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The Mill City
VOLUME XXIV
NUMBER 41
ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — OREGON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND
THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1969
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Cedar Lumber Begins Wrapping Lumber
Up and Down
The Avenue
♦
By Don Moffatt
Many times we people in
tliis area think the only thing
we have in the way of indus
try is timber and its related
products. I found out this week
that this is not the case. Up at
Gates three men moved ir.
from the Los Angeles area
with a shop full of precision
tools and are busy making
parts for airplanes. Shipping
poses no problem for them, as
the metals they use are light,
and transportation for their
finished product is also easy.
They left the Los Angeles area
to get away from the smog,
traffic, and too many people.
They like this area and have
remodelled the old garage used
at one time by Bill Leming.
Possibly this is the break
through that this area needs.
The manufacturing of compon
ent parts for airplanes, assem
bly plants, and a varied list
of industries could find this
area just the place to locate.
A few years will make a great
change in this area. Of course,
logging will probably be the
primary industry for many
years to come. We have built
some fine mills here within the
past 10 years.
Speaking of advance in pro
duction and marketing of tim
ber we can’t overlook Cedar
Lumber Co., Inc. out in Fox
Valley. This firm has made a
rapid growth in the past few
years. They have just started
selling packaged lumber, which
is another step forward in mar
keting of their product.
A picture on this page will
show how their new package
will look. Progress is coming
to the area, and we’d better be
ready for it. Right now there
:s a housing shortage, and it
will continue to magnify as
the years go by.
I see by the papers that the
State Highway department,
parks division, is going into
camp site construction in a big
way. The headlines say 950
campsites to be built in time
for use next summer.” I was
rattier surprised at the cost of
providing one campsite. Some
$3,000. They plan to just fix
the sites with electrical hook
ups, and leave the sewer and
water to be done at a later
date. While on the coast this
weekend I spent considerable
time visiting with private par
ties who have built trailer
parks in recent years. Most of
them figure the sites could be
built for a lot Less than $3,000
each. They can do it, so how
come the State has to pay
this much? It is a question I
would like answered. One
thing I will say about the
state parks, they are the best
in the United States. They are
well-planned, neat, and kept
that way. At that price they
certainly should be.
There has been a big fuss
this past year about overcrowd
ing tn our state parks. I won
der if any of these people who
can’t get into a state park ev
er tried to get into a privately
owned parking place. They are
available on the coast now,
ar.d at a rate that compares
favorable with the state fees.
I talked with one outfit
which informed me that: “if
the state kept out of the park
business, private enterprise
could well take care of the pro
blem. ” I don’t know about
that, but I do know that if
you really want to spend mon
ey to get a job done, just let
the government do it. Personal
ly I would rather see the state
put in maybe 500 parks and do
the complete job Doing part
ct the building of campsites
now and finishing them later
is just like building the house,
then go to the expense of jack
ing it up to put in the base
ment. Of course, these engin
eers are supposed to know what
thev are dong, but I for one
have always been against these
crash programs—you always
pay through the nose for the
work done. No matter what
happen.-, the demand for camp
sites will for many years ex
ceed the accomodations.
F a cry time I go to the coast
1 have » feeling of disgust
! < n I try to watch the waves
•
iler Rw The highway de
nt put up that damned
Above is a picture of the new package of lumber
being offered to purchasers by Cedar Lumber Co. Inc.
The first wrapped packages went out last week. Fred
Krecklow, in the background is seen putting the final
touches on a package. Benny Bennett will be in charge
of this department, but he was not on hand when the
picture was taken by an Enterprise reporter. Don Walk
er, one of the owners of the Mill stated he felt this
would make their product more marketable. He said
when you get a vyhole carload of packed lumber it will
show up real good, and before long the Lion will read
ily be identified with Cedar Lumber.—The Mill City En
terprise photo.
Cedar Lumber Starts
Wrapping Lumber
Cedar Lumber Co., Inc. this
past week began marketing
“wrapped” lumber. In an inter
view with Don Walker, one of
the owners, and manager of
the operation, he feels that this
is the best way to market
lumber. It is much more con
venient for those purchasing
the lumber as each bundle is
marked as to size and number
of pieces and it is possible to
stack the lumber in the open
and not in covered sheds as
in the past.
