Canyon
Avenue
Parade
By DON PETERSON
Welcome visitors!
Saturday the Mill City Chamber of
Commerce will take on the job of
helping to entertain the many visitors
who will come to look at the Detroit
dam during the open house festivities.
The Corps of Engineers and CBI per
sonnel will be on hand to conduct the
visitors through the mammoth block
of concrete known as Detroit dam.
Coffee and donuts Kill be on the
counter for all comers.
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J. C. ‘Doc’ Kimmel this week started
construction on a new home for his
drug business on the lot across from
Jenkins hardware.
He plans on a
one-story building 30x68 made of light
blocks. Plans call for the building
ready for occupancy about the first of
December.
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The Parent-Teachers association is
looking for competent help to conduct
a kindergarten this year.
If you
know of someone or if you are inter
ested you are urged to call Mrs. Roger
Nelson at 1957.
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At the invitation of the Oregon
Journal I was one of the Oregon pub
lishers who was in Portland to hear
and meet Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson
last Monday at the Benson hotel
luncheon. I am glad I was able to
be present and hear him deliver his
address. Governor Stevenson demon
strated a remarkable ability to hold
his audience’s attention and get his
point over. I think many of the edi
tors present began to realize in some
small measure how true the criticism
levelled at the press was.
The Oregon press is no different
than any other gro^p of newspaper
men throughout the country.
The
editors of one state are pretty much
like the editors of another state.
I think most of the editors of the
state were present and I hope many
of them will have the conscience to
realize the truth of the criticism the
governor gave them when he pointed
out the dangers of a 1-party press in
a 2-party country or state when he
said, “A free society means a society
based on free competition and there
is no t.ioi J irwportant competition than
competition in ideas, competition in
opinion. This form of competition is
essential to the preservation of a free
press.
Indeed, I think the press
should set an example to the nation
in opposition to uniformity.”
I have published his entire speech
elsewhere in this issue, it would be
worth a little time to ponder some of
the thoughts therein expressed and we
might then ask the question of why
so many newspapers in Oregon and
all the other states of the nation are
so quickly found on the side of money
interests rather than the side of the
little people of their communities.
Perhaps the answer lies in the fact
that the newspapers find it most prof
itable to be Republican in its editorials
along with the rest of “main street”
in every town and city in the country.
Better Rural Library
Facilities Needed
T he MILL CITY s
ENTERPRISE *
ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — GATEWAY TO THE HEART OF NATURE’S EMPIRE
Vol. VIII—No. 37
MILL CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1952
$2.50 a Year, JQf a Copy
Open House
Saturday At
Detroit Dam
AU Oregon, especially res
idents of the central Will
amette valley, and the San
tiam canyon, will be given
an opportunity to inspect
Detroit ’dam on the North
Santiam river on Saturday,
Sept. 13, when the Corps of
Engineers throws the nearly
completed project open to
the public.
Increased Truck Bloodmobile Visit
Taxes Saves To Gates Sept. 19
Operating Costs
The Bloodmobile visits Gates, Fri-
| day, Sept. 19, 2 to 6 n.m. standard
i time, at Gates high school gym, ac-
I ’ording to Mrs. Ed Chance, chairman
Increased taxes which commercial for the North Santiam Canyon area,
| Lyons to Idanha. Some 150 pints for
truckers are asked to pay under the
the blood bank are sought on this trip
1951 legislature's bill which the truck I to the canyon. This same blood bank
ers have referred are “an investment will serve the new Santiam Memorial
in the roads which they use for profit” I hospital now being erected.
according to Charles A. Sprague,
Not only is blood being solicited by
former governor, who heads the Goou j the Bloodmobile but also those re-
Roads Alliance which is fighting the I freshing things, coffee and donuts,
truckers. In the debate before the states Mrs. Chance.
Portland City club, the following ex
Mrs. Bernice Gordon is chairman of
ample was cited:
! the reception committee for the blood
“On a 72,000 pound gasoline truck ‘ donors. Mrs. Bertha Baltimore is do-
making the round trip, Portland to l nating her time to the cause as typist.
