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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1959)
8—The Mill City fciiterrpise Remember the From The Enterprise Fifteen Years Ago The Mill City State Bank was celebrating 25 years of service in the area, having been estab lished in 1919. Organizer and first president was F. M. Arn- Old. Directors included F. M. and Emogine Arnold, D. B Hill and C. B. Trask. The bank had weathered the depressions of 1922 and 1931-34 It had survived the blow of the Thursday, Nov. 12, 1959 I closing of the Hammond Lum ber Company in 1935 which threw 250 men out of work. Also in 1937 Dr. W. W Allen passed away after serving as head of the bank for 15 years. The Mill City schools had topped their sixth war bond quota of $2.000 by $3,746 65 The grade school alone raised $866.65 and the high school bought $2,- 880, of which the faculty had purchased $2,600. Word had ben received by Mill City inends and relatives that Lt. Cliff Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nye Phillips of Barkley, Wa«b., had ben killed in action i over Germany. He was with a bombing squadron of the Army Airforce and had just been in action there 15 days. Ten Years Ago An enthusiastic group of Lions club members were working on their forthcoming production of Laff it off." There was a professional director, Mrs. Mild red Duncan Williams Leading players included Dr. David J. Ferguson, George Veteto, Geo. Steffy, Car) Kelly, Lois Goschie, PWJFWTY Shirley Laird and others. VUXJß The Mill City PTA progressive International dinner was held Thursday evening and netted about $80.00, according to the ways and means chairman. Mrs. Arthur Kriever. This was a smaller amount than usual as none of the food was donated. JUST HOW FAR 4 Charter election at Mill City Tuesday decided in favor of ac WOULD YOUR ceptance of Mill City’s first Charter by a vote of 116 to 52. An interesting sidelight to the COVERAGE GO? housing condition in Mill City and nearby areas was the fact Would your present fire | that the trailer courts had their I insurance cover replace own correspondents and were ment costs at today’s sending in news from their ’ higher figures? If you "cities.' From Gates news by Mrs. Al want to play safe, better bert Millsap came word that the look into this matter Floyd Volkels, owners and op erators of the Gates General now. No Obligation. store were completely redecor ating and renovating their store. Dave Epps had taken a full page advertisement in The En terprise announcing the Grand Opening of his new furniture i store, Saturday. November 12. Many merchandise prizes were J. C. Kimmel, Owner being offered by Mr. Epps. He [ was selling a three-piece bed- Ph. 1708, Mill City ; room set for $69.50. HILL INSURANCE AGENCY Five Years Ago Be«« th« fi«««t v«t«h •boutd b« ni—nirl and a<M at an«« ayw. • yaar. Nagtect today-ax y bms «»tty rapair bilk tanorrow EXPERT WATCH INSPECTION FREE! DEALE*___ J FREE! s50 in Merchandise I of your selection to be given away Dec. 19. Place your name in box each time you come in $tore. You need not be present to win. $20 First Prize $5 Third & Fourth $10 Second Prize 10 Prizes $1 each See Camp's First For Toys—Hobbies—New and Used Bicycles Camp's Sporting Goods 185 First Street - Stayton, Oregon ; 'i- A new type of drapery rod is now on the market. It’s adjust able. one-inch in diameter, and looks like brass. It's made from annodized aluminum so it won't corrode. Best news of all, it's a traverse-type rod so it can be opened and closed with a cord: yet the drapery can be hung on rings. You Find the Best in Meat & Groceries when you shop regularly at our meat and grocery store. See us about a linker Today. Order one and have it ready for winter. Open 7 Days a Week Mill City MEAT MARKET Mill City Phone 2642 ’A K I *or reiireU persons. Seven story, ! three-wing building will go up in the i Portland metropolitan area. » ! also president of , apartments on the roof. Mini- Sketch by architect Walter E. Kelly, Portland, of proposed Carlson National home, nonprofit cooperative housing A zone change to permit con-1 Carlson is — Carlson ——.— — . — ............ struct ion of a $3 million retire-| the Planing Mill in Van mum down payments are re- ment home in Multnomah coun couver, Wash. quired, Carlson pointed out. ty was announced today by pro Carlson said the home has 1 The site is a five-acre tract ject president Arthur B. Carl located at N. E. 112th and N. E. been designed with both indoor son. Halsey streets in Portland. Con and outdoor recreation in mind. , The proposed development I struction will begin when 100 The pr emise will also include a will be the Carlson National Re units have been sold. Carlson library, a chapel, kitchen and tirement Home, a seven story, said. dining room facilities, and an ex three-wing retirement manor Applications are being accept tensively equipped infirmary for persons 60 years and older. ed now. with registered nurses on duty i Sponsors of the program are ' Original purchasers of living 24 hours a day. < national organizations of Bap accomodations in the manor will Those desiring to live at the tist laymen and ministers. It is be called founders. Founders' | Carlson National Retirement to be a nonprofit and nonsectar fees start at $7,380 and range home must file a regular appli- upward to the deluxe penthouse cation which includes a finan- j ian development. Attention Mr. Hunter.. You'd better bring your car or pick up to us right now so it will be ready for that hunting trip. It gets cold in the mountains and a fillup w may of antifreeze now ma" save some it in a money for you. We'll do _ hurry and do it right too DRAPER'S FLYING A SERVICE We Give S Sr H Green Stomps Phone 7442 Highway 22 Mill City TIMBERLINE By John E. Benneth Trees hold many values for many people. They provide jobs and income for 63 per cent of Oregon's industrial workers, scenic beauty for everyone, and to the ladies of the Lebanon Herb Tea society they provide Douglas fir-needle punch. The punch ladled out from the tasting table at a recent meet ing of the society, and which drew exclamations from the la dies present, was made by cut ting a half cup of needles into fine pieces, adding a quart of water and letting the brew steep overnight. It needs to be strained twice before serving. It could use a little sugar, Mrs. Robert Veness. genera) Newspaper Subscription chairman of the PTA Intema- I Much for the .Money , nona] dinner held Thursday ev- If you weigh 122 pounds, | ening. stated that $145 had been read your weight in paper each netted. 