MEDFORT) MAIL TRTBTTNE. MEDFORD,. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1333
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$12,150 APPROVED
FOR IMPROVEMENT
ASHLAND AIRPORT
Modern Highway Through Siskiyous
Will Speed Traffic Across High Barrier
WASHINGTON. NOT. IS. W The
eommws department added 34 sir
port project today to a. llt of thea
irtilch It dm economically sound
and suitable for Inclusion In the fed
eral works program.
Oregon projects approved Included:
Ashland, clearing and grading run
way. S12.150: Bend, grading, marklne
and fencing. $4,075; Burns, grading,
marking, gravelling and fencing. 4.
430.50: Bums, grading, marking and
fencing. 4.07S; ChUoquln. municipal
airport, clearing, frruilng and surfac
ing one malor runway. 5.100: Cow
Creek, department of commerce rite,
extension of emergency field, $3,
825: Hlllaboro. final levelling and
grading and Improvements, 1.184:
John Day. gravelling and marking,
ail. ISO: LaGrsnde. department of
commerce site, grading and gravelling
ninway, 13.150; Madras, tins grad
ing and marking. S1.057: Marshfleld.
clearing, grading and marking. $11.1
100: Ontario, gravelling runways, and
marking boundaries. $4,331.75 Port
Orford airport, clearing, grading, sur
facing and marking. $6,345: Redmond,
clearing and filling 3.800 feet yf run
way. $6,313: Roseburg. municipal air
port, concrete culvert to permit ex
tension of major runway, $7,840; The
Dalles, grading, surfacing and mark
ing, $13,150: Uklah. grading, mark
ing and Improvements, $3,621.
Listing of the airport projects on
the approved list of the commerce
department's bureau of air commerce
does not mean that works money will
tie allotted to them. That Is for other
agencies to decld.
ASHLAND, Nov. 13. (Spl.) News
of the approval of the Ashland air
port Improvement project woa re
ceived enthusiastically by local of
ficials, who have hoped for veara to
promote development of the local
ln4lntf field.
The project will make possible the
use of the Ashland field as an Sux
... , .it studies of weather
,nnn. here have definitely estab
.h fart that fog forms a lesser
hassrd thsn at other fields In this
Tlclnltv, and transport planes mu
.m. in land here when thick fog
havering over the other fields makes
It necessary.
The runway will be approximately
man feet long and adequately
Kn nrovlslon Is made for the con-
.tiin of nermonent hangars.
At present, the private cioft of
u.-. irirt Plovd Dickey are
v.t. at the airport, which Is used
im almost exclusively. .
The project will provide work for
80 men over a period of about four
months, socordlns to rellet oiiio...
JOII EL SPEAK
AT MASS MEETING
A mass meeting of the citizens of
both Jackson and Josephine counties
to called for Monday nlfht,- Novem
ber 18. at 8:00 o'clock In the audi
torium of the Medford high sehool
en South Oakdale.
The congressional representative
from this district. Jas. W. Mott. will
make the principal address of the
venlng and the meeting Is called
by and being held under the aus
plcea of the Townscnd clubs of both
counties.
A cordial Invitation Is extended by
th. Tnwnaend club officials to every
citizen of both Jackson and Jose--k...
miintlra and especially the
business men of Medford and arants
Pass for whom a special message Is
being prepared.
Trees In Highway
State's By Right
SALEM. Ore.. Nov. 13 (API At
torney General I. H. Van Winkle held
In an opinion here that the atate
ahould not have to pay the Weyer
haeuser Timber company for trees
felled In construction of a highway
from Coos Bay to Roseburg.
Van Winkle held the right of way
was granted by the United States to
the state of Oregon to am in wm -itructlon
of a military highway.
For Hose that Wear ouj
NOLDB HORST
Ethelwyn B Hoffmann.
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Heavy line on map shows
present route of Pacific high
way, from Athland south to
the California line, dotted
line, route of the new high
way now under construction
and crossed line, route of the
Southern Pacific railroad. Top
photo is a typical deep cut be
tween the five and seven-mile
posts on the relocated route.
