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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1951)
February 8, 1851 •—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Out of the Woods the so sound of a tree whether it was I • V r or rotten. To an inexperienced • ear, ear. the t hollow sound might seem identical but to a worker who received no pay for falling a rotten tree, the sound was quickly learned and dif By JEAN ROBERTS ferentiated. An item of merchantable value Pitch seams were located and bored. abounding in a timbered country but ! A spout affixed and pitch allowed to seldom considered, is pitch. Pitch is ooze out; sometimes a.s much as 50 found in quantity in many old growth gallons per tree. A limb was then trees and is used commercially for [ pushed into the hole and would grow varnishes and medicine. into the tree, sealing the opening and In the last decade log and lumber ' preventing rot. Elton Ingram and Ray Roberts markets have skyrocketed but pre- viaus to this, timber cruisers and log ¡timber fallers at the old C. and H. gers in many areas tapped trees for I logging camp above Elkhorn, first 'Qteir pitch content. Present day heard of salvaging pitch from a fallers occasionally encounter trees timber cruiser who quoted it as sale that were tapped years ago with a able at $7.00 a gallon. Working in scar plainly visible. Several trees old growth timber, they considered bearing the tapping marks have been I it worth while to carry 5 gallon cans felled recently above Mill City, a few to work and collect pitch. Confident on Fern Ridge and some on McCully of rich returns they slowed down busheling. Mountain. It was not until they reached Port In the days of hand-falling an ex pert woodsman could tell exactly by land with a car loaded with containers of pitch that doubt assailed them. No one there had even heard of pitch. After an extensive search the Blue i Mountain Hide and Fur Co. was WE ARE PLEASED | located who offered not $7.00 a gallon TO SERVE YOU! but .75c. Of course this was lor pitch that was clear. If stored in We hope you are pleased ! metal containers for more than a day with our service. or so it will color and thus lesson the value. At present pitch is purchased by a i Mill City business at the same rate • 75c a gallon. Not comparable per- haps to busheling wages but less , strenuous. Mill < its By JIM STEVENS War Story. • . Scrub Samson was an old head with the Lemolo Logging company. In his prime he could never quite inch up to five feet, even in his calked boots. Scrub lacked the cockiness that is common with many good little log gers. At fifty he seemed a gray, wizened rabbit of a man. After a long record of such jobs as flunkey, whistlepunk, bullcock, woodbuck, snipe he seemed settled as a camp night watchman. Then came December 7, 1941. Lemolo old-timers A few other i knew that Scrub had dreamed for some years i of a tractor-driver’s job. He had spent many of his spare day time hours tinkering and helping around the machine shop. Ever so often he was allowed to try his hand at breaking in a reconditioned tractor. At last, with the war taking so many men out of the woods, Scrub got his chance with a bulldozer, grading a new logging truck road. The Snake Ranch, , . The new trail forked into the Lemolo River road where stood “The Snake Ranch,” a joint conducted by a Bulgarian called “Herman the Hog.” He and his gang were rotgut boot leggers, gambling sharks, and, some said, enemy aliens at heart as well as by war rating. On a certain week-end Scrub parked his dozer in a clump of river-bank alders alongside the Snake Ranch. It was with grim purpose. This Sat urday night, he vowed, he'd live up to his family name of Samson or bust Don’t Borrow—Subscribe Today! something a-trying. Scrub had a particular bill of com- plaint against Herman the Hog. Back in the depression years the two had been in camp together. During a summer shutdown in forest fire weather, Herman had somehow SPRAY OR BRUSH snagged a bottle of lemon extract from the kitchen and gone to the GET YOUR FREE ESTIMATE NOW FOR woods to drink it. Drunk, he started INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DECORATING a fire near the donkey where Scrub was on watch. Scrub got water on the blaze and licked it, but in the fight a shower of coals hit him from behind and set his shirt on fire. The PHONE 3215 Ilo» 607, Mill City EVENINGS 1952 looks of him when he came in to camp was a big laugh to the whole outfit, and most of all to Herman. KDCMDC9WX X’x'x X XX MXMKDt MIX X X XiXStiXtXIXiXIX !X x X X x X W?Wxn<!XIX'MXIX Scrub Samson remembered all that on this Saturday midnight, as he packed the line from the dozer’s drum in among the posts that supported the rear of the Snake Ranch joint on the river bank slope. But Scrub remembered most of all how many good men of the woods had been duped and robbed by Herman the Hog these past weeks; how many hail been snared in the Snake Ranch by 1950 PLYMOUTH SP. DELUXE 4-DOOR SEDAN man catchers for big-town jobs; how 1919 CHRYSLER WINDSOR 4-DOOR SEDAN ■ many loggers had been gypped with dice and stacked cards. 