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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1970)
V VOLUME XXV ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — OREGON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND NUMBER 32 Up and Down The Avenue By Don Moffatt THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1970 Pee-IVees Have Perfect Record Two Gates Men Killed in Plane Crash S'A.OO a YEAR — 10c a Copy Gates High School Reunion Scheduled GATES—On Sunday, August 16 a reunion of former stud ents. teachers and friends who attended school at Gates in former years will be held in the old Gates High school. Mrs. Joe Frichtl (Ruby Ny- strom) from Corvallis is presi dent of the group and Ansel Sayward of Portland is the Se cretary. A potluck dinner will be served at noon followed by a short business meeting, elec tion of officers and lots of vis- i iting. Those attending are ask- : ed to bring their own table 1 service. Coffee and punch will be furnished. Anyone interested is most cordially invited and urged to attend. To Open Here Soon Vacations are fun, and nec essary too, or at least I think so—if for no other reason than to appreciate home and regular every day life. The wife and I PRINEVILLE — Two Ore George Makris of Circle K have planned for some time, a gon men were killed Sunday stores was in Mill City Mon ferry trip through the San when their small plane crash day morning, and along with Juan Islands, and that Is what ed in the Big Summit area of the manager Bill Bogle, stated we did last week. Ochoco National Forest, 40 they expect to have their store miles northeast of Prineville We left here, pulling our open for business this weekend Police identified the victims trailer on Friday, and spent if everything works out right. that night at Tacoma with our as Rodney D. Sharp, 36, the The fixtures are being put in old friends, Mr. and Mrs. Iver pilot, and iiis passenger, John to place, and stocking is under Virgil Taylor, 34, both of A. Eide. The next night we way, they said. Gates. spent with another old friend, Circle K, which is a conven Officers said a witness saw Mrs. Al Ejellanger at Issaquah. ience store, will be of benefit From that city we went di the plane go into a steep dive to the many tourists and late rectly to Vancouver, B. C. and and crash squarely into the shoppers on the road, as they desert beside an old Forest found that pulling a trailer stay open every day, and are down through the middle of Service landing strip. open later than the other stor I The plane was one of three that city, some say a million es of the city. returning from a group camp This picture was taken Friday night population in the rush hour Coach Rex Davis, Larry Jacobson, Mark Mr. Bogle and his family are ing trip in the national forest. as Coach Rex Davis presented each p’ay- Davidson, David Wright, Ronnie Mor was quite an experience. We renting the Sid Baughman Sharp was a partner in the er with a trophy and ball. Jerry Payseno rison and Mike Golden. Team members did find a trailer park, though, home here, and are in the proc that was handy to everything. Sharp & Evans Logging Co., received a trophy for the most improved Mark Peterman, Allen Megargel, Marvin ess of getting settled. The Bog established in 1967. He was Of course it did start to rain player and Mike Ohrt for the most val les have three children, John when we got to Tacoma and it born in Silverton in 1934, at uable player. Pictured are left to right, Emerson and Da'e Reid were not present 11, who is in the seventh grade, for the photo. The Pee-Wee team had no kept it up most of the time tended elementary schools at Jamie 8, who is in th fourth until Thursday. It let up from Missouri Ridge School, Molal Kevin Long, Jerry Payseno, Mike Ohrt, wins for the season but played some real grade and Karen, who is five. time to time, and we did get to la, and Mount Vernon, Ore., Steve Richards, Don More, Mike Davis, good ball games.— Stan Odgen photo The Bogles come from Calif see a lot of the sights around and was graduated from Mount ornia and are real impressed that beautiful city with its Vernon High schol. In 1955 Sharp was married with this part of the country. well-kept city parks. They have purchased a lot on We took an excursion trip up in Pendleton to Miss Shirley Spring Street and plan to build Indian Arm to Granite Falls. McKinnis of John Day. He MEHAMA — A 19-year-old a home there at a later date. This was quite a trip. To begin has worked as a logger in New J Mehama resident died Saturday with about 40 jillion young Mexico, Colorado, at John 1 evening when he fell down a Day and on the coast before boys were on their way to ‘ 60-foot embankment into the DETROIT—While it seem summer camp, and we were in working in the Gates area for Santiam River about 5 miles formed that we would have to the past nine years. ed unusually cool