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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1973)
As you live and breathe If the number following your name on The En terprise label reads 12-73 i+'s time to send a check for renewal. DATSUN SERVICE AND REPAIR AH Work Goanntrnd aad yw SATE 38% OB Saks Price. Call 897-2062 r to Chnstiiiiix Seals Be Sure And Reserve NOW Your Table Now I zs for New Years Eve ?ÎTK FAMILY«* U LAWYER Jl 1 School Lundi Menu We will be serving dinners from 5:00 p. m. to 10:00 p. m. New Years Eve Buffet Midnight till 2:30 a. m. All You Can Eat Call 897-2960 For Reservations New Winter Hours Wed. & Thurs., Dinners Served 5 till I I p.m Friday and Saturday •The MID Qty Entcrprwr, Thursday. 6, 1973 the woman. In the charcoal-makers sim THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE ple hut he found the young mother and babe asleep. He P. O. BOX 348 PHONE 897-2772 MILL CITY. ORE. 97389 blessed them and went into ’ Published at Mill City, Marion County, Ore. every Thsmday the starry night. The valley i Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Postoffice at Mill below was calm and bright City, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1878 That night he couldn’t sleep! - the young mother—the babe. , ■ The Mill City Enterprise assumes no financial responsibility He got up and found his desk, About Your Collision Insurance for errors in advertisements It will, however reprint Gordon parked his car next thinking — silent night, holy without charge or cancel the charge for that portion of an by Hasel Hayes night all is calm, all is bright. to an apartment house, un advertisement which is in error if The Enterprise is at fault Early Christmas morning he aware that a burglary was tak An Independent newspaper, dedicated to the development t Night Holy Night Perhaps there is no more took his poem to Franz Gru ing place Inside the building. of the timber industry and agriculture in this area. ber the school master who The burglar leaped from a beautiful song than this. second-story window, landed Up in the mountains from played the church organ. "Do you think you could on top of Gordon's car, and Salzburg. Austria lies the Oregon small village of Hallein. The write some music to this?" made good his escape. Newspaper Gordon, however, wasn ’ t so little steepled church is nestl and he gave him the verses, Publisher« Franz read them carefully lucky. His jumped-on car ed among ;he red-roofed cot Association tages and said “Yes. I think I needed $180 worth of repairs, It was Christmas eve and could” and sat down imme- I Was he entitled to collect in- SUBSCRIPTION RATES Joseph Mohr was busy prepar diately to set the words to 1 surance for the loss? “Sorry.” said the insurance __ -$4-5C ing his Christmas sermon, music. Marion-Linn Counties, per year__________ company, “ but you are not “I would like to use it in when he heard a gentle tap on ......$5.00 Outside Marion-Linn Counties, per year — covered. You do have col- his study door .A peasant wo the service today.” $5.50 Outside Oregon, per year - lision insurance, but this was "But the organ needs re man stood there, saying I not a collision. ” Editor and Publisher "Could you please cime up pair. Sometimes i it doesn’t GEORGE LONG________ I However, when Gordon took RAYMOND E PRESLER ________________ Printer on the mountain side to bless piay - Society and News Editor ’Then we’ll use the guitar. the matter to court, the judge I NORMA LONG a new baby who came this ____ Local News Editor ROSE CREE ._ When the old man who re ruled in his favor. morning’" ____ Local News Editor MARY KELLY Father Mohr needed to work paired organs came up into the mountains from Salzburg on his sermon. But, yes, he CORRESPONDENTS would come He trudged along Father Mohr showed him the ______________________ Boots Champion ! Detroit-Idanha through the fresh snow behind new song. He liked it He lik ___ ____________________ __ Joyce Presler . Gates _ ed it very much and asked _________________________ Eva Pr e mier I Lyons _ them to play and sing it Mrs. John Teeters - J e a n Roberta Mehama eral times. “Would you copy it for you’ Monday. December It GREATEST WINGS "Ach. nein.” said the Spaghetti gentleman “I can remember Spinach it.” Garlic French Bread While he went back down Applesauce the mountain, he sang the Coconut Cookie beautiful song over and over Milk "Collision.” said the judge, to himself. The neighborhood Tuesday. December 11 children came out to meet him "means the impact of objects Weiner and Bun through one of such objects as he sang it to them. Buttered Corn A family of glove makers moving against the other” and Mixed Fruit had four children who were this incident fitted that des Ice Cream very musical. During the cription. Milk winter they all worked mak- i Most motorists carry at least Wednesday. December 12 ing gloves. And in the summer' some collision insurance, Vegetable Soup the family hiked over Austria Typically, this covers the dam- Peanut Butter Sandwich and up into Germany singing age done when one car bumps Vegetable Lemon Jello songs and selling gloves. i another. However, it has often Salad This new Christmas song been held to ex.end to more Chocolate Pudding Cake they liked especially and they unusual situations. Milk sang it often m the villages. ' One motorist collected colli- Thursday. December 13 Other» learned it and it finally . sion insurance when his car Tuna Over Rice reached Berlin. ' hit a mailbox by the side of Peas Some years laier the Kaiser: the road; another, when