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___________________ 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.
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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
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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."
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"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
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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.
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EVENINGS 1952
Riding the Ghost Turns Cabbie
Into a Gentleman and a Scholar
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j From where I sit... ¿y Joe Marsh
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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.’
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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.’
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"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.
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