Walker also said: “it is too
costly to ship in box cars any
more. Labor casts have increas
ed so much for loading and un
loading lumber that it makes
it nearly prohibitive to handle
in this manner. This way it
can be unloaded off flat cars
with a fork lift, and that saves
at lot of time and money.”
This is just one of the cases
of labor pricing itself out of
the market. It will do no good
to continue to raise wages, if
there is no work to do. Auto
mation in the lumber business
is reducing the number of men
it takes to produce a thousand
board feet of their product.
Cedar Lumber is one of the
several mills in this canyon
U. G. N. Fund
Drive To Begin
Monday, Oct. 6
General chairman for the Un
ited Good Neighbor Campaign,
Virgil Trout reported Monday,
October 6th is the kickoff of
this project. Chairman for the
Detroit area is Shirley Hill,
and for the Gates area, Hazel
Gabriel.
Those working in the Mill
City area are Joyce Trout, Mol
ly Larsen, Darlene Ruby, Glor
ia Urban, Shirley Biggness,
Bobbie Budlong, Addie French,
Linda Sanders, Mary Ann
Nicholas, Pat Posekany, Bar
bara Thomas. Esther Challen-
der, Cheryl Challender.
Everyone is urged to wel
come these people when they
call on you at your home in
the next two weeks. Money
collected through this is dis
tributed among 43 different or
ganizations. a good part left
here in Mill City.
Businesses will be contacted
separately by Virgil Trout and
others.
chair, link fence, and just high
enough so you can hardly see
the big rocks and waves. I
still think that was a waste. Of
course they said they had to
do it to protect the people. Per
sonally, if people don’t know
any better than to walk off a
cliff, possible the fence would
n’t stop them anyhow Just a
case of overprotection of "big
brother” government.
which is moving forward in
modern marketing. It is the
only way to continue in busi
ness according to information
given The Enterprise. Some of
the finest mills in the state are
found in the North Santiam
Canyon.
Truck-Train Mishap
Injures Driver
Santiam
Stays on
Win Streak
LYONS — The Lyons City
Council decided Wednesday
night to advertise for bids for
blacktipping anil curbing exist
ing sidewalks in the commun
ity.
Budding Inspector Joe John
son resigned. Councilmen rec
ommended Howard Naue to
take over the position.
The council discussed reloca
tion f the highway through
Lyons once a new bridge Is
built across the Santiam River.
Weather, Detroit Dam
7 a. m. Dally Weather Reading
Pool
Max Min Elev. Pep
Oct. 1 59 51 1522.89 0.02
2 56 45 1522.35 1.73
Oct
Oct
3 53 44 1521 78 1.18
Oct
4 60 43 1521.26 0 00
Oct
5 65 39 1520.52 0.00
6 66 42 1519.73 0.00
Oct
Oct
7 72 42 1518.89 T
Tool Sharpening Requires Skill
Plane Parts
Being Made
At Gates
3’he Santiam Wolverines,
trailing 20-12 at halftime, scor
ed 2 touchdowns in the second |
half, and held host Scio score- ¡
less to win their 4th straight I
game by the score of 24-20, Frl-1
(lay, October 3.
The Wolverines scored 61
points in each quarter of the I
game with the first one on a '
42 yard pass from Ron John
son to Larry Hillesland. The
Pictured above is Harvey Keen shown working at
extra point attempt by Cline one of his tool sharpening machines. He keeps tool
failed.
cutting devices sharp, and has his equipment located
In the second quarter, How at Gates. He manufactures cutting devices to be used
ard Lyness, who had a total
of 81 yards in the game, cross in the operation at Gates.—The Mill City Enterprise
ed the goal line on a 7 yard photo.
plunge, the extra point attempt
Heavy Drill Installed
again failed.
With 12 points on the score
board for the Wolverines at
half, they had a tough battle
ahead of them, for the Scio
Loggers had scored 3 times in
the first half to lead 20-12.
