BLM Has Trouble Getting
Timberland for Washington
Washington QJ.R) Sen.
Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.)
said Saturday the Bureau of
Land Management is having dif
ficulty finding enough accept
able land to give to Washington
state to fill a 150,000 acre com
mitment due since it entered the
union.
Jackson said the bureau ha3
found 40,000 acceptable acres
in western Washington and is
now surveying the eastern and
central parts of the state.
Land for Schools
Jackson said the grants were
the result of a provision that
the state was to receive 150,000
acres of land for school purposes
when it entered the union. The
grants were never made.
The current effort to transfer
the federal land to the state,
Jackson said, is the result of a
conference he , had with state
school officials last January.
He said state law provides
that the land accepted from the
federal government must be
worth at least $10 an acre. .
"Indications now are that the
government does not have that
much acceptable land, Jackson
said. "There is little that is of
suitable timber quality."
Damaged Ship 450
Miles from Coast
Seattle (U.PJ The freighter
P&T Trader, which suffered a
cracked hull in the North Pacific
early Wednesday, was reported
about 450 miles off Cape Flat
tery, Wash., Saturday with the
Coast Guard cutter Klamath es
corting her.
The ship is tentatively headed
for Seattle and is making slow
progress, the Coast Guard said.
The tug Salvage Chief wa's ex
pected to reach the P&T Trader
sometime Saturday.
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NEW GADGET L. B. McKellar, (right) driver
examiner for PT&T Co., and W. W. Williams,
plant service foreman, Geft) measure results of
a driver stop-test by a reactance timer while
Sgt. Clyde Fichtner of the Medford police and
Earl D. DeLisle, plant service foreman, PT&T,
look on. The tests are being given all over the
state to employees of PT&T. (Brainerd photo.)
Driver Training and Testing
Conducted for PT&T Drivers
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Sunday, November 21, 1954
German firm Enters
Low Bid on Dam Work
Portland U.R) American
Ligurian Company of New York
was low of 14 bidders with an
offer of $102,146 for furnishing
a 30-ton gantry crane for The
Dalles dam, Army engineers said
Saturday. The firm represents
German manufacturing interests.
Lowest American bid . was
$151,710 by Bedford Foundry &
Machine company on an f.o.b.
basis from Bedford, Ind. '
The bids were taken . under
advisement.
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
WEATHER By United Press
Norther California: Fair Sun
day except local morning fog in
valleys and some high cloudi
ness over northern portion; little
change in temperature. " ;
When Sari Francisco's Palace
Hotel reopened after the 1906
fire, the key to the main door
was sent aloft, hitched to five
balloons, .which drifted out to
sea. ' .-- .
A driver training and testing
course for employees of Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph com
pany who drive company cars
was started here recently.
: L. B. McKellar, driving ex
aminer for PT&T in Portland,
arrived last week to administer
the tests in this area.
Each driver undergoes a thor
ough driving examination, which
covers everything from a driv
er's reaction to emergency situa
tions to routine parking. "
The program was started three
years ago by PT&T for plant de
partment employees in Portland.
The plan proved so successful
that the program was extended
to all driving employees of the
company. :
Vial Released
Preventable accidents have
been cut from 28 per month to
5, McKellar ". said. About 900
cars owned by PT&T are driven
by 2,000 employes in the state.
The testing involves what Mc
Kellar calls the reactance timer.
Accompanied by McKellar, the
driver being tested must apply
the brakes when McKellar pulls
a cord, setting off a detonator.
A vial of paint is released when
the detonator is set off. Another
vial is blown on the. pavement
when the driver steps on the
brake.
The distance between the first
and second daubs of paint on
the pavement is the driver's re
actance time or distance.
Smoothness Tested
Also tested is a drivers smooth
ness of driving. This is done by
what McKellar calls a decelero
meter, which is a box of metal
cylinders. The cylinders tip
over with jerky drivers or stay
upright with a steady driver.
Also tested are smoothness of
shifting, passing, stopping and
starting, turning, backing,
whether or not the driver ob
serves traffic signals and signs,
and whether the driver can park
efficiently.
McKellar laid out a 21-foot
parking space with poles mark
ing the distances. The driver
must be able to park within the
two poles.
Purpose of the driver training
program is not only to cut down
on traffic accidents and repair
costs, but to determine the pro
ficiency and training needs, of
PT&T drivers, McKellar said.
The testing gives each driver
a greater knowledge of his driv
ing limitations, a more complete
knowledge and understanding of
traffic regulations, and gives
each driver the knowledge as to
whether he meets requirements
of the state, city and PT&T driv
ing standards, he said.
California Couple Refuse
To Sell Valuable Painting
Beverly Hills, Calif. (U.R)
An American husband and wife
said Saturday they were not
going to sell a long-lost valuable
self portrait of Elizabeth Vigree
Le Brun discovered in their am
ateur are collection.
