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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1974)
©re- v'4 cl *.. P ost *®. p * io . mill C itv . o . i . o * — VOLUME XXX — Mill City Enterprise Tl SicoND ,ePc' »Ill ■ I ■ ■ NUMBER 3« ON THE SCENIC NORTH SANTIAM HIGHWAY—ORE GON’S FAST GROWING VACATION WONDERLAND J m il - I - --------- - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- I , -------- 1, .................. THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE—MILL CITY, OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1974 TS,-y JL- J-2U"ia-=L!! r=. 'J ML.--— ' W- g- ■ ■- ........ I I , JEMS«-»———■Mg—se=»r - : i .1 ■ $5.00 a YEAR — 15c a Copy ■- Man Beats Hitchikers Preparing Meal At Oregon State Fair It Ain’t All Roses In . i .. ; Parcels Of Timber Registration i ¡Increases Approximately 9,590,000 board feet of timber in eleven (11) separate parcels was sold SANTIAM JUNCTION — at oral auction by the Salem Two women hitchikers from One of the major causes of District of the Bureau of Land the inflationary process now I Management on Aug. 28, 1974. Colorado were severely beat so well entrenched in the Total amount bid for the tim- en with a large wrench Tues day of last week by a man United States has been ex The opening day school —p of .......... — ber was $1,576,039.10. cessive levels of federal spend I registration in District 129J I One parcel containing 479,- who drove them here from ing and repeated deficits in ' showed a total enrollment of 000 board feet, located in Redmond, Ore., state police the budget. Broader awareness 566, eight more than the 558 Clakamas County, was pur- said. of the affect of federal spend Ellen Gardner, 22, and Sue 1 enrolled on the first day last chased by Frank Lumber Co., ing policies on the erosion of | Ashby, 32, both of Estes Park, year. ' Inc., Mill City, a total of Colo., were picked up in Red- the dollar’s value may have , for ------ The enrollment showed 130 $97,580,75 i wll ' . ' h $20 .00 per . mond by a man who told them one good result. It may bring I students registered at Gates thousand board ioard _______ feet bid ___ fori. . greater public demand for Primary; the first grade beingt the Douglas-fir. The appraised he is an Oregon State Univer- federal fiscal responsibility the largest with 48 students, value of the timber was $48,- sty student. and that will mean develop The ladies told police he second grade 45 and third 083,85. There were two other ing new ways to evaluate and drove them to Lava Lake grade, 37. bidders on this parcel. control levels of spending and Road and Highway 20, about At the Mill City Elementary critically assess results achiev One parcel containing 471,- three miles west of Santiam there are 231 enrolled with the 000 board feet, located in Linn ed. eighth grade class the largest County, was purchased by! Junction, where he stopped the The great problem is that got out about 6:15 p.m. with 53 students, seventh Frank Lumber Co., Inc., Mill | car __ and never considers _ opened ___ ___ ____ to get Congress He the trunk grade, 51, sixth grade 49, fifth City, for a total of $63,151.05 I their packs, but instead grab- budget expenditures as a grade 32 and fourth grade 46. with $190.00 per thousand whole, but merely passes or bed a wrench and began beat Santiam High School has 61 board feet bid for the Douglas- ing them both on the head, rejects Individual programs provided ftor in the freshmen enrolled, 56 sopho fir. The appraised value of the police were told. eitiher mores, 45 juniors and 43 sen timber was $38,295.45. There budget or proposed for Indu Miss Ashby managed to take iors, making a total enrollment were four other bidders on this sion in it. This piecemeal pro- the wrench away from him cess prevents any congressman .of 205. parcel. and threw it in the bushes by or senator from really evaluat One parcel containing 223,- the road before the man left ing a proposal on which he is 000 board feet, located in Mar in his car, police said. A pass voting in the light of total PREPARING his 4-H intermediate pancakes featured a flour made from ion County, was purchased by ing motorist took the women to national needs or requirements outdoor meal at the 1974 Oregon State the pollen of cattails for a taste similar Freres Lumber Co., Inc., Santiam Junction, where Sis or in relation to the total num- i Fair is Ralph Stratton, Lyons, who fixed to buckwheat. He received a blue award Lyons, for a total of $28,608.75 ters ambulance was called by her of dollars available for. trout and cattail pancakes. He caught in the event. with $130.00 per thousand the state highway division ra spending. Budgetary reforms the fish just before the