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Aero Digest Tells About Vern Gorst
Former Resident, Aviation Pioneer
PORT NAMED FOR PAN-AMERICA HERO
Tho -JiHt lRdUft of the "Aero Di-set'-t
-contained the''- following ar-UHe-
concerning' Vern l (Joint, a
former well known resident of this
city. It tellft- of his rixe in the
aviutlon world, and Ik an follows:
I aaked Vern V. Gorst for a few
wordtt about hlmnelf, und all he
wrote about wu hit airline and
not a word about himself. So 1
simply chucked his letter In the
waxte basket, along with one from
a girl who said idie'd be willing to
love me like anything If -I'd teach
her to fly for nothing, since she
wanted to be the first woman to
crosit , the Pncflc and what a
credit that would lie to me, she
auid! VeH. wouldn't It! Welt, 1
never would have got that biogra
phy of Vern tlront. only he hap
pened to get married some years
ago, and now has u very charming
young daughter with tne pleasing
name of Myrtia, who is a co-ed at
the University of Oregon. Myitis
fuw my letter to dad, and sat
right down and wrote his biog
raphy in a very dignified and
scholarly manner whic h dues
credit 10 her expensive education.
And I'd print It just ns she wrote
it, only It would be above the
heads of you six roughnecks and
much too good for you. JJesides,
I don't want you to read good
literature or you'd get dissatisfied
with the pidgin Knglish 1 purvey
each , month and then where
would I get the money I put Into
The North German Lloyd common
at 09, so I could have the ex
quisite agony of watching it flop
gently to ,57 as soon as I got
aboard? . (And It still hurts a
little, doctor).
Vern l Gorst Is president of
Seattle, flying Service, vice presi
dent of" Pacific Air Transport, and
president of Barnes and Gorwt
Atrlfnes, which are operating the
air Ynriil line between Seattle and
Victoria, B. C. And now he heads
Gornt .Air Transport, which will
open a passenger route between
Seattle and Juneau, Alaska, with
a fleet of ten plane amphibians.
And how did he get that way
when he started for Alaska at the
age. of IS with a capital of i5
cents? Well, he had been clever
enough to learn, at the age of 12,
that nobody gets far by working
himself to death; and that while
there may be a certain amount of
dignity to labor, the returns (out
side of a tired feeling) are slight,
almost negligible. The way he
made this valuable discovery was
as follows: His father told him
to row ncross Port Orchard bay to
deliver loads of poultry and
. other, farm produce. Vern obedi
ently started to row, row, row
and collected the usual crop of
water blisters. If he hadn't been
bright,, he would have kept on
rowing until he raised callouses on
his hands and his pants. But,
realising that a labor-dodger is
the only fellow who gets far In
this world,, he rigged up a sail
and let the wind 'blow him across,
while he sat there figuring out
what other work he could avoid.
Me went to Alaska and did min
ing for a lime, but It was too
hard work, so he returned to the
statcfi, and started a transporta
tion business at "Wonder, Nev.
Since there was little ut Wonder,
Gorst transported water in five
gallon cans from a valley several
miles 'away.' That is to say, a
flock of burros transported the
water while Vern saw to It that
they transported It. He didn't
carry a single gallon himself.
Stilt, he had to do some walking.
Which tired him, so he returned to
boating at Port Orchard and
simply sat in the boat while ah
engine did the work. The en
gines worked so hard that Vern
snon hud seven boats, which he
sold at a profit. iitveung the
I money in an auto stage line be
! twefn .Medford -and Jacksonville.
'Ore.. In mil. That was tlie first
auto siage line in Oregon. With
(Vhailes o. King, another man who
I evidently objected to walking or
(rowing. Gorst organized several
j stage lines the Vallejo Bus com
I puny, the Toast Auto Lines, und
! the Motor t'oach company.
I This was nil right, but still too
I hard work changing tires, col
lecting fares, etc. Ill 1913 Vern
j noticed whit i an easy time pilots
seem lo have of it standing about
I fields, talking, and. every now and
' then flying for a few minutes.
! (That's what it used to be in 1U13.
anyhow). Su Vein got him u
I Martin pusher biplane one oi
I those early peculiarities that had
the propeller In behind, threshing
Away amid a flock of tail-booms.
' Vern sat boldly out in front if .this
t collection ami forged through the
air. There was hardly any work
I to It at all, only u lot of worry.