to some of northwest of Scio. He belonged to the Eagles put up with them for about an us, the July 1970 weather was Hollis Dale Crandall III ap hour and a half. They were a Lodge at Mill City and the not much different from last parently slipped off the edge Gates Volunteer Fire Depart prettv good bunch of kids, but of County Road 602 where he July. not exactly the type that were ment. was talking to a friend, Linn Surviving are the widow, High for July this year was conducive to a relaxing trip. County sheriff’s deputies said. Shirley, at home: two children, Senator Bob Packwood Mon We did meet a fine retired 99 degrees on the 16th with a The Detroit Ranger District’s said death was due school marm from Colorado, Nancy and Kenneth; two day called on the Board of Di close of 94 degrees on the 15th. forest campgrounds have had to Deputies drowning, but Crandall may who was 75 years young. She brothers, Dale Sharp at La- rectors of Benton-Linn Com a high pressure usage this sum GATES—A Salem man and been unconscious when he was real spry and was up on Grande and Jack Sharp a t munity Action program “to The majority of the remain mer. The campgrounds which 1 ; have his wife were arrested Friday reached the water. ing days were in the 80s and Ransom, Ill.; a sister, Chris get their house in order. ” the national scene. She came I require either the National Fo-1 He k was born in Salem and after state police said 88 mari to Vancouver by plane, and Burril of John Day; his mo The Office of Economic Op 70s with a low of 64 degrees i rest Recreation Permit, a $7.00 was a sophomore at Linfield juana plants were seized from was staying at a hotel near the ther, Mrs. Evelyn Sharp, Mo portunity in Seattle has serv on the 2.9th. Average mean seasonal fee, or $100 nightly | College ln McMlnnville. He three gardens east of Gates. ferry dock. When we got to lalla: a grandmother, Mrs. ed notice on the board that the fee are. Hoover with 12 tent I was student body president of Nicholas Steven Shewczyk, 27 the famous Granite Falls, we Myrtle Dick, Molalla, and program will be suspended Au was 66 degrees. and 36 trailer South- , „„__ and 1165 Albert Drive SE, and his ... . units, and ---- I Stayton Grade School July 1969 showed a high of Mrs. grandparents Mr. and found them to be beautiful, but gust 31. Two Packwood aids, wife, Marilyn Margaret Shew shore which has 15 tent and 3 stayton Union High School, 92 degrees on the 24th with a not nearly as spectacular as Tony Olsen, Molalla. Administrative Assistant Wil trailer units, both of these wherG he graduated in 1969. czyk, 24, were charged with John Virgil Taylor was bom liam Mayer and Special Assist low of 42 degrees on the 6th, campgrounds are located on our falls up on past Clear Lake. cultivating and growing mari Crandall played high school 14th and 16th. Average mean Macleay district near in the We got suckered in on a buffet ant Mrs. Carol Crawford, both the south shore of the Detroit football and baseball and was juana, police said. They were was 67 degrees. and attended Macleay luncheon at the lodge. A lousy Salem from Washington, D. C. met Reservoir. a member of the freshman taken into custody Friday mor Precipitation for July 1970 meal for $2.50 a throw. There School, Cascade Union High Friday in Portland with O.E.O. Whispering Falls has 11 trail football team at Linfield. He ning at one of the gardens, was a hamburger joint next School and Salem High school. and six representatives of the was .21 of an inch and for er units and Riverside with 201 also served on the Marlon which are on Bonneville Pow He worked in the woods as Benton-Linn Community Ac 1969 rainfall was .02 inches. door, and it would have been tent and ten trailer units and County Youth Council. er Administration right-of-way a logger, was employed by the Fortunately, Oregon suffer 10 picnic units, it is off High better or at least I would have tion Program. O.E.O. cites bad about two miles from Gates, Survivors Include his par State Forestry Department as administrative practices, enter ed no major forest fires dur- way 22 east of Detroit. Hum imagined so. Cpl. Thomas Drynan said. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Dale That same day we took a forestry technician and fire ing on accountability of Feder ing the long dry spell last bug has 21 tent and 4 trailer Crandall Jr. two brothers, John Marijuana was found in the warden at the time of his year. ride up a cable car to the al Funds in giving notice that units. Rreitenbush has 27 tent and Richard, and a sister, Shewczyk home in a raid by death. Irene Paullin, official wea- and 8 trailer units and located Grouse Nest, perched high atop the program will be suspended. state and Salem police later in Taylor was a member of the ther observer for Detroit furn I off the Breitenbush Road S46. Yvonna, all at home. a mountain. The view from the day, and