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8 Tha News-Review, Roseburg, Controversial Highway 42 V'Vvr a - 'iyM(V.i',';y 2tir s' ' ' ' 'c-Xf f V- 1 4 V-'' "srSfEr - - i. . . . . - j "t , j-IL-Meningitis 5 4 ' -V v-- t Jr. FANNING THE BREEZE Kvidcnlly in a bnwy nio.ul, Soviet Prima Minister Nikita Khmshchov (riht) toys wuh a fan while chnttinfi with Red China's leader M.io Tse tuiiK, during Khrushchev's recent visit to Pciping. OWNER MUST SELL NOW Miiccllancoui household itcm ond opplioncei Including: MAYTAG WASHERS, Aufomotie ADMIRAL REFRIGERATOR, Large O DINING ROOM TABLE & CHAIRS, New REDWOOD OUTDOOR PICNIC TABLE, BENCHES MISCELLANEOUS POTTED PLANTS ASSORTED GARDEN TOOLS STORAGE DRAWERS PLUS OTHER HOUSE AND GARDEN ITEMS See Mrs. Carter 424 Weit Elizabeth St. OR 2-1347 Oro. Thur., Aug. 21 1958 j h kfl 'hmr m m m r. v ; -Nv-- .-.-s 'f SKA'ITI.K (AIM An outbreak of ascrplir Hh'nitlKltls, ilcscriliiMl by a IhmIMi oliu'iul of Ih'Iiik of cpitli-tnic proportions, has swept I he K i r i l; Con my and Sentlle area this year. Dr. It. T. Itavenliolt, director nf the eoiniiiuiue.-thle disease section of the Kiiik I'oHiity Health Depart ment, uiiied ri'Mdents in the area to take polio shots The disease is similar lo polio, Dr. Kavenholt j said, but does not usually result I in paralysis. i Total eases reported so far this year is HI compared with 18 dur . mi! all of l'.i.'w. the doctor said. (There have been LS cases report j ed for August. A virus has been isolated, the 'i health official said, but has not been identified as to type. Hold youni; and old have been ! stricken w ith the disease w hich in jdicates. Dr. Kavenholt said, that it is caused by an infectious ent new in the area or, at least, more widespread COLLEGES GET GRANTS WASHINGTON (AIM Three Oregon colleges have been award ed II grants totaling more than Sl.Ml.OOO by the National Science Foundation. Six grants totaling S1O0.4.S0 will go to Oregon Stale College. The t'niversity of Oivgon will receiw three grants totaling 54 .250, and liuod College will receive SIS, ton from two grants. DanmooreHotel 1217 S. W. MORRISON ST. Portland, Oregon itllmtiMI IT ID Ft IftMltf n mint hm until. All tfantiont tvif. All ttioto who com, return. Rotoi not high, not low. Freo Goroot, TV'i ond Rodtot. Rtoutotion tor cloonlintil. Remains HIGHWAY 42 VIEWS Shown ax lefr are two views of Highway 42 as ir winds through rugged terrain between Myrtle Point and Camas Valley. It is stretches such as this that Housewives for 42 and other southern Oregon groups are seeking to have straight ened and widened. Above is pictured the east end of a two-mile stretch eost of Coquille, The four-lane strip is one of the few stretches of the roadway considered adequate by pro-improvement groups. (Paul Jenkins) Southwest Oregon Groups Continue To Press For Work On East-West Artery; Coos Bay Group In Support By BOB CLARK Nwi-Rvitw Staff Writer Led by residents, of southern Douglas, Coos and other Southwest Oregon counties, the campaign to improve Highway 42 rolls through its 11th year with the recent addi tion of an influential Coos Bay group furnishing extra (team. Latest to endorse improvement of the scenic east-west route was the Coos Bay Port Commission, which previously had given prior ity to Highway 38. The commission, said to be the most influential governmental body in Coos County, threw its weight behind the Winston-Coquille route after deeming sought-after High way 38 improvements "a certain ty." Work on the latter route has been under way for some time. Recent leaders in the fight to obtain improvements of the nar row, winding highway have been the Housewives for 42, a group of women which has carried the cam paign directly and tenaciously to the Oregon Highway Commission. Reports from the coastal county indicate the move by the Port Commission creates unanimous en dorsement by Coos County agen cies. Unity Rcommnded In announcing the endorsement, Port Commission President Charles W. Mahaffy said Coos res idents should unite behind the cam paign "so that a first-class high way will he built In as short a time as possible." Mahaffy said the vote for en dorsement by the five-man com mission was unanimous. Another Coos agency, the Coos County Highway Council, was first to seek Highway 42 improvements. It listed the project as one of seven proposals it submitted to the Legis lative Interim Highway Commit tee in January of 1848. Since then, the proposal' has Rained considerable hacking from other quarters. Included among current endorsers are the Southern Douglas County Highway Assn., the Coos County Chamber of Com merce and the Coos County Civil Defense Agency. Others who have shown