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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1951)
f The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE J MILL CITY. OREGON COMMUNITY AIMS THRU CO-OPERATION: < I. »»«11'111» IIIIKH’riMSUi One Insertion for or three for 11 The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one Incorrect In sertion. Errors In advertising should be reported immediately. Display Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. NEWS PA Pi It ___________________ January 25, 1951 they met Arnold Snyder and William Bodie, who had flew from Seattle. SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. Bodie and Snyder left Wednesday MILL CITY STREET IMPROVEMENT. I afternoon by car for San Francisco. By REBA SNYDER LOCAL YOUTH RECREATION CENTER. I Election of officers for the year Robert Steele has been transfered MILL CITY DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM. 1951 were held in the first meeting to Eugene. Mrs. Steele who teaches MILL CITY PARK PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL. of the year Wednesday afternoon J first grade in Detroit will finish the ELIMINATION OF BANFIELDS NIGHTMARE. I of the Santiam Willing Workers club. term. C. S. McKelvey of Redmond MILL CITY AREA SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. I Mrs. Vern Morgan received the most will replace Patrolman Steel here. IMPROVE HIWAY 222 BETWEEN MILL CITY AND LYONS. I votes for president, Mrs. Lon Everly, Steel has been stationed here since OBTAIN CANYON YEAR ’ROUND PAYROLL INDUSTRIES. vice president, and Mrs. Greer for 1944. The Steele's gave a going-away DETROIT, GATES, AND MILL CITY UNION HIGH SCHOOL. party last week for friends at Marion secretary treasurer. The meeting was held at the home Forks lodge. Refreshments and danc of Mrs. Jack Gulliford with 12 mem ing was enjoyed during the evening. bers present. It was voted to give Two feet of snow fell here last the toys which were repaired a year week to be greatly melted by the rair. ago and not needed locally, to the Saturday night. Plows and graders “Tide of Toys” sponsored by the were kept busy clearing the streets. American Legion and Auxiliary. It Due to weather conditions and was also decided to have a Valentine illness, the N. S. W. W. club will not party for members and their family meet this week as planned. The at Marion Forks lodge the night of Valentine party will be the next February 16 with a no-host dinner. meeting at Marion Fork lodge, Mr, and Mrs. John Rone and February sixteenth. daughter, Lynda are suffering from Calvin Cannon, who has spent the virus pheumonia. Rone, who had past few months in Arkansas with his SUCCESS STORY OF THE MONTH worked several days, not feeling well, mother, returned to Idanha with Bill With her mother's devoted help her plans to see Catherine through is the worst affected. All are im Hamilton when he and family re and encouragement, Catherine Don university. ‘'Ridiculous!” they proving. Rone returned to work turned from his vacation. nelly of Seattle, ‘ born with cerebral said. "That girl will never be able Monday ’. to go to college.” Those were fa palsy, hasn't The Idanha Service station is miliar words to Mrs. Donnelly, but let her handi again in operation. Roy Clark, pro somehow, she didn't seem to hear cap prevent them. prietor, formerly of Bend, says the | her from earn NEW 1951 WILLYS ing a bachelor One October day in 1942, Cather garage will be opened in the near of arts degree, ine, accompanied by her mother, future. STATION WAGONS a master’s de attended her first university class. Mrs. Frank New has been ill with a gree, and a Phi Throughout the four-year course kidney infection the past week. Al Pickups, Panels Beta Kappa Mrs. Donnelly, a registered nurse, though much improved she is still key. Today, took down her daughter's lecture Jeeps she is on her confined to the house. notes and helped her go from class way to become to class in a wheelchair. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Brown returned 2 and 4 Wheel Drive a successful During those four years there had to their home Sunday after a ten day Immediate Delivery writer. been nights of staying up until 5 visit in the O. G. Nickols home in Because of Catherine Donnelly a. m., studying for exams, writing, Bend. her mother’s ELSNER MOTOR CO. and tearing up stories. Catherine's guiding hand and Catherine's own major was creative writing and Mrs. A. R. Snyder and sons, Donald | 352 N. High Salem, Ore. courage and determination to over during one semester she sold a one- and Leonard, drove Arnolds car to the come her handicap, the Washing act play for $25. Salem air-port, Monday night, where ( ton Society for Crippled Children After receiving her diploma and Adults presented both Mrs. Magna Laude and elected to Donnelly and her daughter with the Phi Beta Cum Kappa, Catherine went on "Who's Crippled?" citation at a re to earn her master's degree with cent Easter Seal luncheon meeting in Seattle. This monthly award is Mrs. Donnelly by her side. conferred by the National Society Catherine