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Airway Company Tells 01 New April Record pany officials predict an ap proximate total of 220,000 will have traveled by West Coast by the end of this year. - Passengers carried last year reached an all-time record of 200,000 an increase of nearly 33, over the previous year, officials stated. The Lloyd Smith collection of Washington recently donated for the Morristown National Histor ical park in New Jersey has been valued at $500,000. Tribune Medford West Coast Airlines today an nounced that a total of 17,278 passengers were transported in company planes during the month of April, setting a new passenger record for that month. Company officials stated the April, 1956, passenger total ex ceded by 16 per cent the pre vious record established in April, 1955. A total of 62.894 passengers traveled by West Coast routes during the first four months of this year. Com In California losses from weeds and the cost of weed con trol are about $200,000,000 an nually. Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1956 Pages 1-6 Military Academy Exams Scheduled Washington, D. C. Rep. Harris Ellsworth announced to day that he has arranged with the Civil Service commission to hold on Monday, July 9, a pre liminary qualifying examination to determine the eligible candi dates for appointment in 1957 to the U. S. Naval academy, An napolis, Md.; the U. S. Military academy. West Point, N. Y.,; and the Air Force academy, Denver, Colo. Candidates for admission to the academies must be not less than 17 years of age nor more than 22 on July 1, 1957. Candidates must be actual residents of the fourth Oregon district, which includes Linn, Lane, Douglas, Coos, Josephine, Jackson and Curry counties. Applicants must notify Con gressman Harris Ellsworth, 1130 House Office building, Washing ton 25, D.., in writing not later than June 5, 1956, of their de sire to participate in the examin ation. Appointment of princi pals and alternates is based on grades achieved in the examination. Political Rumors Lose No Time In Making Headway in Washington Interim Tax Committee Sets Meeting Thursday Salem 0J.R The Legislative Interim Tax Study Committee will meet here Thursday through Saturday to study various sales tax laws. Sen. Rudie Wilhelm Jr., chairman, announced today. Subcommittees on forestry and electric utilities meet Thursday with full committee sessions Fri day and Saturday. The highest point in the Phi Ippine Islands is Mount Apo, on the Island of Minandao, 9610 feet. By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Nothing moves so fast through the bureaucracy of Washington as a new political rumor. And where they come from is almost always a mystery, es pecially to the persons in volved. Take Ervin L. Peterson for example. The A. Robt. Smith quiei, l n a u s trious former state director of agriculture for Oregon has been working for many months as as sistant secretary of agriculture, one of Ezra Taft Benson's top administrators in the sprawling Department of Agriculture. Then this reporter spoiled it all by telephoning Mr. Peterson and saying. "I hear reports that you are being considered as Doug McKay's successor in the cabinet." There followed a pause inter rupted only by the clatter of Mr. Peterson picking himself up off the floor and getting a firmer grip on the telephone. "What did you say?" The reporter repeated the in formation, explaining that it came from two widely scattered sources in the West. No Apparent Dreams "Well, this is amazing to me," said the flabbergasted assistant secretary of agriculture who ap parently had no dreams of be coming secretary of the Interior. After an exchange in which it was agreed that neither put much stock in the reports inas much as they were news to Peterson, the two went their sep arate ways but both Mr. Peter son and the reporter kejjt bump ing into the rumor. Before a week had elapsed, the report had spread to a top Interior official and to various members of the press corps. Re porters began banging on the Oregon man's office door to see what they could learn. And all tvere as mystified as Peterson about the origin and the validity of the report, if not amazed at the speed of its travel. During the recent Senate hear ings on the boxcar shortage, a bit of doggerel was used by Leonard Netzorg, counsel for Western Forest Industries Asso ciation, to illustrate the plight of western Oregon shippers. It went like this: A poor old man with trem bling limbs and stooped de crepit form Stood on a weather beaten Lost Portland Boy Located by Searchers Kelso, Wash., (U.R) An eight-year-old Portland grade school student, . lost overnight near the Lewis river, was found safe and in apparent "good con dition" by a search party about 8:30 a.m. yesterday. The report that Melvin Charles Bennett had been found came from Robert Wiester, dep uty sheriff of Cowlitz county. who had been in the search area overnight. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn H. Bennett, became lost on a fishing trip. He was found about a mile from the Swift Creek camp on the Lewis river. dock and faced a wintry storm. He minded not the icy winds that fanned his snow white beard But holding high a telescope straight down the track he peered. The scene about the place he stood was one of desolation But patiently he took his stand, for such was his occupa tion. Off tp the right there stood a mill, the roof had blown away And where they once had piled the lath now grew a crop of hay. tThe verse continues for many lines describing the tumbled down scene, with timber wolves living in the stable and beavers in the log pond.) The poor man with hjs tot tering frame through the tall grass trudged one day And he'd take his place with telescope and he'd only look one way. He would look 'way off toward the sunkist South and his face was filled with sorrow. And the only thing that he would say was, "They prom ised me some tomorrow." A stranger passing by one day inquired of a native son, "Who is that man who' sits over there with the antique vision gun?" "My friend," the native an swered as he wiped away the tears, "You shouldn't speak of him that way, for he's been there 50 years. "Why that man's story to us out here is as common as the stars. "He's a western Oregon lum berman looking for S.P. cars." 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