Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 26, 1956, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. October it. 1951 No Decision Planned on New Freeway For Year; More Studies Are Planned Yesterday'! hearing on loca tion of a proposed Highway 99 freeway emphasized the predica ment facing highway commis sioners: Any route they select for the freeway will "step on someone's toes." At the close of the hearing, commissioners said more studies will be made and no decision will be announced for at least another year. They added that no construction would start until about five years from now. Express Opinions About 30 witnesses expressed their opinions on the four pro posed routes before highway commission officials and a crowd of about 800 public officials, farmers, landowners, business men, attorneys and interested Jackson county residents. The three-hour hearing was held in the Craterian theater rather than city council cham bers to accommodate the large crowd. Since law provides for hearings of this type to be held in the city hall, officials "check ed in" at the council chambers before proceeding to the theater for the 10 a.m. session. At the beginning of the ses sion, W. C. (Dutch Williams, highway engineer, traced the four'proposed freeway routes on maps which covered one wall of the stage. He also gave cost estimates for each route and present usage of land surround ing each route. Routes Listed The four proposed routes are the Hillcrest line (east of the Medford city limits). Bear Creek route (running through Medford parallel with Bear Creek), Gen nesse route (east of Bear Creek within the city limits) and the West Medford-Oak Grove west of the city. According to Williams, dis tance of the routes is about the game slightly more than 25 miles. Costs have been estimated as follows: Hillcrest, $18,343,000 total ($16,580,000 construction and $1,763,000 right of way); Gen nesse, $18,295,000 total ($15,500, 000 construction and $2,795,000 right of way); Bear Creek or Hawthorne Park line, $18,723,000 total ($16,327,000 construction and $2,396,000 right of way); and West Medford-Oak Grove line, $22,497,000 total ($19,245. 000 construction and $3,252,000 right of way). Land usages were listed as follows: Hillcrest, 1,050 acres, of which 111.8 acres are orchard land, 848 other agriculture land, 32 com mercial and 58.3 residential; Gennesse, 1,082 commercial and 36 residential; Bear Creek, 1,052 acres, of which 1.3 are orchard land, 943 other agriculture land, 92 commercial and 15.6 residen tial. Specific figures concerning homes on residential land were not reported. It was estimated by commissioners that the Gen nesse line directly involved about 35 homes. Landowners Introduced Otto Frohnmayer, Medford at torney, introduced :everal land owners who are promoting the Bear Creek route in preferance to the Hillcrest line. The group's second choice for the freeway, he said, is the Gennesse line. Frohnmayer introduced 15 wit nesses, including Howard E. Bush, president of the Jackson County Fruit Growers league; W. B. (Ben) Tucker, county agri culture extension agent; C. B. Cordy, county horticulture agent; Jack Hoffbuhr, manager of the Medford Irrigation District; Paul Culbertson, president of the MID; Walter A. Hoffbuhr, man ager of the Talent Irrigation Dis trict; David Holmes, director and spokesman for the TID; Rob ert Duff, Medford city manager; Paul Rynning, county engineer; Dan Adams, Phoenix city mayor; S. M. Tuttle, Rogue River Val ley Traffic association; Rodney Keating, county judge; Otto A. Ewaldson, Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce president; Earl Miller, Medford mayor; and the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, presi dent of the Rogue Valley Memo rial hospital board of directors. Frohnmayer said the impres sion had been given before the hearing that the West Medford Oak Grove route would not be seriously considered by the com mission for several reasons, in cluding the expense factor. He said for that reason, his witnesses would limit their arguments to the other three routes. Several witnesses pointed out that the Hillcrest line would cut farm and orchard land into triangles in many places. Farm ing a triangular plot ol lana, they contended, can not be done economically. Most farms and orchards are laid out in rectan gular patterns. They also stated that irrigation and drainage contours would be upset. Cordy said that destruc tion of fruit land by the Hill crest route would mean an an