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Gen. Ret. and Doc. Div. Newspaper«, U of O Library 97403 Enterprise _____________ ONTHESgENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — OREGON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND VOLUME xxrv Up and Down The Avenue By Don Moffatt NUMBER 5 THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGON Joint Meeting Held by Two City Groups THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1969 Mrs. Morman Gets March of Dimes Wheel Chair Winter vacations—Yiik. At least that is the way I felt when we were returning from Quincy, Calif., where we visit The Mill City Planning com ed my wife’s brother and sister in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bob mission met jointly with the Schultz. A winter vacation City Council Tuesday evening, would be all right if you just January 21 at the city hall. Herbert Peck, mayor of the kept on going south and stayed for a month or so. We left a city and Carl Kelly, chairman week ago Tuesday, and went of the planning commission led over the mountains and got as the discussions. Future plans call for desig far as Klamath Falls. There was a lot of black ice between nated areas for recreation, bus Bend and K Falls, but nothing iness and industrial sites in really serious. The next day cluding tentative plans if a though was something else. We new route for Highway 22, hit a lot of ice, and consider which now goes through the able snow at the 5,000 foot city, materializes. It was pointed out by some elevation. At one place the highway was covered with members present that there water. The Susan river was at should be better communica flood stage. We could see tion between the two planning where it had been considerable bodies, both working for the higher the day before. We good of the city. Virgil Trout, representing made it to Reno where we spent a little time, etc. We got the Mill City Jaycees was pres up Friday morning, turned on ent and urged members and the TV and heard the weather other residents of the city to report. Really all we had to do get behind that group in their was look out the window and house numbering project. there it was, a veritable bliz Among specific things dis zard. It was stacking up pret cussed was the need for a new ty fast, so we decided to get Postoffice, with possible sites some breakfast and head out mentioned; a professional over the mountains for Quincy. building inspector for Mill Of course, California has a City; land acquisition for a law that if they say chains are new city dump; beautification mandatory, you put them on of industrial buildings includ or else get a ticket for some ing the ones owned by Pacific $25. We didn’t see the sign Power and Light and the need about the chains because It for better cooperation from the was snowing so hard—so we city attorney Gary Halloway from the didn’t chain up. We made It to Quincy without mishap. We Linn county planning commis stopped at a little cafe near sion was also present to aid Quincy for lunch and met a the members with their plans. Wyoming rancher and his wife. He has been working closely They had come up the Feather for the past several months River canyon, and were forced with the planning commission. to put on chains. They had snow tires with studs. He was a pretty mad cow poke. Com Mrs. Evelyn Mormon of Lyons was ton, left, chairman of the Linn County ing from that country where the recent recipient of a new wheel chair March of Dimes and Mrs. Marjorie Sex- they drive in all kinds of wea from the March of Dimes foundation. ton, equipment procurement chairman ther, mostly bad in winter, and group. Mrs. James Budlong is the Mrs. Mormon spends from 16 to 18 hours of the _ then be forced to chain up, a day in the chair, and has for the past chairman of the Mother’s March in Mill when really they were not 14 years. She is pictured with Marv Sax- City which will be February 3. needed. We left Quincy about noon (Photo Courtesy of The Democrat Herald) Saturday, and drove as far as Medford. It was dark then, The Marion County Health and as we don’t like to drive Department i n cooperation on ice and snow after dark we with the Willamette TB & stayed at a motel. We called Health Association and the George and Margaret Rambo, Oregon State Board of Health and had a good vsit with them. recently announced the sched We left for home Sunday ule for this year’s upcoming The Mother’s March of morning and got as far as Mobile Chest X-Ray visit to Dimes starts in Mill City on worked at getting her strength Roseburg, and were told traf Marion county. Monday, February 3, headed by back and learning the ‘‘do it yourself” method her own way. fic north was stopped. Wow! For a period of twelve days Mrs. James Budlong with a After Mr. Mormon’s retire GATES—The World War I We got a motel right quick as crew of volunteers. accomodations were filling up the X-Ray unit will travel A living example of how ment from the Air Force they Auxiliary women met Thurs throughout Marion county be fast. What a mess of traffic, some of the funds are spent is moved to Lyons where he day of last week at the home and the snow was really com ginning February 3rd and Mrs. Evelyn Mormon of Lyons, bought a service station. They designed and built of the president, Mrs. Lang ing down. There was about a ending the afternoon of the pictured in this week’s issue their own home, with special Stafford, for a business meet foot of new snow on our car 19th of the same month. The of The Enterprise. Monday morning. Then we unit will be at the Mill City She spends many hours a conveniences for Mrs. Mormon. ing. At the close of the meet heard that chains were man grade school Thursday, Feb day in a wheel chair and has She has learned to do every ing coskies and coffee