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VOLUME XXIV
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ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY—ORE GON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND
NUMBER 15
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THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGON THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1974
' Annual Easter i Now
roject In Operation
A.“2.™s I Egg Hunt Set
-J
For 1 p.m.
1974 Prom Queen
Project
Childfind
needs
your help. This is a state wide
(by George Long)
effort to locate and identify
I
school aged children who are
not currently receiving educa­
Those who have advocated
tional services of any kind.
extensive restrictions on the
A new Oregon Law, House
use of forest land for com­
The annual Easter Egg Hunt, Bill 2444, affirms the right of
mercial purposes have over­
looked the renewable qualities which is being sponsored this all school age youngsters (up
of this resource, as well as the year by the Jr. Woman’s Club, to age 21 for the handicapped)
many other attributes of wood will begin at 1:00 p.m. Easter I to benefit from free public ed­
Sunday in the city park.
ucation. This bill places upon
in an energy short era.
The hunt will be divided in­ school districts in Oregon the
Some of these attributes
have been summarized by the to five age groups — one year responsibility for surveying
head of a timber products com olds, two and three year olds, “Educational and other needs
pany. He noted that the hous­ four and five, six and seven of children who are not attend­
to ten year ing school, sufficient to enable
ing industry, with its low-en­ and the eight
the district board to determine
ergy requirements and high- group.
Prizes will be awarded for ' whether or not e need exists
employment impact, must re­
ceive special encouragement the most eggs found in each < for special p: ngrams of educa-
from government to help offset age group and a special prize tion and for corrective and re­
potential unemployment in in­ will be given for the child who lated services.”
If you are the parent of a
dustries related to petroleum I finds the “Golden” egg.
The 70 dozen eggs which child who is not receiving edu­
and other energy uses.
He
observed that wood products, have been donated by the San­ cational benefits, or if you
including paper and paper- tiam Chapter, AARP, and the know of such a child, please
tioard, may become replace­ Junior Woman’s Club, will be contact Rich Moore, counselor
ments for a huge volume of cooked and colored by the at Santiam High School.
plastic containers made from Senior Woman’s Club.
Boy Scout Troop *49 will be
petrochemicals.
There
are
many advantages in manufac- hiding the eggs. They will also
’uing building materials out of be helping with the clean-up.
Junior Woman’s Club mem­ I
wood. Producing a ton of lum
lier requires about 430 kilowatt bers in charge of the egg hunt
Queen Cathy Ohrt and her escort. Don Hoover.
hours of electricity or its equi­ are Mrs. Berry Drake and Mrs.
Cathy was chosen prom queen Saturday night at San­
valent as compared to 2,700 John Jerrim.
ta uni High School. Princesses Diane Wills and Mary
kwh for a ton of steel and
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17,000 kwh for a ton of alum-
Hamilton and their escorts completed the court.
■num. Wood is also a good in­ Information On Pre­
—Photo by Ogden Photography
The senior citizens bingo
sulating material. One inch of School Age Children
party, sponsored each month I
wood is four times as efficient
by the Junior Woman’s Club,
an insulator as cinder block, Needed By District
six times as efficient as brick,
The local school is in need will be held Wednesday, April
15 times as efficient as con­ of knowledge regarding pre-■ ’7, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m in the
crete or stone and 1,700 times school children who will be 1 Fellowship Hall of the Presby-
as efficient as aluminum.
enrolling in the first grade; terian Church.
next September. Information i The bingo parties are a free
Along the Columbia River, of how many students will be : community service to all sen-
north of Portland, one of the in school is essential in that1 >or citizens and prizes are
country’s largest nuclear pow­ the correct amount of learning | baked and donated by the club
Administrative School Dis-
er plants, being built by a ma-1 materials needed will be pur-1 members.
trict -129J will hold a budget
Any
jor electric company in th° chased and available on the ■ /
- senior citizen needing |
hearing Thursday, April 11,
region, is nearing completion.' opening day of school.
transportation to
the party j
(tonight) at 7:30 p.m. at the
Easter
Breakfast
chairman,
For an area of the country that, Persons knowing of a child may call Mrs John Jerrim at
Bill Beyer, indicated this Santiam High School.
is growing rapidly and has who will be six by November i 897-3167.
