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- GLANGES AT HIGHWAY HISTORY 2
Year of the Tiger Arrives Residents of New York's China
town explode firecrackers around a "dragon" to celebrate
New Year's day of 4,648, the "Year of the Tiger."
Replies Refused
By Sherman
'.' Washington, March 2 P)
John L. Sherman, named by
Whlttaker Chambers as a one--time
member of the Soviet spy
'apparatus, refused today to say
-whether he knows either Cham
bers or Alger Hiss.
2 He also declined to answer al
most all other questions put to
Ihim at an open hearing of the
-house un-Am e r i c a n activities
"fcommlttee.
Sherman protested the ques
tions were "part of a pattern of
-a frameup that already has de
stroyed the reputation of one
Jme American part of a frame
Hp of a disordered mind."
Z When Rep. Kearney (R-NY)
asked him to name the "fine
.American," Sh e r m a n refused.
He wai not asked immediately
3o name the person he referred
4o as the "disordered mind."
The witness identified himself
as John Loomis Sherman, 54.
Me said he was born near Utica,
.Y., and that he now lives in
JiOS Angeles.
II Sherman told the committee
-he was a professor of science
nd dean of men in a small uni
versity in the Los Angeles area
3intll he lost that job because
-the FBI was investigating him.
Louis Russell, committee in
vestigator, read from heretofore
secret testimony by Chambers
linking Sherman with Red spy
activities.
"It that true?" Russell asked
from time to time.
"I decline to answer," Sher
man said each time.
Bodies of Husband,
Wife Found in Shop
Agate Beach, Ore., March 2
tfP) Bodies of Ernie Murray, 30:
and his wife, Marion, about 40,
were found late yesterday in
their photo shop residence at
Nye Beach.
Coroner Frank Parker said
both had died of gunshot wounds,
apparently Inflicted by the husband.
Sheriff Tim Phelps said a
deputy had served papers earlier
yesterday on the husband in
which Murray was ordered to
cease threatening his wife. Mrs.
Murray had instituted a divorce
action.
Davenport's Entertain
Sheridan Rev. and Mrs.
Charles R. Davenport of Sheri
dan, were hosts at a George
Washington party, given for
members of the Butler Metho
dist church at the Methodist
church parsonage. Refreshments
were served by the hosts.
Bentley Libel
Suit Settled
New York, March 2 VP) Com
merce Department Official Wil
liam W. Remington has made an
out-of-court settlement of his
$100,000 slander suit against ex
Communist Elizabeth Bentley
and two other defendants.
His attorney said yesterday
that Remington received a "sub
stantial sum." He declined to
specify the figure.
The New York Herald Trib
une said 'the amount was re
ported to be $10,000.
Remington filed his suit after
Miss Bentley, a self-styled form
er spy courier, failed to publicly
withdraw a charge that he be
longed to the communist party.
His suit also named the Na
tional Broadcasting company
any the General Foods Corp.,
sponsor of a television show on
which Miss Bentley made the
accusation Sept. 12, 1948.
She previously had made the
charge before a congressional
committee. Testimony before a
congressional body is not sub
ject to slander actions.
Remington was suspended
from his job in July, 1948, pend
ing a loyalty investigation, and
was reinstated in February,
1949, by the federal loyalty re
view board which cleared him
of the charge.
Os West Set Up Highway
Commission Body in 1913
By RALPH WATSON
The shouting and the tumult centered about the seven divergent
road building initiative proposals at the 1912 November election
barely had subsided when the 1913 legislature met and picked up
the war clubs again.
In the November, 1912, battle, the state grange had a program
of its own, an amendment by-
which counties could bond
themselves by election called by
the county courts, and a pro
posed initiative statute provid
ing for a state highway engineer
appointed by the governor who
would operate in the nature oi
an advisor to the different coun
ties in their construction of
county roads.
The group wanted the coun
ties to run the show, each build
ing its own roads, as, when and
where it might desire.
Governor Oswald West, who
was fighting strenuously and
persistently that session with
the controlling senate machine,
had entirely different ideas
about permanent road building,
both in 1912 and 1913.
In the former year he had
been an active advocate of the
"state road bonding act," which
was diametrically different than
the grange bill.
It provided for a state high
way commissioner, appointed by
the governor at $3,600 annual
salary and expenses, the total
not to exceed $12,000; for the
issuance of 30-year state bonds
at the rate of $1 million annual
ly bond revenue together with
two thirds of the annual motor
license taxes to go into the state
highway fund for road con
struction. Two thirds of the aggregate
was to be set aside for use by
the counties; one third to be
divided equally among the coun
ties, one third in proportion to
assessed valuation and one third
in proportion to area.
Counties with an assessed
valuation of $10,000,000 or more
were required to show they had
raised a fund equal to their
share of the state highway fund
apportionment in order to get
it. Other counties could get their
state share by putting up half
the sum in county funds.
