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TWO MEDFORD OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thuriday, March 2, 1950 Early-Day Battles For Organization Of Highways In Oregon Recounted (Editor'! Not Thli ! the second in i.ries o( "Glances at Highway Hlttory" prepared by Ralph Wation. highway da partmant public ralatiom con ultant. In which ha telli of tha turbulant hiiiory of highway construction projacti in Ore gon. In th flrtt articla, ha told of tha first beginningt of highway construction). By Ralph Watson Highway Department Writor GLANCES AT HISTORY II The shouting and the tumult centered about the seven diver gent road building Initiative pro posals at the 1912 November election barely naa suDsiaea when the 1913 legislature met and picked up the war clubs again. In the 1912 battle, the .state Grange had a program of its own, an amendment by which counties could bond themselves by election called by the county courts, and a proposed initiative statute providing for a state high way engineer appointed by the governor who would operate in the nature of an advisor to the different counties in their con struction of county roads. That group wanted the counties to run the show, each building its own roads as, when and where it might desire. Governor Had Own Ideas Gov. Oswald West, who was fighting strenuously and persist ently that session with the con trolling senate machine, had en tirely different ideas about per manent road building, both in 1912 and 1913. In the former year he had been an active ad vocate of the "state road bond ing act," which was diametrical ly different than the grange bill It provided for a state highway commissioner appointed by the governor at $3,BUO annual salary and expenses, the total not to exceed $12,000; for the issuance of 30-year slate bonds at the rate of $1 million annually bond revenue together with two third of the annual motor license taxes to go into the state high way fund for road construction. Two-thirds of the aggregate was to be set aside for use by the counties; one-third to be divided equally among 111 counties, one third in' proportion to assessed valuation and one-third in pro portion to area. Counties with an assessed valuation of $10, 000,000 or more were required to show they had raised a fund equal to their share of the state highway fund apportionment in order to get It. Other counties could get their state share by putting up half the sum in coun ty funds. One-half of the state's share was to be spent in the first and one-half in the second congressional district, there be ing but the two districts at that time. Meets Opposition This bill met the violent op position of State Grange Master Charles Spence and many mem bers of the state Grange conven tion held at Roseburg not too long before the election. Govern or West, who got along fairly well with Spence, went down to the convention and talked it into endorsing the $1 million bonding bill. Elated, he boarded the train for Salem, but long before it had reached Eugene, NEW LOCATION rogue Travel Service NOW IN THE LOBBY OF THE HOTEL JACKSON PHONE 2-6779 FOR AIR and STEAMSHIP TICKETS Business Building Set At Central Point Central Point, Mar. 2 N. A. Mead will erect a 50 by 100-foot business building on two lots between the fire hall and drug store on main street here. The one-story structure will be divided into two store sec tions. Mead, who purchased the property last week, said that further plans regarding the building will be announced later. Construction will be of concrete of pumice blocks. G. W. Jack. Rancho Santa Fe. Cal., was previous owner of the lots, and Walter Ferguson, real estate broker here, handled the transaction. Mead, original operator of the Midway auction, gave up the business last summer because of Illness and has been convalesc ing at his Beall lane ranch. ....AROUND HOLLYWOOD t VIRGINIA MecPHERSON United Preu Corr.ipowi.iit DOWN AND mixed' concbet II DONE!' Much of tht lltttr surround ing ntw bulldinfi li preventable). Our Rtidy Mixed Concrtte avoidi ell the men end obstruction that it mixing eeum! It avoidi the lateron mtu end expense which faulty-mix batches. Impose 1 Use eur precision mixed Concrete, lor YOUR Job. Sand and Graval Crushed Rock Crushed Granite) M. C. LININGER and SONS CORNER HAMRICK ROAD MEDFORD PHONE 2-3336 Spence and his convention suf fered a change of heart, rescind ed their endorsement and turned the heat on the bill. It went to the discard by a 44.693 majority. West, however, had the satisfac tion of seeing the