Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1937)
PAGE SIX MEDFORP MATL TRIBUTE. FEDFORD, OREGON". SUNDAY. JULY 25. 1937 AAA GIVES FORTY "que ' WASHINGTON, D.O., July 35. The American Automobile association to day announced that forty eltlea have .warded AAA. certlllcates ot anmmendetlon for reducing traffic fatalities during the first tlx months Of 1987, aa compared wiw tne nunc period a year ago, i Ten of the cities will receive special certificates for a decrease In motor deaths during the first half of 1937, following a reduction or tho full year ' leas. These cities are: Atlanta, Oeorgla; Durham, North Carolina; East Orange, New Jersey: Olendttle, California; Miami, Florida; Richmond, Virginia; St. Louis, Missouri; Schen ectady. New York; Waterbury, Con necticut, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pointing out that the forty cities reducing traffic fatalities during the first six months of 1937 represent ne-third of the 131 reporting mor tality figures weekly to the O. S. Bureau of the Census, Thomas P. Henry of Detroit, Mich., president of the A.A.A., declared that the record of these municipalities offers evi dence that motor deaths can be re duced In cities, ' "In singling out cities Improving their fatality records," said Mr. Henry, "It la hoped to focus the attention of authorltlea In other clttea cm the fact tlt motor deaths are preventable. Trained trafflo personnel, selective enforcement directed at conditions causing the most serious accidents end strong community sentiment be hind police and trafflo departments will do much to solve the problem. Reports showing that seventy cities went through the week ending July 3 a week of heavy travel without single fatality are encouraging. The thirty cities to receive A.A.A. certificates of commendation, In ad dition to the ten receiving special commendation are, Albany, N.Y.,; Beaumont, Tel.; Blnghamton, N.Y.; Cambridge, Mass.; Charleston, S.C.; Charleston, W.V.; Cleveland Heights, O.; Duluth. Minn.: Evanavtlle, Ind.; Hammond, Ind.; Hartfort, Ct.; Ho boken, N.J.; Kansas City, Kan.; Keno sha, Wis.; Mobile, Ala.: Nashville, Tenn.; New Haven, Ct.; Oakland, Cat.; Oklahoma City, Okie.; Port Arthur, Tex.: San Jose, Cel.; Seattle, Wn.; Somervino, Mass.; Springfield, Mass.; Tacotna, Wn.; Topeka, Kan., and mica, N.Y. The absence of very largo cities from the list receiving the A.A.A. ci tation la due to an upward trend of motor deaths In those centers of population, New York City had 409 fatalities during the first half of 1987, compared with 394 In the same period a year ago. Figures for other large cities having increases are: Baltimore, 71 compared with 54; Bos ton, 66 compared with 01; Chicago, 149 compared with 933; Cleveland, 109 compared with 87; Detroit, 150 com pared with 133: bos Angeles, 334 com pared wtlh 314; Pittsburgh, 55 com pared with 54, and San Francisco, 58 compared with 84. BOY "EVANGTLIST ABLE TO PLAY AS ILL AS PREACH FBORIA, III., July 34 (AP) A seven-year-old boy evangelist and ordained minister, took time off from his preaching duties today to roll In the sand and play with an electric train his favorite diversion. Tomorrow the boy. Charlea Jaynrs. Jr., of Riverside, Calif., will deliver a aermon at Bloomlngton, 111., and then will Join his parents at his Califor nia borne for a rest. The Rev. B. a. Drake, at whose Trinity tabernacle the boy was ad mitted to the ministry Thursday night, described the young evangelist as the "youngest ordained minister In the world." but added "he's Just an ordinary boy.' He usually stands on a chslr when he delivers hta sermons. Miss Neva Duff, his tutor said, and claps his band and pounds his rials on a table to emphasise hit point. Ha wears a knee length black suit, trimmed with a white collar and cuffs, anklets nd white shoes, he Is short tor his ege end a bit pudgy. Ilia black hair la bobbed. STORY BOOK LIFE o Motor Cruising for Fun o A Motorlog to the Wallowa Mountains of Northeastern Oregon . . . and a Visit with "Silver Tip" Charley Seeber. This Bwptpr li co-optratlng with tha I 9rfoo SUU Motor eVUoclaUlon tnd The ; Oregonim ta preienUag a Mrlea of motor : tnil uotjr the utu, ''Motor Cruiitrif if Pun." U la hoMd thertby to itlmultU traval In thi Pad Mo oortbwt. Tba follow hi it article h&a been condenMd from a ' full-page artlcla appearing la Tba Ortgonlu BY