active interest in completion of a wider, straighter route are businessmen's groups in Jackson and Josephine Counties. They are aiming for fu ture completion of a modern route capable of ttansporting their goods lo the Coos port. ' Routine Work Don ! At present, the only work of any kind being done on the hiithway is routine summer maintenance, consisting of patching and sealing. However, one project is planned for the hnthway. It calls for grad ing and paving .98 miles of the highway west from Myrtle Point Congress Backs Away From Tunnel Project ! WASHINGTON (AP-Congres hacked away today from con struction of a tunnel at Waldo I l ake in the Willamette National i ! r orest in Oregon. The Senate passed and sent to i the White House a bill lo cancel authorization given in 1950 for the project. i Costs for the proposed tunnel ; have increased and the project is i no longer considered economically ! feasible, a committee report said. The tunnel had been proposed 'or supplying additional water for the Lookout Point and Dexter hydroelectric power plants of the j I middle fork of the Willamette I i River. 'the estimated pst increased from 5757,000 in 1W8 to $1,010,000 in 1957. "THOROUCH CLEAN" WALL TO WALL RUG CLEANING SiHVICI "Town er Country" Cotl J.I. NEWBERRY, OR 3-7010 r otter P.M., OR MStl "Your Eltctrolui Mon" Hot Topic in Coos County. Contractor for the project is F. L. Somers, Medford, who submitted a low bid of SW1, 055. In calling for re-construction of the highway, such groups as the Southern Douglas Highway Assn. and the Housewives for 42 have cited varied reasons why they en dorse such a project. Among the reasons set forth are the facts that Highway 42 would be vita! in a national defense situ ation because it is the first cross route north of the California bor der. Another is that the highway provides the shortest western ex tension of the North Umpqua High way to the coast. Accident Rate High The highway group noted that the number of accidents on Highway 42 is "extremely high in propor tion to the volume of traffic" and said that as traffic increases and more logging develops the exist ing roadway "will become more hazardous." Terming Southern Oregon "the under-privileged child of the State of Oregon," the housewives group said the area "is isolated and has been kept isolated by inadequate and tortuous Highway 42." A report by that organization claimed the region potentially is "one of the richest in the state, but added that the area has a his tory of "unending struggle against isolation" and "enforced, continu ing existence under near-frontier conditions." Improvement of Highway 42 is the only answer, said the report, to the problems of the 50.000 resi dents of the area who are "fighfe ing for their livelihood" by stri mg to end their position of being "completely cut off from the rest of the slate." Port Access Sttn- The Housewives said an improv ed highway would give mills and forest products plants of Southern Oregon access to export markets at Coos Bay and would attract in- austries to locate in the region. particularly in southern Coos Coun - ly which the report noted has no industry at present. Another point stressed in the re port was that concerning transpor tation of children to and from school over the highway. The re port said 2,276 children were car ried twice daily over sections of the highway in the 1957-58 school year. The Housewives' report said the roadway except for "a couple of miles east of Coquille, blacktop and a few new bridges" is in its "original state." "This road was built to aA' quately carry the traffic of its day but it is totally inadequate for pres ent day conditions," continued the Housewives. The report noted that the highway was constructed some 60 years ago. The report also noted that the highway currently winds at a high number of curvet per mile be tween Myrtle Point and Camas Valley. In summation. Highway 42 re mains as a hot point of contention between groups in Southern Ore gon particularly in southern Ioiiglas and Coot counties and state authorities. Although hardly it large-scale Dial ORchard 2-131 1 DURING THE FAIR FOR COMPLETE PAGE BOY SERVICE Another Pokln Sorvko of 9rc31cu)$'ttcvicti a job as requested, the one-mRe construction project slated ior the Myrtle Point area certainly has en couraged the pro-improvement camp. And the recent endorse ment by the Coos Bay Port Com mission undoubtedly will lend con siderable steam to improvement arguments. . The continuing fight for re-construction of the controversial strip will resume with full intensity come the next session of the state Legislature. So, once again. Highway 42 un doubtedly will rale its share of the headlines in the months to come. Curtin Sets School Days By MRS. RUBY MEACHAM Curtin school will open Sept. 8 instead of the 2nd as had been planned. Robert Green will be principal and teach the upper grades, Ernest Magill will teach the middle room, and Mrs. Louise Wickendoll will instruct the pri mary room. