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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1954)
5—THE Mil l < IT> ENTERPRISE TH! RSDAY. JI W s 1954 Back Road Jaunt to Capital City Includes Ride on Departing Ferry Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Walkup spent Sunday in Albany visiting friends. Mrs. Jack Colburn spent a few days the forepart of the week at their lanch near Alsea. TIu- foltuwlng la a <-nn<iei .utlnn • f s niotarlng a|>peaHn|r ln Xurtliwe-.l rwto ma-aalns of tl.e May SO ‘OinVav »rcfonian. It i« • ne at th» aanu.il aerlea «pon • red Joletlv h-- t he Oreo.n St , . Motor aMMwlatlain nnd The Ore- g untan Mr. and Mrs. Charles I mphress and family spent Monday fishing on the coast near Wheeler. Mrs. Charles French returned Wed nesday from Salem Memorial hospital where she submitted to surgery. P.V Mr. and Mrs. Virgil O’Niel of Salem spent Sunday afternoon and evening at the Lee Ross home. Minister and Mrs. L. O. White of the Lebanon Christian church were visitors at the Christian church par sonage the evening of Memorial day. Mrs. Minnie Emra of Portland spent a short time in Mill City Sun day visiting at the C. E. Sullivan home. Weekend guests of the Glen Hear ings were her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Moncrief and three children of Kennewick, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. J. I). Frace and daughters, Linda and Claudia, spent the Mermorial weekend in Mill City at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Moffatt. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Burn. Mrs. Glad ys Maerz and Mrs. Grace Overman of Salem, were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kliewer Sun- day. HACSS-rt Staff Writer, The Oregaaian S«rtebe« by Er nr st Kielnd*. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Siler moved this week to Portland, where he has em ployment. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Beisel of Clat skanie. former residents of Mill City, spent the weekend here, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fleetwood. Pvt. John G. Oliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Oliver at Gates, is now attend.ng the Laundiy and Dry Clean ing machine operation course offered by the quartermaster school at Fort 1-ee, Virginia. Pvt. Oliver graduated from Gates1 high school and enteied the service in January, 1954. This eight week course trains en listed personnel in the operation of laundry and dry cleaning machinery installed in fixed or mobile laundry units. Students study such subjects as the operation and maintenance of mo bile and stationaiy laundry and dry cleaning equipment, pipe fitting and internal combustion engines. He will graduate from this course on June 5, 1954. Wilsonville Craft Foon to Be F.enlaccd By Modern Bridge The Boy Scouts of Troop 49 enjoyed a wiener roast in the park Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Art Watters of Eu gene, were visitors a short time Mon day afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jackson. Pvt. John Oliver Attends Army School at Fort lx‘e I “Monotonous. Monotonous .“ The driver of the family bus wasn’t At end of Tualatin's Main street to stately old home (above left! e-’hoing sinser Earths Kitt’s tag- surrounded by venerable trees. Motoring route through Butteville 1 ne for her blase ballad of bore offered stop to inspect pioneer school and adjacent old town jail. dom. He was just expressing his v -w ol another trip to Salem over been told they were to get a boat He couldn’t remember when he’d the familiar 50 miles of 99E. and ride. last been in bMiald It must have that was why he crossed the river Downstream loomed the new t>een more than 20 years — thrt started out on 99W. turned off to highway bridge, long dreamed time, when, having thumbed a ride go through Tualatin and on to about and now rqplity of steel with a bathtub salesman, he waited Wilsonville. and concrete. Upstream the high there outside a plumber's shop He drove slowly past Aden’s bridge of the Oregon Electric while the salesman made a calk stole and then down to the steep where the green trains used to roll. Before that he remembered it as a incline that leads to the ferry