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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1950)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY, OREGON DON PETERSON, Publisher JAMES SMITH, Editor Entered an second-clan« matter November to. 194* at the po«t office at Mill City. Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1879 <1 » »»I I II l> »1» I .11 I I *>l ' I. The Enterprise will not be reeponelble for more than one Incorrect In sertion Error« In advertising ehould be reported immediately. Oleplay Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. Inch. NIWSPAPIR NATIONAL T |D I TO R l_£ I L PUBLISHtKS ^ASSOCIATION •THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” George Putnam It After five day» of »weltering heat, residents of the Canyon were treated to another »hock. The too-fanilliar cry, “The wood» are »hut down echoed up and down the Santiam Monday. The logging seaHnn 1» ail too short, but the forests and men’» live» are more important. Soon the wet day» of winter will shut down the wood» again and the men who carve their living out of the forests will again I m * hack at rent, living on liard-carned Having«*. Will they I m * denied unemployment benefit» during their idleness thi» year? A h of now that 1» a question, an import ant question. We take g<M»d care of our torent», or try to. It’s time we take good care of the logger and hi» family who 1» the backbone of Oregon industry. Our whole economy hinges on bls welfare. Until the time that industry can find him fiill-year employment, the pittance of an unemployment check should not be denies! him. Santiam Summer Augu**t »4, 1950 Heibert came Sunday to spend a I 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE week in the Heibert home. DEATH NEVER TAKES HOLIDAY Vacation Bible school started Mon-1 Adding to the "death never takes day at the Idanha community church By REBA SNYDER a holiday ” theme is the fact that this with Miss Anna Hamm and Miss Doyle Leming moved to Salem last year’s three holiday weekends have week where he has employment. Mrs Mary Quiring in charge. Miss Hamm To the Editor. Leming, who is unable to leave at I and Miss Quiring are staying in the It has been brought to my atten accounted for 19 fatalities. Nine oc this time and their daughter are Jerry Pittam home thia week. Bible tion that 25 or more adults in the curred during the Independence Marion Forks, Detroit and Idanha weekend, seven over Memorial week staying with Mrs. Leming’s mother, school will last two weeks. end, and three on the New Year’s Mrs. Sievers, at the CCC camp. American Legion Auxiliary food area are now required to travel 30 weekend. miles to exercise their right to vote. sale, held in Van ’ s clothing store last A 7,500 gallon water tank is being It does not seem fair or democratic installed at the Idanha Lumber Co. Saturday netted them $22.70, which that these people be discriminated mill to be used for the mill boilers is a little better than any organiza against. I hope that our county OREGON’S GREAT and for a suppliment to city water tion has done thus far. clerk will take care of this problem. if needed. Mr and Mrs. S. C. Roberts, Pull DAVE EPPS. Mrs. Evan Howard, who has spent man, Washington, spent the weekend the past two months here with her in the A. R. Snyder home. Sunday husband, returned to their home in the Roberts and Snyders were guest Wayne Bass Wounded In leg Portland the past weekend, The of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pittam. granddaughter, Joyce Marshall, who Mr. and Mrs. Dave Roberts left During Fight for Korea been here for a week, also returned Monday for Cottage Grove where Lyons—Pfc. Wayne Bass, son of; to her home. they will be guests of his sister for Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bass, received; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Perton and a few days. a shrapnel wound in the leg eight baby are visiting her sister in Mr. and Mrs. Warren Stoll and inches above the knee early this O'Brien until the work opens up here children started their two week's month. again. vacation Saturday. They will visit Bass was wounded August 10 and | Mr. and Mrs. Glen Willis and Mr with relatives in Long Beach, Calif. has been removed to a hospital in STARTS LABOR DAY and Mrs. Vernon Hallford will spend The Hugh Denton family will soon Japan. at least part of this week on the move to Tillamook where Denton has The soldier's parents learned the ¥ PRIZE