TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday. December I. 1954
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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. He had a few lessons,
"but mostly he'd just play," his
brother recalls. v -
The pianist played in bands
with Armstrong and Morton, and
Morton married Johnson's sister,
Bessie. -.
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