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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1954)
146 Killed In Traffic I Accidents So Far This 5—THE MILL CITY ENTERPRISE THURSDAY, JI NE 17, 1954 ear May traffic killed at lea»l 32 per sons in Oregon and shoved the state s five-month traffic toll to 146, Secre tary of State Earl T. Newbry reported Thursday. Eight traffic deaths over the Mem orial Day holiday brought the month’s total to the current figuie, but state I department spoke? men said it still | may go higher if delayed reports are 1 received or if persons now listed 1 as injuied in May mishaps succumb. At present the count is still below I that record for the same period last year. In 1963, the five month’s total stood at 151 after May traffic col lisions claimed 38 lives. State traffic safety officials said summer traffic, always the heaviest, will call for unrelenting vigilance on i the part of the drivers to prevent I w hat they termed “highwaycide.’’ Safety men urge drivers to ex ert every possible effo’t to check accidents, and reminded that last year 141 people were killed in tiaffic ac cidents during June, July and August. Ninety-four percent of the crashes would not occur if drivers adhered to traffic rules, and if they would drive defensively, analysis of state wide records indicates. stated, but it has found thousands of new uses while giving up some of its familiar and traditional oldtime ones. Best of all the forest leader explain ed, is the fact that timber is growing under consciously applied forest prac tices today just about as rapidly as man is using it. The time will come in the near future when managed for est lands of the nation will produce even more wood than is currently be ing used. Oregon and Washington lead the terial, Morse points out, and yet me nation in the vast quantity of "Ma newest. He calls attention to the terial X”, an amazing substance found vast quantities of wood used in con within tne.r borders. temporary homes and structures by Material X, which renews itself as the most advanced designers and rapidly' as man uses it and for which architects as proof that wood is still new uses are constantly' found, could the most flexible of all materials and be one of man’s greatest boons and the only natural resource that renews benefactors. itself. Material X has great natural The nation still uses about as much strength and is competitive in price wood as it did a century ago, Morse with other materials intended for the same use. Its resilience permits it to absorb shocks which might injure other materials. It has fine natuial insulating qualities. It can be produced in large sizes when large sizes are needed. It can be as readily worked into items of exceptional delicacy. It stands up ruggedly under abuse. When pro tected from moisture, it will last in- definately. Left in its natural state it offers an infinite variety of beautitul patterns. Painted, it presents a smooth, attractive, enduring surface. Its cellular structure causes it to ab- sord and deaden sound. It responds to the simlest of tools, and may be It is relatively used repeatedly, light in weight. I If Material X suddenly came from the researcher’s laboratories or out | of scientists’ test tubes and crucibles and retorts, it would be acclaimed by all the world as the greatest discovery of man since the wheel. The average Oregonian and Wash ingtonian is so familiar with it and takes it so for granted as a very part of his daily life, he probably did not recognize the description of the most plentiful of all natural resources of this region, the amazing substance called wood—Material X. R. F. Morse, Longview, chairman of Industrial Forestry Association,] said we too often forget what a won- , derful substance wood really is. Morse said the age of wood has last ether low-prked cars may "catch vp” later ed longer than any other epic era in in mans history. Wood was the first material used by primitive man to feed his open fire and provide a protection for his cave front from animals and cold. Through the ages wood has been man’s best friend. Even with the-Frudest stone tools he could fashion wood into weapons, utensils, shelter and furniture. As tools were improved and as man progressed through the stone age, the bronze and the iron age, and as he learned more of the flexibility of wood his house became larger and more sturdy. He started to build churches and multi-story structures. Wood is the oldest building ma- '••bscribe to the Mill City Enterprise Only has all these features OW! 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