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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1974)
GATES "YOUR LAND AND MY LAND THE FAMILY LAWYER Joyce Premier — «197-2707 Visiting with Glen and Lola Hcnness from May 28 through June 5 were Lola’s cousin and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Arden Hall Blind Corner— from Sacramento, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Geston Alex dutifully halted his car travelled to Cottage Grove on Friday, June 7 to visit with i at the stop sign. At that point, their son and family, Mr. and i which was about 30 feet back Mrs. Charles Geston. Many from the corner, his vision of friends were also visited before the intersection was blocked leaving for home on Saturday, by some high bushes. Never theless, he moved briskly into June 8. Spending Sunday, June 9, the crossing. Result: a collision with a car with Clare and Margaret Rush were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rush coming along the other street Was Alex guilty of negli from Corvallis and Mr. and Mrs. Gary Keenan. The Keen gence? He insisted that he was an’s (Ruth is the Rush’s grand not, pointing out in a court daughter) graduated from hearing that he had brought Eastern Oregon College on his car to a full stop at the June 1. They are planning on sign. "That’s all the law requires,” living in Terrance, B. C., Can ada. Mrs. Vera Rush graduted he said. "I stopped, looked, and from Lynn-Benton on June 7. listened at the designated place.” She is Ruth's mother. But the court found him Mrs. Velma Carey left with anyhow. Mr. and Mrs. Don Carey of i guilty _ of negligence _ _ Stayton on Saturday, June 8, The court said a “blind” com- to attend Expo '74 in Spokane. I er imposes extra duty on mo- — regardless of stop They returned home Tuesday, torists ' signs or traffic signals—to pro June 11. Graduating from Oregon ceed with caution. College of Education June 7 was Melody Bamhardt. She plans to work for the Forest Service in Detroit this summer then will teach third grade in Lake Oswego this fall. Mrs Velma Carey accompan ied by her son, James and friend attended the Lawrence Welk Show in Portland Wed nesday, June 5. The WWI Barracks and Aux iliary held their meeting and dinner Saturday, June 8, at the clubhouse in Gates. About 30 attended. The law does recognize, how Mary Stafford went to Rose- ever, ___ , ___ that _______ caution ____ is a ______ matter burg with Mrs. Paul Hamilton of degree. For example: and Mary Hamilton to visit a , Another man also entered long time friend and past re-1 an intersection that he could sident of Mill City, Mrs. Mabel not see because of shrubbery. Carlson, on Friday, June 7. | But this time, the man edged _ Thought for the Day: Be not ■ forward at a snail's pace, the first to quarrel, nor the glancing in both directions. last to make up. Even though he still got in the Riddle of the week: Why is way of an oncoming car and a dog biting its tail like a good caused a collision, a court ruled manager’ Because he is mak ing both ends meet. Linn County School District #129 J will hold Its monthly school board meetinng (to- night) Thursday, June 13, 8 p. m. at the school. The Stove Wars— It this had happened in warm, sunny California, it would not have been much of afterward that he could not be held legally liable. “The law does not require the impossible,” said the court. “One cannot be held guilty of negligence because he is un able to see through impene trable objects or to bend his vision around them.” What about the responsibil ity for making the intersection blind in the first place? Unless a special statute so provides, the local government ordinar ily cannot be held liable for this kind of hazard. However, courts have occa sionally placed the blame on a private property owner who has brought such an obstruc tion into existence. Liability has been based on the theory that the condition of his prem ises could foreseeably cause some luckless motorist, some day, to get hurt Apubllc service feature of the American Bar Association and the Oregon State Bar. Written by Will Bernard. If the number following your name on The En- a story but winters in New . asked permission to put it in England are cold and stormy. , the church. It was all arrang- The Puritan nature which ed on Saturday afternoon. On made our forefathers and fore Sunday, the seven took their mothers leave their English seats earlier than usual to home to come to these wild, watch the reactions. The stove barren and unwelcoming stood in the middle aisle. Peo shores, forbade heat In their ple came in and stared. Good meeting houses (churches.) | old Deacon Trowbridge shook Many were the quarrels and 1 his head as he felt the heat discussions that arose in their reflected from it and passed communities over the purchase up the aisle to the deacon’s seat. and use of stoves. The seven hid their broad Mrs. Peck, the wife of an anti-stove deacon came to grins. When the editor of the vil church with a look of resigna tion, on the Sabbath of the lage paper, Mr. Bunce, (who stove's introduction. She was a believer in stoves in swept past the unwelcome in churches) came in, he warmed truder with averted head. She his hands over the stove In a sat in her pew through the ser most realistic manner, keep vice growing paler with the ing the skirts of his great-coat unaccustomed heat, until the tucked between his knees and minister’s words heaping coals saying, “Ah, this Is more like of fire brought too near a it. Thank you young fellers.” sense of the unhealthful stove Whereupon the young “fellers” and she fainted. She was car came forth to light the fire. ried out of the church. Upon The church in Brimfield in recovering she said, “It was 1819 refused to pay for a stove the heat from the stove". A but ordered instead two extra most complete and sudden re doors placed on the gallery vival came when she was in stairs to keep out draughts. formed that no fire had yet When in that town a few years been lighted in the stove. later a subscription was made There were many anti-stove to buy a church stove, one old wars. member refused to contribute, In another village, seven muttering “Good preaching young men bought a stove and kept him hot enough without a a check for renewal Phone 897-2786 508 N. E. Santiam Blvd. Sale every Sunday 10 A. M. Consignments Welcome 1050 WUco Road Stay ton [19 W m $139.95 Rated >4 HP 1.2* Actual HP For wells 40-2H0 feet deep. 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Handy work surface top. Convertible models can be built In anytime. Your choice of colors. ) Take a moment to consider the facts: Only about 70 cents of each dollar we spend goes to pay for the actual goods or service that we get. About 30 cents of that dollar has to cover the ex- penses of the community where the sale is made ... to pay the people who work there ... to re turn something on the capital in vested ... to help support the civic facilities such as churches, schools, fire and police protec tion, road and street mainten ance, etc ) Of course, when we spend our money away from home we get no personal benefit whatever from the 30 per cent of it which goes for community business and social improvement. | Doesn’t it follow, then, that when we give checks or money for out-of-town purchases, near ly one-third of the amount goes for something we don’t get? 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