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O o TfO K8DP0RD (OHEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thunday, February 28, 1957 fr liftoff f -1 1 i, A u Wii THREE AGAINST ONE The Arab "Big Four" leaders are shown as they met in Cairo to consider Pres. Eisenhower's mideast doctrine. Saudi Arabia's King Saud favored the plan, but the leaders of Egypt, Jordan and Syria were cool or against it Left to right on the far side of the conference table are Syrian Pres. Shukri EI Kuwatly, Jordan's King Hussein, King Saud and Pres. Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Little Old Man Buying Up Big Chunks Of Florida Real Estate; Bankers Worry By CHARLES TAYLOR United Press Correspondent Miami (U.R) A little old man sits reading murder mysteries here these days while his agents snap up choice chunks of Florida real estate and industry at a rate of S200.000 every 24 hours. Florida is accustomed to things done in a big and dazzling fashion but not even Florida can underhand 89-year-old Arthur Vining Davis who now owns more than one-eighth of the total land area of Dade (Miami) county as part of a $350 million empire. Some bankers and -businessmen are frankly worried at the ultimate effects of Davis' op erations, particularly what will happen when he dies, since he has revealed no plans for long range development of his hold ings. Davis seems to enloy being a mystery himself. Recently, as often happens, he was reported quite il?. But to reporters who managed to get into his secluded South Miami estate, he said: '"I don't want to sit here and talk about whafs going to hap pen when I die. I don't even know what will happen. And anyhow, I don't plan to die." Davis, who came to Miami in 1943. is chairman of the board of the Aluminum Company of America. In the past year, he has sold 700,000 shares of ALCOA common stock but he still owns 936.824 shares. The stock is worth about S86 a share. Bought Acreage Elsewhere In his time here, Davis has bought 80.000 acres in Miami and 150,000 acres elsewhere in the state. He owns 200,000 acres on CUba's Isle of Pines. He is planning a swank hotel on sea side frontage some 35 miles north of Miami Beach's glitter ing Collins ave. strip. And he is building on Eleuth era Island in the Bahamas a retreat for "rich" millionaires where cottages start at $30,000 and the 18-hole golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones. Davis owns the largest ice cream dairy in the Southeast and has ownership or interests in a ship line, an airline, steel com pany, construction company, land development firms and the Dlush Boca Baton club which he bought for S22 million. In recent months, his invest ments in Florida real estate and industry have averages more than $200,000 a day. He is buy ing at sky high prices. Only Two Relatives His only close relatives are a stepdaughter living in New York and a nephew who is a mission ary among the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. "The Davis boom has been bad for Florida," a bank director said recently. "It's just that the bad hasn't reached us yet. We're like a kid stuffing himself with ice cream we'll have to dis gorge a lot of what we're eat ing." A market research expert criticized Davis' activties be cause "He's been doing nothing constructive just buying land and keeping it off the market." But, another top banker says: "It would be ridiculous to as sume that a man of Davis' ability would work so hard and so long to build an estate without making provisions for its con tinuty. He's too smart for that, and too proud." Man Declared Entering Age of Copper; Rise To Higher Pinnacles Predicted Tointo, Ont. (U.R) Since time began for man, his evlou tion has been measured by the progress of his implements. First it was the bone age, then the stone age. He jumped for ward in the bronze age, and (towered into greatness in the iron age Qvith the building of machines and skyscrappers. Now, take it from Andrew Robertson, one of Canada's top authorities on metals, we are in a new age: the copper age. Just as iron and steel brought man to his present pinnacle of progress by making it possible for machines to do his work., Robertson says so will the cop per age take him to a new pin nacle in the age of automation. For copper, says Robertson, is the metal of power generation and transmission, and also com munications. Robertson believes man Is only on the threshold of world power development. Even in the highly industrialized countries like the United States, he says. generation of electrical power will be increased in the coming years many times. 