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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
iO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 71945
J (It was Monday)
Senator Hiram Warren John
son of California flies.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The fair
sex continue to run around with
exposed midriffs and offering
proofthey are not spineless.
20 YEARS AGO
August 7. 1935
(It was Tuesday)
U.S. Food and Drug adminis
tration tells local growers it is
Hot necessary to wash pears sent
to California canneries.
Crater Lake visitors during
July total 32,014. .
30 YEARS AGO
August 17. 1925
(It was Thursday) .
During first six days of Aug
ust building permits issued in
city total $25,000.
From the Local and Personal
column: E. C. Ferguson, Asso
rted Press operator of the Mail
Tribune, and the Big Eruption
of the Craters club, is enjoying
S,two weeks vacation which he
is spending at his home.
40 YEARS AGO
August 17, 1915
(It was Friday)
The Australian studens3 band
to play at the Natatorium to
night and Saturday night.
Court rules that "bumping
noses" is no indication of mari
tal infidelity in local divorce
case.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. List prices on 1956 cars, by
(jhost reports from Detroit, will
be higher or lower than on 1955
ones, or the same?
2. "In Gad We Trust" is or
isn't to bemadded to all newly
engraved U.S. paper money?
3. What state officially, terms
its legislature its "general
court"?
'4. The Eighth Commandment
fin Protestantism) is on adultery,
' murder," stealing, lying, or ob
serving the Sabbath.
5. Winston Churchill was
British prime minister when
World War II began or ended,
both or neither?
6. "Life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness" is a phrase
from the Constitution, Magna
Carta, the Psalms, Shakespeare,
the Declaration of Independence,
or Bettysburg Address?
7. The female star in the mo
vie, "Rebecca," was Greta Gar
bo, Greer Garson, Joan Fon
taine, Lynn Fontanne, Vivien
Leigh.or Ingrid Bergman?
The Answers: 1. Higher. 2. Is.
3. Massachusetts. 4. Stealing. 5.
Neither. 6. Declaration of Inde
pendence. 7. Joan Fontaine.
Tillamook Logger
Injured in Woods
Tiallamook (U.PJ Preston
Denton, a Tillamook logger, was
seriously injured in the woods
about 12 miles southeast of here
Friday when a log rolled down
a slope and pinned him against
a tree he had just felled.
He was taken to Tillamook
countj general hospital with a
fractured pelvis and internal
injuries
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MAIL TRIBUNE
Ike as a Diplomat
In contrast to the reaction of the U S Press Presi
dent Eisenhower refused to get excited about the
refusal of Premier Bulganin to accept the U S pro
posal to exchange blue prints and military informa
tion. In fact our chief executive took the refusal very
much in his stride, even showing a certain satisfaction
and expressing confidence that this refusal did not
close the door to further negotiations particularly in
the field of conciliation and disarmament.
'
THIS was quite a contrast to what was generally
predicted in certain newspaper areas, and what the
procedure has been in the past.
We believe there are several reasons for this ab
sence of resentment in official White House circles.
TN the first place undoubtedly President Eisenhower
feared there would be no official notice taken of
his proposal at all. Such a "snub" would have placed
the White House in a rather awkward position.
The President was therefore probably pleased
and relieved when the official answer finally came.
While this answer was a refusal to accept the
offer, it was phrased in such conciliatory terms, such
a high regard for the President's good intentions was
again expressed, there was such a complete absence
of sarcasm and rancour, so common to Kremlin re
plies in the past, that all in all, the White House no
doubt felt pleased and encouraged rather than the
reverse.
THE fact of the matter
11C V CI 1 CC111J H1CIK U1& 11.1 Ullllll vruuivt
accept his conciliatory and dramatic proposal at
least not immediately. Probably no one realized bet
ter than he that the offer was a one-sided affair, for
the simple fact that Russia undoubtedly knows about
all it cares to know about military installations in
the U.S.A., while because of the iron curtain and the
secretive character of a totalitarian regime, very little
accurate information regarding similar installations
in Russia, is known in the Pentagon.
'
IN other words the Eisenhower offer while given in
good faith, was essentially a trial balloon, no con
crete results were expected soon, while some sort of
rebuff was feared so the net result was a pleasant
surprise and entirely satisfactory.
