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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1971)
2—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Feb. 4, 1971 Paul Freeman left Friday targets with .22 rifles. If you1 snow areas such as the Cas- learn to hit the bouncing bun cade, Blue and Wallowa moun Community nies running at flat-out speed, tains. TEXAS OIL you won’t have much difficul The brush rabbit of western Calendar of Event» ty downing a running deer or Oregon poses quite a problem. COMPANY elk. As its name implies, this cot By Milt Guymon needs good man over 40 Although not so in Oregon,. You will find the rabbits ex tontail is a brushland dweller-, for short trips surround across the United States as a i cellent eating also. In our preferring the shrubby, bram- Farther and Fj»rne«t Freeman whole the rabbit provides more family we prefer to cut in bly draws and slopes from low | Thursday, February 4— ing Mill City. Contact from Eugene spent the week wild game meat for the Sports pieces, season, roll in flour or elevations to the higher slopes Jaycees meet at Jaycee hall customers. We train. Air Ml*. Tom Phillips (Frances end at the home of their par men's table than any other batter, and either deep fry or of the Coast Range. He is ex at 8 p. m. Mail R. B. Dickerson brown and slowly simmer, tremely difficult to flush from Ward) of Superior, Mont., was ents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard game animal hunted, Mill City Garden club at the Pres., Southwestern Pe Freeman. They returned to Now that statement may much in the manner of fried such dense cover. Most hunt home of Mrs. William Me I recuperating from recent sur- troleum Corp., Ft Eugene early Sunday morning chicken. If your specialty is ers who work the west side seem a bit farfetched when 1 gery at the home of her par- j Clintock at 8 p. m. Worth, Tex. 1 ents, the Al Wards, so was They came home to attend one considers that Oregon more on the gourmet style, we regularly do so with good rab F. 0. E. No. 3384 Aerie meet here at the time of her father’s Installation ceremonies for the hunters annually take around suggest basting with wine, bit dogs such as the Bassets. sudden passing Sunday morn Rainbow Girls when their cous 10 million pounds of deer meat lemon butter sauce, or the Beagles, or other flushing and ing. Auxiliary officers meeting in. Nancy Lalack was installed and somewhere around 3 mil many other fine seasonings trailing dogs. When snow cov at 8 p. m. ing. as Worthy Advisor. lion pounds of elk meat, if we available. And don’t throw ers the ground, though, hunt use the conservative figure of away the drippings. Rabbit ers without dogs can enjoy Monday, February 8— Mr. and Mi*. William Me- Look for Paul Cree returned to his 100 pounds dressed weight for gravy over creamy mashed po some fine sport. Clintock and Patty spent the Mill City Lions Club din weekend in Portland with his home Friday afternoon after deer and 300 pounds for elk. tatoes is something to talk tracks and trails, then kick ner meeting at the Sportsmen’s about. around in the dense weed and hen if you add the poundage spending 3 weeks at the Salem brother and sister-in-law, Mr. Country Kitchen at 6:30 p. m. from other states where hunt If you’ve never hunted rab bramble patches in which the and Mrs. Jack McClintock and Memorial Hospital. Marilyn Chapter No. 145 ers annually take from a few bits you are missing out on trails lead. family. Mark McClintock spent I OES meets at hall at 8 p. m. Pharmacist the weekend with Billy Gabriel Here’s a point about rabbit All OES invited. Masons will Mrs. Tom Phillips from So- thousand big game animals up some fine winter sport, espe at Gates. Sue McClintock spent gjerior, Montana underwent ma to 70 or 80 thousand, the pound cially if snow covers the hunting you might remember. be honored. Is the weekend with her grand jor surgery at a Salem Hos age reaches almost an unbe ground. There is nothing more Both the jack and cottontail A Skilled parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ix>well pital last Wednesday. She re lievable figure. It would take exhilarating than to track have a habit of zigzagging at Tuesday, February 9— Cree. Steering Committee meeting turned to the home of her a mighty big pile of 2-pound down the bunnies on a cold, full speed for short distances Professional mother, Mrs. Nellie Ward Sun rabbits to equal that weight, crisp winter day. Rabbits then stop abruptly to get a Eagle Lodge hall 8 p. m. much less tip the scales in the travel much more extensively better look at the danger Jayceettes meet at the home In town to look after proper- day. in search of food during win source or