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10 The Nwt-Rltw, Roteburg, Oft. .Tiiti,, Deo, 13, 194 tt&NHWi COUNTY ACCEPTS SMITH RIVER BRIDGE Pictured above it the new county bridge across Smith river. Top view, looking east, shows the expanse of the 566-foot structure. A 10-foot fill will be made at the east approach and a road built across the flat to connect with a county road bordering the hill land. Lower view shows how the retractable span is telescoped by rolling on the deck of the adjoining span to permit passage of boats with tall superstructure. (Pictures by A. R. Andrews, assistant county engineer.) CONVENIENCE ECONOMY OLYMPIC HOTEL ar Idaho Governor Lauds Pioneers PORTLAND, (JF) Founders of an empire "great beyond the hopes of any" traveled the Ore gon Trail, Idaho's Gov. C. A. Ro bins told the Old Oregon Trail, Inc., annual meeting here. The building of the new empire In the West was accomplisHed by the "missionary, the naturalist and the soldier" while "the sold ier of fortune. . .kept company, perhaps, on this pilgrimage with the religious zealot." Although virtually the full ca talog of virtues Is needed to tell of the people who made the trek, he said, the "full story Is not told without some mention of the seamy side." Beside those who came west to build homes and rear families, "strode him whose past would not bear the close scurtlny of the more settled com munities of the East," he said. The governor who later at the dinner meeting led the audience in old songs paid tribute to Ez ra Meeker wno witn otners un dertook to mark the old trail about 1916. He outlined some of Idaho's early history associated with the trail and said the empire found ed by those who defied the hard ships was "full of ever-widening promise." Many of the audience were In pioneer-day costumes. More than half the total area of Oregon is under federal con trol. This Includes 13 national forests, two national park ser vice areas and extensive . graz ing acreages. ' MLX I "2 DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN 9 This upright young man Is Bob Hansohutz, his last name Is pronounced "Han hoots" in case you wondered. One of the saleimen at Trowbridge Electric, Bob specialties In lighting fixtures and wiring suppllee ae well at a talesman of large and small appliance!. Bob, a native of Longvlew, Washington, hat been at Trow bridge Elecirio about a year. He and hit family of wife and three boyt live on Clover Lane, North Roteburg. WHAT; 132 MEANS TO YOU 132 means 132 years ... the sum total of the number of years experience of all electricians at Trowbridge Electric. Just think 132 years of experience . . . experience you cannot buy anywhere else in Douglas County equaled by few firms in Oregon. Have Trowbridge Electric install your wiring, phone 268 for an estimate on your electric needs. April 1 Is Goal For Passing Bill On Flood Control WASHINGTON, UP) Chair man Chavez (D-M) of the senate Public Works committee 'set April 1 as the goal for passage of an omnibus flood control and rlvprn and harbors bill. The legislation would add some 200 new projects to me nation s authorized program of flood protection and navigation Impro vements. . Chavez told reporters he will strive for Senate approval of the $1,546,814,825 authorization mea ure in Januarv. "I expect to have the bill out of conference and agreed to by the first of April," he said. The bill, which passed the House this year, is on the senate calendar. Chavez rjolnted out that the senate already has approved ten tatively tne addition oi more than two score projects recom mended by the senate public worKs committee. He said he does not expect ta open up the bill for committee Hearings on new projects report ed favorably by the army engin eers since the committee report was drafted last October.' Nor does he plan further com mittee action on projects for the Columbia River basin. The senate committee recom mended the addition of projects costing $142,000,000 to the $108, 000.000 worth approved by the House for the basin. Chavez said he would ask sen ators from the Columbia basin states to agree upon a construc tion program for the next three years before the bill comes be fore the Senate for action. After Senate action, the bill must go to a conference with house committee members for agreement on project authoriza