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S outhern Oregon News Review, Thursday, Ja n u a ry 16, 1946 Colorful Galloping Goose Railroad To Be Abandoned By WNU Feature» o a t* p cau só n ECORD crow ds set new m a rks F A R M S VS. S M A L L F A R M S at the tu rn stile s last season in W A S H IN G T O N . — Inside fa c t behind the senate sm a ll business p ra c tic a lly every sport. B ut w hat co m m itte e 's release o f the re p o rt on has become o f the co lo r th a t the sm all-scale and large-scale fa r m games once knew? There is prob ing is that tlie re p o rt had been sup ably, o r possibly, g re a te r s k ill and pressed fo r n e a rly tw o years by big a b ility around than sport ever has known. B u t it is quite possible that C a lifo rn ia land interests. The ve ry fa c t th a t the bureau o f the big gates and the b ig g er pay. a g ric u ltu ra l econom ics dared m ake fo r pros and college alike, have the study was one reason the la st | th ro ttle d a v ita l q u a lity o f com peti congress cut its research funds. The tion. I th in k i t has. The pay check study so in fu ria te d R epresentative I now dom inates the scene. A1 E llio tt, C a lifo rn ia D em ocrat and You m ig h t ask me ju s t w hat color frie n d o f the big fa rm e rs , th a t he is. Here’s one answer—Babe Ruth, has fought a ll a p p ro p ria tio n s fo r l a c k D em p sey, fa rm research ever since. Lobby Jones. R ill The study was begun in the sum Tilden. M an o’W’ar, m e r of 1944, w h ile Congressman E l Tommy H itchcock. lio tt was le ading a tight to repeal E a rl Sande, Dizzy the old law by w hich no one could D e a n ( in c a p i t a l own m ore than 160 acres of U. S. , le tte rs ), W a lte r Ha re cla m a tio n land. The study com gen. E x t e r m l n a - pared tw o towns in San Joaquin v a l - tor, K n u te Rockne, ley section of C a lifo rn ia 's huge Cen I also in c a p ita l let tr a l v a lle y —one, A rv in , is composed te rs), George Gipp. m a in ly o f w o rke rs on large in d u s tri H u rry-u p Y ost, Bob alized fa rm s ; the other. Dinuba, is Z u p p k e , P e p p e r made up la rg e ly of people who own M a rtin and F ra n k Dizzy Dean and w ork th e ir own fa rm s. F ris c h . E ach one of these was a cham pion, but some It was found th a t D inuba, the th in g m ore than a cham pion. F or sm all fa rm co m m u n ity , had two each one had a crow d appeal that independent business establish is sadly la c k in g today. ments to e ve ry one in A rv in , the big fa rm c o m m u n ity ; th a t re ta il F o r exam ple, Leo D urocher o f the trade was 61 per cent greater Dodgers has d ra w n m ore com m ent in D in u b a ; th a t 20 per cent than any five m anagers. Leo is a m ore people w ere supported by g reat m anager. B u t a la rg e flock o f I this p u b lic ity has come fro m d e ta ils the same d o lla r volum e in a g ri cu ltu re in D inuba than in A rv in fa r a p a rt fro m baseball. Ted W il- that the residents of D inuba ha< f lianas d re w m ore words, fa vo ra b le a fa r h ig h e r standard of liv in g - and unfavorable, than any o ther better streets, garbage disposal, b a ll p la y e r la st year. So Ted m ust sehools, parks, public recrea have had a type o f color. They a t tion. m ore churches, p a rtic ip u least knew he was around, lik in g tion in local governm ent, two h im o r h a tin g h im . newspapers to one. Joe Louis has the co lo r o f rin g The study w’as recognized by econ p e rfe ctio n —one of the greatest fig h t om ists as of g reat im p o rta n ce, but ers of a ll tim e . B u t outside of this the pressure of la rg e fa rm e rs and Joe is an e x tre m e ly qu ie t fe llo w landholders was too great. I t la y who doesn’ t lik e the great b rig h t bu rie d u n til it was brought to the spotlight. a ttention of fa ir-m in d e d Sen. J im M u rra y o f Montana, c h a irm a n of the sm a ll business com m ittee. He de In Ben Hogan and B yron Nelson, te rm in e d to p u blish it. g o lf has tw o o f the greatest go lf Ending an unique chapter in Colorado railroad history, the ‘Galloping Goose" of the Rio Grande Southern railroad, one of tho country'« la«t narrow gauge line«, faces abandonment. The postoffice d e p a r t m e n t clipped the wings of the “Goose with an announcement that it will not renew the railroad's mad contract. Loss of the