additional charges Packwood said he is “ very Services were held at 10 a. there was splendid, even Eagles Lodge at Mill City and concerned about the matter, ished the above information. Since June 15, 1970, money i m. Tuesday in Weddle Funer of illegal possession of a nar of the Gates Volunteer Fire though we had to look through collected for the nightly fee al Home in Stayton. Interment cotic drug were placed against because services are perform Department. the clouds now and then. has totaled $2,157 and the sell was In Lone Oak Cemetery in the pair, Drynan said. He was married to the form ed in these counties under this John Kelly Now We took a ferry trip on the of s°asonal permit has totaled Stayton. next day, leaving our trailer er Arlene Peterson of Salem program which service is “a $3,787.00. parked. We drove up and down in 1957. in Disney Land Show Sladyen's Resort Is vital public need.” Surviving are the widow; the land on either side, in the Abrams Host Guests r «I f j I / ad rams hust vucjij rain, but the scenery was nice. two sons, Robert and John, A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hit by Vandals The next day we ferried to both at home; a brother, Peter Jim Rose, who is now Mrs. Taylor, Salem; a sister, Rose Vancouver Island, and parked Tom Eisele (Kathy), and her DETROIT—Vandalism con our trailer at Sidney. From mary Karns, Salem; his par husband recently took her bro tinues in the Upper North San MARION FORKS — Arriving there we visited Victoria and ents, Mr. and Mrs. George ther, Jimmy Rose, to Disney at the home of Mr. and Mrs. tiam Canyon, the latest target drove around that city. We V. Taylor, Salem. land where they happened to Ned Abrams in the Marlon being Slayden’s Resort. Funeral services for Taylor had not been there for about see a performance of the “Kids A spokesman at the Resort DETROIT — Quick action by Forks area for a five day visit will be held at 11 a. m. this 22 years, so were disappointed, of the Kingdom” in which t two motorists prevented trag I was said water skis, fishing equip Abram ’ s brother and fam BREITENBUSH — A four- John Kelly appeared. The sing-1 edy from striking a Detroit ily, Mr. and Mrs. Hal Abrams ment and alcoholic beverages as it had grown so large. High- Thursday at Weddle Funeral hour search for two lost camp Stayton and inter Home in rise buildings, sort of ruined .ln«1 woman -md^"^ chiMren daughter Sandra of Olym had been taken from boats its looks, as we remembered ment will be in Macleay ceme- ers in the Detroit area was up of six fellows and six girls j I when the woman’s car left and pia, Wn. Abrams is manager of docked at the resort. successful Monday when two and puts on several shows each i 1 Highway 22 about a mile and the Olympia it as a quaint old city. Of tery. He said, however, that three Brewery. Portlanders were found by Funeral services for Sharp course we made a trip to But- I day at one of the out-door a half east of Detroit Dam and teenagers ranging in the 17-18 Joining the family over the Marlon County sheriff depu 2 p. m. Thursday at will be at chart Gardens that night and i stages, also making other ap- fire about 1:15 p. m. weekend was another brother year old bracket, and from Sa it was remarkable. A real stage Weddle Funeral Home and in ties and Willamette National I pearances including television. caughte Monday. Clare Abrams and family of lem, were picked up by police Forest rangers. terment will be in Maple show was put on. and as it was Kathy and Jimmy reported officers that same night at or Margaret Freyerherm wa3 Salem. William Fulton, 25, and Ken- John looke-1 very well, Scottish and Variety night, we Wood Cemetery, Scotts Mils. Taking advantage of the id near an exit of Detroit State driving west when she lost neth McDevitt, 14, were found they couldn ’ t get heard the Pipes and Drrrums of near Park. in good condition about 1:45 I enough to speak to him after i control of her car and it went eal weather the Abrams and the Canadian Scottish Regi | down a 150-foot embankment, their guests did a bit of hiking a. m. 200 feet from a trail near ward, as there was such a ment (Princess Mary’s) and Camp Fire and Averill Lake, deputies said. crowd. Kathy and John both according to Marion County on the Skyline Trail, picked Cone Crop Reported saw some fine Scottish danc Sheriff Larry Quiring. blackberries and tried their Bluebirds Win The two were reported lost attended Santiam High School I | Deputy ing girls. The Gardens had n<wrence'pwle^De^roit.'"