Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 29, 1955, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextCo FOURTEEN MEDFORD (dREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE v Monday, August 29, 1955 'Ho il Tribune Writer Discovers ope Cod Vacation Worth Trip 9r m. ROBERT SMITH ail Tribune Correipondent Cape Cod, Mass. Most west erners haven't "discovered" this vacation resort which has long been the darling of Bostonians gnd New Yorkers, but this re porter's finding is that Cape Cod is worth every mile of the trip. To one who prefers the re meshing grandeur of the West as vacationland, it is quite an gchievement find any eastern (tffcrt that doesn't seem a bit aiSab by the scenic comparison hich the westerner inevitably l?iust make. ghe Gren Mountains of Ver mont and White Mountains of lfew Hampshire, for example, (get lots of tourist attention in these parts; but the westerner ho has gloried in the Cascades is in for a disappointment in Dew England's "mountains." Cape Cod, however, is differ ent delightfully quaint, very proper, but most informal, won derfully hospitable and well equipped for all seashore sports from sunbathing on its endless white beaches to swordfishing in nearby deep waters. It was because of Capt. John R. Peterson, owner of the cape's largest hotel and president of its chamber of commerce, that we came here to see for ourselves. Capt. Peterson had been horn soggled into a radio network debate with Sen. Richard Neu- berger in June on the respective aracjons of New England and the Pacific Northwest for travel minded Americans. As one of seyeralWashington correspond ents who helped give the debat- e8 a hard time with free-for-aii questioning, we later accepted the inviation of Capt. Peterson to splash and sail In Cape Cod's sunny waters. We found that for Cape Cod, the proof is in the vacationing. Cape Cod juts out into the At lantic from southern New Eng land in the shape of a weight lifter's hefty arm, an appendage covered by scraggy pines which giv it a wilderness appearance despite its 200,000 summertime population. Its towns, from Falmouth to Provincetown, are neat tourist' villages, each with its New Eng land antique shops. Artist col onies abound there, with care fully rendered seascapes on ex hibition by artists who are avail able to sketch your portrait in their "sidewalk studios." The cape's ragged coast offers natural boat harbors for those who love to sail and fish its waters. But sandy beaches are everywhere, too. Out near the end of the cape stretch miles of soft, rolling sand dunes which give way to a wide sloping beach that is pounded by the raging surf. By hiking down the dunes, lovers may have just as exclu sive beach privileges as the rich employ to obtain in front of their mansions. The surprise-of the cape is its several hundred fresh water lakes or ponds, as they are called here which dot the land scape from end to end. Ponds are now being developed for lakeside living by those who pre fer them to saltwater. Miles of water front property is unde veloped. Resort operators here love the guests who every summer return to Cape Cod for their vacation, as they've been doing for 'years, but this regularity dictates some customs that are about as exas perating as they are quaint. The hotel dining hooms by custom open for breakfast on the stroke of 7:30 a.m., and there are al ways some oldtimers waiting for the doors to open then. Our -hotel manager allowed as how the hour should be later," but custom is custom. Nor is it possible to keep the dining room open past"9:00 a.m., much less continuously open all day, restaurant-style. Custom again: It opens and closes like a time-lock for each meal. And since American plan dominates the hotel business here, the open ing of the dining room becomes one of the looked-forward-to events of the day for the senior citizens who take their sun in the wicker rocking chairs on the' broad hotel porches. But despite this arbitrary reg ulation of life at Cape Cod, the living is easy and most informal. Our hotel manager, Miss Phyllis Spooner, greeted us gaily in Ber muda shorts. Yet is mustn't get too informal, warn some, includ ing the local editor who editor ially chided a local group for sponsoring - a beauty ' contest, which he said might lead Cape Cod into honky-tonk way of life that would violate its charm ing esthetic atmosphere and the sensibilities of its patrons U.S. Schools 250,000 Rooms Short of Needs Washington ftl.R) The na tion's schools will be short more than 250;000 classrooms this fall despite a record building boom last year, office of education of ficials said Saturday. Since last autumn, 60,000 new public elementary and high school classrooms have . been made ready the most ever built in one year and 50Q0 more than were constructed in 1953. But, said Ray L. Hamon, chief of the school housing division, they will not make a dent in the backlog that has accumu- Atomic Scientists Announce Useful Exchange of Data Geneva U.RK Key atomic scientists from both sides of the iron unnain Saturday an nounced completion of a "useful exchangfT of nuclear informa