8 Tha News-Review, Roseburg,
Controversial Highway 42
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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.
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424 Weit Elizabeth St. OR 2-1347
Oro. Thur., Aug. 21 1958
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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.
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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
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"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
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Another Pokln Sorvko of
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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.
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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
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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.
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