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The Mill City
ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — OREGON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND
VOLUME XXII
NUMBER 3
Up and Down
The Avenue
By Don Moffatt
Each weekend seems to be
a time for reading at our
house. I like to read the daily
newspaper and the magazine
section it contains. This week­
end there was an interesting
article on The American In­
dian, written by Don Holm.
It really opened my eyes, and
should serve as a guide-line
to all of us who are interested
in cutting down on govern­
ment spending. This is one
thing, like many others, which
cannot be laid at President
Johnson’s door step, nor the
door step of any one adminis­
tration, but to all of them for
the past some 90 odd years.
In the article it brings out
that many Indians would like
to forget all about the reserva­
tion, the government dole,
and be treated like any other
citizen of this great country
of theirs and ours. They
would like to have the oppor­
tunity to make good, or fail,
as the case might be, just like
anyone else. The article says
the federal government em­
ploys some 16,000 civil service
workers in the Bureau of In­
dian Affairs, and what an
"affair” that is — of misused
funds I mean.
The new Congress is expect­
ed to ask this month for an­
other 1,200 BIA employees,
and another third of a billion
dollars for the next fiscal op­
eration. Why? Write your con­
gressmen and ask them, I cer­
tainly don’t know where they
get the feeling that they
should spend OUR money that
way.
It was brought out in a re­
port of the Senate Committee
on Interior and Insular Af­
fairs that in the past dozen
years alone, $1.5 billion has
been made available for In­
dian, programs. The number
of employed in the Bureau
and the Indian Health Divi­
sion has grown steadily until
today there are 22,00 people
serving the needs of approxi­
mately 380,000 reservation In­
dians. Do you realize that this
is one federal employee for
about 18 Indians. WOW! How
silly can we get, and we con­
tinue to let the government
pct away with it, while we sit
<-n<.' wonder what makes our
'ederal taxes so high, and
u hy they need to boost the in­
come tax rate another 6%.
It is known in Washington
that the employes of the Bu­
reau have established one of
the worst records in the entire
government, and that is real­
ly something!
The Bureau of Indian Af­
fairs is just another bureau
as far as I am concerned. I
believe we could knock out
quite a percent of this payroll
and save a lot of money, and
probably not bungle the job
any worse than the large
group does. Of course to the
politician, the more and big­
ger the bureau, the better
chance to perpetuate them­
selves in office. It is sort of a
game with John Q. Public
picking up the tab.
I still firmly believe that
the sooner we can get more
control of government at a
local level where we can
have some chance to look
closely at it, the better off
we’ll be. For the time being,
until we get this Vietnam war
under control or over, I firm­
ly believe that we should cur­
tail many of the social spend­
ing programs of this and any
other administration.
The Creswell, Ore., Chron­
icle said this: “The only ques­
tion remaining in our minds is
will there be a “war on pov­
erty” to support the taxpay­
ers after they support the rest
of the federal government’s
poverty fiascos?
THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGON
Golden Ball
Gets Off to
Good Start
Last Saturday was the first
Saturday of the Golden Ball
program. This first Saturday
was concerned with getting
boys registered for the pro­
gram. Fundamentals will be
the emphasis of the program
as well as spending half the
time in team competition.
Adults who participated
were Larry Plotts, Ralph Ear-
hardt, Clyde Richards, and
Ollie Muise, a very good turn­
out and more are encouraged
to participate. High School
and College youth involved
were Monte Lalack, Mark
Bennett, and Dan Rue, more
are encouraged to participate
in this program. As soon as
possible we would like to
divide into teams, but this
cannot be done until we have
all the registration slips.
From the looks of the pro­
gram it is going to be very
good so if you are interested
contact Roger Mink 897-2311.
Homemaker of Year
Golden Ball Gets Good Start
$3.50 a YEAR — 10c a Copy
New City Forest Service Moratorium
Councilmen On 31,610 Acres Result of
Get Jobs
Conservation Club Action
Lee Boeckstiegel, Detroit District Ranger dropped
A new Golden Ball Program has started at Mill City,
giving many young folks a chance to play basketball on
Saturdays. In the picture above Ralph Earhart, tossing
the ball is one of the adults helping out. Other adult in
the picture is Larry Plotts, Jr.—Enterprise photo
Of Teaching
Being Used
Most parents of today recall
| their school experiences with
, somewhat mixed emotions.
