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1 0 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, February 5, 1960 n C 4 $72,000 Budgeted For Facilities On O&C Lands By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special) - The Bureau of Land Management has earmarked $72,000 for the beginning of its venture into recre ational facili ties on the , O&C timber lands. With this money, listed , in tne pro posed federal T J - 4 U A. Rout Smith " " " c - president sent to Congress m January, BLM officials hope to develop 14 roadside picnic areas along roads in Western Oregon's O&C forests. Locations of the 14 sites were not announced. The areas are to be equipped with fireplaces, picnic tables, benches, water facilities, parking areas and toilets, a BLM official said. BLM also offered a break down of where it plans to spend funds for timber access road projects this coming year. Its road budget for the coming year amounts to about $7 million. In addition to 14 bridges and 11 culverts, the construction budget covers the following road projects: Road Work Planned Burnt Mountain surfacing, 12.1 miles, $400,000; Camp Creek surfacing, 13.3 miles, $265,000; Little Lobster Creek grading, 5 miles, $250,000; Clark Creek grading, 6 miles, $330,000: Canton Creek grad ing, 7 miles, $365,000; Powell Creek grading, 7 miles, $180. 000; Rock Creek grading, 7 miles, $350,000; Agency Creek grading, 8 miles, $310, 000; South Fork Smith River grading, 10 miles, $600,000; Burnt Mountain surfacing, San Francisco Area Residents Share Khrushchev's Feeling on Auto Waste Editor's note: This is the last of three dispatches on the double barreled traffic and commuter problems of America's big cities. By MAC SEBREE UPI Correspondent When Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev visited San Francisco last fall, he seemed to fall in love with the city. He liked its hills, its cable cars, its people. But he didn't think much of its new freeway. "This is all such a waste," he said. "All these cars. In Russia, we have trains." Mayor George Christopher nodded. "I had to agree it was an awful waste," the Mayor said. Apparently, this feeling is shared by many other resi dents of the San Francisco Bay Area-with the result that, rather than still more free ways, it may get one of the most modern rapid transit systems yet devised. It's still on the drawing boards, and the voters must still decide, probably next fall, whether or not it should be built. But the plans are for a 123-mile network of trains operating as frequently as every 90 seconds at speeds of up to 70 miles an hour. Basic Approach Perhaps the outstanding as pect of the proposed system, however, is its basic approach to the problem it seeks to solve. For one thing, the agency which hopes to operate the new system, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, is au thorized by law to levy taxes on the general public. This is important, planners say, because it is difficult if not impossible to finance cost ly transit movements exclu sively out of fares. BARTD officials are opti mistic that the voters will choose the new transit plan. One reason is that San Fran ciscans recently rejected $377 million worth of freeways on Cily Police Get Complaints of 99 Major Offenses 9.7 miles, $250,000; West Fork Cow Creek, grading, 2.4 miles, $230,000; Smith River surfacing, 4.2 miles, $122,000; East Fork Rock Creek grad ing, 3 miles, $130,000. Reforestation and improve ment funds total $650,000 in the proposed budget, includ ing planting 8800 acres, seed ing 4700 acres and spot seed ing 1500 acres. I THl GOIDEN YIAR I I ' City police received reports of 99 major offenses in Janu ary and 837 miscellaneous offenses, according to the po lice department s monthly report. Only 18 of the major of fenses were solved last month for a 18.2 per cent total clear ed. Some 761 of the miscel laneous offenses were solved for 90.9 per cent cleared. The per cent of major of fenses cleared last month com pares to the January, 1959, total of 91 cases, 37 solved, for 40.7 per cent cleared, and the January, 1958, total of 60 cases, 23 solved, for 38 per cent cleared. Major offenses the depart ment had the most trouble solving were larceny under 50, 8 of 60 cases cleared, and burglary, 3 of 20 cases cleared. Four Robberies No murders or rapes were reported to police last month but they received reports of four robberies and one of prostitution and commercial ized vice. Counting misce llaneous services rendered, city police received a total of 2,311 re ports last month of which 2,- 154 were handled or cleared for a total of 93.2 per cent, compared to 93.4 a year ago, There were 54 motor vehi cle accidents in Medford last month, according to the monthly report, compared to 58 in January, 1959. 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A less desirable alternative would be to utilize the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge for the tracks but this would hamper the movement of both trains and autos. One main line would run down the peninsula toward San Jose; another across the Golden Gate Bridge into Mar in County; and there would be branches north, east and south on the Oakland side of the bridge. The first stage would cost S716 million, and could be completed by 1965. A second stage, to be built about 1970, would add 42 miles to the system and cost $112,500,000. Later, further extensions would be required. Just One Approach A lot of money. But the al ternative may be even more expensive. Says the BARTD: "We do not doubt that the Bay Area citizens can afford rapid transit; we question se riously whether they can af ford not to have it." The Bay Area plan is just one approach to the problem. Other cities also are looking ahead. Walter J. 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