Medford mail tribune., June 15, 1955, Image 18

SIX MEDFORD (OREGOH) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, June 15, I9SS
Thousands of Nation's Youngsters
Leave Cities for Country Camps
Br UNITED PRESS
The water's fine for swim
ming. The fish are biting, and
the mountain laurel is in fullest
bloom. It's camping season, and
about 4,500,000 camp-bound
American kids are straining at
the leash.
This week and next they'll be
kissing mom and pop goodbye in
railroad and bus stations and on
front doorsteps in every U.S.
city. More than 13,000 resident
and day camps, a figure that is
rising faster than camping asso
ciations can keep track of it, are
waiting to welcome them.
About 250,000 will go from
New York City. Chicago will
disgorge more than 60,000 into
315 camps in Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Indiana, Minesota and
Northern Illinois. The mountains
of California and the Pacific
Northwest will absorb hundreds
of thousands from West Coast
cities.
Some Fees Run High
Young Davy Crocketts from
well-to-do families will go to the
gold coast of the juvenile world
camps where the fee runs as
high as $800 to $1000 for an
eight-week season. Waifs from
the slums will be scooped off
their asphalt playgrounds and
sent to charity camps where the
fee is nothing.
Fifteen teen-agers will spend
two weeks camping out on the
island of Sitka off the Alaskan
coast. Their fee is $600 each. One
hundred diabetic children will
spend two weeks at a camp in
California where no children but
those with diabetes are allowed.
The cost: $50.
The American Camping Asso
ciation says there has been a
phenominal rise in camping
since 1950, especially in day
camps on the outskirts of major
cities.
"Practically everyone who
owns a station wagon is starting
a day camp these days," said
an official of a Chicago depart
ment store where the sale of
camping equipment has been
Military Project
Funds in State Urged
Washington (U.R) Expendi
ture of $2,083,000 for develop
ment of military projects in Ore
gon during the next fiscal year
has been recommended by the
House Armed Services Commit
tee. The bill sent to the floor in
cluded a recommendation to
spend $1,991,000 for conversion
of Klamath Falls municipal air
port into an air defense com
mand base and $92,000 for con
struction of living quarters for
Navy personnel at Tongue Point
Naval Station at Astoria.
Eliminated from the bill was
an item of $554,000 for construc
tion of airfield paving, storage
and personnel facilities at Port
land International airport. The
Air Force itself requested that
the item be deleted.
spiraling every year.
The camping association made
an effort toward a census of
camps and campers in 1953 arid
came up with an estimate thatj
there were 12,600 organized res
ident and day camps in the Unit
ed States, and at least 4,000,000
persons had an organized camp
ing experience each year.
The number of resident camps
has increased about 10 per cent,
meanwhile, while day camps
have seen a 20 per cent rise.
"School camps" are gaining
popularity in some parts of the
country. More than 13,000 school
children went camping on school
time in California this spring."
San Diego alone sent 4000 sixth
graders into the country for a
week of classes in nature lore,
handicrafts and physical educa
tion. A camp at Elkhart, Wis., of
fers visitors a combination of
outdoor living and training in
dramatic arts. There are camps
for musicians, painters, sculp
tors and writers. Some camps
accommodate only crippled chil
dren or the blind.
By far the greatest number of
boys and girls attend organiza
tional camps under sponsorship
of the Boy Scouts and Gfrl
Scouts, the YMCA and YWCA,
and a multitude of other relig
ious and civic groups.
While camping is predomi
nantly a pastime of the younger 1
generation, there is hope for
mom and dad: Camps are spring
ing up where no one is admitted
who is under 65.,
Gardener With Smashed Greenhouses
Wants Ban on Sound Barrier Flights
London (U.R) Leslie Green,
a truck farmer in the village of
Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire,
has been tapped by destiny as
one of the important people of
the jet age.
It is a distinction he neither
sought nor wants. But fate gave
him this odd choice: fame or
bankruptcy.
Around Green centers the vex
ing problem of what the govern
ment policy will be when citi
zens suffer damage from the ter
rific crack when jet planes go
crashing through the sound bar
rier. "I don't like causing all this
fuss," he said, somewhat apolo
getically. "But it's that or ruin,
I guess."
Greenhouses Shattered "
Outside his farmhouse were
the 16,000 square feet of green
houses shattered seven times by
jet planes diving through the
sound barrier or roaring over his
land so low and fast the winds
ripped away the glass.
Green grows tomatoes, lettuce
and chrysanthemums.
"Every time I hear a jet I
shudder," he said. "So far. they
have done at least 5000 sterling
$14,000) damage to me.
"The Ministry of Defense did
nothing. But the Ministry of Ag
riculture acted very quickly in
deed. It condemned my lettuces
because t they were sprinkled
with glass."
So Green, who is not a "join
er," finds himself an important
executive of the Supersonic De
fense League, a group of citizens
who forese plenty more trouble
on the ground if the government
does not exercise strict control
of the skies.
Commons Statement Promised
He has fought his cause to the
point where a statement has
been promised in the House of
Commons. But Green is not opti
mistic that much will be done
unless the matter is pressed.
"The league wants certain
areas set aside for breaking the
sound barrier where the noise
will neither cause damage, in
jure nerves or otherwise inter
fere with life below," Green
said. "We want some system of
compensation worked out, per
haps some kind of insurance."
He said one of the new mem
bers is a Yorkshire farmer,
Ralph Goodall, who said his
prize pig and his champion Pek
inese gave birth prematurely
when a jet broke the sound bar
rier. The pig and piglets died.
So did three of the Peke pups.
Grange
Roxy Ann Grange
Katherine Gott was praised
as outstanding youth member of
Oregon State Grange.
Visitors from Fruitdale
Grange of Grants Pass were Mr.
and Mrs. J. G. Wertz, Mr. and
Mrs. King and Mrs. Wagner.
Dance Chairman Ken Shaw
said they had four square dance
callers last Saturday night and
a good crowd.
HEC Chairman Marguerite
Shaw announced the picnic for
HEC will be at Francis Dawson's
home at 932 South Holly st. at
7 p.m. All Grange ladies are wel
come and should bring potluck
and there own service.
It was voted to drop the card
parties for the summer.
Next Grange meeting, men of
the Grange are to bring eo!Iae
tion items and hobbies.
HEC will put on the program
and serve the men.
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