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MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUKE. MEDFORP. OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941.
Motorloggers Preview Dream't Highway
Down Wilson River to Tillamook Region
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Maft Wrttar. Taa Oratoaiaa
Thli to in the nature of
mnmiT tradition a progress
report on tha Wilson river high
way linklnf inland Oregon and
tha Tillamook country. And
this Is probably tha last year it
will be necessary.
Tor aiter ten yeara of disap
pointing setbacks tha fast new
trunk route to the coast la so
Dear completion that highway
officiate ara almost certain of
the exact opening date Labor
. slay.
Even today, with It miles of
the road remaining to be sur
faced, a motorist equipped
with a hard-obtained pass can
kirn tha 77 miles between Port
land and Tillamook In little
mora than an hour and a half's
driving time. He won'Phave to
ereak tha law or the dictates of
safety to do it, either. We know,
because we Just did it in a pre
view of the route.
fTrlp One of Series
We cruised the new highway
In the white travel car of the
Oregon State Motor association
In one of The Oregonian's sum
mer series of motorlog tours.
Driving coastward from Glen
wood, where the new highway
takes off from the old Gale's
creek road, west of Forest
Grove, we rolled forth on a
"dream" highway banked and
graded to "railroad" specifica
tions, with no grade steeper
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The motorloggers stopped on a graded section of the highway
to "klbits" WPA workers leveling the crushed surfacing rock.
than 5 per cent and no curve
sharper than 10 degrees. Almost
every foot of it Is ' mile-a-min-ute"
highway.
Briefly, here Is how we found
construction within three
months of the completion date:
Surfaced and open to public
travel 29 miles from Tilla
mook east to Camp McNamers.
Minor work on this stretch re
maining to be done includes
curve-straightening and widen
ing on the old state road be
tween Tillamook and Mills
bridge, six miles east
nVv! m paw Iwcxr I J O
?y?.A I i Portland I
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TillAMOOH
Black Una shows completed section of the new Wilson River
highway, broken line the part to be finished by fall. The new
toad cuts 30 miles from Inland Oregon -Tillamook Journey.
Dotted line shows eventual "by-pass" route.
Graded and ready for surfac
ing (with the exception of one
nearly completed cut and one
long fill) 10.8 miles from
Camp McNamers to Glenwood.
Being graded three miles ol
new construction between Glen
wood and Washburn on the old
Gale's creek road, a project de
signed to unbend several dan
gerous highway elbows.
Completion Due Soon
All this, we were assured by
Superintendent O. G. Mclntyre,
will be completed by tha first
week in September.
There Is irony In the story
of this Wilson River highway,
irony in the gray-black snags
that border 30 of the 40 miles
between Glenwood and Tilla
mook. Ten years ago, when a paved
highway to link Portland and
Tillamook was still a dream.
The Oregonian noted regret
fully that hard pavement and
automobiles were to invade one
of the last great expanses of
primeval wonderland.
Well, a greater destroyer of
wonderlands than ax or shovel
beat the road builders to the
Wilson river country the great
fire of 1933 and the virgin tim
berland is now a ghost forest.
There are gashes on the green
mountainside where the road
builders have left their mark,
but grass, maple, salal and other
native brush will soon heal
them.
But It will be generations be
fore Wilson river sees another
forest like the one fire ravished.
BOULDER LAKE
RAPIDLY HEADS
FOR OVERFLOW
Denver. Colo. (U.PJ Tons of
water from tha world's largest j
reservoir will swirl over the I
anlllwava f thaj wafM', V.IW4
dam sometime early in July as!
spring nooas imisn me six-year
lob of fillinff Lake Mud hMr.H
Boulder dam. I
S. O. Harper, chief engineer!
for the federal r,cl.millnn ..... I
Ice at Denver, says record flood '
crests roaring down the Black!
canyon OI me umnrartn rivi
have sent Lake Mead to Its
highest level since Boulder dam
was comnVtaH In 1034
The water waa nnlw n
oeiow me top Boulder dam spill
way in mid-Juno Hum., .m
and Lake Mead 115 miles long
was lour-mtrts full.
The water will so aver
lop sometime early In Julv."
Harper said. 'There no longer
is any doubt but that T.b
will be filled to capacity."
ine oig man-made lake has a
capacity of 30,500,000 acre feet
enough water to bury most of
the west a foot deep or to pro
vide every man, woman and
child in the nation with 67,000
gallons.
In Deep Lament
Las Crucea. N. M mm r
than 24 hours aft.r h. w.a
bought the license an unhappy
bridegroom returned to the
county clerk's nffir. h
that the license not be recorded.
ine Drme disappeared 15 min
utes after the mnn iha hi.
-oi, hi in casn and her wed'
ding clothes which he bought
Ca Mill Tribune want ads.
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On Their New
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Phone 3205
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WE EXTEND
CONGRATULATIONS
To
Mr. and Mr. Lindley upon the
completion of their fine.
99 MATTEL
Wiring done by
Trowbridge & Flynn Electric Co.
214 West Main.
Phone 2111
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day tomorrow at Medford's
newest motel Just completed at
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Known as "99" Motel, this at
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prised of seven ultra-modern
motel cottages, a larger home
for the oneratnra. Mr and Mn
C. R. Lindley, and a completely
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To
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On Your New
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Br
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312 Alice. Phone 4S91.
nounced by Mrs. Lindley who
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which will be operated by Paul
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The seven units are eneii en
feet by 26 feet In size, lncludlrjg
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Gas Is used for heat. with ther
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The entire oro)wt inMnHin.
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METHODIST CONFERENCE
HAS BUSINESS PROGRAM
j Eugene. June 19. (JP) Busi
ness sessions filled most of to
day's program of the annual
Oregon conference of the Metho
dist church.
Bishop Bruce Baxter la pre
siding at his first conference
since elevation to the episcopacy
last summer. Ministerial ap
pointments will be read Sunday.
The results of scientific testa
for intoxication, where reckless
or drunken driving It Involved,
are now admitted by court In
30 states.
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