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ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY — OREGON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND VOLUME .vXVI NUMBER 27 THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1971 up and Down, Western Sec "ï*«!,“ ['Branch May Grand Sweepstakes Winner Check Before You Call The Ambulance By Jean Roberts $4.00 a YEAR — 10c a Copy Rebekah-Oddfellow Float Takes Sweepstakes Prize In Mill City July 4th Parade I MEHAMA — If you should look out the window and see The Fourth of July has come your neighbor stretched out full length, lying flat on his and gone, and in a way I’m back, perfectly motionless, be glad of it. We did have a nice trip to Wallowa State Park for side his Jeep, don’t jump to Sunny but cool weather pre Western Security Bank will the concluusion that he has vailed during the Fourth of Randy Bilyeu with the “Gin about four or five days, and open a branch at Lyons, pro died from a heart attack; don’t July Celebration Sunday as gerbread House” float. Second that is one fine place to spend summon all the neighbors, un crowds lined the streets to place went to Keith, Kimber a vacation. The camp sites are viding their application is ap proved by the State and Fed til you investigate. Just such watch the Kiddie parade and ly and Kenneth Penrose with nice and being improved each eral authorities, said L. A. Van an incident happened to Jean Grand parade. Following the the “Owl and the Pussycat”. year. Every camp was full, Kleek, president of the institu Speer of Mehama recently I parade, many of the spectators The “Land of Oz’” float won with many tents put in with tion. when she looked outside and enjoyed the concession stands third place. Riding it were trailers, and the overflow area In his telephone conversa saw her neighbor, Austin in the City Park and the ball Leslie White, Molly Mink, Hei had a lot of campers and trail Longfellow, lying motionless, games at Allen Field in the di White and April Megargel. ers tied up there. Fishing was tion to The Enterprise Tuesday morning he said that it was the full length beside his Jeep. excellent, the best I have ever late afternoon. Crowds gather In the decorated trike divi i Pictured Above is the Grand Sweepstakes winner She had watched occasional ed at dusk to watch the giant sion, first place went to Kevin seen anywhere in Oregon. Not 1 mobiipf b ¡nJ a?1 tht being a fisherman I am no au cation, then as business ‘built entered by the Rebekah-Oddfellws. Stan Odgen Photo ly all morning as Austin ga fireworks display by the Mill Stubenrauch, second, Keith thority, however. thered rubbish and piled it Citv Fireman. Queen Sonja Wilson and third Warren Stu Mostly I just sat around in up, a mobile home would I preparatory for disposal, and I and princesses Jenny, Sue and benrauch. In the walking un serve as a building. When I the SUN. I thought I would put then upon looking out again I Gloria were introduced. The its Jerry Long won first, Jill I business warranted a perman- | Sweepstakes Winner In Kiddie Parade this word in capitals, as I have saw him motionless upon the [ lucky winner of the Honda 50, I and Jeff Girod, second and j ent structure would be built. ; seen so little of it this summer. | ground. Excited and concern j which the F O E. Aerie 3384 Neil O’Donald third. Winners It would be a little cloudy ear- I , He said they would be serv- ed, Jean ran outside into the I sold tickets on, was Mrs. Rus- in the pet division were Marge ly in the morning, but whenI ! ing Lyons three days a week, field and summoned her hus , sell Reid of Gates. Immediate Murphy with her poodle. Bren ~; I Monday, Wednesday and Fri the sun did come through it band, Orval, who came on the ly following the fireworks, a da Avery won second and Jim day if and when the applica- was beautiful. run. Neighbors came rushing dance was held in the Student my Aliota third. In the decor Three families of us from ' t*on *s aPProved. He felt that from all around to give aid. Commons at the Auditorium ated bikes division, Beverly there is a need for this type of Mill City were camped almost i It was a little embarrasing to featuring the “Third Dimen and Tony Trout won first and together, the Donovan Moffatt service for the Lyons-Mehama second place and Linda John try to aid a man who was sion” group. area. family, George and Evelyn1 Grand Sweepstakes winner son won third place. sound asleep. Austin, hot and The banking firm has also Davis and us. We had a big | tired from the morning exer in the Grand Parade was the time cooking and eating, and made application to operate in tions had stretched out in the Rebekah - Oddfellows float Turner, Aumsville and Sub visiting together during our shade of his vehicle and with the theme “America the stay there. We had some other i limity. Beautiful." First place trophy promptly fell asleep. callers from Mill City while in the Adult division went to there. Mr. and Mrs. Bid Sand- I the First Christian Church. ers, the McClains and the j The Lions Club won second Moores, all “ " schoolmarms ' ” and Ron Bentz Realty of Stay from here were in a cabin at ton won third. the lake. In the Young People’s divi sion, the Camp Fire and Blue Coming home through the Bird float took first place hon Columbia River gorge was ors with the Sea Scouts second I quite an experience. The wind and the Cub Scouts third. was blowing in gusts, and we There were several “Old Car darned near lost control of the A Stayton woman was killed Entries” and