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VOLUME XXIV NUMBER 29 ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — OREGON’S EAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1969 j Up and Down; Boats Not ; The Avenue Legal on Marion Lake ; By Don Moffatt I think we live in a real nice country and a pretty gjod community, but every once in awhile we run across a real stinker. They are in the minority :md we can be thank ful for that. The recent candi date which goes down as the prize stinker of the area was brought to my attention by a friend in Lyons. This person, or persons, removed the flow ers from a grave at Fox Valley cemetery after it had been de corated for Memorial Day. Don’t you think this is a pretty low trick. I do, and I’m thank ful that this type of person is not too prevalent here. 1 The Mill City Enterprise subscription campaign which has been running for the past several weeks was brought to a successful close Saturday night. I would like at this time to thank all the young sales people who worked so hard to put new names on our mailing list and to collect renewal sub scriptions. It has been good ex perience for them, and at the same time they received money for their efforts. There is a list of the winners in this week’s edition. Advertisers in The Enterprise will find that their advertisements will be reach ing new people now that the campaign has come to a close, .¡nd The Enterprise now reach es more homes in this com munity than any other adver tising media. It would appear to me that the Mid-Willamette Valley Air Pollution authority is biting off more than it can chew with many of their regulations. I think limiting burning of paper in covered barrels un less a permit is obtained is a little out of the ordinary and also a little foolish. Here in Mill City, with a population of under 2.000. all the paper that i burned does not make much of a pollution problem. The state outfit will have to enforce this law, as there is no local ordinance to date which covers it. I know that Mrs. Eld n Hutchinson is a little perturb ed at having to make out all these burning permits. It might be all right for a city like Port land to have a close check on these things, as in a city of that size, open burning could be a air polluting hazard. Of course when a state agency makes a ruling, they fail to make any provision to cover the smaller cities. Worse yet. is the eliminating of burning at the city dump. Rud Cline of Mill City Dispos al has always taken care of burning of stumps, paper and ther rubbish in a good man ner. He used to make a big burn twc or three times a year. There would Ire enough heat generated from the fire to eli minate most of the smoke. While visit mg relatives in Calgary. B. C.ywe found they have the same problem. The city put a ban ;n all barrel burning. They really hit a bad snag. Paper and other burnable refuse began piling up. The result was the city had to purchase many extra garbage trucks and put on a lot of new men to take care of the situa tion. Some times we get so tangled up in government reg ulation« on a I t of things that it becomes logged down, and the men in the offices in Salem cannot handle, or control the mess that they make. Maybe some of these days we can get back to a little less control from the outside, and let the cities take care of their own problems. It will be a happy day indeed—could possibly cut down on sone office help in Salem too. I am much more concerned with other things in our city than a little smoke from trash barrel«. It is the mess of cans under the railroad bridge. This is a disgrace, believe me. Why do people desecrate a spot of beauty. I don't know who has the responsibility of cleaning up this mess, but it should be done right away. Another bad deal is the rail road crossing in the west part of town. If the railroad or county road department lets Mot:r boats are laeing used on Marion Lake in the Mt. Jef ferson Wilderness in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act, re ports Willamette National For est Supervisor D. R. Gibney. Congress, in approving ere- ati.n of the 99,632 acre Mt. Jefferson Wilderness last fall, had Included Marion Lake within its boundaries. Subse quently. as a result of petition ing by Oregon residents, a bill was introduced in Congress tliis year to study removing Marion Lake from the Wilder ness. The Forest Service to give Congress time to consider this bill, has delayed all action un til September on removing de veloped facilities in the Marion Lake area to restore it to a Wilderness condition. In the meantime, however, all other conditions of the Wilderness Act will