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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1951)
May 3. 1951 time a feature of the land had been impressed indelibly on my memory— timber coast region in 1910, riding a a forest feature. First, it was the endless wilderness sternwheeler the J. N. Teal—from The Dalles to Portland for a silver forests of tall timber, the Douglas By JIM STEVENS Second, dollar. In a year I went back east to fir giants centuries old. Three Times West. . . the pines and south to California. in 1919 it was the stump lands and There came a day at last when i Year of 1919 I returned to the West snag patches, the cutovers and burns latched the tin cover back on the Coast in the homecoming from France that reached away from highways Oliver Visible Three Bank Typewriter of the 162nd Infantry—originally the and railroads everywhere, Third, it Model 1909, then padlocked the boom- 3rd Oregon regiment of the National was the second growth, the new 1937 shack door and got on my horse for a Guard. It was ten years before I forests on the bad lands of 1919. trip. It was for Sweet Home, in the took off again, then in 1937 I came Tangerine on Paddy’s Day. . . world’s most beautiful valley, the west for the third time. In 1910 I was a teamster. There Willamette. I fell to remembering. Three times west, in 1910, 1919 and were still horse-handling jobs to be Brought up to my 17th year in the had in the woods, even in the railroad sagebrush and pine country "east of 1937. That was what I talked to the and donkey logging camps. And in the mountains,” I first saw the big- folks at Sweet Home about. Each that year railroads were building all Clearing the KSflX'K.lt XX K X XX K X X K K K K X X X K X K K X K K X X XX >: X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X.X5CK along the West Coast. stumps was a bigger job than the right of ways of the big timber and grading and tracklaying. Following the construction camps, driving mules or horses, I was tied up in big-timber falling and stump shooting all the way through. First lick in Portland, I thought I’d try being a city laborer for the first time in my 17 years, A job driving a wheel scraper was easily ★ Welded fromet ' picked up on the grading of a (not bolted) for Montavilla subdivision. The boss was long-life service I a genial young redhead by the name of Paddy O’Malley. March 17 was ★ Robertshaw the day of days for him, and he did automatic thermo stats govern heat not enjoy the orders from the con for perfect results! tractor—whose name was Gustaf 60 minute intervol son—to work on the great day. timer! Paddy’s Day morning I packed along a lunch from a Burnside Street "ft Automatic chop house. The lunch would have ovon timer in dock either an apple or a small orange or also timet oppli a couple of tangerines, This morn- once outlet and deep well cookerl ing it was tangerines. I was tempted. And despite the ★ Flat surface warnings of experience, I fell. As unit coils spread I came to the job I took out a tanger heat evenly; easily ine and pinned it to the lapel of my raised for clooningl mackinaw, as a joke for Boss O’Malley. An hour later I was limping into a skidroad slave market, looking for M V R R A. Y ELECTRIC RANGES another job. For a good many meals I sat lopsided on the bench. From that day to this I’ve had no taste for ALL NEW! HIGH SPEED! ment for years and years! Color control heat tuning! Graduated- tangerines. The modern way to finer meals! color pushbuttons, from red (hot) The Stump Horrors. . . . Latest features, long life construc to pink (simmer) help you select Back to Oregon in April, 1919, I tion, sensible prices, make these any of the 7 heat intensities at a worked up and down the Columbia, Murray models your best invest- glance! See them today! up the Tillamook and Coos Bay lines, rented 30 acres up Gales Creek, and in 1922 bought 63 acres in the Alsea Valley. Everywhere, beginning with the ride from Fort Lewis to Portland, mi'e* from re ¡rest Pai king meter I looked out on the land with some thing like horror. E. Santiam liiwav MILL CITY Phone 3207 The stumps were black from the OMKMKX X X X >< X WX’X I " X M'X’X'H’MtXOl X X :'■)< X X X X >' X XIX X X X X K’xlxixOffiOCxftffiOX fires that smoked through all sum- »—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Church Activities A Lamb Of A Cake? GATES COMMUNITY CHURCH OF CHRIST Out of the \\ oods Sunday school at 10 a_m. Morning worship 11 a.m. Christian Endeavor 6:30 p.m. Evening worship 7:30 p.m. Walter Smith. Pastor IDANHA CHURCH ACTIVITIES Sunday School 10 a.m. Morning service 11 a.m. Young People's meeting 6 p.m. Evening service 6:30 p.m. Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Pastor, Fredrick Evans CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IOOF Hall Sunday 11 a.m. Wednesday meeting 4th Wed. 8 p.m. • • • Perfect baking, WIIIDÇ9 broiling, roasting, J Stiffler's Radio & Appliance Co. IM'B Ci <4 FIRE PREVENTION L.D.S. OF JESUS CHRIST CHURCH Detroit Sunday school each Sunday 10 a.m. 