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—The Mill City Enterprise, Thur**day, August 1, 1968 Forest Service Advertising in The Mill City Enterprise Gives Rec Report Brings Results—Try It Every Week DETROIT—Catfishing, boat after the picnic... pick up please don’t litter Olympia Btawlng Company, Tumwater. Washington. 'Qly ’® Help us, Mother. Teach your child to dial operator in an emergency We hope your children will never need to call for help. But it’s good to teach them to dial zero for Operator and just as soon as they can learn. You’ll feel better and so will we when your children know how to dial "zero” for operator and help. VALLEY TELEPHONE CO. a part of Sunnyside Telephone Co. P.O. Box 507 • Silverton, Oregon 97381 ing, wild berries, camping and scenic hiking prospects are good in the Willamette Na tional Forest, according to the weekly recreation report. Fly fishing is exceptionaly good in the streams of the De troit District and the red huckleberries are ripe at the lower elevations. Wild black berries are also ripening. Detroit District also has three loop drives. They are Boulder Ridge. Breitenbush Road. McCoy Creek • Skunk Creek and Blowout Road No. 103. Information may be obtain ed at the Detroit Ranger Sta tion. Catfishing on Detroit Re servoir is good on the flats west of town. Mill City District reports heavy construction on French Creek Road and access to Tumble Lake is impossible without extensive delays. Kokanee angling Ls reported to be good in Detroit Reser voir with many of the species the largest ever seen in the lake. Reports indicated they were best found by trolling deep and very slow in the main channel of the lake. Surface of the lake is quite warm now, so fishing the shallower arms during the day is very slow. The lake is slow ly dropping, which also may be a reason for the improve ment in the fishing scene here. THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE Tips from a Pro Wray Mundy NATIONAL TRUCK DRIVER OF THE YEAR NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS Detroit-Idanha ..... Boots Champion Gates................................................................... Arlene Taylor Mill City .............. Rose Cree Lyons___________________________________ Eva Bressler Mehama___________________ Merle Teeters - Jean Roberts OVER-BURDENED tabraes pushed out of place and many sore muscles and DETROIT black and blue spots. Rick was a former student at Detroit IDANHA school. Mabie Poncia is confined By Boots Chamrxion The High School Library was the setting Friday after noon for a “surprise” birthday party honoring Miss Nina Johnson on her birthday an niversary. Hosting the affair was Miss Karen Shepard and George Maki. In attendance was school Supt. Francis H. and Mrs. Dummer, teachers, Mrs. Fern Sletto, Mrs. Lee Boekstiegel, Mrs. Glen Reinke, Harold Wiltse Wins Mrs. Lee Hopson Jr., Ron Wil Service Station Award kerson and Mrs. Lloyd Hen A special award was pre drickson and son; personnel, sented July 22, 1968 to Harold Harold Champion, Rubin Krie- F. Wiltse who is the owner ler a friend visiting Mrs. of Harold’s Texaco Service, Johnson, Mrs. Pauling and Lyons-Mehama Jet. in Me Mrs. Robert Kirk. Refresh ments were served following hama, Oregon. The award, a plaque bear the opening of gifts. ing two rare silver dollars, The Idanha Rural Fire Dept, two Kennedy half-dollars, and was called to Detroit Friday a specially minted commemor about 6:00 P. M. to quell a ative coin set in an automotive fire that gutted the interrior engine design, was presented of a shed behind the Lyle for exceptional customer ser Rogers home on Detroit Ave. vice by a representative of Household furnishings stored in the building, including a a Rubber Company. The Denver-based rubber tent, TV, mattresses and pan company sponsors a nation eling were destroyed. Reports wide contest (now in its 36th indicated the fire may have year) to reward service sta started from children playing tion personnel who provide with matches. exceptional customer service. Returning home recently A fleet of “Mystery Cars” | from a weeks visit at Virginia regularly travels across City, Nevada, was Mr. and the country stopping at ser Mrs. Earl Capurro of Idanha. vice stations. Each “Mystery Mr. Capurro’s mother resides Car” has a worn fan belt. A- in the Nevada city. ward plaques are presented Mrs. Don Lewis of Idanha to station personnel who no received word that her grand tice the defective belt and of son, Rick Whiteman, 20, was fer to replace it. injured recently when he was run over by a bean picking machine near Gustane, Calif. After a series of tests and X-rays and a weeks stay in the hospital it was found his injuries consisted of two ver- Subscribe to The Mill Gty Enterprise1 I am announcing that I have sold my / wish to announce that I have purchas ed Slayden Plumbing from Ed Slayden and DONOVAN L MOFFATT of Mill City, who is now operating the firm under the name of Moffatt Plumbing & Heating, Inc. am now operating out of Mill City under the name of Moffatt Plumbing & Heating, Inc. I will assure you that I will do all in my power to be of service to the area and will appreciate a call for any of your I want to thank all the people of the area for their patronage during the seven years I have been in business and will appreciate PLUMBING and HEATING NEEDS it if you will give the new owner a call for your plumbing and heating needs. Donovan L. Moffatt Ed Slayden NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCEMENT plumbing business at Lyons to P. O. Box 848 Phone 897-2772 Mill City, Ore. 97360 Published at MUI City, Marion County, Ore. every Thursday Bntered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Postoffice at Mill City, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. The Mill City Enterprise assumes no financial responsibility for errors in advertisements. It will, however, reprint without charge or cancel the charge for that portion of an advertisement which ls in error if The Enterprise is at fault. An independent newspaper, dedicated to the development of the timber industry and agriculture in this area. Subscription Rates Marion-Linn Counties, per year —-------------------------- $3.50 Outside Marion-Linn Counties, per year — -............