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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore, ', , June , 1954 I WITH ATTEMPTED KHMH -. - : - ON THEIR THE DEPARTMENT RECORDS THEY'LL PB06ABIY HAS MUG SHOTSlTRAVEL PML ANO OP THE TWO CBOOKS I FAST, OFFICER 5 THAT GOT AWAV, MR. 1 . Meanwhile -Inside tt :'ce-crtm iracR- C-C-CALORV'-- HE'S STOPPED.'-- NOW HE'LLl OPEN THE D-D-DOOR I MM.'-- 5URE I I EVERYTHING'S- I R F-F-FINE - I SKIP THE CURB SERVICE, CUDDLES.' I SPEND ALL DAV IN THAT CA8.' WHEN I EAT I WANT A CHANGE OF SCENERY I IT WAS SWELL OF SOU TO COME 2 ROMS WITH WEWARTHA.80REVI - DONT HAVE THE PROPER OUTFIT. DONT 6E SILLV, 1 v. LEN... Alarm i clothes dontawke we rider... ajd it LOOKS AS IF THATS WHAT OU ARE --AND AVERY 6O00 0NE.' XI'VE SEEN AROUNDNf IVE GOTTA HAND IT TO LEN TTWS'LL MAKE OLD LADV HORSES A LITTLE, r EOCKINGTON... THE BOY'S ROCKINGTON FUP HER I JmOUARENTSO. I SOT TASTE nOVOJDEI? . I UP daU VUUKbbLr, he L.b IU LLr J " , TW Is Thar So!" Magic Trip Covers 6,000 Miles By EUGENE BURNS WANT TO TAKE A magic u.wuwin j u: II J I'. How long will it lake, you ask. Just a few hours we'll be back in time for supper. What's magic about it? Listen, with every olhcr step you'll cover a mile! What'll we see? You'll see an enormous spread of landscape reaching from the broad-leafed trees of our hometown through the spired forests 600 miles north, up into the gnarled, scrubby growth 2,000 miles away, and then into the lichens and mosses of the Canadian tundras. Where'll we start? Up the nearest mountain road, and then finish with a two-hours' climb. But don't worry, it won't be ex hausting. Unlike any other trip you've taken, this will be a vertical trip, observing the side of the mountain as we climb. It's this way: perhaps some time in your life you've noticed a snow-capped mountain peak, or seen a picture of a snow-capped peak at the equator such a 15,000-foot peak carries on its shoulders a floral spread of fl.OOO miles, from the equator to the Arctic. Reducing this to our ills size and fitting it to our nearest mountain, it means that when we look up just ten feet, that spot carries plant life growing six miles closer to the Arctic; 100 feet up is 60 miles closer to the Arctic; 1,000 feet up is 600 miles! And so, at this rate of almost 600 miles an hour, we'll pass through a series of floral zones from our broad-leafed forest containing perhaps hickory, elm, mountain maple, ash and beech on into the white pine and firs, and into the poplars and birches of the highlands, and finally into the scrubby growth, and be yond that into the lands of mosses and lichens. Take Monument Mountain, near Stockbridge, Mass. As mountains go, this is a miniature job. Yet, as we climb, with a matter of minutes we'll travel, floral-wise, from Massachusetts to the Gaspe Peninsula. This is that magiv I promised that magic of climbing a mountain. Now take a trip in your own neighborhood, up the nearest mountain. As I write this, I am looking at a 3,000-foot peak. Its base is ringed with a broad-leafed forest of oak. Midway, the trees change to firs. The top is crown ed with a growth of scrub. Now look more closely at the forest at the start of your hike: see among the hardwoods the cover of wild flowers. In season, trilium, skunk cabbage, violet, geranium and columbine. Then as you climb, notice the woods of spruce and fire, a dark forest realily, whose shade is so dense that the floor is almost clear of ground cover. Only where the run manages to come through, the berries and mosses are thick, luxurious. Yet, sharp as the contrast is, look ahead. As we climb, there is an even more pronounced con trast we enter the scrub zone. Suddenly we emerge from the dark and into the light. Here the scrubby pine, oak and birch are widely spaced and they hug the earth in beautiful contorted shapes, but always in wonderful harmony with their environment. This is the forest that stands be tween the tall spires and the land of no trees, the Arctic. Because this forest is knotty, spiraling, and unprofitable to the lumber man, it is a forest unchanged a bit of our continent's original landscape, unchanged by man. From this scrubby zone, it is only a short climb and see! Here are mosses and lichens, harken ing back to the beginnings of plant life 50 millions and more years ago. And beyond that, if we don't run out of mountain, is the land of snow, and raw Arctic! So in a matter of hours, we've come 6,000 miles, and more. This time we've looked at the plant life the trees and the flow ers. Next time, we'll look at the changing animal life as we climb and we'll find that the mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, worms all seek their own geo grapical 'levels. But that calls for another magical trip! (Copyripht, 1354, by Eugene Burn!;) 'LIGHT BIKE CRAZE' SWEEPING THE COUNTRY U.S. Bike Makers Hit by Imports WASHINGTON (NEA) Any day now the President's Cabinet will pause in its concern over vast national and international crises and devote a session to the "light bike craze" which is sweeping the country. While the administration has been preoccupied with such grave matters as Communist aggression in the free world, a group of U.S. allies has laid heavy siege to the American bicycle business. It has U.S. hike makers back peddling into oblivion, they claim. A major cause ot their current complicated trouble is the sud den urge of American kids to ride lightweight foreign bicycles. In 1049 only 16,000 bikes were imported into the U.S. Last year the country was swamped with 600,000 foreign makes which sold like hot cakes. This year, at the rale they're still coming in, an estimated 000,000 foreign bi cycles will be sold in the U.S. NEW COMPETITION England, Germany, Belgium, France and Italy, in that order, are the countries responsible for this new competition to Ameri can firms. 