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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1955)
Statesman, Salem, On'.,' Wid, May 25, ,W5S-(ftfc - jm"' ' .' - -: " ' - ' - i " , Willamina Bypass Highway Board Hears Strong Protests Against Sheridan 4cMrNMVHXmPCOT-0YT0N JCT. . Sv nC ' DAYTON Citizens attending State Highway Department hearing I here Tuesday were given bo choice of rentes, and many ef them ' objected to the proposed new 4.1? mile stretch (shown in right half el black line above) which would bypass Daytoa to the north. Road would replace route now used from McMinnville Airport east to Dayton via connecting road and the Amity-Dayton Highway. New bridge would be built across Sooth Yamhill River and road east from Dayton on which present bridge is located would be closed. Read from Airport to Amity-Dayton Highway also would . bo abandoned by state. Dayton, McMinnville Representatives Lodge Complaints Against Proposed Road Changes (Story also on page 1) ' SHERIDAN A plea for the State Highway Commission to de ' lay its policy of bypassing cities was made at a hearing here Tues , day by State Sen. Carl H. Francis of Yamhill County. Francis urged commissioners to await the findings of a newly-appointed legislative interim commit tee on highway matters. He said one of the "important" - matters the committee was expected to delve into was the economic re sult of bypassing towns. . , Francis also spoke at a similar hearing at Dayton Tuesday. Both bearings were marked by strenu ous protests of farmers and mer chants to " proposed highway changes. Farmers Oppose At a third hearing at Rickreall opposition was milder, coming chiefly from farmers. About 75-WiUamina and Sheri dan citizens heard State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock recom mend a change in the Salmon Riv er Highway that would pull it off the main streets of both towns: The proposed route would barely miss the city limits of Sheridan, Daugh terof Pioneer State Residents Dies ' Mrs. Nettie Tanner Moon, resi dent of the Salem area nearly all her life, died early Tuesday at a Salem hospital after a brief Illness. . She was 85. ' Born Nettie Tanner on April 13, 1870, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Allen Tannef who crossed the plains to Oregon by covered wagon in 1862. She was married at Salem in 1897 to William Hanley Moon who survives. , The couple settled near Salem and have lived in or near Salem since, residing recently at 1295 Oxford St She was a member of the First Methodist Church and Rebekah Lodge. Surviving besides the widower are a daughter, Mrs. Maude Lo vina Hathaway, San Jose; broth ers, Elmer Tanner, Salem, and John Tanner, Portland; also three grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. A son, Merrill Dewey Moon, Seattle, died in 1940. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Clough Barrick Funeral Home. BRICKER PROPOSAL BACKED WASHINGTON (jfl A Senate judiciary subcommittee Monday approved by a S-2 vote Sen. Back er's proposed constitutional amend ment designed to limit the govern ment's treaty-making power. pass south of WQlamina by a long mile and cross the present route near Wallace Bridge. Merchants feared they would lose the business of Portland area motorists who use the Salmon Riv er Cutoff extensively in traveling to toe coast. One-Way Plan Employed spokesman for Sheri dan interests was Eugene Marsh, McMinnville attorney, who urged the commission to consider one way streets to more traffic through the city. Marsh based his case' chiefly on the "economic loss Sheridan would suffer" , and the "good farm land you are going to cut up." The attorney noted that Sheridan recently approved a $363,000 bond issue for a sewage disposal plant at the state's insistance. "It may be pretty hard for some of these boys here to pay for it if you take their highway away from them," Marsh declared. From Willamina Other speakers at the fast-mov ing hearing included Mayor Frank Smelzer and Men Louden, both of Willamina. aii speakers at Sheridan op posed toe bypass except "Curly" Titus, a retired lumberman who said he hoped the highway was moved off main street "because I live on the highway and it takes me 25 minutes sometimes to get out of my driveway on week ends.". . . . .. Sheridan Mayor Fred Bozeman, one of the strongest opponents of the Sheridan bypass, intro duced Marsh but did not speak. "Benefit Quotient" Baldock said a route desig nated as the "E" line (see map above) would have cost an esti mated $6,630,000 for ultimate development as a four-lane high way and would have had a "bene fit quotient" (yardstick for its value to the public) of 2.8. Baldock said this compared with a benefit quotient of 3.8 for the "C line" route which he favored. The latter would cost an estimated 3,575,000 for com plete, four-lane development