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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1950)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET MILL CITY, OREGON Entered ae second-class matter November 10. 1M« at the poet office at Mill City, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1Ä7S. CI.ASSII'IEI» AI»VKHTIMIS«;i One iBMrilon far Me or three for 11 M Th* Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one Incorrect In sertion Error» In advertlalnx should be reported Immediately. Display I : 7 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ By BILLY ROSE------------------------------------ Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. NIWIPAPIR I* “'ASSOCIATION •THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.'' —George Putnam. Town Meeting A» long sue there are town» there will be community problem*. The difficulty will never lie In the problem» but rather in the solutions. Such des-lslons will al way» I m - left In the hand» of the people, There 1» of court» the solution called lethargy. Or simply the ex- preMHion of "I don’t care.' .” Communities that qualify for such a title are filled with John» and Jane» that always leave such decision» up to the proverbial “other guy”. It is not unusual to see such towns in the throes of a junior dictatorship just breauv the “other guy” never existed. Better yet, however, Is that solution which involves a town meeting. The nation was built upon such thinking. That Is, the ability and desire to talk things over. When the government raised a question In the minds of the taxpayers they talked things over and demanded a solution. When a town meeting was scheduled by the Citizens’ Iwague to discuss the problem that sistns to have arisen over the school board In Mill City It ranked as the best solution offered. Whenever |wople are willing to gather together and sensibly talk things over, the community is sure to profit. In event that you are expecting a moral, we would not have you dis appointed. When the townspeople gather tonight at the Mill City theatre, don’t leave your responsibility to the other guy. You see. he probably will leave hl, responsibility to you. Yesterday morning I received several letters from readers who ap parently di-nlred that they I m - published under the "Editor’s Letter Box”, column. They are not signed and so cannot be consider«-«! as worthy of publication, nor do they state fails that can be proved. If they can be proved then let them come forward with proof. These letters I receive«! were an attack on a certain Individual because that person had the temerity to take part in the Citizens’ League, Since when Is It not th«- privilege of citizens to organize themselves so that they can defend their rights and llbertl«-», or to select candidates for a vacancy on the school board at the coming election. If the writers will present me with facts that can be prov«-d I shall I m - glad to print their letters If they will sign them so that I know who they are. I will keep their identify secret If they wish, but until I can prove any assertions I make I shall not print anonymous letters attacking other people. If you wish to attack me personally, you nis-d not sign your name, iHS-ause 1 don’t mind |*ersonnl attack. I an» not ashamtsl of any thing that I have said or published regarding community problems. I consider It a privilege to is- able to print the truth and help a com munity wrest Itself from the control of “small dictatorships” I hut are at tempting to throttle the growth of a conuiiunlty. SANTIAM FARMERS CO-OP I With $10.00 Order or More Your Choice of One Item from Gift Table B1SQIICH. package IGA PORK and BF INS, «i, tin 2 for 23 or. SAW OVFXBWI !» HF l\S Hl SIIMORF 15 18 ox. HR VXD LUNCHEON MEAT LEMONS, Ia«rg<> Site iloten NEW SPI Ds, "V- site 10 llw. MRISl.FA I F MON s<» XI* K bars Fl .SIN ORF. I*INF ti l l » l| |<|. tin ■J for F.I.S1NORF: s|Jt fi » F’lNF 4PPLE. 2», tin (UMTORT TISSEE I roll. .41 .37 .25 .39 .39 .45 .23 .35 .29 o o o o o c o i o c 0 o o footcandles; sewing on dark fabrics with detail 150 or more footcandles. A senior floor lamp with a 100-200 watt incandescent lamp or a 32-watt circular flourescent lamp provides the highest illumination level of portable lamps with an average of 100 foot candles. To provide illumination levels be yond the 100 footcandle range, re flector and projector spot and flood lamps of 150 watts recessed in the ceiling may be used. A 75-watt