land The driver of the family bus never place where the trains stopped, ing. What luck! The Jesse Boone saw that bridge without remem the fine green trains of the Ore was on the nigh side, ready to bering the first thrill of crossing gon Electric. Wasn’t there a power load The children shouted happily its long trestle, his 6-year-nose house beside the track at Donald? at the surprise, for they had not flattened to the window pane, and So on. paralleling the railroad thinking then as he looked far, far track and then crossing it and down at the tiny cows in the running it on the other side, pasture below that this was surely through along the country until the road the highest bridge in the world. ran out and into another and into So up from the ferry landing and on. Ordinarily the driver 01 the first houses of a town. the family bus would have turned Gervais Visited Ion to the straight stretch of pave "Why this must be Gervais." he ment which comes to the main It was Gervais, that old highway north of Hubbard, but though. town the highway lost. How many TUALATIN the same perversity which had times had he sped by the sign of turned him earlier made him in black and orange r. iting the wav stead follow the sign pointing to with civic pride t< * rvais. and he Butteville. And after Butteville he couldn recall that he had ever followed a sign that pointed to been ’t here. He was suddenly Donald. shocked to realize that he knew 'WILSONVILLE^ many of the remote places far in Countryside Quiet the sagebrush better than he knew Each turn brought a new sight. the little towns off the high Here and there daffodils crowded way quiet BUTTEVILLE in his own valley. carelessly down to the roadway. Now an old house, carefully and "Daddy, this isn’t the way to plainly, built in the manner of Grandma s house," a child said D onald first settlers, and other old ones querulously. lere are many, many ways to from times of later affluence, still wearing proudly the gingerbread go to Salem," said the driver of their built’ ,.s so proudly gave the family bus. And as he said it them. But it was more the serenity he saw the many cars rushing pell- and quiet naturalness of a spring mell through the country ahead of TO SALEM Sunday in the deep countryside him and in a moment the little that enthralled the driver of the country road ended at the high- family bus than anything he saw way and the family bus was caught or heard. in the stream. It and its cargo sped Again tl- er-led cross -rms of headlong in the familiar channel. ■ a led ”Th:s,” said a satisfied vo e qjbt from t!" beck seat. "Tbis is ti e •re to ma’a. Now v v a,en t »Mi n it/ u.U U-.j > mmw ” Quality J Mill Gift top Marker ay to make be r ,i> He f fruiting »> nterprfce Ronald Ragsdale Is Jeep Driver In Korea Army Pfc Ronald E. Ragsdale, 21, 'son of Mi. and Mrs. Ernest H. Rags- ’ dale, recently spent a seven-day rest : and recuperation leave at Camp | Hakata, Japan. Pvt. Ragsdale is normally stationed 1 in Korea as a jeen driver in the 7th Infantry Division's 31st regiment. He entered the Army in January 1953 and ai rived overseas last July. ♦ Keep posted on what is happening in the canyou by subscribing to The Mill City Enterprise—$2.50 per year. Enterprise ('lass Ads Pay Mr. and Mrs. John Slagle, of Port- land are the proud parents of a i son, Dr. Floyd B. Albin, acting registrar | Mr. and Mrs. George Humphrey what was known as Camp 17 of the bom to them Monday. Mrs. Slagle Mill City this week. They plan on old Hammond Lumber company, now .................. will be remembered heie as Judy i at : OCE has announced the names of left v I doing some traveling about the state the present site of Detroit. the returning students who have re Hinz. Stormy weather prevailed over the ceived PTA scholarships for the school : prior to going to Australia, where Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Arey Podrabsky moved yearl954-55; beginning in September. Humphrey will be working for CBI. ! holidays in this area. Fishermen re turning from Paulina and East Lakes thia past, weekend into the: *ne ■ r h<Wre Delores Poole of Mill City and Junn reported a blizzard and snow fall of west of Mill City. When* completed Davis of Idanha, both