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sowles re turned recsntly from a two-month trip spent traveling as far as Ni agara Falls. They visited relatives in Michigan and also their grand daug' - in Texas. They were present when their first great grandchild was born, a girl, to Mr. and Mrs. Clete Daily of Amar illo, Tex. Mrs. Daily will be re membered as Fay Thompson when she resided at Curtin and went to scnoot mere. Weekend At Brookings Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Marvick j spent last weekend at Brookings I with their daughter, Mrs. Dale ; inapman. miss rvancy suiter of Brookings visited the past week at the Nor man Suiter residence. She return- ed home with her brother and sis ter, Norman Ray and Pep"v Suiter, and a friend also from Brookings. They also visited relatives at Lor- 1 ane an(1 tl,eir grandparents Mr. auu mis. ijeunara ouuer oi cot tage Grove. Larry Lyman, son of Mr. and Mrs. ' Ted Ly.nan, was brought home Monday from Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene where he has been since last Friday with spinal meningitis. Otis Snyder came home last week from the Sacred Heart Hos pital where he'spent several davs for treatment. Broken Log Bruce Boss broke his left leg below the knee Fndav. while at work at the mill in Drain. His leg is in a cast. His mother also still has a cast on her leg from a brok en unkle suffered recentlv. A party was held at 'the Alvin Allen home Sunday evening when some Grange members were pres ent to give Mr. and Mrs. Gene Meacham an electric Irving pan as a wedding gift. Mrs. Whitelaw of Florida ii vis iting the home of her niece Mrs. Ralph Marvick. She visited Curtin last year for a short time. v rUN AUG. Hp K II foe T!S Garden Valley With Minister By ADDIE SCHNEIDER George Arola. Linda Carter and I Teddy Lorenzen accompanied the Kev. Lester uison ana cnuaren to Parkland. Wash., to attend the leadership school at the Pacific Lutheran College, ine young peo ple were elected as delegates from the Faith Lutheran Church of Rose- burg. Mrs. 0. F. Michel went to Port land on business on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight 'linker ana two children of Idleyld Route have moved into the home they pur chased from William H. Hoppe ear ly this summer. Mrs. S. M. iiiasa oi roinuna, Smokey Bear Gets Under 100 In Fire Record For Year By DION HENDERSON Associated Press Staff Writer Smokey Bear finally has broken loo. The big guy in the fur coat, symbol of the forest service cam paign to reduce the fire toll of timber and wildlife, might look a little happier on the familiar warn ing posters on the basis of last year's record. Finished totalling up the re ports, the service figures there were only 83,400 forest fires in the nation last year. That was the first year that fires dropped below the 100,000 mark and compares with 143,000 the previous year. The area burned was reduced by just about half. Ten years ago, there were more than 200,000 fires. A The improvement, however, was not a general thing. In the South, the Southern Forest Fire Confer ence formed two vears ago in New Orleans could take a good deal of credit in the area's cutting its n.imher of fires bv more than half. Under the system, law enforce ment at even the county level has slashed a major cause tne in cendiarist. Rot in some other states, acre age burned increased from two to seven times. In Idaho, only a few more fires destroyed trees on more than 135.000 acres, compared with less than 20,000 acres burned" thp vear before. Alaska, not included in the state totals for 1957, had one of its worst fire years on record, with 264 fires burning over nearly 5 million acres. Who was the guy responsiDie tor starting most of them? The fellow who started out to ourn ruDoisn. So Smokey still has work to do. Family Royally Welcomed Home From Vacation KANSAS CITY. Mo. (AP) Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Connealy and family returned from vacation this week and what a hubbub. They'd been gone only two weeks visiting his parents and her mother up at Decatur, Neb., but almost everyone along the first block of Concord Ave. west of Main St. turned out to welcome them home. By latest and most reliable count there are 69 kids along this block. All of them except babes in arms kept a noisy, mobile look out all day for the Connealy clan. Many mothers and a few fathers watched too. At 5:12 p.m. the station wagon of accountant Connealy appeared and was quickly engulfed by 40 to au Kias, ail screaming. Gets the Idea Connealy finally got the idea He was to drive around the block and come in the other way, the way they'd been expected, so they (could see the banner flung across the street saying, "We Missed You All." Hanging from the house was an other: "Welcome Home Happy Honeymooners. That was a joke. Beneath it caricatures of Mr. and Mrs. Con nealy and their seven children- Joseph, 14. Dan. 12, Kathy, 10. Kevin. 