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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1955 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON - Agnine t " ' K f Jk Reduction Of Traffic Fatalities Up To Drivers A PICTURE POSTCARD house is this one, snapped by the Herald and News photographer last year when he was talcing a few snow shots. The little house is located along the West tide road. TVA Celebrates Completion Of World's Largest Plant KINGSTON, Tenn. (.fl A cele bration today marked completion of what the Tennessee Valley Au thority calls the world's largest steam, plant for generating elec tricity. Equipment delays have post poned actual completion of the plant until later in the month, but employes already had scheduled the celebration so TVA decided to let "er rip. The Kingston steam plant will be the fourth which TVA has put Forest Access Roads Urged . MOUNT SHASTA A plea for greater development of forest ac cess roads was made at the Con gressional sub-committee hearing to determine timber sales oolicy in Redding on Monday by Elmer Kennedy, president of the Mount Shasta Chamber of Commerce and George Schradcr, executive secretary of the Mount Shasta de velopment committee. They urged construction of per- manent type access roads as the cheapest and most economical in the long: run, pointing out recre ational areas are thus available and greater forest protection as sured in between timber harvest ing. . The fact that recreational po tentials are developed by private funds as soon as forest roads are built, was pointed out by the Mount Shasta representation. Dunsmuir Women Post Bail Bonds DUNSMUIR Mrs. Lormine Por- ties, 44, and Mrs. Dorothy Bear. don, 30, both of Dunsmuir, were ordered to post $25u each as peace bonds following a hearing in Dunsmuii Judicial Court on Tues day morning. Mrs. Portirs had teen booked cn an assault charge last Saturday alter Mrs. Bcnraon had signed complain stalinc she had been threatened with uoailv harm. The two women, who are neighbors, were given until Friday to post bond. By PAIX W. HARVEY JR. SALEM Wl With National Safe Driving Day coming up on Dec. 1, I asked H. G, Matson, superintend ent of the Oregon State Ponce, u he bad any ideas how the traffic death toll could be reduced. Maison, who probably. has stud ied the problem more than any other person in the state, replied: If I knew the answer, I could draw a lot more money than I get on this Job." Good enforcement ol the tralfic laws and educating the public in traffic . safety undoubtedly are helps. But there are some aspects that puszle Maison, For instance, he can't figure out why 10 persons should have been killed In Oregon on one weekend a couple of weeks ago, when traffic was extremely light. That was only one fewer than was killed on the long Labor Day weekend, when traffic was at a record high vol ume. Last weekend, there were only two deaths, despite treacherous. Icy roads. High speeds have something to do with the big death toll, but Maison says that isn't the only cause. Oregon, with Its basic speed rule, allows higher legal speeds than neighboring states, yet Ore gon's traffic death rate isn't very much different. to the first eight months of this year. Oregon's traffic deaths were up 3 per cent from last year, com pared with a national average of a 5 per cent Increase, Increases In full operation since 1951. It was built principally to satisfy the tremendous power demands of atomic Installations at nearby Oak Kidge. Three other steam plants are under construction. The plant will burn a 50-ton car load of coal every six minutes, or enough to heat four good-sized homes in Knoxville all winter. Its total annual coal consumption will be more than four million tons. It will use more than one mil lion gallons of water per minute, more than is used for all purposes in New York City, in its nine steam condensers and other water-cooled equipment. It cost nearly 200 million dollars. and required more than 22 million man-hours of planning, designing and construction. It will have a rated capacity of 1,600,000 kilowatts energy, 15 times the capacity of Norris Dam, TVA's first hydroelectric facility which was completed 19 years ago. Even this, however, is 400.000 kilowatts short of Oak Ridge power needs. and the remainder is made up by other TVA facilities. When the Kingston plant's ninth and last generating unit goes into operation, it will boost TVA's steam-generating capacity to a total of more than five million kilowatt. This compares with a total hydro capacity of the agency's system of about 3'a million kilo watts. The plant has been producing at part-capacity since the first unit went into operation last Feb. 8. Other steam plants completed by TVA since 1951 are Johnsonville, In west Tennessee: Widows Creek, in northeast Alabama; and Col bert, in north Alabama, Park Board Meet Planned The City Park and Recreation Board will hold a special meeting next Tuesday afternoon to consult with Mark Astrup, state highway commission park planner, on plans lor the proposed Kiwanis ourk de velopment on .Kit Carson Way. Mayor Paul Landry, chairman ol the park board, called the special meeting when Astrup was unabie io oe presenv at a meeting neta last Tuesday. At that meeting, the board heard a report from maintenance suner- intendent Francis Smith and park superintendent Burt Stott on a re cent International Northwest Parks Institute held in Taeema. Both said they felt they benefited great ly from attending the conference. The board also briefly discussed Halloween parties at schools. They said that If the parties were to cut down Halloween vandalism, they would have to be held on Halloween night. However," this year, many of the schools did not hold their parties on Halloween, but police officials said that this was the quietest, Halloween In their memory. They said they would review this situation next year. The board also accr.