nual loss of $210,000 to the val ley. He based the figure on a production estimate of 300 boxes of fruit per acre at $4 per box. He said replacement of these orchards would be a long process and pointed out that there is not much other land in the valley that is adaptable to orchard growth. Land Eliminated Irrigationists said that 400 to 500 acres of irrigated property or potential irrigation property on the Talent Irrigation district alone would be eliminated en tirely or in part by a freeway on the Hillcrest line. It was pointed out there is a "limited supply" of land on which ir rigation can be done to optimum advantage. In the Medford Irrigation dis trict, about 1,860 individual users would be adversely affect ed by the Hillcrest freeway route, officials said. It was also argued that as sessment would be raised and serious distribution and main tenance problems would result from a freeway at that location. They said some problem would develop if the Bear Creek route vere chosen, but described the problems as "far less serious" than those which would result from the Hillcrest route. Duff and Rynning testified that the Hillcrest route would involve considerably more ex pense for access roads than the Bear Creek route would. The City's share of additional access loads on the Hillcrest route was listed as $160,000 and the coun ty's share. $330,000. Phoenix Mayor The Phoenix mayor present ed a city council recommenda tion that the Gennessee or Bear Creek route be selected in pre ference to the Hillcrest route, he said the council believed these other lines would result in shorter more convenient ac cess roads and less business loss. He also said Bear Creek is a natural barrier and a highway would be an additional barrier He said he believed it would be advisable to build the high way along the exisiting barrier Mayor Miller stated that, con trary to statements by some ether people, he didn't believe travelers on the Hillcrest route would get a view of the city He also said construction of a freeway through the city would create problems in future plan ning for city streets. Affect Hospital The Rev. Mr. Bolster said the Hillcrest route would "seriously affect, if not actually imperil" the Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital now under construction An amazing reducing old which contains substances from citnn fruit the result of pharmaceutical research by Sunkist growers now makes it possible for yov to reduce easily and quickly! 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Buv ORAGEN in the 100-tabIet Introductory size bottle or the 200-tablet large economy size during ORAGEN'S introduction in this area: totty and itlm, tfclt ysunf tody ftvM tfcenk kt ffc ifwexH I ditcctvery which led hem Orengt to OKAGEN moil omasinf w.gM reducing aid In VNn, POCKET CONTAINER FREE Til tap mt OtAGEN bHI handy canto! tabJatt to that h cay-ii I 'i J la eanm a nar tar OtAGEN Sxmf yaw ca fisM hufl- wfcrvf ya ga. "k. 0 oc hrtreductery tlze V e 7 J '6.95 300TAM.IT economy Ix fir 'iH'i,'ml Ttr fvbai he)w that "Pacta! t ORAGEN tobTafi aipandi vp to la Hmai, coMDQfod with tyruay rvtidua in orfcar oop tlt eppoetan. MAIL ORDERS GLADLY! Wainscott's PHARMACY 322 Easl Main Phone 2-6440 near Barnett rd. He listed noise and excessive traffic of a free awy as the most damaging fac tors in locating the freeway on the Hillcrest line. He added that the hospital would be about 500 feet from an access road. Judge Keating, on behalf of the county court, and Ewaldson, cn behalf of the chamber of commerce, presented recom mendations that the Bear Creek route be selected in preference to the Hillcrest line. Reasons in cluded economic factors, con venience and adverse effects of the Hillcrest line on orchard and farm land. Mrs. Mary Ann Wilson, a housewife, also took a stand against the Hillcrest line. Frank Ross, a landowner in the vicinity of the proposed West Side route, drew a round of applause by suggesting con sideration of a new route run ning above the Hillcrest line and bordering the valley. Dick House, local insurance salesman, supported Ross' rec ommendation. J. C. Barnes, another land owner, recommend ed a freeway elevated over Bear Creek. He also suggested space under the freeway be used for off-street parking and that park ways be placed on each side. Long Testimony One of the longest testimonies of the morning was that of C. W. Reames, Medford attorney. Reames said he had repeatedly requested specific figures, maps and other data, including the exact