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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!
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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
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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
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Dec. 2, 1950 tends to give the green light to Gen
Dear Mr. Editor: The grave crisis eral MacArthur to use the atomic
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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
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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
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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
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others contemplate will be a catas
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nial nation has turned out to be a long destruction of our cities and our pop
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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
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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?
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General MacArthur has an answer, end of the get-tough-with-Russia
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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
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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
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and our congressmen know that we
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to the horrors of atomic war too
late? Sincerely. RUTH STOVALL.
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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.
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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.
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