1949 HUDSON ’’6" DELUXE CLUB COUPE I I’illar Puller. . . 1949 PLYMOUTH SP. DELUXE CLUB COUPE Back in the tractor seat Scrub eased the power into the drum. Cold 1948 PLYMOUTH SP. DELUXE 4 DR. SEDAN beads of sweat popped out on him 194« CHRYSLER WINDSOR 4 DR SEDAN, Special Offer and chills ran up and down his spine las timbers groaned and cracked PLYMOUTH DELUXE SUBURBAN 'through the midnight shadows ahead. Scrub could imagine stone walls and steel bars around him the rest of his days for this, but he grimly poured in the power. Then suddenly— The line slackened and raced in, CHRYSLER • Home of Service PLYMOUTH things crashed, the boozy uproar in 405 N. Comi St. 495 N. Com’l St. 435 N. Court St side the joint lifted in whoops and PHONE 3-4117 yells of panic, anil the bulk of the old Snake Ranch shack in the dark naXPWUI X X.X X X XXX X X X X >• u ness leaned and slid for the shadowy water. The crash of splintering wood and the yells were muffled by a giant splash. The lights of the Snake Ranch were out, but Scrub could see that the shack was in water up to its windows. He skipped off the tractor and unhooked the line from foundation posts, which had been pulled to the alders. Three minutes later Scrub was rolling back to the woods. He felt safe now. No one could ever dream that such a rabbit of a man had pulled the pillars out from under the Snake Ranch. He was he'd lived up to the 1 happy, At last family name Timber Cruisers Tap Trees for Pitch Mom & Pop’s CAFE Painting and Papering Call Bill Obershaw I ORtuON JUNIOR GROWERS CAPTURE FOUR NATIONAL CONTEST AWARDS Young Hackett's garden plot was also three - fourths of an acre, four state awards in the 1950 pro planted to mixed vegetables that duction-marketing contest of the produced a $133 harvest. The only National Junior Vegetable Growers vegetable that was sold for cash Association as the NJVGA con was the cucumber crop. Everything cluded its sixteenth annual four- else was used at <lay convention at New Orleans, home, much of it canned. Mrs. La., today. Hackett i n - State - wide strutted her son honors went to on the size, col Merrill Kommer, or, and ripeness 19, son of Mr. of each vege and Mrs. John table desired for Kommer, Eu canning, and he gene ; Lewis picked them in Hackett, 17, son conformance of Mr. Lewis E. with her stand Hackett, Eu Richard Hull gene; Richard ards. Hull, 17, son of Richard Hull cultivated a quar Mr. Walter E. Merrill Kommet ter-acre tract near his home, and Hull, Eugene, a $109 crop of 16 vegetables. and Violet Kay Klobas, 15, daugh grew Because he doesn't live on a farm, ter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Klobas, his costs were inordinately high, Bend. Each received a cash prize but nevertheless, after paying him from the $6,000 scholarship fund self $25 for labor from gross re provided each year by A & P Food turns, he still realized Stores to encourage better produc of $47, stating, "Even a if net 1 profit broke tion and marketing of vegetables even financially, in the best sense I by farm youth. a profit from the quality and Also announced by L. J. Allen, got (of the produce), and State 4-H Club Leader and State freshness the experience and being able NJVGA chairman was the award from ing of the national championship to exhibit at the fairs. Violet Klobas and the top $500 scholarship to James L. McBee, 19-year-old grow lives on an 80- acre farm with er of Philippi, West Virginia. her parents, and The Kommer took over 4060 boy’s plot was square feet for three-fourths of her own project, an acre in ex i She grew nearly tent, planted to $80 worth of the usual kinds vegetables on of table produce. this small plot, The crop was of which more valued at $145, than half was Violet K. Klobas with a net profit clear profit. She of $109 on an spent only 30 hours on the project. original invest Enclosing glowing character testi ment of $16.25. Lewis Hackett monials from her school officials The entire produce of lima, kidney, and string and others, Violet’s report is a doc beans, beet«, cabbage, carrots, cel umentary proof of achievement. ery, corn, cucumbers, lettuce, peas, She has held the posts of secretary potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkin», for the garden and dairy branches squash, onions, and rhubarb was of FFA, and has won numerous used at home, if not immediately as FHA awards for canning, garden they ripened, then later as canned ing, dairy work, sewing — and per or frozen and stored in the deep haps most surprising of all—wood working! freeze. junior vegetable grow O REGON ers were named winners of Hooray For Your Side! These Are Like New Come in or Phone for a Demonstration Salem Automobile Co. When the signals have all been called and the game won, invite your crowd home for cups of hot, hot coffee and this mouth-watering Coconut Devil's Food Cake. Whatever the scoreboard shows, there will be cheers for your side when you serve this perfect combination of food after the game, as a climax to the