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The OREGON STATESMAN, Saleo. Oregon, Sunday Morning, February 11, 1934
H DIE FOR
''JOBLESS OPENS
Further Reduction in Hours
Proposed by. Johnson to
Give $2,500,000 Jobs
Johnson wants this reduced at
least to 22. On this basis of dis
. trtbntlon more than 2,500,000
' could be pat back to work.
If the present upward move
ment in industry continues. NRA
authorities are looking forward
to a considerable absorption of
- the unemployed during the next
tew months Quite aside from the
Influence of a reduction in hours
for those already at work.
.With hours cut down, they fig
ure than an expansion of business
would employ approximately
greater number of the Jobless, and
f they are anxious to obtain the re
" ductlon while the present up-
wtng is still comparatively
young.
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who would have liked the Job.
Eastern Oregon now has man on
the board. -; But Stadelman can
not be expected to beat the dqpm
for Meier if the latter expects to
run.
Mr. Meier is no more certain or
Us political course than ho was
at Christmastime. The only en
joyment he now is receiving i s
the knowledge. Iirst, tnai Mr. nui
mn can aoutter but he cannot
control the board of control, and
second, that until March 15 to
April 1. the governor can keep
mum and let the governor-makers
fume.
- Men like Frank Lonerpan and
Joe Dunne, each of whom was in
Salem the last week full of ambi
tion to make the governorship
race, can hardly wait for a month
or more until Meier makes up
his mind. They would be gratified
to have the governor announce
his position but if he doesn't, each j
c is confident their strength is :
sufficient to seek tha nomination,
Meier or not as a candidate.
Martin Tle-Up With
Os West Strewed
The announcement of General
Charles H. Martin that he would
seek the nomination for governor
on the democratic ticket was ex
ceptionally well-receivel through
out the state. Democratic papers
and leaders are assuming that the
nomination is in the bag and that
the election is almost as sure.
Republican back-stage workers
say the Martin support is entire
ly too sanguine. They say Martin
Is vulnerable and that the voters
of Oregon will know it as the
campaign progresses. They point
to Martin's age, his unfamillarity
with upstate Oregon, his alleged
up-stageishnese, and his close
connection with Os West who in
Oregon is the right bower of the
utility Interests.
The story is that General Mar
tin a few months ago had no wish
to run for governor and was well
satisfied with life in the national
capital. West, knowing Mrs. Mar
tin would like to live in Oregon
and, thinking the general's nom
ination and probably his elec
tion was a certainty, dashed
back to Washington, pulled the
general into the campaign, then
flashed his connections in Port
land hours before the Martin an
nouncement "broke" that the gen
eral was In the race.
West, presumably, is to be the
Henry Hansen of the new regime.
General Martin is to be the front
man at the capitol; Mr. West, ex
perienced and shrewd in state af
fairs, will see that the details are
attended to.
The strongest factor for Gener
al Martin is not the press, sup
port, nor the West sponsorship
nor the general's own ability,. His
strength as one sees it in mid
February is the fact that the rank
and file of people who speak of
Martin have the idea that the old
general Is forthright, straight,
courageous. The fact that he has
been in Washington much of the
time and that he knows compara
tively few upstate citizens, adds
to the illusion. The general has
"color."- He has somewhat the
hold on voters, at this stage, that
the "merchant prince' had four
years ago, a hold which "ghost"
meetings, quarrels and the Ben
son hotel state capital has weak
ened It not dissipated.
Alleged Forger
of Checks Here
I is Apprehended
" A special Salem city policeman
who went to Portland yesterday
there recognized and arrested
Paul Howard DIckman,' Salem
.route five, who had been sought
; since mid-November for cashing a
string of allegedly forged checks
here and at Stayton. Grilled here
last night, Dickman confessed,
police reported.
Checks said by police to have
been cashed by Dickman and be
lieved to have been forged
amounted In all to around 1100.
They were turned In b y Allen
Hardware company. Doughton -Sherwin,
Eoff Electric company,
f.'if.4 ,Me7er Andresen creamery,
Miller's, Ira Jorgensen, Collier
Motor Sales, Clerk grocery and
others In Salem and Stayton. po
lice stated.
BABE GRABS DRIVER
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., Feb.
