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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1950)
E MILL I’lUSE BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET COMMUNITY AIMS THRU CO-OPERATION: MILL CITY, OREGON DON PETERSON, Publisher Entered a» *♦•<orni-ciani» mattar November 10. 1H44 at thè poat office at Mill City, Oregon, under thè Aet of March 3. 1S79. insertion for 50c or three for 11.00. <1. IMIHMl »U» ».HTISISGt one ................. Th*» Enterprise will not be reeponeible for more then one Incorrect In _____ __ sertion. Errors tn advertising should be reported Immediately. Display Adver’-'sing 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. b**' December 7, 195') 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE NIWIPAMI puaiisHtes ASSOCIATION “THE PAPEB THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS." — George Putnam. Let s Un-nerve 222 s Curves Point Eight in “COMMUNITY AIMS THRU CO-OPERATION” is im provement of highway 222 between Mill < ity and Lyons. It goes without saying this particular stretch of highway is a driving hazard and quite below modern-day driving standards. Recital of the deaths, injuries, large property losses directly traceable to the Mill City-Lyons deer trail is here unnecessary—Canyon citizens are all too aware of these things. The words on this editorial page are not needed when one finds his person in an automobile as it minces it's way on a mysterious and snakey path called highway 222. Striking out in seldom traveled thought channels, one easily hits upon the thought—just because the North Santiam river twists, turns, and winds _ that is no reason for highway 222 to overdo the thing in an imitation! Some would argue that the unbanked “S” curves and sharp right and left turns with an occasional swoop thrown in for good measure here and there, are a challenge to Mr. Average Driver, that mythical soul! It is submitted—the Mill City-Lyons stretch is not a case of the mystical, rather its darn well down to earth! It’s high time some earth was moved to straighten the python Mill City-Lyons trail. One can get angry, make fun, or just plain take it out on the little woman after a tour of the forest between Mill City and Lyons. All kidding aside—that Number Eight problem is a harmful thing to our Canyon. Who, but an occasional dewy-eyed tourist, gets a bang out of our tunnel of love connecting Mill City and Lyons? Soon Lyons will be linked Io Scio and Albany by a highway that is a beauty. The urge of Lyons and its family of communities soon will be to say phooey to Mill City. After all—one can generally join or be called into some branch of the military service for enough hazards and challenges in the path of life. When Mighty Log Truck and Sleek Car play post-office on the way to Lyons, or vice versa, dismayed occupants of Sleek Car suffer a skip in the heart beat for fear of an affectionate »mack in the kisser by the butt of Long I-og. When the big _ Mehama Mill City free-way highway sprawls out on the Marion county side of the North Santiam river, we do not want the State Highway department to erect a sign on the Lyons-Mill City route saying “Proceed at your own risk”. There la no good reason why Canyon citizens need be put through an obstacle course each time they drive through Mill City and Lyons. If Man put the turns and curves in highway 222, then Man can take ’em out! Let’s start taking! liuilcting and Construction Loc-Bloc Construction Co Uncle Charlie's Luck Is Still Bad —Bandit Crosses Him Up --------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE------------------------- way home from his weekly pinochle Last Friday night on or the __ ____ session, my Unc^p Charlie was held up a fe^y ! blocks from his home on Allen Street and a wallet containing $13 was taken from him. This misadventure, strangely enough, has made my Aunt Frieda very happy, and with your leave and license. I’d like to tell you why . . . To begin with, to hear my uncle tell it, Frieda is crazy like a fox about most things, but when it comes to fortune telling and allied super stitions she’s crazy like a crazy. This, of course, in Charlie’s own words, “drives him to destruction,” particularly when my aunt shells out good money for such charms and amulets as lucky horse-tail hairs and pieces of string with seven magic knots. “I can't understand,” I once heard him tell her, “how a distinct a decision to put the magical fish to a practical test, and when Char twenty - century type like you could lie went out that night for his week ly pinochle session, the good-luck potsky around with charm was in his wallet. If he lost, such superstitions.” “Century, schmen- it was agreed Frieda would stop tury,” Frieda an patronizing Gypsy establishments; swered. “What was if he made a killing, however, he good enough by my was to have more faith in her theories. grandmother is enough by good me.” WELL, AS IT turned out, my “So why didn't uncle won ten dollars which, added Billy Rose marry your you to the three he started out with, grandfather? »» gave him a take-home total of thir "So when I look at you, - » » that’s teen. Reluctant to face gloating who I’m thinking I married. Frieda, he took a roundabout way home. A few doprs from a drugstore on THE MASTER CAME to a crisis ljst Friday wnen Charlid Srrivea Rivington Street, a hoodlum step home from the shop and Frieda ped out of an alley and stuck him asked him for 10 dollars. up. “Could you return, please, the “Only last week I am giving you 10 dollars,” he exploded. “What pocketbook?” said Charlie “Is gen you making, a down payment on a uine alligator leather.” Cadillac?” “Scram,” said the holji-up man, “A catalogue I am not needing,” "or I’ll bust in your head.” “A pleasure,” said my uncle po Frieda sassed back, “Today I am purchasing from a certain Gypsy litely. “Cherry-ho.” When Charlie got home, Frieda a brass fish with the sign from Zoroaster which is absolute guar was considerably shaken by the anteed to make a party healthy, story of the stick-up, and was forced to admit that the brass gee- wealthy and wise, a: ind also rich.” Charlie examined i the brass ob- gaw was a flop. But the next morn ject, “To me it looks like a tin ing she gave my uncle the horse herring,” he said. “Where is living laugh when the mailman dropped off a small parcel with the wallet this Gypsy?” in it, its contents intact. There was "In the bach of a ¡tore on Suf- also an unsigned