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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1967)
P‘* and Doe. Newspapers, I.' of o Library ’ 87403 Enterprise VOLUME XXII NUMBER^ I I I I Up and Down The Avenue By Don Moffatt Well, a belated Happy New Year to each and everyone. While on this winter vacation, which will be the last, by the way, The Enterprise had a birthday. It has now reached the age of 22 years. Not a very old age in newspaper world, but nevertheless, it has been growing during this period of time, thanks to the growth of the area, and the loyalty of its patrons. We arrived home from our southland vacation Sunday afternoon. I don’t quite know whether we were rested or not, but I found that I cer tainly am not ready to retire, or at least I do not think I am. After a week of loafing, I was ready to get back into the harness. I guess that is the way with people who have worked hard all their lives. We arrived in Los Angeles without mishap, and picked up our new trailer house, which was our home all the time we were gone. My wife spent some anxious hours before we got out of Los Angeles. She imagined all sorts of pile-ups in that traffic. Alta’s brother George Schultz, who is used to that suicide alley, piloted us onto the right freeway, which happened to be the San Diego freeway, and got us across the city and onto highway 101. It was quite an experience piloting our rig, all 22 and a half feet of trailer house down an eight-lane highway with peo ple driving like the devil was after them. We didn’t have any bad luck, and saw only one wreck. It was a real bad one, and held us up for about half an hour. The rest of the trip on the highways was nearly uneventful. The only real bad storm we hit was just coming off the desert into Reno. A real hard wind came up a canyon, and peppered us with hail and small peb bles. Ruined our windshield and nearly blew us off the highway, but we made it all right. The weather all the way after hitting L. A. was sunny but real cold. I had hopes of loafing in the sun with nothing on but my shorts and a smile. That was all changed. I only was in the sun with my shirt off one day, and that was Christmas day. It was beautiful in San Diego that day, and we enjoyed it with our family there. Among other things at San Diego we enjoyed was a harbor excursion which last ed two hours. It was Interest ing and that area certainly has changed since we lived there some 20 years ago. An other highlight was when Sgt. Bill McClintock picked me up and took me on a tour of the Marine base. I saw a class graduated while there. He then took me to their home and I had a visit with Pat and the children. Mrs. McClintock Mark and Sue then accompan ied us to Miramar, where the late Bob Gordon was station ed. We went from San Diego to Phoenix where we spent two nights with our son, Brian. It was real cool there, but nice and sunny. Brian took us on a tour of the city Monday. Phoenix has many beautiful buildings. In Las Vegas the water lead into the trailer froze solid and at Reno, the same thing, only the thermometer got down to 12 degrees above zero. Wow. Froze up again, and had to get a propane torch to get the water works thawed out. We then went to Quincy to visit Alta’s bro ther and wife. It was only 18 degrees there, but by then lessons learned years ago in North Dakota paid off. We let the water run all night. We did the same thing at Yreka the last night out, so got home all in one piece, and how nice it is to greet people we know again. I guess two of the most important things in this world outside of good health are home and friends. While it was a good vaca tion. our next one will be in the summer, when we can reallv relax. ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — OREGON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND THE — — MILL THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1967 THE MILL MILL CITY CITY ENTERPRISE ENTERPRISE MILL CITY, CITY, OREGON OREGON I Mill City Grades Mehama Has New Street Signs To Present Play By Jean Roberts MEHAMA—Mehama is now boasting new street signs. An unincorporated town, the streets are maintained by the county and street signs desig nating the names of streets and roads have been installed by Marion County Court. Unknown to many people the main street through Me hama is called Ferry Street. Plotted and registered in the county court years ago, Ferry Street led to the river where Gassy Smith operated a ferry across the North Santiam riv er to Linn county years ago. The town was named for Gassy’s wife, Mehama. Two other streets bear women’s names, Addie and Emma. For years Mehama was the end of the road and two hotels provided comfort for the va cationer or weary traveler. Always a vacation land, tents were errected along the river, (the North Fork of the Santi am) during the summer. To this day Mehama is known as a recreation