Bottom picture A fill which is
400 feet wide at the base. These
pictures show why it has been
necessary to move 300,000 cu
bic yards of dirt for each mile
of the two miles now graded.
The Siskiyous He in the path ol
the routes of trade between Oregon
and California. Even in the early
gold mining days there was consider
able horse-drawn traffic between the
valleys of the Wlllamettej the Rogue
and the Sacramento. Passengers and
commodities were carried by horse
drawn stage until the advent of
the Oregon and California railroad,
completed In 1887,
Through the vision, courage and
foresight of the people of Jackson
countv, the county floated a $50,000
bond Issue snd built the first paved
section of the Pacific highway from
Central Point to Ashland and the
present grade over the Siskiyou
mountains. '
The rout was ' surveyed, graded
and partially paved by Jackson
county snd finally completed by
the state highway commission of
Oregon. For many years It was one
of the best mountain grades In the
west, and Oregonlana pointed with i
pride to this schlevement In con
trast to the narrow, winding, moun
tain grade on the California side of
the 8lsklyois, ' "
California Surpasses Oreaon.
Finally, In the course of time, the
California highway commission Im
proved the grade on the Siskiyous
and down the Sacramento canyon
and then. In contrast, tho Oregon
highway became a narrow, winding,
mountain road when compared to
the wider grade and stralghter align
ment that was built In California.
However, the standards used in the
California construction appear to be
Inadequate for handling high-speed
modern traffic.
No Half-Way Measures.
About four years ago. the Oregon
State highway commission, respond
ing to the request of the Pacific
Highway association, and In particu
lar to the Insistent demand of the
people of Southern Oregon, made a
survey for a modern highway over
the Siskiyou mountalna. A great deal
of thought was given to the plana
Tor this road for the reason that this
will probably, be the last highway
over the Siskiyous that the state of
Oregon can afford to build. In con
sequence, It was decided to abandon
any plans for 'halfway measures and
to locale a road that woum oe per
manent In character. A lo-aegree
mnvimum curve was adopted In
contrast to the 20-degree curve used
on the relocation of the California
side.
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OR. PIETER ROES!
TO LECTURE HERE
F
ing 29.7 complete circles will m
eliminated by this plan. The total
cost ol thia improvement, 18 milea
in length, la estimated to be $1,700,
000. Such construction will permit
safe speed up to 80 or 60 miles per
hour. No higher upeed will probably
be found advisable on mountain sec
tions, on account of the inherent
dancer due to the slowness of re
action time of the ordinary driver,
regardless of the condition of the
road or the Improvement in auto
motive equipment.
First Vnli Is 10 MHci.
After due deliberation, the high
way commission decided to build as
the first unit the section between
Ashland and Siskiyou station, a dis
tance of about 10 mile. This 10
mile section, when completed, will
save about three miles over the pres
ent rosd and take out 14.4 complete
turns around a circle: 304.087 have
been expended tmis far In the grad
ing of this section. Grading con
tracts totaling 431.850 are now
under way. It is estimated that100.
000 of grading work will complete
this section. The estimated cost or
the Wall Creek underpass, now au
thorized, including grading the ap
proaches. Is $250,000. The estimated
cost of paving the 10-milc section is
$200,000.
GUNSMITH Repair for all mea
of guns Sims Bros.. 28 N nr.
6 More Milea In Build.
After the 10 -mile section is com
pleted, there will remain more
miles to complete to the California
state line, the cost of which U esti
mated to ba 981A.0OQ. Tills includes
a 700-foot tunnel at the summit ot
the mountain.
When this is completed. It will be
great advertisement for Oregon
Initiative and enterprise. The trav
elers from the south can not help
being struck by the ease of driving
over the wide pavement and by the
decrease in centrifugal acceleration
due to the use of spiral or tranal
tlon curve. It will be a sample of
the improvement which will bring
to southern Oregon a moderniaed
Pacific highway. It Is unquestionably
a aound investment and will be
material addition to the capital
wealth of thl state. The annual
savings resulting from the reduction
In the expense of the movement ol ;
passengers and commodities over a
modernized highway will easily amor
tize the cost.