10-(p)-It took Babe Hath, scarce
ly recovered from an attack of
crlppe, less than IS minutes to
get to the first tee at the Jungle
. clnb here this afternoon after a
240 mile, automobile trip from
Jacksonville. v ' ,.
PDLITICSL PICTURE
IS VASTLY CHARGED
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Lincoln Memorial in
Statu?' vt Abraham Lincoln as he
looked at ape 21 when he left
Indiana. The monument was
recently unveiled In Fort
Wayne, Ind.
MEETING TIM
SILVERTON. Feb. 10. The
Silverton Woman's club will not
meet on its regular meeting date
of Monday but will hold its meet
ing Thursday afternoon at 2:30 at
the home of Mrs. J. P. Ballantyne.
At this time Mrs. H. B. Latham
will give a review of Mellon's Mil
lions and special music will be
featured.
The Silverton Hills grange will
present its play "Everybody I s
Getting Married" Thursday and
Saturday nights, Feb. 15 and 17
at the Silverton Hills grange hall.
Mrs. C. V. Murray is directing
the play.
Violet Herigstad, local music
teacher, will give a 15-minute pi
ano concert over KOAC Tuesday,
February 13, at one o'clock. She
will play two selections "The Last
Movement of Opus II. No. 3" by
Beethoven and "March Militaire"
by Schubert.
Orben Some will give a one
man" instrumental concert a t
Trinity church, February 21, to
begin at 8 o'clock. One of the
interesting instruments which he
will play is a pitchfork cello, and
another Is the "theremin". The
concert is to be free of admission
but a silver offering for the Luth
er league, which is sponsoring the
affair, will be taken.
Fourth Slaying
Charged Up to
Dillinger Aide
' CHICAGO, Feb. 10. --Another
slaying the fourth was
charged by police to John Hamil
ton, Dillinger mobster still at
large, with the death tonight of
Peter de Young, 35, bank watch
man. De Toung was shot in the head
and body and disarmed by three
men whom he surprised at the
South Holland Trust & Savings
bank when he came to work there
this morning. The trio was ap
parently waiting for the time lock
on the vault to release Itself.
After wounding De Young, the
men fled without loot. Before he
died De Toung looked at a police
picture of Hamilton and told po
lice he believed he was the leader
of the gang.
PROGRAM POSTPONED
WHEATLAND, Feb. 10 - The
Wheatland Social Service club ba
zaar scheduled to have been held
Saturday night. February 10, at
Wheatland hall, has been post
poned until Saturday night, Feb
ruary 17. However, a dance will
be held February 10.
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Lincoln Memorial
On Banks of Potomac
Is National Shrine
Descriptive Data by Jennie F. B. Jones, Press
Correspondent, Woman's Relief Corps
No, 1 , Salem, Oregon
CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT made the speech of presentation
at the dedication of. the Lincoln Memorial at Washing
ton on May 30, 1922. President Harding accepted the memor
ial for the nation. Edwin Markham read an original poetic
tribute. Dr. Robert Moton, head of Tuskegee Institute for
negroes spoke for the negroes whom Lincoln had eman
cipated. Robert Lincoln was guest
of honor.
All sorts of memorials had been
proposed, Including a road across
the country, a bridge across the
Potomac and many others. Finally
congress In 1910 provided for a
committee to study the subject
and decide on a plan, subject to
approval. Mr. Taft was chairman
of this committee. The result of
it all was that a design for a
structure in the style of a classic
Greek-temple submitted by Rob
ert Bacon, an eminent architect,
was chosen, and was decided to
plaee this pile close to the shore
of the Potomac river on the same
east and west axis as the capitol
and the Washington monument.
It is about a mile and a half from
the capitol to the monument, then
nearly another mile to the Lincoln
memorial, thus making the dis
tance from the capitol t o the
memorial over two miles.
The structure fronts toward the
monument and capitol and is built
on a foundation of 122 great con
crete piles or legs which go down
to solid rock. These piles were
made by driving steel cylinders
four feet in diameter down to the
rock, removing the dirt. Bending
men down to chip the rock out for
two feet, to make sure of a firm
footing, and then filling the cylin
ders up with concrete.
This was done because the
ground is alluvial and it was es
sential to make certain of the
foundation which is now all cov
ered up.
It took a full year to complete
this foundation and ten years to
build the memorial.