19th ANNUAL ST. PAUL RODEO JULY 345 ST. PAUL, ORE. Night shows: 3rd & 4th.... 8:00 Afternoon shows: 4th & 5th ,,1:30 PARADE: July 5th.... 10 a. m. TOP RODEO RIDERS Thrills, Spills Dancing I parte jlor PlroworUi Display Night of Ik It A 4th TIC K US ON S All SI. PUl ROdDO Asm,., SI. Pattl, (Ire. I'linnr Mil or order bj Mali Burtlni Junt hum .t. k. cm Co., PottUnd, Oreton, Her .lime II 8lr-Tein Nod Son. Jewelry. Salem. after .lone IS Henne Hardware, Neohertj, ore., after June 21 The 1954 import estimate is as tronomical to the U.S. bike in dustry because it represents close to half of their total normal year ly output, which ranges from 2.2 million to 1.8 million bicycles, The Cabinet is scheduled to lake up this two-wheeled question as a result of a new service being provided to American business men by the Business and Defense Services Administration o the Department ot Commerce. The bust in the bike business happens to be more crucial than some of the other problems of the coun try's businessmen. But it's typical of what BDSA is trying to do for them. At a recent emergency meeting called by BDSA, bike makers aired their problems and formed an action committee to prepare a pica for help to the U.S. Tariff Commission. BDSA is helping collect all the information on the situation and prepare brief1- lor the Commission. And top Com merce officials have promised to get it to the Cabinet for consid eration at that level. REDUCTION OF DUTIES One of their many troubles, the bike men complain, is the reduc tion of duties on foreign bikes from a peak of 30 per cent to the present 7!i per cent levy. They're seeking both hiked duties and a quota on imports. One of the most popular ot the heavier U.S. hikes about 45 pounds retails for $74.95, al though you can got them for as low as $44.95. The standard light bike around 36 pounds which is made in America to compete with the foreign lightweights, retails for $54.95. The equivalent foreign number goes tor $.19.95, and less in some cases. Here are some of the oilier MAKE WORK EASIER! LOOKS LIKE PLENTY OF BUSINESS for bike makers in tliis typical American school yard, but U. S. makers claim they're being ridden into oblivion by imports from Europe. 0 complicating factors in Ihc bike situation as revealed at the recent meeting: Uu,n..n nf lUn .H ( Lt-..Ht. uvvuuai u, uic uac ui uii. til:.-, j in Europe as a primary means of i transportation, bike manufactur ing is a much larger industry there. One English firm is capa ble of making more bikes than I all U.S. firms put together, even though bicycling adds up to a $500 million industry in the U.S., employing 80,000 persons. HAVE ADVANTAGE This means European firms have the advantage of economics of mass production methods in addition to much lower wage scales. The idea of a lightweight bike, originated in Europe, with three speed gears and a hand brake.: also stems from Hie facl that they're mostly used by adults for transportation, American bike! makers have gotten into heavier bikes with balloon lires to make them Stand up to the heavy abuse given them by American young sters, who are the biggest bike customers in the U.S. U.S. bike makers are against switching over 100 per cent to light hikes because they will still be unable to compete with for eign makers under present terms. And they are convinced that it's just a "craze" which the kids will get over when they learn thai the lighter bikes aren't standing up under heavy abuse, Meantime, however, the indus try is suffering. Several firms have sold out to bigger organiza tions which are going to add some other lines of merchandise to the plants' output. Several others arc close to financial failure. None is working to full capacity. Factory Work Speeded By Two-Way Radio NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (in Two-way short-way radios in com pany trucks have speeded intra planl operations 50 per cent at the Hell Aircraft Corp. here. The radio system has eliminat ed problems in distribution and liming of pickups and deliveries at manufacturing, engineering Bnd administrative locations scat tered over Bell's 05-acre facility. Supervisors and foremen in dis tant sections of the plant can con verse with the dispatcher when necessary. Eventually the radios will be lied into the company's modern fire department for civil defense. A help on the ioh Mioy. wh?t youVe do9 Don't let h J. -"'n9 """"'II. M "ItlGUvs Chew Wrigley's Spearmint Cum Gives vou a nice little mi. Hclpsv,ofUoCr' easier. afei Delicious! AH24S Effigy Enigma NEW HAVEN. Conn. OP Cam pus and New Haven police rushed to Calhoun College at Yale Uni versity when a motorist reported seeing the figure of a man hang: ing in one of the rooms. 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