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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1952)
Canyon Avenue Parade T he MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Serving: MILL CITY DETROIT ELKHORN GATES IDANH \ LYONS Ml HAMA MONGOLD By DON PETERSON I was given an opportunity last ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — GATEW AY TO THE HEART OE NATI RE’S EMPIRE Tuesday evening after sitting through two hours of school board meeting to check certain records of the local | Vol. VIII—No. 20 $2.50 a Year. |()t- a Copy MILL CITY. OREGON. Till RSDAY. MAY 15. 1952 school board pertaining to financial, transactions. However, the opportun ity was not made easy, by the pres ence of seasoned hecklers. In the near future I shall try to make a study of information taken from the records and report more completely at a later date. « « « It was called to my attention today that several trees in the Mill City park are showing signs of disease infesta tion. The park board will have to | look into the matter and see what can be done to save the trees that The last Parent-Teacher meeting of are not infected. Apparently they the year was held May 14 and proved are infected with the black beetle that to be a very interesting and informa was discussed in last week’s Enter tive meeting. It was opened by Mrs. prise. It is hoped that our park James O’Leary, president, and the trees can be saved without destroy Explorer Scouts presented the Flags, ing the whole grove. after which a series of committee re • * « ports and announcements were heard- When one listens to Fulton Lewis The report everyone was anxious to Jr. over the Mutual network, one hear was about the PTA sponsored needs a dozen handkerchiefs to dry show “Navajo”, Mrs. Veness stated the tears he incites his listeners to that the profit from all showings tot- shed. I begin to think that the Big a led $128.40. It showed to a total of Steel companies are about to go broke 762 students from Mtri-Linn, Gates, unless they get an immediate rise in and Detroit-Idanha ~ as well as Mill the price of steel. I am about" ready City. Considering that the film is to sit dow-n and write my congress new and therefore more expensive man (if we had one) and ask him to than has usually been shown for PTA help the poor suffering steel com shows it was felt by all present that panies, until I remember the size of the $1118.40 was very good. the profits they made last year and Mrs. Harry Dyhrman reported that the year before that and all the 12 all records have now been received by past years, which totals 3,290.1 mil the rooms who have won the atten lions of dollars, or an average of dance counts. The grade school room 274.17 millions. These figures are all mothers are busy making arrange AFTER taxes are paid. In 1951 the ments for the picnics the last week 20 Big Steel companies made AFTER of school. Mrs. Terry’s 5th grada taxes $596,000,000 of profits. The 20 l room and the high school, seniors woa companies could hire 119,200 men at the attendance count for the last meet $5,000 per year with that figure. It ing. would appear that a very substantial1 Mrs. Edith Mason invited every on» rise could be paid without the neces-. to look at the new trophy case in the sity of rising prices one cent. high school hall opposite the office, * * * which has just been completed. If that theory had been put into Mrs. O’Leary reported that the visit practice a long time ago, we would, ing day for students entering school not now be faced with the spiralling^ next year was very successful and of wages and prices and the workers there are plans being made to have would be happy to go along and hold 1 each first grader and high school the line in the price spiralling pat FISHERMEN ( ANT BE TOO CAREFUL WITH FIRE TN THE FOREST. ONE FIRE. STARTED freshman have a physical examination, tern. Isn’t it about time that we back just before school begins in the falL our President in his efforts to hold! BY A CARELESSLY DROPPED CIGARET OR A ('AMPFIRE LEFT UNTENDED CAN DESTROY The board also decided to wait until prices down? But Fulton Lewis Jr. A FOREST. GOOD FISHERMEN ARE GOOD WOODSMEN, TOO. THEY’RE ALWAYS CARE fall before doing anything about the prefers to call the President “the little, FUL WITH FIRE BECAUSE THEY KNOW GREEN FORESTS AND FISHING GO TOGETHER. audio system which was discussed at man” in the White House. ; the last meeting. What I wonder is how much does I Charles Harman made a brief re the Mutual net svork get paid by Big > port on the Cub Scout activities. The Steel to keep men of the ilk and strip, next pack meeting will be a ball game of Lewis on their payrolls? When ; —weather permitting. The practice will the Mutual nut men like Frank, Friday, May 16. is primary elec sessions on Wednesdays have all Edwards on the network? No, they tion day in Oregon. Mill City vot rained out so far but they hope next never will unless the laboring boys I ers are divided into two distinct St. Paul Rodeo association will Post-election day pep-’er-upper is week will be better wetther. dig deep in their pockets to finance | groups. One group lives in Linn hold its annual