The ground around the memor
ial Is filled in and terraced In
such a way that it forms an arti
ficial hill which makes a splendid
base for the building.
The building is 190 feet long,
120 feet wide and 100 feet high.
The lower part of the building Is
columns to the number of 36 cor
responding to the number of
states in Lincoln's day.
These columns are 44 feet high
and are over seven feet in diam
eter at the bottom. Each column
is made up of 11 drums or blocks,
each weighing about 22 tons.
The building Is constructed of
white Colorado yule marble,
which was chosen as being the
most durable. The steps and plat
forms are of pink granite from
Massachusetts.
The portal to the building Is 45
feet wide and 45 feet high. It has
bronze grills or gates filled with
plate glass which slide into the
walls during the day time but can
be closed at night for the protec
tion of the building.
The interior of the structure
forms an open hall 70 feet long,
60 feet wide and 100 feet high.
In the center of this stands a
colossal statue of Lincoln, design
ed by Daniel C. French and chis
eled ia Georgia marble by the Pic
cirilli brothers, Italian artisans of
New York, and Is set on a .pedes
tal of Tennessee marble.
The statue alone is 21 feet high
and weighs 150 tons.
The height of Lincoln's sitting
figure from the sole of the boot
to the top of the head is 19 feet.
The head is three feet high. The
boot is over three feet long and it
is eight feet from the boot to the
knee cap. The chair is over twelve
feet high.
It took the sculptor over four
years to design this statue.
Above and back of the statue
is this Inscription: "In this tem
ple, as in the hearts of the people
for whom he saved the Union, the
memory of Abraham Lincoln Is
enshrined forever."
Running around, the walla of
in the foreground.
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the hall and partly Inclosing it
are a series of 36 Ionic colums of
Grecian architecture.
Above the colonnade are 48 fes
toons, hanging in a curve, one
for each state at the present time.
Opening off the main hall are
two side halls. One of these en
shrines an Inscription of the
Gettysburg address and the other
contains the second inaugural ad
dress both cut In marble.
At each end of the hall, some
30 feet from the floor, there is a
huge painting by Jules Gerin, the
famous American artist. It took
Gerin three years to paint these
pictures, which represent appro
priate, allegorical and symbolic
subjects. Each one is 12 feet
high and 60 feet long. There are
48 colossal human figures includ
ed In them, one for each state.
The painting is done on canvas
treated in such a way as to be per
manent. The memorial cost In round
numbers is $3,000,000. The archi
tect received $125,000 for plan
ning the structure and supervis
ing its -construction. The sculptor
was paid $85,000 for the statue.
Guerin received $45,000 for the
two great pictures.
The lagoon or reflecting pool In
front of the building which is
2000 feet long and 125 feet wide
represents a cost of $200,000.
Flanking It are two rows of elms
forming the finest avenue of the
kind In the United States. The
pool Is designed as an integral
part of the memorial. Standing
on the steps of the memorial, the
visitor sees reflected on the mirror-like
surface of the water the
great shaft of the Washington
monument and the distant dome
of the capitol.
And all this, which represents
the effort of the citizens of the
United States of America is in the
makeup of the Lincoln memorial
at Washington, D. C.
JENNIE F. B. JONES,
Press Correspondent Sedgwick
Woman's Relief Corps No. 1,
Salem, Ore.
Seances Held by
Oregon Man are
Basis of Charge
PITTSBURG, Kans., Feb. 10.
(tf3) Crawford county officers are
seeking Arthur E. Trott, 52, who
said he was from La Grande, Ore.,
on charges of obtaining money
fraudulently and for questioning
concerning several of his alleged
mystic seances practiced on resi
dents of Prontenac during the
past week.
Police reported Trott left sud
denly Friday with about $50 in
cash belonging to the Frontenac
people.
$22,504 in CWA
Checks Received
Probably the next to the last
large CWA payroll for Marion
county until congress orders a
new appropriation was distributed
at the various projects yesterday.
It amounted to $22,504 In all and
was divided among nearly 1700
workers.
We use no drugs or operations. Most FEMALE COM
PLAINTS, APPENDICITIS, GALLSTONES, and
ULCERS of the STOMACH can be removed. Guaran
teed remedies for ARTHRITIS, PILES, SKIN DIS
EASES, RHEUMATISM, and ailments of GLANDS,
KIDNEYS, URINARY BLADDER of men and women.