VINTON H. HALL StIVer Tip shoveled a spoonful of beans into his mouUi. leaned back In his chair and 'lowed as how we should make ourselves at home, being, as it was, cold and! sopping as an overworked dishcloth ' outside tho cabin. A firs blazed Its welcome In Sil ver Tip's neat little cook stove, and steam arose from our water-logged Levis as we huddled together In the small room. A mountain rain, the tall-ender of winter storms, beat onj the roof. We were glad to be Inside.' A mile and a half high, we were, ! In the Wallowa mountains of north1 eastern Oregon. We had found Sfl-' ver Tip's cabin a veritable haven of: refuge after the arduous and sometimes perilous horseback trip irom wan own lake, 6 ft miles in, back of us. Silver Tip's trim cabin,! hewn from the mountain forests,' rests near the shore of beautiful' Aneroid lake. J "So you thought It was pretty "aj"grswwppwrissi j ik : . mmm 'aswsK mrfA -urn l. f,t2Xff--.r. r'-T :-T ..T"SFI 1 sUvelJ-ha'lMd m'd y0"h ' clu:kl1ed theMotorlog party trantfer from one form of transportation to another, before the lodge . Is Charles Seeber, amused at his I here to Aneroid," he began. "Take a look at this little map. It II show you just how little you've seen." Silver Tip related many of the things John Conwell, genial asso ciate manager of the Wallowa Lake lodge, had related the night before as we slumped comfortably In large, rustic chairs before a mas sive fireplace in the lobby. fuesta' apparent exhaustion. Part of Mountains i Silver Tip is the "old man of the mountains" the Wallowa moun tains. He loves them. He has lived in them so long that Silver Tip and the Wallowas have become almost synonymous. He will always be a part of them. None can really know those towering, jagged peaks with out knowing him. Forty-eight yoara ago the doctor! looKea at 10-year-old (Jharley Sea bar In Walla Walla, shook his head and said there was virtually no hope. Charley, a smiling, ambitious we could have scaled The Matter-! horn, 10,004 feet up, the highest peak In the primitive area. Other Routes Desirable Better yet, had we been better horsemen and allowed three extra days, we could have traveled the Losttne-Mtnam loop and camped the first night In the lake basin, from where we could have crone to The lake basin trln mull, hv n.Mlnam Ink. n nna .nil nf urki.h trail hewn through an area of 33 is Mlnam river; at the other endiwas of special steel but used about glacial lakes ranging In elevation ( LoaUne river. We could have fol- 0,8 P1" for sundry construction from 7000 to 8600 feet, would have i lowed either of these for some of !ttnd repair jobs. Carefully, he lifted been the Ideal trip had weather j the most spectacular scenery in the j down strange contraption, been fr.vorable and had we al- Wallowa mountains. which, lo, was a Harmonica fixed lowed two days Instead of one, he "Oh. you've got to come back," 10 brace designed to fit firmly "Do you play the saw?" he asked of Silver Tip. Blushing as well as the weather beaten old face could blush he ventured he could a little bit Prac ticed for years, but the saw was a mighty hard instrument to master. Hard, sometimes, to remember what you started In to play. "Here, ril show you." He brought down the bow and the saw, which lad, had tuberculosis. They called it ' "ttl1- Her would have found! said Silver Tip. consumption. One chance remained to save his life, the doctor said. Get him away to a higher, drier air. Charley's father, desirous of doing evorjnning possioie to save nls son, chose the Wallowa mountains. Out fitting themselves, the Seebers began the long trek to Aneroid lake, which back In the '80s was wild and untouched as the moun tain sheep that still roam there. Charley Silver Tin didn't die. Instead, his lithe body became ruRged and strong as Aneroid nolnt. . Now he can out-pack the average horse. "Some difference between this and the city life you fellers are usea to, ne cnirped, scraping up his dishes, carefully wiping the oil cloth-topped table and finally muing dock in nia favorite chair. Names Motorloggere "Let's see, now. You're Air. Pang born," pointing to Arden X. Pang born, executive news editor of The Oregonlan, who by this time had moved somewhat further from the torching little stove and launched a vicious attack upon a ham sand wich. "You're Mr. Gobble," Silver Tip barked, Indicating Richard