area, where the river is lined with fishermen, hunters search for deer in the brush above town, and campers and swimmers stop. The bridge that replaced Gassy’s ferry is a popular spot for steelhead fishing, and the termination of the White Water Challenge that is held each year. Santiam Takes Two More Games Santiam made it 5-1 in Cap ital Conference play by trouncing the Scio Loggers 88-35, and defeating the Cas cade Cougars 74-47 the follow ing Saturday. Santiam tore in the Loggers 26-7 in the first quarter and ended the first half 53-16. Everybody got into the act in the third quarter, scoring 19 to Scio’s 5. The game ended with an easy 88-35 victory. Five Santiam players scor ed in the double figures with Yankus 14, Jones 10, Davidson 10, Ward 12, Pearce 7, Hansen 5, Bennett 6, Lalack 7 and Meuser 7. The next night the Wolver ines defeated the Cascade Cou -gars 74-47. The winners jumped to a 20-16 first quarter score and increased their lead to 38-28 at halftime. The third quarter ended with the score 61-41. The Cougars scored only 6 points during the 4th quarter ing the game 74-47. Alan Yankus was high scor er with 21 points followed by Dennis Davidson with 16. The rest of the ssoring was by Bennett with 13, Jones 8, Ward 7, Tuers 3, Hansen 3 Pearce 2 and Meuser 1. Airport Film To Be Shown at Next Chamber Meeting The first regular meeting for the North Santiam Cham ber of Commerce will be held Tuesday evening, January 17 at the Gates Woman's Club house at 8:00 o’clock, accord ing to Ed Davis, president. There will be a progress report on the Detroit Airstrip, discussion and report by the Breitenbush road committee and the Whitewater Challenge Committee. For the program a 16mm film. “The best investment a community ever made,” cour tesy of the Oregon State Board of Aeronautics will be shown. At the January Board meet ing Davis appointed the De troit Lake Race Committee: Ole Erickson. Lee Hopson, Jr., Sam Leffler, Farris Ben ton and Joe Muise. $3.50 a YEAR — 10c a Copy Francis F. Hill, president of North west Natural Gas company, presents Dean Lovrien of the company’s Salem headquarters, the Presidents Cup for 1966, emblematic of Lovrien’s suggest ion which was judged the best suggest ion of the year. Larry Mack, left, who is manager of the company’s general Golden Ball League To Start Saturday Saturday at 9:30 a. m. in the high school gym the Golden Ball league is slated to start. The groups are scheduled as follows: 9:30 to 10:15, 3rd and 4th graders; 10:20 to 11:05, 5th and 6th graders; 11:00 to 12:00, 7th and 8 graders. Each group will be divided into teams, the first half of the period will be spent on fundamentals such as shoot ing, passing, dribbling, etc. The second half of the period will be spent playing games. All interested persons who would like to help coach, re feree or supervise, please call Roger Mink, 897-2311. Mill City People Take Reno Tour Mr. and Mrs. Al Hemshorn and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Vin cent of Mill City recently joined a Stayton group for a tour to Reno. Mrs. Hemshorn said her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Christiansen were in the party and driver of the bus was Norm Peek, who was accom panied by his wife. Mrs. Hemshorn said they all had a wonderful trip. U. S. National Reports Earnings U. S. National Bank of Ore gon has reported net operat ing earnings after taxes of $9,365,618, or $2.84 per share, for the year 1966, an increase of 6.7 percent over adjusted 1965 earning of $8,781,375, ac cording to LeRoy B. Staver, president of the statewide fin ancial institution. Increases in both loans and deposits also were reported. Deposits on December 31, 1966, were $1,252,224,710, an increase of $48,659,062 over the same date in 1965. A con tinued demand for money in the state's economy pushed the loan total on the same date to $744,278,050, an in crease of $32,635,919. Monday night, January 16, will be the finishing perform ance of the semester for the Mill City Grade School Drama group. The curtains will open at 8 p. m. on a mystery melo drama titled “The Hound of the Maskervilles.” During the week the play will be present ed to the elementary schools; Gates on Thursday, and Mill ' City on Friday. During the I day on Monday the drama group will go on field trip to Salem and give a perform ance for the students at Kei- zer Elementary school. The play is directed by Herb Bas- tuscheck and the following students are participating: Connie Sarff, Larry Hayden, Larry Moore, David Crowther, Kathy Harrison, Janie Lent, Carol King, Dan Cox, John Ruby, Nels Soelberg, Robert Wilson, George Rust, Craig Stevens, Mitchell Alban, Dan Jeter, Jerry Raines, Mike services department, states the suggest Parker, Charles Riddle, Rus ion was relative to water boring in new sell Goodloe, and Kelly Den pipeline installations, Lovrien’s suggest nis. ion effecting great savings in time and