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4 MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON .Tribune "Everyone in Southern Oresoa Rsadi Tha Mall Tribune' Published Dally except Saturday by MWnirrmn PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph SPM141. ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HRRB GREY AclverUsIng Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnj Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor uarrv phipman Telea Editor niruAnn .irwrtt Soorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSUW, trcuiauon mar An Tnrin,.nrient NewsDBner Entered ai jecond clasa matter at Madford. Oregon, unaor iwi , March 3. 1897 cinar-nrpTTnN RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year 115 00 Dally and Sunday 6 mos 8 on riallv and Sunday 3 moa 4.25 c.irinau f,nlv Hn vear S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point eii Point. Jackaonville. Gold Bill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue R'v 1 t.,, aiH An tnntnr route! Dally and Sunday 1 year 18"0 Dally and Sunday l mo i ou Carrier and Dealera copy 10c AH Terms Cash In Advance -fV'telal Paper of CUT of'Medfbrrf Official Papur of Jackson County " united Press International Full Leased Wire O.P.1. Telephoto N'ewaplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BtrREAfj OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Rejcntatlve: nrrCT unTTtlAV CO INC Of- ricra in Now York. Chicago De. c Wanr-luc n Los Anaeles. Rnntil Portland St Louis At lanta Vanrnuver Bfi NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IjjyflUB'll'JlIll Flight or Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 1951 (Tuesday) A tight to get lower milk prices for Oregon consumers and a bailie to kick UuK - out of the stale throw me oui islalure into con troversial hieh gear today. A. R. Leavitt, Medford, re ceived the highest honor of the Hillah temple of the Shrine when he was elected Illustrious potentate Friday. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1941 (Thursday) The Medford post of the American Legion voted unani mously last night in favor of tha orooosed $60,000 bond is- aiio In raise funds to finance the city's part of a municipal irnnrt develooment project, From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smnrlrr, Pot" column: "The British have been cut lo 32 cents worth of meat a week, and have been advised 'they can choose between steaks or victory.' In any event, wen done." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1931 (Thursday) The city has installed 10 flop signs on streets leading into Riverside ave. Jackson county placed fifth In the "state for the number of crimes committed during 1030. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1921 (Sunday) Medford merchants plan to combat the high cost of living with special prices and sales next Wednesday. Burglars broke into two Central Point grocery stores Saturday and left notes advis- ing the owners they should keep more milk on hand for their next visit. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1911 (Monday) Mayor W. H. Canon will be ice king reelection when voters of the city go lo the polls tomorrow. Members of the Methodist Episcopal church will meet to- night to discuss plans for a new $25,000 church here. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ot fen correct is superior Sevan or tight is excellent; Nva ot is Is good. 1. Name the late war cor respondent whose writings as a roving reporter are com piled in a book, "Hume Coun try." 2. What was the first crea ture to leave Noah's Ark? 3. Alligator pear is a com mon name for which fqult? 4. The Solicitor General of the United States is appointed by the Supreme Court, the Attorney General, or the President? 5. Name the British noble man who wrote "Charge of the Light Brigade." 6. What is the name of the Instrument that measures wind velocity? 7. What Is the missing letter In this scrambled word be ginning with S: Sivece? 8. Ia the marimba a bird, tropical vegetable, or musical Instrument? 9. Gold it weighed by the fluid ounce, troy ounce, or avoirdupois ounce? 10. Which of the oceans Is the largest In area? Answtrst 1. Emit Pyle. 2. A raven. 3. Aracado. 4. Presi dent. S. Alfred, Lord Tenny son. 6. Anemometer. 7. R. (service). 