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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, JuM It. 195S Is That So? At best, outdoor clothing is a compromise. For summer days, you want it nice and cool. For cold, rainy afternoons, warm and rain-proof. For hiking, loose enough to be comfortable: for riding, tight enough not to work up. In moist areas, mosquito re sistant. And above all, economi cal. In recent years there has been a cult abetted by advertisers to wear as few clothes outdoors illll as possible. For summers on a beach, near a house, or when a permanent camp is handy, this may be all right except even there excessive exposure can be dangerous. But for the real camp er, it is downright foolish: his concern at all times is adequacy. Clothes must be adequate for the season, for the place, for the use, for the wearer's own adaptabil ity to unusual conditions. To know what to buy and save money by avoiding mistakes study the clothing of the out doorsmen of the area. By long time testing, their clothing will be adapted to the climate, the locale, the nature of the work. For example, in the arid des ert areas of the southwest, your clothing must protect you from thorns, ( snags, rocks; brush all seem to take a fiendish delight in tearing your clothes: and al though days can be hot, nights can be very chilly, especially where there's altitude. Along the west coast, dew may be ex cessive. In the Rockies, there may be summer thunderstorms which come up fast: and nights can be freezing. Between the Rockies and the Appalachians, it's a different story: nights and day are usually warm with rainfall frequent and often heavy. Farther up, in Canada, equally great variations occurs. So, sea what's being worn then make your purchases local ly. On Standard Garment For most summer camping there is one standard garment you'll want: a pair of Levis made t IUGINI BURNS Rjnfltr-Naturalitt of hard-woven cloth. They are durable, cool, and bought in sizes large enough, comfortable. (Most dudes buy them a size too small.) About underwear. Most peo ple tend to scoff at long under wear. Not the outdoorsman. He knows that in some regions light weight wool underwear can be cooler than cotton. That's be cause it absorbs perspiration and lets it evaporate faster than cot ton. Care of the feet is most im portant. For hiking, high leather boots are hot and heavy better get light hiking shoes with 6 inch tops but insist on thick soles which protect the feet. They should be well broken in before you start on a long hike, and not too tight. Again, wool socks which ab sorb perspiration and help keep the feet dry, are best. Many woodsmen wear two pairs of lightweight hose this, they say, prevents friction which might otherwise cause blisters. In the mountains, expect rain and for this you might carry a slicker. However, the Old Tim er who is rigged out with a light woolen underwear and light woolen shirt will ignore rain proof clothes. He knows that with wool he'll stay warm; if the rain stops, the clothes will dry out; and if it doesn't, he'll dry out in camp that night. (With cotton, he'd be cold.) Besides, if he'd encase himself in a water proof garment, he'd get soaked underneath, anyway, what with sweating and perhaps be a lot more uncomfortable. So why worry. Windproof Jacket The daytime lightweight wear should be topped with a closely woven light-weight windproof woolen jacket, or a woolen sweater, for cool evenings and frosty mornings. If the altitude is high, perhaps an additional heavy shirt and heavy wool trousers. The use of woolen clothes need not be dictated by rain and coolness alone, you may be in mosquito country. Then the wool underwear, wool shirt with long sleeves, heavy wool socks and trousers can prevent the major ity of the obnoxious pests from reaching your skin. And the price of the noontime warmth is little enough to pay for the added protection particularly in the far north. Man, how I've suffered. As for headgear, a lightweight Ship Building Race Starts From Upsurge of Pacific Travel Plans By PETER HAYES United Press Correspondent San Francisco (UP.) An upsurge of interest in travel to Pacific basin countries has touched off a race among ship ping companies to provide new luxury liners to cash in on the tourist boom. 4 -itJT " 1,,, ADMITTED he killed two women, according to Los Angeles police, Donald T. Bash or, 2 7, said they caught him burglarizing their homes. (International) felt hat beats a cap all hollow it makes a good sunshield and keeps the rain from running down your spine besides holding out most of the pine needles, leaves, and bark. (Released by McClura Newspaper Syndicate) (Copyright, 19SE. by Eugene Burns) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best, true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this worid-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your letters to: Is That So! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. The Pacific Area Travel asso ciation predicted that 90,000 Americans would book passage on steamships in 1956, equal to the best years of the 1920s. And the total would be near ly doubled if ships were avail able, an association spokesman said. Shipping lines are going all out to correct this deficiency. Recently announced construc tion plans indicate that by 1960 there will be a 60 per cent in crease in passenger accommoda tions, 16,000 berths compared to the present 10,000. A United Press survey showed the following planned passenger ship construction aimed at Pa cific trade: Malion Lines: Will add 18,000 ton, 770-passenger Matsonia to lush California-Hawaii run as sister ship to flagship Lurline in summer, 1957. Matsonia being refurnished in Newport News, Va., yard after lying in mothball fleet since World War II when it was troop transport. Prior to war. as S.S. Monterey, it was on Matson's Australia run. Oceanic Steamship Co.: This Matson subsidiary is first U.S. company to re-enter Australasia passenger trade since World War II. Ready in fall will be Mariposa and Monterey, each 365 passenger, 14.000 tonners being converted in Portland, Ore., from Mariner Freighter hulls. American President Lines: Plans announced for first Amer ican flag "superliner" in service in Pacific. This S50 million, 906 foot liner to carry between 1200 and 1,400 passengers on same California-Orient run as APL's President Wilson and President Cleveland. Superliner is included in 20 year contract APL signed last month with Federal Maritime Board for construction of 24 new vessels at total cost of S275 million. Also included are two combination passenger - cargo liners to operate on round-the- world route with President Polk and President Monroe. Orient Line: Even bigger than APL's superliner is this British owned company's 40,000 tonner planned to handle 1,300 tourist class passengers, 650 first class. It will join smaller Orsova, .Oronsay, Orcades and Orion as Australia - San Francisco -Vancouver run inaugurated in 1954. Hawaiian Steamship Co.: Newly-formed company bought little-used World War' II troop transport LaGuardia, original ly built as sister ship to APL's Wilson and Cleveland, to invade California-Hawaii field. Ship goes into East Coast yards for modernization soon and officials expect her in service by next January. NYK: Japan's largest steam ship company plans two 20,000 ton liners in move to re-enter its once flourishing California Orient trade. Work on first ship expected to begin next year when agreement on subsidy completed with tourist-hungry Japanese government. NYK lost virtually its entire 175-ship fleet, including six liners, in World War II. Another important factor In the expected increase in pas se n g e r accommodations is freighter travel. Heavy new con struction is scheduled and most of these ships will carry 12 pas sengers each. Some new freighters offer facilities as luxurious as the most modern liner. Such ships are in the fleets of American President Lines and Pacific Far East Line, with the latter's Golden Bear, Korean Bear and Japan Bear boasting picture windows instead of portholes, wall-to-wall carpets and piped- m music in cabins, private bath instead of the usual shower, large lounge and library. Luxury liners also are com ing up with new refinements. Matson's new Mariposa and Monterey will be equipped with Sperry gyrofins, huge stabilizers protruding from the hull below water which automatically ad just to head off the roll of the ship. Designers claim that they reduce the pitch and roll of the ship by as much as 90 per cent. A Vacation Is more fun with extra cash from S'ark Finance 2739 No. 99 Phone 3-1817 I ; . . . J" '1W FINISHING IN DEAD HEAT, camera records end of sec ond race at Monmouth Park, N. J. Son O'Doge was ridden by Joe Dulmore and Mary 'N' Lib (on rail) by Sam Boul tnetis. Note Son O'Doge stretching. (International) WEEDS AND DYES Davis, Calif. 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