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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1951)
Smoke-Eaters’ Will Assume Collector Role Mill City Volunteer Firemen, or a part of them at least, are casting aside for a day their trusty fire hoses and axes, because Sunday, July 29, s waste-paper harvest day for them. This Sunday hefting of scrap-paper bundles waiting for them on the front porches of Mill City's citizenry be- omes the duty of the Mill City “smoke-eaters”. Bill Stewart, chairman of the Fire men’s first waste-paper drive, stated the Firemen would appreciate it if bundles of waste-paper donated were placed on front porches by 8 e.m., Sunday morning. Pick-up trucks will roam around the city limits, Sun day in search of waiting, bundled newspapers, magazines and waste paper. .Mill City Volunteer Firemen in the past have improved the fire hall itself and have purchased new fire fighting equipment with funds raised from public contributions. Few organiza tions can soon forget the convenience of the new and rapidly expanding meeting-place facilities present in the Mill City fire hall. Arey Podrabsky and Burnett Cole, co-engineers of Sunday’s waste-paper drive, cautioned today that should it tain, Saturday night or Sunday, waste paper put out for the Firemen should be placed in such a manner that it does not become water-soaked. Short Supply Of Scientists Seen Oregon State College—Parents, teachers and students of better than average scholastic ability must be alerted to the shortage of scientists and technologists which has been pre dicted for the next decade, according to Dr. F. A. Gilifillan, dean of science at Oregon State college. High school teachers have been solicited to encourage students who show an interest in technical subjects This may help to fill in a few holes in specialized science fields, Dean Gil- fillan said. Scientist shortages, explained in a recent issue of Chemical and Engin eering News, will be due to fewer students enrolling in physical sciences and engineering, and operation of a greatly expanded military program. The National Research council, des cribed as the best source in this coun try on the scientific manpower prob- : lem. has estimated that physical j science graduates vil] drop from "5.000 in 1950 to fewer than 29,000 I in 1954. During the past year, Dean Gil- ! fillan said, Oregon State could not I fill all the positions offered by pri- | • ate corporations and governmental I agencies to advanced graduates in chemistry, physics, geology, bacteri ology, mathematics, and their spec ialized fields. Beginning salaries have been from $300 to $500 a month. Training in science has qualified OSC graduates for jobs ranging from , electronic physicists, statisticians, and pulp mill chemists to aircraft de signers, grazing specialists, and col lege instructors. Byron Bates Falls Victim MILL CITY ENTERPRISE T he Coming Events . . . MONDAY— American Legion Auxiliary 3d Mon. Lions club meeting. A F. 4 A.M. No. 180 stated meet ing third Monday. O.E.S. meeting. 2d Monday month. TUESDAY— Boy Scouts at City park, 7 p.m. Chamber of Commerce 2 4 4 neon luncheon. Lions Auxiliary 4th Tuesday Women’s club 8 p.m. 1st. 3rd Tues 129-J School Board meeting 2d Tues WEDNESDAY— Santiam Eagles and auxiliary 8 P m- at Mill City fire hall. Santiam Rebekah 166—1st and 3rd Wed at 8 p.m. Mill City PTA meets 2nd Wed. City council first Wed. 7:30 p.m. Altar Society meets 3rd Wed THURSDAY— Theta Rho Club for Girls, meets 2d and 4th Thursdays. Gates PTA 1st Thursday 8 p.m. American Legion 2d and 4th Thurs Garden club fourth Thursday Firemen Auxiliary meets 3d Thurs. 1 FRIDAY— I.O O.F meeting Mill City IWA meeting last Friday Farmers Union meeting at Mehama Woman's club, 2nd MHNNY Fl KIIORN GATES 1DANH \ LYONS Mi ll \M \ MONGOL!» ON TIIE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HK.OU YY — GATEWAY TO THE HEART OF NATI RE'S EMPIRE $2.50 a Year. J ()<• a Copy Vol. VII—No. 30 'I've Had Mine, Have ’<'ou Had Yaur X-Ray?’ Mister! FOREST FIRES COST OREGON MONEY. WHEN A WOODS FIRE BURNS THE RAW M \T ERI \I.S NEEDED TO KEEP OREGON’S WOOD USING INDUSTRIES IO WIN,.. WB \LI. SUFFER. “I've had mine—Have you had your x-ray?” \ small slip of yellow paper with a big question mark daubled upon it carries the above query and is pinned to those who step up to the mobile x-ray unit now stationed across from Stewart’s Grocery in Mill City. Fifty-three citizens “had theirs” within the first hour of operation of the U. S. Health Service mobile x-ray unit, according to Jim Hayes who has charge of the unit currently operating in this area. When questioned about how the Chest X-Ray was being received by the community, B. N„ Eakin, assistant ■ ---- ■" — mobile unit director, indicated that public response was good. Mrs. Goo. Ditter, local chairman, staled that chest x-ray canvass work has now been completed. Hostesses for the x-ray unit have been assigned and Following six months of concen today carried out their duties in fine trated civil defense planning, the state style. Mrs. Ditter stressed again today civil defense office will begin to place added emphasis on direct contact work that the chest x-ray would be in oper ation Friday afternoon, July 27, 1 p.m. with local directors. The decision for more field work to 9 p.m. and Saturday 9 a m. to 3 p.m. It is reported that 343 persons came after a department head meet have been x-rayed in the upper can ing in Salem, said Director Jack yon. Mill City’s popular support of Hayes, based on the thought that the 100% x-ray program should swell local units have received enough direc the final total for the North Santiam tives for the present and now are asking for guidance on how to carry canyon area. them out. Few TB Cases Found Several department heads of the “Past experience shows that usually state CD office said local organizations no more than three or four persons out must be given specific assignments of each one hundred x-rayed turn up for their own guidance, and should with tuberculosis or some other of the have the job spelled out for them in several ailments which the x-ray will terms of what they can do in relation disclose,” said Dr. B. E. Benn ¡son, to available resources. U. S. P. H. S. medical co-ordinator, Hayes said evacuees front target who is assisting in the Willamette areas will be cared for within a radius Valley Chest X-ray program. of from five to fifteen miles of the If the same percentage is maintained disaster area, if possible. Mobile sup here it should erase the fears of those port from outside, including areas who suspect tragic disclosurers are east of the range, will be needed for due as the Willamette Valley Chest X- handling the injured, rescue work, ray, Inc., Ys under way with its pro feeding, fire fighting and restoring gram, aimed at x-raying the chest of utilities and communications. every adult aged 15 to 115 in Marion, ‘‘Each locality soon will be told ex Polk, Yamhill, Clackamas, Lane, Ben actly how much they should try to ton and Washington counties. provide for mobile support,” he said. Actually because there will be so few “It will require much research which pictures retaken. extr< effort can and ' is going on at present, but after this will be given in taking the^second information is placed in the hands of pictures. Because an individual is local directors we’will be making real recalled for a second picture roes not progress.” necessarily mean that speeific Dr. Robert Heilman, chief of emer- ailment is suspect. I gency medical division in the medical In many instances flaws in flims, department, said his civil defense ex the finishing of them or even some perience in the mid-west revealed the previously undiscovered obstruction on I wisdom of providing local units with the person being x-rayed prompts J concrete objectives. doctors and technicians in asking that such a person’s picture be re-made so that positive assurance can be given him. Also the voltage load on the x-ray units may interfere with the production of a clear picture or per haps the participant will have moved slightly at the instant of the exposure. The recently re-decorated Muir's In these cases the participant will he Bakery in Mill City is now soley under notified by card and is requested to the proprietorship of the John Muirs. return for another picture. No charge T. G. Iverson, silent partner in this is made for the second picture; it, too bakery enterprise, retired from the is free to the participant as his or her bakery business last Friday. A staff seal of safety. of four persons is required for the In those cases where some specific operation of this thriving Mill City ailment is indicated on the first small business. x-ray, the members of the survey The John Muir’s and Iverson started organization ask