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NUMBER S
ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY—OREGON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND
THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGON THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1974
Albany Boy
Retiring Councilman Honored
Ham Dinner
Tickets on Sale
(by George Long)
$5.00 a YEAR — 15c a Copy
Councilman Brunner Resigns
After Seven Years Service
Advance ticket sales are
now underway for the annual
ham dinner next Thursday,!
At the Wednesday, Jan. 9,
Jan. 24, at the Santiam High I iimoil
J ,
School cafeteria. Dinner will council mantinrf
meeting, Mnvnr
Mayor CM
Clyde
be served from 5:30 to 7:30' ®ate rea<? a ^T.tter.
resigna-
tion to be effective Jan. 10
p.m.
Councilman
Adolph
Ticket chairman, Bill Byer, from
said tickets can be purchased Brunner. Adolph said he wish
at any of the following busi ed to spend more time travel
nesses: U. S. National Bank, ing and, with other business
Western Auto, Mill City En committments, he felt he did
terprise, Stewart’s Grocery, not have the time to devote to
council position.
Mill City Pharmacy, Sears the Mayor
Bate praised Mr.
Store and Hilltop Market.
Brunner
for
the past seven
Tickets are $2.25 adult, $1.25
service he had given the
for children under 12 and a years
city council and also stated he
family ticket is $7.50.
would be missed greatly.
Dinner
chairman
Betty
Mayor Bate appointed John
Plotts said the dinner will in- Wills to street commissioner
I elude ham, mashed potatoes and said that the city would be
I and gravy, green beans, a accepting applications for a
choice of salads, hot rolls, cof councilman to fill the position
fee, punch and dessert. There of sanitation.
will be generous servings to
Council members feel that
satisfy the heartiest of appe this is an important job as
tites.
there are many new rules be
All proceeds from the din ing set up for the state and
ner, sponsored by the Santiam counties. Also, with approx
Booster Club, will go to the imately three more hearings
Canyon Scholarship Fund. due for Mill City on the possi
Each year two students from bility of a sewer system com
the Santiam High School grad ing up for a vote.
uating class are awarded can
In other council action, they
yon scholarships. These are recommended that the new or
made possible by community dinance on trailer homes be
supported projects such as the sent back to the planning com
Santiam Booster Club ham mittee for some minor changes.
dinner.
The moratorium on ordin-
A full scale search was
ance #107 dealing with mobile
Since beginning its sainted j launched again last Saturday
— Olli
. _____i
homes : in
Mill City ___________
was extend
crusade in the name of ecolo for the body of Albany teen
ed until April 1, 1974, hoping
gical purity, the Environmen ager, Neil Farmen, who appar
that the new ordinance would
tal Protection Agency’s modus ently drowned in the Santiam
be ready at that time.
ope ranch has been more in the River Christmas day. Young
There were four Mill City
nature of a juggernaut.
! Farmen was fishing alone
residents present at the meet
Anyone daring to challenge near the br.dge here when he
ing.
the motives of EPA clearly was disappeared. A passing motor
against a clean environment ist spotted a body floating in
and for the ugly misuse of na- the river that afternoon.
Ten divers from the Salem
ture’s blessings.
The pendulum has begun to Aqua Club participated in the
futile search Saturday. Jerry
swing, however.
EPA’s devastating and dicta Miller, one of the Aqua Club
torial decisions are under divers, said they began search
court attack, and growing pub ing about 9:00 a.m. and gave
lic disaffection. Orders which up at 1:00 p.m. after scouring
would bring reasonable econ the river from here to Me
omic development throughout hama. The water level was
the nation to a standstill have down several feel as the Army
been exposed as capricious, Corps of Engineers had begun
and founded more in fantasy holding it back at Detroit Dam
early Saturday morning to as
than fact.
Adolph Brunner is shown with cake
sist searchers.
