Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 5, 1956
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
Section 2 Past 3
Central-East
Oregon Road
Plans Listed
State to Spend Total
Of $44.3 Million
On Projects
Plans to spend $44,340,000 in
central and eastern Oregon on
interstate primary and secondary
routes were announced today by
the State Highway department.
Earlier, State Highway Engineer
W. C. Williams had said that $30,
734,000 of the amount would go in
to tour and two-lane projects along
U. S. Highway 30 from Stanfield
junction to the Idaho border. .
"In addition to that amount we
plan to invest (6.633,000 on the
area's primary roads, $6,393,000 on
secondary roads and $372,000 on
urban improvements," Williams
said.
"The two major primary high
way improvement projects involve
grading and paving 22.11 miles
ot the John Day highway between
Fossil and Service creek at an es
timated cost ot $2,600,000 and grad
ing and paving sections of the Cen
tral Oregon highway between Jun
tura and Vale at a cost of $2,135,
000," he said.
Other primary projects: .
Grading and paving seven miles
of the Wallowa Lake highway in
the canyon between Minam und
Rock creek, $675,000; grading and
paving 1.6 miles of the Lostine sec
tion of the Wallowa Lake route.
$133,000; and grading and paving
another four miles of the same
highway between Rhinchart and
Elgin, $890,000.
"Major single secondary high
way project planned for this divi
sion will be seven miles ot grad
ing and paving on the eastern unit
of the Baker-Homestead highway
between Black Bridge and Rich
land at a cost of some $875,000,"
Williams said.
Other secondary highway pro
jects are scheduled for the Kim-bcrly-Long
creek highway, the
Hermiston highway, the Ukiah-Hil-gard
highway, the Wasco-Hepp-ner
highway, the Idaho-Oregon-Nevada
highway, the Haines-Anthony
highway, the Sumptcr Valley high
way, the Little Sheep creek high
way and the Wreston-Elgin high
way. Urban projects included in the
program, Williams said, include
$160,000 in improvements and pav
ing of Campbell street. in Barter,
widening and paving along U. S.
30 from the north city limits in
Baker to Broadway at a cost of
$135,000 and construction in Bak
er of the main street-resort street
one-way couplet at a cost of $277,'
000.
Lane County's Forest
Income Double 1955's
EUGENE, 0B Lane county's
income from national forest land
rentals and timber sales this year
is almost double the payment re
ceived this time in 1055, Treasur
er Olga Freeman said Tuesday.
She said the county received a
check this week for $1,898,057 for
the land rentals and timber sales
during the 1955-56 fiscal year. In
1954-55, the county received less
than a million dollars.
Notes on the News
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"Have you noticed that whereat money li Light premium cou
pons are freer than ever?"
$63 Million Sought
For Higher Education
Biennium Budget
To Go Before
Legislature
Operating budgets from all funds
for the state system of higher edu
cation will .total $03,570,931 it re
quests submitted in the biennial
report of the state board of higher
education released this week are
approved by the 1957 legislature.
Of this total, $16,001,536 would
be obtained from non-state income
and $47,569,395 from state appro
priation. Enrollment Up 25 Per Cent
In submitting the budget re
quest, Chancellor John R. Rich
ards points out that the seven
system campuses enrolled 25 per
cent more students during the
biennium just closing than during
the previous biennium and that a
further increase of 19 per cent is
expected during the next biennium.
The total budget requested for
instruction and general services,
$46,349,549, will include funds to
employ an additional 275 teaching
faculty members and grant pros
ent faculty members salary ad
justments which will make their
positions more nearly competitive
with those in private industry and
at other institutions.
Under the proposed budget, student-teacher
ratios will be re
stored to the 1954 level. Increases
in upper-division and graduate
students, a reflection of the in
creasing demands of our civiliza
tion for highly-trained technical
and scientific personnel, require
lowering of the student-teacher
ratio and employment and reten
tion of an increasing number of
outstanding, experienced faculty
personnel.
Relatively small increases have
been asked for added service staff
and teaching supplies and equip
mcnt. An increase of $200,000 in
the fund for rehabilitation of older
buildings and land purchases will
provide $935,000 for this purpose.
