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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1952)
3—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Knowledge is Power October 9. 1952 Adlai E. Stevenson by Noel F. Busch 111 — A Vacation From Law School ST. CATHERINE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY CHURCH CHURCH, MILL CITY Full Gospel Preaching Mass at 9 am. every Sunday. Sunday school 10 a.m. Confessions heard before Mass. Morning worship 11 a.m. Rev. Maurice Grammond, Pastor Evangelistic service 7:30 p.m. * « • Prayer meeting Tuesdays 10 a.m. to OUR LADY OF LOURDES PARISH 3 p.m. Preaching services Wednesday and Jordan, Oregon Mass: 1st, 2nd, and 5th Sunday at Friday S p.m. Rev. Lee M. Joiner, Pastor 8:30 a.m. • • * Mass: 3d and 4th Sunday 10:30 a.m. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Bernard Neuman, SDS, Pastor Mill City • • * Sunday School 9:45 a.m. ST. PATRICK’S PARISH Morning worship 11:00 a.m. Lyons, Oregon Music by choir. Mass: 1st, 2nd, and 5th Sunday at Young people 6:00 p.m. 10:30 a.m. Evening services 7:30 p.f. Mass: 3rd and 4th Sunday 8:30 a m. Midweek services Wed. 7:30 p.m. (1) Baron von Steuben, the man who turned the raw re Rev. Bernard Neuman, SDS, Pastor Mehama cruits of the revolutionary war into an effective army, was • * * Morning worship 9:45 a.m. an imposter. Benjamin Franklin and four other men brought LYONS METHODIST CHURCH Sunday School 10:45 a.m. von Steuben to our shores, and presented him as one of the Church school at 9:45 a.m. Midweek services, Thursday 7:30. leading generals of Frederick the Great’s army, so that he Worship service at 11 a. m. Rev. Noble Streeter, Pastor • * • would be placed in charge of the Evening service at 8 p.m. training of American soldiers. their children’s teeth for the Choir at morning service. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Actually, a Milwaukee Journal same purpose. A Parents’ Maga Choir practice at 7 p.m. Thursday. 3rd and Juniper, Mil) City 1 article reveals, von Steuben had zine article on fluorine cites the Rinke R. Feenstra, Pastor Sunday 11 a.m. been only a captain in Frederick's experience of 121 communities in • « • Wednesday meeting 4th Wed. 8 pm. I army, and was not the nobleman 43 states where fluorine has been » » • ‘ SANTIAM CHAPEL he pretended to be. Franklin used in the water supply. ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH Lyons, Ore. Opponents of fluorine state that knew that only a European gen- Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday school 9:45 a.m. I eral would have a chance of get it is a poison. This is true, but Morning Worship 11 a.m. Morning worship 11:00 a.m. ting anywhere in the American so is iodine in your diet, chlorine Young People’s service Tuesday in water, and salt on your break army at that time. Young People’s service 7:15 p.m. night at 7:30 p.m. General or no general, von fast egg—if you get too much of Evening worship 7:45 p.m. Evening service 7:30 p.m. Steuben was an expert drill them. Prayer meeting every Friday 7:30 p. Prayer meeting and Bible study, (3) Americans spend $125 mil master. After historians had ac Luster Young, Pastor | Thursday at 8 p.m. cepted the original hoax as fact lion a year on people who “read” * * * Rev. W. D. Turnbull, Pastor for more than a century, John cards and palms, gaze into crystal L.D.S. of JESUS CHRIST CHURCH McAuley Palmer, a retired gen balls or engage in astrology. Detroit eral, did the research in Prussian More than a dozen astrology mag Sunday school each Sunday 10 a.m , archives which revealed von azines are published in the U. S., in high school building, Detroit. Steuben’s true background. Pal- and the five leaders boast a cir Priesthood meeting 11 a.m. The Lyons Afternoon card club held I mer ranked von Steuben second culation of more than a million Zealand Fryer, Presiding I its first party beginning the winter in importance only to George readers. Mrs. George W. Young • * * ling, who tried fortunetelling for Washington. series, with Mrs. Arthur Olmstead as FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH (2) By introduction of fluo a lark, writes about her experi hostess at the Rebekah hall. Sunday school 9:45 a.m. rine into the community water ences in McCall’s magazine. She A dessert luncheon was served, fol Morning worship 10:55 a.m. supply, tooth decay in children mentions a man in Los Angeles lowed by several tables of 500. High Young Peoples meeting 6:30 p.m. under 13 years old may be