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ROAD COSTS DROP
Charles V. Stanton
The State of Oregon is engaged in a huge highway
construction program. It is rebuilding its major highways
- with revenue derived from sale of $72,000,000 worth of
highway bonds.
It will be welcome news to taxpayers that during 1953
' the State obtained approximately 20 per cent more construc
tion for ite dollars than in the preceding year, the best
record since 1950.
A statement of comparative highway construction costs
made by the State Highway Commission recently shows
present costs to be 183.4 above the 1940 index of 100. By
1950 costs had mounted to 170.8. The war in Korea caused
a decided uptrend in the cost of highway construction, ac
cording to the index, reaching the maximum in the final
quarter of 1952. The 1952 average was 202.2 with the
i high point of 207.2 in the last quarter.
" Poor weather conditions and general unemployment
resulted in a drop to 176.3 for the first quarter of 1953.
But by spring and summer the cost had moved upward to
184.2. It dropped again for the fourth quarter, standing
at 183.4 at the end of the year.
Inasmuch as many hundreds of miles are involved in the
cmmrrtinrmn nroirram now in raroeress. taxpayers can find
comfort in the fact that highway construction dollars
are building more road.
Contrast In Cost
We frequently hear criticism of the Highway Com
mission because it builds so many miles of good road in
Central and Eastern Oregon compared with Southern Ore
gon' .
There is no denying the fact that southern uregon
has been sadly neglected in highway programs of past years.
Particularly neglected has been Highway 99, the Pacific
Highway. This route carries approximately per ceni
of the state's north-south travel, yet has remained a bottle
neck for manv vears.
, It must be taken into consideration, however, that the
Highway Commission has had very limited funds with
which to work in the past.
In .many parts of Central and Eastern Oregon it is
possible to build scores of miles of road for the same amount
of money needed to construct one mile of comparable high
way in sections of Western Oregon. The job now in prog
ress around, the base of Mt. Nebo, here in Roseburg, Is a
good example. The hundreds of thousands of dollars being
spent in carving out less than a mile of road from the face
of a solid rock cliff would spread many miles of pavement
in Lake or Harney County.
One-third of the entire Pacific Highway in uregon is
situated in Douglas Cpunty. The Highway Commission
now is engaged in rebuilding almost the entire Douglas.
County section of that highway. It is by far the most costly
job ever undertaken in any one county of the state. But
completion of the project will benefit every part of Western
Oregon and will relieve the great bottleneck that has im
paired economy for many years.
Messenger Boy Delivers Two Messages
BOOM TOWN. PA.
Schools, Factories Team
To Produce New Workers
Pair Suspected
In Smuggle Try
Bonds Good Investment
While only a small part of the reconstructed highway
within the county now is available to motorists, enough
work has been done to show that the new road, when fin
ished, will be of great economic benefit. Both local and
through-traffic will be speeded. Removal of congestion re
sults in saving in cost of gasoline.
Better alignment and grade saves wear and tear on
vehicles and per mile fuel costs. Yet, while fuel costs are
less per mile, existence of better highways promotes more
travel, thus increasing the state's revenue from fuel taxes.
Oregon should modernize its entire highway system at
the earliest possible date. Experience has shown that road
improvements are obsolete almost before they are complete.
Doubtless this same condition will be experienced on High
way 99. By the time reconstruction is finished, increased
flow of traffic will make more construction necessary.
Because investment in good roads actually is a saving
rather than an expense, Oregon should not hesitate to as
sume Indebtedness to improve its highway system.
From Tokyo comes a report
(hat the Japanese will try in J954
to repair the bad relations they
now have with several of their
Asiatic neighbors. If true, the
news is good.
The Japs are said to be contem
plating negotiations with the
Philippines, Indonesia and Bur
ma, all countries which their
armed forces overran in World
War JJ. These talks would inev
itably embrace the topic of Jap
anese reparations for war dam
age inflicted.
Up to now the Japanese govern
ment has been .unwilling to dis
cuss this touchy subject in terms
big enough to naUsty the still em
bittered people? ot tnese neighbor
nations. But evidently a new at
titude is developing.
Since the big war ended, Japan
has been sustained economically
by outright American aid and the
heavy expenditures incident to
prosecution of the Korean war.
But now that aid has dwindled
and the Korean conflict is over
and seems unlikely to be resumed.
At the same time, the Japanese
population has continued to mount
at a swift pace. The increase can
only be fed through greater im
ports or by taxing Japan's limited
area of cultivable land more se
verely. If imports are to be the answer,
t'hfn Japan must sell more goods
abroad to pay for them, and this
in turn means further imports of
industrial raw materials. So any
sound economic future for a grow
ing Japan must be defined in term
of enlarging trade.