earned most of her tui for Crippled Children and Adults, tion for her bachelor's degree and the Easter Seal Agency, through its all of her tuition for her master's state affiliates to deserving persons degree by reading and correcting like the Donnellys who, in a deter short stories for a creative writing mination to live a happy, useful life, professor at the University of Wash outwitted a severe physical handi ington. She also did some ghost writing for radio, and several of her cap. radio plays have been presented Catherine, partially paralyzed in over local stations. The American both arms and legs and having a Weekly published her short auto speech impediment, attended biography, "Thanks, Mother," and grammar and high school in her own home. Teachers visited her two Catherine also wrote the first and hours a week and outlined her stud last chapters of a four-part radio ies, but she was on her own in play, "The Legend of the Seafair,” preparing her lessons. Catherine broadcast last August over Seat has a portable typewriter on which tle's four major stations in connec she manages to write by punching tion with the city's Seafair cele one key at a time with a pencil. bration. Catherine likes three square She graduated from high school as a member of the National Honor meals a day, and says. "'It’s hard work sometimes to keep things in Society. When Catherine's father died aft running order, but hard work is the er she enrolled at the University best tonic I know to keep me in of Washington, friends discouraged trim. I am fortunate to have such Mrs. Donnelly from carrying out a wonderful mother." I DON PETERSON. Publl.her IDANHA I ! PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION » 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE I I "THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.’ - George Putnam War with China? It is almost impossible to exaggerate the potential seriousness of our military involvement with the Chinese Communists. The fact that we are involved, even though on a very limited scale as yet, is one more example of mistaken guessing by top military men. Then, it is said, the leaders, includ ing General MacArthur, told Washington that in their estimation Red < hina wrong. and the Red forces thronged would not act. But the experts, were wrong, about the 1'nited Nations Troops. We are not formally at war with China—or with anyone else. But in these days it is certainly difficult to decide what is war and what is not __________ __ of ____ war. The day of declarations war before the shooting started seems to fact _ -- remains that Americans and Chinese are killing have ended. And the _ ____ _____ ... and wounding each other. The hope exists that the troops of .Mao are in Korea only because of limited objectives—to secure their frontier, and to protect the Y alu River electric power plants, built by the Japanese, which serve important Manchurian centers as well as North Korea. Before too long we will know whether this is true or not. In the meantime, we must, even though reluctantly, consider what war with China would mean. William Henry Chamberlain, commentator on foreign affairs, has written on this subject. In the event of such a war, he points out, we would have three courses of action. First, we could attenpt an all-out offensive against China. But, he writes, ’’Even with a staggering expenditure of manpower and material this would probably fall short of its objective. The occupation of Korea was a manageable military problem. The occupation of all China, is not,” C hina, like Russia, has been the graveyard of invaders for centuries. Second, we could hold a defense line in Korea, attempt to disrupt ( hi- nese production and communications with air and naval attack, and induce Chiang's Nationalist forces, now on Formosa, to invade the mainland and organize guerilla actions. "This would be something of a shot in the dark, writes Mr. Chamberlin, “and the Chinese Communists could probably sustain this kind of endurance contest as well as we could.” Third, and last, we could withdraw altogether from the Far East. Of this course Mr. Chamberlin says, “This would raise the bleak prospect of a Communist-dominated Japan some day being used as the spearhead of the Asiatic part of a gigantic Soviet encircling pincers movement against us." It would be hard to think of courses of action more dispiriting than these. That is the reason why so much effort is being given to seeking a diplomatic solution to the presence of Red China troops in Korea, and why we have not bombed, as we so easily could, the electric power plants in Korea and the Chinese industrial and supply points across the border. The biggest question that yet remains to be answered is whether or not Mao is controlled lock-stock-and-barrel by the Kremlin—and whether or not he and the Chinese people are willing to do Russia's fighting for her, in a war to which no none could see the end. Painting and Papering BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET SPRAY OR BRUSH GET YOUR FREE ESTIMATE NOW FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DECORATING