T he MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Canyon Avenue Parade Serving: MILL CITY DETROIT ELKHORN GATES ID.ANH \ LYONS MEHAMA MONGOL!» By DON PETERSON This week we are coining a new ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — GATEWAY TO THE HEART OF NATURE’S EMPIRE [word in our editorial columns. This ! word is synonymous to depressions : $2.50 a Year. JOc a CoP> and soup-lines as we witnessed and MILL CITY, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANU ARY 31, 1952 Vol. VIII—No. 5 many of you shudder to remember ; back in .the early 30s when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to office and was forced to close the banks and set up regulations that stopped the bank failures that had marched through every- state in the union until thousands of banks had closed their doors and gone into re­ ceivership, while farmers, home By JEAN ROBERTS owners, and small businessmen lost Lyons—Mari-l.inn poses as model for all small schools. Consolidation of. their homes and property to face a six districts combined Marion and Linn counties; hence the name. The school desperate situation that drove many boasts nine teachers and nearly 200 pupils. to commit suicide, and that same An alert, broadminded school board, hacked by parents is co-operating situation faced many a “big” business­ with school teachers in making the school and gym buildings a community man too, as witness the suicides a- center. Scarcely a night of the week mong their numbers as were reported passes that finds the gym idle. . in the daily papers back in 1929 and An unusual feature is the Tuesday I 1930. community night Led by eighth I Yesterday was F. D. R.’s birthday grade teacher Ralph Hurst, the entire i and it is fitting that the word “Taf- community is :: - lt«d to < MM B®d | ooverism” was coined on his birthday. participate in supervised sports, | Hoover was on the air recently ex­ basketball, volleyball, and tumbling. pounding more of his philosophy The gym is double, separated by the Thanks to a co-operative spirit and that lead this country into the great­ school pupils for physical education, the t untiring efforts of a go-getter est depression it has ever known. basketball and volley ball games; the pair , of young men. Mill City collected His under-study Taft is out selling gym is also used by the Town Team > well over $250 for the polio cause. the voters of this United States of basketball squad. This team prac- Saturday ; night in the Mill City IOOF America another White Elephant in Final totals are not yet avail­ tices nearly every night and holds hall. I the 1952 elections. So the word public games about twice a week. i able because cash contributions have “Taf'ooverism” comes closest to tell­ the fund. ing the world whpt Taft and Hoover At present the school board and swelled i Wm. and Chas. Stewart of Mill City, have been selling their country all interested parents are investigating of this year's polio drive, these years by every trick in the books. the possibilities of roller skating, for co-chairmen < We don’t think the voters of this a weekly activity. 1 tried a few new angles for raising country will be gullible enough to take One of Mari-Linn’s largest achieve- I polio funds. Their most valuable idea another sip of their Taf’ooverism ments is a hot-lunch program; oper- ' was the old-fashioned basket-social. drug. Heart-tugging phase of the basket ation of which is unique in the state. * ♦ • The new school building was not 1 social was the giving away of a multi­ Paul Smith. Mill City’s famous cocker spaniel puppy. "San­ built with the idea of serving lunches colored 1 walking man came in our office today Sam” Geo. Steffy donated the go was not equipped with a cafe- tiam ' and left a few samples of rock he had teria to facilitate serving. Determi­ loveable puppy in the interests of the picked up in the neighboring hills, nation of interested parents and I polio cause, Fifty-cent chances were last summer. One sample he avers teachers however, have made possible sold on the puppy. Lucky ticket* assays very valuable and it was picked the serving of meals efficiently des­ holder was Mrs. Joe Harman. Some up just 18 miles south of Mill City! $35 was gained from the raffling of pite a small kitchen. An amazing man! A double-deck cart operating on the cocker pup. ♦ * * Santiam Sam carried out the auc- four wheels is loaded with dishes and Mill City's famous hill, known to kettles containing the day’s fare and tioneer’s role in the traditional nun- many as Baldock’s nightmare, and to wheeled to the first grade room at ner and extracted the unusually high many others as Banfield’s suicide Mari-I inn school's double gymnasium (top photo) was remodeled from two oil gym's when six districts 11:30 a.m. Each teacher is required figure of $25 for one supper-box. curve, claimed another victim this j consolidated r.