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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1967)
4—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, January 5, 1967 educates children of govern ment employes, who live in government owned residences not taxed by the District. On January 10th the fish population in Detroit Reser voir was increased when a truck from the fish hatchery Boots Champion down resulting in the Timber sales, Bond issues, approved an additional $120,- broke planting Chinook and the construction of a new 000 bond issue to complete Salmon in of the 33,000 Reservoir. high-school and gym heads the financing of the project. fish were dumped into The the the list of events in the upper There was a total of six North Santiam River at Dry North Santiam Canyon for bids submitted on the project, Creek near Idanha when the the year 1966. A total of 22 and bids were opened by the pump on the fish truck failed. timber sales were conducted school Board of Education on The Chinook were sched by the U.S. Forest Service July 20th. uled to be released below at the District Detroit Ranger Dale Pence of Salem with a Dam. Station. Forester Ralph D. low bld of $382,278.00 was Detioit On March 7th Mr. and Mrs. Anderson said total volume of awarded the contract. Raymond Sophy announced Willamette National Forest Excavation for the new the sale of their store, De timber sold was 89,100,000 structure begin in August troit Super Market, to Mr. board feet of timber for a total with completion scheduled in and Mrs. Sam Leffler of price of $3,975,000. late summer of 1967. Sacramento, California. The Total volume of sales logged In January it was an Sophy’s had continuously op in 1966 was 41,000,000 board nounced by Congressman erated the business, chalking feet of merchantable logs, in Wendall Wyatt that payment up some 20 years of grocery cluding 8,000,000 board feet of of $10,557 would be made to store business in the canyon. cull logs. the Detroit school district Their record as one of the In July 1965, school district by the office of Education, oldest business operators in voters approved a $300,000.00 Health and Welfare for fed the area was topped only by bond issue for the construc eral assistance. The payment one other business firm, the tion of a new high-school and was scheduled under Public Scott Youngs at Marion Forks. gym, but bids exceeded that Law 874—which provides aid The Lefflers took possession amount by several thousand for federally affected areas. the 1st of April. dollars. Last June the voters Detroit qualifies because it March 21st — the marking 1966 News Summary of Upper North Santiam Canyon and tagging of 25,000 spring Chinook fingerlings begin at the Marion Forks Fish Hatch ery. Of this amount 19,400 were marked and 6,000 tagged. Three different tags were used on the 6,000 fingerlings and the 1st group was re leased in March, followed by the second and third group in April and May. These were released just below Round Butte Reservoir and the De chutes River near Madras. The marked (fins clipped) fingerlings were released in March at Cougar Reservoir on the South Fork of the McKenzie just above Blue River. The fingerlings were used in down-stream migra tion studies. A Safety Rally meeting was held March 31st in the after noon at Simpson Timber Co. Idanha Veneer plant, in com memoration of 2,094 accident free days and Safety Dollar Day. Simpson Timber Co. achieve ment award was presented by Howard Curtis, Safety Direc tor for Simpson at Shelton, Washington, to plant man ager Harry Spencer, who ac cepted the award on behalf of the plant employees. In April Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hopson Jr. of Idanha pur chased and took possession of the Idanha Grocery store. The store was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Luther Guest formerly of Stayton, who operated the store for two and one half years. Wendell L. Jones, District Ranger was transferred to the Siuslaw National Forest and assumed the District Ranger duties at Hebo, Oregon in April. In June our new District Ranger, Leo L. Boeckstiegel came to us from the Olympic National Forest where he was Assistant Timber Staff in the Supervisors office in Olympia, Washington. The 1966 seasons first forest fire flared here on May 10th when the temperature was near 90 degrees and the hu midity as low as 14 percent. 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In attendance were representatives from six Vol unteer Ambulance groups. Visiting delegates were here from Beaverton, Sandy, Silv- verton, Canby, Lyons and Tualatin. Ten seniors graduated from the Detroit High School and eighteen eighth grade stu dents. Construction began about the middle of May on Stuck- arts Lumber Company’s all modern new office building in Idanha. Complete remodel ing of the mill and installment of new equipment was also completed during the summer. A grand total of $353,13.00 was collected in the Detroit- Idanha-Marion Forks areas in the annual May American Cancer Crusade. The ball diamond con structed about three years ago at Idanha and inactive in 1965, was restored in June under the sponsorship of Buz Lee, Jim Wiley, and Harold McDonald, with aid of Dale Hayes of Aumsville who furn ished the loader and dump truck. Eighty yards of sand was applied to the ball diamond. The seasons first boat acci dent occurred here July 4th, and a 14 year old Silverton girl was cited to appear in Marion County Juvenile Court after bing charged with reck less driving of a motor boat on Detroit Reservoir. The boat collided with another boat on the Lake causing minor damage. The girls boat was halted after a high speed chase by patrol officers. Simpson Timber Co. Idanha Veneer Plant headed into its 7th consecutive year with out a lost time accident. Three National and one State award was presented