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I J FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. June 29. 1957 1 Motor Trip Bisecting Oregon Advised for Avoiding Crowds Flornc Start OfThisMotorlog Tr ' t'..owlrg la a eon-l-n-l'i' r, a mot'.rlojj appear. r.g In ir. IS .nriay Orezonan. Il lfl or.a r, an trnua! atrlei apon ',rt?j o;n'.y by Tha OrF'tn'.an ar.-l v.a Oragoa S'.a'.a Motor aaao::a::on. BY HAKOL BTGHKS '.'? a'r.:r. Im Orace.ao If you arc anicrj; the socially ell adjusted, tfcia article is not for you. Tnis is aomethlng of a tip aineet for thoae disturbing r.d suspicion-rousing charac ters who frankly hate people r.d ant to spend their vaca to r. out of lij'it of man and his a;aries. . So ee supgew tr.at you take tt trip e d;d when we Iv-anid (iib fonily) an Ore gon Motor association M:(e erororlog ear and began b; section of Oregon. Yhj eaten up the family 'peo pe ha'ers nave families) and a 'art In at th onatst, even if you Ire io.and. You might leave Portland and drive to Florence, near the jecgrapnla midsection cf ie east. iWa took highway 1 o Ota lunciijn with U. S. b g oay 101.) tats Parka Entice Taaing the drive from Ocean lake to Florence you will get well pmted on the magnificent coast arenery. Try stopping to fti ak LP the a'erf salt air at Eoi.er bey, frepce bay, Whaie erne, or drive down to the bearnes and hunt rocks at Aga'e beach. A' ir g highway 1(71 you will find escape hatches from people in s'-irvs of state parks, strung out like hearts on the eiiS-hug-K?ng highway. There is aiso the S a aw rational forest, through -k.iei you will be nosing much ef 'he way alnrg the coast. Bit the aerioua businesa of Shaking peopie begins when you ti.ro eat from Florence on the bisection xket across Oregon. H ghwey H follows the Siuslaw river and erosaea streams with auen people-hating names as Deadwood creek. The h:g'nay pushes through fti Coast range, gearing your pirit for the high Cascades, wnich axe to eome later. riahtng BxcaUeatf t(nB you pop out at Junction City and plow on through Eu gene and Springfield you are unavoidably atuck with people, but this need be only a brief interlude before you will soon be plunging into the wilderness of the upper McKenzie river and the Three Sisters country of the lava-crusted high Cascades. Highway 126 out of Eugene follows the McKenzie, certainly one of the world's most beauti ful fast-water fishing streams. The highway la closed in late fall by heavy snows in the up per elevations, but a new ail year road is expected to bridge the winter-blocked gap by 1958. With advance reservations, you caa arrange to spend a wek in this wilderness region, which offers fine fishing, swim ming (in a heated pool at Bel knap ssrings), a vast recreation area, mountain climbing and even an airport for those in a burr; to escape people. B,''"Hla HU . - -.. . Cj . -a. A Trend To Spend for Services To Durable Goods Said Noticed t The Oregon State Motor association's white mntorlog car pauaes beside the nave-washed rocks of Neptune state park, not far from start of cross-state, trip. As you leave the western slopes of the upper McKenzie and climb through the pass under watohful white faces of the Three Sisters, you emerge In a Stygian wilderness, a place seemingly abandoned by God and man and left frozen in time. Tne glacier-carved Sister peaks look down on lava beds that were rivera of molten rock not much more than 1000 years ago. Here, devoid of vegetation, and seemingly of all life, are the most imposing sheets of re cent lava Hows in the nation. Old nest Lives As you roll toward Bend past this geological wonderland, you are entering the cowboy west, a badlands of ancient lakes and rivers; a barren uplands of sage and tumbleweeds. skirted by lush green valleys slaked by the Deschutes and Metoliua rivers. This is the land of big skies and ranches that stretch beyond the horizon. It Is the land of the screaming pine tree head saw; of potato growers and quarter horses; it is a place of new power projects; of arrow straight highways and clean cities. From the Sisters-Bend-Red mond triangle, a labyrinth of trips offers escape hatches from people. There is a mile-long lava tunnel at Lava Cave state park; there are Suttle and Blue lakes resting in sky-blown cra ters and featuring ocean-blue waters; there is the Metolius river, certainly one of the strangest rivers of a strange land; there is a trip over Cen tury drive to Bachelor moun tain, where ski slopes run in winter; there is Newberry cra ter with its Pliocene geological sights similar to Mauna Loa and Mt. Etna and offering at the rim zenith the panorama of the high Cascades from Mt. St. Helens in Washington to Mt. Shasta in California. From Redm nd, you turn east along highway 26 to Prineville and head toward Mitchell, place of Cash floods and painted des erts Ogden Explored Area It looks much the same as It did when first explored by the London-educated Peter Skene Ogden. But eons ago say 200, OUO.000 years before the fur trappers and mountain men marine life swam over the Crook-Grant county highlands of the Ochoco national forest. Here clam reefs have been found on