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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1953)
to flow into the high Review By State commenced way treasury it was not very long the *4 mill s ta te highway HiWay Commission I until tax law was repealed and the en tire highway construction load put on the gasoline tax. m otor vehicle license fees and a few’ miscellaneous sources of income. So, generally speaking the entire ’" 'sent system of prim ary and s > ondary state highways plus a veiy m aterial share of county roods and city stre e ts have been paid for out of these revenue sources, aided by federal aid and forest highway allotm ents. In fact, all during the heavy con traction period, the gasoline tax. the m otor vehicle license fees and accessory revenues paid in by Oregon road-users, both to sta te and federal depositories, have built Oregon’s highways and re paid Oregon's highway bonds. So, according to the record as of Jun e 30, 1952, Oregon has 1,797 miles of prim ary and 2,530 miles of secondary sta te high ways; 12,523 miles of roads and trails in national forests and 30.- 950 miles of county roads. From 1917 to June 30, 1952, inclusive ‘he highway commission has ex pended $451,000 (XXI in round fig ures of s‘ate funds, the federal governm ent $101 million; the •ounties nearly $17 millioiv. to gether w ith upw ard of $2 million from m iscellaneous r e v e n u e unds, a grand to ’al of approxi m ately $574 million on the roads md highways of the state. Since the middle of 1951 the Com m is sion has been engaged in spending ng the $40 nv Ilion of bond money p a n te d by the 1951 I gislature plus available current highway md federal a'd revenue in the ’ceonstruction to m. iKrn stand Practical, B e n P ifu l, Full Vision aids of the outmoded sections of Tem pered Glass Fireplace Fronts 'lie main trjtck lines of the svs- *em. In August it will pick up the chore of m arketing $32 m il & More I Icat lion more of bonds to continue the reconstruction task. July 14, it 0 ( Alts- Fuel ( >OStS d arted on the second inspection trip of the year to view a t first > No Smoke hand, during five days of steady & No Sparks ♦ravel through E astern, S o u th eastern and C entral Oregon, the nrojects completed and those un der wav. and to m ap out the proj- 'cts which lie ahead. F orty years ago last Jan u ary th 1913 legislature told Oswald W est, Ben O lcott and Tom Kay, acting as a sta te highway com mission, to hire a sta te highway engineer, m ap out and s ta rt building a sta te highway system. It financed the job w ith a li mill sta te road tax totaling $248,- 570.60. In Novem ber 1914 the sta te highway engineer, M ajor H enry L. Bowlby, reported to his commission that "th ere are more than 37.000 miles of road in O re gon" and he added "It will be m any years before m ore th an 10 per cent of these have been hard surfaced." T hat sta rte d the ball rolling and in 1917 the legislature set up the present appointive commission system , fram ed the first $6 m il lion bond dissue act (which was ratified by the people w ith an affirm ative m ajority of 13,513); adopted the original basic state highway m ap and the long uphdl building job really got u n d 'r wav In 1919 the gasoline tax law was enacted and when its revenues Sm ith river at Jedediah Sm ith I S ta te park near Hiouchi bridge. I I Classes are open to any children of school age also classes for B y ET H E L GOODLIN junior, senior and advanced sw im mers. The Sm ith River school Del N orte Pom ona Granger;, bus will provide tran sp o rtatio n w ere guests of K lam ath Valley for all children from Sm ith River Grange for the reg u lar m onthly ami Crescent City. m eeting of Pom ona on July 19. Mrs. Emma Cooper is enjoyin held at 12 o'clock at the Grange a w eek’s vacation at Medford as hall with M aster Leo Kloske pre guest of her niece and husband. siding. Following a short b u si Mr. and Mrs. Ed Albern. ness m eeting the grangers of Po Mrs. Palm er W estbrook, with mona and subordinate grange mo ter four children and three nieces tored to P rairie C reek S ta te park and nephew, children of Henry E among the beautiful redwoods W estbrook, are enjoying campin; where an enjoyable picnic was out on the W inchuck river at Pat held with a potluck lunch served M orrison’s home. at noon on the long tables under Sm ith River was ra th e r desert the shade trees. ed Sunday when m any fam ilies The afternoon was spent v isit and their friends m otored to ing. horse shoe pitching and o th er Brookings to see the Lily Parade games enjoyed by all. They report the parade ver> The Red Cross swim classes of beautiful. Crescent City and Sm ith River area sta rte d Monday, July 20 to July 31 and are being held o Read the class ads. They pay; Smith River W Brookings Harbor Pilot 5 THURSDAY, JULY 23. 1953 Tile Prineville, Oregon Cham ber of Com m erce has set aside a free thunder egg hunting grounds at W ildcat m ountain where rock- hounds a re perm itted to dig tor the agate-centered stones. Read th e class ads. They pay! Kay Sandstrom Beauty Salon HARBOR Will Be Closed from July 17 to Aug. 1st FO R VACATION important beyond words! New Thermc-Rite Glass Fireplace Front A life tim e of Service and B eauty —S ee— IVAN O. SH E PH E R D S E. End of Del N orte Lane New viewpoints have been es tablished in C entral Oregon for viewing the deep Crooked River can\<ti, along the new road to Round Butte, part of the Cove S ta te P ark developm ent . YOUR LUCKY I Each year thousands of insignificant-looking fires—low, slow-burning ones—creep through the grass or brush-covered floors of our forests and woods. They don’t often kill the big trees. They seem to do little or no damage. There's just one catch. Down in that grass and brush are tiny trees —the future woods and forests of America— the tim ber that your children u til urgently need tn the yean to come. Fire hills these small trees. Yes, it is mighty important that we prevent those "insignificant" fires. For they arc forest fires, to o ... just as destructive, just as costly. For America, for your children, please be careful— extra careful—with matches, smokes, campfires. Think of those tiny trees . . . hidden in the grass. /fane/nfor— or.Ey vcm can PREVENT FOREST FS2ES1 Like other American business firms, we believe that business has a restw w hility to contribute to the public welfare This a fre rtis M N flt U therefore sponsored in cooperation with m e Advertising Council and U. S. and S u b Forest S a rriu s by: SPONSORED BY CRI SCI NT CITY Brookings Red-E-Mx Concrete Co. %
