pur pose of the 1939 effort was to en courage forestry program projects everywhere with young people through their existing organizations. American Legion leadership in the Junor Forest Council exerted strong influence in the Boy Scout troops sponsored by many posts and in the Sons of the American Legion squad- rons. At the 1939 meeting of the Western Forestery and Conservation Associa tion State Foresters Goodyear and Ferguson called a dinner meeting on the expansion of the Junior Forest Council. The result was a February meeting of industry and state for estry leaders, in the Governor’s office at Olympia. There the program was expanded into one of education on forest fire prevention with all of the public, under a “Keep Washington Green Committee” — name proposed by Roderic Olzendam. Sarge Hol brook was given a job to do. Then in Oregon Edmund Hayes and John B. Woods, Sr., set up “Keep Oregon Green/’ Again the Legion Marches . . . At the start of this piece I men tioned two by name—Babe Munson and Charlie Hanson. Babe and I are equally at home in a boom-pond shack, Charlie and I are old hard- handed greenchain lumber-hookers We are are a a11 l^e JLegiom Legion. Babe ^ j. Munson —--- did - a - powerful job in his spare time starting what is now the famous Mason County Keep Wash ington Green committee and its an nual Forest Festival. Charlie in spired and led a KWG committee in the Snoqualmie valley and has been a member of the KWG State Board of Trustees all these years. They went into this work first, and with heart and soul, because it was an American Legion program. Literally hundreds of others like them in Washington and Oregon have done the same. So it has gone in 24 other states. Yet the American Legion claims no credit for the nation-wide “Keep Green" forest-fire prevention pro gram. No one else is yielding the Legion proper credit. Here is a rough try. The Legion is marching on this cause again. Encourage it! DR. MARK editor’s Letter Box To the Editor: To help the Mill City-Gates region. (1) Some more land cleared and an increase in apple and prune or chards. (2) The road made between Mill City and Mehama. (3) The road, south side, inLinn, from the little bridge on the west end of the town to the Gates bridge, paved. (4) A newspaper that will publish these: (a) There’s no darkness but ignor ance—Shakspeare (b) Anything false helps to keep I us in slavery Author (c) The rich use outlawry and lack sense—Isocrates (d) Never interrupt the enemy when they are making a blunder... Napoleon (e) A bad king helps us if he’s bad enuf— Emerson (f) Pm voting fqr the worst stinker I can find Democratic Rad ical iHHBDnnnoHnnnnannnBniannHnBHnnnnauaaannannnnnma The Mill City Enterprise that pub B lishes this, like this author, is willing to see more of the canyon’s timber processed in the Mill City-Gates region Respectively submitted Frank Van Camp P S. I'm a resident now of East Mill City, Linn side—Signed F. V. C. REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.tn. Also Thursday evenings by Appointment. HOME OFFICE: 318 W. 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