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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1952)
October 9. 1952 4—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE I were: Donna Nelson, editor; Dorothy ' Downer, business manager; Beryl Mason, sales; Sharon Galagher, Carol By RICHARD LOVEL Jane Blazek and Robert Keyes, adver Last Thursday night, previous to tising; Pat Brown, features; Lyle the football game with Gervais the Fleetwood, history; Joan Johnson and next night, the students of Mill City Betty Cree, typists; Dorothy Steinfelt high school paraded through the and Rose Fleming, art; sports: Richard streets in a demonstration of spirit. Lovel, football, Bob Stettner, basket They livened up the town with then ball, Dale Andreassen, track and base songs and yells. Afterwards they ball. A student body meeting was held ■went over to the big field in front of the high school and built a big bonfire last Wednesday afternoon and Mr. A. E. Nesbitt introduces this year’s Teen ■which could be seen all over town. The student body has started work Canteen to the students. He proposed <jn the annual this year by organizing that there be dances on a Saturday the staff. The ones who volunteered night every month. The student body accepted this and chose the officers for it. They are: Thomas Kanoff, president; Brooks Crosier, vice presi dent; Donna Ellingson, secretary, Geraldine Hamblin, treasurer, and Donald Nesbitt, sargant-at-arms. The theatres are using At this meeting Evangelist Law the Council of Churches rence Baird performed some entertain to have you vote three ing magic tricks. twenty “SEX!” A lot The Chess club met and Mr. Chaney, of us are too old for the advisor was very pleased with that so please leave us the attendance and the enthusiasm of the horses and grey the students that came. hounds. The Timberwolves will play their third league game at Jefferson tomor Vote 327 X NO! row, Friday. OSWALD WEST* Next week the students are plan * Ex-Governor. Temperance Advo ning on another pep rally and they cate. Senior Oregon Statesman. have been promised the band. Alsa Pd. Pol. Adv. by Oswald West Russ Kelly promised the use of his y truck to carry the “noise”. This will ■ Mill City Hi-Liles To the Public SPORTS PAGE Timberwolves, Saints Meet Friday, Oct. 17 Mill City Gervais Game Ends in Tie By RICHARD LOVEL The Mill City Timberwolves’ second league football game of the season, on October 3, ended in a deadlock with By RICHARD LOVEL the Gervais Cougars. The Timber The Mill City Timberwolves meet wolves are yet undefeated and have the St. Boniface Saints from Sub- a good chance to go all the way in limity for the second home football the league and get a chance at the They game on the Timberwolf schedule. coveted state championship. have won two non-league games and The game will be on Friday night, they trampe dover Chemawa for their October 17, at Allen field. first league win. The game with The Saints edged the Gervais Cou- I , Gervais as played last Friday night gars, last year’s champions, 6 to 0 on the local field and it was a thrilling earlier in the season and, since the one in which every fan got his money’s Timberwolves came out with a 13 to worth. 13 tie with the Cougars here two The first half of the game was an weeks ago, this game looks like an j up and down the field battle in which even match. The last time Mill City neither side scored. But in the third beat the Saints was in 1949, 20 to 6, I quarter Lyle Fleetwood of the Timber and the year after that they tied 6 < wolves established himself as the hero to 6. Since then Mill City has lost of the game by running 53 yards for all their games with St. Boniface. a touchdown. Then, as if one such This year the Timberwolves are out spectacular run was not enough, Fleet for revenge and with this spirit, which wood ran 60 yards for a second touch both teams have plenty of, they should down. The first conversion was not play a thrilling ball game with plenty made but the second was scored by a of fast action on both sides. pass from Bill Hoffman to Evart Brewer. In the fourth quarter Fleetwood be for the second big football game hurt his leg and had to leave the game. with St. Boniface high school. MnwnBnmBHHRHBODDnDaoooanKMaannrattoDaQnBnBennuaoaKSHnonnanDaaa Start in the Band NOW Ö BÖ BaaaABBÄi I KENT AN INSTRUMENT Try before You Buy «Ert-Ät NEW BEGINNERS BANDS ARE STARTINC NOW IN MILL CITY, GATES and DETROIT See Your School Band Director Wills Music Store SALEM, OREGON This American farmer knows how much his farm «Factor means to him in keeping his farm plant in operation. The purchase of three er more $100 U. S. Defense Bonds a year will take care of the annual depreciation on most farm tractors. This means the farmer will have money on hand to buy a new tractor when he needs it. His money is not only earning interest, but is safe and accessible In case of farm or family emergencies. Start a farm machinery replacement plan. Invest in safe, dependable U. S. Defense Bonds. Be Sure You Get the Deal CHEVROLET Though the injury was not serious it I The final score was 13 to 13. evidently had its effect on the spirits The outstanding defensive lineman of the rest of the Timberwolves be- for the Timberwolves as c osen "y cause the Cougars smashed through Coach Burton Boroughs and Jim Ha e the line for first down after first down, for this game was Jack Melting. Lyle The Timberwolf line could not hold Fleetwood’s defense was the most ra the attack and before the final gun markable of the Mill City backfield, the Gervais boys drove over twice for | The Mill City high school student touchdowns. They failed on the first body appreciates the splendid turnout conversion but scored on the second. I for the game. ______________ THE REPUBLICAN MESS 1921 -1933 And How The Democratic Party Cleaned Things Up WHEN GOP WAS IN Republicans are offering us a new broom. The last time they rode a new broom into Washington, in 1921, they used it to sweep up every loose dollar of the taxpayers’ money that was available for easy stealing, There was nothing petty about this Republican thievery. Oil barons paid $404,000 in bribes to Harding’s Seer» tary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, and he handed them leases to the rich naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyo., and Elk Hills, Calif.