to the plants employees on July 8th. In addition a special surprise engraved plaque was presented to Harry' Spencer, plant manager, by the State of Oregon. Work was halted at the Idanha plant for the presen tations of the awards—Na tional Safety Council, Forest Products Assn., and American Plywood Assn., top awards, plus the State award of honor. Voters at a special election (city) July 20th approved a $85,000 water bond issue au thorizing issuance and sale of revenue bonds for improv ing and extending the cities water system. The proposed extension of the Detroit water system will be to develop the Breitenbush River as sec ondary source of water sup ply, modify the distribution of the present system for max imum development and install larger mains, plus fire hy drants where ever needed for better protection. Preliminary work on the project Is now in progress, and bids are expected to be let on the project sometime in February of 1967. Plans call for the completion of the project by early summer. Two Foresters of the De troit Districts Ranger Station were transferred July 31st. They were Walter T. Parker, Timber Management Assistant to the Oakridge District who has assumed the duties of the Reforestation, Timber Stand Improvemnt and Forest Tree Improvement program there. Detroit District Engineer, Art Marty was transferred to the Ochoco National Forest. Mr. Marty is assistant Staff Engineer in the Supervisor’s office in Prineville. Progress of a different na ture, and noteworthy, was the construction of eleven new camp site units completed in August at the Districts new campsite units completed in August at the Districts new Whispering Falls campground located three miles East of Idanha on highway 22. Plans call for a total of 40 units when completed. Another boon to recreation- ers was the stump removal (contracted) on the Detroit Reservoir. Stumps covering 130 acres (under water during the summer) was removed thus eliminating a hazard to boat enthusiasts and improv ing the existing facilities for the enjoyment of vacationers, fishermen and water skiers alike. On July 27th a contract was let bv the U. S. Forest Service for the construction and com pletion of approximately 10 miles of the Sky-line trail system, thus completing the relocation of the entire trail on the Districts district. In an effort to better serve the large number of campers who seek spots in State Parks the Oregon State Highway Department added 74 over night units this summer to its previous total of 160 sites at Detroit Lakeshore State Park. The Parks facilities in clude water, electricity and individual sewer connections. Each area is served by a near utility building which con tains hot showers, toilet fa cilities, and laundry equip ment. Approximately four miles of the Breitenbush road was scheduled for re-construction in 1966. The upper 2.4 miles from Cleator Bend camp ground to the South Breiten bush road via the by-pass is curi ently being built by Young & Morgan Inc. When the four miles are completed the Breitenbush road will then have a total of 11.5 miles of recontly constructed three lane width road. On Sept. 29th a Marion County Well Child Health Clinic was held at Detroit City Hall. 262 immunization shots and 22 physical exami nations were given. Mel Round of Idanha had a close call October 2nd when his light plane developed en gine trouble while he was flying over Mt. Jefferson, causing him to make a forced landing on highway 22 about four miles West of Marion Forks. Round escaped injury but his light plane was de molished. Two new City ordinances was passed by the Detroit City Council in October. A new water ordinance will go into effect as soon as the new water system is com pleted. One of the provisions will be a slight increase in water rates, with the changes in the rules and regulations. The new Building Code Ordinance is an ordinance adopting the 1964 addition of the International Conference of Building Codes. Under pro visions of the Code, permits will be required for new build ings within the city limits of Detroit. In addition a 3rd ordinance was passed on December 13th. This is an ordinance prevent ing the parking and storage of vehicles on streets or prop erty of the city, thereby ob structing the orderly clearing of snow from city streets and property, and creating a haz ard. Penalties will be levied in accordance to the rules and regulations of the city ordinance. Stahlman Point, a Lookout Station in the Detroit District of the Willamette National Forest was disposed of by burning October 21st by the U. S. Forest Service. The building was destroyed be cause it was no longer needed for the administration of the District, a Forester said. The “Point”, located on Spur Ridge North of Coopers Ridge was constructed by the Forest Service in 1948 and was named Stahlman Point in memory of Fred Stahlman, who was District Ranger here some 60 years ago. The “Point” of “Interest” had also been the target of vandalism. A standard First Aid course was completed in November under the sponsorship of the Woman’s Civic Club. Instruc tor was Howard Dean of the U. S. Forest Service. There was an enrollment of 22 per sons. The Spillway Tavern at Idanha re-opened early in the year following complete re modeling. The Cafe re-opened the latter part of November. Hoodoo Ski Bowl Develop ers Inc. added a new high speed chairlift to their facili ties at the Resort on Santiam Pass. The first measurable snow of the season in the Detroit- Idanha area came December 4th with Detroit receiving four inches of snow in a 24 hour period. Automotive and Industrial Maintenance Diesel Engine Service Welding Shop or Field Dealer for Airco Welding Products Delco Batteries Factory Equipment Ignition Parts Hoover's Repair Jim and Veryl Hoover Phone 897-2911 Mill City Subscribe to The Mill City Enterprise $3.50 Per Year
