Statesman, Salem, On'.,' Wid, May 25, ,W5S-(ftfc
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, Willamina Bypass
Highway Board Hears Strong Protests Against
Sheridan
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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-
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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
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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.
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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. Reynolds, com
missioner who presided at the
other hearings, said he favored a
decision as soon as possible, on .
all. highway routes discussed
Tuesday.
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