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PAGE 5 C THURSDAY, JULY 10. 1958 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON b . . . n ft . jj r i Marines promote uunsmuir Bypass viewed mtnmixeareeungs chas. swafford By PEGGY WALSH DUNSMU1R Dunsmuir, the first community in Northern Cali fornia to face complete bypass by conversion of Highway 99 into a four-lane, limite.l access freeway, views the beginning of construc tion with mixed feelings. Some regard the step as pro gressive, acknowledging some challenge and adjustment on the part of the town. Others predict highway bypassing will clamp a Gordon Takes Back Old Job Klamalh County Court yesterday appointed M. B. (Buster) Gordon as county civil defense director Gordon last May submitted a resignation from the post to be come effective July 1. However, he reconsidered and agreed to take the job for another year. Gordon's salary will be $100 monthly for the part-time position, jointly paid by the city and coun ty. His salary before was $50 a month. The director post calls for work ing with state civil defense officials and coordinating local agencies for action in case of emergency. Gordon will work with police, fire, medical and utilities officials as well as communicators and Red Cross. He would be in charge of any mass evacuation or evacuation drill, or of coping with any sud den disaster or disaster drill. Gor don is also chief of the Suburban Fire Department. This area has now been placed in the "strategic" category by de fense officals because of the new jet fighter base which will be in stalled at Kingsley Field. when it is in operation, more elaborate civil defense programs may be set up. death mask upon the city with the loss of the heavy north-south traf fic which now funnels through Dunsmuir's narrow main street. Bids for the five million dollar project will be let July 30 with construction of the 3.7 mile seg ment of freeway to begin in early August. Already a portent of things to come is clearly visible along the town's west perimeter where nearly 160 residences and other structures have been razed in the freeway's path. The availability of federal high way construction funds has uodat ed the Highway 99 program. De mands of the citizenry that pos sible recurrence of. last year s truck tragedy which killed two and smashed a block of store fronts be forestalled has accelerat ed the construction through Duns muir. Property acquisition started County Assigned Display Booth Klamath County has been as signed its display booth for the Oregon State Fair in Salem, Au gust 28-September 6, the Commerce Chamber was notified today. The county will have Booth 7 in the National Resources Building. Chamber Assistant Manager Ed Brotherhood, in charge of develop ing and installing the booth, said its contents will be similar to last year's. To go on display will be this area's industrial products, includ ing lumber, its agricultural pro duce and photographs of its tour ist attractions, including Crater and other lakes. Brotherhood will get the booth's components together here, but they will be assembled at the fair. He said he would welcome dis cussion with anyone who has ideas or suggestions for the booth. several years ago but original state division of highway plans called for progressing northward from Redding, segment by seg ment, until Dunsmuir was reached. Now Sacramento Canyon plans have been shelved and the Duns muir bypass speeded up by about two years. Francis McEnerney, Dunsmuir merchant, has started a 20-home building program in north Duns muir and others are building one or two for sale. Lee Huddle, president of the chamber of commerce ana jewelry store owner in downtown Duns muir, foresees a quieter, more leisurely shopping area. Parking should be simpler once traffic pile- ups cease on Florence Avenue, present route of the two-lane high way. Business transactions will no longer be interrupted by the noise of heavy gears grinding or brakes squealing, Huddle commented. As many as 5.000 vehicles per day are now channelled through town Dunsmuir has experienced five years without a pedestrian traffic death. (The two men killed last summer were in a parked car.) This record has been established at the expense of nerves and agili ty, most citizens agree. Moving the through traffic away from the ma jor school crossing will allow many mothers relief from concern over this hazard. 'No one will come into our town, is the cry of the hand wringing contingent. They point to the decay of Sacramento Avenue, the original business street, when the present highway was construct ed on Florence Avenue in the 1920s. "Business will move to the highway," they contend. The response of highway engi neers that commercial development along freeways will be prohibited and all communities will eventual ly be bypassed does not convince this group. Dunsmuir's mayor, J. Morgan Jones, is vociferous in his opinion that had he not expanded to the four-lane highway at the north ap proach to Dunsmuir, nis motel business would now be defunct. The four-lane north approach to Duns muir was completed about five vears ago and plans to convert n into a limited access freeway are in the blueprint stage. Armund Rrunel. another motel owner and former president of the chamber of commerce, is going to wait and see. He says studies of the New England areas show communities bypassed Dy irunn highways suffered a lag from four to seven years but nearly every community report complete recovery plus increasea nusiness. However, planning statistics have established that people will shop in an attractive shopping area close to adjacent parking facilities. Provisions for offstreet parking. modern store fronts, well lighted and arranged stores may be more of a contributing factor to Duns muir's business status than loss of heavy traffic. Property owners and business men have no plan of ac tion as yet on this aspect of the town s prosperity. Meanwhile construction crews will descend on the community in August. Plans call for a four-lane divided highway with three access interchanges and underpasses at Oak Street and Willow Street link ing the high school area with the city proper. Herbert Miles, state division of highways engineer, has explained (o the Dunsmuir City Council that grading of the 100 foot right-of-way wi 1 be the first phase ot tne proj ect. Surfacing of the new freeway will be delayed until the spring of 1960 to allow for settling and drainage. Ellis Engle has been assigned as the state's resident engineer on the Dunsmuir job. He has set up an office at the southern limits of the town and currently has a 20-man surveying crew determining linal details prior to construction. Pfc. Charles A. Swafford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Swafford. 930 North Ninth Street, was meri toriously promoted to his present rank at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego last week. Presented during graduating cer emonies, the promotion is given to men completing their 11 weeks re cruit training with a display of out standing initiative in learning and of leadership qualities, combined with a high degree of military pro ficiency. Prior to his four-year enlistment with the Marines in April, 1958. Swafford had graduated in 1957 from Sacred Heart Academy where he lettered in football and track for four years, and in basket ball for two. Swafford will now receive four weeks field training at the Camp Pendleton Base in Oceanside, Cali fornia, where he will learn the ad vanced phases of infantry field tac tics. 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