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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1972)
<i«iv Rei. ana !>>«, Nmpâi*«, V o' o Library ofjnj The Mill City ____ _______________ ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY—OREGON’S EAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND VOLUME XXVII NUMBER 35 THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, ORECKIN THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1972^ New Teachers Arr've in Mi'l C.ih/ Up and Down : The Avenue By Don Moffatt « « i t Have you been enjoying the fine weather of the past couple of weeks? It is my favorite time of the year. It is the sea son, when years ago, everyone was getting ready for winter. The harvesting was finished, and it used to be a time when everyone settled up their run ning accounts at the stores. Times have changed a lot over the past 35 or 40 years, and probably the progress has, for the most part, been good for the country. Few people W’ork the long hours they did when I was a kid. For that, I’m thankful as I am sure 1 couldn’t work that hard any more. I still stir around a lot, but I don’t kick up all that much dust. We are now wondering just where has the summer gone. Each succeeding year, it seems that the sunny summer days are fewer than the year before. Guess this is not the case, but time goes by so quickly. HUSO a YEAR — 10c a Copy Schools in Mill City and Gates Nearly Ready for Opening Day Make Trip The Willamette National For Linn County Administrative est’s Advisory Council will School District 129J schools Field has been delayed due to I cy for the 1972-1973 school make a two-day trip on August will open Tuesday Sept. 5. The factory inability to secure bal i year. If there are any ques 24 and 25 to consider a number cafeterias will operate on lasts for the fixtures. The new tions concerning this, please of Forest management con opening day, as usual. Buses lights are to be shipped in the call the superintendent at 897- Linn County Schoo District 129-J lias tnree new will run their normal routes near future, and will be instal I 2311. cerns, according to Supervisor teachers this year, (left to right) Morris Snider, from and times for the first school led immediately on their ar M a n y improvements have Zane G Smith, Jr. rival. The school board, super been made this summer, and The 12-member council advi- ' Elkton, teaches English and coaches football and bas day. ses the Forest Supervisor on ketball; ___ _ is the new Jepson Lonnquist, from Roseburg, The District has three new intendent, and contractor are much hard work done by the broad questions of policy, pro-1 second grade teacher? John Jerrim, from Marysville, teachers this year. Morris Sni sorry for this delay, but noth custodial and maintenance grams or procedures affecting Wn., will teach - fifth ----- grade * and ' assist with high school > • der, who will teach high school ing else can be done to expe staff. Following is a list of just a few of the larger tasks which administration of the 1,666,000 , football and serve as baseball coach.—Enterprise photo. English, has previously taught dite shipment. Due to rising costs of food were completed: landscaping acre National Forest. at Elkton. He will coach 7th Smith said the Council will' and 8th grade flag football, (principally, the price of meat) of Santiam Auditorium, paint Mill City Weather and tour the Forest in a bus, visit- j Lyons Pre-School serve as assistant basket- j the Board of Directors was ing of Mill City Elementary Compiled by Rod Pfoertner ball coach at the high school. compelled to make an adjust School Gymnasium and An ing the Forests’s transplant To Meet Wednesday Max. Min. Pep. nursery at Westfir, viewing JcctJ1 Jepson Lonnquist will be the ment in the price of school nex, painting of High School Jean Owens, Lyons Pre 80 59 0.00 new second grade teacher, re lunches for the 1972-1973 Gymnasium, and trim on the timber management practices 1 school teacher,’ said this week August 22 81 47 0.00 placing Mrs. Gwen Schaer who school year. Lunch tickets will high school, painting of Mill in the North Fork Willamette that there would be a meeting August 23 84 52 0.00 retired last June. Mr. Lonn-1 be sold in each school office, City Bus Garage, painting of drainage, hiking to a viewpoint of mothers of the children at August 24 90 50 0.00 quist was an intern last year as follows: Grades 1 through 6- the old Gates High school and overlooking the French Pete the Mari-Linn school cafeteria August 25 96 53 0.00 in the Roseburg school system. 