THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17. 1955
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON -
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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.
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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.
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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. ManMleld (D-Montv said
a change In Soviet thinking" may
result if Western European nations j
oontlnue building up their mili
tary forces. , - i
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