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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1969)
Enterprise VOLUME XXIV Up and Down The Avenue By Don Moffatt People who woke up Sun day morning, were wondering if we were going to have a re peat of the famous Columbus Day storm of a few years back. Fir cones, leaves and other fall debris littered yards and streets here. It is a little dis gusting especially when some homeowners, m e included, spent Saturday afternoon mow ing and sweeping things up around their homes. It all was for nothing after the wind got through with things. This Mon day morning we have heard jf no damage locally. It seems that homeowners have a battle all year. In the spring it is cleaning up after winter, fertilizing, renovating lawns. Then comes the contin ual task of mowing, weed kill ing. raking, and watering all during the summer months, then the fall cleanup. It is a battle to keep the premises in shape. Oh, well, some of us need the exercise, but some time- I wonder if it is worth it. ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — OREGON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND NUMBER 42 THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY’, OREGON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1969 Girl of the Month Wolverines Trounce Huskies; Meet Jefferson Here Friday The Santiam Wolverines continued their winning ways by romping over the North Marion Huskies 42-0 in last Friday’s action at North Mar- I ion. . On the first play from scrim- , mage, quarterback Larry Hil- lesland scrambled GO yards for (> p ints. Howard Lyness then ran the 2 point conversion. Linda Marie Crowther, dau After the sound Wolverine ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank defense held the Huskies, tail Crowther. Mill City, was chos back Howard Lyness took ov en girl of the Month for Sep er the ball carrying chores tember at Santiam High Sch ol when he ran 15 yards for an She is a senior. other touchdown. Lyness then Linda has been active in til ran 60 yards for the final school activities. She has par touchdown. ticipated in G.A.A., F.H.A.. Other pass interceptions in F.T.A., and Pep Club of which the game were made by Mike she is currently serving as Elliott, Doug Cline, and Gary President. She has been in Vol Richards. leading the tacklers ley Ball, Basketball and Track. was middle guard Greg Davis She plans to attend Salem with 8. Santiam used three Technical School in Salem and quarterlwcks and the entire become a Registered Nurse. team in the game. Santiam’s next game will be on Allen Field at 8:00, Friday, Boy of the Month against highly rated Jefferson. S-l.(M) a YEAR — 10c a Copy Tie Vote Cast On Beer and Wine License ran the 2 point conversion. Lyness again got the ball and drove over the goal line from 3 yards out. In the second quarter it was Tom Rush scor ing from the 5 yard line. Doug Cline kicked the extra point. Tony Grant then caught a Ron Johnson pass for 7 yards and a touchdown. Cline again kick ed the extra point. In the sec ond half Grant intercepted a pass in the third quarter and The October meeting of the city council brought forth a considerable amount of dis cussion on iiroblems facing the city, new and old. There is the need of a sewer system which was again emphasized. Linn county planning commis sion member, Gary Holloway and members of an engineer In the picture above is shown J. C. (Doc) Kimmel ing film were present to talk council members about the as he is being presented his 50-year Masonic pin by to problem. Alfred B. Holmes, Past Grand Master of Masons in A study was made in 1964 Oregon at a meeting of the lodge in Estacada last Tues which indicated that $596,000 day night. This is Mr. Kimmel’s home lodge and he was would be necessary if a sewer honored by their members on that night. Four other system was to be constructed 50-year Masons were present at the meeting. Attend here. However, that cost is ing from Mill City Lodge, where Doc holds dual mem now $695,000 city officials bership were Dale Howell, Chares Kelly, Don Moffatt, were told. An expensive wait for a necessary project, was The Mill City-Gates area John Roten, Herbert Peck, Veryl Hoover, Verne Clark, opined by some. Alex Burrell, W. R. Stevens, Hobson Gunn and Bill Camp Fire and Bluebird girls Three types of sewer treat Shuey.