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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1953)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE DON PETERSON, Publisher CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for $1.00. The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display I-...---- Advertising 45c column inch. Pr'.itKal Advertising 75c inch. NATIONAL EDITORIAL as ' soc Î ati 'Ô n NEWSPAPER \ PUBLISHERS X ASSOCIATION Mrs. Harriet M. Reid Editorial Comments ELECTION CHANGES PROPOSED The suggestion which County Clerk Henry Mattson makes that sample ballots be mailed out to each regis tered voter seems a very sensible one. Being confronted with a bedsheet bal lot like the last one, “raw” without previous inspection, is enough to con found the voter. There is nothing like getting hold of a sample ballot and studying it in the quiet of one’s home, with the voters' pamphlet at hand, and recommendations from such authorities as the voter puts confi dence in. True, this is done now by the more earnest citizens. And some voters take along to the polls the sam ple ballot some one has marked for them as a guide in voting. But there is no assurance that all the voters have samples. Clerk Mattson reports that at the last election some ten thousand more sample ballots were printed than there are voters in the county. That, how- ever, should not be counted a dead loss. When groups meet for discus sion sample ballots are quite essen tial; and even if every voter received a ballot through the mail there still would be need for a liberal supply for use during the campaign period. The extra cost of the printing is of little consequence if the ballots help voters to mark their ballots more intelli gently. A recommendation of the County Clerks' association is that the old requirement of posting election not ices be abandoned. This seepns sen sible, for the people are deluged with information about coming elections through newspapers, radio, circulars, and personal appeals to get out and The going from our midst of Mrs. Harriet M. Reid saddens the hearts of those who knew the gallant lady. Mrs. Reid spent a large part of her life in the mid-west. She had the steady courage and vital vision of those who live from year to year in the temperamental climate of the mid-west. Mill City and the North Santiam Canyon is much better off because the last part of her life here. She, with her doctor husband, devoted the equal of a full life to easing the physical pain and suffering of the citi zens of this area. The once isolated nature of this com munity demanded that medical care be close at hand. The Reids came and threw their whole beings into th** task of giving help to those who worked the mill and logged the great trees. Being keenly aware of the vital needs of the North Santiam Canyon, the Reids dreamed of a hospital in Mill City. Finally the dream went on the drawing boards and soon thereafter became a neat little building erected near the Reid home. Into this building was fitted things that meant a new era of medical care for the community. All the time when this was coming about, the vitality of Dr. Reid was rapidly draining away, his wonderful little wife and his son, Dr.' John W., carried on his work. Those who so wanted better things for Mill City and worked so hard for it in the end could not themselves bring it about as they had hoped. Their very fine medical building still stands and still is in use. Dr. John W. Reid continues giving Mill City the medical care his father gave it. Dr. Reid uses the good, sound building built by his parents over KPOJ, Portland, at 10:15 for his patients. Here he gives emergency aid. From (Heard p.m., Monday through Friday) this important center in Mill City, the injured and sick receive first aid. I recently took part in Operation Christmas in North Carolina, dis In the day of poor roads and poorer transportation, tributing presents to the orphans of these are still vivid in the memories of those in the North that state by the 9th Air Force heli Santiam Canyon, there was no medical center in Mill City. copter. I received this letter from Today there is such a center. Not only can citizens get Glen Mills, Pa.: "Mr. Edwards: If you emergency care quickly, but a few minutes away is a new want to go all out for those young hospital, Santiam Memorial hospital, in Stayton. The sters, and empty the orphans’ homes, just find some way to make the chil load that the Reids carried for so long and so faithfully dren available for adoption. Don’t would have been much lighter had these great improve demand that the adoptive parents be ments existed during the time they rendered great serv young. Don't require them to have a ices to this community. Perhaps Mrs. Reid would be college education, or that they be alive today had her life been an easier one such as would wealthy. Those things are all nice, they are not at all important, not be possible were time rolled back and today’s advances but more than love and security. We retained. want a chance to adopt a little girl. Mrs. Reid lived a useful life. Her work pointed the I guarantee that she will be better right direction. Greater care for those injured, more off in our home here on a small farm peace of mind for loved ones ill and positive programs for in Pennsylvania than in an orphans' Time after time we have tried prevention of disease are no longer a very dear thing and home. to adopt one, but to no avail. We only for the few. The citizens of the entire canyon can own our farm. We are church mem enjoy them. These came about in large measure because bers and members of the PTA, and of the vision and hard work of Mrs. Harriet Reid. San we have no debts. The orphanages tiam Memorial hospital is, in a way, a monument erected are full of children who need homes, we can’t get them because of the to Mrs. Reid, a person long associated with the care of but restrictions. Surely there is one little the sick and injured. girl somewhere that could come -and FRANK EDWARDS Says: Salem Heavy Hauling & Equipment Co 1405 N. Front St. SALEM, ORE. Salem Phones: 2-1924; Night 2 4117 Lyons Phone: 143 HAULING AND MOVING HEAVY MACHINERY and Mill Equipment Up To 25 Tons Including DR ■ nd IIDU Cats, and ’«-yard shovels. Complete Rigging Oirtfit, Winch Trucks, Low-bed Trailers : :• : i ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Open Elimination Tournament Every Sunday 3 p.m. live with us and be our own. Signed: Mr. and Mrs. B. M. C., Glen Mills, Pa.” » * * 1953 should see some very interest ing development in the world-wide effoits to identify the mysterious ob jects called flying saucers. They are known to be faster than any jet plane. They have been seen hy hundreds of extremely competent and reliable per