Prineville, the increase in rates was 1 Mrs. Amos Roten, Mrs. Louise Arm-
15*i mills (a cent and a half) per I strong, Pat and Bob Wingo will serve
mile. On the 296 miles round trip on the canyon’s nursing staff. Dis
this amounts to $4.59 per trip.
pensing the donuts and coffee to North
“The Warm Springs route saves 82 Santiam blood donors will be Mrs.
miles per round trip compared with Wm. Tickle.
The Red Cross acts as a collection
the old Wapinitia. Figuring 5 miles
to a gallon of gas, the saving in gas agency for blood. It does not ad
consumption alone would pay the $4.59 minister transfusions. It distributes
additional tax—not counting the sav
ings in time, wages wear and teat
on trucks which would be pure gravy.”
The referendum on the 1951 tax bill
has saved the truckers more than $2.-
000,000, and cost the state, its cities
and its counties a corresponding loss
in highway funds. Speaking for the
truckers, former Utilities Commis
sioner George Flagg declared that
savings due to new and improved roau
construction are passed on to the
public in lower freight rates. He
was asked if any part of the $2,000.-
000 has been passed on in lower rates.
He said that a large part had been
absorbed in a million dollar wage in
crease to truck employees.
It was then pointed out that truck
freight rates have been increased ap
proximately 25% in the last year and
that one of the major trucking com
panies. Consolidated Freight ways, has
just announced an increase of its
quarterly dividend from 25c to 30e
a share.
“Linn county schools need a county
library,” says Mrs. Cyrus McCormick,
chairman of the county rural school
board, who has long been an advocate
of better library facilities for our
rural residents.
The article by Mrs. McCormick
which follows was written at the re
quest of the county committee which
has presented a series in the interest
of undertsanding the county library,
and is particularly timely coming at
the beginning of a new school year:
“School days are here again, and
all over the county little six-year-olds
are leaving home on one of life’s great
adventures: learning to read -an open
door to the wisdom of the past and
the understanding of the present.
"What will they find to help them
Much
when they arrive at school?
better equipment, better trained teach
ers, nicer buildings, more attractive
textbooks, more comfortable seats,
better lighting than ever before: and
certainly more companions — maybe
even over-crowding and a teacher with
too little time.
"With so much, why a library? Don’t
the children have books enough? Any
teacher will tell you that if a child
learns to read and like it, he has gone
a great way on his educational jour
ney. If for any reason he does not
leam to read well in the first few
grades, he will be limited for the rest
of his school life and often because
of failures in lessons and grades be
comes a PROBLEM child.
“There is no hundred per cent sure
A SON—To Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
fire way of teaching read ng to a
group of children with varied inter- Schroeder, Gates. Sept. 9, at Salem
Memorial hospital.
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Just Arrived...
Col. Thomas H. Lipscomb, Portland
district engineer, said open house
would be in order from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. and that 25 Corps of Engineers
employees and 15 Consolidated Build
ers, Inc., officials would be on hand
to conduct visitors on a tour of the
concrete dam and the powerhouse at
its base, about 10 miles east of Mill
City.
Tours will be under the supervision
of Harry W. Rutherford, acting resi-
I dent engineer, and S. R. Overholser,
former resident engineer and now res-
■ ident engineer at Lookout Point dam.
The Mill City chawiber of commerce
1 will serve coffee and donuts in the
powerhouse at the conclusion of tours.
Pouring of concrete for the dam is
' virtually completed although the dam
and reservoir will not be completed
until sometime next year.
First
power from the $70,000,000 unit in the
Corps of Engineers’ Willamette Valley
! project is anticipated early in 1953.
It will be the first dam in the Will
amette A’alley project to produce pow-
' er, approximately 100,000 kiloWatts,
since Fem Ridge, Cottage Grove, and
| Dorena dams are for flood control al
most exclusively.
