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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1963)
Enterprise ON TIIE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — GATEWAY TO THE HEART OF NATURE’S EMPIRE VOLUME XVIII NUMBER S Schools in Area Closed By Storm The long delayed winter snows which many thought would ar rive too Inte to hold moisture in the ground next summer, cam* with a vengeance Monday afternoon Snow atarted fulling steadily almrtly utter noon und continued all day with alxiut ■lx Inches on the ground by Tueaday morning. It had turned colder in the night and moat roods were cov ered with pack<xl »now and ice causing many cars to alide even with snow tires. Santiam Union High and both the Mill City and Gates grade scluxda were forced to close because of lite heavy snow and resultant bud ruad conditions. Bright sunshine gave the youngsters a chance to make snowmen, bring out their slriis and thoroughly enjoy their va cation. Pulice Chief Ron Meacham said S. E. 4th street lx>tween Ivy and Grove was blocked off Tuesday afternoon so young [icoplr could use the sloping street for coasting. For those having to work the prospects were not so pleasant, und so were unable to get to work nt all. New Serviceman as the Pacific Power & IJght company serviceman In the Mill Clty-Sck> area was announced Wednesday by Wayne Goin, lo cal manager for PP4L. Berg succeeds Norman W. • Andy) Anderberg, who was promoted to PPAL's Junction City office as a local supervis or. Berg comes to this area from Yakima, where he was assigned ns a lineman representative for Pacific Power. He joined the power company In 1946 as n groundman at Springfield. Hr Inter worked as an equipment <>|»crntor and be came a Journeyman serviceman in Springfield In 1952. Berg re mained in Springfield until I960 when he was transferred to the Yakima district. Mr. and Mr*. Berg and their two children are now living in Mill City. Wash & Dry Laundry Has Successful Open House Friday-Saturday The Mill City Wash and Dry | Laundry which was opened last week by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sophy has proved to lie a suc cessful venture, according to the owners. They said the response was much greater than they had an ticipated and that they plan on (■tiding four more machines as the plumbing is already in for them. At the present time they have live automatic washers, two dryers and an extractor. Deter gent may also be purchased there if the customer does not wish to bring their own, or for gets it. Mrs. Sophy stressed the fact that customers may do both' their washing anti drying, or either one. Hour* are from 6 A. M. un til 10 p. m. and a 24 hour ser vice laundry is in the future ex panded planning if business warrants. The Mill City operation is being managed by Mrs. Glee Waters, mother of Mrs. Sophy, who has an apartment in the rear of the building. Santiam Jayvees Win from Amity Shows 30-Year-Old-Tree Santium JV's enjoyed a win ning week by defeuting Amity .»•» >1 .ind Not th M.ii ion 10 I ' The Baby Wolverines showed new scoring ability and out standing rebounding strength in these games Free throw shoot ing also took an upwurd turn ns JV shooters hit 8 ot 16 In the Amity guine und 8 out of 12 in the North Marion game. Scoring in the Amity game showed Robertacxi with 19. Con over 14, C!inel3, und Ohmart 10. 71»' North Marion game found Kolu-rtson und Conover with 12 each, Ohmurt 11. Cline 8 und I’niiiirk 6, and Hute 1 A good team effort by the winning-type "Wuffies" shows bojic tor continued success of the varsity teams in the future against Cuptial Conference com petition. Marion Rural Board OKs Merger Official approval of the pro posed merger of Gates grade school, Mill City elementary school and Santiam Union High school into one administrative district, was given Monday by the Marlon County Rural school district board. Fred J. Schwab, chairman of tlie Marion county board signed th? official petition for reorgani zation. It was then sent to tbe State Board of Education for consideration. Dennis Patch, director of school district reorganization for the state department of educa tion, said he thought the appli cation would be considered at Wednesdays meeting even though it was too late to tie on the formal agenda. The Linn county rural school board has already given ap proval to the move to combine the districts. New Park ill k L I | Detering To Be at Enterprise Office ■*»• Accidents in Woods May Go Up20% State Representative Gerald IXen.ig states he wHl be in I I Illi XZII J Mill City to visit with anyone ' int. rested in any legislation Accidents in the woods this In a telephone interview with which may come before the Otto Krueger, district manager I j|iX2se at this session of the Leg coming season may increase as of the Bureau of Land Manage islature. Mr. Detering will be much as 20 percent because of ment, he stated that work would here at 10 a. m. and is using the extreme danger in logging start this week on a new park The Enterprise office as a place blowdown trees felled by the 2 miles west ot Mill City. where any constituent can come October 12 windstorm, it was The 120 acre site is located and visit with him. He will be brought out at the meeting of the North Santiam Chapter of just west of the Arnold Syver- at Scio at 1 p. m. son property and he said it was Mr. Detering was one of the i the Timber Operators Safety ideal for park developement. legislators who was opposed to council meeting held at The The park was not scheduled the bill, which passed the