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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1951)
‘ MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Speed Champ Says Sportsmanship On Highways Would Save Lives MILL CITY, OREGON DON' PETERSON. Publisher Entered a. eecond-claes matter November 10, 15U4 at the post office at Mill City, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1373. < l.»s«l3’IHIk AI»V UH TIMING» line Insertion for or three for 31 •»<>. 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 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS NATIONAL xA?" I A I ASSOCIATION “TIIF. PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS. - George Putnam Mr. and Mrs. Voter School election time is next Monday evening, June 18, 8 p.m. daylight savings time, at the Mill City high school. Last year about this same time an impressive number of the community’s citizens filed in and out of the school election voting place. !x*t the same thing happen again. More power to you! Last year the citizens of this community were disturbed and upset about a vast number of school issues brought to their attention for the first time. Those isHues press for citizen action even yet. Regretfully new issues have arisen. Some of them are discussed elsewhere this week. Voters of Mill City school district 129-J not only must elect a school board director hut must approve or disapprove a rather hefty tax burden for themselves. ‘_ ‘ 1 that one __ .’ is . not a i “qualified voter” unless he Oregon statutes insist or she is a resident of the school district and has been such for six months, Another thing, too, one must have been a registered voter 30 days before the window is the ‘qualification” that one must the school election. Out _______ own property, real estate, that is, before a school election ballot may be rightfully marked. Since ballots are far more useful than guns and bullets, we earnestly press the idea that each qualified voter should come to next Monday's school election and use his powerful weapon, “The Vote”, as only you, Mr. and Mrs. Voter, can. Power —the Lyons Substation We need a Bonneville power substation in Lyons, Oregon, and we need it now! Bonneville power is being used now by the communities of the North Santiam Canyon, but we are not getting enough of it. A power Hubstation is as important to power as is water pressure in a garden hose. The entire Pacific Northwest is crying out for more power. The North Santiam communities, because of their lumber industry, mining, and farming, need power for present operations and now overdue expansion. Stable, respected, and long standing community civic and social groups have raised their voices asking for more power for their area. These citizen bodies have laid their petitions on the desks of Oregon's Congress men. The core of these written requests states a need for a power sub station in Lyons, Oregon, in the North Santiam Canyon. * ¥ ¥ Bonneville engineers and administration agree that we need a I.) ons substation. They have left no stone unturned in seeking for us a sub station in Lyons. Oregon's representatives iu the U. S. Congress now have our substation up for vote. These congressmen must for some reason be prompted again and again that we, the citizens back in Oregon, need more power for our homes and industries. Only your good, personal, and genuine letters and telegrams can do this prompting in the way it will count. Even though Bonneville power flows through the lines near us, we can not use any of it unless a power substation is built here, in our area. A substation is to power what a water tower or reservoir is to a city water system. Another way of explaining this is: We could not use the water from the North Santiam river unless it were first purified, pumped into a water tower and then connected to city water mains. Neither can we use properly Bonneville power unless first it is connected to a substation near us. Expensive transmission lines are the only way out if we fail in getting the Lyons power substation as planned. Me all know that a long transmission line is, also, not as efficient as a short, properly built one. ¥ ¥ ¥ Big lumber industries in the Canyon are dragging their feet as they wait for more power. We need the payrolls these and other industries can provide. A letter to jour Congressman, Washington, !>.