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WILSONVILLE CUT-OFF AGAIN
The Oregon Statesman, in. further comment on the Wilson
ville highway that would cut over from 99W a few miles
south of Portland to 99E a few miles south of Oregon City
(or, more exactly, just beyond Aurora) explains that there
is, indeed, confusion over the route numbers as suggested here
though both the Statesman and The Bulletin have been cor
rect in their identification of different highways as No. 51.
On the official records of the highway commission, says the
Statesman, "the Wilsonville cut-off is designated as state
highway No. 61, though the maps giving state 'routes' as
signs No. 51 to a local connection out of Independence."
That phase of our discussion being settled we turn to the
Statesman's likening of the Warm Springs cut-off construc
tion to the Wilsonville undertaking. Says the Statesman :
The Bulletin defends its advocacy of the Warm Springs cutoff
because initially the funds were provided by the federal govern
ment and there was not at the time a heavy program of con
struction on the route that would be by-passed by the cutoff.
This parallels closely the situation with the Wilsonville cutoff.
The first work on it was principally with federal funds for grade
separation and the underpass at Hubbard was built in 1937. Not
until 194648 was any heavy program of reconstruction in prog
ress on 99E between Oregon City and Salem.
The argument cannot be limited to the reconstruction un
dertaking between Oregon City and Salem. Much more of
99E is involved and the termini in the picture are not Ore
gon City and Salem but Portland and the capitol city. Taking
these facts into consideration one finds that a heavy program
of reconstruction on the route that would be by-passed by
the Wilsonville cut-off was begun around 20 years ago. It
has included the so-called super-highway into Oregon City
from Portland on the east side of the Willamette, the river
bank route through Oregon City, "the four lane highway up
the hill from Oregon City and the first heavy construction
between the top of the hill and New Era now modernized by
the 1946-48 work of which the Statesman speaks- Further,
there has been other reconstruction and realignment on
'south from New Era.
In this and its earlier editorial the Statesman seems to
justify the Wilsonville undertaking because federal funds
v'ere available for the Hubbard underpass. If that was the
'primary reason for the cut-off which, to give its intended
service, called for many millions for pavements and a bridge
(some of which have already been spent) we think the state
might well have passed up the offered underpass aid. Other
highways long on the same system and crying for improve
ment might better have had the money the state has put into
the route.
In its first editorial the Statesman said
"When the commission has its hearing September 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."
Now it says : ,
. "We do not say now that the cutoff should be completed prior
to making a four-lane road to Salem. The congestion is now acute
between Salem and Woodburn on S9E, and that would not be
relieved by completing the cutoff."
We are less interested in 99E than is the Statesman but
we do think that it is the highway that should be improved
before more money is spent on the Wilsonville route. Also.
as we have said before, we think
on other highways that should take precedence.
Supplementing our own views on this Wilsonville highway
situation we reprint here the comment by the Canby Herald
offered after earlier editorials in The Bulletin and the States
man had come to its attention. Under the head, "Highway
99E Must Be Widened" the Herald said:
The more we read and hear about the proposed and partly
built Wilsonville cutoff road, the more firmly we become convinced
that the highway commission will be buying champagne instead
of bread and butter if its immediate completion is ordered. The
commission has set September 19 as the date for a hearing on the
' subject, and has ordered the engineers to produce all cost data
and history on the projected road as well as a good reason why
it has never been completed.
Highway 99E must be widened to four lanes at least as far
south as Salem, and to spend a vast sum from the highway funds
for purely local frills will serve only as a setback to the major plan
for an adequate highway system.
The Herald quotes our first editorial, "Less Than Useless"
and continues :
Whether the yearning of a Portland department store to siphon
more through traffic to the congested side of Oregon's metropolis
had anything to do with the original plan for the Wilsonville cut
off, we do not know. We do know that the Canby-Aurora area is
vitally interested in having the original Pacific highway completed
as a four-lane artery at least as far south as Salem, and as soon
as is financially possible.