tions added or increased by the Ducats And Diapers. Loot In Portland Thievery PORTLAND, Dec. 13 UP) The larceny Iront in Portland ranged all the way from robbers who flicked out the .wrong store to a hlef who made off with 40 diapers. A pair of armed, masked ban dits marched into a grocery store Sunday night flourishing silver- piatea revolvers. "TMs Is a stick' up." they said. The store proprietors, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bander, showed them the till. The bandits were Infuriated to discover it had only $35 in it. They demanded Mrs. Bander's purse but that was worse. It had only $2. They finally tore out both store telephones, turned off the lights. ana leit. In another part of town, Mrs, Esther F. Fletcher's basement was ransacked. The take: 50 freshly-washed diapers. Senate. The House authorized flood control protects costing $9 116,200 and river and harbor pro jecta costing $119,000,000. The senate committee added projects to bring the totals to $1,236,645 000 for flood control and $228,169 625 for rivers and harbors. In addition, the bill would auth orize another $200,000,000 expen diture io continue reclamation bureau projects in the Missouri river basin. The authorization bill does not appropriate money. The funds for construction would have to come in approp riation bills before work could begin. FLOORING Siding 0 Finish PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 Slab Deals Death To Picnic Party VICTORVnXE, Calif., Dec. 13. UP) Without warning, a 70 ton granite slab spilt from a cliff at ueaa Man s point and crashed onto a holiday picnic, crushing to death four persons and critically Injuring two others. Horrified children of the vic tims watched helplessly as the huge rock fragment brought a swift, tragic climax to the outing of 18 friends on the edge of the Mojave desert yesterday. The popular picnic site, overlooking the desert, is sheltered' by the rocky prominence. . Rescuers said the jutting rock broke free because a six-hour campfire heated it following the intense cold of the early morning. Killed were Robert Asper, 35, and Mrs. Jessie Isom, 45, both of Upland, Calif.; Harold Bovee, 40, Ventura, Calif., and Mrs. Frances Morris, 38, Pomona, Calif. . Critically injured were Mrs. Frances Long, 35, Upland, and Clifford Morris, 38, husband of Mrs. Morris. Rescuers tunneled for two hours to reach Mrs. Lone. who was resting on a cot when the ledge broke oft She and Mor ris suffered internal injuries and iace ana neaa cuts. WINS SCHOLARSHIP . PORTLAND, Dec. 13. UP) Bertram Gale Dick Jr., Reed col lege physics student, has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship. He Is among 32 named after 412 scholars took examinations Satur day. A son of Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Dick, Portland, he entered Reed in 1946 after naw wartime ser vice as an electronics technicians mate) 2nd class. The Rhodes schoIarshiDS to Ox ford university, England, are worth about $1,400 annually for two years. FIRE ROUTS FAMILIES BANDON, Dec. 13. UP) A roc tor court fire south of here Sat urday night left six families nomeiess. Girl Missing In Hunt For Christmas Trees ' KELSO, Wash., Dec. 13. UP) A search party was working through wooded country near here today for a 15-year-old girl, who vanished yesterday noon on a Christmas tree hunt. Volunteers searched through the woods all night in vain for a trace of Ruth Aberlc, West Kelso girl 6cout.who had eone out with some friends to gather trees. ueputy snenll Costa Watts said the girl became separated from the others one of them her brother about noon yesterday. They were in the Ostrander creek area about 12 miles northeast of here. When the others had hunted futilely for some time, they ap pealed to the sherU for help.' In 1895, the headgear of U.S. Marines was a spiked helmet. New Location Dr. George L. Nicholas Veterinarian C.aduate of University of Pennsylvania is now located at 804 Garden Valley Road Theatment of all domestic animals. Emergency hospital - for small animals. Phone 116 SPECIAL CORRUGATED ROOFING GALVANIZED WHILE IT LASTS 6 foot, 8 foot 10 foot, and 12 foot sheets BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange , ROSEBURG, OREGON Phone 98 Located W. Washington Sr. and S. P. R. R. Tracks Kg? 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