S outhern Oregon News Review, Thursday, Ja n u a ry 16, 1946
Colorful Galloping Goose
Railroad To Be Abandoned
By WNU Feature»
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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.
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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'
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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“ 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
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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.
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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.
A hazardous trip over 11,000-
foot mountain peaks, beside moun
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tain torrents and along shaky
wooden trestles that look 1,500
feet straight down to rocky can
yon floors is embraced in tho 161
miles traversed by the "Galloping
Goose." The road crosses two of
SOUthWSSfl
Colorado’« h ig h e st
mountain ranges, the San Miguels
and Uneompaghres, to reach its
terminal point 60 miles distant.
Nearly nine hours are required
for the normnl run.
War Brought Aid
In operation since 1892, the
Rio Grande Southern went into
receivership in 1027. A respite
camo in 1941 when tho govern
ment granted the road a $65,000
loan. Even the atomic bomb pro
vided aid, the need for vanadium
in making the missile resulted in
orders for the railroad to haul
22,000 tons of it in 1942. Similar
o r d e r s fo llo w e d in 1913 and 1944
to bring a total grant from the
government of $60,000. Deferred
taxes from five counties through
which the line operntes also
helped.
Return of peace spelled doom
for the colorful line. Maintaining
that the railroad had been getting
about $40,000 n year for currying
the mail when normal rates would
call for only about $10,600, the
postollice department insists bet
ter service can be provided by
other means.
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