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4—Tile Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, August 22, 1968 Supt. on the 15th. The Dum mer family will be greatly trailer house in the near fu missed in the community. ture. The property was re Registrations will be taken cently acquired by Mr. and for pre-school children August Mrs. John Henzel of Portland. 29th at a 7:00 p. m. Kinder Francis F. Dummer and garten meeting scheduled at family will be moving to Day the home of Mrs. David By Boot« Champion A blackberry brier mound ton about September first, White. Children who will on the former Pat O’Brien pro Mrs. Dummer said Monday. reach the age of five years perty was removed last week Mr. Dummer completed his old before Nov. 15th will be by a “cat” and a septic tank last day here as school super eligible to enroll. Mrs. White, installed on the upper end intendent Wednesday, August chairman of the group, said of the property preparatory 14th and has taken up his there are about eleven pre to the moving of a rental new duties as Dayton School schoolers expected to attend school this fall. Last years enrollment was twelve. Appli- ' cations for a teacher is still being taken she said. Anyone interested may contact her or Mrs. Larry Poole, secretary. Treasurer of the Deanha Kindergarten group is Mrs. James Monroe. Visiting last week at the Idanha home of Mr. and Mrs. Len Davis was Mrs. Ida Rines of Bend, Ore. Now is the time to get that car in shape for Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fall and Winter Driving. Champion were Mr. and Mrs. Pete Nune sof Milwaukie, Ore. Visiting this week is Mrs. Champions sister, Mrs. Emma ELECTRICAL TUNE-UP ON Ramage of Salem. Sunday visitors at the home Labor V8 Motors of Maliel Poncia were, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Eoas and family of Woodland, Wash., and Miss plus parts for only Patsy Schnoberich of Clyde Park, Montana. A Sunday School pot-luck luncheon is scheluled for Sun ELECTRICAL TUNE-UP ON day August 25th at 1:00 P. M. in the Idanha Community Church yard. Friends are invit ed to participate. Unseasonal rains are raising havoc with both picnickers and campers. Sunday the family of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roth of Silverton attempted to hold their annual family reunion potluck picnic at Bush’s Pas ture in Salem, but the heavy rains forced the group out. Attending from here were Rev. and Mrs. Harold Roth and family. Following a summer visit here at the home of his father, DETROIT IDANHA MOTOR TUNE-UP SPECIAL $13 VI-KO LATEX HOUSE pa,NT îo" years use on wood or S,UCC° mitX 400 sq slightly higher. 2 gals $"762 > YOU SAVE 762 on " each 2 gtl Purchase 2<1TS. $058 Dreem Odorless comi-Gloss Enamel S® K b hiding, washable This is ■ h'«hH you save 2 on „ch 2 qt. P"^“1 fast drying rtSS-*’**"** Glen Madsen, Ricky Madsen left Monday by bus for his home in York, Neb. He is mak ing his home with his sister there. Arriving home on a weekend pass from Ft. Lewis was Pvt. Ronald Round. Ronald recently graduated from basic training and is now taking a nine-weeks course in advanced training. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Round of Idanha. Paul Knapp of Idanha was one of the few who was lucky enough to be ¡sued an antelope permit. Yea, he got one Sun day south of Burns. How about a steak. Paul. The Patio was the setting Monday morning of last week when the ladies of Detroit Catholic Church Alter Society honored Mrs. Francis Dummer with a farewell coffee. The group presented Mrs. Dummer with a St. Francis prayer plaque as a going away remetnberance. Kerry Ketchum, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Ketchum, entered Salem Gen eral Hospital Tuesday evening where he underwent a tonsilec tomy Wednesday morning. Returning home Sunday fol lowing a trip to Ashland where she attended the Shakespear ean Festival was Mrs. Winifred lili Murphy. Accompanying hep was Essie White of West Linn, a long time friend. The trip was made with a group by chartered bus of the Hammond Stage Lines. The tour included a trip to Jack sonville, an old mining town, where they visited a Museum and other historical points of interest in the ghost town. En route home they toured the rim of Crater Lake. Mrs. Murphy said a snow storm passed through Crater Lake and snow was still on the trees when they arrived. Visiting here at the Idanha home of Mrs. Carrie Storey for the past two weeks is her niece, Jettie Brubbaker of Los Angles, Calif. Mrs. Storey will accompany her niece home for an extended visit in the Los Angles area, and at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ethel McDaniels at Long Beach, Calif. Visiting here for a few days at the home of her grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Mc