his All Bran Muffins wanted a new hymn book com- car rolled into an open eleva- Fruited Jello piled and asked his concert- tor shaft and fell to the bot- Ice Cream master to do it The concert- tom; another, when his car Milk master had heard some chil- ■ rammed into the curb Friday. December 14 I dren sing the new song and Nevertheless, there are lim- Barbecue Hamburgers wanted to use it in the hymn its. In one case, the paint on Potato Chips book. When the Kaiser looked a man’s car was damaged Green Beans it over he said. “Gut,” but here when he ran into a hailstorm. Cubed Jello Salad is a song without the com I He insisted that this was cov- Regular Milk or | ered by his collision insur poser’s’ name. Chocolate Milk “I do not know who wrote ance. because his car had “collided" with the pellets of NEED JOE PRINTING’— it" "Then find out. Do not come ice. See The Mill City Enter But the court decided this back until you have it.*" prise. Top Quality Printing Next week the concertmas was stretching language too priced right Fast service ter finds it with the help of far. Tossing out his claim, the too. Phone 897-2772 . court said: a bird.) “We do not speak of falling POOR MAN’S BEST FRIEND bodies, such as sleet or hail, Even though our nation has unsurpassed opportunities as ‘colliding’ with the earth. In common parlance, the ap- and facilities for education, we remain poor in teaching a . pie falls to the ground; it does fundamental American concept: our business system. Through I not collide with the earth ” the years it has reduced poverty and raised our standard of living to the highest of any large nation in the world. Even among the higher echelons of learning, the true purposes and objectives of business profit have been grossly misinterpreted. The truth is that profit does not cause high prices. The profit incentive saves consumers money because it stimulates competition which results in the lowest possible prices for the highest possible quality products. Legitimate profit is the greatest engine of human better ment ever devised by man. It is the poor man’s best friend. The only way we can live better is by producing more DEAR EDITOR: for each other—not by trying to get what we want by forced extraction from each other with no equal value supplied in Would you please, tell the return. public about some of the prob lems in maintaining the Fair view Cemetery. Mr. Kaplinger need of repair. Some people prefer to take took care of it for many years without complaining, but I the grass off the graves. Per _____ _________J feel the public would like to I sonally, I like the grass as the help if they understood some fresh dirt looks too much like a freshly dug grave. However, of the problems. The worst problem is plas if they do remove the sod, tic flowers. One nice wreath they must haul it away. Last or arrangement at the head of year, some people threw rocks the grave is air.ght. I can re and sod into the long grass move it, lay on headstone and and I had to pick them out replace after mowing. They by hand before my husband should be fastened down with could mow. In the summer when dirt is twine or coat hanger. Yester day, I found many flowers dry, the dust flies clear over blown all over the cemetery. his head as he trys to mow As most were faded or muddy around the fresh dirt. Grass and I didn’t know where they planted on the graves looks so belonged. I threw them away. much better and the loose dirt Loose flowers stuck into the attracts many weed and black-i If car and home insurance ground are soon hidden by berry seeds. by high grass Last Memorial We hope to have it all mow-1 seem like a big item in your Day many were hidden in the ed before the Christmas budget, maybe it’s because grass before weather permit wreaths are put on the graves you’re wasting money on ted mowing and the wire but the weather certainly is the wrong kind or amount stems became entangled in the not cooperating. of coverage. Too little pro mower. If anyone has any questions, tection is just as wasteful Nothing is supposed to be they may call me at 897-2682. as buying more protection planted and no holes dug for than you actually need. Sincerely, cans The mower drops into That’s where the profes the holes and is continually in EVELYN HARLAN Christmas with an unusual gift YOt/R LAND AND MY LAND" 5 p.m. 'till I a. m. Sunday Buffet 5 p.m. 'till I I p.m. CLOSED—Monday and Tuesday DAN & DINAH S FRONTIER INN Gates, Oregon □ Are you sure you re not wasting money on your car and home insurance? GIFTS UNUSUAL Extend yourself and save this —the extension telephone. Few gifts are as helpful and thoughtful as a private extension phone...the practical gift with a personal touch. ' ft helps you accomplish more, in less time, and costs only pennies per day. And it’s repaired at no additional cost! Styles for any decor are available ’ from our ‘room decorator’ collection. Mediteranean, Modern, Early American even Antique. And the Candlestick telephone, too. B’s tehtonaply old-fashioned, like the Candlestick phones of the thirties. For further information on a gift unusual for your home, cal« your business office. They’ll be glad to help. E tf i j — - ■ ■______ ■■— F !-i» II i- -A vofiivwniCN mepnone or me nui mwesi h h sional advice of an indepen dent agent can often save you plenty. In premium dollars — and future re grets. We are the indepen dent representative of sev eral insurance companies, the one the best So call ua, or come in soon And let’s talk over your present and future insur ance needs. Jerry Pittam ($) Insurance