were thing all over again and does served. Those present were datory, so we went to a service ruary 6. the past 14 years. There will be no charge for for Her station to have the dumb old chair showed the the cooking, sews all her own Pearl Oliver, Ellen Rust, Nel things put on over our snow these chest x-rays taken. Ev many years of use and was clothes and has become ambi lie Allen, Ruby Brisbin, Irene tires. Guess what—we really eryone over the age of 21 pretty well worn. Mrs. Mor dextrous although she has only Lewin, Nelda Knutson, Mabel got the shaft, up to here! They years is invited to visit the man said it was always need limited use of her arms. She I Bruder, Ruth Kerr, Marie Day, socked it to us to the tune of unit during its visit to Marion ing repairing and that she was 18 completely paralyzed in her Colleen Later, Clyde Oliver, Charlie Day, and the hostess, $4.00. Not only that we drove county. tempted to carry a screwdriver legs. The Mormons were forced Mrs. Lang Stafford. about 10 blocks when one As a means of safeguarding wherever she went. And— cross link came loose. We stop one’s health, have detected tu Mrs. Mormon goes everywhere. into “real retirement” when The Auxiliary sent 60 five ped at another station and berculosis, other respiratory In the early part of January he broke a shoulder last spring pound boxes to Vietnam in waited for over an hour for disease, types of tumors, lung she received a new lightweight in an auto acident. He sold his 1968, and plan to continue send them to hook it back together. cancer as well as broken bones. wheel chair from the March service station and has been ing them this year. Any contri It took them about three min of Dimes Foundation. She says helping his wife and catching butions of cookies, candy, gum, utes to do the job—then sock Weather, Detroit Dam it is much easier to put in a up on some of the work around Kool-aid, jig saw puzzles, combs, pencils, pens, station ed another $1.50. (Mi, well, car and very comfortable to sit home. Mrs. Mormon kept books far ery, etc. will be most welcome. that made $5.50 for nothing, as 7 a. m. Dally Weather Reading in. Pool we could have made the trip For 20 years Mrs. Mormon her husband while he had his Please leave any contributions Elev. home with our snow tires. We traveled with her husband who-1 service station although she with Mrs. Lang Stafford at drove about 20 miles when one Jan. 22 35 28 1441.59 12 was with the Air Force. They had no formal training. She Gates. chain started clattering, so we Jan. 23 33 17 1439.40 10 were in Denver in 1954 and now keeps books for the Lyons-Mehama water district pulled it off, and went with Jan. 24 30 15 1436.81 0 she was director of the nursery and is the Lyons City recorder. Meeting of District 3 one chain. Another 20 or 30 at Lowry Air Force base hos miles when the other broke a Jan. 25 26 13 1434.38 T pital. They had come home She attends the council meet cross link, so we pulled It off, Jan. .26 24 16 1432.11 096 to visit her home town (Lyons) ings, issues permits and licen Oregon Nurses' Assoc. then got down to the business Jan. 27 32 23 1428.07 0.61 and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ses. Although the March of The results of the study by of coming on home, without Jan. 28 33 24 1427.99 0.28 Arthur Vaughn, when she was Dimes foundation has more re the subcommittee of Func mishap. We were really sur stricken by polio in August. prised to see how much snow The summer months are when cently emphasized birth de tions, Standards and Structuras had accumulated since we left street department here In Mill it used to be so prevalent in fects and other diseases—they will be discussed at the Oregon home. Our driveway was full. City has done a good job of the era before vaccine became still have not forgotten the Nurses’ Association District 3 "old patients”, victims of the meeting to be held Monday, The city had plowed the keeping things moving, so I effective. streets, but that didn’t help guess we shouldn’t complain Their seven year old daugh disease before It was conquer February 3, at 7:30 p. m. in the auditorium of Salem Gen our driveway. With a little too much Art Hedge said Tues ter, Susie had received the ed. Mrs. Mormon says, "Every eral Hospital. shoveling, we made it down day morning that he was real Salk vaccine which had been one connected with the founda The sub-committee studied to the house, and there the car ly getting a lot of cussing for discovered the year before. sits, and it can stay there for plugging driveways, but that Then began the long period tion has been wonderful to me; in depth the reaction of mem all of me, until the weather it couldn’t be helped. They of hospitalization for Mrs. they are right at hand when bers of District No. 3 to the breaks. proposed structural change. just don't have the time to Mormon; first in Portland and you need them.” Monday afternoon I thought clear each driveway. It is bet later in Denver. She had both Since this controversial ques I’d check some of our local ter to have the streets open, Bulbar and spinal polio. If the number following tion affects all, it should be a M?rvice stations to see what and I’ll have to agree with most informative report. A- The March of Dimes paid for they charged for putting on them. all of her hospital care in Port your name on The En mong the highlights is the re chains Two stations said $1, commendation that all state Shoveling out driveways land, therapy on the flight to and the other one called said would give employment to a Denver, wheel chair and hospi terprise label reads sections be deleted. $1.50. Some difference. bunch of young folks, If they tal bed when she was able to Joyce Savage, of Marion It Ls real rough in a country really had that much ambition. leave the