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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1963)
: f& r - Oregon Legislature Began Road Building Job In 1917 MEDFORD MAN DEDICATES CENTER Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter of Medford delivers a short address dur ing dedication ceremonies of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University Monday. Listening is Dean Jose Luis Sert of the Graduate School of Design UPI Telephoto Oreconians were calling for leg islative action 46 years ago to lift the wagon and gas buggy wheels out of muddy ruts and place them on the 1917 version of good roads, which in that day was any road passable in both sun shine and rain. The action came when the Ore gon Legislature on Feb. 28, 1917, created the State Highway De partment. The lawmakers ap pointed three unpaid commission ers and gave them 4,000 miles of primitive roads and a $6,000,000 bond tissue to finance the road program for the first two years Today's highway department employs 3,700, headed by Forrest Cooper, state highway engineer, and the payroll alone is over $18, 000,000 annually. The total mile age of roadways has been in creased to 7.500, and even the least impressive stretch of the present system would have awed the good roads' advocates of 1917. Four-and six-lane freeways have replaced some of the narrow, rutted streets. Isolated ranchers now drive to and from the near est town in a single hour over a modern paved road, where their grandfathers had faced a bounc- Chamber Goodwill Tour Entertained At Shasta MOUNT SHASTA - Ten mem bers of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce and members of the Dunsmuir and Yreka chambers, on a goodwill tour, were guests of the Mount Shasta Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon meeting May 23. Bill Pattern, Ashland Chamber of Commerce president, stated the purpose of the lour was to tie Southern Oregon and Northern California together in a joint effort to promote the areas. Mrs. Bert Pree gave a report on the Peter Britt Music and Arts Festival to be slaped in Jacksonville Aug. 11-24. with only selected top musicians to per form. Patton gave a report on Ashland's Shakespeare Festival. . In business matters, the cham ber decided to contact the Forest Service regarding the repair of the road past Steel Bridge. One quarter of a mile has been washed out, making it impossible . for vehicles to get to the lakes and mountains on the other side. A letter from Robert Vaughn, Ml. Sliasla Ski Bowl manager, was read. He stated the Ski Bowl did not wish to contribute to the information booth during the sum mer, but if the Bowl gets any benefit from the booth it will cooperate during the ski season. The booth had been financed joint ly by the Chamber of Com merce. Hotel-Motel Association, and the Ski Bowl. Boomer Tonkin, who conduct ed the meeting in the absence of the president. Dave Otis, an nounced that 38 mountain climb ers from Seattle would be climb ing Ml. Shasta June 21-22. Ar rangements for housing, feeding, and entertaining the group were discussed, as it had requested information as to swimming pools and entertainment. Dr. Hugh Fate clarified the tax controversy in Siskiyou County and explained the formation and purpose of the Siskiyou County Taxpayers Association. He said the economy of tlie area could be seriously affected if the taxes are allowed to go on as they are. and that the association needs more than its present 100 mem bers and a better attendance at meetings to attain its goal of ad justing taxes proportionately. In other business, Frank Melo announced that the July 4 fire works display was in order, and he was authorized to purchase the fireworks immediately. The July 4 committee was asked to analyze and give a report at the next meeting on the feasibility of the annual marathon up the mountain. There had been a ques tion as to whether or not it would be held this year, although sev eral climbers have indicated a desire to enter. Robt. DePew Wins Post Robert DePew, junior at Wil lamette University, Salem, ma joring in chemistry, has been named department assistant in chemistry for the 1983-1954 school term, the result of his outstanding work in that subject. Young De Pew. son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam DePew, maintains scholastic grades that keep him in the upper 10 per cent bracket among the students. Interested also in dramatics, he was tapped for Theta Alpha Phi national honorary dramatic Ira ternity, and was named "best ac tor of the year, during this term, highest honor in the fraternity. He has been campus stage man ager, in charge of all lighting, for not only dramatics but for lectures, concerts and other en tertainment. He w ill continue dur ing the next school year. Iel'cw will return to Klamath Falls for the summer. I Communilij. ;j Caiendar ji TUESDAY NEIGHBORS OF WOODCRAFT, Thimble Club, 8 p.m.. meeting, Eva Young, 