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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1963)
The Mill City Enterprise ON TIIE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — GATEWAY TO THE HEART OF NATURE’S EMPIRE VOLUME XVIII NI MBER » Residents at Meeting Friday Favor Reorganization of Mill City-Gates Districts lly Don Moffatt Some 85 or 90 residents of the Gates Mill City district met at the Santiam Union llttiary Fri day night to hear reasons why the urea »iwaild la* organiz ed into one district and came away lor the moat part believ ing that this wouhl be the an swer of crowdol conditions at tlic Mill City Elementary school. Some of tltosr contacted after the meeting were of the opin ion that something should have lx-en said nbout the upcoming I mod on January 14, when the Mill City voters will tic asked to sppruvr u J115.U00 bond is sue to construct six rooms to alleviate the crowding here. They said something should have been said utsnil the Gatea sctsMil running at half capacity and that by shifting some of the school [H>|>ulation, there would he no need for additional build ing at this time However this did not come up at the meeting, and no mention of either the bond Issue or crowded condi tions were mentioned. A show of haiula of those present was in favor of reorganization Two wen* against srui some showed nu choice. Bob Oliver. Gates, who is chairman of the local reorgan ization committee along with Charlene Cooper and Richard (ok* called the meeting to or der and asked William Dol- myer to introduce the Unn County Rural school tioard. also Dan Patch and Virgil Moss of the state department. Ixdmyvr asked Mr Patch to give his impression of the benefits of unified or craisolulated district. This I m * did and summed up the main Items in these five points 1. Better use of the teaching force, being able to use the teachers in either school wliere they are needed. 2. Savings In transportation. 3. Provide a coordinated course of study from grades 1 through 12. This was the main |s>lnt of gain by consolidating. It would mean that all grade school children In the area lie receiving the same course of study which would better en able them to go into high school and work to better advantage by having had this coordinated course of study. The way It is now. we have two grade schools sending their students to a un ion high acbool, and it has lx-cn causing some problems. 5. 84 percent of the students in the United States arc attend ing schools who have grades 1 to 12 In Oregon now 78 percent of the students have this ad vantage. In talking about reorganiza tion. Patch said he believed the best plan would be to con solidate The reorganized dist rict could tie zoned so members of a 5. 7 or 9 man board could be clioaen from the different zones, so no one ami cindd be accused of having the most re Gasoline Stolen; Antenna Turned at Translator Station Howard May of tbc Golden Rul«- Translator company re ported this week that gasoline had lieen taken from their translator site south of here on two different occasions. The first time only alxait five gal lons was taken, but the second time considerably more gaso- III»» win siphoned from the tank. Tills wax not the worst part of it though. said May, for someone had climlMHl up the 50 foot tower, loosened eight holts and turn<>d the antenna to one side so that a distorted pictire was lw>ing transmitted. No clews to the actions have been found at this time, he said, but he did say that the company expected to have their Isnlding completed soon so their property can lie kept under lock and key. presentation. 'Die assets and Ha bilit les could I m * pooled, and there would I m * only one budget Io vote. One man, who Is In tin* Cent ral Linn district, which com prises Brownsville. Shedd and Halsey, stated they had quite a battle iM-tore they succeeded in consolidating. But now he said '‘there are no more than 10", of our |M*oplc who do not tec! that tills was the best move for education." There was some discussion on whether or not consolidation could be accomplished In time to take effect at the end of the fiscal year. Mr. Patch staled there was time yet but people would have Io get to work now In order to have it completed by the end of this fiscal year. One question from the floor was asked to sec If there was any legislation now which could force the districts to organize It was answered negatively, however It was brought out that there was no way of knowing what tills year's legislature might do. They could not force a district to consolidate, but they might give more state funds to the districts which are reorganized than to districts which operate such as Mill City and Gatea at the present itme. When asked wliether motley could lx- saved by consolidation, the group was informed that most likely not in dollars and cents, but that they would be getts a lot more lor the ed ucation dollar. One former board member brought up the point that the two districts here were just ■about the same as reorganized now