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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1972)
mild roar. Many age groups 3—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, Aug. 24, 1972 to build a better more fair de- were represented but a short mocratic America, not from THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE age of members from the fear and stagnation. Each sue-’ school years of the 1950’s was P. O. Box 34« Phone 897-2772 Mill City, Ore. 97360 ceeding generation feels fear noted. Published at Mill City, Marion County. Ore. every Thursday at the hands of change, this is Those attending were: Walt Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Poetoffice at Mill natural. But this does give each gen- [ GATES -Close to 50 people and Ruby Brisbin, Orval Hay-1 City, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ward. Susie and Jackie Wil j eration the right to hold back attended __________ the 14th annual son, Clare and Norma Lee and rhe Mill City Enterprise assumes no financial responsibility just as many incidences of he the knowledge and expansion school reunion at the old (EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol patitis among American mili- ....... „. at there Gates high school building on Susan Henness, Louise Grafe for errors in advertisements It will, however, reprint the _____ next generation lowing article, given to us tary, as among people you of withost charge or cancel the charge for that (xirtlon of an own narrowing level, - , Sunday, August 20. They Taylor of Lebanon, Herman advertisement which is in error if The Enterprise is at fault originally by Jim Alexander, a choose to label “Hippies. Grafe, Portland, Glen and Lola i Next you stated, “I pay taxes 1 started gathering at noon and printer from California, ap- As far as potheads go, mari i o provide welfare payments from then on the gentle buz Henness, Clyde Barney of' An independent newspaper, dedicated to the development peared in the August 3 issue juana Shaw, Ansel Hayward, his of the timber industry and agriculture in this area. smoking is neariy as fQr bums who wQrR zing of a few voices gained wife and grandson Al from of The Enterprise. We reprint wide spread among the middle di MEMBER MtMtJtK momentum until it reached a Hubbard, Weaver Clark of it here for your convenience.) to upper-daw middle «^d hould nd fey Oregon Hillsboro, Mae Shearer of Amencan adults as i is among „ outside wedlock .. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH about how you feel. You elect Hillsboro, Rosalie Smith of Newspaper * I am one of the Establish high school and other aged i groups. For someone who is' Corruption in government ed that man, it is your respon Stayton, Lou Kelle, Oscar and Publishers ment. pot; how convenient ar*d pnyaJe a^encies falls at all sibility to see that he listens Richard Nystrom, Dave and I AaaocMkM - Foundad tSSB ™ ® ■ÜR Association I work and I am proud of it. 1 berating .¿.¿Lid Carmen Barnhardt and daugh-1 you should leave out alcohol-1 I ^eve^s- It *s true there are peo- to you, the people. I I pay taxes to provide hos the* Na7“kinZron*ou7 Sul scription Rates road*s' Ple living off welfare who do | To go on you remarked. “I ters. Edith Stafford, Verna pitals for the Hippies with he Marion-Linn Counties, per year_______________________________ 44.50 — * j -------- ai — want a better world that is not deserve it, but Mr. Alex Hunziker of Portland, Norman patitis, potheads with over today. Social drinking is no ander what of our veteran’s re constructive, not a bitter world and Betty Carey of Albany, Outside Marion-Linn Counties, per year------------------------ 15.00 it’s a deadly disease doses, and free lovers with joke, Don and Helen Carey of Stay Outside Oregon, per year--------------------------------------------- |5J0 iI which in some way affects turning from military service that is destructive.” social Hiseasos who are injured or can find no Whether you like it or not ton, Ruby Frichtl ,Joe Powell I pay t a x e s to provide ' American family DON W. MOFFATT ............. Editor and Publisher jobs and must support them Now . I assume — Mr. schools for sit-ins, books for r. Alexan- selves or their families who you helped make this world Miller. Wilbur and Betty GEORGE LONG ......................... —..... Aasistant Publisher-Printer what it is today, bitter and de Meinert of Waldport, Marion burning, rallying points for ^that y°uf s„taJt^,?t “pil1’ have no understanding finan structive. America and Russia Klecker of Stayton, Ed Davis NORMA LONG ............ _............. -........... Society and News Editor off-campus riots, and study heads ~ with ” *U overdoses ~ ” is re cially able relatives to look af are fighting a cruel and use of Mill City, Winifred Kanoff FRAN BRADAC ........... _.................................... Printer courses in anarchism. j ferring to hippies again. Use of ter them. Are we to call them less war in Indochina. Ireland and W. Ed Seamster of Salem ROSE CREE _____________________________ ______ Local News Editor pills, or barbiturates, is more I pay taxes to provide wel-1 MARY KELLY ....................................................... Local News Editor bums and kick them further .is in heated battle over reli- and Betty Kelle. fare payments for bums who | widespread among the aver into degradation and depres- |gion with Britain. The Arabs CORRESPONDENTS After a huge potluck dinner age American adult. How of don’t think work is dignified, Detroit-Idanha _____________________ ____________ ___ Boots Champion sion. And what of the mother was enjoyed by all it was time and Israel are at each other ’ s but that poverty should be, I ten do you hear your friends with children, who is widow- throats. I could go on but my for pictures. Every one gath Ga'es _____________________________________________________ Betty Kelle casually complain that they and bonuses for fertility out- ! ed or deserted? The ax for point is made. If you want a ered on the front steps of the Lyons ____________________________________________________ Eva Bressler side of wedlock. . can - ’t , sleep and need a sleep- them too? On the other hand, better world; what have you old high school for the event. Mehama ....... -......... - Mrs. John Teeters-Jean Roberta I respect the law because I | jng s not aspir- ‘ | in, brother), or are too tense what about the “bums” on the done to issue it in? Nothing, The school has just been newly know of no alternate. i and upset and need a tran- administrative end of welfare, but pass on your, and people painted so looked exception I bathe regularly. quilizer, or need that little with fat padded incomes, who like yours, narrow minded hat ally nice but the lettering at I walk proudly under i drink after work or before quietly dip their fingers into reds, fears, and rumors. You the top of the porch hadn’t flag, not all over it bed? And what about chil welfare reserves for their own make America unable to heal been repainted so this year’s I believe in resolution, dren who die or are poisoned purposes. Graft in welfare its wide and various wounds pictures will be a little differ revolution. from overdoses of candied as rests at all levels Mr. Alexan by declaring that you shall ent. I want a better world that der. A business meeting was held miraculously determine who is is constructive, not a bitter pirin or candy-coated, animal Bob and Bruce Blumenstein As far as poverty being dig fit to be an American. Each with election of officers taking shaped vitamins, which our le world that is destructive. one of you reading this, what place. Herman Grafe was re nified, how callous a state gal drug manufacturers place I am tired of filthy hair, Phone 897-2679 elected president for another filthy bodies, filthy words and on the market to entice high ment. Poverty is a major is litttle bit of kindness or under- year and Mabel Smith was j standing did you pass on today sue in every city today. Our er profits. And just who do Love People. your fellow man to make elected secretary-treasurer to I am slow to anger, but soon you think sees all this and ac American economic system is I I to this country a better place to replace Ansel Hayward. An based on supply and demand, cepts it as the right thing to those of us who believe in our live in? If you can not think of sel will continue in capacity country are going to keep do? Your children, that’s who. with a large excessive un then wake up and of historian. He is gathering America beautiful by flushing So guess who sets the exam i tapped labor pool, function ' 1 anything, ——‘.1.-.. it’s — ... the . Vin hippies, —i —- the ♦ I. — all the information he can to ing to keep wages down and' realize not the pothead protesters down ples Mr. Alexander. manufacture income high by j radicals, left wingers, or the put in book form. It is a slow Now as far as ' “ free lovers ” the gutters of their own job as it is hard to dig out a keeping jobs scarce and in foreigners who are making (here I will assume you mean minds. T .icensed and Bonded venereal diseases). Venereal high demand. That’s the facts! America unfit to live in; it’s lot of the information he is1 seeking. No one enjoys the hopeless- ' you and I. disease is in epidemic propor Fifteen Years In The Santiam Canyon Dear Mr. Moffatt: Being as next year will be As you were kind enough to tion in America today among ness and shame associated with J To top your article off you the 50th anniversary of the print Mr. Alexander’s article, all age groups, but highest in being poor and it is those who mentioned, “I am tired of fil- high school building, a com please print my “letter to the occurence among military per- degrade the poor, by laying thy hair, filthy bodies, >» filthy mittee was appointed with Ed Editor.” As I feel very strong sonel, high school and junior all the blame on them, who are | words and Love People, This statement is almost too Davis, chairman, Lola Henness ly about what I wrote, please high level children, who by the the crudest. Now I would like to add ' unbelievable to comment on. and Marian Klecker to help way didn ’ t all catch it from print my article completely him. We want to make a unabridged and