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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1953)
Canyon Avenue Parade T he MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Serving: Mill CITY 1'1 1 ROIT ELKHORN GATES II» \ N II \ I TONS MEHAMA By DON PETERSON Gene Armstrong, our genial SP sta- | ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — GATEWAY TO THE HEART OF NATl'RE’S EMPIRE tion agent is getting the plaudits of I the spectators and players at the local 1 $2.50 a Year. ]()(• a Copy MILL CITY. OREGON. THURSDAY, JUNE IS, 1953 ball games. He has been away to I Vo). IX—No. 25 umpire's school and is serving as um- I pire for the local games this season. The players are learning the many fine points and rules of the game from Gene when he has decisions to make. He appears in full umpire’s uniform and everyone appreciates the fine showing he makes, which all goes for making a fine sport better. Mill City for the second time running will be the state • • • softball mecca. W. R. Hutcheson, softball commissioner Rumors have it that a single sash portable sawmill is to be located at the for the North Santiam area, acted as special pleader for Evans place east of Gates employing Mill City and Allen Field. Mill City was chosen over Bend 20 or 30 men. This is always good as this year’s site of the Oregon State Softball tournament. news and we hope it proves to be true.I State softball officials had the matter of choosing the ♦ ♦ ♦ host city under considera We keep getting stories reporting tion a meeting in Portland that Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay held up the Rose Festival last Sunday. parade for 30 minutes while he went i It was the general opinion in soft- into a downtown hotel coffee shop for I ball circles that Bend would be the refreshments. Maybe he was just host city for 1935. This proved un William Shuey of Mill City was true after Hutcheson used his special waiting for the man carrying the re-elected to another three-year term brand of salesmanship. Hell’s Canyon placard to show up! Hutcheson on the school board of school district was allowed just a few minutes before * * * 129-J, Marion and Linn counties, dur the group. After an hour or so The Tennessee Valley Authority ing the annual election Monday, June sweating it out. Hutcheson was given this year will pay state and local 15, in the Mill City high school audi the good news that Mill City was “it” governments in its area $8.3 million torium. Harold Frank Dean, Mill City logging truck driver, walked away from this wreck Tuesday without a scratch, again for 1953. dollars in payments instead of taxes The voters allotted $650.00 for a hut his truck was demolished, the trailer damaged and the diesel locomotive derailed. Accident occurred as according to the TV A treasurer. Hutchesons’ feat in bringing the Dean was driving north into Lyons on the Scio road. Truck was pushed 189 feet by heavily loaded train. summer playground in co-operation This payment, he said, is $5 million state softball tournament to Mill Wilbur Norman Cox, train engineer, was net hurt. Approaching train was obscured by a building. Dean said. with the city. Board members re more than the tax payments re City’s Allen Field ties the good work Lyons-Scio traffic »as delayed four hours by the wreck. (Photo courtesy Capital Journal) ceived authorization on the purchase ceived by the state and local govern done by Russell Kelly last year. It of a 50-foot strip of land near Allen ments on lands covered by TV A res was Corvallis that lost out to Mill City Field. Final folding of Elkhorn ervoirs or property taken over by then. Mill City’s first grant of the Mill City Budget Vote school distiict into 129-J was made the TV A prior to the establishment state softball tournament came about possible by a "yes vote” allowing Scheduled June 23 of TV A. with the help of D. B. Hill, William sale of Elkhorn school property. • e e Tickle, Kelly and others. Hutcheson The 1953-1954 city budget election Approval of the school district’s It appears that the Capital Journal had the backing again of the Mill The nation’s public-power program will be held next Tuesday, June 23, Detroit—A good turn-out of reg and the Statesman editorial writers is to all purposes nearly dead. It at the city hall from 8 to 10 p.m. All istered voters from Idanha and De budget was given by a unanimous City area when he went before the are having a hard time to find good • brought tremendous drive and growth qualified voters may vote for or troit were on hand Monday night, show of voters’ hands. Softball association in Portland, Sun Voters favored spending cash on excuses to cover up for actions