$4.00 Outside Oregon, per year— ----------- ----- —........ $4.50 DON W. MOFFATT............................... Editor and Publisher GOLDIE RAMBO...................... Society and News Editor GEORGE LONG .............. Printer Phone 897-2799 or 897-2479 to her bed at home with bronchitis this week. We wish you a speedy recovery, Mabel. Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Champion were, Mr. and Mrs. Webb Ramage and children, Denise, Michelle, Yvonne and Jeanette of Albany. Mr. Ram age is a nephew of Mrs. Champion. Remaining for a weeks visit is six year old Denise and four year old Mich elle. Returning home Friday night following a three weeks visit to the mid-west, was Mr. and Mrs. David Higginbotham and family of Detroit. The Higginbotham’s parents and most of their relatives reside at Owensville, Ind., where they had an enjoyable visit with these families. Other me morable places of interest vis ited were Yellowstone Nation al Park, the Badlands and Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota and the corn state of Iowa. Mrs. Higginbotham said the weather was “hot” in Indiana, and that some snow was still visible at Yellowstone Nation HOW TO OCT FEDERAL SPENDING al Park following a storm the One logical way to cut excessive federal spending is to week preceeding their visit. reduce the number of government personnel. In April, 12,- Mrs. Jerry Lyon and son Pat are expected home this 352 employees were added to the federal executive depart week following a few days ment payroll, making a grand total of 2,932,109 people. This visit in San Francisco, Calif.; exceeds the Korean war peak in January of 1954. It’s about at the home of her brother- three and one-half times as many on the federal payroll in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Don during the peak of World War I. Lyon. Here are some random examples. If the 19,448 employees Returning home Saturday of TVA moved to one city, it would have more people than from Camp Santiam near Sut tle Lake in the Santiam Pass Talladega, Ala., Fairbanks, Alaska, or Whitefish Bay, WLs. If the Veterans Administration personnel of 172,954 was area, was Robin and Jody Whiteley of Detroit, and Diane in one city, this city would replace Nashville, Tenn., as the and Glenda Beachy of Idanha. 73rd largest city in U. S. population according to the 1960 The girls were taken to the Census. church camp Monday by Mrs. If the Civil Service Commission with 5,362 employees Arthur Whiteley. Mrs. Glen had its own city it would outrank Monticello, Ark., Browns Beachy drove to the camp Saturday to bring the girls burg, Ind., Freeport, Maine, and W’alnut Heights, Cal. The Department of Agriculture has the equivalent of home. George Maki, director of the one employee for every 28 farms in the United States, with recreational program conduct a total of 111,271 employees. ed at Detroit school this sum Proliferation of federal departments, bureaus, and com mer, announced Tuesday that mittees expands with unrestrained federal spending, so while this will be the last week of Mr. and Mrs. Consumer are expected to tighten up their bud the program. Lack of public get to meet an increase in federal taxes, a realignment of interest in the recreational ac the |>ayroll priorities In the nation’s capital is long overdue. tivities was given as the rea son for the curtailing of the Tuesday no chnage in their program. residency is contemplated at Leaving here Wednesday of this time. last week for their home in Lester Dade of Junction Lac-La-Hacki, British Colum has been a visitor for a bia, following a few days vis City AMÜSEMENT^ few days at the home of Mr. it at the home of Mr. and and Mrs. Earl Layman. The Mrs. Cliff McMillan and fam Laymans and their guest ily, were Mr. and Mrs. Walt made a tour of the scenic Mc er O’Brien. Mr. O’Brien is a Kenzie Highway Monday. Mr. hrother of Mrs. McMillan. Dade is an uncle of Mrs. Lay While here, the McMillares man. and their guests drove to Vir ginia City, Nevada for a short visit. This was the O’Brien’s first visit on the West Coast. Mrs. Dale Foreman of De troit who underwent major surgery at Santiam Memorial hospital recently is now re cuperating at home. Following a three weeks visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Muise. Mr. and Mrs. Don Longwell of Oceanside, Calif., left Monday via the coast route for their home in Calif. The Longwell’s were neighbors of the Muises when they resided at Oceanside. No matter if it is just a simple grease job, The yard at the home of Mrs. Arnold Melun at Mollala installation of a muffler, fix a tire, or tune was the setting Sunday after noon for a “potluck” picnic of up your motor, we are equipped to give you the family of Mrs. Francis Dummer About sixty were in attendance at the annual af fair. Mrs. Melun and Mrs. Dummer are sisters. It has been reported that the Pat O’Brien property on Give us a call the next time you need Erin St. back of the Champ ion residence has been sold. service The property consists of sev eral lots. No further details on the sale were available, other than the new owners are from Vancouver. Wn. The We Give S & H Green Stamps Walter Dewhursts are pre Phone 897-2442 Mill City sently residing on the pro perty. Mrs. Dew-hurst said I Big or Small We can HandleThemAII FAST EFFICIENT SERVICE Del’s Shell Service
