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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, October 3, 1956
Barriers Come Down as Old Otter
Crest Road Again Open to Traffic
Tourists, Residents Pleas
' Bring Resumed Use
Of Scenic Road
, By BEN MAXWELL
Capital Journal Writer
A section of old Otter Crest road
MOO feet in length, closed a year
ago when the new route was open
ed over this promontory, was re
opened today by the State High
way -Commission in response to
requests from those who live in
the area and tourists who prefer
Employment
In September
Sets Record
WASHINGTON 11 The gov
ernment reported Tuesday that
the 'number of Americans holding
jobs dropped by 681,000 to a total
of 6,071,000 in September.
A September decline .is a normal
seasonal development due chiefly
to students leaving summer jobs
to go back to school.
The total employment was a rec
ord for September. It is 1.300,000
greater than the number of per
sons who had jobs in September,
1955.
September employment com
pared with a record 66,752,000 job
holders in August,
v The Commerce Department also
said that unemployment declined
in September by 107,000 to a total
of 1,098,000. This was one of the
lowest jobless totals recorded in
the last three years.'
The decline in unemployment
similarly was attributed in part
to the large number of students
withdrawing from the labor force.
The government counts as unem
ployed anyone who does not have
a job and is looking for one.
The decline In job holders came
In non-farm Industries. The' total
drop there was 804,000 to a total
of 68,683,000. Agricultural employ
ment increased by 123,000 - to a
total of 7,388,000. This also was
regarded as seasonal In connec
tion with the harvesting of crops.
to leisurely travel the crooked
but scenic route over Otter Crest.
Old Otter Crest road was con
structed in the early 1920s as
part of the Roosevelt highway
ana lonowea lo some degree an
old, but almost impassable, dirt
road from Rock Creek to Devil's
Punchbowl, In Model T days the
old Otter Crest highway was con
sidered adequate but the event
of modern, high speed cars made
the 1923 route a bottle neck for
traffic and a dangerous road for
sight seeing.
F.esidents at Devil's Punchbowl
and those engaged in the resort
business along the old route spon
sored a movement to re-open the
old route and hundreds of post
cards were received at Gov. Elmo
Smith's office bearing that re
quest.
Other than removing barriers
and a few fallen rocks from the
old road reopening presented no
problem for highway authorities.
An extension fro mthc new route
over the promontory provided an
access road to Otter Crest view
point and resort. A traffic count
will be made by the highway de
partment to determine if traffic
justifies keeping the old ' route
open.
Keef Jabs at
Ike on Schools
R OS WELL. N. M. (It Sen
Estes Kefauver lashed back at
President Kisenhower Tuesday on
the issue of which party killed the
school construction bill, declaring
"apparently the General hasn't
been able personally to keep in
touch with what's going on in Con
gress." The President, In speech Mon
day at Lexington, Ky., blamed the
T .locrats for the defeat of the
school bill In the last Congress.
Kefauver, at his press confer
ence here opening his campaign
swing in New Mexico, declared
that it was Republican maneuver
ing In the House which killed the
bill in the recent congressional
session.
He said 119 Republican House
members voted "no'l In the final
showdown.
The senator said "if we had had
measure of support from the
President, we could have gotten
the school bill through."
Mercy Flight
Arrives Here
Winfield Plummer, 51, a Med-
ford tubercular patient, was
flown Into Salem Tuesday on a
mercy plane for admission to the
State Tuberculosis hospital.
The plane, piloted by Lee Fink,
made the flight in 55 minutes, and
was met at McNary field by the
Willamette Ambulance Service and
taken to the hospital.
Plummer recently suffered a
serious hemorrhage and it was
feared that the 250-mile trip by
auto might start the - bleeding
again.
Mcdfords mercy planes arc
purchased by annual donations
from subscribers in the Mcdford
area. The subscribers also do
nate' their time to accompany
patient carried on the mercy
plane.'
Travel Resumes on Crooked Road
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McKay Plans
Linn County
Talk Series
ALBANY (Special) Doug Mc
Kay, Republican candidate for
U.S. senator, will be the princi
pal speaker at a banquet in Leba
non next Monday night, according
to Lull Knodell, Albany, McKay s
Linn county campaign manager,
The banquet will be held at 7 p.m.
at Melody Lane.
