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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1951)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY AIMS THRU CO-OPERATION MILL CITY, OREGON SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. MILL CITY STREET IMPROVEMENT. LOCAL YOUTH RECREATION CENTER MILL CITY DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM MILL CITY PARK PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL. ELIMINATION OF BANFIELJJ’S NIGHTMARE. MILL CITY AREA SEWAGyiSlSPOSAL SYSTEM. IX IN PETKRSON, Publisher CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for $1.00. The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display Advert sing 45c column inch. Politi, al Advertising 75c inch. lAHHIIKIAIS REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m. Also Thursday evenings by Appointment IMPROVE HIWAY 222 BETWEEN MILL CITY AND LYONS. OBTAIN CANYON YEAR ’ROUND PAYROLL INDUSTRIES. DETROIT. GATES, AND MILL CITY UNION HIGH SCHOOL. NEWSPAPER X PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION September fi. 1951 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE HOME OFFICF îtrvuE . FIRST. ALBANY kV mu yy tg .y w kt; w kv kv “THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS." —George Putnam. More Power For Us North Santiam canyon gets an electric outlet. President Truman re cently signed into law funds for the construction of a Bonneville substation located in Lyons. W ithout this substation the canyon would be very much like a house all wired, with the single exception—no outlets for appliances. Industrialist and farmer alike hails the arrival of the substation as a green light on balanced development of the canyon. Once Detroit dam rises to that stage of completion where travel over it becomes a daily occurrence, then new areas of logging will be opened up. The increased pace of logging will be met head-on and handled by the new Bonneville power source at Lyons. This fact alone means more gainfuly employed men and women. Now that power in good supply will soon pour into this area, civic bodies can turn their energy towards wooing new industries which naturally seek out favorable sites for plants. Low-cost power looms big in any manufacturer’s budget and not much arm twisting is necessary once such power is assured. * * ¥ Farmers can soon freely install heavier irrigation pump motors and add more electrically driven equipment on their farms. Life will be less burdensome when dependable low-cost power is available at the flick of a switch in the farm home, barn or out-building. Chicken houses and farm buildings soon can be brilliantly lighted and heated through the use of clean and efficient electricity. Losses of tiny livestock in harsh winter weather can be held thereby to a minimum. Farmers can operate farm-size feed grinders and mix their own stock feed. A dignified mining industry can develop in the canyon with the arrival of surging low-cost power. Electric power makes possible and simplifies the proceasing in this area of ore found in the Elkhorn and Rock Creek country. Mining operations have been conducted on a very limited scale because of the excessively high cost of such operations in the past. Many solid and prominent citizens carried through their desire for a Bonneville substation in Lyons. The Lyons substation, to many of these citizens, means opportunity and a "new lease on life" for the North Santiam canyon, This power outlet is the first step in weaning the young economy of this area away from the apron strings of “mother” forest products, Ixigging alone, at present, is a defective balance wheel which might fall apart again as it has in the past. Often it is said that progress comes only by sheer sacrifice upon the part of many individuals. That may be the way of things today, and certainly it has been so regarding the struggle for the Santiam Valley sub station at Lyons, but it need not he so in the future. God provides the wonderful flow of water which tumbles restlessly towards the Pacific Ocean. The citizens of these great United States, through their duly constituted government, are creating the means whereby this vast hydro force can be harnessed for the general welfare of the entire nation. ¥ ¥ ¥ There is not one* sound reason why these citizens should not enjoy also this magnificent natural resource in the fullest measure, The Lyons power outlet is the golden opportunity for this community, We have little doubt regarding the decisions citizens will make regarding use of the substation once they are made fully aware of the facts. Editorially we commented several weeks ago that unless our canyon had a Bonneville power outlet, power generated by Detroit and Big Cliff gener ators most certainly would be used elsewhere. With a deep sigh, we now know this cruel state of things will not come about. We too. can have a slice of thia strong, steady and dependable current. The situation for the future is now one where the North Santiam river will work for those in this area who have long enjoyed its beauty and spirit. The fine part about this future picture is that the beauty and strength of the stream will not be diminished, but rather enhanced by the appreciation of it by more and more newcomers. Our thanks hounds out in all directions Io Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon for his able assistance in getting the Santiam Valley substation at Lyons for us. ...t.l.» , ....................... Snuff leboard Good Music MEANDER INN Where Friend» Meet On Highway 