The United Slates and other
Western powers appear unwilling
to absorb much additional Jap
anese output. They do not want
Japan to deal in volume with
Communist China Consequently,
the nations of Southeast Asia of-
NEW YORK W) "Anything
you do tor kids takes lots ot tune
And while we are willing to give
them everything else, that is the
one thing we are reluctant to give
tnem time.
"And that is probably why we
hive so much juvenile delin
quency." I think that remark pretty well
sums up the problem of dealing
with children. 1 wish it were my
observation, but it isn't.
It belongs to Frank Blair, who
discovered the truth of it by liv
ing. Frank, who was a transport
pilot in the last war, has seven
children and makes more money
than a successful counterfeiter
except Frank makes his honestlv.
He is newscaster of the NBC-TV
network show called "Today."
But having and loving seven
children and earning them a good
living Frank found wasn't niule
enough. Ton mnrh rtf thp htirrtan '
fell on his pretty wife. Lillian.
"With my odd workins hours.
he said, "I couldn't spend the time
witn my Kinds that I felt a dad
should.''
But Frank, who at 38 looks like
a handsome older brother of his
children, found the answer jn a
family corporation in which each
member has a voice in the tarn
ey decisions. Here's how it came
about:
"Lil and I discovered the kids
liked to have bull sessions to dis
cuss where they'd got out of line
and done wrong or to talk over
family projects. We found they
didn't mind being punished if they
had a voice in deciding whether
the punishment fitted the crime.
"At their own suggestion we
stalled having these 'Let's talk it
over sessions and they developed
into mock trials, and Lil and I
found ourselves on trial, too, some
times. We found out what the kids
thoucht we were doing wrong.
particularly after one of the kids
got the idea of keeping minutes
ot rue meetings."
Then Frank decided to create a
family corporation to rule on all
family questions with each mem
ber being allowed one vote for each
year of his age.
The current voting status is as
follows; Frank, 39; Lil, 37; young
Frank, 17; John, 15, Tom, 13:
Mary 7, Theresa 4; Paid 2; Bill
1.
Currently the senior partners
are able to outvote the junior
partners of the Blair corporation
75 to 59 m a showdown but Frank
says it doesn't often come to that.
"The kids don't vote as a bloc
against us," he said. "The first
thing we found out is that they
won't take advantage of a situa
tion if you give them a sense of
participation. That is Uie wonder
ful thing about children their real
sense of honesty and fair-mindedness."
The family corporation meets
every Sunday, and no outsiders
arc allowed. The members vole
fines and penalties and punish
Airline Protests
Rival's Rate Cut
WASHINGTON W - Alaska Air
lines has asked the Civil Aero
nautics Board to suspend immed
iately reduced fares which Pan
American World Airways plans to
introduce Jan. 24 between Seattle
and Fairbanks, and Portland, Ore.
ami f airoanKs.
Alaska also asked Hie board to
reject the existing Pan American
fares between those cities except
for Pan-Am's southbound DC4 car
go-plane service. The Alaskan firm
complained that since last Oct. 1
Pan American has been offenne.
DC6 service at rates charted all
a,ong for slower DC4 service.
Alaska Airlines asked the CAB
to reject any DC6 fare that is not
nigner man the S90 l)C4 fare be
tween Seattle and Fairbanks
again, except for Pan-American's
southbound DC4 cargo-type serv
ice. The complaint, filed Monday,
said Pan American's proposed
fares are below cost and would
"destroy the entire U.S.-Alaska
tariff structure at substantial cost
to the U.S. taxpayer."
fcr the only reasonable trading
ground.
This possible economic tie-up be
tween industrial Japan and unde
veloped Southeast Asia has long
been viewed by experts as a na
tural. But the inherited hostility
from World War II has stood as
a practical barrier to its real
iatizon. Initiative for improved relations
necessarily had to come from Ja
pan. It could not be forced by
the West. In fact, so long as Amer
ica was pouring dollars into the
Japanese islands, the effect was
to reduce pressure upon Japan
to patch things up with its Asian
neighbors.
Now, however, the heat is on.
The whole free world must wish at
this juncture that Japan is in
deed serious in seeking fresh un
derstanding with its wartime vic
tims, for a solid trade equation
between this progressive indus
trial nation and its raw-material-producing
associates in Asia would
introduce into the Orient a power
ful factor for stability and hence
for peace.
In The Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
ing. Under a flexible support pro
gram, government price guaran
tees would be HIGH in time of
shortages to encourage more rjro.
duction and LOW in times of plen
ty (surpluses) to encourage consumption.
