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Medford yrRIBUNE Section Two MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1955 Pages 1-8 Highways, Resorts and Other ' Attractions Listed: for State 1955 Tourist 1 nducements As Salem New highways, new recreation f acilitfes and added accomodations promise the Ore gon traveler happy holidays in 1955. Already reports are coming in on new facilities and accommo dations nlannprl in various narts of the state to take care of the ever increasing visitor business. New Facilities Oregon State Parks will have many new facilities to take care of overnight campers and pic nickers and several new road side areas have been added by the Highway .. Department for the convenience of motorists. e Along the Oregon coast (U.S. Highway 101) additional camp ing facilities will be installed at Pano s . T nnlrnn fihnrt Sanrfs. Honeyman, Big Creek, and Hum bug State Parks. Inland new fa cilities will be found at Cove Palisades, Wallowa Lake, and Detroit Lake parks. State park facilities are being expanded to handle 10,000,000 persons an nually by 1965. Over 5,800,000 used the parks during 1951. Three new state parks will be ready for use this coming sum mer they are located at the site of Ft. Stevens near Astoria, at Ochoco Lake east of Prine .ville and at Bandon on the southern coast. 'Ft. Stevens and Bandon will offer picnicking fa cilities and Ochoco Iake will contain both picnicking and overnight camping facilities. Retort at Detroit Announcement has been made of a multi-thousand dollar re sort to be established through the U.S. Forest service by a con- - : .i. t . 1 cessionaire at jjeiruu ijtuve, east of Salem on Oregon highway 22. At least part of the facilities, in cluding a lodge, store, service station, restaurant, cabins, boat landing and 100 boats are ex pected to.be in use before the end of the 1955 travel season. From all over the state, too, are reports of new motel and hotel accommodations. A half million - dollar motel has just opened on the Columbia River 1 T -T1 1 - T t 1 1 nignway in roruana, aacuuonai units and newmotels are. com pleted and in" the making at Salem and similar activity is taking place in. nearly, every New city park facilities for va cationers are reported from Oregon City, Stayton and Lake view. A hotel at Gearhart along the Oregon coast has installed a 50 foot heated swimming pool and made available new facilities in cluding childrens' equipment, horses, enlarged meeting room for conventions and summer theatre. 1 New Guest Ranch In southern Oregon, a new guest ranch is open on the west side of Upper Klamath lake and a newly paved highway leads to this and Lake O'Woods. ' Some additional communities reporting new accommodations include Bonneville, Albany, Bend, Coos Bay, Medford, On tario, Cave Junction, Heppner, Klamath Falls and Pendleton. Oregon's highways too, are making travel even' more en joyable. Half of the new multi million dollar Portland-Salem expressway is now open provid ing more leisurely or faster Marble Makers Ask Relief from Japanese Product Parkersburg, W. Va. (U.R) Things are still rolling at a local plant, and its veteran employees want the federal government to make sure hey always will. -3 ' The firm, one of the country's seven, manuka cttures those brightly colored marbles that clutter up Junior's pockets and find their way under adult foot ing at unexpected times. The 60 employees at the local plant are concerned about com petition from Japanese marble makers who, because of cheaper labor, can undersell the Amer- can product.. At least-one local worker decided to do something about it. ' ' ' Mrs. Evelyn Dye, of Vienna, W. Va., wfote to Sen. Harley M. Kilgore (P-W. Va.) and asked his aid in revising present tariffs on imported marbles. ? "I can't see taking jobs away from people in the United States for the sake of the Japanese," she wrote. Label Asked To emphasize her point, Mrs. Dye said that during peak years, the seven United States marble plants employed a total of: 900 workers. Now, she said, the seven plants employment is down , to about 300. ; . .- Shepffered.a suggestion to put American marbles on a compet itive level again. Why not, she asked, require "made in Japan" j labels on all marbles imported so the cost of labeling. . would necessitate higher prices. Japanese marbles presently shipped in bulk with only the container labeled. That way they also can be shipped as -"'ballastf' from Japan to San Francisco for only $10 a ton. Officials of the seven Amer ican marble firms six of them are located, in West Virginia and the seventh at Ottawa, 111. met here recently andasked U. S Customs for some sort of relief. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday travel, as the motorist prefers, between the state's two largest cities.