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EIGHT MEDrORD (OHEGOK) Pickin' Pears ' By SID HOLLINGSWORTH . - Los Angeles Here is a roundup of comment from for mer Camp White "notables" now enjoying the status of mem bers at the Los Angeles domic iliary section. Frank White, former sergeant in Company 1, attended the 31st annual dinner of the Associa tion of Professional Baseball Players of America at the Al exandria hotel Jan. 29, and ob tained some highly interesting reports affecting the future of the game. White,. it, will be recalled, is the brother of the famous "Doc" White of the Chicago White Sox pitching staff in bygone days.' He' has followed the game. consistently since his playing and scouting days with Cleve land. "There is going to be big league baseball on the Pacific Coast in 1957 or in 1958 at the latest," White predicts. "I look for the Chicago Cubs to trans fer to Los Angeles and one of the eastern clubs to move over to. San Francisco," he reports as' the result of discussions of the pros attending this winter gathering of the old timers. The monopoly of interest in the three Greater New York clubs indicates that Brooklyn's Dodgers will be the other team to move west although the Balt imore Orioles may move out, White believes. "The reason I think the Cubs will take the Los Angeles field is the presence here of the Wrigley interests strong enough financially to effect the deal," he says. , This organization of profes sional baseball players :. looks after the old time players who retired before the present pen sion 'system was established, White explained. It also pro vides sick benefits and other considerations for all ball play ers and their families; . Win field Clark, octogenarian, dis abled war veteran and veteran of Pittsburgh, Brooklyn and St. Louis, playing days, is secre tary of the association. Frank Barnes, who was Cap tain of Company A for more than two years, is a domiciliary member here and has no plans of .changing his status in the near future. "I hardly expect to return to Camp White," he says, "although I look back to my stay there with" considerable pleasure. I did get around the valley quite a bit, but I don't want the responsibility of hand- ling a company again." Barnes wanted to be remembered to Domiciliary Officers Ruffin and Black with whom his associa tions were always pleasant. William Brooks,' a member of the guard . force during the Moneypenney regime, is now a member of Company 6, where the writer is detailed in the doc tor's office. Brooks was a pa tient in the Portland hospital and was the last person from Camp White to see Tick Mal arkey before he died last sum mer. He was cheerful up to the last, says Brooks. A review of that period brought out some interesting sidelights on Camp White in the making under Manager Paul Hatton. Ross Lewis, who edited Dom- inews for a while, has come up with an interesting tale -of 'his experiences in the South Seas. Having been preoccupied with the exacting duties of digging up material and publishing the camp paper he .had little time to review his own collection of stories of his travels through out the world.' Just 6f a day can help Build Rich, Red Blood . . . Save You from Being TIRED... NERVOUS . . . EASY PREY TO MINOR ILLSS Nutritional experts reveal vitamin losses in cooked foods plus faulty diet may be seriously undermining your energy, strength, and resistance, making you feel on edge affecting your appetite spoiling your sleep because your body is vitamin and iron starved. T1im symptom N duato a vitamin daftclaneyac. cor only whan dally intaka of vitamins Bl. 82, and niacin Is lass than minimum daily raquiramants ovar a prolongad parted. Inthemsalvos. thay donot prova ' a dtatary daficiancy as thay may hava otftar rami a ba dua to functional conditions. 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"It wasn't at all like I had imagined and I only stayed there four weeks between ship arrivals," he said. There was an island in the Cook" group which did capture his fancy. It was remote and in habited largely by natives. "I went to the office of the British agent to arrange transportation. He looked at me rather startled when I told him that 1 wanted to go to this island. 