8. Musical Instru ment. 9. Troy. 10. Pacific. Medford, Harsh (But True) Indictment One of the interesting things one finds in Washington, D.C., papers, seidom found else where, is the use of paid advertising in attempts by groups to get their message before members of Congress. It is not unusual to find a full page, or even more, of the capital papers devoted to such ad vertisements. In the Washington Post of Jan. 2, 1961, a big ad, taking up almost two full pages, was head lined : "Petition to the House of Representatives of the 87th Congress of the United States." MOST of the ad was names of people the peti tioners. It included distinguished members of the bar, of college faculties in almost all fields, of church leaders (Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, unitarian. Jewish), scientists, businessmen, Dame ers, editors, authors, radio and public relations executives, labor officials, and so on and on It contained a former and (to our surprise) Robert W. Kenny, former attorney general of California. It contained trie name of a former president of the American Med ical Association. All in all, it was as bles as one could find in A ND what were they "cerned about, that they put down their money to buv an expensive ad Thev were seeking Dioc on American democracy ana vyuiisuiuuonai theory, the House Un-American Activities Com mittee. Here is what their petition said : We, the undersigned, petition the 87th Congress to eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Ac tivities as a Standing Committee. We believe that the U.S. Supreme Court has, in the United States vs. Watkins, made it clear that the Com mittee has habitually misused its mandate in uncon stitutional ways for political purposes; that it has be come an agency for repression; that it has usurped the functions of the executive and judicial branches of our government. We are confident that only a return to consitutional procedures can protect us against subversion without at the same time subverting the very liberties we seek to protect. For two decades the Congress has allowed the Com mittee to function. For two decades the Committee has condemned Individual Americans, has wrecked the lives of some, and has denied them the due process of law that English and American courts have toil , -, . i i somely evolved over many centuries. Now the nation is reaping a bitter harvest: 1. The Committee has perverted, and thereby Im periled, the proper and necessary powers of the k 1 Congress to conduct lnvestlgtions. - 2. The Committee has helped discourage free study and inquiry In working for peace while the world Is threatened with destruction. 3. It has harrassed Americans who work for racial equality and justice. 4. It has increased bitterness between racial and religious groups of our citizens, which in turn has imperiled our good relations with the people of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. 5. It has discouraged social and cultural contacts with our neighbors on this shrinking planet. It has discouraged U.S. students and scholars from studying in countries which we Americans des perately need to understand. The House Committee on Un-American Activities has in these ways weakened America. At no time in history have we needed to be stronger. At no time have we needed to be wiser. Let us rid ourselves of this agent of weakness and of folly. THIS is a harsh indictment, but it is no more Mi on fVio ti'iifV. Wit 11 VI IIK11 Oddly enough, the most vociferous defenders of the committee are often the ones who prate of "returning to the Constitution" in our govern ment, while at the same time glorying m the witch-hunting, defamatory and unconstitutional procedures of this committee. It is time for us to wake up, stop seeing a com munist behind every light pole and under every bed, and begin acting, once again, like unafraid Americans, proud of our freedoms and our rights as well ,as our responsbilities and duties as Americans. E.A. Mexico Bans The Mexican Government Ministry of Public Works has announced a the country s major highways. No more billboards will be allowed to be put in place in Mexico, and existing ones are required to be taken down im mediately. This sweeping order makes United States ef forts to curb billboards seem puny indeed. The Federal Government has worked out a plan whereby states receive a cash bonus of one naif of one ihm- cent of the road grant if they agree to regulate billboards, according to Federal standards. This program applies only to highways in the Interstate System, a negligible proportion of all highways in the United States. DILLBOARDS are not ruled out altogether un dor the program, but only regulated, Regula tion can succeed only if the the states agree to cooperate, ;,nd few have indicated an interest in curbing billboards. 0 It is difficult to believe that Mxeico has more beautiful scenery or more striking highways than the United States. Mexico evidently does have a greater senstitivity to the need to prevent its scenic highways frdRi being robbed of their beauty by garish, unnecessary commercialization. Des Moines Register. governor of California impressive a list of nota many a long day. so interested in, so con m the Washington fostt the elimination ol that i i i Billboards ban on billboards along Dennis th. Menace ' Hi , Mi?. iVitsoN ! Looks like you m'mb ARB THE GMiy PEOPLE UP' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or iniial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves tha right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensaton. