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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1951)
I— THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE at Girod’s Super Market. ON THE HIGHWAY at STAYTON ARMOURS BACON ENDS& PIECES 25c ”» MT. HOPE WHEEL CHEESE 55c Ib PURE PORK SAUSAGE COUNTRY STYLE 53c PICNICS Eastern Sujjar Cured ______ 45c »_______ FRY ERS PAN READY $1.29 «•<* LOCAL FRESH CARROTS 3 bunches 25c PINK (¡RAPEFRUIT 3 fur 25c PILLSBURY (¡OLDEN ( AKE MIX 35c l*kK- MAXWELL HOUSE INSTANT COFFEE Small .lar 37c Nöl rmber 1. 1951 Forest Products Out of the W oods Market Report Boy Scouts Learn- Les’s Tavern 7th Annual Firemen's HEART ATTACK OR INDIGESTION? BILTMORE TUNA _ 2 for 49C Pay Cash and SAVE at Girod’s BENEFIT DANCE Mill City Fire Hall Saturday, NOV. 17 79c »> LUMBERJACK SYRUP 5 lbs. 79c | Professional Womens club was told I that women have to fill at least one- third of the civil defense jobs. Four Toledo business firms have purchased 1000 copies each of four public edu cation booklets. Local director, Harry Jacobsen, said other firms have j offered to buy more of the booklets in the series as they are released by the federal government. Yamhill county I civil defense is currently distributing education booklets through the schools and chamber of commerce. In Wood burn, commenting upon the need for civil defense in towns of all sizes, the Independent said editorially:. . . it is important that trained medical teams, fire, police, and rescue squads and other emergency groups be avail able in the hinterland.” In The Dalles, civil defense workers took time out from their recruitment I of mobile first aid teams and other services to stage their first practice I air raid alert. ON OTHER HOME FRONTS: California’s CD ’director, Maj. Gen, Walter M. Robertson, said: "The ef fectiveness of these preparations (a- gainst biological warfare) will depend in great measure on an informed ar.d I alert public, speedily co-operating with civil defense, health and agri- i culture officials. By JAMES STEVENS Many Willamette Valley mills had to scramble for sawlogs again this One of-a Hundred. . . The “hoot owl shift” proved its past week. Heavy rains have forced value in Oregon and Washington loggers to close down summer opera I woods through the season. On some tions, and winter shows are not yet in Prices were mostly I large operations the starting whistle production. shrilled at four o-clock in the morn steady, with some increases of up to ing. At times logging stopped at $4 a thousand in the southern part of 9:00 a.m. Then some maverick or j the valley. Poles and piling also registered green horn would break a law or a summer job rule. And from state spotty advances of 1 to 3 cents a foot. forestry radio would carry the order. Most other forest products remained "Shut down!” And the cost of the about steady, according to the weekly farm forest products report prepared order—millions per day! On the Tillamook Burn alone such , from data supplied by the State Board orders punched holes in the bank of Forestry to the OSC Extension accounts of a hundred gyppo loggers Service. and their crews from April through Douglas Fir Sawlogs: August in the past year. Demand for Douglas fir sawlogs One order stopped the trucks of the | was strong, particularly in the south Stimson Lumber Company operation, ern part of the valley. Second- the greatest single factor in the re- . growth logs over 24 feet long and 10 habilitation of the Big Burn through inches in diameter were $35 to $38 a 18 years of Bunyan-scale logging of thousand board feet for No. 3’s and fire-killed but sound Douglas firs. $42 to $48 a thousand for No. 2’s. The Stimson booms were stocked, so Prices made a $4 advance in the sawing went on, but the loggers were Eugene area. 12 to 24 foot logs were out of work. The shutdowns piled up about steady at $37 to $46 a thousand, tremendous costs. So the story ran , camp run. 8 foot logs 6 inches in with other logging outfits, deep into diameter were $15 to $18 a cord or It’s Your Newspaper—Subscribe Now September, from Bellingham to the $32 to $40 a thousand. Forest Service. U. S. Department of Agriculture Humboldt—because one logger in a | Old-growth sawlog prices in the hundred might be a knothead with ; southern valley rose $4 to the level "Her« they com*—a good watershed area attracts wild folks every fire. of other Willamette areas, No. 3’s time!" Lessen of the Tillamook. . . brought $40 and No. 2’s brought $50 It is an appalling economic fact to a thousand. Peelers ranged from $75 were