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The WiUonville Cutoff
Elsewhere on this page we reprint an editorial
from the Bend Bulletin dealing with what we
know locally as the Wilsonville cutoff. The
imputation is that this was promoted by Portf
land merchant interest seeking to pour more
traffic to its trading center. It also asserts that
commission records are silent as to "original
favoring argument". The Bulletin also raises
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aincV 89E has been made into a four -lane high
way as far as Canby. The itatus of the cutoff
will be reviewed by the commission on Sept
ember 19."
The usually accurate Bulletin is confused in
certain particulars. The records of the com
mission show that as early as March 3, 1927,
a delegation from Wilsonville asked the com
mission to consider ah alternate route for the
Pacific highway through-Wilsonville. That was
before money was spent on the widening at
Oregon City. On October 27 of that year the
late Milton Miller and a delegation from But
teville appeared before the commission to urge
the same project. Other entries in the minutes
appear down through the years to Sept. 24, 1946
when a delegation from Salem and Woodburn
appeared before the commission and urged
that the big sum (around half a million dollars)
which it proposed to spend for widening the
road from Oregon City to Canby be diverted.
Instead, for the completion of the Wilsonville
cutoff. j -
As to authorization of the route, the minutes
show that on January 27. 1937 the commission
adopted and designated as a state highway route
a section known as the West Portland-Hubbard
highway, No. 51. j
During the period in question. Henry F.
Cabell was chairman of the commission. Our
information is that Mr. Cabell delayed approv
ing the proposed route because he had property
interests "which might be favorably affected
and wanted to avoid any suspicion of using his
office to advance his personal interests. Any
one who knows Mr, Cabell will, we are sure,
testify to his high standard of ethics. . . j
What precipitated the first work on the route
was the availability of federal funds for grade
separation projects. One of those selected Was
the underpass at Hubbard on this new route.
Several miles of fine paving were built beyond
and then a country road connection made with
the road to Wilsonville ferry.
The right-of-way department on authority of
the commission acquired over the years the
necessary right-of-way for a super-highway,
with limited access.
The coming of the war delayed further work
on the read, until 1948 when a section was grad
ed and paved from the West Portland end. What
holds the work up now is lack of funds for the
bridge at "Wilsonville. - .
The route is not new. This writer recalls
that nearly 20 years ago Roy E. Klein, then
highway commissioner, pointed to the Oregon
Electric line from Wilsonville to Salem and
aid that the best location for a road between
Portland and Salem. Had the OE abandoned
Its line, as was once considered a possibility,
the state undoubtedly would have acquired jits
right-of-way. This remains the best route, and
th Baldock plan for Salem shows that this
- is in the highway department's hope, chest for
the future. The link to Hubbard Is a useful
connection but not the ultimate, best route f ronv
Portland to Salem.
The advantages of the cutoff are that it
shortens by several miles and would reduce
by perhaps 15 minutes the time required for
Petty Vanity
Br Joseph and Stewart Alaep
In the, atmosphere of Washing
ton today, one almost regrets the
passing of the days when Big
Sam Ward, king of the railroad
lobbyists, fed his bought senat
ors on beaver
tails stewed In
champagne. For
at least things
were done in a
big way then.
There is no
thing big in
what the five
percenter i n
vestigation has
been unearth
ing. There la
only a small
kind of nasti-
ness. There has been no evidence
of personal corruption. The mo
tivation of almost everything
that has been done has appar
ently been not personal gain but
mere petty vanity. And it has
been on a niggling scale the
hole - in - corner wire-pulling,
the commercialized 'friend
shipa,'' the little favors for little
men.
Even where the evidence of
real corruption exists, as in the
general accounting office's In
vestigation of war contract set
tlements, it has V-nJ-!
been on a scale " '
ao petty as to ; -v
make Sam V
Ward blush f
with shame. To W
A Wa a4iiat "V . a
a i lev ea. iut
cases of fraud,
which Compt
roller General
Lindsay War
ren's investiga
tors have un-
v
V
" f . h 5ud fnd Stewart Ala? J
sent to the jus- .
tice department for action, is a
depressing experience. It is de
pressing to find that the service
efficers and government officials
who have sold themselves have
been willing to sell themselves -4P
cheap.
' Since charges have not yet
travel between Portland and Salem. The fact
that it will be a freeway should promote safer
travel. Grades on this route will be much
easier, which will be an advantage for heavy
vehicles. Through the connections with Bar
bour boulevard and Fourth avenue in Portland
and with f Harbor Drive, vehicles can move
quickly to "destinations in the center of the city.
