The Mill City enterprise., August 24, 1950, Page 3, Image 3

"SMALL BUSINESS"
By C. WILSON HARDER
A West Coast news item has
created a great stir in Washing­
ton. It was the announcement
that the Dole Hawaiian Pineap­
ple Company, a monopoly in the
growing, processing, and mar­
keting of this fruit, has pur­
chased another huge estate in
Hawaii with a loan of $10.000.000
from a major life insurance
company.
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Apparently, however, it is rea­
soned, monopolies are a thing
apart from the law. Don't be sur­
prised if a Congressional investi­
gation is launched on this deal.
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The big discussion has been
created by the terms of the loan.
It is an unsecured loan payable
in 15 years, at an interest rate
of less than 3%.
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Thus, premium moneys paid
into this insurance company by
small businessmen, farmers ar.d
workers is being employed to
make a big monopoly even big­
ger. This, say advocates of gov­
ernment loans to small business,
is an example of why govern­
ment loans to small business are
necessary.
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A small businessman, even
after the most careful scrutiny,
could not obtain an unsecured
loan from an insurance company,
even though life insurance com­
panies make quite a fuss about
furthering the welfare and Inde­
pendence of the individual. The
best a small businessman could
hope for would be a loan up to
the loan value of any policies he
held, payable at 6% interest.
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It is even being pointed out_ in
Washington that an unsecured
loan at any rate of interest would
be denied any small business by
an insurance company on the
basis that laws would prohibit
such action.
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Look for a fight to develop on
the tax methods devised to raise
additional money needed for de­
fense.
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There are many in Washington
ready to prove that a large part
of the anticipated defense fund
could be raised if all other busi­
ness enterprises paid taxes on
their volume on the same basis
that independent individual en­
terprises are taxed.
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This issue promises to be the
hottest tax fight in a decade.
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While cooperatives must, to be
tax free, be set up theoretically
as non-profit, they still buy and
sell on the open market place.
In actual practice there is a
profit. If not, it is argued, why
do people do business through
cooperatives?
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The average small business­
man, who must pay taxes, is not
complaining to Washington about
competition from cooperatives.
But it is hard for him to see why
the business he does should be
taxed while that done by cooper­
atives is not taxed.
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Some have compared the situ­
ation to that of two men compet­
ing in a swimming race. But one
swimmer is hampered by an
anvil strapped to his back. That
viewpoint is making a strong im­
pression on Congress—especially
now when plans call for small
business carrying the biggest
share of the new tax load.
(?National Federation of Independent Buwlnen
Thomas Housing Project
LOTS, and HOMES FOR SALE
IF YOU’RE A G.I., SEE
G. E. THOMAS. Mill Citv
Shuffleboard
Good Music
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Where Friends Meet
On Highway 222, Linn County Side
MILL CITY
George ‘Sparky’ Bitter
Tony Ziebert
Out of the Woods
Marion County Births
Exceed Deaths by 1,115
S—THE Mill CITY ENTERPRISE
Bv JIM STEVENS
More than a thousand more births
Eaves . . ,
j than deaths were recorded in Marion
Seemed the younger houses on the county during the period from Jan­
block had been jeering at the old uary through July, 1950
bungalow with "Pull in your eaves,
A total of 1,589 births were re­
your rafters are showing!" and like, corded while only 474 deaths were
remarks. The new flat tops were
the
.
.. | ' listed. The birth figure was higher
The bungalow with the big than lhat Qf JR9 whUe {he death
worst. T"
sweep of roof and over-hanging
r-hangmg eaves I toU1 wa> ]ower only j 38O births
| just stood ----------
there —
in ov
_____ _ _ dig-
_ were reported for the same period
_ verhanging
nity, solid and self-satisfied, by all | lats year while 482 deaths were listed.
appearances, forty years old and
Of the 257 babies bom in Marion
good for a hundred more.
county in July, 132 were boys.
That was before January, 1950.