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in tacr the contrary is often Recreation Area To the Editor: The Eagle Point Grange wishes to call to your attention the fact that a natural waterway exists, ex tending from the Gordon Ker shaw place north and west ward toward Rogue River through land owned by the Hoover properties, the Ore gon Fish and Game commis sion and the city of Medford. By making a series of dams and small reservoirs on this waterway a wonderful fish ing, hunting and recreational area could be developed. This would require the co operation of several groups, viz., the Rogue River Valley Irrigation district, the Oregon Fish and Game commission, the Medford Park and Recrea tional commission, the Hoover properties, the city of Med ford, and others. We would like to have your group join with us in planning and de veloping the recreational po tential of this area. It would be quite an under taking and we will want and need the cooperation of ail interested persons. It is close to town and would help meet the recreational needs of many people, especially chil dren. The lakes on the Hoover properties in this area have proved very satisfactory from fishing and recreational standpoint. There is reason lo believe that water to fill the ponds is available. This development is sepa rate from the Agate Dam proj ect and it lies below that irri gation storage area and can readily be coordinated with it. Ultimately the two pro grams will work nicely to gether for the joint benefit of farmers and sportsmen. Eagle Point Grange Committee C. C. Hoover, chairman Steve Wilson Kenneth Cearley Wilford Davics Robert Bittcrling 2005 Gregory rd. Medford Rough Water To the Editor: Mr. Khrushchev, my dear, If you'd still stay afloat, Go way back and sit down, Do not rocket the boatl Jack Find 3710 llilsingcr rd. Medford INTERESTING London - - This ad, said the Daily Telegraph today un der the heading "No, it can't be," appeared last week in a small unnamed British news paper: "Gamekeeper seeks po sition with titled lady." Try and By BENNETT CERF- JOHN PARKER tells about a prosperous planter in Ken tucky who decided to run for governor. He wasn't much on speech making, but he played the violin very well indeed, and backwoods voters flocked to listen to him. Then his opponent, a no - holds - barred politi cian, made a valuable! discovery. The planter plRyed the fiddle left handed. From thai day on, the politician's chief campaign argument was, "When my aristocratic opponent plays lor his millionaire friends in the big cities, he plays right handed. But when he comes hero to see you country folk nature's noblemen, the salt ot the earth, the backbone of Kaintucky what docs he do? He plays left handed. He thinks that's good enough for you. He thinks you're too dumb to know the difference:" After that all the planter's protestations that he was nat urally left-handed were drowned in boos and catcalls. He was lucky to escape with his life. O 1961. by Bennett Oart. DiiUibultd by'Of Hr Syndicate the case. Toys and Death To the Editor: In Europe where now peoples' under standing of the true nature of war is much more extensive than ours, model machine guns, tanks, etc., are not gen erally considered appropriate playthings for children, much less model atomic weapon- equipped submarines. Today s Sunday supplement "Family Weekly" contains a full page ad featuring a model of the submarine that we have been assured has a fire power equal to all the bombs drop ped in WW II. Perhaps more objectionable than the choice of such a "toy" for a child is the text of the ad, which contains sen tences like the following: You'll stand breathless as Commander Jim Osborn gives the command to launch the Polaris missile . . . cheer with the crew as it lands on target 1200 miles away!" Commander Jim Osborn and his crew are not out for test firing. If they ever fire the Polaris missile it will likely mean that millions of Russians will die, along with millions of Americans and neutrals -not something to "cheer" about - assuming we and our children are among the sur vivors. In this regard a most in formative 40 page booklet has been made available by the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic. A single copy of the booklet entitled "Com munity of Fear" may be ob tained free by writing the Center for the Study of Demo cratic Institutions, Box 4068, Santa Barbara, California. Eugene Antley 1495 Oregon St., Ashland, Ore. Appraisers To Hold Meet in Roseburg Southern Oregon chapter, Society of Residential Ap praisers, will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday, Jan. 10, in the Umpqua Hotel, Roseburg. Following the no-host 6:30 p.m. dinner the program will be presented on the recent SRA course held at Southern Oregon college, Ashland. Ma terials and pamphlets used at that time will be the basis for the evening's discussion under