'You'll have to see the governor first' he ad vised. I couldn't see why this formality had to be followed and put it. down as one of those unaccountable British customs of delay. The clerk told me he would let me know as soon as the gov ernor found it convenient to see me. Meanwhile, I assumed, they were checking up on me and deciding whether it was safe to let me make the trip. Then about a week later I was summoned to the govern or's mansion, which was ' no more than an enlarged hut, and was told very plainly that the reason for the delay was the fact that for security reasons white men were seldom permit ted to go there. The entire na tive population, he said, is rul ed by the few white inhabitants and care must be exercised in admitting white strangers not only because of this condition but because of the danger in volved for the visitor. "The natives," he emphasized, 'still are apt to revert to their state of cannibalism, from which they are removed by only a short period of time," the governor stressed. And so I left Tahiti on the next boat with my dream of life in the South Seas completely shatter ed. . Needless to say this exper ience occurred before the Pacif ic war and life may be very different there today,- but it does show how Britain ruled in those days. . Shortest Dog-Catcher Object of 'Kidding' Charlevoix, Mich. (U.R) Ed ward (Shorty) Erber, 62, ' be lieves he may be the shortest dog catcher in the country. Erber is only four feet, nine inches tall and was known as the shortest man in the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces during World War I. He was named Charlesvoix County's humane of ficer recently when the depart ment was organized. "People still like to kid me," Erber said. "When I call at a house to pick up a . stray dog, they ask me such things as: . "Are you going to ride it back? . Where's your saddle? What do you do when you run into a dog bigger than you are? "I've found only one dog in the six months I've had this job that was bigger than me'," Erber said. "I guess, he. was part St. Bernard and part horse. He could have scalped me without stooping." Erber said he doesn't mind the ribbing. , - "My lack of height is what gave me a bit of fame," he said. "I didn't get any medals during the. war. Everyone overlooked the fighting I did, but they sure kidded me enough about my height.-The Canadians even tried to recruit me for a bantam bat talion of short men." Poet Once Loathed Named Verse Writer Los Angeles U,R) Edgar Lee Masters, one of America's best-known modern poets, once didn't want . to be known as a writer of verse.' : : : X . A letter from the late poet to' a friend, on Catalina island and now in possession of the Univer sity of California library here is the source of the disclosure. The letter was written to Dr. Marcia A. Patrick and reads, in part: "... there are the first (verses I have done in a year or more and they -are among the last I shall ever do. It is a profitless art . . . I hate to be known as a writer of verse and especially from a business standpoint do I nhieet tn if "" Two years after -the letter) Masters first group of poems was published in book form. Nineteen years later, he won in ternatiqnal fame as the author .f fo. t- - ii ; . ui oyuun xviver Aiiuioiogy. ONE EAST TEAM New York U.R) Bill Uhl and Jim Baxson of Dayton uni versity will play for the East team in the annual East-West all-star basketball game at Mad ison Square garden, March 31 They were the first - players named to the East squad, which will be coached by Tom Black burn of Dayton. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. . Tuesday, February 28, 1958 TESTIFYING ON DEFENSE NEEDS, Gen. Nathan Twining (left), Air Force chief of staff, tells Senate armed services committee Pentagon is concerned over Soviet action in nar rowing U. S. margin of superiority in air power. With Twin ing is Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles. (International) Andes-7o-Coast Railroad Wearing Finish Deep in northern Ecuador, a railroad is nearing completion from the Andes to the coast, promising a new frontier of for ests and farmlands for settlers. After four decades of labor, the railroad will connect Quito, the capital, and San Lorenzo, a northern seaport some 200 miles away. Between the inland capi tal and the Pacific ocean lies un developed' territory of moun tains, fertile valleys, heavily wooded hills, savannas and dense jungles. Large areas may be thus opened for production of bana nas, rice, sugar, cotton, tobacco, cocoa, coffee, and fast-growing balsa, used in making life pre servers and rafts.. Wild rubber trees and the ivory-nut . palm, which provides vegetable ivory for button manufacturers, rank amone Ecuador's forest assets. Dairy farming and grain raising are suited to higher altitudes. Will Shorten Distances The new railroad will bring Ecuadorean exports nearer to the outside world. The nation, wedged between Colombia and Peru high on South America's western coast, , has long relied on a railroad connecting Quito and southerly Guayaquil, the principal seaport. The new car rier will actually