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THE OKEGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1928 15 COUNTY CT S Dora Court Rejects Two and Con tinues Three For Further Consideration , f - . The Marion cprinty court Fri day tobk action on cine petitions for new roads, rejeeUnff'two, ar- threp for further consideration. The oad in District No. 4 4, pe titioned for by 3. C. Stanton and others, was ordered surveyed. Thts road is in the vicinity of Vitae Springs a few miles south of Salem. The petition of H.H. Uppen dahl and others for a road in District No. 2 was approved, and the road ordered established. A report of the viewers approved the' road. The road is expected to be used by several families about a half mile south of Hub bard as an outlet to the mail highway. The road petitioned for by George Susbauer and others ir District 24, near Sublimity, wa ordered viewed and surveyed. This will be a spur to the Tri umph road in the vicinity of Su blimity. The road n?ar Ror.edale in Dis tricts 3 8 and 4 4 was ordered viewed and surveyed as petitioned by Mrs. Theresa .Tory and others John Wierner and others have a petition in asking for a roar! in District 8 '2. near West Wood- burn. Action on this petition was continued ending further invest! eation. Another petition from District 10 near Woodland Park anl one from District 14. bo:h ,met the same fate. These lat two petitions were headed by Arthu Holder and B. B. Smith. resnec tively. Petitions dismissed were; By John ITertl anil other-? in District 12 near fii otts Mills. In this case a remonstrance was re reived by the court carrying mor? names than the original petition as!;ing that the road he built. By T. L. Davidson and other? in District 51, just south of the south end of 12th street. Salem. This would hr-ve cut out a larp;e rectangle which 13 heins opened up for building lots, but road viewers had turned in a report stating that taxpayers would not be generally benefitted by the new road, and the court decided iu accordance with this report. ARMY WILL MOTORIZE WHOLE UNIT TO SEEK SPEED AND MOBILITY S&ZL 7Y ?ix i Cin CAMP GROUND PROBLEM REVIVED Question of Retaining It Or Converting Into Play ground Coming Up t A 4 5? 4. )I So far hns meohanii-al iranMrtAtion davanc! since the world war that the general staff of the war department, hciuled by Maj Gen. diaries P. Summeral! (alnne), Ls siMnsoring formation of iC wholly motorized and ititc!ianized unit to eek increased petHl and mobility. It wiil be vuip:.-d with tanks, self-propellexl ai-tillcry like the lo." wiiii. yun bt'iow, and armored cars to carry the men. Xonv the senate is going to have ft oal inquiry and they are wel come to come and look in our cellar any time they want to. Read the Classified Ads WASHINGTON (AP) A mili tary "unit without a horse or a mule, carrying its men in armored motor cars and equipped with tank and artillery which are self propelled, will be developed for experimental purposes by the war lepartment. It is considered doubtful that horses and mules ever will be en tirely difrlaeed as component parts i;i the army's fighting machine. But the last ten years have brought such advances in mechan ical phases of transportation that the general staff of the war de partment has evolved a program for determining effectiveness and possible development of mechan ized and motorized battlefield units, looking to restoration of the cleincnt of movement, with its companionate principles of sur prise, to bat tie tactics of the I'nited States army. The first step recommended by the general staff is development of the new mechanized unit, not a part of cavalry or infantry but an entirely new arm, of great mobil ity and striking power, embracing 2.000 or 3,000 men. Under present plains one such an it will be developed to test the I effectiveness of the plan and to SEEKING AnVENT1- IN M nil. M d&Tk -4Pf Ifelr fit - These two girls. Miss Jean Schoen, left, of New York, and Miss Helen Culin, of Elkins Park, Pa., are preparing at Richmond, Va., for a 500-mile trip into the heart of Mexico by motor. On a waget with a relative the girls are to receive one dollar for every mile they penetrate the country. Miss Schoen is a veteran traveler and has. "roughed it" in nearly every part of the world. The question of perpetuating Salem's municipal auto park is again projecting Itself into the foreground, and Indications are that it will be discussed thorough ly in the meetings of a number of organizations before a final rec ommendation is made to the city council by the park committee, to which the question was referred at the last council meeting. The maltter came up when .the ways and means committee filed a report recommending that the au to camp be converted into a play ground for the reason that It is unfair for the city to compete