Image provided by: North Santiam Historic Society; Gates, OR
About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1950)
July 6. 1950 ■THE MUI CITY ENTERPRISE M(IIS FACE Dreaded Disease Strikes Fisherman Teamsters Edge Engineer Club DETROIT DAM LEAGUE League Standings: Teamsters REOS CBI Engineers Shavers Detroit Operations W 4 4 3 2 ... 1 ... 1 L 1 1 2 3 4 4 Pct. .800 800 600 .400 200 200 (¿lines This Week Monday REOs vs Detroit at Mon gold. Tuesday — Operations vs. Teamsters at Mill City. Mill City based teams in the local softball league staged a ding-(|png battle here last Thursday as the near perfect pitching of a pair of Team ster hurlers highlighted their team’s 6 to 3 conquest of the once high-fly ing CBI Engineers Joe Lilac, starting Teamster pitcher hurled five innings of hitless baseball before being nicked for a single by Ferguson, engineer moundsman, in the sixth. Mel Levine finished up the last two Innings with a no-hit, no-run job. Ed Yarnell, who took the hili at the start for the Engineers, lasted five innings permitting four runs on four hits. His successor, Ferguson, allowed two hits and two runs. Teamster Tommy Woods was the only batter hitting with any degree of regularity in the game. He col lected two hits in three times at bat. One of many dog tricks to be present ed in a special stage show at the Mill City Theatre next Tuesday and Wed nesday 1 s shown here, with ‘Twin kle”, the talented canine performing for her master. Nine cases of Rocky Mountain j spotted fever have broken out in the state since the opening of trout fish ing season May 1. the State Board of Health reported last week Sportsmen planning to fish in the eastern part of the state can take precautionary steps against this dreaded disease by being vaccinated by a private physician or the Marion j County Health Department. Vaccination, made at least ten days before the expected exposure, pre vents the disease. i Rocky Mountain spotted fever is j transmitted by the bites of wood | ticks, which are ordinarily found in ' the area east of the Deschutes river. | It may also be contracted by having the mite crushed on the skin. It is i not transmitted from person to per- , son His 5th inning homer was the game a only round-tripper. Levine connected , Smart fishermen are careful not to leave fires in a with a hit in his only time at bat. wooded area. They put out their cigarettes, cigars, and Frank Hamby, Teambter first sack pipe ashes before they toss them away. er, was injured in a fifth inning col lision with Bill Nourse. He is still Besides burning millions of acres of timber each year, under treatment for a severely forest fires also destroy wildlife, hasten land erosion, bruised leg. kill fish, and dry up streams. Teamster managers are hoping Hamby will be back in shape for Mill All of us can Help Keep America Green by being I City’s next softball game Tuesday careful with fire in the woods. when they face the Operations club. The managers, Cecil Fritts and | Carl Foster, praised the playing ot Vast North Santiam Area the team and the coaching of “one j and only” Lucky Rue. Added To Soil District CBI hopes to hit the winning trail j All of the north watershed of the again today when they face the same North Santiam river was added to the Operations club here. Santiam Soil Conservation district by Other players in last Thursday’s I a 120 to 10 vote of landowners at game for the Teamsters were Elwood, | Mehama and Stayton, June 24. c; Carlton, lf-lb; Nolan, 2b; Segrue, Riding high above the floor of the The vote was 41 to 2 at Stay ton ss; Watt, 3b; Wood, cf; Rlckett and North Santiam Canyon these days is and 79 to 8 at Mehama. Casting of McGrath, rf. Playing for the CBI a young cowboy in a 12-yard Euclid one hundred votes was necessary in Engineers were Simbeni, c; Yarnell OPEN SEVEN DAYS dump truck. order to secure passage. and Ferguson, p.; Nourse, lb; G. Low A WEEK To the greenhorn there are chills A soil conservation district carries ery, 2b; Nicklos, ss; Bengston, 3b; Chuck Faylor and Sam Engle Gal bra th and Bayless, If; J. Lowery, aplenty watching him drive that cum no taxing, condemnation or contract The area added extends Owners cf; Jensen, rf Umpires for the game bersome, sometimes stubborn vehicle power. over the perilous-looking roads that eastward from Stayton to the Marion were Kindler and Steele. hug the cliffside at the Detroit dam county east boundary. It contains site. 395,000 acres. In a project that is loaded with tough jobs, the job of driving the big again at eight. Well after midnight, trucks is regarded as one of the he was on the road back to Salem toughest. where he makes his home and has You would think a fellow like horses to take care of. Then a long Duane Graham, the driver we have night's sleep—but not for Graham. in mind, would have enough thrills At 10 a.m. he is again at McMinn herding that vehicle to the shovels ville. He is still there at 7 p.m. mak for a heap of gravel, pushing it ing that unforgettable ride. That around those curves and then back isn't all. He still has business in ing it up to the edge of a bank not Gresham to take care of. more riding defamed for lack of steepness. business. Yes, fellows like Duane Graham At McMinnville, Graham won all- need a holiday once in a while. In around cowboy honors. Two years THE FOOD YOU IJKE . . . SERVED THE fact Graham just finished his holiday. ago, he did the same at Gresham. To the shodeo fans at McMinnville Results from the events at Gresham WAY YOU EIRE IT. who stayed for the final event about haven't been posted at this writing THE BEST RESTAURANT IN THE CANYON ? p.m. last Independence day there but you can bet the name of Duane were thrills to spare. Out there rid Graham isn’t far from the top of the TO BRING YOUR BUSINESS FRIENDS FOR ing a Brahma bull was a young fellow list. DINNER. who was bringing the show to a close Graham isn't the only teamster rid with a hangup performance. Old- ing trucks workadays and spending timers (who don’t always say they the holidays riding and roping wild had it tougher that these kids of animals. 1950) marvel at his masterful han Lloyd Pyeatte and Jack Teague are dling of the living dynamite that is two other truckers who work at De unharnessed beef. troit dam and compete at various But this young man had his bull rodeos around the state. Both did In tow He conquered the fury only very well at McMinnville this week. wild nature can create. Incidentally, Pyeatte has a nephew If we had taken a good look at Don Pyeatte, who had the second the fellow in the cab of the truck at fastest cow milking time at McMinn Detroit dam. and another at the one ville. jockeying the wild bull we would Don doesn’t drive a truck around swear they were twins. those dangerous canyon curves Operating on Daylight Saving Time But they are not twins. It's the though But give him time. He’s same man. just fifteen years old. , Duane Graham, the everyday team ster on Henry Kaiser's project, and Duane Graham, the rough-nding, cow-milking rodeo star, are one and the same person. Graham began his rodeo weekend at 1:30 p.m Monday at McMinnville. From then until six. he took his turn in such events as roping calves, bronc riding and mugging for wild cow milkers. After maneuvering his horses into a trailer, he was off to Gresham 50 miles away where he rode \ I V S Steak House Meals - Fountain Teamster Cowboys Like Rough Riding Trucks or Bulls Sweden Soft Freeze yoc/fi •r Circus Ground in Red Thomas Add. Afternoon Show Only - __________ • REMOVAL SALE Still Going On! Cash in on some of our tremendous values on electrical builders supplies, household appliances, radios, etc. ..•W Get that Portable now in time For your vacation Some reconditioned Portables as loir as $7.50 New ones $29.50 up Sale Ends Sat. July 8th & ■ » « MASTER oninnaHuuuQrnatiuuunauucianw Stiffler’s Radio 6» Appliance Co "J> miles from nearest parking meter Sale* and Service MILL CITY Phone 902