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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1949)
Highway Commission Approves $7,ouz,uuO Salem Irajmc Flmi Bridge at Marion, 1 -Way Traffic, 99E By -Pass (Maps and PORTLAND, Jan. 25-CP-The approved a $7,602,000 long-range Salem. ': The commission did not adopt a traffic-changing program recom mended (or Salem by.R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, but it did ay after study of the proposal: 0330000 The Baldock report on Salem's . traffic problems and their solution will be studied with keen interest here. It is sure to excite contro versy. Residents along Summer and South Liberty streets will protest against being made one-way for 99E traffic, inose living on Nor way and Shipping west of Summer will not want to have trucks roll ing in front of their homes. The Iong Kange iianning commission will be disaDDointed because its recommendation of a bridge at Di vision street was turned down by the department. Those who do not like a one-way street grid for the business section will fight this rec ommendation of the state highway engineers. Nevertheless instead of Just Jumping on the report and then tossing it in the river, Salem resi dents should study it carefully. It represents lengthy studies by men . , of broad experience, who are inti- mately acquainted with solutions of traffic problems in other areas. -The report should be studied on iti merits and not on the basis of per sonal interest alone. think there will be general ap proval of the plan for the circum ' ierential highway. The ultimate route goes across property largely unimproved. It offers a detour for the heavy traffic and that not wanting to stop in Salem. The route is shorter than the present one through Salem, and the grades good. The plan ' to use Lancaster drive temporarily looks like a prac tical first step. 1 The ' recommendation for one way bridges at Marion juad Center streets and for the routing of 99E through Salem is contingent on ap proval of at least a limited one-way street system. Probably a major ity of our people do not want one - way streets. Nevertheless the argu ment for them should be studied with respect to its solution of Sa lem's traffic problem. Also commit tees might be named to visit Eu gene and Portland where one-way street systems are becoming effec tive. Experience there should be a guide as to how traffic flow is ex pedited, how merchants feel about the system, etc. Fatal to progress is a policy of doing nothing, and equally fatalris adoption of a fixed idea. Now that the highway department report has been published it should be ana lyzed, the facts it submits studied, other facts and arguments consid ered and then a course of action agreed on. Wild Ducks, Geese Take Haven at Pen; Feeding Planned .The cold weather is making it miserable indeed for waterfowl of the vicinity in matter of obtain ing food. Latest flock of birds re- -proted in distress is an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 ducks and geese which at present are presiding in side the state penitentiary grounds "on a pond adjoining the mill stream. Don Harger, president of the "Salem Izaac .Walton chapter, an nounced last night the flock in the same plight which faced fowl in the Minto's Island area two weeks ago. ' A feeding, under the sponsor ship of -the local Izaac Waltons and the state game commission, is planned for this morning, with penitentiary officials cooperating. " Harger reported the birds have been ; eating garbage discarded from the penitentiary kitchen. Animal Crackers '. By WARREN GOODRICH i didn't tike Texas -every e dug i struck oilf time CP MwvssnZeutuulnnnsmtS r "" -5 m m " e e e e ... - vc f- j Proposed details pace t) state highway commission today program to speed traffic through J. li is a ieasioie ana practical solution of the highway needs of both the primary highway and city street users ia the Salem area. The proposal calls for twobrid ges, each carrying one-way traf fic, between Salem and West Sa iem. ii would set up a one-way The Salem Long Range Plan ning commission : will meet Thursday night to review the report of the state highway de partment en Salem traffic pro blems. The commission had recommended a bridge at Di vision street, bat made no re commendation as to rooting of highway 99E through or around Salem. grid system in Salem, fix a point of entry into Salem for the Santi am highway, and change the route of the Pacific highway through vne city. Baldock said $007,000 worth of the work was needed immediately, ana recommended that it be start ed as soon as funds are available. The following recommendations for changes to meet traffic needs in and near Salem were made: L Build new two-lane bridge at Marion street for ene - way westbound travel, and use the present Center street span for one way east bound travel. Both would eome to grade at Commercial street Estimated cost $2,900,000; cost ef immeditae program Sl.