1150 Pine. SWEET ADELINES, practice, VFW Hall. 8 p.m. ing, two-day buckboard ride over sagebrush- cowtrails. Great progress in providing Orecon motorists with the good roads they wanled came with the adaptation of the internal com bustion engine to earthmoving ma chines. The horse-drawn fresno disappeared from the construc tion scene and was replaced by gasoline and diesel powered equipment. Highway engi neers soon found roads could be pushed through terrain formerly considered prohibitive in cost or just plain impossible. The old surfacing techniques, dumping gallons of oil to keep down the dust or adding layer upon layer of rock and gravel to a road and bearing up under the ' jouncing of the "wash board" which soon developed, were reserved tor secondary routes. Roadbuuders discovered the new world of asphalt and Portland cement concrete for the surfaces of highways. The mud and dust were on tlieir way out. The passing years saw many of tlie dreams of road-conscious Oregonians become a reality. Highways were pushed into re gions of Central and Eastern Ore gon where pavement had been practically unknown. The last of the major water barriers along the coast was spanned by five bridges during the 1930s, and thousands of acres of choice scen ic recreation arc?, were acquired to become tlie backbone of a nationally-famous State Parks System. The state's first introduction to the "freeway" came with the opening of the Banfield route through eastern Portland and the Baldock Freeway between Port land and Salem. Even these two major accomplishments paled be side the National System of Inter state and Defense Highways,1 started in 1H56, which will uiti-i mately provide Oregon with a to tal of 731 miles of freeway. Today, the highway department is the largest of the state agen cies and will spend an estimated $120,000,000 this year in building and maintaining Oregon highways and parks. A five-story office building in Salem is connected by radio and teletype to a sprawl ing network of maintenance sta tions and field offices. Under way this vear are such projects as a four-mile-long bridge across the Columbia River at Astoria, the $10,000,000 Marquam Bridge ill Portland, over 95 miles of inter state freeway, and increased fa cilities in many of the state's 180 state parks. And just 46 years ago the an nual budget was only $3,000,000 Tuei., May 28, 1963 Page S Herald It Newi Klamath Falli DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE Inquire At GUN STORE 714 Main COMMENCEMENT EXERCIS- ES, First Baptist kindergarten, 7:30 p.m., First Baptist Church. WEDNESDAY STEARNS SCHOOL, 7:30 p.m., panel discussion on district re organization. Public invited. TOPS CLUB, 7:30 p.m., social meeting, Community Lounge. Low calorie refreshments. GOLDEN AGE CLUB, I p.m., regular meeting. Klamath Audi torium. THURSDAY FAREWELL DINNER. 5:30 p.m., for Mack and Marie Jones, First Baptist Church. Bring hot and cold dish. Members and family. On The Record KLAMATH FALLS BIRTHS BOYS BELLOTTI Born to Mr. ind Mrs. Altfo A. Beliottl In Klamath Valley Hospital May 2i boy weighing 7 lb., V j ois. GIRLS CHURCHILL Born to Mr. and Mrs Benlamln L. Churchill In Klamath Valley Hospital May 34 a girl weighing 7 lbs.. 10' t Ois. MICKA Born to Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert G. Micka In Klamath Valley Hospital May IS a girl weighing 9 lbs.. I ois. 1M3 SUMMARY Boys: in Girls: 171 Michigan's Porcupine Mountains are one of the highest land mass es between the Adirondacks and the Black Hills. CIRCUS THURSDAY MAY 30 KLAMATH AUDITORIUM 4:00 P.M. 8:30 P.M. AdUllR 11.50. Tlflfll AO ! Mrtiaurhry'a Trading 'I, SSIM All. Mr., I name nrini niooirri, KUm. Npnrrd by Klamath Coanty Shrrltf'a P. Halt t'rartrda U U Rusk Moans Race Conflict WASHINGTON ill'li Secreta ry of State Dean Rusk says U.S. racial conflicts force lS. diplo mats to conduct foreiRn policy like sprinters with one ICR in a casi. Husk called for solution of race problems which he said arc causing "deep injury" to the Unit ed States abroad. The secretary, a native of Geor gia, spoke out on racial problems at a fnrcicn policy hrielinq for ab'iut 300 representatives of pri vate organizations. His remarks, first made on a "baikcround only" basis, were released for publication later at tlie request of newsmen. IIJIIWMHIIMIIIiaill School Dance An "Out of School" dance will be held Friday at tlie Midland Grange Hall from 8 p.m. to mid night for high school and college students. Admission will be 23 cents each. The dance will be chaperoned. FRIENDLY HELPFULNESS To Every Creed and Purse WARD'S Klamath Funeral Home Marguerite Ward and Sons 925 H.,S Ph. TU 2-4404 VIG1UN IgEiiL 1 ji V ' fs1 .it GRACE YOUR. TABLE WITH THIS QL'A MTV-TESTED FORMULATION SINGER MEMORIAL DAY SALE BRAND NEW 7 A SPARTAN Ufa-lAll SEWING MACHINE REDUCED $ TO JUST O50 J J Jin, it FLOOR DEMONSTRATORS (Some one-of-a-kind) 00 From Reg. 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