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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1971)
LOCALS The Leo Toomeys of West Covina, Calif., are vacationing at Gates and looking after property interests there. They are looking forward to retire ment in that area. Visitors at the Al Pease home Monday were Mr and Mrs. Tex Gaither of Portland. The two couples met while hunting deer last fall. Queen Sonja Martin members of her 4th of court rode in a Summer tival parade at Toledo day. O. M. Mikkelsen was taken to a Portland hospital on Sat- urday where he is undergoing ' medical treatment. Although I Inife AfflVP At "Ozzie”, as he is known by I will ID HIII’V QI his many friends, has been in poor health for sometime, he Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kelly has not let it slow down his Seven new modular units, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. enthusiasm and work both at Frank Smith of Forest Grove his home and for civic groups. which arrived this week at Chemeketa Community Col to Paulina Lake where they Mr. and Mrs. James Sea- lege, will be placed on the stayed in the Smith house trailer from late Friday night baugh and family of Corvallis north and west edges of the until Sunday afternoon. The spent the weekend at the home I existing campus early next men did a little fishing, how- of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Poole and week. The units, which include ever there were more mosqui family. The Seabaughs are toes than fish. On Saturday, former Mill City residents and four new classrooms, a biology the foursome drove up to we worked for the Forest lab, a library unit, and a rest Paulina Peak which gave them Service here, later being trans room building were purchased a gorgeous view of Paulina ferred to the Corvallis area. to serve an anticipated 58 per Lake, East Lake, and the vast The Seabaughs usually get cent increase in enrollment obsidian flow nearby. In fact, back over the 4th of July cele this fall. They will provide an addi it was so clear that they could bration, taking that opportun see the entire range of snow ity to enjoy the event and visit tional 11-thousand square feet of floor space, with the library capped mountains from Mt. with friends. unit the largest at just over Hood down to Mt. Shasta in Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Balti five thousand square feet. California. They also stopped The classrooms will each to see beautiful Paulina Creek more visited Saturday at the Falls, also a part of the New home of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. seat 44 students; the biology berry Crater, a dormant vol Rambo. They were enroute tu lab includes 24 student sta their rural Redmond home fol tions, and the library seats cano. lowing a shopping trip to Sal about a hundred persons. Workmen are now pouring next Sunday dinner guests at the em. They will leave the foundation forms, and a month for a three weeks tour A. J. Yankus home were Tom crane will be brought in Mon Stinchfield and Cindy Moffitt of Europe. Mr. Rambo was day to put them in place. of Coos Bay. Miss Moffitt is a somewhat “indisposed" over 1970 graduate of the Univer the weekend as he has been sity of Oregon and Mr. Stinch undergoing a series of tests at field graduated this year from Santiam Memorial hospital for MA U. an abdominal condition. Stanford University. A recent visitor of Mrs. Elsie Marks, who makes her home at a trailer court near Gates, . has been her daughter, Vir-1 ginia Mason, who lives near Palm Springs, Calif. and July Fes Sun Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Martin are two of her nieces, Vicki and Pam ela Kelly from Colorado Springs. They have spent most of the summer in Oregon visit ing with relatives. Among those enjoying the cool weather at the coast over the weekend were the Jerry Rubys and the Charlie Neals. Visiting last Wednesday aft ernoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Rogers were the James McMurtry, Sr. of Phil omath, Mrs. McMurty, former ly Minnie Tatom, taught in the public school here many years ago. On Wednesday eve ning, another visitor at the Rogers home was their nephew, Dwight Berreman and three children, of West field N. J., who does experi ments for the Bell Telephone Company. His wife is on a tour of Italy at the present time. Seven Modular LETTERS TO THE O Santiam High Class of 1966 The class of 1966 of the San tiam High school held a re union at Fishermen’s Bend . park ____ Sunday. , — A «. picnic ___ _____ lunch was served at noon and the afternoon was spent reminis cing. Making arrangements for the affair was Mrs. Gerald Irwin (Leila Barney) who with her husband attended the event. Others present included Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Tucker (San dra Duggan), Brent Walker, Janeta Johnson Huckeby, Wal ly Novak, Sharon Rose, Shar on Bassett Vetter, all from Gates and Mill City; Rosemary (Dueber) Fender and family, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Stubenrauch (Judy Severs) and family, Mr. | and Mrs. Richard Brown and j family (Rita Savage) of Stay ton: Geneva Johnson, Beverly ; (Lockrem) Bassett, Rick' Scharback, Phillip Bumgarner and family of Salem; Gary I Chichester from Bend: Dianne] (Schulz) Beckman, Beaver Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Schobert, Redding, Calif; Clau-1 dia Hayden. Portland; Kathryn | Dishong Brown and family j from Sunnyside, Wash.; Wilda | Wilson, Yoncalla and Gary i Stahlman, in the service. Sev- i eral members not able to at-1 tend wrote letters to be read I at the gathering. Among them were Tom Etzel, now in Viet- j nam; Mike Worley, Portland; Kathy Boroughs Perkins, Tex as; Frank Catherwood, Vir ginia: Laura Rambo Nelson, New Hampshire; Roger Tuers, Reedsport. 