- Elsewhere in the state many millions of dollars have been spent and are being spent to make vacation and intra-state travel safer and more pleasant. Attractions Listed Lake County Chamber of Commerce says visitors interest ed in rocks should try Dry Creek, Crane creek, 'and the Hart mountain area. (More de tails may be had from the cham ber office.) Water skiing on Drews Reservoir is a popular pastime in that area. Some unusual things to see in Oregon this season include the new "vertical street" city el evator just completed at Ore gon City; municipal free Lithia Springs fountain at Ashland; special tours through Oregon's capitol at Salem and new 'mu seums at The Dalles, Hood Riv er, Klamath Falls, Eugene and Astoria. The Jackson County museum at Jacksonville is a fa vorite with persons interested in early history and placer gold mining days. Whether the motorist visits the point farthest west in the U.S., reachable by road at Cape .Blanco, or the high elevations of Crater Lake National . park or Timberline lodge at Mt. Hood, he does so on good all-weather roads. And he may visit the un forgettable beauty of the Col umbia River gorge on a water level highway extending east ward all the way tc The Dal les. If he wants a more leisurely trip, the highway department also maintains the lovely scenic route from Troutdale to Dod son, via Crown Point and the Sandy river, and the Rowena viewpoint section just west of The Dalles. Observance Due The state will also observe the sesquicsntennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition to Oregon (1805-1955) during the year. A pageant is planned at Ft. Clat sop county , celebration begu ning Aug. 21, and other- special observances will be held in var ious , parts of the state. - Other major events during - the year j are the Portland Rose festival, June 8-12; Timber Carnival at Albany, July 2-4; Miss Oregon Pageant . at Seaside, July 15-17; Oregon Shakespearean festival during August at Ashland; As toria " Salmon derby, Aug. 27 Sept. 5; Pendleton Round-up, Sept. 15-17; and Pacific Inter national Livestock Exposition, Portland, Oct. 17-22. Further information on Ore gon events, Lewis and Clark ob servances, state ' parks, a n d points of interest may be had free of charge by writing Trav el Information Division, Ore gon State Highway department, Salem, Oregon. " w wm : : A New G.E. MOBILE MAID CONTEST "Now On Ask Us For Full Particulars MBE TRIAL ? J .- I We Will Wash Your Dishes for NOTHING - the NEW General Electric Automatic Washer Way. We Will Furnish the Dishwasher and Soap You Furnish the Dirty Dishes ?. :, . ,. 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A "siesta" car with sleeper facil ities at little more than coach fares is ready for production. Low lightweight Talgo trains like those now in European serv ice are expected soon to be put into operation by both the New1 Haven and Rock Island roads. 'Skylight' Domes New passenger cars many with full - length ."skylight" domes are coming out every month, and built-in air-conditioning is in growing evidence. More self-propelled rail-diesel cars are bringing faster, more frequent service to small stations. . Piggy back service which is the mov ing of highway trailers on rail road flatcars promises to. revo lutionize, the freight business by cuttmg both shippers' costs and increasing railroad revenues. It was the sudden coming of age of the diesel locomotive in recent years that led to many, of the : improvements in railroad data to the engineer on the con dition of the track ahead, and many roads provide the addition al . protection of automatic ; con trols which actually stop, or slow trains ' if engineers fail to hear signals.- ... . . .:, , ' The movement of trains over performance Where a i e s e 1 s j hundreds of miles of track is now moved only three per cent of the freight and eight per cent of the passengers in ,1944, they . have now. taken over . 80 per cent of all railroad motive, power, and are riding better-kept roads. . New Track Methods -- Until', shortly before World War II, most track maintenance was a matter of men wielding! various tools. Now fantastic steel j machines have taken over the work. ; : I . V.I ' - ' . i ..... 1 V If the passengers are getting a ! better ride, so are the trainmen! and engineers.' With radio tele- phone, they can talk to wayside j stations and engineers or conduc- j tors on other trains. Three years j ago there were 4,100 radio tele : phone stations in railroad use.! Now there are 14,7 12,' with; more j on the way: .' ' '':.-'"'- 1 Replacing Telegraph ' J :: ..V Microwave . is . replacing? the telegraph,, and. the railroads are among the biggest buyers of elec tronic, equipment. Automatic! block signaling is now 'installed t 'on 110,000 miles of track to.flash1 controlled by a single operator through the:, railroads' Central ized Traffic Control, and an elec tronically," operated reservations board, already in service in the Pittsburgh terminal of the Penn sylvania Railroad and earmarked for ticket windows in other cities, speeds passenger service with up-to-the-minute data' on available space for the coming week. V " ' : ' Oslo, Norway's capital, claims to be the smallest city in the world served ;. by a subway.. 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