- $67,000. 2. Build a new eireomferentlaJ highway east of the city en a line about H mile west ef Lancaster drive and swinging to connect with 99E at Battle creek about three and one-half miles south of the present 12th street T. Pending construction of this new highway, Lancaster drive would be used to a noint south of Pour Corners and then with a short connection to the new rieht- of-way a two-lane road be built along the permanent line. Estimated cost of new hihwav $3,277,000; cost of temporary pro gram, including right-of-way cost i or enure une, si.aou.ooo. S. Te handle traffic into and through Salem en 99E. contract with the city council to establish system of one-way streets. This grid system weald also be re quired to. handle the traffic onto and off of two bridges. Approval by the city council would be re quired. Estimated cost of widening and resurfacing certain streets $1,425, 000; immediate cost $940,000. Further study be made on the location of North Santiam high way, Oregon 222. Aggregate cost of long- range program, $7,602,000. Cost of immediate-need" pro- gram $4,307,000, which is recom mended to be launched Mas soon funds are available. STATE JR. CITIZEN NAMED BAKER, Ore, Jan. 25-0P-Bert Dennis, 28, Baker lumber com pany assistant manager, was named the state's outstanding jun ior citizen of 1948 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Oregon. Conservative Baptists Meet in Salem 4 -i. '. . . . ... Today will mark the end of a two day conference of Oregon Conservative Baptist church representa tives being held at the Salem First Baptist church. Shown above after morning sessions Tuesday, are, left to right, the Rev. Kenneth A. Tobias, Bend, who is moderator of the conference and counseling com mittee chairman. Dr. John Tarnball ef the Salem Bible Book Hevse, who gave the keynote sermon Wednesday: and Dr. Gabriel R. GnedJ, vaster of the Memorial Baptist chnrch at Fresno. Calif. (States man photo.) 500 Delegates Form Permanent More than 500 persons attending a meeting of the Conservative Bap tist churches of Oregon here Tues day made permanent a provisional counseling committee and empow ered it to call another meeting to further organization of the conser vative churches, Although 54 Oregon Baptist churches were represented at the meeting, the actual group now in the organization stage centers around the 28 churches which were : : -r r ; i ; j L Honored ?ihyf -ex 4(iL -Ir-orv-lfvo. 4v jT . J wunobd 1651 j .,!'!: Howard E. Higby, scout leader . and former Salem police Ju venile officer, was honored as Salem's Junior First Citizen at a Junior Chamber ef Commerce banquet Tuesday night. Howard Higby Named Junior First Gtizen Howard Higby, Salem scout ex ecutive and former police juvenile officer, was handed the plaque honoring him as Salem s Junior "First Citizen" at a banquet in the Marion hotel Tuesday night. The presentation, an annual af fair of the Salem Junior Chamber of Commerce, was made by Frank Ward, president of the , club. He praised Higby for his continued and active work with the youth of the city. The selection was made by a group of Salem business men. Last year s winner was Steve Anderson, for his activity in political, civic and church affairs. Also honored at the banquet were uoraon K.eitn ana weison Hickok, members of the Junior Chamber, who received Key-Man awards. Featured speaker, Bruce Kelley, national Jaycee vice president, cited outstanding examples of at tainment by young men in the his tory of the world. Speaking on the topic "Youth's Goal and Attain ment," he related : incidents . from the lives of Arturo Toscaninni, Lewis and Clark. Jason Lee. George Gershwin and Walt Disney, all of whom had attained prominence while still young men. $2 Million for Detroit Dam In New Budget Supplemental appropriations of $2,000,000 for the Detroit dam has been recommended by President Truman, Ivan Oakes, executive secretary of the Willamette River Basin commission, was notified in a telegram from Senator Guy Gor don Tuesday. This fund, If voted by congress will be availale for spending dur ing the current fiscal year. Already appropriated for the Detroit pro ject is $9,753,000, which with the new amount will permit comple tion of the dam by the fall of 1952. Also recommended in the sup plementary budget are $8,000,000 for the McNary dam, and $2,500, 000 to supplement funds made available for flood control emer gencies in last spring's Columbia River flood damage. disfranchised by a state Baptist convention last November. Dr. John B. Houser of Lebanon heads a fact rinding committee which is to report its recommenda tions for future organization poli cies at the afternoon session