Goebel, Ford man for the advertising firm of McCann-Erlckson, who at that particular moment was drying his rearage and nursing a saddle blis ter on his shin. "And I guess you're Mr. Hall, the AAA man." A great talker and fascinating as a dime novel that really belongs In the slicks Silver Tip stretched out his long lega and moved on to tne subject of the woather and his mounlAlna. "Ain't seen such a spring In all Uie 48 years I been here. Been rain ing constantly, and that ain't right, yuu anow. it s usually swell weather even this early brisk and brilliant, with the moon, the stars and tho mountains. Makes you wish vou live glaciers extending to the very edge of trout-filled lakes. We would have ridden around or over Eagle Cap, from the 6675-foot summit of which we could have seen the en tire basin with all Its lakes. We could have camped out, over night, nothln' yet." Pangborn spied a carpenter's saw, a fiddle bow and a peculiar contraption like a hock-shop ver sion or a collar-Done splint, hang ing on the wall beside the spice rack. "You ain't seen ' a,ound 016 necK and shoulders to Keep tne instrument in place be fore the Hps. JOSEPH - j s't, ew - . - aw under the pines and a billion wink ing stars. Or. rambled Silver Tin. we cnitlH couin oe in love but damltal, I'm nave cniscied our way along the ad voo oiu ana runny looKin' for that, anyway. "In a few days It'll all 'be over, and summer will really be. here." That was a month ago, and the Wallowas now bask under bright blue sky, fishing is good In An eroid lake and Silver Tip Is happy. Ilaven't Seen It All cfv -.1 'A "c' -( Vi( - go.oo. ,1 1 urT, I If Bi-t. O 'V I jo"-6 1 venturous trail to Ico lnlte. no fur ther away from Wallowa lodire than Aneroid lake. Our route would have! tnicen us over the most spectacular horseback trail In the west, the last mile and three-quarters of which rises ftillv .lann fnn Tn. l.b too and his eyos twinkled under Map ihowt Wallowa mean ttie silver mop of hair teems with fa,'n district trail i and nnintm enstorn brook trout that are glut- ;,"J tra" ana Pn" tons for flies, spinners or bait theof mterett, while smaller enllro senson. Hnd we possessed i maP tnowt location of Wal- "Of course you fellows know that you haven't seen all of the Wal. lowas just because you've been uplSllvor Tips vigor and endurance lowat in ttate of Oregon. Looked Like Chancier Rigged out, Silver Tip looked like a character from "Banjo On My Knee." He played, earnestly and well. The music sounded like the mountains, which had listened to the mellow, whining tones of the saw and the rollicking notes of the mouth harp for many years. We could visualise a winter night, snow ns high as the roof, with the wind and sleet howling a weird accom paniment and Silver Tip all alone. It was three o'clock. Time had passed like magic In Silver Tip's cabin. It bad been like an amazing dream, or a chapter in an absorb ing novel. The rain had not ceased. We would have to make the hard down hill trip to the lodge in the same rain that had softened the trail and soaked us to the skin as we ascended to Aneroid lake. It was with some apprehension that we mounted our horses, waved good-bye to Silver Tip and started down the precipitous 6 'A -mile trail. Constant hammering of rain was bound to soften the trail, we knew. Carefully and expertly built, as it was, there were places so abrupt and so narrow that It seemed in evitable the pounding rain would weaken It to the point where one false step by our horses would send us plunging and rolling to destruc tion. Finally Safe Again ' Finally back on level ground at1 the foot of the trail, the horses,; too. breathed a sigh of relief. They, were anxious to reach their stable, and we let them run, despite saddle- soreness or which we all com plained. Harley Hamilton, head guide and owner of a string of 50 fine saddle horses, which he rents to recrea tionists. met us at the stables. He was scheduled to make the trip, with us, but business that day pre vented it. Harley, like Silver Tip, knows mountains, and someday, he said, he'd show us the lake basin. Ice lake or Uie Lostlne-Mlnam country. Next day we loaded the motorlog I car and started on the 367-mlle re- turn trip to Portland. Rounding! calm Wallowa lake, we gazed back1 Into the towering peaks and bads' a silent good-bye to Silver Tip and! his "Switzerland of America." I