of, to the nation, and needed strength in against the proposed budget at that June 15th at the Detroit school li day. hand for replacement of non-standard Secretary of the Interior McKay’s | time of war. It hastened by decades time, according to Mayor John Muir. brary, to vote on the budget and elect Mill City citizens performed a big furniture and equipment, construction contracts that was exposed by Drew the development of the American task in a short time in polishing up Total estimated expenditures for a new director to the school board. of sidewalk on Second street, addi Pearson last week. Both the Capital, west. Allen Field for the coming tourna | the fiscal year are $32,870.00. Esti Earl Parker, chairman of the school tional fencing on Allen Field, surfac ment. Those who could not help with Journal and the Statesman jumped | mated receipts are $14,920.00. The board, whose term expires July 1. A ing of play area at the grade school the construction work on the field it It has not been officially quite dis in too hastily to defend McKay’s ac- 1 carded by the Eisenhower administra proposed tax levy will amount to $17,- meeting was held previous to the and other items of maintenance and tions in his attempt to give away self, opened their homes to the guests 950.00. operation of schools and grounds. election. northwest power to private utilities | tion, but the effect is the same. The of the tournament. private-power industry, triumphant — Director candidates weer Lee Hop- Mill City's Kelly Boysen Paint team, and raise the rates of power to the after a multi-million-dollar campaign son of Idanha, and Alfred Cokenour ’52 softball host, will compete with consumer. against public power, is leaping eag I of Detroit. Hopson scored 104 votes CBI, Mill City and Firemen teams for Both papers made claims that there | to Cokenour 9fr. On the budget for was no truth in any of the statements erly forward to seize the spoils. There the honor of representing Mill City will be no more TVA’s, no moie the coming year, there were 95. yeas again in the final piay»offs. Present made in Pearson’s column published to 87 noes. plans call for the winning teams from June 9 in the Capital Journal. Pear Boulder or Grand Coulee dams—that By A. ROBERT SMITH Board members are as follows: the various state districts battling it son this week in his June 16 column i is, under this administration. Lyons—The Methodist church now answered charges made by McKay and 1 The public-power program was I under construction is progressing and Frank New, chairman, Brad Hum- Washington — The Eisenhower ad out around the middle of August on the Salem papers that he had falsely i thrown to the wolves when Interior the corner stone will be laid Sunday, ' phrey and Lee Hopson, directors. ministration’s new “hard money” Allen field for the championship. During the week following the news reported the truth. He so effectively , Secretary McKay officially withdrew June 28, with the Mason lodge in policy is expected to be reflected in nailed the lie to charges that he didn’t objections of the Department of In charge of the ceremony. Grand orator higher electric power rates charged that Mill City would be the ’52 host know what he was talking about that terior to Idaho Power company’s ap of the Grand Lodge of Oregon will by Bonneville Power Administration for the Oregon Softball tournament, these newspepers have no answer, ex- j plication to build three low dams in give the address, and will be assisted to its customers sooner or later, pos Allen Field sprouted new dugouts, Hell’s Canyon, the gigantic gorge cut cept to eat crow. sibly next year when increased rates bleachers, water fountains and the by Dr. George Roseberry, district su start of a new, sturdy fence. All this Pearson has exposed one of the by the Snake river on its way to join perintendent of the Salem district of are scheduled to go into effect. most vicious attacks on public power the mighty Columbia. While Republicans and Democrats was done through the co-operation of Detroit—A new camp ground has Methodist churches. Stockholders and officials of Idaho development in the northwest to be are now debating jn Congress almost Mill City citizens. They did not stop been completed for the use of camp Picnic dinner will be served at the perpetrated in many years when he Power company, jubilantly heard the ers and picnickers along the shore of daily whether “hard money” will mean with that, but continued the good work news at their annual meeting at noon hour. The cornerstone will be the lake forming behind the Detroit a sounder dollar or whether it will and made ’52 the big year in Oregon said this in his June 9 column: laid at 2 o'clock with the address at “According to the official records Augusta, Maine — Idaho Power is a 3 o’clock. dam. It is located between the dam only lead to hard times, the indisputa softball history. Mill City’s team, called the ’52 tough Maine corporation, whose principal on file with congress, this group the Detroit Ranger Station and ble result is that interest rates are and The members and friends of the luck team, placed third in the honors (National Association of Electric stockholders are eastern insurance rising all along the line. The govern church extend an invitation to all will be called the Lakeshore Forest ment indebtedness, then, is costing taken. Mill City went down in a 13- Companies) of private utility com companies and investment trusts. Camp. inning game with the winners from Idaho Power’s application must now friends and neighbors of the commu panies spent a total of $477,941.74 Facilities to accommodate the pub more to finance from year to year. This change in the nation’s fiscal Corvallis. Ken Kerr, ’52 state soft- last year trying to influence con be heard by the Federal Power Com nity, also all former members and lic’s recreational needs include tables mission in July. Apparently McKay’s residents of the Lyons community to and benches, and outdoor fireplaces in picture is linked to Bonneville through ball director, praised the tournament gress. . . . “Not only did the house appro- < withdrawal means not only that the be present for the event. the law which requires that BPA pay committee composed of Mill City citi The new building will replace the eight overnight camp sites, some suit back to the U. S. Treasury sufficient zens and fans for making the 1952 priations committee knock out the i Interior Department won’t build its able for launching boats. 1906 reclamation law provision, in- | projected Hell’s Canyon dam, which old wooden structure which was built interest on the taxpayers’ investment tournament at Allen Field one of the Special in dams and related facilities to cover most successful ever held. serted under Teddy Roosevelt, would have been the highest one in in 1893, and destroyed by fire De the Treasury’s cost of borrowing the mention was made of the fine hospi whereby cities, co-operatives and the world, a fitting successor to Boul cember 22, 1952. Detroit Men Awarded tality received by tourney personnel public organizations have first call , der, Shatsa and the Grand Coulee; it money. from the people of Mill City. on federal power, but they chopped ' means also that U. S. engineers won’t Interest Rate Ups Expenses Shelter Contract $119,000,000 out of the Interior de be allowed to appear before FPC and James E. Cooke Receives With a rise in these loan charges Ross Ward and George Renner of partment’s budget for building dams give their voluminous reasons why the will go an accompanying increase in Detroit, with an offer of $1,585 Tues Miss Golda Henry Among river should not be turned over to a Bachelor of Science and power lines.’’ day were low of three bidders when BPA expenses, which will be reflected • in power rates. The timing is the Pearson said further on June 9th: i private corporation, lock, stock and OCE 1953 Graduates James E. Cooke, son of Mr. and bids were opened by the Portland dis "In other words, what the new McKay I barrel. Mrs. Ed Cooke of Mill City, was grad trict, Corps of Engineers, for con only uncertainty at the moment. Miss Golda Henry of Mill City and Federal Power Commission account contract boils down to is that the U.l Protests against the Idaho Power uated from the University of South struction of a viewpoint shelter at Elva M. Kuiken and Joy E. Kuiken ants are currently laboring over col S. taxpayer generates the power, turn Co. application are pouring into the ern California, Saturday, June 13. Detroit dam on the North Santiam of Lyons were among the graduates umns of figures, calculating for one it over to nine private utilities, let FPC, including a strenuous one from The university awarded “Jim” the river. Government estimate was thing the amount of the cost of Mc receiving their diplomas at the com the utilities decide who shall get the National Farmers Union and from degree of Bachelor of Science in pub $1,657. Nary dam which will be covered by mencement exercises at Oregon Col power, what they shall charge for the many other progressive organizations. lic administration. Other bidders were: Verne Kruse this amortization plan which BPA lege of Education, June 10, in Mon Idaho Power Co. apparently owns power, while the taxpayers surrender Cooke, together with 3,200 other of Lyons, $1,611, and H. G. Carl Con- must handle with power revenues. mouth. most