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The Mill City Enterprise o ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY -- OREGON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 14 Up and Down The Avenue By Don Moffatt t THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGONTIIl’RSDAY, APRIL 8, 1971 Easter Egg Hunt Set for Park Sunday Seniors Get Insurance Policies I often wonder just why we woik so many hours in a day to make a living to buy ‘things’ to make ourselves and our lov ed ones more comfortable. I If you’re between the ages was brought up by parents of 1-10, come to the City Park who believed that hard work on Easter Sunday to hunt Eas- was good for you—but I often ter eggs at 1:00 p. m. wonder what is the use for all Chairman of the annual Jay- the hustle-bustle of modem day cee project, Steve Jeter, says living. We work fast, and long that approximately seventy hours sometimes trying to dozen eggs will be hidden make enough money to take Prizes will be awarded for care of ourselves now, and most eggs found in each when we retire. What is the group, and a grand prize use. Lots of people who live the “Golden” egg in each on relief have just about the 1 group. same amount of “things” that Age groups are as follows' we do. Cars, radios, television, 1 year olds a warm place to stay, and fairly 2-3 year olds good clothing. Isn’t that about 4-5 year olds all any of us get when we 6-7 year olds reach the last years of our 8-10 year olds life? All age groups will start The following little piece promptly at 1:00 p. was written by Ida Virginia Kutch, editor of the Empire iLcLCil Builder at Coos Bay. It sort Davis present the graduating seniors at of tells a good story: Santiam High school with an insurance policy. In the above photo Mr. Kimmel “OVERWORK IS BIG MISTAKE Whenever I meet people or hear of people who work 60 or 70 hours a week, I wonder why — is it a case of neces sity or a frantic rush for the almighty dollar? Is money that needed for some purpose —or just that important? Working at a frenetic pace for dollars, dollars and more dollars (with no time left to enjoy what the dollars will buy) is a pathetic waste of time. You may end up old and prosperous, but you can nev er recapture the hours of lost leisure. (Just listen to who’s talk ing!)” Friday, April 16th $4.00 a YEAR — 10c a Copy Committee ToTryforCity Mail Delivery Monday morning Chuck Wirkkala stopped at The En terprise office and was rather shook up about gun control laws. He is under the impres- si( n that we have enough laws on our books now to take care of the situation. If they would The City Planning CommiS use good judgment in convict sion in recent session decided ing anyone using a gun for to circulate a jietition in Mill harmful purposes with a good City in an endeavor to secure stiff sentence, it would stop a citv mail delivery. lot of it. He also believes that of * j. C. Kimmel, member ’ if the government does register the commission said that a all firearms, some day they committee has been appointed may confiscate them, and this and that the petitions will be is just what happened in some carried door to door Thursday of our totalitarian countries of or Friday of this week, to Europe. complete the job as rapidly as He also suggested raising the possible. automobile registration fees to He stated that representa $12, using the extra $2 to give tives from the Regional post a pay raise to state jxilice. If office in Seattle will be here any money was left over, it' sometime next week to discuss could be used to clean up high the move with the Planning way ditches. He says “We al Commission. ready have the license fee agen Mr. Kimmel stated this has cies set up to collect the mon long been a need here in Mill ey, so no new office need be City and that with the coop- presenting Celli ue seen - _ policies to Fran-| cr.eatetl' U usually winds up eration of everyone, there is * ° _ with ,inv any nntv new t.iv tax, tint that rminn much ; a good chance this service can ces Clark and Tom Rush.—School photo with of the money collected is used be made available. processed by Nancy Harris, Santiam stu- to get collecting and reporting dent. done.’’ Logging Operations To Resume In Upper IDANHA—The Henry Hie- Canyon Area Soon Stereo and Tapes Taken from Garage Holy Week Real Easter Eggs on Joins Ranks; Display at Office Services Set Budget Beat By Churches rot s"m who h,ve a bert garage was the scene of a I DETROIT—Now that spring The McNary Hilanders. an robbery Saturday night when' has officially arrived and wea- outstanding group of singers thieves stole a stereo and tapes, ther conditions seem to be from McNary High school in plus other articles out of their stabalizing, logging industries Salem, will appear here in con son, Don’s car. in the area are getting anxious cert Friday, April 16, at 8 p. I I Dr. and Mrs. I^ewis Camp- to resume operations. m. Mrs. Eujene Gregory , ___ __ _ a The event is being sponsor A report Monday indicated brought in some rather unus summer trailer home here re that at least two firms would ed by the Mill City Lions club ual eggs to the Enterprise of ported Sunday that someone, attempt to open roads Tues and will be held in the new ' I attempting to steal a yard day to logging sites. The Bill fice this morning and they are high school auditorium. All Administrative School Dis now on display in the window. Good Friday and Easter Sun-I j pump, broke off the handle. Pennick operation in the Breit- ptooceeds