ommission
LountvrlanmnqL
Controls Haphazard Growth
From the earliest days of pio-jlaw, these do nor apply to farm or
neer settlement until World War i logging operations). Douglas Coun
II, the slow, leisurely growth ofjty now has no operative building
Douglas County did not necessitate
a comprehensive independent plan
ning agency. There were plenty
of "wide open spaces" to act as
buffer zones between areas of va
rious activities, even if these were
inharmonious. - .
During the past IS years,' how
ever, the rapid population growth
and intensive land use develop
ment forced upon residents an
awareness that some direction and
assistance to orderly development
was necessary to stop chaotic and
haphazard growth patterns. , Such
patterns1 invariably result in in
creased costs of government and
public services, public school dif
ficulties, traffic and safety prob
lems, high utility costs-and lower
ing of iproperty values. '
The Douglas County Court be
came aware of the ever-increasing
public demand for a planning
agency, and in 1954 the Douglas
County Planning Commission was
created. Over the years, the serv
ices of the commission have ex
panded to the point of providing
code. Building permits are neces
sary, but are only used for stalls
ucai purposes. ,
Some of the activities and com
pleted projects of , the Douglas
County Planning Commission in re
cent years include: . , '- '
1. Partially completed land use
field maps for 152 square miles
League of Oregon Cities to be used
locally. Map showing a proposed
park site in the portion of the blast
area,' which obordered on the
South Umpqua River.
13, Assisted League' of Oregon Ci
ties with its Reedsport study. -,14
. Assisted Newton Creek with in
formation concerning neighborhood
park development, and furnished
Park Committee, with large sacle
maps oi the arqa to be included
2. Completed 84 sauare miles of I in the district.
base and contour maps. , ,. - I 15. Presentlyjvorking with a sim-
3. Completed colored land use j ilar committee to-create a small
maps for 42 square miles. downtown park for1 the City of
, 4. Reproduced books of ' Cole Roseburg., . . - - - .
Study of Water Shipping and dis- 16. Assisted land owners in plat
tributed them' to milk throughout ting and development , of several
the county.'-.- '.'..- . new subdivisions. , ' "',..
5. Worked with city of Reedsport 17. Issued building permits to all
and governor s Industrial adviser parts oi tne couniy
Diamond Lake-To Sea Road
Is Dream Of County Court
By MRS.' ARTHUR SELBY j the completion of Douglas County's
r.: a t i- .i,. c. i.iu : Part of the program," he reported.
way has long been the dream of! ",e reas '" h's highway
members of the Douglas County ' ?re 'n"nv-lhe V,mpqlu R'ver wa
Court, the IL S. Forest Service,! lersnei covers all of Douglas Coun
tho Rnroa.i ni Pnhlio Rniu mH ty except a small district comoris-
the majority of the residents of Camas Valley. It is the long
Douelas Countv . est r,ver ln America which rises
county Judge V. T. Jackson says . ,,u "v"" wwiuui
the dream is nearing realization
"After many years of planning
and working, we can begin to see
Dunn Bradstreet Lists
1096 County Businesses
Douglas County has 1.096 busi
nesses listed in Dun & Bradstreet
Reference Book for 1901.
The-total is based on a physical
count of the edition. It lists those
manufacturers, wholesalers and re
to inform industry of industrial ad-J 18. Furnish maps and data to pub-1 tailers who seek or grant commer-
vantages tc. be found in Douglas
County.
6. Worked with Roseburg 'and
Myrtle Creek chambers , of commerce-
to interest retired people in
Douglas County. ' y
7. Compiled a new building and
zoning ordinance. The new build
ing ordinance, which is for regis-
aid to nearly all parts of the coun
ty, both rural ana uroan.
" ' I nntu iWa ai-oao that or, ni-A0nl.
The principle of countywide plan- " r
na ic nnt a ni vstprinilS nr KPCre- . . U .. - ., .
tration and statistical purposes
onlv, cocers the entire county,
while the zoning ordinance covers
ning is not a mysterious or secre
tive activity. It is merely, on a
larger scale, the same kind of or
ganized direction that an individ
ual or a group would apply to
the operation of a household, busi
ness, farm, church, or school. A
central agency is necessary for
planning on a countywide scale be
cause of the vast number of prop
erty owners whose needs and de
sires should be integrated into an
harmonious and mutually benefici
al pattern.
Land use zoning is a highly use
ful tool of planning. Its intelligent
annlieation Drovides individuals.
associations, and public agencies
8- New citv maps for Oakland,
Carivonville and Myrtle Creek.