participants to re Muir’s Bakery in Mill City, August turn for a second picture. Partici 6, 1947. The Muir's came to Mill City pants then receive a large, very de right after a fire destroyed their tailed picture at no individual cost. bakery in Detroit. Muir’s Bakery This x-ray is made available to their carries a full line of bakery goods and personal physician. This will give the has fountain service as well. Muir’s individuals an apportunity for proper ; Bakery is the first bakery Mill City treatment, at the proper time. These ! ever had. measures will restore them to proper1 I The business name of the Mill City health and prevent further hazards bakery ha“ been withdrawn from the from the specific ailment, the x-rays I files of Marion County records and have disclosed. | recorded instead in Linn County be- | cause Muir's Bakery is located in Linn Co., according to John Muir. Muir’s Bakery remains open evenings Sun days and week days. John Muir is a Mill City Volunteer Fireman and his wife, Mrs. Tearly Muir, is the head uf the local American One contract which has many people Legion Post Auxiliary. Both have on pins and needles in the North San been very active in civic and school tiam Canyon is that one regarding affairs. The Muir’s have two children, Big Cliff Dam and the Detroit Dam Terry and Shareen. powerhouse. A call for bids for these projects was issued quite sometime sgo by the Army Corps of Engineers Camp Pioneer Proves Very office in Portland The bids submitted did not please the Engineers, so now Popular Spot for Boys the matter will be negotiated. Camp Pioneer is a popular spot for Two bids were submitted. Both Boy Scouts this week, according to were too high for the Army Engineers, Chet Slater, scoutmaster. Several according to the Portland district Mill City boys early in the week engineer. Consolidated Builders Inc. packed their camping duds and boxed submitted the lowest bid of $7,397,517. their compasses for Camp Pioneer This was 25 per cent above the govern located in the North Santiam canyon’s ment’s estimates. recreation land. The Chief of Army Engineers gave Scoutmaster Slater and Troop Com- the green light on immediate contract initteeman M. G. Rambo have been negotiations, Col. T. H. Lipscomb in- 1 keeping a watchful eye over the wel- dicated Monday. Completion of Big [ fare of Boy Scouts John Taylor, Don- C liff and Detroit Dams is expected aid Lemke, Richard Ziebert, Richard sometime in 1953 The two dams Verbeck, Arthur Cox and Gregory work as a unit in flood control and Peterson, while they enjoy the won power generation. ders of Camp Pioneer. Civil Defense Lays Down Basic Plans SOME PEOPLE LOSE THEIR JOBS. OTHERS LOSE PROFITS. OUR SCHOOLS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOSE TAX MONEY. GET YOUR X-RAY AT THE MOBILE UNIT LOCATED IN FRONT OF MOM & POP’S CAFE THAT’S WHY PREVENTING FOREST FIRES IS GOOD BUSINESS FOR EVERY ONE. DO YOUR PART TODAY AND EVERY D XY. TOMORROW — 1 to 9 P.M. SATURDAY —9 A.M. to 3 P.M. Many softball fans and softball players arc happy th-t this 80-foot pole with its three cross-arms teamed with its long, lean partners, making up a fi ie lighted athletic field, have been planted firmly in the terra firma of the Mill City Grade Schoo! a'hletic field. Once this pole stood as a tree among the many trees in the background which are located in the Mill City park. The shutter clicked on this scene which is typical of those created day after rav by hardworking high-climbers. “Red” Thomas, who is almost a legendary figure in the North Santiam Canyon, donated a tremendous amount of high-climber labor, time and personal expense on Mill City's lighted athletic field, as did many others in this community. Regrettably we do r.ot have the names of those seen in this picture, but we suspect “Red" Thomas is one of them. (Photo courtesy Capital Journal and Robert V'eness) To a Severe Heart Attack Mr. Byron Bates was victimized recently by a heart attack while at his home near Gates, according to a reliable source. Mr. Bates’ heart attack forced his hospitalization for ten days. Mrs. Marvin Edwards of Lyons and Mrs. Stanley Walters of Scio were guests in the Bates home this week Both Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Walters are daughters of Byron Bates. The many friends and relatives of Mr. Bates hope for his speedy and com plete recovery. Serving: MILL CITY Gates Industrial