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TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. December I. 1954 i '' 4i- ec Conge stson Creates Big Headaches In Major Cities; Planners Seelt Solution GETTING READY Graceful Tenley Albright, 19, of New ton Center, Mass., holder of the national women's figure skating title, performs a neat leap as she trains at Gros singer, N. Y. Once holder of the world title, Tenley is pre .paring for the forthcoming world championship at Davos, ; Switzerland. . New Bonneville Office Opened Portland (U.R) Bonne ville Power administration's new Portland area office, which will supervise operations In southwest Washington and western Oregon, was opened to day. BPA administrator William A. Pearl said transfer of the for mer area office from Eugene, , Ore., to Portland would make the field headquarters more, av ailable to seven large industrial customers and tfrree major util ities in this area. A district of fice will be maintained at Eu gene. An area operation and main tenance staff directly under the Portland office will occupy the former Vancouver, Wash., dis trict office building With head quarters at. the J.- D. Ross sub station. :: :.. ... . . Pearl said establishment' of the Portland area; office com pletes the ' reorganization - - of BPA ; offices now 5 located at Portland, Seattle and Spokane, and district offices at Eugene, SIDEWALK SHRINKS :! Waterbury, Conn.' (U.PJ. It a y -- j - .j . .a " may lane severai aays xo pui m a 180-foot sidewalk, but only a few minutes, to shrink it to 80 feet." The , public works board found . it .would cost, more' than $1,000 for the proposed section, voted to build only 80 feet. Wenatchee, Walla Walla and Kalispell. ! Indians Confer With Engineers . Portland (U.R) Yakima Indians may be .'resuming nego tiations for settlement, of claims against the United States gov ernment for damage .to Celilo salmon fishing caused by con struction of The Dalles dam. A large representation of .the Yakima tribe conferred in Portland yesterday with . the Corps of Engineers. The confer ence was hot open to the press, and a joint spokesman said no statement would be issued. Umatilla and Warm Springs Indians last year accepted a gov ernment offer of about $24,000, 000 to settle all. claims, but the offer was not acceptable to the Yakima,?.' The recent decline in Colum bia river salmon runs, . particu larly . during the. fall . season which was' the most important to Indian fishing at Celilo, has been advanced as a factor lead ing to the resumptions of nego tiations by the Yakimas. The $24,000,000 settlement figure approximated the annual Indian fish catch at Celilo. Editor's Note: Traffic congestion and inadequate parkins space are probably the biggest headaches fac ing city planners in America. The reason is simple: There are 23.000,009 more cars and trucks on the road to day than there were at the end of World War II. Figuring out what to do about it is not so simple. The United Press has surveyed 20 major cities to find out how they are tackling the problem. This is the first in a series of three dispatches.' By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN Uniled Press Corrtspondent New York KU.R) American cities are locked in a monu mental traffic jam end it is going to cost billions of dollars to un tangle it. A staggering sum al ready has been spent on express ways and-parkways, underpasses and overpasses, new bridges and viaducts, and municipal parking lots. But city streets still are choked with automobiles. Find ing a parking place is still a long-shot proposition in the busi ness district of most U. S. cities. A survey of 20 major cities in dicates traffic officials are try ing frantically to keep up with the demand for more and more parking , space and faster and smoother traffic arteries. But almost everywhere, the cities are running behind.. Only one city Indianapolis- reported any kind of satisfaction about the traffic problem. There, the city has kept pace with its growth by invoicing one-way traffic on certain streets, by use of parking meters, by providing private and public parking lots Workman Killed in Fibre Plant Mishap Longview, Wash. (U.R) James E. Peake, 52, Kelso, died in an accident at the Longview Fire company plant here yester day. : ;. Kenneth Jacobson, safety in spector for the State Depart ment of Labor and Industries, said cause of death could not be determined. He said Beale was working with a high pressure hose and it appeared the nozzle might have broken loose and struck 'him on the head. A fellow worker, Francis Yoke, Longview, had been handling the hose with Peake. He left for a moment and returned to find Peake's body on a walkaway. .. Jacobsen said there was evi dence of a head injury. There were, no witnesses to the acci dent. : - Y ASTORIA BOY WINS ; v Chicago (U.R) Timothy J. Bagley, 17, " Astoria, Ore., was named one of two. forestry award winners at the 33rd an nual 4-H Club Congress here yesterday. The other winner was Larry Snydergaard, 19, Hills dale, Wis.