9. Planned a street numbering
system for. Oakland, Canyonville
and Tri-City Fire District as re
quested by local officials. The
commission is presently working
on a revised street numbering sys
tem for Myrtle Creek. .
10. Created two new zoning dis
tricts and is in the process of crea
ting several more.
11. Furnished maps as requested
by the city of Roseburg which were
used by the League of Oregon
Cities in making a planning study
for the city. These maps together
with land use information saved
lie at cost
19. Considered proposals to dedi
cate or' vacate streets and roads.
20. Assigned house numbers' out
side Roseburg city limits! .
21. Compiled and- published a
booklet entitled "Character of
Douglas County" especially for
use of prospective new residents,
companies, industrial committees,
etc. . v
Four Cities Rank Among
1 ,000 to 2,500 population
FouV of Douglas County's 12 in
corporated towns are in the 1,000
to 2.500 population group. They
are Canyonville 1.089. Drain 1.052,
Sutherlin 2.452 and Winston 2.395.
Canyonville showed an increase
in population in a decade of 26.5
per cent; Drain, a loss of 8 5 per
cent; Sutherlin a gain of 10 per
cent; and Winston was nnt incor
porated in 1950.
cial credit, but it does not include
some of the service and profession
al businesses such as beauty and
barber shops, security dealers and
real etale broker. Therefore, the
figures for. total business would
be higher than quoted.
The book credits Roseburg with
488 businesses, Myrtle Creex with
93, Reedsport with 81 and Suther
lin with 78.
leaving the boundaries of the coun
ty. Ihe eastern part of this water
shed is owned by the federal gov
ernment, being the Umpqua Na
tional Forest. It contains about a
million acres most of which is cov
ered by merchantable timber, an
estimated 32 billion feet. The al
lowable cut is about 300 million
board feet per year. The timber
sales are managed on a sustained
yield basis. The cutover land is
seeded and replanted by the U.S.
Forest Service.
Rotdt Nttdtd
In order to carry on an orderly
marketing of this timber, there
must be roads and more roads.
Judge Jackson of the County
Court explained the Importance
and value of the Diamond Lake
Highway to Douglas County "The
North Umpqua river running as it
does, cuts right through the heart
of the timber. It runs through rug
ged country and rough terrain. The
entire watershed on both sides of
the river slopes rapidly to. the
in the reference book is a Dun & river. The new highway being built
Bradstreet credit report including
the history of the business, a des
cription of what the business does
and how it does it, a financial
section which usually includes the
latest financial statement and rec
ord of how the business pays its
bills.
along the river "in the bottom of
the canyon as so suuaica uiai an
the adjacent timber on both sides
of the river can be brought down
grade to the highway."
The judge, continuing says: "Pre
vious to our present road program.
the upper pari oi uus national ior-
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FOREST SERVICE shelter obove is typical of deluxe over
night accomodation available to travelers by foot or horse
back on early trails in the county's forests.
mills in the western valley have
had no chance to compete.
"The completion of this road will
make it possible for all the nation
al forest timber to come down
hill to market from the top of the
Cascades to tide water on a water
grade."
Other Bnfit Noted
This Diamond Lake Highway has
other benefits besides the market
ing of timber. It is being built all
the way to state standards, having
a ju-iooi Dase ot rock. 22 lect wide
pavement with 4-foot shoulders.
With the completion, much tourist
travel is cxpecteC. The road is
right along ihe side of the river
nearly all tho way. Besides the
great recreation area of Diamond
Lake, there is the 320-acre Susan
early 20'i although timber had I who honored bills of the trustee
very little or no value. There were I Of the original seven mS
many people who believed this of this comlni tee Tonly two of
man hurt a prnf fnfnrn Fni munui.i,-. . WV V
narrow road on east around the i
Hog Back to the boundary where
it again stoppea.
District Formtd
A movement was started in'mjiio t Hiif..t
H0nhfB In fnrm . tnnnial rnrf m" ee .at. 9'Wcrent times
district in order to raise funds to
promote a North Umpqua road.