contract, which net • ted the railroad $40,00(1 a year, would leave no alternative “but to Btart proceedings for abandon ment,” reports Cass Herrington of Denver, attorney and receiver for the line. R B IG Used Car Vehicles L E A R N SHO OTING IS O V E R . . . Pvt. Louis N o v e lli. le ft. M ocanaqua, Pa., and T /S g t. C harles C a h ill, R u m fo rd . M e., both wheel c h a ir p a tie n ts a t H a llo ra n general h o sp ita l, S laten Island. N. Y ., read about P re si dent T ru m a n 's p ro c la m a tio n d e c la rin g cessation of h o s tilitie s of W o rld W ar II , as of noon. D ecem ber 31, N urse V eronica S aladlgo looks on as wounded vets read about the o rd e r w hich im m e d ia te ly w iped off the sta tu te books 18 em ergency law s. ‘Just Business }len' o 0 o SURPLUS G R A VY The comedy of e rro rs th a t led to discovery of m ore than tw’o m illio n gallons of h igh octane gasoline in surplus m ilita ry planes sold to a Jefferson C ity , Mo., scrap dealer caused an epi dem ic of red faces at W ar Assets a d m in istra tio n . H owever, W AA ch ie f Gen. R obert L ittle jo h n and his aides would have been even m ore em barrassed had the whole sto ry leaked out. Besides the 5,540 planes w ith th e ir 5700,000 w orth of gas sold to the M is s o u ri deal er, W AA also sold about 15,000 other planes, also tanked up w ith high octane gas. T his fa c t, how ever, d id n 't get out. In a ddi tio n , dealers who bought the planes reaped a tid y w in d fa ll fro m costly ra d io equipm ent, m otors and gears. • * • O IL SALE S M A N LE W IS In the coal and o il trade, John L. L e w is is som etim es called; "T h e greatest o il salesman in h is to ry .’ ’ H ere is the reason w h y: R a ilro a d a fte r ra ilro a d , unable to a fford costly tie-ups fro m coal strike s, now is co n ve rtin g fro m coal to oil. There was a day when the ra ilro a d s, d e riv in g a trem endous revenue fro m h a uling coal, sided w ith the coal operators and the m in ers in opposing oil. B u t not now. The Boston and M aine, w hich, ne xt to the M aine C entral, pays m ore per ton fo r coal than any o ther ra il- road, is sw itch in g to diesel engines as q u ic k ly as possible. The Jersey | i i | , C entral, w hich taps the P ennsyl va n ia a n th ra c ite fields, also is go in g o ver to diesels. And the Penn- sylva n ia , w h ich runs s tra ig h t thro u g h the best b itu m in o u s coal fields in the E ast, is la y in g in some diesel sw itch engines. B u t the m ost in te re s tin g conver- sions are ta k in g place on the U nion P acific. T hat road has long burned o il to some extent, but i t also hap pens to be the sixth la rg e s t coal p ro ducer in the w orld, w ith a produc tion of 6,500,000 tons a nnually. The towns of Rock S prings and Hanna, Wyo., are alm ost e n tire ly dependent on coal m ined fo r the U nion P a cific. Today, how ever, those towns m a y become lik e the skeleton m in in g citie s of the gold-rush days. F o r, in a d d itio n to 600 o il-b u rn in g locom otives, the U nion P a cific now is converting a ll m a in lin e passenger tra in s to o il. In a d d ition , th e ir “ B ig B o y” fre ig h t locom otives, the w o rld 's heaviest, are converting, to gether w ith 115 sw itchers and 45 diesel units. The Santa Fe also has ju s t ordered new diesel units. | 0 0 0 M E R R Y -G O -R O U N D Gen. M a rk W. C la rk w ill be w ith draw n as A llie d co m m a n d er in Aus tria im m e d ia te ly a fte r the Moscow conference. He then w ill receive a ; ew a rm y post in the U n ite d States. . . . E x-congressm an W esley D isney o f O klahom a, who lo st out in the D e m o cra tic p rim a ry tw o years ago ag a inst Sen. “ Cotton E lm e r” T h o m as, w ill tr y again in tw o years. He m a y face a p rim a ry fig h t fro m Gov. Bob K e rr. . . . A ssista n t P ostm aster G e neral G ael S u lliva n has been o f fe re d the p residency o f A ir Cargo. ers the ancient Scottish game has ever sent to the fa irw a y s . B ut who could say th e y w ere in the same class w ith Bobby Jones and W a lte r Hagen o r Gene Sarazen fo r crow d appeal? T hey are tw o p ro m in e n t business men who can b re a k 70, col G .O .P. S E N A T E 'B R A S S ’ . . . R e p u blica n leaders ta kin g over le g is la lect th e ir dough and m ove along. tiv e re s p o n s ib ility in the 80th congress. The