(’. telling them so will help get that Lyons substation. For those who might like to know, we pass on this information, Recently jour congressman. Walter “Playboy” Norblad. testified against more electrie power for Oregon. Norblad expressed himself before a committee dealing with appropriations for more power for Oregon, A letter to Norblad correcting his false impression that we need no more power might now be in order. No Time To Put Politics First Reprinted from the Buffalo Evening News Republican critics of Administration foreign policy have been having a field day over the dismissal of Gen, MacArthur. Each separate school of opposition thought the bring-thc-boys-home brigade no less than the fight-’em all-out-in-Asin group has rushed headlong to ex ploit the . . . action as vindication of its own viewpoint . . . A number of these eager Mac- Arthur backers have done him the disservice of misrepresenting or ignoring his own viewpoint. ’ They have stampeded to his bandwagon without waiting to find out which direction it is going. To judge from the noise, one would would think the President had acted in another fit of temper, that he had blundered into a "political trap" which the Republicans were now glee- All Loggers TO SAVE TIME AND MONE1 FOR ALL THE LOGGERS IN THE NORTH SANTIAM AREA, I AM PUTTING A COMPLETE STOCK OF LOGGING SUPPLIES IN AT BASSETT’S WELDING SHOP AT LYONS. ORE. BETWEEN FLOYD AND MYSELF, 1 \M SI RE WE WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU BETTER SERVICE THAN YOU HAVE EVER HAD BEFORE IN THIS AREA FRED GOOCH, IR. Union Wire Rope Tuffy Chokers Esco Rigging Skooklllll Block" and Rigging Dy namite Eire Equipment Power Saws Splicing anti Socketing a Specialty Gooch Logging Supply a « Everything for the Logger" DAY & NIGHT SERVICE Sweet Home. Philomath Roseburg Phone 1111 Phone 3-66.»rt g SPEEDWAY CITY, IND.— Readying his big racer for the Memorial Day Speed Classic, Johnnie Parsons, America’s Speed Champion, says the surest way to avoid accidents is to “check your car as carefully as we do for the Speedway , . . and think of the other fellow.” Parsons established a new In dianapolis Speedway record of To the Editor: I must commend you for the posi tion you have taken concerning the MacArthur-Truman affair. The Re publican scandalmongers are not only using a great American general as suckerbait, but are trying to betray our government through investiga tions which are meaningless except as information sources for the Com munists. These Republicans have lost sight of the fact that the most important thing is good government, and consistently berate anything done or attenpted to be done by the Truman administration without considering the worth of the work attempted. To be sure, not all Republicans ar< | political scatter-brains, such as our; own Senator Wayne Morse, who is such a liberal that some GOP leaders have deliberately tried to block him I from a seat on the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. Senator Morse is a tribute to the people of Oregon 1 He has become very influential in , Congress, and acts always in the interests of the people-. Unlike him. however, are those who continually push themselves into the national spotlight to appease the craving of a power-thirsty palate. These men, it seems, are willing to sacrifice their | country on the altar of self-power. Thank You, GARY PETERSON fully springing, mid pious cries of "what a tragedy!” . . . One well-informed New York Times writer ha< it from the White House that . . . Mr. Truman hadn’t the slightest doubt that the first reaction would be just what it has been—a storm of pro-MacArthur sentiment, which the Asia-firsters and politics- firsters among the Republican leader ship would promptly use as a club against the whole Administration foreign policy. But the President is further represented as feeling so con fident of eventual public backing on the centra! issues that the Republican Party would rue the day it made this choice. Whatever political position the G.O P. eventually takes, we should think its first demand would be for facts, not scalps. Gen. MacArthur i was not a G.O.P. agent in the Far East, after all, but President Truman’s agent. The President appointed him and has now dismissed him over a difference in policy. It is not the Republican function abruptly to choose sides, but to insist that the public have all the information with which to judge the policy issue on its merits . . . The Republicans, in -hort, should KS and treat pull in their political necks this matter with the nonpartisan gravity it deserves as statesmen and patriots concerned for the fate of their nation, not as partisan politi cians intent on exploiting what they do not hesitate to call “a tragedy.” 124.2 miles per hour, last year, in winning the big league event of auto racing. He hopes to take the 1951 crown on May 30th. “Car care is as important as careful driving whether you're on the highway or ‘the Speedway,” says Johnnie He trains his pit crew to the fine split-second pre cision of a major military ma- nuever. “The pit crew is tn the race, too,” he says. Handsome, youthful Johnnie Parsons’ home is Van Nuys, Cali fornia. He got his start in the roaring wheels profession by building his first two cars part- by-part himself. He’s an “ex pert’s-expert” on automobiles and keeps abreast of all the latest de velopments. To protect the finish of his cars he gives them an Autobrite 4% silicones treatment. Silicones are the miracle-ingre dient which protected vital mili tary equipment against rust, cor rosion, oxidation and salt sea air. In Johnnie’s opinion, “You can tell a careful driver by looking at his car. If a man treats his car right, he’ll treat every other driv er in a sportsman-like way. That’s all we need to cut the nation’s ac cident toll. A