Trail Ride June 1, Mrs. Charles Harman invited all the time for him. Big Steel is spend- I county and one group in Marion and invitations have gone to members ! the food sale slated Saturday, May j present to attend the Camp Fire cere ing fabulous sums to lull the public j county. The North Santiam river of more than 70 posses and riding J 17, by the ladies of this community I monial in the high school Friday eve to sleep so that Steel can get another , divides the two. clubs in western Oregon and south , for the benefit of neater Fairview and ning, May 16. rise and thus push their profits into ____ _____ ___ _ Those living in Linn county, or It was decided to transfer the spon new astronomical heights, then the' morrow’s Oregon primary election south of the river, will vote in the western Washington, John McKillip ¡Fox Valley cemeteries. This domes and Lester Kirk, co-chairman of the tic offering takes place in the Mill sorship of the Boy Scouts to the San price of refrigerators and automobiles, could be disqualified because of com- Mill City Presbyterian church rec event, announced. City Presbyterian church recreation tiam Lions club. They have expressed can again take another price hike in mon voter-errors, if the experiences reation room. Voters on the Marion a willingness to take them and it was The Trail Ride is one of several room. order to “keep up”. j in previous state elections is any county side of Mill City, or those equestrian social events scheduled Pie, cake and coffee will be served felt it might be easier to get the mea * * * criterion. north of the rivet, will vote in the When will Oregon wake up and This cautionary word came today union hall upstairs in the Dawes prior to the 17th annual St. Pau) on the scene. The sale begins at 10 to help. However, the PTA will con Rodeo, which will be held July 3. 4 a.m. and continues until the place is tinue to sponsor the Cub Scouts. send Congressmen to W ashington who from the state headquarters of Reg Mrs. Roger Nelson reported a very sold out. Proceeds raised from the will help the administration hold the ¡ster anj yote, jnc. of Oregon, in i building across the street from the and 5. Mill City Furniture and the bank. Before the riders start on their food sale will be equally divided be interesting PTA convention at Pendle price line? Oregon is entitled to send i pornan(j. annual Trail Ride, they will breakfast tween the Fairview and Fox Valley ton. It was attended by 768 delegates four congressmen and two senators, Listed as the “most frequent” er- which was unusually large. Also there at the St, Paul city hall from 8 a.m. cemetery associations. we have only one who really earns j rors were erasure; drawing lines were many interesting speeches and to 10 a.m. The public is also invited his keep, and that is Senator Wayne through, or underlining, candidates' study sessions which were of value to to the breakfast. Morse. Fred Viesko. Van Weider, Robin Day, The real fault lies with the voters names; voting for more candidates Highlight of the Trail Ride will Claude Smith, John Smith, Car) all parents—as well as PTA workers. Mill City was honored by having who have been lax in the use of their than are indicated, and writing in be the selection of the rodeo’s queen Kirsch, Bill Robins, Chuck Westlin, names without placing an X before ballots, they have neglected to go to them. and court during a picnic style lunch John McKillip Jr., George Bernard. one of their senior students awarded the PTA scholarship this year. Bur the polls many times wben they could , Besides McKillip and Kirk, mem Donald Coleman, Maurice Merten, ton Boroughs presented the scholar Oregon bonus checks totaling some have elected men who would representI The announcement of Register and ship and a lovely corsage to Miss Do them. j Vote, Inc., suggested that, instead of $27,170,000 will be paid to more than bers of the Trail Ride committee are Jesse Manegre and Pete Kirk. * * * erasing, the voter invalidate his X 65,000 World War II veterans or their lores Poole. This scholarship consists of $125.06 a year. Mr. Boroughs re Senator Kefauver is going to get hy circling it; or he or she may ask next of kin during the month of July, “JOE BEAVER" By Ed Nofziger ported a large number of scholarships the Oregon Democrat’s votes tomor- ^or a new ballot, Bonus Supervisor H. C. Saalfeld of won by Mill City seniors this year. row as we go to the polls. He is a ! Voters may vote for fewer candi- Vernon Todd reported on improve good candidate and if he gets the j dates than the number indicated at the state Department of Veterans’ Affairs estimated today. ments and accomplishments of the last nomination at the Chicago convention the top of each section of the ballot, That was the number and amount year and plans for the summer and he will be elected in November over the announcement said. However, if fall. Among the improvements wera any candidate the Republicans should more than the indicated number are of bonus claims which the veterans’ curtains for the high school audito decide to nominate. In fact any voted for. this part of the ballot will department figures will be approved by July 1, the