He liked it so well that he kept
right on flying and resting until
1 HiMl, when he organised Pacific
Air Transport and hired a lot of
people who hadn't learned to sit
I still anil do nothing. These good
I fellows flew mudly Up and down
i the coast between Los Angeles and
' Seattle, while Vern watched them
! interestedly. ' When Mr.' Boeing
1 bought out the line, Vern uiun i
I even have to tire himself out
wutching it, though he still does,
i Just for interest and dividends.
J Ho also watches Barnes and Gorst
Airlines, Inc., plying busily be
j tween Seattle and Victoria, and
does just enough flying to keep
I in practice. He finds it very rest
ful lo fly, and. then come down
and sit around and consider how
nice it is that he really doesn't
have to fly unless he wants to.
As I said, I got ail this from
his daughter, Myrtis, who tells me
I hat she is going- to take flying
instruction herself as soon as she
can get permission from mother.
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Asmiialf.l Prm I'luJ't
Redding, Cal., naw air field Is dedicated to the memory of Lieut.
John Benton, killed in an airplsnc collision vhile on a good will tour
of South America. Top chows a portion of the airpor". while officials
of tho project are grouped about the airplane and the administration
building at the bottom.
FR!
i IN SOUTH SEAS
SYDNEY, Australia. M It is
I estimated that (iiiuo whales havo
heen hilled ih the last six' yeitrs
in the Ross sea hy three whale
factory ships and their attendant
! chasers.
According to reports received
from New Zealand, the Nurwe
I glan factory ship C. A. Lai'sen
made 75.000 barrels of whale oil.
representing a catch of 788 whales,
and valued at approximately $3,
500,000 in the United States. The
Sir James Clark Hoss, when she
left New Zealand for Kurope.'had
on board 4!,000 barrels of oil, rep
resenting a catch of whales.
This made a total of 1329 whales
for the two ships In four months.
The N. T. Nielson Alonso, which
returned to llohart from the Hoss
sea 'recently, was reported to
have treated J32 whales, which
yielded C3.500 barrels of oil. Thus
j tho three whalers, representing
only two concerns,' have accounted
for 20(11 whales this season.
Adding this season's reported'
catches to the official figures for
previous years, published by the
New Zealand marine department,
I the three factory ships have ac
j counted for more than titfoo
I whales in six yearn.
Home Town of Premier MacDonald
When You Paint Your Name
, On An International
International Model &D ' . 2rjjp ju AJL
Speed Trucks are cspe- '
cialiy adapted for use fJ
with dump bodies or vvjufTvMX
hobts and lor trailer and , dt'&fK C'
It Stays There
lor a Lon, Lon Time
(TZillK IiJernalional lint
iuclmlrl II Special
Delmry of Ivudi up lo
i-tun; tlit l-tun Six-Spred
Special: 4 and -cylinder
Speed Trucks of I'i-lon
and l-ton sizes: and
Heurv-Duly Trucks rung
ino from '2-$-tvn to 5-ton
tiles.
THE satisfaction you get
when you see a good looking
International going out on
your jobs is exceeded by the
sutisfuction you get when you
tabulutc operating costs. You
will find that it bus served you
well in all-uround economy.
Your name will stuy on
your International long after
you have charged it oft your
hooks, because International
Harvester first builds long lifo
Into these trucks and then
provides adequate service to
keep them on the job during
years of profitable hauling.
ELWOOD'S AUTO SHOP
118 So. Central Avenue
Medford, Ore.
Phone 7G9
WASHINGTON. (P) Ambassa
dor Dawes found Hainsay Aiao
Donald rextint; from - the fatigue
of a iirit'i.h election in the new
premier's hoyhood home town of
Lossiemouth, Scotland.
To reach Lossiemouth to dis
cuss the world important confer
ence on disarmament, the Ameri
can ambassador traveled to F.din
burRh. transferred , and rode on
the Inverness line '! miles far
ther north to a fishing port .ami
summer resort.
The North sea cuts two gener
ous pie shaped pieces out of !Scol
laiul's shore that faces Kurope.
Kdlnliui'Kh stands near the 1h;h1
oft he southern bay which is the
Klrth of Korth ; Inverness, near
the head of the northern hay.
."Moray Kirth. Lossiemouth is on
the" south shore of .Moray . Kii'th
about 41) miles down from Inver
ness. It was the son of u Lossiemouth
laborer who built the new .party
which, for the second time, h:is
taken control of the Itritish gov
ernment. Hut Ramsay Mac Don
ald is not the only great man the
region has known, the record of
the National licographic society
show. The late Premier Asquilh
hud a summer home at llopemnn,
next door neighbor to Lossie
mouth, .lames i iordon liennett,
founder of the New York- Herald,
was born nt Newmill.