sons, including both military and I civilian observers, They have been photographed on color film by at least one American military officer, whose films are in Washington right now. What are they? What do they come from? The answer to these questions con stitutes one of the biggest news stories of all time, and it is taking shape, slowly but surely. EVERYONE WELCOME MEANDER INN On Highway 222, Linn County Side MILL CITY Shuffleboard George "Sparkv” Dittrr %-Debunfcer BY JOHN HARVEY FURBAY PH D paint wont stop wood FROAA ROTTING 159 Good Music Kelly Lumber Sales NEW RETAIL LOCATION: East City Limits on Highway Phone 3215 MILL CITY Linn County Formers Union Quarterly Convention Mill City Auto Supply YOUR AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR M c C ulloch THE COMMERCIAL BOOK STORE OFFICE NEEDS Mondays and Fridays Are DOUBLE United Trading Stamp Days Jack's Richfield Service On Hiway 222, in East Mill City MILL CITY Forest Products Near $2 Billion Oregon and Washington forest pro duct industries produced nearly $2 billion worth of products in 1952, ac cording to W. D. Hagenstein, chief forester, Industrial Forestry associa tion, for an all-time record high in come. In a survey of forest resources of the Pacific northwest and their use, Hagenstein said this huge cash in come was about double the value of the mineral output to Pennsylvania and double the value of the corn crop to Iowa and Illinois. The forest leader said the industry in the two states gave direct employ ment to 170,000 persons and paid nearly $700,000,000 in wages. Em ployees of the forest products in dustry are among the highest paid industrial workers in the nation. He cited the great forward steps in better utilization of the forest crop as one of the most significant eco nomic developments in this two-state, timber-rich region. He said loggers were sweeping the forest floor clean in their program of “tight” utiliza tion. Re-loggers go over logged land as many as four times to salvage every bit of usable wood. Markets for marginal logs, for lum ber, plywood and pulp manufacture, were listed by Hagenstein as one of the reasons why better use can now be made of our forest resources. Good forest practices have been developed to a high degree by private forest owners in the last decade and a half. About one fourth more sound wood is iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 1111 Center St. DR. R. REYNOLDS Nat uropath-Proctologist Many people erroneously belie',• that if a board or wcxxl object be gin« to rot. an application of paint will preserve it this is bunk . AS the rotting goes right on under tl paint, unless it is entirely removed before applying the paint The same is true of painting iron ob jects that have started to rud They will continue to rust unk . the rusted part, u removed before painting coming off each acie than was pos sible ten years ago because of im proved markets for products these logs will make. Hagenstein paid high tribute to all segments of the forest industries for i their national product promotion cam- j paigns which have opened up new i markets for western woods. Good j forestry follows steady markets, he ' reported. The Linn County Farmers Union will hold its quarterly convention on Saturday, Jan. 10, beginning at 10:30 : in the morning, with a pot luck lunch- I eon at noon. The meeting will be held in the Riverview Community hall near Scio. Phone 1652 An interesting program of import ance to the family farmer has been WAIT UNTIL THERE'S SOME 24-HOUR SERVICE planned by Pres. John Shepherd and THING TO ( HEER ABOl T the executive board. Some leaders in labor’s ranks have been tossing their hats in the air in glee at the appointment of a union man, Martin P. Durkin, as the next Secretary of Labor. But it's a little too early to start cheering. Durkin SALEM faces some difficult, if not impossible 141 N. Commercial St. Phone S-4&M tasks in the new administration. As the Wall St. Journal of Dec. 30 Has Everything for Your points out, “When he tries to lift the department from the low estate to which it has fallen, he’ll find that shortages of both money and congres Furniture and Bookkeeping Supplies sional enthusiasm stand in the way. When he seeks to expand the secre tary’s power to help the workingmail, he'll find powerful groups blocking him. When he sets out to get labor and management to agree on changes in the T-H Act he’ll discover that a five-year residue of bitterness makes OF EACH WEEK the job next to impossible.” The Oregon Teamster, on Dec. 11, commented in this same vein as fol lows: “Merely the piesence of a labor career man in the cabinet is no assur ance that any benefits, real or other wise, will accrue to American work ers by the appointment.” Durkin may propose, but it will be Congress which disposes. The real test of whether or not President-elect Eisenhower intends to stand by his campaign pledges to labor can be measured by the amount AT of backing which the new administra tion will give the new Secretary of Labor in his many battles to come with congress. — From the Oregon Teamster. MOVED To Our New Office \ll Building Supply AT : vote. Few stop to read the notices anyway. Another proposal, to create a spe cial “precinct” for deposit of absentee ballots might simplify handling these ballots, but there still would be the need to record in their own precincts I the voting for precinct offices. If registration books were closed 60 days ahead of election instead of 30 that would give time for printing the bal lots and mailing them to those in distinct places in time for their re turn for the count. Unfortunately nothing was offered by the clerks for introducing mechan ical devices for counting ballot. Ore gon’s long ballot offers a problem; but surely some scheme could be worked which would do away with the laborious and often inaccurate count system now used.—From Ore gon Statesman. January 6, 1953 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Phone 3 9460 SALEM. ORE. HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII4 ASTHMA COUGHS Dan t let diScutl kraathm«. eou»hlr.< and aha»»ir< dua to racurrtn« ipaama or Bron.h.al Atthma or •imr'.a Bronchitis ruin your »leap and energy without trying MXNDACO. Wort» through your blood to help loosen and remote thick, strangling mucus Thus usual.y allays coughin« which permits freer breathing and sounder »leap Oat MfltDACO under money back guar antee al druggut» Plus DEPENDABILITY NEW STANDARDS of PERFORMANCE (Rib) Truik and Bus TIRE A proved performer for grueling .service ... the tread delivers extra low-cost mileage long after ordinary’ tires are worn out . .. cool running ... plus safety. I. RAYON CORD .. Stronger, resets damage from heat ond bruising. 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