'Fantastic' Potential Add to that the sections of the world where development is just getting underway, like the Mid dle East, and other parts of the world still waiting for develop ment, and the potential demands for power approach the fan tastic. Robertson Is a big man in stature as well as in his pro fession. Six feet tall and weigh ing 240 pounds, this rough and ready business man and engineer with sparse brown hair is known in his profession around the world. He was born 55 years ago in British Columbia, the son of a salmon cannery operator. Rob ertson started out to study for estry, but, sickened by the de vastation caused in the Canadian north woods by lumbering oper ations, he switched to mine engineering. College Studying Ways to Stop Power Line Burning Corvallis Wavs of eliminat ing costly cross arm burning on high voltage power line poles in Oregon are under study this year at Oregon State college with a S4.400 research grant from Bon neville Power administration. Louis N. Stone, electrical en gineering professor, is in charge of the project. , Biggest problem area is the coastal region but other areas of the state and every section of the country are also affected Early in Fall The burning comes early in the fall after summer dust and salt sprays have "contaminated" or coated insulators on the cross arms. Then, when light rains or heavy fogs occur, power leaks short into the fir pole cross arms and char away the wood, Stone explained. Replacing the cross arras is costly, stone pomiea out. ana me mreat oi a spar arm ournuig off and dropping the line is ser ious. In some areas Los Angeles. San Francisco and heavily popu lated eastern areas power com panies maintain spray trucks ANOTHER PHONE Northampton, Mass. (U.R1 Massachusetts' 2.000.000th tele phone was installed recently at the Clarke School for the Deaf. It was at that school that Alex ander Graham Bell, investor of the telephone, taught in 1871. with high-powered nozzles that are used to wash oik the insul ators and avoid the "shorting" process. The mountains and for ests of Oregon make such an op eration impractical and the OSC study is aimed at finding some way to check the problem. Redesign Possible Redesign of the insulators may be the answer or some improve ments in present designs may be possible to check the burning, Stone said. Research is being conducted in the high voltage laboratory of the electrical department. Cross arm poles are brought into the laboratory and connected with the usual 110,000-volt lines, and sun lamps and fog nozzles are used to simulate outdoor condi tions. Don Hill, Pendleton engineer ing senior, is research assistant on the project. In mining," Robertson ex plained, "you dig a hole in the ground, and from there on you can work without disturbing the beauty of the surrounding coun try." From the Ground Down After graduating from McGill University in Montreal, Robert son started learning his profes sion from the ground down. He worked with pick and shovel. He lived in tents and mine camps. Today, Robertson has interests from one end of Canada to the other, in the Middle East and in Ireland. His experience in metals runs from the raw ore to the finished product. He is now di recting the construction of a big millsite and power dam at Chi coutimi, Canada, for the proces sing and smelting of metals. It won't be completed for two and one half years. Robertson is not worried about the possibility of depleting the world's metal resources. He agrees that some day the sup plies of available iron, copper, nickel and other metals is bound to run out. You cannot mine them forever. But when that day comes, Robertson says, man will enter still another age, the aluminum and magesium age, the age of light metals. 4 CLUB -W HEWS Talent Beef Club The Talent 4-H beef club met at the Pfaff home, Feb. 19 we made two rope halters for our calves and they turned out good. Our leader asked us how our calves were doing and plans to visit each one. The next meet ing will be held March 19, at the Goodrich home on Valley View road. Barbara Pfaff Secretary START NOW To i6h jJP Save Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Tribesman Educated in America Leads Negro Nation To Freedom Accra, Gold Coast U.P.) Africa's first native Negro na tion will be born here next week, led to freedom by an American - educated tribesmen. U. S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon will . fly here from Washington especially for the ceremony next W e d n e s d ay, March 6, at which the Gold Coast, rich in gold and cocoa, will