30c; Grades 7 and 8 35c; Grades gymnasium, painting of foot drainage, visit the Big Lake on Wednesday, September 6, August 26 97 55 0.00 The third new teacher, who 9 through 12-40c; Adults-55c; ball and baseball bleachers on August 27 recreation area, and walk into 1 at 7:30 p.m. 95 59 0.00 will teach the fifth grade, is Hamburger Lunch-55c; Extra Allen Field, installation of new Marion Lake in the Mt. Jeffer- j There will be two classes August 28 29 89 53 0.00 John Jerrim, who previously Hamburger-25c; Reduced-price tennis court lighting and plant August son Wilderness. this year and those interested August 16 Pep. 0.60. “The Council will be busy are asked to attend so that it taught at Marysville, Wn. He Lunch-20c; Student Milk-4e; ing of grass on north side of the Auditorium and Annex. for these two days,” Smith can be determined just what Our weatheiman, Rod, gave also will assist Gerald Gibson Adult Milk-8c. To comply with require Labor Day is right around said. “Members have expressed class each child will be attend us the “whatfor” for leaving with high school football, and the corner, and before you their desire to see as much as ing. To attend the pre-school, out the precipitation last week. serve as high school baseball ments of the federal School Lunch Program, the Board know it, school will again be in possible to gain a better under a youngster must be 5 before Sorry about that, Rod, we’ll coach. session. The beginning of standing of Forest manage I November 15. The new lighting for Allen | adopted a new hot lunch poll- 1 try to be more careful. school always has a settling ment problems and issues.” Members of the Council are: | effect on all communities, in cluding ours. Vacations have Peter C. Murphy, Jr., Ron j been taken, and with the kids Crouser, Marvin E. Gloege, | in school, parents of course William E. Eaton and Mrs. Ila ' must stay closer to home. The Venator of Eugene, H e c t o r I free—and we couldn’t refuse, vacation parks will have fewer MacPherson, Jr. and Marvin By Fran Bradac so back we came—this time to Linn County Administrative visitors, and that is when we Coats of Albany, James G. the print shop. When Don School District, 129J has an ‘Shoemakers’? Chuck older folks have it a little easi Welch of Salem, Mrs. Diane Moffatt moved The Enter- nounced a free and reduced- er to find a place to park our Johnson of Oakridge, Ms. Pat Nellie Umphress? Not they, prise into the building, we price meal policy for Mill City- other not in Mill City and in ricia Harris of Corvallis, and I recreational vehicles. moved a little farther east— Gates school children unable since Ms. Shelley Smith of Sprng- I Oregon communities next door to where the insur to pay the full price. 1945 More like ‘leather crafts Burl Ives, headliner at the field. One position is vacant. ance office is now—and fin- men,’ especially to the count Local school officials have Oregon State Fair, proved ally, in 1964, after Dick Tur- adopted a special family size less area loggers whose very a inas once again that he is pin died, moved into his bar- and income scale to assist them lives depend on sure-footed- ter of the art of entertainment ber shop, here in the old rail- tn determining elegibilty. I ness and rugged, dependable And he did it with so little ef road depot. And here we I foot gear. They will be missed. Families falling within the fort. He didn’t screech and hol stayed . . .” special scales or those suffer Friday evening, August 25, ler and wiggle his torso like so ing from unusual circumstan Each One Teach One— Chuck and Nellie Umphress many of the younger enter (‘Chuck’s Shoe Repair’) closed tainers who seem to depend In 1959, the Oregon State I ces or hardships are urged to the front doors of the convert upon “body English” rather School for the Deaf, learning i apply for free or reduced- ed railroad depot on Wall than talent to put their songs of Chuck’s takents, asked him 1 price meals for their children Street in Mill City, near the across. He was a real treat, to teach his trade to its stu They may do so by filling in and Fair Manager Bob Stevens dents. For the next 13 years, the