George Holmes DETROIT — Thousands of outfit. Those winds can be real Saturday when her car left won the first place trophy with fishermen and vacationers vis treacherous. I found out one Highway 226 1 *4 miles west I his 1910 Chalmers. ited the Upper North Santiam Grand Sweepstakes winner in the Kiddie division thing about that, you surely of Lyons and overturned about The grand marshall of the Canyon over the 3-day 4th of I must have your sway bar on 3:30 p. m. of the parade was this float depicting Gingerbread 1 Kiddie July Holiday. The Gates City Council JayCette sponsored the hitch good and tight. We Linn County sheriffs depu House. Stan Odgen Photo. parade was Higgins (Marma Sunny skies prevailed most meeting on June 29 was a con had no bad incidents, however, ties said Beth Atkins, 57, of1 duke) , owned Morris. -------- by Pam . ......... ......... of the time with mornings and tinuation of the regular meet and were glad to get home. I Rt. 1, Box 79, Stayton was , ing for the purpose of opening Carrying the flags were Web-1 evenings a bit on the cool side, The trailers coming up the pinned inside the vehicle. First Place Winner bids on the water bonds. As elos Eric Holman and Kenny j Partial cloudiness dominated Gorge from Salem made the | Her death _____ was ______ the ___ 18th ____ this j Sharp. Grand sweepstakes win **’ !_ Monday with gusty winds. De there were no bids received, a ci...- highway going east look like I year in Linn County and 55th • ner and first in the floats was troit Lake State Park and For proposed ordinance authoriz the Sandy River when the I jn the five-county _______ r Mid-Wil- est Service campgrounds were ing the sale of bonds to the smelt are running. lamette Valley._______________ | to capacity. Business Farmers Home Administra- Forest Service Sends filled Turning off Lancaster com- , Nation-wide traffic accidents houses did a lively business, ■ tion was read and adopted. ing east, on Santiam Highway during the Fourth of July Men From Detroit To and fishing was reported fair Alta started counting cars, I weekend claimed 635 lives— Gerald Kazunas was sworn good. Fight Fire In Arizona to One which she often does on a ma- ■ a record for a three-day ob-I in as Councilman, by the re accident occurred (Sat jor holiday. We wound up with ’ servance of the holiday. , corder, acting as Municipal DETROIT — Forest fires urday) over the three day holi 870 cars from there to Mill The toll compared with a Judge. to succeed Councilman have been small and few in | day, and the Idanha Rural Fire City. This is the heaviest traf- previous high of 611 in 1969 i Ernest Truhill, who had re- the Pacific Northwest this District made a dry run on a fic we have ever seen on the and 540 last year. In all three' , signed. year because of the wet spring false report Sunday. Traffic highway. One thing we did cases, the holiday period ran' | The Council thanked Delbert I . and summer to date. But fire was noted to be heavy on the notice is that everyone was be- 78 hours, roughly three days. I n,..... ................. - been idle, I Neal for leveling the sawdust North Santiam Highway (22) ing careful, which no doubt ac- record toll __ for ____ any I ac-1 | The ___ _______ on the Southern Pacific right- I ' The U. S. Forest Service has as vacationers returned to counted for the low death toll Independence Day weekend ¡sent some 350 persons ficm their homes. of way. 1 Oregon and Washington to j on our highways over the was ¡n 1967 when the figure Council members had been Fourth. j reached 732 over a four-day asked where the City got the fight forest fires in Arizona ' —:' period. The figure also is the money to buy all the sawdust and New Mexico. Another 55, Portland Woman Hurt r • • • Now back to work. That is ’ highest for any warm-weather 1 —they didn’t, it was given to including 44 smoke jumpers, r the only thing I don’t like a- I [ holiday. have joined the Bureau of In Motorcycle Wreck ! the city by Frank Lumber Co. bout holidays — the getting j . - jn the worst single accident DETROIT—A . _ Portland wo Land Management forces in back into the harness. One One | . over the past weekend, 10 per- Alaska. man, injured in a motorcycle I A crew of some 20 men n accident on Blowout Road a- sort of feels lost until after a j , SOns were killed and another full day of work. eluding the 12-man suppres Hoover Forest camp, remain I was injured when two cars sion crew at Detroit Ranger ed in serious condition Sunday I collided head-on along a I have read with interest re- [ straight stretch of Interstate Station, was sent to Arizona night. Patricia Alice Swearinger, cently about the big hassle. 65 in southern Indiana, June 30 on a fire fighting mis IDANHA — U. S. Plywood- sion. which was brought about by 22, suffered head injuries and This Float won first place in the Adult division of Champion Papers, Inc., Leban the $10,000 defense fund put possible internal injuries and the parade. It was entered by the First Christian on, was the successful bidder up by the Council of Church Camp Fire, Bluebirds was taken to Salem Memorial Stan Odgen Photo. Church. at $182.127.50. for an estimated Hospital by Detroit Mobile and State of the United Pres- [ 2,800,000 bf of Willamette Na First Aid unit. byterian church. The fund was Clean Up City Park Forest timber, in the Dennis Patrick McManus, supposed to assure a fair trial Building Permits Top tional Red Creek timber sale, con 21, Newport, suffered head for one Angela Davis, an a-' _____ About ___ 25 ________ Bluebird and ducted at Detroit Ranger Sta $940,620 In May lacerations, abrasions and con vowed communist. I was also Camp —...K Fire girls along with Building peimits were up in tion here Wednesday. tusions and was released from very glad that the Council re- several leaders spent Tuesday The bid submitted during Linn Co. in May, 1971, com the hospital Sunday. ceived enough letters from ir- morning cleaning up the City pared to May, 1970, the Univer the auction was $68.70 per M, The couple was injured ate members throughout the parfc and football field. The sity of Oregon Bureau of Bus 5c above the advertised rate when the cycle missed a curve. United States that they got the group picked up all the litter “Courtesy is a form of Miss Swearinger was thrown money back and several left from the July 4th celebra- The Linn County Health De iness and Economic Research of $28.65 per M, for 2,250,000 bf. of Douglas-fir. ministers put up $500 each to i tion and Bud Cline donated partment is conducting hear has reported. consideration for others from the cycle and down about Western-Hemlock and other In May, 1971, the total was a 25 foot embankment lined replace the fund. That is all his time to haul it away, after ing clinics for pre-school $940.620 compared to $378,100 coniferous species, 550,000 bf. practiced by chilized people with rocks and trees. beside the point. I still believe the girls had gathered it. when they have the time.” that church and state should This is just one of the many children ages three through in the same month last year. sold at the advertised rate of be separate, and I fully feel. projects that Camp Fire does six years. The clinics will be ; Building permits from 150 $28.65 per M. Included in the sale were 50 that the church should keep its fOr the community and a big held from Monday. July 19, identical reporting centers in ßes/ in Young People's Division nose out of affairs like these.i "thanks” to the group for the 1971 through Friday, July 23, Oregon totaled $58,902,774 in acres of all species logs ad May, 1971 This was 73.1% vertised at $235.90 per acre. Each minister can have his I good work and Bud from the The stand is located approx own conviction, and I feel that | Mill City Disposal should also 1971. Oregon State Board of higher than in May, 1970. The state total in May, 1971, imately four miles south of they should stick to preaching • receive recognition for his Health staff will test children the _ gospel, . '. and " ' leave the " ' hand community spirit for hearing defects. There is included $43,391,788 for 2,654 Marion Forks, via Pamelia new dwelling units; $10,532,111 Creek road. ling of criminal cases to our no charge for this service. There were three qualified was for new non-residential courts. Both the church and The importance of detecting construction, and $5,793,536 bidders. state will be better off if this David E. Horner Now hearing loss as early as possi was for additions, alterations, is followed. And another thing. I don't see where we have to ROTC Summer Camp ble has been well establish and repairs to existing struc ed. Early medical care is pro tures. Two From Here On cater to communists like An I FT. BRAAG. N. C.—Army ductive in returning hearing gela Davis. She has made her Private First Class David È to normal and in the prevent Local Students Make bed, let her sleep in it Honor Roll at OSU Horner, son of Mr. and Mrs. ion of greater loss. Deans List at O.T.I. Ray Horner, Route 1, Lyons, Names of local students who War I Groups To Those from the Mill City. Local students making the made the scholastic honor roll is currently serving in support Gates and Lyons area interest Meet at Gates Sat. of the Reserve Officers’ train ed in having their child test Dean’s list for the spring term spring term have been an at OTI were Tony Grant and nounced by OSU. Veterans of World War I ing corps (ROTC) summ ed may call the Santiam High Lyle Cutsforth. ■ A total of 417 OSU students and Auxiliary, Barracks No. I camp at Indiantown gap mi. .School. 897-2311. for an ap Tony, a freshman and the made the straight-A honor list 3263. will have a meeting and 1 tary reservation, Pa. pointment. son of Mrs Joe Smith of Mill ing and another 1856 qualified potluck dinner Saturday, July Pvt. Homer, regularly sta- Testing center for the area City, attained a 3 16 GPA in for the B plus or better honor 10 at the Gates Community | tioned at Ft. Bragg, N. C., with I headquarters company 1st Bat will be at the Scio Centennial Electro-Mechanical Engineer roll. Clubhouse. Ixx-al students on the list The dinner will begin at 12 talion. 504th Infantry. 1st Elementary School on Tuesday ing Technology Judges felt this float was the best in the young Lyle, a '71 graduate of OTI included: Willard Fleetwood r.con with the meeting at 1 p i Brigade, 82nd Airborne Divis- July 20 Calling for an appoint peoples division of the parade. It was entered by the with a 3 00 GPA in Mechanical ment will insure an even dis 1 and Michael Long, both fresh | ion. began his temporary duty m. All World War I Vets and Xuxiliary members are in- assignment on June 1 and will tribution of cases and prevent Engineering, is the son of Mr men in Humanities and So Camp Fire and Blue Birds of Mill City. Stan Ödgen and Mrs Gail Cutsforth long waiting periods. cial sciences photo. I complete it in early August. vited. Serve Lyons Thousands Spend 4th in Detroit Area Stayton Woman Killed in Crash; Holiday Toll High ■ite Old Pre-School Hearing Testing Scheduled