today in First Baptist church. The Rev. Lloyd Anderson, pastor of that lo cal church, is host pastor and pro gram chairman for the state meeting. Wm 12 PAGES emiafte Slight Relief in Form of Snow. Rain Forecast Salem headed into its 2fJth con secutive day of sub - freezing weather Wednesday a new re cord for long cold spells - and the weatherman promised to take a little of the edge off the "big freeze" with slightly warmer temperatures accompanied by rain or snow tonight. The mercury stood at 20 de grees at midnight Tuesday to break a 19 - year - old record for consecutive days when the thermometer went below the free zing mark. The old record, which stretched 25 days from January 5 to 30, 1930, was the longest cold spell in the 53 - year - old annals of the Salem weather bu reau. Forecasts for Salem were for a maximum of 37 degrees today considerably warmer than Tues day's winter low of 32.2. While Tuesday's minimum of 13 degrees failed to eclipse the season low of 11, the maximum barely top ped the freezing mark. Alone with the farmer temper atures. forecasts were for rain or snow or both tonight, and a Thurs- dav low near 24. An import of warmer air from Alaska Tuesday night was expected to raise the temperatures throughout the northwest. But following the brief storm the weather was expected to return to clear and cold again. The Lee Feed and Seed com pany, 290 S. Liberty St., suffered unestimated damage Tuesday when a sprinkler system froze and burst, flooding stock ; in the building. Clarke E. Lee, owner, of the company, said a survey " of damage would be taken today. The power emergency contin ued critical Tuesday. For the se cond consecutive day Bonneville administration cut frequency a half - cycle. Peak power demand wax listed at 3,062.000, compared with 2,896,000 a week ago. Princess Elizabeth Victim of Measles LONDON, Jan. 25-(iip)-Princess Elizabeth, heiress to the British crown, is ill with the measles. The princess is at Sandringham, royal country estate near Norfolk, isolated from her infant son and other members of the family, Weather SALEM Max. .2S 51 31 Min. Precip. 13 . 11 .00 .00 SS JO Portland San Francisco Chicago New York .50 .02 Willamette river -1.1 feet. Forecast (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy today and tonight with rain or snow by evening. Slightly warmer today. High today near 37. Low tonight near 24. SALEM PRECIPITATION (Sept. 1 to Jan. 2() Thi Year Last Year Average 22.05 26.23 21.57 Organization The Rev. Anderson said attend ance so far exceeded advance esti mates that dining arrangements had to be altered last night to provide dinner for all 500 dele gates and visitors. The first annual election is scheduled for today, as well as forums and inspirational messages by several Oregon pastors and Dr. abriel Guedj of Fresno, Calif. S8(h Tear y V The) Oregon Statesman, Salem Oregon. Wednesday, CM DLt. SpeDD Hay Dumped for Starving 9 ELT, NevM Jan. 24 A bale of hay goes oat the back, door of a C-82 to feed starving cattle marooned on eastern Nevada, 65 miles north, northeast of here. This partienllar, drop, one of many, was for an Isolated cattle ranch. Seventeen C-82's are dropping feed to some 185,000 animals on snowbound ranges. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman). Planes, Bulldozers, Trucks Rush Feed to Snowbound Western Cattle Board Neutral On Expansion OF Stetehoiise The state board of control. In a report filed with the legislature Tuesday, refused either to recom mend or reject a proposal to en large the state capitol building at cost approximating 82,000,000. The report was based on find ings of Francis Keally, New York, who served as architect on the present capitol structure. Under Keally's proposal the ad dition would extend south of the current capitol building and would include space for a museum on the street level, three floors of offices and committee rooms, basement and sub-basement and two park ing areas. The entire present capitol build ing cost approximately 82,300,000. The board or control cauea at tention of the lawmakers to the fact that a new state office build ing now is under construction here. A new highway commission building also is proposed, the board pointed out. Keallv also recommended $77, 000 worth of minor changes in the present building. t Judge Orders Young Mother Made Sterile LOS ANGELES, Jan.' 25-UP)-A young mother, repentant of beat ing her baby boy to aeam in a in of rage, today offered to have her self made sterile and a judge so ordered it. Mrs. Georgette B rucks, 21-year- old expectant mother, further of fered to give away another son, Donald, 20 months, and her un born child. Superior Judge Thom as L. Ambrose also ordered their adoption along with the steriliza tion order which he believes the first such order in U. S. legal his tory. The