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New Roads, Femes Lead Motorlog Travelers to B. C. Sunshine Coast Scenery Similar To Alaska's Is In Easy Access Tb folWwlnf I m nadna tin mf motorlog ftpparlnf Jun S In Northwrit rntiifrxvur tayftilM of Th bnnday Ore gvniaa. it I n f an unaal sponOTr4 Jointly by Tti Owetli Md th OTe(B Stat Motor MMtclfttlon. j BY ALBKKT MoCREADY ( amookm Editor. Ttm OracooUa Just north of Vancouver on the British Columbia coast, an ay day'f drive from Portland, Set a vacation paradise almost unknown to Northwest mot ar tels. The Secheh (pronounced sea ahelt) peninsula until recent years was inaccessible by road. But now, fast, frequent ferry service across the deep, wide t inlets which had cut off the peninsula from civilization has loponed up a new resort area with lakes and bays teeming with fish, scenery akin to Alaska's and a climate unbeliev ably mild. The "Sunshine Coast" is what Sechelt boosters call their pen insula, and they have the sta tistics to prove it Pain clouds which annually dump an aver age of 66 inches of precipitation on Vancouver, B. G, somehow seem to dodge the area to the north. There, the annual rain fall is a mere 28 inches, and skies are bright and blue all around the calendar. Last year Black Ball tended its ferry service from Earl Cove, at the north end of the peninsula, to Saltery bay. giving the city of Powell River its first direct link to the Brit ish Columbia mainland. The first trip of the Oregon State Motor association's white motorlog car to the new north ern end of highway 99 was made over roads ranging from fair to excellent. Paved Road Added Half the 60-mile highway across Sechelt peninsula is hard surfaced, and half the remain ing 30 miles of graveled road will be paved this summer. To visit the peninsula, the tourist leaves Vancouver uiiuugii luwuue oidiiicy jjcii anrl nwiM th T.inne Ctttt cnc.l pension bridge (the ibngest in the British commonwealth) spanning Burrard inlet. A pleasant 15-mile trip along Marine drive, which winds through a lovely shoreside resi dential district, ends at the ferry slip at Horseshoe bay. Cower point, one of many spots on "Sunshine coast" where almaQ abound. Is pleasant pause for white motorlog car. The 11 -mile voyage across Howe sound to Gibsons takes 70 minutes and costs S3 per car plus 91 per passenger. Children under 12 go for half fare and those under 5 ride free. There are good motels and hotels here and there, with more a -building, but unless reservations are made in ad vance, travelers are likely to find them all full. A wise precaution for first- timers on the peninsula would be a phone call from Vancouver to Bill McAfee, president of the Sunshine Coast Tourist associ ation at Gibsons. Fishermen can bring their boats and motors with them, but they needn't Seaworthy small boats equipped with air cooled inboard motors are avail able for rental at reasonable rates ail along the peninsula. 2 9n -Jrowel Sifer "J o f r fPtiritr Barlwr ,. J IbltKOI ?: v Hwtsaw Bat Map shows combination of road and water routes UnkinjE Vancotn-er, B. C, north coast. Favorite spots for salmon are Gower point, a short distance from Gibsons, and Half Moon bay and Secret cove. When westerly winds make the strait too rough for small boats, sheltered Pender harbour (yes, they use the "u" in British Columbia) offers good fishing. No license is required in salt water. Trout Fishing Good For those who want to invest in a nonresident license, there's good lake and stream fishing for trout and steelhead in sea son. Jervis inlet, which separates the Sechelt peninsula from what Powell River residents like to call the "Powell Riv iera," is a great slash running a full 50 miles inland. From the Jervis inlet, cutting back south into the Sechelt peninsula, is Sechelt inlet, almost as large as its parent and linked to it by a very narrow passage. All the water needed to raise the whole Sechelt inlet must pass through this bottleneck when the 12-foot British Columbia tide comes in. And when the tide turns, it ail rushes out again. From Earl cove to Saltery bay is a nine-mile 50-minute ferry ride at the same rates. Here one passes the deepest spot on the B. C. coast, a 2400 foot "hole" in the ocean floor. More excellent scenery and fishing opportunities are found north of Jervis inlet. Some visitors may wish to look over the paper plant which is Powell River's principal industry. Some of the paper on which The Ore goniar. is printed comes from this, the world's biggest single unit paper mill, capable of turn ing out a ribbon of newsprint at the rate of 2000 feet a minute. How can a woman make 150 decisions in 17.9 minutes? Did you know this about yourself? You probably