Grange bill plastered with a majority of 50,074 votes. That was the picture when the 1013 legislature convened. West, chafing over the slaughter of his $1 million dollar adopted brain child, joined hands with senator I. N. Day of Multnomah (the two were not supposed to be either politically or officially on speaking terms). Day was a strong advocate of a system of state highways to be financed by Donas and constructed under the direction and control of a state highway commission. Create Commission In 1913 the main battle cry of legislative candidates was the abolition or consolidation of state boards and commissions." Accordingly, to get around that hurdle and past the Grange op position to state bonds. West and Day made the governor, secre tary of state and state treasurer into a state highway commission set up a state highway engineer with a working organization as the highway department, and gave It all the money it could raise out of a quarter mill state lax levy with which to carry on approximately 5248,000 an nually. During much of this time Sam uel Hill, Northern Pacific rail road tycon and ion of the illus trious Jim Hill, had been bat tling for state highway construc tion in the state of Washington. He had put his own money into the construction of the scenic loops at Maryhill, partially fi nanced the road to The Dalles from Goldendalc, and the Wash ington legislature gave him some money to start the North Bank highway. Cuts Fundi But when Hill's program ran into heavy construction costing $30,000 a mile, both Governor Lister and the legislature devel oped cold feet, cut out more ap propriations, so Hill came down to Salem bringing his two chief road enthusiast! with him: Maj. Henry L. Bowlby West Pointer and engineer; and Samuel Lan caster, who had been sent to Europe to study European road building methods: together with Charles H. Purccl, noted bridge engineer. Maj. Bowlby was appointed state highway engineer at $3,600 a year, Lancaster went to work as his assistant at $450' monthly and took over the location of the Multnomah end of the Co lumbia river highway; Purcel commenced designing bridges for $175 a month and the high way program was born. Dd lint on Claiiiflcl Ads: 9:.10 pm for following clay: 10 im Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a m. a Hollywood, March 2 (U.R) Something new is coming off in Hollywood. The gals are going in for "outside undies' now. Honest. Wearing their underwear right out in the open they are, and we guess if trie rest of us don't get in the swing we're apt to wind up as old-fashion ed has-beens. Bras, corsets, girdles name your poison, lad ies, and Jack Cagan will supply it. Ho s the gent behind, this new "let it show" business. Cagan, who's head of the Dc Milo Brassiere company, cam- ouflages undies to look like clothes. "I call the bras "glamour tops'," Cagan explained. "They can be the top half of a dress. playsuit, cocktail dress, or eve ning gown. You re really wear ing a bra, see but it looks like a beautiful decollette get-up." Got a bulging waistline? i mi Virginia HacPherwei Killer Ot Lambs Found To Be Horse Oregon City, Ore., March 2 (U.R) The mystery killer of 50 lambs on Earl Diskill's winter pasture has been found. It's r'Doc," an unsuspected saddle horse. Government Trapper Clifford Rolison of Willamette pinned the goods on "Doc" by snapping three pictures of the horse stalk ing, killing, and devouring a two day-old lamb. Diskill said the lamb-hungry horse didn't touch lambs more than a week old because they didn't have any clabbered milk left inside them. Head Crushed While Rolison clicked away at his camera, six other persons, including Diskill watched "Doc" chase and trap a lamb. After the horse tipped the unwieldly vic tim over, he crushed its head, taking care not to flatten the lamb s abdomen. Diskill said the predatory sad dle horse cost him 33 lambs last year and 17 so far this year. The farmer and his neighbors had as sumed that the culprit was a wild animal. , "Doc won't be getting at those Iambs any more. Diskill said. "That kind of food costs too much." News o4-H CLUBS Busy Bee Cooking Club February 27 Wagner Creek Cooking club held a meeting at the wagncr creek school at 3:1ft p.m. to raise funds for the 4-H cooking club. J he meeting was called to or der by President Verlee Mac- Dowcll. The club pledge was given. Roll was called by Secretary Beverly Hild. Numbers were drawn for demonstration part ners at tne tair. There will be a special meet ing Marcii w. There will be a cooking school every oilier