The toughest part of this job already has been done. Comple
tion last year of the five mile stretch from Portland through New
Era cost the highway department, we understand, as much as it
will cost to complete the four-laning job from the top of the New
Era hill into the state capital. The basic plan of the Willamette
valley highway system is for two main arteries, designated as
US99E and US99W, going up bolh sides of the valley and joining
at Junction City. The heavy load of traffic now is borne by 99E,
for it carries practically all of the through travel as well as more
local vehicles. Yet from the top of the New Era hill to Salem 99E
is a two-lane highway, with two-lane bridges crossing the Molalla
at Canby and the Pudding at Aurora.
The Bend editorial has aroused comment. The sanest analysis
comes from Ex-Governor Charles A. Sprague's Oregon Statesman
at Salem. With history, facts and figures at its command, the
Statesman Sunday reviewed the history of the Wilsonville cutoff
project and arrived inevitably at the conclusion that Salem wants
not only the shorter route to Portland, but the four-laning of
US99E. The cutoff to Hubbard, the Statesman says, would not be
the best route between Portland and Salem, but for the present,
would do.
The Statesman says: "The cutoff is needed now to reduce
congestion on 99E, and eventually a direct route from Salem par
alleling the Oregon Electric will be needed."
That would be more temporary monkey-business while the
main job of making a wide artery of 99E and relieving congestion
that way would be postponed. The cutoff would merely siphon off
some traffic at a two-lane section of 99E and carry it into the most
congested district of Portland. No hydraulic engineer has yet suc
ceeded in running a two-inch water pipe into a four-inch main and
getting much pressure.
Another publication which seized upon the Bend Bulletin
article was C. C. Chapman's Oregon Voter which reprinted it and
concocted an editorial from strictly a Portland viewpoint. The
Voter's editorial assumes (and this might come about) that the
Wilsonville cutoff would be a "throughway," or a limited access
highway, permit ling top speeds with few crossings or side en
trances. But the Voter also goes completely sour on its main
'premise: that completing the Wilsonville cutoff would cost less
than four-laning US99E between New Era and Salem and would
servo much the same purpose. Presenting no figures whatever, the
Voter advocates priority for the Wilsonville cutoff as a measure of
economy as well as safety.
We have no figures cither. Hut we understand that the origin
al estimates of the cost of a Wilsonville bridge were well ahove one
million dollars, and that was in the 1930s. That doesn't take Into
consideration all of the totally new road construction which would
he necessary. We have also heard that making US99E into a four
lane highway all the way to Salem would cost little more than the
five miles of construction recently completed south of Oregon
City and that was something over $600,000. We shall know more
about these figures when the engineers present their estimates.
Meanwhile, with the basic highway plan In mind, it would
be well for the commissioners to remember that in tills country
we usually iinisli the chores before we start dancing.
that there are improvements
WASHINGTON COLUMN
By Peter Edson '
1KKA Washington Correspondent)
Washington (N E A) So the
house of representatives decided
to go home for 26 days. So the
representatives wanted to give
the senators time to catch up. So
distinguished members of the
lower house felt they had nothing
to do. How Interesting.
A look at the house calendar
for August 26 last work day be
fore the boys went home on vaca
tion shows just how much un
finished business they left behind
them. Furthermore, the senate
will probably complete action on
a number of important measures
within the next three weeks.
So that when the sunburned
and vacation-fatigued representa
tives return to Washington on
September 21, they will find piled
on their desks a vast accumula
tion of old papers and legislative
bottles of soured milk. It will eas
ily take them up to Thanksgiving
to clean up the mess. It should
make them wish they had staved
on the job and looked after things
tne way tney re supposed to.
Of first Importance is the aid
to education bill. The senate has
passed a bill on this subject.
