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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1950)
4—THE MILL (TTY ENTERPRISE June 22, 1950 SI4IT3 PACE Foresters Ready To Protect State Lands Against Fire Millions ot Infants From This Nursery MILL CITY Mrs Ramon L. Roberts and Mrs. Dallas C. Stricker and children mo tored to Stayton Sunday afternoon to attend a cinematic performance fea turing a talking mule. Mrs. H. M .(Tex) Agee and daugh ters, Jo Ellen and Peggy Alene, left by train Tuesday evening for a visit with relatives in Missouri. Mrs. Agee plans on going to Lansing. Michigan, sometime in July to take delivery on a new car. Dr. David W. Reid returned June 8 from a two weeks trip to Galves ton. Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McClure are the parents of a girl bom last Monday at the Salem Memorial hospital. Miss Lucille Miotke of Portland, daughter of Adam Mlitke, spent a few days last week with Miss Lucille Ziebert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Ziebert. Mrs. Bob Hahjor, Mrs. Emma Ter ter and little Danny Mahjor were In Stay ton last Friday to visit a doctor and do some shopping. Farmer Earl McDermitt is the Northwest's champion baby sitter. the Shavers and hit a clean single to From now until next winter he will right field, but he didn’t stop at first, More than 1.000 men make up the nursemaid eight million babies at the he kept going. It so frustrated the protection personnel of the state for region's most unique nursery. “older-experienced” ball players that estry department during the present McDermitt, superintendent at the he went clear around the bases, being forest fire season, according to unusual Forest Industries Tree Nurs followed by errors all the way. Don- George Spaur, state forester. ery here, last week completed his nely was the hero, his was the win According to the forester these ex sowing operations for the first time The Little Shavers, a team of high ning run for the Shavers perienced men will form the core ot using certified seed: next fall and school boys of Mongold and Detroit, The CBI Engineers had defeated the organization set up to protect winter hopes to have a record crop of knocked the league leading CBI En the REOS, 17-3, in a crucial game at approximately 13 million acres of eight million baby conifers for plant gineers off the top of the ladder Tues Mill City last Thursday, to gain the timberlands coming under the state ing on private forest lands in Wtsh- day at Camp Mongold by a score of lead with their third win of the supervision. The men will be estab I ington and Oregon. 6 to 5. lished in their field positions by the season. No baby sitter has any more pains The boys were too much for the Gayle Lowery, the Engineers sec the first of July and include office taking and attention-demanding job permanent employees, than this Scotsman who has been I over • confident Engineers. They ond baseman played his usual stac personnel, played hard all the way and deserved cato tunes with his big bat. Lowery emergency fire camp crews, War- farming every kind of a crop for the their win. bats clean-up, and no wonder. His 1 dens, smokechasers, lookouts, head past 35 years. Since 1942 he has bush bean varieties, 100 tomato var Yarnell started on the mound for batting average is a phenominal .643! quarters crews and maintenance grown 32 million baby trees at this ieties, 150 sweet com breeding lines, FREE MANUAL OFFERED timberman’s industrial tree nursery and 140 onion breeding lines. Num the Engineers, and was pitching a Eighteen hits for twenty-eight times crews. All men in the various emergency Enough trees have been planted from erous smaller tests involve cantaloupe, i no-hit-no-run game, until one of the at bat is no easy feat. His errorless A new 16-page manual, “How to Shavers got hold of one of his elusive play, too, at second base Is well worth camps throughout the state will go this nursery in that period to repre watermelon, squash, lima beans, brus- make money from farm woodlands? sel sprouts, and cauliflower. Seven through a period of conditioning sent eight trees for every man, is now available free on request. It fast balls for a clean single. When traveling miles to see. wood cutting, woman and child in Washington and varieties of bush beans and seven includes factual information-such as Yarnell suffered a charley-horse in league Standings Pct. which will include W L timber - marketing tips, estimating telephone line trail construction, strains of golden cross bamtam com Oregon. the seventh inning and left the game, Teamsters ______ 1000 0 2 tables, and suggestions on the best work and work of a similar nature. have been selected for more Intensive “McDermitt’s eight million seed he had pitched a one-hit, no-run game. CBT Engineers .750 1 methods of harvesting a timber crop 3 The Salem office of the state lings from this crop, when planted,” study. -of value to any owner of wooded The score was 5 to 0 in the Engineers Shavers ............. .. 667 1 2 farmlands. favor as the Shavers came up for REOS ..................... 500 forestry department has gone on a pointed out W. D. Hagenstein, chief will be centered around fertilizer 1 1 Write to McCulloch Motors Corp . Nutritional work in the first year their last time at bat, or what was Detroit ............... _ .250 24-hour day and is ready to cooperate forester for the Douglas fir industry, 3 1 Los Angeles 45, California, for your supposed to be their last time. 000 in all critical situations in sending “will mean another two trees for practices with green beans. Ferti Operations ........... 