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November 15. 1951 2— THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE I COMMUNITY AIMS THRU CO-OPERATION I MILL CITY. OREGON 1. SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. I DON PETERSON. Publisher 2. MILL CITY STREET IMPROVEMENT. I 3.. LOCAL YOUTH RECREATION CENTER. By MRS. EVA BRESSLER I 4. MILL CITY DIAL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Mrs. Pat Lyons was hostess I the afternoon CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for SI 00 5. MILL CITY PARK PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL. card club with The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in I party held at the Rebekah hall, 6. ELIMINATION OF BANFIELD’S NIGHTMARE. •ertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display Wednesday afternoon, Several tables 7. MILL CITY AREA SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. of 500 followed a one thirty dessert SEPTEMBER is the Month for . . , 8. IMPROVE HIWAY 222 BETWEEN MILL CITY AND LYONS. luncheon. High score went to Mrs. 9. OBTAIN CANYON YEAR 'ROUND PAYROLL INDUSTRIES. Vacationers re- NEWSPAPER SMUGGLING: . national editorial Sam Bridges second high to Mrs. turning from abroad may find 10. DETROIT, GATES, AND MILL CITY UNION HIGH SCHOOL. PUBLISHERS Donovan, low to Mrs. John Kunkle. themselves in a peck of trouble Attending the party were Mesdames (F ''ASSOCIATION with Customs inspectors. This is % Bob Free, Vem Nydegger, Sam Brid return-home month for many ges, Percy Hiatt, Bert Lyons, War travelers and the little keepsakes ren Shepherd, George Huffman, and baubles picked up in the gay “THE PAPER THAT HAS NO EM MIES II \S NO FRIENDS." Orville Downing. Bob Carleton, Ar places of foreign countries some George Put: am. MacArthur indicates either I or Gen. \RMS REDUCTION—A WORLD thur Olmstead, Floyd Bassett, Ken times ride into the U. S. as con F ;that the war is useless or hopeless or neth Hellemn, Earl Hellemn, Oscar HOPE traband. Advice: Don't be a suck The test of a desire for peace is I that we should either expand it or Naue, Chester Roy, John Kunkle, Mrs. er, declare them! Your swell time the willingness to take rational means 1 get out and let the Commies take Donovan and the hostess Mrs. Lyons. can have an ugly aftermath. Guest Editorial by GARY PETERSON to ward cultivating peace. By this over. Members of the Altar Society of JUVENILE DELINQUENCY hits This point of view also is reflected the St. Patricks Catholic church held Senior in Mill City High School standard, the demarche that has been a high peak this back-to-school F At present a petition is circulating through the various districts, made by France, Britain, and the ' by 56 per cent of those polled in the a special meeting at the home of Mrs. month. When the shock of the latest Gallup survey 61 public opin- United States at the United Nations Mike Fink to complete plans for their new discipline wears off, comes «•king that the question of school consolidation he put to a vote. I his a rash of teen-age rebellion. Out is the closest that propanents of consolidation have come in close to General Assembly must surely im i ion. Republicans agree overwhelm- bazaar and turkey dinner which will j ingly with Senator Taft’s point of be held at the Rebekah hall, Monday press mankind with its validity. lets for this loss of freedom takes twenty years. The desire of humanity for peace view, that is, 65 per cent agree the evening, November 12. Present for meeting of the Mill City Parent Teachers association. Mill City on many guises: truancy, school At a ________ .... .. vandalism, law-breaking. This is school superintendent Vernon S. Todd and Burton Boroughs, high school and disarmament—for devotion of a war is “useless,” but 49 per cent of the meeting were Rose Schwindt, Ida a situation bound to be on the coach, gave that body a censensus of the T. C. Holly report on the school greater portion of its resources to ; the Democrats polled go along too. Free, Wilma Free, Loraine Free, This shows an almost startling re Martha Jungwirth, Mary Volten, rise after the first week of the situation in the state of Oregon. It was shown through this report that beneficial works instead of slaughter fall semester. School gets back to high school students in Oregon were below the national average in three and destruction—is a desire too noble versal of public opoinion since the Gertrude Jungwirth, Anne Pietrok, normal near month’s end. of eight tested subjects, and above average in the remaining five, that the to be trifled with for selfish propa fateful decision was made to halt out Ruth Lyons and the hostess Mrs. Fink. DOMESTIC STRIFE: Just about ¥ COOt per student per year was lower in a large high school, and that each ganda purposes, too legitimate to be right aggression in South Korea. “Thanksgiving is Thanksgiving” is Then, most of the Western world, the seasonable message chosen by •todent had a greater choice of a curriculum in a high school of three long ignored, and too basic to remain now a pall settles over the happy as well as an overwhelming majority Rev. F. A. Feenstra, pastor of the forever thwarted. home. After a fling at the ocean Jiundred. The school of three hundred or more had a lower yearly cost than the breezes and cool mountain eve A nation does not really court of U. N. representatives, lauded our Lyons Community Methodist church, Part of the swing is traceable stand, nings, with its romantic inter- lowest small school, because fewer tearhers were needed to provide a larger peace or promote the atmosphere