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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1951)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY, OREGON DON PETERSON, Publisher State Highway Snow Sponsor Drops Crews Cost Plenty Drew Pearson 12—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Januar? 4. 1951 COMMUNITY AIMS THRU CO-OPERATION 1. SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. (The following editorial appeared Folks who ride the highways and 2. MILL CITY STREET IMPROVEMENT. in The Statesman, Tuesday, Dec. put up the money to build and main < l.txvFIl I» M>' EHTiaiXii one Insertion for 0c or three for 31.00. 26, 1950. The thought it carries we 3. LOCAL YOUTH RECREATION CENTER. tain them probably don ’ t stop to The Enterprise will not be reeponslble for more than one incorrect In realize that every time the snow piles deem worthy of your readership. 4. MILL CITY DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM. sertion Error» in advertising should be reported Immediately. Display up on roads and streets and when- —The Editor.) Advertising 45c column inch. Politica! Advertising 75c inch. 5. MILL CITY PARK PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL. While the Adam Hat company, ever frost or sieet makes slick spots 6. ELIMINATION OF BANFIELD’S NIGHTMARE. on curves or bridges it means fewer which has sponsored the broadcasts 7. MILL CITY AREA SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. miles of new highways in the state. of Drew Pearson, says that its term 8. IMPROVE HIWAY 222 BETWEEN MILL CITY AND LYONS. ination of the radio contract was de PUBLISHERS That is where Old Man Maintenance 9. OBTAIN CANYON YEAR ’ROUND PAYROLL INDUSTRIES. turns thumbs down on new miles of cided on prior to Pearson’s recent tilt '-ASSOCIATION 10. DETROIT, GATES, AND MILL CITY UNION HIGH SCHOOL. highway or an additional lane on one with Sen. Joe McCarthy, the fact of its termination shows the precarious already existing. Take Portland, for instance. Who nature of columnist broadcasting un ‘THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.” jured her ankle seriously recently and We sweeps the snow off the Steel and der commercial sponsorship. - George Putnam. was confined to her home as a result the Broadway bridges, and spreads have no special interest or concern of it. sand on their decks to keep the traffic about Pearson and rarely have list Mill City Odd Fellows and Santiam in line when frost or sleet turns them ened to his radio talks; but it is a Mr. and Mrs. Janies K. Harris spent into skating rinks? It is the mainte threat to freedom of speech via the Christmas week in Los Angeles visit Rebekahs hold a joint installation Sa to have one with his willingness ing the B. B. Harris family. Before turday night, January 6. Installation Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has accepted the most difficult assignment nance crews of the State Highway radio talk cut off. The radio itself is coming home they visited with friends ceremonies will be in charge of Dis that has ever been given a military man in U. S. history. General Eisen Commission, not Portland’s Depart to there and is not denied to Pearson; and relatives in Modesto and Berk trict Deputy Grand Master George hower, as supreme commander of the military forces of the Atlantic Powers, ment of Public Works. And the same but the time he used was commercial eley, Calif. Veteto and District Deputy President situation prevails on Barbur Boule has a position that will not only call for all of his skill as a military genius Wilma Stewart. The meeting is open vard, Harbor Drive, 82nd Street and time bought and paid for by a com Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hedge had but tax his ability as a diplomat and economist. mercial concern. W’hen the sponsor The organizing of an effective force for the defense of Europe and all the other streets in »he city over stops writing the checks the radi as their Christmas guests Mr. and to the public. which state highway routes are run Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peterson and the remainder of the world is not going to be an easy task. Besides the orator shuts up, unless he can find Mrs. Charles Swan and son, Billy son, Gary, drove to Corvallis this job of assembling and equipping an army a still greater problem lies in State highway snow plows keep all j another sponsor. Swan of Newport. the overcoming of the petty jealousies and the gaining of the whole-hearted such ways open to traffic when they Mr. and Mrs. C. M. French and Mr. week to return their other son, Ra McCarthy in attacking Pearson co-operation of the recognized leaders of the peculiar array of