![]() He served in the Marine Corps during World War II. On Mahe married Madeline Sleppy of Newberg at the First Methodist Church in Salem. ![]() He worked at Guy's and retired from there having worked in the store for more than 44 years. He was studying engineering at Oregon State College when he was called to come back to Dallas to help run Guy's Hardware. In the fall of 1931 he entered Oregon State College and was pledged by Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. This was the first road scraper to be controlled by hydraulic cylinders which made it a basic patent. By putting wheels in back it was able to lift the load to travel and also to regulate the depth and angle of spread. By using a combination of three hydraulic cylinders, the machine was able to control the amount of cut and the angle of the cut. He had also helped survey a new highway up the McKenzie River and was on the survey party that worked on the construction of the Willamette Pass Highway.ĭuring the summer of 1931 he came up with the idea for a new type of road scraper and started working on the plans. Hood Highway, straightening the old narrow highway that had been part of the old Barlow Pass that the wagon trains had used to cross over the Cascade mountains to get down to the Willamette Valley. One of the projects he worked on was the Mt. He attended school in Dallas and graduated from Dallas High School in 1929.įollowing graduation he went to work for the Oregon State Highway Department as a chainman on a survey party. He was born to Paul Leslie Hunter and Florence Palmer Hunter in Dallas. 5 while celebrating his birthday in Newport. Obituary by Polk County Itemizer-Observerĭelbert Nevin Hunter of Dallas died on Sept. Both Hunter Street and the Delbert Hunter Arboretum in Dallas are named in his honor. The piles of rocks and sandbags along the creek were dubbed "Mount Hunter." Hunter died Sept. The original photograph, from which this cut was made, is in the possession of August Risser, and shows the general details more clearly.In July 2003, Delbert Hunter spearheaded an effort to restore the banks of the Rickreall Creek. Hayter, dentist, was located to the upstairs of the Wilson building and the shingle may be noticed below the window. The church building, occupying the present Dallas National Bank corner, was the old Methodist church and at the time of the picture it housed a hardware store. This building was later moved to near the Collins’ residence on Court Street, where it still remains. On the left foreground is the law office of J. The large building on the right background was known as the Jap restaurant building, and was located where the new home of the Mountain States Power Co. The corner now occupied by Mac-Marr Store was then a new brick building, which was the home of Fenton & Toner’s general store.Ī board fence surrounded the courthouse square (this was torn down at the time the new courthouse was built in 1899) and the fire bell tower was located in the southwest corner of the square. ![]() The photograph was taken from Main Street looking north from a point probably in front of the present J. ![]() The streets, which previously had been bottomless mud in the winter and dust in the summer, had been reinforced with boulders and a top covering of finer rock, as the foreground indicates. Several of the first permanent buildings had recently been completed. Polk County Itemizer-Observer, Thursday, JThe picture to the right, which numerous old timers have established as being taken in the early 1890’s, shows Dallas at a period when it was probably making its most rapid changes from a pioneer village to an important city. Looking North on Main Street from near Washington St. ![]()
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