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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1971)
Cr«n. Ref and Doc. Div. Nwspa; rr«, 1 of () Library 97 M3 The Mill City Enterprise ________________________________ ON THE SCENIC NORTH S ANTI AM HIGHWAY — OREGON'S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND VOLUME XXVI NUMBER 31 THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY. OREGON THURSDAY, AUOUST 5, 1971 Mill City Float Wins Sweepstakes Thunder Storms Starts iUp and Down ; The Avenue I I $4.50 a YEAR — 10c a Copy By Don Moffatt Santiam Canyon Area There are a lot of different versions on whether or not striking is a good way in which to do the most good for DETROIT—A thunder storm I the most people. I ran across a moved into the Upper North | until district fire fighters ar- good one Sunday when read Santiam Canyon about 4 p. m. | rived. John Devereaux. Fire ing the newspaper. It was a Friday afternoon, starting at Control Officer, said the De letter to the editor from a least a dozen small fires in the troit District’s fire fighting or Longview, Wn., man. He said: district. Forest Service offi ganization includes a 12-man “The striking workers deserve cials said late Friday that only suppression crew, a four-man strong support in their efforts one was out of control, near Helicopter crew, four preven to get decent working and re Bear Lake, about two miles tion guards and four wilder tirement conditions. After all, west of Ildanha. A crew of ness rangers, whose duties in the only useful class in modern about 30 men was on that clude talking up fire prevention society is the working class. blaze. with campers and fishermen. “A country could get along About 60 men were manning I In addition, the district has without capitalists but it could crews on all fires, but most a 20-man crew which prepares not get along without work of the fires were small and slash for burning in the fall, ers.” controlled by two-man crews. and is available to fight fires. I would really like to meet They were centered mostly in Flights over the Detroit Dis- this ding-a-ling. What kind of the Boulder, Hall’s and Coop- , fyict by fire observers out of world would we have if we er’s Ridges, Marten Butte and sweet Home are being made did not have some capital be Scorpion Creek areas. t twice _____.......................... _____ a day when many people hind it. Just what would the Saturday afternoon another are ¡n ^e forest, Devereaux workers do if there were no electrical storm hit the area I said. leaders to spend money to starting some 23 confirmed |___________________ build factories, to spend money fires on the District, according for research, to plan for new to District Ranger Lee Boeck- products to keep people work ‘stiegel. He said 13 fires were ing. I am not against the work I out by evening and 10 were ing man, as I have been one still manned but contained all my life. By the same token, Saturday. He said the fires I don’t think that I’m so dumb were mostly in the Mt. Jef but what I can see the other ferson Wilderness area, and side of the coin also. The about 100 forestry and private workers are very dependent DETROIT—The kitchen in industry fire fighters battled upon capitalists. And the ca the elementary school is un the blazes. pitalists, or industry is very Lisa Barnhardt, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. award in the childrens parade for Santiam Bean Festi- A spokesman at the Ranger dergoing a complete renova dependent upon the worker, i David Barnhardt, of Gates, sits atop “America, The val parade in Stayton Saturday. It was one of the 117 Station said Monday all fires tion, School Supt. Ron Wilker So, just what is to be gained I Monday. Beautiful’’ the Mill City Rebekah-tOddfellow lodges floats and was also a Grand Sweepstakes winner at were out, except a sleeper dis son In said by this type of thinking. I am the line of new equip covered at Opal Lake Monday sure that if the workers them entry .The attractive float won the Grand Sweepstakes the Mill City 4th of July parade.—Loyd Sidwell photo. morning. It was out that night. ment being installed is an oven selves were in charge of the Helicopter flights over the and steam cookers, freezer and unions instead of the union Detroit District by fire observ- refrigerator, plus other new leaders who wish to make a ers continues. To date how- kitchen equipment.. Wilker- name for themselves, we’d ever no hold overs, or sleep-|son sa*d 75 jer cent of the have a lot better working ers, as they are usually called total cost of the equipment is agreement for all concerned, have ben discovered. Prior to being paid by a federal grant, and we would not have our the fires set by lightning, the the remainder, 25 per cent, by country tied up with costly Detroit District reported three ( ttie school district. strikes, not only for industry, Several representatives from < fires for the season. One of Four young Salem people ~ - but the workers themselves. Mill City who took in the ¡these, and the largest of the' 97 Degree High were injured when their sports Needless to say, that no mat grand parade at the Santiam three was in the Humbug area car went out of control and ter how much of a raise in pay Bean Festival in Stayton last Northeast of Detroit. It was I Temperature for July rolled over on the Little North they get, it takes the work Saturday were pleased to win discovered about 6 a. m. by Weather readings for