unedited. In a “free lovers.” (I assume you something here you slightly Filth is in the eye of the be- really big celebration of next overlooked. My paycheck de- holder, Mr. Alexander. Is the i are including middle-class ad country which prizes above all year and the committee is go freedom of the press and ult wife-swappers in that creases each month as more dirt on a logger any cleaner ing to work towards this. money is taken out for social than the dirt of a long haired term. ) speech, I feel that my article Wilbur Meinert of Waldport Most of today’s generation security benefits to the aged, young man who has just work. has the right to be heard and will have his name on the pla Even more so than for wel- , ed in his garden or himself just grew up on old wive ’ s tales, read in Mill City. Perhaps, que for having come the great Highway 22 — Mill City hopefully it may even draw and got various kinds of trou fare. Would you call these peo. ’ came home from a day in the est distance. Weaver Clark1 pie bums for getting hand-| , woods? As far as words go, ble, because their parents were more comment than Mr. Alex of Hillsboro was the oldest na- | ander’s slightly narrow story. too frightened and uptight to,outs whether they contributed ( you can read filth into any tive born attending. He was ATLAS TIRES and BATTERIES instigate a little sex education ' or not in their lifetime to so- j word you wish to if you set If you cannot print my arti born 80 years ago, come Janu your mind to it. As a matter of in our schools. Did you know cia l security? I certainly would cle in its entirety please re ary, in a log house at the base i not, because I believe in a so turn it immediately, as I will that most young girls with un ciety that takes care of its mem fact an article like yours is of the hill across the highway. Expert Tune up and Brake Repairs submit it to the “Statesman”, wanted pregnancies, when bers, young or old. So I’m not pure filth to me and many He lived in Gates until he was “Oregonian”, or “Corvallis Ga questioned thought they were griping about my paycheck, if other Oregonians. I would be curious to know about 17 and attended school ( zette Times”, in hope that i to young to get pregnant? If in any way it can give aged what “Love People” means to in the old school house that parents are embarrassed to someone will give my views IV e Pick Up and Deliver Americans a little more digni you, sir. I have met some very sat about where the high tell their children the facts of equal attention. school is now. ty to live on. beautiful people of all ages life, then our schools must. Respectfully, Areal unexpected highlight | You said, “I respect the law Kathleen (Rose) Eisele Proper sex education at an I because I know of no alterna- who are making a positive ef of the afternoon was a movie, fort to make this country a early age could eliminate ma better place for you and me to with sound, brought by Weav ny unwanted pregnancies and ' tive.” To the Editor: Law and order can only de live in, and a cleaner land to er Clark, taken in 1959 of the greatly curb venereal disease. I am writing in regard to the If America would take the rive respect from its people raise our children in. Give us wagon train traveling from, article, “Enough is Enough” by needless terrifying dark-ages when it represents a govern all a chance, those of us who Independence, Mo. to Inde Jim Alexander, printed in the ing body, which in itself, re wish to help this country. Don’t pendence, Ore. There were August 3rd issue of the “Mill i stigma off venereal disease, spects and treats all its sub about 28 of them made the and treat it as just what it is, > be so quick to prejudge on ap City Enterprise.” jects with the same fairness pearance and rumors only. Af trip and it took four months. a curable infectious disease; Call Us Any Day For Nonsense!! For someone who and equality. Blind obedience i ter all there can be some good In a question-answer period1 claims to respect his country more people would voluntar to “law” because of a lack of and love in each of us. Free after the movie Weaver was j No Mileage Charge on Route Calls Between and desires to see it kept beau, ily be willing to accept treat anything better, is dangerous I dom in America represents asked how they picked those' Stay ton and Gates. tiful, Mr. Alexander is doing ment in the disease’s earlier as Hitler’s Germany proved. I not just freedom of religion, to go on the trip. His answer: I more harm and degrading his stages. We can erradicate ven That is why there must be and but also freedom of dress, “You had to take an IQ test,' ON OR OFF THE CABLE ereal disease in a few years country more than he could Mr. Alexander, if people is debate on all private and thought, and freedom to be the if you came high you stayed i RCA VICTOR ever imagine by furthering his home and did something | would perpetuating ig- public (congress) levels to person we wani fo be. own selfish hatreds and nar norant stop The Best TV for Cable or Fringe Areas. fears and myths and keep, the laws for and of the To conclude your story you worthwhile- if