tion in secret atoms for peace talks here. Delegates from the Big Four atomic powers, and uranium rich Canada and Czechoslovakia, made the disclosure at the end of a week of meetings behind closely-guarded locked doors. " The session was suggested by the United States. The purpose was to consult on the problems of "safeguarding or guarantee ing the peaceful uses of atomic energy against diversion of ma terials." Means of making certain that atoms for peace fuel would not be used for atomic bombs was a kev hitch to establishing the in ternational atomic pool first pro posed by President Eisenhower twoears ago. Bonneville Director Submits Resignation Portland (U.R) Resignation of N. H. Callard, director of op erations and maintenance for onneville, was announced Sat urday by Bonneville Adminis a4pr William A. Pearl. callard said he was ordered by his doctor to give up his job as head of one of BPA's three major divisions. He will main with BPA until Septem ber, however, in order to give the organization time to pick a successor. Pearl praised Callard's ser- 'ices and accepted "his resigna- ir t , lion regreiiuuy. Josephine Schools To Open Sept. 6 Grants Pass Josephine coun ty district, schools will open Sept. 6 with classes to be held Gfcl day. County Superintendent Flmer Feming announced the date, adding that no pre-registra-tion is necessary in the county d3ct. ..All first-grade students must present birth certificates and only children who are or will be six years of age on or before Nov.35 will be admitted. School zones and bus schedules will re main unchanged from last year. Th Navy uses about 18,500, 000 pounds of butter yearly. Iowa Police Seize Four Boys; Solve Mystery of Masks Davenport, - Iowa U.R) Po lice seized four youths Friday night and cracked the mystery of a band ' of white-masked men who prowled Davenport streets for the past week. At first, it was ' thought the prowlers might be connected with the Ku Klux Klan. But the youths, ranging in age from 15 to 18, said all they wanted to do was "scare neckers in the park and have a little fun." . Became Frightened They said they became fright ened when police warned pub licly that the band might be "shot on sight." ... v tThe youths were seized - while roaming the city wearing white shorts, adhesive tape crosses on their chests and masks. They named the other mem bers of the band. None of the youths was charged but police ordered all four to appear before a proba tion officer next week. The break in the case bore out Police Chief Harvey A. ' Smith, who said earlier he' felt the masked men were "just a bunch of teenagers having some prema ture Halloween fun. "I don't think it's anything like the Klan," Smith had said. Were On Lookout Nevertheless, Smith had warned his force were "definitey oh the lookout" and "it would be too bad if. someone were killed." The weirdly-masked youths had ignored Smith's "shoot on sight" order Thursday night and circled a house where a party was going on. The seized teen agers, however, denied any im plication in the circling procession.- . On two other nights this week about 10 members, of the gang surrounded groups of young men and girls and danced about them, but did not molest them. ' Mother of Seven Gets Lifeientence Cedar City, Utah (U.R) Mrs. Milda Hopkins Ashdown, 35-year-old mother of seven chil dren has been sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison for following the example of her sister. - Mrs. Ashdown was sentenced after a jury of eight men and four women found her guilty of first degree murder for the pois-on-lemonade slaying of her hus band, Raymond, on July. 5, 1955. Mrs. Ashdown's sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Lottie Lacey, is on the Idaho State prison for the 1949 strychnine slaying of her hus band, Vivian Ashdown a bro ther of Raymond. Mrs. Ashdown will probably be confined for life in the Colo rado State prison at Canon City under an agreement whereby Colorado imprisons females con victed of crimes in Utah, which has no women's prison of its own. laiea tnrougn- tne years even though they will absorb the ex pected increase in enrollment this fall. 1.370,000 New Pupils The education office predicts an increase of 1,370,000 pupils Hamon told the United Press it would take 50,000 of the new classrooms to accommodate them, leaving only 10,000 to re place damaged or obsolete build ings and to relieve overcrowding- The shortage results from three things: Persistent failure of congress to pass federal-aid- to-school-construction legisla tion, little building during the depression and war years, and a tremendous increase in enroll ments. , The situation is so critical Marion B. Folsom, the new sec retary of health, education and welfare, is giving it close study in preparation for recommenda tions to the next session of con gress in January. Public school attendance this fall is expected to reach more than 32,000,000 this in the face of a classroom scarcity compli cated by a teacher shortage. Backlog Decreased Three years ago the states estimated they needed 312,000 adequate classrooms. . Construc tion since then