SPORTS PAGE Mill City Trounces Timberwolves Roll Gates Pirates 73-49 Over St. Paul 56-45 The Mill Cijy Timberwolves earned their sixth Marion “B” victory last Tuesday night, January 13. They trounced the Gates Pirates, 73 to 49. The game was fairly close until halfway through the second quarter when Mill City started pulling away. Klton Gregory and Dick Kanoff led the Timberwolves with 15 and 14 points respectively. Korney scored 16 points for Gates. The scores at the < nd of the quarters were: 16-13, 35-22, 57-33, and 73-49, with Mill City ahead id! the way. The Mill City junior varsity dumped the Gates junior varsity 52 to 25. Emerson of Mill City and Larson of Gates each made 16 points. Mill City (73) (49) Gates (16) Romey F Ward (11) (7) Bates Chase (10) F (12) Beamish Gregory (15) C (10) Haun G Kanoff (14) (2) Devine Hoffman (9)’ G Subs: Mill City—Brewer (6), Carey (6), Melting (2); Gates—Vail (2). Officials: Grove and Zito. First Home Loan To Korean Serviceman The Mill City Timberwolves rolled to a 56 to 45 win over the St. Psul Buckaroos in a Marion County “B” League basketball game last Friday, January 9. The Timberwolves were definitely not in their best form and the Buckarooe kept close all the time up until the last quarter. Mill City had a 25 to 17 half-time advantage but at the very start of the second half St. Paul rallied to tie the score. They ran close for a while and then Mill City pulled away to make a short 39 to 33 lead at the end of the third quarter. Mill City’s Roy Chase high-lighted the game with 27 points. G. Smith of St. Paul was next with 18 points. The Mill City junior varsity slaughtered St. Paul’s JV’s 61 to 17. LeRoy Emerson was top scorer for Mill City with 16 points. High for St. Paul was Ted Rambeau with 8 points. Mill City had 17 to 7 at the end of the first quarter. At half-time Mill City had stretched to 29 to 14. In the third quarter Mill City held St. Paul scoreless while they made 22 points to make the score 54 to 14 at the end of the third quarter. (45) St. Paul Mill City (56) (18) G. Smith Ward (10) F (2) Wolf Chase (27) F C (2) Van Damme Gregory (8) G (11) S. Smith Kanoff (3) G (2) Merten Hoffman Substitutes: Mill City—Brewer (3), Misner (1), Carey (4), Verbeck, and Melting. St. Paul—Bearhorst (10), Kirsch, and Rambeau. Officials: Mull and Dimit. The first home loan to a Korean ex- aerviceman under the recently amend­ ed state veterans loan act has just been completed, the Oregon Depart­ ment of Veterans’ Affairs announced recently. The recipient was Edward B. Low ■of Portland, who received the maxi­ mum loan of $6,000 to purchase a home at 2214 NE. 10th avenue. Originally limited to World War II ; tered service or who reside in Oregon veterans, the four percent home and for two years or more following dis­ farm loan program was extended by charge. World War II veterans to be en- voters in the November general elec­ tion to veterans of service since the I titled must have been Oregon resi- ' dents when they entered service or start of Korean hostilities. Low was a student at the Univer­ have lived in Oregon for two years sity of Oregon when he enlisted in between date of discharge and Dec. the regular army in 1948. He was 31, 1950. There is no deadline for applying. discharged in October, 1950, as a pri­ vate first class, after service in the medical corps with American occupa­ tion forces in Japan. Born and reared in Portland, he is presently employed as a photo copy operator in the Mult- i nomah county court house, microfilm­ ing public documents. Gross income from farm market­ The Oregon veterans’ loan program ings in Linn county in 1952 totaled started in 1945. More than 9,000 $19,804,000, a drop of 4.8 percent from World War II veterans have borrowed 1951, according to estimates released nearly $40,000,000 under the program today by County Exeension Agent O. through the state Department of Vet­ E. Mikesell. erans' Affairs. The principal reasons for an over­ The recent amendment to the act all decrease were lower prices for live­ makes the program available to vet­ stock and seed crops and a decline in erans of 90 days or more of service turkey numbers. Coupled with the anywhere since June 25, 1950, who lower gross incoces, says Mikesell, is were Oregon residents when they en- a decline in net return to farmers be- cause of higher costs of purchased items and increased taxes, interest « Tax Consultant /Auditor rates and labor. Linn county continues to lead the state in the production of seed crops. The value of 1952 seed crops was $4,- I PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT 90(1,000 which is the county’s number Bookkeeping, Accounting