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ELSEWHERE IN OREGON IlA V irrO W ENTOPtlSC— ¿nòoy. August 18. 1950 EVENTS AS CHRONICLED I Y (XI* CONTEMPORARIES UPRISE p t r v tJM o m c i AND PLANT K â i ♦. » PHONE BEAVERTON E W TVR C X ------------------- W A L L T K A IN ------------------------- t fW t E 9 K 1 B L A C K —---------- SU BSCRim O N RATES Payable la Advance R e .w f-O ffx * " Tb« E X A M IN E ?. bon* r tp e r j » e rcyreseîccs* u t ü K r __________ A i»rr*J c »f J Q i MOORE --------------- NiWiNMI eum i H i n W A T E R A L T T U LOOM» l A i f T /» » u d L ax « ca— iy jo a iz . Us« xacwuag n : < : tacile »hiefc s " < U i Caliicrau * actrspc u fc- vert K O j a '.e rrr»- for rea o* « - - ____ M lia » r _________ Uu*|»! _____________Maar NETHERTÖN NATIONAL EDI TORI AL S k J iASy> a s s o c ia t io n association In roads, we all have a common interest. Whether we actually use them in tn v e lin f or not, our daily life is dependent :n large degree upon the maintenance o f such routes as actual arter.es of trade. Across the nation, in every state aryl every county, there has developed a giant industry o f trucking, by which everything imaginable is hauled. And upon this industry there has been heaped blame and a d v e rt criticism for the damage it cause* to high ways. . . ,__ Few would care to deny that the volume of traffic on today's highways is taxing our highways to the lim it There ase evidences, in the form o f broken road sections and nu merous road patches, that today's traffic ex ceeds the plans o f existing highways. Thi? is a general condition, throughout the country, of roads veritably failing apart. The loose statement is too often made that trucks are not contributing in like am out o f the roods they use up. As far as the state o f Oregon goes, it is interesting to note just what means are em ployed to see that the trucking industry contributes its share to the upkeep o f the roauls it uses in pursuit of transport busi ness. For, rather than taking a free ride, truckers pungle up a steady stream of fees land fines as well) into the coffers o f the state highway funds. Under PUC, without which authorization use o f highways is denied, the maximum load permitted on Oregon highways is 72,000 pounds, for logging trucks. This weight must be distributed over a length o f 47 feet with a maximum load o f 32,000 pounds per axle. A license is required o f anyone who hauls over 4500 pounds, unless a farmer, and in addition there is a schedule of fees to be paid for the privilege of using the highways. The state police is charged with enforcement and there are spotted, throughout the state, official weighing stations at which all trucks are required to stop for clearance. Schedule for logging or general trucks o f fers the choice of a flat fee o f five cents per hundred pounds cargo for gas-burning ve hicles or 10 cents per hund red weight for deisel or butane burning vehicles or a fee based on mileage which mounts up to 72 mills on even ton weight, depending upon the classification of the truck. All trucks in one operation must conform to the same fee schedule. An operator who has more than one trucking enterprise, how ever. may use either method on flit different operations. “ Observations” are made on trucks in use, at widely spaced locations, and reports sub mitted to the PUC as a check on mileage re ports turned in as a l>asis for fee payment. This is to re-inforce the “ honor system” which truckers are expected to observe in reporting highway use. .Serious charges de velop from fraudulent reports and such a practice proves expensive enough to discour age such a tendency. Logging trucks are equipped with their own weighing devices, to assure compliance with load limits. When loaded to an allow*- able maximum, a chain is suspended from the iiody and cut o ff where it rests on the axle. Subsequently, the position o f these chains when a truck is loaded indicates the proper distribution of the load and the allow able weight. Trucking is big business and it depends upon proper highways for its continuation. It is in the public good that all trucks pay their way on the use o f public roads. • • • hope of our fu tu re The somewhat familiar "Greetings" will be received in more and more homes o f the area as the immediate future moves along. The call to service o f the nation will 1 m * an swered by more and more o f our young men and each time it hap[iens, there might he sorrow in the home. We gravely lament that it becomes neces- to so interrupt voung lives and make gaping holes in the many family circles about us. But a national need is something which does not admit argument. There will be lives snuffed out, many o f them without full realization of the reasons why. But if our nation is committed to an act o f war, there is no alternative but to supixirt it. To this body o f men being gathered to de fense o f the national colors, there should lie a realization that young men lie fore had fought for them, while they were growing up and getting their education. Now, simply, comes the next turn. It is maddening to have no other con clusion than but that each generation must rear its young to fight in another o f the campaigns o f death and power. The intelli gence. the morality, the instincts of a human race are incapable o f finding any other solu tion than murder to Civilization’s disputes and disagreements. Bravely, at each armistice, the fighting forces say with wishfulness, "W e have not fought in vain I” and yet, before the echoes have much more than died down, comes AND TRI of as*r tN* r. ■ «/* .