For the first time in over
But EPA’s attack has not
gresented to him by fellow council mem-
Also assisting in the search
five years, Santiam is ranked
been against man alone. Nature were 25 employees of PP&L
era, city employees and their wives at
in the top 10-A schools in the
also has been
offended by and several family friends. The
last
weeks council meeting. Mr. Brunner
state for basketball. This week,
EPA’s dicta.
missing boy’s father, Frederick
has served seven years as a council mem
the Wolverines moved up from
In the Pacific Northwest, an Farmen, is a lineman for
number six to number five in
ber
and
street
commissioner.
He
submitted
of
estimated 700.000 acres
PP&L.
the ratings.
his resignation last week. Enterprise photo
choice forest has been system
Coach Sanders believes that
atically defoliated by a ruin
this is one of the best teams
ous infestation of the tussock
Santiam has ever produced. If
moth — brought on by EPA’s
Santiam wins the Trl-River
ban on the use of DDT.
Conferenne, they will automa
The Department of Agricul
tically go into the state play
ture estimates that upwards of
offs. This would also make the
DETROIT — Brian Smith
$48 million in damage and ex
first time in a number of years
DETROIT — The Detroit
pense has been caused by the and Randy Roth collected 18
Santiam has made it to the
High Cougars got a 32 point
tussock moth invasion, and and 17 points respectively to
playoffs.
scoring
performance
from
left the defoliated areas vul give Detroit a 63-54 basketball |
But, Santiam needs help to
nerable to soil erosion and new win over Scio here Tuesday of
__ ____________
The ____
Santiam
Wolverines Brian Smith here Friday night
get into the state playoffs,
last week. Leading al scorers I won their second league game and easily won their Casco
fire hazards.
your help. In a team meeting
From a naturalist’s view in the non-league encounter I in two starts, as they beat the League basketball game with
last Friday, the players dis
Oregon
School
for
the
Deaf
of
The
point — and one which EPA was Scio’s Gregg McDonald } Jefferson Lions, 43-34.
cussed
the importance of
game was played at Jefferson Salem 101 to 41.
would be expected to share — with 25 points.
school and town support. It
OSDS
41
—
Magar
4,
Martin
5,
The
Cougars
took
an
early
on Friday.
the moth's attack has left some
was felt that the support San
and
maintained
it
Both teams played an even Traeger 14, McKenzie 12, Wei
of the northwest's most spec lead
tiam has received in the past
mer
2,
Spicer
2,
Williams
2.
tacular 100-year-old douglas throughout the game for the first half, as the Wolverines
years has diminished. The
Mill
City
Lions
Club
mem
Detroit 101 — Roth 16, Gar
took a 22-21 halftime lead. The
fir trees dying. Thus, EPA’s victory.
bers met Monday evening, players felt that the school and
dner
19,
WiJJiamson
21,
Monroe
Scio
54
—
McDonald
25.
Orts
> third quarter ended in a 29-29
consuming addiction to the ban
Jan. 14, with a dinner meeting, town support helps the team
of DDT has done spectacular 2, Bishop 6. Lassetter 4, Cloud tie, but the Wolverines came 9, Smith 32, Higginbotham 4.
along greatly.
at the Frontier Inn.
Halftime
score
—
Detroit
47
7, Bolman 2, Miller 7, Rowland to life in the fourth as they
violence to nature.
So come to games and sup
President
Blakely
presented
to 18.
The Mill City School Board
outscored the Lions, 14-5.
EPA has had little evidence 1.
100% attendance awards for port your team. It can be as
Total
fouls
—
Deaf
School
held
their
regular
monthly
Detroit
63
—
Rick
Roth
5,
Santiam shot an impressive
to stand so pat on the use of
26, Detroit 16. Fouled out, Mc meeting on Thursday, Jan. 10, the 1972-73 year. Those in at sured that Santiam will pro
DDT, an insecticide which was Randy Roth 17, Monroe 9, 45% from the field but only Kenzie, Spicer, Roth.