Chairman John Lesinski's house
committee on labor and education
is all snarled up on a religious
side-issue and is making no prog
ress. I hey ought to be here
threshing it out
This same committee is simi
larly fouled up on labor legisla
tion. Ihe senate has passed a bill
making some changes in the two-
year-old Taft-Hartley bill. The
house passed a quite different
bill, then voted to recommit It.
The house labor committee has
done nothing to break the dead
lock. Instead, it has gone on
strike. It ought to be here thresh
ing it out.
Others Say
OUR FARM SUPPORT FOLLY
(Salem Capital Journal)
The beauties of farm support
prices are shown In the federal
potato control program. The ag
ricultural department has Just re
vealed that it cost the govern
ment in one county alone $64
millions to buy up potatoes of
the 1948 crop.
The government spent this
amount buying up potatoes pro
duced in Aroostook county. Me.,
one of the nation's principal po
tato producing areas.- mat was
nearly one-third of the total S199.
000,000 which the government
spent buying up surpluses in the
1948 potato crop. If this thing
keeps up. Maine ought to vote
democratic.
Actually it cost the govern
ment and the taxpayers more
than that. When the cost of dis
posing of the potatoes was added
in. the total cost of the 1948 po
tato crop support program was
boosted to $224 million.
The government had to buy
up about one-fourth of last year's
potato crop under a congression
al directive to maintain producer
prices of 90 per cent of parity.
And potato growers evidently
planted record acreage because
profits were assured.
Record crops of all kinds seem
assured this year corn, 3 billion
bushels, plus a huge wheat cop
and abundant farm products, but
this doesn't mean any lower food
prices for consumers, for support
prices keep up prices by govern
ment purchases of surplus at tax
payers' expense and as in pota
toes the surplus is wasted in de
struction. And a large portion
ot tne neavy taxation goes into
encouraging the raising of sur
pluses, for as soon as prices drop,
the government starts buying to
keep them up.
Our farm panacea is idiotic,
economically unsound and pure
ly political and the public mul
cted by both prices and confis
catory taxes. And the Brannan
plan is even worse.
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A bill to increase social securi
ty benefits has finally boon ap
proved by the house ways and
means committee after four
years monkeying around. 'They
ought to be here threshing it out.
Similarly, President Trumans
proposals for national health In
surance have been before the
congress for several year. The
senate labor committee has held
partial hearings and recessed.
Ihe house commerce committee
hasn't even begun to hold hear
ings. They ought to be here
threshing it out.
Legislation to grant statehood
to Hawaii and Alaska has been
reported out by the housj public
lands committee for some months,
but there has been no progress.
They ought to be here threshing
it out.
Also, the Marshall plan and the
army civil lunctions appropria
tions bills were In conference.
Stopgap legislation has been
passed, authorizing expenditures
on these programs until October,
but tins doesn t clean up the bus
iness. They ought to be here,
threshing it out.
By the time the house comes
back to town, the senate will have
completed action on military es
tablishment appropriations, mili
tary assistance for Europe auth
orizations and Interior, deficiency
and supplemental appropriations
legislation, in all, over $2,UOU,UUO,.
000 worth of money bills for this
year's government expenditures
will be hung up, three months
alter the fiscal year has begun.
They ought to be here threshing
them out.
These are just the short-range
matters requiring more or less
immediate attention. If you want
to get into the long-range things
to be done, there's a list as long
as your arm.
Complete revision of the U. s.
tax structure was talked about all
through the war as a pressing
post war problem. Nothing has
been done about it yet. The Knud-
sen republican tax cut of the 80th
congress and the talk today about
cutting ' excise taxes are piece
meal approaches to the problem.
