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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1975)
The Mill City I jilerpriM*. Thursday, Airg- !8, 1975 LETTERS TO THE* TO THE EDITOR THE ? Local Bakers Named , FAMILY I LAWYER I For Fair Prizes I “Newly Discovered Eviden»-e” Harry was found guilty of mugging an elderly woman. A few months later he demanded a new trial on grounds of “n».*wly discovered evidence. >1 It seems that although the wo- man had mentioned feeling raindrops on her face, the rec ords of the weather bureau Junior Division Fisids ¡showed no rain on the day of Breads Chris Bloom, Al- .. erim(. iiany; Donna McLaughlin, Jefferson; Susan Thorp, Mon mouth; Pat Bloom, Albany. Tin' makers of th<* most mouth watering cakes, breads, cookies, and pies have been announced winners in tin* Oregon State Fair's Home Economic Dept. First-prize winners listed by Home Econ omics Supt, Sandy Brady were: In your Aug. 21 editorial, you wrote your view of a situ ation facing the city council. I would appreciate it if you now print my view. You refer ( to it as a petty problem. I claim that it is a larger prob lem which could touch every home owner In a zoned resi dential area in Mill City. Cakes — Pat Bloom, Albany; For over five years it has tx*»»n the zoning law of Mill Bruce Evans, Gladstone; Sandy City to require a variance from Evans, Gladstone; Marianne anyone wanting to open a busi Mllich, Salem; Susan Thorp. ness or have a non-conform Monmouth; Donna Mcl-augh- lin, Jeffcrs»>n; Chris Bloom, ing us»* in a residential area It is appli»*d for »»penly and Albany. it Invites scrutiny for appro | Cookies Donna McLaugh priatenrss. It lx then passed or lin, Jefferson; Debra Chruszch, rejected by th«» city council Eugen»*; Debbie Barnes, Mil Was this enough basis for re after a review by the city waukie; Yvonne Baxkor, Sa opening the case? The court planning commission and an lem; Heidi Lee Wale, Salem said no, because such an error open meeting by itself — was not serious Open Division Foods It Is not a harrassment to > Quick Breads Jessie Web enough to indicate a miscar get a varlanc»» and license. It is our law. No one is being ster. McMinnville; Mrs. R A riage of justice. Generally speaking, courts picked on by this law. Not the Regler, Dallas; Myrna Ritz, hobbyist, not the elderly, in Monmouth; I-ynn Williams, are leery of reopening a case fact not nnyone. This law 1.« Eugene; Ava Evans, Gladstone; for any person who wants to Mrs. George Koebel, Aurora, convert their horn«* or proper Mrs. Robert Davis, Salem; ty to a business venture in a Kathy Fleck, Woodburn. | Yeast Breads i zon»»d residential area. I-ynn Wil- You state that the council liams, Eugene; Norma Fales, is being put in a position to , Portland; Rita Helen Peter- d«»cide as to what is a business. •on, Beaverton; Jeri Palm- You or»» right. b»*cause it is | quilt, Salem; Nancy Rams- the council’s n*sponsibllity to den, Salem; Suezanne Pollock, do just that with the help of , Salem; ; Laura Jones, Salem; ♦ Ivr* /»ifvr nlirtrnnv and arvrl affected r» f 1 I Mary Hagle, I the city attorney Portland; Myrna citizens. If we can’t turn to the Ritz, Monmouth. council, our elected represent- Layer Cakes Myrna Ritz, ativex. to interpret our laws. Monmouth; Olive Barnhardt, who can we turn to? Gates; Mrs Robert Davis, Sa- Your newspaper has run |Prn; Jrxw-phinc Hampton, Mill many articles on the evils of city; Mrs R A Regier, Dallas, expecting our state and feder- ljOa{ or PoUntj _ Crystal al agencys to solve all our Ames. Salem; Arlene Thorp, problems I agree with you on'Monmouth; Mrs R A. Reiger, that score but if we