unusual court action came on Mrs. Bruck's plea of guilty to manslaughter in the skull-crush ing death of her seven-months- old son, Howard, last October. Full Coverage of Legislalure Most complete coverage of the Oregon legislative as sembly is given in The Statesman. Full report on progress of all bills from in troduction through commit tees to final action of assem bly. No other Oregon paper gives this daily report. Vital questions are under consideration at the legisla ture. Follow proceedings regularly by subscribing to The Oregon Statesman By Carrier $1.00 the Month By Mail in Oregon 75c the month oveinraoir efts Cecoird! Chain Stores Join Bread Price Cut Safeway stores In Portland an nouncod a 1-cent cut in the price "of li - pound loaves of bread Tuesday following a similar cut by smaller retailers Monday. Two other Portland chains joined the ranks of stores cutting the price of bread Tuesday. T. M. Medford, district manag er, for Safeway stores, said Tues day night he had not been inform ed of a bread price reduction, but expected instructions today. I Heart Attack Qaims Dr. Hill, Salem Dentist Dr. David Bennett Hill, 2, prominent Salem dentist, died at a local hospital Tuesday of coro nary thrombosis following an ill ness of three days. Dr. Hill, who was the producer of a color film on tooth care used in schools throughout the world, was stricken at his tiome Friday. An orthodontist specialist, he had practiced in Salem for 22 years. Hill was a former member of the state board of dental examin ers, the American Dental Associa tion, American Society of Ortho dontists, and the Salem District Dental society. He was an active member of the Salem Kiwanis club and the Salem Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Hill was especially inter ested in children and care of children's teeth. Several years ago he produced a film on teeth care which has been used in schools throughout the United States and the world. He regularly presented films at his home for the children. (Additional details on page 2) 3 Brothers Held With Rape Cases Three brothers of the Silverton area were in custody of Sheriff H. A. Southard at Albany today af ter being arrested by state police in connection with three vicious rape cases involving Monmouth, Albany and Brownsville girls. Capt. Ray Howard of the Sa lem state police district said all three had admitted participation in one or more of the cases. He listed the suspects as William John Perkins, jr., 24. Cletus Per kins, 19, and Merle Clayton Per kins, 16. The trio was to be brought be fore the justice of the peace at Albany today. They were arrest ed on John Doe warrants. State police also said that Clackamas county rape victims were to view the trio to ascertain whether they might havei been implicated in assaults in that area. William and Merle remins. state police said, will be charged with having raped a Monmouth January 28. 1149 r r n Livestock or By the Associated Press Planes, army bulldozers, trucks and foot parties were pressed into the battle to save snowbound western livestock Tuesday. The rescue operation was one of the most widespread of its kind ever undertaken. Aieanwnne, new cold, snow, sleet and floods hit various section in the western half of the country. In Washington, a senate com mittee approved a $750,000 emer gency fund to finance rescue work in Nevada, Utah, Wyoming. South Dakota and sections of North Da kota and Montana. The South Da kota legislature considered $100,000 special disaster fund. uov. vai reterson oeciared a state of emergency in parts of blizzard - lashed Nebraska. reterson asked Fifth army headquarters in Chicago for 300 bulldozers, 25 to 30 "weasles" and all the snow removal equipment available. He said 20 of the state's 83 counties are in "dire" need of help and starving cattle in a 27, 500 mile area are weakening ra pidly. A thick blanket of snow that trapped more than a hundred thousand, range cattle and more than a million sheep extended from western California to the Dakotas. The most severe snow storms since 1895 blanketed northern Arizona and new snow swept in to southern California . and Ne vada. At Flagstaff, Ariz., 39.1 in ches has fallen since Sunday mor ning and 67 inches remains on the ground. The U. S. air force . continued its "hayliff operations in the snow - covered Nevada livestock ranges, hauling in feed in their big "flying boxcars." The fliers bombed" cattle orr ranges in accessible by truck. In similar "precision bombing" Monday, airmen dropped fodder directly on three ranches to feed 10,000 sheep. The feed is being brought to Ely, Nev., from : Fal lon, 210 miles to the west. In nearby Utah, a similar hay- lift was operated by two C-47 transports of the Utah national guard. in Connection in Mid-Valley girl last May and the Browns ville girl on January 17 of