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., Miss Alice Smith, leader. • • • SOUTHERN BAPTIST Mill City Odd Fellow Hall Sunday evening worship at 7:30 Director of music, Wm. J. Bishop. Rev. Fred Bennett. Minister. • • • You’ll be the talk of the »mall-fry »et If your next children’» party in cludes this snowy little coconut lamb cake. And don’t think the grown- ups won’t love it, too! Houseware» departments in any »tore carry the lamb mold. Then, with two packages of instant white cake mix and plenty of tender, shredded coconut, a lamb cake is no trick at all. FREE METHODIST CHURCH North Mill City How to Do II Turn 1 package white cake mix into bowl. Add 2 egg yolks and V4 cup milk. Blend, then beat 2 minutes. Add H cup milk. Blend, then beat 1 minute longer. (Beat cake vigorously by hand or at a low speed of electric mixer.) Pour batter into face half of well-greased lamb mold. Be sure some batter is placed in each ear. (Top left) Cover with back of mold and wire mold together. (Louer left) Place mold face-down on baking sheet and bake in not oven (450° F.) 15 minutes. Meanwhile prepare second package of white cake mix as directed on package. Turn batter into 13x9x2-inch pan, which has been lined on bottom with paper. After lamb cake has baked 15 minutes in hot oven, reduce heat to 350° F., place second cake in oven, and bake both cakes 35 minutes longer. Remove cakes from oven and open mold, removing back of mold first. Allow lamb to cool in face of mold about 5 minutes. Loosen cake from sides of mold and remove carefully. (Top right) Stand lamb cake on cake rack until cool. Cool other cake in pan on cake rack for 5 minutes, then loosen from sides with spatula, turn out, remove paper, and turn right-side up on rack to cool. Frost oblong cake with Seven Minute Frosting. Tint cup coconut a delicate green and sprinkle on top to represent grass. Then frost lamb cake with remaining Seven Minute Frosting and cover with untinted coconut. Use raisins for eyes and nose and a slice of mara schino cherry for mouth. Place lamb on center of cake base, as pictured above. mer. Snags towered everywhere. The ground was stacked with the wil derness windfalls and the low-grade timber left in the logging. Hemlocks, then called weed trees, stood in broken ranks. Such was the common scene of the 1920s. After my 1937 return, I made sev eral trips within a short period be tween Seattle, Portland and Eugene, both by rail and highway. And the land was green. The land was bright. Fire had kept out. And new forests had risen like magic over stumps and logging leftovers. That I have lived to see the day! GATES honored their son, Lyle. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Rush and small daughter of Salem, Mrs. Bessie Vanderm eer and daughter, Wanda, of Mill City and the hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Rush. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Varcoe have sold their home on Oak street to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Oliver who plan taking possesion of their new home on May 5. Mr. and Mrs. Varcoe, to date, were undecided where they will live but are looking for a house in this locality. Varcoe is employed by C.B.I. Ray Lord was appointed a member of the city council of Gates at the last meeting of the council. Lord’s appointment fills the vacancy left by the resignation of Gilbert Weathers as councilman. Mr. and Mrs. Weath ers are moving to Salem. By MRS ALBERT MILLSAP _______________________________ Miss June Mitchell, prospective bride, was honored by a group of her ( The first printing i..„ press was im- former schoolmates, Monday evening por(ej ¡nto this country in 1639. after school at the home of Miss Barbara Haun. Games were played 1 Children under 16 can not be loc- and gifts opened by Miss 1 Mhchell --------- a**y employed to work in a room before dainty refreshments were ser- where manufacturing ot processing i ved by the hostess to Maxine Schoder, takes place, according to the Federal j LaVetta Powelson, Lorena Devine, wage and hour. I Carilyn Turnidge. Betty Tucker and the honored guest, Miss Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Joaquin had as , their dinner guests Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chance and [ Mrs. Gertruiie Shaffer of Stayton. Mrs. Claude Sellard of Salem visited her mother, Mrs. Lula Collins, Friday of last week. Mrs. Collins is still confined to her home since becoming ill several weeks ago. Mrs. Bob Oliver and her sister-in- law. Miss Jean Oliver, of Salem were Portland visitors last Friday where they shopped and were guests at the home of Mrs. Carl Jensen (Patty Kerry) formerly of Gates. Glenn Gordon returned the latter part of the week from the Salem Memorial hospital where he had been under observation for several days to determine the cause of trouble he had been having with his back. He returned to the hospital Monday and underwent surgery Tuesday of this week. Mrs. Gordon and two children accompanied him to Salem they re mained until after the operation. A birthday dinner Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rush, z . ----- = Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Morning worship 11 a.Kt Junior church 11:00 a.m. Evening service 7:30 pjn. Wednesday prayer meeting 7:30 p. Phone 1906 Rev. L. C. Gould, Pastor • ♦ ♦ ST. CATHERINE CATHOLIC CHURCH, MILL CITY Mass at 9 a m. every Sunday. Confessions heard before Mass. Altar Society 3d Wednesday 8 p.m. Father Carl Mai, Pastor • • • 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. • • • 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 • • • FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Services every Lord’s day Sunday school 9:45 p.m. Morning worship 11 a.m. Young Peoples meeting 7 p.m. Evening Services 8 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 • • • 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. Standards of apprenticeship for the training of skilled workers by in dustry are formulated by the U. S. Department of Labor in co-operation with labor-management committees. ■ 1 1 • > For Safety Convenience Wherever you go in the woods, whatever you do there, always remember: one careless act—one lapse of memory—can start a fire and burn a forest. If you smoke, use an ash tray. Never throw away a lighted cigarette or an unbroken match. If you have a campfire, always put it out—drown it! Know the fire laws and obev them. I’ire prevention is your job as a good American Open a Checking 4 ccoun t ! $10,000 citizen. For Guaranteed Cleaning Deposit Insurance it’s the SperinHxing in Fine Printing f :i,''r i’* hcauli(nl .Sorth eSantiani NUMETHOD 24-HOUR SERVICE Mill City t tooea at « P.M. MILL CITY STATE BANK MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP.