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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.
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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
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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.
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