rOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
' Wednesday. August 13, 1952
Canada's Old and New Studied
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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.
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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-
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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
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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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is a Coke
Your thirst calls
for some kind of
refreshment...
your taste tells you
to be sure it's
ice-cold Coca-Cola.
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