The rest of the game was a
one way skermish, with the
Wolverines scoring twice, once
cn a 4 yard run by Doug Cline
and again when Larry Hilles
land intercepted a pass and
ran 10 yards *or his second
touchdown of the game, and
his 6th touchdown in the last
3 games.
Defensively Mike Long, Lar
ry Hillesland, and Bruce Ros
coe led tackles with 10, 8, and
7 tackles respectively. There
were two fumble recoveries,
one by John Ruby, and the
other by Tom Rush.
Pictured is Ronald O’Donnell, working with one of
The Wolverines next meet the heavy drills used in their Gates plant which is man
North Marion at North Marion ufacturing parts for the aircraft industry. They moved
Friday, October 10.
Chamber
To Try Night
Meeting
LYONS—Log truck driver
George Childs of Lebanon is in
Lebanon Hospital today with
injuries suffered when a train
struck his truck east of here.
Childs was driving for the
Gilbert Logging Co., when the
Southern Pacific freight train
hit the truck at Gilbert’s Sta
At a board of directors meet
tion m miles east of here at
3 p.m. Tuesday. He suffered a ing of the North Santiam
broken collar bone and other Chamber of Commerce held re
cently it was decided that a
injuries.
night meeting would lie tried
in an attempt to get sime of
of the business men from the
Lions Board Meets
upper part of the canyon to
attend. It is difficult for many
At Krecklow Home
The board of directors of the to attend a noon meeting.
President Harold Wiltse stat
Mill City Lions club met at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred ed the next meeting would be
held at The Riverview in Me
Krecklow Sunday evening.
It was agreed that any mem hama Wednesday, October 15.
ber who does not attend a din Dinner will be at 7:00 and the
ner meeting without a valid meeting will begin at 8 o’clock.
excuse turned in before Friday
Only a small crowd was pre
at 5 p. m. prior to the Monday sent at the board meeting.
meeting will be fined $1. This There was a discussion on what
is being done because not the Steering Committee from
enough members are showing Mill City had brought up at
up at meetings to meet the the last meeting about the pro
dinner guarantee.
gram at the Whitewater Chal
In other action, George Long lenge. This referred to having
was re-appointed to the steer part of the usual July 4th pro
ing committee for another gram carried on in the park at
year. The next Lions club din Mill City changed to Memorial
ner meeting will be held Mon Day. No action was taken un
day, October 13.
til that group had a more con
Deadline for Calendar Saks crete plan to offer.
is the 13th of October.
Lyons Plans For
Sidewalk Improvement
$4.00 a YEAR — 10c a Copy
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Lightning Strikes;
Damage Very Slight
They say lightning doesn’t
strike twice in the same place
and a number of Mill City res
idents hoped this was true
Thursday afternoon.
After a day of heavy rain,
thunder and lightning hit the
area ab:ut four o’clock and
really shook things up, making
some wonder If the after af
fects (or pre-affects) of the Al
askan blast had hit.
At the Edwin Stone, Jim
Grant and DeVaul homes it
was reported that “blue fire
streaks” were seen coming
from the switches and outlets
in the homes.
However, no damage was re-
porteo except f .r some shatter
ed nerves. The storm in the
area also brought the first
touch of snow along the San
tiam Pass.
Not too many people are yet
aware of the precision machine
shop that is manufacturing air
plane parts in Gates.
Thomas O’Donnell and ds
son Ronald R. O’Donnell own
and operate the shop, moving
their equipment, tons of preci
sion tools, from VCan Nuys,
California where they had an
identical shop.
The men and their families
have lioth purchased homes ’n
the area and the old Learning
garage in Gates which has been
completely renovated inside.
As soon as time permits they
plan on cleaning up the prem
ises. Now, however, they are
hard at work on filling contract
orders for various airplane
companies.
The friendly and knowlede-
able O’Donnells say they like
the area very much and that
the smog, traffic and high cost
of living brought them to Ore
gon. Thomas O’Donnell was
raised in a small town In Lou
isiana and said it seemed good
to get back to the slower pace
of living. He started working
as an apprentice machinist
when he was 17 and has work
ed al it ever since. He is a
true craftsman and one that
enjoys talking about his work,
explaining the operation of
the tools in detail.