(NEXT The York Plan.)
Roseburg, Oregon
work with every family," said
Frank, "But this corporation game
nas neipcd bring us closer togeth
er, and we all have learned a
great deal from it.
, "It has given us a real insight
into our children's minds, reallv
opened a new world to us. You
type of new car to buy and where I "n't !'"s,n yllr kins out the front
to spend vacations. door- ,c" u,e,n to come back in
Tito Itirtc hnvA rnnlin plmrAi I three hours, ami then forcet them.
they are expected to perform, but j Thal 's how they get into trouble,
are paid for extra duties such as ou nave to find a way to give
baby sitting. Each member of the I 'nem something to do and a feel
family pavs a Dennv a week forlmK of responsibility."
each year of his age, and the pot When 1 asked Frank whether the
is divided among the kids just I Blair corporation had closed its
before Christmas each year, in- membership rolls, he laughed and
ciuaing as i bonus the money
chipped in by dad and mom. Lil
acts as treasurer by popular de
mand
"I don't know whether it would
said
"Well, you never can tell. 1
haven't been home since hreaV.
fast. J don't know what', out there j dor suoh operations to the school
now I lunch program and other public in-
Eisenhower's
Farm Proposals
WASHINGTON l Here Is
what President F.isenhower's farm
program propose: as to major
commodities:
WHEAT Substitute flexible
price supports 75 to 90 per cent
of parity for present rigid 90 per
cent price supports after the 1954
crop. Production controls includ
ing acreage allotments and mar
keting quotas would be used as
a suplementary measure to help
keep supplies in line with market
needs.
The modernized parity for wheat
which would be about 20 per cent
lower than the present parity
would begin to go into effect Jan.
1, 1956. The reduction each year
could be no greater than S per
centage points of the old formula.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Use present funds from customs
receipts for purchase and remov
al of surpluses of these products
from markets. Purchased supplies
would go to school lunch programs
and to the needy abroad. Also au
thorize broad use of marketing
agreements to help stabilize prices
of these commodities. Under such
agreements, low quality products
are kept off markets.
POTATOKS Use the same
measures for potatoes as for fruits
and vegetables. At present, pota
toes are ineligible for price protec
tion. WOOL Abandon the present
program of government buying and
making loans at a predetermined
price support level. Instead allow
market prices to move freely in
relation to supply and demand.
Producers would get treasury pay
ments to make up the difcrence
between "average market prices
and 90 per cent of parity. Funds :
to meet wool payments would be
taken trom general revenues with
in the amount of unobligated tar
iff receipts from wool.
DAIRY PRODUCTS Continue
present provisions of the law pro
viding for price supports between
75 and 90 per cent of parity 'as
are necessary to assure an ade
quate supplv."
MEAT ANIMALS - Conlinue
present programs, under which
price supports are not required
but which permit the government
to buy meat in times of depressed
prices to help bolster prices. Such:
meat would be diverted to the
school lunch program and to for
eign aid programs.
EGGS Continue present law
providing for discretionary author-:
ity for the secretary of agriculture i
to support prices at not more than
90 per cent of parity and divert1
any eggs or poultry obtained un-;
That is to say, freezing from
the markets HALF of our present
accumulated surpluses would be
a stop-gap device to help in stabil
izing PRESENT prices, and a shift
from fixed high supports to flexi
ble supports would be a longer
range effort to brine suoolv anH
demand for farm products more
nearly into balance over the long
FUU.
There are two sound ways to
dispose of the foods we grow on
our iarms. one is to eat them
ourselves. The other is to sell them
abroad.
There is of course, ANOTHER
way. We can go on piling up sur
pluses under fixed high supports
and then we can give them away
or destroy them.
That's about the long and the
short of it.
There was an interesting reac
tion on the commodity markets
this morning to the President's
farm proposals.
Hogs opened active, with prices
up 75 cents to $1 over last week.
Cattle were steady to higher and
wholesale meats were steady to
higher. Grain prices sagged, with
sluggish dealing on the Chicago
uwam Ifl 1 1 Hue.
There was cause and effect in
this situation. When grain prices
are too high in relation to' prices
of livestock, nobody can afford to
era grain 10 animals. Grain
(especially corn and wheat) is in
large overproduction and would
therefore suffer most in the way
of price from a system of flexible
supports. If grain prices go down,
feeders can afford to pay more
iur ieea animals.
That is another way of saying:
it is pretty hard to get away from !
supply and demand as a control-!
ling influence on the markets.
Highway Construction j
Costs Down In Oregon !
SALEM Of) ' Oregon's highway
construction costs are down con
siderably from a year ago, the
Highway Commission reported
monoay.
