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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1953)
$180,000 Will Be Spent On Mill City Niagara Road Job The State Highway Commission has adopted an $8,680,000 program of highway construction to be financed with federal-aid funds allotted to the state for the fiscal year 1955, supple mented by the usual 40 percent of match money required to be provided by the state. In Marion county, the Portland- Salem Expressway, portion of the Willamette River-Hayesville section, grading and paving structures will receive $630,000 and the North San tiam secondary highway, Mill City Niagara section will receive »180,000 for paving. Under the federal regulations, the federal funds will be available for contracting about November 1, 1953 and the highway Commission will be ready to commence contracting the projects included in the adopted pro gram very shortly after that date. The program adopted utilizes the major part of the federal aid funds available for the fiscal year 1955. The projects to be financed with the remainder of the available funds will be selected later. Those projects are exclusive of and in addition to con struction to be financed with State Highway Bond Funds. T he MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Serving: MILL CITY DETROIT ELKHORN GATES IDANH \ LYONS MEHAMA ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — GATEW AY TO THE HEART OE NATURE’S EMPIRE VOLUME IX NUMBER 32 MILL CITY, OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 6. 1953 »2.50 a Year. a Copy Volunteers Needed Sunday To Prepare for State Ball Tourney Negro Shoots Companion at Amalgamated Mines Sunday Little Leaguers Lose To Stayton 2 to 1 MEMBERS OF OREGON TRAILS CLUB TO TAKE EXCI RSION INTO EIGHT LAKES BASIN DETROIT—Twenty-eight members of the Trails Club of Oregon and their guests, will participate in an excur sion into the Eight Lakes Basin Au gust 8th to 16th, in an annual sum mer outing. Their base camp will be at Hunt's Cove. Some of the party plan to scale Mt. Jefferson, some will fish and others will take short hikes from thier base camp. Gene Ware, Stayton rancher and commercial packer, will pack supplies to the group via mule train which will leave Red Creek the morning of the Sth, with Pamelia Lake the first stop enroute. Scouting the area for the organiza tion preparatory to the excursion, was the president of the club, Edward Hill, and two members. Art Steinle and George Frank. May Have Game Sunday The Little Leaguers of Mill City A call for volunteer workmen i be motored to Stayton Monday night A 59-year-old negro is being held in ing sent out this week by Dick Pa l.ei. where they dropped a five-inning Marion county jail in connection with PING PONG LADDER Men, both young and old. are a ked game to the Stayton nine, by a score the shotgun shooting of another negro TOURNAMENT STANDINGS to bring their saws and hammers to of 2 to 1. Sunday at the Amalgamated Mines 1. Harold Kliewer Allen Field early Sunday mornii , t ■ Mill City failed to collect a hit from located north of Mill City. Also held 2. Large help erect the bleachers and do < the? the Stayton pitcher, Dennis Frank, as a material witness is a negro wo 3. Larry Albert Nichols work in preparation for the Uta to who whiffed nine Mill City stickmen. man, Delilia Smith Gindron, who stat 4. Dale Smith Softball tournament which will be held Johnny Lucas drove in the winning ed she was the wife of the wounded 5. Arthur Webb here August 22 to 26. runs for Stayton. man, Julius Smith, 53. They were said 6. Gary Bevier Carl Watt who supervised the con The line score- to have been living in one of the sev 7. Larry Kanoff struction last year, and who has beer Mill City 100 00 1 0 4 eral cottages where the miners are 8. Dorman Gregory on the job this year, has been called t » Stayton 002 Ox 2 2 9 lodged. 9. James Meinert work on the Garrison Dam in Nortli The woman in the case told police 10. Jimmy Bevier Dakota. Mr. Watt has contribute,! Sunday that while she was washing 11. Robert Ditter much to Allen Field and all ball fans 18 Saddle Horses And 21 dishes, Kizer appeared and made ad 12. David Jones express their thanks for his fine work. vances toward her. She told him to Mules Used On Fishing Trip 13. Freddie Smith Girl Scouts Of Troop 36 His place is being filled by Dick Par leave and he is said then to have got 14. Ricky Thompson ker, who with a crew, spent Sunday DETROIT — A fishing party left Enjoy Picnic At Stayton ten a shotgun and gone to Smith who at the mill sawing lumber for the here on Friday for the Eight Lake Members of the Local Girl Scout was working on an automobile. Kizer bleachers. A wire fence will also be Basin, returning on Monday with some said to have accused Smith of mis is Troop