become an ex tension of the Quito-Guayaquil line, providing the capital and northern areas about a 350-mile shorter haul to the Panama canal than Guayaquil afforded. San Lorenzo's excellent na tural harbor will be further im proved as a result of the new railroad. Plans call for dredging sections of the surrounding bay to accommodate larger ships. A lighthouse, additional cargo handling facilities and enlarged piers are projected. Ecuadoreans. and tourists long have marveled at the railroad between Guayaquil and Quito, which negotiates cliffs "impas sable even to goats." Built by Americans and called one of the world's spec tacular engineering accomplish ments, the railway climbs to heights of some 9,000 feet. Pas sengers are transported in a day through both tropical and alpine climates. At stations along the sometimes zigzag route, Indians peddle food to passengers. The cities joined by the rail road delight most visitors. Around its commodious harbor, Guayaquil supports iron and steel works, shipyards, cotton mills and breweries. A well-kept park graces the 2V-mile water front, adjoined by business es tablishments, warehouses and consulates. Found in 1537, it now has more than 260,000 hv habitants. Its cathedral dates from Spanish times. City of Sights ; Quito's people are close neigh bors both to the equator and to lofty Pichincha (15,672 feet). Long ago a battleground of the Incas and Spaniards, the capital now blends its past with modern living. And airport and wireless station, a university, military Daily's U-Drive , Medford Airport in Ecuador school and national conserva tory of music attest its changed role. Colonial churches recall its antiquity. Green forests, . tropical flow ers and snow-capped mountain peaks decorate the country. 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For example, Fords new MAIN & FIR Nantucket Lightship Greets Washington A transatlantic ship's first contact with America often is a high-pitched radio di rection signal, a thrice-flashing i light on the horizon, and finally the silhouette of a little vessel bobbing in open ocean off Mas sachusetts. : ' ;-- This is the famed Nantucket Shoals lightship, one of 27 such floating light stations manned by Coast Guardsmen in United States waters. For 102 years nav igators have looked for this light due south of Nantucket Island on the eastern approach to New York. In January the Nantucket is scheduled . to move about eight sea miles to a new address: lati tude 40 degrees, 33 min., 00 sec onds north, longitude 60 degrees, 28 min., 000 seconds west. The move will free the vessel from a witch's caldron of cross-currents that have beset it since its anchorage was shifted 15 miles eastward two years ago. Tedium on a Target Time and tedium frame the life of a lightship's men; their chief job is to go nowhere. A huge anchor buried in the sea floor tethers the ship to an exact charted station. The crew keeps the light, blaring foghorn, radio beam and other navigational aids operating. When fog shrouds the ocean, they know that blinded ships are groping straight toward them. Being the bull's-eye gives them an uneasy feeling, punctu ated by the booming "Beeeeee ohhhhhhh" of the horn. All too often a steersman's aim has been too good. . On May 15, 1934, the British liner Olympic rammed the Nan tucket and sank it with seven crewmen. ' Similar collisions have damaged lightships severe ly, and there have been near misses beyond count. ; Lightships likewise must stay out when storm . warnings fly and other' ships scurry for port or the open sea. In 1905 the Nantucket foundered and went STREETS GREAT TV, FORD down- in a gale." Another storm broke its mooring and blew the lightship nearly to Bermuda. Hurricane Edna in 1954 left it i without steering gear. ' " Through all such travail these odd-looking little . ships, their names in big white letters across red hulls, keep some of the .sea's most vital lights burning bright Diamond Shoals lightship of Cape Hatteras, for example, guards the stormy "Graveyard of the Atlantic." Fire and Fish Oil America's first lightship, sta tioned off Norfolk in 1820, was a craft of "70 tons burthen, cop per fastened and coppered." Her light burned fish oil, and winds blew it our regularly. '.- Roman galleys carried blaz ing fires in baskets at their mastheads, but more as a wea pon against pirates than as sig nal lights. An over-sized row boat with two crude lanterns marking the Nore sands in the Thames Estuary in 1732 gives England credit for the first real lightship. . By 1860, 136 lightships guard ed world coasts; in 1913, as many as 800 were , counted. 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