After one failure and much work.
a district was finally organized and
called the North Umpqua-Diamond
Creek Slate Park and numerous Lake Highway Improvement Dis-
The reDorts are used both to est timber could only be reached narks orovided bv the Forest Serv-! trict. The members of the board of
evaluate credit risks of businesses i by roads from Eastern Oregon and i ice and Douglas County along the : truestces were appointed by the
and to review risks, rate and cov- consequently all sales from this I route, I governor. A tax of 2- mills was
erage for fire and other types of j part of the forest have gone most- The building of this Diamond levied each year, collected and de
insurance, ly to Klamath Falls mills. Our 'Lake highway was started in the posited with the state treasurer
ly of Glide. The other 'original
members were, A. C. Markers,
Napoleon Rice, F. B. Lane J W.
nuiiipnreys ana u A. Lockwood.
Other residents served on the coin-
iiimee ai omerent times.
The district was dissolved h t.
lslaUve action at the 1953 session
and money remaining was turned
over to the General Road Fund of
Douglas County.
LEASE TAKEN
Don Young has taken the Ieasa
on the Chevron service station at
Central and State streets in Suth
erlin. :
with information as to the !hhest the city much time and money.
best, and most profitable use of
land. Some regulation of land use
is necessary to prevent encroach
ment of activities that might great
ly diminish usefullness of adjoin
ing properties. .
Good planners believe in allow
ing the greatest freedom in use of
land as long as those uses do not
deteriorate the usefulness of other
properties.
At the present time, zoning out
tide of incorporated cities in Doug
las County is confined to those
areas in which a majority of resi
dents petition specifically for zon
ing, and provided the areas are at
least two square miles in size.
Countywide zoning would provide
more uniformity and prevent the
patchwork pattern of use now ex
isting. Lane County has county
wide zoning and it is proving an
aid to growth and prosperity in
that area. Businesses and indus
tries have settled there because
they know what will develop in
12. Assisted the city of Roseburg
following the blast by furnishing I
city maps to workers, similar data j
to the Association of Washing
ton Cities, compiled the names of
property owners in blast area, and 1
copied many maps made by the
County Enjoys
Mild Climate
If any one word can describe
the weather in Douglas County, it
is lemperaie.
So temperate is the climate in :
general for the county that winter
days showing temperatures below j
20 degrees are rare. In the sum-1
mer, temperatures above 90 are
also unusual. '
The median temperatures in the
r ,- , . "s11-111"11 aim iimauiicu pica, ul
their surroundings as a result of I n,e county are aDout 55 degrees.
. . ihe extremes recorded since
Many counties as weU as all wea(ner information has been tak-1
cities, have building codes. (By,en from im ,re 6 bdow zero in:
I Roseburg in 1S88 and 109 in the ,
same area in 1946.
Wind Velocity Low
At Roseburg, the hub of the coun
ty, the wind velocity is one of the
lowest, if not the lowest; average'
in the nation. Due to the location of
the city in the shadow of the Coast
Range, its average rainfall is much :
lower than in adjacent coastal re
gions and the Willamette Valley.
temperatures are mild during the
average winter due largely to the;
protective influence of the Cascade
Range. . Snow is relatively rare.;
Some years, no measurable snow-!
fall is recorded.
Precipitation in the county is not
uniform, however. Lower precipi
tation follows a general line from1
Drain in the north to Riddle in the
south. Rain at! Riddle averages
about 24 inches a year: Roseburg
Humane Society
Started In '53
Douglas County Humane' Society,
a non-profit organization, was or
ganized in 1953 for the purpose of
helping prevent cruelty to animals
and to children.
Finances and moral support
were given by the parent organi
zation, the Oregon Humane So
ciety of Portland, during the or
ganizing of the Douglas County So
ciety, but it is now supported
through contributions, sale of dogs,
a county contribution of S275 per
month and memberships. Member
ships sell in three classifications: j about 38 and Drain about 46.
Life, regular and associate, all at
a designated fee depending upon
classification.
Shelter Maintaintd
The society maintains a shelter
on Del Rio Road, about one mile
West of the Roseburg Rod and
Gun Club, on property belonging
to Margaret Alancy. Mrs. Maney
also runs the shelter and has serv
ed in that position since the opera
tion of the shelter was started.
Businessmen from all over Doug
las County contributed a generous
amount of materials and some
money for erection of the shelter
in 1956.
At present, the society only has
facilities for caring for dogs but
hopes to establish quarters for
cats sometime in the future. The
Feline Fanciers of Oregon have
indicated they plan to construct a
cat shelter sometime soon. Society
spokesmen state that such facili
ties are desperately needed be
cause of an overpopulation of cats.