you came out row-minded bigotry. It is peo people, not against them. said, “I am slow to anger, but low you went with the wagon take time to look at the facts. ple like Mr. Alexander who RCA WHIRLPOOL On the lighter side you sta-' soon those of us who believe in train.” He said the group suf To quote mode “wisdom” perpetuate a terrifying fear in our country are going to keep fered many hardships with al from your August 3rd article, ted, “I bathe regularly.” The Best Laundry Equipment America, through their un “I pay taxes to provide schools So what? I know a lot of our | America beautiful by flushing most continual rain for the founded degenerate rumors. rallying points for off-campus well to do, upper class people j the pothead protesters down first five weeks. They aver I will quote entirely in con for sit-ins, books for burning, who don’t. Does the regularity j the gutters of their own aged 12 to 25 miles per day de text, excerpts from Mr. Alex riots, and study courses in an of a bath make the man, or | minds.” pending on where they were ander’s article and comment. rather what’s in his heart and . Since when is protesting to appear the next day. archism.” Mr. Alexander states that, “I The afternoon passed much Mr. Alexander I feel deep true actions that prove the hu-1 against bigotry, pollution, in am one of the Establishment. ly sorry for you if you think manity in men. equality in taxation, and po too quickly, but everyone left I work and I am proud of it.” that a school is of no real val Next you stated, “I walk verty un-American? Was this with the thought of trying to All the people in America ue or put to no better use, proudly under my flag, not all country not founded to protect make next year’s gathering, Appliance — Radio comprise the “establishment” than for a sit-in, which inci- over it. I believe in resolu the lives, property, freedom, which will be August 19, the SA1JGS — SERVICE Mr. Alexander. And in case no j dently became passe as a form tion not revolution.” biggest and best yet. and equality of each man, long 769-2154 503 N. Third Ave. Stayton one has informed you yet, the I of protest two years ago. Also The American Flag is a sym- or short hair, black or white, unemployment rate in America you do not pay taxes for col- J bol of the America we would old or young. It is our consti For Quality .lol> Priming call is 6% and rising, which means lege or vocational books; the ■ aU like to see “...with liberty tutional right to gather in as The Entei prise. «»7-2772. there are thousands of people student pays the entire amount. and justice for all.” How many sembly and bring to the atten in this country just “dying” for I of books and supplies today.! of you can from memory re- tion of our elected represen your job who would be proud You sound more like an hon- t cite “The Pledge of Allegiance” tatives. those laws and prac to sweep floors for 50 cents an est to goodness book-burner I or recite your own “Bill of tices which are corrupt and un hour, just to keep their fami than any students I’ve ever j Rights” garanteeing freedom balanced. It is sad indeed that lies alive, For many Ameri- known. As far as rallying and equality for all, black or all you can see preventing cans there are no such jobs, points for off-campus riots, j Polish or Jewish, Catholic, or America from being beautiful so don’t be so falsely proud of when meeting off-campus for | long hair, no matter what an- are “the pothead protestors.” yourself. discussion or our constitu- ( cestry or religion we hale from What of corruption in govern To further quote Mr. Alex tional right of assembly, most, Do you remember that Ameri- ment and private agencies and ander: “I pay taxes to pro groups meet on some form of | ca was established by immi- elected officials, what of cor vide hospitals for the hippies private property; and you’re' grants seeking a nation where ruption in our unions and with hepatitis, potheads with more of a schnook than I .one and all could worship in their officials with prejudiced psychic episodes, pillheads thought you were, if you pay freedom of choice? The Amerl- and unfair labor policies. What with overdoses, and free lo someone else’s private pro can who makes fun of his fel of the pollution of our land, vers with social diseases.” perty taxes! Unless of course low man’s religion for not be airs and waters with all the Mr. Alexander I pay taxes there happened to be a “riot” ing his own, or who spreads sewage, beer cans, and other also, and I am proud that my • in Cresent City, California on false rumors and old wives wastes needlessly and careless money saves the lives of I some public property, suppor- tales about various ethnic. ly discarded by our middle young, old, poor, rich, black, I ted by your tax dollars. By groups is the man walking on class tourists. white, republican, or demo j the way not all riots are stu- his flag; his own symbol of to- [ The list could go on for days, crat. Do you feel you have a ' dent caused—and it takes two lerance and equality, not the, but my point is made. 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