5—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, August 12, ’71 Advertising in The Mill City Enterprise Brings Results—Try It Every Week SUMMER CLEARANCE On the New 1971 Jacobson Rotary Mowers Save 20 % All These Mowers are the Famous Two new (old) faces were David Cline, son of Mr. and seen at The Enterprise the past Mrs. Paul (Bud) Cline, is home two weeks. Goldie Rambo on leave from Oklahoma, - has been in the office and 1 where he was stationed in the Charles Brunner of Newberg, A SALUTE TO MILL CITY air force. He will be home two has been pounding away at Sparks, Nevada weeks and then will return to the Linotype and other relat Mr. Don Moffatt Hawthorne, Nev. Every week I look forward ed jobs. They are substituting j for vacationing Mr. and Mrs. to receiving my copy of the ( JACQB Attending a Rainbow board1 George Long. Mill City Enterprise. I enjoy meeting Monday night at the reading every page thoroughly Fold-down , Ervin Peterson home were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bassett and even though I am not Mrs. Peterson, J. C. Kimmel, spent Saturday fishing at De- there, I can keep up on all the Don Moffatt, Joe Bowes, Mr. poe Bay. They said the weath news and happenings in the and Mrs. Lowell Cree, Mr. and er was better than the fishing. community that I love so very Pattons Entertain Mrs. Virgil Lev Mrs. Floyd Their son, Maurie Bassett of dearly. Johnson, Mrs. E ''Clintock, Washougal, Wash., assisted at When I read my paper, I im I Members of John Roten, and ; . A. J. the Chevron station during agine myself sitting on Granny I Hammond Crew Arthur Harris of Tacoma, Yankus. and Gramp Kerrs’ front porch, their absence. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Patton Wash., a former resident here, drinking my beer with my entertained 57 members of the Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Cline called on several old-time ac boots and bib overalls on, Mrs. Percy Mulligan is con quaintances in the vicinity one and baby daughter visited last fined to her bed with a re- watching the log trucks roll by old Hammond Lumber Co. mill day last week. He was accom weekend at the home of his curring nerve ailment in hcr and listening to Art tell me recently at their Portland home. panied by his son, as well as parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul legs. some wild tall story about the The Pattons have been hav- his sister, Virginia, and her Cline. woods, or even some wilder I ing these gatherings for some son. The sisters and her fam taller story about fishing. out Mrs. Darrel Bethel took ' years now, and have had as Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mays a subscription to the “home ily plan on becoming mission What I’m really trying to many as 70 at one time. Mr. of Portland were in Mill City aries in Ethiopia in the near town paper” this week for her say is this. I hope all the won Automati over the weekend attending to son-in-law and daughter, Air derful people in Mill City real Patton said they enjoy getting future. these old friends together to choke their property here. man and Mrs. Clifford Warde ize and appreciate the beauti visit of the old days. Visitors this week at the ful, peaceful, and serene en and daughter Traci. Airman Going from the Canyon area Mr. and Mrs. Otto Weidman Warde is stationed at Fairchild vironment in which they live. home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin were Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tay hosted the annual IOOF-Re- Hansen are Mr. and Mrs. AFB at Spokane and is in the This is the feeling that my Brooks Crosier and children of bekah picnic at their home on accounting department. He is wife Bessie and myself take lor of Mehama, Mr. and Mrs. Walnut Creek, Calif, the Han August 1. There were 28 mem also doing some extra studying with us every time we leave Floyd Bassett of Lyons, and Phone 859-2240 Mehama, Oregon sen’s daughter and son-in-law bers from Mill City present. at home which Mrs. Bethel Mill City after visiting our i Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fair and Besides a guided tour of the says is hard because of the ex loved ones (Granny, Gramps, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Fair of Stay- and family. grounds they were entertained tremely hot weather, typical and Wayne Kerr). I only hope Studio of Hair Design open with various hobbies and of Spokane summers. that one day soon we can be six days a week, 9 a.m. to 5 games; also horseshoes and come permanent residents of p.m. For appointments phone lawn darts furnished some Friends of Weldon Horn, lo your community and contri 897-2100. 