Then ought to be here, etc i
Out on the Farm
By lis S. Grant
Sept. 7 The first peasants who
got in their crops by the light of
the harvest moon had nothing on
us. Last night when the full moon
first appeared in the east, pinkish-
orange and perfectly round, the
Chief was pulling the big hay
rake with the tractor, gathering
up the mixture of clover, alfalfa
and barley that will be Gypsy s
fare this winter. When the hay
was raked into neat little stack,
he burned off the weeds along
one of the fences that divide Cal
ico farm, like all Caul, into three
parts. The fire on the ground and
the fire In the sky blended to
gether and vied in brilliance, un
til the fire died down, and later
the moon rose high in the sky and
paled.
The display of color had drawn
us all outside, and we walked
back to the house through the
barley stubble. The cats ran
ahead, chasing each other and
stopping often to shadow-box and
turn somersaults. '
Dinner was waiting' In the
house. A fisherman friend had
given us a generous mess of
trout. We have fish so. seldom
that it's a real treat. I had
sprinkled them thoroughly Inside
and out with salt and pepper, roll
ed them in cracker meal and fried
them in about an inch of hot ba
con grease, in the iron skillet. '
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MacArthur Influenced FDR
In War Strategy, Revealed
New York, Sept. 7 til..!. On.
Itnbcrt U Klchelbergor disclosed
today that lien, thoughts Mac
Arthur In a heart-to-heart titlk
with President Roosevelt at the
"Walklkl conference" In, the sum
mer of 1944 won the president
over to an Invasion ot the Phil
ippines which the navy wanted to
by pass In the drive on Tokyo.
Tho Invasion began with the
Leyte landing on Oct. 20, 1914.
"Kew non-military people know
that the Invasion of the Philip
pines almost didn't happen," Elclt
ollierger wrote In the Saturdiry
Evening Post.
Eichclbcrgcr said that in July
of 1944 Gen. ".leorge C. Marshall,
army chief of staff, summoned
MacArthur to a conference In
I'earl Harbor. When MacArthur
iniuired about the Identity of the
conferees and their purpose, he
was told no further Information
was available.
"Not until arrival In Hawaii
did he learn the reason for his
mysterious mission," Elchclberg
er wrote. "President Koosevelt
was there, and so were many
high-ranking naval officers.
Navy Plan Different
"It seemed evident to Cent rnl
MacArthur, as the conference
proceeded, that the president had
been won over Irrevocably to a
strategical plan which would by
pass the Philippines. The navy j
wanted to leaprrog tne islands,
attack Formosa and seek air bas
es on the Chinese mainland for
the final drive on Tokyo."
Eichelbcrger said Admiral Ern
est King, chief of naval .opera
tions, already had departed but
that Admiral C. VV. Nlmltz. navy !
Pacific commander, presented the
Daughter Joins
Father in Death
Atlanta. Sept. 7 iif Nine-year-1
old Mary Virginia Long wept bit-1
terly when her father, Hiram
Long, 65, died Monday after sev-!
eral months' Illness. The rest of !
the grief-stricken family was un-'
able to console her. i
Yesterday the father's body
was brought home to remain un-i
til the funeral.
Mary Virginia knelt by the cas-1
ket and sobbed, "Daddy, I don't
want you to leave me. I want to ;
go with you." Then she collapsed.
She was rushed to Grady me
morial hospital, where she was
pronounced dead on arrival.
Long's funeral, originally plan
ned for today, was postponed un-;
til tomorrow. Mary Virginia will
be buried with him in a double
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navy's rase. Then tho president
called on MacArlluir lor com
ment. MacArthur had brought no
documentation but gave, an elo
quent military argument fur tho
Philippines operation.
"Then, In a 10-mlnuto private
Interview with tho president, he
presented another argument. The
United States had moral commit
ment which should be cariieil
out. Was Mr. Koosevelt, ho asked,
willing to accept rosixmsiplllty
for breaking a solemn promise to
18.000.000 Christian Filipinos that
the Americans would return?
"The Interview over, General
MacArthur bowed and started to
leave. He felt sure his was n lost
cause. The president stirred.
" 'Walt a minute, Douglas,' he
said. 'Come back here.' And the
Philippines Invasion was on
again."
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