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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. MAY 19. 1940. PAGE SEVEN 1940 Motorlog: Two Santiams '. ' .a' :''.: ; .l . -:-. ' - . v''' ..... A PAIR OF CHAMPIONS ti.i.f.i-. inn mn.ii riuilr:i)i.i-,i I'rir in '"mjknw Wilbur Shaw, Amerlca'e number one raring driver, Is shown at the left receiving a Stndebaker Champion coupe from Geo. D. Keller, vice president in charge of sales for Studebaker. Wilbur will maka thia Champion his official tar until raea day at Indianapolis, when ha hopes to win the Champion sedan that will pace the raca and ba given to the winner. Buick Limited Is Official Golf Tourneyear' Tiny lakes abound la the area crossed by the two Santiam roads. Hera vacationists pilot a crude raft on a tiny lake near the summit of the Cascades. The following article, pre sented in co-operation with the Oregon Stete Motor associa tion. Is one of a series designed to promote travel in the Pacific northwest. Today's article haa been condensed from a motor log appearing In the Sunday Qrvgonian May 19-. BY JALM AH JOHNSON AMlctAM City Editor, TIM OTfoola THIS IS a road report on the lSorth Santiam and the South Santiam highways newest links between the Willamette valley and central Oregon with an excursion or two off the main road and the main subject for a dash of human interest. It looked like rain when the motorloggers left Portland1 two weeks ago, and it still looked like rain when we turned east at Salem to follow the North Santiam river into and over the Cascade mountain's to central Oregon. But the rain held off as we moved swiftly over hard surfaced highway through Aumsville, Sublimity, Stayton, where we first gHmpsed the North Santiam river, and on through Mill City and Gates-. Just east of Gates the oiled highway ended and' We started tip through the foothills over a road which In places was good and in others quite rough-, nar row and crooked. The speedometer mileage re corder read 946.4 miles when the first rough road was en countered and it stood at 863 when the rough road ended at Detroit. It had taken the bet ter part of an hour to cover the stretch, but the rugged scenery more than made up for the cau tion required of the driver. The highway skirts the river, which tumbles majestically through a deep canyon, the sides of which are heavily timbered. A rail road hangs perilously on the river bank. Some day, probably in the near future, the Gates-Detroit part of the highway will be as good as the rest of the broad, well-engineered route to the other side of the mountains. Improvement of the stretch hinges on a projected dam some tx miles below Detroit The dam, which will be a part of the Willamette valley project for rood control and other purposes, has been au thorized, but no money has been appropriated for it. When they get the money the United States army engineers will build it Meanwhile the highway must be relocated at a higher eleva tion, as the dam will flood the present route. The engineers will furnish enough money to build a road equally as good as the present one, and other agencies, the federal bureau of public roads for one, will con tribute more money to con struct a good, modern highway while they are at it The dam at first will be a low one for flood control pur poses. Later it may be raised so that it can be used for power generation, and when that time eomes the town of Detroit will be submerged. However, the hi'hway will be placed high enough at the beginning so that possible heightening of the dam will not require relocation again. Surveys have been com pleted for the new route and some construction may be un dertaken this year. At Detroit the motorloggers made a side trip of 12 miles to M. D. Bruckman's Brcitenbush hot springs resort. Mr. Bruck- man was getting ready for open ; ing of the hotel on May 28. and the more than 100 hot springs on the place were gurgling busily. The store is already open, as are the cabins. The Breitenbush road was rough in spots, due to winter wear and tear, but will receive a going over before the busy-season. From Detroit to Suttle lake, past the junction with the South Santiam highway and through the 4817-foot high Santiam pass, is 43 miles and can be covered in about as many minutes over a road which is partly oiled and elsewhere well graded and smooth. At Suttle lake we put up for the night at J. E. Rent- schlars brand-new knotty-pine lodge, which replaced the old lodge destroyed by fire last August. Next morning we found the rain that had held off all day before had turned to an un- seasonal snow during the night and four Inches of wet snow covered the ground. A projected boat ride on the lake was out of the question, but a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Green's Circle-M dude ranch on the Me tritis river was only a matter of a few minutes over a good road. Back to the Santiam highway and on east through Sisters ns snow there and on to Red mond and Prineville, lumbering and agricultural cities much benefited by the new Santiam road. Then to Bend for the rest of the day and that night at the. Pilot Butte inn. The South Santiam highway was the route the next day for an uneventful but scenically beautiful 200-mile drive from Bend to Portland. The snow capped Three Sisters, Mount Washington, T h r e e - Fingered Jack and Jefferson started the scenic parade. The South Santiam, which branches off the North Santiam 12 miles west of Suttle lake, is completely graded, the last stretch being finished last year. It was still dust-free as a re sult of recent rains and only in a few spots where winter slide were being removed was a let up of the throttle necessary. Three miles west of the Junc tion a road turns south to Clear lake and on to the McKenzie highway. Deep canyons, tall timber, rushing streams are attractions on the South Santiam road in the upper stretches, but soon one finds oneself in the fertile Willamette valley with prosper ous farms and busy cities such as