excitement and fun. COCONUT DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE 2 cups sifted cake flour _, 1 teaspoon soda % teaspoon salt „ - ' Is cup shortening ' „ -»• l'i cups Beet or Cane Sugar 1 egg and 2 egg yolks 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted •Milk (see below for amount) * 1 teaspoon vanilla •With butter, margarine, or lard, use 1 cup milk. With vegetabls or any other shortening, use 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk. Sift flour once, measure, add soda vanilla. Turn into two deep 9-inch and salt, and sift together three layer pans which have been lined times. Cream shortening, add on bottoms 1 with paper then sugar gradually, and cream to greased. Bake in moderate oven gether until light and fluffy. Add (350’ F.) 30 minutes, or until egg and egg yolks, one at a time, done. Spread frosting between beating well after each; add chocolate and blend. Add flour, layers and on top and sides of alternately with milk, a small cake, sprinkling generously with amount at a time, beating after shredded coconut while frosting each addition until amooth. Add is still soft. C \RD OF Tll \NKS We wish to express our thanks to our many friends for their kind deeds and rememberances in the recent passing of our husband and father. Mrs. Evart L. Riddell Mrs. Charles Harman and family Church Activities FREE METHODIST CHURCH North Mill aty Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Morning worship 11 a ta. Junior church 11:00 a.m. Evening service 7:30 pjn. Wednesday prayer meeting 7:30 p. Phone 1906 Rev. L. C. Gould, Pastor COMMUNITY CHURCH Full Gospel Preaching Sunday school 10 a.m. Morning worship 11 a.m. Evangelistic service 8 p.m. Prayer meeting Tues, at 1:30 p.m. Preaching services Wednesday and Friday 8 p.m. Rev. Wayne W. Watkins, Pastor • • • GATES COMMUNITY CHURCH OF CHRIST Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning worship 11 a.m. Christian Endeavor 6:30 p.m. Evening worship 7:30 pjn. Walter Smith. Pastor • • • IDANHA COMMUNITY CHURCH Sunday school 10 a.m. Morning service 11 a.m. Evening service 7:30 pan. Thursday prayer meeting 7:30 pjn. Student Pastor, Rodney Toews • • • ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning Worship 11 a.m. Young people’s service at 6:30 p.m. Evening Service 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting and Bible study, Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Rev. W. D. Turnbull, Pastor. • • • L.D.8. OF JESUS CHRIST CHURCH Detroit Sunday school each Sunday 10 a-tn. in high school building, Detroit. Priesthood meeting 11 a.m. Zealand Fryer, Presiding • • • FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Morning worship 11 a.m. Music by choir. Dr. David J. Ferguson, Preaching Young People at 6:30 p.m., Mra. Arthur Kreiver, leader. • • • ST. CATHERINE CATHOLIC CHURCH. MILL CITY Mass at 9 a.m. every Sunday. Confessions heard before Mass. Services every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. during Lent. Altar Society 3d Wednesday 8 p.m. Father Carl Mai, Pastor • • • DETROIT CHRISTIAN CHURCH Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Preaching at 11 a.m. by, Leland Keithly, minister. Youth meeting 6:30 each Sunday evening. FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Services every Lord's day Sunday school 9:45 p.m. Morning worship 11 a.m. Young People's meeting 6:30 p.m. Evening worship 7:30 p,m. Tuesday, 7 p.m. Jr.*Teen Fellowship Wed., 7:30 p.m. Bible study hour. Thursday, 7 p.m. Young People. Mr. Hugh Jull, Pastor • • * CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IOOF Hall Sunday 11 a.m. Wednesday meeting 4th Wed. 8 p.m. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE in THE ENTERPRISE Richfield Stove Oil Rust-Proof Just watch this McCulloch cut, Olaf! Clean-burning Richfield Stove Oil is now better than ever. It's rust-proof, keeps fuel tank, line, »trainers and burners from clogging with rust and corrosion. Ex tra value —at no extra cost/ Phone us today for Richfield Rust-Proof Stove Oil. Everywhere jou go, you se« McCulloch chain »aw». ' ou'll find them working in the biggest camp* and you'll hnd them in the hands of the smallest operators. Loggers like McCulloch» because they're easy to carry, easy to start, and easy to keep running And you should see them cut. Sc6 O OcmonjfrdfIOn — \\ ithin the next few days, stop by our store for a real demonstration of wood cutting Or give us a call and we'll try to arrange a show for you at your place There’» no obligation We just want you to »ee what a McCulloch can do 6 Models Available • What a comfort it ■», ia tims of serious illneis. to know that hands—skilled and experienced in the task assigned—serve you with painstaking care. Your prescription is im- ponant to you—to us John Nelson Safen & Service MILL CITY rtioMc nm Salem Feed» containing NFZ-MIX can be u»ed a» a preventive or a treatment for Coccidiosin—will help prevent runts and eull«—control Coccidioais without slowing growth—reduce death looses. Chas. S. 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