—the oil men expecting to pick up $100 million profit on each tract. A Democrat, Tom Walsh of Montana, led the senate investigation that sent Fall and Oik man Harry F. Sinclair to jail. GOP Milks Veterans Bureau A crony of President Harding, Col. Charles R. Forbes, was given the job of organizing the Veterans Bureau. Forbes fattened his purse on the gen erosities of hospital builders, who blithely milked the taxpayers to the tune of some $200 million. Forbes eventually ran off to Europe, and on his return went to prison for two years. An Ohio influence peddler who had engineered the “smoke-filled-room” nomination of Senator Harding for the presidency, Harry M. Daugherty, was made attorney general. He quickly transformed the department into a beehive of boodlers. Serving under him as Alien Property Custodian, Col. Thomas W. Miller collected an esti mated $3X6,000 (allegedly split with Daugherty and others) in return fot accepting a shaky claim by European claimants for $7 million—the value of a German firm seized and sold by the government. Miller, brought to book, was given an 18-month sentenca Daugherty, declining to testify in his own defense, twice drew a hung jury. In bis brother’s bank was found $40,- 000 worth of the bonds used in pay ment of the $7 million. ‘ I Concentrated Robbery’ Daugherty lived with a mysterious unemployed friend, Jess Smith, who burned his papers and shot himself when hemmed in by an accumulation of rumors about big deals with boot leggers (for permits to withdraw 1» quor legally for “medicinal purposes”) and with seekers of jobs, pardons and assorted other items available at a price on the Daugherty-Smith notion« counter. Investigations of certain monopoliet and of over-payments on war con tracts were mysteriously dropped by the Department of Justice. The Fed eral Bureau of Investigation, a unit of the department, was required tt shadow critics of Daugherty, and to dig up smear material against three United States Senators. Frederick Lewis Allen, historian and editor, has written that “the Harding Administration was responsible in it« short two years and five months fol more concentrated robbery and rascal ity than any other in the whole history of the Federal government.” THE CHANGE WAS FAST There is a stunning contrast be tween the advent of the Ohio Gang in Washington in 1921, on the one hand, and the famous Hundred Days that followed the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. In those grim days of ’33, when FDR took over a frightened govern, ment from the baffled and frustrated Hoover, there was nothing like the sudden descent in 1921 of the hordes of sleazy buyers and sellers of publie favors. The waves of new arrivals in Washington presented a collective face that was far different from that of the Harding camp followers with their booze-and-poker parties at the Little Green House on K Street. Righting the Social Wrongs Suddenly the Capital was awash with bright young faces, and bright older faces—the “brain trusters” peo ple who had divined from Roosevelt’s campaign that here was a chance to right some of the social wrongs that had been allowed by the Republicans to accumulate untended. The office lights of the new officials burned late as these devoted Democrats fought against time to prepare legislation that would put flesh on the bones of FDR's niogram, and to compound th» strategies that would see these bills through Congress, and to organize and staff the new agencies set up to cope with current crises and long-term problems as well. There was a breath-taking quality about those Hundred Days, and it was as different from the atmosphere of 1921 as daylight from dark. To be sure, there were false starts, there were mistakes—but there was action. And action was what 1933 demanded. Republicans, sulking as the Democrat« brought order out of what had been close to chaos, presently found strength to mock the “professors,” “That Man,” and so on—but they also began to eat better. The Democratic Record You can look long and hard, but you won’t find any Teapot Domes in the record of twenty years of Demo cratic tenure. This is not to claim that every last member of the gow emment service has been clean as a whistle. There have been investig» tions and there have been scandals— and the scandals have been cleaned up when discovered. The other day Sec retary of Treasury Snyder revealed that out of some 58,000 employes of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, 103 had been fired during the year ending last June 30 for accepting bribes or gratuities, for embezzling, for failure to pay proper taxes themselves, or for falsifying records. That figures out at less than six-tenths of one per cent of the Bureau’s payroll. 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