from the concert trict 129J joined the ranks of They are called Anaucarna rise Services are being plan- j Now that summer people are enbush area, and Fred Moore’s will go to the Lions Sight Con many other districts in Oregon eggs and are a light blue in ned for the Community by the | again returning to their homes o]>eration on Cooper Ridge. servation foundation. Monday when their operating Mill City Ministerial Associa here, following the long wint Snow pack still remains Martin Hansen, chairman of budget went down to defeat by color. The chickens originated tion. in Chili and are known as the er months, it is wondered if heavy in the mountains, but the event, stated that Lions a small margin of 22 votes. Easter Egg Chicken. Good Friday' Services will be they will find things intact. If you stop to think about it, according to the report open Club members would be selling Also going down was the bud held in the Presbyterian every community, large or ,^1"’ me™TtWT oet The Gregorys have nine hens To date no reports have | ing the roads to hogging sites small, gains its sense of idem advance tickets door to door get to start a school-operated and three roosters which they Church at 7:30 p. m. on the 9th come in on summer home j would at least allow fallers to tity and purpose through the I M™day]8eVy™g„ slngers ap. kindergarten. have had for about three years. of April. The Laymen in the breakins. return to work. The election Monday brought They got them from Wesley area Churches will be bring pages of its local newspaper. ; pcared here laft last Dumber December. If you want to find out any- ^™ here ^e last December out the largest vote in history, Batterson, the Game Commis ing the messages, using the Mrs. Alice when voters defeated the two thing or let other people know ™ sector • is is MntAlce Seven Last Words of Christ. Home from Vietnam Tour of Duty sion supervisor in Nehalem. a about some event, service or, . nes' Jhey are a popular 1)01 , budgets 260 to 238. The vote The roosters are very bril Easter Sunrise Services will product, it’s a pretty fair bet' ringing group and have made was on an 8823,000 general liant in color and are about be held in the Community dial the pages of your local ;one appearance m Hawaii. fund budget, which would have the size of a China pheasant. Church at 6:30 a.m. on the 11th i required a tax rate increase of The hens are small and buff of April. Everyone is welcome newspaper can lend a hand; I even ex-subscribers seem to Mr. and Mrs. Pennick about 4.3 percent. colored, or solid black. They to these services. Just when another budget both have small tufts of fea think so. A letter published in the Watch Son Graduate will be presented to the voters thers on each side of the head. _________ Mr. and Mu». William Pen here was not known at the The shells of the eggs range Easter Services To Havti, Mo. Herald, makes this point" and illustrates, as the nick, Sr. of Gates flew to Quan- time of going to press. from a pale blue to a very editor put it. “. . . Dear Editor: tico, Virginia, to visit their son, Be Held at Lyons bright blue. Please send me a free copy’William Pennick. Jr. of the of your newspaper containing' Marine Corps and to t ‘ LYONS—Easter services will ion as the obituary of my aunt. Also him receive hLs commission as get underway with flood Fri publish the enclosed clipping a 2nd Lieutenant. day services to be held at the of the marriage of my niece. j ^™ey _a_cconII’1ani^l ?y Lyons United Methodist church fiancee, Miss Chris The Chemeketa Community And I wish you would mention their son ’ ’s "* with a short sermon and songs in your columns, if it doesn’t tine Rogers of Detroit. Lieuten College budget was defeated in at 7:30 p. m. and Easter serv I ant Pennick received the com cost anything that I have two ice Sunday morning. an election held in the Mid calves for sale and our church mission from the Officers Can Willamette Education District At the Canyon Baptist Is giving a chili supper Friday didate School in Quantico and Tuesday. The total vote has church Easter services will be night and the tickets are only was the honor man in his pla- not as yet been turned in at held Sunday morning and an 75 cents. As my subscription ' toon. Mr. and Mrs. Pennick press time, but it was defeated Easter Cantata “The Anthem and Miss Rogers were in Vir has expired, please stop the of the Ages” will be presented by a large margin. paper as I can’t waste money ginia about ten days, leaving Sunday evening at 7 o’clock. Paul Wilmeth, president of on newspapers. — Ex-subscrib here March 26, and took sev- the college stated voter apathy The public is invited. I eral visitors tours of the area. was the cause of the defeat as At St. Patrick’s Catholic er.” plans are being made church “Stations of the Cross” That doesn’t happen here in 1------- ------------ —— only about 12 percent of the for Final the sunrise breakfast to be will be held Wednesday even Mill City all the time, but lots Pastor Jepson Writes registered voters in the district Easter Sunday morning. ing, with their regular Easter of times it does, and it seems - - - exerted enough effort to cast held Breakfast will be served at the Mass to be held Sunday morn “It’s good to be home’ said at us from the cover of civil that some times when we give Devotional Article their ballots. school gym between the ing at 10:30. ______ to an I Pastor Jepson of Santiam a lot of free _ publicity Monte I^alack, son of Mr. and ians. We can’t shoot back. If