number of trees that would be removed, and he had not re ceived it from the highway com mission. He added that no one else had received that informa tion and, gesturing to the whole crowd, said, "None of you know vhat you're talking about be cause you don't have trie fig ures." He particularly attacked test imony of irrigation district of ficials, saying "My heart bleeds for them. Millions of dollars have just been appropriated for their use." He stated that the freeway should not go through the city and said several peti tions had been signed by at least 584 people opposing the Gennessee line. Reames added, ' We're liable to have a war at any time and wouldn't want a highway which is liable to be bombed running through the city." Advocating the Hillcrest route, Mel Krows, a landowner, s.nid, "In recent years a great deal of orchard land has been sold voluntarily for subdivisions. I don't see in long range plan ning how putting a freeway through the orchards would de stioy the economy of the area." Cut Property Value Others argued that a freeway through the city would cut property' value, create a bad environment for children, "blight" the city and displace many residents. Kenneth Denman, Medford attorney, estimated that 58 homes (rather than the highway commission's estimate of 35) would be eliminated on the Gen nessee line. He added that 280 homes would be within 300 feet feet of the right-of-way and 685 homes would be within one-third of a mile east of the highway, thus being adversely affected, especially by noise. He pointed out that elsewhere in the state freeways have by-passed cities End stated that a "growing city" does not suffer by being by passed. Donald E. Faber, mayor of Central Point, appealed to the commission to locate the freeway awy from the city of Central Point. The commissioners said those desiring to write letters concern ing the freeway routes may ad dress them to the state highway commission office in Salem. Officials attending included Williams, Ben R. Chandler of Coos Bay, chairman of the com- Grange Notes POMONA GRANGE The next meeting of Jackson County Pomona Grange will be held Saturday, Oct. 27, at 10:00 a.m. in the Eagle Point Grange hall. This will not be a pot-luck dinner as usual, but the meal will be served by the ladies of Eagle Point Grange. Special order of business is the election of of ficers for the next two years. Four hundred different in sects attack livestock in this country at one time or another. Altogether, these are said to cost growers an estimated $500 mil lion or more each year. mission, ind Charles H. Reyn olds, La Grande, a commission member. Diaper Banner Tells About 75th Child West AUis, Wis. (U.R) Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Philippi hoisted diapers at their front window to signify the arrival of their 75th Infant. Over the past 7V4 years, the couple has temporarily sheltered 75 foster children. The babies spend anywhere between a few months to three years in the Philippi's care before being given permanent homes. Several neighbors and friends joined the Philippis in welcom ing the 75th addition to the group. The three-week old boy's arrival was announced by a ban ner of diapers fluttering in the front windows and pink and blue spotlights on the home. UPS AND DOWNS Traverse City, Mich. U.B "There are a lot of hills between here and Detroit," said a 13-year-old runaway boy after he was picked up by state police. The police said he should know. The youth pedalled the 260 miles from his Detroit home to Trav erse City on a bicycle. when you drive the '57 PLYMOUTH suddenly it's 1960 Dead lino Sunday Ctruenned la at noon Saturday 10 am Monday for Monday; other davt 5:30 previous day SHY NORTHLAND HAS A FINE RECORD OF HARD WORK FOR JACKSON COUNTY and his 8 Years as County Commissioner Have Given him the training, experience and understanding of county affairs ... a value to you the tax payer, and now is the time to profit by that experience. "Shy" it capable and always ready and willing to do more. And as Courthouse superintendent, a non-paying extra activity, Shy Morthland has saved the tax payers over $3,000 annually. Reelect A Commissioner Who SERVES ALL. THE PEO PLE COUNTY WIDE REGARDLESS OF THEIR PARTY AFFILIATIONS. Vote X-124 L. G. "Shy" MORTHLAND FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER e . JJ,je7"' V-1 r j I L. G. "Shy" MORTHLAND Adv. Pd. for by Morthland for Commissioner Comm. Jack Williams. 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