—The Mill City Enterprise photo. will be starting their candy ment plans were discussed, la goon, oxidation ditches and sales on Friday, October 24. sludge treatment plant. They will be selling two kinds George Dit+er Escapes The Metro Engineers of Eu of candy this year and they Serious Injury Monday gene were asked to give a fig are hoping for the usual good Mill City friends were glad ure on updating the cost of I have just finished reading tc learn Tuesday that George the 1964 study before any fur response from residents. a communication from Ana “Sparky” Ditter was not in ther action will be taken by The girls in this worthwhile heim. Calif., relative to the the council. organization keep 10c of the jured to? seriously in a logg crusade led by Evangelist Bil Mayor Herbert Peck said a money received from each box ing accident Monday. He said ly Graham in that city. It he was hit on the side of the request by Circle K, a grocery for use in their own groups. gave information on the vast store chain, for a package li Balance of the money is used head by a "flying object”, pre crowds of people who had at Mayor Herbert Peck Tues cense for beer and wine was for the upkeep of their sum sumably a large tree chunk tended When Graham was tel Phillip Alton Stockton Sr., mer camp near Falls City. while logging for Lone Pine day night informed The En denied. The five councilmen ling about the decline of Am of Salem was lost on Wagner Camp Kilowan. Company on their Coffin terprise that a special meet and mayor tied in their voting erica, he listed the decline in ing of the City Council will but it was then agreed not to Mt., about five miles north Mountain site. the value of the dollar, the The girls receive extra a- east of Mehama Sunday. The Mr. Ditter was hospitalized be held at 8 p. m. in the city give permission for the license. rise of taxes, moral decline, police were informed of the wards for the one selling the overnight at Santiam Memorial hall to again consider a re The final ruling would have high use of drugs, and per incident at about 4 p. m. and most boxes of candy and there and released Tuesday morning. quest by Circle K, a grocery been made by the State liquor missiveness in sex among the Lynn Edward Cutsforth, son a search was made. The lost is usually a great deal of good He has a badly “battered” left store chain for a business lic commission but the thought of youth of the land. This part is of Mr. and Mrs. Cutsforth of i man was accompanied on the natured rivalry between them. ear which is causing him some ense and a package beer and the opposing counilmen was nothing new, but the part of Gates has been chosen Boy hunting trip by Phillip A. A picture of one of the girls discomfort and a little trouble wine license. that there were enough out the letter which shook me up of the Month for September. Stockton, Jr., his son and Al and a well known publisher in in hearing. The company wishes to es lets in town. The Circle K was where he declared: “Am He is a Senior at Santiam High len Boswell, both of Salem. town will be printed next tablish a store on Highway firm wished to establish their erica WAS the greatest t- School. week, sparking the drive here. 22 at the entrance to the city. business on Highway 22 com In on the search were 21 tempt at Democracy in the George Makris, division man ing into the city. They indicat boys from Explorer 18 of Sal Lynn has been active in world, but we are degenerat sports and other school activi em. Search and Rescue team. ager of the corporation stated ed they would not go ahead ing fast.” Isn’t that something. the company will invest some with any building plans here Stockton, 53, stated he became ties. Among them are Football, He speaks of our Democracy $75,000 in the business provid in Mill City if the package li Honor Society, Home- lest, as he became turned a- in the past tense, just as if it Track, ing the licenses are granted at cense was denied. round in directions. He said coming Escort his Freshman was all over. I certainly hope the meeting Thursday night, Ordinance No. 114 was adop instead of tramping through year, Class Representative his he is wrong, and unless we do Junior year and this year he the woods in the dark, he built and that present plans call for ted creating of office of build something to at least try to At the Lions club meeting the building to be completed ing commissioner and defining a fire, stayed put, and started keep control of our country is Class President. Monday night calendar Chair before the first of this year. his duties. to walk out Monday morning. Lynn plans to go on to school within the hands of the people Ai the regular council meet Police chief Don Gillenwat man Vern Rush said that the This was when he was found. instead of politicians, we cer after graduation but he has He was not injured, said Tom deadline for purchasing Lions ing they came up with a tie er gave his report for Septem not chosen a field to enter or tainly will be on the road to Cpl. Tom Drynan is invit club calendars has been left vote, thus nullifying any ac ber noting 11 traffic citations; ruin. Let’s hope that we can the school he wishes to attend. Drvnan of the State Police. 