The painting is not for sale,"
said Mr. and Mrs. William M.
Harris, who bought it at public
auction several years ago for
less than $1,000. "We liked and
enjoyed it very much before we
discovered its true significance."
Worth $75,000
Art curators who viewed the
painting since its origin has been
Army Reserve Unit
Men Promoted;
Non-Corn at School
Four enlisted men in . the
Army reserve 382nd quarter
master batallion here have re
ceived promotions recently, ac
cording to Lt. Col. Jack Hartley,
commanding officer. ' .
Donald I. Hunter, 18 Elm st.,
and Gary G. Johnston, Box 1104,
have both been promoted from
basic private to private. Gordon
R. Gillmore, 425 South Oakdale
ave., and Ted W. Landers, route
3, box 544, Coker Butte rd.,
Medford, have been made pri
vates first class, which corres
ponds to the rank of corporal
under the old ratings.
Sergeant Robert E. Earnest,
formerly of Medford and a
member of the battalion now on
active duty with the Army, is
now attending the adjutant gen
eral's school for machine ac
counting specialists at Ft. Ben
jamin Harrison in Indiana, Col
onel Hartley has been informed.
Selected For School
He graduated with honors
from the Army administrative
school at Ft. Ord, Calif., recent
ly, and was selected for the
advanced school. His address is
now Company B, The AG school,
Ft. Harrison, Indiana.
Sergeant Earnest earned - his
stripes with the reserve battal
ion here, and retained them
when called to active duty. He
told Colonel Hartley that his
training with the reserves great
ly assisted him in his present
assignment.
Colonel Hartley said Saturday
that any young man, veterans or
non-veterans, would be welcome
to visit the battalion's weekly
meetings each Tuesday at the
Federal building.
verified declared it was valued
up to $75,000.
Harris, West Coast representa
tive of a Chicago electric com
pany, realized the possibility of
the painting being a Mme. Le
Brun self portrait when he and
Mrs. Harris saw the duplicate of
their painting in the Uffizi Art
Gallery in Florence, Italy.
Identical Portraits
Investigation of records, Har
ris said, disclosed Mme. Le Brun
did the identical portraits in
1789 in Rome, painting one to
qualify for membership in the
Academy of Rome and the other
for the TJffizi Gallery.
Thus far, Harris had not been
able to learn how his painting
got to the United States and then
to California.
The painting is a three-quarter
length self portrait of the artist
while at work on a painting of
Marie Antoinette, then Queen
of France. Mme. Le Brun lived
from 1755-1842.
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Ship Being Prepared
For Antarctica Trip
Boston U.R) Navy crew
men lined the bulkheads of the
USS Atka with four inches of
cork insulation Saturday amidst
last-minute preparations, for the
1954 - Antarctic - expedition,
which will itake the ship to
snow-covered Little America.
Cmdr. Glen Jacobsen, of Seat
tle, disclosed that the ship, leav
ing here Dec. 1 for five months
of exploration near the bottom
of the world, would stop Jan
1-7 at Wellington, New Zealand,
to take on final supplies.
Then, he said, the Atka an
icebreaker would head south
to the Ross Sea near Little Am
erica and to the Wedell ea,
south of Cape Horn.
Lakes impounded by dams of
the Tennessee Valley, Authority
have an estimated total shore
line of approximately 10,058
linear miles. .
Night Club Star
Loses Eye After
Automobile Crash
Las Vegas, Nev. U.R)
Bouncy singing star Betty Hut
ton insisted Saturday she still
was in retirement despite the
fact she replaced injured enter
tainer Sammy Davis Jr. in a
nightclub show.
The energetic blonde, who
tearfully retired from show
business only 12 days ago, ap
peared at the Last Frontier
nightclub last night as a sub
stitute for Davis, who was in
jured seriously in a traffic crash.
Loses Eye
Davis, one of the nation's top
nightclub performers, unsuccess
fully underwent surgery late
Friday to save the sight of an
eye after his car collided with
another auto on TJ. S. Highway
66 near JSan Bernardino, Calif.
After Friday night's show,
Miss Hutton said, "I filled in
tonight only because of Sammy.
I meant what I said about re
tirement and I'm going to take
care of my two kids. I was a
replacement only for tonight."
Short Retirement
: However, in true Hutton style,
she wisecracked, "Wow! This is
the shortest retirement in the
history of show business."
Davis, 28, was en route from
Las Vegas to Hollywood Fri
day when his car collided with
one driven by Mrs. Helen Bosse,
72, Van Nuys, Calif., about two
miles north of San Bernardino.
Davis' companion, Charles
Head, 39, suffered a broken jaw
while Mrs. Bosse received only
minor injuries. ..
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two hitchhikers a ride to Wall
ingford in his auto. On the way,
Boyle stopped and got out to
look at some new houses under
construction. The hitchhikers
kept going with Boyle's car.
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