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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1953)
The MILL CITY ENTERPRISE DON PETERSON. Publisher “JOE BEAVER” By Ed Nofziger and Gen. Eisenhower after receiving promises from both gentlemen that civil service employes need not fear for their jobs if the Republicans were elected. But many have gotten the axe in the last three months. And all that poor Broyhill can do is to holler that it’s a nasty Demo cratic scheme! Thanks to Broyhill for a little comic relief during these tense and feverish days.—AFL News-Rporter. ____________ Entered aa aacond-olaas letter November 10, 104< at the pout office at Mill City. Oregon, under the Act of March 1, 1*7». ___________ 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 Advertising 45c column inch. Political Advertising 75c inch. NIWSPAPIR NATION Al EDITORIAL PUBUSHtRl ■'ÁIJOCIATION "THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS." —George Putnam. Pioneer Recreation News that Mill City’s Allen Field will again be the scene of a great softball tournament comes as no great surprise to us. Softball is a wonderful form of recreation. The very word recreation explains why we are not sur prised. “Bill” Hutcheson had no small argument in his favor when asking softball-officialdom’s okay on Mill City. Mill City is in the heart of the North Santiam, one of the future great playgrounds of Oregon. The root word of recreation is “create”. The clean and beautiful nature of the North Santiam canyon creates in its guests a sense of well-being. Its invigorating Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture mountain air and its flashing streams stir even the dullest You can »it and worry about H-Bomb», or you can get to work and of spirits. Thousands will trek to this canyon for a bit help manage our timber resources for the country's future. Which of this marvel. Back they will go with it to their homes seems more constructive?" and their jobs, better because of it. Detroit and Big Cliff dams stand as giant monu ments to the fact that the remainder of the United States are aware that there is something big indeed in the North view which might otherwise have Santiam Canyon. One of the biggest things about it is THREAT TO CONSERVATION of been overlooked. And, compared with It is a tenable thesis that the New the recreation that it will offer the people of Oregon and Deal and Fair Deal implanted, here the three commentators who remain the nation. Softball on Allen Field is but a pioneer move and there, the idea that government on the Sunday night lineup of ABC in what one day will be a vast and awesome thing in the control of natural resources is desir —Walter Winchell, George Sokolsky able for its own sake, not just a nec and Paul Harvey — Pearson was a recreation field. of fairness, objectivity and The upper North Santiam Canyon is a tiny part of essity under certain circumstances. It model honor. is possible that professional enthus a great national forest. Its outstanding beauty and the ABC needs to do some explaining may have carried the Forest wonderful promise it holds for future generations instills iasm Service a bit too far in strict regula to the American public.—From Ore us with humility. He who would parcel out and lay waste tion of national forests. gon Teamster. this our trust would take “create" out of recreation and But it is just as supportable an limit softball to a game on a small, dusty plot of ground. assumption that the laws and proced CONGRESSIONAL COMEDY which protect the nation’s water Rep. Joel Broyhill would have you The people of the North Santiam Canyon are a sturdy ures sheds and reserves of standing timber believe that the current wave of fir people. They know the power of their region and have grew out of hard experience. And it ings of career civil service employes what it takes for the years ahead. Those who visited Mill could be nationallly disastrous if the in non-political jobs is all a Truman City and the state softball tournament in 1952 found this thus-far healthy swing away from too plot. much governmental supervision were out. Others will do the same this year. The young Republican, who repre Editorial Comments IT’S TOUGH TO BE RICH DEPARTMENT “Almost everybody in the country really wants pretty much the same thing, whether he’s go 15 cents or $10 million—although he’s probably got more worries if he’s got $10 million.” — Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey in a Saturday Evening Post interview, May Shuffleboard Good Music MEANDER INN Where Friends Meet On Highway 222, Linn County Side MILL CITY George “Sparky” Hitter From where I sit ...//Joe Marsh Heard About the Electric Weather Predictor? Squint Smith built up quite ■ reputation last month by predict ing the weather. What he said usually came true. It got so that folks would sit around his little Antique Shop just to get his opinion. Last Monday, though, he said he didn't know what the weather was going to be like next day. That surprised us and when we asked what happened, Squint said, "Slipped up on my electric bill and was turned off. 1'11 get to my radio again tomorrow though." Squint had been getting the weather over the radio—just like anyone else! From where I ait, that's the way it goes with some "experts." They often don't have any more inside information than you can get for yourself. Like those who “know" cider is the only thirst-quencher after a day’s work. Far as I’m concerned. I'll take a temperate glass of beer. Hut I won't try to “predict" your choice for you. Copyright, 195.1. I'nitrd Stairs Urrurrs Foundation Marion Kite ELECTRIC SERVICE Detroit, Oregon Kull Line Crosley Appliances RANGES — REFRIGERATORS — FREEZERS WASHERS — DRYERS — RADIOS — TV SETS F. II. A. FINANCING PHONE 263 permitted to move toward too