application form sent home Nine-year-old Donald Zynda banks of the Santiam. after 21 and his staff are to be commen was saved from drowning years of shoe and leather ser until the shoe repair depart in a letter to parents. Addi ded upon selecting talent like Monday afternoon while play vice to the community. “It ment was discontinued, Chuck tional copies are available at this for the “big family show.” ing in the North Fork water seems as though we’re really commuted from Mill City to the principal’s office in each Chuck and Nellie I inphress The comedian-impersonator by his father, Emil Zynda. leaving our home,” said Nel Salem to give of his talent to school. Applications may be Wes Harrison certainly did his i He had been playing in lie, “after all the hours Chuck Heck no, she’s bettter at some we live nine years near Cor the unfortunate, but not al submitted anytime during the job well. One thing we noticed 1 waist deep water with other and I spent here together.” of this work than I am!” Chuck vallis where I worked in a ways too-willing to learn, school year. The form itself is was the lack of smut. We had youngsters when he slipped on New Owners Arrive— and Nellie smile at each other mill until I got a job with the deaf students. “The hardest simple to complete and asks one or two entertainers in re- _ a rock and was swept ........ „ a The new owners, Richard Iowa Born and Bred— into railroad. It was in the mill thing was trying to communi for information needed to de need based cent years who resorted to about 8 feet deep. He had and Marilyn Willeman, of For Both Chuck and Nellie grew where I bruised my leg, but cate with these poor kids,” said i termine economic - ------ jokes of poor taste, but they i surfaced —x---- > e for — xi the — -------- — est Grove, arrived Monday, up in a small Iowa town in after cancer set in, it was the Chuck, “especially if they'on "le income and number of second 1 x: time were soon muzzled. when his father, realizing his August 28, to take over the Decatur County. “Both our railroad that took care of us. weren’t too Interested in what P<?,sons *n the family and any you were trying to teach them ' unusualjiircumstances or hard- The only discordant note on. plight dove in after him, stop business, under the new name: families hau small farms and , Tragedy Turns Tables— which affect the family’s the show opening night. Sat-! ping only to throw his wallet “Mill City Shoe Repair.’” Those deaf kids really know I ships ' we did try a little farming In 1945, doctors had to urday, was buxom Betty Whit from his pocket. how to ‘turn you off'! But I ability to pay for school meals. The Umphress’ have sold ourselves when we were first ing. She can sing,—but why so . The young lad, who could the building and all the lea- married.” Nkdlie: “How did 1 putate Chuck’s leg to really felt great teaching 1 he information provided on loud? If she had plugged the( not swim, seemed none the ther repair stock and equip- we meet? Well, it was at a I the spread of the cancer, caus them,” he quickly adds. “One the application will be confi mike and just sang from the worse for his experience, al- ment to the new owners, Mr wedding his sister married my ed by the bruise in the mill of my ‘boys’ has his own shop dential and will be used only for the purpose of determin center of the stage, it would ( though he swallowed a lot of and Mrs. Richard Willeman. uncle please don’t ask me to 1 accident. now, and doing just great.” ing eligibility. “Shoe repair? Well, after have been loud enough for all water. The Willemans have no child- figure it out—anyhow, shortly “We’ve put in seven new I got out of the hospital and Under the provisions of the to hear. Just why do some en Mr. and Mrs. Zynda and a ren. The old Railroad depot after that wedding, we had | went to see about employ machines, and all kinds of policy, the principal of each tertainers think the audience is group of relatives had been still has the original destina- one of our own.” other new modern leather deaf? Maybe someday, they’ll picnicking at a county park tion sign and many of the old From that marriage back ment, they sent me to a re- equipment,” reminisces Nellie school will review applications learn to sing quietly and with when the near-tragedy occur- railroad appurtenances. The in the depression ’30s in the I habiliation