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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1953)
5—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE THURSDAY. AUGUST 20. 1953 DETROIT iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin Gooch Logging Supply % b Everything for the Logger" BASSETT’S WELDING SHOP Phone 1141 Phone 116 Sweet Home. Philomath Branch Store Lyons Shuffleboard Good Music MEANDER INN Where Friends Meet On Highway 222, Linn County Side MILL CITY George “Sparky” Bitter ,4» '' ’ * •¡..fl'/ ELGIN THORNDALE iMJS • w ELGIN AFTON $3375 BAKER’S Don May of Corbett was a caller Sunday at the Harold Mason home. By Boots Champion At last Wednesday nights council meeting, John Estey was appointed to take Nolan Rasnick's place as council- i man for the remainder of the term and Archie Mattoon was appointed mayor of Detroit, succeeding Nolan Rasnick, who has moved to Stayton. The council also apprbved Raymond Sophy’s (Detroit Market) application for a class B package license. The Industrial Hospital ambulance stationed at Idanha for the past six or seven years, has served notice that they have discontinued the ambulance service for the next month or two. The F. O. E. auxiliary is one build ing richer, through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. John Krause, who donat ed and moved the building on the lot. The auxiliary will use it for storage. John Meals and family, who moved here recently from Gates, is not pro ject (resident) engineer as previous ly stated in a recent issue. Walter Mackey of Mill City is project en gineer. Wilbur Harlan is trying to get squared around with the world again, on a day shift, after putting in four years and two weeks night shift on the Dam. He is employed at Big Cliff. Visiting at the Harold Champion home on Wednesday and Thursday of ■ last week was Mrs. Ada Nunes, for merly Ada Hayes, of Milwaukee. Ore. Other guests on Sunday were Mrs. Emma Ramage of Salem and children, Joan and Webb. Earl Layman of Detroit, Gordon Hull of Salem and Howard Maw of Burns, spent the weekend fishing the Deschutes in eastern Oregon. I Visitors at the John Estey home on I Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Hoagland and grandson Mike of Scio, ' and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bilyeu of Van couver, Wash. Mrs. Bilyeu, formerly 1 Phyla Smith, resided in Detroit about 60 years ago. She is an aunt of Mrs. Esteys, who she has not seen for several years. Dr. E. E. Biard of Toledo, was a weekend visitor in Detroit. Nine Boy Scouts from the Idanha- I Detroit area, returned home recently i from an annual outing at Camp | Pioneer, where they joined in acti vities with 125 boy scouts from other districts, Those attending were Mic hael Moore, Brad Humphrey Jr.. Ro- I bert Gordon, Don Watkins, Myron Williams, Jimmy Gulliford, Gary Ro- 1 berts, Don and Leonard Snyder. I Scout leaders were S. T. Moore, dis trict ranger, Al Warby, Francis Kett- leson, Warren Stoll and Jim Giebler. A group of 40 young people, accom panied by Rev. Robert Unger, pastor of the Idanha Church of Christ, left Dallas, August 6th, for the Evangeli cal Mennonite Brethern's Youth Re treat camp at Burlington, Washing ton. Bible classes were attended in the morning, services in the evening, and the afternoon spent in recreational activities. A 1952 Ford sedan, purchased at 11 a. m. Saturday morning, was badly wrecked Saturday afternoon when it tipped over on the highway in front of the Lake Cafe. The car, registered to S. H. Wilkerson of Molalla, Ore., and its four occupants, was traveling east when a west-bound car turned off the highway to the left, in front of them. The driver of the sedan ap parently applied the brakes too fast, and at the same time turning to the left to avoid a smash-up, caused the car to upset. Miraculously, no-one was seriously injured. Felicitations are in order for Mr. ¡and Mrs. Bill Gabriel (formerly Hazel I Mason of Detroit) of Sweet Home, on the birth of an 8 pound boy, born August Sth, at Langmacks hospital Mrs. Minnie Personette. former re sident, is a guest at the Floyd Shep pard home. Mrs. Ruth Mitt spent Sunday visit ing old friends in McMinnville, and on M ednesday motored to Portland on business. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Roten of Me hama, entertained at dinner Sunday, honoring Mrs. Minnie Personette. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Sheppard, Bill Sheppard and Wilma Jull, all of Mill City, in Lebanon, Oregon. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mason of Detroit, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gabriel of Sweet Home. Mr. and Mrs. Burley Coffey of Idan ha have moved to Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Carr and 17- month-old son, of Salem, escaped serious injuries when their car left the highway and went into a ditch east of Marion Forks about 2:30 a. m. Monday morning. Apparently Mr. Carr went to sleep at the wheel. A passing logging truck pulled the car from the ditch. The trailer on the car was completely demolished. Mrs. Otto Russell who has been ill with strep throat, is well on the road to recovery. See Us For Camping Equipment Plumbing Supplies Sporting Goods Attend Shriners night at the State Softball Tourn ament in Mill City Sunday, August 23, 7:30 p. m. All proceeds go to Crippled Children’s Hospital Hilltop General Store YOUR MARSHALL WELLS STORE Phone 2724 Mill City, Oregon GENERAL ANOTHER GENERAL TIRE EXCLUSIVE ULTRA LOW PRESSURE TIRE 14 «. PRESSUR ' -jc: r ■ for FORDS and CHEVROLETS It doesn’t take long for pennies and dollars saved regularly to It’s an entirely fuw kind of a tire. New in design, from its wide base at the rim, straight through the extra strong sidewalls that taper, like the sides of a triangle, to the conventional width tread. There’s so little air pressure, it’s hard to think of a situation that could cause a blowout. And the combination of low pressure plus great strength of body —82% greater strength than ordinary tires —makes the new Jumbo extremely difficult to puncture. Drive in today for the ride of your life on the tires that could mw your life in an emergency! daily when it earns our steady r interest rate. Start your future GENERAL < TIRE J Come in todav CITY STATE BANK MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP PHILIPPI T IRE THE A Business PHONE: LYONS 143 MEHAMA, OREGON rf