Three fa mous figures, t heir
names will dwindle down the ages
hi'Flde that of a man who ruh'd
the region ft ho ytars ago. Shake
speare has given a greener wreath
to Macbeth, ancient king ut
Morayshire, than politics or jour
nalism can give Asquith, MacDon
ald or Bennett.
"He saw some of the hrauiicH
of Morayshire; he heard some of
its historical stories," said M r.
MacDonald, In an address a f lei
Am hessad or Dawes visit,
t'nder a cliff slam! the ruins of
the castle-monastery of the bish
ops of Moray for whose possession
young Ramsay MacDniiitld's boy
hood gang fought another gang.
Inland is the school t:ie premier
revisits, but the 1 !i trees are gone.
At Drainie school no new hoy was
accepted by his fellows until he
had swung through the 1 il tree
tops, never touching the ground.
NAffjir from Losslemoithf Pre
mier MacDonald tells. Is a sanii
dune country, itencalh the dunes
is a mansion, buried ns deep as
Pompeii. The owner would play
cards on the Sabbath, even were
the devil his partner. A stranger
came and while they played the
winds rose and the sand blew. In
Lossiemouth they say when the.
gales come down from the north
west you may still hear the clink
of the passing coin as the game
proceeds.
GINGER ALE SALES
A Hon -Pot tle-a-year Increase
in t unburn pticrt of 30ft drinks is
being aceoiup.lni-'il by constantly
enlarged use of newspaper space
by n nip makci s and bolt l.-rs.
.Manx- millions of aate lines of
space in 7 -I ft newspapers advertise
Taaatla Dry ginger 11 !e this year.
I n I L' 2 . this product, now t he
largest selling ninger ale in the
world, was unsung and almost
wholly unknown. In Uil',1, when
newsiM per udven ising was bemiu,
tl.tiuli.Otia bntlNs Were sold'. Last
yt'iir the company's output totaled
iiii.iiou.inni bottles better than u
1 . -foltl iturease in five years.
The first newspaper advertise
ment the company ever published
was headlined "Dow 11 i-'rom fan
nd' fame Tali'.s of a Wonderful
lieverage." I U' this. P. ft. Saytor.
president of Canada Dry liingor
Ale. Inc., recently said:
"The 'Down from Canada' ad
vertisement officially introduced
Canada Dry to the American mar
ket in IML'H. Kaeh year We re-run
t his advertisement once in every
medium we use, partly perhaps for
sent iinen tal reasons, but mainly
because it is one of the finest and
most interest ing pieces of copy
ever writ ten about our product .
We are opt iiuistic about 1 he
future of the beverage Industry.
More and more peoplo are drink
ing ginger ate ami ot Iter carbon
ated beverages bei iuse of a grow
ing appreciation of the fact that
modern methods of manufacture
and of saintary nun rol assure a
pure. wholes,, in e and tbdicbtus
'product.
j 'Our lill'!) newspaper program
Includes schedules in "-Ifi daily
i newspapers. Most of lhe.se sehed
jules rover the entire 11' months
j of the year, since we and the pub
lic no longer consider ginger ale
a seasonable Item."
Ujiality advertising on a steady,
consist eh t scale has insinuated
Canada Pry into na'ietr! le- b . -s.i.p
in a market which is a babel
of mny brands. Sound "reason
J why" arguments, prepared by N.
' W. A.ver & Son. Philadelphia.
have characterized all the eom
!patiy messages. Agi, restive sell
; ing and careful manegeinent have
! i .iiii' ibut. d.
When Mark Tw a in, busy with
his essay on political economy,
was interruputed repeatedly by
Die lightning rod auent. )e finally
told tlie man in some impatience
to go ahe.nl and put the rods, all
overthe house, to put them on the
barn and a few on the cow. No(h
i tug more was thought of the uiat
, ter until the next thunder storm
, came up. when it was discovered
'that neighbors had ringed them
selves around, the place, ut a safe
'.distance, ami were staling in
amazement at the greatest rlec
: trlciil display in t ho history of
I man. The rods had done the work
of "drawing' Die light n ing and
! pri tecting properly and human
1 life.
The lightning rod agent was a
. fixed Institut ion a generation or
, so ago in perhaps every rural dis
junct of the country. A, dwelling
that wasn't "rodded" was game on
(which he pounced wiih.near sav
jiigery. The protection simply must
be had. 1 1 was criminal to leave a
' building so exposed, when out of
the sky any day might come a
i sudden flash that would demolish
: it ami send Its inmates to destruc
tion. The line of talk usually
won. t he rods went up. with the
shining brass balls near their tips,
, and security was the new order.