this year. William and Cletus Perkins face charges in connection with the rape of an Albany woman last June 30. State police said William Per kins was in the state prison from January, 1943, to January, 1944, on conviction of assault with in tent to rob, after a Salem woman found him in her car on the Fair grounds road and subsequently ran into an abuttment to thwart his advances. The Brownsville victim was de clared to have identified William and Merle as her attackers, when she viewed them at state police headquarters in Salem lart night In all three cases, itafe police said, the girls, were forced to en ter . their assailants' car. The Brownsville girl also was burned with cigaret butts. CSnDD ainceoi Price 5c No. 272 : . wo- SaDemni State Workers' $20 Pay Boost Introduced f . By Lester Conr ,StaffritruThfgUtmn Two measures proposing a lieu tenant ' governor for Oregon wero killed in the senate Tuesday after a Stormy, 90-minute debate. ; Heated argument arose over a senate joint resolution Introduced by Sens. Richard Neuberger, Port la fid, and R. D. Holmes, Gearhart. Four members of the election aqd privileges committee reported the measure out "do not pass" Neuberger, a member of the com mittee, signed a minority report urging adoption of his "do pass recommendation.' The senate, ! by a 21 to 7 vote, killed Neubergers report and adopted the majority report by an oven-helming : voice vote; The ac tion automatically killed another s l m i 1 a r measure introduced by Sens. Thomas Mahoney and Jack Bain, Portland democrats. i Even aside from the prolonged senate debate, both houses wero busy Tuesday.; Nineteen new mea sures were introduced in the house and 16 hit the senate. The house passed four bills and the upper chamber three. I Measures submitted in the sen ate, would allow newsmen to re fuse to disclose news sources in courts; permit voters to register by mail;. give additional power to tho game commission and create a three-man board to study making state laws uniform to those in eth er states. ' f i 'Forestry Bills Fas"--."V.-. :.. Three forestry department bills passed in the senate and sent to the house would give the depart ment unlimited time rights in use of forest roads; boost the depart ment's revolving fund from $25,000 toi $50,000 and require loggers east oC the Cascade mountains to ob tain permits before starting oper ations. "I . !f A resolution introduced in tho house would give all state em ployes except) those with salaries set by law, a $20 monthly cost-of-living pay boost effective until June 30, 1949. , J House bills submitted would in crease the tax on butterfat front k to 1 cent a pound, five per manently disabled workmen bene fit increases from 40 to 100 per cent, and provide for local liquor option elections by precincts a well as by counties. ' f Acid remarks flew freely as Neu berger argued, with Sen. Frank H. Hiiton, Portland, a commute member who signed tho "do not pass" report on the lieutenant gov ernor measure. The debate involved personali ties of former Gov. John IL Hall and Lt Gov. Victor A. Meyers of Washington, and the Young Repub lican Federation of Oregon. i Asks Fopalar Vote Neuberger contended all the peo ple should elect the successor to the governor instead of the senate. The senate president succeeds the governor under present law. Neuberger pointed out that tho proposal was - approved by tho Young Republican clubs in their 1948 state convention. Hilton said the young republicans were "im mature and not informed or they would not have made such a rec ommendation.1 '( fl don't know," Neuberger coun-. tered, "whether the young repubIM cans are immature or whether the old republicans are ossified." . Other new house measures in troduced Tuesday would ; provide that only Oregon residents may hunt on their own property with a license; prohibit anyone from keep ing wild game birds or animals as pets; coordinate legal shooting time under game laws with federal regu lations and prohibit deer, elk, ante lope or big game hunters from getting more than one license and bar them from transferring li censes. . ' ' ; Changes Tax -Status 1 t The house passed and sent to the senate bills to tax as personal property mobile equipment such as welldigger and concrete mixers; provide reforestation taxes; levy interest on taxes for property not placed on tax rolls by the required time, and regulate appeals to boards of tax equalization and tho state tax commission. 1 . The senate will act today on a house resolution calling for a five- ; man joint legislative committee to & investigate! the statewide housing shortage. ; j :t One measure before the house would raise income tax exemptions for veterans with more than 40 per cent disability $1,500 to $2,000. Both the nouse ana senate i- sufne at 10 a.m. (Additional details page 3) i -!