of their right to fix rates on Idaho, its politicians, press, and its The class that *a> graduated this public officials with the honorable ex seniors, was honored by the conferring «truction company, Salem, $1,913. They will also have to take a look at the power which they generate.” of the degree during formal com- Completion time is 30 calendar days, the possible need to jack up interest year was the largest in the history In Pearson’s June 16 column, he ception of Mrs. Gracie Pfost, Demo mencement exercises in Alumni Mem- Bids were invited under serial No. charges from the 2'4 percent level of the school. There were 227 stu further exposed McKay’s lack of con- J cratic congresswoman, who won elec orial Park on the S.C. campus. 1 CIVENG-35-026-53-160. where it has stood ever since Bonne dents graduating with the Bachelor's cern for industrail development in the tion last fall by fighting Idaho Power degree. ville began paying off. Co., and fighting for the Hells’ Can northwest. Pearson said: “The secretary challenged my state yon project. FPC Set Rate ment that the house appropriations J The facts are: This current interest rate was de Hell's Canyon dam, more than 700 committee ‘knocked out’ the law of termined by the FPC to be about right Garden Club Planning 1906 passed under Teddy Roosevelt by feet high, would impound nearly 4,- to meet the probable cost of the in June 25 Meeting which public groups such as cities and 000,000 acre-feet of water and its vestment in Bonneville and Grand The Mill City Garden club will hold co-operatives get preference in buying generators would turn out about a Coulee dams, taking into account bond power from government dams. Tech-1 million horsepower for the power- rates during the thirties and early its regular meeting at the home of forties when they were built Now Mrs. Mabel Schroeder, Thursday, June nically he is right and I am wrong. starved northwest. the FPC must re-evaluate this item 25th. Co-hostess will be Mrs. Rachael The committee didnt ‘knack out’ the I In addition, by regulating the flow in terms of what the investment in Olmstead and Mrs. Grace Misner. law. It just nullified it It adopted of the river, it would permit genera The new piesident and the out-go McNary, The Dalles, Detroit, Albeni the simple expedient of voting no tion of another 600,000 firm horse Falls, Hungry Horse and Chief Joseph ing president will give reports on the money to transmit power to cities, i power at dams below, or 1,600,000 in has been costing in these postwar state garden club convention which co-operatives, etc., which certainly all. Add to this, power available 50*7 years and will continue to coat in the was held at McMinnville, June 9, 10 ‘knocks out’ the effect of the law. I of the time both at the dam and be foreseeable future when additional and 11. am glad to correct that error.” funds will be required for completion Then Pearson sums up as follows, low, and the total addition to power in some cases additional generators permit BPA to continue to meet its “In brief, the contract provides for resources of the northwest would be in other cases. repayment schedules for new projects the most important right-about-face about 2,300,000 horsepower. Before the administration's higher of considerably higher cost. of government policy regarding gov-1 The dam would also store water Fairview Cemetery, pioneer burial ground near Gates has that “well interest rate policy became known this It is still too early, BPA officials ernment power in 20 years; and if for irrigation, and for flood control— groomed look" thanks in large part to the hard work of "Oregon's year, BPA Administrator Paul Raver believe, to estimate how much higher Secretary McKay still challenges this the army engineers say that it would Walking Man" Paul Smith of Mill City. Smith has long been an estimated rates might have to be in this prospective new power rate n ay statement, I suggest that he submit have cut about a foot off the crest active figure in the cause of keeping Fairview Cemetery in trim. creased from $17.50 per kildWatt year be driven by the “hard money” policy. it to a committee of congress for thor- of the huge Columbia Basin flood of Smith has been supported in hie work by the cemetery association and (Continued on Page 8) to about $21.50 or $22.50 in order to — From the Oregon Statesman. (Continued on Page 7) many North Santiam citizens. Mill City Will Host State Softball ’53 Tournament Wm. Shuey Elected To School Board Public Power Dying; Hell s Canyon Dead Lee Hopson Elected School Director Hard Money’ Means High Electric Bills Methodists Dedicate New Church June 28 Detroit Lake Has New Picnic Camp Area