However it is reported that Senator McCarthy is
already preparing to put on his brass knuckles and
sharpen his cutlass, for all-out attack on the admin
istration for being out-generalled by the Kremlin and
given another ride, by the wily and unscrupulous
Muscovites.
No one will be surprised if such an effort is made.
But unless the junior Senator from Wisconsin has
more success in this foray than he has had recently
m his others, the press associations won t even take
the trouble to report it. In fact "Jumping Joe" is fast
becoming the "Forgotten Man" as far as American
politics is concerned and unless he pulls something
startling and does it soon, his eclipse promises to be
complete and total.
IN sharp contrast, President Eisenhower who as a
professional military man was supposed to be a bull
in the china shop as far as international relations are
concerned, has by his -fine restraint and sound sense,
developed into one of this country's first ranking dip
lomats, one ,of the best to occupy the White House in
recent years. R.W.R.
Wrong, but not Surprising
This department can't go along with the news
paper boys on the sensational news value of the grant
ing of the 50-year construction license by the Federal
Power Commission to the Idaho Power company at
Hells Canyon.
Naturally this result displeases and disappoints
those who believe in public power and a high dam on
the Snake, but why should they or anyone else be
SURPRISED?
When Secretary of the Interior McKay let the
gates down to private power on the Snake, reversed
the established policy of the Reclamation Service, and
declared the reign of federal power development
over, the die was cast.
THERE was, we believe, no "deal" as far as the
Federal Power Commission was concerned. There
was no need of one.
The administration appointees on that board were
sold anyway. They had no doubt not only that Fed
eral Power projects are "out" for the duration, but
are un-American anyway, and the nearer private
power comes to being an absolute monopoly it con
trols over 80 of all electric light and power now
the better for free enterprise and the country. So no
other decision should have been expected.
"IE agree with Senator Morse this decision does
not end the matter. Nor does it halt the effort
of the public power advocates in congress and out to
get the maximum benefit from Hells canyon at the
minimum cost, instead of the minimum benefits at the
maximum cost. But it does in the view of this decision,
the adjournent of congress and the tremendous re
sources of the private power lobby in Washington,
render the going, from here on in, pretty tough.
IN favoring the three dams of the Idaho Power
1 company the FPC not only disregarded the recom
mendation of its own official examiner, who admit
ted one high power federal dam wouldive the people
the best and cheapest service, and only one private ,
Sunday, August 7, 19S5
probably is Mr. Eisenhower
Matter of
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD
Washington Until the re
lease of all the American flyers
imprisoned in China had been
positively as
sured, g r e at
care had to be
taken to avoid
n e e d 1 e s sly
protrac ting
their ord eal.
But now it can
be told how
the liberation
of all the 15
American air
men then held
in Chinese
Joseph Also
jails was ten
tatively arranged many months
ago.
The man who did the job was
the Secretary-General of the
United Nations, Dag Hammarsk
jold. He made the deal with the
Chinese Prime Minister, Chou
En-lai, in the course of his trip
to Peiping in January.
Everyone must recall the
mingled atmosphere of mystery
and optimism that surrounded
Hammarskjold's return from Red
China. Everyone must recall, too,
at the time of Hammarskjold's
return, the Peiping government
publicly invited families of the
imprisoned flyers to visit their
sons. The as-yet untold truth is
that the two phenomena were
intimately linked.
There was optimism about
Hammarskjold's accomplishment
for the very simple reason that
the Chinese Communists had
agreed to release the flyers forth
with if their families were first
permitted to visit them. This was
the face-saver that Peiping want
ed. The family visits would have
permitted the Chinese Commu
nist leaders to announce that
they had decided to let the fly
ers go in response to their par
ents' moving pleas for mercy.
Hammarskjold brought back a
positive, cut and dried commit
ment that this course would be
followed.
But at that time, the Eisen
hower administration was still
paying very great deference to
the viewpoint that now seems to
be represented only by the
shrill and solitary voice of Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy. The policy
makers felt that helping to save
the face of the Peiping govern
ment might look like appease
ment. They further felt that the
Peiping government would make
propaganda hay of the visits of
the flyers' families.
