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Foreign News Briefs SYDNEY, Australia I Fr.nk If, Sinatra reported Thursday the loss ol a targe sapphire ring from his Melbourne hotel room Tuesday night. , : . . . CAIRO, Egypt, to Egypt's supreme military court -convicted eight Jews Thursday of spying for Israel and sentenced two of them to death. SINGAPORE ( Malava and Thailand are expected u 'launch new jojnt drive soon to smash Commiinist guerrillas terrorizing both sides of the two Southeast Asian countries' -common border. Intensified land and air attacks , are being set up. . MILAN, Italy I Two men, arrested in connection with a bank holdup, told police Thursday their hands were clean and they could prove it. Their alibi: They were busy stealing four suitcases from a car just at the time the holdup took place.' HALIFAX, N.S. tfl The Can adian Navy- says all 47 sailors poisoned by cocktails spiked with duplicating machine fluid are out of danger. The men staged their surreptitious binge below decks Friday night on the 18,000-ton air - craft carrier Magnificent. - HONG KONG, UR Gen. John E. Hull, U.S. Commander in chief in the Far East, . said Thursday he contemplated "no Immediate changes at present" in deployment of American ground troops under his command as a result of Presi dent Eisenhower s Formosa' mes sage to Congress. CLARK AIR FORCE BASE, P.I. Wi A littery PhiliDmnes Thurs day watched U.S. Sabrejet fighters based at Clark Air- Force Base streak for troubled Formosa. But the Filipinos got immediate reas suring news that more of the sleek jets would arrive in these Islands as replacements. t. t!, mst t i I I TtStasw in ii mi Latest Creations in CARPETS DURNAM'S FLOOR COVERING "Biggest Little Carpet Store In Town" 566 W. Oak Ph. 3-6123 i BEWARE Of IMITA110HS LOOK FOR THI , HAPPY LTTU 006 TOPS IN QUALITY! LOW IN PRICE NATIVE OREGONIAN Joe Ledgerwood, reminisces about the origin of the first road built, the trail blazer for the present highway north of Myrtle Creek; He says the .first road was constructed over 40 years ago and was built . entirely by volunteer labor, (photo by Ruth hr. Evans) Native .: Oregonian Recalls Highway 99 Construction By RUTH M. EVANS Joe Ledgerwood of Myrtle Creek has a special interest in the new Highway 99 being laid along the Boomer Hill Road by the State of Oregon. It was through his efforts that the first road ever built on the northwest side of the river was constructed. Ledgerwood. life-long resident of Douglas County and Myrtle Creek, states that Highway 99 just north of the Myrtle Creek city limits was originally laid out as the Boomer Hill Koad and was built entirely by volunteer labor with no financial aid from state or county funds, and he adds that the present re-conscruction of High way 99 will follow the old original route very closely. Volunteer Labor The Boomer Hill Road was con structed entirely by volunteer la bor and extended from the foot of Boomer Hill to the old bridge site just south of the present bridge. A wooden bridge was built by the county after Ledgerwood and Ed Weaver circulated a peti tion in 1911 stressing the need: for a bridge crossing the river at the cit limits. trior to uie construction ot tne first bridge, homesteaders from Boomer Hill had to ford the Ump qua River at the point just below Van Dine's Meat Co.. and continue on into Myrtle Creek by way of. the Dole Road. During the winter when water in the river was hisn the only way to get to Mrrtle Creek was by horse, crossing the railroad oriage soutn oi town. Concrete pilings from the old wooden bridge can still be seen immediately south of the bridge constructed by the Stato Highway uept., sometime after 1919. Roomer Hill residents of today will be able to enter the highway being constructed by way of a spe cial right-of-way. A bid "was re cently awarded a construction company from Corvallis that calls for construction of a 124-foot con crete viaduct connecting Boomer Hill Road with the new alignment of the Pacific Highway two miles nortnwest ot Myrtle creek. Methods Compared . Ledgerwood compared the way roads are built now and the way the first road was cut through the mountain. Volunteer laborers took several years to build the first road that went from the bridge north to where the Boomer Hill Road begins at Van Dine's. Where the re-construction now in progress is handled by many men and heavy equipment that can move tons of earth in a short time, the old road was literally carved out of the side of the mountain by a handful of men armed with picks and shovels. Moving of large rocks and trees was done with a team of horses and leveling with a wooden slip. After the completion of the first section of the road, the county built Girl Prefers Jail To Going Home Without Her Dog . ST. JOSEPH, Mo. I A 15-year-old Portland, Ore., girl would rather stay in jil here than go home without her dog, Sandy,, who has been with her since she was two years old. Patricia Messick, stranded here without money when her 28-year-old husband of three months was arrested on a charge of cashing a nad cnecK, turned down an op portunity to leave by herielf Wed nesday. . Her mother, Mrs. Beryle Baker, Portland, sent her a plane ticket, but Patricia refused to go when she learned her dog couldn't go along unless she paid a 30 charge tor him. St.- Joseph residents ire trying to raise the $30. After her husband was arrested, Patricia had no place to go, so she was cared for in jail. Her dog went right alonj with her. He stayed with her a full week, too, before he finally broke out for i few hours of freedom. After he was caught, Patricia de- tended mm. "I guess Sandy got tired of try ing to bury bones iu the concrete floor here. It was pitiful to see him take a Done and hide it under a newspaper after he had failed to dig a hole in the concrete," she said. A new alfalfa variety called Lahontan Is said to be practically immune to "injury from the stem nematode. continuations, all of which were then called Boomer Hill Road. They constructed the road north to the Alvin Helgeson ranch, south west on what is now known as the old Weavor road, and on up Boom ei Hill to the various homesteads. Ledgerwood said that originally 14 or IS men volunteered to help build the road, but in a few montnj the help boiled down to a few re liable steadies. Ledgerwood is ne only man of the original road crew alive today. The state took over the road sometime after 1919 and construct ed the highway as it is now. Joe Ledgerwood's father, Wil liam Ledgerwood, settled a home stead about 3V4 miles up Boomer HiU in 1868. Joe Ledgerwood was born Feb. 14, 1881. He will be 74 years old next month. Now retired and living in Myrtle Creek, Ledg erwood owned and operated the city meat market in Myrtle Creek for 30 years. His son, Orin Ledger wood, owns the Van Dine Meat Co. P r i .iniii.ili.... . Oi.. . .. tateii i wmM in . NEW OREGON BLUE BOOK gets inspection by Secretary of State Earl T. NewDry. First copies of the-1955 publica tion will go to' members of the. Oregon Legislature, -and general distribution will ' follow throughout the state in February. Book was published under new law which moved . publication date to January of each legislative year. Number of pages have been cut from 450 to 374. Frl.t Jon, 28,, 1855 The News-Review, , Roseburg, Ore. 9 TRIAL SET MB. 7 ' A, date of Feb. 7 has been set i complainant is George Poit, who for a -district court trial before I accused Harry Hagan Sr. of Judge Warren A. Woodruff in an I striking him. Hagan denied guilt assault and battery case. 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