Call Bill Obershaw PHONE 3215 Box 607, Mill City EVENINGS 1952 Riding the Ghost Turns Cabbie Into a Gentleman and a Scholar £ j From where I sit... ¿y Joe Marsh _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ By BILLY ROSE------------------------------------ The other midnight, after 15 hours of making like Joe Executive, I felt I could use a little fresh air, and so I stepped into a cab and asked the hackie to drive me around Central Park. “How's business?” I small-talked. "Pretty fair,” said the cabbie, "but people are funny—soon as us hackies start making an extra buck they act like we was profiteering or something. They forget all those years when we had to ride the ghost in order to keep our jobs.” "Ride the what?” "The ghost," said the hackie. "That's what we used to call it when we threw the flag down and let the clock run without a cus tomer inside. Dur ing the tough times there were fleet owners who would fire a guy if he didn’t bring in a certain amount of business, so we used to run it up on the meter and pay it out of our own pockets. And we had to watch ourselves when riding the ghost or an inspector might nab us. The way I used to do it was to cruise around Central Park intil 1 clocked enough to satisfy the boss—and do you know something? The biggest tip I ever got was on one of those nights when the ride was on me." "Unconfuse me.” I said. ••WELL IT WAS like this," said the hackie, "About a month after the stock market crash in '29. I'm cruising around Wall Street one afternoon, figuring that if a broker threw himself out the window I might get a chance to rush him to the hospital. But Wall Street's like a graveyard that day, and so finally I get disgusted and go into a speak easy for a couple of shots. "When I climb back in my cab a few hours later. I’m feeling no pain, and so I decide I might as well take the ghost for his usual joyride And that night. Central Park is really something to see—you know, full of snow and icicles like a pic ture in a kid's fairy book. ” After making the dr coil a couple of timet. I'm about ready Io call it a mgbl uhen suddenly I get a feeling I'm being notched. And to I lam around, and tilling M the bach it a little old getter nearing one of tboie high cellart and ubot they call a bombergee bat. SoluroUr. ibis gleet me guile a jolt, but uhen e guy it polled he's liable Io gel tome pretty funny ideas, and to I figure out that Ibis it the ghotl I been riding around after night. Brate-like, I crank open the window between ut and tlarl Io talk to him. " 'How you enjoying the ride?’ I says. " ‘I’m enjoying it fine,’ says the ghost. " ‘Where can I take you?’ I ask him next. ’’ ‘To St. Patrick’s Cathedral. And close the window—it's getting cold.’ • e Right Under Our Nose! Sometime back, we got word from the Governor, asking if we wanted to use the State Fire In spection Team — a group of experts they send around to communities to inspect public buildings. We sent a letter saying: “Okay! Give us the once-over!” They came down, all right—last week. After the inspection, we got their report. Came out pretty well, all told. Town Hall and the School were O.K. Post Office just needed more sandbuckets. In fact, every thing got a clean bill of health, ex cept— the birr Station.’ • "THIS STRIKES me as kind of a perculiar remark for a ghost, but I do like I'm told, and when we get to St Patrick's the ghost gets out and I'm surprised I can't see through him like you're supposed to with ghosts. ’• 'I'll never forget you for what you did,’ he says, 'and especially the way you did it—pretending not to hear what I told you and driv ing me through the park on this beautiful night so I could see there was something in the world besides my -own miserable problems.' "For the first time I begin to sus picion that maybe this gh st ain't no ghost after all, so I says to him. 'When'd you get in my cab” " 'You know darned well 1 was waiting in the back when you came out of the bar,' he says. "That explains it.' I says. ‘1 didn't ’** you become it not dark and I didn't bear you became the uio dou- betu ten m uct doted.' " 'Yo.'r. a gentleman and a tcholar.’ My» the little old getter, Jeymg ubtcb be fitbes out a hen- dred-dollar bdl end bondt tl to me. "He starts to go away but I stop him. ‘Just for the record." I says, "where'd you ask me to take you first?" " "As if you didn't know.' he says. The middle of the Brooklyn Bridge ' " It Paps to Advertise in the Enterprise F rom where I sit, we volunteer firemen had just been too blamed busy keeping everyone else on the ball—ami not realizing our own firehouse was not up to snuff. Like the man who worries so much about his neighbors — about whether they work hard enough, about whether they can really af ford their new car, about their en joying a temperate glass of beer— that he forgets to take a good crit ical look at himself now and then. (opiright. 1951, 1 nited States Breuers Foundation -.Rebuild Bodies GLASS ANI) INSTALLATION On All Models and Makes EXPERT COLOR MATCHING Knowles Body & Fender Repair 14 Yearw Experience PBO>F M MUX CITY