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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1969)
now school superintendent at ed some 103 acres in th« Dayton. French Creek, South Breiten The Idanha City Council; bush and the Blowout Creek approved an ordinance impos areas. ing a license fee upon Con A new pre-fabricated waik- sumer Power Company, who in refrigerator, designed to provide electrical service to hold 180,000 tree seedlings the city. The license ordinance or more was installed at the went into effect September 5 Ranger station. The new stor and requires the company to age unit enables the District pay the city a license fee of 3 to order trees in large quant percent of its gross revenue ity and hold them for future from sales within the city. The use. license fee will bring the city December— DETROIT—The passing of an estimated $2,300 in revenue. David Ku bash, Detroit Ran ly 11 miles east of Detroit are •he controversial Mt. Jeffer Gale Larson, Prairie City, ger station, was transferred to incorporated under the name son Primitive Wilderness bill Malheur National Forest, re the Blue River District, Wil and the merging of the Mill of Breitenbush Hot Springs, ported at Detroit Ranger sta lamette National Forest. A Inc. City-Detroit Ranger Districts tion on his new assignment as civil engineer, he was promot Although work is progres Timber furnished the big news in the Management Assist ed to GS-9 Supervisory High sing nicely on the redevelop upper North Santiam Canyon ant. He succeeded Rolf Ander way Engineer Technician and ing of the resort, much of the son who was promoted for the year, 1968. to Tim will head the pre-construction planned new facilities will not ber Management Assistant The Wilderness area, high in be ready for use until next on the Blue River District. GS11 and transferred to the James W. Wettergreen, De the Cascade Range of the Wil year. Malheur National forest, with troit Ranger station, was the lamette National Forest ex headquarters at Burns. tends for about 25 miles to the May— recipient of a $282 cash award. The eight-unit Lakeside Mo August 1968 set a new record The award was for sustained North and South along the crest of the range. The area tel was so Id to Mr. and Mrs. over a 24-year period when the above average work performed has a total of 99,632 acres and Wayne Crist of San Diego. area received a total of 7.40 during the fiscal year at the includes Marion, Square and Former owners, Mr. and Mrs. inches of precipitation. In a Mill City Ranger station. Long Lakes. It also Includes Saul Zone moved to the Los 21-hour period ending on the Detroit Mobile First Aid area. 26th, 1.67 inches of rain wac Unit made 30 runs this year, nearly 150 lakes and some 160 Angeles What appeared to be a very recorded. miles of trails. much alive kangaroo, turned The merging of the Mill City out to be a coyote with his September— Seven exchange students Detroit Districts went into ef front paws lopped off. The fect Npvember 3rd, under the coyote hopped on his back legs from Thailand were weekend plan approved by the regional after losing its front paws ap guests at the U. S. Floyd forester. The Mill City Ranger parently in a trap. The crea home. One of the students dur District was closed to the pub ture was captured Memorial ing school vacation made his lic September 3. Day, near the North Santiam home here with the Floyd fam Mill City-Detroit Districts highway, just west of Idanha, ily. All of the students are at combined, completed a total of where he was first sighted. tending OSU at Corvallis and 29 timber sales in the calendar For humane puropse it was all will receive their master’s degrees in the Spring. year. Total volume of Willam ordered destroyed. ette National Forest timber A Forest Service contract October— Mrs. Lloyd (Verna) Ketch sold this year was 131,330,000 was let for the construction of board feet with a minimum a 1280-foot log boom to be plac um Jr., was the recipient of a value of $3,192,014.60. Included ed across the North Santiam cash award from the U. S. For in the program was the con arm of Detroit Reservoir just est Service, for outstanding struction or re-construction of east of the City of Detroit. service performed as acting some 37.76 miles of Forest Ser Purpose of the boom was to administrative assistant and vice roads. reduce the cost of spring personnel clerk during her Following is a month by clean-up and to make contin tenure at the Ranger Station. The presentation was made by month review of events. ued spring clean-up easier. January— The boom has an opening District Ranger Lee Boeck- A contract was let for cent for boat passage on the slack stiegel. ralization of controls at Detroit current side for boats, fisher Detroit Women’s Civic club and Big Cliff Dams on the men and water skiers. The was host to some 80 members North Santiam river by the project was completed July 15. of the Marion County Federa Portland U. S. Army Engin Madalyn Smith, daughter of tion of Women’s clubs. Guest eers. Upon the completion of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith of speaker was Gerald Frank of We hope the joy and spirit of the contract and others in the Albany, a senior at Detroit Salem. the new year remains with future, one operator will be High school last year, was November— A new staff member was able to control all units. named queen of the 6th Annual you all through the year. added to the office personnel Some 26 additional mercury Whitewater Challenge. at Detroit Ranger station. He vapor street