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."
LJ
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