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July 20, 1950
2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE
POLIO PRECAUTIONS
ELKHORN
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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
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Afternoons
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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.
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Undaunted, Unhaunted Gotham
Finds a Ghost Story of Its Own
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--------------------------------- 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<tirr*4 tbrr* uoio't « tltch
lieve tha congestion." he told her
of formlorr Ml ngbt. ~l cottU
husband, “but she’ll have to be
bort ftron* I totr tom* .borri
moved to a hospital first thing in
o*J * corp** doue b*r* loti
the morning."
mtbt." lotà lb* doctor.
He then wrote out a prescription,
"ft’ll get it filled right away." said
"Maybe you’ve got thia housa
the man. and showed the doctor to mixed up with another one." tha
the door
agent suggested
Next morning, wondering how
“I still think it's the same place
the woman was getting along, the Let's look upstairs."
physician stopped by the wooden
On the second floor they went into
house, but there was no answer the front room. It was also empty
when he rang the bell Moreover, Empty, that is. Except for a piece
there were no tracks in the snow of paper on the window sill— the
to indicate that an ambu'ance or prescription the doctor had written
any other vehlc'® a«. - .••»« ... n the Mew h-* r •
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