8 VACATION TIME
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Tnesday, May 26, 15S
'fkegtm Builds Better Miakvaus for Travelers
JAMES n. nl Snw I v aT " ; , -
By JAMES D. OLSON
Tourists entering Oregon
ring the 1953 season win
Witness a gigantic state-wiil
highway construction program
in pncmi, and yet will ca-
counter but few detoun and
aww progress on but few
atretchea of road under con
struction. Present U. S. Highways 99
extending north and south
from the Washington state
line to the California boun
dary and U. S. Highway 30 ex
tending along the Columbia
river from Portland through
Eastern Oregon are being re
placed by freeways. ...
These two freeways will
Silver Falls Draws
Top Park Attendance
Attendance in state parks
Increased considerably in 1952
with an estimated 5,390,421
people visiting the parks as
compared with 4.312,318 in
1951 and 3,649.455 in 1950. ac
cording to C. H. Armstrong,
superintendent of state parks.
Silver Falls park drew the
largest attendance during the
year, 242.724 persons having
registered in the guest . book
n 1952. Attendance at other
major parks was as follows:
Wallowa Lake, 231,093 per.
eons; Sunset Bay, 191,910;
Armitage. 181,992; Honeyman,
175.947 and 134.480 persons
at Ecola state perk.
Tracts Donated to
Oregon State Parks
. Several gifts of land for ex
isting state park areas were
made during 1952. These in
clude: 7.02 acres given by
Multnomah county for Crown
Point state park on the old
Pnlnmhla ritrmw hlahm.-. n an
acre deeded by Caroline Lead
better, Ralph B. Jones and
ethers at Devil's Punch Bowl
state park on the Oregon coast
and one acre at Hilgard Junc
tion state park donated by the
Mount Em lie Lumber com
pany, eight miles west of La
Grande.
New water systems were In
stalled in 1951 at Silver rails
and Sarah Hefanlch state park
In the Willamette valley; at
Hilgard state park in Eastern
Oregon and at Harris Beach
and Boiler Bay state parks on
the coast
have access nntni i .-!..-
rapid and safe driving from
one end of the state to the
ther. Property has been and
being acquired by the state
highway commission to pro
vide from 300 to 500 foot right
ways to preserve the natural
beauty along the highways and
Prevent bill boards from mar
ring the beauty.
At present the state high
way commission is in the be
ginning of the third year of
a five-vear
which time in addition to the
federal aid funds, its normal
income, proceeds from $32,-
uuu.uuu of bonds will he
pended on the primary high
way system in the state.
At the end of the five vnr
period. Ben R. Chandler, chair
man ot tue state highway com
mission, predict that 400
miles of Highway 99 will be!
replaced oy freeways.
Grade aenaratinn. truMur
are planned at many points on
the two freeways to enable
traffic to enter or leave the
freeways: overhead and un
derground crossings are being
constructea to by-pass present
highways and county roads as
well as rivers and railroads.
In national forests In K
tate the highway commission
in its road program by furnish
big allocated funds to the U.
S. Bureau of roada for ran.
struction of highways with the
limits of the forest Such roads
are designed in allignment to
Join the new highways under
construction by the state.
On U. S. Highway 99 con
front Brookings to Elbow Lake.
siaeraoie work Is in progress
While not designed as a free
wav manv mile nf mwIv 1a.
cated highway, designed to
eliminate many of the sharp
curves on the coast highway,
is oeing built.
In mountainous areas both
the state and the V. S. Bureau
of roads are constructing high
ways with a passing lane. This
extra lane will enable heavy
trucks to pull to one side on
the third lane and allow traf
fic free passage.
It is believed that the pass
in lanea were oriffin&ted In
Oregon after it was found that
truck drivers frequently pull
ed to one side on grades to al
low passenger ears to move on.
The Stat hiffhwav denartmuknt
made some widening! and soon
the passing lane was develop
ed. It is now a part of the
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interstate highway specifica
tions used throughout the
UnitedsStates In new highway
construction on long grades.
Oregon highways are being
rapidly modernized, to care for
the ever increasing traffic util
izing highways in every sec-
The lumber carrier North Beacon is shown passing
under the bridge across Yaquina bay, Newport, on the
famed Oregon costal highway. The five bridges en this
bighway have won nationwide acclaim for their beauty.
tion of the state. This high
way, modernization - program,
designed by the state highway
department and approved by
the highway commission, will
in but a few years, give Ore
gon the finest highway system
in the country.
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