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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1955)
10-Sc D-Statesman, Salem, Ort., Sunday, Jan. 16,1953 1 0- Year-Old Girl Keeps Ship's Log on an to Fami ft ruise From Jan Hawa n (Editor's note: 10-year-old Jessi ca Reynolds crossed the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Hawaii in the . 50-foot ketch Phoenix with her par ents, radiation specialist Dr. and Mrs. Earle Reynolds; her 16-year-old brother, Ted. who acted as navigator and a three-man crew of amateur Japanese sailors. The 46 day trip was the first leg of a world cruise. - Wide-eyed Jessica was never too seasick to make daily entries in her JournaL" Following are ver batim excerpts). . , By JESSICA REYNOLDS HONOLULU, T. H. (A Ahoy Phoenix! Where's your crew? How many people are going with you? - Well, there's Daddy, he's the skipper, '- And there's Mummy, she's the cook, ' And there's Teddy, he's my brother. And there's me, I'm the schnook. And there's Miki and there's Mo to and there's Nick, That makes three Japanese men who love to go to sea. ' , Last and least is the baby of the crew. Little pussy Mi-Ke she's the - Japanese mewl -j .". Oct 28. We got an early start , and motored to Naruto Xstrait). My knees got wobbly and I went below just as the time where all the whirlpools were whirling, some about five feet across. I didn't ge to see them. When we d gone through, we said, "Hi, Pacific." Towards evening the waves got x higher and bouncier until we were pitched from way to port to way over on the starboard side, and up and down. Things slid off tables, fell over, or crashed back and forth. The men had to be on deck strapping things down. Each time there was a crash in the galley Mum would go see. and pick it up, Soon she just syed in our room, and when something fell she said. "Hmmm, if that wasn't the stove and the food falling, the next one will be. Ankle Deep I awoke a million times during the night and Once when I tried to go to the head (toilet) I had to step ankle deep in papers, books and other things. Oct. 31. Dad has changed his name. He is not vaa, or tarie or Dr. Reynolds any more. He's skip per, so when l write aooui sup you'll know who I mean. ' Mi-ke is a real boat cat. every time the Phoenix tips to starboard Mi-ke tips to port, just as the gamboled lamps and candleholders dO. , Ted worked on his navigation to find our latitude and longitude. It will be 45 long days (and longer nights) before we see land again. ; Goblins on Ocean We didn't do anything about Hal loween but the ghosts and goblins gave the ocean a rousing up. Nov. 8. we Douncea ana rouea all over the place. Everyone was seasick, since it was a rough day after auiet ones. The rain and spray didn't help any because then1 us stav-belowers (Mum ana u aiso Ted who was too queezy to take the tiller) couldn't go on deck to get fresh air. I wrote creature stories, to cneer everyone up, and aiso creature pictures. I drew tne Harencn, ine Kedrap. the Uffix, the Quilsch, and the Wraggy Binkle (Baggy Wrin kle with each first letter trans posed.) I Chased by Mountain Nov. 12. The waves looked like mountains. I don't know how to explain what they were like except to say Mount Rainier, Mount Fuji and the Rocky Mountains were chasing us, rising higher; than the boat, but usually going under, fcv ery once in a while a wave came over and soaked the man at the tiller but the water always drained out quickly through the ; scuppers in the cockpit. The water is rather warm. Nov. IS. Skin made us a prom ise: For eacn cruise we nave ne will buy a chocolate soday or its equivalent when we reach Hawaii Or, for every. 10 bruises," they can have a steak dinner. Small bruises count but must be bruises, not durt. They have to stay three days before counted - Mum has a 'million bruises but I've got only four. I Nov. 20. In the night Skip saw a great wail of watet tour tunes the size of the . biggest waves charging down. It came over. soaked Skip, flowed down the hatches and swooshed around in Skip's bunk. We realized how strongly the boat is built because some boats would have been mashed by that wave. The wind almost blew my hair 'out by the roots. Nov. 23. We haven't been able to take sun sights for a couple of days and so we don't know where we are. . - - ' Day to Roar i ' Nov. 28. Today was really a day of rest because the sea and winds were so rough we hove to and lashed the tiller. All this day and night we rested and slept and took it easy. Both stove burners konked out and we had a cold breakfast Dec. 6. Skip shaved. He looks 15 years younger and not like the old grizzled, weather beaten skipper he used to be. He looks like men who want to go to sea but never do. . - - v' ... . We're very close to Hawaii. If we go about 100 miles a day with out bad winds or storms we might get there in around five days!!! Skip changed the clock an hour ahead, to Hawau tune!!! Dec. 8. Not so long now. Mum took off her long woolies and put on "trade wind clothes." (It s warm these days) after get- 4I 1 . ung wasnea. , In the evening while Skin was listening to the radio he suddenly saw, "Hey, did you hear that At the end of the weather report they