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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1950)
November 16, 1950 6— THE MILL CITYENTERPRISE HOUSE TRAILER WANTED Wants and Sales Mill City Hi-lites By LF.LA KELLY Twirp Season Along with Sadie Hawkin’s Day comes “Twirp Season” at Mill City high. It started November 15 and will last until Saturday the 26th. A definition for this period of time is: The Girls must ask the boys for dates. The boys are not allowed to refuse. The girls must pay all ex penses and are to see that trans portation is provided. Everyone is having a lot of fun. The girls are really out for a date, so the boys better start running! Dancing at Noons Something new has been added this week. The students have been danc ing in the recreation room during noon hour. W’e use the school’s rec ord player and students furnish the records. Everyone has been very co operative and are really enjoying the fun. "SMALL BUSINESS” By C. WILSON HARDER Client will trade equity in FOR SALE—22-ft. trailer house, Sil-1 FOR SALE—Thanksgiving Dinners. Small businessmen are report I long. That’s the reason for the furnished 2-bedroom modern ver Liner, model 1949, see at Mar-1 2 large ducks, and several large red hens; also for sale, several ing signs of a business slump. I present inflation. tin’s Trailer Court, contact Orval home for good house trailer. • * * While mounting prices are a con bantams, 12 white pullets ready to Johnson any time to pick up this Now there's only two alterna Balance easy terms. tributing factor there is a greater tives. bargain. 46-3p j lay, 12 beginning to lay, >1.75 and One is to honestly admit primary cause. $2 each. Geo Cree, Phone 924. 46-1 what has happened. The other is • • • FOR SALE Bargains in oil circulat C. FL Coville Real Estate “We are being jaw-boned into to further socialise private enter ing heaters. Red's Hill Top Trad FOR RENT —Three 2-room apart Phone 2207 a depression,’’ observers say. prise. ments, unfurnished, hot and cold ing Post. 40tf • * • They point to the great number water, $35 per month. Mrs. F. L. Washington observers don’t of bureaucrats, from cabinet FOR "SALE—1942 model, 24-ft. east Noble at Detroit Market. 33tf rank on down, who miss no op look for honesty. They see, in ern built house trailer. Bargain stead, the drive under way to portunity to cry “Wolf." price, can be financed. Wilson WE BUY fir pitch 75c per gallon.. FOR RENT—Small house. See Dave further socialize America being • * • Epps. 46tf See us for containers. Also sell us Park, Santiam Trailer Court, Gates An example of this is the state pushed. 44-3p * your used burlap bags. Red’s Hill' « • « ment by Commerce Secretary FOR RENT — Furnished apartment, The plan is “Scare them to Top Trading Post. 40tf Sawyer that heavier taxes, seri death, modern. E. D. Cooke, 2 blocks west WE REBUILD Furniture like new and a frightened people ous shortages, and business con will sign 42tf Call 21F71 for free estimate. Stay- j EXPERT AUTO and home radio! high school. away their freedom.’’ trols can be expected for many service, 20 years experience, all * ♦ ♦ ton Upholstering. Rt 1, Box 177A, i years to come. WANTED — Second-hand upright In the meantime, bureaucratic makes Guaranteed service. W. Washington, Stayton, Ore. 28tf • • • piano. See “Santiam Sam’’ Steffy. Stiffler’s Radio and Appliance. 3tf Observers say Sawyer may or spending of taxes takes weird 45tf FOR SALE OR TRADE—for acreage may not be a competent Commerce forms. Now, it develops Marshall or mountain ranch, 2 bedroom mod. FOR RENT — Completely furnished FOR SALE—1935 Chev. dump truck. Secretary. But all agree he is ill- I Plan funds are being used to to the world. apartment, one bedroom, block from house, ’A acre land located in Turn equipped to assume the role of a play traffic cop Good condition. See Barney Trout, • * • postoffice. Phone 2652. 45tf er, Ore. Write Box 673, Mill City. prophet; even less qualified in ECA Bulletin «6 reports that Box 585, Gates, evenings, on Ma international relations. Marshall Plan funds have been rion county road, across from T. & FOR SALE — 4-bedroom house, in BARGAINS—In some good used calk • • • used to build a traffic inspection H. Garage. 46-3 p quire at Enterprise. 33tf shoes, sizes 6*4 to 9. Red’s Hill It is pointed out that bureau station Athens so Athenian po Top Trading Post. 40tf crats were almost openly scorn lice can in check vehicle registra FOR SALE—Tarps, new, waterproof, FOR SALE — Four-poster bed and By JIM STEVENS ful when Gen. MacArthur in July tion, license plates, brakes and selection of sizes. Red's Hill Top $50.00 PER THOUSAND truck scale coil springs. E. D. Cooke. 