-1 I adopted the name Mari-Linn. At 1 wer left. Principal Thomas Putman, is shown wheel­ to help serve all the pupils in her room, Bill Stewart, ir. was the man paying week. Fortunately the victim was ing the school lunch cart to classrooms, where students dine in their room-. Serving lunch, at right, staggering the lunch hour from 11:30 the fee for the costly lunch-box. not a human being, but it could very . are (from left) Mrs. Hurst and Mrs. Melvina Franklin, cooks, and Mrs. Elva Kuiken, teacher. to 12:15, when the eighth grade is The basket-social portion of the pro­ well have been, had it not been for (Photos courtesy The Statesman) gram neeting the polio cause $204.50. completely served. the skillfull driving of Bill McCoy, Orchids were tossed to that panto­ Lunch, meeting government require ­ driver of a logging truck, who man-1 mine pair of Dick Springer and Bob ments for vitamins and nutrition, is aged to bring his load to a safe stop . Paine of Salem. These talented . planned by the week to give the pupils before it could spill over and catch young men donated their time and ex­ a varied menu. The ingenuity of the someqne on the sidewalk in front oU Among contracts let today by the cooks enable the lunch program to penses of the Mill City performance the Dawes building. state highway commission, meeting in successfully operate on 20 cents a to the Mill City polio drive. Otto Alexander, 69. old tinier here, McCoy was coming down the hill Those who enjoyed an entertaining passed away at his home in Rainier, Carl N. Thomas, 76, single and Portland, is one for $12,000 for paving flay per pupil, and still serve protein,, ■ rewarding evening, thimk the Odd and as he made the turn, the reach Ore., last Thursday. His funeral was First street in Mill City from Broad­ egetable, bread and butter and milk former resident of the Gates farm ­ broke allowing his trailer to swing held in Scio this i uesday where he ing area, succumbed of natural causes way to a point .41 of a mile south each day. Of course left-overs must | Fellows for the use of the IOOF hall. out toward cars parked at the foot The Stewart brothers just thank was buried. Saturday afternoon, Jan. 26. Thomas toward Kingwood to the Rogers Con­ occasionally be served. The cooks, everyone for their grand support. of the hill, narrowly missing spilling struction Co. of Portland. however, promptly dubbed this dish Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Baltimore had been in failing health for some his load of logs onto the cars or into the Mill City Meat Market store front. and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grimes of four years pre.vious to the time of his j A contract was also let for the pac­ “football stew” and it was met with It was very lucky that the load of Mill City attended the funeral. Mr. death. Funeral services were con- I ing of the new section of the North acclaim by the pupils. Any pupil de­ logs remained on board, and they Alexander had spent the recent holi­ ducted by Rev. W. W. Watkins of the Santiam highway from Mill City to siring a second helping may go to missed going off by the narrowest day vacation here visiting old friends Mill City Community church, Tuesday. I Mehama, 9.2 miles for $278,000, to the kitchen for a refill. and was widely known in these parts. Still another accomplishment of Thomas was born November 16, the same company. These paving margin! Mr. Alexander was an unde of Mrs. 1875, in Colton, Washington. He is contracts are to be completed by this school, which is only in its third * * * year of existence, is a movie projector. Just when will someone lose his Baltimore. survived by two bro.thers, Norris J. September of this year. Seniors of the Detroit high school Most of the money to purchase this life on this treacherous hill in order to Thomas, of Lyons. Route No. 1; and projector was made