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A Nkhor Worth of ... Comment On This and That Thursday, May 28, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVZB By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Prw Writer Washington OJ.R) Any old timer who hasn't sat around a pot-bellied stove in a caboose tied onto the fend of a freight train jusi hasn't lived. I did that once. I had a fast, memor able round trip of say 50 miles on a caboose, on a runaway trip from home on account of I Harman Nichols had flunked 7th grade arithmetic. I've looked one up again and the caboose has changed. No longer do caboose " stoves have bellies like Jackie Gleason. Ca booses are rather refined things now. The Association of American Railroads has in its files a won derful volume called "A Treas ury of Railroad Folklore." It's a bunch of stories, tall tales, tradi- u 's MM Reedsport Local Asked To Show Cause Portland (IIP) U. S. Dis trict Judge Gus J. Solomon yes-! terday ordered Reedsport local 7-140 of the International Wood workers of America, CIO, to show cause why an injunction should not be issued to prevent the union's engaging in alleged unfair labor practices in a dis pute with Firchau Bros. Logging company. The National Labor Relations Board charged last month that the union is conducting a second ary boycott by inducing era ploees of Long-Bell Lumber com pany not to use, handle or haul any of the products of the log ging concern. The show cause hearing was set for June 3. Judge Solomon also directed the union to file by May 31 an answer to charges made by the NLRB in its peti tion for an injunction. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day tions and the like. Anecdotes about the little men who made railroads great. Whole Chapter There is a whole chapter on the hind side of the train. This volume, edited by B. A. Botkin and Alvin F. Harlown, tells us that the caboose is known among the railmen by a lot of other namesi "some not printable." It seems the caboose is known in polite railroad society as a crummy, a bedhouse, a dog house, bouncer, buggy, chariot. glory wagon, go-cart, monkey , wagon, palace, parlor, brainbox. i zoo, diner, kitchen, and shanty, j Even the word "caboose," it- j self, is sort of a stepchild, and j isn't American at all. According i to the railroad experts, it is a j conglomeration of a number of j tongues. It first appeared as ! "cambrose" or "camboose" in j the logs of French railroaders during the last century. The j word caboose first appeared in j English literature in 1859 during j a lawsuit against the New York i and Harlem Railway. In the : courtroom, somebody mentioned j that "the men had erected a ca- i boose in which to cook their j meals." The phrase had nothing I to do with the lawsuit, whatever j it was about, but the word" ca- boose" was born. 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