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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1951)
April 12, 1951 J—THE MILL CITV ENTERPRISE It’s Happening on Your Own Front Lawn rations, trying to get the feeling back part of the job. (The writer of this article, re by the fire. You decide to step out printed from the Richmond, Va., on the porch for a breath of air before News Leader, by special arrange turning in. Pm sure you’ve done it ment, is presently in Walter Reed often. But on this particular eve Hospital, recovering from five ning, a strange sight greets you. bullet wounds suffered in action in There’s a great hole right in the Korea. His mother, Mrs. John middle of your front lawn, and the Fallon, lives at 1832 Jefferson dirt has been thrown up all around place N.W. He attended Wilson it, outlined sharply against the white, High School and Sullivan Prepara even snow. Squatting in the hole is a tory School here before moving on hunched figure. to West Point.) Let me tell you something about him. He’s been in this area now for By ROBERT T. FALLON about three weeks, living in a dozen First Lieut., 17th Inf. Combat Team holes just like this one on your front I want to tell you something about a lawn. The most apparent thing about war. him is that he is cold, and that’s be I want you to imagine for a moment cause out on your lawn it's about that it is a very cold, wet, wintry 20 degrees colder than where you’re evening at about 10 o’clock. You standing. Every now and then he’ll have been sitting very comfortably grab his shovel and dig a little deeper by your fireside reading the evening in the hole just to keep warm. That’s paper. It’s been a pleasant day, dis i the only way he has, because he’ll be mal outside, but warm and restful seen if he builds a fire and he may caontnnnH»a!aa99tst«t>iHS!sn)snn«0aHnn»aBn»a»n»»0oa»ait’an»nimnni ft a o St 0 ft I 0 o. o 0 0 O o. o. 0 0 0 o i 0 s o 1 Friday & Saturday Specials in our store » ASK FOR AND SAVE VALUABLE COUPONS FOR FREE ROGERS SILVERWARE « Rubber Footwear and Rainclothes Shoes - Hardware - Paints Electric Appliances, etc. § 0 « S o O a HILL TOP GENERAL STORE ALBERT TOMAN, Prop. WE DELIVER MIU. CITY Open Week Days from 8 A.M. to 7:30 P.M. Sundays 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. 0 o 0 0 0 WE ARE PLEASED What is “your job?” Well, it’s not bring mortar fire into your living into his feet. By this time the hole is TO SERVE YOU! pretty deep from all the digging and really important what I happen to room. He’s been cold for a long time— he’s cut down a little more of your think “your job” may be. But I We hope you are pleased He's there again when you think it is important that you find out and wet. He can’t feel his feet, and hedge. with our service. he’s getting worried because he's come home from work, While you soon what it is and start doing it, afraid they might be frostbitten. are greeted by a comfortable fire in for whatever it is it’s a vital part of It’s going to be a long night, and it’s a living room, the soldier is getting a country’s struggle for existence. ready for another cold night. Perhaps it would be more clear to you going to get colder. He’s very dirty. The grease from I have told you about this soldier. what your job is if you returned home a hundred “C” rations is frozen to and placed him in your front lawn, be tonight to find that hunched, shivering Mill City his parka and gloves, coating the two cause I want you to realize that every figure sitting in a hole on your lawn. weeks’ beard which covers his face. desolate hill that soldier defends in Soot from the small fires he dares that far-off land is in reality your JtXK3C>< >: :: >t »OOOtSOCK® to make during the day is all over front door. There are people who his pants and boots. want to get in to do you harm, and it’s “ BUCKING AL IM.l.INid But he’s dirty all the way through. his job to keep them away. He's SAWS FILED By MRS. ALBERT MILLSAP He hasn't changed his underclothes going to do his job and he’s not going in over a month and he doesn't intend to ask you to do it for him. If he Bud Schroeder was painfully in- to for some time to come. It’s too has to sit on your front lawn in the i jured at the Remine mill, the middle ■ cold to go down that far. You can cold, that’s just the way things go. of last week when his hand was badly smell him, and it’s bad. He’s not going to begrudge you the crushed. He was taken to a Mill City POWER SAW CHAINS He's