by the pupils were the principal speakers at the get it classified as “dangerous” on Clyde G. Thomas of the Belgium 'themselves during a magazine sub­ meeting on Wednesday evening held the books of the state highway com­ Congo, Africa; and five nephews and scription campaign, A school-spon- for the purpose of clearing some mission—that seems to be the only four nieces. Carl Thomas lived most sored magic show, as well as modest points about the coming election to method by which citizens are able to of hi’ life in Malheur county on a contributions from local organizations be held on Monday, F’eb. 4, for th« force attention to a dangerous condi­ stock farm. have financed the projector. It is purpose of determining whether or tion. I do not know whether anybody Interment w’as made in Fairview planned to use films to further school not the Detroit school should be dis­ Howard Bair, 15, Mill City student cemetery. Pall bearers were C. D. has ever been killed on this hill, but Log trucks found this week a bad continued and the pupils transported if no one has we can certainly put this Sunday broke his leg in three places Johnson, Bob LaVon, Sam Culwell, one tor them. One dumped its load work by obtaining educational films The to Mill City for the coming year. case down as one in which the guard­ just above the ankle, Bair was skiing Clyde Richards, Jhue Johnson and Joe in Gates; another nearly raised cain that supplement textbooks, The meeting was conducted in the ian angel of somebody was on the at Hoodoo bowl when the an ident Bentley. with the Dawes building in Mill City. movie projector is also available to form of a debate, the affirmative, it use who wish to local organizations job. The rear wheels of this load occurred. Log truck driver Dan Muzechenki was should be discontinued and students just touched the rear end of a parked Young Bair is the son of Mr. and embarressed slightly this week when it. teachers are transported to Mill City was taken car and only a few more inches would Mrs. Jack Bair of Mil) City. He his load of logs tumbled near Gates' i Parents, pupils, and by John Davis and Mary Gordon have been enough to cause the rear had accompanied Mr. and Mrs. A. E. post office. Bill McCoy, owner-con­ ' all proud of their school and the ad- with S. T. Moore summarizing the j vantages it offers, which have only wheels to throw their load of loads Nesbitt and children, Donald and tract carrier of logs, got down Ban­ points made by the affimative follow­ and somebody might well have been Francis to the winter playground. field’s nightmare route, but the jaunt been accomplished by dilligent com­ ing their talks; the negative was The Nesbitts are veteran skiiers. | broke the reach on his log truck. munity spirit working to further taken by James White and Bob Lay­ the victim. How can any highway commissioner J. C. Kimmel will serve again on Said logs headed for Mill City Meat education. An operation will be performed So enthusiastic is the principal man with Mr. J. B. Gordon summar­ permit such conditions to continue, this week on Howard's leg for the the Santiam Memorial hospital board Market show window. Thomas Putman over this pisngressive izing the points made. Rebuttals when by cutting a small corner off purpose of pinning fragments of the in the role of vice president. He Muzechenki was hauling logs for were given by James White and Mary the Epps Furniture store and cutting, leg bone together so that healing will and the other officers of the boara I Curtis Deetz of Stayton to Salem, school, he has named his first baby Gordon. daughter Mary Lynn. down the hill a reasonably safe cor- j be speeded up. were re-elected during the first an­ when his unfortunate accident blocked John Davis stressed the fact that ner can be maintained at a small cost The accident happened as Bair was nual meeting of the Santiam Memorial the North Santiam highway for a the classes would be larger ami would (Continued on Page 2) gliding down a gentle slope and hospital in Stayton. Some 200 hospi­ I time at • the street intersection in better prepare for college than a struck a sitsmark. “Sitzmarks”, de­ tal subscribers were present for the , Gates. McCoy’s truck broke its reach small class. 