The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
MILL CITY, OREGON
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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?
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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
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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.
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