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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (dREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE v
Monday, August 29, 1955
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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.
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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.
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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.
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