the leadership of John Fleck past president of the chapter. Robert W. Loveless, Grants Pass, is the new president and Stewart Pennington. Medford is secretary-treasurer. Stop Me Foreign News Desk: A Problem; Belgian By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst From the foreign news ca bles: Italian Rftds Look for a big gathering of International Communist lead ers in Rome n February when the Ital i a n Commu nist party eel e b r a t e s its 40th anniver sarv. Luigi Longo, No. 2 man in the party, was re- Dortea to nave arranged the meeting during ihp Moscow "Red Summit" conference this winter. Idle Tony An idle and still untitled Antony Armstrong-Jones is re ported becoming an increas ing embarrassment to nimseu, in hi wife. Princess Margaret, and the Queen. Most Britons believe he win De mace a knight or given some other nnnnr and allowed to take some kind of money-making job soon. Belgian Turmoil Two developments have arisen to worry King Bau douin of Belgium: The current series of socialist-led strikes have cost the country more than the budget savings which sparked them. The French speaking southern (Walloon) half of Belgium has started a virulent move for separation tmrr, Ihe Flemish (Dutch- speaking) north along federal lines. Czechs to Cuba East Berlin reports say the Soviet bloc is using Czecho- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS World verdict on Cuba: Castro's charge that the United States is readying an immediate invasion of its communist-plague neighbor in the Caribbean reaches the Security Council of United Nations. The USSR (Russia) votes with Castro. Ceylon and the United Arab Republic abstain from voting. Britain, Chile, Nationalist China, Ecuador, France, Liberia and Turkey agree with the United States and vote to discard Cuba's charge that she is facing im mediate invasion from the United States. llIEANWHILE Castro puts 1,Ion a big military display to back up his invasion charges. He lines the Malecon Havana's beautiful seashore drive, with artillery - a lot of which has been brought from Russia. He scatters guns all around his coastline. He alerts his militia. Why is he doing it? Nobody knows why a mad man does what he does. But the prevailing opinion seems to be that he is putting on a show for the Cubans - trying to convince them that the United States really is going to grab them. That makes at least a little sense. Most competent ob servers agree that Castro's greatest danger is a rebellion on the part of the Cuban peo ple. His economies aren't working out too well, and the Cubans are getting hungry. B UT enough of Cuba. Let's change the subject. MRS. JFK tops the list of the twelve best dressed women in the world. The de cision is rendered by an or ganization known as the New York rnntiire GrouD. Inc. NOW who says we're losing world prestige? WHAT of JKF himself? " Well, he didn't fare so well. WHILE the New York Cou " ture Group, Inc.. was looking over the best dressed women in the world and ren dering a verdict, the members of the International Associa tion of Clothing Designers, who had gathered in New York for their 50th annual convention, took a look at the sartorial habits of the Presi dent-elect. rFHEY weren't much impress--- ed. Here are some of their opinions of JFK's clothes: His cont lapels are of the old-fashioned wide variety. The shoulders of his suits are much too broad - which is to say that he must have twmght 'cm back in the days when a lot of padding was THE thing. There are only TWO but tons on his jacket - and they are much too low on the suit. IT'S too bad, of course. But a lot of the men of America will agree that if no worse criticism ever faces the man who in a couple of weeks more will be President of the United States he will be doing all right. A lot of the rest of us males are wearing out our old clothes, too. O O . O i Slovakia to build up Cuba's military strengm. ine reporu say Cuban officers are being trained in Czechoslovakia and that many Czech military ex perts have been sent to Cuba. Polaris Important NATO develop ments are expected In Paris when Adm. Robert L. Denni son, supreme allied command er of naval forces In the At lantic, visits there in mid January. He will go to NATO to talk to alliance members on the question of the missiles and atomic submarines. The U.S. has offered to provide 100 polaris missiles to NATO if NATO will buy five atomic subs. NATO is said to want 500 polaris missiles. Business Can't Compete With Labor in Political Organization By LYLE C. WILSON Washington- lUPil - It would be fair to say that Henry Ford II has tagged himself as less of an expert on p o 1 i t i cs than on the man ufacture of a u t o m o biles. Ford made a speech last week before a D e t roit con ference on public affairs, sponsored by the U.S. Cham ber of Commerce. He coun selled businessmen to take a more active interest in public affairs. Ford's idea was that Amer ican