said, 'And the Coastguard reports there has been no news from the yacht Phoenix.M 'Producers s Limit Broadicdy Run of New Play to 12 Weeks By JACK G AVER " ; NEW YORK (UP) It isn't often that a management can schedule a Broadway engagement of only 12 weeks? and still hope to come out on the black side of the ledger. However, this has been done by Katharine Cornell and Roger L. Stevens for their production of The Dark is Light Enough" in which Miss Cornell and Tyrone Power are co-stars. ' f The reason for the short run here is that Power has to be free by the first of May to star in the film, "Lorenzo the Magnificent" which his own firm is to make in Italy., v The principal reason that a short engagement can be considered is the box-office drawing power of the two stars. This has made possible one of those rarities, a pre-Broad-way break-in tour that makes money. By the time the Christopher Fry play reaches here it will have played 11 weeks in 10 cities, and it has been averaging a gross bet ter than $30,000 weekly. This means that the play will open in New York with part of the production cost' already paid off instead of with' an added debt of road losses as is usually, the case. Free Bus Service For Kenne wick PlanPr Miss Cornell's devotion to tout' ing in all the -years she has been a star, while many others dislike to set foot outside New York, in variably pays off for her through ready-made audiences almost any place she chooses to play. Serea Year Itch' Today's matinee marked the 900th New York performance The Seven Year Itch" by George Axelrod. This, the researchers reports, is the 22nd attraction "in Broadway history to achieve that consecutive performance figure. Ton Ewell who took some time out late last year from the leading role to dup licate this work in the movie .ver skm, is back in the cast which still has four other original mem' bers. The movie won't be released for another year. jj KENNEWICK, Wash. (UP) E. W. Lockwood, a retired civil ian employe of the Army Corps of Engineers, is working out de tails of a plan to provide free bus service throughout this city of 15,00. The city now is served by one bus daily which travels only the maui street Lockwood proposes to provide for bus trips daily to all sections of the city, charging each city business firm and professional man $10 per month. Then, instead of collecting bus fare from his passengers, be would collect a sales slip for the passenger's ride home. The city council has told Lock wood it wOl grant a franchise if his plan is approved by Jhe mer chant and State -Public Service Commission. The Distinguished Service Cross was established by an' Act of Con gress July 9l 1918. It replaced an earlier award caned, the Certifi cate of Merit - Gosh, they must have had lots of inquiries to put it on the radio. It's exciting to hear about your self on the radio and know you're going to have a- better reception than you thought Dec. 10. Land ho!!!. At 3:15 we sighted a long, low, black strip of something that wasn't a cloud. It hardly seemed possible but we knew it was land because of Teddy working and working to get our chartered position and checking it over and over. We had popcorn and lime-ade to celebrate. The land grew bigger and bigger as we sailed towards it and finally we could see a white lighthouse on it At midnight I awoke and went on deck. We d already sailed be tween Molokai and Oahu. The lights of Honolulu were not far from us and the dark shape of the island and diamond head were visi ble. Dec. 11. As we started in to shore a pilot boat came out and met us. After telling us where to dock it rode off and we motored in. A surprising thing was we went and docked in the same sup the President Wilson had when we came to Japan three years ago. The Aloha Tower was in sight and palm trees and cars rere also. Green things looked much greener in Hawaii than in Japan, because they are. I S County Loses Sidney In Making Arrest , SIDNEY. . Nh. 6PA $24 as sessment j in a -speeding arrest faded to a 15-cent deficit for the county before the incident was closed. 1 ' . ; .' . j . A Wyoming resident . arrested on a speeding charge mailed the $24 check along with a waiver of appearance and a plea of guilty in the presence of the arresting officer. But 'once back home, the accused speeder stopped payment on the check. . Letter Hits Alaska Air; Service Drop WASHINGTON (J) The Oregon congressional delegation has written President. Eisenhower, opposing any reduction in air service to Alaska.' - ! Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) said the people . of Oregon are concerned over reports the Civil Aeronautics Board is ready t o recommend elimination of Pacific Northern and Alaska Airlines service from Portland and Seattle to Alaska. ? He said they were "particularly concerned" 'over elimination of the Portland service' since this would "totally eliminate - all direct air service between our state and one of its greatest potential markets." He and the other said this would be "discriminating against Oregon and highly unfair." j ; Besides Neuberger. the signers were Sen. Morse and Reps. Edith Green, Coon. 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