class and I had a as she looks fondly around i and determine eligibility. If a dignity, like Mr. Ives. Willemans plan to keep and heart of lows farm country, choice—it was either shoes, their 'home-away-from-home! parent is dissatisfied with the red. Most people who attended j restore these to retain the old came six Umphress children: or machinery. I chose the "We had quite a line of spe ruling, he may make a re the Fair, were well pleased j homey railroad depot atmos Robert, a 20-year Chief Elec leather work and I haven’t cial logger’s boots at one time, quest either orally or in writ with the show and the dis-| Detroit Dam-Weather phere. tronics Specialist in the Navy, regretted it. I trained about and we still special-order for i ing for a hearing to appeal the Pool plays. It is good to have a big For some years, the depot now in Portland; Elva Jane three months, and then start those who want them.” decision Max. Min. Elev. Pep also housed Dick Turpin’s bar (McIntyre), whose husband is ed in a small shop in Corval Wesley Jahn, Superinten show of this type for all to Aug. 23 75 52 1560.47 0.00 ber shop. In the early days the a millwright in North Bend; lis, I wasn't anywheres neai Around her are racks and dent, whose address is Santi enjoy. Aug. 24 79 52 1560.25 0.00 railroad line went up to De Shelby, who has put in more ready, but the other guys in racks of heavy, woods-worn, am High School, Mill City, has Aug. 25 80 57 1559.80 0.00 troit. The line ended when the than 10 years as a Master town helped me a lot. And, of work-soft logging boots, in been designated as the Healing take some help but I can’t various stages of repair and Official. exception to the letter to the Aug. 26 87 56 1559.06 0.00 dam went in at Detroit and Sergeant in Air Force com course, I had Nellie with me I refinishing boots obviously 1558.85 92 59 0.00 Aug. 27 The policy also provides that editor we published last week, the right-of-way was flooded. munications; Marjorie (Drew) • she learned right along with ‘“not made for walkin’’ . . And written by Kathleen (Rose) Aug 28 95 61 1558.56 0.00 Now there’s only this little who work in Civil Service in me.” During the war, Nellie shoes, and dancing slippers, there will lie no identification Aug. 29 91 60 1558.23 0.00 piece of track and the build Eugene and whose husband also worked on quonset huts, of or discrimination against Eisele. and wallets, and belts and In one of her opening state ing—left. The train, which attends a church school near nailing together sections, and harness and tack and leather any student unable to pay the ments, she said that we all be by indulgent parents. The par hauls lumber from local mills by; Roland, 16 years in the taking care of six young child and nails and wax and leath full cost of a meal. A complete copy of the poli long to the Establishment, and ents couldn’t do it, as they did now terminates at Frank Army, now a Staff Sergeant ren who were still in school. er. . . , cy is on file in each school and “In 1947, we had to get out also made a remark about the not have the funds. I have Lumber, just west of town. in radar repair at Okinawa; ‘It Was All Worth It’ . . in the office of the District Su unemployment rate rising. This known you for many years, As with Chuck and Nellie, and David (with nine years of Corvallis—business just got They both look around slow perintendent at Santiam High may be true, Kathy, but when and feel that you had all the Richard and Marilyn will work of service in the Air Force), too good!” Chuck says quietly you said that there are “thou advantages any young person side by side in the shop, with now credit manager for while Nellie beams for that ly and nobody speaks. “Just School, where it may be re sands of people who are just could have had. I also realize the distaff side doing most of Freightliner Corp, in Van- statement is a tribute to the got a new pickup,” Chuck viewed by any interested pat dying to sweep floors for 50 that some of our youth do not the stitching and patching op couver, Wn. “All together, our fine quality craftsmanship brightens up. “Now all we ron. cents an hour,” you are away have these advantages. But erations. “But over the years, four boys have given 57 years this enterprising couple has need is the camper to go on out in left field. Have you tried on the other hand, they I learned to