SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, December 14, 1354
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Early Next Year
London (U.R) Benjamin
Frederick Carlin, who crossed
the Atlantic in an amphibious
jeep three months ago, is starting
on his travels again and this
time expects to get clear around
the world.
The 42-year-old Australian and
his Boston born wife Eleanor
plan to leave England for Aus
tralia early next year in their
jeep "Half Safe."
From Australia they will gd
to San Francisco and thence to
Montreal, where Carlin started
driving toward Europe six and
a half years ago.
Carlin, a mining engineer
from Perth who served in the
Indian army during World War
II, boasted once to a friend that
a man could drive an amphibious
jeep around the world under its
own steam, crossing the Pacific
and Atlantic oceans in the
process.
First Start Flops
His friend laughed. So Carlin
bought a surplus U.S. Army
"duck" and set out in June,
1948, from New York bound for
the Azores. A broken bearing
halted him 270 miles out and he
was ignominously towed off to
Montreal by a tanker.
Carlin refused to give up. In
July, 1950, he sailed the 19 foot
"duck" of out Halifax and to the
world's amazement landed in
March, 1951, at Cape July in
Spanish Rio De Oro on the west
coast of Africa.
From there he drove to Lon
don via Casablanca, Tangier,
Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal, Den
mark, Sweden, Holland and
France. He has been here ever
since.
Will Write Book
Carlin said he has spent the
last two and a half years re
building the "duck." He will
spend the next month complet
ing negotiations for publication
of a book describing his Atlantic
crossing and stocking up' for the
next stage of his trip.
In February he and his wife
will begin driving "Half Safe"
across Europe and on to Istanbul,
Driver, Wife To
Leave England
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CARRYING OUT ORDERS of Gen. William Hoge, Commander
in Chief, U. S. Forces in Europe, which directs all rotund mili
tary personnel to bring down weight by dieting and exercise.
(From left), Chief Warrant Officer Marion E. Meeler, Chief
Warrant Officer Arthur Mahras,, and Sergeant Charles
Rider take brisk run around square at airbase in Bushey,
England. Disciplinary action threatened. (International)
A Nichol's Worth of . . .
Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
United Press Feature Writer
. Washington (U.R) The' Brit
ish ' Broadcasting Corporation
tells this story: An American
went into the
Post Office
and asked how
much it would
cost to send a
letter to Amer
ica by service
mail. He was
told that the
tab was two
pence and a
half about
three cents.
The gentle-
man was a little surprised and
asked, wasn't that pretty cheap?
The lady clerk behind the
wicket replied:
"Oh, that's the same rate for
all the colonies." " .
Harman Nichol
Neuberger Warns On Columbia Split
Portland U.R) Senator
elect Richard N. Neuberger
warned the annual convention of
Oregon's rural electric coopera
tives yesterday against giving
approval to any proposal to di
vide up Columbia river power
by states.
Neuberger said that under the
existing freet and above-board
Bonneville act Oregon gets 25
per cent of Columbia river kilo
watts: He said that only 22 per
cent of this power is generated
Allepo, Damascus, Teheran- and
then-across to New Delhi and
Calcutta. He will then go by sea
to the , Malayan coast, and . by
land, arid sea through Indonesia
and Australia. After visiting his
native country he will go via
Singapore .to Saigon, ' the Philip
pines, Formosa, Okinawa, Japan,
Alaska, San Francisco and Mon
treal. ' - . - :
within the state's borders and
that of projects yet to be built
19 per cent will be produced in
side Oregon. "Oregon stands to
lose if it tries to push for state
compartments in power distribu
tion," he said.
The Oregon Democrat said
that proposed interstate com
pacts for the stream's develop
ment would give "dispropor
tionate amounts of electricity to
sparsely-settled upstream areas
in Idaho and Montana to the
sacrifice of new industrial pay-
rolls in Seattle, Portland and
Pendleton areas." .
Pan American Railways or
dered 50,000 calendars and had
mailed put over 800 of them be
fore some sharp-eye discovered
that the -printers had forgotten
to stuff in the month of Septem
ber. As Mike Flynn, the public
information man remarked,
"There went one-third of the
fall.".
FAILS TO IMPRESS
. Van Nuys, Calif. (U.R) Ed
ward Phillips, arrested the sec
ond time for wife beating, tried
unsuccessfully to get his jailers
to release him. Just let me out
of here and I promise I'll divorce
her,", Phillips pleaded.
The Christmas tree ornaments
on the 60-foot tree near' the
White House are made of acetate
plastic this year for the first time.
They won't burn.
The Civil Service Adminis
tration would have you tax-payers
know that a lot of govern
ment workers don't take all of
the 13 days of sick leave that is
coming to. them.. The Civil Aero
nautics Administration alone, re
ports that in its little office 1000
hours of sick leave have gone
untouched. "
Jimmy Stewart, the movie
star, was appearing before the
Federal Communications Com
mission, in the interest of a Tex-
3 : : J. x : -u 1 1 ;
its itfuiu siduuu ill wiiii.ii lie iida
a stake. The examiner asked the
slow-talking Jimmy how far it
was from Galveston to Houston.'
"I'll probably lose all of the
friends I have in Texas," the
actor said,' "but in what part of
Texas is Houston?"
Migrant Labor Problem
Slgted for Discussion
Mexico City U.R) Labor
union spokesmen from the Unit
ed States and Mexico will meet
next month to discuss the mi
grant labor problem.
Secretory General Fidel Ve
lazquez of the Confederation of
Workers of Mexico (CTM) said
yesterday the union leaders
would talk about ways to hold
down the use of illegal Mexi
can labor in the United States.
The meeting was scheduled
for Jan. 12 at Monterrey.
Knowles Returned
To Sacramento
' The Dalles -U.R) Robert C.
Knowles, 47, who watched while
state police dug up the body of
his alleged murder victim . near
Shariiko, Ore., Sunday, was in
Sacramento today for sentenc
ing on federal auto theft
charges.
Knowles, Bangor, Me., con
fessed to the slaying of Albert;
C. Stuart, Wickenberg, Ariz.,
while being held in Sacramento
for stealing Stuart's car. He was
brought to Oregon under a fed
eral order, and will be sentenced
in Federal court for auto theft.
He pleaded guilty to the theft
charge.
Dr. Homer Harris of the state
police crime laboratory said the
body found was badly decom
posed and that identification
would take several days. The
teeth are to be checked against
Stuart's "dental chart. -
Knowles was to be brought
back to Oregon to face a murder
charge after his sentence.
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