because "we are using uime of the same teachers in tmth schools, and money has lieen borrowed back and forth Much of the equipment la used jointly.” State Highway To Place Flashing Signs At Bad Intersection Elvin Thomas of Stayton headed a committee for the North Santiam Chamber of Commerce to sec about getting sufficient lights installed at the intersection near the Santiam Golt club-Sublimity intersection. There have been some deaths and considerable damage to ve hicles at this intersection, be cause it is poorly marked. The following letter was re ceived by Mr. Thomas from the State Highway department: "Pursuant to your verbal re quest to a representative of the Traffic Engineering Division, we have made an investigation of hazards at the intersections of the North Santiam Highway with the road to Aumsville and with the road to Sublimity at the Sublimity Gun Club. "As u result of this investiga tion. we will proceed to install flashing beacons at these two intersections and we will also make certain changes in the pavement markings and install an additional sign at the Gun Club intersection.” The letter was signed by Tom Ewards, assistant state highway engineer. I ----------------------------- THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, JAN. 10, IW>3 Nearing The 100 Mark Harry Van Duzen who obwrved hi» 9Mth birth day quietly at home on January 2. He was bom in Newport, Kentucky on January 2, 1865 and came to Oregon from Montana in 1941. H<* and Mr». Van Duzen lived in Fox Valley on a farm until four years ago when they moved into the former Roda place Mr. and Mr». Van Duzen had one adopted son who was kill ed in World War II. He is still active and with his wife walks to town on nice days. He walked down town Fri day to get a haircut.—The Mill City Enterprise photo. Petition for Re-Organization School patrons from Gates «nd Mill City district met at the teacher's room in Santiam Un ion High school Tuesday night to draft a petition which was taken to Albany Wednesday morning to be acted upon by the Linn County Rural School Boards As soon as the board acts on this petition. It will be taken to the Marlon County Rural Sciiool Board for con currence. and then if both coun ty boards approve of the peti- tion it will be sent to the State Board of Education for their approval, or rejection. the State If approved by Board, the Iznn County Rural Board sets up voting dates in the Gat<*s «nd Mill City dist- nets. Both Mill Cl ty and Gates must approve of reorganiza- tion or it cannot be placed in to effect. When the merger is passed, a new school board of five members will be elected one from each of five distnets to guarantee equal representa tion. If the reorganization is voted on before April 30. the new board would be elected and take over the first of July. Following is a complete copy of the petition as it was pre sented to the Unn County board Wednesday: A PETITION Tn The Unn <k»untj Kiiml Hchnol Itonnl And The 1 inn ('.•.nil* School District Reorganization Boaril An.I Tin- Marion Count) Rural School Bitard Anil The Marion County School IMatrict Reorganization Bonn! By the undersigned school patrons who are registered vot ers and residents of School Dist rict 129-J, Linn County, Oregon and Dijtrict 21-J, Linn County. Oregon, for the express pur pose of petitioning the afore mentioned boards for the pur- IMise of reorganizing the afore mentioned Sch»x)l Districts into one administrative district; and upon reorganization of said districts into one administra tive district, each district would continue to assume their pres ent liabilities; and the reorgan- Mehama To Have Square Dance Eight Families Here Jamboree Jan. 11 th A square dance jamboree is Get Food Baskets scheduled for Friday night, January 11 at the Santiam Val ley Grange hall between Lyons and Mehama. Dancing will be from 8:30 to 12 midnight. The Mehama Fin-plug Squares are s|x>nsoring tills dance in honor of new square dancers from all valley square dance clubs. A gala evening is promised for dancers according to the host club, with 11 valley callers invited to attend. They say this event is planned for the en joyment of nil. According to lx*e *S. Ross there w?ie eight families with 16 adults and 43 children, who received Christmas food bas- kets from the Mill City Minis- ertial association. Community Chest, Lions Club, Dam employ ees and the deacons of the Presbyterian church, There were also two gifts of cash which helped with the expenses. With each box delivered, the Jaycces sent along a number of toys so that each child had a gift for Christmas. izcd administrative district would be zoned according to the following prescribed manner Zone 1 to include all territory extended beginning with an North South line on the West boundary of the corporate City limits oi Mill City and continu ing to the West boundary of said administrative district: Zone 2 to includa that portion from the extended North South line of the West boundary of corporate city limits of Mill City East to an extended North South line on 