Any person may appear and
Hostesses for the April | week that those attending the
skirted the abyss of a critical! 15, 1974, would
be doing a
power shortage, the approach-1 service to the child and the i party are Mrs. Jerrim, Mrs. annual Easter Sunrise Break­ discuss the budget for the
ing completion of the most school by encouraging the 1 Doug Suckling and Mrs. Tom fast Sunday morning will en- fiscal year beginning July 1,
i joy delicious food and good 1974 and ending June 30, 1975.
aptly named Trojan nuclear parents to contact the school, i Jeleniewski.
' fellowship.
The budget summary was
facility is good news indeed. phone 897-2311, at their ear-
be served published in the Enterprise,
1 Breakfast will
When it goes on the line in liest convenience.
I from 7:00 to 11.00 a.m. with March 21.
July of 1975, the 1.13 million
individuals from various or-
kilowatt plant will operate at
I ganizations assisting at the
“full bore” to help meet the
| breakfast which is sponsored
energy needs of the Pacific
I by the Mill City Steering
Northwest.
I Committee.
A news story in the Oregon
' Advance ticket sales have
Journal raises a corner of the
i been in process the past few
curtain on the energy world of
' weeks. Tickets may also be
tomorrow in the course of a
The Mill City Ministerial j purchased at the door Easter
progress report on Trojan. ( DETROIT — The
annual
1 The Board of Directors of
Currently the plant is 77*7, I Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by Assn, has planned special serv- > morning.
| the Mill City Rural Fire Pro-
complete. Construction em-1 the Detroit Woman’s Civic ices in observance of Easter, j All proceeds from the break- i tection District will
hold a
ployment has reached a peak I Club will be held Easter Sun­ I Good Friday services will be I fast will^go towards the July , public hearing on Monday,
Fourth
Celebration
and
the
i
conducted
Friday
evening
at
'
’
< f 1,170 persons including 580 I day, April 14, at 1:00 p.m. on
I April 15, at 8:00 p.m. at the
pipefitters and electricians the grade school grounds for j 7:30 p.m. at the First Christian queen coronation expenses.
' Fire Hall to discuss the budget
The cost of the project has, pre-school children up through Church with communion at the
lor the fiscal year 1974-75 be-
close
of
the
service.
risen approx.mately $100 mil­ the fourth grade only.
Mill C i+y Weather I ginning July 1, 1974.
Sunrise services will be at Date
lion above the original esti- | Children w ¡1 be divided into
Interested persons may ap-
Hi
Lo
mate of $242 million. When three age groups with mem­ 6:30 a m. Easter Sunday morn­ March 31
i pear to discuss the budget and
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the plant is completed, it will i bers of the club supervising ing in the Presbyterian Church. April 1
i express their views.
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| Ministers and laymen will April 2
contain 2.5 million feet of I the event.
The budget summary was
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cable and wire. It will be run
Prize eggs will be marked | take part in the services and i April 3
[ published in the March 28 is-
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, everyone is welcome to at- ! April 4
by a permanent staff of 65— with money denominations.
i sue of the Enterprise.
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! tend.
a staff that is now receiving
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on-the-job training.
As the
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April 6
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various systems of the huge
Total Pep. for the week
project become operational,
Girl Of The Month
they are turned over to the
Boy Of The Month
permanent employees
who
then begin a long series of
checks to insure proper fun­
ctioning of all elements of each
i
New officers were nominated
system. Like a gigantic space­
DETROIT — The Detroit
at the Monday
night Lions
craft, each of Trojan’s systems High School senior class will
Club meeting conducted by
has three and four backup j
second vice-president, Dale
systems to provide absolute i sponsor a fishermens benefit
day
Kirsch.
and instant control of the en-1' breaklast
’J™“?1 on the opening
V
™
Officers nominated for the
tire process.
of trout 8eason’ April 27’ from
4:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
coming year are: president,
The Journal article observes'
The breakfast, consisting of
Bob Bryant; first vice-presi­
of Trojan, “Hopefully, next
pancakes, eggs and bacon, will
dent, Dale Kirsch; second vice-
year at this time, it will be put
be held in the elementary
president, Harry Nelson; third
into use and customers . . . school cafeteria. Charge for
vice-president, Dennis Corder-
will begin to receive the first
youngsters from 12 years of
man; secretary-treasurer, Fred
nuclear-produced
electric
age and under will be $1.00.