for the 11 o’clock service next Sun lu ’es, husband and wife find curriculum. Charts were shown which showed the number of students in necessary for arms reduction by vili to Red China’s entry, of course, day, Nov. 18. “Why I Am Thankful That made it, as Gen. MacArthur This Year” will be the theme for the thenvelves thrown together again tfee high schools of Mill City, Gates, and Detroit, along with the number of fying other nations as warmongers in the confining routine of normal teachers in earh, and the assets, bonding limit (thirteen percent under and imperialists, no matter how said a different kind of war. Part evening service. Sunday school meets living. It begins with little things, consolidation laws), outstanding bonds in circulation, and total bonding many signatures it may amass on so- of it stems from the efforts of politi with Mrs. John Prideaux, general sup petty grievances; is embellished limit. minus the outstanding bonds. called “peace” petitions or how much cal opponents of the administration erintendent and Mrs. Glenn Julian, with the memory of the nice part It was pointed out that the only necessary school building at present it may talk of abolishing only one to saddle it with the blame for the children’s superintendent. ner met this summer—and the Cpl. John Toonib of McCord Field Would be a high school, as Mill City high, which has the largest high school class of weapons. The “peace offen war. And part of it is sheer weari squabbles grow. Sometimes it building. would be insufficient. The respective grade schools would con- sive” of Communist Russia has been ness with the inconclusive nature of visited over the week end with his wears off — sometimes children parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Toombs. ginue in their present buildings for the time being. unconvincing in these respects, but it the conflict. are neglected, homes broken, and Americans historically speaking He had as his guest, Shannon Albright definitely has called for affimative ¥ ¥ ¥ there is violence in the horn". P The question was brought up by Mr. Ituroughs, who read portions of measures to counteract the effect want to give a war, once they’re in who’s home is near DesMoines, Iowa. This sad story is told many times volved in it, everything they have, in Mr. and Mrs. W. Long of Oregon > thesis paper which he wrote for his degree, of the problem of traditions made on world thinking. this month on police blotters. and rivalries of the various communities. This would not constitute a It is gratifying that those measures ! order to get it over with and get back City visited relatives in Lyons, Tues FINAL ISSUE day afternoon. They had their little problem insofar as the students themselves are concerned, because various have been and are being taken. It home. Mr. District Attorney heard members of Gates, Detroit, and Mill City high schools student bodies have would not be open-eyed to expect I Unfortunately, the Korean war isn’t grand-daughter, Joyce Long with Wednesdays on NBC expressed a desire for consolidation. that the proposals made in Paris will that kind of war. It isn’t that simple. them. Long is a nephew of Elmer and Amos Hiatt. Consolidation differs from unionization in that in consolidation one attain immediate, unquestioning ac It is a war designed to halt aggres school board consisting of five members would handle administration of ceptance. They are made as a basis sion, true, but it is also a war of con the one large district, while in unionization, there would be four hoards of for discussion and in a form suf tainment, a war fought to prevent a education in control, competing with each other. ficiently broad to allow for contri world-wide conflict, not to initiate it. DR. MARK In the face of these facts, it is clear that the students and taxpayers butions from many sources toward It is a war fought not against what alike would he benefitted by the consolidation in improved educational filling in details. most Americans consider their prim facilities, and in the taxpayer's pocketbook, A large, new high school would Whether they will ever come to ary enemy, the Soviet Union, but a be a source of pride to the residents of the canyon. serious consideration in the current war fought at long range against REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST Residents of the consolidation districts of Aumsville and Turner now session is indeed the question—a ques stooges of the Soviet Union. To that look with pride at their modern high school building, whereas they formerly tion whose answer lies largely with ! extent it is small consolation that it Will be at his Mill City office in the Jenkins Building were ashamed of the outrageous lack of facilities. They now have a modern, the Kremlin. Such a practical ap is destroying huge numbers of Red Thursday afternoons 1 to 6 p.m. well-equipped gymnasium while in the past they were forced to play in proach to arms control confronts aggressors and huge quantities of Also Thursday evenings by Appointment poorly lighted gyms which had only a large wood stove for heat and cold Moscow with a dilemma of relaxing Soviet supplies. The real enemy still showers. Fortunately the districts in this case are not faced with such its policestate secrecy or offering escapes the direct penalty of its ag HOME OFFICE: 313 W. FIRST. ALBANY a problem. More power to those who are working toward this consolidation. more realistic proposals for disarm gression. That’s what makes the Support them in any way you can. Korean war so devilishly hard to ament thnn it has presented. Initially