2. There would be a annual meet. The 134 votes cast re ­ pressions in the snow caused by an­ Wednesday afternoon during the busy greater choice of subject matter, in other skier’s tumble, normally are sulted in the re-election of the entire 1 time of the day, 4.30 p.m. Again fields such as science, foreign lang­ smoothed out by the skier involved. last year's board of directors. some unseen hand must have been at It’s Roy Rogers Day Saturday, Feb. uages, commercial subjects, etc. MONDAY— Immediately following the annual work in connection with these two 2, at the Kids’ matinee at Mill City 3. There would be more activities Another skier's careless disregard of American Legion Auxiliary 3d Mon. , this rule netted Bair a severely dam­ meeting, the board of directors met | accidents because no one received theatre, according to Bob Veness, from which to choose. 4. There Lions club meeting. and re-elected the present officers to I bodily injuries as a result of them. aged limb. manager. would he a chance for the student A.F. A A M. No. 180 stated meet­ serve again. Walter H. Bell, presi- Feature picture is “Down Dakota national assemblies which comes to ing third Monday. dent; J. C. Kimmel, vice president; Way”, starring Roy and Dale. Also larger high school*. O.E.S. meeting. 2d Monday month. G. W. Schachtsick. secretary-trea - Bob Layman as first speaker on there will be a contest. The boy who urer. President Beil reappointed all TUESDAY— the negative stressed the transporta­ looks most like Roy; and the girl who committees. Women’s club 8 pm 1st. 3rd Tues looks most like Dale will be picked. tion difficulties, bad roads, ice, snow, Since 21 directors were elected, 129-J School Board meeting 2d Tues Contestants are asked to dress in slides and rolling rocks to soy nothing terms of office were determined by Harold M. Erickson, state health western garb. Winners will be named of the fog and bad road conditions at Riders of the Santiam. 1st Tuesday lot, as drawn by the board. This officer, drew attention this week to nresent. 2. Students would be leav­ Lions Auxiliary 4th Tuesday divides the group into three groups, the fact that Mill City’s water supply king and queen of the cowboys, ami ing their homes earlier and getting will receive fancy prizes. WEDNESDAY— for one. two and three-year terms. during 1951 was found free of coli­ home later and given thus less time Boy Scouts, 7:30, H. S. Recreation M. IT. Schmeer. Jr., architect of the form bacteria, according to a letter for any jobs which they might need City council first Wed. 7:30 p.m. firm of Roald. Schmeer and Harrinq- received by the Mountain States Pow­ to perform at home. 3. People may Santiam Eagles and auxiliary 8 p.m. ♦ n, was present and described the er company. This is the second fail to settle in Detroit in the future at Mill City fire hall. lilding plans. consecutive year such a report has if the school is taken out. 4. Since Santiam Rebekah 186 1st and 3rd Walls will be of concrete with brick property valuation is based in large been made. Wed at 8 p.m. neer; alternate bids will be invited, Jim Walton, sophomore of Gates measure upon school facilities this 1 IRON LUNG Water samples were submitted reg ­ f mndation will be of concrete and Altar Society 3d Wednesday 8 p.m. high school, was on his way to the might prove a definite handicap. 5. floors will be plastered and halb a- ularly each month to an approved school cafeteria last Thursday noon Parents and friends would be unable to PTA. second Wednesday 8 p.m. s I laboratory and was of safe bacterio ­ cuostically treated. Floor coverings THURSDAY— when he fell against a glass door attend school functions, games, playa will include asphalt tile, linoleum and logical quality. breaking the glass pane and cutting and other things which makes them Theta Rho Club for Girls, meets 2d Erickson expressed his feeling a- vinyl. Terrazo tile floors will be laid deeply the muscles of his arm. seem a part of the school. and 4th Thursdays. ■g is done often. bout this record in this manner, “This Mary Gordon, second peaker on Gates PTA 1st Thursday 8 pm. Walton was taken to the office of for construction is a verv fine record and we wish to 11 for the affirmative gave a resume of at- American Legion 2d and 4th Thurs is anticipated. take this opportunity to commend you Dr. Jack Reid who closed the gaping tendance at the Detroit high school Garden club fourth Thursday and your staff for this accomplish- wound in the high school student's of the since its beginning in 1937 with was ba