House, Last Frontier Wednesday night. to be developed until 1968 but Increasing the legislator's sal Noyes Whitten, chairman, op the recent 3285.000 accelerated ary to $3.000 a year and with ened the meeting and turned it public works program allowed $20 a day for expenses He felt over to Hap Ware of Stayton work to proceed at once. that the $20 a day was too much who took charge of the program Krueger said there would be 'in face of the shortage of money which had to do with loading, some preliminary work start at this time. loading equipment and radio ed Monday with 5 men from this When in Mill City recently whistle. Most of the small group area to be employed. A* many Rep. Detering stated he would present took an active part in as 24 may be hired as work pro- I "be glad to discuss any coming discussing all phases of logging. grosses. legislation with the people of When speaking of selection of Krueger said that final ap- this area”, when in town Sat- landings, it was brought out proval of park plans must be urday. that it was imperitive to keep made by the National Park ser the landings clean for a safe, vice. He said he would also efficient operation. welcome suggestions by local The topic of standard signals people as to what they would in the woods was brought up like to have for varied facilit and one of the main points ies. • stressed was to be sure the sig- Krueger said that quite elabor-: I nals were loud enough to be ate plans had been made for' heard all over the area where I equipment is being used. the development and when com pleted should be one of the ■ When loading equipment is most beautiful and best parks left standing, it was suggested in the state. that grapple hooks not be left Tlie BLM has 120 acres in the I hanging in the air. but left on area and the county has about ) the ground or straddling a log. By Ed McCurdy 20 acres allowing for a large This was also true in loading The Wolverine continued their shovels and blades.. They should site. Also to be developed further win streak with an easy victory be lowered to the ground when is the Elkhorn Park and the ovei the Scio Loggers Tues not in use. Salmon Falls Park on the day. 72-49 After a slow start in When discussing the use of th? opening minutes of the first tongs it was stressed that load Little North Fork quarter, Santiam led all the ers should be sure to use big way. enough tongs and keep them Scio outscored the Wolverine« sharp, and Kept tn Ae proper Grade School Typists one in the third quarter by shape. Get Certificates point. But Santiam put on the The radio whistle came in for LawTence Brent, elementary heat in the fourth quarter and a lot of discussion. Not too school superintendent, said this »cored 22 points to Scio’s 10, many loggers in this area use week the class In typing he is sealing the Loggers' fate. the radio whistle. One TOC re teaching has been doing very The Wolverines hit 31 out of press native stated "some swear well. Certificates of achieve 72 field goal attempts for a .430 by them, others at them." ment were awarded to Nancy percentage. Scio hit 22 of 64. Loggers should hire experien Cogar, who types 47 net words Terry Morris led the scoring ced loaders and encourage them a minute; Sandra Cooper for with 23 points. Mark Sheythe to use care in loading trucks. 45 words a minute and Kathy hit 15. and Randy Marshall also Truckers were also urged to use Story for 31 words a minute. scored double figures with 10 sufficient binders to keep their The girls are 8th graders. points. Darwin Roner with 18 loads safe. Also given a certificate was and Dick Cloud with 13 led the Mill owners who operate log Peggy Cooper, a 7th grader who Loggers. dumps should be sure there is a types 35 words a minute, A Wolverine scorers were: Mor man at the dump to take care of number of students from the ris 23. Sheythe 15. Marshal] 10, the unloading. Some owners let 7th and 8 grades are in the Hickerson 8. Whitten 6, Hirte truckers unload their own loads, class 4. Cannon 4. and Podrabsky 2. which is a poor praotice. It was recommended that owners have Thinning Douglas Fir a telephone at the dump so Joe Brosig, work crew foreman Mill City Ranger truckers can call for assistance District, cuts 30-year-old tree in dense stand of Doug in dumping their loads. las fir. Crew uses lightweight power saws to cut trees. Walt Thorsell of the State In Stand is so thick the trees must usually be pushed down. dustrial Accident Commission showed some slides taken after —U. S. Forest Service Photo. the October 12 storm, to show i loggers what they will be up agaist when they start logging in the blowdown areas. It was 1 brought out that many more new hazards will be prevalent oecause of the blowdown result ing from the storm. Operators were urged to use extreme cau tion and have experienced sup ervisors on the job in an at tempt to avoid as many acci- I dents as possible. Hap Ware i stated that these conditions will 1 have to be dealt with as they ' come up as there is no set rule ' for taking out any particular I group of trees which have been . blown down by wind. Ladies' Night February 27 The next meeting which falls ' on Wednesday, February 27 will i be ladies' night. Most of this ! program will deal with home safety, and there will be a short time spent on Civil De- I fense, according to the officials, i This will also be a no-host din- . ner meeting. I IT lylIII I Final Rites Saturday for 0. K. DeWitt O K. DeWitt, 80. well known area resident, died nt Santiam Memorial Hospital last Wednes day morning, following