apply. In particular motor bikes are not permitted on trails, or motors on boats. The trail to Marion Lake is posted with notices telling about the prohibition of mo tors in the Wilderness. U. S. Bank Shows Gain U. S. Bancorp and its whol ly-owned subsidiary, United States National Bank of Ore gon, according to its mid-year financial report, had consoli dated net operating earnings of $6,442,693, or $1.60 per share in the first six months of 1969, up from $5,032,031. or ‘■1.26 per share a year earlier, for a $28.03 percent increase. The pe-’ share figures are based on average shares outstanding, adjusted f r stock dividends. The consolidated statement further discloses that deposits on June 30. 1969, stood at $1,471,101,586, representing an S.76 per cent increase over the total of $1,352,621,885 a year ago, while loans rose 13.88 per cent from $905,456,758 to $1,- 031.103,712. At the Mill City Branch of U. S. National, deposits were $4,- 546,538, according to Floyd Eastwood, manager. He also reported loans on the same date were $2,309,432. Gene Teague Chev. Entertains Employees Saturday Gene Teague Chevrolet, Inc., Stayt n held their annual din ner it The Riverview in Me hama Saturday evening. Teague, who acted as master of ceremonies at the event, praised his crew in the various shop departments for their loy alty to the firm and for their conscientious work. He also had words of praise for his salesman who have so far year have turned more units than any other year in the history of the firm. Besides his regular crew, rihers from the Canyon area were guests of the firm. B L M Timber Sales Withdrawn This is to notify all interest ed persons that all Bureau of Land Management timber sal es in the Salem District now in advertising for July have been withdrawn. They will be of fered again as early as possible in August. The 90-Dav offer ings have also been withdrawn Reappraisal of August sales al ready scheduled will be delay ed. it g much longer, we'll be able to drive under the tracks instead of over them. It would n't taka much blacktop to fill in the hole, but if they let it go all summer, it will take a truckload to repair the dam age. United Vacation Bible School To Start Here Plans have been made for the United Vacation Bible school which will start July 21 and operate through July 25 at the Mill City Presbyterian Church. This is for children who will be in the second, third and fourth grades this fall. Registration will begin on Monday. July 21 and the fee will be $1.00 per child. Hours are from 9:30 A. M. to 12 noon. The date for those who will be in the 5th, 6th and 7th grades this fall will be Au gust 4th and Sth at the Chris tian Church. The time for this will be 7 to 9 p. m. and the fee will be the same. Registration for that group will be Monday, August 4th. Detroit High Detroit Council Discusses Pollution Preventage for Lake DETROIT — Preventing pol lution of Detroit Lake from septic tanks was discussed at the Detroit City Council meet ing last week. Representatives of the Mar ion County Health department and Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments sug gested the council form a plan ning commision to combat the threat. The commission could es tablish setbacks to keep the tanks far enough from the lake to prevent the pollution. The groups emphasized that there is no problem at the lake now. In ether business, the coun cil said water bills may now be paid at Detroit Patio. This ruling went into effect July 1. James Rose School Resigns from City Council DETROIT — Work began Tuesday afternoon on die re construction of Detroit High School. The interior of the two year old facility was gutted by fire of undetermined origin March 11th. Bids were opened July 1st for the reconstruction of the school with Johnston Construc tion Co., of Salem the success ful bidder. All construction is covered by replacement Insurance. » Bill Lewellen Debra Barnhardt Former Idanha Resident Drowns DETROIT — Upper canyon friends of the Herbert Smith family of Aumsville were shocked to hear of his tragic death Sunday afternoon. The Smith family formerly resided at Idanha where Mr. Smith was employed by Mar- Vel Trucking Co., of Idanha, (drove chip truck). Smith, 39, drowned in the surf off Wald port Sunday afternoon as he tried to save his two sons. The boys, Daniel 13, and Al len 16, told police they began having difficulty and called for help. They said their father came and brought them half way back. They said they swam in by themselves but that their father never made it. Authorities are still serch- ing for the body. $-1.00 a YEAR — 10c a Copy Mike Golden Rick Richey JUDGE’S FINAL STATEMENT