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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1966)
Floyd Bassett Entered as second class mat ter November 10. 1944 at the Plans to Retire Post Office at Mill City, Ore THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE MEHAMA — Floyd Bassett gon under Act of March 3, is retiring - - - maybe. 1871 Bassett’s welding, a com plete shop, welder and gener ator, mounted on a Dodge NfWJFAHI Power wagon has been a fam PUBLISHERS iliar sight in this area, on . %J>**. a -S$OCIATION logging roads, landing, saw mills and even cat roads, for "ATIONAL NEWSPAPER the past 21 years. Equipped with a winch, he has traveled to many inac- cessable spots to weld broken equipment. Many a cat or log Subscription Rates ging truck marooned on a Marion-Linn Counties $6.50 yr. logging landing has welcomed Outside Marion-Linn $4.00 yr. Outside Oregon ......... .$4.50 yr. the sight of Floyd in his DON W MOFFATT. 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Raymond Branch EQUIPMENT COMPANY Phone 859-2240 Mehama, Oregon 4—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, April 21, 1966 repair a break, so the mach For Commissioner ine can be moved. Determined as a mountain goat, Floyd has earned the reputation over the past 21 years of going anywhere at anytime. He will be missed. Residential use of electricity Mill City friends have re Many a logger coming home passed a milestone for the Pa ceived word that Vernon O. late at night with broken cific Power & Light Company Chance, son of Mr. and Mrs. equipment would ask Floyd This letter was received 1 system last month when aver Edward Chance of Santa Bar to fix it. Always accommodat last week by Mr. and Mrs. age annual household usage bara, Calif., has received Ar ing, it was not unusual for William Hamilton from their exceeded 10,000 kilowatt hours my honors. him to work until midnight son, Charles: I for the previous 12-month per He is one of 20 young grad to repair a break so that the “I am just one of many uate engineers to begin train iod for the first time. logger would not miss work Americans here in Viet Nam. “With more and more new ing recently at the Army and the following day. Quite of I am stationed with the 1st residential buildings adopting Supply Maintenance Com ten Floyd would leave before Hospital Company at Chee electric heat systems, and mand Logistics, Interim Cen daylight the next day to get Lai. to another logging show to When the Marines first land households adding new elec ter at Red River Army Depot, repair some needed equipment ed they made quite a fight for tric-powered conveniences, the Texarkana, Texas. before the crew would be rea this land. Many of America’s trend of household usage con He is a graduate of Cali dy for work. tinues to push upward each fornia State College and holds young men gave their lives The only state certified In the fight for what we be year, ” it was noted by PP&L’s a BS degree in electrical en Russell T. Daulton of Saiem welder in this area, he has lieve is right and just. I be was in Mill City recently and district manager, Tom Kee gineering. He served in the Navy for two years before quite often been called into lieve It is right and am proud announced that he was a Re nan. big shops such as Halton, to be here. I am sure no Am publican Candidate for Mar “In most of the company’s entering college. Chance will receive two Pape, International to do some erican fighting man wants to ion County Commissioner, po service areas the weather was unusual weld. slightly cooler this past heat years of intensive training on be here fighting. None of us sition No. 1. Not only could he winch want to die, especially at so Daulton w’as born on a farm ing season through March, as the post-college graduate le himself to most any spot, he young an age and so far from in Kentucky 54 years ago. He compared with the previous vel. Upon graduation he will also carried yards of exten home. But like myself, I am lived there until he finished season, and this also helped be assigned to one of the sion cord to reach a swamp sure all of us would be will high school in 1930. He grad push the usage higher,” he Army Command installations. His training, and others in or a cut over area where he ing to give our lives to pro uated from State Agricultural added. might need to weld. The PP&L district manager the program, is to provide the tect our loved ones. college in Manhattan, Kans., On one steep job a cat pull Who knows, if Americans in 1936. said that annual household Army with executive level ed him into place and snubbed pulled out of Viet Nam, the He is now a .“'altor in Sa usage in most of the com professional engineers within the power wagon while he re next time Communist aggres lem. pany’s districts in Oregon, the logistical system. paired another. sion strikes it could be on our Washington and California ex Mr. and Mrs. Chance and Intending to retire, Floyd own soil. This would result ceeds the system average by family are former residents plans to sell his power wg- in one thing—the loss of ma George Westfall With a sizable amount. It is below of this area. Their daughter gon to a local welder so that ny innocent lives. War is bad Army in Missouri average only in Portland, ! is Mrs. Marvin Dodge of loggers in this area may still enough, but on our own Am Army Pvt. George R. West Montana-Idaho and in Wyo. I Gates. have service. erican ground it would be ev fall, son of Mr. and Mrs. John He plans to close his shop en worse. F. Westfall, Idanha, complet and take a vacation perhaps The thing that gets most ed a combat engineer course in August and go to Iowa. He of the men down over here is at Ford Leonard