contest. The board feet bid for the Douglas- dio phone. They were taken to to correct this situation have I fir. The appraised value of the St. Charles Hospital, at Bend, been proposed Until they are A spokesman for the Lyons- timber was $19,300.15. There where they are both reported Young Man Receives Mehama Water District said were four other bidders on to be in fair condition with hope to make a reasonable head injuries. They reached this week that the water will | this parcel. judgement of the federal Broken Ankle in Fall be turned off Saturday, Sept. i One parcel containing 70,000 the hospital about 9:00 p.m. budget or wisely control levels 7, from approximatfely 9:00 ! board feet, located in Linn nearly three hours after the DETROIT — A Salem man of spending. For example, a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and will af- County, was purchased by beating. The 12-inch wrench was injured Saturday when he there is no single category to DETROIT — A 67 year old fell from a steep bank he was feet residents located east of Parkett Logging, Mehama, for was found in the bushes be show what is spent to main Woodburn DETROIT — Detroit-Idanha man was killed and climbing near Wind Creek (up tain the president and White residents and businesses in the Lavendars Market. Beginning a totaj of $1,015.00 with $14.50 side the road, police said. House staff. The total wel his wife Lola, 60, was hospital Breitenbush Rd.) about two upper North Santiam Canyon Sept. 9 the water will be turn- per thousand board feet bid Their assailant was describ ized at a Bend Hospital fol and a half miles northeast of ed off intermittently in the for Douglas-fir. The apprais- ed as five feet nine Inches tall, fare bill for various social aid lowing ; were not without problems be a two-car collision on Detroit value of the timber was clean shaven, with curly dark porgrams is nowhere itemiz ginning late Thursday after same area until the road work highway 20 at Lost Lake, East is completed. Customers are $700.00. There was one other medium brown hair and Lonnie G. Smelser, age 26, noon. ed, but rather broken down in of Santiam Junction, Wed. af was taken to Salem Memorial to many programs administer weighing about 200 pounds. He Somewhere between 4:30 reminded to check their water bidder on this parcel, „ , , , . ed under many different ternoon of last week. State Hospital Emergency Center by and 5:00 p.m. Thursday, a tanks as some do not have was wearing a yellow T-shirt, police said Delbert Alexan O?e Parfel containing 102,- blue jeans, tennis shoes and Idanha Rural Fire District am main underground water line automatic shut-offs. bureaus, departments and - 000 board feet, located in Linn of 788 W. Blaine St. bulance for medical attention. agencies. The same is true of der The water turn-off is due to Cou was hased by A1 big round sunglasses. He was i in Detroit broke near Detroit Woodburn was killed in the I Ambulance attendants said foreign aid. school, and headaches began the new road construction on Ward m Mill city, for driving a light green 1974 This particular category is accident and his wife receiv the 260 pound man fell some ■ for Water Supt. Ralph Edmin Market Road and Main Street Dodge Colt with only 400 , ... a total of $2,499.00 with $24.00 i miles on the speedometer, the discussed by Mr. Robert S. ed serious injuries. She was 130 to 135 feet down the bank. ster, and a former water su in Lyons listed in serious condition at ' per thousand board feet bid i girls said. He was last seen Strother in an informative ar Ambulance attendants were perintendent, Jake Williams, ticle appearing in the Septem St. Charles Hospital, Bend, I assisted by two Marion Coun business houses, residents, and , for the Douglas-fir. The ap- j westbound on Highway 20. ty Deputy Sheriffs in the others who worked with the ber Reader’s Digest. Congress with multiple injuries. Driver of the other car was rescue of the young man. It Detroit Dam - Weather praised value of the timber — ional debate over the foreign problem until nearly 10:00 was $1,428. There was one Pool aid item in each year’s budget Leo Taylor, 73, Portland, took about an hour to pack the p.m. before the water could be Max. Mln. Elev. Pep other bidder on this parcel. invariably gives the impres lice said. He apparently was oc- victim to the waiting ambu I turned back on. This of course sion that U .S. assistance to uninjured. The accident the lance. not only created problems The next sale by the BLM,, other countries is being cut cured about 4:55 p.m. at Smelser sustained a broken for restaurants and lounges, Aug. 28 85 60 1560.75 0.00 Salem District Office will be Lost Lake Intersection. 