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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1967)
4—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Sept. 7, 1967 THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE P. O. Box 34« Phone 897-2772 MUI City, Ore. 97360 Grange Names Fair Committees Loggers Work on Forest Fire Lines flow of the Willamette River. These reservoirs are: Fern Ridge on the Long Tom Riv er, Cottage Grove on the Coast Fork Willamette, Dor- ene on the Row, Lookout Point and Hills Creek on the Middle Fork Willamette, Fall Creek on Fall Creek, Cougar on the South Fork McKenzie, Green Peter on the Middle Santiam, Foster on the South Santiam and Detroit on the North Santiam. Clearing Trees To Stop Fire Published at MiU City, Marion County, Ore. every Thursday Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Postoffice at Mill City, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. By Jean Roberts LYONS—The regular meet The Mill City Enterprise assumes no financial responsibility ing of Santiam Valley Grange MEHAMA—With a forest for errors in advertisements. It will, however, reprint was held Friday night with fire still raging out of con without charge or cancel the charge for that portion of an Sam Wizer, master, presiding. trol in the high Cascades, advertisement which is in error if The Enterprise is at fault. During the lecturer’s hour, Mehama loggers are treking An independent newspaper, dedicated to the development Mrs. Ada Plymale, assisted home late at night unshaven, of the timber industry and agriculture in this area. by Fern Sletto, presented a reeking of smoke, trying to Subscription Rates Marion-Linn Counties, per year ................ _..... $3.50 program honoring past and catch a few hours of sleep Outside Marion-Linn Counties, per year ------------------ $4.00 present officers of the grange. and a lunch before returning Outside Oregon, per year................................................... .$4.50 Plans were made to hold a to the fire. Friday on Straight Creek— NATIONAL NEWSPAPER meeting at the grange hall, NEWSPAPER \ PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION AFFILIATE MEMBER DON W. MOFFATT................................ Editor and Publisher GOLDIE RAMBO......... . ....................Society and News Editor DAVE WARDE .................................................... ...... Printer CORRESPONDENTS Detroit-Idanha .............................................. Boots Champion Gates........... ........ ........... -......... -................ Janet Lewis Mill City ........................................ ...-..................... Rose Cree Lyons............................. ....................................... Eva Bressler Mehama ....................................... Merle Teeters - Jean Roberts Brunner's Flowers and Gifts Flowers for all Occasions Corsages—Cut Flowers—Plants Shrubs—Bedding Plants FLOWERS by WIRE SERVICE 230 N.E. 4th Street Phone 897-2452 MiU City NOTICE We are now Agents for Weider's Salem Laundry & Dry Cleaning In the Mill City Area Leave Your Laundry and Dry Cleaning at Pick Up and Delivery Monday and Thursdays OTTO'S BARGAIN HOUSE Across from the Old Mill City Theatre SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Open Monday Through Saturday 10 to 5 Closed Tuesdays Telephone 897-2896 Thursday night, September a young fire fighter was in 21 to get the hall in readiness jured with a polasky. An am summoned from for the annual Fall Fair and bulance Springfield halted long Booster night program which will be held Saturday after enough in the Parkett area to noon and evening, September ask directions. This minute 23. Elmer Taylor, general pause saved the lives of the As the chairman appointed the fol driver and attendant, on a i ambulance continued lowing committees. i huge tree three feet in dia Antiques, Estelle Spiva. | meter burned off and fell in Baking, Tyler Pinkston. front of the vehicle barely Canning, Bertha Basi and missing it. Elizabeth Winslow. In a rougher area, another Fancy Work, Lois Myers fighter was injured. He was and Lucy Palmer. placed on a stretcher, but the Flowers. Celene Taylor, terrain was too steep and Helen Shafer and Olene rocky to carry him out. A Smith. helicopter was summoned to Vegetables, John Shafer, rescue him, and 160 feet of Irl Plymale and Olin Spiva. rope attached to the stretch Fruits and Nuts, Frank er to reach the helicopter. Basl, Lee Pinkston, and Lu The influx of several hund ther Stout. red men in a small area like Farm Booth, Sam Wizer. Detroit and Idanha, has Handicraft and Novelties, strained resources of restau Jake Myers and Warner rants and stores. One group Hampton. of fire fighters descended on Livestock, Giles Wagner, a restaurant and demanded Thurman Smith and John '500 lunches in 20 minutes. Lambrecht. The nearby store was soon Secretaries, Fern Sletto, drained of apples, oranges Clara Wizer and Blanche and bread. Wagner. Smoke jumpers stationed Program, Georgia Hayes at Detroit are bunking in the and Grethel Turnidge. gymnasium, and approxi Decorations, Mrs. Bessie mately 100 steaks are sent up Hamptcn. the canyon each day just to feed this one group. Saturday—A pickup crew of firefighters from Bend, untrained in fighting proced ure decided the ground was too steep to climb. They re turned to Detroit and de manded transportation