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rOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ' Wednesday. August 13, 1952 Canada's Old and New Studied In Vancouver, Victoria Motorlog I .Jawiiaii jpi iiawiimw JmmmiiL wnMawiiK mtm saw it ii jtihri rr tt r"1 r ' 'mm-im.mm, -rey-swsy waaav ....Trans lljm T-ijfliWfTWwfcrtiHfffrmriii:-:in rir Ti Hi' f rihww" HUM uriTHIil "I IT'rtii liiiM'ii 11 nVni Vancouver island scenery raries from wild mountains and forests to rolling peaceful farm lands. This pastoral scene was taken from highway vantage point near Sydney, a few miles north of Victoria. Scores of tiny islands offshore are skirted on ferry trip to Vancouver. r One City Has Charm, llhe Other, Briskness; I Both Are Friendly The fallowing Is m condensation f a motorlog appearing In the Au gust 10 issue of the Northwest's Own Magazine. The Sunday Ore gonian. It Is one of a series spon sored "Jointly by The Oregonlan and the Oregon State Motor asso ciation. BY MERVIN SHOEMAKER Staff Writer. The OretonUn Victoria, the capital city of , Canada's Bri tish Columbia prov jince, has nearly five times as many guests annually as it has permanent residents, i Its motel operators, its retail ! clerks, its service station attend ' ants all are alert to please the (visitor. Most of these 500,000 visitors, ,also, go through Vancouver, ; Canada's third largest? city, whose metropolitan population .'about equals that half-million ! figure, or even exceeds it. Victoria has charm, Vancou ver is bustle. To see these two cities one after the other is to absorb the mixed air of tradition and prog ress that is an outstanding fea ture of today's changing Canada. 1 Vancouver is taking a' big part in the Canadian industrial development drive that is at- Twd fpTrv tries ra Teaufrod : s, v wvui aaejr wu m sism to Vancouver to Victoria and jthen home via Hood's CanaL tracting much United States in vestment money and, incident ally,' making the Canadian dol lar worth from $1.02 to $1.03 of our money. Victorians applaud the domin ion development, but they also carefully nurture the old-world air that contributes much to making the provincial capital an attractive vacation spot. They do it for two reasons. They know it pays. But they do it also because they have a lot of the British feeling and tradi tion, time, and the way things often work . all right if they aren't hurried. However, the two cities are worth a Canadian trip for themselves alone, and they can be visited by an easy motor trip by Oregon and Washington res idents. Highway 99 through Seattle joins Canadian highway No. 1 just north of Blaine, on the in ternational boundary, and the motorist travels Kingsway into downtown Vancouver after crossing the Fraser river at New Westminster. ' Park Recommended Vancouver offers about as many days of enjoyable- trips as the average vacationist has to spend, and one of the first should be Stanley park. De scribed as a "forest primeval within a city," it represents a long-range planning that is rare in any country. The luuu-acre area was set aside as a park before all the big trees had been logged off, it displays a skillful blending of natural forest and landscape arusiry. - Here is headquarters of the Vancouver Yacht club, along with horticultural gardens, wild animals in cages, and the fa mous Malkin bowl, among the tall cedars, where thousands are attracted by the symphonies and concerts of the "theater under the stars." . Vancouver has many scenic drives,, and offers short boat trips to points of interest along the nearby coast and in the various inlets. The fisherman can find his sport close at hand, and . waterfowl and big game hunting are nandy also in sea son. But Vancouver doesn't limit its display to scenery and recre ation, it is eager also to show its industry fishing, lumber ing, pulp and paper, etc. and the figures prove it is getting more to show all the time, along with much of the rest of Canada. You can inspect the . harbor first hand on the ferry trip to Victoria, or to Nanaimo, from which it is a 70-mile drive to Victoria. You will need a reser vation for the Canadian Pacific ferry, about a day ahead. The harbor outlet is called the "first narrows," and also the "lions gate." The Lions Gate bridge, 200 feet above the water, will make any Portlander think . of the St. Johns bridge as he travels under it. Get Motel Early Arrived in Victoria, you find that one activity motel occu pancydoesn't move at slow bell. Get one early. Then you can seek out the old-world air of leisure, which must be under -a terrific strain from Americans hurrying around to enjoy it first in one place and then in an other. One place not to. hurry is up the broad granite steps of the parliament building, a huge sandstone structure built in 1947, where the provincial par liament meets. The way up the steps is barred by a large iron gate at all times except when parliament is in session, or other state, occasion warrants its opening. The building is entered through a small door near by, which is boldly marked". "Main En trance." Built In 1897, the parliament building was done so ornately in days of lower building costs that the province is not trying to follow its architectural style in later building. Near the parliament building is another "must" on the Vic toria sightseer's