Some assignments were given
, to the slow, average, and fast
student. The slower child
eventually became a “drop­
out” or sat in the back of
the room daydreaming be­
cause the subject matter was
too difficult. The top student
also was insufficiently chal­
lenged in that the program
was too easy and the average
performer was keeping up
through effort alone. Very
seldom was the elementary
student permitted to go to
the library to do individual
research on more interesting
areas of the curriculum.
In the Mill City and Gates
schools today, much research
material is available for the
students. Teachers have rec­
Mary Susann Heller, daugh­ ognized the wide ability span
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Woody in a classroom of students.
Heller and a senior at Santi- Interests also are varied in
am high school was recently this same age group and con­
selected as Homemaker of sequently assignments given
Tomorrow in the General are geared to individual stu­
Mills Betty Crocker contest dent need.
One Mill City Elementary
at the local level.
Prizes for the State and School faculty member, rec­
National winners of this con­ ognized throughout Oregon
test are very generous with for her revision of the spell­
$110,000 available in scholar­ ing program, is Mrs. Audrey-
ships. Each winner in the ann Morley. She has devised
state contest will receive $1500 recorded tapes in which her
with $500 awards going to students can individually find
runners-up. Their schools will their spelling ability levels.
be presented with sets of en­ Additional tapes contain sets
of words which they can put
cyclopedias.
Local winners will be pre­ on the tape recorder, plug
sented with silver charms, in their earphones, and pro­
ceed as rapidly as they wish.
especially designed.
This spring, state Betty Success at their level en­
Crocker Homemaker winners courages and challenges the
accompanied by their school student to continuous growth.
advisors will take an all-ex­ While these children are in­
pense tour of Washington, volved in their program the
D.C. and surrounding areas. teacher can be giving her pro­
The trip will culminate with fessional services to another
a dinner at which time the group or an individual need­
All-American Homemaker will ing assistance.
Mrs. Morley has also in­
be announced.
The senior girls at Santiam volved her students in an
were among the 15,000 schools Individualized Reading Pro­
represented in the program. gram. Each child in her room
Miss Heller will participate is reading at his or her level
in the state contest and if one with no restrictions on ad­
of the fortunate ones, will vancement. The tape recorder
enter the national event. Her will become a very essential
instructor is Mrs. Charlene instrument in testing reading
comprehension at a later date.
Slack.
Needless to say the teacher
today is quite busy planning
for, preparing for. and check­
ing the many projects in
which the individuals are in­
volved. As Mrs. Morley very
aptly stated, "when we find
the students happily involved
and eagerly looking forward
to their work our efforts are
most worthwhile. The pro­
ALBANY, January 13—All gram is interesting to the
Simpson Timber Company slow and the fast because it
Detroit Has First
plywood and veneer opera­ is individualized with many
Council Meet of Year tions in Oregon will be down stimulating resources avail­
DETROIT — Detroit city the week of January 16, re­ able.”
council meeting was held Jan­ ports John Connors, produc­
uary 10. Otto Oja was re-elect­ tion manager—plywood and Weather, Detroit Dam
ed mayor and Joe Muise presi­ veneer.
7 a. m. Dally Weather Reading
Included are Idanha Veneer
dent of the council. New
Pool
Plant.
Lyons
Plywood
and
councilman is Harold Cham­
Date Max. Min. Elev. Pct.
pion and incumbents are Saul Albany Plywood Plant.
Jan. 11 45 38 1450.20 0.59
Connors said the shutdowns Jan. 12 45 37 1450.98 0.00
Zone and Joe Muise.
Muise was named building are because of poor market Jan. 13 43 37 1451.68 2.06
commissioner; Zone re-elected conditions and a lack of Jan. 14 51 42 1454.56 0.27
water commissioner
and orders. He said it is planned Jan. 15 53 42 1456.48 0.06
Champion, street commission-1 to resume normal operations Jan. 16 51 39 1458.88 0.78
er.
on Monday, January 23.
Jan. 17 45 36 1460.31 0.08
Poor Market
Closes Plywood
Plants This Week
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1967
The Linn County Legisla­
tors, State Senator Glenn
Huston, Representatives Ger­
ald Detering and Bill Gwinn
will be in Mill City at The
Enterprise office from 10 a.m.
to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan­
uary 21.
This is not the first time
these men have come to Mill
City to meet their constitu­
ents. They do this in order
that any person, regardless
of political affiliation, can
visit with them and express
their views on legislation
which may come before this
session of the legislature.
