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tax law was repealed and the en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
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