the Fork Road four miles north of men many months to gain back top recognition for their en- loggers who battled the blaze month of July, 1971, are sur Mill City aibout 12:30 a,m. tries. what they have lost in wages. prisingly like those of July, Quick work by the Mill City Saturday. DETROIT — According to a The Sea Scout float on 1970. I read the other day that Volunteer Firemen averted Evonne Marie Alyea, 18, The high temperature for $7.5 million are being lost what could have been a dis 3080 Evergreen St. NE. suffer report, when the quality of which Queen Sonja Martin July, 1971, was 97 degrees on daily to the economy of the astrous fire at North Santiam ed head injuries and was list wildlife forage falls too low, and her court rode was award the 26th, with a low of 38 de West from the lumber and ply Ply, just west of Mill City at ed in critical condition at Sal nature automatically reduces ed first prize in the category the wildlife population in the for civic floats. Princesses in I grees on the second, and an wood industry alone as it bogs about 2 a.m. Friday. em Memorial Hospital. area by diminishing the ani- the court were Gloria Poole, average mean of 71 degrees. down m the rail and dock A fire started burning in one Listed in fair condition at This little Sue Crowthers, and Jenny In 1970 the high was 99 de- The Oregon Game Commis strikes. Just how long do of the chip bins at the plant the hospital were Stephen R. mal birthrate. sion reminded deer hunters i grees on the 16th, the low was you think it will take to gain and firemen were called. It Bowen,20. 325 23rd St. NE, known method of birth control Chance. this back? A strike of this was necessary to dump the bin Bruce L. Hall, 22, 442 23rd St. for wildlife is documented in [ Sweepstakes award went to they they have less than a ■ 40 degrees on the 1st and magnitude ties up everything. to get at the fire. When the NE, and Terrance R. Allenby, a USDA Forest Service re- (the float decorated by the week to file applications 23rd, with an average mean search publication, “Forage Santiam Rebekahs and Odd- for antlerless deer permits if of 70 degrees. Farmers are plowing under chips were dumped, sander 21, 284 Manbrin Drive N. Quality and Wildlife Manage fellows of Mill City. It was a they want to be included in The precipitation in 1971 their crops in some areas as dust in the bin exploded, caus Bowen suffered multiple ment.” grand sweepstakes winner in the drawings. Deadline for was .40 inches as against.42 they can’t afford to ship by ing burns to several of the abrasions and possible internal | Repeated studies of deer, the 4th of July parade here. submitting applications is Au inches in 1970. Heavy rolling truck. firemen. Charlie Stewart, vet injuries, Hall received a frac- both locally and in other west- Chaperoned by Mrs. Virginia gust 10; the public drawing is ! thunder was heard on the 30th I have never been too much eran fireman of the depart- tured knee and Allenby suf-1 ern states, indicate that poor Hay, the queen and her court scheduled for 10 a m. August and 31st, accompanied by in favor of wage and price ment received the most serious fered a fractured back, I forage seems to have a major had also ridden in the Straw 20. Applications to be includ lightning and resulting in a controls, but if this keeps up, burns. His right arm and the State police said Bowen was effect on the fertility of year- berry Festival parade at Leb ed in the drawings must be re number of small fires which certainly it would be better side of his face received the I lings, which efficiently cuts the anon and the Berrian Festival ceived by the game commis were kept under control and than letting things run ram- most intense burns. He is at driving when the accident oc- i birth rate for the species in • parade at Newberg. The girls i sion by 5 p.m. on the deadline quickly extinguished, thanks curred. work, but has his arm band pant as they are at this time. j that area. The same limiting also attend a session at the I date. to the efficiency of fire fight One bad thing about wage and aged from the hand to above | effect has been observed in Cinderella Modeling school in Late applications are set ers, who worked all night long price controls if that who is the elbow. When interviewed i quail, where inadequate mois- i Salem at which two of them aside until after the drawings to protect homes and forests. going to control those who■ this week, he said that it | ture in late winter limits the ( were awarded $250 scholar-' are held. Only if surplus per Twenty five days out of the place these restrictions upon; could have been a lot worse. I size of hatches in the spring. I ships. thirty one were recorded as mits are left over are late ap Bill Morgan, one of the own the economy. I have always plicants given consideration, sunny, while heavy mists ob- The pamphlet, by Justin G. i figured that we have far too ers of the mill said Friday that With the wide interest in an-1 scured the mountains. At no Smith, scientist at the Forest j much government meddling in firemen here really deserve a | tierless deer permits, the game I time was the rainfall over .17 , Service’s Range and Wildlife ( business, but who is to say lot of credit for their quick, commission suggests submit- of an inch. ...... fire —— — Area residents are again re Habitat Laboratory in La and „... other what is right at this time. It response to this ting applications in time since | The above