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Consultation, Blood Pressure and
Urine Test are Free of Charge
ST. F. W. WILL HEAR
Open Meeting for Broadcast
to Be Held Thursday at
Miller Halt Here
Thousands of recruits to mem
bership In the Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States In over
3000 posts throughout the coun
try will be obligated as a body
Thursday night, February 15,
when Commander-in-Chief James
E. Van Zandt administers the oath
over the air in a nation-wide hook
up over the blue network of the
National Broadcasting company
from Washington, D. C.
This will be the third annual
"Hello America' radio hour to
have been celebrated by the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars organiza
tion and Marlon post No. 661 of
Salem will observe the event with
an open meeting, at the new quar
ters at Miller hall. Court and Lib
erty streets, to which the general
public is invited. Special invita
tion has been extended to all vet
erans' organizations and their
auxiliary units in and around Sa
lem. While the radio broadcast
from Washington will begin at
8:30 p. m. and extend until 9:30,
the local program will begin
promptly at 8 o'clock and will ex
tend over the feature period.
The radio program will Include
addresses by United States Sena
tor Patrick A. McCarran of Nev
ada on prospective veterans' leg
islation during the present ses
sion; Mrs. Julia A. Pitcock of
Cleveland, O., national auxiliary
president, and Commander-in-Chief
Van Zandt, who, at the con
clusion of his brief review of
events of Interest to veterans and
the general public, will give the
obligation to the recruits. Marion
po&t will have a large class of re
cruits. Since February 15 is the 35th
anniversary of the sinking of the
battleship Maine in Havana har
bor, this event will be commem
orated by a dramatic sketch, "Re
member the Main," especially
written for this occasion and pro
duced by a cast of stage and radio
stars. Music wUl be furnished by
the United States Marine band
under the leadership of Captain
Taylor Branson.
The program from 8 until 8:30
will consist of music, opening cer
emonies and posting of the colors,
to be sounded 'by Musicians E. J.
Dietz and Russel Mudd, and intro
ductory remarks by Post Com
mander Charles S. Low. Follow
ing the radio broadcast program
Mayor Douglas McKay will deliver
a brief address, as will also Gid
eon Stolz, guest of honor and rep
resentative of the Grand Army of
the Republic. The principal speak
er on the local program will be
Glen R. Jack of Oregon City, past
commander, department of Ore
gon, and natioal council admini
strator, who will be introduced by
Bryan Conley of Salem, senior de
partment vice-commander.
At the regular meeting of Mar
ion post at 7 p.m., postponed from
February 12, applicants for mem
bership will be elected and initiat
ed, with the exception of the ob
ligation, to be taken over the ra
dio. A radio for the program has
been donated by Mr. Janz of the
Will music store. Special invita
tions have been extended to the
War Mothers, G. A. R. and Wom
en's Relief corps, Disabled Veter
ans ' of the World War, Spanish
War Veterans, and the American
Legion and auxiliary.
Court Wants to
Make Own Rules
for Log Hauling
With a view to making regula
tions for the protection of the
county's own roads, the Marion
county court is asking the district
attorney if under the new law it
can require a formal application
from log haulers as well. as the
state transportation commission
er. The commissioner at present
is asking the court to approve
three more applications for log
hauling permits.
Applications now sent the court
by the commissioner are: E. J.
Syron, route one, Scotts Mills; F.
D. Hartwick, Vernonia, to haul
hop poles from Saleaa to Indepen
dence over the river road, and
George O. Kelly, Jefferson, to
haul logs from Talbot road to the
Pacific highway.
SUB FOR TEACHERS
SILVERTON, Feb. 10 Mrs.
Eva Knight substituted for Miss
Lou Ann Chase in the Silverton
high school Wednesday and Phyl
lis Waldner substituted for Hel
vie Silver In the grade school
Wednesday.
IX HOSPITAL HERE
MIDDLE GROVE. Feb. 10.
Mrs. Bert McAllister has been re
moved from her home to a local
hospital for treatment. Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Bassett and small son,
Donald, are now living in their
new house at the north end of
the August Otjen property.
