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
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MILL CITY
DETROIT
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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.
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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)
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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