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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1952)
Canyon Avenue Parade By DON PETERSON Tonight the city council will meet i to consider an ordinance for the pur* pose of authorizing $75,000 for street &nd drainage improvement purposes, and for submitting this ordinance to the voters for their approval or dis approval. Some weeks ago the council was ad vised in a public meeting by legal counsel that it was thought that ap proximately $40,000 would be all that the city could bond for. - However upon further study by the city attor- ney it was found that the city would be permitted to bond for $75,000, the approximate sum needed to do a com plete job of street drainage and black top paving. I believe the council is acting wise ly in their move to get the streets paved and drainage, so that street money when spent will be protected and not washed into the river during the winter rainy season. Councilman Knowles has been putting in many hours of his time to get information together and push the street program to final conclusion. Results of his fine work are being evidenced on sev eral of the streets in the central part of the ctiy and they seem to be meet ing the approval of the citizens. * * • During the past six weeks Glen Shelton, local realtor, reports the fol lowing real estate transactions have taken place as evidence that property is changing hands and that people are seeking homes in Mill City. Nor man Garrison has purchased the Olaf Haagens riverview property; Donald Farrier of Sweet Home has bought the Walter Mitchell home in Towell addi tion; Hiram Smith of Lyons has pur chased the Frank Stovall home; and Herman Mason has purchased the Warren Howe house. Mr. Mason is high school janitor. • • * The Mill City Chamber of Commerce did a fine job of entertaining at the Detroit dam open house last Satur day when the boys behind the counter served over 3,000 visitors coffee and donuts. Everyone was pleased with what they saw and many expressions of pride in the dam and power house operations being built by the Corps of Engineers for the people of this great free country was heard. It is some thing we can all be proud of that out government has the foresight to har ness rivers and at the same time con trol the flood waters of great and powerful rivers to furnish cheap pub lie power. • • a This week Mill City lost one of iti best loved citizens when Miss Daisy Hendricson passed away after a few weeks illness. Many of us will re member her as a true friends, and we will all miss her counsel and frequent visits at her dry goods store. • • • Registration closes Oct. 4 for the fall elections, and you have only a few days left in which to register. In Idanha you may register with Rilla M. Schaffer, in Gates you may register at the Gates Furniture store, in Lyons M. G. Brassfield will register you and in Mill City you may be reg istered at Chuck’s Shoe Shop, the Enterprise office or at Mrs. C. M Clines residence. Don’t delay, it is your duty and privilege in this free land of ours to vote, but you must be registered in order to cast your ballot • • • I wish to pay tribute to the honesty of several local citizens who visited the local post office Tuesday morning, including R. B. McClain of the Mt States Power company office and sev eral others whose names I do not know, who had the opportunity to pick up $6 in greenbacks and several dozen air mail stamps, which I absent-mind edly walked off and left lying there on one of the desks. Thanks. • • • The Mutual Broadcasting company's Republican "news” commentator, Ful ton Lewis Jr., seemed very perturbed today at the adverse publicity one of his favorite boys was getting in the news. The story told of the unusual trust fund set up in California for Sen. Richard Nixon in which $16.000 was spent to help Nixon conduct his office of senator, and was purportedly used for supplies and traveling ex penses. Doesn’t it seem to be going a little too far for a senator to be subsidized in this manner. Just when is this group to be paid off and how ? Another good question, is just who were they? Let that same circumstance sur round a Democrat and you will hear Lewis cry his big "blue” eyes out on the public’s ears over the air waves day after day for weeks. How often has he painted our great President Truman as a "little" man. Lewis doesn’t seem to have the intelligence to even show respect for the office of President of the United States. T he MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Serving: MILL CITY DETROIT ELKHORN G ATI ■ IDANH \ LYONS MEHAMA MONGOLD ON THE SCENIC NORTH SXNTIAM HIGH« \Y — GATE» \Y TO THE HEART OF NATURE’S EMPIRE Council Grants Operating Contract To M. S. P. Co. Councilmen of Mill City early this week contracted with Mountain States Power Co. for electric power service on a 20-year basis. A vote was taken Tuesday on the ordi nance during a special meeting of the Mill City council. According to reports, the contract entered into with Moun tain States Power company is like the one inked by Stay ton. Scouts Need Help To Build Cabin This contract for power service it not termed a franchise; and, by giving i a two-year notice. Mill City can termi Charles Kelly, Mill City's postmas nate this contract. The contract pro ter and Scoutmaster, announced this vides a kick-back to Mill City of ap week an all out effort towards con proximately three percent of the gross