LIVESTOCK ON coast where the Willis’ are building employment. extent of his injuries Monday after | EXHIBITION a garage. Mrs. Ben Cherrier gave a party an anxious period of waiting follow ¥ 4-H AND FF A STATE John Delaire, who has been in a Tuesday for eight of her girl friends ing receipt of a War Department, (HAMPIONSHIPS Salem hospital for quite some time, in her home at the OCC camp. The telegram informing them that he had I ¥ RODEO AND HORSE SHOW returned to his home here Sunday Cherriers plan to move to Sweet been injured in action. EVERY NIGHT Delaire is improving nicely. Home soon. ¥ HORsh. |{A( IN(. D AILY Miss Mildred Gooch, of Bellingham, Doris Bjork Of Sherwood, Ore., ¥ W ATER FOLLIES OF 1950— Wash., was in town Sunday visiting came Monday to visit with Eva New Postmaster’s Family Tours Gigantic Aquacade and Stage friends. Miss Gooch has taught for and her family for a few days. Extravaganza! the past two years in the Detroit Mr. and Mrs. Orvol Lady, Earl, Most of Western America ¥ FREE MIDWAY grade schools. Robert and Caroline went Monday to Postmaster and Mrs. Charles Kelly ATTRACTIONS Frank Ray is now able to return Willamina to visit relatives while and children, Johnny and Leia, toured to work at the Idanha mill, after four work here is at a standstill. most of the western states during his months of forced vacation due to a two week's vacation this month. Admission 50c hand Injury. Both Salem, Ore. and Minneapolis Among the points of interest vis (Fed. Tax Incl.) The P. H. Willems family, of Mc are, roughly, halfway between the ited were Yellowtsone national park, C HILDREN 12 anil Under FREE Pherson, Kansas, cousins of Frieda equator and the north pole. the beautiful Grand Teton mountains, Salt Lake City, the Bingham canyon SALEM, OREGON copper mine, the Grand Canyon, Los I Angeles and Yosemite national park BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET IDANHA iditor’s Letter Box: STATE FAIR Sept. 4-10 Even as the parched woods pant for moisture, the Santiam summer is about to end for the children of the canyon. There’s a certain tenderness in the air as the first day of school ap proaches. To the eager or fearful six-year-old the first, day looms on the horizon as an event more important than any event he will ever learn to read about In history book». To mothers and fathers there is a sadness in seeing their tiny tots toddle no longer. Off they go to school and the state takes over its role in growing another generation. Another firm hand guides them—the little rascals, the wide-eyed girls, the tearful and the carefree. They enter a new world where they get their first taste of humanity In the plural. They ---------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE------------------------ must adjust to their fellow pupils, to their teachers and to a strange world When I was a kid on the East Side a couple of hundred year» that cam be grasped from curious characters etched in black and white. And time moves on. God willing In another thirty years, the same ago, a sidewalk was a lot more than a strip to walk on; it was some thing to dream on, tap-dance on, pitch pennies on and scribble phi children will lie parents watching another generation break into thejiarness. losophical sayings on, of the sort not found in Bartlett’s “Familiar The endless pattern of the old teaching the young. But It isn’t always one Quotations." I' However, , to ' Glnipv Myers, the leader of our gang, a sided. Who can't learn a lot about the human race by watching the young sidewalk was none of these ihlngs—it was primarily something to fish through. sters at their summer games? To put a fine point on it, what Gimpy fished through was not the side All summer long we’ve heard them. Shouts of glee, of pain, of bonny walk itself but the iron gratings ever cellar windows and ventilation youngsters, of galloping cowboys or of ground-flying pilots. It's going to shafts. And what he fished tor, with the a’d of a blob of tar dangling at bo quiet around home. Mothers will get more rest after an early rising to the end of a string, was everything but fish—coins, picture buttons and get the children off to school that is. But a* the silence hangs over the other bits of treasure which had fallen through. house and she busks In the joy of solitude unknown for three months past, There were two occupational------------------------------------------------ there will be a part of her that's marching off to school. That’s