« c fA cal«: by ei« KA IS IN OREGON Oe>* T«*Í CSC ewaoty h ^ t of The m c-.fi to * * ' sp a & rtau .s.jo e sad wort owt a malt*-purp>: — pro* :am for 3*« of the water: 3 t its« Klamath OTHER STATES T e a r ------------------------- rrrer TRUCKS FAY' THEIR W AT Economical Automobile 3T. Or«*e<!i glTAXLET U IN SURROUNDING NORTHWEST COMMUNITIES V ljtt H i f k n ; ia 4 p-.ta iu « : rrvday ctf * v t w«*k by Tft* PKlMR P lfiM U tJ C * , b e M j A* ■be P c « Off js « ¿u-tfU A O **«. & -« :« ; u » e ..e r - « « If You Need a Dependable, Strong, FMtn. ralSr-g for a compact a * : : to by the CaliforBA aad Or* go- JeguAtures aad approved by the :ca*reoo of the U tittd States before the rrrer sig h t b* -ucd is any other way thas at present, ha* tees prepooed. B .r e a : of i t d i r . i . o c men were present at the eon fere nee tad ex- p aited that at present there U bo proposal to tap the Klamath basin water resource» by California but plans are be*inn.r.r to materialize for diversion to Central valley wa ters of water from the Trinity nver. a tributary of the Klamath • • • again the clarion call to doty in another war d enied by men and evenu. To those upon whose shoulders falls the responsibility o f our nation's cause in war, may we offer Godspeed and every wish o f a safe return. Like the young legions who have gone be fore them, they carry the hope o f our future. • a a MONUMENT ENOUGH PAVING 0 » S T B C C T I0 N la McM : r r _ > r t i d t t t i oa one street haw» pet an ofeatruetwa ahead of a project roc part-g The TELEPH O N E R B G i a m teGs of aa served oc cay o£fv--aia. sfaorCy after they had awarded a contract t:d for the jo* -a the amount of over OOG 5e«su that the protesting pro perty owners iLe-ge the city has not had the street in question twiicated for pahbe us^ even tho’ugh it has been used for some uave in public travel. City council members are e*ei debating weightier whether to go ahead with the project or delete the street from its improvement plan. The injunction rises up to hex future assessment which might be clouded by the fact on non- dedication of the street FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 1950 AUSTINS ONLY » • • EXPLOSIVE IN POOL Yeraonia swimming pool fans were somewhat surprised to dis cover a stick of dynami'e. cap and fuse had been thrown into the re creational facility. The EAGLE notes the circum stance and remarks of the search being undertaken for the party re sponsible. A reward has been offered for the arrest of the culprit, with of ficial notice being given of this fact. A lot o f people, individually and in groups, have beat the drums for a swimming pool in the east end o f the Tualatin Valley. F O K H U i M RK FOR T A X E S In one instance, if we may credit the Cert in parcels of property with somewhat exasperated comments o f certain in St Helens are going on the high school graduates, one union high school block, to satisfy street and »ewer o f the area is supposed to have accumulated payments. some $8,000 through contribution o f various The SENTINEL MIST relate» class fund-raising efforts, for a swimming the city recorder has been ordered • • • pooL Somewhere, this amount o f money is to have a list published of such W AITING FOR BID * supposed to be resting— quite like a mythical properties ripe for tax foreclos In Willamina. the city council ure«. nest-egg for a monument o f the future. Meanwhile the Columbia county seems to be waiting for bids that Now and then, there revive* a sporadic court goes along with the amounts never come in. campaign to add to this fund— though noth varying from over $380 to 1156. According to the TIMES pro ing very startling seems to develop from posed paving projects are frus these occasions. In short, the kids w h o ' VACATION BUSINESS OFT trated by the lack of contractors should be swimming now- must take it out Admitting that summer vacation* offering a pr.ee on the work Nevertheless, the council agreed in a little more waiting. business Is slightly below average Against such a picture, it is nothing short volume. Seaside still has hopes to go ahead and lay storm sewers, o f amazing that near the east limits of Reed- for an Improvement before the last leaving the next paving bids cal! ville, W. J. Vineyard has built a shallow- hang-up of bench-logs and related for early in 1891. • • • swimming pool, in his own front yard, to paraphernalia. SCHOOLS CONSOLIDATION which all kids and some grown-ups as well The SIGNAL indicates, however, In Coos Bay. a determined step that optimism blossoms because are welcome guests. of the definite upsurge In logging U being taken, in the hope of ef The pool is certainly no monument which business, an industry which Is of fecting more efficient and eco stands as a flattering testimonial for any “considerable more importance nomical school administration. The H AR BO R announces that a person or organization. It doesn’t have tiled this year than last.” borders or fancy buildings. In short, it is One of the alarming develop vote will be asked of 14 bay dis lacking many o f the refinements which have ments noted In this resort