From Our Files: June 25, 2025

The new gang saw at Santiam Lumber company’s Sweet Home division, shown here with Operator Dale Burnett in 1950, is housed in its own building and has a daily capacity of 60,000-75,000 board feet of lumber. The purpose of the new saw is to improve the grade so as to get more vertical grain flooring and factory lumber.

June 29, 1950

 

Police are looking for a marauder who apparently rode out of the woods on horseback to loot the Lampson farm house eight miles north of Sweet Home in the McDowell Creek area. He escaped with almost $300 worth of household items (plus binoculars, clothing, axes, a gun scabbard and riding boots)  while the Lampsons were away from home in the afternoon.

 

Before passing the budget, City Council heard from one…

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