58 Aug. 29 83 1560.39 0.00 back to a bare bones minimum foot and ankle and a lacerated but for housewives who were 58 1559.71 0.00 held at 3550 Liberty Road S., as The Digest article puis n, i I „ A -------- ; W8S left knee, according to ambu about to prepare the evening Aug. 30 77 Aug. 31 67 59 1559.03 0.00 Salem, Ore., on Sept. 25, 1974. i ... . . $2 billion or so a year.1 ^‘ed to the scene of the acct- lance attendants. The acci meal. Friday morning the wa 56 1558.86 0.00 Information regarding this1 Mill City s Marigolds were and shrinking.’’ In the federal federal ‘ ' dent. dent_____________________ _ dent occurred about 12:35 p.m. ter was turned off again for Sept. 1 76 Sept. 2 90 61 1558.50 0.00 budget ending June 30, 1974, ibove'judged Tuesda by Qarden three Saturday. I about 4% hours (from about Sept. 3 90 56 1558.06 0.00 sale sale is is available available at at the the above judges ffom the y Lyons foreign aid was included at I debt, which has been incurred I 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) so that Total Pep. 1for week ........ o.oo address. , club $2.4 billion. But, as Mr. I to provide assistance to other l further repairs could be made „ ' , rr - ■ —- ' the I nations. The total annual na- out. Strother points at the trouble spot. _ . . |.Z TA i i ' The contest was sponsored amount actually spent on tional debt interest bill now Addng to all of these woes, a Old kresf Medicine Show Io Appear In Lyons by the Mill City Gardea Club foreign aid was closer to $11 | runs to about $30 billion. 35-minute power outage oc I with cash prizes given. As Mr. Strother points out, billion, “. . . and no downward curred in the Detroit-Idanha i the indirect costs of foreign trend is in view." Many homes had beautiful areas Friday morning when a Here’s how it all happened. aid have been enormous. U. S. loaded logging truck left high displays of marigolds which is going overseas By the time the foreign aid aid dollars way 22 and struck a power , the city’s flower, but only five apportiations bill passed Con have contributed to the trade pole. The accident occurred entered the contest. The club gress last December, there deficit and U. S. balance of across from Green Veneer, I had hoped to make this an an were emergency additions payments problems, to the Inc. about 8:35 a.m. A report nual contest but very little in made including $2.2 billion for drain of U. S. gold reserves The Mill City Lions i Club said the accident was caused terest was shown by the local military aid to Israel, that i overseas and to the inflation will begin their fall events < by the area being conjested people. pushed the official figure to I that continues to eat away with a steak fry Monday eve because of the activity at the Receiving the first prize of our . dollar purchasing $5.8 billion. The problem is ! — —----= ’s t------- —...e power. ning, Sept. 9, 7:00 p.m. at the mill, plus the heavy traffic $25 went to the L. Muehlen- that there are always emer- As with other budget items school park. Lions club mem going to their favorite vacation I j kamp’s at 1095 S. W. 1st St.; gency additions of one kind 1 and the entire federal budget- bers and their wives are invit spots over the three-day Labor ' second prize of $15.00 to the <>r another. On top of this of- . making process, ways must be ed. Salad and coffee will be Day holiday. The loaded log j Verne Shaw’s of 23 Parkside ficial visible figure, fiscal 1974 I found to nail down the true furnished by the club and ging truck, owned by Ed Dun . drive and third prize of $10 saw $4.9 billion more spent on , cost of foreign aid and assess members should bring their ham of Stayton, landed in the to the Leo Russell’s of 745 N. direct aid or on aid-related i the benefits derived from it. own steaks and baked potato. ditch when it left the highway E. Alder. programs to help other na-| The Digest article suggests Following dinner, installa apparently because the driver tions Some of the items that I that congress be given an ac- tion of officers will be con had no other place to go but Following the judging, the were plainly foreign aid but I curate total picture of foreign ducted. Otto Wahlberg, zone to hit the ditch, a report said. I judges were guests of the not listed as such and includ-' aid appropriation requests so chairman of Region One, will club’s president, Mrs. Doris The Idanha Rural Fire Dis ed in other budgetary requests I that informed spending deci- be the installing officer. Be Rogers for lunch. Preparing included the following: $90 sions can be made. It is recom- ing installed as president of trict ambulance was called to and serving the lunch were the scene of the accident, but million for refugees from Com ! mended