HENCE the family visits were
strongly discouraged by the
State Department, although, as
far as can be learned, no mem
ber of any of the flyers' families
was told what great conse
quences to them hung upon the
Chinese Communist invitation.
And as none of the flyers' fam
ilies in the end, defied the State
Department's warnings, the deal
that Hammarskjold had made
automatically fell through and
the flyers were not released un
til just now.
The episode is interesting as
an indication of how far the
Eisenhower administration feels
justified in using the cloak of
official secrecy in order to make
choices that individual Ameri
cans might well prefer to make
for themselves. But it is even
more interesting as an indica
tion of the immense evolution
of American Far Eastern policy
in recent months.
The price the Communists de
manded of Hammarskjold, after
all, was only that the flyers' fam
ilies should visit their sons or
rather that one or two of the
families should pay this visit, for
: Of
LI mmm 8
power dam at this time would be advisable ; but it
went against the experienced judgment of the US
Reclamation Service, and the judgment of many of
the most influential and best-informed newspapers
on such matters in the country including the Denver
Post and the New York Times.
H
ERE is what the N.Y.
week ago, quote:
Hell's Canyon, in the remote fastness of Snake River on
the Oregon-Idaho border, is one of the finest unexploited
power sites in the country. For at least eight years the dis-
pute has raged over the question of how the great hydro
electric potential there should be developed, whether by
public or private enterprise. The solution cannot be put
off much longer.
Senator Morse and a large number of other Senators
have been sponsoring a bill authorizing Federal construe- .
tion of a 600-foot dam at Hell's Canyon to produce over
900,000 kilowatts of power, as one more giant addition to
the integrated system of Federal dams in the Columbia
Basin. The Idaho Power Company, on the other hand, is
proposing to build three smaller dams on the river, pro
ducing fewer kilowatts, as a strictly private operation. One
thing is certain: one side or the other will have to give, be
cause the high Federal dam and the three small private
dams are incompatible.
It seems to us that the Federal proposal for a high dam
at Hell's Canyon would provide for realization of the full
potentialities of this enormously valuable water resource
while the company's proposal for a series of low dams
would lead to piece-meal development of the river and
probably prevent its full utilization.
THIS IS A NATURAL RESOURCE AND BELONGS
TO ALL THE PEOPLE. It seems clear that the maximum
benefit from the resource in this case, in respect to power,
irrigation, navigation and other facts of an integrated river
program, can only be obtained by large-scale Federal in
vestment. .
That is the TRUTH.
The same conclusion would be reached by any
impartial survey of the Hells Canyon site, and a ju
dicial and intelligent consideration of all the facts.
It is again the familiar conflict between wThat is
best for "General Motors" and what is best calculated
to promote the general welfare. R.W.R.
Fact by
Alsop
the understanding was that this
would be sufficient to release
the entire group of flyers. That
price was refused by the Eisen
hower administration as being
too high, and the 15 American
airmen paid for the refusal with
an additional six months in Chi
nese jails.
Now, however, the price the
Communists have demanded
and have got is a public face-to-face
meeting, of American and
Chinese representatives at the
ambassadorial level. In the New
Delhi negotiations that prepared
the present meeting in Geneva
between U. Alexis Johnson and
Wang Pan-nan, the Peiping gov
ernment undertook that the fly
ers would be automatically re
leased if the meeting could be
agreed upon.
The meeting is of course an in
finitely greater face-saver for
Peiping than the family visits
originaUy stipulated for. At the
time when Hammarskjold visited
Peiping, indeed, the mere sug
gestion of such a face-to-face,
public meeting would have been
rejected with vituperative indig
nation. One of the clues to the great
intervening change of heart is,
of course, the change of public
sentiment that occurred when
the country looked the idea of
fighting a war for Formosa
squarely in the eye, and con
cluded that this was a most dis
tasteful prospect. Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles in ef
fect denied the existence of the
other clue when he declared the
other day that we would "never
negotiate with a pistol to our
heads."
BUT IN fact we enter the Ge
neva negotiation with the
Chinese precisely because a pis
tol was put to the head of the
Eisenhower administration. The
pistol took the form of a message
from the. Peiping government
transmitted by the Indian inter
mediary, V. K. Krishna Menon,
that the off-shore islands in the
Formosa strait would be at
tacked all-out and immediately,
if the present negotiations were
not inaugurated. This Chinese
threat called the bluff and broke
the log jam.