A dog control officer canvasses
the county, picking up stray and
unwanted dogs, returning them to
the dog shelter. The animals are
kept for a period of five days, the
time required by law in order that
the owner can claim the dog. Aft
er that period of time, the stray is
placed in another home or if it
proves to be an undesirable pet, 1
it is put to sleep. In 19M), the so-1
cicty handled an average of 133! rourteen garden clubs, totaling
dogs a month i 308 members, compose the Ump-
One policy of the county organ!- ou District No. 16, Federated
zation is to destrov all sheep-kill- Garden Clubs,
ing dogs immediately. It believes I- Umpqua Di.-trict. a member of
that no cure can be rendered to 1 the National Federation of (.ar
a dog of that nature. I den Clubs, was formed m 1954
fmit Spytd ! with Mrs. C. J. Bielman of Suth-
Another policy is that all female erlin as director. Purposes -of the
dogs must be spayed before being ; clubs are to encourage the beau
placed in a new home. The reason i tification of their respective com-
for such a Dolicv is to curb the I munities. teach the art ot better
In the eastern part of the countv.
with the buildup of the Cascades,
annual precipitation ranges from
70 to 74 inches, ln the west, near
the coast, the average is about 108
inches a year;
The growing season in the coun
ty extends from about April b to
Nov. 13.
Example Shows Mildness
An example of temperature and
precipitation is the 1960 weather
chart by month compiled by the i
Roseburg Chamber of Commerce
in cooperation with the Weather
Bureau. By months, the aver
ages were: January 33.1 to 47.7
degrees and 3.65 inches of precip
itation: February 33.5 to 53.2 and
6.25; March 39.3 to 59.6 and 6.46
inches; April 40 to 63.6 and 2.44
inches;' May 43.2 to 66.3 and 3.8
inches; June 47.6 to 81.1 and no
precipitation; July 53.7 to 89 and
no precipitation; Argust 51.1 to
82.4 and .67 inches; September 47
to 80.1 and .65 inches: October 42
to 66 8 and 1.53 inches: November
37.2 to 55.2 and 8.38 inches: De
cember 34.9 to 46.7 and 2.26 inches.
Area Garden Clubs
Fourteen In Number
increasing dog population and the
number of sheep-killing docs,
The Humane Society not only
deals with dogs and cats, hut in
vestigates cases of cruelty to oth
gardening and to practice conser
vation of our natural resources.
Club projects include hospital
tnerapy in the local hospitals and
nursing homes, giving 411 scholar-
er animals, namely cows and hors- j ships, promoting essay and poster
es. The organization is not loo ac- i contests in the schools and the
live in caring for children but has sponsoring of garden information
investigated cases of parents being , service by telephone or direct
cruel to children. contact by club member. The
President of the organization is; Umpqua District sponsors a gar
Sen. Al Flegel of Roseburg. who den program twice weekly over
has been responsible for much ! radio station KRNR and a weekly
state legislation regarding human 1 horticultural column in The News
Ideais. ' Review.
POWER FOE? PROGR
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and faith in the future
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ADDITION TO
Dixonville Substation
$618,000.00
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GARDEN VALLEY SUBSTATION
$80,000.00
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An adequate supply of electric power is essential to tht growth and prosperity of any
area. By the same token, investments in expansion of facilities by an investor owned,
tox-poying company such as COPCO show faith In the) future of the area it serves.
Measured in these terms, The California Oregon Power Company has shown its faith in
Douglas County and its people by very substantial investments over the past fen years
investments which have guaranteed an adequate power supply for home, farm, and in
dustry and which have contributed in many other ways to the area's economy.
PLANT INVESTMENT
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$450,000.00
TAXES
From 1950 through 1960, COPCO , invested $72,857,171.99
in plants and facilities in Douglas County. In 1960 alone,
$1,284,750.00 was Invested for the facilities pictured on
this page.
At the same time
paid by COPCO the County's largest taxpayer made a substantial .
contribution to schools and various government services. In 1960 alone,
COPCO paid $719,167.76 in Douglas County taxes.
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COPCO IS PEOPLE ...
And people mean PAYROLLS.
In 1960, COPCO's payroll to its people working in Douglas County (and
living, and spending their income with local businesses) totalled $891,
304.53 certainly one of the largest single payrolls in the county.
In these and dozens of other ways, COPCO will continue as o "partner in progress" with
the people of Douglas County working for mutual benefit in an orea in which it has
great faith for the future. .
MYRTLE CREEK SERVICE CENTER
$91,750.00
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LINE 12 RECONSTRUCTION
$45,000.00
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A WESTERN COMPANY OWNED AND OPERATE!) BY WESTERN PEOPLE