if they feel the dan of Diane Moore, 8 p. m. rabbit’s favor. I ty and make a few short calls than they do in summer ger is past. A shrill whistle Our training and exper Sunday was Mrs. Don Goode Mrs. Allen Tuers underwent Nonetheless, the statement ter of Eugene, who was accompan surgery in a Salem Hospital is true and it is in the winter and will leave their telltale often causes them to come to Wednesday, February 10— Order of Rainbow for Girls ience add up to the skill ied by Mrs. Henry Miller of last week and has returned to time that the bulk of the tracks and trails in the snow- a quick stop. many, many millions of rab all through their living terri Most firearms used for rab at Hall at 7:30 p. m. you and your doctor de Sublimity. Mrs. Goode has de her home. bits are taken by the nation’s tory. Find the tracks and at bit hunting are the .22 rifles City Council meets at City cided to rent the place of her pend upon for fast, ac father, the late Edmund Bert Mrs. Terry Coryell from outdoorsmen. Winter is the the end of that trail will be a and shotguns in the smaller Hall at 8 p. m. preferred harvest time simply rabbit gauges such as the 410 and 20 curate prescription fill ram, to her late husband’s Beaverton spent Tuesday at because One important point to re gauges. Archers also enjoy ■»ponnored as a public service in most areas snow niece and family, Mr. and Mrs. the home of her grandparents, mantles the landscape, which member about rabbits — the great sport with their long- Dale Edwards (Vance Goode) Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Lake. ing. Try us next time. makes it much easier to find creatures are cyclic and you bows and arrows tipped for I and small son recently of might find an abundance one HOME DELIVERY , Bremerton, Wn. His parents Mrs. Charles Golden honor and track down this fine little winter and a scarcity the next. small game. J are Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Ed- ed her daughter, Debbie, Sat game animal. Rabbits are also DRUGS AT PRICES I wards of Gates. Mrs. Goode urday afternoon on her 9th usually in their best health Even during the low cycle pe YOU CAN PAY has been helping in the care birthday anniversary by hav during the colder months and riod, though, hunters can gen Insurance Agency, Inc. AND TRUST I of her 3-months-old grand ing a party for her at a Stayton generally free of disease and erally find enough rabbits to 129 Wall Street make the hunt challenging and parasites. daughter, DiDi Ann Howard, Ice Cream Parlor. Attending See Us For Oregon hunters have no less | interesting. ■ whose mother, Mrs. Don How were Debbie and her teacher, Jacks prefer the more open All General Lines of Insurance than seven different rabbits to . - ard (Marylee Goode), has been Mrs. Doris Williams, Lori ; hospitalized with asthma and Holman and Tonya Porter and shoot for if they have a mind I country, so look for them out Phone 897-2345 I bronchitis, but is at home re- her mother, Mrs. Charles Gold to do so. All it takes is a hunt- [ on sage-covered flats and roll ing license and the urge to go. ing hills. Brushy creek bot- I cuperating at present. en. The list includes three mem-' toms, shrubbv drv washes, ra- beres of the hare family—the vines, and jumbled rimrock Mrs. Troy Wainbaugh (Mil The annual meeting of the black-tailed jack. areas are favored haunts of “ “ j i white-tailed Willamette Council of Camp dred Rogers) of Hubbard, vis-1 snowshoe, jack — and the Oregon cottontail. Look Fire Girls was held January I ¡S ÄJJÄ «Ï, »Ä for them also around agricul 19 at a Salem restaurant. Re day of last week here at the cottontail, Oregon brush rab tural lands, especially if ad NEED A presenting the Canyon area I home of her parents, Mr. and bit, eastern cottontail, and the jacent escape areas are shrub were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dryn- Mrs. Clyde Rogers. Saturday pygmy. The latter is a little covered and cut with washes. 521 1st Stayton an and Mr. and Mrs. Larry visitors at the Rogers home fellow, TOW? The big snowshoe is seldom seldom exceeding one Urban of the Canyon Leaders were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Phone 769-5345 found in large concentrations pound’ with its range confined 1___ I mninhr Association. Also attending Sugurdson and Mrs. Fdnn iLtllld of Emergency 769-6392 although population abundance mainly trv to the cm southeastern was Mrs. Don Carlson who re Brash, a cousin of Mrs. Rog corner Call 897-2442 For Fast Service will be higher in preferred of the state. presented the Mill City Wom ers, all of Salem. areas. Find these preferred My own preference in rab an’s club, who sponsor the AllSta+e bit hunting is for the