LINKED AS CLUE 10 Protect Children Aim Of Goodrich's Safety Drive Here the children I Use safe BtVKRLY, Mass., July 34. (API The story book career of a smalt town girl who became one of the nation's wealthiest women was ended today with the death of Mrs. Marshall Field, 84, widow of the Chicago mer chant prince. Pneumonia with which she was trlcken three days ago took her life last night at her summer home at Pride's crosalng. She became the bride of the first Marshall Field at historic 8t. Mar garet's church In London and she was given a pre-nuptatl settlement f (1.000,000. Field, 70 and a widower when he married, died four months after the ceremony In New York, on January 1. 1008. His widow, who had no children by either of her marriages, shared In his ROCIirSTKIl. N.Y.. July 34, ( API State police combed central New York highways today for a clue to the mysterious disappearance of Morris B. clone, 23-yre.r-old Rochester scoutmaster, while In the Missouri authorltlea pur7led over the Identity of a roadxloe murder victim clad In the mining man's clothes. The searchers proceeded on the theory that Clow, who rtltapprarrd Monday while driving from Albany to Rochester, may have been vylsld. robbed of his cor and clothing and poaalbly slain. The victim, whoae bullet-riddled body was discovered brslte a hlM wy near Kingdom city. ws identi fied tentatively by Pmwcutor T. A Faucett of Calloway County. Mo, a that of Cameron Pedlcy of Oregon. Mo. The prosecutor was frankly purpled, however, by the fact that the mur der victim wsb covered by coat and blanket which he said had been icien- state, mostly Chicago real estate tilled as belonging to the musing valued upward of eaOO.OOO.OOO. J Close. "Protect tlresl" This theme of the B. F. Ooodrlch company's safety drive was empha slwrt by H. M. Baker, northwest dls irlrt mnnngcr of the B. F. Ooodrlch company, In a warning to all store employes. "Many people rut themselves to necdlo.vi rlk and danger by falling to observe rules of (he road." he .aid. "One regulation perhaps moat frequently overlooked relates to school busies. "When a school bus displays a stop signal all vehicles approaching from either direction, shall stop not lc. thin SO foet nwiv and shall not proceed until signal has been released." Ability to stop, however. Baker declared reata largely on funda mental qualifications of driver and car. He said one of the best evl dences of a careful driver Is the condition of the driver's csr as to tires and equipment. Ooodrlch. pioneer safety crusader. Is the manufacturer of ooodrlch Sllvcrlown tire with the life-saver golden ply which reduces the haz ard of blowouts. FARM TENANT AID BILL SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON. July 34. (AP, President tUioMvelt signed today Ire .slit ton suthorlritiR the federal gov ernment to embark upon prpsjrum to Mlst tenants and shflrecmppers to nrqiilre fnrm ham The bill, which followed general recommendations the chief executive mde to concrcM early In th senMon. authorizes the URiiciiUure depart ment to make liberal loans to thrifty tenants for purchase of farms. 4 i Mall Tribune want ad. iJi l yui J U U C "MEET ME AT THE MANX ON FAMOUS POWELL ST, A Pleaimnt Stop utrr on the Trip to San f ranrlsco Crust the Bridget Outing Pa.tlihtt HOTEL WOODLAND WOODLAND. CALIF. New. fireproof building on P s Highway 99- 80 ROOMS 80 BATHS RATES FROM $2 00 COFr It SHOP ROOM i:kvi(-e - rivtRN OFFICIAL AAA HOTEL COOl IN SIMM1R W.S.K.M IN IMNTtB Date H. Clumbers. Proprietor IF YOU WANT TO HIT THE HIGH SPOTS-TRY THIS STRUNG on tteel cablet 210 feet above the CapDano Canyon near Vancouver. British Columbia, the 410-foot suspension bridge Cower left) la worth a visit if you want something new in thrills. Seemingly lota of people do and the bridge it one of the most popular tourist attrac tions on the Pacific Coatt Like the greater part of the country around Vancouver, third largest city in Canada, the Capilano Canyon it totally unspoilt and it iutt at it was when Indiana and fishermen were its only visitora. The picture at the upper right, featuring The Lions, twin moun tain peak overlooking Vancouver and (lower right) i bit of landscape neat Chilliwack not far from the Pacific metropolis, are typical of the natural beauty of the country within only i few minutes' motor drive of the heart of the city. The sketch map, inset, indicates the geographical .1 7 !. ... . if a : 1-1.1 - C..ul. u vsiibwuver iu iivoxGsi Big American ucikuuui, 0u1.1v. vANceuvta 4 VICTORIA W CAHABA "- II . A. J. ""J'''!t If --fill . I llITi i ilTlissail II ill mi -.