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FElEr MS HIS
PHI IS JUDGE
Lawyer Says He Will File at
Courthouse This Week
for County Post
A four-point program for the
county judge In caring for the du
ties of his office was outlined here
yesterday by Martin Ferrey, local
attorney, who said he would for
mally file for the republican nom
ination for the office some time
this coming week. -
"The county judge's post is one
of the most difficult departments
in our state and county to han
dle," he said. "In discussing the
duties confronting the judge, I
have been surprised how little in
formation many of our citizens
have concerning the office."
Ferrey said first, that in hand
ling juvenile cases much of the
responsibility lay with parents. "I
propose to find out and to rem
edy, if possible, delinquency in
parents as well as in the children
who are dragged into court," he
said.
"In handling insanity cases I
hope to place the care on proper
parties and to thus cut expendi
tures of the county which should
be borne by Individuals," he said.
"Ai no time in the history of the
nation has there been such an in
crease in sanity. The stress of
life; lack of discipline and self
control these factors make men
and women break down. There
are many cases which are harm
less, where quiet and care, involv
ing sympathy from sons and
daughters, or parents, would save
the state the responsibility."
Ferrey stressed as his third
point that he would oppose all
persons who attempted to "rack
eteer in charity." "The poor and
the unemployed will be listened
to and their problems taken care
of with sympathy but no advan
tage must be taken," he said.
Elimination of the county poor
farm was the fourth point stress
ed by Ferrey. "Since the old-age
pension came Into legal being, the
poor farm is no longer needed,"
the candidate declared.
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SILVERTON, Feb. 9 Funer
al services for Mrs. O. P. Gambo,
who was killed Wednesday when
she accidently fell into a power
saw while helping her husband
cut wood, will be held at Silver
ton Calvary Lutheran church
Monday at 10 a.m. and inter
ment will be Greenwood cemetery
in Astoria.
Mrs. Gambo is well known lo
cally. Her husband once served
as pastor in Silverton of the for
mer Ebenezer Lutheran church,
now affiliated with Calvary
church. Rev. E. G. Larson of
Calvary will officiate.
Mrs. Gambo, who was killed
near Jefferson, is survived by
her widower, one daughter, Clara
of Jefferson, three sons. Bob of
Jefferson, Peter of Chicago and
Milton of Ellensburg, Washing
ton. B. B. Boylan, Salem typewrit
er salesman, narrowly escaped in
jury Friday morning at 11:15
when the automobile which he
was driving to Silverton from
Salem was struck by a Southern
Pacific train at the Silverton en
trance. Boylan 's car was dragged 60
feet by the locomotive and bad
ly damaged, but Boylan himself,
was uninjured.
DECRY SALES TIX
Officials of the Marion and
Polk County Truck Operators as
sociation Saturday sent letters to
all truck organizations in the
state denouncing the sales tax
law enacted at the last legisla
tive session.
"The sales tax Is the result
of efforts on the part of con
centrated wealth and vested in
terests to unload the burden of
taxation on the shoulders of those
who are least able to pay," the
letter read. -
"The referendum Is to be ap
plied against the sales tax and
our Truck association is consider-
w
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moving. There
Is nothing slow about
this business except
our disposition not to
take advantage of
your business necessi
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lag the advlsiblilty of initiating
repeal of the truck law. We need
the cooperation of all truck as
sociations in this fight."
The letter said the local asso
ciation had Indorsed the candi
dacy of Sam H. . Brown, Ger
vais farmer, for governor.
"We know that Mr. Brown is
In sympathy with the common'
people," the letter continued.
The letter was signed by W.
F. Brown, president; A. E. Sim
mons, secretary, and E. J. Smith,
treasurer.
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The "World's day of prayer,"
neit Wednesday, will be observed
in Salem with a program at the
First Presbyterian church start
ing at 10 a. m. and continuing un
til 4:30 p. m. under auspices of
the Salem Council of Church Wo
men. The program will be as fol
lows :
10 a. m. Silent prayer.
10:10-10:30 Devotions, Mrs. H
J. Humphrey.
10:40-11 Peace in the Church of
Christ, Mrs. S. M. Laws.
11-12 Business, president presid
ing.
Lunch.
1:30-1:50 p. m. Devotions,
Peace in the Heart, Mrs. Gro-
ver u. uirtcnet.
1:50 Special music.