non-com- are clogged with snow in the winter, virtually called on his sponsor to turn and Mrs. J. K. Harris visited Mr. and mon, to his college work in Oregon and keep the slick spots sanded when State college. munist nations. the dial on Pearson. That followed Mrs. Jack Gulley of Beaverton New Whether this force, which must defend Europe, will ever be more than frost and ice make traffic hazards. and the result is the same whether Year’s day. Returned to college this week were Bill Howe, Leo, Lawrence, and Lester a dream is questionable. Russia has issued a warning that it will not And the same relative procedure pre in compliance with McCarthy’s ap Mr. and Mrs. George Veteto were stand by and allow the re-arming of the Germans. President Truman vails in Salem, in Eugene and prac peal or on the company’s own motion. hosts to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bell of Poole to Corvallis. made the decision to include Germany in the military forces of the Atlantic tically all other municipalités in the Charlotte Kendle, sister of Mrs. Joe It is different with newspaper ad Canby last weekend. Powers after receiving the advice of military men to the effect that unless state. vertising. The advertising appears Mr. and Mrs. Glen Jones were holi | Clark, was a guest in the Joe Clark is getting to be one Snow removal West Germany was included in the plan Europe could not be defended. of the maintenance in the papers, but there are many day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dell Smith home during Christmas and New Will Russia allow an army to rise ready for the field that will be of the big jobs department of the Highway Commis ads. No one advertiser is linked up of Marion, who are proprietors of the Year’s. They and she, in turn, en able to offer more than token resistance? joyed the warm hospitality of the sion. It is a major undertaking when with any particular article or column Tip Top Grocery in Marion. Today the Red Army could occupy all Europe, with the exception of I in the paper. He is buying space, University of Oregon students again Jack Colburn home during part of the the winter closes down on the Colum England, as fast as their supply lines could be established. The big question bia highway and the high pass’ routes and that gives him no censorship over 'holiday season. is—Does the threat of the atom bombs add up to a sufficient preventive through the Cascade mountains, the I what appears in the news and edi picking up the threads of college after Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jackson and the holidays are Lawrence and Eugene for discouraging the fall of this rich plum into unfriendly hands? newest chore being that of keeping torial columns of the paper. So there Thornley and David Karr. Mildred daughter, Judith, of Astoria; Mr. and Our position is more critical now than at anytime in 1910. There is the road to Timberline Lodge open is wider latitude for newspaper com Mrs. D. W. Thompson and son, Roger none to shield us from the first onslaught. We must seek assistance wher through the winter skiing season, - ment than for radio columnists to Toman of Lewis and Clark returned Dean, of Canyonville were guests in to finish out the term. ever and whenever it can be found. There is an old Balkan Proverb, "In which will cost approximately ' the F. Jackson home over the holiday. _______ This is not the first time that $40,000 I Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Kimmel had as times of great peril, one can sleep with the Devil.” from the highway junction to the broadcasters have lost their sponsors. their holiday guests Mr. and Mrs. O. Quality iob printing at the Enter There is grave danger in re-arming our former enemies such as Japan, Lodge. Snow and sleet boosted the Some radio networks have their own E. Hoodenplye and daughter, Donna, prise. Germany, and Italy, but the Red menace is even greater. We must develop aggregate 1949 maintenance cost of reporters but usually they are some- of Creswell. naval bases in Spain and supply Yugoslavia and Turkey. In doing this the department approximately $1,- what circumscribed as to their use of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sheythe and we gamble on the assumption that these nations fear Russia in the same 081,545 of road-user funds which nec independent opinion. The axe is most sons spent part of the holiday season measure as we. essary outlay in turn subtracted that 'apt to fall on commentators with lib in Kings Valley visiting relatives. For generations while Europe dominated the world, there was an attempt much from new highway construction. eral views because heads of big busi Mill City school teachers. Miss Hope