Then it snowed and snowed. As the
piles on the roofs of the new houses that about the houses on the block
melted underneath, the gutters ran talking to each other in human
to overflowing or were choked. These terms. When you feel a living and
eaves troughs were snug and trim j human spirit in the being of the
against the walls. In some of the house you live in then it becomes a
I home. And it is then that you find
newer houses water got into the
walls. The blisters broke out when an abiding need to keep the house
the sunshine came and drew the healthy—clean, bright, sound, secure
dampness from inside. Yells arose all the way through, as with your
from the house owners. They came own person.
In this spirit a house—even a small
forth to blame lumber, paint, con-
tractors, carpenters, architects, and house—becomes an object of affect­
generally to put their new homes to ion and care to the dweller. The ills
and lacks of the house are attended
shame.
The old bungalow stood serenely to and it is made into a snug, secure,
in the sun. rafters showing, eaves and charming adobe. Yes, even a
hanging out far from the walls, shack can be so transformed.
All this paint trouble is but one of
shabby, elderly, old-style to see. but
with nary a blister showing on its the symptoms of what’s wrong with
five-year-old paint job. Its wood gut­ houses today. The simple spirit of the
ters. 20 years old, swung in good con­ home is lost in the mass of modem
dition from the rafter ends. The own­ techniques. The building industry
er looked his house over in comfort can't supply the spirit. The job is up
to you and me.
and with pride.
"Eaves,” he said. "Me I like eaves,
I like lots of them old-style eaves.
Decline of Eavesdropping . . .
Thus the talk has been going in my
neighborhood. I've been thinking it
over.
The thing that keeps turning round
and round with the wheels in my
head is just what the subject of eaves
means in terms of the world we live
in today. A mighty simple thing, in­
deed. Old, very old. The most prim­
itive shelters had wide eaves to keep
rain and drip from the walls. There
is history in eaves. Morals, too. And
• What a comfort it is, in
romance. Maybe social significance.
time of serious illness, to
Why did the usual American home
know that hands—skilled
of wide eaves with rafters showing
and experienced in the
go out of style and the house with
task assigned—serve you
only a gutter lip between sidewall
with painstaking care.
and roof shingles come into favor?
Your prescription is im­
Have we a psychological factor
portant to you— and to us.
here? What are we getting into?
If I were a professor, I could rig up
a discourse with diagrams on how
the American people began to stew
around on international issues during
the depression years and from this
worked up worries about deep-dark
secrets, spies, wire tapping, and the
like, Then from the subconscious
PRESCRIPTIONS
mind of one and all arose folk mem-
ories with sources in the deeps of
time, One memory was of eaves. In
primitive times spying was done
mainly by eavesdropping. Now do
you see what I am getting at? Old
memory and new fears formed a
national psychosis and one effect of
it was a popular urge to build houses
without eaves. Hmm ?
The Talking House . . .
Leaving such notions with the pro­
fessors. where they belong, I want
to pick up the fantasy I started with.
POWER CHAMP
LEGAL ADVERTISING
NOTICE OF BOND SALE
NOTICE is hereby given that sealed
NOTICE OF STREET AND ALLEY
bids will be received by the under­
VACATION
signed until the hour of 8:00 o'clock
PETITION
P. M Pacific Standard Time, on the
In the Matter of the application of: ! 5th day of September, 1950, and im­
W W. HELLER
mediately thereafter publicly opened
ISABEL F. HELLER
by the School District Board of
J. C. KIMMEL
School District No. 129-J, Linn-Ma-
I l ion County. Oregon, at the School
HELEN KIMMEL
F A BAKER
House commonly known as the Mill
RUTH E BAKER
City School in Mill City. Oregon for
an issue of bonds of said school dis­
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that W. W. trict in the amount of Forty-four
Heller and others, have filed a peti-1 Thousand and no-100 Dollars ($44,-
tion August 9, 1950, with the Com-1 000.00». said bonds to be dated Octo­
mon Council of the City of Mill City, ber 1. 1950, and to mature serially in
to close the Alley running North & numerical order as follows.