flood lamp attached to a floor lamp ap proximately 15 inches from the sew ing task will supply at least 100 foot candles on the sewing task. More hours spent in the garden mean that mending and other sum mer hand sewing must be accomp lished after dark. Thus, Oregon homemakers may well consider good lighting for their work, suggests Miss Lucy Lane, O.S.C. extension specialist in clothing. Sewing is recognized as a difficult eye task because the homemaker must concentrate on small details with little or no contrast between color of thread and fabric. Sewing reguires the best and most carefully You'll find that the big potatoes applied lighting of any work done at home. are on top of the heap because a lot Light with some directional quality of little ones are holding them up seems preferable for most kinds of there.—Doc Anklam sewing This is because in the ab sence of color contrast between thread and fabric, the chief factors enabling the eye to distinguish a stitch against its background are minute shadows cast by threads, slight ridges caused by tension of stitches, and highlights on the thread or fabric. On the basis of results and observations the following footcandle levels are recommended: For oc casional sewing on light-colored fab rics 40 footcandles; prolonged sew ing on light to medium fabrics UTTLE ILLS • True, that "little itine»« men been mentioning in • a olfhan«! wsy, may I»«.-« aeem to amount to much— juat a few faint symptom«. Rot. oealeeted. tbe»e "little nta" can ’.-ad to big bill» for doctor», medicine», etc; not an mention needlew «uffenng and Io»« of precious time. Conault a Doctor now — you'll save by it in the endi Ami, of course, we hope you'll brtag hi» prescription to we for rwtul com pouodiag. S a ALBERT TOMAN. Prop. •••••• Oh—My Aching Feet! Other night just as I was settling down with a book and a mellow glass of beer, the wife calls down. “Joe—I almost forgot—you and 1 are going over to the High School and take dancing lessons!" Now, I can waltz with the best of them, so I put up a quiet strug gle against going but it was no use. Turns out it was the class in square dancing. And from the look on some of the other men I judged I wasn't the only one there who had been taken by surprise! Miss Williams and Curly Law- son taught us what to do with our feet, and before it was over, darn if I wasn’t actually enjoying my self. Going back next week, too! From where I sit, we sometimes get an idea into our head for or against something and then hang onto it for dear life. Whether it's square dancing, or the right to en joy temperate beer or ale now and then, we owe it to ourselves as Americans to take an open-minded attitude — that's even after we make up our minds about it! Copyright. 19.S0, United States Brewers Foundation CALL US FOR CONSULTATIO NO OBLIGATION MAKE HILL TOP GENERAL STORE MIIJ. (TTY McEWAN PHOTO SHOP Headquarters for Garden Seeds Hoe by Day, Sew by Nite But Check Your Light FREE Open. Friday Afternoons I AHHI I ICI M S Anonymous Letters Friday & Saturday Specials Salem, Ore , June 12, 1950 Don Peterson Mill City. Oregon Dear Don: I have been resolving to write to you almost daily for several months to thank whoever is respon sible (and it must be you) for send ing me The Enterprise each week. It is really enjoyed and appreciated. I note, (with natural concern) that you are at it hammer and tongs in the battle or series of battles that every small-town editor finds that he j has to wage If he is to maintain his | self respect and that of at least half i of his readers. It is either that, us ually, or keep mum and have the re spect of nobody, including one’s self. I glory in your stand and in your exposition of it. Strength to your arm. As to the appearance of the paper —there’s no better looking weekly published in Oregon. I see you hav? acquired some new type faces for display and think you chose wisely in their selection. . . . Sincerely yours, LEO C. DEAN. Editor’s note; Mr. Dean was asso ciated with me when I first came to Mill City as editor, but was forced to resign due to illness. Generalissimo Joseph V. Stalin Chairman, Council of Ministers Kremlin, Moscow, U. S. 8. R. Dear Joe: If I may be so bold, I’d like to call your attention to a matter which is no laughing matter, even though it's been getting a lot of laughs' lately. 