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Thunday, February 28, 1957
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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.
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CLUB
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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
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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
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Holly st.. and Patricia Jean Free
burger, route 1. box 322. Gold Hill.
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