; Perhaps the lightning has be
come lamer than il u.ied to be.
'At least the lightning rod agent
doesn't flourish as he did. Prob
ably the risk to human liTe from
light ning a ays has been exag
gerated. The Pulled Slates bureau
.of standards has gone into the
' ( next ion with (horoughin-Hs and
' urie 11 1 if ie procedure t hat marks
all its investigations. lis report is
reassuring, to most of us at least.
Keep in.side your home or other
building, a way ftoni tin op-m door,
window, fireplace, a stove or other
niei.tl, and your safety practically
, may he guaranteed that is. It you
live in a ci. y and t he building in
question is of modern, a p proved
construction. I'.ui if ymi live out
of town, or especially must be out
of doors, when an elect i iea I dis
play is on. be careful of your .step
or tho shelter y,.u seek,
t The I'jinger spot1;, in order, are:
"Small sheds and shelters if In an
exposed local loll, Isolated tl'ees.
wire I nces and mlltop and wide
open spaces." bat do do, then,
and where to go? "Seek sheller
in dense woods, t be bure.i u says,
, "a grove of tree,, a cave, a de
! pressiou in the ground, a deep
; valley or canyon, or the toot of a
sleep or overhanging cliff." Fur
ther, deponent sayeth not. If none
of iher.e havens is within easy
reach, p'-esuinahly one must ex
ercise bis faith In what the light
ning will, or won't, do.
People who ride on the HtreetH
or highways and get killed off at
.the rale of 27,.rtoO a year' or bet
1 er need not trouble their minds
; deeply in the matter. Por tho
number of deaths from lightning
!in the I'nited States is around ftinf
annually, compared with total fa
taliiies from all kinds of accidents
of more than JHMHMI. ! Jgure It
out., and take your change; or
; seek protection according to the,
recipe.
Hut there Is one tiling the bu
reau of standards overlooked. It
is Hie protection against lightning
of a good feat her bed. Nowhere
is that mentioned In the report,
which fojhiws an extensive study.
What has the bureau been aboui?
Doesn't it know that all tho
mothers In Israel In the good old
days had one infallible resort
when i he skies began tu rum bio
and the flashes darted menacingly
.tin. u 1 the hack door and lapped
aioiiiMi the swaying trees They
j ran and wva pped t hem selves In
! tlie heavy folds of a feather bed,
i there lo remain secure till peace
again bad sett led over t he earth
and only faint drippings could be
heard from the eaves. Protection
against lightning? Ask grand
' mother about it. She knows, and
isho may have a feather bed. .
1 Kansas City Star).
Lot us rosturn your riir lo lln
former - Rood looks with
our Sll'cl;il I'qulpilll'lll. loin;
experience The workMone,
here, given miniost BHtlsl;io
lion.
Living on tlie. Texas-Arkansas
line, .Mrs. ! K. l'harr of Tcxar
kana - played in the stale nolf
tournaments in lioth states and
now hns two titles.
41 'iSOr 3' Tl,e "flflU w,'ccI'" nccuraf c ;
tffliA speed nirustiring device, Iiuh f '
XS.;.. ..roved that Pontine hn the
:The "fifth wheel," an nceuratc
speed measuring deviee, Iiuh
proved thut Pontine hns the
highest top speed ami the fastest neeclem
tion uvuiluhle in any low-priced b!x. As for
power, Pontlac is the most powerful of nil
low-priced sites, a fact which can he proved
hy the dynamometer, a scientist's measur
ing stick forhrakc horsepower.
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Try 1o mulvh ihvsv Uiy fvt1iirn
offered at no itiei'ease in priee
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SOUTH BARTLETT & EIGHTH STREET ' ' Phone 1385
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models from the most beautiful
line of cars on today's market
1929 Buickjlemonstra tors and floor
models, with full new car guaran
tee, offered at special prices to sell
them quickly. Carefully driven
but a few thousand miles hy our
company executives, these cars'
look just as trim and beautif ul I
and perform just as superbly as
brand new cars. ou can hardly
tell they have been driven, and they :
are priced afnazinglylow..See these
cars the first thing today, while
the variety of models is complete.'
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Also Several Other Late Models
Prices Reduced for
Quick Sales
Trades Terms
Wo have an exceptionally fine stock
of used cars. Practically all popu
lar makes, including FORDS,
CHEVROLETS, NASHES, STUDE
BAKER, BUICKS, PACKARDS,
STARS, WILLYS KNIGHT, Etc.
See These Cars at Our Salesroom
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BUICK AND MARQUETTE DEALERS
38 40 North Rivcrsido
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