-' ' : as the demand arose. Motorists creep like snails through downtown Boston. At lanta admits its traffic problem is bad and growing worse. Los Angeles and Pittsburgh describe their dilemma as "acute." Phila delphia wants to get rid of its trolleys, but then what will hap pen to the people who ride trol leys? New York built the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson river 17 years ago to make it easier for automobiles to get into Man hattan. Now a parking lot is being built near the New Jersey entrance to try" to get motorists to stay out of Manhattan." , Traffic volume has increased 60 per cent since 1941 in Wash ington, D. C, a city laid out care fully 150 years ago by a French engineer - who had never heard of a one-way street and expected an eventual population of 100, 000. Washington's population now is more, than 800,000. ' Milwaukee rejoiced last year when major league baseball moved to town, but now is won dering what to do about the fact Top Traffic Safety Expert Announced Knife-Fork Speaker James A. Pryde, chief of the Washington state highway pa trol and one of the nation's top experts on traffic safety, will be the December speaker for the Rogue Valley Knife and Fork club, it was announced to day. His talk will be the evening of Monday, Dec. 13, at the Rogue Valley Country club. Attendance at the meeting is limited to mem bers of the club, except by spec ial arrangement with the club's secretary, Mrs. O. A. Eden. Won National Acclaim Chief Pryde, a 20-year veteran of police work, has won nation wide acclaim for the work his patrol force has done in recent years in. holding down traffic accidents and fatalities in Wash ington. The stiff enforcement policy which he has inaugurat ed has been the subject of con siderable debate and contro versy, . but it has "paid off" in lives saved,: according to traffic safety experts. . Thief Practiced What He Heard Frankfurt, , Germany U.R) An Army chaplain, Capt. Ralph E. Smith, of The, Dalles, Ore., ruefully disclosed today how he preached himself out of $20. ' "My subject was 'The Para ble of the Talents,' and I urged every man" and woman to de velop to the utmost the one tal ent he or she possesses," the Methodist chaplain said. "But while I. was speaking someone developed his one tal ent in the chapel office where I hung my jacket. He emptied my wallet of $5 and 63 German marks, about $15." The nationally- known radio program, "Could This Be You?" is produced through the cooper ation of Chief Pryde's office, and has done much to promote safety-consciousness, particularly on the West Coast. . , r Governors Assist Arrangements for his talk were made with the, cooperation of the offices of Gov. Paul Pat terson of Oregon and Gov. Ar thur Langlie of Washington. Members of the club's board of directors pointed out that Chief Pryde's talk will come two days before "Safe-Driving Day," Dec. 15, ' proclaimed by Presi dent Eisenhower, when an at tempt will be made to make one day traffic-death free through out the nation. Portland Lays Off Public Works Crews ' Portland U.R)- The Portland public works department re leased 65 employees yesterday despite last minute action by the AFL Oregon Public Em ployees council. An appeal to the city civil service board by the council was rejected, and the lay-offs put into effect as scheduled The union had tried to .distrib ute the economy, move through all city departments, instead of having it confined to the public works department. The civil service- board up held a long-standing policy that employees cannot cross depart mental lines to exercise senior ity rights. The layoffs were ordered as an economy measure to prevent a budget deficit within the de partment. Most of the employees were laborers. the baseball stadium draws even more cars to the most congested part of town. In 1945 31,035,000 cars and trucks were registered in the United States. This year the reg istration stood at 54,495,000. Almost every city has a full- time traffic engineer trying to untangle the snarl and keep it from getting worse. The solu tions the engineers come up with are varied. Most of them cost money. ' The problem is one of too many cars and not enough streets, but it falls into two prin cipal fields, how to keep traffic moving, and where to put cars when they re parked. Tomorrow: How U.S. eiliet art untangling their traffic jams. Jazz Era Pianist Dies in Portland Portland U.R) Funeral services were being arranged here today for Ollie (Dink) John son, graduate of the informal New Orleans school of jazz and a classmate of such greats as Louis Armstrong and the late Fred (Jellyr oil) Morton. -Johnson died Monday at Mult nomah county hospital. He was about 56, according tb his brother, Tunney D. Johnson. Portland. The jazz musician never fully, recovered from the effects i of a severe beating he was given by five men and a woman last January. Johnson, one of eight children of a New Orleans undertaker, started playing piano when he was 12. 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