Wood, Mo., may then reopen his shop the lack of support from back March 18. at Lyons to minor repair home. We don’t ask much, During the seven • week work. just a little support to know course, Westfall was trained Having served this canyon the people back home are be in the construction and repair for 36 years; fifteen as a hind us. It gets rough some of roads, railroads and mechanic and 21 in the por times eating C-rations, not bridges. He also received table welder, Bassett’s weld getting a shower, smoking training in demolitions and ing will be missed by many— stale cigarettes. But that is mine warfare. so will his stories. not half as bad as hearing I The 17-year-old soldier en about a group of college jerks tered the Army in June 1965 walking around with signs and completed basic training David Golden Is protesting U.S. movements in at Fort Ord, Calif. Nam. Westfall attended Detroit, Crew Chief of Month Viet I am proud to say I am a High School and was employ- i ed by Green Veneer Incorpor- j At No.Carolina Base resident of Oregon. My home town is small and ated, Idanha, before entering Airman First Class David N. Golden, son of Mr. and most people have never heard the Army. Mrs. Clyde E. Golden of Mill of it. I live in Idanha, Ore., a City, has been selected Crew small but friendly neighbor Dave Roberts, Idanha FROM........... Chief of the Month for his hood. My friends over here unit at Seymour Johnson from Oregon must feel the On Ballistic Missile same way. In Oregon when a Sub. Geo. Washington AFB, N. C. Airman Golden, a jet air serviceman is home on leave Torpedoman’s Mate Second craft mechanic, was honored he is at least treated decently. Class David G. Roberts, USN, for his exemplary conduct There are all types of dem son of Mr. and Mrs. David FROM............ and duty performance. He is onstrations going on to make G. Roberts of Idanha, Ore., is a member of the Tactical Air us feel we are fighting a lost a member of the Blue Crew Command which provides bat cause. I can’t write to every of the nation’s first Fleet tlefield firepower, precision citizen of our wonderful state, Ballistic Missile submarine jet photo reconnaissance and but I can say this: I and every CSS George Washington. Quick - Mitchell - Compac air mobility for the nation’s other man from Oregon over The George Washington fir here thank you from the bot ground forces. ed her first A-3 Polaris missile Roddy - Berkley The airman is a graduate toms of our hearts.” recently down the Atlantic Charles L. Hamilton 774-37- of Glendale (Ore.) High Test Range from a submerged 33, 1st. Hospital Co. FMF- position off Cape Kennedy. School. PAC FPO San Francisco, His wife, Marcella, is the The successful firing of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Calif., 96602. A-3 Polaris missile completed Fenwick - Garcia - Roddy bert Davis of Roseburg, Ore. the first major overhaul and conversion from the A-l Pol Wright McGill - Symbolic aris missile, with a 1250 nau tical mile range, to the A-3 Polaris missile, with a 2500 nautical mile range. The George Washington is homeported in New London, Conn. Charles Hamilton Writes from War in Viet Nam ' Includes DAVENO and CHAIR SET of TABLES I PAIR LAMPS I POLE LAMP I PAIR CUSHIONS All For Only . ^¿For Mother's Day Comfortabe Rocker FROM $3900 Small Down Payment. Monthly Payments To Suit. Ann’s Furniture New and I mx I — TERMS OF COURSE SUBLIMITY - AUMSVILLE JUNCTION — $500 Rod-Reel Combination $595 Rods 10-Piece Group — Hollow Glass Rods Spinning Reels Here's Charm For Your Home FURNITURE Use of Electricity Vernon Chance Passes Milestone Gets Army Honors APPIJANCES PHONE 743-2975 Pvt. Storey Named Soldier of Month By Viet Nam Group Pfc. Steve Storey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Storey, Id anha, who is an army truck driver with the 556th platoon in Viet Nam, was recently named soldier of the month in his platoon division. The following is a tribute paid to the platoon by their Commanding General in Sai gon. Army truckers of the 556th j Transportation Company, who | traveled sniper-infested high- | ways to deliver more than 9 million gallons of fuel in a j two-month period, have been I commended by Brig. Gen. i Charles W. Eifler, Command- ' er of the zst Logistical Com- i mand. General Eifler praised the men for their "exceptional performance” in supplying fuel to the combat units of the 1st Infantry Division. He particularly cited their “vigorous efforts and detail ed planning” in speeding fuel to battle elements. One platoon of the 556th has | lieen ’oaned to the Saigon I port, operated by its parent unit, the 4th Transportation Command, to keep the strate gic flow of supplies moving. Working around the clock, ¡this platoon has moved over 110,000 tons of cargo from the port to distribution centers. Steve, a graduate of Detroit High School, left for Viet Nam Nov. 4, 1965. He was the only man in his platoon to receive a live Christmas tree, a 4 foot noble Fir, sent by a friend, Darlene Helfer, Detroit Open All Nite Friday It's easy to sell it when you use Classified ads in The Enterprise. Use *hem to buy, sell, rent. £ Sportsman's Center On Highway 22 — Mill City, Oregon Shell Heating Oil dealer offers automatic delivery TET US KEEP TRACK of yOUT fuel J_J supply for you. Everything is automatic. We com pute your rate of fuel consumption based on the weather. Using the degree-day method, we can accu rately predict how much heating oil you will use and when you will need more of it When time comes, our truck ap- pears at your home—well before you run low. No need to phone. No bother. We handle everything for you. There is no charge for this spe cial service. 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