there is recognition that evaluate. some degree at least of tacit under It helps some, we believe, to Ko standing must be reached on current back a bit and determine what the war 1C the family next door were burned out of their home by fire, neighbor» divisive world issues before nations is NOT being fought for. It is not would rush to help — to offer whatever was needed. will be in a mood to reduce arms. | being fought for territory or raw 8 It ia hard to realize the effect» of a fire when the flame» were 10,000 This may reasonably include settle- materials or to satisfy an imperialistic S mile» away. In South Korea, million» of helple»» civilian» — many of them ments in Austria and Germany as craving for authority over other 8 children — have »ufferd the conflagration» of war. Home» have been well as in Korea. people. It isn’t being fought for oil destroyed, all pow»e»»ion» lout, normal mean» of livelihood wiped out. At I Then it is recognized that in order or bauxite or steel capacity or uran i I leant five million person» are homele»» refugees. The various government» to lay out an intelligent program of ium ore. have pledged »upplie» to I N relief pools, hut »upplemental, individual aid arms reduction there must be reliable It is being fought because a stand Angelus •> Platt 0 is still necessary to meet the desperate need for clothing, for blankets, information as to what the arms situa had to be made somewhere against for food. tion is in various parts of the world. Soviet imperialism in action. The General Federation of Women's club» ia sponsoring a Thanks And if nations are to trust the pledged It is being fought to halt a specific Traveleze 0 giving-season campaign to »end CARE food and textile packages from word of others to linvt arms, there act of naked aggression against a 0 Americans to Korean war victims. Funds are being solicited by Woman's must be international powers of in country whose political integrity was 0 club members in thi» city. The help CARE packages bring to the people spection to see that the promises are guaranteed by the United Nations. 0 Boles-Aero in many countries of Europe and Asia is well known. Nowhere is CARE observed. It is being fought to provide an more needed than in Korea today. No time could be more appropriate to In making a proposal along these I object lesson to Communist imper extend that aid than now. as Americans prepare to give thanks for the NEW AND USED lines the three nations present an in ialists everywhere—in Moscow, Peip abundance we enjoy — an abundance beyond the wildest dreams of the hungry ing or Pyongyang—that open aggres teresting parallel to *h-? succes ful • nd cold men. women and children in South Korea. sion does not pay. ALL SIZES America» on the »cene — members of the U. S. armed force» — had the efforts of the United States in the It is a war fought to prevent the compa»»ion, in the midst of their fighting, to try to ease the misery they Naval Disarmament Conference of repetition of aggression—in Indochina, •aw. Stories have been told: How men of the Navy’s I'SS St. Paul provided 1921—plus one lesson learned fr< m Malaya. Indonesia. Japan, the Phillip- PARTS AND SUPPLIES food and clothing for an orphanage outnide Inchon harbor. How the Fifth the eventual evasion of that treaty pines. Yugoslavia and, yes, the United Air Force e»tahlished an orphanage on Cheju Island for 100 children they i by Japan. First, the western powers States of America. flew from Seoul. How Gia have shared what they could with Koreans offer what they could not have offered 0 It is a war fought to demonstrate 0 •long the road. But this is a job for civilian* to hear. A "Thanksgiving" a year or two ago—to give up on a that people who believe in freedom, « matching basis military might in be contribution to the General Federation's “CARE-FOR-KOREA” campaign 0 for themselves and others, are willing « means that American», safe at home, can help save the live» of the Korean ing under construction, not merely to band together and fight, if need be, ALBANY — 2 Miles South on 99E 0 people, whose tragedy it wa» to he caught in the blaze that threatens the on paper. Second, they insist that “a for their collective security and world I system of disclosure and verification 8tgHHHnHHtamagggHgBgngBBggggggggnK«gBBBHg«t»BPcgw«w«««Bj free world. successive stages woul I be an peace. That’s what the fighting’s about in sential part of the prog-*aai ” This may or may not evoke a re Korea. That is why American troops sponse of substance from the Soviet are fighting and dying in Korea along Government. But at the least it with troops of other members of the signifies that the initiative has been U. N. That’s why valiant efforts are taken by the imaginative diplomacy of being made to contain the war and the West. It means, moreover, that a to attain a truce of honor. In these terms, the Korean war may major contribution has been made in thinking toward peace and toward a prove to be the most significant and TO SAVE TIME AND MONEY FOR ALL peaceful organization of world society important war in which Amercans That concept, once grasped by men of have ever engaged anywhere.—From THE LOGGERS IN THE NORTH SANTIAM constructive intent, will not be easily The Oregon Journal relinquished. — From the Christian AREA, I AM PUTTING A COMPLETE STOCK ■ The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MR.D.A.’S CRIME CALENDAR LYONS Editorial Comments School Consolidation I LAHHIIHIAiS The Victims Need "Care” TRAILER HOMES South Side Trailers Al! 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