sophomores approximately eight inches over the this will be one of the finest home ii have received notification to this ef weekend in that area. Fishery ieturn fect. This scholarship will be used this area. ing from Crane Prairie Reservoir re to continue a course in elementary By Boots Champion Mr. and Mrs. Bert Provost left the teacher education. Visitors at the John Estey home ported good catches despite the foul forepart of the week for North Da-1 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kelly and on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Bernie weather. Fishing in this area was con- siderable lighter than usual. kota, where Mr. Provost will work on. Johnny, accompanied by Leia Kelly Hackney and sons, Tommy, David and Mi. and Mrs. Braxton Fouts and Garrison dam. They will live at Riv of Oregon State college, spent the Larry of Crescent City, California; daughter, Nadine Surgeon, of Idanha, erdale. Willard Booker, Mrs. Margie James double holiday at the Hill cottage at spent the holidays at Port Angeles, I Road's End on the coast. The weather and Joan Booker of Lebanon, Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. James L. Grant was unexpectedly pleasant. Others at Mrs. Al Stahlman and Roberta Book Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Gudne Geston of (Paula Van Buskirk) and two small the beach for the weekend were the er of Mill City and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Idanha returned home after a week’s sons, Tony and Dale have moved to Russell Kelly family, who also have Scott of Philomath. vacation in Reno, Nevada. Enroute Eugene. Mr. Grant is employed as a a cabin at that place. Mrs. Hackney, Mrs. James, Joan home they toured thiough Red Bluff, steel foreman at Dexter dam. and Roberta Booker are nieces of Mrs. Redding, Ureka and Cave Junction Mrs. Clifford Roebke entertained at Estey. where they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Don Hiner, who are | ■ a surprise birthday party in honor of Miss Delores Meals, daughter of Ted Womack. Mert reported she didn’t now located at Myrtle Creek, spent her husband Sunday evening after Mr. and Mrs. John Meals of Detroit, lose her shirt at Reno. the holiday in Mill City with friends. church service. Guests weie: Mr. and moved to Seattle last weekend where Holiday visitors at the Earl Lay Don says Mill City is still home to Mrs. Glen Shelton, Ellen Shelton, Mrs. she will spend the summer at the man home w-ere Mr. and Mrs. Harlan them, and that they still have theii Robert Shelton, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd home of her brother-in-law and sister, Kelley of Salem. trailer house parked here. Shepherd, minister and Mrs. H. E. Mr. ano Mrs. Frank Harwood. Visit Jull, Wilma Jull and Ralph Jull, all of ing at the Meals home over the holi SUBSCRIBE TO THE ENTERPRISE1 Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Stiffler and Mill City, and Mr. and Mis. Tom days was their son, Melvin of Canyon sons left early Sunday morning on Grewe of The Dalles. ville. a short vacation which took them to Little Tiny Savage, daughter of Mr. Reno, Carson City and Virginia City, Leo. Lester and Jim Poole, and Buzz and Mrs. Athol Savage, of Idanha, Nevada. They report a pleasant and Fleetwood spent the Memorial holiday was released from the Memorial hos interesting trip. They returned Mon fishing at Crane Prairie. Jim and Buzz pital at Stayton Saturday and re- | day evening. also did some fishing at Lost turned to her home. Tiny received a Lake. While fishing there they were fractured skull and a chipped collar Mrs. Larry Debus, the former Elise caught in a snowstorm on the lake bone when she tumbled from an upper Taylor, daughter of Mrs. L. W. La- and nearly froze stiff. They caught bunk bed at her home a week ago moreaux will be visiting here soon. no fish at Lost Lake but did bring Saturday night. She is getting along Mrs. Debus was in the 1941 gradu home some nice ones from Caine fine, reports her mother, Mrs. Athol ating class of Mill Cijy high school. Savage. Piairie. She and her husband plan to spend a "Mom’' Ladasaw, recently of Cres- month vacationing in Oregon. Overnight guests of Mrs. J. F. well is the new manager