structing the Scouts’ new cabin in * income from Mill City of Mountain the city park Sunday, Sept. 21. State Power Co. Mountain States Mill City Lions club Monday voted Power Co. has been pressing for an they would do something about this okay on this contract for the past I Scout building. Kelly expressed the i several weeks. Tuesday’s action was i hope that the Scouts’ dads would pitch an abrupt change from the council’s in on the project also. Kelly said, ' previous handling of the problem. “Sunday, September 21st, has been de Councilman Muir had opposed the cided on as the day to get a good granting of this contract on the start. We will need a big crew to A crowd estimated at near 2,500 persons attended open house at Detroit dam on September 13. Shown are ground that citizens should not be some of the visitors at the end of their stroll across Top of the Dam boulevard, a 20 foot wide roadway that get the floor panels down and the bound in this matter by the action of (Photo courtesy Capital Journal) affords a view of both sides of Detroit dam. frame up. If possible, we want to the councilmen, but should be given get the roof on.” an opportunity to vote on the issua. Work will start at 9:00 o’clock Sun The contract given does not award day morning, and continue all day. Mountain States the exclusive right Kelly stateed, “If you can only work of serving this community. an hour or two, it will help a lot Some facts and figures on street J Come on over and help build the Scouts . paving rolled out during the council a new home.” meeting Tuesday night. Paving S.W. 4th, Evergreen to Broadway cost $2<- 5(10, paving SW. 2nd, Evergreen to Broadway, $2,022, paving an 18-foot strip between the pavement and the high school tennis court, $200; the school paid half and the city paid half All boys between the ages of 8 and of the cost of this 18-foot strip. Pav 11 will be interested to know that ing 3rd St. from highway 222 south Cub Dens will start meeting in the some 225 feet, $694.50. Along with very near future—as soon as the qijes- this flurry of streettlmprovement went tionaires sent out througlkthe school the installation of culverts for future are returned. ’■ f drainage for $21*4.18. The regulai meeting of the Mill 4 A committee meeting is bein£ called for 8 o’clock. Mill City time, Friday City council scheduled for October 1 night at the home of Bob Hill Jr. At i was postponed to October 8 because 1 this meeting it will be determined how 1 of the coming deer hunting seasoru , many boys are interested, who will ■ help with the program. Bob Hill is the new chairman in | place of Eldon Lents who has been , j transferred to Richland, Wash. Cub master Steiner has also been trans ferred and a new Cubmaster must be Miss Daisy Lora Hendricson, 71, found. Many den mothers and as- owner of Hendricson's dry goods store sistants have left or expect to leave I of Mill City, departed this life Sun shortly and replacements must be day, September 14, at 11:28 a.m. ia found. ' the Salem Memorial hospital. Miss Corps of Engineers officials who held "open house” at Detroit dam list Saturday by conducting guided tours Ken Siler, assistant cubmaster; Don [ Hendricson’s health had been grad- through the deep tunnels of the dam and out at the power house. I ictured at a dam model are some of the Jenkins, treasurer; Charlas Harman, I ually failing for some time. Her con engineers who conducted the tour (left to right) C. W. Beck, chief o' operations; H. M. Rutherford, resident and Chairman Bob Hill Jr. met at the dition turned suddenly worse just engineer; Glen Blegtn, powerhouse engineer, and Walter Mackie, project engineer, who will be in charge of the home of Bill Tickle last Friday to prior to her entering the hospital for dam after it is completed. (Photo courtesy The Statesman and Robert Veness) discuss some of the problems. the last time. Her death was at Ijist year was one of the most suo tributed to congestion resulting from l cessful Cub Scout years in the history surgery performed Wednesday, Sej> Armstrong’s School of of Mill City with about 45 young Cubs tember 10. Dancing Opening in the Pack at the end of the school Miss Hendricson, for many years year. How many Cubs have grown a kind and familiar figure in Mill Paul Armstrong, of the Armstrong • into Scouts during the summer and City’s social and business world, was By MRS. ARTHUR KRIEVER The Portland District, Corps of En- School of Dancing in Salem, recently how many have left for other fields born April 3, 1881, near Albany, Ore. returned from Hollywood, Cal., where Formerly of Mill City gineers, is offering for sale to the the committee aim sto find out soon highest bidders 20 buildings and inv he attended the National Association For some years we lived in a small and get a den mother for those left. Surviving is a brother, Ellis O. Hend of Affiliated Dance Artists of Am >r- ricson of San Ix-andro, Calif. Her provements at Camp Mongold within un-incorporated town where we saw Any boy between the ages of 8 and parents weer Omar P. Hendricson and the reservoir area of Detroit dam on with dismay what life is like for chil 11 is eligible to become a Cub Scout the North Santiam river. dren who grow up without farming and if he will tell any one of the com Mary Ella (Rideout) Hendricson. Her good reading habits because books are mittee or a last year’s cub arrang father was born near Albany August Col. Thomas H. Lipscomb, Portland 