Krecklow; Lion tamer, Dan
Janies Douglas Rose
Christie May Spurgeon
power in Oregon." When that
adults $1.50.
Nugent; and tail
twister,
happens, Oregon and the Pa­
Proceeds will be used for
James Douglas Rose, a junior Charles Tate. Gale Larson was
Christie May Spurgeon has
cific Northwest will have the senior class graduation ac-
been chosen Girl of the Month at Santiam High School, has nominated to the board. Elec­
reached a new plateau of tech­
f ivities.
for March. Christie is a junior been chosen Boy of the Month tion of officers will be held at
nology to wnich the atom is
at Santiam High . School and for March. He is the son of the April 22 meeting.
slowly lifting American civil-
The club voted to have a
is the daughter of Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. James Rose of
ization, despite great obstacles Break-ins Solved On
Mrs. Ralph Spurgeon of Mill Mill City.
float in the July Fourth parade
thrown in its path by the
Recycling Center
Among his many activities and
has celected
Verlene
City.
skeptics and nonbelievers.
She has been very busy with are baseball, football statistic­ Peterman as their princess.
The Mill City Police De­
Guest speaker, Rich Moore,
partment reported this week school activities, among them ian and sports. I^ast year he
Correction
club. Wolverettes, was chosen Boj of the Month counselor at Santiam High
that three local juveniles had are pep
Proceeds ea-ned from the been apprehended in connec­ drama club and JV Rally. This in February. This year he is School, spoke to the club on
Donkey Basketball Game and tion with several break-ins at year she is a varsity cheerlead­ track and field manager, junior the “Project Childfind” and
er and was homecoming prin­ class president and in students what the local school district is
rr norted in last weeks Enter­ the Recycling ('enter.
doing to complete a “child cen­
prise as $127 O'i for the Canyon
The juveniles were turned cess. Christie plans to go to for action in education.
Jim plans on attending the sus” for the area.
Scholarship Fund was incor­ over to their parents. Author­ college at Merie Davis Busi­
The next regular meeting
rect. Amount realized from the ities Indicated the youths will ness College in Salem or Linn- U. of O after graduation from
game for the scholarship fund make restitution for damages Benton Community College in Santiam and major in socio­ will be Monday, April 22, at
logy
the Frontier.
was $178.00.
Albany
to the center.
! Senior Citizens
Bingo Party Set
For Wed., April 17
Easter Sunrise
Breakfast Set
For Sunday
I
Detroit Easter
Egg Hunt Sunday,
April 14 at 1 p.m
Breakfast To Be
Held April 27
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Good Friday
Services Set
Fire Dept. Hearing
Set For Mon. Night
July Fourth Princess
Athletic
Citizens Committee
Holds First Meeting
Banquet
Scheduled
The first meeting of the
Citizens Committee on Sewer­
age Problems was held at the
city hall Wednesday, April 3,
with most members present,
along with other interested
persons.
Mayor Clyde Bate and
Ted Wilson, head basket­
Councilman James Jaquette ball coach at Linfield College
were present to acquaint the will be the featured speaker,
committee with the work that at
... the
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annual athletic ____
banquet
has been done to date concern-j Thurs., April 18 at 7 p.m .at*the
ing the sewerage issue.
, GooiLuu
Santiam High School Cafe-
Vern Shaw was elected | teria. Mr. Wilson
has won
chairman of the group and seven titles and has made five
Alice Farmen, secretary.
I trips to the national tourna-
Councilman Jaquette read I ment in Kansas City. Linfield
correspondence to and from the
^or ^he conference title
the Mid-Wiilamette Valley i ^a^ year.
Council
of
Governments’! Teds teams have won 225
regarding the Mill City sewer-1 an<^
27 over the last 13
age problems. He also pointed J eaf5'
cut the issues to be studied and
This year’s banquet will
investigated and the work that feature the state champion
lay ahead in order to com­ < basketball team.
The boys and girls teams
pletely determine the sewer
will be presented by their re­
needs of the community.
coaches,
Michele
After long discussion on all i spective
phases of the issue, it was de- ■ Stickney, girls track and vol-
cided to meet again in the i | leyball; Jerry Gibson, football
near future to carry on with
with' I coach; Bid Sanders, basketball
! coach; Mike McClain, track
the plans.
I coach and John Jerrim, base­
The meeting was adjourned' ball coach,
at 9:30 p.m.