No. 36 of the Santiam Area build from the dugouts to the wooden mighty fine fish. treating his wife. According to reports Council, accompanied by their lead fences Sunday. Gene Ware of Stayton, commercial er, Mrs. Howard Means, and co-lead- here it is said he then fired at Smith Workers will be needed to help move packer escorted the party into the er, Faustina Nesbitt, enjoyed an out with the gun, the pellets from the .410 Eight Lake Basin. Eighteen saddle portable bleachers from the school pistol-shotgun hitting Smith in the ing at Stayton Park on Monday. gym to the field in order to accomo horses and 21 pack mules were used 1 The girls went swimming, had a left side. on the excursion. Funeral services for Mrs. E. C. date the large crowds which attend i The mine, owned by J. P. Hewitt of treasure hunt, and hamburgers were In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan, who died Sunday at the these fast ball games. served for refreshment. In the group Portland, employs about 12 men. all Vern Keller and sons Leonard and Lebanon hospital, were held Wednes-I W. H. Reed, assisted by A. T. Barn- were Frances Ward, Zita Crosier, Negroes. Copper, lead, zinc and some Three teen-age Boy Scouts lost in John of Stayton, Mr. and Mrs. Robert day afternoon at three o’clock in the hardt, completed leveling the outfield Nancy Porter, Gloria Klecker, Rosa silver is mined there. the woods west of Marion Lake since Hiple and sons Eddie and Danny of Lebanon Christian church. Ministers and infield Sunday, which will be an lee Bassett, Sherry Hansen and Pen Friday morning, showed up early Sun Estacada, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Tucker H. E. Jull of the Mill City Christian improvement for this year’s tourna ny Gould. Earlene Boardman, who is day morning at Scout Camp Pioneer, and daughter Shirley and Jean Black, church and Arlaw Bristow, of the Le ment. a guest at the Means home, from Salt A. A. LeCours is at present time neice of Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. F. Noble banon church, officiated. in good shape and unharmed. Lake City, was a guest of the group. Burial was made in a Lebanon painting the advertisements on the The boys were the object of an ex and Richard Rice. The group left Mill City about 10:30 outfield fence. cemetery. tensive search by scout leaders, For a. m. and returned at five o’clock. Eight teams are slated for th« Mrs. Vaughan, a former Mill City est Rangers and State Police. Their resident, had been ill for some three double elimination action, which was safe arrival at the scout camp halted Shower Held For Mrs. preparations of an enlarged search Floyd Blackburn Thursday months, and was confined to the hos first put into use at the tourney held Has Miraculous F^scapc pital for three weeks preceeding her here last year. Previously 16 games Last Wednesday night Mill City party. The scouts were James Rock GATES—M r s. Floyd Blackburn death. played a single elimination bracket. From Serious Injuries well, Larry Shupp and W ’ esley Mat (Virginia Timm), a bride of two softball fans were treated to as varied Inter-district playoffs will narrow the ney of Scio. As Truck Brakes Fail weeks, was complemented at a post an assortment of errors, hits, runs,, field to eight teams for action here. The boys became lost while return While driving a watertank down a and so forth, as ever seen on Allen ing from Marion Lake to Camp Pion nuptial shower Thursday evening at Boy Scout Fun Fest At There is a possibility of a double the recreation rooms of the high Field. This game was played between steep hill Monday near the Detroit header ball game at Allen Field Sun six miles, school. Mrs. George Stafford, Mrs. Local Park On Sunday eer, a distance of about Dam, Al Zuber found the brakes of the “Oldtimers” of CBI and the Go when they left the scout group and There will be a Boy Scout Fun Fest day when this years' league winning Mabie Knutson and Mrs. Edward the vehicle had given way. As the vernment Engineers of Mangold. attempted to take a short cut off the CVance were hostesses for the affair. at the City Park in Mill Citf. Sunday, Kelly Lumber Sales team will meet the truck gained speed he jumped from it It would be difficult to pick out any Pine Ridge Trail. They returned to Corvallis Elks, last year’s tournament Following the opening of the many August 9th, starting at iKb clock. just before it went over a steep bank outstanding player, but they were all their respective homes on Sunday. The public is invited to attend, bring winners. At the time of going to press gifts, refreshments were served to and collided with a building. “good”. CBI won the game by a score however, these games were unveri the guest of honor, Mrs. Blackburn; their picinc lunches and spend the af