32 competition. cal electrician, who was seri bute in some way towards ously injured recently when keeping Mill City yours and Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Rambo knocked from a ladder, will our favorite city. received word from their1 be glad to hear that he is get- Sincerely, daughter, Mrs. Russell Nelson, j ! ting along fine at Santiam Cris and Bessie this week saying she and her Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Memorial hospital in Stayton. husband and father-in-law When friends called on him (Bessie Kerr) Criswell, were back in New Hampshire well, Sparks, Nevada. Tuesday night, he said he was after a trip to Newfoundland installing a fixture on the ceil and Nova Scotia. They were ing in a building at Elkhorn Helicopter Lands at spending the weekend in Bos Woods, when the drill stuck,1 Detroit for Lunch ton visiting with friends and and when it spun around, it DETROIT — A helicopter taking in some of the historic hit him on the head, knocking landed on the school grounds sights there. Russell Nelson, Sr., of Scotts Mills, who assist him out. He said: “I had 20 Monday about 11:30 a.m. creat ed them in their move from holes to drill, and this hap ing excitement for the kids West Virginia will be return pened on the 19th.” He will be in the area. off work for a long time, as in The ’copter was reported to ing home soon. cluding in his fractures was a have been a Bonneville Patrol craft and its crew of three Mrs. Rudy Tohl played at broken pelvis. men just “dropped in” for Salem Golf Club last Thurs Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Crosier lunch. day as a guest of Mrs. Tyler This is not the first time a Brown. She won high gross (Sherry Hansen) and three for the nine hole group. Bridge children of Castro Valley, 'copter has landed on the was played in the afternoon. Calif., arrived last Saturday to school grounds, but as it the Mrs. Tohl attended a luncheon spend a two weeks’ vacation at past, it never fails to draw an and bridge session at the home the home of her parents, Mr. audience, especially the young of Mrs. Joe Waterman in Sil and Mrs. Martin Hansen. They sters. verton Thursday. Several brought their boat along with ladies from Salem also attend them and have been enjoying boating on Detroit Lake, ac ed. companied by Mrs. Crosier’s Recent guests at the Rudy brother, Terry Hansen. Tohl home were her sister, By Frank Stromquist Mr. and Mrs. Jack Scott took Oregon recorded its highest Mrs. Allen Schrader and niece, Mrs. Tom Lentz from Tulsa, members of the Mill City 4 traffic death toll so far this of July Court to Toledo last year in July when 66 people Seaweed extract is now be Okla. Saturday to take part in the died. The July toll, 21 more ing used to heal gastric and duodenal ulcers. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Johnson parade at the Toledo Summer than in July last year, brought the state’s seven month traf and Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Peter Festival. American Indians used to son were in Salem recently fic count to 350, according to rub their bodies with onion where they viewed the new the Motor Vehicle Division. Job security for our employees plants, as an insect repellent. home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Marie Lincoln That means the state still depends upon Tree Farming. Many of our shows a slight deecrease in Hudgins, Mrs. Hudgins is a "The desire to take medicine daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Has Birthday traffic deaths this year, but neighbors are growing trees as a crop—Tree is perhaps the greatest feature Johnson. the margin of decrease has which distinguishes man from narrowed to only 11. At the Party at Home Farming. Help them to protect animals.”—Sir William Osler end of the first half of the Mr. and Mrs. Donovan Mof Mrs. Marie Lincoln, mother their crops from fire. year, deaths were 28 below the fatt and boys, Rick and Mark, A tiny self-contained nu spent an enjoyable Thursday of Miss Betty Bostwick, ob comparable 1970 period. clear-powered heart pacemak to Sunday vacation. They got served her 84th birthday. Au The division said July saw er, about the size of a pencil, in some good fishing at Dia gust 4 at her daughter’s home. 10 pedestrians and eight mo has been developed by a med mond Lake, with some sizeable Coming to enjoy the birthday torcycle riders killed in traf WATER WOOD ical institution in Ohio. trout caught. From there they cake and ice cream with her fic that afternoon were Ruth Failure to use seat belts was went to Crater Lake which WILDLIFE RECREATION Recent medical studies indi Mrs Moffatt said she thought Kerr, Frances and Phyllis noted in 21 deaths in which cate that an excess of sugar Dolezal and a cousin, Ruth the seat belts were in the car was spectacularly beautiful. consumption may contribute to but not in use at the time of Then on to Grants Pass where Chastain of Lyons. heart disease. On Friday two of Mrs. Lin crash. Twelve of these vic they stayed overnight and took coln’s nieces from Salem, tims were thrown from their a run down the Rogue river Ruth James and Margaret car and nine others died as a When your doctor prescribes to Hell’s Gate. Maddox visited with her and result of injuries received in the best, we do the rest, at Eleanor Montoya will be the group enjoyed a steak bar- side the car. I becue in the evening. working at The Lyons Beauty Corner Mondays. Fridays and Frank Lumber Company, Inc Young & Morgan Timber Co Saturdays. Also on Thurs Too Late to Classify Your Home Town days from 1 pm until late by I Mill City, Oregon Mill City and Idanha, Oregon appointment. Esther Stafford BACK TO SCHOOL CLOTHES Drug Store on duty Tuesdays through Fri on sale beginning August 14. Phone 897-2812 Stout Creek Lumber Company U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers, Inc day. See us for all of your This and That Shop. 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