20 traffic warnings; two mun ing all loggers of the area to open for another week, but tion at all. keep our heads, and not be icipal citations and two prison that the absolute deadline the Scout Building in Mill City led down the primrose path of ers lodged in jail. The police Monday night, October 20, would be Monday, October 20. complete government owner car patrolled 1,366 miles using Any person in the area who Sunnyside Telephone Receives Enterprise Flag when he will discuss 1 with ship. Everyone person and bus 176.3 gallons of gas. The po has not as yet been contacted, i to them current vandalism Joins ContinentalCorp lice iness in these United States force answered 20 com logging equipment in the may come to The Enterprise should have the right to trv' Sunnyside Telephone Comp plaints and 18 cases were pro office and sign up for a cal woods. to make a living without too any and its operating subsid cessed. cessed through court Drynan asks that all inter endar. much restraint from any gov iaries including Valley Tele There was $385.00 received in ested be present at 8 o’clock ernmental body, as long as phone Co. joined Continental fine money. sharp. Damage and theft of Jerry Pittam Still they abide by the law. No Teleph me Corp of St. Louis, logging tools has been trouble group of people should have Mo., Wednesday, October 15. some in this area for many In Salem Hospital the power over the individual I The local companies will op years, and especially during Jerry Pittam, Mill City in erate under direction of the or firm for doing what they hunting season. surance man is still confined Western Division Headqua-- wish. to a Salem hospital with a teis in Oildale, California. All serious heart condition. operating personnel are being Did you hear about the ef Mrs. Pittam said that he will retained and there will be no ficiency expert who went to l>e confined there for some changes in services, rates or the boss about his vacation’ GATES—Fire destroyed the time yet. It is not determined operati n. The boss gave him a week Clyde Oliver home east! of for sure the extent of his Stockholders of Sunnyside Gates Monday and told him he was so vf-| night. Mrs. Oli illness, although she said there Telephone Company voted for ficient that he could have as j ver had just returned from the is some damage to the circula the merger August 15 and the much fun in one week as the tory system which will have official transfer will be this hospital where she had under others could in two weeks. gone surgerv on her feet. The to heal by itself. week. fire was detected about 11 pan. George Stewart, another old after they had retired for the time businesman of Mill City, Cpl Tom Drynan said Mon night. It is believed the fire Cars Being Checked has passed away. There pro day night that three Mehama was caused by the upstairs Daisy Geddes is shown with the American flag bably are a lot of people here youth were responsible for wiring as it severed the tele who did not know him very that was recently presented to her by a friend and for tearing out the rear end of a phone connection before the well. This newspaper had mer crew member of the ship Enterprise. Miss Geddes Parker Construction Company fire was detected. They went plenty of opportunity to real vehicle Saturday night or to the Bob Oliver home to is very proud of the flag that was formerly flown from ize- that he was a mover of early Sunday morning. Evi turn in the alarm. Both Gates some repute when we had the ship and has invited youngsters of school age or dently the culprits tried to trucks and one from Mill City him move our newspaper plant anyone that is interested to view it at her home. “peel out’’ with the four-wheel were on the job. from up on the highway to our rig causing the damage. They Some personal possessions, present site next to the Post Daisy Geddes recently re replacement