8:00 p.m. at the Santiam High tendance to receive their vide excellent and exciting
made a bogeyman in Rachael Smith 18, Lynn 12, William shot 38 times. Santiam was
Alsea will host Detroit Fri School. The meeting was called award were: Martin Hansen, games on their way to a pos
weak on rebounding as they
Carson’s misguided ‘‘Silent son 2.
day,
Jan. 18. Then on Jan. 25, to order, but reading of the John Fohl, Wes Jahn, George sible state birth. But remem
Halftime
score
—
Detroit
33
only collected 28. Free trow
Spring" Early last year, af
Detroit
will play Mohawk minutes was dispensed with Long and Fred Krecklow. ber, they need your support.
Scio
26.
shooting was again on the poor
ter 81 days of hearings at
Other members receiving the
there.
JV
games begin at 6:15 because of the busy agenda,
Total fouls Scio 17, Detroit side as the Wolverines only
which 125
witnesses filled
award, but unable to be pres
p.m. and varsity at 8 p.m.
16.
Fouled
out
—
Cloud,
Smith
representatives
were
Four
shot
56%.
nearly 10,000 pages with testi
ent were Burton Boroughs,
and
Rick
Roth.
present
from
different
bus
The Santiam scoring was
mony, the hearing examiner
Vern Rush, Mel Rambo and
companies that had submitted Don
supplied by Gary DeMain and
ruled that “DDT is not a car
Moffatt.
bids on the new 1974 72-pass-
| Roger Davidson. They both
cinogenic hazard to man”.
Lion PresidentaDick also re
enger conventional bus to be ported
I
ed
nine
and
six.
Roger
David-
that the s Jiall American
But EPA banned DDT, and
purchased for the district. The
The JFK Freshman team
I Santiam’s next game will be
flags
have
arrived, and they
wouldn’t budge, despite pleas
bid was awarded to Barrett
ed nine and six. Roger Ravid-
outscored
the
Santiam
will
be
given
to
the
first
grad
from an assortment of agricul
Brothers of Albany. The bus
son led Santiam rebounding
Freshman team 36-7 in the
ers
on
Washington
’
s
Birthday
tural and forestry interests
body will be of the design
with nine.
first half and went on to de
who warned of insect inva
submitted by Superior Co. and along with a small program feat the Wolverines 55-27 in a
Santiam
’
s
nedt
game
will
be
on what the flag represents.
sions.
Friday, Jan. 18. The Wolver
Mt. Angel
DETROIT — Vandalism ls the chassis will be made by
President Dick also said league game at
The ill-fated EPA decision
ines will face the Salem Aca apparently on the increase in International. The bid accept- there would be a board meet Monday.
now has come home to roost in
Crusaders at Salem. the upper canyon area, Four el was a joint one by the two ing at his home on Monday, i ‘ This was Santiams first
i demy
the forests of Washington,
companies
totaling Jan. 21, at 6:30 p.m. and alii game of the year and it was
Come if you can.
windows were broken in the above
Oregon and northern Idaho.
Santiam ___ 10 17 7 14—43 Detroit City
Hall Monday $14,278.00. The 1974 bus will members are invited to attend. | the sixth game of the year for
The Pacific Legal Fund has
5—34 night, Jan. 14. Nothing appear replace a 1962 conventional In The next regular meeting will I JFK.
DETTROIT — Residents in I Jefferson ..... 9 12 8
joined with small forest own
Santiam 43 — Plotts 9, Bry ed to be missing. State police ternational bus. The new bus be Jan. 28 at the Frontier Inn
The Wolverines played the
i the Upper North Santiam Can
ers and lumbering firms and i ,
will be delivered sometime in at 6:30 p.m.
Trojans
even in the second
ant
6,
DeMain
12,
Davidson
12,
are
investigating.
filed a major lawsuit against yon are feeling the pinch of M. DieMain 4.
half, outscoring them 20-19.
A number of residents have October. Money for the bus is
gas
shortage.
