The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1920-04-22
MILLAGE BILL is
ENDORSED BY CLUB

Members of the Commercial club
unanimously endorsed the higher edu-
cational millage bill Monday night.
The action followed an address by DIR.
w. j. Kerr, president of o. A. c., who
declared that he had not the slightest
doubt of the verdict of the people of
Oregon if they would give the need of
the institutions of higher education
their sympathetic study. He urged
Hood River people To display compre-
hensive interest in the bill and thus aid
in carrying the campaign to other parts
of the state.
Leslie Butler in discussing the mill.
age bill stated that canvass of the
Upper Valley had failed to reveal a
single vote in opposition to increasing
finds for the states three higher edu-
cational institutions.
The Commercial club and Merchants
Association will send formal invita-
tion to Mayor E. M. Strauss of Mosier
asking the citizens of the neighboring
city and surrounding rural district to
come here the day the Hood River Mo
sier stretch of the Highway is officially
opened for formal celebration of the
event.
The road will probably be thrown
open to travel in the next two weeks
and it is proposed to greet the Mosier
folk with elaborate entertainment.
A committee of the Commercial club,
the members of which have been urg
ing contractors to hasten paving work
between here ard Wyeth. has been in.
formed by s. Benson, chairman of the
State Highway Commission, that con-
tractors will rush work as soon as
weather permits. Recent rains. il was
said. have made paving impossible.
Two miles of paving remain to be COM
pleted near Wyeth. When this is laid
the Wyeth plant will be shut down and
a double shift will be put to work at
a plant near Sonny. Traffic over the
road. now permitted at noon, after
work hours In the evening and on Sum
days, will then be stopped entirely.
Mr. Benson wrote that the contractors
had promised TO complete the work by
June.
The local club recently protested
against the quality of paving already
laid in this county. The specifications.
contractors declare, are the same as
specified for the Multnomah county
paving of the Highway.
While the Hood River section remains
rough, contractors state that traffic will |
soon iron it out. About 400 yards of |
the pavement between Cascade Locks |
and Wyeth, however is not up to spec |
ifications and will be replaced.
K. o. Blanchar called attention of |
the Club to suggestion made by Com
missioner Hannum that Hood River
county make available a temporary |
road from existing county highways to
the national forest border, in order that |
crews and equipment of the forestry |
service may be transported from Park
dale to engage on work on the Loop
Highway. The mile and a half road |
as surveyed by the State Highway |
Commission up the rock gorge of the
East Fork of Hood River, according to
statistics, will cost $50, 900.
"The Mt. Hood r. X. Co. :" Mr..
Blanchar said, "has offered to trans
port equipment of the forestry service
from here to Parkdale free Of charge.
No work, however. will be undertaken
until we make possible an entrance TO
the national forest"
C.. ID. Hoyt stated that Phil Dater
while here recently in conference with
a committee of the Civic League, had
that the forestry service
1ad approximately S240, 900 available
FOR use on the Loop road. A commit
zee, composed of E. w. Birge, f. o.
Blanchar, C. A. Bell, j. II. Fredricy,
T. w. Chindlund and Leslie Butler,
vas appointed to investigate the pro-
posed Hannum substitute road. Mr..
8utlers however. suggested that the
natter be held in allegiance until after
he May election, stating that the
State Highway Commission might then
axe such action as to make unneces-
ary any road construction on the part
# Hood River county in connecting up
With the national forest bounds.
According to A. S. Keir, member of |
committee recently appointed TO urge /
hat the city council install a better 1
lighting system for principal residence i
treets, the city has called for light s
ng specialist to come here and make
borough survey. Mr.. Keir stated that '
e has been informed by the council 7
hat Oak street and Cascade avenue
will be lined with new lights this year. c