2-2:30 Peace within home and
our land, Mrs. W. A. Barkus
2:30-3 Offering and business.
3:00 -4:00 Address, Peace
Among the Nations, Mrs,
Grace Hendricks.
4:00-4:30 The New Jerusalem,
Mrs. C. A. Park.
Pilot Drowns as
Plane Dives Into
Ocean; One Saved
SAN DIEGO. Feb. 10-)-One
man was drowned and another
suffered shocks and the effects
of Immersion when their plane
fell into the ocean tonight off
Del Mar, 25 miles north of here.
Roy Carpenter, Long Beach, pi
lot, was drowned and Ray Alli
son, Long Beach, was rescued.
Allison was taken to a La Jolla
hospital.
The plane was headed south
when motor trouble forced It into
the water. It was nearly an hour
beforo rescuers could reach It.
First reports said it was a
navy plane carrying three men.
The naval air station, North Isl
and, sent a plane to Del Mar in
response to a call for help.
Air Service Not
to be Curtailed
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 10.-
Joy greeted the announcement
tonight at Swan Island airport
that the United Air Lines would
continue to operate all its divi
sions, air mail contracts or no air
mail contracts.
W. A. Patterson, vice-president
of United Air Lines, made the an
nouncement from the company's
national heaquarters in Chicago.
GOODWIN CHAMPION
PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10-(iTO-Tommy
Goodwin, Monroe, N.
Y., came through easily today to
win the annual south Florida
golf championship. He defeated
Manuel Ortuno, 'West Palm
Beach, 7 and 6.
DISORDERLIXESS CHARGED
A man whose name police said
was George Mesties, 1170 Smith
street, was arrested early today on
a charge of being drunk and dis
orderly. He was being held in
city Jail.
SALESYARD
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Roses laro-e Franquette Grafted
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Andromeda and Laursi- Youngrberries d?t
tinus in bloom. per dozen tp 1
Daphne 35c ton ft ft Ah'fd
to Pd9JJ shrubs on display.
Pearcy Bros. Nursery
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River Bank Fill Planned for
New Speed Road; Scenic
Features Retained
A survey for the relocation of
the Columbia River highway be
tween Troutdale and Cascade
Locks, made necessary becauee of
the Bonneville dam construction,
will be completed by the state
highway department within the
next few weeks, R. H. Baldock,
state highway engineer, announc
ed Satudray. He said preliminary
studies Indicated that a water
level route was desirable as far
as the Bonneville dam.
The project contemplates the
construction of a fill along the
river bank by dredging sand from
the 1d of the river with hydrau
lic dredges similar to the method
used in the construction of the
Swan Island airport. Studies were
made during the 1933 freshet of
river velocities adjacent to the
riyer bank throughout the entire
distance and it was determined
that this type of construction
would be safe in floods of the
1894 volume. In all cases where
the fill is subject to any current
it would be protected by an ample
cover of rock, or the fills would
be made entirely of rock.
"Studies made of all available
routes indicate that the water
level route Is the only one which
affords alignment or "grades nec
essary for this important trans
state highway," Baldock said. He
declared that in addition to be
ing entirely away from precipitous
cliffs this route would cure snow
blockades which periodically close
the existing route. Between
Troutdale and Multnomah falls
the distance would be shortened
a p p r o x I m a tely 3.2 miles and
curvature equal to 17 complete
circles would be eliminated.1.,
Baldock said this type of con
struction would blend satisfactori
ly with the scenery of the Colum
bia gorge. "There would be no
disturbance of the terrain by large
cuts and the sand fill would be
constructed on such a flat slope
that it would appear as an exten
sion of the sandy river beach,"
Baldock continued.
The present Columbia River
highway would not be disturbed
and would be available as a park
road, from which tbe beauties of
the Columbia gorge could be view
ed without danger from the fast
highway traffic. The water level
route also would have a beauty
in distinct contrast to the present
hill route and would aftord an
intimate and close view of the
river. The road would bo of suf
ficient distance from the hills to
permit the water falls to be seen
even better than they are at pres
ent, Baldock said.
CHANGE APPROVED
WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. (JP
The war department today a p -
proved plans submitted by The
Dalles Bridge com Dan v for a re
vised right of way for a bridge to
be constructed across the Colum
bia river I near The Dalles, Oregon.
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