Senator Charles I. McNary. when
he recently visited Medford. said he
would personally do everything in
his power to secure government aid
for the completion of the Siskiyou
grade to the California line, as well
ns the Improvement of the Pacific
I highway from Ashland to Eugene
Dr. Pieter K. Foeat, formerly hd
of the sociology department at Reed
college In Portland, will appear before
Medford audiences Friday and Satur
day evenlnca of this wwk, brought
here by the American Theosophical
society, Hta topic Friday evening will
be "America a Nation of Destiny."
which will be presented at St. Mark's
guild hall. Saturday evening Dr.
Foest will speak on "Creative Liv
ing" at 220 North Oakdale. Dolores
R. Sperling will be soloist both even
ings. Dr. Roest Is & native of Holland
and carries a degree from the Uni
versity of Leydon and a cum laude
degree In sociology and anthropology
from the University of Chicago. He
has devoted a large part of his work
to studies of Ameilcan colleges and
college students, and has also done
a great deal of anthropological and
social research in foreign countries.
Or. Roest's varied career haa been
steadily steered by one inflexible pur
pose: to obtain a real understanding
of man. and to share this growing
understanding with others, especially
the young. A real acquaintance with j
the wisdom of the east, he maintains,
proves the latter to be much nearer
to the best of modern thought than
most of us res It re.
On his various tours Dr. Roest has
addressed numerous groups of the
most varying nature: the radio pub
lic, university audiences, civic and
business clubs, forums, churches, pro
fessional organizations, exclusive cul
tural groupa, camp gatherlnga, high
schools, public and private schools
of all kinds. Tlie straightforward sin
cerity and the fine but simple lan
guage of his talks arouse enthusiasm
wherever he goes, be his audience a
group of little children or the fastidi
ous and critical listeners of a cosmo
politan intelligentsia. He Is one of
those rare perons who have some
thing vital to say and know how to
say it.
EIETY SAVED FROM
WAVELASHED ROCK
SOUTH 0FJV1AN1LA
Cor tlnued itooo rag One)
of the daring rescue of Mrs. George
Blsslnger."
"Captain E. H. Jones of the Peary
deserves great credit for his indefat
igable work and excellent ship hand
ling," the commander of the fifteenth
destroyer division wirelessed
"O. Harding and H. A. Mathewson j
brought Mrs. Blsslnger safely through
the breakers and boatswains mate
Thomas H. Ponder of the Peary went
over the side and brought her aboard
uneonsctoua."
Mrs. Bisslnger, the former Winifred
Scott, San Francisco newspaper wo
man, la the wife of the director of
research of the Philippine Sugar as
sociation. Cargo Furnished Rsfti
Advices from the Peary said the
Silverhaeel carried a deck load of
lumber and It was assumed the mar
ooned crew devised rafts from the
cargo.
Third officer, 8. Young, 21, of
Aberdeen, Scotland, was rescued from
one raft with six other survivors,
while seven others were taken from
another raft.
"It was a most harrowing exper.
lence," Blsslnger wirelessed.
The Peary lost a motor whaleboat
In the tossing seas.
The ship was due here early
morrow and sent word that two aur-
vlvora of the freighter's crew. R.
Plckersvlll and - Rodney Arthur,
Hindu, were developing pneumonia
and would require hospital treat
ment.
counting suit of George W. Roberts
and others asalnat W. E. Htttson, the
name of Thomas Spitzner wot Inad
vertently mentioned ae one of the
beneficiaries of a- $12.309. 81 clean-up.
The court'a findings on the sub
ject read: '
"The evldenc shows thai part
of the gold was taken from the Hitt
on shaft by the defendant, W. K.