date when bonus pay rium and new equipment for the shop, Democrat can and will win the elec be invalidated. which was very badly needed. He tion this fall. The Republicans have Write-in candidates are legally- ments will commence. Saalfeld said pointed out the lighting on the athletic deteriorated so badly that they cannot counted if the name of the candidate all veterans whose applications have field and gave Mr. Boroughs a great hope to ever elect a president with the is placed in the proper space and pre been approved by that date will re ceive their bonus payments in July. deal of credit for accomplishing this old guard attempting to force such ceded by an X. very expensive but worth while proj- Veterans are not being notified that men as Taft on the public. Officials of R i V—which is made * • • ect. Also the athletic field and the up of 200 influential organizations their claims have been approved. Only play _ ground has been improved by Governor Warren is the only Re throughout the state—urged that vot those veterans whose applications are some 1800 yards of top soil to cover publican candidate in the field with ers be prepared to cast their ballots disapproved will be so informed. Less up the rocks. There are a new tennis a chance to win the election in Novem intelligently. It was recommended than 400 letters of disallowal have court, back stops and play ground ber. and nearly everyone knows that that they put to good use their Voters been issued so far. equipment, as well as the new build« he can’t get to first base in his cam-| I Pamphlets and the sample ballots The bonus pays $10 for each month ings. paign to win nomination unless he is [ generally available at polling places an Oregon veteran spent in state-side During the summer they hope to willing to sell out to the gang that ' 1 —which will open and close on stand service and $15 for each month of move the house which is now on the is always ready to sell the country ard time. foreign or sea duty during World school property and fence the athletic short to such corporations as Big Steel | The Voters Pamphlet, produced and War II, provided the veteran was a field. The home economic room is te d Anaconda Copper, and that group , . distributed at a cost of six cents per bona fide resident of the state for one be remodeled. This is a much needed who are always seeking special priv- , copy for the purpose of voter en year or more prior to his active duty. improvement as nothing has been done iliges to milk the people. lightenment, is the cheapest textbook The maximum payment is $600, • • • in this department since 1924. Also j in the state”, the announcement who Next of kin of Oregon men the high school shop is to be moved General Eisenhower is a good man , ’ quoted David O'Hara as saying. died in service are entitled to the to the present play room which will but who believes he can make Big $«oo maximum. If a veteran died eliminate much of the noise and con Steel be satisfied with $125 million MR. AND MRS. JAMES GRANT since his discharge, the eligible sur- fusion in the main building. The dollars profit as they got in 1939? ANNOUNCE ARRIVAL OF SON vivor is entitled to the amount the grade school is to have the cracks or $186 million in 1945? No, he can’t veteran would be paid had he lived. filled and be redecorated and some do it any more than I can do it with 1 Mr. and Mrs. James L Grant (Paula Eligible survivors include the unre improvements made in the shower congressmen such as Oregon sends to! Jane Y’anBuskirk) have announced i rooms to meet state requirements, A Washington. With a Democratic con- , the birth of a son. born May 1. The married wife, the surviving children, section of the play ground is to be gress Eisenhower might be all right., baby has been named James Anthony and the surviving parents, in that hard surfaced so the children can be but no one expects that kind of good and weighed * pounds 8 ounces. Grand order. ! moved off the sidewalks for soma of To date slightly more than 80.000 Forwrt Service. V. 8 Department of Affr(culture fortune for him if he should get parents are Mrs. Cloyd Cox of Mill ' their activities. elected. My prediction js that Taft City, Paul Van Buskirk of Camp Sher veteran« have applied for the b< > dua « In the field of accomplishments he is going to be the Republican nominee man and E. Grant of White Salmon, but the department estimates that Us free formers ore connected with the doiry business, foo. We pointed out that the athletic trama in Chicago this July, and very likely- Eddie Tumidge of Mill City is great another 60,000 or so still may file keep you supplied with high energy wood molosses." (Continued on Page 2) grandfather. before the December 1 deadline. on the first ballot. Oh. well, who cares what I think . anyway, let’s all go out and vote for the man we think is the best tomor- j row and then work to help that mao ' do a good job! PTA Hears Reports Wednesday Voter-Errors Listed As Big Hindrance Friday Flection Day St. Paul Rodeo Trail Food Sale Boosts Ride Set For June 1 Cemetery Cause Vet Bonus Checks Issued This July Cemetery Benefit Food Sale-Sat., May 17,10 a.m. Recreation Room