One half of the state's share
was to be spent in the first and
one half in the second congres
sional district, there being but
the two districts at that time.
This bill met the violent op
position of State Grange Master
Charles Spence and many mem
bers of the state grange con
vention held at Roseburg not too
long before the election.
Governor West, who got along
fairly well with Spence, went
down to the convention and
talked it into endorsing the $1
million bonding bill.
Elated, he boarded the train
for Salem, but long before' it
had reached Eugene, Spence and
his convention suffered a change
of heart, rescinded their en
dorsement and turned the heat
on the bUl.
It went into the discard by a
44,693 negative majority. West,
however, had the satisfaction of
seeing the grange bill plastered
on the same day with an ad
verse majority of 59,974 votes.
That was the picture when
the 1913 legislature convened.
West, chafing over the slaugh
ter, of his $1 million dollar
adopted brain child, joined
hands and made medicine with
Senator I. N. Day of Multnomah
(the two were not supposed to
be either politically or officially
on speaking terms). Day was a
strong advocate of a system of
state highways to be financed
by bonds and constructed under
the direction and control of a
state highway commission.
In 1913 the main battle cry
of legislative candidates was the
abolition or consolidation of
state boards and commissions."
Accordingly, to get around
that hurdle and past the grange
opposition to state bonds, West
and Day made the governor,
secretary of state and state
treasurer into a state highway
commission, set up a state high
way engineer with a working
organization as the highway de
partment, and gave it all the
money it could raise out of a
Vt mill state tax levy with
which to carry on, approximate
ly $248,000 annually.
During much of this time
Samuel Hill, Northern Pacific
railroad tycoon and son of the
illustrious Jim Hill, had been
battling for state highway con-
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structlon In the state of Washington.
He had put his own money
into the construction of the
scenic loops at Maryshill, par
tially financed the road to The
Dalles from Goldendale, and the
Washington legislature gave
him some money to start the
North Bank highway.
But when Hill's program ran
into heavy construction costing
$30,000 a mile, both Governor
Lister and the legislature de
veloped cold feet, cut out more
appropriations, so Hill came
down to Salem bringing his two
chief road enthusiasts with him;
Major Henry L. Bowlby, West
Pointer and engineer, and Sam
uel Lancaster, who had been
sent to Europe to study Euro
pean road-building methods; to
gether with Charles H. Purcel,
noted bridge engineer.
Major Bowlby was appointed
state highway engineer at $3,600
a year; Lancaster went to work
as his assistant at $450 monthly
and took over the location of the
Multnomah end of the Columbia
River highway; Purcel com
menced designing bridges for
$175 a month and. the highway
program was horn.
(To Be Continued)
Sextette Entertained
Aurora Mrs. John Eiler was
hostess to the ladies' Sextet of
the Aurora Women's club at
her home on the Willamette
river near Boone's Ferry. Pres
ent were Mrs. Donald Garrett,
Mrs. Gerald Beach, Mrs. Will
iam Jensen, Mrs. Emery Foun
tain, Mrs. Ward Russell, Mrs.
James Langdon and Mr. and
Mrs. John Todd.
Union School
Ready April 15
New Cascade union high
school, now nearing completion
to accept students from a con
solidation of Turner, Aumsville,
Marion, West Stayton, North
Santiam and Cloverdale dis
tricts, will likely be ready for
use by April 15, according to
C. R. Schmiedeskamp, Portland
contractor.
Latest reports from the Mar
ion county school superinten
dent's office show that there
are now 274 pupils eligible for
attendance from the consolidat
ed district.
. Cascade union high school
contains 10 classrooms, a gym
nasium and library. Total front
age facing the road between
Turner and Marion is 450 feet.
An outstanding feature of con
struction is a spring floor for
the 96 by 69 foot gymnasium.
This innovation provides a
bounce for players. Cost of the
school will approximate $346,
000. During height of construction,
started in July, 37 carpenters
and 11 laborers were employed
Registration Drive
In Oregon Planned
Portland, March 2 W A
statewide campaign to get Ore-
gonians registered to vote in the
1950 elections was set up here
last night by Junior Chamber
of Commerce groups.
Ed Eggen, former state junior
chamber president, was elected
chairman of a citizens' non-partisan
registration committee.
The campaign is aimed at get
ting enrolled all 400,000 adult
Oregon residents who are not
now registered.
Home Rangers Guest
Butteville The Home Range
4-H cooking club met with the
leader, Mrs. Peter Krupicka.
Cookies, cake and jello were
made by the first, second and
third year cooks and inciden
tally were later used as Valen
tine refreshments. Girls present
were Judy Westcott, Susan Mey
ers, Delores Hathaway, Angela
Krupicka, Carrie Hartel, Bonnie
Hillner, Patty Wahl and Beu
lah Harper.
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