Hlttson. Nick Carter, Thomas Sp!t
i.rt Oeorg Lewi and Charles Gen
try, who were operating under a Joint
venture.
"Carter and SoltEner left the ralaa
about January 30. 1P35. and there
after Hltuon. Lewis and Gentry took
out and took to the mint, aooordtng
to reports, gold to th value of 12.
200 81 ... no part of which was
paid to Carter and Spitzner."
The memorandum awards Judgment
for the amount to Robert and co-plaintiff.
Phone 642 We'll haul away yout
feusre. City Sanitary Service.
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Clear More Land
For Gold Dredge
GRAVE CREEK, NOT. 18. (Spl.)
The Skeeter brothers, with their crew
of loggers, have returned to , Grave
Creek, where they will do some more
clearing land for the dredging com
pany. They came here from work
near Ashland. Their tent house
make quit a village near their work
In the vicinity of the gold dredge.
Several families have moved into cab
ins at Grave Creek and the Grave
Creek school will have a few more
pupils, it la reported.
Schilling
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In the report yesterday of the mem
orandum decision of Circuit Judge
Carl vyimberly In the, cold mine ac-
Evans Machine Shop
will be open for business
alter Not. IS at
8TH AND FIR STS.
APPROVE ELIMINATION
11
RAM7M. Not. 13. !P) Tha public
utilities department haa approved ap
plications by the state high-way de
partment to eliminate 11 railroad
crossings In Oregon.
The worle irtll be paid for out of
Oreson'a IS.J00.000 federal hlehway
aid fund. Officials declsred It or
iginally was estimated the money
would eliminate 14 crossing,.
Recent federal rules making the
employment and use of labor more
elastic would "permit 23 crossing
eliminations, they ssld.
TURKEYlmPMENTS AT
PEAK SOON IN VALLEY
can be reduced from 6 to per
cent and 10S91 depreea. 40 minutes
of curvature can be eliminated. Ex
pressed in another way, curves total-
Reduce Distance by 4Lj Miles.
Plans Include a wide grade, the
reduction of gradient and the elimi
nation of all poaslble curvature. The
aurvey dtaelosea that 4'i miles ot
distance can be eliminated, the grade
TWO TRAINS DAILY
TO PORTLAND
ONE WAY ROUNDTRTP
GDCMD
ONI WAY ROUND TRrP
?659 $1065 ?9S8 ?1305
COACH-TOURIST
Ne time you (to to Port
land, try the train. Ride in
abig.comfnrtablecoachon
the Or (to in a mod
ern Touritt Pullman for the
amefsre. plus roall charge
for seat. On this daylight
trip you arrive in Port!rd
at 7:35 in the evening.
FIRST CLASS
Save time by traveling while
you sleep. These fare,, plus
berth charge, are good in
luxurious standard Pull
mans. Or you can go by
coach for the same fare, as
shown for the daylight frip.
This night train arrives in
Portland 7:55 next morning..
Vty ltd "'' rrl rrhrrning, tho.
Ssu!he?n Pacific
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NKW YORK, Not. IS. (ip) The
Irish Pree State team held today
cup it had nought for sm-en year.
the International military teem chal
lenge trophy of the National Horse
show.
With thunder of aoclalm from
9.000 apectatore ermine-coated mot-
rona and stable boy alike the Irish
defeated the teama of four other na
tions laat night by a performance
which surprised their moet enthual
astlc follower.
The Unl ted Ata tea team pie ced
second In the show's closing event,
followed in order by the rldera of
Chile, Canada and Prance.
Turkey ahipmente from the Rou
Fiver valley are expected to reatfi
their pa th before Thanka-
flvin$E. end (rrowera are ratteniriR ano
feeding their fowls to that end. te-
oordinft to County Ajnt Robert 3.
Fowler. The price la unchanged at
77 and 33 centa per pound.
Swifts and Company are nox ship
nine turkeva In carload lot to the
eastern markets.
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mother goes about
her work with more
peace of mind be
cause she knows her
household is safer
since she installed a
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