No admission will be labor. The perpetual trophy is dupli charged. cated in smaller proportions, which Lovrien will retain. He also received a cash award. Snow Storm Takes Lifeof Radio Man The worst blizzard of the winter season last week claim ed the life of James Beard, radio technician of Silverton. He and three other men, Ro bert Young, James Fay and Roy Lusk were caught in the storm on Halls Ridge. Their snow vehicles were bogged down in the heavy snowdrifts and the men start ed to hike out. However, Beard, 27, became tired very quickly. The other men walk ed out a trail 20 or 30 feet at a time and tried to half carry Beard out. However, after sev eral hours of the slow trek Beard became semi-conscious and the men realized their only hope was to leave him as comfortable as possible and walk out for help. Rescuers, headed by Ferris Benton of Idanha, were on their way to meet the men. Young, partner in three log ging operations had radioed earlier that if they weren’t out by 5:30 to send help. The res cuers had been on a night long search in blizzard condi tions. Beard was taken to a hos pital where he was pronounc ed dead. Services were held in Silverton Saturday for the young man, who is survived by his wife and two small children. Cause of Beard’s death was listed as exhaustion and ex posure. Blood Drawing Is Slated at Stayton Mrs. A. K. McKenzie, chair man of the Bloodmobile pro gram for the Stayton area this week said she would like to remind residents here that the blood drawing will be held January 26 at the Stayton Grade school. Blood is needed both at home and for the fighting forces in Vietnam and all who are able are urged to give. Weather, Detroit Dam The Bloodmobile will be at 7 a. m. Dally Weather Reading the school from 4:30 to 8:30. Pool Date Max. Min. Elev. Pct. Dec. 29 38 32 1447.86 .07 WWI Vets To Meet Dec. 29 39 36 1447.79 .26 Dec. 30 45 36 1448.11 .23 At Grade School Dec. 31 42 38 1448.22 .04 World War I Veterans and Jan. 1 47 37 1448.29 .64 Jan. 2 43 37 1448 64 .12 Auxiliary members will meet Jan. 3 47 37 1449.01 .44 Saturday January 14 at the Jan. 4 45 40 1450.69 0.37 Mill City Grade school. A pot Jan. 5 53 32 1451.30 1.06 luck luncheon will be served Jan. 6 37 31 1451.10 0.79 at noon followed by a business Jan. 7 39 35 1451.03 029 meeting. Commander Ernest Rags Jan. 8 40 .33 1450.76 0.00 Jan. 9 42 33 1450.29 0.00 dale urges all members to Jan. 10 44 37 1449.89 0.00 attend. Greg Pearce In Navy Hosp. In Bremerton Mill City friends learned this week that Greg Pearce, who was reportedly wounded during a gun cleaning acci dent was actually shot by a careless fellow serviceman in Vietnam. Greg, who was serving with the Navy in Vietnam until his accident is now in the Brem erton hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Pearce did not know the details of their son’s wounds until they visited with him in Bremerton where he was taken on December 23. Early reports indicated he had been hurt while clean ing a gun. However, the accident oc- cured when a fellow man was “showing off”, pointing a loaded pistol, with one bullet in the chamber, at two or three of the fellows and then firing. In other words, a little game of Russian roulette. Greg jumped up to take the gun away from him and it went off, wounding him in the chest. The young fellow firing the'shot ran out of the tent where the accident oc- cured, but he returned in a LYONS — At the regular short time and assisted the meeting of the Lyons City other fellows in getting band Council, Wednesday night, ages and giving first aid, January 4th. Ernest Grosso which Mrs. Pearce said she was sworn in as mayor and thought saved his life. assigned positions to council She did not know just what men. Appointed were Edwin action had been taken against Sieg as police commissioner, the culprit but said she was Wilson Stevens recreation, sure it was something he Elmer Culwell who was re would never forget in his elected last fall as street com entire life. missioner and hold over mem Greg is recovering from a ber Cecil Grimes, sanitation bout with pneumonia but is and welfare. The resignation still paralyzed from the mid of Eldon Gilson as chairman chest down. He will go to of the Lyons Public Board San Diego Naval hospital in was received with no replace three or four weeks for ment at the present. Mr. Gil therapy treatment. son cited the lack of time. The council also voted grading and graveling of 13th, Cedar and Dogwood streets and to take care of the street drainage as soon as equipment could be secured. Ernest Grosso Many New Projects Lyons Mayor Now in Progress In Local Schools Many interesting projects and programs are presently in operation at the Mill City schools. In September the pri mary, elementary and the high school teaching staff be came involved in creating a more interesting student learning situation. New meth ods of teaching have challeng ed the