lights were in is Ralph Whitmore, G S 11. stalled in the city of Detroit June— The Forest Service announc and in summer home addi ed that as of June 15 there Other Resources Assistant who came here from the Olympic tions. would be no more motorized National Forest, Quinault Mail service was available vehicles allowed on the Mar January 8 at Detroit’s new ion Lake Trail. This was the Ranger district. Six hundred Thanksgiving Post Office. The all-modern step in the improvement bound turkeys were scattered equipped facility was dedicat first of the Marion Lake scenic along the North Santiam High ed March 9. which was authorized by way four miles east of Marion Henry Kniss, Detroit Rang area regulations the office of Forks when a transport truck er station, was promoted to Ad Secretary of from Agriculture, Oc blew a front tire, causing the ministrative Assistant GS 9 11, 1967. to leave the highway and and transferred to the Tonas tober Mill City, Oregon The season’s first forest fire truck strike a tree. The birds were ket Ranger district, Okanogan was reported June 16 when a enroute from Redmond to a National forest. log jam fire was discovered. Salem packing plant. February— fire resulted from a camp Green Veneer, Inc., Idanha, The Catholic church pur The used several days earlier, constructed an all-modern chased the former Outboard fire which spread to the log jam. lunch room for their employes. Service building on Detroit Sale of Snider ’s Resort to a Avenue and converted the Lyons couple was announced The new building located west building into a church. Serv by owners, Mr. and Mrs. Ole of the plant is equipped with ices were formerly held at De Erickson. New owners are Mr. a variety of hot-food and drink dispensers, plus candy, soft troit City hall. and Mrs. Ed Slayden, who took drinks, pastry and cigarette A U. S. Forest Service con possession August 1. vending machines. The plant tract for the removal of some July— has a crew of 100. 50 acres of stumps on Detroit The U. S. Coast Guard Aux The U. S. Forest Service Reservoir, extending from the iliary and Salem Flotilla 68 North Santiam arm on the conducted a weekend safety completed some 603 acres of flats of Piety Knob to the program at Detroit Lake Mon- tree planting on the Detroit Breitenbush arm. Contract bid glod boat ramp. A record District in their annual fall was $9,250.00. A contract was number of boats participated tree planting program. Includ ed in the program was the aer also let for the reconstruction in the program. ial seeding of some 580 acres. of approaches to Blowout August— In addition some 126 acres of Bridge, damaged in the 1964 Ronald K. Wilkerson was tree seedlings were planted in floods. named superintendent of the the annual spring program. March— school. He succeeded The Forest Service contracted Detroit Cougars won second Detroit Francis who tree thinning program involv- place trophy in the champion served in F. that Dummer, capacity here ship B League basketball play for seven years. Dummer is off at Dallas. The Cougars were also presented with a first place trophy in the Mar ion B-Minor Division. Howard Dean, assigned to the Detroit Ranger Station here for 22 years was trans ferred to the Siuslow National Forest and Forest Fleet Man ager. The fin clipping of some 45,000 steelhead fingerlings was completed in a one-day op eration under the direction of the Oregon State Fish commis sion. The fingerlings were re leased in April at Green Peter and Fall Creek dams for ex perimental purposes. At a special city election Idanha residents approved the annexation of South Idanha. April— U. S. Plywood Champion Papers, Inc., opened the Idan ha plant closed by Simpson Timber Co. Operations began with one shift. A second shift was added April 15. The plant AJO QOOO LUCK employs a crew of 49. The main lodge at Hoodoo Ski Bowl in the Santiam Pass Mqpel A. way. area high in the Cascades, was destroy^ by fire April 16. Spared were the ski tows, pow er plant equipment, day lodge and public services building. A new building was construct ed in the immediate area of the one destroyM by fire. The Upper Breitenbush Hot Springs opened partially dur ing the summer. The Resort area, extensively damaged dur ing the 1964 floods had been virtually inoperative since that Mill City, Oregon time. Principals in the Oregon Corporation that acquired an option to buy and re-develop the 90-acre resort, approximat- Mt. Jefferson Wilderness Makes Headline News In Upper Canyon District Hill's Shell Service Jules and Shirley Detroit, Oregon Moffatt Plumbing and Heating, Inc. Time to wish you fun, joy and cheer for the New Year. 1969 Cedars Tavern Link — Jerry Detroit, Oregon FrioflY ”4 a friiadly with I« • hippy n»w y«f- 9—The Mill City Enterprfae, Thursday, January 2, 1MB compared to 28 runs last year. As the year ended more peo ple cut their own Christmas trees on Federal Forest land than ever before. Detroit Ranger Station reported there were 2,033 permits issued this year compared to 1,850 per mits in the combined sales of the Mill City-Detroit Districts last year. The total last year probably would have been much greater, except for the heavy snows which piled into the area in mid-December. “Change is exciting...espe cially when someone says to ‘keep it!’ ” New Year Detroit Super Market Lake Lodge Sam and Jo LeHler Detroit, Oregon Detroit, Oregon It is with thanks that we extend a most happy now year to everyone. Spillway Tavern Idanha, Oregon Sportsman's Center Idanha Union Service U.S. Plywood-Champion Paper, Inc. IDANHA-LEBANON ,