list, the Em press hotel. This is a huge ivy covered structure of venerable) history, with more to recom mend it in charm than in mod ern convenience. Victoria also has a wealth of recreational areas within easy driving distance, including fish ing, golf, hunting and innumer able points of sightseeing in-' terest. . , Take the Black Ball ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles. Wash,, for your return trip, and you can revel in a United States' version of scenic attrac-' tion as you parallel Hood canal coming down the Olympia pen- 1 insula and on back home. DIDN'T TAKE CHANCE Kalamazoo, Mich. (U.PJ When an unmasked gunman walked into Henry Kline's dry goods store Kline calmly called into the back room: "Trena, this is a stickup. Call the police." Kline's wife wasn't in the back room, but the gunman did not check. He checked out. Dead line Sunday Classified! is at noon Saturdays. First Time In Medford! This is a delicious Italian recipe designed to be served with your favorite beverage. Pizza is prepared at Bud and Lucille's by Joe Acuna, Italian chef par excellence, from Chicago. PIZZA WILL BE SERVED MONDAY THRU FRIDAY FROM 3 to 10 P.M. Come In and Try It! BUD & LUCILLE'S CAFE McAndrews at Court 'Gulliver's Travels' Vords Being Studied Berkeley, Calif, oj.r) The origin and meaning of the tongue-twisting words in "Gulli ver's Travels" have been noted by Dr. Harold D. Kelling, assist ant professor of English on the Berkeley campus of the Univer sity of California. Swift used the "splacknuck" to describe a small (6 foot) ani mal to which he compared Gulli ver. It seems to be a reversal of two Greek and Latin words for dog-headed baboon, Kelling said. - Kelling shows that Swift de lighted in syllable juggling, spelling words backwards, acrostics, and cryptograms. Rather than sticking to Eng lish, Swift drew at random from French, Italian, Greek, Latin, and Irish. He also confused his borrow ings by mixing letters, by re versing the normal spellings, by phonetic spelling and by other ingenious devices. Aviation Gasoline Supply To Be Adequate Next Year Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States will have adequate supplies of aviation gasoline by next year despite today's pres ent tight aviation fuel situation.. according to a government, oil expert. The official, who cannot be named, said the U.S. petroleum industry is expanding its facili ties for producing aviation fuel and those facilities will ease the acute supply picture. He made this flat statement: " "There will be no (aviation fuel supply) problem in this country beginning next year." He said that assumes contin uation of the mobilization pro gram at its present- pace and Far Eastern fighting on about the present scale. Enough for War Should an all-out war de velop, he said, the oil industry still would be able to build new capacity for making needed aviation gasoline "as rapidly as the war planes can be built to consume it." Although production figures for aviation gasoline are a well- guarded secret, the fuel is admit tedly short now. It has been scarce ever since outbreak of the Korean war and the recent oil strike made the supply picture tighter: Aside - from the Far Eastern fighting, there are three major reasons why aviation gasoline is scarce: 1. Lack of highly-specialized refining equipment necessary to turn out the high octane fuel. 2. Shutdown of the Abadan (Iran) refinery which used to produce about nine per cent of the world's aviation gasoline supply. 3. Tremendous - increase since the end of World War II in com mercial aviation. Alkylate Scanty- Aviation gasoline is made by mixing alkylate a very high grade gasoline with other com ponents. At present, alkylate is the bottleneck in aviation fuel production. During World War II both the government and industry built plants for producing aviation fuel, but they were largely high- cost producers. When demand fell off immediately after the war, the plants were dismantled. Even if they hadn't been, they would be almost useless today because they produced a fuel far inferior to that" burned in to day's aircraft. Today's product requires twice as much alkylate " lit tfm Dead line Sunday Classifieds is at 8:30 pjn. for following day; 10 a m Monday for Monday: noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. JUST a canine cad is this traitorous pup with a firm grip on. Melissa Koenning's briefs in San Antonio, Texas, yard. Papa Mel Koennlng, a photographer, made the pbpto, (International) They all COUNT ON CANE! howcAoutyoii? HOMEMAKERS choose C and H Cane Sugar 4 to lover any other brand in Pacific Coast homes! FOOD EXPERTS... Home Economists of . the West choose C and H Cane Sugar 4 to 1 over any other brand! CANNING CHAMPIONS of 40 State and County Fairs aS used C and H " Cant Sugar. JELLY SWEEPSTAKES WINNERS in 40 big Western , Fairs aS used C and H Cant Sugar for each gallon of gasoline as the World' War II product did. . Refiners Aided , To get the' extra alkylate needed, the Petroleum Admini stration for Defense (PAD) "start ed shortly after the outbreak of the Korean, war to -encourage private refiners to build neces sary equipment. Tax relief and other government help .went first to the refiners who were willing to undertake the work. PAD refuses to give details on progress of that program oth er than to say it "is good." PAD officials say the oil in dustry has managed to meet the demand for aviation gasoline since the outbreak of the Far Eastern fighting but it .