home. Officials refused the demand and last seen, the men were headed home afoot. Saturday night—Perry Clip fell worked all night with a heavy hauler moving four cats belonging to Parkett Logging Co., from one fire to another, hoping to keep the cats out of danger, but in use where needed. Eagle Rock—fire fighters not familiar with the terrain were led up the slope by Lee Seits, an experienced logger. At the top Lee was picked up by a helicopter and flown down to guide up each new group of fighters. Heard over a logger’s radio: Lookout on Sand Mt. was calling for a helicopter to come and evacuate his fam ily. He planned to escape over the lava rocks but want ed assistance for his family. The radio faded out then. Roads all over the area leading into timber are be ing patrolled this weekend by Sea Scouts in uniform. Trained by Tom Drynan, Oregon State Police Officer from Mill City, the boys are stretching red tapes across roads and on duty to see that no one enters the woods. Mechanics too are working around the clock to keep equipment in repair. Kenny Anderson was out all night working on a cat. The fire rages on. The long dry season, the east wind, not enough men to surround it, the only hope is for rain to extinguish the fire Subscribe to The Mill City Enterprise Fire dug these ditches HEN FIRES burn trees and other soil cover on sloping ground, ditches like these come naturally. W Free roots and other vegetation tend to hold the soil to gether when rr.in falls or snow melts. Lyons, Oregon Boise Cascade Corp. P. O. Box 127 Independence, Oregon Young & Morgan Timber Co. Idanha and Mill City, Oregon Parkett Logging Company Mehama, Oregon Willamette Plywood Corp. P. O. Box 228 Aumsville, Oregon Frank Lumber Company, Inc. Mill City, Oregon On Santiam Pass a crew of loggers were cutting down both large and small trees to widen the fire break at Highway 22. At the time this was taken, there was danger of the Airstrip fire spreading to the north side of the highway near Santiam Lodge at the sum mit of Santiam Pass.—The Mill City Enter prise photo. Mrs. George Stafford, tea cher of the PTA sponsored kindergarten, said this week that classes would start Thursday, September 14 at the old Gates high school building. The classes will start at 9 a. m. and mothers are urged to accompany their young sters the first day so that, in formation on transportation and other matter may be dis cussed. For further details Mrs. Stafford may be reached at ) 897-2030 or Mrs. Lauren Hol man, kindergarten chairman may be called at 897-2630. Army Engineers' Reservoirs Contribute WWI Vets To Meet Almost Two Thirds of Willamette Flow At Fishermen's Bend Although many of its tribu taries are going dry during the present unusual dry sum mer, the main stem of the Willamette River is having a better than average flow be cause of the release of water from U, S. Army Corps of Engineers’ upstream reser voirs. The reservoirs now are responsible for almost two thirds of the Willamette River’s flow at Salem. Col. Robert Bangert, Port land District Engineer said, “Without the reservoirs, the Willamette would be a pret ty sorry stream.” He added that at Salem, storage re leases from upstream reser voirs have been responsible for more than one-half the flow for some time. Currently at Eugene the reservoirs are responsible for about 80% of the actual flow. Without the reservoirs I the flow would be, under pre sent conditions, about 700 cubic feet per second. Releas es from the reservoirs are augmenting it to about 3,000 cubic feet. Col. Bangert said Willam ette reservoirs will continue to augment the flow during the remainder of the dry sea son, and that additional re leases would be made from those projects with power generating facilities shortly after September 1. “There is still some low water season yet to come, Colonel Bangert stated. “Sep tember and October could very well be low water months.” At Salem the 10 existing Corps of Engineers’ multiple purpose reservoirs are re sponsible for 3,500 cubic feet per second of the 5,820 actual Mill City Barracks WWI and their Auxiliary will meet at Fishermen’s Bend park on Saturday, September 9 for a noon luncheon. Ernest Rags dale, commander said that he would like to have all members attend if possible. The program for the winter will be planned at this time and he said any new ideas would be welcome. If weather does not permit meeting at the park, other plans will be announced. Rita, a polio victim, learn ed office work and office ma chines at non-profit Goodwill Industries. Also, she was trained in P B X switchboard operation. When proficient, she graduated from Goodwill into a good job as P B X op erator for a large hospital as sociation. Rita is a typical Goodwill success case. NOTICE Subscribers, please check the label on your Enterprise this week. If the figure following your name is 9-67 your subscription has expired. Why not send in a check for your renewal today. YOU SAVE MONEY By Subscribing to THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE You can save more than the subscription price of The Enterprise by reading the ads and then taking advantage of the bargains offered. Try it and see. Subscription Rates That’s why it is important to prevent forest fires. You help to prevent soil erosion when you Keep America Green. 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