of the Spill- Potter last Wednesday were Mr. and way Cafe in Idanha. She is being as- Mr. and Mrs. Jess Crossler of Gros Mrs. Fred Olin, J t ., of Klamath sited by her daughter, Mrs. Betty siers Grocery will leave Thursday fol , Falls. Mrs. Lgfe Hill of Salem was Haves of Detroit. If you can’t stop, Bridger, Montana, to attend the wed-1 also a recent guest at the Potter yell "Hello.” ding of their son, Darrell to Miss Joan home. Mrs. Clifford Trask. Mrs. Pot Holiday guests at the Wilbur Har Currie. While Mr. and Mrs. Crossler ter’s sister, who has spent several lan home were Mr. Harlan's parents, are away the store will be operated . weeks visiting here, left Monday to Mr. and Mrs. William Harlan, of Foss. by Paul and Florence Ressler. return to her home at Fresno, Calif. Mrs. Hilma Dickie, mother of Mrs. Harlan, returned to her home in Port Members of the Oddfellow lodge The Christian Woman’s Fellowship land Monday, after a week's visit at here will meet at 7 o’clock Friday the Harlan home. evening at the lodge hall for a short will meet Wednesday, June 9 at 2:00 Mrs. Melba Dallaire returned to her p. m. with Mrs. Susie Haynes. Offic session and then go to Scio where j I home in Idanha Sunday after a short they will, with the assistance of Scio | ers elected at the May meeting will 1 visit with relatives in Portland. She be installed as follows: President, members, confer the initiatory degree sMrs. E. K. Fish; vice president. Mrs. was accompanied home bv Mrs. Ann on a candidate. |lke Myers, and secretary, Mrs. H. E. 1 Anderson of Salem. Mrs. Anderson, a 1 former resident of Idanha, plans on a Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hirte were I Jull. ' week’s visit here. in Salem Friday to see O. K. Hirte, Mrs. Evelyne Gearhart, an English Mr*. W. C. Shuford, who Mr. and who is still confined to a hospiatl fol living east of town have I teacher at Detroit left here Friday I have been _ lowing the car wreck of some time moved into the Ken Siler residence, | evening for Portland, w-here she took ago. They report that Ozzie is coming which they purchased. Mr. Shuford a plane Monday evening for New- along fine and might be home in a I went to work on Detroit Dam when York. After a 10 day visit with her week or 10 days. it wa< first started and is now em daughter. Betty, who resides in New ployed there as one of the mainten York, Mrs. Gearhart will flv to Eng Memorial day visitors at the home land. On her European trip, some of of Mrs A. F. Catherwood were her | ance men. the countries she will visit are France, three sisters. Mrs. H. W. Dunnigan Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Heller and Germany, Belguim, Italy, Scotland and husband, and Mrs. Mary E Lovett daughter Mary Suzanne, accompan and Ireland. She plans on returning of Salem and Mrs. Emma Bn Spry and to the States August 31. son. Clarence of Portland. M ith Mrs. ied by John Thompson made a “fly Mrs. Gearhart resided at the home Lovett were her son-in-law and daugh ing" trip to Los Angeles over the of Mrs. Ella Johnson of Detroit, while weekend. They left here Friday, ar ter, Mr. and Mrs. Flton Fishbark and here. daughter, Margaret, of Klamath riving at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Watters of Leaving there Sunday evening at 8 Falls. Other visitors were Mr. and Eugene, spent the holidays at the o'clock, they were home Monday night. Mrs. Kenneth Swan and daughter of Beeson summer cottage in Detroit. Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Cather Mrs. Heller s mother, Mrs. Mary Mr Watters as a boy, resided with his Flanders of Compton, returned to Mill wood and son. Dwight of West Linn parents, the E. B Watters in 1926 at : City with them for a visit. and Mrs O. J. Downing of Salem. DETROIT Harold Klie*« took advantage some more c ha> moved his fro where it will !>• shoppers. He • self-service ice Shuffleboard Good Music MEANDER INN WHERE FRIENDS MEET On Highway 222, Linn County Side MILL CITY, OREGON George “Sparky” Ditter Jenkins Hardware Now is the Time To Paint the Outside Porch & Deck Paints Shake Paints Ill use Paints Beat Paints Rental Floor Sanders and Paint Sprayers WALL PAPER AND SUPPLIES WE GIVE S & II GREEN STAMPS Mill City 1 ; I