Monday. It was de cided there would be a cooked food sale, date to be decided later. Motion was made that the meeting be adjourned by Presi dent Verlee MacDowell, second ed by Annie Morrill. Maurean Brabbin, Reporter law Ms) feffldP c4b YEARS OLD PRICE REDUCED 86 PROOF 45 QUART AW GREAT NAME! 6REAT B0URB0N2 $230 PINT STRAIGHT B 0 URB ON WHISKT Cut ciov tjrtui CW'ounOH niOlll, , , Cagan'll fix you up with an "out side corset." This involves a lit tie lacing and a lot of boning, but, by golly, when he gets througli with you your waist is waspish. Lili, the French designer, had somewhat the same idea a few months back when she came out with her "uninhibited bust gowns. These "bare bosom" num bers had necklines that dipped to where waistlines used to be. Era of Extremes Lili's idea was that bras give many women inferiority com plexes and frustrations. Cagan said his "glamour-tops" do "what muscles should." "This is an era of extremes," he added. "The American wom an is discarding as much clothing as she dares. But some women will always need bras and girdles, "By wearing 'em outside they can be In style and still look good. I don't know why we didn't think of this a long time ago." Pendleton Woolen Mill Employees To Ballot On Unions Portland, Ore., Mar. 2 (U.R) An election on union representa tion for 05 employees of the Pendleton Woolen mills at Pen dleton, Ore., will be held March Robert J. Weiner. NLRB of ficer in charge here, said today. The National Labor Relations board said employees would de cide whether they wanted repre sentation from the CIO or Art, textile workers or neither union. Boy Scout News Cub Pack 15 Phoenix cub Pack 15 will hold an ice cream an pie social Fri day, March 3 in the Presbyterian church at 7:30 p.m. Parents are asked to bring pies. Troop 5 Troop 5 met Monday evening and made plans for an overnight hike on March 11 and 12. Guests at the meeting included Dr. A. W. Glutsch and Jor Lester. Rogue Rivei Astoria, Ore., March 2 (U.R) A 115-unit low-rent housing pro ject to be postooued by the fed eral government has been ap proved for Astoria at a meeting of citizens before the city commission. Rogue River, Mar, 2 Eliza beth Schmidt and two small son left Monday for Los Angeles where they plan to visit for a day or two before leaving for New York td join their husband and father who is in the air corps. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Obenchain spent the week end at Trailor land as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hess and the two couples attended the square dance at Live Oak Grange hall, Satur- j day evening. The Obenchains own and operate a large stock j ranch near Klamath Falls where j they specialize in raising regis-1 tered white face cattle. The two men have enjoyed some wonder-! ful hunting at the Obenchain ; ranch, according to Hess. I The Homestead cafe has been redecorated and opened for bus-j inejs Tuesday under manage-! ment of Shade Combs, owner j of the Homestead Tavern. Combs j states he has been fortunate in ; getting two excellent chefs, Don : uanana, reLeuuy at xidi-y a m Grants Pass formerly employed at Jonathon's club In Santa Mon ica, Cal., and W. W. (Bud) Stoe fen. formerly with Bill's Grill in Seattle. The cafe will be open j from 6:30 a.m. to midnight. I Mrs. Thomas Wright, of Riv-; erside, Cal., has purchased the j Manning ranch near Grants Pass. Mrs. Wright, sister of Mrs. Bill ; Lowe of Highway 99 has been i visiting at the Lowe home and j has decided to remain in Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Petne re turned to Rogue River Tuesday. They spent the winter in Pasa dena to be with Mrs. Petrie's sister, Miss Alice M. Warner who is in ill health. They expect to be here about two weeks. Mrs. Douglas Bennett, and Vickey Lynn, age 7 months, of Kelso, Wash., spent the past week at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth Nightingale of Highway 99. Mrs. Nightingale says her small son. "Skipper" age 22 months, wel comed his little niece by sharing his toys and high chair cheer fully. The birds are arriving in flocks, according to Bill Lowe, who has decorated the grounds of his riverside home and busi ness location with gay bird houses. And he aks all birds lovers to hurry their spring bird house cleaning so the feathered ' families will find clean comfort- i able homes when they arrive from the southland. McGregor, la. U.P) A mill-1 tlonal mounment are near Hi tary road laid out 100 years ago will be restored as a hiker's foot path. 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