Institutional executives had pre
sented requests totaling $1,700,000,
Medical School Budget
Separate budget requests are
made for the Medical school teach
ing hospital and clinics, federal
cooperative extension service, and
agricultural research. Total budget
for the Medical School teaching
hospital and clinics for the bien
nium is $5,378,080, oi wnicn is per
cent will come from none-state
sources. State appropriations re
quested show an increase of $1,-
639,914 over the past biennium,
primarily due to increased cost of
supplies and services and the fact
that the teaching hospital will be
operating for the first time dur
ing an entire two-year budgetary
period.
The federal cooperative exten
sion service receives an estimated
42 per cent of its income from
federal and county funds. A bud
get increase of $227,700 for the
biennium will provide 12 additional
county agents and extension spe
cialists to serve Oregon's growing
agricultural industry.
Agricultural research funds pro
vide for 15 research departments
at the central station at Corvallis
and 13 branch stations and experi
mental areas located in agricul
tural regions of the state. In
creased staff and supplies to pro
vide needed research, including
provision for a lower Willamette
valley experiment station, would
require a budget addition of
$246,754 for the next biennium
Forty per cent of this sum will
be provided from federal funds
and service fees.
'56 Political
Use of Union
Dues Probed
WASHINGTON Lfl Congres
sional sources said today a federal
grand jury is investigating
sharges that Flint, Mich., labor
groups unlawfully used dues funds
in the 1956 election campaign.
The investigation involves alle
gations, aired publicly by Sen,
Curtis (R-Neb), that the Greater
Flint Industrial Council-CIO last
September caused some $25,000 of
United Auto Workers members'
dues to be diverted into a fund
for "partisan political purposes'
in violation of election laws.
The law forbids labor unions or
corporations to contribute directly
to political campaigns.
Senate sources, declining to be
quoted by name, said the grand
jury has been convened in Bay
City, Mich., to consider evidence
gathered by the FBI. The Justice!
Department reserved comment.
Curtis outlined these and other
allegations:
1. That the Greater Flint In
dustrial Council had "caused lo
cal unions to take money from
their general fund, made up from
dues, and have it transferred for
partisan' political purposes to af
fect the outcome of the current
election."
S. That Local 599 of the UAW
in Flint, in response to a request
from its executive board, voted
Sept. 9 to provide money for po
litical purposes and that minutes
of the local's meeiing would show
"it was discussed that what was
being done was in violation of
law."
3. That the local approved a
plan to'pay 100 or more "election
workers" at a rate of $20 a day,
plus $5 a day in expenses for three
days, and that its total "political"
expenditures had been estimated
at around $25,000.
14TH HIGHEST IN U. S. -
Ore. Teachers Paid
Average of $4,525
WASHINGTON W A Notional
Education Assn. (NEA) survey in
dicates it's a toss-up financially
whether you teach school in Ore
gon or Washington.
The survey ranks Washington
13th and Oregon- 14th In the av
erage salary paid to teachers this
year. But based ' on purchasing
power, the survey reverses the
order of the two states.
Washington's $4,551 average
yearly snlary is computed by
NEA as being worth $3,986 in pur
chasing power of 1947-1949 dollars.
Oregon's slightly lower $4,525 av
erage, however, is rated at $3,992
purchasing power.
Whichever way it's figured, both
states are well over the $4,220 av
erage salary nationally.
The survey, which comes up
with statistics on various educa
tional problems, also discloses
that of 2,331 teachers who quit
their jobs In Washington last
year, 33 per cent did so because
of marriage or family reasons.
Another 23 per cent went to other
states, 10 per cent got into other
types of employment, 9 per cent
retired for old age or disability
and 5 per cent left for other rea
sons. A similar breakdown for Ore
gon was not available. .
Other Vnshington-Orcgon data
in the survey discloses that 1 per
cent of Washington's 531,397 stu
dents enrolled in . public schools
are not in full-time attendance be
cause of a lack of teachers or
classrooms. In Oregon, only one
tenth of 1 per cent of its 351,393
students are similarly affected, 'larger enrollment in teacher edifc-
Both states report a shortage cMon institutions. , , ,
of teachers of all classes with j Washington Is shown with a
Washington describing its short-1 need for 1,456 classrooms and Ore
age of both rural and urban cle-: gon 680 to reduce class size- and
mentary teachers as "large." At replace obsolete and- makeshift
the same lime, both states report I classrooms.