Denver hospital after C unty Health Department 1-69 it's time to send chaired the committee and will like Oregon. We never get Might do them some good too, six months. this much snow, so are not to get out of the house and do Mrs. Mormon isn’t the kind be reporting the results of the prepared to take care of it. Our something really worth while. to be waited on and she really a check for renewal. study to the state committee. Mobile Chest X-Ray | Unit To Be Here On Thursday, Feb. 6 Mrs. Janies Budlong Chairman of Mother's March of Dimes Drive War I Auxiliary Sends Boxes To Vietnam $4.00 a YEAR — 10c a CoRy Heavy Snowfall Here Puts Slowdown on Business; Most Sawmills Working Mill City, like other Oregon towns, was trying to get back pick up students they may re to something like normal this sume classes later in the week. week. However, the odds were Burton Boroughs, principal, against those trying to shovel said Tuesday that bus turn snow—off and out. arounds are delaying putting The heavy snowfall of Sat the buses back on schedule. urday and Sunday put about The basketball game on Tues 20” on the ground in most sec day evenings agenda was post tions of town. The street main poned. tenance crew kept most of the But more snow ls forecast main thoroughfares open with and meanwhile the youngster* v’erl Moberg operating Fred are enjoying sledding and ski Moore’s plow giving a big as ing. sist. Boots, mittens and other winter gear got a lot of usage is residents were busy push- ng snow off their cars and clearing out ariveways. A few roofs on sheds and other outbuildings reportedly caved in from the weight of .he snow. It was “light stuff” c:mpared to that of the last storm, however and so did not ;ause as much damage from a pile-up. Over in the North Fork area it was said to be about 40” Jean Roberts deep and still falling, causing much concern to summer MEHAMA—Despite falling home owners. snow and freezing weather, Mills in the Mill City area spring calves are arriving in have, for the most part, re the Mehama area, with two mained open. Frank Lumber sets of twin calves born on company and North Santiam the Lloyd Sletto farm. plywood mills have remained Twin calves are unusual and in full operation. Freres Lum to have two sets in one night ber were unable to run full is almost unheard of. Sletto dis capacity on Monday, operat covered his two cows with ing only the big chipper. How f:ur calves within an hour of ever by Tuesday the day shift each other, with all 4 calves was in full operation but the (two bulls and two heifers) night shift was not working. still wet and all alive. Both Cedar Lumber comp Sletto, who has been In the any and Stout Creek Lumber cattle business for many mills were dawn. Crews at years, says this is only the both companies were busy fourth time he has had twins. clearing away snow so that Since the cows»are Here- the carrier could get around. fords, he doubts If there will Business houses have all re be enough milk for four calves mained open but the schools so he plans to sell two of the are still closed. Walkways at new calves. the schools are now all open Bud Barkmeyer found a new and if the buses are able to calf frozen stiff before it had managed to suck. Taking the stiffly frozen calf Inside he massaged and warmed it, forc Citizenship Award ed some whiskey down its throat and managed to revive the animal. The calf however, had not learned to suck as yet so its survival will be a chal lenge Two Sets of Twin Calves At Mehama Heart Attack Fatal To Lee Carlson The annual Good Citizen ship tea of the Chemeketa chapter. Daughters of the Am erican Revolution is scheduled for Saturday, February 1 at the Salem Women’s clubhouse at 2 o’clock. Guests of honor will be the ten girls chosen by the faculty and senior students in area schools. They will be accomp anied by their mothers who will be special guests. Girls are chosen for patrio tism, leadership, dependability and service to school and com munity. Miss Cathy Whigam was selected to represent San tiam High school. They will compete for the district winner in March and the girl will then be awarded a $250 bond. The state and national winners will be pres ented with $100 and $1,000 bonds. ( Lee Carlson, a familiar ng ure around town, riding his bicycle in all kinds of weather, died suddenly at his home Tues, afternoon. A little neigh bor girl, Denise Gibson was visiting with him and he went out in the kitchen to get a donut and some milk for her when he suddenly keeled over. She called in neighbors who notified his good friends, Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Dickie, who in turn called a doctor. Death was attributed to a heart at tack. Mr. Carlson was born June 28, 1885 and came to Mill City in 1907, living here most of his life except for short periods spent in California and Wash ington. He was a retired log ger. Mr. Carlson had served In the Navy during World War I. Survivors include two cous ins. Ebner Adams of Eureka, California and Edna Huir of Auburn, Wn„ and two neph ews: one in California and one in the east. Services are pending at Wed dle Funeral Home in Stayton. Bloodmobile To Jaycees Plan On Be At Stayton Grade More Ski Classes DETROIT—It was announc School January 30 cee ed this week that Salem Jay- Ski School will attempt to The Bloodmobile will be at the Stayton grade school Thursday, January 30 from 4:30 to 8:30 P. M. Mrs A. K. McKenzie is chairman of the Red Cross drive in Stayton and said the need for blood was urgent. All those able to donate are asked to be on hand Thursday. make-up Sundays canceled classes next Sunday with a double session. Officials said the weather permitting, classes will be taught at Hoodoo Ski Bowl both Saturday and Sunday to make up for those canceled the week end of Jan. 11th and 12th.