pretty hungry, too. They comforts of your fireside or your din I physician who found it necessary to REPAIRED AND FILED didn't get his rations up to him until ner table, but he’ll be mighty bitter if amputate one finger on the hand. after dark and he couldn't build a he finds out that you’re not doing your Mr. and Mrs. Burrel Cole and sons, fire to thaw them out. . He’ll have Marlin and Thurlo, spent last weekend to wait until morning. J A cup of hot Ed Debolt, Prop. in Mollala at the home of Cole’s coffee W’ould sure taste good, He I Hiway 222 Mill City, Ore. sisters, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Powers looks old with that beard and sort j and Dr. and Mrs. J. V. Robertson. >C>< m KtOc.ntKtQtDtDtDtMXMKKIXIXMS&OS of hunched over posture. But he’s Thurlo is home on leave from Korea only about 19, though not like any after nine months service there. 19-year old you’ve seen. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Davis have You may wonder what he’s thinking received word from their son, Edmund about as he sits there during those I Jr., that he was on his way to Fort solitary hours. Well, it’s not much. | Stewart, Georgia, for his basic train Just how cold it is and how nice that ing. coffee would be. Maybe every now and then he thinks of home, but that’s Recent guests at the home of Mr. a long way off and the cold, his feet and Mrs. Clarence Ball were Mr. and his hunger are more immediate. and Mrs. Bob Trask and children from You’d be surprised how those three Cutler City. The Trasks were former things can fill your mind. residents of Mill City. You notice that he's Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. through your hedge and his rifle is Norman Garrison during the past sitting on the pile of dirt pointing in 7-HP Chain Saw /^/z week were his mother and husband teadiness through the opening. That’s Mr. and Mrs. Harry Edwards, Mr. another thing he's thinking: When are and Mrs. Fred Zunck and son, all from they coming again? He gets a little Salem; Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Zeller, scared out there all alone. He’d like and son, Jean, Irma Jean Brown, to go over and talk to his buddy in •nd other (••ding magazmM all of Scio and Mr. and Mrs. Paul a similar hole about two houses up, Pennickson and two daughters of but it's not a good idea to go crawling Lyons. weight around at night. He wishes they only 55 lb*. weren’t so far apart but it seems they always have a big sector to cover with never enough men to cover it. It We were astounded the first time doesn’t help being so far apart. What would you like to do for this we saw it, and you will be, too! GUARANTEED Mod«' man? Ask him in to your fireside, Here’s what we’ll show you: UW in th« SHOE REPAIRS qr«»t n«w get him a cup of coffee? Would you • Flews on perfectly. No laps, McCulloch no bruthmorhs. like to loan him your razor and let • Dries in 30 minutes. No offensive osier. him take a hot shower? Give him a bed I Cushioned _ Power neutralizes • Ink, cotsup, lipstick marks wash off in to sleep in instead of the dirt and vibration, gives amazing smoothness. a few seconds — oven with mild soap Accessible ignition points, built-in chain cold of his fox hole? Sure would! You and water oiler, full-swivel transmission, full-power wouldn't think twice about it. But • Beautiful pastel end decorator deep« sawing in any position, quick starting, tone colors. I’m afraid you can’t. There’s some many other features. one on that hill over there who wants Paint a room in half a dayl See it today I to get into your front door, and the man was told by his platoon leader that he’s supposed to take care of your house and the one next door. So he can’t come in and you find that you Phone 2871 can’t reach him. He’s very far away. CHARLES LMPHRESS, Prop Lyons, Ore, But you come out in the morning Open 7 A.M. to 7 P.M. STAYTON, ORE. he’s still there, huddled over his little fire, thawing out his hands and his Mom s and Pop s CAFE GATES Hiway Filing Shed The Most Amazing Paint Demonstration We Ever Had in Our Store! Immediate Delivery The Wonder Paint Lyons Saw Shop Santiam farmers Co-op C hevrolet ! gz I America’s Largest and Finest Low-Priced Car! Eat? That’s always a good question when you’re traveling. Too often, the answer is less definite than your appetite. But not when you travel on one of S. P.’s great new trains. Then you eat when you want, what you want. 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