1" — . of . your propaganda J- • boys to win Namely, the recent . efforts friends and * influence people in this part of the world. Take, for instance, last winter’s lollapalooza about how your engi- swering back — and both times neers were nudging with 'he finesse of a lumber jack with mountains trying to tat. We de uranium, The first time, a year ago, both d e nn o generate Pravda and Izvestia reported 1 was crats, whether you a “white slaver” and that my know it or not, are humpty-dumpty little cabaret was a fact-minded peo "the biggest bordello in the world.” ple who thrive on And as if that weren’t enough, they details. When a fel went on to say that my partners in low says he’s Na this enterprise were John Edgar poleon we want to Hoover and Bernard M. Baruch. see his birth certi Well, as might have been ex Billy Rose ficate, and when pected, this bombastic bombshell he’s atomized an exploded nothing but giggles. Time 1 Alp we want to see the hole in the magazine reprinted the item as a ground. gag, my chorus girls threatened to Then there were the recent hum- picket the Russian consulate, and] idingers which claimed that every the syndicate which handles my! Phone 2243 ! doodad from the wheel to the fly- stuff picked up a few more papers. • • • i ing saucer had been invented by a Mill CITY Quality job printing at the Enter ALL OF WHICH should have prise. Russian. Now, I can’t doubt that many an important idea has been taught your word-wasters a lesson, hatched between the Carpathians but it didn't. A few days ago, and the Urals, but when your prop someone mailed me the February aganda machine gives the rest of Issue of your magazine, Novy Mir the world credit for nothing but the (New World), and—lo and surprise! Lindy hop and the bubonic plague, —in it was an article by one P. a lot of folks who might otherwise Khrustalev which, by way of docu be friendly begin to titter—and menting the degeneracy of Amer REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST even your legitimate claims get ican culture, described me as “a gangster with three chins” who lost in the chuckle. Will be at his .Mill City office In the Jenkins Building "murdered a man and grabbed his • a e Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m. capital. ” OUR MASS REACTIONS were Also Thursday evenings by Appointment. I took this, I assure you, os a neatly summed up a few months plaudit rather than a potshot. ago when The New Yorker car HOME OFFICE: 813 W. FIRST. AIDANT On your way up, as 1 gel it, you tooned a group of your agents in knocked off a couple of banks China discussing policy. “The main yourself, and since have undoubt thing is to handle them with tact,” edly knocked off an opponent or said one of them. Let them think three. Khrustalev, it was evident, they invented gunpowder.” Some meant to bo complimentary when issues later, the same periodical he uord-painted me in the image ran another captious cartoon in of Soviet Citizen No. 1. which several Politburocrats were debating the question. “Shall we All kidding aside, though, don’t (Packet or Bulk Pack) invent television now or wait until you think it’s about time you sent they perfect color?" for your typewriter assassins and ALSO FIELD AND GRASS SEEDS As another, and admittedly pica pointed out that their releases are yune, example of what I'm getting getting more howls than hosannas? Various Types of Garden Tools, Etc at, let me tell you about my own And while you're at it, you might experiences with your editors and point out that Joe Goebbel's theory copywriters. —the bigger the lie the more apt it is to be believed—only works with Every now and occasionally, OS people who desperately want to be some idle-eye in your press divi- STAYTON, OREGON lieve the lie. sion has apparently noticed, 1 One thing more: I fraternally take a playful poke at your re suggest you keep an eye on this gime in my column — an event Khrustalev fellow who said I had uhicb certainly doesn't figure to three chins. Such a man, in a reck precipitate a crisis of slate. But less moment, might describe his instead of filing it in the waste- premier as having two heads. basket and going about their From where I sit... //Joe Marsh Sincerely, business, your name-callers base Billy Rose twice made the mistake of an- DIT . lUHIIHlII Editor's Letter Box Khrustalev Had a Lot of Crust Saying Bad Things About Rose DON PETERSON, Publisher Complete Supply of All Your Huildiny Needs . . m SHEET ROCK DOORS and WINDOWS BOYSEN PAINT FEAT! RING NEW LOW PRICES ON MONTEX— niF paint with thf s \ ni > finish KELLY LUMBER SALES OPEN SATURDAYS PHONE 1815