Foster, Sweet Home and Lebanon dotting the level land scape. At Albany the highway joins the Pacific highway. The state highway depart ment In co-operation with fed eral agencies has been Improv ing the South Santiam high way since the early 1920s. At first not a great deal of money was appropriated but the last few years $200,000 to $300,000 a year has been spent on it With grading finished, urfae ing and oiling will bo pushed. Streams of Human Misery Flowing Before Blitzkrieg In Belgium, North France By H. Taylor Henry Paris. May 18. yip) Fleeing crowds of (three words censored) refugees from Belgium and northeastern Franca are streaming toward the interior while the French army meeti the trip-hammer blows of the invading German shock forces. I have Just returned to Paris I L GIRLS LEAGUE IEK IS ENDED BY By Norm La MeGlothlln Junior high's annual Girls' League week, May 13-17, got off to a good start Monday with a group of girls making nose gays and boutonnleres for the faculty. On Monday and Tuesday, courtesy days, the girls were required to carry the boys' books to and from classes and show them other courtesies that the boys should show the girls. Monday afternoon a Girls' league meeting was called by President Helen Young to ex plain activities of the week. Tuesday afternoon a fire drill was held" with the feminine m nnu roil-- r- '.. e. Ota fire squad doing a very fine Job. Wednesday a luncheon was held for the council members and officers of Girls' league and the Boys' league officers as guests. Thursday afternoon a tea and style show were given for the mothers. After the style 'show Miss Delie M. Whisenant. dean of girls, presented the fol lowing girls with Girls' league pins for their services during the year: president, Betty Frey; vice president, Thomasino iSwoape; secretary, Clara Dan , lels; treasurer. Natalie Parker, : and the following committee I chairmen. Nine Tuttle, Shirley ; Weisenburger, Pat Balantyne, and Mary Lou Lyman. Friday night the week was topped off with the ninth grade dance. The gym was dec orated by June Jarmin and her committees. Festivities opened with the grand march led by student body president, Bob Davis and yell leader, Shirley Angent. Music was supplied by Whipple's orchestra. The week's festivities partic ularly belong to the 9 A class whose pleasures are mixed with regrets at the thought of leav ing good old junior high school. from a week's stay along the sector of the front where the fighting is now heaviest. For more than 70 miles I bi cycled along roads packed with slowly plodding peasants and automobiles and convoys mov ing in the opposite direction. Terrific Fighting I started back to Paris 24 hours ago from Cambrai after being bombed for 'more than an hour (four words censored). At least 30 old men, women and children were killed. The fighting in this first of really modern battles has been terrific, like nothing before in history. A French officer who fought in the last war told me "There can be no comparison between this battle and the worst ones of the last war. Two hours of this is worse than two days of the battle for Verdun." (Verdun was the greatest center of resistance to the Ger man Invasion during the world war and both the French and Germans suffered tremendous losses). Losses are reported (two words censored) heavy. Attacked By Plan As P. J. Philip of the New York Times and I were setting out early yesterday morning for Paris on bicycles, the only avail able means of transportation, a German plane dive bombed be hind us. It loosed five bombs on rail road tracks. We were within 40 yards. We threw ourselves uai against a wall amidst a shower of bricks and glrss and then raced to a shelter to avoid the plane's spraying machine gun bullets as it returned. I pedaled back toward the hotel. . Bomb Rips Wheel Again the planes attacked. The bombs fell a block away. They were bigger bombs this time. The force of the explosion knocked me off my bicycle, rip ping the back wheel to pieces. Again the plane returned to machine gun attack. Again I ducked to the cover of a wall. A French major who slept in the hotel room next to mine the night before was among those killed. I recalled he had said to me: "If they get one of us and the other escapes it will be pretty nice shooting, won't It?" We were not over SO yards apart when they got him and I escaped with only bruises. Screams of the wounded af ter the bombing were ghastly. One woman with arteries severed in both legs was hold- CARRYING THI moat advanced type of eound and printing equipment, thla 1940 Bulek Series 90 Limited aedan la the official "tourneyear at the championship golf tournamenta of the winter circuit extending from Florida to California and back again. It la used to make official announeementa and to produce the official starting times and aeorea'ef player participating In the tournamenta. Edward DarreH of Golf Magattne, left, and Fred Corcoran, P. 0. A. tournament manager, constitute the crew of the tourneyear In which they will cover all event f the winter golf circuit. Involving a 20,000 mil tour. Thla photograph waa taken at the San Fran cisco Match Play Championship event ing a small baby in her arms, crooning to it Hotel Destroyed An old man hobbled around trying to stop the flow of blood spurting from the stump of his arm. A baby huddled In the corner of the station kept walling "Mama, mama." Bombs destroyed the hotel which for a week had been my headquarter between trip to the front Everything I had. Including a typewriter and steel trench helmet Issued by the American embassy, was lost. Closing time (or too Late to Clas sify Ada Is l:S0 p. m. Kay Sister to Wed Oklahoma City, May 18. (IP) A June wedding will end the constant companionship of Okla homa' famous Key listers, the first quadruplets known to have reached maturity. Mona will be married June 18 to Robert W. Fowler, accountant for an oil company. MM By BILL YOUNG I STRIKE THREE! 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