This route; will not replace or displace the '
route by Cabby and Oregon City to Portland.
That has definite advantages for those wishing
to get to many east side locations, to go through
Portland north or via the Columbia river high
way. In our opinion both roads will be needed,
of four-lane 'capacity by the time the state can
get them buflt. Which should get priority, com
pleting the four-lane road from Canby to Salem
or completing the cutoff, is a debatable question.
And we are not presuming now to say when
either job should be placed on the commission's
time schedule other parts of the state have
needs too
The route via Wilsonville was not "born in
sin". From an engineering standpoint it is a
superior route. The cutoff is needed now to
reduce congestion on 99E, and eventually a
direct route: from Salem paralleling the OE to
Wilsonville Will be needed.
The Bulletin has long worked in behalf of
the Warm Srings highway to give it a shorter
and easier access to Portland. The Wilsonville
route offers similar advantages, though on re
duced scale as far as miles and minutes are
concerned. But multiplying the time saving by
the number'of vehicles using the route its econ
omies probably will be greater thaif the Bul
letin's favorite.
When the commission has its hearing Septem
ber 19 Salem should again urge that the cutoff
be completed as soon as the commission can
finance the project though Salem is interested
also in making present 99E a four-lane facility.
Getting Ready for College
Mammas ; are busy these days getting their
daughter! outfitted for college. If they are to
be freshmen this is a serious chore, for a wrong
choice of apparel may be fatal to a sorority bid.
While parents take a great deal of interest in
what their! children will wear when they go
to college, and where they will live, they are
often blissfully ignorant of what they will study
or what they are prepared to study. An article
in today's Statesman (Section 2, page 4) Mar
guerite Wright points out the importance of
proper preparation in high school. In short,
college begins down in the ninth grade. Unless
students take courses with some intellectual
meat on the bones they ' will not be ready for
the strong fare that comes when they plunge
into college work.
The, cafeteria plan of course offerings In high
school accommodates a variety of tastes which
is necessary if all youth are to be herded into
high school. Really, to prepare for college
means to select courses that will provide a good
foundation ffor college levels. Parents of high
school youngsters should think of this as well as
outfitting the youth with becoming appareL
Klamatlv Pomona grange rebelled against the
state grange purge order of 22 legislators for
support in g : a bill which the grange politicos
disapproved of. And at the Bend convention
the committee on taxation made bold to recom
mend a sales tax (which the convention after
much oratory turned down). Could it be that
the tight hold that Grangemaster Tompkins and
his predecessor Ray Gill held on the organiza
tion is slipping?
Movos 'SjPer Centers!
been brought by the justice "de
partment, names cannot be nam
ed. But here is the sort Of thing
which, according to Warren and
his staff, has been going i on.
Shortly fter a certain firm's
representatives met two govern
ment employes. It was awarded
three handsome government
contracts. At the same time. -liabilities
to I these government; of
ficials were entered on the firm's
books, a measly S2.029 and a
measlier $1,175.
Another firm asked a govern
ment official to increase its con
tract price. The increase was
granted. The firm paid the ioy
emment official $500. a sum Sam
Ward would not have stooped to
offer a cloakroom attendant.
Again, two army officers on ac-.
tive duty were paid for "pisrt
time services' by a firm with
which they were dealing. Soon
after the payment, the farm 'got
a lush government contract. The
officers collected a mere $2,000
in stock values for betraying
their commissions. ,
Such raw palm - greasing was
exceptional. Warren's investiga
tors found. They more frequent
ly discovered a subtler form of
recompense for services I render
ed. Repeatedly they: found that
officials or officers, who had
been responsible during their
government service for awarding
profitable contracts or : exceed
ingly generous settlements, were
subsequently employed at hand
some salaries by the firms which
had been, benefitted. No doubt
in many cases this was mere co
incidenceJ But no- doubt in ma
ny cases It was not. i 'I ' I
j i
. Although almost all the cases
'of fraud : involving government
officials or officers have, been on
a petty scale, the total sums In
volved are not petty. Warren has
already announced that: his In
vestigators have discovered fraud
costing the unhappy taxpayer
more than six and a quarter mil
lion . etl r. Moreover. Warren's
experts are bow combing a case
which mav involve a fraud
charge of nearly twenty million
dollars against a single compa
ny. And it is not generally real
ized that the general accounting
office is only equipped to spot
check a small portion of the to
tal number of contracts and set
tlements involved. Thus it is like
ly that the whole loss to the tax
payer may run well Into nine
figures, no small sum even by
today's standards.