report was issued is getting to be a sorry mess. 1 fires in the area. Their fire minded that there will be a Grande, also covers methods it is doubtful any permits will | by Irene Paullin, Detroit | truck had pressure enough to ■ reunion of former students, of improving wildlife habitat. and that is for sure. remain following the drawing, weather observer. ' douse the blaze in the chip.' teachers and friends at the old Copies can be obtained by I This type of fire is hard to put Gates High school on Sunday, writing to Pacific Northwest If you have a day off some- ^e said. August 15. The program will Forest and Range Experiment DETROIT—A “jet” breaking Sea Scout Float Takes First at Stayton time and don’t know what to, start at 11:30 a.m. and there Station, PO. Box 3141, Port the sound barrier most of the do with yourself, a trip up to will be a potluck dinner at land, Oregon 97208 time on nightly flights be Breitenbush Hot Springs, then j 12:30 p.m. An afternoon busi tween 9:50 and 10:30 p.m. is on north over the mountain , ness session will be held and shattering the tranquillity of into Mt. Hood National Forest | there will be plenty of visiting the Upper North Santiam is a good one to take. We took , and renewing of old acquaint canyon. Sometimes the boom this trip Sunday and it was | ances. is severe enough to jar houses well worth the time. The road , George Long, president of All interested persons will and rattle dishes. At other one the other side of the moun-' the Mill City Lions club, said be welcomed to visit with times it sounds like a loud tain is all paved. We haveI this week that the club mem- former grads and students clap of thunder or a dynamite lived here for 18 years, and I bers and their guests would from the years of 1923 to 1956. blast. It is noted that the jet this was the first time we have a steak fry at the city Of special interest will be is always traveling south. We i made this jaunt—mostly be- park the evening of August a display of pictures represent A very civic minded girl, don’t’ know what the fella’s cause the road was pretty bad 116. This has been an annual ing that era of the former Susy Wilson, has consented to mission is, but he sure is in head the Neighborhood Car- one big hurry, until the last year or so. We | event for a number of years high school in Gates. -------------- stopped at a hot springs near although one was not held last Herman Grafe is president nival against Muscular Dystro-1 Estacada and saw people ga year. It is a good opportunity of the alumni association and phy which will be held at the lore, laying out in the hot not only to enjoy a pleasant Ansel Hayward is secretary Mill City school park, August Detroit Lake Manaqer a hi J Miss Wilson ... will serve as water, probably trying to ease I summer evening but to keep treasurer. Both are former 1 14. I the tensions of every everyday in touch before regular din- longtime residents of the area. 1 Ringmaster for the event i To Move South | which is being sponsored by DETROIT- Don Pizer, man- life. We started fairly early I ner meetings resume in Sep I the Rainbow Girls and neigh- ' ager of Detroit Lake State Sunday forenoon and there tember. Mr. Long said more details Freezer Taken from I borhood children. I Park, announced this week was very little traffic until The carnival will start at that he is being transferred we got over to the Mt. Hood regarding the meeting would Maples Tavern, Gates ' 11 a m. and will feature bean September I to Valley of the Loop highway, then it picked be given to members next The Maples Tavern east of : toss, ring toss, sponge toss, ■ Rogue State Park, 12 miles up. about the same as on the week. Gates was entered Sunday rummage sale and concessions [east of Grants Pass. Santiam Highway. Pizer and his family came j Doc Kimmel told us of a | large collection of stuffed ani night and a small freezer was of all kinds. The flower dt-cked float with Queen Son ja Martin All proceeds will go to aid here in June, 1966 from Cham-' and her royal court was a first place winner at the restaurant over in his old mals about the place in ar taken. The tavern, owned by Eva Sidebotham of Eugene, the fight against dystrophy and poeg State Park where he1 home town of Estacada, named rangements that depict their his been closed for several related diseases afflicting mil- served for two years prior to Santiam Bean Festival in Stayton on Saturday night the Safari. This is a good natural habitat. It is an easy They were winners in the Civic entries^ Riding on the ! lions. his assignment here. watering hole and the food is trip, and one that we recom-■ years. Jerry Lewis of movie and TV Pizer said a manager for Sea Scout sponsored float with Queen Sonja is Gloria good. The interesting thing mend to those people who like | State police said burglers about it is that the owner is a to take Sunday drives while broke off a lock and gained fame serves as national chair the State Park here has not Poole, Susan Crowthers and Jenny Chance—Photo by Stan Ogden. been officially named yet entry through the back door. man of the drive big game hunter and has a the weather is good. Detroit School Kitchen Being Remodeled North Fork Crash Firemen Fri. Wild AnimalsMi" CifyFloats Win At Bean Festival Said To Use Birth Control Deadline Is Near For Deer Permits Gates High Io Have Reunion Lions Club To Have Steak Fry Aug. 16 Jet Jars Upper Canyon Area Neighborhood Carnival To Be Held August 14th Ii