and J one source of income. Principal seed crops are common ryegrass, perennial ryegrass and alta fescue. Of the total gross income, 41.23% is from animal sources and 58.77% from crop sources. It is usually con­ sidered ideal to have agricultural in­ Tax Service ] come evenly divided between the two sources from a soil conserving stand­ Corner 3rd & Marion point. The establishment and utili­ STAYTON. ORE. zation of pastures, says Mikesell, is Telephone 1111 P.O. Box 1321 J having a tendency to more equally annnnnia&nsnisnnnHtiBnnnnnnDt balance the two figures. Mill City Edges Scio Stayton Shufflers Leading League Loggers 60 to 54 The Mill City Timberwolves had to work hard to win their basketball game last Wednesday night, January 14. They won a close one from the Scio Loggers, 60 to 54. The Timberwolves couldn’t seem to get rolling and at the end of the first quarter, the score was tied up 11 to 11. At halftime Scio had pulled to a 26 to 23 lead. Mill City warmed up somewhat in the second half, though and pulled ahead to a 45-41 lead at the end of the third quarter. In the forth quarter Mill City kept their ad­ vantage and won the game 60-54. Don Gibson of Scio scored 15 points for high point man and he was fol­ lowed close by Roy Chase, Elton Greg­ ory, and Bill Hoffman, all of Mill City, with 14, 13, and 12 points re- spectively. Mill City (60) (54) Scio F Ward (11) (7) Lee (5) Jacobson Chase (14) F Gregory (13) C (12) Schrunk Kanoff (9) G (15) Gibson Hoffman (12) G (9) Bryan Substitutes: Mill City—Carey (1), Verbeck, Brewer, Misner, Melting; Scio—O’Reilly (5), Comer (1), Ny­ quist, Arnold, and Greenly. Officials: Anderson and Norton. The Mill City junior varsity fell to the Scio JVs, 47 to 39, in the prelim­ inary game. 3,100 CHAPTERS IN POLIO FIGHT The National Foundation for Infan­ tile Paralysis has 3,100 chapters serv­ ing every county in the United States, plus Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone and the Virgin Islands. These chapters use March of Dimes funds to pay treatment costs in whole or in part for every polio patient who cannot foot the bills unaided. Davies tavern team of Stayton now heads the roll of success in the cur­ rent shuffleboard battle that is being waged in the North Santiam canyon. Davies leads by one point. This one point is the bare margin in points that Davies holds over Mill City tavern. The Lake of Detroit is third. A new shuffleboard team has been injected into league play and fills the gap left by Richard’s tavern of Gates. The newcomers are called “Rocky’s” and hail from Scio. Sunday they played and lost their first game which was against Jerry’s best. Rocky's, one point, Jerry’s three. Rocky’s play Mill City tavern this coming Sunday. Mill City tavern shuffleboarders thanked their lucky stars when Nick Rich drove from Portland to The Lake in Detroit for a big Friday night shuffle game. Rich led tht? Mill City tavern shufflers to victory over The Lakers. The score was three points for Mill City and one point for The Lake in tournament totals. Rich and "Toots" Blazek, his partner, are re­ ported as playing a “sharp game". Other tussles over the shuffleboards Friday ended with Davies downing Spillway completely, four to nothing; Lyons taking Cedars, three to one; Meander Inn over Maples, three to one; and Falls of Sublimity trounced Ken & Del’s of Turner, four to zero. January 15, 1953 4—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY BASKETBALL StTILDI LE: Jan. 20—Sublimity Jan. 23—OSD, there Jan. 27—Detroit, there Jan. 30—Gervais Feb. 3—Jefferson Feb. 6—Chemawa, there Feb. 20—St. Paul Feb. 13—Gates, there Feb. 17—Sublimity, there Feb. 27—OSD For Guaranteed Cleaning it’s the NU METHOD 24-HOUR SERVICE Mill City Close« at 6 P.M. JOIN THE M ARC H OF DIMES Randall’s FINE MEATS Most respirator patients under 20 years of age are boys while the ma­ jority of patients between 20 and 39 are women. All receive some form of March of Dimes help. MEETING NOTICE For January 1953 Mill City Lodge No. 180, A.F. & A.M. The appearance of new born lambs Mon., Jan. 19—Stated 8:00 p.m.— throughout the county is a reminder Mill City Night; regular business; that ewes should be tagged, says O. refreshment committee—T. Baugh­ E. Mikesell, county extension agent. man, Ivan Smith. Removing all excess wool from the Mon., Jan. 26—Special 7:30 p.m.— udder makes it possible for the lamb . F. C. M.; refreshment committee— to nurse easily.. Charles French. i/te. Û3K -tfiSft a¿¿ LOCKER BEEF Front Quarter 2912c Ib eœiïètn&ids a/jotâ/ Gross Farm Income in Linn County Down \ W. N. SIMMONS i “Suffered 7 years -then I found Pazo brings amazing relief!” s