The nature of the threat that
Krishna Menon passed on, and
the nature of the change of heart
among the American policy
makers, quite obviously point to
an extremely simple conclusion.
What is now happening in Ge
neva can only be a beginning.
The State Department an
nouncement that the Geneva
meeting was primarily to discuss
the release of the flyers and the
other Americans held in China
was purposely and consciously
misleading. The question of the
release of these American pris
oners had already been discussed
at New Delhi and agreement had
been reached on it. The meeting
was the price of the release, not
the place where it was to be ne
gotiated. Where then does this beginning
at Geneva seem to lead? First of
all, it will obviously tend to lead
to a still higher leve Sino-Amer-ican
rally, most probably between
Secretary of State Dulles and
Chou En-Lai. secondly, after
some little face-saving for the
State Department, the beginning
at Geneva is almost certain to
lead to the eventual abandon
ment to the Chinese Commu
nists of Quemoy and the Matsu
Islands. Thus far have we come
already.
(Copyright, 1955, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Times had to say only a
,
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
What are they up to note:
. Soviet Premier Bulganin has
rejected as "unrealistic" Presi
dent Eisenhower's offer to ex
change military information with
the Russians.
He added that Ike's plan didn't
amount to much because Russia
and America are so big that any
body could hide anything he
wanted to.
MEANWHILE
In Washington
The U. S. Atomic Energy Com
mission announces tersely:
"The Russians have resumed
the testing of nuclear weapons."
??????
How's' this for a program:
In time of trouble, hope for
the best and prepare for the
worst.
T'M INTRIGUED with this dis--
patch from Canberra, the
capital of Australia:
A patrol into the interior of
Papua has found a tribe of wig
wearing warriors who had NEV
ER BEFORE SEEN A WHITE
MAN. A report issued by the
New Guinea administration says
the tribesmen, known as the
Duna, wear wigs and long beards
which give them a Biblical ap
pearance. But, the report adds:
They are FIERCE fighting
among themselves with spears
and bows and arrows.
THAT throws a fair-sized mon
key wrench into the wheels
of the theory that the bulk of the
hell-raising that has plagued the
world since time began has been
started by white men.
Here's a tribe of natives that
never saw a white man, and yet
they go around fighting each
other as bitterly and bloodily
with spears and bows and ar
rows as the white men do with
guns and bombs.
IT ALSO puts a kink in Jean
Jacques Rousseau's highly
sentimentalized picture of the
primitive man, the "natural"
man, the "noble savage," who
according to Rousseau was sim
ple, pure and uninhibited quite
superior in every way to so-caUed
"civilized" man.
Rosseau's theory which con
tributed heavily to the French
revolution was that private
property and the institution of
the political state are the pri
mary causes of Inequality and
oppression. Therefore, he ar
gued, they should be done away
with and man should be per
mitted to return to his "natural"
and unspoiled state. '
According to the Canberra
dispatch, these natural and un
spoiled primitives in the South
Sea jungles have been doing
each other just as much dirt as
the white men who have been
spoiled by too much sophistica
tion. ONE THING I'd like to know
about these wig -wearing
Duna boys in the New Guinea
wilds. -
Do they wear wigs merely to
keep the rain off?
Or do they wear 'em out of
pride, to conceal baldness?
And
If they wear them for the lat
ter reason
Do they entertain the primi
tive and unspoiled delusion that
NOBODY CAN TELL THEY'RE
WEARING A WIG?
Editorial Comment
NO TEST RUN
The Oregonian has taken the
Southern Pacific's publicity
handouts on discontinuing pas
senger trains on the- Siskiyou
route hook, line and sinker.
An editorial in the August 2
issue of the Portland paper par
rots statements which the SP
has been handing out.
Oh, The Oregonian is a bit
sympathetic to the feelings of
us "down-staters," but it's a
rather condescending attitude in
which The Oregonian points out
that we have good highways and
lots of air and bus schedules.
What the Portland paper fails
to note is that SP is operating
with equipment long outmoded,
even though it is clean and quite
comfortable. With the present
heavy-type cars, probably no ma
terial increase in schedule is
possible.