re who earns $20,000 a year draw ■ score was held by Mrs. Bob Free, sec Evening Services 7:30 p.m. duced by as much as two-thirds, ing horoscopes for dogs. Wed., 7:30 p.m. Bible study hour ond went to Mrs. Orville Downing, and Articles in the September the U. S. Public Health service Mr. Hugh Jull, Pastor reports. Many parents have den Catholic Digest provided infor Mrs. Floyd Bassett held the low score. * * * tists apply fluorine directly to mation for this feature. Attending the party were Mesdames IDANHA COMMUNITY CHURCH Herman Free. Earl Allen, Pat Lyons, Sunday school 10 a.m. ; Chester Roy, Bert Lyons, Chester Roy, Morning service 11 a.m. ing several days at the home of her Alice Huber was her daughter and > Oscar Naue, Ear) Helemn, Kenneth Evening service 7:00 p.m. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bodeker, husband, Mr. and Mrs. George Keeley Thursday prayer meeting 7:30 p.m Helemn, Bob Free, Floyd Bassett, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Kath- of Portland. They also visited at the Inez Ring and the hostess Mrs. Olm Bob Unger, Pastor i ryn and Tommy spent the weekend Don Huber home. * * * stead. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jungwirth, DETROIT CHRISTIAN CHURCH Mrs. Norman Johnson and sons ’ at Cove Junction, where they visited Dickie and Gayle, moved Saturday to Kenny, who is in school. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Chris and Curt, of Salem, are spend- The Preaching at 11 a.m. by James Mrs. Claire Humphries and daugh their now home in Stayton. Stock, minister. ter, Judy, from Myrtle Creek spent Jungwirths have resided the last 10 Youth meeting at 2:30 each Sun the weekend in Lyons with her par years in Lyons. Shaving Is Slicker- Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hampton, Doug day afternoon. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Johnston, car * * • las and Margo Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Nor Blade Changing Quicker ing for her mother who is ill, while GATES COMMUNITY CHURCH man Johnson, Chris and Curt of Salem, the Hugh Johnstons were away. OF CHRIST Mrs. Pat Lyons is spending several and Elmer Hiatt of Lyons were Sun Sunday school at 9:4o a.m. Morning worship 11 a.m. days at the home of her daughter and day dinner guests at the home of Lorer R. Swanson, Pastor family, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Taylor at Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bodeker. The oc « * * IN HANDY DISPENSER < Taylor’s Landing near Waldport. She casion honored the birthday anniver FREE METHODIST CHURCH j will assist Mrs. Taylor while Taylor is sary of Mr. Bodeker. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Burmester have North Mill City I away hunting. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. returned home after spending some The mills in Lyons are closing down Morning worship 11 a.m. time at the home of her parents, Mr. Friday for a week ’ s vacation to do Evening service 7:30 p.m. and Mrs. William Beran on Roger repair work and give the employes a Wednesday prayer meeting 7:30 pm mountain near Scio, while the Berana chance to go hunting. Phone 1906. were on vacation. Sunday guests at the home of Mrs Rev. C. R. Brewer, Pastor Glen Phelps celebrated his fifth birthday anniversary with a lawn party Oct. 2, when his mother, Mrs. Jim Phelps, entertained. Those win- ning prizes were Kathleen Duggan, Nikki Cruson, Zoe Ann Bridges, and Dennis Huber. Those honoring Glen were Sandra Duggan, Nikki Cruson, Kathleen Duggan, Marilyn Hargin, Karen Rodich, Donna Huber, Zoe Ann Bridges, Jean Phelps, Dennis Huber, Larry Lyons, Allen Fromherz, Ned Karnoff, Stevie Power, Paul Aronson, Jackie Phelps, and Mrs. Phelps^ A cake decorated red and white, red coolade and ice cream was served. Wayne Bass from Oceanside, Calif., is visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bass. His mother met him at Eureka, Calif., where they visited relatives before coming to Lyons. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bassett and son, Cecil, and Miss Sally Studnick were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnston and family at Culver. Mrs. Paul Gerath and Mrs. Keith Zimmerman «Ae called to Salem by by the serious illness of their father. LYONS ^Gillette BLUE BLADES Built to stay built Hvtl-HgM Comtnxtion FvH-Cird« Visibility Throughout this Ford’s rugged con struction you'll find quality. 