Survey Examined Riders of Santiam Eyeing Drill Team Salem Alcoholics Conduct Program Gates—An advance copy of the Gates industrial survey, prepared by a committee of local civic leaders under the chairmanship of Gates City Councilman Albert Millsap, will be available for checking at Gates for a peiiod of one week. Two copies of the survey have been received from John F. Durr, president of the Salem survey consulting firm of Civic Serv ice. One copy of the survey will be on file at Mr. Millsap’s home and. the other copy can be seen at the Gates Furniture store. The one week checking period starts Thursday. July 26. This will be the last opportunity local survey commit tee members and other interested citizens will have for seeing the Gates Survey and making corrections re garding it before publication by M. S. P. Co. All persons interested may inspect the survey and offer suggestions for the survey's further improvement. Chairman Millsap particularly invites inspection by the o riginal survey committee members and civic leaders who supplied the basic information for the survey topics. The original survey committee members include these civic leaders: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brisbin, Mrs. George Clise. Byron Davis, Floyd Fleetwood, Al. Geddis, W. D. Grimes. W. R. Hutcheson. Ray Lord, Jerry Lyons, Doa Miley, P. L. Mulligan, Shields Remine. Mrs. Gwen Schaer, Mrs. Walter Thomas, Floyd Völkel, Gilbert Weathers, and Mrs. Albert Millsap. Riders efthe Santiam swung lustily into organization and program work when they assembled on the Saddle club grounds at the I azv Maple ranch. Sunday afte’noon, July 22. Retiring president of the riders, Glen Mattson, turned the gavel over to the new president, Wm. Hutcheson, last year’s vice-president. Mi. Mattson was elected president last year of the Riders of the Santi am. During the year .Mattson led the saddle club through its paces at the airshow at Davis airport, and over many miles of trail rides. With the greatly increased interest in horse riding in mind the Riders of the San tiam elected a vigorous new team of officers for the coming year. The new officers have called another im portant meeting for the equestrians, Sunday afternoon, July 29, at the saddle club are Wm. Hutcheson; Maple ranch. The newly elected officers of the sadd'e club are Wm. Hutchinson, president; Don Roy, vice-president; and Crystal Lin beck, secretary. E. S. Peterson, wheel-horse of the Riders of the Santiam, retired from the re sponsible position of secretary. Over 50 ; addle club enthusiasts took part in !a-t Sunday's meeting at the Lazy Maple ranch. The membership voiced the thought that the Riders of the Santiam should begin at once for a drill team and more trail rides. Recently the Canyon's saddle club tried out their many fine horses on a trail ride to Tom Rock Mountain in Linn County. Alcoholics Anonymous becomes less so for one meeting, Saturday eve ning, July 28, in the Mill City Odd Fellows Hal) at 8 p.m. The Salem Anonymous group will provide the initial thrust towards building an Alcoholics Anonymous corps in the Canyon. The public is invited. What follows is a non-alcoholic’s impression of a New Year’s party of the Salem Alcoholics Anonymous group. “One hundred admitted alco holics got together for a New Year’s eve party last night . . . but there wasn’t a single drop of liquor for any one of them ... it was the annual frolic of the Alcoholics Anonymous organization . . . and there probably wasn't any party group in town that had as much fun . . . the AA party was a masquerade affair. AA mem bers brought their wives (or husbands, as the case may be) and their kids to the party . . . costumer were gay, and so were everybody’s spirits. “The hall where the party was held contained a replica of an 1890 bar room . . . bartender (himself an A A member) sported the traditional bright-colored vest and handlebar mustache . . . bar was complete with Tom and Jerry mugs, nude figurines, mirror, the kind of calendars you don’t •end through the mail, and whiskey bottles galore . . . but al) the barten der served was soda pop and fresh apple cider . , . some of the masquerad ing Alcoholics Anonymous members came disguised as bums with a bottle in their pocket .. . they all joked about (Continued on Page 8) Records on Muir's Bakery Changed Big Cliff Contract Under Negotiation Sunday, July 29, Is Waste-Paper Day