The first shipment from
their new location was for
wheel doors on planes now
beipg produced at Boeing in
Seattle. Other items now in
prcxtuction are bushings and
support parts for airplanes.
They work principally in al
here from California.—The Mill City Enterprise photo. uminum and aluminum alloys.
They take the raw material
and saw and machine the var
Big Lathe Installed
ious t ugh, but light weight
parts.
One machine functions re
markably like a child’s trace-
c matic but on a complex
scale and is called a Hydraulic
Profiler. On this a complete
outline for a part is traced and
cut precisely the same size as
the pattern.
They are presently making
wing supports but this mach
ine could as easily turn out
complex supports for a truck
or car or duplicate any article
from the aluminum alloy or
brass. Harder metaLs are cut
on the hand operated profiler
which is geared for strength
rather than speed. The large
metal lathe turns out pieces
up to four feet long and as
thick as 19” with piles of
bright aluminum curls mount-
rng up around the lathe mak
ing it look festive holiday de
Thomas O’Donnell, above, can be seen with one of corations.
Many of the items turned
the lathes used in the manufacture of airplane compon on this big lathe or the smaller
ents. They moved from the Los Angeles area to get one lose their tubular shapes
away from the “rat race.” He said there is no reason when the holes are made and
many machine shops such as these cannot be located cut out and fitted with other
in these areas, where materials can be shipped in to be pieces. A grinder does the
same precise operation on pin
manufactured.—The Mill City Enterprise photo.
stock. From a six inch piece
or one as small as a thread.
Linn-Benton College
The first requirement at the
shop is one of exacting accur
Offers Evening Course
acy with the O’Donnels start
ing the work from full size
Linn-Benton Community Col
drawings on a huge piece of
lege is again offering two ses
Wonder what happened to Mylar.
sions of the Poise, Posture, and
Precision flat or square parts
Personality class as an even your summer’s wages? Better
ing college credit course in Al start thinking about It, as the are polished and trued on a
fuel oil trucks start circling surface grinder before going
bany.
The twi credit class meets around the city like buzzards, on to matching. Patterns from
on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. and friendly type, that is. This a blueprint are created on a
again at 7:00 p. m. in Room A past week Mt. Jefferson has black granite block which is
received a new covering of as smooth as a mirror and lev
13 at Albany High School.
snow,
and Thursday saw snow eled by modem guages.
Although the first class ses
All these precision tools are
sions were held September 29, on Santiam Pass, the first re
kept sharp by Harvey Keen
space is still available and in corded this fall.
The weather over the week who has his tool and cutter
terested individuals should go
end, hiwever, was perfect, but grinders in the O’Donnel shoo.
directly to class to register.
as this is being written Tues As he says, "Precision work
day morning, the rains are reouires precision tools.” The
i with us again, however it is men have been friends for
Jim Rose Hurt in
more in the form of a drizzle many years
I than a downpour
Hunting Accident
Mt. Jefferson Gets
New White Blanket
Jim Rose was taken to San
tiam Memorial Hospital in
Stayton Sunday f llowing a
hunting accident.
He and his son, Jimmy, were
hunting in the Rock Creek
area when Jim climbed over
a downed log, grabbing a limb
to help himself. The limb
broke off, going into the palm
of his hand and coming out
between his fingers
The limb resulted in tearing
quite a hole in his hand which
necessitated surgery ti repair
the damage.
Schools To Be Closed
Friday; Teachers To
Have In-Service Meet
Heart Attack Puts
Pittam in Hospital
Schools in the area will be
closed this Friday, according
to inf rmation received here.
Purpose of the closure is so
teachers may attend profession
al meetings within their parti-
ular areas of instruction, and
th'.se not attending meetings
away from home, will have
meetings locally.
Sob's)! will resume Monday.
Jerry Pittam was taken to
Salem Memorial hospital Mon
day morning suffering from a
heart attack. Mrs. Pittam said
Wednesday morning that he is
still undergoing tests, and that
he most likely will be confin
ed to the hospital for about two
weeks.
She said his doctor called It
a light coronary.