cease to be a British colony. , Under the leadership of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, it will become the independent state of Ghana and a member of the British Commonwelath alongside Canada, India and South Africa. To match the presence of Nixon among the robed black kings and jungle chieftains, Rus sia has dispatched Minister of State Farms Ivan A. Benediktov, whose own tour paved the way for Soviet-leaders to visit Britain Safety Council Board To Meet Friday The board of directors of the Medford Safety Council, will meet at the Jackson hotel, Fri day, March 1, according to Au brey Loper, president. Under discussion will be a plan for reorganization of the council to better define the areas of safety action, Lqper said, the council also will consider rec ommendations regarding the pro posed anti-jaywalking campaign and appointment of additional committees for special projects. Loper noted that the meeting Friday would be for board of directors only, but that a meet ing of the full Safety Council would be held Friday, March 8. The Hudson river is affected by the Atlantic tides as far north as Albany which is 150 miles inland. last spring. Red China is sending Vice Premier Marshal Nieh Jung-Chen. The 47-year old Nkrumah, la beled a "city slicker" and would be dictator by his foes, will be the center of attention. There have been misgivings in political circles over his early open flirtations with Com munism. Nkrumah himself says he is a "Marxian Socialist," who followed left-wing groups to learn their political tactics. No Communist But he insists he is not a Com munist. To back up the claim he ordered his government not to employ Communist infltra tion of such a young state as Ghana. The son of a village goldsmith Nkrumah attended native mis sion schools and worked his v ay through Lincoln University at Oxford, Pa. He stayed eight honorary degree. He studied further In London and with a personal magnetism enhanced by handsome Negroid features and spell-binding ora tory returned home to capture a huge personal following. He was in jail on charges of sedition and stirring an illegal general strike when his party ran up 80 per cent of the vote in the 1950 election. The British re leased him, installed him as "leader of government business" and the next year allowed him to become prime minister. British Confidence Now the British are betting that he will guide Ghana, the 15th free nation created since World War II, to stable state hood in spite of renewed Soviet attempts to gain influence in Africa. Nkrumah has rejected aid from the British colonial of fice but wants help from else where. Ghana, which also includes the northern territories, Togo land trusteeship territory and protectorate of Ashanti, takes its name from the anripnt Vino dom whose tribesmen overran this coastal territory beneath the western hump of Africa in the 12th century. The first colonizers, the Portu guese, landed in 1471, and some historians say Christopher Co lumbus was on that voyage. They found gold dust alongside the crocodiles in the rivers. The Dutch Danes, Swedes and Brit ish followed, putting up cocoa plantations beside jungles in fested with panthers and pyth ons. There were black slave traders here both before and after the white traders. The new state, whose 91,842 square miles make it slightly smaller than Oregon, has a popu lation of 4.6 million, of whom only 14,000 are not native Neg roes. Liberia to the north was formed by slaves returning from the United States. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Robert Leon Cook, no PUC per mit. S15 . Dee Clinton Thames. Overolad. $49. Maurice Leo Hilderbrand, overload $27.50. Robert Earl Severe, drunk in a public place. $30. Claude Ambrose McLaughlin, no operator's license. $6. Dwight L. Edwards, overwidth. $10. Herbert Ray Chapman, defective headlight. $5. Michael Bernard Buckley, drunk on a public highway. SIS. Harold LeVerne Goutermont. no PUC permit, $15. CIRCUIT COURT Mary Caroline Ross vs. James Marion Ross, divorce complaint. Marie Brier vs. James O. Brier, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Ronald Everett Peyton. 402 De Barr at.. Medford. and Jean LouelJa Walch. route 1, box 359. Talent. Alvah Pearl Hubbard, 1473 Dixie lane. Medford. and Georgia Ann Bak er, 517 South Grape fit., Medford. Murray Vernon Waters. 2389 North Pacific highway. Medford. and Melba Myrna Poitevint, route 2, box 314, Central Point. Arthur Leonard Shoemaker, Pros pect, and Judith Ann Weide, route 2, box 741. 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