real sportsman is considerate of the other fellow.” MR. D.A.’s CRIME CALENDAR JUNE it the Month for . . TEEN-AGE TROUBLE: The end of the school term signals a fresh outburst in juvenile delin quency. With school out—watch out! The new-found freedom from the restrictions and regula- tions of the classroom creates in our youngsters. wild urges _ Anything from runaways to car thieves to gas station stick-up men are in the making. Espe cially if they have no place to go and nothing to do, the temp tation to break the law for the thrill involved is an impulse hard to subdue. Those term-end parties, we find, start the surge, and delinquency is evident from the time school is dismissed clear through the summer. BIGAMY: It follows that June, essentially the month of brides, i also the month of bigamists. The whirlwind romance and quick trip to the altar can have t ir heart-breaking aftermaths. About the only suggestion we c >uld have is to get to know more about your mate-to-be. A little head-work keeps the heart happy. ONE-ARM BANDITS: This is not a man; it’s a machine. Right about now, with vacationists checking their resort lists, these one-arm bandits are in operation in lavish casinos and along the walls of not-so-lavish barns. Be lieve me, they can fleece the un wary as cleanly as any two armed gambler. If your vacation spot boasts a network of slot ma chines. friend, your host may not be the Honest Joe he appears . . . While on the subject of resort gambling, here’s another note: The crime investigations bave driven many a tinhorn into hid ing. Maybe he's turned up at your country paradise or your happy island to play for small stakes. Small stakes to what he’s been used to—but maybe stakes you can’t afford to lose. Watch For “Mr. D.A.’s” Calendar For Crime in July! r COMMUNITY AIMS THRU CO-OPERATION: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. MILL CITY STREET IMPROVEMENT. LOCAL YOUTH RECREATION CENTER. MILL CITY DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM MILL CITY PARK PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL. ELIMINATION OF BANFIELD’S NIGHTMARE. MILL CITY AREA SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. IMPROVE HIWAY 222 BETWEEN MILL CITY AND LYONS. OBTAIN CANYON YEAR ’ROUND PAYROLL INDUSTRIES. DETROIT, GATES, AND MILL CITY UNION HIGH SCHOOL. THE COMMERCIAL BOOK STORE SALEM Mill City Garden club officials announcer! for the first time that all garden-minded juniors will have a special division for displaying their fiowers and vegetables during the annual Mill City Garden club show in August. Anyone under 18 should now begin planning their entries for the junior division competition among the Junior Gardeners, The entry must be raised by the Junior Gardener The art of printing has served entering the show. officials warned. man as a recorder of his every Put out your campfire before you thought, action and aspiration for leave the woods centuries. lias Everything for Your OFFICE SEEDS Furniture and Bookkeeping Supplies z Never a Dull Moment “At the Bottom of the Hill” MILL CITY TAVERN FOR YOUR PROTECTION! Kellom's Fresh Meats FRESH DAILY — VERY REASONABLE PRICES Kellom’s Grocery MILL CITY WE GIVE TRADING STAMPS AND ALUMINUM AND DISHES ■ ■* V < * -, ■¿.•J** V Complete Stock M c C ulloch POWER CHAIN SAWS Repair Parts Always Available It's Here! NEW M(CULLOCHS Chain Saw We are proud to present thll groat naw chain saw—the most powerful in 1*0 McCulloch Ims Cí»F»rúr*<. NW. t •¿•hi SaMrt Cushioned Power/ i Look at these features: • maiing Smooths»»»! Cuthioned Powerl Eaay to use «11 day because special rotating bal- ancers geared to crankshaft neutralize vibration. Power! Light Weight! Full 7 horsepower, yet we g-s only 55 pounds with 20-lnch chain and blade. Hope "Cappy" Told Him Where To Get Off! that now I don’t know what city I was going to get off at!” Cappj might have been pulling our leg. but from where I sit. lots of us get so wrapped up in our selves we often forget “where we’re going." Some folks get so narrow they even begrudge their neighbors the right to enjoy a glass of beer now and then. Lot’s not forget that just as trains run on steam and oil. democracies raw on freedom and tolerance! SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS 9 A M. to 12 NOON OPEN WEEK DAYS 8 A M. to 7 P.M. From where I sit...// Joe Marsh "Capp," Fisher— who just re tired after thirty-five years as a railroad conductor — was telling about a salesman who was often one of his passengers. "That man was so busy," says Cappy, “he used to bring a dicta phone on the train to catch up on his letters. On on« trip he’d been rushing around so much he clean forgot to bring his ticket. Left it on his desk.” When Cappy started to tell him not to worry about the ticket, the salesman busts out with “W ho’s worried about the ticket? It’s just Phone 3-4534 141 N. Commercial St. Mr District Attorney heard Wednesday* on NBC Mill City Garden Club Plans Junior Division June 14, 195 t I 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Try It Yourself... 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