10-Sc D-Statesman, Salem, Ort., Sunday, Jan. 16,1953
1 0- Year-Old Girl Keeps Ship's Log on
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(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.
Ellsworth. : Norblad and
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500 Performances
Speaking of records. Vic to
Borge rolls right along at the Gold
en Theater without any sign of an
end to his one-man show. Nex!
Tuesday night he will give his
500th performance, and it isn't like
ly that anyone is going to come
along and break his eventual re
cord for a solo stand. '
His 500th performance will put
him 413 performances ahead of the
best previous mark of this sort,
87 showings by Cornelia Otis Skin
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