make about 150 buy ing decisions every time you buy groceries. Yet you spend an aver age of only 17.9 minutes making all those decisions. On something so important as your family's food, what gives you the courage to make up your mind' so quickly? How can you be so sure you're right? Isn't it simply that you've learned the basic rule of safe and sound buying: A good brand is your best guarantee. You feel safe with a good brand. You know the company stands back of it because its reputation is at stake. You know, in fact, that, yoa are right. No matter what you want to buy, the more good brands you know the smarter you can ouy. Get to know them in this newspaper. They'll help you cut buying mistakes, get more for your money. BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Iaecrpoca' A Non-PnfH Educational Foundation 37 Wart 57th Su, New York 19, N.Y. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE 'Deep Ruth' Mining Shaft To Extend Big Operation New Ruth, Nev. UP. In the words of the mining engineer who's directing the disging of it. the Depp Ruth shaft is "the darndest mine I ever saw." R. C. Nispel, superintendent of underground mines for the Na vada Mines Division of the Ken necott Copper Corporation, said that "we've spent S15.000.000 so far and haven't taken out a pound of ore." Development work on the new shaft, one of the most ambitious undertakings in the long and colorful mining history of Ne vada, has included moving vir tually every building in an en tire town. When the shaft is completed and in production, it and other development work scattered over the copper belt under the sage and pine sprinkled hills of eastern Nevada will extend the gainful life of the state's largest copper operation by an unpre dictable number of years. Revived by War Copper has been mined in eastern Nevada for more than half a century. It became a ma jor industry in 1908 when the old Nevada Consolidated Copper Company opened its Copper Flat open pit here at Ruth and the mills and smelters at McGill, in the open valley at other end of a 20-mile long ore-hauling rail way. Mines were sunk, the pit be came one of the deepest holes in the ground on the face of Amer ica, and copper rolled out during World Wars I and II. When the latter ended, pro duction was curtailed and some of the mines closed. The pit, re named the Liberty Pit, remained in operation but at a slower pace. Then the Korean conflict brought a new demand for war- vital copper. Kennecott, with the help of the government in the form of rapid tax writeoffs, em barked on the multi-million-dollar Deep Ruth expansion. An old, high steel headframe was moved into a new position to sink the new Deep Ruth shaft to a depth of more than 1.600 feet. Skips and cages are han dled by an ultra-modern hoist in stallation that can move ore up the shaft at a speed of 30 miles an hour and men at 15 miles an hour. The town of Ruth, between the old Star Pointer shaft and the Liberty pit, had a population of 1,400. Because the new de velopment called for "block cav ing" below ground a method that would drop the surface, too the town was ordeied moved. A new site was selected a few miles away and all but SO of the homes these will go later have already been muved, along with offices, stores and recrea tional facilities of the company owned community. Diamond drills probed deeply into the earth to determine the extent of the copper deposits. As the Deep Ruth shaft was be ing sunk, it was found that another ore body was on top of the main deposit. So tunnels are being run to it so this copper may be removed before it is "di luted" by being caved into the Deep Ruth "voids" made by the picking, shoveling and blasting miners. Nispel hopes that the first ore from the new operation, the "Minnesota" claim ore that was newly discovered, wiil come out of the shafts in February. Two years later, mining of copper from the Deep Ruth deposits should actually be under way. Wednesday, June 6, I9S8 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB Hereford Breeders Will Tour Area Farms Cal-Ore Hereford Breeders as sociation will hold its annual tour Sunday, beginning at 10:30 a.m. at Yankee Creek ranch on the Crateir Lake highway nort'.i of Four Corners. Second stop will be at the J. W. Bigha m ranch on Antelope creek. Third stop will be at the E. M. Bigham ranch, where the association will provide a din ner for members of the tour. The Rcnnie Anderson ranch on Alta Vista rd., will be the next stop. The tour will then progress to the Bill Woods ranch, also on Alta Vista rd., and will conclude at Earle Jos sy's ranch, on the Crater Lake Hwy. Association members said the tour will be open to anyone in terested. T'hose planning