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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1954)
4—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE THVRSI)AY, MARCH 25, 1954 THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE _ | Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Latino were here from Toledo over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Hoodenpyle and Entered as second class matter No daughter. Donna, of Creswell, were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. vember 10, 1944 at the post office at - Mill ( ity, Oregon, under the Act of Mr. and Mrs. George Veteto and J. C. Kimmel Sunday. March 3, 1879. Sharon Gray visited relatives in Can Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Brown an Per Year Marion-Linn Counties $2.50 by Sunday. nounce the arrival of a baby daughter, Outside Marion-Linn Counties $3.00 Mr. and Mrs. Ken Nielson and son. March 15. The baby weighed in at DON W. MOFFATT Editor-Publisher Larry, moved Monday to Salem. Mr. 5 pounds, 11 ounces, and has been Nielson is purchasing agent for C. named Rita Marie. NATIONAL EDITORIAL B. I. s ASSOCfÂTKÎN Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Fenner of Eu ^7 k J Mrs. James Nye (Dorothy Bassett) gene, spent the weekend here at the of West Stayton, was taken to San- home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gra-I tiam Memorial hospital Sunday for ham. observation. NEWSPAPER \ PUBLISHERS J ASSOCIATION Mr. and Mrs. Max F. Kogers, of Mr. and Mrs Burnett Cole and fam accompanied by Mrs. Kogers* sister, ily, who spent the winter in Falls were visitois at the Lee Ross home City, returned to Mill City last week. Sunday evening. Mr. Cole is working at Hillton Gen eral store at the present time. Mr. and Mm. William Shuey spent Visitors at the II. E. Jull home seveial days this past week in Fort- The consolidation of three school land at the home of their son-in-law districts, Detroit-Idanha, Gates and Tuesday were Miss Edith Barnes of and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Que Hay Mill City will be held in the three dis Lodi, California, and niece Miss Fay nes. tricts this coming Monday, March 29. Jull of Auburn, California. Mi.-s This is one of the most vital elec Barnes is a cousin of minister Jull. Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Willoughby tions to be held in this area for some Spending the weekend at the home of the Enterprise office, spent last time. It will decide whether or not the three high schools will be consoli of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Yankus was Saturady and Sunday in McMinnville their niece, Patty Thomas of Cottage attending to business and visiting dated. Mr. ...... and ...... Mrs. ................................ H. R. Miller with friends and relatives. Heretofore The Enterprise has been! Grove. ...................... content to say but little on issues such ■ Cottage Grove drove up for her The Ed Cooke family has received as this, but the importance of this is Sunday. woid from their son, Ensign James sue makes it imperative that all resi Mr. and Mrs. Loren Hurd and Cooke, who is taking flight training dents of the area think cleaily, and daughters, who have lived here for in the naval air service, that he has turn out and vote. the past four years, moved Tuesday qualified for carrier landing and is ThiB is not a question of where a morning to Richland, Washington. He now stationed at Corry Field, Florida. Bcnool shall be located. It is decid- was employed on the dam while living nt education can * here. >ng just how the best Charles Thomas, son of Mr. and be made available to t the „ youth of the I Mrs. Vern Thomas arrived last week the three communities, and at the Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Plymale and on furlough from the Air Force. He same time kept at a cost that is not children of Lebanon were here Sunday has been stationed in Japan. He ex prohibitive. Facts have been proven at the H. I. Plymale home. Other pects to be here for about 30 days, that it is more economical to educate dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs. E. and then wil] report for duty in New students in a lai ger school. A better N. Hutcheson and family. Mexico. I balanced course of study can be given. This is not being said to belittle any of the schools of the area. We aie confident that the schools are do ing a fine job of educating, and that each of the schools is doing the best possible job with that which they have to work. The main thing is, a much better school could be pro vided, and at less cost to the taxpayei, by consolidating the districts. This consolidation does in no way mange the elementary schools of the oistrict.% These schools will be main tained just as they are. In trie high scnools, administrative costs could be materially reduced. A wider choice of subjects would be made available. Moie than one section of requited Courses could be given. These are some of the rea.-ons that the districts should be consolidated. We are not in any way trying to tell you how* to vote. The main thing is to get out to the polls and to exercise your light as an American citizen by voting. VOTE ON MONDAY I I RNING POINT An important aspect of the tragic loss of lives in the nation s highway accidents wmeh has escaped the lull attention ol Amei leans is the emo tional impact on victims' lamilies. Faul H. biaisdeli, public safety direc tor of the Association of I asualty and Surety Companies, brings “Operation Heaitbreak into pioper focus with a letter he received iioin an Illinois mother whose 15 year old son was killed while riding with a driver of the same age. "One reads of automobile accidents involving bundled» of people,” the mother wrote him, "but little do we consider the heartbreak and changes in family living that those* accidents bung about. “We never hear of a victim's father or mother who have kept on from day to day, feeling that all of their phywicial strength has completely left them pulling themselves up by their boot straps so the two brothers and one sister won't feel that the bottom has dropped out from under' their feet. "We never hear of the brother who Was so very dose to his year-and-a- half older brother wandering from iwdroom to bedroom when time to retire, visiting with his brother and sister and his mother and dad. and his yamlmother talking about one thing and another, dreading the time he must go to his own bedroom alone*- sigh ing and tossing in his bed until late at Eight. “We take other peoples trouble so casually—surely something could be done to lessen the numlvr of lives that ’ are lost along our highways." This mother's poignant picture of of wh«t an accident has done to her family only begins to tell the whole story of “Operation Heartbreak” in in the homes of Americas 40,00<l highway fatalities in a year's time. As Mr Blaisdell points out, this is part of the uncounted indirect toll if these accidents, but it is in under standable human terms that perhaps might make a deeper impression on drivers of American families than cold statistics of the dead and injured. If motorists respond with safer driving because their emotions are moved by the tragic results of ac cidents as drawn by this and other beieaved mothers, and if the legion of those left behind by the victims of automobile accidents could be organ ized into an army of ardent workers in the cause of highway safety—which this mother's strong desire- we might at long last see a turning point in the alarming trend of traffic pe ndents. Have Something i ii rprise ( lass Weather Clear TRACK W hen racing driv< records, t' cy praj clear, fast track. But those same conditions on the nation's highways different records deadly records! Last year XO per cent of fatal accidents. 26.280 occurred in clear weather on • ‘ •-•■•«Ti». 1Oivk. Only o^»e P.......... v much speed, too little contr. Highways arc not raceways, hut every road has its dread quota of "race track fringe" drivers. One highway safety authority says: “It is not a question of what is a safe speed now it is what is a 'survival speed’ for the average driver? It isn’t up in the 65 miles an hour and plus range, where sustained momentum hy pnotizes the senses, where impact is deadly . Now we must slow down to live!” In the last four years average speeds have been creeping up until more than half of all rural driving, passenger cars and buses, are now exceeding fifty miles per hour with many of them doing well over sixty. I bis high speed hysteria must be tamed. It has become a national emergency to be met by indignant public demand for more and stricter law enforcement. I ct’s stop this losing race with Death! The Mill City Enterprise