Millan is their granddaughter, Kvon Irish of Salem. Making plans this week to fly to Hayward, Calif., is Mrs. Sam Leffler. She is being called there by the illness of her granddaughter. Salem Scene by Everett E. Cutter economy without destroying head off problems that are Oregons incredible beauty? not now in an aggravated con Move more people to work dition but which are already and back each day without beginning to fester. If we further strangling our cities? don’t do this well or Ln a time Then, in projecting answers, ly way, then we will have to the team must ask: How do live with the secondary pro Oregon’s localities relate to blems which develop from these plans? Cross-govern our acting. Either way it is ment action is imperative, Dr. going to be costly, but surely Kieffer says, to make the in acting now for government state more attractive to non modernization to fit the ’970’s, polluting industry, to develop Oregon’s people will be mak adequate transporation, t o ing a major, excellent invest help train and employ the un ment in protecting and en employed and underemployed, hancing their future.’ and to develop a sound tax structure. Finally, getting right down to the individual, the task force asks what kinds of jobs, health and other benefits can be provided to make a maxi mum number of citizens pro ductive, self-sufficient and contributing to a tax paying society. (1 Cor, 15:58.) “Oregon is not yet geared When we are centered in to meet the needs of this Christ and established in our cross - government job,” ex Christ identity, we are more plans Dr. Kieffer. “We are than equal to changing con trying to see how the appar ditions in the outer. If we are atus of government can be changing jobs, if we are mov made to effect this interaction, and to get a comprehensive ing to a new home, if we are moving to a different city or ness of view.” Time and money are short, country, if we are changing he believes. “Judging from schools —any such major the difficulties of the other change in our life calls for ad states, Oregon hasn’t very justment to new circumstances, much slack time to wait be to new surroundings, to dif fore our problems loom a lot ferent personalities. At such larger. The state’s economy times the realization of our must depend less on timber— Christ identity is most helpful. a past over reliance which has We are at peace with our produced “tax vulnerability— selves : we are happy where we we will have to broaden our are. economic base or we will have a real problem in our tax base in the 1970’s. In summing up, Dr. Kieffer says: “We in Oregon can de velop ways of focusing and coordinating our private and public resources to lessen or ernment’s capacities for prob PRIORITY TASK FORCE PLANS NOW FOR 1970’s lem solving and better coord A priority government re ination than with organiza organization and moderniza tional neatness and symme tion project is in the works try. “Looking ahead, two things here. Gov. Tom McCall’s “Project are crystal clear," he asserts. 7’s” Task Force, established “First, the whole federal by executive order two grant-in-aid system, with its months ago, is well along on emphasis on special program THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE its mission to see how the areas, such as highways, P. O. Box 348 Phone 897-2772 Mill City, Ore. 97360 state government can be org health, education, urban re Published at Mill City, Marion County, Ore. every Thursday anized to help solve—and, if newal, etc., has produced un Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Postoffice at Mill possible, prevent—social pro even and fragmented condi City, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. blems in Oregon in the next tions at the community level. The Mill City Enterprise assumes no financial responsibility decade. Emphasis is on early Some of the program areas for errors in advertisements. It will, however, reprint prevention, rather than emer have been well funded; others without charge or cancel the charge for that portion of an gency treatment when a time have not. As a result we have advertisement which is in error if The Enterprise is at fault. had lopsided local develop An independent newspaper, dedicated to the development for action may come. “In terms of the gross pro ment. Moreover, our local of the timber industry and agriculture in this area. blems faced by American so agencies have had to distort Subscription Rates ciety on a national scale, Ore their efforts to qualify for Marion-Linn Counties, per year ...................................... $3.50 well-funded program grants, gon, in most cases, has a lit Outside Marion-Linn Counties, per year ........... $4.00 tle lead time left. The key to at the expense of other areas Outside Oregon, per year_____________________ ____ $4.50 the future then is what we do of need where funds weren’t DON W. MOFFATT...........................