to maintain peace by a "balance of power”. A balance of power does not Municipalities were required to fi ness often are sensitive to propaga Baney of Yamhill and Miss Evange prevent wars, but it does delay them. To develop this balance and thus gain nance the construction and mainte tion of such opinions. This leaves line Shattuck of Gresham spent > time is the reason we are now establishing a European army. nance of their streets under the laws the field more and more to the con Christmas vacation in their respective Also it is for this reason, we must sleep with any nation that gives in effect when the Highway Commis servatives (or others who are worse), homes visiting relatives and friends. Your us reasonable assurance it will stand firm at our side should a final show- sion was created in 1917, but in 1921 Thus radio loses value as a medium Dr. and Mrs. David J. Ferguson | dow n come. the first of a series of statutes was of communication because it fails to returned this week from a visit in Physician It is our deepest hope that we can create a balance of power of such enacted which provided in general present a variety of opinions for pub California with relatives and friends. is no a nature that it will delay war until there has been a change of leadership effect that the Highway Commission lic consumption. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Palmer and in Russia. Perhaps different leaders in the future of the world can chart could use highway funds for the con broadcast. daughter were Christmas guests of i» MEDICINE MAN” a permanent course of conduct for peace among peoples of this Earth. relatives in California. struction and maintenance of city The Fred Rughs spent part of the I streets over which state highway nicipal budgets for street construction • Don’t expect your Phy sician to perform mira and started chasing the U.N. armies traffic flowed as a link in the general and care in proportion to the added Christmas season in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. II. W. Hautala, last system where it passed through the load put upon the highway funds for cles. Remember, it takes out. weekend, enjoyed the hospitality of more time and effort to Since the establishment of the Open municipality, thus relieving the mu- construction and maintenance. climb uphill than to coast the Dave Alling home in Vancouver, To the Editor: . Door policy by the USA in China, the down! Your patience and Wash. A half century ago in the year 1899 | USA has given to China $3 billion full co-operation are es Arlo Tuers returned this week from the USA by the announcement of Sec from time to time to help them BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET sential to rapid recovery. Nebraska where he has been visiting | retary of State John Hay established .through periods of extreme emer his parents and relatives. the Open Door policy in China, em- gencies. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fend had as boding the language that: In this day China is adversely guests in their home for Christmas No nation should seek to establish showing its gratitude for that gen- and New Year's Mis. Jenny Kazda Salem in China "a sphere of influence” in lerosity. DICK TURPIN. __ _ ______ , jurious to the interests of other na i tions. No nation or group of nations LICENSEES Ml ST NOW RE NEW ----------------------------------- By BILLY ROSE---------------------------- can, without the assent of the other Licenses of the Oregon liquor con nations concerned, rightfully endeavor Because I sometimes tote around more than two dollars, and be to make conclusive its will in situa- I trol commission who do not have 1951 cause my house has demonstrated a tendency to get burgled, I have tions where there are involved the license certificates or written author a licence to carry a revolver—and sometimes do. But I certainly hope I never get into a spot where I have to use it, rights, the obligations and the legiti ity from the commission to operate mate interests of other sovereign after midnight, December 31, may not j because I doubt whether I could hit the back wall of a brewery if I were states. The USA opposed the sub legally sell alcoholic beverages after ( 20 feet away. And it isn’t because I haven’t practiced a-plenty. There’s a make jection of China by any imperialist that time, Administrator William H. shift pistol range back of my house up at Mt. Kisco, and over the years Hammond said this week. power or group of powers. The Open Door policy stood good Wholesalers and breweries have I guess I’ve used up enough ammunition to keep a small Balkan war in China and was respected by all been notified that delivery of alcoholic going. But