mostly $12 to $20 a thousand, face- a fact which foresters and log to $110. depending on quality, location, volume gers in all industrial forest regions. Second-growth stumpage quotations and other factors. (Continued from Page 1) face—that one maniacal or criminal Pulpwood : arsonist, or one careless recreationist, | their in-service training program. Northern and central valley pulp Portland civil defense had an exhibit or one irresponsible woodsman, can mills paid $17 a cord for unpeeled at the Pacific International Exposi- set giant forces of destruction and spruce hemlock and true fir. Douglas I tion which included displays, posters, economic loss going with one thread fir was $14 to $17 a cord, with one (‘duration pamphlets, film slides, and of flame, with a single spark. mill in the central valley quoting motion pictures. Also in Portland, a On fateful August 14, 1933, all but $5.90 a ton. one of the logging operators in West two-session course for CD speakers Poles and Piling: ern Oregon were shut down. The one was held. Long Douglas fir poles and piling was to be closed at noon. The last State civil defense workers are ... the letters »tart. Then were in good demand. Prices were continuing their field trips to CD units log of the morning was being yarded many readers of THE CHRIS steady to 3 cents per lineal foot in. Steel rope swiped dead cedar, j throughout the state to see if the TIAN SCIENCE MONITOR higher. Barkie poles ranged from 7 assignments given each county for throwing sparks. Smoke piled up. tell the Editor how much they cents a foot for 25 foot poles up to police and fire reserves, mobile first Death leaped up tree after tree, leav- I enjoy this daily world-wide 43 cents for 100 foot lengths. Lists aid teams, medical-hospital teams, ing stark stems with bark of char. newspaper, with such com- ' quoted 13 to 18 cents for 40 foot poles welfare teams, and rescue units are So just one log operator started ments as: j and 20 to 26 cents for 50 foot poles. within the capabilities of each area. the Tillamook Eire, while hundreds of “The Monitor is the most carefully edited news- Peeled piling ranged from 25 to 42 other operators- and thousands of In Forest Grove, the Business and paper in the V. S. cents a foot for 20 to 100 foot lengths. woods employees were “playing safe.” j ><HiiiMimi6iiiiiiiiiiiit'-.iiitH;i>uniimiHiiiiitiTi<hiiii inniiii tiruiniii mrtui moitn uniiH “Valuable aid in teach Hardwood Logs: Snag Logging. . . ing . . .” Most hardwoods were about steady By Aug. 24 the fire had killed big “News that is complete at $34.50 to $37.50 a thousand. Alder, trees on forty thousand acres. Then and fair ..." ash, maple, oak and chinquapin were a dry east wind began to turn on ex “The Monitor surely is a in limited demand at these prices. reader's necessity . . ." plosive power. Northward on Wolf One Portland manufacturer found Creek an arsonist put the rlame to a MILL CITY You, too, will find the Monitor maple hard to get at $40. Cotton three-hundred-acre spread of slash informative, with complete world news . . . and as neces wood brought $24 to $30 a thousand. ings. This was the little publicized A FRIENDLY sary as your HOME TOWN start of the second half of the blowup Other Forest Products: paper. in which more than two hundred and FAMILY Hop poles continued to bring $1.25 Use this coupon for a Special seventy thousand acres of trees were to $1.50 each for Douglas fir and $1.75 Introductory subscription — 3 ATMOSPHERE killed - after the first forty thousand to $2.00 for cedar. Car stakes were MONTHS FOR ONLY »3. acres. PREVAILS in good demand at 40 to 45 cents each. Killed, not destroyed. If the Tilla- | Fern went up 2 cents a bunch to 14 monk Fire of 1933 was America’s cents. greatest forest fire, then the salvage logging that followed it has been the llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^ biggest fire-hazard reduction opera tion of all timber history. About eight billion board feet have been logged from the Big Burn. Tillamook Warden Ed Schroeder estimates that the average among the («SS*) fire-killed trees that have been uti PB» lized has scaled 2,670 board feet. He sees this in terms of removal of some three million snags that stood I as the worst fire hazard in the way of the state's Tillamook Burn Rehabil itation Project, set going two years I ago. Industrial foresters view this j Paul Runyan record as a triumph of TH ANK HEAVENS' Most attacks are Just acid private enterprise forestry—which Indigestion. 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