1st street within the corporate limits of Mill City; Zone 3 to include that por tion from the extended North South line on 1st street East to an extended North South line of the Corporate limits of the City of Mill City; Zone 4 to include all territory beginning with the extended North South line on the East boundary of the corporate city limits of Mill City and South of the Santiam River and continuing to the East Boundary of said administra tive district: Zone 5 to include all territory beginning with the extended North South line on the East boundary of the cor porate city limits of Mill City and North of the Santiam River and continuing to the East boundary of said admin istrative district. The terms of dtroetort shn'l be for five years. One director shall be elected ironi each zone and the term of office under the firs: 1.shall be determined bv lot at the iirst board meeting. The term of at least one* mem ber shall expire each year. The reorganized district shall be under the jurisdiction of the Linn County Rural School Board; and all present facilit- ies now in use in the aforesaid districts would remain in use as king as economically feas ible. The undersigned feel that through reorganizing the afore said districts, that the following advantages will result; to wit: (D better representation of the school district electorate by having a zoned board of educa tion; (21 that better use of rev enues, building facilities and school plants can be utilized; (31 a coordinated curriculum planned on a 1-12 grade basis can be effected; (4) better use of teaching personnel can be made; and (5) for these reas ons one administrative district can carry out the normal func tions of the now three separate school districts much more ef ficiently and effectively. Signed: Clyde Robert Oliver, Richard B. Cole. Hantz A. Rotz, Mabel J. Yankus, Floyd Völkel, L. R. Kelle, T. H. Baughman. Robert Blumcnstein Jr.. J. C. Kimmel, Don W. Moffatt. Wm. Pennick, Kelly, Charlene B. Carl H. Cooper. Dated this 8th day of January 1963. Enterprise Day Late to Cover School Meeting For the first time in over I nine years The Enterprise has held up publication Wednesday afternoon and reason is simple The publisher felt that it is of I extreme importance to th»* j voters of the district to have the complete story of the pros and cons of the reorganization question and also the need for additional classrooms at Mill City Elementary school. These stories have been reported in an unprejudiced manner and it Is don»* with the sole purpose only facts to of bringing light at the two meetings. As the meeting of the PTA and school board came Wednesday night this was the only way in which this could be done. The vote on the $115.000 bond issue is coming before the peo ple on Monday, January 14. The Enterprise urges every register ed voter to go to the polls and vote his own convictions. The election is being held at the Elementary school in Mill City and polls will be open from 2 p. m. until 8 p. m. | The annual election notices have been sent out this week from Santiam Memorial hos pi- lai at Stayton. giving the list of board of directors whose terms of office have expired in the vartous districts in the area. Ln the package mailed is the ballot listing of the directors who are running for election. Following is the list of mem bers to be voted upon and the districts they represent: For the Mill City-Gates area- G. T. (Jerry! Pittam. J. C. Kimmel, E. S. Peterson and Floyd Völkel, Vote for two. For Lyons-Mehama -Ken Gol- liet. W. R. Stevens. Paul Ger- atns and Lloyd Sletto. Vote for two. For Stayton area—G. W. De Jardin and John Etzel. Vote for one. For Sublimity area—Richard Schumacher and Orville Lulay. Vote for one. At Large- A. J, Frank and Walter Smith. Vote for one. Ballots should be marked and mailed in the self-addressed en velope so it will be in the hos pital office not later than Jan uary 16. When the envelopes are re ceived at the hospital, your name will be checked on the election roll as voted and the ballot envelope will be put in the ballot box. The secret ballot will then be counted January 16. The results will be announc- , ed at the stockholders meeting January 17 in the lobby of the First National bank at Stayton 1 at 8 p. m., at which time all stockholders are welcome. In a brief summary it si ed that in 1961 there were out patients treated and year there were 3939. In patients 1535 against this year. Daily average remained same at 17 per day. There were 230 babies born at the hospital last year and 181 in 1962. In surgeries performed a slight increase was noted, 373 against 389 this year. Work had been held up sime this past summer on the recon- struction at the hospital, but workmen arc going along stead- ily now. Some damage was done to the hospital during the October 12 storms, but all this has been put back to normal. $3.00 A Year 10c A Copy School Panel Brings Out Necessity for New Building Even if Districts Reorganize Ed. Note This article is written to cover questions and answers given at