Using 1940 as an index of 100,1
construction costs rated at 183.4 in !
the last three months of 1953.
The all-time peak of 207.2 was1
reached in the last quarter of 1952. j
Construction costs now are at!
the lowest level since late in 1950. j
a DARCQT CMITU
N.yy. ff.vl.y. Carr.tnondant brought visiting industrialists to
N.w.-R.vi.w Corr.ipond.nr York for their first look was that
(Third in a series) th nad neard 0f anrj been in-
YORK, Pa. York's educators trigUed by "The York Plan."
and industrialists have teamed up, .j,he york Plan" is the anti
to give this manufacturing city tnesis ot instances in which a
what many towns cant offer new, u town' business leaders con
industrial prospects a steady sup-, jre ,0 kPpn out new industry for
plL t'Jski!lea vlajor' , !fear of driving up wages. York
The educators believe that many ufac,urers instead, have a
boys will and should go from high . f pooling resources and
several hundred small or large tive manner which has helped
enterprises. So they prepare them puu m new industry.
ior SKiuea iraaes wnne suu m
hi?h school.
York High School's industrial
department has a unique program
wherebv the student alternately
works two weeks in an outside
shop or factory as an apprentice
earning the going wage and learn
ing his trade, ana attends classes
at school two weeks to earn his
diploma.
He must be 16 to start this
cooperative course, but from the
time he is 14 he is given basic
training in York High's own vo
cational shop. His specialty will
be determined by industrial de
mands in York .at the time and
the boy's preference, but his
choice is wide open to all trades
that are apprenticeable.
FOR THE BOY this program
offers an early start in his chosen
vocation and a job waiting for
him when he leaves high school.
The 8,000-4iour apprenticeship pe
riod is about one quarter complet
ed when he leaves school. He
then goes into his employer's shop
for a minimum of 5,500 hours af
ter graduation to complete his
trailing.
Although this vocational course
does not fit a boy for college, it
does contain a sprinkling of aca
demic studies in his last three
years of schooling English, Amer
ican history, chemistry, algebra,
plane geometry, ligonometry,
physics are all required courses
along with trade mechanics, me
chanical drawing and other shop
specialties.
York students have received
their industrial diplomas in such
diverse occupations as jewelry re
pairman, welder, paper maker,
plumber, steel worker, glazier,
body builder, ornamental iron
worker, pattern maker, sheet met
al worker, surveyor, upholsterer,
cabinetmaker, machinist, mechan
ical draftsman, architectural
draftsman and carpenter. The
city has shops to absorb these
and many other trades.
During the last high school se
mester. 41 different York indus
trial concerns participated in this
program on a cooperative basis
with the school and its students.
YORK has operated this pro
gram since the Pennsylvania
school code was changed in 1911
to allow it, which means it has
had it longer than any city in the
country, its officials said. In more
recent years part of the financial
load of shop training has been
borne by the federal government
through the U.S. Office of Edu
cation administration of the George
Deen act of 1936 and the George
Barden act of 1946.
Not only does this program pro
vide local industry with a steady
stream of young men well along
on their apprenticeship training
by the time they leave high school,
but statistics show that about three
out of every four graduates of the
course stayed and worked in their
home town steadily thereafter in
stead of heading for larger, near
by cities in search of opportunity.
THIS PICTURE seems to appeal
to touring industrialists, Yorkers
have found. But they have also
MONTREAL 11 The Canadian
Mounties said early Tuesday they
are holding a European and a New
i York resident in connection with
I a suspected attempt to smuggle
: nearly $200,000 worth of uncut di
amonds into the United States.
, , . . , , ,m- ,.( ' Neither man was identified but
learned that one of the U ungs that were exDCCled to grrii '
ed here iater today.
Inspector Rene Belec, head of
the Mounted police's investigation
branch here, said the European,
a 25-year-old native of Poland, ar
rived from Europe at Dorval Air
port Friday. Police visited him at
a midlown hotel several hours
later and found a parcel contain
ing "thousands" of the uncut dia
monds. The New Yorker was picked up
at a Montreal home Sunday. Belee
said it was believed his job was
to carry the diamonds into the
United States.
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price supports for poultry and eggs.
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ANNOUNCING
That Dr. R. L. Dunn, who formerly conducted a Mon
day night clou in Bible study in Roseburg, will start
a special class in the study of tht Prophetic Book of
Revelation at
7:00 P.M., Wednesday, Jan. 13
Meeting place will be in the adult classroom tp the new
onnex to the Christian Church. Enter the basement door
on Kane Street.
ANYONE INTERESTED IN JOINING
THIS CLASS WILL BE HEARTILY
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