The E-line route apparently would have satisfied most Sheri dan residents but not Willamina. The engineer said another route was investigated at the request of persons in that city. He. said there was a disadvantage in that an elevation of 715 feet would be required at one point Oppose New Route At Dayton, the Highway Com mission's third hearing of the day drew-about 40 persons who ap peared to be solidly opposed to a suggested new route that would affect local travel considerably. Proposed is 4.17 miles of new highway and a relocation of the bridge across the South Yamhill River. Total cost was estimated at $750,000, about half of it for the new bridge. Currently Dayton and Mc Minnville are linked by a high- pT954 RCA 21" 1 All Channel 1 Tuning I U tjZ $100.00 I I . . . slightly used RCA model 21" all chan I if I Bel tuning . . . save $100.00! Easy terms. Ex- I ! I - pert installation. Many'other fine TV bargains f I I . downstairs. .. f . 1 I ' i ' :. ' " ' i . , J way which' passes through the main street1 of Dayton. The pro posed route would eliminate por tions of the highway from the state road network and replace it with a short stretch that would pass just north of Dayton city limits, crossing the river about one-fourth jmile upstream from the present bridge. Would Abandon Bridge The present bridge, now sub ject to one-way traffic, would be abandoned.! The new Dayton highway would be an extension of the Three-Mile-Highway which runs from McMinnville to the Mc Minnville airport Traffic from the Salem area would reach the new highway by driving straight north, through Daytoa j Sen. Francis objected to the proposed route because "we had been led to believe . . . that the present bridge would be main, tained." He urged the commis sion to reconsider maintaining the present bridge, but Baldock said it would not be practical to main tain two bridges so close togeth er. "Ahead of Our Time" Philip N. Bladine, editor of the McMinnville News-Register, sug gested that we are getting ahead of our time when we make all these farm-to-market roads con-trolled-access highways." His sentiment , was echoed by R. R. Allison, publisher of the Dayton Tribune, who declared "it would take less than hall the money to improve the present road." . Ernest Budke, druggist and president of Dayton Chamber of Commerce, presented a resolution in which the Chamber "strongly opposed" the new route. John Howard read a similar resolution from the Lions Club. Several farmers in the area joined merchants in objecting to the new route. Weald Glut Main Street Bladine also declared the new route would divert so much traf fic from nearby Highway 99W that McMinnville's Main Street would be glutted with cars. But Baldock disputed this, estimating 1 SHERIDAN Relocating the Salmon River Highway from points A to JJ via tne c line shown on the above map was recommended here Tuesday by State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock. He said the recommended route would save about 2 miles ever the present route (shown faintly on above map) which passes through business districts of Sheridan and Willamina, then goes south to E point Other heavy lines are routes investigated by state high-' way department F line was surveyed at request of Willamina citizens and E line was done at request of Sheridan merchant group. A line route is .1 mile shorter but the proposed C-line route is closer to Sheridan. t mom Trt Ulan t Kftumtcxr D0LPH CORNER OAK KN0U WILLAMINA - SALEM HIGHWAY Mty.fttf , i I i . . . 1 . rHT Vt I . i: Si : SiL -' -f -I 1 " - I "M -W l DALLAS RICKREALLp Relocated part of State Highway 22, as recommended by SUte Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock here Tuesday, would run from points A to B on i above map. Black lines represent routes studied by State Highway Department White line shows route from Oak Knoll (Q to Dallas (G) to Dolph Corner (A). New route from F to A also! was surveyed.1 Baldock said A B C that only 20 to 30 per cent bf 99-W traffic would use the new route. ' "If we don't approve these by pass routes," Baldock said at the end of the Dayton hearing, "you route he proposes would cost estimated $1,243,500, while A-C route : via 1 would cost 11,653,000 and A-D-C route via 2 would cost $1,281,500. All figures are estimates which include purchase of right-of-way and major improvements to, all of present Dallas- . Salem Highway (G to C) shown above. B uill tofla fellows will , be coming to us in 10 years begging us to do it" Baldock's recommendations will be considered by the Highway Commission at a regular two-day meeting starting Thursday at Portland. j Chairman Ben Chandler, who presided at the Sheridan hearing, said he doubted that action would be taken at the meeting on the Salmon River Highway. But Charles H. 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