in Mill Dalias; Mrs. Robert Davis, i City don't face up to our own Salem; Adeline Edge, Amity; business, we are leaving our I-ana Calhoun, Corvallis; selves wide open for them to Agn»»s McComb, Salem; Mar step in Ultimately the coun garet Goughnour, Portland. cil must act on this. They are Cookies Mrs. Dan Calla not being badgered. ghan, Salem; Margaret Panse- How long they take is not grau, Albany; I-ana Calhoun, my doing One councilman Corvallis: Rose Mary Allely. said that things move slowly Springfield: Margaret Gough in Mill City and six months nour, Portand. wait wax not unlikely. His Foreign Cookies and Pastry words, not mine - Margaret Goughnour, Port So, I will keep coming to the land; Celelia I-ewix, Oregon council meetings to see how City; Josephine Hampton. Mill this is resolved I don’t expect ('itv; Arlene Thorp, Mon- all decisions to agree with my mouth; Mrs R A. Regler, stand I just want this in the Dallas; Rase Mary Allely, Sa- open, legal, judged on its in lorn. dividual merits and, if pos One Crust Pies Guy Cui- sible, fair to all bertson, Salem; Betty Smith, As to the “do unto others” Salem; Mrs. George Koebel, proverb that you closed with, Aurora; Chris Bloom, Albany; it would have been nice if the Arlene Thorp, Monmouth. other people had considered Pies and Pastry — Mrs. my rights when they started James Elgin, Salem; Arlene with their ventures! Thorp, Monmouth; Betty Smith, Salem. Kay Orlando. Sincerely, Salem. Mrs Jimi'S Rose Confections — Gertrude Lu cas, Oregon City; Arlene Thorp, Monmouth; Mary Hein richs, Salem; Mrs. R A. Re- DATSUN SERVICE gier, Dallas; Mrs Marion Schindler, Salem; Wm De AND REPAIR Temple, Portland: Dorothy All W ork < iaaranteM a Peters, Monroe; Rose Mary RAT* !•% m Salam j Alley, Salem; Linda Powers, Call 897-2062 i Albany; Jessie Webster. Mc- KLMKB TUFF I Minnville. I Decorat»«d Cakes — Mary I Gasper, Silverton; Dorothy I Peters, Monroe; Mrs Don |Casey, Silverton; Lynn Bishop, ED LEWIN | Monmouth. Auctioneer, Inc. Professional I >-co rated Complete Auction» Cakes Lois Hildebrands, Phone 7H9-54H« j Tangent; Oscar Strand, Port- Sale almost every Sun. I land. Open Class Table Decorating 10 A. M. Mrs. Ralph Purvine, Salem. ('•onMignmrnte Welcome Division Table D»»corating 1050 Wilco Road Stayton Jr Adam Woolander. Eugene. that has already been closed. They say it is too costly in lx>th time and money to do so without good rea on to think that a second trial will have a different outcom< 1 Another man wa ; convicted in a morals caw- after faiilng to produce any witness»*« to support his alibi Afterward seeking a new tr ial, he claimed he difl indeed have three alibi witnesses that he had failed to summon. "I just didn’t think I’d need them,” he explained But the court ruled that since he had known about the three witnesses from the start, he could not call this newly discovered evidenc»- The court said the defendant cannot keep an “ace in the hole” just in case he loses the first time around Of course. If a real injustice I is uncovered, a new trial Is HAVE I-OTS OF JUNK laying a convenient Want Ad In the around the house, in the gar Mill City Enterprise. A call clearly in order. age or in the attic. Why not to 897-2772 will change your In a murder case, years after get the most out of It with unwanted items into cash. a man had b»-en convicted and sent to prison, important ad- vances wf-re w»-re made in the ■cience of ballistics, Experts, Electronic Servicing And Sales at (»•checking the fatal bullet, de Reasonable Rates cided that it could not have been fired from the defen- dant’s gun. 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