senators believed th a t they Stan M u sia l, one of the nicest settled a ll th e ir a rg u m e n ts before the session opened Ja n u a ry 3. I.e ft people you ever m et, a g re a t b a ll I to rig h t are Sen. H om er Ferguson, M ic h .; Sen. W allace IL W hite J r., p la y e r, the top of the y e a r, is n 't M a in e : Sen. R ourke B. H icke n lo o p e r. Io w a ; Sen. R obert A. T a ft. O hio; c o lo rfu l in any sense of the w ord. Sen. A rth u r V andenberg, M ic h .; Sen. W ayland B rooks, III., and Sen. Stan is ju s t a g reat b a ll pla ye r. J Eugene D. M illik in , Colo. He wants to be nothing else. N e ith e r is E ddie D ye r, an able m a n a g e r and a g re a t fe llo w . Sport today has be come big business. There is plenty in the w ay of sport le ft, but w ith the b illio n s , not the m illio n s , in volved, a lo t of color has seeped out. I was ta lk in g about th is co lo r j angle w ith F ra n k F ris c h , the New Rochelle flow er expert. “ Ju st w h a t is color?” I asked F ris c h , as Johnny K ie ra n cocked an a tte n tiv e ear, a K ie ra n h a b it when any in fo rm a tio n is com ing along. “ The basis of a ll c o lo r,” F ris c h said, “ is alw ays a b ility firs t. No punks get by. M any have trie d to use color, or so-called co lo r, in the place of a b ility . I t w on’ t w o rk. C olor means Dem psey, Jones, H itchcock, Grange, etc., a ll stars. C olor is also a n a tu ra l q u a lity . I t ca n ’ t be faked. Two of the m ost c o lo rfu l b all players of a ll tim e were Babe R uth and D izzy Dean. They w ere n a tu ra ls. They alw ays w ere e x a c tly w hat they w ere. H um an . . . . . . . . . „ . „ . and l,k a b le ’ bu‘ g reat a r t sts' „ But th e y were re a l—not phonies, How th a t m ob can spot a phony. „ , i T L ' AZ 'r ( M ie S th e I I llH f i i\O lV “ The game doesn’ t need co lo r to d a y ,” F ris c h said. “ You can s ta rt a dog fig h t between tw o te rrie rs and d ra w 10,000 people. B a ll clubs th a t w ere fa r down in the second d iv is io n d re w fro m 800,000 to 1,000,000. F o o tb a ll games th a t m e a n t n o th in g except another fo h tb a ll gam e w ere sellouts. Today it is the spectacle, the contest, th a t fills a s ta d iu m o r a p a rk, not any ou tsta n d in g star. I t ’ s the game, the show today, not an in d iv id u a l s ta r.” T h is is a ll tru e . I t a ll m a y be fo r the general good of s p o rt A fte r a ll, only the game counts. R ut de spite th is any w rite r hanging around fo r hum an copy m isses Hagen, W addell, Yost, Zuppke and m a n y others who had a c e rta in hu m an appeal th a t so few have today. S port co m p e tito rs are serious peo ple w o rk in g at a big jo b now. M ost of them have outstanding a b ility . B u t w ith too m any it is m ore big business than sport. The pressure is heavy. The big idea is w in n in g . Today we have only a fe w le ft— and I can’t even re m e m b e r th e ir names. Joe Louis? The top cham - pion of them a ll—who lim its his pub- lic ity to rin g e fficiency. In baseball we have Ted W illia m s —who is s till a big sto ry when he flops. Stan M u sia l, the best b a ll p la y e r in the gam e today, is ju s t the best b a ll p la ye r. He has no in te re st in any outside headlines. F o o tb a ll coaches —able business men w ith a b ig jo b to do. No p a rtic u la r color. No Rockne, no Zuppke, no Yost. I t m ay be bet te r th is way. But it’s duller. S E N A T E P R E S ID E N T PRO T E M . . . Sen. A rth u r II. V andenberg (R ., M ic h .), who has been chosen pre sid e n t p ro te m p o re o f the senate. S enator V andenberg re c e n tly announced his w ith d ra w a l fro m the U n it j ed N a tio n ’ s d e le ga tio n to devote fu ll tim e to senate duties. He has I been p u t fo rw a rd as a possible p re sid e n tia l ca n d ida te fo r 1948. ; Veteran railroaders dubbed the line the "Galloping Goose" be cause of four peculiar vehichs, which actually were 1930 model Pierce-Arrow tourist automobiles, with rail wheels substituted and box car structures tacked on the rear. In addition to carrying the mail, they were equipped to haul six to eight passengers and up to 10,000 pounds of freight. Six 50- year-old steam locomotives and some 60 almost equally ancient freight and gondola cars com plete the road's equipment. 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