has "eaten into the backlog a little bit," Hamon said. He said construction of more than 100,000 per year is needed to meet state goals by 1959. These programs called for 476, 000 new classrooms ' during a five-year period starting last fall'. These programs, Hamon said, represent what the local com munities plan to build if they can raise the money. He said some communities would not be able to meet their goals. Police Vice Squad Raids Night Club Portland (U.R) Portland vice squad officers raided an after-hours night club Friday night, arresting 43 persons. " Lt. Carl R. Crisp said the raid, one of the largest on record, was held at 3:40 a.m. The after-hours club was located at 1510 North east 1st avenue. Dora Johnson, 27, was arrest ed for the unlawful sale of liquor and released on' $500 bond. Doris D. White, 22, was charged with conducting a pok er game and released on $250 bond. Forty-one other persons were booked on charges of visiting a gambling establishment. Crisp said a large quantity of gamb ling equipment was seized in the raid. . The Flemish language is spoken more than French in Bruges, Belgium, though both are official tongues. Most Flem ings speak French as well as Flemish, but few French-speaking Walloons hay e a command of Flemish. OPERATION TYPEWRITER! sk:-.' r 12 FOR THE BEST IN TYPEWRITER and ADDING MACHINE SERVICE Call Vern Chapman 3-3907 IN THE BAG These kittens seem to be as snug as bugs in a bag. Liv Aasheim in. San .Francisco from Denmark bought that California saddle leather gadget bag for her self but you. can .see who's taking it over. The Soo canal on St. Mary's river was built in 1855. Insect Spray Killing Bats In Famed Carlsbad Caverns Carlsbad, N. M. U.R) The bats at Carlsbad Caverns, a top tourist attraction in New Mexico, are dying by the thousands, pre sumably because farmers in this area are spraying their crops against insects. Bodies of the bats have been found scattered in. nearby fields and inside the caverns, where they have made their home for years. R. Taylor Hoskins, superin tendent of the caverns, said the furry little creatures probably are dying because they eat the poisoned insects. But, he said, there isn't much chance the en tire colony of bats will be wiped out. There are more than 100,000 at . the present time even by the most conservative estimates, he said. Hoskins .said the farmers' plans to destroy plant-eating in sects by spraying their crops with poison may backfire, espe cially if the insecticide Continues to kill the bats. The bats pour out of the mouth of the cave every night to hunt down insects. It was one of these nightly flights that led to dis covery of the caverns in 1901 by a cowboy, Jim White. He spotted the long stream of little creatures and wondered where they were coming from. He investigated and found the cave. Subsequent explorations discovered massive caverns with tunnels, rooms and corridors, extending for miles underground. The bat colony arrives at the caverns early in the spring and remains until the first frost in fall when they migrate, at night, to Mexico. They return each year, their numbers increasing during the. wet "growing" years when insects are numerous, and diminishing in the dry, cropless years. This year has been a good .one for insects and the bat r ula tion at the caverns pr, ably stands as high as it ever has in modern times. The "flight' of the bats" has become a major attraction at the caverns over the years. The cav erns themselves offer a picture of spectacular formations and colors. During the day the bats cling to the roof of the caverns in dark ened areas not opened to the public. -'.'. Timber Sale Slated To Alleviate Shortage Portland (U.R) Some 12, 000,000 board feet of federal tim ber will be put up for sale in the Molalla area to temporally alleviate a serious log shortage, the "Bureau of Land Manage ment announced Friday. V. T. Heath, state BLM super visor, said the timber was re leased for sale after a delegation of 25 Molalla residents confer red with him in Portland. . However, he said the release did not guarantee that success ful bidders would come from a Molalla operator, in which case the timber would not benefit the area. The timber, Heath said, would probably keep mills in operation P. a a I r . M ' u.s. Accused ay "teas Of Unlawful Measures Tokyo U.R) A Communist Korean Central News Agency re port Saturday accused the Amer icans of imposing unlawful re strictions on the activities of the neutral nations inspection teams in Korea. It charged that teams were prevented from conducting "nor mal inspections" because of "so called security measures" im posed as a result of recent South Korea demonstrations against Communist inspectors. . for little more lhan a month, and that it was "extremely doubtful" that . other timber would be. released when it was harvested. PREPARE NOW FOR COLLEGE OR BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL lnl(BjM way... HOME Stwlr at mm time aat over w,vw KHfin vi w MI ALB HOMI STUDY SCHOOL 924 9tb St- Scrmnto, Cat Dept. 8-29 N.ma-.... Addr.it. Apt. 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