42tf Four New Forest States . . . said the turn in Korea had been i lights. Trading Post. 44tf paid for 24 ft. to 40 ft. small Doug reached. Our more than 8 million acres of las Fir logs suitable for piling. High TYPEWRITERS AND ADDING Ma * * * tax dollars • • * Use of American NEED A TELEPHONE? — Stop in prices paid for barkie poles and chines. We sell, rent, repair and junior forest land in the Douglas fir Yet, MacArthur with inspired for such purposes could create a and see the new Lech combination piling. Call Albany 1287 or write swap all makes. Trade your old region are acres that were once cut American fighting men scored a success. But since the end of storm that would topple over en desk or wall phone, also used Standard Pole & Piling Co. for price machine towards a new one. ROEN, over or burned over but were seeded World War II in 1945 no single tire bureaus. • • * phones from $10.00 up. Telephone lists. 31« 456 Court St., Salem. 35- * by nature and are now bearing crops bureau plan for the promotion of and Hearing Aid batteries stocked. of trees thick and thriving enough So public attention is kept peace has succeeded. Stiffler’s Radio & Appliance. 39tf LIST YOUR homes and farms with FOR SALE — Roper, propane, gas to be classified as timber growth in focused on a constant series of * • * me. Have cash buyers. Mill City, range, like new. See Mrs. Gale the U. S. Forest Survey. According to all reports, there alarms. Loud mouthed bureau FOR SALE—Used washing machines Gates. Detroit, Lyons. David M. Carey, 2% miles east of Gates on is now c concerted drive to keep crats fail to realize they are The trees of the junior forest are 3tf reconditioned and guaranteed. Ex Reid, Real Estate. highway. 46-lp just standing there on the land, grow war scares and rumors flying so . shattering public morale; slow pert repairs on all makes of wash that the people will not get curi ing down the American economy. ing. Most of them won’t be usable ers. Jenkins Hardware, Mill City. X GOOD SELECTION of linoleum * * * ous about domestic affairs. 41tf yardage, 6 and 9 ft. widths, 69c per And this fact may cause the for from ten to forty years to come, ♦ ♦ ♦ eq. yard. Dave Epps Furniture Co. Responsible military men are eventual disappointment of So except for Christmas trees and poles FOR SALE—Kenmore washing ma SAVE HALF or more on toilet sinks saying nothing. Some did explain cialist planners. perhaps. We still think of forest val • * * chine with pump and timer. Good and washbowls. how peace could be secured; Red’s Hill Top ues in the old way; that is in terms For when, and if, they take were immediately cracked down condition $25. Mrs. Henry Danne- Trading Post. 38tf ¡ of virgin timber, big trees. We care over the goose that laid the on by bureaucracy. man, next to the Bob Trask place, golden eggs—independent Amer lessly cause thousands of fires in the • • • on Hazel avenue, Mill City. 46-lp please LIST all available rooms, j The facts are that socialistic ican enterprise—they may find junior forest, and when it burns we room and board, houses and apts. planners have been uncurbed too the goose died from fright. too often say, “Only brush fires; just FOR SALE—30-ft. trailer house, used Write, telephone or visit Personnel ©National Federation of Independent Bualnesa only two months, double bedroom fern fires; why get excited ” Dept. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Consolidated | and bunk beds, bathroom. Low Builders, Inc., Detroit Dam. 12tf [ Foresters would like to see Paul down payment. Nate Bond, San | and Babe come back and move our tiam Trailer Court at Gates. 46-lp FOR SALE—Soil pipe, cast iron, 85c 8 million acres of junior forest lands foot. Red’s Hill Top Trading Post. to the Atlantic seaboard, among a Electrical Contracting and Service FOR RENT—Completely modern 6- population that would cherish and room house, good deep well, large FOR SALE—Wood circulating heat FREE ESTIMATES — IJCENSED ELECTRICIANS protect the growing trees more than er, excellent condition, reasonably woodshed and store room, fruit priced. Chas. Doleza), SW. Ivy, our own home folks do. room. Adjoining Gates grade and Mill City. 45-3p The present states of Connecticut, high schools. See J. J. Butler at T. B. Hospital, Salem. Keys at Rhode Island, New Jersey and Dela BUSINESS PHONE — SALEM 3-5561 and Parker-Hutcheson Furniture Store. FOR SALE—The Levi Garrison place ware all together do not run to many HOME PHONE — SALEM 2-2800 consisting of one lot and dwelling 44-3p more acres of land than we have in at Lyons, Oregon. Will be sold to crops of Douglas fir and hemlock highest sealed bidder. Bids to be WANTED TO BUY—Unpeeled Doug trees of less than saw timber size. left in sealed envelop at office of las fir poles, delivered to Lyons KEN PRATT, Mgr. Electrical Dept. 3455 D Street, SALEM FAMILY 8TYLE MEALS In addition we have enough acreage Bell & Devers at Stayton, Oregon. yard. For further information call SPECIAL SERVICE TO MILLS No bids accepted after 8 P.M. Nov. of second-growth saw timber to make or write Allen Goold, 1424 Filbert Under New Management 21st, 1950, and right reserved to a fifth state half the size of Mas Ave., Lebanon, phone 5745, Puget refuse all bids. 45-2 sachusetts, or three new Rhode Is- r. Timber Co. of Oregon. 