EIGHT MEDrORD (OHEGOK)
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' 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.'
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From Camp White
It seems at one time that Ross
had yearning to live out his
days at Tahiti and possibly set
tle down to a home life with a
Polynesian damsel about whom
he had read such alluring ac
counts. "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
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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.
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Tuesday, February 28, 1958
TESTIFYING ON DEFENSE NEEDS, Gen. Nathan Twining
(left), Air Force chief of staff, tells Senate armed services
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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. As
though to reflect their sur
roundings, many inhabitants
copy the natural colors in their
clothing.
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often is a high-pitched radio di
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light on the horizon, and finally
the silhouette of a little vessel
bobbing in open ocean off Mas
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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
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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
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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
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names in big white letters across
red hulls, keep some of the .sea's
most vital lights burning bright
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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.
From sperm oil and colza oil
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beacon on Ambrose lightship at
the outer end of the New York
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local voters be asked for a $16,'
920,937 tax base, an increase of
$3,454,937.
umcials said the increase
was needed to put teachers on
an experience salary scale.
A total budget of about $23,
672,000 for 1956-57 and a budget
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