sitting at hazards, however, which used to and peer through a grating near annoy thi» Izaak Walton of the a confining desk. She knows. She was there once—and now . . . the curb. dogs. Cops, So the Santiam summer simmers no more and the days are shorter. asphalts — cops and “Lost som’n, lady?" Gimpy because a subway asked her. The aged adjust to the young, and the young seek a new life. attracts fisherman Izaak Walton of the East Side Did an Arresting Angling Job Minority How ninth 1« ii man's vote worth? To resldenta of the Marion Forks area in northeastern Linn county, voting is worth the cont of 50-mile round trip. •In order to vote these people must come In as far as Gates. Dave Epps points out elsewhere In this Issue in a letter to the editor, that some twenty-five or more adults an» denied easy «'<■«« to the polls in this area. The half-county long precincts of Rock Creek, Cascadia and Holly should I m * split In half to provide the I.inn county residents along the high way 222 a convenient balloting place. The coat to the county in maintaining a polling place In that area would I m * more than offset In the realization that every person In that vast com paratively untamed area would have a chance to vote. Voting Is the breath of democracy. Stiffle a man’s ability to vote by any means and dem<M*racy is dead for that man. lleiiuty Sillon EVENING APPOINTMENTS U>cate<l Next to Furniture Store PHONE 5951 OATES ■MmvnnnnHnnnnnnHunBnnHnnnnHnnnnHnHnHnnnnnnHHnnaRBHnnH Hill Top General Store MILL CITY s Complete One-<Stop Chopping Center FREE"G ive Away With $10.00 or More Order and crowds crowds, as a rule, pickpock- attract ets; dogs, because exposed Gimpy's rear was an invita tion for a q u i c k snack, and on sev eral occasions neighborhood mon grels had given it the full and painful treatment. As he grew older and more am bitious, Gimpy did less and less angling on the lower East Side where the droppin’s, and therefore the pickin’s, were slim. Instead, he invaded the lusher territories to the north, and finally settled on the gratings near the Union Square subway where, if the streets were not paved with gold, at least the ventilation shafts yielded a reason able amount of silver. • • • THE COP on 14th street in those days was one Ike Fogarty, a cyni cal gent who always suspicioned that while Gimpy was fishing in the subway, an accomplice was fishing In the spectators' pockets. But he was never able to pin any thing on the kid. and this irked him so much that he finally threatened to pull him in for obstructing traf fic the next time he caught him. G<mpy took tbe bint and uni back to Delancey Street — ibai ii. until one .May morning when the um doing •*’ >*■// end tn- mg to icbool um out of tbe Al bii lu/iiiliou, OUT gang beaded north on tbe prowl for cigar bandi, ttd on I fib Street ut law a woman gel out of a taut, tuddenly clutch M her Ibrool, ¡loop “A locket,” said the woman. “It isn’t worth much, but it has a pic- ture of baby.” There were neither cops nor ca nines in sight. “I’ll git it fer ya,” said Gimpy. From a Prince Albert tin he took a chunk of tar and held a match under it until it was sticky. Then he lowered it on a string and began to maneuver it over the locket. • • • At THAT MOMENT, Officer Fog- I arty rounded the corner. “This ' time I’m runnln' ya in,” he said. “Playin’ hookey and obstructin’ | traffic at one and the same time.” I "I’m only tryin’ ta git this lady the pitcher of her baby,” said Gimpy. In exactly one minute and 46 tecondt. our leader delicately eaied the locket through the grating, pulled it free front the tar and banded it to ill ouner. Tbanhi," laid lhe woman. "It'i lhe only picture I bate of baby." "Let’s get goin’,” said Fogarty. Stalling for time. Gimpy said to the woman, “Wculdja min’ ifn I took a look?" "Not at all." she said, and snapped open the locket. Inside was a picture of a mean-looking Pekinese pup. “That ain’t no baby," snarled Gimpy. “It's a lousy dawg." “Watch your language, young man” said the woman "Baoy’s won more blue ribbons than you have fingers and toes." Gimpy slowly stuffed string and tar back into ths empty tin and dropped it down ths grating Then ha turned to Fogarty. “Okay, copper," he said. “Do ya duty. * DR. MARK EIAMMERICESEN = REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST I I Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m. Also Thursday evenings by Appointment. I HOME OFFICE? 813 W. 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