FOR THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGN 1969 We, the undersigned members of the advisory board of Upper Canyon Recreation Report Shows Trails Open DETROIT — The following recreation report on the De- roit District was released Tues day by the U. S. Forest Ser vice, Detroit Ranger Station. All roads on the District are open but little road mainten ance has been done, so travel ing may be rough in spots. However, travel on Bruno Meadows Road is not recom mended due to a 10-foot wide hole in one section. Elkhorn- Elk Lake Road has a lot of sluff, and Lost Shoe Pass is closed by a washout. According to the report trail maintenance began this past week. Trails in the Eight Lak es Basin area are open but may not be maintained. Griz zly Peak Trail No. 3428 is also open. This trail has drinking water available. All campgrounds are open. For campers who would prefer a quiet selected place. White water campground 13.0 miles East of Detroit Ranger Sta tion is recommended. It is lo cated on the hank of the Whitewater River. The trail ing blackberries at the 2,000 foot level are starting to ripen nicely. The French Creek Road to Halls Ridge offers an outstand ing view and an abundance of wild flowers. From this road there is an excellent view ,f Mt. Hood, Olallie Butte, Mt. Jefferson, Three Fingered Jack Mt. Washington, Three Sisters. Tumble Lake, the Elkhorn Val ley, Santiam Canyon and De troit Reservoir. Flowers bloom ing along the road are paint brush, Lupine, pentstem :n. Wild current, beargrass and rhtxlodendron. Follow highway Ranger Station, turn left on 22 !i miles past the Detroit French Creek Road and follow Halls Ridge. judges, appointed to have supervision over the final count of votes in the Enterprise’ subscription campaign, do hereby state: That we have made a thorough canvass of all subscriptions found in the sealed ballot box for each individual sales-kid: That we have totaled all votes and points earned on each subscription in the ballot box, and added these totals to all votes earned by each sales-kid through Wednesday of this week: And that from these totals we have found the prizes won and places earned by each sales-kid who remained active to the end of the campaign to be as follows: GRAND PRIZE .... Bill Lewellen, Mill City...... 949,250 SECOND PRIZE ... Debra Barnhardt, Gates...... 939,000 THIRD PRIZE .. .... Mike Golden, Mill City...... 580,750 FOURTH PRIZE .......... Rick Richey, Lyons.......441,000 The above four sales-kids win the major prizes in the campaign. Following is a list of places earned by each of the remaining workers wha receive cash commissions of 15% on all subscriptions they sold during the 3-week campaign. 5— Glen Abrams .391,000 9— John Archer ..... 259,000 6— -Mike Hancock ...388,000 10— Russ Budlong —.175.000 7— Craig Blackburn .342,000 11— Karon Easter 82,000 8— Bill Morgan ...... 134,000 12— Sandy Hoover .. 42,000 The first EXTRA prize of $10 in cash, given to the sales- kid earning the most prints on NEW subscriptions during the 3rd and 4th report periods was won by: BILL LEWELLEN of Mill City, with 193 points The second EXTRA prize of $10 in cash, given to the sales kid earning the most points on new AND renewal subscriptions during the 5th, 6th and 7th report periods was won by: DEBRA BARNHARDT of Gates, with 261 points Dated at Mill City, Ore., Saturday, July 12, 1969. (signed) Herbert J. Peck John Ficker Serving Burton L. Denton On The Bryce Canyon Open House LogBooms To Be Built On Reservoir DETROIT- Two log bo ms are being constructed this week on Detroit Reservoir by the U. S. Foiest Service, Forester Tom Levering said Monday. An 8.30 foot b iorn is being installed on the Breitenbush Arm and a 930-foot lxx>m on the Blowout Arm to help keep debris out of the main b:dy of the Reservoir. The existing log boom in the Santiam Arm and the addi tion of these booms should help provide a safer area for boat ers and water skiers, Levering said. A 25-foot boat pass will be installed in each boom to al low access to boaters and re- creationists. The openings will lie marked by signs and red flags. B :aters are urged to be care ful and observe the 5-mile per hour peed limit, he said. De+roit-ldanha to Form Square Dance Club Hoover's Supply Inc. have DETROIT—The Detroit-Id taken space in this week’s is anha Business Associati n Is sue of The Enterprise to ad assisting in forming a Square vertise their Oix-n House which Dance Club in the Detr it ar I will be held Saturday, July 19 ea. The first "get-together” from 8 A. M. through the day. Hoover’s have been updating will be held Saturday night. July 26th at 8:00 P. M. in the their stock and