with taxpaying private Interests. To this argument it has been replied that the city operated a camp ground long before the pri vate Interests ventured into the field. From the standpoint of public interest. It has also been argued that the municipal camp ground is the only one centrally located, and the only one that can be centrally on account of the zoning ordin ance; and that tourists must be provided with accommodations well into the heart of the city or they will not be induced to stay and do their trading in Salem. One of the group discussions of this subject will be at the Y. M. C. A. forum Friday evening. Lane county Bridge over the McKenzle river on a county road about 14 miles south of CofonTg. This Is a county project advertls- led in behalf of the county court. Lane county Bridge over Wil lamette river on the McKenzle highway at Springfield. Tillamook county Bridge ov er the Tillamook river on a coun ty road about a mile from Tilla mook.' This is a county project advertised in behalf of the coun ty court. Payments will be made direct "by Tillamook county. Union county Construction of buildings on state owned proper ty in the 'city of LaGrande. CHECK BOARD ASK HIGHWAY BIDS BRIDGE AM) ROAD CONSTRUC TION AWARDS MARCH 27 carry out tactical experiments. It will be composed of a small head quarters and reconnaissance com pany with armored motor cars, a battalion of light tanks, a battalion pa".y of medium tanks, a battalion of Jo mm. self-propelled artillery, a self-propelled battery of 4.7 inch artillery, a company of engineers, a special mechanized infantry bat talion and a service detachment. Such a unit, army men point out, would have within itself moans for reconnaissance to a dis tance and transmission of mes sages beyond the power of horse men. The war department be lieves it would combine the strik ing power of newly developed high speed light tanks with the holdinn power of infantry units strong in machine guns. It also would have its own artillery, apecially trained for rapid movement and quick striking power. The department says a unit of this type would be viewed strictly as an offensive shock force, trained to strike sud denly, but with temporary hold ing power sufficient to maintain its position until slower infantry and other troops might advance. It would not only have greater hlt-Coast highway at Reedsport. marching speed but would greatly I " . E PLACE IMPROVES THE CHE CKERBOARD ga rage on Pacific highway, near Gervais, has Just added tp the many conveniences and attrac tions for the public, a new mod era confectionery equal in ar rangement and beauty to some of the finest in the state. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Campbell own and operate on the acre and a quarter camp ground a service Bids for the construction of sev eral new bridges and improve ment of highway will be opened at a meeting of the state highway commission to be held in Portland March 27. Projects for which bids will be considered follow: Coos county Furnishing 42, 000 cubic yards of crushed gravel or broken stone for maintenance operations on Riverton-Coquille Hoffman section of the Roose velt coast highway and the Coos uougias county Steel Bay-Ro-seburg highway. Douglas county Steel span ov r Schofield river on the Rooat- span exceed the sustained cross country speed of present troops. In the world war, it is pointed out, battles rested largely on fire power which was so highly de veloped that the costliness of tact ical movement often was prohib ited. Since then, however, trans portation developments have brought military science to a new consideration of the importance of mobility. Tanks will hold a key position In this new development, the de partment says. The tank was an Infant during the world war and merely crept along. Now it has grown up and learned to run. Light tanks developed by the or dinance" department embrace a three-fold increase in speed from six to 18 miles an hour In man euverability and In mechanical re liability. These new tanks may be converted also into light trac tors, self propelling gun mounts and so on. The war department believes that further development of large tanks seems unlikely be cause of loss of mobility. Armored light cars for distance reconnaissance and rapid commun ication also will play an Important part in the new program along with the 75 mm. and 4.7 inch guns mounted on self-propelled car riages. Mechanization also would Include new equipment for engi neer troops to provide quick repair for roads and bridges. Army officers have pointed out that the tendency in a long war will always be towards motoriza tion, because aa war goes on it is impossible to get increased pro duction in horses since it takes four years to make a horse suit able for war. 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