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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1952)
o College Gives Peterson td ting Honorable Mill City Hi-Lites By GARY PETERSON Gary Peterson of Mill City high A week ago last Saturday night school garnered an honorable mention marked the death and funeral of an in recent northwest journalism com organization called the Canyon Teen petition for his editorial work on Age Club. Death was caused by lack ’Wolf-tales, the Mill City school paper, of interest and support. Many trans sponsored by the Pacific university, fusions were attempted, but to no Forest Grove, journalism department avail. Apparently its passing is re bait casting lines, packages of snel- With the spring fishing season I and the campus chapter of Pi Delta gretted by only a few. Perhaps later led hooks and nylon leaders, some about to open, and liefore we journey , Epsilon, national journalism honorary. on a simialr club for teen-agers can to the streams and ponds to catch fly dope, plastic box of flies, bottle The journalism competition was of pork rind . . . and even a copy of be organized and be appreciated. spotted trout, what sav we get busy sponsored by the Pacific university, Old Hi’s booklet "Fishing For The on a few important jobs? This writer attended the Seventh .Millions.” Forest Grove, journalism department Annual Journalism Competition at For the most part these will be and the campus chapter of Pi Delta Before repacking the kit with any Pacific university last Saturday and repairing our tackle, doing some Epsilon, national journalism honorary. practice casting to improve our ac tackle which was used last year, received an honorable mention in the Two other high school editors re curacy, and diet king up at the local though, be sure to give each item editorial section of the competition, sporting goods stores to see what a thorough test for strength or work ceived honorable mention. which also included speech reporting, new rods, reels, line-, and lures we ing ability. For example, examine Students from 30 northwest high news reporting, news feature writing, can put into action tins year. Let's lines and leaders for wear or weak schools were entered in the journalism and sports writing. spots, sharpen all hooks that have take these projects up in turn. event. The Mill City high school band gave First we should give our tackle become dull or rusty, file off any its annual Spring Concert Thursday kits a thorough spring house clean burrs on swivels or sharp edges on evening and was well received. The lunch the group went through the ing. Perhaps dirt, sand, water or sinkers, make sure the level-wind band played various marches, over fish slime, or other substance has apparatus on the casting reel is i Museum, the Forestry Experimental working smoothly and is free from gotten into the trays or under-com tures, popular pieces, and other selec I Farm and Arboretum, where they partments. The best plan is to re grime. tions. Profits from the concert go to | were delighted to see four deer. move all the contents, and clean the These are only a few of the neces the band fund for music and to defray * The next day Mrs. Thomas took the interior with a soft cloth soaked in sary tackle tinkering tasks to be the cost of the trip to the Class D same group of girls to Chemawa to warm soapy water. done liefore we can whip the streams Band Contest April 26. The band visit the Indian school. Two Indian Rinse in clear warm water, wipe and lakes for trout and other fish. also presented concerts for the grade girls, members of the senior class at dry, and replace the lures, hooks, Bamboo rods need careful overhaul school and high school. Earl Loucks, sinkers, leaders, lines, and other ing for weakened ferrules or wind the school conducted the scouts band director, reported that profits items in neat order, and in a way ings, and telescope rods need to lie through the buildings and grounds. given a rub-down to make sure the from the grade school concerts that will let you quickly pick out the On the return trip home they visited pieces of equipment needed the sections work easily. The Mohawk amounted to approximately thirty-five the Capital Building in Salem, climbed oftenest. For instance, in the top telesc<>|>e rods for stream fishing are dollars. the spiral stairs to the balcony around one of the most popular and gener tray you would want a small knife The Timberwolf baseball team the statue on top. They also visited with slim, sharp blades, tiny screw ally used of ail types for this purpose, played a double-header practice game the State Forestry building and as an driver, long-nose pliers, assorted for they let you get into tanglev with Gates and Detroit, Mill City de sinkers, eyed hooks, swivels, and places where big fish lurk which ending to a pleasant and instructive otherwise would nave to be skipped. feated Gates 3 to 0 in the first game. safety snaps. day, fed the ducks in the stream that The Timberwolves defeated Detroit 9 In the second tray you might ar-1 . To increase vour chances for sport flows through the eastern part of to 0 in the nightcap of the double range various trolling and casting and good catches in the coming sea- Salem. The girls with Mrs. Thomas header. Ward and Gregory were plugs, spoons, and spinners, ¡, along son, send for your free copy < <>K>I<1 were Ellen and Roberta Chance, with some bass bug floats, feather, winners for us’ns. feather- Hi’s b<x>k!et “Fishing „ For Thi ie Mil Juanita and Aloha Thomas, Donnalee ininnows, tandem-hook streamers, lions,” and make arrangements with The game which was scheduled for Oliver, Susan Gordon, Sherry Shiner, popping bugs, and similar lures. In your tackle dealer to see Old Hi’s Wednesday night with Stayton was Darlene Joaquin and Billie Mertsker. the lowest, large compartment you new- colored movie "Fishing With postponed because of a wet field. The Blight store a reel or two, fly and 11-1 Power Giass Rods.” Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pennick and two Timberwolves travel to Jefferson Fri children spent two days in Olympia, day afternoon for the first league, Washington, last week, where they game of the season. On Tuesday the I ' warden after them. Rumor has it they were called by the death of Mr. 'Wolves play a one-game homestand I that some of the members of the Pennicks aunt, Mrs. Joe Pennick, of with the Gates edition of Captain Kidd track squad have been hunting deer that city. and his blood-thirsty crew. They I illegally using the javelin because it By MRS. ALBERT MILLSAP Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mason, of ain’t really that fee-rociols, in our makes less noise. Voters of the Gates school district Salem were Saturday guests at the opinion of course. The Gates affair God rest ye merry gentlemen! met at the school house, Friday eve home of their nephew and family, Mr. is to be an evening brawl, 8:00 p.nt., ning, to vote on the question of con and Mrs. George Meilke. under the lights. If the weather is solidation of the Gates schools with nice, why nbt come out and see the Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hutcheson, who those of the Mill City, Detroit Idanha sold their home in Mill City moved to bailgame? If it’s nasty, dress for an1 districts. The vote was 15 for consoli Gates this week, where they will make Antartic expedition, and come out I (Continued from Page 1) dation and 72 against. The majority their home. anyway. Be seein’ yuh, says I. of voters attending were older resi Mrs. Edith Mason reports the ad enjoyment. Pfc. Edmund Davis (Buddie) is at You may purchase tickets from any dents of the community, those whose the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. dition to the MCHS library of several books, including the newest edition of Junior or at the door Thursday night. childrren had long since finished E. L. Davis on a 15 day furlough the Who’s Who in America. This Admission is 65c for adults, 20c for school. Only a small representation from his station in Georgia. of the newer population was present, library, one of the best equipped li-, children. Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Turnidge o< See you at the play Thursday, April due to the fact that many of them are braries in the state in a small high 10, at fl p.m. at the Mill City high "on the fence” or are indifferent to Cutler City were visitors at the honni school, can be used by the public. the question because they only plan of her mother, Mrs. Chris Knutson, The local track team is preparing school auditorium. to be here during the construction of the last of the week. Saturday they for the big meet at Willamette univer left for Portland where Mrs. Turn- sity to he held Saturday. According Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Kay arrived the Detroit dam. idge would remain for a time at the Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Klecker, home of her daughter and son-in-law, to an anonymous spectator, the only in Mill City last week from Long way to get some of the fellas to run Beach, Calif., where they spent the daughters Janet and Kristine and son Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jensen, who are the Jeffrey were dinner guests, Monday parents of a new baby son, “Ronald is to convince them there’s a game winter months. evening at the home of Mrs. Klceker’s Lee’, 7’a lb. boy born at a Portland parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Millsap. hospital, Sunday, March 23. I9L Mrs. Members of the Gates 4-H Forestry Jensen attended the Gates schools here class and the local girl scouts have and has many friends who extended One Door South of Model Food Market taken several interesting trips re their congratulations This h the cently under the guidance of their second! boy in the Jensen family. leaders. On a Saturday.Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Barnhardt left Walter Thomas took the Forestry Friday evening for Richland, Wash., Bl RI.INGTON RAYON. SHEEN GABARDINE. class of boys to Corvallis to a special to be the guests of his parents, Mr. GABARDINE and Some CALIFORNIA Fl YNNEI meeting there for the forestry groups and Mrs. G. C. Barnhardt. They in this area. They were given a planned to also stop enroute, at his guided tour through the Forestry Ex brother’s home, Harry Barnhardt in periment department at the college. Umatilla. After lunch the group was taken Mrs. Stewart, accompanied by Mrs. * Full Tailored * 2-Button * 2-l’atch Pockets * Padded Shoulders through the nursery to see how trees Gerak) Heath spent last Wednesday were grown and packet for farm and in Saifcm, shopping. * Extended Waist * Lock-top Zipper forest planting. Making the trip Mrs. Edward Chance and children were Douglas Hirte, James Hull, GREY. DARK III I E. \Ql A. RUST Walter Thomas Jr, Dale Ducket, Sizes I to 12 Rodney Stubbs and Micheál Suddeth. Monday of last week Mrs. Thomas took her troup of local Girl Scouts to Corvallis where they were shown through the Hervarium, Botany build ing. and Green houses. After their 265 N. High, SALEM Æ BY Q/d-til GATES Junior Class Play-- THE BOY'S SHOP SUITS 'Just Like Dad's9 April 3, 1952 I—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE T offoY Liullvl RflV DUX were Salem visitor- Saturday, Mt- E*fl if AY C LiUllUx □ a resident of Salem. Louis and Kathy Kelle, small children of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kelle. of Cutler City are spending the week at the home of their grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kelle. Mr. and Mrs. Asa Casteel, of Buf- talo, Kansas, who were guests at the Elmer Stewart home for several weeks, left Wednesday of last week for their home. Cpl. George Lawson, stationed at Ft. Lewis, Wash., spent the weekend visiting his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lawson of Gates. As the result of a fall at her home last week, Mrs. Kay McCarty is nursing numerous bruises and an in jured arm. Mrs.McCarty has been in poor health for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Ryal were called to Salem the last of the week by news of the serious illness of their neice, who is hospitalized here. Mrs. Rosa Roten is visiting in Tooelle, Utah, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gerrod. before her marriage was the widow of Mrs. Roten's son, Sgt. Tiny Hugh Roten. who was killed in action in World War II. Mrs. Glen Henness', son, Keith, Mrs. Clare Henness and Kandee Lee spent the day recently in Dallas at the home of Mrs. Roy Taylor. Sunday visitors at the Norman Garrison home were Mr. and Mrs. Orville Vogt and daughter, Susie, of Albany^ The Gates volunteer fire department responded to a call, Thursday, from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ball. Sparks from a chimney fire had started to ignite shingles and rafters of the roof over the kitchen. The blaze was soon extinguished and a large hole in the roof was the only damage, George Mielke, Union oil dealer, has sold his business here to Stanley Chance of Mill City. Chance has been assistant at the station since last summer. Mr. and Mis. Mielke will continue to live in Gates. Portland guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Varcoe, Sunday, were her mother, Mrs. Rose Stewart, Joe Marriage and daughter, Sharron and Darrell Green. (Continued from Page 2) only be too happy to spend this one thousand dollars in his establishment. Though when I do enter his store I look to him like just another house wife, let him not forget that I hold a trusted position for I have been chosen as the guardian of my family’s food dollar and I fully intend that it will buy true food values plus cheerful service and courtesy. Signed, ELSIE (Complete name withheld by request.) Dear Editor: The voters turned out like an angry nest of hornets last Friday night to keep their school. Seems like the people of Idanha are very determined and I will say that about Detroit also. Well so far they have their school, but someone, somewhere will think up something, and try to take it away. I am staying on the sidelines, one way or another. I am glad the moth ers don’t have to send their kiddies to another city to go to school, and I am also sorry the other side didn’t get what they wanted. There are two sides to every story............ I would not like to go up and down Baldock hill either. I call it “suicide grade”, for a person is taking his life in his own hands when they go up or down it. I was supposed to have heart trouble, but now I know all the doctors were wrong. When one can stand the “thrill” of Baldock hill one does not have heart trouble........... Its the kids I think about, the kids alone. They are our responsibility They are the future citizens of our fair land. W’hile their elders fight and squabble about who and where they are to go to school. They mast stay on the sidelines, then must do what was decided upon by the ma jority............ Did I vote? Yes, bat no one knows which way, and never will. That is my privilege as an American citizen to have my vote kept secret. If it isn’t I might as well move to Russia. RUTH JOHNSON, Idanha, Ore. WEDDING ANNOI N< ' MOTTS AND INVITATIONS at The Mill City Enterprise Innside Cafe IN THE DAWES BLDG. Open for Business UNDER MANAGEMENT OF Mrs. Luella Mulligan REGULAR CAFE SERVICE AND SHORT ORDERS OPEN f 4 p.m. to I a.m. Cl E 00 T | * Geo. Mielke ANNOUNCES Gates Union Station April I. 1952 Stanley Chance X oncrete When You Want It I HAVE PURI BASED THE REDI-MIX CONCRETE PLANT IN MILL CITY. WE WILL DELIVER ANY« WHERE WHEN YOU WANT IT A. T. Barnhardt, Builder GATES. ORE. I WISH TO THANK MY MANY FRIENDS FOR THEIR PAST PATRONAGE AND ASSURE THEM CONTINUED COURTEOUS AND EFFICIENT SERVICE BY THE NEW General Contracting ô* Redi-Mix Concrete MAN AGEMENT OF MR. ( HANCE. 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