to par ticipate in the tour are advised to bring their own table service and either a salad or cake. Esfacadan Takes Stock Show Honors The Dalles (U.R) Herbert Moore, member of the Estacada FFA livestock judging team, took top honors at the annual Fat Stock show at The Dalles yesterday. Moore's Estacada team also walked off with the team judg ing honors in the FFA division of the sho w. Top 4H judge was David Reid of Rufus. The Blue Mountain sheep club of Milton-Freewater took team honors in the 4H di vision. Some 180 FFA and 4H exhibi tors are showing 352 animals at the show. Election Campaign Expenses Listed Salem (U.R) A committee to elect Robert T. Mautz as Repub lican national committeeman spent 516,568 on Mautz' primary campaign, according to expense statements filed with the state elections division. Other expense statements in cluded: W. A. Rushlight, in. support of Estes Kefauver for Dresident. $625. Veterans for McKay commit tee, Charles R. Harding, treasur er, S537. Jason Lee. Salem Democrat, for congressman. $907. Al Ullman, Baker Democrat, for congressman, $271. David C. Shaw for Congress Committee. Ellen E. Dougherty, secretary, $2,397. Carl H. Francis, Dayton Re publican, for attorney general, $557. L. B. Sandblast. Supreme Court justice, position No. 5, $1,768. Sidney B. Lewis Jr., Benton county district attorney, $639. About 45 out of every 100 American men age 65 or more are still gainfully employed at some kind of" work. It's my job to. see you get fast, friendly help... K WSESSt mmMM JOHN A. CARTER As one of my policy holders, I would per sonally help you if you have an accident near home. Away from home, there are nearly 8,000 agents and claims rep resentatives like myself to give you the same assistance. 3 J John A. Carter Virgil R. Wilkes I Lynn Colby 133 South Central Phono 2"93"j T - ..... ., . and the happy; farmer who invested in U. S. Savings Bonds kNCE THERE WAS a farmer who drove to town one Saturday to stock up on fresh food and feed and news. While there, he also bought three $50 U. S. Savings Bonds one for each of his ons, to help finance their college educations. As he returned home, the farmer noHced that one section of his pas ture fence was down and his prize Jerseys were about to get out. So he parked his car, took off his coat, hung it on a post, and started fixing the fence. And the cows stood by, watching curious ly. It hid been a particularly dry season end when one bovine beauty spotted the nice green Savings Bonds sticking out of the farmer's coat pocket, she immediately sauntered over to investigate. The rest of the story you' vet probably guessed. While the farmer fixed, old bossy feasted. And the delectable Bonds were partly devoured and digested. "i i tm Our fanner friend, discovering his loss, feared for the worst. But the next Saturday he stopped at the bank to ask some ques tions. Yes, the Treasury would and did replace the chewed up Bonds free of charge. U. S. National Bank Leonard Electric Company . Tru-Mix Concrete Company Robert P. Templeton Lumber Co. Hr-iTy and David, Inc. Lainbert-Voegtly Lumber Co. Trail Creek Lumber Company Jorgensen Dairy Products Hubbard Bros.-Hubbard-Wray Reter Fruit Company So all of them the farmer, hi family, and even the cow were in clover. The V. S. Gotermntnt iott not pa? lor thii advertising. The Treamrr DcpartmiU tkanla, for their oatriottz donation, the Advertising Council and First National Bank California-Pacific Utilities Co. Rogue Valley State Bank Medford Corporation Joe Hearint Logging W. H. Dougherty Associates Nye & Navimes Packing Co. Mann's Department Store Alley Lumber Company Medford IVfail Tribune You may not be a farmer or own a cow, but there are lots of other ways you can lose your Savings Bonds or have them mutilated. -Fvery major flood, tornado, explosion or fire brings a wave of Bond replacements. So just remember this. No matter what happen to your Savings Bonds, the Treasury Department will replace them free of charge and date them to coincide with the original Bonds. Savings Bonds are not only safer than cash, but one of the best investments you can make. You can be sure of the principal, sun of the returns (an average 3 interest when held to maturity) and sure of the future when you invest regularly in Savings Bonds. So start investing in Savings Bonds to day. That's the safe and sure way to save. If you want your interest as current income, ask your banker about 3 Series H Bonds that pay interest semiannually by United States Treasury check. Timber Products Company Rogue River Orchards Fluhrer's Bakeries Elk Lumber Company Cascade Wood Products Ross Lumber Company Littrell Parts Company Barker's Men's Store Medford Ljunhr Cgmpany