Earlier in the day, McKay will
visit a number of East Linn county
mills and at noon he will accom
pany Dr. William Pearl, Bonne
ville Power administrator, to the
Sweet Home Rotary club meeting
where Pearl IS to be the principal
speaker.
Mrs. McKay also win be in the
county the same day and will at
tend a number of coffee hours set
up in her honor.
Knodell said that plans are be
ing made, now for a breakfast
meeting in Albany the same day
for McKay.
Congressman Harris Ellsworth
will be in Lebanon Oct. 17, and
will also attend a series of coffee
hours n the county.
Phil Hitchcock will speak at the
Lebanon ' Kiwanis club meeting
Oct. 23. .
Damage Suit
Trial Opens
A-Jury trial involving damages
of $25,000 opened in Marion coun
ty circuit court Tuesday with the
State Highway Commission the
defendant and Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Nation, plaintiffs.
The Nations oc-erators" of Para
dise Island, a picnic area,riocated
along Mill creek off. Turner road,
charge that the commission made
their property virtually inopera
tive when a change was made in
the natural channel of Mill creek.
The change was made, it is con
tended, in the construction of thi
Salem bypass.. The grounds have
not been used by the public dur
ing the past two seasons. ,
Girl Taken to Sunday
School in Ambulance
LENOIR, N.C. WV- Little Kate
Waters was literally in stitches
when she attended Sunday school
here last weekend.
The 9-year-old, before an appen
dectomy last Wednesday extract
ed promises from her doctor and
her parents . that she'd be out in
time for Sunday school. An ambu
lance took her. :.
Kate was able to maintain her
perfect attendance record.
McKay Plans
County Talks
nntf Mitav Rpnnhlirfln nomi
nee for United States senator, will
mr.w.A ttia fl-aotoF naW (if fWflhpr
agrciju fii wv, f J
9 in Marion county, Kenneth M.I
Potts and Mrs. Leon i-erry mar
Ion rnnnlv McKav co-chairmen
announced.
The former secretary of the in
terior will speak at a Willamette
university convocation next Tues
day at 10 a.m. Following this ap
pearance, he will visit a number
of Marion county communities.
An addition to the Marion, coun
ty McKay-for-Scnator committee
was announced Wednesday. Mem
bers named included Mayor Rob
ert White, Ward R. Davis, William,
H. Hammond, Dr. Vcrn W; Miller,
Ted Chambers, Mrs. Edward E.
Roth, Dick McMullen, and Bob
Morrison, all of Salem; Mrs. Har- (
riet Duncan, Silverton; Mrs John
Connell and Mrs. John Carson,
Woodburn; Mrs. Louis Scott, Mill
City and E. E. Ball of Turner.
At the request of numerous residents and tour- and Devils Punchbowl via Otter Crest on the, Ore-
Ists the stale highway commission hns removed on co,t. The lower picture, taken from Devil's
barriers such as. the on. pictured above which PMnhow, ,how, te northward view from this
have prevented trnlllc over the section ot the
old Roosevelt highway which links Rocky Creek P0P",''r re"r'- clu1 J"'lrn1 TbM
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Mental Health
Panel Presented
A discussion of how a commu
nity can help persons with men
tal Illness was conducted Tues
day morning by seven persons at
tne tmrd in a series ol lour men
la' health workshops beini con
ducted by the county health de
partment's Child Guidance Clinic
and the Marion County TB and
Health association.
The panel discussion, at the
YWCA, was heard by 60 repre
sentatives of school, church and
civic groups.
Purpose of the panel was to
show how the groups could con
duct similar discussions at their
own meetings. Included as panel
members were: Mrs. Beatrice
Yeary, director of nurses at the
Marion County Health Depart
ment; Mrs. Fred Dotering, public
health nurse; Dr. Daniel Di Inconi
Salem physician; Mrs. Dudley
Henderson, nurse at the Ameri
can Can Co.; Dr. Kenneth Gavcr,
Oregon Stale hospital psychiatrist :
and Mrs. Carl Smith of St. Paul.
Next Tuesday's workshop will
consist of two plays, one on
adolescence and the other on old
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Asked why, he replied; "I like
to watch fires and see firemen
work." '
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