- hasn't been able to do much more so far. For that reason, no reserve cushion has been built up and when the oil strike cut off a big portion of refining capacity, there was no reserve to fall back on. Fighters Not Hampered Even at that, the oil official said, the strike had no effect on actual combat flying operations in Korea because the military is using only a small per cent of the nation's aviation gasoline output to fly fighting planes in the Far East. The remainder of the military aviation fuel is used for training and supply opera tions. . . The official also said that if it should be necessary to fly an other airlift to supply Berlin there will be plenty of fuel for the planes. He explained that the aircraft that would be used in such an operation are flying elsewhere now. They might fly more on an airlift, he said, but not enough more to have ah ap preciable effect on present sup plies. , Whale Blubber May Be Used in Wool Synthetics Cambridge, Mass. (U.R) An American-educated Japanese xe search specialist has discovered how to make wool and "other textile synthetics from whale blubber, according to a Massa chusetts Institute of Technology professor. Prof. Rogers B. Finch, who re cently returned from the Far East as a Mutual Security Agency consultant to Rangoon University in Burma, said use of whale blubber in the United States would "make our wool synthetics considerably cheaper." Finch said the discoverer is elderly Dr. Yoshio Shita, who studied at the University of Chi cago and later in .Germany. Dr, Shita is a nuclear physicist as well as a private researcher. Oil Is Superior "In his experiments," Finch said, "Dr. Shita discovered that by heavily compressing whale blubber instead of boiling it to extract the oil- it leaves the blubber in a condition whereby a fiber can be extracted easily by ordinary textile processes." Another important result, Finch said, is that the oil is better than if it . were boiled. That would be a selling . point to whalers if and when Dr. Shita overcomes the problem of having his method recognized by the Japanese government, which fi nances much of the textile indus try in that country. The new method, Finch said, would enable Japan to- produce at least 75 of its textile needs. Japan now imports the bulk of its wool. Finch said that ordinarily whale blubber is a waste product Low Moisture Content . "Under Shita's findings," he said, "the blubber has some prop erties which no other fiber has. One of the properties is its low rate' of moisture content. Finch said that before the blubber's immediate process into wool the "residual oil would have to be removed." Thus far, he said, American textile com panies are not geared for the ad ditional process. - ' , "The United States economy on whales has not been explored and since I'm not familiar with the situation, I dare not venture into how Dr. Shita's discoveries could be exploited here on -- a large scale," Finch said. Young Xoon Hound Adopts Arch Enemy Fulton, Miss. (U.R) A red bone coon hound owned by C. B. Brown has "adopted one of her arch enemies, a baby racoon. Mandy, four year old, lost her litter of pups. She appeared glum until someone on the farm found a young- racoon and plac ed it in a cage near the Brown home. They !named it Bozo and fed it with a medicine dropper. The dog began to hang around the cage as if she wanted to at tack the 'coon, so to see what would happen, Brown let the coon out of the cage. To his sur prise, Mandy started - playing with it as gently as she .would with one of her own pups. In a Idaho's UN Foe Wins Renominalion In Primary Vote Boise (U.R) Republican Congressman John T. Wood, 74-year-old foe of United States participation in the United 'Na tions, .- won renomination in the only spirited contest in Idaho's primary election Tuesday. Wood, a physician from Coeur d'Alene, in theNorth Idaho Pan handle,, defeated Erwin H. Schwiebert, Caldwell, former as sistant to the president of the College of Idaho. Mrs. Pfot Opponent His opponent in the November general election will be Mrs. Gracie Pfost, Nampa, who was also the Democratic nominee in 1950. Mrs. Pfost led the closest of her three opponents, Compton I. White who served eight terms in congress, by more than 5,000 votes. With 346 of 399 precincts reporting, Mrs. Pfost had 10, 269 votes to 4,910 for White, 4,470 for state Senator L. Cotty Lowry and 1,936 for Paul A. Eke, former professor of agri culture at the University of Ida ho. The tabulation showed 14, 710 votes for Wood, and 12,776 for Shwiebert. The second Con gressional district drew only one candidate from each party so their nominations were automa tic. But "courtesy" voting was watched with interest as an indi cation of the possible November winner. In this show of strength, Re publican incumbent Hamer H. Budge, 41-year-old son of a for mer Idaho Supreme Court jus tice, had an edge of about three to one over W. H. "Pete" Jen sen, Downey stockman and far mer. Budge is now completing his first term in Congress. The count from 327 of 466 pre cincts gave Budge 37,440 votes and Jensen 14,390. 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