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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-
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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
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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,
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New York (U.R) An atomic
locomotive is a "definite possi
bility", in the sweeping advances
projected by the nation's rail
roads.: Steelways, magazine of the
American Iron and Steel Insti
tute, says the idea fo bringing
nuclear power to railroading has
a growing list of proponents.
While the atomic locomotive is
still a long way off, a whole list
of eye-opening innovations are
already riding 'the rails, with
more due soon.
High on the list is the gas turbine-electric
locomotive second
cousin to the jet plane of which
Union Pacific already has 10 in
service with 15 more on order.
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
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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
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ago there were 4,100 radio tele :
phone stations in railroad use.!
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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
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Pittsburgh terminal of the Penn
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