town tricts to consolidate forces and set which has bullded greatly upon the up one large district. become accepted as commonplace. School planners favor one high But the important thing is that it is NOW. service It is prepared to give the school for teh entire district: ele holiday-seekers. is the impact There is no haggling, no hairline debates made by the new Sunset highway mentary school facilities as “close as to whether this organization or that or More and more persons are driving to home" of the young grade ganization will get all credit due. For an in to Seaside to spend the day. but achoolers as possible: appointment vestment o f between $500 and $600, the con returning home each night. At of a representative from each of crete pool is “ in” , the usual city water is least half a million are estimated the consolidating districts not rep resented on the board, as advisors used to fill it and a flock o f kids, without to be using this practice. Business, it is suggested, must to problems that develop from time restriction, can splash around and have the look beyond Oregon for the future, to time. time o f their young lives. There is, indeed, a moral to this story'- A if the present high state of pros extended. lesson that if a person or group o f persons perity is to be e s s wants something badly enough they can HIGHER I’ RICE FOR PEARS achieve it. Hood River is expecting a high Vineyard started with an idea, his tools price for Bartlett pears this sea and his own two hands. What he accomplish son. ed, as a one-man venture, should put to The NEW'S points out that there shame the fancy estimates of a $30,000 to has been no general uniform price $40,000 colossal pool that hangs, like a pie set in California. in the sky, unrealized. Pears have been offered from In any o f the main centers within the east $70 to $90 from the south and a end o f the Tualatin Y'alley, there is certainly fresh fruit deal, of small tonnage, the earth-moving equipment, the initiative set the year's high at 1100 per ton This trend will perhaps mean and the means by which a determined people «r a considerably higher opening could erect a swimming pool sufficient to price for Anjou pears and extend meet the needs o f area recreation. Couldn’t through the apple crops as well we stow the fancy dreams and squeeze down Pear and apple producers are on such a goal by means of community work seeking to have their fruits packed days ? with a minimum delay for cold- In his front yard, just beyond his house. storage keeping With this effect Vineyard ueeds only look to know the de ed. It will be possible to take ad light neighboring kids get from his individ vantage of a late season market, •Ct ualistic venture, lie ’s willing to pay the costs where advancing prices will make o f his own pool, taking his compensation even more fruitful the lo«al fruit from the joy he is bringing to some young producing Industry. • • • lives. HOSPITAL FT NO CRISIS And perhaps, to him, that’s monument With only a short time remain enough! ing before the end of a campaign • • * FULLY EQUIPPED Includes . . . • • H eater Genuine Leather Upholstery • Sliding Roof • Turning Indicators, Etc. 30-35 Miles to the Gallon Double the Normal Tire Usage VISIT US NOW! While They Last VALLEY LIGHT CAR CO. More Time To F ro lic... to collect funds for an entirely community hospital, Lebanon fac es a desperate crisis. The EXPRESS. In repeated campaigns, has been boosting for the favorable response from its readers. It declares that the average citizen in the area is awakening to the vital need of a modern ho* pital and medical center and com ing forward with gifts and sub sciiptions to the beat of ability. According to report, $223.896 ha* been donated for the project. CULTURE IS TANGIBLE Culture has often been regarded as a definite need of a people. It is like a leaven ing that lifts the soul aliove the humdrum routine of practical living. The offer, next Saturday and Sunday afternoons o f a free chunk of culture, there fore, should deserve an enthusiastic re sponse. The Portland Civic Opera association, sponsored by the city o f Portland, the city’s park recreation bureau and a committee o f businessmen, presents a four-act presenta tion o f the opera "Aida." Admission is free to all who would go to the open air amphi theatre at the Washington Park Rose Gar dens. This will be a dramatic spectacle, m ade1 even more so by participation of local people.1 even to Gertie the Camel from the municipal zoo. An entirely civic venture, cast was chosen by public audition and the perform ers have even provided their own costumes Most magnicifent feature of the show, even Iieyond the exceptional performances which are to lie expected from the cast, is the fact that the people, through this m ed-1 lum o f civic opera, find Culture a real and Uwjrihle value. • • • BEAVERTON 155 EAST ST. PHONE 4539 X b; .O! at 1 By switching to oil heat now! Our bailm ent’s 3 fun room now that we have compact, neat, clean oil heat. Fur- nace soot, fuel mess gone! Housework’s so much eas- ier and quicker because oil heat is so clean. Can't soil rugs, walls and drapes. Enjoy safe oil heat at its best with Standard Heat- ing o ils — 100*^ d i s t i l l e d for non waste burning. V L c U & f 4 //< »> ' lij Paxson Finance a Co. 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