It may be argued that the gen
eral accounting office has an ax
to grind. On the theory that re
conversion would never get un
der way if the usual ponderous
GAO accounting methods were
used, congress relieved the GAO
from direct supervision of settle
ments. Warren and his subordi
nates have bitterly resented this,
charging that it was an open in
vitation to fraud and waste, and
it is obviously in their interest to
prove their point.
It may also be argued that in
view of the millions of people
and the billions of dollars in
volved, the government is on the
whole honestly run. Certainly
there is nothing to compare with
the lush corruption of the days
when every important financial
interest had its private army of
bought lackeys in the govern
ment - Yet there are increasingly ris
ible symptoms of a highly un
pleasant disease. Such symptoms
as have been uncovered by the
five - percenter inquiry, by War
ren's investigation, and by other
probings do not Indicate that the
disease is as yet deeply serious.
The 'symptoms are like the itch
ing and scratching of the akin
people get when they do I not
wash enough. Yet, as the govern
ment and private business be
come constantly more involved
with each other, the disease
could easily go more than skin
deep. It is this which justifies
all the hullabaloo about what
would certainly seem to Sam
Ward a verv nieglinc business.
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and to the paralyzing effect of
cartels and price-fixing associa
tions which by eliminating com
petition destroy Incentives for
economies.
Of the multitude of proposals
for a solution. Miss Ward scoffs
at the contradictory Ideas: auto
matic free trade and rigid gov
't ernment planning and controls.
Under the former, demand for
dollar goods would be so great
that prices iin ternis of poundi,
francs) would be so high no one
would buy thm at all to the
ruin of ma ny American export
ers. Rigid controls serv e to main
tain high production costs and
so stifle trac
The solution, according to
Miss WardQs assurance from the
United StateVthat annually for
ten years some seven or eight
billion dollars will flow into the
world market. She suggests that
this could be done without add
ing to taxes by raising the price
of gold and thus revaluing
American gold stocks! To this
proposal a writer in the Wall
Street Journal inquires:
"If seven or eight billion dol
lars over the next ten years
would exorcise the dollar short
age why did not some $20 bil
lion over the last five years
exorcise it? The sum was much
greater, the time much shorter.
Yet the shortage is more acute
today than ever."
It seems to me that raising
the price of gold would have
disastrous effects domestically
in encouraging further inflation,
at a time when the greater need
la for deflation. It is hard to
aee where money-juggling (de
valuing the British pound or the
American dollar) would cure the
disease, though Miss Ward says
that America could demand as
condition for the continued
grants free currency exchange
and free multilateral trade with
in the sterling area. But all our
pressures for this under the Mar
shall plan have come to naught.
The real cure is a dose of
medicine which neither Britain
nor the United States is willing
to take: restoration of the free
market. Britain's dollar short
age becomes our product "long
age", so we have a stake in the
solution, too. France offers an
example of the curative effect
of freedom to trade. Ever since
the first world war the French
franc has been an unstable me
dium. In February. IMS, against
the advice of Britain and the
United States, Trance opened a
1 LESS THAN USELESS i
When it was started in 1955, the Wilsonville
cutoff seemed to us a waste of highway funds.
It was intended as a traffic span from the east
branch to the west branch of the Pacific high- .
way and, aside from the fact that IS mile project
was to shorten the distance from .Salem to
Portland by a matter of four miles, its only
function was to siphon traffic from one branch
and create an overload on the other branch. .
Just why this was to be done no one knew
unless it was intended to benefit Portland's west
side commercial district 4 already unbearably
cluttered up and, especially, to lend a help
ing hand to the city's leading department store.
The reason is quite as obscure today. Mem
bers of the present day highway commission,
going into the question after a delegation last
month sought more work on the route,, have
found no report In commission records show-'
ing original favoring argument, nor. according
to a news story published this week in the Ore
gon Journal, have they found "surveys of it or
other information'. Very properly the commis
sion has now called on its engineers for a report
WliAl I KtAU IIN
free market where francs could
be exchanged for gold. One writ
er comments: "The result has
been wonderful." The black mar
ket in francs has disappeared,
the value of the francs has stabi
lized and French economy is now
on quite a wholesome basis.
Socialization of industry is not
the immediate cause of Britain's
plight But the socialist climate
has been damaging to Britain's
economy. The government : now
takes 40 per cent of the Income
in taxes; it strips the once well-to-do
classes of funds which
might go into cap tal Invest
ment; it expands the civil estab
lishment to administer govern
ment programs which though
they may be socially desirable
are uneconomic now British
effort should be concentrated on
producing goods it can sell in
world markets.