What we complain about, and
we think on legitimate ground,
is that the SP, to our best knowl
edge, has never even attempted
to test run over the Siskiyou
line with modern, lightweight
equipment. We've had the sus
picion that the railroad is afraid
such a test would show that new
equipment could provide an im
proved schedule and that would
abligate the railroad for capital
purchases which it does not want
to make. Ashland Tidings.
Hearing on Merger
Of Paper Firms Ends
Portland (U.R) A week-long
Federal Trade Commission hear
ing on the merger of Crown
Zellearbach Corporation and
St. Hels Pulp & Paper Company
was completed Friday.
Examiner Earl J.. Kolb said
a similar hearing will be held
in Seattle next week, to be fol
lowed by one in Los Angeles. '
Crown Zellerbach was charg
ed with violating the Clayton
Act by the merger, which was
accomplished through purchases
of St Helens.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
A few weeks ago we passed
along to our readers a word
floccinaucinihilipilification
with the information (new to us)
that it is the longest word in
the English language. '
Now comes the current issue
of the "Ore.-Bin," which is the
publication of the state depart
ment of geology and mineral in
dustries, and while the words
may not be longer than flocci
etc, they're impressive.
Here are a couple of para
graphs: "To the west, metasediments
and metavolcanics of the Trias
sic Applegate formation are in
truded by granodiorite of the
Ashland stock. Marine sand
stones of the Cretaceous Chico
formation unconformably over
lie the Triassic rocks and the
granodiorite. Lying unconform
ably on the Chico formation is
the Eocene Umpqua formation
which in this area is a series of
nomarine sediments and volcan
ic rocks.
"To the northeast, Tertiary
lavas and pyroclastics of the
Western Cascades overlie the
Umpqua rocks. The Umpqua
formation and the Tertiary vol
canics are intruded by basalt
and diorite sills and dike."
All perfectly in order, of
course, if you are a geologist.
As laymen, however, we're a
trifle suspicious of that Ashland
stock granodiorite intruding in
to the Triassic Applegate. Sounds
subversive to us.
Not-infrequent visitors at
campsites, begging for food,
are wild things, including
bears, magoies and squirrels.
First we'd heard of foxes,
though.
' The Phil Brainerds report
that at Diamond lake last
week a fox appeared at the
back door, and waited to be
fed. Apparently spoiled by
tidbits from other summer
visitors at the lake, the fox
turned up his nose at a pro
ffered crust of bread.
When it was coaled with
honey butter, however, he
condescended lo eat it.
Earl C. Gaddis recently re
cently received a pamphlet in
the mail, without a return ad
dress, and turned it over to Pot
luck's tender mercies. It is en
titled "Men are what women
marry."
Here are excerpts:
If you flatter a man, you
frighten him to death. If you
don't, you bore him to death . . .
If you agree with him in every
thing, you soon cease to interest
him; if you argue with him, you
soon cease to charm him. If you
believe everything he tells you,
he thinks you are a fool. If you
don't, he thinks you are a cynic.
... If you join him in his
parties and approve of his be
havior, he swears you are driv
ing him to the devil. If you
Communications
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under certain circumstance's the use of pen name or initial for publication
is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a
view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must
not exceed 400 words. '
Regret's Defeat of Cordon
To the Editor: I do not intend
to burden your columns with
endless discussion with our jun
ior Senator, but I am not going
to let him pursue his usual tac
tics without comment. If you
who read this will observe care
fully in the future, you will see
that when he runs up against
adverse facts, as often happens,
he withdraws from that argu-
ment and attacks elsewhere. If
the facts are against him there,
he simply repeats. Watch this
habit of his and realize what it
covers up.