45tf I lands. Paul and Babe could do the trick, [ just as they made Iowa what it is today. In his time Iowa was the Big Hole of the Midwest—a hole so tremen- FOR A GOOD SELECTION OF , dous that it swallowed, even in flood season, all the water the Mississippi New and Used Furniture C. E. ’Pink’ Mason, Prop. and Missouri rivers poured into it. When Paul started logging up north SHELL PRODUCTS he found he couldn’t raft his logs any OUR PRICES ARE ALWAYS RIGHT! One Mill East of Detroit AUTO STORAGE BATTERIES where unless the two big rivers were ZENITH TIRES made to run on south. So he scouted GATES, ORE. PHONE 5915 JEWEL MYERS, Mgr. all over, looking for land to fill up FISHING TACKLE the Big Hole. The only good pros xi: pect he met was in California. The Californians had a piece of land called Iowa which was the size of the Big Hole, and they put little Good Music Shuffleboard For Guaranteed Cleaning value on it. The only crops ^hey cared about were oranges and tour ists. The big piece of land would it’s the only grow corn to feed hogs. Even Los Angeles didn't want to annex it. GENERAL AUTO and Paul Bunyan could have it and wel TRUCK REPAIR come. Where Friends Meet 1 So he hitched Babe, who could pull 24-HOUR SERVICE Arc and Acetylene anything with two ends to it, to a Mill City | county at a time, and by next spring On Highway 222, Linn County Side Welding | he had Iowa all set in its new place O mm at 6 P.M. MILL CITY Phone 3452 Popular bt<dustil »(¿OOdL, in the Big Hole of the Midwest in ! tjme to start the year's corn crop. George ‘Sparky’ Differ Tonv Zlebert Indian Trouble . . . All hands concerned were happy I about the deal, except the Big Hole Indians. They started a lawsuit I against Paul Bunyan, and they fol- i lowed him with it wherever he logged. In fact, that was how the tribe got its new name, which it still bears— lint. VeutSck the Sioux Indians. The spelling is HEWITT, ESTEP & SORENSEN Old Indian Style for words of the Physician and Surgeon Attorney* at Law Real Estate kind. “We'll sioux yious,” was how the Big Hole chief first served writ Mill City — Phone 6602 MILL CITY — SALEM MH1 City ten warning on Paul Bunyan. When Paul quit the country, the tribe started “siouxing" the government, and has been at it ever since. The California country where Paul HARLOW L. WEINRICK and Babe hauled off the good earth of Iowa is now the Death Valley PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Attorney at Law region. “The old Califomy blood is Mill City 318 Broadalbin Albany j still strong in Ioway folks,” the log gers say, “which is why so many of ’em go there to live out their last a ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 4*44 days. But Califomy people them MIKE’S Septic Service ! selves still don’t set much store on the land that yet fills the Big Hole— Septic Tanka and Sewers Cleaned • the land of Ioway State. Out of the Woods IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE in THE ENTERPRISE MILL CITY Serv ice Station NU-METHOD Mill City Hotel Write or Phone Collect Boarding House Salem Equipment Co. ■j. Parker-Hutcheson Furniture North Santiam TAVERN SANTI \M GARAGE T MEANDER INN MASTER Business - Directory - Professional I)WIDM. REID MILL CITY MEAT MARKET Quality Meats & Groceries I). W. REID, Ml). FROZEN FOODS FLOWERS GOODE’S FLOWER SHOP Phone Bhtr MB Stayton. Ore. Phone SAI.EM 3 M«A COLLECT • 1079 Elm St.. W. Salem 0 4 4 Canyon Garage Expert Repairing SHELL OIL PRODUCTS U. S. ROTAI. TIRES Detroit P. E. Frv, Mgr. WEDDLE FUNERAL HOME Modem FunenU Service STAYTON OREGON ♦ 4 4- 4- ♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦ RALEIGH HAROLD FLORIST and NURSERY FLOWERING AND SHADE TREES SURI RS AND Bl LBS 319 W. Wash. St. Stavton Phone 3684 taBBnBBWoniBsoBannMdBBBM ■MMBBaanmBWMBHMHl • NEW STOCK - lace and Rayon Table Cloth — Book« Bed Spreads — Silk Head Scarfs Cotton Blankets — Printed Flannels Stamper! Goods Hrndrusoiis Store In the Dawes Bldg. MILL CITY DISPOSAL SERVICE < tar Page, ashes tnmminga, etc. weekly pickups $1 per month Alao light hauling 'onward Herman Phone 2SS5 i m b nns b b n bb obb Bwmnn C. E. Coville Real Estate West Side Mill CMy Ph 34*7 USTINGS WANTED Completi Supply of All Your Hui Idi ng Needs Knotty Pine Paneling Pioneer Flintkote Roofing BOYSEN PAINT KELLY LUMBER SALES RUSSELL KEIXY, Maaager ir