Numbers 1 to 4 inclusive each for
South through Block Six 1«) in Hob­
$1,000.00 $4.000.00 on October 1,
son's Addition to Mill City and a
1952
Fifty (50) foot section on the North
Numbers 5 to 9 inclusive each for
end of S W. Fifth Avenue, between I
$1,000 00 $5,000,00 on October 1,
lot one Block 6 and lot 10, Block 5 I
1953.
of Hobson's Addition to Mill City.
Numbers 10 to 14 inclusive each for
Linn County. Oregon, and that said
$1,000 00 $5,000,00 on October 1,
Common Council has set the 13th day
1954.
of September 1950, at 8 p.m. o'clock
Numbers 15 to 19 inclusive each for
thereof at the City Hall as the time
$1.000 00 $5.000,00 on October 1,
and place for the hearing of objec­
1955.
tions, if any there be, why the above
Numbers 20 to 24 inclusive each for
described Alley and street should not
$1.00000 $5,000,00 on October 1,
be closed.
195«.
The above petitioners do hereby
Numbers 25 to 29 inclusive each for
grant a permanent easement through
$1.00000 $5.000.00 on October 1,
said Alley-way and Street to the City
1957.
of Mill City, for purpose of any pub­
Numbers 30 to 34 inclusive each for
lic improvement.
$1.000 00 $5,000,00 on October 1,
1958.
LEE S. ROSS,
Numbers 35 to 39 inclusive each for
City Recorder
$1.000 00 $5.000.00 on October 1,
Publication dates:
1959.
August 24, 1950
Numbers 40 to 44 inclusive each for
August 31, 1950
$1,000 00 $5,000,00 on October 1,
September 7, 1950
I960
Said bonds to bear interest at the
SUMMONS
rate of not to exceed four (4%) per
No. 23273
In the Circuit Court of the State of cent per annum payable semi-annu­
ally. principal and interest payable
Oregon for the County of Linn
at the office of the County Treasurer
ANNA VAN BEBER. Plaintiff.
of Marion County, Oregon, or at the
vs.
fiscal agency at the State of Oregon
WALTER PRESTON VAN BEBER, in New York City, at the option of
Defendant.
the purchaser.
To Walter Preston Van Beber, De­
Said bonds were duly authorized at
fendant.
an election held on August 8, 1950.
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
Bids must be accompanied by a
OF OREGON, you are required to ap­ .. it if icd (lie. k in the amount of Four
pear and answer the Complaint filed Thousand Four Hundred and no-100
against you in the above entitled Dollars ($4,400 00).
Court and cause, within four weeks
The approving legal opinion of
from the date of the first publication Winfree, McCulloch, Schuler and
of this Summons, and if you fail so Sayre, Attorneys at Law, Spalding
to do, for want thereof plaintiff will Bldg.. Portland, Oregon will be fur­
take a decree against you dissolving nished the successful bidder.
the marriage contract and bonds of
The Board reserves the right to re-
matrimony now existing between you ject tiny and all bids.
and the plaintiff herein.
EDNA F. ROSS. Clerk *
School District No. 129-J
This Summons is served upon you
I4nn-Marion County. Ore.
by publication thereof pursuant to an
Address: Mill City, Oregon.
Order of the above entitled Honor­
able Court entered herein on the 14th Publication dates:
August 17, 1950
day of August, 1950.
August 24, 1950
First publication of this Summons
August 31. 1950,
August 17th. 1950.
ROY R. HEWITT,
During the fiscal year ending June
Attorney for Plaintiff
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180 North Commercial
all of the nation's national forests in
Salem, Oregon, and
4t volume and value of timber cut.
Mill City. Oregon
NOTICE!
OF THE 5 LEADING MAKES IN
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To All Mill City Water Users
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