work all the ma of service to the United turned out over the past 25 top,'” and Nellie adds, “and Sears Franchise Folks we’re all set for our across- to hire anyone for 50 cents an can do a little more to help chinery in the place,” Nellie States Armed Forces," says years. hour lately? You can’t get kids themselves. We have govern- hastens to add proudly. Mari Nellie proudly. And she should To Mill City, 20 Years Ago— country trip. Where? Oh, back I Move to Mill City to do yard work for that. ment programs which are as lyn will probably do the same, be . . . From Corvallis, Chuck’s to the homestead in Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Nel- to look around, not to stay I am glad that you wrote useless as a second left leg. while Chuck and Nellie help '“We also have 27 grand Shoe Repair moved to Falls just artrl just incf trauiillini/ arnitnd and c nrl ’ son of Seaside have rented the travelling around your letter, and we are glad This is no fault of yours, and I the young couple get started children,” Chuck adds. “The City, Jefferson, and finally, and then maybe New England, former Metteer home on Hall to have the time to publish do not condemn the people who and settled. oldest is 19, Ronda McIntyre, in 1951, Chuck and Nellie ar Street. They will be opening your article, however we did hold these jobs. It will be up to Charles (Chuck) Umphress and the youngest, 4 years old, rived in Mill City. “We or seeing the country.” "The shoe business? It was the Sears Merchant Store ad make an exception, and will young people like yourself to is a bright-eyed, soft-spoken Frances, is Roland’s daughter, iginally set up shop in Dick probably never again utilize make the change to get rid of craftsman, whose 63 years in Okinawa. Once we had Morris place, where Stan all worth it, but I expect we’ll jacent to the U.S. National that much space for a letter of our welfare state, We have too don’t even show. Nellie, a few them all together—I’ll never Ogden has a photo shop now. I miss it. It will be good to loaf Bank building later this fall. The Nelsons said they liked any type. I feel that the youth many people on welfare who years younger, still looks the forget that," muses Chuck. Then, in 1953, we moved to I a little and work around the of our country have the right think it is a way of life. Good eager, excited bride who came “Neither will I!” Nellie has your shop (The Enterprise I house and garden. There are so the area very much and will to "speak out”, even though I luck, Kathy, and all you young to Oregon from Iowa with tens to add. office.)” All these years, Nel I many things we want to do and be looking forward to meeting more people when they open am positive they are wrong people who are trying to im Chuck and six children in Westward to Oregon— lie worked in the cannnery in places to see ...” their store. The business will And no two people are more many times, just as you feel prove the world. My only ad 1940. “No, never!” both ex Stayton to help the finances. In 1940. the Umphress fam that I am wrong in my beliefs vice to you is, keep your cool, claimed in one breath, when ily left the family farm in “In 1958, I thought I had a deserving of ‘loafing a little* be owned by them with a fran The trouble is, Kathy, that don’t turn to socialistic forms asked if they ever wanted to Iowa and re-settled on the good deal and we moved to than Chuck and Nellie Um- chise from Sears. Mr. Nelson was in the real many of your generation didn’t of government. Stick to the go back to live in Iowa. “Oh, coast near Florence. “We had Bend, but the Mill City folks phress, true American-Gothic live through the “dirty 30s” principles on which this coun we’re going to go back to visit some relatives there, and I got wanted us back so bad—D. B. couple. Their life-story is be estate business in Seaside and when people had nothing to try was founded, and you’ll real soon, but we sure don’t a job in one of the pulpwood Hill former bank president, coming a fast disappearing part Mrs. Nelson was a junior high school counselor for years. eat. They were not “spoon-fed” come out on top. want to stay there!" Helper? mills,” relates Chuck. “Then even gave us a month’s rent, of the American scene. 20 Years of Shoe Repairing Ends Emil Zynda Saves Son from Drowning School District 129J Sets Free-Reduced Meal Price Policy