no matter how carefully I sight and squeeze the baby gun corpse-to-be figured Io be more nations until the end of the shooting I beverages to unlicensed premises is with the short nose, I’ve never been than a few feet away, the kill war of World War II. Since then a illegal, Hammond said, and licensees able to do much more to the bulls er used saued-off shotguns » nation went into China and organized previously were warned that renewal eye than glare at it. two w uitb a three-foot spread, or a large part of its population polit applications should I m * made prior to get you 20 that most tommy guns which produced a ically and militarily. This was re I mid-December to allow ample time for of the Dead • eye spray like a garden hose. vealed when a wave of a half million processing. Dicks you read A few years back, an ex-bootleg Chinese communists soldiers swarmed about can’t do ger—now vice president of a na Don’t Borrow—Subscribe Today! into Korea within the past fortnight much better. tional whiskey company—told me a The U. S. army story about Al Capone which illus evidently agrees trates my point. It seems Al was ♦ with me about the tipped off that one of his body difficulty in hand Shuffleboard guards was playing footsie with a Good Music ling this tricky bit rival gang, so he threw a banquet of mechanism effec for 200 of his hired help, and after tively. Next time the feed made some complimentary Billy Ro«« you see newsreel remarks about the double-crosser closeups of the kids who are doing and asked him to get up on the the fighting in Korea, look closely table and take a bow. As the guest and you’ll see they’re armed with of honor was bowing, the 200 hood 4 Where Friends Meet rifles—Garands and Browning auto lums reached for their rods and let matics—but about the only place him have it. But when Capone— you’ll see a six-gun will be in the always the good bookkeeper—count On Highway 222, Linn County Side holster of a two-star general. ed the bullet holes, he found only MILL CITY' 20 in the carcass—180 of the trig I FIRST LEARNED that expert germen had missed. • • • shooting with a revolver is more Tony Zlebert George ‘Sparky* Dittar bull than bullseye when I moseyed YEARS AGO, I used to haunt the down to Ft. Worth 14 years ago to 42nd street shooting galleries, and stage that city's centennial expo got so handy with a .22 rifle that I an sition. One of the whoopty-doos I could knock the dancing celluloid put on “The Last Frontier,” was ball off the stream of water five I a wild west show, and the cast times out of ten. And I was plenty included the best hoss hands in the cocky about my marksmanship un business—Galahads in 10-gallon hats til one day when I went up to see who had won prize money in every Ben Hecht at his place in Nyack. rodeo from Pendleton to Madison Hecht, fed up with my big talk Square Garden. Naturally, I want about small arms, suggested I shoot ed to include an exhibition of pis it out with Charlie Lederer, the tol shooting, and as a charter mem screen writer, who was spending ber of the Zane Grey club I fig the weekend with him. ured that almost any one of my Tie got nothing against Led bronco busters could pop a clay erer. “ I laid modestly. "Let pipe out of a girl’s mouth at 30 feet. him lite.'’ PUT ANTI-FREEZE IN NOW AND Well, I figured wrong. There was The target will be a toma no one in the cast who could hit the to can at 10 feet." said Ben. BE READY WHEN THE COLD pipe without taking the mouth with "and yo and Charlie can take it, and I wound up having to im turns with my .22 automatic WEATHER GETS HERE! port the national pistol champion— pistol" a skinny kid from Brooklyn who We went out on the lawn and Led had learned marksmanship in a erer, sighting carefully, hit the can Coney Island shooting gallery. two out of three times. I didn’t We take better care of your car even nick it. Tbu uitb ubal Da Last month while vacationing in man Raato« a>«J «« call “the equaliser' u etea wor. roa». Hollywood. I lunched with Hecht and reminded him of the debacle aata eatoag g«ag>rev>. dare. which ended my career as a marks the hoodlums of the 20'1 p>«- man. loled many a ttZuea. almost ”1 might as well have bee» shoot mt arsahly the «*./•«• a at <a e GAS STATION ing blanks.’’ I said ■•otae ear, aaJ t>e eaafe a rWKXDLT 8UYKI “As a matter of fact,” grinned taaple af tatAet frata «Ae aage Ben. ’’you were.” •f Ati ae»4 IS Aeaete- (Ae Entered ae second-cla«M matter November 10. 1944 at the post office at Mill City, Oreaon, under the Act of March 3, 1379. MILL CITY How Do We Sleep? Editor’s Letter Box: Capital Drug Co. Ineptness With an Equalizer Even Found Among Gangsters MEANDER INN • : :• : : : : HEY! WINTER Is Coming RALPH NIBLER CHEVRON