a stroke suffered January 3. DeWitt was bom in Denver. Cokirudo, moving to Salem in 1905, where tie was active in the real estate business. He and his wife moved to their residence west of Mill City about 18 yesrs ngo and made their home in one of the old Transit Labor camp buildings, remodeling It into one of the attractive show places of the area. Both he and Mrs. DeWitt took great pride in their place which houses many beautiful antiques. He was a member ot the Sal em district and state advisory boards of the Bureau of Land Management and took a keen Interest in the work ot the board. He was active in conserva tion work and was prominent in the lxaak Walton league. He was a former vice-president for Oregon ot the Federation ot Western Outdoor clubs. Pre serving wilderness areas was one of his prime interests and he was always ready to rise to the defense of the program whenever a discussion was go ing. Mr. DeWitt was also a mem- her ot the Mazamas. a Shriner, a member of the Scottish Rlt| and the Salem A FA AM lodge 4. Services were held Saturday at a Salem mortuary with the Masonic bulge conducting ritu alistic services. Survivors include his widow. Nell Thielsen DeWitt, whom he married in 1937; three sisters. Mrs. Lucille Richardson and Miss Jeanne DeWitt both of Salem, and Mrs. I.aVernc Wil son. Vancouver, H. C., and a brother, Frank DeWitt of Salem. 13.00 A Tor 10e A THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 1963 IV Scio Quint Defeated by Wide Margin Mill City District Ranger, Ralph McCurdy with crow section of 30-year-old tree cut in pre-commercial thinning project now underway in the Willamette Na tional Forest.—U. S. Forest Service Photo. Mill City Forest District Busy Thinning Trees in InTwoAreasatPresentTime About 150 acres of dense District foresters pre-marked Douglas-fir timber is being the trees which were to be re thinned this winter in the Mill tained and now work crews are City Ranger District of the Willamette National Forest. cutting the rest. Foreman Joe Brosig and his crew have been Crews are working to cut the excess trees from two areas; working in the area off and on since December. They will work the main thinning area is on the fairly steady now the next delta between French Creek and the Breitenbush arm of De two months. Other crew mem bers are- Dave Oja, Detroit; troit Reservoir. John Called a pre-commercial Jerry Tucker, Gates; Edwin. thinning because the timber re Kuhn. Salem, Roland covered is too small to be of Mehama and Morgan White of Mill City. Brosig is from Detroit. commercial value, the cutting Several other districts in the is being done in a stand of tim Willamette National Forest are ber about 30 years old. . . trees pre-commercial are between 25-30 feet in height, undertaking just under 5 inches in diamet thinning projects this year. De er and growing closely together. troit is thinning 350 acres on Some of the trees were planted Ivy Creek. Cascadia 30 acres and many others restocked on Seven Mile Hill, and McKen zie is thinning 68 acres, Blue naturally. The thinning is the first step River 15 and Oakridge 370. toward realizing a value from restocked timber lands. Ralph | McCurdy, District Ranger at Mill City explained that in 10- 15 years these trees will be about 10 inches in diameter and ready for commercial thinning. Tlie major harvest will be about 70 years from now. McCurdy explained the neces sity for thinning such a stand. "Tlie timtier is stagnated,” he said. "If we didn't thin it now. it would just sit there, not gain ing in value, and growing less By Ed McCurdy and less each year, until fin ally some of the trees would This Saturday the Stayton outdistance others and the Eagles will be here to play weaker trees would die. Nat Santiam's Wolverines. The JV ure's way of thinning is slow game starts at 6:30, the Var and wasteful," he said. "We're sity at 8:00. just helping Her along." The Wolverines already play The trees are being thinned ed a thriller at Stayton. With to about 10 feet apart, or ap the score tied at 40 apiece in proximately 435 trees per acre. the last minutes of the fourth Tre's in thick stands compete quarter, Santiam put over a for both sunlight and water, and two-point lead and made it get insufficient quantities of stick. Remembering this loss, both. Increment borings taken St ay ton will be hoping for re in the stands earlier indicate venge. that even the largest trees have In Capitol Conference stand slowed down the last 10-12 ing, the Wolverines hold second years and almost stopped grow place, with seven wins and one ing the last several years. Mc loss. I .eague-leading Central Curdy said increment borings has won nine wtih no losses, so will be taken again in about the Wolverines can't falter in two years to determine how the catching them. Stayton holds stand is reacting. fifth position with six wins and In a pilot project last year four losses, behind Serra and the district thinned 27 acres; Mt. Angel, tied for third with this was the first such thinning records of 7-X This game pro mises to be an exciting one. on the district. Stayton To Play Here Saturday Coming Events Monday. Feb. 4—Round Rob in pinochle club at Goldie Ram bo home. 7:30. Bid or Bunch Pinochle club at home of Jeanne Rosamond. Tues. Feb. 4.—Canyon Camp fire leaders at home of Mrs. Wendell Heller. 10 a. m. | Wed. Feb. 6.—Santiam Re bekah lodge at hall 8 p. m. I Thurs. Feb. 7—Garden clu*- at home of Mrs. Wendell Hel- , ler, 7:30. Mrs. Betty Warren, guest speaker. | Friday, Feb. 8.-IOOF lodge at hall at 8 p. m.