fied. The truck was badly demolished but of 11 to 10. ternoon. There will be a Boy Scout her mother, Mrs. William Timm; Mr. Mr. Zuber fortunately, only received In the second game of the evening, | Blackburn's mother, Mrs. Arthur lore contest and the winning patrol a few cuts and bruises and was given the Merchant-Firemen of Mill City Blackburn and the guests present wins a free trip to Olympia, Wash, and first aid. won over the Salem Merchants by a that included Mesdames Glen Hen- a cruise on Puget Sound, according to score of 4 to 2. ness, Clarence Ball and Carol SueJ assistant boy scout leader, Elmer Following is the short score: Charles Tucker, Henry Eccleston, Al Steiner. R H E STAYTON—Failure of air brakes bert Millsap, Clare Henness, and The Art and Crafts program at th« 1 4 3 Merchant-Firemen caused a loaded log truck to go out of Kandee, Louisa Wriglesworth, Rosa TENNIS LADDER summer playground will close Friday 1 2 3 Salem Merchants TOURNAMENT STANDINGS Roten, Edward Romey and Miss Ha control and crash injuring the driver, of this week. Children are urged to Thursday, July 30— 1. Larry Large Monday. Bill Rieger, who was driving, zel Coddle. Those sending gifts were pick up art projects they wish to In the concluding games of the San received undetermined injuries to both Mesdames Wilma Berry, Engle John 2. Harold KHewer keep. The Arts program had a bump Marion county will receive $118,- tiam Softball League play the Mer 3. Larry Kanoff son, Albert Toman, Ned Richards, legs and is in ankle casts at Santiam er attendance this year and some fin* 951.38 from sale of timber on O&C chant-Firemen defeated CBI by a 4. Gary Bevier Floyd Völkel, Richard Boedigheimer, projects have been turned out by th« grant lands, according to a report re score of 8 to 1; and Kelly Lumber Memorial hospital. Guy Music of Harold Wilson, Tim White, Merle • 5. Terry Muir youngsters. ceived by the county court from the Sales defeated Chucks of Mill City by Aumsville, owner of the truck, who Devine, Edmund Davis. David Barn- 6. Rodney Goble was a passenger, jumped clear and The playgrounds activities will con Bureau of Land Management. a score of 3 to 0. This assured Kelly’s 7. David Jones hardt and the Misses Eileen Eccles tinue until the last of August. This is an increase of $5,751.71. The a berth in the State Tournament to was uninjured. ton, Mabie Hesseman and Idabelle, 8. Pat Thomas The accident happened a few miles money will go into the county’s gener be held here this month. 9. Brian Moffatt above Mehama on a new log road off Blackburn. al fund, earmarked for use on roads Heres the short score— the Little North Fork road on a down — Timber Access Road Is and bridges. First Game— Total receipts for the fiscal year R H E grade. The truck plowed into the bank Under Construction Now Married Recently ending June 30 which will be divided Merchant Firemen 1 and was damaged. 8 6 Tuesday, another loaded log truck DETROIT—The J. Wesly Webb among the 18 counties participating CBI 5 5 1 owned by Music and driven by Construction company of Salem is were $12,148,048.14. Last year re Davidson and D. Walker; Beerbau- James Duman was involved in a simi constructing a timber access road ceipts were $8,071,277.85. er and D. Bennett. lar accident about Vz mile from the that will develop the Straight Creek In its report the Bureau of Land Second Game— previous one. Duman was shaken up drainage. Management states that the “large R H E but uninjured. Front wheels of the The Packatt Logging company has 1 increase in collections this year» re Kelly Lumber Sales 3 3 I contracted to logging that area. 1 truck were buckled and had to be tow 0 1 flects a substantial gain in the volume Chucks of Mill City .... ed away. Thirty million board feet of timber of timber sales from the O&C lands, Pearson and Carey; G. Carey and will be taken out of that area and made possible by an expanded staff. Turner. eight and six-tenths miles of access This explanation was made to meet Tuesday, August 4— McCarthy Furniture Has road has been constructed. the emergency timber salvage problem Kelly Lumber Sales won out over in western Oregon which calls for the Mt. Angel by a score of 7 to 1 This Unique Plan To Acquaint salvaging of all blowndown, fire kill was a nine inning game and the locals Residents With Store Here Funeral Services Held ed and beetle infested timber as rapid got in some batting practice with a Bill McCarthy, owner of McCarthy! total of 10 hits. McMorris collected Furniture here, this week has taken ; ly as possible. For Idanha Infant three of the 10 hits. space on page five of The Enterprise DETROIT—Graveside services were Short Score— 70 New State Traffic to tell residents of the Canyon that it ' held at Lone Oak cemetery at Stay E R 1 H pays to buy furniture and appliances ton, July 13th for Pamela Annette Officers Going on Roads 7 10 5 Kelly Lumber Sales Coffey, infant daughter of Mr. and home. SU- Captain Lee Brown, assistant . 