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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
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Accidents in
Woods May
Go Up20%
State Representative Gerald
IXen.ig states he wHl be in
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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.
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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.
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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.