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THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISKTHI R8DAY. O<'TOBER 29. 1959 Order Your Printing From Th< MILL CITY ENTERPRISE NEED A FREEZER?? LOOK! 14 Cubic Foot Combination 8 Cubic Foot Refrigerator at Top 6 Cubic Foot Freezer at Bottom LESS THAN 10 MONTHS OLD No Place Like Home" Says Don Paul After Making Tour of Europe EDITOR’S NOTE—This ia the lest of the series of articles written by and left early Saturday morning Don Paul, who with his family made On Friday evening we decided to a tour of Europe this past summer. visit a movie, and wishing to econ Thank you Don for a good report on omize. decided to go down town by the trip, and I think our readers have subway. In his book, “The Divine enjoyed it- / Comedy.” Dante dreams that he October 26, 1959 visits Hell. It is arranged in nine lay Dear Don:— ers or sections, each of which is deep ■ The difference, in the Assistant Sup er and more horrible than the last, erintendent of Police I mentioned last and the tortures and punishments week, lay in the fact that he was a more ghastly and severe- He didn't Negro. Not a mulatto or octaroon or live long enough to dream about the any mixture by which he could po 'tenth: the New York subway on a litely be called “Spanish’* and so I hot August night. passed as such, but a completely Early next morning we swung onto black Negro, with a pure blood line Riverside Drive, turned right to the that must have stretched back to the I George Washington Bridge, buzzed tall warriors of the African high over the Pulaski Skyway, and so on lands, long, long ago. to the New Jersey Turnpike. We | Fifty years ago he would have been travelled on the turnpikes all the i contemptuously referred to as a “buck way to Chicago. At a cent a mile they , nigger.” Even 20 years ago the are a motorist’s delight; you buzz [ thought of a NATIVE holding any along at a steady 60 or 65; few heavy rank in the Colonial police higher trucks, no cities to go through, no than a sergeant would have been im | billboards telling you how lucky you | possible, and talking to him I realized I are to be in America, even though how quickly the world has changed in I you can’t see it because there are so 1 the last 20 years. And talking more I many billboards telling you how lucky I to him, I realized how completely you are to be in America, even right it was that this man should have ' though • . . and every 30 miles a such a job; a job with much respon Howard Johnson’s cafeteria selling sibility in policy and administratino, everything from antifreeze to zoo head of a department of over 350 soup. men, a job which compares locally Every day we drove about 400 I with only one man—the head of the miles, stopping each night at motels local plywood mill- ¡displaying the magic sign “air con Talking to him. I recognized those ditioned.” It was not until we reach- | traits common to all snuccessful exe I ed Idaho that the weather became | cutives: the impatience with small [ tolerable, and it was not until we I talk, the restless twitching of hands | reached the summit of the pass be- I I and legs betraying forceful, driving I tween Bend and Mill City that we ■ energy, the capactiy to state pro- I would breathe air that didn't taste I Iblems in outline, numerical form, the like the wrong end of a vacuum | abrupt “goodbye,” and friendly cleaner. “hello”; all things I have seen in And so, at last, we turned off [ men much wiser and more successful | Highway 22, crossed the Santiam. [than myself. And I could not help ■ passed Tom’s Shell station, the liquor I but rue the way we deprive ourselves I store, the theatre, then home! Fifteen | of the talents of many gifted men | thousand miles of travel lay behind [whose skin is the “wrong” color, who us, school started the following Mon go to the “wrong” church or haven’t day, the lawn needed watering, and joined the “right” club. And I wonder our trip to Europe was over. what will happen in the future when And what did we get out of it, the yellow race, the black race, the Four conclusions: brown race, their armies equipped A- Few joys can compare with1 I with nuclear bomb-bearing missiles seeing old friends and dear relative» (as one day they surely will), sud B Europe is a wonderful place I denly realize that they are in the to visit. majoriey: what will happen when C. America is a great country to they eye the great ranges in Aus live in. * tralia. the pampas of the Argentine, D- There's no place like home! the prairies of our mid-west, Apart from things like that, the voyage was unpleasant. Our cabin was maddeningly hot, the deck space I Bv Mrs. John Teeter» was small, and entertainment scarce. SP4c and Mrs. Allen C. McDonald For five hundred people the library consisted of a hundred volumes, half > and son. Christian Emery arrived I of which were in French. I felt like i here Sunday from Monterey, Calif , j the English colonel, visiting France i where they have been while Mr. Mc- for the first time, remarking bitter . Donald has been attending the U- S- ly to a friend. “What a crazy word Army language school there. Sunday guests at the D. L. Teeters they have for bread, here—‘pain.’ After all. the darned stuff IS bread!” home were Mr. and Mrs. Don Sten«- We were relieved, thus, after six land and son, Theodore Jav of In days of good cooking and bad ship dependence. Additional supper guests ping. to stand on deck and watch the were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Longfel harbor of New York gradually en low. Royce, Rex and Roily, SP 4c and Mrs. Allen McDonald, Sam Wallen. fold us. But that relief lasted only a few ■ the Stenslands and the Teeters sons minutes. New York was hot humid and I Harold, Doug and Bruce, Mrs. Teet | excessively uncomfortable. We ar ers. Mrs. Longfellow and Mrs. Stens- rived on the Thursday, spend all Fri land are all sisters of Mr McDonald, day hurdling the car oyer the ob and Sam Wallen is a cousin. Visiting Sunday with Mr and Mrs. stacles set up by the U- S. Customs, Jim Richmond and daughters were Mr. and Mrs. Gene Small and sons of Stayton. Mr. and Mrs. L- I Mulkey of Port- I land visited during the weekend witn her sister-in-law, Mrs E J. Hughes | and with other relatives here R. E Shields left the last of the week for Merrill where he will visit | I with his daughter’s family, Mr. and j Mrs. Lloyd Lisk and daughters. ; I Janis Lisk daughter of the Lisks was ' queen of the Klamath Basin Potato Festival which was held at Merrill on the 23rd and 24th. Mrs. Leo Kirsch went to Bend last Wednesday to visit with her parents. She was accompanied #s far as Tum alo by Mrs. D L- Teeters a"nd Mrs. Harold Longfellow, who visited with their parents, the Chris McDonalds [ The Rev. James Hardv was in Eu gene on Monday and Tuesday of last week to attend an Oregon Synod Con ference on Evangelism. While there Mr Hardy was a room-mate of the Rev. Jack Adams of Roseburg, who told many interesting stories of the recent blast in that city. Mrs. Gerald Rockwell was hostess | at her home Tuesday. October 20 for ■ ■ two "Santa’s Helper's’’ parties. One of them was held in the morning and | the other in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Branch and <on. Bobby returned home Saturday from a week's vacation when they visited Mrs. Branch's brother's fam ily, the Arthur Reynolds in Phoenix. Ariz. They made the trip down through Nevada and returned home through California Guests Sunday at the Charles Crook home were Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crook, Brent and Joyce of Portland. Mr and Mrs Hubert Seamtser of Sa lem Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Crook and Greg,'Mr and Mrs. Robert Crook. Barbara and Alyson all of Mill City- Mr. and Mrs. Walt Messinger re turned home Sunday from a trip when they visited in Southern Oregon and California Mr. and Mrs. G W. Coffman were rvaa-iwnMM imm hosts at their home Sunday afternoon ruco«-TV. for an open house and buffet hon- iring their daughte, Almeta and her t» «e- T»« r**T M —w »art hueband. Lt. Alvino R. Theis About coswutt mitow U mmi » i r •-*.». 60 relatives and friends called during the afternoon Lt- Theis who has been stationed st Enid, Okla., will leave this week for Phoenix. Aril., where he will be New Machine Guarantee — Liberal Terms Phone Mill City 1405 HALLOWE’EN Pumpkins each 25cand 29c Whole Maskseach 10cand 15c Half Maskseach 5cand 10c Bells each 10cand 25c Noisemakersof a"kinds each 10c HALLOWE’EN Costumes each A and M. Toman Phone 1824 Nothing fits you like a Ford ! F»<«i ci» f int rf firtv—frtm nv’i tvint »f Str-Thf Kant Frit »/ • No other cars C>r *60 are to completely, wonderfully new I More news! There'll be lltrff completely ■sew (indi of Ford car»—a Ford to fit ever» family—all Under our roof. Come in and make your choice I »tir vo * i t wit»« woewwirt womb c < courotr at too« omv STAYTON. ORE stationed at Luke A/B Mrs Theis Wagner, president, and Mrs. Eugen# will visit here for awni'e and join Clason. secretary-treasurer. A good part of the evening was given over to her husband later. The Mehama Pre-s; hool mothers final plans for the cooked food sale met Wednesday evening, October 21 i to be held at Golliets Saturday, start at the home of Mrs. Bonnie Wag ing at 10:30 a m The sale will fea ner for their regular monthly meet ture trick or treat items as well as ing. New officers elected were Mrs. the usual items. The Hallowe en Store For CB K New price was $709.95 Our Special Price........... Igloo Foods Co H FORDS PHILIPPI MOTOR CO. — ■ I MEHAMA Mill City Pharmacy Dependable Prescription Service Phone 6607 Mill City, Oregon II 11 Box Office Opens 5:30 P. M. Sunday» - 7:00 P. M. Week Daye FRIDAY. SATURDAY, SUNDAY. OCT. 30-31. NOV. 1 LANA TURNER. SANDRA DEE, IN “IMITATION OF UFE” HALLOWEEN MIDNIGHT SHOW — SATURDAY, OCT. 31 “BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE” EERIE! SPINE ( HILLING! HORRIBLE! Starts at Shriek of Midnight FRIDAY. SATURDAY, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 6-7-8 TIM HOVEY, JOCK MAHONEY, in “MONEY, WOMEN, .AND GUNS” Western in Color — PLUS — GREGORY PECK in a Great War Story “PORK CHOP HILL” FRIDAY, SATURDAY. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13-14-15 KATHRYN GRANT. KERWIN MATHEWS, in “THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD” — PLUS — JACK BEUTEL, STEVE KEYES, in “MUSTANG” FRIDAY. SATURDAY, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20-21-22 THE THREE STOOGES in “HAVE ROCKET, WILL TRAVEL” — PLUS — “THE LEGEND OF TOM DOOLEY” TH I RS.. FR1 . S (T„ SUN. NOVEMBER 26-27-28-29 “AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Prices: Adults and Students 80c. 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