that current pressures the local club for the 1974-75 Mrs. Else Allen, Mrs. Eleanor the driver of the truck appar munist Cuba showed up in the 1 for large new increases in aid term will be Dale Kirsch. i Corning and Mrs. Faye Ver- ently suffering no serious in budget of HEW. Some $5 mil-1 be resisted and that congress , First project scheduled for I beck. lion was approved for road should launch a major public the club will be their annual juries did not seek its aid. I Judges were Mrs. Katie construction in Panama and | debate ' ' ' centered on the purpos birthday calendar sales which Skillings,. Mrs. Fern Sletto, Colombia. This was included I es of foreign aid and its effec , will get underway soon. in the FHA budget. The DA' tiveness. And, finally, it is ' and Mrs. Eilene Todd, all of had $554 million set aside for suggested that ineffective or i i Lyons. **. , . global shipments of I . poorly-managed aid programs j I should be cut back or eiimmat- Dental Assistants ‘Food for Peace’." 7 Mr. Strother reports that the I ed. j department of defense “• • • i In this ever-shrinking world, Receive Recognition had its own $1.1 billion ‘mill-1 it is apparent that the U. S. DETROIT A 41 year old Carol Brosig. Delores Drake tary assistance’ budget.” Many ' cannot travel down the lonely Mill City man was injured "Doc” Bowman ahd his Old camps, conferences. and loans to other countries are path of isolationism and non and Linda Sanders, all of Mill Monday night when the ca r West Medicine Show will ap- i special services for 14 1 a years. City, recently were notified made through the huge inter- involvement with other na- he was driving crashed on national development and tions But, at the same time of their certification as ex Highway 22 just west of De- pear Sept. 8-13 at Santiam The first six and one-half Chapel Assembly of God, 5th 1 years of his ministry were trade banks the Export-Im- "America’s means are limited, panded duty dental assistants. troit Dam. and Birch in Lyons. spent in full-lime evangelism, port Bank, the Asian Develop- J and the world’s requirements Many duties which in the past, The extravaganza features logging over 75,000 miles Theodore C. Cur teman of ment Bank, the Inter-Ameri-; are desperate . . . foreign aid were assigned to the Dental can Development Bank, the must be realistic, its results hygenist can now be perform 659 S. Douglas St., Mill City. stage magic and little-known yearly. International Development measureable, and the requests ed by qualified dental assist was taken by Idanha Rural feats of prestidigitation. One It was reported thia week For eight years," Doc” has Assn., etc. The United States for your money and mine pre- ants who have received certi- Fire District Ambulance to Sa of the many interesting attrac been an Assembly of God that the Recycling Center, the Oregon lem Memorial Hospital, Emer tions is (he appearance of a pastor. For the first three which is usually open the has, so far, put in about $15 sented in coherent, consolidat- fiqation from billion to keep these institu- j ed form.” No one advocates Board of Dental Examiners. gency Center, where he was live rabbit from an empty top- years in Southern Oregon at first Saturday of each hat Also included are chem Glendale, and then at Trinity month, will not be open this tions functioning, with capital chopping off foreign aid, but The examinations, which were treated for facial injuries. istry, illustrations and chalk Chapel in Portland. payments and dollar devalu-1 few would deny that it is the held at Portland Community Saturday, Sept. 7. State police said Curteman talks. < The center will be open ation adjustments coming to better part of Yankee wisdom College, involved both written Pastor Robert Harkins in swerved to miss rocks In the “Doc” Bowman (Rev. Marlin some $2 billion last year. Some to find out how many dollars and clinical tests. the next Saturday, Sept 14, All three assistants are em road and crashed into the road Bowman) has been using ma- vites the public to this special l>eiieve that foreign aid should we are spending on it and 10:00 a m. to 3:00 pa®. For trans be charged with a portion Of what the U. S. taxpayer is get- ployed by Dr. Dave Thompson way embankment about 9:20 gic to present Gospel truths in series of services. I portation call 859-2644. p.m. 1 children's crusades, church of MUI City. the interest on the national ting for his money. (by George Ixtng) j Water To Be Off Saturday In Lyons Gty Of Detroit Has Water Problems Woodburn Man Killed In Accident 'Marigold Winners Named Tuesday Lions Club Members To Meet Monday September 9 Local Man Injured In Car Accident Recycling Center To Be Open Next I ( Sat., Sept. 14