1 The varsity
1
and JV cheer­
leaders will be presented by
their advisor Mrs. Jane Pum-
phry. The Wolverettes, coach­
ed by Mrs. Stickney, will also
be in attendance.
Both fathers and mothers
are invited to the banquet. The
fried chicken dinner will cost
I $2.50 a person.
Two Local
Lmbr. Firms
Take Bids
DETROIT — Two
North
Santiam Canyon lumber firms
bid a total of $7,253,596.82 for
an estimated 22,600,000 board
feet of Willamette National
F orest timber in two sales, con­
ducted at Detroit Ranger Sta­
tion Friday.
Freres Veneer, Lyons, was
the successful bidder at $6,-
302,211.86 for an estimated
17,200.000 board feet of tim­
ber in the Woodpecker No.
Three Timber Sale. The firm
bi<_ $388 per thousand for 15,-
700 MBF of Douglas-Fir adver­
tised at $121.08 per M, $258.92
above the advertised rate. Fif­
teen hundred MBF of Western
Hemlock and other coniferous
species sold at the advertised
rate of $92.50 per 1,000. The
firm was one of 13 oral board
bidders. Included in the sale
were 233 acres of all species of
logs advertised at $308.42 per
acre. The western Hemlock and
other coniferous species and
the all species log acreage sold
at fixed rates. The sale is lo­
cated
approximately
eight
miles east of Idanha via Road
1054.
Young & Morgan Inc., Mill
City, was th- successful bid­
der at $951,384 96 for an esti­
mated 5,400,000 board feet of
federal timber, in the timber
Butte No. Two Timber Sale.
The firm bid $186 per thou
sand for 2,700 MBF' of Dou­
glas Fir advertised at $85.79
per M, $100.21 above the ad­
vertised rate. Twenty seven
hundred MBF
of Western
Hemlock and other coniferous
species advertised at $47.36 per
thousand sold for $166 per
1,000, $118 64 above the adver­
tised rate.
Included in the sale were 216
acres of all species logs adver­
tised at $4 56 per acre. There
were ten qualified board bid­
ders.
The sale is located approxi­
mately eight miles Northeast
of Idanha via Road 1071.
Detroit Dam-Weather
Max.
Mln.
Pool
Elev.
Pep
36 1535 88 0.44
Apr. 3
43
45
37 1535.65 0.17
Apr. 4
55
39 1535.04 0.29
Apr. 5
49
Apr. 6
40 1534 54 0.46
40 1534.41 0.20
Apr. 7
49
1534.16 0.00
Apr. 8 58
42
37 1533.77 0.38
55
Apr 9
1.94”
Total Pep. for Week
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Choralaires To Be
At AARP Meeting
The Choralaires, a group of
25 women singers from Salem,
will furnish entertainment at
the Santiam Chapter, AARP
meeting April 23 at 8:00 p.m.
at the Santiam High School au­
ditorium. The public is invited
to attend and AARP is extend­
ing a special invitation to the
Junior Woman’s Club in ap­
preciation of their efforts for
senior citizens in the commun­
ity. A free will offering wili
be accepted to help defray ex­
penses for the group.
The AARP meeting will start
promptly at 7:00 p.m.
Wesley Jahn, Supt. of School
Dist. 129J, will be present to
answer ques‘ions on the school
budget.
Members should note the
change of date to the 23rd,
Tuesday, instead of the regu­
lar meeting date of Wednesday.
April 24.
Upper Canyon Egg
Hunt Set For Sat.
An old fashioned Faster Egg
Hunt will be held Saturday,
April 13, at the Marion Forks
Campground. The hunt will
start promptly at 11:00 a.m.
to 2:00 p.m.
All children in the canyon
area, age 12 and under, are in­
vited to participate. A separate
section will be set aside for
toddlers and prizes will be
awarded.
The hunt will take place,
rain or shine, according to the
sponsors, Marion Forks Inn.
New High School
Switchboard and
Night Hours Given
Santiam High School has in­
stalled a new switchboard and
the night hours are 4:15 p.m.
through 7:45 am each school
day. Saturday, Sunday and
holidays.
Residents may call the fol­
lowing
places:
Mill
City
Elementary school office, 897-
2313; Santiam high school of­
fice, 897-2312; clerk’s office,
897-2311. During school hours,
please call 897-2311 as usual.