^^ luck at fishing at Ann and about 10 p. m. Sunday after changed considerable since we Grand Sweepstakes I here in Mill City. I Garold A. Reid, of Salem, who Marion Lakes. To Be Bad This Year they stayed at a camping area The Rose’s son-in-law, Tom . saw the accident, rescued Mrs. saw them last. We also saw a Sunday the group drove to near the lake to be sure camp The Mill City Camp Fire and Hammond bus on the grounds, I Eisele, is stationed at Norton ■ j Freyerherm and her children, Detroit Lake Resort where the The Detroit Ranger District and when we lined up at the Bluebirds brought home two fires were out after a group I Air Force Base at San Bemar-i ' Dana, 6, Bryan, 7, and Tracie, children had a delightful ad has announced that the cone ferry the next day saw the Wil trophies for their float entry outing. dino, Cal., and Jimmy Rose was 3. from the burning car, Quir venture on the water bikes crop this year is not good. son Stevens, Verne Clarks and in the Santiam Bean Festival visiting his paternal grand ing said. (paddle-boats) now so popular For this reason there will be the Chester Riggs from our Parade Saturday. mother in that area. no demand in this area for Mrs. Freyerherm was hos with the younger folks. Their float, depicting the Silverton Man Hurt area. We had a nice visit while seed cones by the Forest Ser The days outing ended with pitalized in good condition waiting for the ferry to dock. “Old Woman in the Shoe,” won vice. with possible head injuries at a late luncheon at the Patio. They had been on a Golden the grand sweepstakes trophy When Car Hits Deer D's+inguished Guest Private cone collectors may Santiam Memorial Hospital, and 1st place trophy in the Age tour. pick a few cones in isolated Stayton, while the children Fraternal Division. They also DETROIT — A Silverton Then we got our real thrill patches. Any one picking cones Visits Canyon Area were treated and released, hos Mill City Cubs of the trip. We got there early, won the sweepstakes trophy man. Mike Ruse, about 30, on National Forest land must pital authorities said. thinking that we could in the Mill City Fourth of July was hospitalized Saturday fol DETROIT — Among the have a [>ormit which costs 10c The car fire and a small just drive our outfit on one parade. The trophies are on lowing a collision with a deer many visitors in the area Sun I grass fire were extinguished by Have Overnight Trip per bushel with a $.">.00 mini display this week in the En on the North Santiam High day was a distinguished guest, I a unit from the U. S. Forest end of the ferry and out the mum. The Mill City Cub Scouts way about 16 miles east of De Peruvian Ambassador to the ' Service in Detroit. other end with no trouble. We terprise window. held their campout last week troit, near Marion Forks. wanted to stop over a day at United States, Carol Charvez end at Pamelia Lake, where Stewarts Grocery Orcas Island, so what did they a mountain-top of the sur He was taken to a Silverton and his son, Jose (Pepe) Char Weather, Detroit Dam they hiked in about 2’4 miles. do? They pulled us into a little rounding Islands, we ferried hospital following the accident vez of Portland. parking area, and we had to across to Anacortes, arriving about 3:30 Saturday morning. They and their host on a 7 a. m Daily Weather Reading Some of the more energetic Has New Awning hack our trailer onto the ferry. there about 1:30 p. m. and then According to a report, he sight-seeing tour came to the Pool ones of the group hiked on up That was quite a feat for an drove on to Mill City that lost control of his car when area via the scenic Skyline Max. Min . Elev. Pep to Hunts Lake and back. Fish Stewarts Grocery has just old buck like me. but we made night, arriving here about 10:30 he swerved to miss the deer. Road route. Another point of July 29 69 47 1560.81 0.00 recently installed a new can it without any trouble. I'm glad and in one piece and glad to The cad reportedly rolled ; interest on the tour agenda July 30 75 51 1560.52 0.00 ing was enjoyed by the boys vas awning across the front of I didn’t know about it the nigh: be back in Oregon. over a time or two ending up I was a trip to Bend. July 31 79 51 1560 20 0.00 and dads as well. their store, which improves before, or I would have had a We still feel that trailering in a ditch with the motor in Charvez came to the U. S. Aug. 1 81 53 1559.88 0.00 The group returned home the appearance of the building. rest les*time, I can assure you. is the way to go, and in a few the front seat. He was alone ' four months ago he said, and Aug 2 75 51 1559.56 0.00 Sunday with a few dads look It also makes it better for After driving all over Orcas Is- more years, we expect to do a in the car. The extent of his ' will make his home in Port- Aug. 3 79 55 1559.25 0.00 ing pretty bedraggled but re shoppers using the walk in i land for the next two years. II nd where we had a view from lot more of it. Aug. 4 81 52 1.559.03 0 00 porting a good time. injuries was not known. front of the establishment. Crandall Boy Falls to Death Linn-Benton Program in Trouble Weather About Same As Last July Area Camp Spots Loaded Salem Pair Charged With Raising Marijuana 2 Lost Campers Found Near Trail * Family of 4 Rescued DuringReeentWeeb From Burning Car