-plcd- a do nation of $100 fur Veterans Me morial Park from Mrs. Beulah Ray, who is now on an extended vacation in Latin America. Mrs. Ray is the sister of J. W. Kerns Sr. for other states included Washing ton 21 per cent, and California S per cent. So Oregon s record Is comparatively good. In that same period. Oregon's traffic death rate was 5 persons killed for every 100 million miles of travel. The national figure was 5.8. while Washington had 4 and California 5.!. "The roads are most dangerous when driving conditions are per fect," Maison says. "People are careful when the highways are dangerous. If we could get them to be careful under good driving conditions, there wouldn't be any problem." ' ' Maison doesn't think the basic rule is perfect, either. Under this law. the basic speed limit is 55 miles per hour in open country, but higher speeds are allowed if conditions are good. "There should be an overall fixed speed limit over and above the basic speed limit, say 70 miles an hour. The present law makes It hard tor officers to get convic tions. Lots of Judges won't convict a driver unless he has been going more than 80 miles an hour,,v Mai son said. 1 The state police force has 385 officers, and 39? of them are as signed to traffic law enforcement. These traffic officers can and do perform other duties, but SO per cent of their time is spent patrol ling the highways. - Since 1947, the traffic force has been doubled In size. But so has the volume of traffic, so the state police are in the same relative position as right after the war. The National Safety Council says ine urcgon state Police need 41 more men for traffic work, to .be comparable with other states. Maison says he doesn't know if this figure is right, but he does think the force will have to be In creased. "With traffic increasing steadily, we'll constantly need more men," he said. "Pour-lane, divided high ways, like the Portland-Satem Ex pressway, will make it necessary to increase the force. "On the four-lone, divided routes, we need twice as many men as on the two-lane roads because of ficers can't turn around on the four-lane roads to give .chase In the opposite direction." Maison doesn't think short, con centrated safety campaigns do much good. The best answer, he says. Is to have strong enforce ment every day In the year. He also believes . automobile mannfacturers are making a mis take in putting more horsepower Into cars. It's getting so the cars are so powerful and fast that the state police can't catch them. ! ' -7.-. ' .... , IT LOOKS LIKE A CHERRY TREE but in reality it's only a juniper with soma of last year's dry snow plastered on its branches. Ike Resumes Active Rola GETTYSBURG, Pa. f.fl Presi dent Eisenhower moved today into active consideration of fiscal and foreign affairs. In the busiest schedule of offi cial business be has had since his Sept. 24 Heart attack, the chief ex ecutive undertook conferences on: 1. The cost and scope o! nest year's federal activities. This came about in a conference with Budget Director Rowland Hughes on the budget to be submitted to Congress for the next fiscal year. Hughes was due in from Washington with Presidential Assistant Sher man Adams and Secretary of Com merce Weeks. 2. The future course of East West relationships in the light of the Geneva deadlock. Secretary ol State Dulles was to fly la. Weath er allowing, to tell the President the Geneva story In conferences fate today and tomorrow morning. Dulles will follow through tomor. row with a radio and television report on the Oeneva developments to the American people. Hurrying back from Gettysburg, he will speak "It" from 7:30 to g p.m., EST Friday on CBS-TV NBC-TV starting at llr3ft p.m. CBS and ABC radio wiH carry Dulles' report at 10:30 p.m. and NBC radio at 8:38. I ASP 1 I,",, J . mJZLm Ellender, Jackson Argue Over Failure Of Geneva GOVERNMENT DAY LOUP city. Neb. ti it was "county government day" last Tuesday and high school students irom over the county crowded m and out of offices. Came the noon hour and visitors were ushered out of -the county clerk's office before the key was turned in the door. That isw-most of them were. Left behind was a burglar who took $585 In cash. What he took was money paid in by hunters for licenses. WASHINGTON I Sen. Ellen der (D-La) said today this coun try's spokesmen "should not get too nasty" over lack of East-West agreement at Geneva, but Sen. Jackson (D-Wash) said, "We are still In a cold war up to our necks." Ellcnder, who spent three weeks visiting behind the Iron Curtain tnis summer, said in an interview that "nobody should be surprised at the failure of the foreign minis ters conference In Geneva." But he said he docs not expect the Russians to resume tough tac tics In the cold war In Europe. I think the Communist leaders want to keep the Iron Curtain part ly open," he said, "From what I saw of the Russian and satellite people, they do not want war and are not ready for It." Jackson, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said the lack of agreement at Geneva should "convince everyone that the Soviet smile is a smokescreen to cover up the continuing Com munist objective of world domi nation. "Soviet leaders have made no concessions of substance that dem onstrate actual good faith," he said. Secretary of State Dulles returns from the conference today to lace up to a sweeping review at Amer ican policies In Europe, the Mid dle East and the Far East. He will report to President Elsenhow er at Gettysburg, Pa, Aides said Dulles will pull no punches in reflecting his sharp dis appointment at Russia's blunt re fusal to agree to Western plans lor oerman unity, disarmament and broader 1 East-West contacts. Secretary of Defense Wilson told his news conference yesterday, however, that "one could not draw the conclusion" that the. Geneva results will mean "an Intensifies tloiv of the cold war" or that the meeting brought no progress. He said they will have "little or no effect on the U. S. defease nrosrams or sDcudine: " Sen. 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