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When Stevenson wrote to tell his father of the new turn his career had taken, Lewis Ste venson failed to cooperate He re plied that if Stevenscn did not report back on time to attend Har vard Law School, someone would come to fetch him. At Harvard Law School, Steven son got passing marks but, unlike the later generation of embryo New Dealers who sat mesmerized by the pedagogic wizardry of the great Felix Frankfurter, he never met Frankfurter and never put his heart in it. Stevenson did take a couple of years vacation from law school and spent them on the family news paper, the Bloomington, Illinois, Pantagraph, in various editorial ca pacities. Then he decided to finish up his law course and, having i all- again. He was told to come back the next morning This continued for four weeks during which Ste venson passed his afternoons in less monotonous fashion He lived in a house run by two middle aged Quaker ladies which was also a favorite meeting place for mem bers of the correspondents’ colony Stevenson roamed abcut town with them and called on surviving rela tives qf some White Russian emi gres whom he had known in Chi cago. His appointment with Chicherin was never forthcoming. After a month of daily calls at the Foreign Office, he left without it but with a twenty-five year start on many of his later colleagues in the diplo matic world, insofar as intimate, first-hand knowledge of Soviet Rus sia was concerned. When Stevenson returned to Chi cago in 1927, he joined the city's oldest law firm. Cutting, Moore and Sidley. Under the pressure of new circumstances, his conscience, always reasonably clear, now be gan to shine like a mirror. He worked a sixty hour, forty-dollar week, and his personality expand cd, prompting him to take a lively part in the lively social doings of the era. Ellen Borden was one of the most eminently marriageable, as well as one of the most attrac- en a year behind his classmates who had already graduated from Harvard, he entered the law school at Northwestern university and took his degree there in 1926. His cousin, Loring Merwin, still runs the Pantagraph along independent Republican lines. Stevenson still owns roughly twenty-five percent of the company but resigned as a director and vice-president after being elected Governor. Expanding His Horizon After completing his formal schooling, Stevenson decided to have a last look at Europe before settling down to practice law in Chicago. Starting with Switzer land, he covered most of the beat en tracks from Scandinavia to the toe of Italy. He wanted to go some where new, and hit on Russia. In order to effect an entry, Stevenson got Hearst INS and Pantagraph cre dentials as a foreign correspondent. Having arrived in Moscow, where the first thing he noticed were homeless children fighting to lick the cobblestones where someone had spilled some jam, Stevenson picsented himself at the Foreign Office and explained that he wished to interview Finance Min ister Chicherin on the subject of the then highly controversial New Economic Policy He was told to come back the next morning. The next morning he presented himself five young ladies on the Chicago social scene. Her wedding to Ste venson in December 1928 was one of the top events of that Chicago season. Divorce The causes of the Stevensons’ divorce in 1949, while somewhat puzzling, appear to derive chiefly from incompatibility due to in creasingly divergent interests. Mrs. Stevenson's tastes lie in the world of art and literature. No other pen sons, and no scandal whatsoever, affected the legal proceedings. Ste venson, who opposes divorce gen erally, was shocked and saddened but not surprised. The divorce, ac companied by a substantial settle ment, was handled without rancor or undue publicity. It bad been preceded by twenty years of ap parently happy marriage. One of Stevenson’s father's close friends had been George Peek who, in 1933, was called to Wash ington to organize the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Adlai Stevenson, like millions of other Americans, had been deeply stirred by Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural address in 1933. Knowing the De pression better than most people, he wanted to do something to help cure it if he could. When Peek asked him to come to Washington to render legal aid to the rapidly expandin*- AAA, Stevenson re sponded promptly. To be continued All Building Supply Needs AT Kelly Lumber Sales NEW RETAIL LOCATION: East City Limits on Highway 222 Phone 3215 MILL CITY IKBCXßOC): X XMDCMlflXKWWäflXW