The United States, on the oth
er hand, maintains tariffs which
limit imports and keeps prices
for farm crops at levels where
it must give the goods away to
get rid of it. We haven't the
nerve to get down to earth our
selves. Thus, we are building
up forces which may eventuate
in a crash as disastrous as that
of the 1930s.
We can continue our grants
for a term oT years and will
do so. But when will Europe be
weaned? When will the U. S
admit more imports? Or will
stresses accumulate which will
lead to depression, revolution
Literary
By DeWitt Mackenzie
ITS AN OLD STATE OF
MAINE CUSTOM, by Edwin
Valentine Mitchell (Vanguard
Press; $3)
It's always a treat to follow
Edwin Valentine Mitchell on one
of his adventures back into the
colorful colonial days of New
England. Few there are who
know the history of that period
so intimately as does this volum
inous writer, whose dry humor
and six feet three of stature ad
vertise his own Yankee birth
right This time Mitchell goes to
Maine for the material from
which to construct another of
his series. The author takes full
advantage of this broad title to
deal with a great 'diversity Of
subjects on which he exercises
his knack for story-telling. The
result is a happy medley of
useful and. entertaining informa
tion about the grand old state
of Maine in its candle-light per
iod. Mitchell starts with the fell
ing of the trees and the hewing
of the timber in the virgin for
ests. From there he progresses
naturally to the creation of the
grand old houses, some of which
still ' remain to testify to the
Editorial Comment
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PAPERS
IHC
Survey Due of
Airport Hazard
Re-sureys to determine obst
acles in the approach and turning
areas of Salem's McNary field are
under way by a group from the
bureau of U. S. coast geodetic sur
vey of the department of interior.
The group, under the supervision
of H. J. Bozzo, will spend approx
imately three weeks in the area
making the surveys.
The surveys will be made avail
able to the CAA, Donald Harper,
district airport engineer, said Sat
urday. It has been five years since
a similar survey of the field has
been made.
TRIES SYNTHETIC RICE
MAD RAS-P)-Th e Government
of Madras Is experimenting with
production of synthetic rice as a
means of overcoming the rice
shortage in the province. Synthet
ic rice is a mixture of the flours
of tapioca, sweet potato, dried ba
nanas and de-oiled peanuts. Food
officials say synthetic rice had
three times the caloric value of
natural rice.
The Hambletonian has been won
seven times by fillies and 15 times
by colts.
and war? The stakes are high
in these days.
Guidepost
artistry of the colonial builders.
Throughout the account he gives
deft touches of humanization, as
when he applies personification
to ancient dwellings after this
fashion:
"People on the coast do a good
deal of moving not just the
contents of the houses, but the
nouses themselves. A man
will see a lonely old house some
where and feeling sorry for it
will buy it and move it to where
the old thing can enjoy the
company of other houses."
This building of fine houses
was associated with the creation
of fine ships, for Maine built
some of the world's most mag
nificent sailing vessels, both
merchantmen and men of war.
Among them were the graceful
and speedy privateers which
swept the seas under bold com
manders.
So the book runs through i
great variety of subjects, en
compassing superstitions, colo
. nial humor, the world-famous
stone quarries, fishing, and the
delights of lobster and blue
berry pie. Taken together these
diverse elements give a grauhic
and interesting picture of col-
nial Maine. It is history present
ed in a most attractive form.
on why the road was begun, what has held up
construction (after 14 years much of it remains
unpaved) and what is needed to open it to traf
fic. One other question should be asked and an
swered before anything is done and that is,
regardless of whether the cutoff was necessary
in the beginning, whether it is necessary now.
Since the project was undertaken, the so-called
super-highway (east side) from Portland to
Oregon City has been built and has been ex
tended, with extensive and tremendously cost
ly rock work involved in widening the road
where it skirts the bluff to the south of the
Clackamas county seat Eventually, super
highway type construction will be the rule on
the east side route from the state's capital to its
metropolis. The plan is to provide amply for a
vast movement of north and south traffic.
While making that provision or having made
it, to resume a project for diverting that same
traffic would be less than useles.
