; MILL ENTERPRISE .MUX CITY, OREGON DON PETERSON. Publisher JAMES SMITH Editor Entered «■ a»cond-cl»»» matter November in. 11*44 at the p* 9 «t office at MUI City, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1« thre®, for 11.00. C'l.AMNIEIEII tlHTIMM.i One in • > " ’"r ■' The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one In« « »rrect in- ______ Lil.play sertlon. j.iror» in advertising should be rei-H’-J 1 1 ' 75c inch. Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising ‘ July 20, 1950 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE POLIO PRECAUTIONS ELKHORN RECOMMENDED BY weeks at their summer home near the guest ranch. Last week the Pettln- gils had as their guest their brother, Fill Pettingil, from Berkeley and Mrs. Barney Brunk and children of Port­ land, Mrs. Brunk is the daughter of the Pope’s who homesteaded on what is now the guest ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Myers attended the picnic of the Legion and Auxiliary Post No. 58 of Stayton at Taylor’s Grove Sunday. This week vacationing with Mr. Pettingil is her son and daughter-in- law of Portland. It has been reported a couple of prospectors have been looking over and assaying the ore of the old Silver King mine. The crew at the Hewitt mine has also been increased. By ELSIE MYERS Recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dark were Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Kells from Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Coleman from Milwaukee and Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Shaw from Portland. Callers at the Dark home Thursday NIWlfAHI NATION a L D IT O R IA L evening were Mr. and Mrs. Matt Bilver and children and Mr. and Mrs. k PUatlIHÍI» Carl Longnecker. "ASSOCIATION Mehama local of the Farmers Union held their regular meeting Friday evening with President Chet Blum in •THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” charge, A discussion was held in re­ - George Putnam. gard to fertilizers and also on weed control. The next meeting will be in the form of a picnic on July 30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Blum. All The train came to a sudden stop, Farmers Union members are invited. jerking the passengers around. Thu« far, then« ha» been no response to our ap|>eal for Ideas on the Recent guests at the home of Mr. ’What happened, conductor,” cried subject of eliminating the death-trap that has been set for some motorist and Mrs. Carl Longnecker were Mrs. one nervous old lady. on the Marion county side of Mill City. "Nothing much," said the conduc­ Longnecker*s parents Mr. and Mrs. On a recent Sunday night, one car locked gears while trying to climb Paul Payton of Stayton and her aunt tor, “We hit a cow.” th«« hili. Traffh- was heavy. Until the police arrived, a dangerous situation and uncle Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Burdett "Oh,” said the relieved old lady, existed as approaching motorists gunned their motors for th«« climb. who are visiting here from Falfur- “Was it on the tracks?” How long are we going to permit such a death trap? Someday, someone "No,” replied the disgusted cor.- ricas, Texas. "We chased her Into the reading this very editorial may be Involved in a tragedy b««cause public Bill Bickett has been confined to ductor, his home the past week with a severe bam.” sentiment failed to force r««M|H>nsible authorities to eliminate such death traps. attack of flu. Men are dying in Korea, but mor«' men are dying every day on our Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dark, Duray Youth ia a wonderful thing. What a highways. Death traps on our highways are as dangerous as machine gun and Durwood, were recent callers on crime to waste it on children.—G.B.S. n«ssts on the bat tiefronts. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Peyree at their home in Pratum. Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Carl Longnecker entertained with a picnic supper their brother and sister-in- The war in Korea should convince us that we will need more than sup­ law, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Payton and erior gunpower In our worldwide encounter with Russia and communism. WHEN POLIO 13 AROUND, the National Foundation for Infantile Mrs. Beulah Clise. We will need superior “idea power.” Paralysis recommends these simple precautions: Keep children with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bickett and girls Defeat on the “Idea front” preceded our defeats on the field of buttle, their own friends and away from people they have not been with attended a family reunion picnic Sun­ result risht along. Don't become exhausted through work or hard play. The savage kill or be killed saga of the Korean battlefront Is the day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Don’t stay too long in cold water or sit around in wet clothes. Ard of our failure to wage successful “idea warfare”. A. Billington in Scio. It was given always wash hands before eating. Watch for feverishness, sore throat, We permitted the Communists to spread their propaganda in South ini honor of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bil­ headache, upset stomach or sore muscles. They may—or may not— Korea, blit we made no effective penetration Into North Korea with our mean polio. Call your doctor and then, if help is needed contact lington who left for their home in Phone 2243 the National Foundation Chapter in your area. Ideas. I’erhaps the frontier was sealed by censorship, blit ideas, if powerful Texas the first of the week. MILL CITY Mrs. George Pettingil of Portland enough, can survive any dictator-imposed restriction. The fact is our history in the Far East is loaded with ammunition for killed by a limb from a nearby stand­ has been spending the lats couple of ing sugar pine as he bent forward to Stalinistic underlings who stir up antagonism against us. pick up his axe to mark the bucking We may not be responsible for the poverty that is widespread in that length. DR. MARK part of the world, but we do ourselves little good when we brag of our 2. Later in May a whistle punk on * abundance while multitudes are starving. Our short-sighted unwillingness to share our blessings with the less fortunate during the years we have been Winter damage in logging areas his way to the crew truck was struck down by part of the top of a madrone In the Far East provides propaganda that becomes sinister in the hands of has resulted in four deaths among Ore­ tree which fell as he passed Into a REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST gon loggers in the last two months, Communists. Our association with reactionary, rather than progressive non-logged area. claims filed with the state industrial movements, has not helped either. Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building 3. In early June one of a two-man By pouring true and exaggerated tales of our many misdeeds of ex­ accident commission revealed last crew of fallers died instantly from Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m. week. ploitation Into their propaganda mixture, the Communists have raised further Also Thursday evenings by Appointment. A warning against this condition concussion brought about by a blow havoc with our reputation. was published by many newspapers from a six foot limb which fell 36 The people of the Far East are restless. After centuries of poverty and in March. It named the extent and feet. HOME OFFICE: 313 VV. FIRST, .ALBANY subjugation, the promise of a new order is an attractive lure. 4. The next day one of a falling nature of the damage wrought by Ice, They can see little to lose and much to gain from a communistic up­ frost, and snow to forest trees. It crew of two died instantly from an 8 I heaval. We must be alert when we read the r««|M>rts of dissatisfaction behind stated that limbs had been broken foot limb weighing 50 pounds which I'M the Iron Curtain. Much of the Information we get comes from wealthy and from both evergreen and broad-leaf fell 130 feet directly on the victim's head. It lay in the branches of an lipper middle-class refugees. The poor seldom are heard from. Rightly or ( trees, and said some had fallen to the ground but many still lay in living adjacent tree. wrongly, they may like the new order. foliage, and others still cling by living The commission warned all woods-1 While we are worrying about “losing face” on the imlilrfrunt, we fibers. Caution on the part of work­ men. no matter what they do, to be I should quit admiring ourselves In our own mirror long; enough to see the men was asked as essential to the sure of overhead safety first of all' masses of the orient whose faces are pocked with the marks of two decades preservation of life. before they figure up ground hazards, i of war and generations of hardship. But the warning went unheeded in If we could only distill lovely days The world Is rapidly changing. Downtrodden multitudes of the East the following instances: 1. In mid-May a bucker struck and and keep the essence in bottles. ar«' on th«> rise. We must get them on our side. It will require sacrifice of THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS Our Death Trap The War of Ideas Open Friday Afternoons McEWAN PHOTO SHOP Falling Limbs Kill Oregon Woodsmen HAMMEIICIM I Is Your Car Dirty for a FREE Vacuum Cleaning Come In money, energy and “know-how”. We have to move Into the unconquer«*d ar«sis with a vast and constructive program that could wipe out old ideas about us. If we fail to do this, our nation, our civilization and our Christian culture could be as dead as th«« Roman Empire within a century. r • s Undaunted, Unhaunted Gotham Finds a Ghost Story of Its Own anti EVENING APPOINTMENTS l.ocat<«d Next to Furniture Store PHONE 5051 BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET GATES T J7 HOP FIESTA INDEPENDENCE, OREGON AUGUST 2-34-5 It's time for the annual Hop Fiesta, and RMdM time for a 1st of excitement, rsM bo a queen coronation on the eve- n4wg of the 2nd ... a big parade on the !rd ... »nd • big »how »ach night at tha Hop Bowl. Fun galore with carnival» and dance*. “4 (iratui Time I» In Store for All" Mountain States -A gW 9s»»»r«i>« Tea P»*lM. Priva*» Ka«.r*rte»' --------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE------ We men of Manhattan are an undaunted and unhaunted lot— or at least think we are—and so ghost stories seldom stand a ghost of a chance in this town. The other night, however, a real estate man buttoholed me coming out of "21” and told me a chiller about a deserted house in the Flushing section of Queens, and on the off-chance that vuur scalp can use a tingle or two, I'd like to pass it along .... On the night of the big snow three winters ago, a doctor in Queens an- front of the place. swered his doorbell and found a Puzzled, he went to the office of smallish man in a a real estate agent on the next faded mackinaw street and asked if he could get standing on the some information about the resi- stoop. dents of the house "My wife is very • • • sick.” he said. "I "THAT ’ S A FUNNY sort of ques­ hate to ask you to tion,” said the agent. “There aren’t come out on a night any residents and there aren't like­ like this, but it’s ly to be any. The house hasn’t been only a few blocks.” occupied in 15 years, and though The doctor fol- it's always been on my list, no­ lowed him to a body’s ever wanted it." large wooden house Billy Row "Do you think squatters might be near the intersec- tion of Vine street and Broadway, living in it on account of the hous­ and when the man unlocked the ing shortage?" asked the doctor "Could be. but I doubt it.” said door the physician could see by the glare of an unshaded droplight that the agent "There’s been a lot of the lower floor was empty except queer talk about that house, and the for a few kitchen chairs and a last family that moved in during the depression could only stand it length of carpet for a few weeks. The husband and • • • wife slept in the front room on the "THIS IS NO PLACE for woman." he said "You ought to second floor, and tn hear them tell it they were kept awake night after have soma heat in the house " night by the sound of a woman TA» otoo It J btm op o ertokt coughing It finally got so bad they irl of ilorri to lb* lf.o»l floor. packed and left.” ooJ lA» frost room on *moc- "I know its sounds absurd," said •olfti uomon not Inof •» on old the doctor, “but I examined a sick fonr-poitrr h*J. Sb* krpl toofb- woman there last night, and if mg into * blood floc h*d bondhrr- you’ve got a key I’ll walk over with tbi*f. joJ tbougb lb* doctor u ml you and prove it.” tbrongb lb* motion! of 09 CK- IF A»» «A». got to the hoHff. ommotion b* hnru «* O9CC ft U Of •t took lb* ¡tm putt* • ubil* to »• odtonerd col* of Iftborcolont. g*t lb* raufy loch egeo. ««J ubtn "I can giva her something to re­ tbrt r