of the ship’s nu abandoned it on the road to some furniture and appliances office. We contacted George ceived from the world’s larg clear reactors, which will last Scio. were saved but the remainder and asked him if he could do est aircraft carrier. The En ten years. The cost of the work They also damaged other of the contents and the house the job. He looked over the miscellaneous articles and dis were a total loss. There was a a large U. S. flag was placed at $2.4 million. heavy equipment and decided terprise. charged fire extinguishers dur good turnout of volunteers t that had been flown on the The Enterprise will be in ing the night. he could do it. What followed aid in fighting the fire. High Newport News for an estimat was quite an experience. He ship. winds made conditions worse The flag was sent to Miss ed ten mmths The ship was took his time, but every time Mrs. Oliver was returned to Geddes by ex-marine Herbert commissioned i n Newport something moved it went in Santiam Memorial hospital the right direction and with Wackrow of Fremont. Calif., News in November, 1961. for the night. Mr. Oliver is out smashing everything up a longtime friend He had at Originally with the Atlant staying at the Bob Olivers one time been in charge of He moved the whole plant and ic Fleet it was transferred to The fire was reported about only one small casting on one the flags on The Enterprise. the Pacific Fleet in November, 11 p. m. and equipment was In a recent letter to Mr. of the typesetting machines 1965 and had four tours of State Police officers Monday morning conducted :n hand until about 3 a. m to was broken. That, indeed, was Wackrow she had said “I am duty off Vietnam sure the fire did not flare Mrs. Laddy Elliott said this writing this while looking at a vehicle inspection at the weigh station on highway be quite a feat and one that we up again. It took 29 days to sail from week that the Good News Club the beautiful flag of our coun 22 east of Mill City. In the picture Cpl. Tom Drynan will not forget. He seemed to Alameda to P.rtsmouth. Coo have a knack for figuring try. flying in the breeze over large for the Panama Canal, had started their meetings a- can be seen inspecting one of the cars. A law was pass things out and he will be miss city hall.” He said that real- it was obliged to sail around gain, each Wednesday at 3:30 ed by the last state legislature authorizing the highway Weather, Detroit Dam p.m. at the Elliott home. ed as he was a master in his lv got to him and he decided the tip of South America. This is a very active group check of vehicles and this is the pilot program. Three 7 a. m. Daily Weather Reading Miss Geddes should have a line Pool Any students or others in of youngsters with about 30 officers were used Monday. It was a spot check and flag of her own. The ship was recently re terested can see the flag at attending the meetings which the officers were checking cars at random. The check Max Ml n Elev Pep. If the number following turned from Alameda. Calif., the home of Daisy Geddes at are held immediately after includes registration, license plates, driver’s license, Oflt. 8 61 M 1518.25 1.53 The children enjoy Bi born, wipers, mirrors, glass, eyhaust system, lights, Oct. 9 55 43 151829 0.43 vour name on The En-1 to Portsmouth. Va., for two 227 S W Cedar St.. Mill City school. months of dry-docking and ov She also has a large beautiful ble stories, singing and crea tires, wheels, brakes. Each motorist being checked is Oct 10 52 41 1517.97 0.14 1«rprise label reads erhaul It was then transfer ly hound and illustrated book tion of a religious background Oct. 11 56 M) 151683 0.00 - them which is hoped will given a copy showing a check has been made. It takes Oct. 12 64 39 151551 0.00 10-69 it’s time to send red to Newport News Ship of the ship’s travels and indi fc building and Dry-dock Co., in vidual pictures of the more influence them in go d behav five or six minutes to make the check.-—The Mill City Oct. 13 53 43 1514 02 0.00 Enterprise photo. October for engine repairs and than 5000 seamen on the ship. iour patterns. Oct. 14 55 35 1512.46 0.00 e c!-eclt for renewal. Camp Fire Girls To Start Candy Sales Friday, October 24 City Council Is Lost Hunter Found 0. K Calling Special Meeting Thursday Drynan To Talk To Loggers Monday StilfTime To Get Lions Club Birthday Calendar About Thefts Olivers Lose Home Mehama Youths Damage Parker Construction Co. Good News Club Meetings Held In Night Fire Mon.