The money which it would cost can be used
elsewhere to much better effect
If BEND BULLETIN
Wife Given 3-Year Suspended
Term for Aiding
Dolores Todd, who admitted aiding her husband. Jack O'Neill
Todd, In an unsuccessful escape attempt from the Marion county Jail
June 6, Saturday received two suspended prison sentences totaling
four and one-half years. '
In other Marion county circuit court action, three prisoners en
tered pleas of innocent to various charges, one pleaded guilty to a
cnarge oc larceny ana noiner was
granted time to secure an attorney
before entering a plea. :
Teld te Leave State
Circuit Judge George Duncan,
ordered Mrs. Todd to return to
her former Wisconsin home and
not to return to Oregon without
written permission of the state
parole board.
She received a three-year sen
tenced for aiding in the escape
attempt and 18 months for illegal
possession of narcotics.
Mrs. Todd, who lived at 2270
N. 4th st, in Salem, previously ad
mitted she gave her husband hack
saw blades he used to saw his way
from jail in June when he dropped
out a window into arms of wait
ing deputies.
Plead Innocent
In other cases Earl Knothe. Sil
verton. and Charles DeSully, Port
land, both pleaded innocent to
charges of contributing to the del
inquency of a minor. .Their cases
were continued for trial date.
In two separate larceny charges.
Your health
Since 1892, when the first case
was described, physicians have
been familiar with a rather
strange disease known as poly
cythemia. In this disease, the
red cells of the blood are enor
mously increased. And so is the
total amount of blood in the
body. This increase is so great
that those veins which can be
seen through the skin look full
and the skin itself has a deep
red tinge. Usually, there is also
some increase in the number of
white cells in the blood. And
the spleen, located in the upper ,
left part of the abdomen, is en
larged, often to a great degree.
The exact cause of this disease
is not as yet known, but what we
do know is that there is great
over-activity of the blood-making
part of the bone marrow.
Though the outlook for complete
cure does not seem too good,
there are a number of forms of
treatment which seem helpful.
The new drug, known as phe
nylhydrazine, has been used. Its
action is to cause destruction of
red blood cells because there is
an excessive number. An exces
sive dose may cause loss of ap
petite, vomiting, diarrhea, itch
ing, and other symptoms. One
of the disadvantages of this form
of treatment is that anemia or
lack of red cells may result from
an overdose. That is why it is
so important that a doctor al
ways supervises the treatment.
Other forms of treatment seem
more beneficial. For example,
one of them is the withdrawal
of blood from a vein on re
peated occasions. While it may
quickly relieve the symptoms
when such treatment Is carried
out It is necessary that blood
counts be made at frequent in
tervals In order tofbe sure that
the blood level Is kept high
enough.
Another method of treatment
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Escape Try
Lester E. Johnson, Oregon City,
pleaded innocent and was con
tinued for trial date, while Roland
F. Griswold, alias Jack Henry
Dykes, Stockton, Calif.,, pleaded
guilty and was continued for sen
tencing to August 27.
Glen Gerald Diggs, Stayton,
charged with cashing a check on
insufficient funds, requested time
to secure an attorney. He was
continued to August 23 for arraign
ment. OPEtS DEATH NOTICE
ALTOETTING, Germany -Frau
Maier was notified by Ger
man authorities recently that her
husband, Johann Maier. had been
killed in action with the German
army in the last days of the war.
Johann Maier opened the letter
himself. He was captured by Al
lied troops, released in summer
1945, and has been with his fam
ily ever since.
Writtea by
Dr. Herman N.
Bundensen, MJX
which is widely used at the
present time is what is known
as spray radiation. This is X-ray
treatment given to various parts
of the body on succeeding days.
Eventually, most of the parts are
exposed to the X-ray. By this
method, freedom from symptoms
has been obtained for periods of
over six months to more than
two years. Some physicians have
found that the patient may be
kept symptom-free for as "long
as five years at a time.
What are known as nitrogen
mustards have been used in a
few cases and have produced
freedom from symptoms and re
duction in the blood cells for
periods of over six months to
two and a half years.
Still another method employed
is the giving of radiophosphorus.
With this treatment symptoms
also have been relieved for a
period of over six months to
more than five years. When pro
perly given, no reactions are
noted and there are relatively
few complications.
Until more is learned about
this disease, the various forms
of treatment described must be
relied upon to control It.
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ing all of the organs in the abdo
men, do these organs return to
their original position after pro
longed wearing of a ptosis belt?
Answer: The wearing of a
supporting belt will not over
come ptosis or dropping of the
organs in the abdomen. Of course
the wearing of such a belt will
help to relieve the symptoms.
Exercises for strengthening
the muscles of the abdomen may
be helpful. If the symptoms per
sist some operation may be re
quired. (Copyright. 1049, King reaturaa
Syndicate, Inc.)
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