1 3 5 at He Mt. Angel is offering many fine free mer Mrs. Burley Coffey of Idanha. Rev. perintendent of state police, has ad- i Ben- D. Carey, Davidson and D. Robert Unger of Idanha officiated. vised the Highway Lifesavers Com nett, D. Carey; C. Beyer and N. chandise articles to all those who pur- | The baby was eight days old. chase furniture at his store. mittee of Oregon Citizens that 70 ad Beyer. __ Surviving besides the parents ar« Bill states, “I can prove that my | ditional traffic officers are now pat Following are the leading hitters prices are lower than any place else.” the grand-parents, Mrs. Helen Lichly- rolling the state highways as a result in the Santiam softball league^ ter of Idanha, Fred Taylor, Houston, of the increased budget provided by Player Bat. Av. RUSSELL HOLTS ENTERTAIN Team Texas, and Mr. and Mrs. Carter Cof- the recent legislature for state police D. Bennett ..... — CBI . .419 RELATIVES AT REUNION j fey of Gillham, Arkansas. activities. The budget actually pro G. McMorris .419 Mer.-Fire. Mr. and Mrs. C. Russell Hoyt of vided for 50 new officers, but through I Joe Boyle .333 Kelly’s rearrangement of inside office detail, 1 B. Valdez .... .326 Idanha entertained the brother of Mrs. Kelly’s ..... Nl HSING CONFERENCE AND Hoyt, Mr. Warren Allen of Mankato, now being handled by women. 20 addi I Don Carey .320 Kelly’s IMMUNIZATION CLINIC TO BE Minnesota, also Mr. and Mrs. G. D tional officers have been released for i Al Zuber .312 _ Kelly's ..... HELD HERE, AUGUST II Jodwin of Minneapolis, and Mr. and outside work. Lane, Douglas, Umatil i Ron Davidson .298 Mer.-Fire. According to E. Cole, of the Marion Mrs. Roy Lindquist of Onamia. Min la and Linn counties which, following I J. Pearson .296 ... Kelly's County Health Department, a nursing nesota. The two ladies are Mrs. Hoyt ’ s a state-wide survey were shown to be | J. Carey .290 Chuck’s of M. C. conference and immunization clinic in particular need of officers, will re i R. Dombrowsky Kelly’s---- 2*6 sisters. Another sister and her hus will be held at the local elementary band. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Mornhin- ceive from two to five officers addi i O. Muise .273 Chock ’s of M. C. ~ school, next Tuesday, August 11th. tional according to Captain Brown. Home-run honors for the league weg of Albany, Oregon, completed the The hours are from 9 to 12 o’clock. went to Bob Dombrowsky and B. Val- family reunion. Mrs. Cole will be present and Mrs. While here they all made a trip to DON SMITH TAKES OVER dez with three each. A. E. Nesbitt of Mill City will assist the coast at Newport and had a picnic STATION FROM AL HAVENER at the clinic. dinner at Whitewater Forest Camp. A deal was completed recently Linn County Forest where Mr. and Mrs. Don Smith re f » NORTH SANTIAM SPORTSMEN purchased their Union oil station here Closed By Hazard LIGHT RAINFALL VISITS LEBANON—A major part of Linn TO PICNIC SUNDAY AUGUST I« in Mill City. They are back on the MILL CITY AREA TUESDAY job serving their patrons in the old county forests have been cloned to • The North Santiam Sportsmen’s The first rain for some time fell in stand. Since selling the station to Al entry except by permit, since midn.ght club will hold their picnic at the Mill City Tuesday. Reports have com« Havener they have been on their Wednesday. Whitewater State Park about six to this office that there was some A spokesman at the Linn county miles above Idanha, Sunday, August ranch at the Sisters. They expect to heavy showers in the Mehama dis ¡ret settled in their home here in the fire patrol headquarters said the land 18th, according to Jerry Coffman of trict. Salem received 18 of an inch. Mr. ami Mrs. Donald Bate« (Joan Ryal.) above »ere married July lies roughly east of a line running Mehama. near future. Outside of settling the dust for the 11. The bride i« the daughter of Mr. and Mr«. Barney Ryal of Galen Mr. Hovener took his father to north and south from Lane county to time and lowering the temperature, It will be an all day affair with _, just east of Sweet games being played and prises given. Arizona and stated his plans for the Marion county, and Mr Bate« ia the mm of Mr. and Mr«. Byron Batea of Mill City. not enough was received to do much Lacomb. immediate future are indefinite. ' Home and Lacm Courte«y of Capitol Journal good. All members are asked to attend. Teen Age Scouts Return To Camp After Being Lost Funeral Services Held For Former Resident Ball Summary Given for Week Marion County Gets Share of 0&C Money Bill Rieger Injured In Log Truck Accident Arts and Crafts Ends Summer Session Here