note. folk street, and her I am trust "Dear Mister — When I see ing complete," laid Frieda. you got the Fish of "Zoroaster, I "F'rinstance, when Mrs. Feilel- decide to send everything back son was expecting, the Gypsy because / ban» dealing I uith told her to tew up the stuffed such fishes before and don't derma with black thread for a want no part of them. Besides, boy and while thread for a when I count up the money I girl, and when she used the find 13 dollars exactly. I know black, you saw what happened when I'm licked." —a boy." “See?” said my aunt. "On ac- “It occasional takes place,” said my uncle patiently, “that a boy count of the brass fish, everything comes in the world without black is turning out hunky-totsy.” “Maybe,” said my uncle, “but to thread in the stuffed derma.” The upshot of the argument was me it still smells from herring.” Annual Christmas Program Presented “A Savior Is Born”, a movie color and full length with sound, scheduled as a part of the annual Christmas program of the Mill City Free Methodist church in the local church on Sunday, December 17, at 7:30 p.m., G. E. Davidson, superin tendent of the church Sunday school disclosed today. The theme of the Christmas pro gram centers around the birth of Christ and the true Christmas spirit. Included in the Christmas presenta tion will be recitations, dialogues, solos and candle lighting by the vari ous Sunday school department mem bers. Parents and their children are espe cially welcome, Mr. Davidson indi cated. The Free Methodist church is lo cated in north Mill City. Mr. David son will operate the movie projector for the movie, “A Savior Is Boin” i shown Sunday, December 17, in the ' church. take on the 450 million people of China too. And he serves notice on O. F. HUNTER R- A. HARROLD | the peoples of the world that he in- Mill City Stayton » , Dec. 2, 1950 tends to give the green light to Gen Dear Mr. Editor: The grave crisis eral MacArthur to use the atomic BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBW'aBBBBSfiBBBBBBBBBBBBUBBBBBBBBBEBBBP which our country faces now, forces ■ bomb or any other weapon of mass me to speak my mind, even though | destruction he sees fit on the civilian population of China. some may not agree with me. But what kind of a solution is that? Some of our most conservative newspapers and political leaders are It means war not only against China, now forced to admit that President but against China’s ally, the Soviet SPECIALTY CARDS Truman’s Korean adventure is wind I Union. It means global war. If war with Korea has been a de ing up in fearful debacle. They are TRICKS and PUZZLES forced to admit that the U. S. is in base, the war that President Tru a jant the likes of which has never man and General MacArthur and TOYS and DOLLS others contemplate will be a catas been known in our history. MODEL AIRPLANES What was to be a cheap and easy trophe for the American people. It “police action” against a small colo will be a war which will end in mass H. O. Model Railroading nial nation has turned out to be a long destruction of our cities and our pop Equipment and bloody war which the U. S. can ulation. It will end in inevitable de feat for the U.S. because it will be never win. should an unjust war of conquest in which What is the answer? What 1 the U. S. do in a crisis i which may our country will be ranged against at any moment explode into World all the peoples of the world. We have now reached the ultimate War III? 163 N. Commercial SALEM Phone 2- General MacArthur has an answer, end of the get-tough-with-Russia I se Our Mail Order Service yes, his answer is to drop bombs on policy, of the help Chiang Kai-shek Manchuria to spread the war to in policy, of the contain-communism HBHHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBQBnBBUBBBBBnni clude China to expand the Korean policy, of the bi-partisan policy. In this moment of national crisis, war into a global conflict. This is now President Truman’s when our country hovers between war answer, too. He rejects negotiations and peace, there is a solution—an with the Chinese representatives at 1 alternative to the demands of Truman the United Nations. He turns down and MacArthur for war with China. Instead of trying to intimidate and mediation of the Korean war, Mr. Truman not only intends to continue conquer other peoples, why not try fighting the Korean people, but to J friendship and co-operation with China, all the other countries in the world. Do I hear someone say it won’t work? We haven't tried it, so I how do we know it won’t? It is still possible to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the war in Korea with China and the Korean People’s Republic; to make peace i with China by recognizing its lawful government; to negotiate a settle ment of the cold war and all outstand ing disputes with the Soviet Union. It is still possible to achieve a ban mi the atomic bomb. It is but for all of us to think this thing over; to try to realize what a war would mean, and then for every- one of us to let Prt isident Truman T or Don't Need Cash To Buy and our congressmen know that we want peace. Are we going to awaken the Things You Need ... SHORT SHANKS to the horrors of atomic war too late? Sincerely. RUTH STOVALL. editor’s Letter Box: Christmas Gifts Toy & Hobby Shop GENE’S MARKET SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. MILL CITY STREET IMPROVEMENT. LOCAL YOUTH RECREATION CENTER MILL CITY DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM. MILL CITY PARK PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL. ELIMINATION OF BANFIELD’S NIGHTMARE. MILL CITY AREA SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. IMPROVE HIWAY 222 BETWEEN MILL CITY AND LYONS. OBTAIN CANYON YEAR ’ROUND PAYROLL INDUSTRIES. DETROIT, GATES, AND MILL CITY UNION HIGH SCHOOL. 1. 2, . 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. • What a comfort it is, in time of serious illness, to know that hands—skilled and experienced in the task assigned—serve you with painstaking care. Your prescription is im portant to you— and to us. Salem Service Station For Lease FORMERLY b Cy’s Service ♦ On Highway 222 in Mill City b PHONE 2-1169 SALEM, or WRITE MERRITT TRUAX, 205 COLUMBIA ST., SALEM HIM! 1 I 1 DR. MARK = EAHHELICISES I REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m. Also Thursday evenings by Appointment. I i Í HOME OFFICE: 313 W. 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