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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1953)
Editorial The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE February 19, 1953 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE lust Arrived... both these problems—while memory is fresh and public resentment is high. Constitutional amendments would A DAUGHTER—To Mr. and Mrs. Entered an second-cl*«« matter November 10, 1 944 at the poet office at To eastern Oregon and Idaho where be required, of course, but there is Mill City, Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1M79. K. J. Nolin, Route 1, Lyons, Feb. 18, light and power rates are 100 per cent time for effective action before the at Salem General hospital. higher than they are in the down CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: One insertion for 50c or three for »1.00. next presidential election. stream cities we should worry that The Enterprise will not be responsible for more than one incorrect in A SON—To Mr. «nd Mrs. John L. Gallup polls indicate that 73 per sertion. Errors in advertising should be reported immediately. Display customers of a number of conscience Toepher, Idanha, Feb. 18, at Salem cent of the people favor a nation-wide Po ’ . itiial Advertising 75c inch. Advertising 45c column inch. less utilities in those parts are pulling preferential primary system that Memorial hospital. the wool over the eyes of thousands A SON — To Mr. and Mrs. Jack NATION al editorial would take nominations out of back NIWSPAMR of users of what used to be cheap Schultz, Mill City, Feb. 17, at Salem rooms and place them in the hands § oc 5"3 n k P U • 11 Í H m S northwest power. Yet, with some of Memorial hospital. of the people. our own people already the victim of -^ASSOCIATION Senators Kefauver of Tennessee, A SON—To Mr. and Mrs. Michael similar boldness on the part of util Smathers of Florida and Douglas of . Schwindt, Lyons, Feb. 16, at Salem ities, advancing rates well ahead of Illinois and others have been advo Memorial hospital. ’THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.’ the expected political change, it is cating a universal primary amend —George Pur am. A SON—To Mr. and Mrs. Clifford well to look into the coast rate in- ment providing compulsory preferen Hicks, Lyons, February 14, at Salem crease. tial primaries in every state in June Memorial hospital. When water in the rivers became of presidential election years. Each low due to adverse weather and to A SON—To Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert party in each state would be entitled Wagner, Mehama, Feb. 14, at Salem NO FOOLING lack of high storage dams upstream, February is an under-estimated to the same number of nominating Memorial hospital. dams like the new Yale private project ! It lacks the stature of its votes as the total number of senators By BARRY BINGHAM became actually idle and Bonneville month. President, Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal and Times brothers and sisters. In cold climes and representatives it has. Persons generators cut back their output. As consequence, private utilities were it often seems to represent the con having a majortiy of votes in each In Louisville recently, a cancer patient whose disease a compelled to fire up their steam centrated essence of coldness. People party would be the nominees. was in an advanced stage decided to try a new type of plants. Immediately the companies sometimes get impatient with it, as its Several proposals have been either operation. The adrenal glands were removed by surgery, paraded to Salem and obtained per widening days seem to belie the neces- for abolishment of our archaic elec system or for modifying and the patient is now greatly improved. The surgeon mission from the administration there stiy for its staying so determinedly it toral to college eliminate the winner-take-all winterish. They want to hurry it up, to raise rates 20 per cent due to the who developed and performed this delicate operation was “added cost of steam.” This week, the brisk but stubborn little month, provision which disfranchises large a young Chinese. with northwest rainfall bringing in so that March may roar in and open , 1 segments of voters in the various | states and makes possible the election In Korea, the breaking down of race barriers occurs the generators again, steam is being the way for the first crocus. YOUR every day. A white soldier is rescued from a shell crater cut back. But not the rates. The Yet there are hard, cold, glittering , ' of presidential candidates with less a popular majority. by a Negro. A Frenchman fights side by side with a boy companies now say that “it will be at days in February that are not to be , than AUTHORIZED Direct election of presidential and sneezed at. Everything seems bright least the middle of next summer ” be from Kansas who could not understand a word he might one I vice presidential candidates is fore they will have recovered the and clear, everything seems small and DEALER say. Theirs is the brotherhood of common danger. I money put out to pay for steam-gen merry, like a Pieter Breughel skating . possibility. Retention of the electoral Brotherhood is something like faith. Religious faith erated power. The state public util scene. There is fire as well as ice in college system, but with proportional, FOR is a concept most of us honor, but which we neglect ities commissioner complied and his the air, and if anyone complains that rather than state by state voting by is another. Either proposal during the ordinary hours of our lives. Then comes a office predicted there would be “no it is bitterly cold we may remind him electors is preferable to the existing system crisis. Our life is threatened, or the life of somebody early end to the 20 per cent sur- that it need not be: the bitterness is which places a premium on accident in him and not in the cold. February ” we love. Our lips begin to form unaccustomed prayers charge. Let’s look at the subterfuge and is like that; it calls for precise defi and fraud and places too much power that pour straight up from the heart. ‘i* claw away the wool. nitions. (Thus it risks the calculated in splinter parties. It is the same way with brotherhood. We are glad First, the private utilities are nut audacity of a 29th day every now and We’ve suffered long enough under our nuseemly and deal-ridden conven POWtR CHAIN SAWS to acknowledge that we are our brother’s keeper, and he the but end in this situation. 