equipment for schools’ gym. Everyone is in some time and have added a vited t j come that is interested new building to their First Avenue 1 cation in forming a Club here. Jim Hoover, Walt Wood and Al Nesbitt, of Mill City, will be the caller and his wife will Ed Cronan are cordially invit assist him in teaching the art ing all . In the area to come in of the square dance. Form your and visit and also get in on own square, come as a family, the free coffee, donuts and r come by yourself. Most of do r • prizes. the people who have been con tacted so far are beginners and are interested in learning. A s]>okesman for the group Ingredients Unknown said many Square Dancers in Oregon, Washington, and Cailf. Win National Honors are wanting a place to fiance, Mill City friends will be in and that it was thought De DETROIT — At a recent terested in learning that the troit can be put on the sum mer calendar far next sum special meeting of the Detroit former locally originated rock mer as the ‘Vacation Square Citv Council bids were open and roti group. Ingredients Un Dance Center” of Oregon. It ed on a 1913 advertised Inter known. placed Ith in the na is felt that it would be enter national Fire Pumper truck, tion at a Raleigh. North Caro competid n tainment for vacationers and with the bid awarded to Ray lina Neal Grandstaff, formerly of Kau cf Lebanon tourists, as well as for resi By unanimous vote of the Mill City, now living in Cor dents in the canyon. If unable to attend the first council money acquired from vallis is a member of the group will be used for the The band will make some ap mee’ing, interested persons the may sign up for the club at purch ise of new hose for the pearance» in Hollywood, ap any of the l eal businesses in Rural Fire District pumper pear on TV and are currently lieing interview«! by reconi Detroit or Idanha. Classes are now rationed at Deti I c mpmies to cut some records. Hall schedulefl to begin in the fall Fireman Apprentice John M. Ficker. USN, son of Wil liam C. Ficker. is serving aboard the destroyer tender USS Bryce Canyon. His ship departed I zing Beach. Calif., its present home port, for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, its new h meport. The change in homeport will lie effective September 1. The Bryce Canyon, commis sioned in 1950 at the Naval Shipya . <1 in Charleston, S. C., has served ships of the U. S. At the July meeting of the city council the resignation of James Rose was accepted. He had been serving as council president and police commis sioner. Mr. Rose gave the pressure of outside committments as his reason for resigning. Dale Ho well was appointed council president and Vernon Rush will serve as police commis- sioner. A survey is to be made to see how many additional fire hydrants are needed in the city. A report will be made and ac tion taken at a later date. Council members voted to request the state highway com mission to put 15 miles per hour speed limit from High way 22 to Broadway. A report was given by coun cilmen and Virgil Trout on the current city beautification program. Considerable progress has been made but much re mains to be done to make the city really sparkle. Razing of old buildings and tall grass on lots are currently being stressed. Don Gillenwater, police chief gave his report for June with 9 traffic citations noted: 12 traffic warnings; 5 municipal citations and 18 cases proces sed through court. There were 21 complaints answered and the police car patrolled 1,633 miles using 186.9 gallons of gas. Ray Roberts Host Japanese Students M E HAM A—Tsunendri Sen- da of Nagoya, Japan and Yas utoshi Kawane of Shizuoka City, Japan were week-end guests at the Ray Roberts home. “Tony” and “Yoki” are student- at Tokyo University where they are studying Econ omics and commerce. They are here as guests of Willam ette University for a two weeks tour of Oregon Industries, one week-end of which was ta be spent as guests in an Ameri can home. There are 42 stu dents in the group and one of the objects is to practice their English Weather, Detroit Dam 7 a. in. Daily Weather Reading Pool Elev. July 9 79 59 1567.19 0.00 July 10 82 56 1567 29 0.00 July 11 77 55 1567.38 0.01 July 12 65 52 151,7.16 0.02 July 13 65 51 1567« o.oo July 14 71 43 1567.00 0.00 July 15 79 49 1567.63 0.00 Pacific Fleet from its home port in I-ong Beach throughout rn ¡st of its service. Happy With New Bike Detroit City Council Sells Pumper Truck Mike Golden was the only salesman in The Mill City Enterprise subscription campaign who took a bicycle instead of the cash. He is shown with his prize, his remark was ‘‘isn’t it a dandy?”—The Mill City En terprise photo.