0 3 free copy of Bulletin #493. out men to aid in directing the fire every person in our two states. lizer field test plots have been estab They were far from through with fighting or to send needed equipment. These baby trees help fill in the bare lished on farms in the Portland and the game. They walked, hit, and got PRODUCTION RATE HIGH State Forester George Spaur said spots in our program to keep all Salem areas. Emphasis will be on j on by errors, then scored. By the IN DOUGLAS FIR MILLS that the well trained corps of elite private forest land busy growing method, amount, time and ratio of, time the nightmare was over, the During May, Douglas fir mills fire fighters would be fully aug- trees.” nitrogen applications. Later studies Sales and Service for boys had scored five tallys to even continued their climb toward the mented by mechanized eqpipment McDermitt’s job combines highly will include fertilizer practices with M<<ULLO<TI CHAIN SAWS the score, making an extra inning greatest production year since 1929, Every effort will be given to see that technical farming methods—he had phosphorus and potassium. Mill City, Oregon necessary. The CBI Engineers had H. V. Simpson, executive vice presi these men are provided the means to inject tear gas into the seed beds Phone 3202 Res. Ph. 1241 had to use two pitchers, Roberts and dent of the West Coast Lumberman,s Don’t Borrow—Subscribe Today! of using all of the latest improve before planting—with the patience of Ferguson, to put out the fire. Association, announced today. ments and devices which make fire an orchid grower. On four acres of r. The eighth and final inning opened Douglas Fir lumber production for fighting more successful, he added. this rich bottom land near historic with the Engineers at bat. All they the first 22 weeks of 1950 totalled Spaur pointed out that during the Fort Nisqually he grows two million could do was load the bases, and no more than four billion board feet recent flare up of fires, 22 bulldozers, seedling trees on each acre every more. Donnelly then started off for with an increase of more than 81 mil 50 power saws and dozens of tank year, worth 510,000 an acre, for prob lion feet above production for a sim trucks were used on one blaze. Dur ably the highest yield of any farmer ilar period in 1949, Simpson said. ing the fire many miles of fire breaks in the west. FRESII DAILY — VERY REASONABLE PRICES TRY OUR were constructed and more than Hagenstein, in charge of the indus We live by our memories and a 15,000 snags were felled by private try's forest conservation program, lauded McDermitt’s outstanding rec imppy life is one filled with happy and state forestry crews. memories. Success, clouded with un ord in growing strong, healthy trees happy recollections, fades into a fog at low cost so that industry can con MILL CITY tinue Its program of reforesting non-I | of failure. Our memories should be SUNDAYS and HOLIDAYS OPEN WEEK DAYS a hope chest in our youth, a reservoir producing private forest acres. FOR IX1NG WEAR 9 A M. to 4 P.M. 8 AM. to 7 P.M. tn our middle life, and a treasure “This region’s important wood-us GUARANTEED trove in our old age.—Dave E. Smalley ing industries are doing a better for ■y estry job each year,” Hagenstein “Nursery-grown seed Speaking of the high cost of living, Accidents on rural roadways took pointed out. 1 the only thing coming down nowa 77 percent of the lives lost in Oregon lings are an important supplement to | Mill City days is rain and even that soaks traffic last year but accounted for the tens of millions of young trees . annnnnnnHianHnnHiaHnianniaKtnno i you.—Canyon Castle. only 28 percent of all accidents which result each year from seedI reported in the state, Secretary ot j trees reserved in logging. Forestry State Earl Newbry said last Friday. must not be confused with tree Newbry said rural traffic accidents | planting, because hand - planting in 1949 were three times more lethal makes up a very small part, for most than those taking place inside cities lands are reseeded by nature.” and towns, according to statewide records The speed at which most open-highway mishaps take place is blamed for the top-heavy death rate. The secretary reminded that a driving error or mistake in judgment that results in a crumpled fender in An expanded vegetable crops re- city traffic frequently proves fatal No. 2% can search program which will involve at highway speed. “The record makes it clear that long tests of more than 800 vegetable No. 2 can 2 for stretches of open highway call for the varieties and breeding lines has been same alertness most drivers display in initiated by the O S .C. agricultural experiment station. The new long- congested areas." Newbry said. He pointed out the impact with range program includes two major 'ci which a car may strike a fixed object projects designed to keep vegetable or another vehicle increases four processors and producers abreast of the latest developments in the field. times when speed is doubled. One of the projects will be concen FUND CONTRIBUTORS THANKED trated on improving vegetable crop The board of directors of the Can varieties for processing and fresh yon Aid fund, an organization set up market use through breeding, testing for the residents of the Detroit and and selection. Focal point of the I Idanha areas for the purpose of ren second project is the improvement of dering aid to needy families in their yields through nutritional practices. communities, wishes to thank all who Selection of the problems to be contributed clothing, food and cash studied was based on a field survey of to the fund for distribution during vegetable growers and processing the past winter season, according to firms throughout the state. The studies have been set up this Mrs. E. G. Hintz, secretary. Many families, and especially children, were spring under the direction of Dr. W. A. helped by your donations. Aid ren Frazier, who joined the experiment dered included foid, clothing, fuel, station staff last October after serv shelter and medical care. With your ing nine years as head of the depart continue support the Canyon Aid fund ment of vegetable crops at the Uni- ' hipes to carry on its services this versity of Hawaii. Behavior patterns of new vegetable coming season si that there will be no cases of unrelieved need in our varieties under Willamettee valley J All Our Roonditioned Machine» Are Guaranteed communities. Mrs. Hintz concluded. conditions will be observed in the! ' initial phase of the variety lmprove- EREC TYPING INSTRUCTION BOOK • IN CE PRACTICE AT HOME Put out your campfire before you j mnt projet. Many of the varieties ! being tested are from England and leave the woods WE APPLY RENTALS » YT TVT 4545 COURT STREET the Scandinavian countries where ON PURCHASE PHONE 3-6773 I climates are similar to that of the [ Willamette valley. 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