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
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Equipped with a winch, he
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cessable spots to weld broken
equipment. Many a cat or log
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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 '
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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
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you use Classified ads
in The Enterprise. Use
*hem to buy, sell, rent. £
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