EPA, demanding damages and
Jefferson 34 — Hart 13 reported gas has been stolen already available through a
Santiam was led by an out
Berry’s Shell Service Station Keith
a court order freeing DDT for
rotating bus fund.
standing performance by Don
4,
Z.
McClain
1.
Girt
4,
and
one
homeowner
reported
I
Dog Control Officer More. More scored 19 points
use to stop the tussock moth’s at Detroit ran out of gas Mull 3, Rosenblatt 2, Bergh 5, a compressor and a deer head
Other action taken was the
rapacious appetite for the for- I Thursday of last week and did T. McClain 2.
grabbed 15 rebounds.
an
advisory
was
taken
recently
from
his
acceptance
of
: not receive another supply un-
In Mill City Saturday and
est.
Santiam’s main downfalls
committee for the “Right to
garage.
I til Monday. He said his
The Marion
County Dog were their turnovers and poor
The suit does not hang its weekly quota for January is
The Idanha fire hall report Read” program. This is in ac
hat on economic self-interest | 1600 gallons of gas and that
ed missing a large quantity of cordance with the state regula Control Officer will be In Mill shooting. Santiam had a total
alone.
fuel oil which is being investi tions. On the committee are City at the City Hall Satur of 30 turnovers. They hit only
I he pumps approximately 300
gated.
Wesley Jahn, Carole Twede day, Jan. 19, between 9:00 a.m. 33% of their field goal at
“The infestation (of the tus . gallons a day. He said, at the
Obscene phone calls have al (teacher of
the program), and 12:00 noon. Dog licenses! tempts and only 41% of their
sock moth) poses a health haz ' present he figured his quota
so been reported by several Doris Sheythe, Helen Cox, may be purchased during this, freethrows.
ard to man himself . . . Larvae for February would not be any
Santiam
4 3 6 14—27
Detroit residents recently.
Burton Boroughs and Frank time.
generate and spread fine and ■ better. There is only one serv-
Licenses are $4.00 for all JFK
18 18 10 7—55
Stromquist. One more person
irritating hairs which are car | ice station here. Idanha, with
Santiam 27 — More 19, Clark
IDANHA — Mills in the
from the community has yet dogs and, after March 1, there
ried great distances . . . Aller ' only one service station also,
is an additional $10.00 penalty. 3, Larsen 1, Ohrt 2, Halligan 2.
to be named.
gic reaction to the moth’s .3
¡s experiencing the same Idanha area resumed opera
Stray dogs will also be taken
JFK 55 - Key 4, Syra 10,
tions
Monday
following
a
‘spun glass’
causes painful problem. Both
Permission was granted for
stations are
welts, itching rashes, caughing, selling to only regular custo closure Wednesday of last
the Seventh-day Adventist at this time and delivered to Burnt 2, Schmidt 4, Beyer 6,
the Humane Society at no! Rash 10, Parra 15, Dolan 2,
week. Some half dozen mills
vomiting, lung congestion and mers, it was reported.
Church to use one of the class charge.
Heath 2.
in
the
North
Santiam
Canyon
eye swelling . .
rooms
for
a
smoking
clinic
to
IDANHA — In a special
School Supt. Ron Wilkerson
The suit charges that defo said the only problem they are closed due to recent cold wea emergency meeting Monday start Feb. 3
and continue
liated trees “cannot properly experiencing at the present, in ther, throwing more than 400 I night, Jan. 4, Idanha City through the 7th. Time is 6:00
diminish the forces of wind, keeping the school buses run employees out of work. Some ’ Council adopted a resolution to to 7:00 p.m. At a later date a
Student Body Officers
rain and snow. Ground cover ning, is a time factor.
Pr°bl:rnS<
aUri'1 authorize Mayor Lynn Wil- nutrition course will also be
buted to ponds freezing over' liamson and city recorder Reba held. It will be one or two
is torn off by snowmelt and
and logs actually freezing. Of i Snyder to sign necessary pa nights a week for a period of
heavy rain. Dependent plant
ficials at the state employ pers in behalf of the city In five or six weeks.
and animal life do not obtain Steering Commitfee
ment service in Salem said an agreement
necessary support. The result
between and
Due to the rising cost of
that more than 425 workers with the State
is a desert . . .”