The heaviest no vote came grade ev°nt people begrudge us a, Chapel, Lyons, has received from Woodburn, which district hours of 7 and 11 a. m. Booster At Santiam Chapel, the re Mrs. Joe Lalack. He is home and when we do take over a Club members have been sell few pesos for advertising or, word from the Sunday School includes Senior Estates. gular Easter services will be until May 21, when he will village, the enemy just hides ing advance tickets and tick held in the morning and also then go to Germany, After 11 his weapons and states that he printing Oh, well, such is Board of the Southern Baptist The vote in Mill City was ets may also be purchased at in the evening. life. One thing for sure is that Convention, that a devotional 111 yes and 120 no. months of service in Vietnam is a villager. We have no way the door Sunday morning. a town with no newspaper does article written by him has been he was asked if he would go of knowing. The South Vietna The Easter Breakfast has be selected for publication in The not have the identity in the “* back again and he replied: “yes, mese can tell, but we can’t, Easter Service To Be come an annual event and is country than does a town with Baptist Student, a Southern I would go back and fight some This is one of the things that Not All Dead Animals enjoyed by many people each Held at Idanha Baptist campus magazine. a newspaper more, as I feel that we are makes this a tough war to The article offers guidelines IDANHA—The Idanha Com year. Santiam Booster Club is On Mexican Highways stopping Communist aggres fight”. Did you know that the best to young people for discover munity church and the Detroit sponsoring it this year with sion in that country. That is He told The Enterprise that he didn’t think we should with thing to give to an opponent ing God’s direction in making Commuunity Christian church Mrs. Fred K reck low as chair Mrs. Judy Bogle and child what it is .ill about “ man. ren returned recently from a will hold combined Sunrise ser While Monte was with the draw our troops too fast, as Is tolerance; to a friend, your their life decisions. vices at 6 o’clock at the Idan Proceeds this year will go trip to Santa Barbara to visit engineers he took part In clear it would be like abandoning heart; to your child, a good ex to the Canyon Scholarship friends and relatives. On the ing spots for helicopter pads the ones who are left. ha church Easter Sunday. ample: to' a father, deference; Former Dam Worker Detroit Student Minister Fund and towards furnishings way down, from Salem to the In the jungle area. Most of the When asked if the women to your mother, conduct that Darrel Hoffmaster of the for the Student Commons Lane county line she counted time equipment would be flown and children were dangerous will make her proud of you; Dies in Portland lounge of the new Auditorium. James W. Worthington .who Northwestern Christian College several dead animals in the in. and the job could be done to them he replied: “The wo to yourself, respect; to all men. lived in the area during the of Eugene will deliver the ad ditch along Interstate 5 There quickly. He also said one time men are the worst. They are charity.” construction of Detroit dam dress. Topic: “Who Rolled the were two sheep, one chicken he saw a mountainn literally more vicious than the men.” I read the other day that passed away last week in Port- Stone Away.” Special songs Scio Topples Santiam and eight cats. She said evident blown to bits by a B52 strike. He stated that the morale of ly Mexico wasn’t the only place “It Can bo real devastating I the U. S. soldiers was real high will also be presented at the back in 1909. when horse-and- land.. In Monday Fray where dead animals are left and effective in clearing an when they went into Cambodia. buggy travel reached an all-! Funeral services were held sunrise service. Following the Six costly errors by the Wol along the highway. time peak there were 30 fa- in Portland Wednesday, March service a light breakfast will area—but it seems that the His unit was the first one in. She had bad luck with her North Vietnamese Just disap , and he felt that it was a smart talities for each 100 million 31 at 1 ~p. m. at the Gateway be served in the social room verines gave the visiting Scio horse-travel miles. Today with Little Chapel of the Chimes. of the Idanha Fire hall, hosted Baseball team a 4-1 Tri-River car at Redding, and they real pear from sight and then re move as a lot of damage was ly socked her for the garage turn out of thin air There I done to the enemy. more than 86 million motor ve Interment was in Willamette by the Woman's Mission So league win Monday. ciety of the Idanha church. He also thinks that Lt. Cal Santiam 000 001 0—1 4 6 bill, many times what it seems no sure way of keeping hicles driving 967 billion miles National cemetery. His widow. Laura, survive«. 022 000 b—4 .3 1 should have cost to have the an area clear. Some times the i ley is getting a raw deal, and Regular services will be held Scio a year, the traffic toll is just B. Thomas and C. Thomas; job done Not only that, she North Vietnamese will take j that he Is being the scapegoat a little aver five fatalities for He was a member of the Ma-| at the Idanha church at 11 a. was held up three days. over a village and then shoot of the higher ranking officers. Elliot and Plotts. each 100 million vehicle miles sonic and Eastern Star lodges m. Easter Sunday. Chemeketa Budget Defeated Tuesday Booster Club To Sponsor Breakfast