222, Linn County Side MILL CITY George "Sparky" Ditter KEEPJUP YOURÌHOME! A U •> -A « a Note is the time to think About a new HOOF oi Perhaps a Foundation HOME BUILDING SERVII E ROOFING REMODELINf or See To the American People ALL TYPES Probably never before ha3 there been so much at stake in the preservation of the freedom which we have enjoyed since the birth of our republic, of us that possibly can do so should participate in its de fense and this we can do by regularly purchasing Defense Bonds, thereby maintaining a strong economy essential to our free way of life. BRICK WORK CLEANING EU'ES GENERAL .MASON WORK PHONE LYONS 76 X_____ :. x !! :: :: :: x :: x x x x x x :: x x :: x :: :: Box 195, MEHAMA _________ g X X :: X :: X x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x X X XJuOÓt B B Angelus <• 8 B 8 0 B B Boles-Aero FOOD LOCKERS General Contractors FROZEN FOODS B 0 I 0 i NEW AND USED ALL SIZES Editorial Comments Valley Construction Co 0 0 » Traveleze sis Qualify Meats and Groceries I 0 B I Platt B Marshall MILL CITY MEAT MARKET ■ B B ■ I B B TRAILER HOMES Faithfully your3 PEAt E ON A SHOESTRING? technicians in the oil fields and the Which is more important: the tons Abadan refinery, But he so far com of steel poured into armaments or the mitted himself to zeizure of Anglo- ideas that can help to free the world Iranian company property along with from the threat of war? The ques- , Iranian petroleum resources when he tion is hypothetical, for at this junc came to power that now it is difficult ture of human affairs both ideas and for him to make any rational settle armaments are necessary. But it sug ment without risk of assassination by gests a query as to why legislators some of his own followers. are willing to vote billions of dollars That is the situation in which for weapons to destroy men’s bodies Richard Stokes, leader of the second while boggling at a few millions for ' British delegation to Teheran, has truth-telling agencies to free men’s concluded tiis useless to carry on minds. further negotiations, His initial pro- « * ♦ posal was essentially a reasonable one The Senate Appropriations Commit ; —that the National Iranian Oil Com tee has lopped $22 million more from pany set up an operating agency to the Voice of America funds after the continue production, and that it svell House had already reduced by $30 oil for export to a British distributing million the $115 million asked by the organization on a basis of equal President. It is right and proper that shares in net profits * * * Congress should insist on the best The Iranians seem not to have come possible use of every dollar that goes into the United States information forward with any counterproposition, program, but it is startling to have it but have rejected also Mr. Stokes' undercut the whole program so alternative of employing a British manager to assure technical efficiency. drastically. The amount lopped off the Sen- In this Dr. Mossadegh has obtained ate comittee is roughly equal to the again a vote of confidence from his cost of five B-36's. Does this repre- Parliament, but apparently many sent the relative value of bombs and members hoped he would continue ideas? Only last week David Sar- negotiations. noff, chairman of the board of the Even departure of the Stokes mis Radio Corporation of America, de- sion does not mean that negotiations dared after a visit to Europe that the cannot be resumed in some manner Voice of America needs a vastly in- or after pressure of lack of oil reve creased appropriation if it is to wage nues has become even more severely effective “psychological peace fare.” felt in Iran. The Russians, said Mr. Sarnoff, are Meanwhile in Bucharest the Comin- doing “the best propaganda job.” form Journal calls for a "mass move * * * ment” to direct Iranian “liberation” America's truth campaign needs to into antiwestern channels, which sig be expanded rather than contracted. nifies an evident Communist desire to One immensely fruitful activity would take over. be a radio and leaflet campaign .di It is not at all likely that Iran will rected toward the morale of the 400.- receive any better offers for its oil 000 Soviet troops in East Germany. than it has refused, and any return Yet what chance is there of ventur from Russia would be much slower ing into such new fields if even the and much less. Under the circum present Voice is to be cut down to a stances Great Britian cannot do less whisper? We trust the voice of com than prepare to defend the Abadan mon sense will cause the Senate to oil refinery if necessary and hope that reconsider the action of its appropria the Iranian Government will yet tions committee. From Christian somehow recapture the ability to come to reasonable terms. From Christian Science Monitor. Science Monitor. IRANIAN IMPASSE ’rentier Mossadegh of Iran is in the WHY NOTBUY pathetic plight of a man riding a tiger. He dare not get off and can’t get where he wants to go by staying on. In all probability Dr. Mossadegh wants to reach an agreement with the British which would keep British « 0 0 ■ s B « 0 » a B 0 0 i PARTS AND SUPPLIES K South Side Trailers 0 ■ B 0 ALBANY — 2 Miles South on 99E I / î ATTENTION! WE HAVE PURCHASED THE EQUIPMENT AND BUSINESS OF THE Santiam Ready Mix Co. AND SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE Prompt Service in Stayton-Mill City-Mt. Angel Areas and Surrounding Communities — Call for Service at STAYTON—541 Third Street Sumpter Jewelry Bldg. 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