76.8 Miss Janet Bellin, Stayton year. Americans used High student living at Mehama pounds of newsprint and 46.2 t was guest speaker at the Lions pounds of other printing papers | club Monday evening. She was apiece last year, according to introduced by George Veteto, American Paper and Pulp as as the recent winner in the IOOF sociation. Good forest manage sponsored Youth Pilgrimage ment which supplies the raw material for this paper in this trip to United Nations. Word had ben received that way plays a part in the dis Randy Hale, younger son of semination of information. Total Mill City teacher and coach, per capita paper consumption James Hale, had suffered an at last year amounted to 405 tack of polio. He was in a Port pounds, nearly four times as land hospital where no visitors much as the 58 pounds each would be allowed for 10 days. American used in 1899. * * • Mill City Lions club members Trees That Fall ’Up* were rehearsing intensively for j their minstrel show which was 1 Gravity is no obstacle scheduled for November 18 at Weyerhaeuser Co. loggers. the grade school gymnasium. In rough, steep terrain on the Lee Ross was director of the firm's Calapooya Tree Farm production. near Springfield where trees Mark Hatfield, state senator felled downhill are in danger of elect was scheduled to speak breaking, loggers scale the tree, on "Education" at the IOOF hook lines high up from their hall November 15. tractors and guide the tree into New highway signs and mer on uphill fall. The system is cury vapor lights were iting producing results in less break erected along the highway in age in the woods, more timber Mill City, according to A. E. i at the mill from each tree Archibald, sign superintendent harvested. of the State Highway depart ment Nature'« Wonder •Dlapoae All' Mr and Mrs. Hugh Jull were Mother Nature contributes her. in the Salem Memorial hospit own bit toward fire prevention al. the result of a car accident in the woods, and foresters are in Salem. They received broken wondering if they can utilize bones, cuts and bruises. her weapon a wood-rooting fun-| gus railed Polyporus anceps I Polyurethane foam is rapid by inoculating hazardous slash [ ly replacing foam rubber in up accumulations with it. holstered furniture Polyure The soggy rot builds a white thane foam is: lightweight, re cottony pad between the bark tains its shape indefinitely, and ami the wd of dead trees and doesn't break away at the edges cull logs It conserves moisture as does foam rubber Polyure so well that wlyn the bark is thane foam is rigid by very pried up during the dryest part comfortable of fire season, the log is found to be dripping wet. Thus Na ture's "dispose-all" keeps po tential fuel wetted down while it slowly decomposes it. How Long Sinco Your Watch Was Cleaned ? cial statement and a health re f port. Applications are being ac I cepted now and will be consid ered by the board of trustees at 2645 N. E. 2Tth Ave. Portland Carlson is president of the board and Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield, is honorary chairman of the advisory board. Proposed Retirement Home At- Ä fe ’’j f? Here's what Mrs. Carl Kelly of Mill City says about electric living "ELECTRICITY SAVES ME COUNTLESS HOURS OF WORK AT ONLY 37« A DAY ITS THE BEST BARGAIN I KNOW “My electric washer and dryer are indispensable to me. I can do up my husband's shirts and alt the children’s laundry for no more effort than turning a couple of dials. And there are a dozen other ways electricity helps me around the houae. Along the lead Line "Old Number Four" an cient Shay locomotive which hauled logs for Medford Cor- I poration in southern Oregon for many years, has found a final resting place in Medford's new est park as a gift of the com pany. M.slern forestry and log ging practices have outmoded the old engine. Frightening sta tistic for hunters: Eight per cent of the nations 1.200.000 hunters are color blind. . . . The effectiveness of forest cover in keeping down brush anti weeds is illustrated by a recent study I in the Western Pine region tn which 164 weed seeds per square Wife to ungerminated husband as foot were found tailor measures his of waist: ‘Tt's beneath the canopy ponderoaa quite pines amazing when your re- I alize that a Pouglas fir with | that girth would be 90 feet tall." I AM th«»« modern electric opplionce» help Mr. ond Mrs. Cori Kelly ond their three children live better In their Morion County home for ¡uit 37< o day i P iange TOASTER ^¡fWATER HEATER ^FREEZER g'COFFEE MAKER Yes, your PP&L electric service is your best buy for better living. Be sure you’re enjoying the full comfort and convenience that only electricity '«ON ¡3? WASHER ÿ' DRYER 5* SEWING MACHINE rj? REFRIGERATOR ^DtSHW ASHER VACUUM CLEANER gf TELEVISION — 2 ^MIXER ^RADIOS —2 V LIGHTING It certainly is a real value for the money." «XVENTILATING FAN can provide. 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