—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-
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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
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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
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