Forest Burning
Again Permitted
Gov. Elmo Smith Tuesday re
opened 13 Northwest Oregon coun
ties that had been closed to forest
burning last week because of the
severe fire hazard.
Tuesday's order means that
burning without permit can be
resumed. Forests throughout the
region have been dampened by
KkSsl 1
by LUCRECB HUDGINS BE ALE
Synopsis: 1 am Alexander. 1
live with seven brothers and sev
en sisters. One night, shortly be
fore Christmas, soldiers came to
our house looking for Princess
Anne who had been kidnapped
from the palfcce. When I went to
the harn to bed I heard someone
inside. I knew it was the kid
napper. CHAPTER TWO
A STRANGE STORY
As soon as I knew there was
someone in the barn I turned
around and ran back to the house.
The snow was piled in drifts and
still coming down, and I was so
scared I couldn't see at all. Sud
denly I tripped. The lantern flew
from my hands and the light
went out. I staggered on and in the
dark I was certain there was
s someone at my heels.
I shouted. "Help! Help!" and
threw myself at the kitchen door.
Thomas opened the door and I
hurtled in. "He's out there!" I
screamed. "He's in the barn."
All my brothers and sisters
gathered around. "Who, Alexan
der? Who is in the barn?''
"The kidnapper of the Princess
Anne! I heard h i m brrathing
there. I think he means to kidnap
us all!"
Well, they were just as excited
as I was. Thomas said, "Come on!
What are we waiting for?" He
took me by the hand and we all
went back to the barn, the girls
carrying lanterns and the boys
carrying axes and broom sticks
and heavy iron pots.
Kidnapper Was Gone
But when we got there the kid
napper was gone. We listened and
hunted but we couldn't find anybody-Amanda
smoothed my hair.
"IMr Alexander," she said. "It
was all your Imagination. You
mustn't worry about Princess
Aine. Sh will We foind and the
kidnapper punished, too. Now go
to M and think aktit it no
,r " j
They It m there alone mi 1
-rawli up ito the loft. But as
soon as I'd put out the lantern and
settled down in the hay 1 heard
it again plain as before. It was
somebody, breathing and It was
close by my side.
"No one kidnapped me, I ran away
Thi lime T didn't run awav. I
reached down suddenly into the
hay.
Anri it u-nc enmphndv all right.
I fastened my arms around him
and cried, "Now 1 nave you wno
ever you are!"
'You're Hurting Me'
Thun in mv Astonishment, who
ever it was started to wiggle and
cry.
"Let me go! Oh, you're hurting
me!"
I couldn't believe my ears tor
surely only a girl would carry
on so. '
I got up and lit the lantern aid
there, sure enough, was a girl
half smothered in the hay. She was
a golden haired child in a flimsy
blue dress and 1 thought for a
moment she was a fairy who had
wandered away from some sunny
fairy land.
"A-are you a fairy?" I whispered.
She sobbed ana snooK ner neaa
Then suddenly I knew. If she
wasn't fairy the asj princess.
o
"You're Anne!" I cried. "You're
Princess Anne! Who kidnapped
you? Who brought you here?"
She stopped sobbing and looked
at me. "No one kidnapped me. I
ran away!"
"Ran away! But your father,
the king! He is frantic and my sis
ters say he will die of a broken
heart if you aren't returned."
He'll Do Something Awful
"It's not true!" cried the prin
cess. "He's wicked. I'm afraid of
him. He is going to do something
awful to me."
"Why?" I asked, "people say he
is the kindest of men and rules
wisely and well."
"He used to," moaned the prin
cess. "And I always loved him.
But suddenly he Is changed. He
spends all his time in a secret
room.
"Secret room!" I whispered.
"What is in there?"
"I don't know. I don't know!
Whoever has gone into that room
with him has never come out
again!"
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