this meeting just as they were heard. They may or may not be word for word, but the the meaning of any question or answer has not been altered. The special school board meeting held here last night brought answers to questions on the need for the passing of the $115,000 bond issue which will be vot- eed on this coming Monday, January 14. The meeting was moderated by Mrs. Lee Basset, chairman of the Mill City Elementary board. The special panel was made up oi the following memtiers who were choaen from the and to reduce interest payments and to purenase new buses with building committee: Verne Shaw, Charles Kelly, Mrs. Les- out increasing the annual bud ter LaMunyan, Jerry Pittam, j get and Nadine Duggan. Others I A question was asked for a comparison of building now and were Al Brown, Linn county as- I sessor and Architect S. R. Haat-' or after reorganization. Dick vedt. A heating engineer was I Cole answered that there was no building plan in the making also present and spoke of the under reorganization at this benefits ot air conditioning the time so no comparison could be proposed six-room addition. made. One of the main questions ask- ; When the panel was asked ed was it the new building would about the tax situation if the be needed if the two distnets : bond issue passed, Al Brown, reorganized into one administra assessor stated the following tive district. Superintendent, based on facts given him by Lawrence Brent stated the! local parties He said it would space was still needed to carry ! out the educational program j cost about $1.00 per $1,000 of at the school here. When asked (See SCHOOL on page 4) if it was possible to use some I of the new building to relieve the pressure of growth from the high school he answered yes, stating possibly the ninth grade could use part of the building. One of the rooms would be used for high school students during the noon hour. Many high school students take their noon lunch at the grade school cafeteria, and under the present setup there is not room enough to Wayne Halseth reported in handle them. Brent said 150 Mill City Monday that consider could be seated at a ume dur able damage had been done to ing lunch hour. the lower camp by the recent Another of the rooms would high water. Halseth said that be used as a science lab. The the foot brid ;e from his camp school has a good science pro area to the bath house had been gram now, and is in need of uprooted by a huge tree which room for equipment and work came floating down the river. ing space. The tree which took out the One of the rooms would be bridge also did considerable used to relieve the situation damage to the roof of the bath created during the construction house. of the dam, when there was a Halseth said this will slow up temporary petition placed in his improvement program this a regular sized classroom, mak coming spring, and he was up ing two sub-standard class- from Salem Monday to start rooms. The other rooms woula putting in a new foot bridge. be used for two seventh grade He also told The Enterprise sections and two eighth grade that he is now sole owner of sections. the lower springs and that his Another question asked was brother. Wendell Halseth, had "if the bond issue is voted the upper part of the summer down, will there be enough resort. cash money available in two When asked about the pro years to build without bonding."' posed development which was It was brought out that some publicized last year, he stated money set aside in the special that it was "mostly wind” and improvement fund has been us no money had been put up for ed to pay off bond indebtedness the development. High Water Damage At Breitenbush Frank Lumber Men Get Safety Certificates Workmen at Frank Lumber Company mill west of town have just completed a course in basic safety con ducted by Cecil Sullivan of the Field Service Division of the State Industrial Accident commission. The meetings were held at the Mill City fire hall during December. Pic tured above are Mr. Sullivan and Bill Richards who headed up the safety committee for the local firm. Sull ivan gave Richards the certificates and wallet cards for the men during the lunch hour recently. Richards pass ed the certificates and cards to the men. Those who took Masons Invited To I the course were: Robert Ditter, Louis Morgan. William Eastern Star Meeting I Richards. A. J. Frank, Phillip Carey, Douglas Bradley, Marilyn Chapter No. 145 OES G. R. Bradley, Ralph Earhart, Norman Damm, E. S. Pet will meet Monday, January 14 erson. Albert Hoxmeier, Conrad Jacoby, Orin Marshall, at 8 p. m. at the IOOF hall. Elbert Pietrok, Virg Baxter, Cecil Catherwood, Troy Members of the Masonic Gibson, Jerome Grossman, Arlo Tuers, Joe Yost, Max lodge and their wives, past ma trons and past patrons will be Hafner, Wilbur McCall, Jack Carey, John Ziglinski, honored at an open meeting. Henry - Gescher, Robert Nelson, Jr., David Davidson, . starting at about 8.30. A pro- Donald A. Bender, Cecil Sullivan.—The Mill City Enter gram will he presented. prise Photo.