business leaders simply opposed government policies they did not like, especially in the areas of economic ana so cial matters, tax increases and public works. Mere opposition was no good, Ford said. He chided American businessmen for this negative attitude. They must, he said, be ever ready to come up with Intelligent alternative solutions to any problem. Ideas Needed For every business gripe Ford added, "there ought to be at least one constructive idea." That is good advice to busi nessmen, but it is not enough The great political challenge to U.S. business and industry is the massive commitment of men, women and money which the equally massive AFL-CIO is capable of mak ing to organized labor's politi cal favorites. And the money is the least of it, The AFL-CIO functions po litically through its Commit tee on Political Education, COPE for short. How it func tions was best shown last year when labor used its muscle in Tennesse to renominate Dem ocratic Senator Estes Kefau- ver. Kefauver's opponent was a proven vote getter, Circuit Judge Andrew Taylor. The AFL-CIO News reported: Labor Reacts "Labor precincts in Chatta nooga and Memphis voted for Judge Taylor (a candidate for governor) in 1958 and against him in 1960. What happened? "COPE made 60,000 tele phone calls, mailed 300,000 copies of Kefauver campaign material, distributed 160.000 leaflets, set up central files with names of 65,000 union members, got many of them registered and helped get out the vote. "The job started in May of 1959, when the executive Committees Named By 4-H Leaders Home economics and agri culture committees for the coming year were named last week at a 4-H leaders associa tion meeting. Named to the agriculture committee are Sam James, Talent; Floyd Charley, Cen tral Point; Mrs. Margaret Cantrell, Ruch; Morris Frink Central Point; Cliff Moore, Eagle Point; and Vic Stewart, Ashland. Named to the home eco nomics committee are Mrs. Leonard Franek, Central Point; Mrs. Edyth Bohnert, Antelope; Mrs. A. J5. Sidener, Central Point; Mrs. John Hochstattcr, Medford; and Mrs. Jo Krouse, Applcgatc. In other business, the asso ciation discussed the annual 411 Leaders conference which will be held in Corvallis Jan. 25 to 27. Leaders with 20 years or more experience will receive special recognition at the conference. Slides taken by Phillip Krouse on a recent trip to the National 4-H congress in Chi cago were shown. CRASH MARRIAGES i-oiiuim - wru - millionaire ram iK-uy, nve nmcs mar- i ii-u mi iivc nines aivorceo, was quoted by a London news paper today as saying, "Let's put it this way. If I were a pilot and made five consecu tive crash landings I'd prob ably give up flying" Red Gathering; Tony Turmoil; Czech Aid Polish Liquor The Polish regime has re peatedly proclaimed that liquor consumption in Poland is decreasing but radio War saw reports the citizens of the Legnica District spent almost $1 million for liquor In I960 and that "llquorless days" are to be introduced to cut down on this. Some Soviet experts say Legnica is a principal Rus sian troop base in Poland. Sino-Japan Premier Hayato Ikeda of Japan is under pressure from both Inside and outside the government to change Japan's stand against Communist Chi na. Either Ikeda or Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka is expected to go to Washington committee of the slate AFL- CIO endorsed a broad educa tional and registration pro gram. It was agreed that full time COPE people would be assigned to four major cities, and that central card files would be set up in each. How It Worked "The card file was the key. Without it, there would have been no checking of union registration, no e x t e n s ive mailings, no telephone cam paign. It (the card file) kept 200 members of the COPE Women's Activities division, and some men busy for weeks." This AFL-CIO report ended with a quotation from the Washington Report By WILLIAM FAVOR FOR KENNEDY Washington The incoming Kennedy adminiit ration's problem of dealing with Fidel Castro has been greatly eased by a stout and sens ible decision of the outgo-, ing Eisenhow-i er administra tion. P resident E 1 senhower's break in dip lomatic relations that hysterical and extraordinary ily offensive tin horn of in ternational Communism is, of course, tut-tutted by those who invariably prefer a policy of many words to a policy of any deed. Parenthetically and in plain fact real diplomatic relations could not have gone on any how. For Castro had cut the personnel of our Havana em bassy to the point where it simply could not have oper ated. SUGGESTIONS that we have fallen into some clever "Castro trap," however, are very wide of the mark. The loser is Castro, not the United States. And a clear winner is the Kennedy administration. It has been saved the nuis ance of having to confront a chronic Caribbean crisis at the instant of taking office. And it has been spared the embarrassment of having to open