1 For then to bring the calendar into accord tion system and our ridiculous and with the sun.) about 13 years they have chosen to is ours, when danger sharpens our sense of common cause. Phone 1652 power upon the basis of just April may display more girlish hazardous electorial college system. I Yet the common cause is always there. If we are all buy such an interruption as now has wiles and guiles, but February (de I Each is a symptom of political im-, 24-HOUR SERVICE brothers on the field of battle or in the operating room, happened. The reason they buy that spite the paper lace fripperies of St. 1 maturity and a road-block to majority rule. — From Oregon Journal. we are brothers in the plain surroundings of our daily kind of power is that they buy it Valentine’s Day) is nobody’s fool.— cheaper—an average of 2.36 mills From Christian Science Monitor. Jives. wie«?« Let’s not put faith and brotherhood up on a shelf, to per kwh compared with 2.80 mills ARCHAIC ELECTION SYSTEM paid for by a number of cities and 1288 STATE ST SALEM, ORE. Ph. 3-6489 be reached for in an emergency. Let’s use them every other The 83rd Congress recently went day. They should not be associated with death or the power. agencies which buy firm through the farcical ceremony of can- threat of death. They are really the elixir of life. The saving by their preferred rate vassing the electoral vote and declar- has totalled an estimated $12 million >n$r Eisenhower and Nixon duly dollars yet they had been charging elected president and vice president, customers rates in excess of that re- respectively, of these United States, quired had the utilities been buying The action surprised no one,changed 3 firm power. In other words, the con- nothing. It merely confirmed the sumers have already paid for firm already fairly well established rumor power, the companies wasted this rev- that Eisenhower beat Stevenson last YOUNG EASTERN OREGON HEREFORD enue and in addition benefitted by a November 4. INSPECTED FOR YOUR PROTECTION ! We hope, however, that it did some- 3 $12 million savings in their wholesale But the very moment thing more than waste precious time ' » power costs. they faced the facts of their inter for members of the house and senate, ruptible agreements, they neither had ; We hope that it demonstrated to the Round, T-Bone or Rib, lb. layed away the surcharge nor the sav- American people the absordity of our ing and ran to Salem for an imme- [ outmoded electoral college system— diate relief from steam generation much as television demonstrated the which was already a part of their' phony nature and bad taste of our operation. Not only did they run to ( national convention system of nomi- Salem but they are also running to nating our presidential and vice presi- | « the propaganda machine and telling dential candidates. We hope that the 83rd Congress, the public that the whole system ought Heart or Tongue, lb. to stand the cost of steam—not ju>t in its wisdom, will do something about tt the private utilities. Yet the system has stood the cost of firm power al ready — through the 2.80-mill rate which is higher than the private util- j Sliced Liver, lb. ities pay, and through the loss of sys-1 tern revenue because the private util ities get a cheaper rate. The costs of the steam plants, by the way, are Arm Cut. Blade or Rump, lb. , usually already written off the books. This is not an argument for public Don t let dUBcult breathing, coughing power, but we think it is as fine an and wheeling, due to recurring spasms ot example of the merit of the federal I Bronchial Asthma or simple Bronchitis your sleep and energy without trying power development as has happened j ruin MENDACO. Works through your blood to Front Quarter Half or Whole Hind Quarter help loosen and remove thick, strangling since the projects were begun. The mucus Thus usually allays coughing which permits freer breathing and sounder sleep. second point we want to make, how MENDACO under money back guar I ever, is that the rate increases clearly I Get antee at druggists. MILL CITY. OREGON THAT SI R( HARGE LETS EXAMINE THE FACTS DON PETERSON, Publisher Brotherhood and Faith Are Every-day Words define the great value of the poten tial power in Hells Canyon—stored power. If Hells Canyon project pow er cost more than Yale or Oxbow or any other it would be better power, At less cost it is double the value because it is the very logical substi- tute for the costly steam standby. While producing more firm power on its own than any other low dams in the same area its great contribution is the water it can release to thirsty generators downstream. The “unseen” cost of low-dam folly has been stripped bare of its disguise. Low dams mean high rates—on the coast as well as in Idaho and eastern Oregon.—From Baker Record-Courier. Auto Supply M c C ulloch Randall’s FINE MEATS Special Beef Prices Beef Steak 59c Fresh Hamburger 39 Young Beef MILL CITY MEAT MARKET Young Beef Quality Meats and Groceries Beef Roasts FOOD LOCKERS ASTHMA COUGHS FROZEN FOODS 39c 39c LOCKER BEEF REPAIR YOUR CAR NOW PAY LATER From Major Motor Repairs to Body and Fender Work. You can have this work done now by using (Alt ’s Famous Budget Plan Nothing Down! 12 Months to Pay! ' our only Requirement is a Good Equity in your Car, Plus steady employment. 1x4 us keep your car or truck rolling Me offer complete automotive service at competitive prices. I 4 c GENE TEAGUE CHEVROLET Sales and Service Your Local Chevrolet Dealer Stayton. Ore. -(