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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1969)
Ray Sheldons Move To Cascade Locks Wolverine Boots Shipment just arrived 4 New Styles Priced to Sell The most Comfortable Best Buy and Most Service for your Money Chucks Shoe Shop MARION FORKS—The Ray Sheldon family of the Marion Forks Fish Hatchery moved to the Bsneville Fish Hatchery at Cascade Ixx-ks Wednesday f last week where Mr. Shel don will serve In the same ca pacity there as he did here. Succeeding him here as fore man is Ned Abrams, Ox-Bow Fish Hatchery, who moved here with his family Friday. Personnel of the Marion Forks Fish Hatchery honored the Sheldon family with a farewell “pot-luck" luncheon at the hjme of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Drago the day before they left. Teen Age Dance Come Out For An Evening of Fun at the Traveler's Cafe at Gates THE SOUND EXPRESS ADULTS WELCOME Saturday, January 25, 1969 8 to 12 p. m. 50c Singles Detroit Residents To Try Warm Area; Too Cold Here By Boots Chamoion DETROIT —Mr. and Mrs. Visiting here at the home of Joe Muise left here Thursday his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken for El Cajon, Calif., for a one neth Clark, Idanha, is their or two month visit at the son Spf4 Donald Clark who home of their son-in-law and arrived here the last of the daughter. Mrs. Muise said “due week from Fort Irwin, Calif. to the accumulation of snow Donald served a year and a here; Mr. Muises’ heart at half in Vietnam and returned tack last fall and their recent to the states the latter part bout with asian flu, they felt of September. He is being that a warmer climate would transferred to Fort Lewis, be beneficial to both of them. Wash., at the end of his nine Father Francis Callan, Port day leave here. land, pastor of the Detroit Also returning home from Catholic Church, has moved in Vietnam recently was Terry to the Muise home during their Dean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dean of Corvallis. Ter ry’s service in the armed for ces has terminated. Mrs. Scott Young of Marion Forks returned home from a Salem hospital Friday and is now recuperating at home. She was hospitalized Christ mas Eve with the flu. If you are an employer or If you know someone who is, please hear this: Non-profit Goodwill Industries has, for over 60 years, been helping handicapped folk. At Goodwill handicapped people get voca tional training, work exper ience and rehabilitation. They make excellent employees. So please call Goodwill today and find out if they have the em ployee you need! Music By $1.00 Couple DETROIT IDANHA absence. Frank Hancock has again taken over the duties of the weather station here in the absence of Muise. Friday Deadline For W-2 Forms Friday, January 31, 1969 is the deadline for employers to give employees their 1968 W-2 forms, showing the amount of earnings, income tax withheld and social security information, A. G. Erickson, District Direc tor of Internal Revenue for Oregon, said today. Forms W 2 have to be filed with income tax returns and those who had more than one job last year should make sure they have received all of them when they file their returns. Six Weeks Honor Roll at Detroit Grade-High Gven Detroit High School Robert Crist 3.8; Gina Wil liamson 3.8; Glenda Beachy 3.7; Gary Lynn 3.5; Dorsey Smith 3.4; Sue Morgan 3.4; James Mor gan 3.3; Greg Slayden 3.3; Paul Michaelson 3.3; Jeff Drago 3.2; Randy Gardner 3.2; Ricky Al ley 3.1; Barbara Stephens 3.1; landa Roth 3.0. Semester Honor Roll Gina Williamson 4.0; Robert Crist 3.9; Gary Lynn 3.8; Glen da Beachy 3.7; Dorsey Smith 3.6; Sue Morgan 3.5; Ricky Al ley 3.5; James Morgan 3.3; Greg Slayden 3.3; Paul Mich aelson 3.1; Jeff Drago 3.2; George Derrick 3.1; Randy Gardner 3.0; Cathy Crist 3.0; Linda Roth 3.0. Elementary School Honor Roll Name 6 wks. Sem. Lucy Young 3.7 3.7 Richard Roth 3.6 3.5 Bonnie Young 3.6 3.4 Diane Beachy 3.4 3.5 Randall Roth 3.3 3.1 Marty Gardner 3.1 3.0 Judy Benton 3.0 Subscribe to The Mill City Enterprise Buy Your Signs From THE MIEL CITY ENTERPRISE t » * • f ■■ ■ *►» -, % r ■ NO HUNTING OR FOR SALE 4 FOR RENT TRESPASSING » 4—The MUI City Enterprise, Thursday, Jan. 23, 1969 THE MILL CITY~ ENTERPRISE P. O. Box 348 Phone 897-2772 MUI City, Ore. 97360 Published at Mill City, Marion County, Ore. every Thuixiay Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Postoffice at Mill City, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. The Mill City Hnterprise 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 is in error if The Enterprise is at fault. An independent newspaper, dedicated to the development of the timber industry and agriculture in this area. Mt.MtstK •|«>VSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Association - Founded 1885 Subscription Rates Marion-Linn Counties, per year .................................— $4.00 Outside Marion-Linn Counties, per year ............................ $4.50 Outside Oregon, per year......... . ......................................... $5.00 DON W. MOFFATT........................... Editor and Publisher GOLDIE RAMBO ................................. Society and News Editor ROSE CREE ............................................. Local News Editor GEORGE IX)NG........ ............. Printer CORRESPONDENTS Detroit-Idanha................................. ................. Boots Champion Gates.............................. . ........ . ............... . ...... Betty Johnson Mehama....................................Mrs. John Teeters - Jean Roberts Lyons_____ ________________________ ____ Eva Bressler Old Timers Say Winters of Yesteryears Much Worse By Jean Roberts which was just across from MEHAMA—As snow piles Frey’s market, and how the deep in the hills around Me mules would get down on their hama, old timers still claim knees to be unhitched. Church that “no winter can compare would yell and the mules to the ones we used to have.” would kneel. If they failed to Very few old timers are left obey, Church would use his who can recall the winter crutches on them. when Jim Church froze both To drive his freight wagon, his legs coming out from the he had a pole run up through mines above Elkhorn. The the wagon seat, and he sat snow was deep and the winter astradle of this to keep him was bitterly cold but Church on the seat. At his cabin at and a man named Jones had Elkhorn, he had a platform decided to hole up at the mines built to stand on to enable for the winter; the mines had him to harness the mules. A small shallow spot in the been in operation during the summer. After the prolonged river just below the present cold spell they ran out of food Rex Davis property is still and Church decided to walk called Churchs’ Ford, because out to get provisons this was where he crossed the Travel was slow in the deep river. Only old timers remem snow, although frozen it would ber where the crossing was. break through occasionally Church plied the freight and required much effort to route for many years without climb back on top and keep feet and legs and was regarded going. Church was getting in those days as a “tough” weak because of lack of nour character. He is laid to rest ishment when he reached the at Fairview Cemetery near foot of Evan’s mountain. He Gates. In death as in life he was forced to kill his dog and was “tough." When he was eat it. He used the hide to buried the preacher “drank a wrap around his feet to try pint of whiskey, preached the to prevent them from freezing. service, then threw the empty He managed to make it to a bottle on the grave,” as re cabin near Myer’s bridge but quested. by now his feet were so frozen This is the kind of a winter, that he could not walk, but had old timers like to recall. to crawl on his hands and knees. Trying to get to the cabin which was up a small hill he later stated that he “slid back on the ice three times, but finally made it on the fourth try.” Jim Churchs’ legs were am putated between his knees and thighs following this exposure. Most people recall his hardi ness after this initial experi ence, because he steadily drove ■ a mule team from Elkhorn to Stayton carrying supplies for the mines. Sometimes he would walk with use of crutches, sometime he would just stump around on the “Ok, ok,—TU tell the doctor stumps of his legs. Old timers in the Stayton you feel you’re an emergency area can remember him tying —but if you’re bluffing just to his mules in the livery stable, • get in first, watch out!” A National Roll Call To Be Filled in Only by ALL VETERANS OF WORLD WAR I, WIVES AND WIDOWS WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS OF THE VWWI, USA, INC, OR ITS AUXILIARY. Name and Address...................... ........................................ Branch of Service ............ .......... __ ............... .................. Married ___ ____________ Single ......_____________ Name of Non-Member Eligible for Auxiliary_____ __ __ 9 o I V A National Roll Call of all veterans of World War I, wives and w’idows, has been requested in order to compile a complete file of non members of veterans and widows of World War I. Most veterans are not aware of the many benefits that they are eligible to receive. Do you know you can request burial in a National cemetery, also your wife? Do you know about a widow’s pension? Hospitali zation and rest home care’ Do you know you can get a pension, depending on your income and marital status’ There are about 1,150,000 World War I veterans living, many of whom do not know of these benefits. Some of these benefits apply to all WWI veterans, rich and poor alike. WWI veterans and widows who are not already members are requested to fill in the above Roll Call box in order they may join the organization and be informed of their rights. Mail to (ycur harracks) W.W.I. Barracks No. 3263 Address Box 146, Mill City, Oregon 97360