14, 1854, and died at Heppier, Nov not easily available. district engineer, said the bids would ments will be made to get him into a ember II. 1913. Her mother was born be opened in his office at 1 p.m. Sep There was the day I was called to den. near Salem September 27, 1856, and tember 25. Sales will be on an al) the yard by shrieks of rage and indig Cub Scouts are sponsored by local died in Mill City, October 19, 1937. cash basis. Items available for re nation from two little girls who howled PT A, President Mrs. Roger Nelson Mrs. Omar P. Hendricson was a resi- moval October 1 must be moved be | that the local problem boy was shoot- and institutional representative Wm. of Mill City for some 20 years. dent fore November 10. Those available I ing at birds in our tree. I explained “Bill” Tickle. i Miss Hendricson has resided in Mill for removal in January, 1953, must j to him that we were trying to lure | City since 1917. be moved by March 1, 1953. birds into our big fir. that we could Miss Hendricson spent most of her i learn more from them alive than dead Items available October 1 include life in Oregon in the cities of Albany, I and ended by telling him we had on a the following: a one-story dormitory Pendleton. Heppner, and Mill City with building consisting of four wings; a | lower branch a family of Audubon I the exception of a few years in Wash- portion of the electrical distribution warblers and on a high limb a nest j ington. She was a member of the of waxwings. system at Camp Mongold; one 35,000 Mil) City Presbyterian church, Eastern Detroit — The Detroit city council gallon Imhoff sewage treatment plant; "How do you know the names of I Star, Rebekahs and Woman’s club. took steps this week toward organiz one portion of the water system; 2,010 those birds?” he asked. | Funeral services for Miss Hendric» ing a city fire protective group. Otto feet of buried sewer pipe; one plumb “We have a book, with pictures.” Russell, councilman, is in charge of osn were conducted by Rev. Noble M. ing and electrical shop building; one “What magazine is it in?” arrangements and will appoint a fire Streeter, pastor of the Mill City Pres trailer laundry and bath house; one “No magazine. Just a book. Would byterian church, 1:30 p.m. Thursday, MISS JOSEPHINE SINGER chief and volunteer fire staff. storage shed; one open two-car gar 'you like to see it?” September 18. Mrs. Donald Sheythe, At the regular council meeting He brought back many new rou- age; one temporary motor repair shop: ica. “You mean there’s a whole book, organist, directed the music for the Tuesday evening I-ee Howland was six apartment buildings with two 3- tines and dance novelties. Miss Jose I just about birds—nothing else?” services. Graveside ceremonies in Al to act when named mayor pro tern phine Singer, Mr. Armstrong's asso room apartments upstairs and twe That there really was such a book bany were performed by the Mill City mayor, is ab- Nolan Rasnick, Detroit downstairs; and one telephone line be ciate dancing instructor, who also at —well, that he would have to see be chapter of the Eastern Star. sent. tended the convention in New York, tween Camp Mongold and the Detroit fore he would believe. He held the Interment was at the Riverside The council voted to approve a li- will through the exchange of routines, Audubon book and was simply aston Telephone company exchange. cemetery in Albany in the family plot cense designating John Cook's grocery be teaching the many novelties, be Items available January 1, 1953, in ished that there should be so big a where the deceased' father and mother clude a portion of the water system, teaching the many novelties acquired book about anything so insignificant. as a class A package store. are buried. Pallbearers were D. B. Plans have been made to map and at both conventions. supplying eight apartments in Camp He peered at the other bird books, but Hill, C. M Cline, Clyde Rogers, I .ester platt the city and to file the finding» Mongold, a portion of the electrical The Pau] Armstrong school of danc , liked Roger Tory Peterson's "Field Hathaway, I-eon Faust and Hugh with the county assessor's office. system for the eight apartments and ing meets at the Fire hall every Satur Guide to Western Birds” the best. Walkup. Nolan Rasnick is in charge of the the fire station, and the fire station, day and has become an important and This boy had an inquiring mind and Miss Hendricson'» grand-parents itself, consisting of three quonset huts exciting contribution to the activities would have been happy to have had local census taking and reported that were born in the eastern states and it will be completed this week. Prospective purchasers may inspect of the community. Many of the stud books on the many subjects growing The regular meeting date set fot the respective families crossed the the- property by contacting the resi ents of the school recently appeared children are interested in. Detroit city council meetings is the plains and settled in the Willamette dent engineer atOetroit Dam, Post in the stage revue at the Mil) City Later, when he was in serious trou- valley in the pioneer days. second Tuesday of each month. Office Box 84, Detroit. Ore. (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 5) Cub Pack 84 Meeting Friday Evening Daisy L. Hendricson Succumbs Operation Corps of Engineers Offering Buildings Books Prove Valuable For Child Education Detroit Operating Under City Council