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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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FULLY EQUIPPED
Includes . . .
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H eater
Genuine Leather Upholstery
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Sliding Roof
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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.
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