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"YOUR LAND
AND MY LAND
THE
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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,
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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
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label
stove.”
It was claimed that the
stoves caused severe headaches
and worst of all that the heat
warped the ladies’ tortoise
shell back-combs.
Their religion thrived on
severity and simplicity. It took
more than a century to bring
tlie Puritan mind to so ad
vanced a reform as proper
warmth in the churches in
winter.
Get Ready For Summer Driving
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terprise
3—The Mill City Enterprise, Thursday, June 13, 1971
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0 you habitually take
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the personal checks you write?
| Many people do... without re
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they pay for the privilege of tak
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) 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? Isn’t
that very much the same as dis
counting our checks or money?
it-
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Mill City Pharmacy
Knit Knack Depot
MILL CITY HARDWARE
Distributor of Shell Products
BUILT BETTER, NOT CHEAPER
Jerry Pitfam Insurance
Phone 897-2413 or 897-2754
KELLY LUMBER
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■wy. fit bat City LtaMa
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Ph. 897-2592
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Highway 22
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Phone 897-2977
Mill City
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Mill City, Oregon
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Phone 897-2348
180 N. 1st St
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