__ Editor and Publisher with that lead time,” explains available. Worse than that, GOLDIE RAMBO............................... Society and News Editor Dr. Jarold Kieffer, task force the resulting unevenness and GEORGE LONG .. ..... Printer fragmentation have actually chairman. “Planning answers to fu aggravated some of the local 0"* NEWSPAPER NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ture questions requires, think problems and created new PUBLISHIRS ones. ing in terms of alternatives. ASSOCIATION “Plainly, the present feder We cannot afford to wait for problems to happen, and al grant-in-aid system has CORRESPONDENTS when considering the cost of reached a counter-productive some improvement measure, stage and is badly in need of Detroit-Idanha ............................................... Boots Champion Gates.............. .............. Arlene Taylor we really should balance our change,” he says. “Second, because of the Mill City......-______ __________________ _____ Rose Cree thinking by trying to gain a better comprehension of the lack of resources at the com Lyons___________________________________ Eva Bressler negative costs of not taking munity level, our cities and Mehama___________________ Merle Teeters - Jean Roberts the action, or not taking it in counties are defaulting in area after area of their devel time.” By attempting to under opment. The situation has stand our people’s needs of been made worse by the the 1970’s now, he says, we clumsiness of the federal in Oregon may be able to head grant-in-aid system and Its off or mitigate poverty, pol nonresponsiveness. The feder lution and stagnation. We al approach actually discour may be able to head off or ages communities from at mitigate poverty, pollution tacking local problems in both and stagnation. We may be a comprehensive and timely able to prevent our cities way. from going through what “Too often federal funds tend Chicago, Detroit, Newark and to be available only when Ix>s Angeles have experienced. conditions have deteriorated But without responsive state to some national standard of machinery and local govern misery. A community that ment interaction, “everything wants to head off a problem that has happened in the East finds that money isn’t avail and California can and proba able because the situation bly will happen here.” isn’t much worse. Unfort Dr. Kieffer, chairman of unately, the states have not public affairs and administra been in a position to help. tive programs at the Universi “During the 1970’s the fed ty of Oregon's School of Com eral government is going to munity Service and Public have to help the states devel Affairs, heads up a team of op greater competence to deal Your business may need a second line. It can four professors working in with state and local problems. prove to be a lifeline, especially when it begins to the governor’s office on ways Thus, the 1970’s may well be save sales for you. Call our business office today to improve the effectiveness the crisis period in our con and ask for a free telephone traffic survey. of government in Oregon. Oth cept of state government.” The first job of the “Pro- ' er task force members are Carl Saltveit, also from the ject 70’s’ Task Force, then, is University of Oregon; Dr. to develop a picture of the Ronald Cease, associate pro real problems and questions fessor of political science at Oregon is likely to face in the Portland State College; and next decade. Why is there Dr. Jack L. Rettig, chairman such a need for crime control? | VALLEY TELEPHONE CO. of business environment and Not enough crime prevention? I ■ part of Sunnyside Telephone Co. organizational behavior, Ore Why do we have dropouts, un- [ P.O. Box 507 • Silverton, Oregon 97381 employment, welfare and I gon State University. Specifically, Gov. McCall or their ever-rising costs? How can we improve our | dered the team to study the problem-solving capabilities of government and to develop suggestions for making state government more effective, ef ficient and more responsive to the needs of individual cit izens and their communities. They are consulting with state agencies, local government, private Industry and citizens in developing their sugges tions. Their report will go to the governor before Novem ber 30, and to the legislature next January. ALL UNITS PRICED TO SELL - FAST The main focus is on the problems of the 1970’s and the ALLOWING TOP PRICES FOR TRADE - INS adequacy of state government to help deal with those prob lems, Dr. Kieffer says. He makes it clear that his study group is far more concerned 2650 Cotnm'l St S. E. 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