-'r-';V:'J Women Drivers Like Safety Features Of New Willys Models A canvasa of women driven who operate Willys cars reveals a steadily increasing number of owners who are citing safe operation as one of the outstanding features of the car, according to a statement by David R. Wilson, president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. Flexibility In operation, positive re sponse of the due-serve type brakes, clear forward vision and side and rear vision, and ease of steering ar the points most frequently mentioned by women as contributing to the feei ng of security in handling the car. The brakes are Identical with those used on other cars of materially long er wheelbase and weighing upward of 600 pounds more, according to Mr. Wilson. The same Is true of the steering mechanism and of practically every constructional detail adding to strength and to operating control. Economy of operation, while not a contributing factor to safe driving. Is given by many women drivers as a reason for their satisfaction with the car. Up to 35 miles to the gallon of fuel la commonly reported, with fig ures In excess of this high mileage al so being reported. In a series of tests which are now being arranged by Willys dealers In many parts of the country, safe driv ing contests are being developed which are open to women drivers. These Include braking tests, traf fic driving control tests, and a gen eral demonstration which will enable the driver to make her own records for fuel ecenomy. In these teats, conditions resemb ling those which are ordinarily met In daily driving, are developed and the contestants are graded as to the rapidity or their reaction to emerg ency. Early Indications are that the win ner of the Willys Challenge Economy contest, open to all motor cars drivers of legal age, and being conducted by 3000 Willys dealers throughout the United States, will establish a figure of well In excess of 35 miles to the gallon, according to word Just receiv ed here by Mead Motor Co., dealer In Willys cars, from factory officials in Toledo. Ohio. The grand price to the contestant who makes the highest average, using an official one-tenth mile gasoline mileage tester, will be a Willys De Luxe sedan. A second prize will be a Willys Standard sedan. In addition to the grand prise and the second prize, there are prizes for each zone in the Willys dealer organi zation. The feature of the Willys Economy contest- Is that the average owner Is given a fair chance to show Just what ha or she can do in the way of get ting high mileage from an accurately measured amount of gasoline. Out of the combined figures set by contestants throughout the country, the Willys organization expects to confirm the vast volume of owners reports which have, shown up to 35 miles to the gallon as readily ob tained by this car. The rules of the contest stipulate normal driving conditions and the elimination of coasting and other driving tricks designed to secure mile age figures tinder abnormal condl-1 .ions. Local Willys dealers are furnishing cars for the contest, equipped with the gasoline testing equipment. MATTERN FLIGHT AUSTIN, Tex., July 34. (AP) Jlmmle Mattern's hope of obtaining a department of commerce permit Tor a proposed nonstop alrplsne flight from California to Russia rest ed with Senstor Morris Sheppard to day. Gov. James V. Allred. christening Mattern's plane, "The Texan," said the Texas senator was seeking a' per mit for the proposed flight, which sponsors claim Is for scientific pur. poses. niiiL'j-i.nii.i.N,. w ifiimvpi.s-yi A I kill r - : VIIIts can cut your automobile budget just about in half. The price is much lower the pay ments are much lower and if you average a thousand miles a month, you can probably save 95 to $7 a month on gasoline. Willys offers you more seating space than any other low-priced ear all-steel top and body large luggage .pare safely glass all-around. Belter investigate. tiMTVnn Ceding 3(J miles per gnllon" . . . IATJ MR. 0WAI.TNIY WIN A WILIYS FREEI a.infer fsleib el the treat Will,. Inaemy (eater) 18 So. Fir 8t. MEAD MOTOR CO. Phone 990 rVIra - .AnHfoM a rlmf. rllhwl aW. .