Meeting January 16
of Oregon, gasoline, field trips for the
filed
claims
for
unemployment
As the prestigious national
The Mill City Steering Com
through its department of elementary and high school
financial newspaper Barron’s mittee held their first meeting benefits.
transportation, highway divi
Only maintenance workers sion, in regard to the up-com will be limited to a round trip
said in an editorial, “What is of the year Wednesday, Jan.
of not more than 80 miles.
remained
on
the
job.
perhaps most
alarming is 1«, at 8:00 at the home of Bill I
ing project
of the Church This will be for the remainder
Stuckart
Lumber
Co.
re
I
EPA’s ignorance which, in un Byer.
Street Bridge within the city. of this year and next year.
operations
Monday
holy alliance with its arro
AH representatives of the i sumed
This action is a result of the
Discussion was held con
gance. has wrought untold various organizations as well morning, and Green Veneer, city’s application for financial
Tnc.
and
U.
S.
Plywood
harm.”
as the Interested public were
assistance under ORS 366.800 cerning the national change to
(Champion International) be and 366.805, whereby deserv Daylight Saving Time. It was
urged to attend.
gan operations with swing ing cities may be granted as decided that only about three
shifts Monday afternoon.
much as $25,000 for major weeks remained before it
Santiam AARP
project street repair or im would be daylight when bus
When Walking
provement. On Dec. 19, 1973, pickups were made. Therefore,
■ Wear Light Clothing
Detroit Dam - Weather ;:.J Oregon Transportation no time change would be
To Hold Meeting
i
Pool
Parents are reminded that
Commission
approved
the made. However, possibility of
The Santiam Chapter of the
__ their children should be
Max. Mln. Elev
city’s application. The City of n next fall time change is
AARP will hold this month’s wearing some article of light Jan. 9
32
18 1465 06
Idanha has budgeted $10,000 probable.
meeting in the Eagle’s Hall, clothing if they are walking Jan. 10 30
17 1461.30
of city funds to this project.
A motion was passed to pur
Mill City, with a potluck din to school in the mornings.
Jan. 11 31
18 1457.43
Also, at the special meeting, chase 155’ of 6’ cyclone fence
ner beginning at 6:30 p.m,
Due to the daylight saving Jan. 12 38
19 1455.81
Elected recently as student body officers,st Mill
the city council discussed the to be installed by Sears. Cost
Wed.. Jan 23
time, it is dark and the young- Jan. 13 43
35 1456.56
survey of the streets in the old is $413 00 as it is now on sale. City Elementary school are left to right}:1 president,
A business meeting will fol-, I ___________________
___ __ Jan. 14 52 38 1459 48
sters are hard to see, _ t particu-
part of the town and the pro
low and recreation is planned j larly on the streets'"where1 Jan. 15 61
44 1470.81 4.03 posed Main Street work to im The installation will take place David Wright; vice-president, Randy Neal; advisor, Al
vhen the walkway has been Glover; secretary, Susan BudJong and Sgt at arms,
for members and their friends. (there are no sidewalks.
1 Total Pep. for Week.......... .8.23 prove drainage on that street. I eadied for use.
Steve Richards.—The MSI Ctty Enterprise photo.
xaz
Detroit Dumps
Scio 'Five' 63-54
Wolverines Cougars
Wn ln
League Play
Stop Lions
Upper Canyon
Area Vandalism
On The Increase
Gas Pinch
Felt In Upper
Canyon Area •
Mills In Canyon Area
Resume Operations
Idanha Council Holds
Special Meeting
District 129 J
To Purchase
School Bus
z
a
Wolverines
Listed Among
Top Ten
Lions Club To Give
American Flags To
First Graders
Frosh Lose To
Kennedy 55-27