9, John 7, Terry, 3, and Tim, 13 months. The youngsters spilled two and inrea at a time out of the station wagon, a welter of pillows, blank ets, sacks of groceries and suit cases in two luggage racks on top. The family, with escort, moved toward the front door and some one shoved a cold beer in Con nealy s hand. Why all the fuss? r.veryone on Concord avenue just loves the Connealys. Access Bridge Slated For Southern Douglas The Forest Service it planning construction of a 60-foot concrete bridge across Applegate Creek about 18 miles east of Azalea in the Umpqua National Forest, Bids will be opened in Portland regional headouarters Sent. 4. The 1 bridge is to be single-lane. DAVIS SHOWS CARNIVAL rUK ALL THE rAMILT ON THE GAY WAY OPEN DAILY CLEAN SAFE DOUGLAS 21 - 24 R0SEBURG Family Goes To School Calif., is visiting her niecea Mrs. Ray Young and family and Mrs. Charles Bigbee and husband. Al Williams of Springfield visit ed Bob Claypool over the weekend. Clavpool returned Monday to his work at Eugene with the Central Heating Co. Mrs. Kittie Winniford was taken by her sister, Mrs. Kva Ash, of Lebanon and her son, Joseph Ash, and family, of Springfield, and Mr. and Mrs. Carlvle Burgoyne of Eu gene, all former resident of Rid dle, to an old-timers picnic put on by Myrtle Creek people with Rid dle and Canyonville residents in vited. It was held at the Rose burg Rod and Gun Club picnic grounds Sunday. Mrs. Winniford was among former teachers of Mvrtle Creek who were honored. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Fleetwood and Susan of Seattle have been here visiting Mrs. Fleetwood' par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hebard. Other family members who came while they were here were Mr. and Mrs. John Hodson and family and Mr. and Mrs Bob Byrd and family, all of Grants Pass. John H. Miller threw an axe 21 feet and chopped an 11 inch log in one minute and six tenths sec onds Saturday to win first place in the two events at the Redwood Region Logging Championship con tests held in combination with the Humboldt County Fair at Fern dale. Calif. Miller also placed third in a hand bucking contest. He was accompanied to California by his wife and five children. Another Douglas County winner was Jack Culver of Sutherlin who placed second in a log rolling con test. Mr. and Mrs. Culver accom panied tht Millers. The winners were presented rib bons Saturday evening as the gold trophies had been stolen. Trophies will be presented as soon as they can be replaced. Green Peter Dam job Knocked Out ' WASHINGTON (AP)-A $1,330, 000 appropriation for construction of Green Peter Dam on the Mid dle Santiam River in Oregon was knocked out of the public works applanation bill here by a Senate-House conference committee. The conferees also cut the ap propriation for a John Day dam from 10 to 8 million dollars and dropped from the bill planning funds for Lower Goose Dam and Lower Greenwich Dam on the Snake River. The House had approved no funds for Green Peter Dam but the Senate had inserted an appro priation for it. The Senate had also upped the House's John Day funds from 8 to 10 million dollars. The osiginal Eisenhower budget tor John Day was 8 million. Planning appropriations of S310. 000 for Green Peter and $550,000 for Lower Monumental Dam on the -Lower Snake were left in the bill. 0. F COURSE, when you buy health pro tection for your familv. you want tha best, most complete, most reliable plan your money can buy. Which one will give you the kind of protection you need? .ERHAPS the best possible authority on health protection is your family doctor. He works with many health plans. And, chances are, he is one of the more than 1400 Oregon doctors who actually sponsor a plan specifically designed for Oregon families Oregon Physicians' Service. ask your doctor. You can rely on his expe rience and jvdgmeat at helping yon select the plan that's best for you. And, if he recommends OPS, remember that there's an OPS repcesen tstiva ready to give you full details. Don't wait you'll be glad yoa aekarJ! 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