My other letter simply called
to light the ridiculousness of the
Senator's statement that the Ad
ministration was to blame for
the Talent cut when it was clear
ly chargeable to the Democratic
majority in both House and Sen-
ate, and to the ineffectiveness of
our Democratic senators. In re
ply to this, Neuberger brought
in at least 8 non-related projects
and mentioned an order of the
President which had nothing at
all to do with the subject. Con
trary to what he inferred, the
President has put out no order
holding up expenditure of the
Talent funds, and Senator Neu
berger knows that fact. .,
In regard to the "great jam
boree heralding all that the Re
publican party could do for the
Talent Project," of which he
speaks, Mail Tribune, July 24,
he is again in error. The "jam
boree" was held after Senator
Cordon and Representative Ells
worth had succeeded in getting
the project authorized and was
a celebration for WHAT HAD
BEEN DONE, not for what was
promised. It is indeed unfortun
ate that the Democratic Party
does not have success in the
other half of the job to cele
brate. If Senator Cordon, with
his interest in Southern Oregon,
and with his membership on and
influence with the proper com
mittees, had been sent back, per
haps we might now be celebrat
ing. Let's just stick to facts and,
O
don't approve and urge himto
give up his bad habits, he thinks
you are priggish.
If you are the clinging vine
type, he doubts if you have a
brain; and if you are the modern,
independent type, he doubts if
you have a heart. If you are
silly he longs for a playmate.
If you are popular, he is jealous.
If not, he hesitates about marry
ing a wallflower.
e
This contrasts with the con
clusion of a magazine editor
who claims that American
women are making American
men over, with sad results.
Do you suppose the truth.-,
might lie somewhere in be-
tween?
Norblad Declares
First Session of
Congress Mediocre
Stayton CU.R) The first ses
sion of the 84th Congress just
concluded was "a mediocre one,
with some good legislation, some .-
bad and some important legisla
tion unpassed, according to Rep..
Walter Norblad, (R-Ore.).
"Failure Regrettable"
Norblad, who has just com
pleted a cross-country drive in
what he called the hottest wea
ther he had ever experienced,
said the failure of Congress to
enact a national road program
was "regrettable."
"Everybody in Congress want
ed a road program," he said, "but
nobody would agree on how
to finance it."
The Oregon Republican said,
however, that he felt certain a
suitable road program would be
passed in the second session of
Congress, which opens Jan. 1,
1956.
Invited to Russia
Norblad said that before he
left Washington, D."C. a Russian
embassy official Invited him to
visit Russia. He was told that he
could go "anyplace in the Sov
iet Union" that he chose.
"Such an invitation," Norblad
said, "has never been offered
before to any member of con
gress and shows the change in
attitude in Russia."
He said he was "willing to go
along with" the Fedral Power
Commission decision granting.
Idaho Power Company a per
mit for construction of three low
dams on e the Snake River in
place of a high federal dam at
Hells Canyon.
"It was purely an engineering
problem," he said.
Salem, Ore. (U.R) James F.
Short, director of the State De
partment of Agriculture, said
that after public hearings he had
determined there is a need for
a chewing and creeping red
fescue commission.
Q
the original argument Last year
a Republican Administration,
House and Senate DID AU
THORIZE the Talent Project;
this year a House and Senate,
both controlled by the Demo
crats, failed to provide the
money to go ahead with full
speed. The Republican .min
istration HAS NOT disapproved
any amount voted, nor has it
tied it up as the Senator insinu
ated. D. H. Barber,
Star Route,
Trail, Ore'.
What S.P. Could Do
To the Editor: The contention
that the Southern Pacific Rail
road cannot speed up its Ash-land-Portland
passenger train.
The Rogue1 River, has not merit
whatsoever.
The train now takes 13 hours
35 minutes from Portland to
Ashland. That time could be
cut three hours 40 minutes so
the trip would take only nine
hours 55 minutes.
Here is how the proposed
northbound schedule might
look:
Leave Ashland 7:00 a.m.
Leave Medford 7:30 a.m.
Arrive Portland 4:40 p.m.
Leave Portland 5:00 p.m.
Arrive Seattle 9:15 p.m.
Here is how the southbound
schedule might look:
Leave Seattle 8:20 a.m.
Arrive Portland 12:20 p.m.
Leave Portland 12:45 p.m.
Arrive Medford 10:00 p.m.
Arrive Ashland 10:40 p.m.
Under the schedule the South
ern Pacific now uses, it takes the
rail passenger 19 hours and 43
minutes to travel from Seattle
to Medford. Under the proposed
schedule, the trip would . take
only 13 hours 40 minutes, over
six hours faster!
The equipment used on the
train could be the same as at
present except there would be
no need for a sleeping car.
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