All people who wish to meet
these men are invited to do
so at this time.
100 Combat
Missions Flown
By Capt. Thiess
WITH U. S. COMBAT AIR
FORCES, Vietnam—U. S. Air
Force Capt. Alvin R. Theiss,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Theiss of Disston, Oregon, has
completed more than 100 com­
bat missions in Southeast
Asia.
Captain Theiss, a tactical
fighter pilot, flies from Phan
Rang AB, Vietnam. He is a
member of the Pacific Air
Forces which provides air
power to maintain the U. S.
defense posture in the Pacific
and conducts air operations in
Southeast Asia.
Before his arrival in South­
east Asia, he was assigned
to the 354th Tactical Fighter
Wing at Myrtle Beach AFB,
S.C.
The Captain, a 1953 gradu­
ate of Cottage Grove (Ore.)
High School, received his B.S.
degree in 1958 from Oregon
State University, Corvallis. He
was commissioned there thru
the Air Force Reserve Offi­
cers Training Corps program
and is a member of Pi Kappa
Phi.
His wife, Almeta, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Coffman of Mehama.
Veryl Hoover, newly elected
city mayor, appointed his com­ a bombshell in an otherwise quiet North Santiam Cham­
missioners at the first council ber of Commerce meeting at Gates Tuesday night when
meeting of the year Wednes­ he announced the Forest Service had ordered a mora­
torium on sales from 31,610 acres of North Santiam
day evening.
James Rose was appointed timberland in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness area.
Boeckstiegel said the decision would reduce the
building inspector; Delbert
Goforth will again serve as annual timber sales for the Detroit and Mill City dis­
police commissioner; C. E. tricts by 10,900,000 board feet or about 11 percent of
Mason was re-appointed street the allowable cut.
commissioner; Herbert Schro­ In the release received from
eder will be the sanitation in­ Forest Supervisor Dave Gib- year. On the Mt. Hood side,
spector and Adolph Brunner ney in Eugene, he said: “This all but eight miles have been
will be the public safety man. moratorium on timber har­ paved. There still remains
Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Brun­ vesting was requested on Oc­ 17 miles on this side, which
ner are new council members tober 26, 1966, at a public hear­ when opened up will make an
and Mr. Rose was recently ing on the Mt. Jefferson Wil­ exceptional drive from the
elected, following serving by derness by representatives of Portland area down through
appointment for the unex­ several conservation groups. this area on Highway 22.
pired term of another council­ They made the request in con­ A report on airstrip activi­
man. He will serve as presi­ junction with recommenda­ ties in the Detroit area was
tions for an expanded wilder­ given by Jerry Coffman, se­
dent of the council.
Council members said Wed­ ness and on the basis that har­ cretary. He said a group of
nesday evening that they vesting in their proposed area men had called on several gov­
wanted to again remind resi­ would ursurp the authority of ernment agencies Tuesday,
dents that there are resusi- the U. S. Congress under the who all agreed that an air
tators in the fire department Wilderness Act of 1964 ap­ strip in Detroit would be a
and in the city police car with proving the final boundaries. good thing but that they had
“Supervisor Gibney request­ no funds available at the time.
qualified operators in both
ed permission to reduce the There is some talk of excavat­
departments.
Building permits granted at annual cut of the North Wil­ ing a boat basin, and using the
the January council meeting lamette Working Circle which dirt removed to make a fill
included a carport at the includes the North Santiam for the air strip.
There will be a report on
Ollie Muise home and a tool Drainage, by 10.9 million
shed by Mr. Burrell at 220 board feet until the boundary the boat races, slated for this
is finally defined. Regional summer on Detroit Lake, and
Kingwood.
Forester J. Herbert Stone of
Bills in the amount of the U. S. Forest Service in also the Whitewater Chal­
$1,012.82 were authorized to Portland approved Glbney’s lenge at the February meet­
ing, according to Ed Davis.
be paid.
request.
Jerry Coffman showed a mo­
Mayor Hoover, in presiding
“Stone said it is consistent vie on proving the worth of
at the first meeting, expressed with the U. S Forest Service’s an air strip to any community.
appreciation for the years J. position in the North Cas­
C. Kimmel had served as cades study in the State of
Mayor and to former council­ Washington where a morator­
man Roy Podrabsky for his ium was called in areas pro­
services.
posed for addition to the
Glacier Peak Wilderness.”