its tenure by doing then just what Mr. Eisenhower has now done. So Mr. Kennedy receives a breathing space in which to rally Latin-American opinion in the inexorable common pro cess of cutting Castro down to size. The end of it can hardly be doubled: In one perfectly lawful way or another he is going out of power in Cuba. His current attempts to curry favor with Mr. Kennedy by slandering Mr. Eisenhower will gain him one thing Mr. Kennedy's total contempt. In the meantime, the new president will now be free to act, so long as he may choose, as though there were no Cas tro at all. His eardrums can find marvelous relief from the incessant howling that has so long come up from Havana. The point is that now we need not even pretend to listen. TNDEED, it is highly prob- able that Castro himself has seen to the destruction of Cas tro. The movement isolating him from the rest of the Latin America community already had been well advanced. Six Latin-American countries had broken with him. More will now do so and within three months of Mr. Kennedy's in auguration. His may ".veil turn out to be that rare case that of a man who screamed himself right out of office. The crv nf "Vanlin tm. perialism" is Drettv annit stuff among he Lat nn For thai cry Castro found nleniv nf sympathetic ear.C below the Rio Grande. His "revolution," moreover, was vaguely popvil lar with some other Latin American nations, notably Mexico, which think of them selves as fine progressive rev-V Mm wmia with early in the Kennedy admin istration to find out his "true intentions." If Kennedy shows any serious sign of breaking the hard U.S. stand against Peiping Japan could jump in to the lead by recognizing Red China, Der Alte West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is looking so vigorous at the age of 85 West Germans are recalling the story of the day Adenauer dandled a grandchild on his knee and asked what the boy wanted to be when he grew up. "Chancellor" replied tha boy. Adenauer countered: "Don't be foolish, boy, ther can't be two chancellors." : COPE report on operation Ke fauver: "The Tennessee campaign was a clear example of what COPE can achieve." American business and in dustry lack the men, women, money and organization to) achieve anything like that. Of the four elements which make COPE tick politically, men and women are the most important, by far. And what American busi ness and industry most lack are men and women on tha political firing line, making telephone calls, mailing leaf lets, card indexing names. American business is a long time learning about that. S. WHITE olutionaries and of us as an old stick-in-the mud outfit. TUT Castro long since be gan lo do more than pull at the tail feathers of tho American eagle. He was ped dling his "revolution" all over Latin-America. This, too, was more or less tolerated by most of the Latinos. Their fear of Castro was balanced off by the unhappy fact that they do not madly love us. (Now, they respect us; and that is what matters.) But then came Fidel's fol ly a thing worse than wrong in cynical political minds be cause it was toweringly fool ish. When he made it impos sible for us to deal at all with him, he automatically ac celerated his own isolation. For if the United States can no longer Ireat with him of ficially, no other nation in this hemisphere can deal with him effectively. The United States is th powerhouse of this hemis phere. And when you shut down the powerhouse all tha lights in the vicinity will be gin to go out. (Copyright, 1961. By United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Public Roads Spending Told; Projects Listed Portland - il)Pli-The Bureau of Public Roads paid $130 mil lion to State Highway depart ments and contractors in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and Montana during 1960 for high way development, according lo B. M. French, regional di rector. He added thai about SI2 million was spent during th year for forest highways in tne region while SI million was spent for improvement of forest development roads for the Forest Service and $4 mil- lion for timber access roads for the Bureau of Land Man agement. French listed these forei highway projects proposed for Oregon in 1961: . Work on Coast Hiehwa for 6 4 miles Neskowin south ward, S450.000. . Work on McKemie Pa. Highway near Blue River. $500,000. ...Work on 14 8 miles of Diamond Lake Highway from Cascade Lakes Highway to U.S. 97, $650,000. ...Work on 7.1 miles of North Umpqua Highway from Clearwater to Briggs Camp. $750,000. . . . Work on 4 miles of Mt. Hood Loop Highwav from Olallie Creek south, $400,000 ...Work on 20.8 miles of Belknap Springs Highway from McKonzie Highway to the Santiam Highway. $700 - uuu. . . . Work on 2 8 miles of Lkiah Slarkey Highway from east forest boundary weterlv $100,000. q ... Work on 16 3 mile on Lake of the Woods Highway from west forest boundary ta $810,000.,he W00t" ,UnCUOn' i 0