Currently under construction also
(Photo courtesy The Oregonian, Portland)
and about three miles downstream
from Detroit dam is Big Cliff re-reg-
ulating reservoir. Part of the Detroit
project, it also will produce power,
approximately 18,000 kilowatts, and
will regulate the stream discharges
Joe Podrabsky's Jersey cow has of Detroit dam.
Miss Daisy Hendricson entered Sa
The Detroit project is a unit in the
lem Memorail hospital Saturday after stirred Mill City citizens. She did it
noon for x-rays and observation. She this way. Some 100 days before the plan for development of the water re
underwent surgery Wednesday morn date of the birth of her first off-spring sources of the Willamette Basin in the
ing of this week. Miss Hendricson is she began giving edible milk. This interest of flood control, power de
proprietor of Hendricsons’ dry goods two-year old cow calved for the first velopment, irrigation, navigation, pol
time Monday, this week.
She has lution abatement and other multiple
store in Mill City.
Recently Miss Hendricson under been giving an average of three gal uses.
went examination and x-raying. A lons of milk per day for the last 100
turn for the worse prompted Wednes- days, according to Podrabsky.
rays surgery. Standing by are Mr.
Podrabsky's neighbors discounted
and Mrs. Ellis Hendricson of San his story of his heifer giving milk,
Leandro, Calif. Mrs. John Swan is before she calved, by saying that she
in charge of the Mill City dry goods must have lost her calf and he had
store during the illness of Miss Hend no knowledge of it. The arrival of a
ricson.
very-much-alive heifer calf proves
Voters must be registered for the
Miss Hendricson’s many friends are Podrabsky was right. Agriculture of- fall election by October 4th according
wishing her speedy recovery.
; ficials of Oregon State college at Cor to H. C. Mattson. Marion county clerk.
vallis were also "Doubting Thomases”. Voters may register at The Enterprise
College officials stated that they office, Chuck’s Shoe Shop or with
whole blood or plasma to military and
civilian hospitals. In military hospi had heard of young heifers giving milk Mrs. C. M. Cline in Mill City and Dick
tals the blood is given to patients only before calving, but not in the quantity Parker in Gates.
by military medical personnel with and for the length of time Podrabsky’s
Registration for the fall election
Podrabsky believes that will close on the 4th of October. This
out charge.
In civilian hospitals cow did.
charges may be made by hospital of | something of a record has been set is the last date which a registrar will
ficials for professional services, but i by his Jersey cow of registered an- be able to register anyone that desires
I cestry.
not for blood.
to vote in the fall election.
It is not necessary for one to re
register unless they have failed to
vote within the two-year period. In
other words if one voted ir. either the
primary or general election in 1950
their card is still good. Also if one
was registered for the primary elec
tion of this year he is still registered.
Daisy Hendricson
Taken To Hospital
M il City Cow Makes
Startling Record
Photos show two views within the new Detroit dam to be open to public inspection this Saturday. \t left two
huge hydraulic cylinder- stand astride the horizontal passageway.
Either may be used to open or clone the
regulating valves controlling the flow of water through the dam. At right is «boon stairway that runs from
the top to bottom of the dam. extends as a passageway across the bottom, and then returns to the top on the
opposite side. Later an elevator will be installed for the convenience of visitors and workmen.
< Photos courtesy Capital Journal and Robert Veness)
Registration
Closes Oct. 4
Detroit Clubs Plan
Community Center
By MRS. 8. T. MOORE
Detroit—The Detroit Women’s Civic
club vote<> to join with the Canyon
■ Community club is purchasing and
moving to a donated lot the former
North Santiam Tavern building with
plans for developing it for a commu
nity center. The decision was reached
at a special meeting called Monday
night at the home of Mrs. Otis White,
club president.
Action upon the plan hinges on the
■iecision of the Community club which
meets this week.
A committee acting for the Civic
i club, including Mrs. Earl layman,
Mrs. Ear) Parker, Raympnd Sophy and
Harry Rutherford was appointed at
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