slow, average, and the faster students in all levels of learning. Student involvement has been the key to this increased interest. It has been a natural development derived from small group interaction or participation, in which a class of 25 students is grouped by the teacher into four or five research teams. Leadership is earned at this level and ma tures under constant teacher guidance. All students strive to contribute to the success of the individual group or team. Al Glover, social studies in structor of the Mill City Ele mentary school has had ex ceptional success with the small group research in the seventh and eighth grades. One outstanding phase was activated by Mr. Glover’s well planned questions: What are the major problems of In dia today? How can we (U. S. Government) best assist In dia in overcoming her prob lems? Preliminary student re action indicated they had only basic knowledge, derived mainly from overheard adult conversation, brief television exposure, or a dull textbook assignment. Due to the small groups almost instantaneous reaction developed with one problem and two very general solutions materializing. This envelops all students in sup porting their individual groups solution, it enables challenges to be made at the student level, and most im portantly the entire class is motivated to do extensive re search on the problem in ques tion. An interested student is well on the road to knowledge and will challenge his fellow students in the race to achieve Next week another article on educational development will appear in The Enterprise. Jim Rose Inducted Into Lions Monday Family Night Held At Simpson Plant LYONS, January 9—Officials of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union and the Simp son Timber Company partici pated in a Family Safety Night at Lyons January 7th in honor of a successful safety program at Simpson’s Lyons Plywood Plant. The plant broke its previous record of 151 consecutive acci dent-free working days last October. A highlight of the evening was a challenge by Lyons Plant Manager Carol Ander son to Ray Robb, manager of Simpson’s Albany Plywood Plant. The challenge was to see which plant can maintain the best safety record during 1967. Clary Adamson, executive secretary of the Willamette Valley District Council, LSW, told the group of some 200 Lyons workers and their fam ilies that he appreciated the enthusiasm demonstrated by the inter-plant competition. "I won’t take sides because both plants are in my dis trict,” Adamson said. “But in a contest of this nature, there can only be winners.” Bill Smith, business agent for Local 2896, also attended the celebration. About 300 people work at the Lyons Plant. Joe Muise Reports On Canyon Weather Detering Chairman Of Legislative Agriculture Com. DETROIT — Precipitation figures compiled by Joe Muise, weather observer total ed 91.51 inches comparefl to 71.89 in 1965. It included 12.85 inches which fell in Decem ber. The December mark was far below the torrential 30.86 inches which fell the same month in 1964. Gerald Detering, well-known Linn County representative from Harrisburg Informed The Enterprise Monday that he had been named chairman of the agricultural committee. Detering, an orchardist, is well informed on this subject and his experience will be of value to the people he repre sents. Jim Rose was inducted into the Lions club Monday night as the newest member of this service group by Lee Ross. President Martin Hansen announced that all members and their wives should plan to attend a social evening in Salem, January 26. This meet ing will be in celebration of Lions Internationals’ 50th anniversary. He also said there would be a work ses sion Saturday at 9 a. m. in the city park when some dead or dangerous trees will be fel led. Lee Ross reported on the Christmas basket project, stat ing that 18 families from Idan ha to west of Mill City were distributed. The ministerial association did the investigat ing and distribution. Ross complimented the Jaycees for their part in furnishing toys for the baskets, stating they were the best he had ever seen. The Jayceettes assist in wrapping the gifts. President Hansen said there would be a visitation to the Jefferson Lions club on Mon day, January 23. All members planning to attend are asked to meet at Fellowship hall at 6 p. m. sharp. Gates School To Have Open House Parents and friends are in vited to attend the Open House at the Gates Grade school, Wednesday, January 18 from 7:30 until 9:00 p.m. This is the first year the school has housed all the flrat, second and third grade stu dents of the Mill City-Gates School district. Parents will be given the opportunity to see their chil drens work and visit with their teachers. Staff at the Gates school Includes, Olive Barnhardt, Marge Parker, Gladys Norrie, Gwen Schaer, Marion Dorothy and Helen Cox. Teachers aides are Martha Etzel and June Mink.