little conservation. That danger looms, however. And the immediate warning cloud is some what bigger than a man’s hand. It comes in the form of the D’Ewart bill, a measure which would allow stock- men to convey permits to graze cattle and sheep on public lands to whom soever they wish. Supporters of the bill argue that this merely extends to the national forests the existing practices of the Bureau of Land Management, and that it relieves the permit holders of too much dependence upon the discretion ary powers of officials. Opponents argue that such a law could soon funnel the western cattle industry into the hands of a relatively few big operators. They declare it runs counter to the doctrine of “bene ficial use” a very foundation stone of economic life in regions where grass and water are scarce — the doctrine that private citizens may make bene ficial use of but not possess exclusive control of these vital resources. This is not merely a range-country issue — although the west is deeply disturbed by it. For not only does the whole country have a stake in protec tion of its watersheds. It has a still larger stake in preservation of the ideal of conservation, initiated, inci dentally, by a Republican President and pursued thus far by administra tions of both parties.—From Christian Science Monitor. P. O. Box 176 sents a Virginia district consisting mainly of Washington suburbs, says that second-level "Truman holdovers” are embarrassing the Eisenhower ad ministration by discharging veteran government workers. Even Broyhill’s Republican cohorts on Capitol Hill can see what is bother ing him. It is this: A lot of people in his district who had worked for the government dur ing both Republican and Democratic administrations voted for Broyhill WHERE YOVR DOLLAR GOES NOBODY KNOWS The U. S. Senate recently voted, 45-30, against an investigation which would have shown exactly who was getting the major share of the con sumer’s dollar. The farmer hasn’t been getting it. Agricultural department studies show that the farmer received only 45 cents of the consumer dollar in 1952. In 1950 he got 50 cents. In 1945, it was 54 cents. The farmer’s share of the consumer’s dollar has been drop ping steadily. So, the purpose of this study was to show where the rest of the con sumer's dollar was going and whether the wholesaler, the retailer or the food processor was getting more than his fair share. The Federal Trade Commission, which was to have made the survey, described it as “one of the most signi ficant fact-finding programs ever un dertaken by the Federal government.” But it won’t be undertaken. The Senate has voted against investigating the facts on food profiteering. Your dollar will continue to go out. But where it goes, nobody knows. And the Senate is determined that nobody Editor's Letter Box Faith in Senator Morse To the Editor: Would you please print this letter from a poor laborer with little edu cation? I and millions of other la borers and farmers have a deep and unshakable faith in the honesty and integrity of Senator Morse. More power and boldness to him. He u our champion and spokesman, one of a small band of men with guts and backbone who fight for us; you and the ditch digger, truck driver, clerk, nurses, office workers, the peasants on the farm, etc. Who else can you name in Congress who gives two cents for us. We are the majority by far, but where is our representation in Congress? A few, a handful carrying on in the tradition of Honest Abe, a government by and for the people, and they are hounded and crucified on every hand for speaking out tha whole truth for you and me. What mockery, what hypocrisy, is this tho methods of democracy of an enlight ened people? May God help this na tion if we give heed to the ranting of McCarthy and ignore and belittle Senator Morse. America, how far you have fallen! Truth beaten to earth shall rise again. Only the whole truth will set us free.—R. Sandwick, 455 Lancaster, Salem. — Reprinted from the Statesman. Tip to motorists: policy of good motoring maners is the best life in surance you can get is going to find out, either.—From tho Oregon Teamster. Always So Refreshing Whatever your favorite recreation, you wi Whatever y efreshing beverage xt time you go f<sh'n9- •“ft’s the Water” OLYMPIA BREWING COMPANY, OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, U. S. A. PREDICTIONS OF THINGS TO COME? Perhaps you seldom agreed with Drew Pearson, the ABC network news commentator. But there should be no disagteement that the circumstances surrounding the ban of Pearson front the airways should be looked into j thoroughly. Pearson himself doesn’t know why 1 he was fired from both the radio and TV networks. "I believe,” he said, I "that Vice President Richard M. Nixon ; is to blame, although I can’t prove it." | I Pearson, who broke the Nixon fund scandal wide open during the last po litical campaign, says that Nixon vowed he’d “get even." After he lost his recent sponsor,! Pearson says he volunteered to con tinue the broadcast for nothing. But' trying to find out why the network i I wanted him off the air was like "run- j ning into a blank wall. I never saw anything like it before.” While hardly qualifying as a con- , sistently liberal commentator. Pear-: I son was always a hard-hitting broad-' ! caster and aired many facts and points ■ CHOKED ^GAS? Electrical Contracting June 18, 1953 2—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE THANK HBAVVN9 M.wt attack« are acid indi<e«tion When it lUikri take Bell ana tablet« They contain the fastest-act medicine« known to doctor« for the relief of heartburn and ••« »< refunded It not •atist-ed Send empty carton to Bell ana» Oran<eburf N Y Get Bell-ana today IT'S A FACT! TODAY...the average family gets TWICE AS MUCH ELECTRICITY FOR ITS MONEY AS IT DID 20 YEARS AGO »•