The North Santiam Cham­
ber has been on record for
years as against increasing
the size of the Mt. Jefferson
Wilderness area, feeling that
there was ample land there
to take care of the outdoors­
men.
At the Gates meeting Tues­
The January meeting of the
day night Ranger Boeckstelgel
Judges chose Susann Heller said there was no oral argu­ North Santiam Safety council
as winner in the Lions Peace ment against the expansion at will be held on Wednesday
Essay contest Monday night a hearing held in Salem. It the 25th at The Highwayman,
at a dinner held to honor the was brought out by a Cham­ Gates, according to Tony
three winners, their parents ber member that the conser­ Shillingburg of Timber Op­
and instructors. Second place vation groups had the meeting erators Council, Portland.
This will be family night
winner Kathy Duggan, was packed with their people, thus
unable to be present on ac­ not allowing time enough for and officers of the group state
count of illness. Mark Bennett men from this area to be all wives should attend, as it
heard. Many from this area is of vital importance to them.
was third place winner.
Miss Heller received a wrote letters, however, pro­ The topic will be “Heart Re­
check for $25 and a plaque testing the expansion of the search in Action.” Items to
be stressed in this program
for her efforts. Second place wilderness area.
All persons In this area, which will be handled by
prize was $15 and third place
$10. Others who took part in who have their paychecks on Howard J. Stroud, executive
the contest were Terry Han­ the line have been asked by director for the Oregon Heart
sen, Donelda Flatman, Craig Chamber President Ed Davis Association of Portland, will
Shaw, Melody Rosamond, Jack to write letters to their repre­ be Incidents of Heart Disease
Johnson, Charley Stewart and sentatives in Washington pro­ in Oregon; Age Levels Most
testing to the expansion of the Affected; The Problem to Ore­
Lorena Harmon.
Guests present at the din­ area. However, prior to letter gon Industry.
Methods of attacking the
ner, besides the contestants, writing, they should get the
were Mr. and Mrs. Bernard facts from either the Mill City problem through research,
education and professional
Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Wen­ or Detroit Ranger stations.
and public interest will be
Another
item
of
interest
at
dell Heller, Mrs. Doris Shey-
the, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Rick­ the Tuesday night meeting explained.
Other topics will be com­
etts, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mon­ was the Breitenbush road.
son and Fred Krecklow, a Much work has been done on munity service, the cardiac
club member from Parkrose, this side of the Hot Springs at work, heart at home and
and more is scheduled for this rheumatic fever.
who is now in the area.
Susann Heller
Wins First in
Lions Essay Contest
‘Goofy Fire Siren
Family Night
Slated for
Safety Group
Yaqrants At Mill City Elementary
Calls Out Firemen
The fire whistle blew one
long blast recently—and one
truckload of firemen were al­
Mrs. LeRoy Richards
ready on the job ready to go
Writes from Germany to the scene of action. How­
ever, the second siren, which
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Hutch­ indicates a fire, did not blow.
inson have received word The automatic switch which
from their daughter, Mrs. Le­ blows the noon whistle was
Roy Richards that she has ar­ not functioning properly and
rived safety i n Germany so the one long blast about
where she joined her husband. 1:30 p. m.
He is with the Army Engin­ Residents should be very
eers and serves as a radio op­ grateful that they have such
erator. They are living temp­ alert firemen, it’s a very com­
orarily at Henneshiem, about forting feeling.
The fire department answ­
three miles from his base at
ered a call the first week in
Mannheim.
They have a small “cold January to the home of Leo
water flat,” but intend to get Carpenter where a flue fire
was burning. There was no
better housing soon.
Mrs. Richards says the wea­ damage. Firemen were also
ther has been real cold, down called out during the holidays
to 10 above. She and her hus­ to extinguish a fire in a car,
band are looking forward to which was reported to be
Spring so they can do some j stolen, parked near Fisher­
men’s Bend park.
sight-seeing.
Friday was the annual traditional Hobo Day at Mill
City Elementary school and The Enterprise photogra­
pher found this motly group roaming the halls. The
first man on the scene, Al Glover looks as if he had
just stepped of the boat from Ireland. Next to him is
Kathie Wright and Kenneth Goforth followed by no
other person than ‘school marm’ Mary Wright. Sitting
in front are Sylvia Bradshaw and Herb Carpenter.—
The Mill City Enterprise photo.