black timbered mountain slopes and Camp Fire and Bluebird girls A son was bom to Mr. and flats and you can generally tailed jack and Oregon cotton Motor Club in the area. I Mrs. Joe Smith (Paula Jane tail, both found throughout find the big hares in singles. ’Grant) at the Salem General eastern Oregon. We also enjoy i twos, and threes scattered all Road Service hospital Saturday, January 30. hunting the big snowshoe through the area. The snow Mrs. Smith has three older hare, found mainly in the tim- shoe changes color with the sons. hered mountainous sections of season depending on the per- SO YOU THINK the state. Although its home, sistence of snow. As a result, YOU'RE PAYING Mr. and Mrs. Richard Boe- range is generally eastern Ore- Y°u might find him a mottled We Give S & H Green Stamps digheimer of Stayton are an THROUGH THE Phone 897-2442 Mül City gon, the white-tailed jack (also brown and white in the Coast nouncing the birth of a daugh blacktail) has spread its Range to al! white in heavy NOSE FOR OTHER ter born January 21 at Santiam the DRIVERS' Memorial hospital. The little range into the Rogue, Ump-1 girl weighed 6 pounds and has qua, and lower Willamette ACCIDENTS.^ basin. One of the most diffi been named Margaret Ann. cult Safe drivers save rabbits to hunt, a real The Boedigheimers have three money at Safeco. challenge, is the brush rabbit other children. Raymond, Todd Careful people have fewer accidents, so and Jody. Mrs. Boedigheimer i found from low to high eleva it costs us less, and will be remembered as the tions in western Oregon. The we pass the savings introduced eastern cottontail, | former Elnora Albright form largest on to you. And of the cottontails, is erly of Mill City. when it comes to found mainly along the Colum claims settlement, we try to contact Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith are bia flood plains from about claimants within announcing the birth of a son Troutdale to Deer Island and 24 hours, and settle born on January 30 at Salem | south to about Salem. claims within S Hunters who think wing working days. General hospital. The baby I 1 b , »7 i " “P' i “ a « weighed 0 mrnt, I ouneis «’■«*»»1 Safeco. Insurance on everything you value. ».,.1 ? yet hasn-, been named, • „• wits with the bouncing The baby has three brothers, | I match , ’ '**. Tony, Dale and Jerry. Matern-|,7nn e®' The sudden acceler- al grandparents are Mr. and • atlon “ on at a flush: leaping, erratic, zigzag escape flight; and in Mrs. Cloyd Cox of Mill City. stantaneous changes in direc Mr. and Mrs. Ralph You- tion make the rabbit one of the mans were visited last week by most difficult targets to hit. their son-in-law, Jim Lyon, If you would like to improve Rosemead. Calif., who was in your shooting ability on run ning big game, practice your the area on business. shooting skill on these elusive afternoon for Portland where he attended the Northwest Dis trict Christian Youth Fellow ship at the Mallory Avenue Christian church. He returned to his home Saturday night. LOCALS Wintertime For Bunnies MADISON & DAVIS Subscribe tc The Mill City Enterorise $4.00 per Year PAT'S PILL BOX Vern’s Shell Service Jerry Pittaci Insurance Phone 897-2413 or 897-2754 Mill City, Oregon Ï Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nollette and son of Klamath Falls, and Mr. and Mrs. I^e Verret and sons of Newberg were Satur day overnight guests of the Clyde Morgans. They were here to attend the Morgans daugh ter’s wedding reception. 's WEDDING STATIONERY Receiving felicitations on the ' : showtime : • • STARRING and featuring Shirley Bassey and Matt Monro and other stars. 0 A PRESENTED BY PACIFIC POWER An hour of great entertainment: Show- time. From Pacific Power. KPTV-TV 12 KVALrTV Feb. 16 13 Feb. 9 > f a ***- xS4-<*i The .Al Glover home was the scene of an elegant buffet din ner and bridge party Saturday evening honoring Mr and Mrs. Wallace Hovey on their 17th wedding anniversary, and Mrs Dick Parker on her birthday anniversary. Guests attending were Mr and Mrs. Rex Oh mart. Mr and Mrs Fred Gru ver. Mr and Mrs James Wright. Mr and Mrs Wallace Hovuy and Mr. and Mrs Dick Parker of Albany SHELLEY 1LEILMAY > birth of twins, born Friday. January 1. are Mr. and Mrs. Richard Alan King of Gresh am. The twins, a boy and girl, are the couples first. Great- grandmother is Mrs. Chris Barker of Mill City. HEUOG RAVED* by ttecTMtonrf Th Ftamr WoidiM Lb» _______________ Mr. and Mrs. Mike Glover of Eugene visited the weekend with their parents, the Al Glovers and the Ralph Bud l<»ngs. 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Order fr.m the Subscribe to The Mill Citv Enterprise Mill City Enterprise $4.00 per Year Telephone *97-2772