mountaintops, there deposited during the dark history of Pale ozoic time. Near John Day is a prehistoric nest of fossils so well known that the town and its rarities out of the days of the earth's youth stand like syn onyms. And here in the days of living man's youth, Indians prowled in a fearsome way. Today, the highway follows the canyons of the John Day river, where pali sades cut on a tighter scale than the gorge of the Columbia loom over the traveler and the Blue mountains lie in ambush ahead. When the land levels off out of the Ma)jieur national forest, the motorist finds green man fed lowland areas and will even se an occasional cowboy and his herd. As the highway turns southward out of the dry and rock-barbed uplands toward Vale and the irrigated beet sugar lands of the Idaho border country in- northern Malheur county, the moist coast lands and even the high Cascades seem like weeks, rather than a short two-day drive away. You have come across the heartland of Oregon to the Snake river through a sometimes lone ly but always spiendorous land. Oaaaa S avtcaat a - ww"i"w n V" Floor Map show root taken on trip cutting; ttato in hall. - Italy Said No Longer 'Dumping Ground1 for American Gangsters Rome if Italy wants no part In any more American gangsters ani that includes Chicago's Paul 'Tr e Waiter" Kicca. now threat ened with deportation from the United State. A government official in dicated today Italy is ready to light with lejal and diplomatic n eai.i the dumping of any more ltalo-Anieric;n gangsters on her oil. More than 500 have been sent tier since the FBI found illegal entry into the United States one of the easiest and cleanest ways to Eft rid f undesirables. ' We've got enough of them already." said the official. "Why dnn't thry send us a couple of Etiroco Fennis if they want to grt rid of somebody?" Aminci Blamed "These oeji went to the United S'ates when they were children. America made gangsters of them, Plagued Day And Night with Bladder Discomfort? h a rommon thin on"1" tirir re Lucitr irr::wnmin you -: r-i.. ! urnrornftirtain.e1. And .t-4 mi;!;:-, wi'.fl nnCaTir.ir hai'nait"?, re or n. i. In" Mfhe r..i p:r.. i ;e -ertun. Vrain fr mi' tonal v.p. ::r r. o.T mwrjr don't. t f-r. r P haa th.T-ae ut-fan-iing- ad- a.-.-as a.-t '.:iwa- turiii;rl'WilT t. 1 I ay hate an cabins n aai.Mar irrira:ioa. -A a aurf a, '.i n oa njasiril aark- , aa. n r..a.r a" aTi.i ra'.ns. t :. .y ...i .:i .-ric ai-.u-n tr;ru . S ir.a-,- outp ;t i: ca of a :ra t .a-. S.i, 0: tra :r.: r laive n;f d fcr :.t m. ia:c. nimv far f -te c tiw k c- c I not Italy. Why shouldn't they ' take tlie responsibility? Every j time we get one of these guys it means extra police, extra work, extra money to watch them." Italy certainly does have a 'Who's Who" of American under-world characters. First lord is Charles (Lucky) Luciano, thrown out of the United States in 1946 while still serving time on a Sing Sing sentence. Others include Joe "Little Snowdrop" Pici of Pittsburgh, j Giuseppe ''Big Mike" Spinella ! and "Charley the Collector" Car- rollo, late of Kansas City, Ralph Ligorio, one time Luciano aide, : and Frank Frigenti, who com ; plains "All I did was kill my mother-in-law and you should get ja medal for shooting mothers-in-law like mine." The police keep a day and I night watch oa this alumni as sociation. Most are restricted to j living in certain areas. Many J have been unable to get work. What's worse, the boys don't seem to get on among them selves. Luciano, his pals say, has j "gone snob." He lives in a I swank Naples penthouse with his "fiancee," pretty ex-dancer Igla Lissone. i Asked if he planned to meet 'Joe Adonis when "Gentleman Joe" sailed into Naples on de portation three years ago. Lucky snaried: "Nah. I ain't gonna meet . no boat. I got nothing in com ; mon with guys like that." Liguori modestly told Roman admirers he was a lieutenant in Luciano's army. Luciano sneer ed. "If I had a army, that guy : wouldn't even of been a private." J Tilings got so tough that a Roman priest, Father Michael Blandine, started a home for old gangsters in 1954 in a villa 30 miles from Rome. Luciano gave financial backing, explain ing "I always help good charit able projects." ALL IN THE EAR fit?:'- What yoiTsee in this girl's ear is Sonotone's new hear ing aid complete. ' IT'S WORN ENTIRELY IN THE EAR - no cord, no extra "button." Weighs only half an ounce. Women's hairdos hide it? completely.' On men,' this amazing hearing aid is barely noticeable from any angle. COM IN, PHONE O WKM. f t DIMONSTATION-NO OBLIGATION S0N0T0NE C. R. Adamson, Dist. Mgr. , 839 E. Jackson Ph. SP 2-5904 BY ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York W Americans somehow adopt patterns of be havior in their spending that make for def inite trends once they get under way. Just now the e c o n omists n o t e a trend toward spend ing of the fam ily dollar resi due in services of durable timer fcaizer goods. Back in 1955 the trend was toward durable. That was the big auto year. Also big stuff for appliances. Now while the payments still are being made on the 1955 auto the demand for new cars hasn't risen as much as the auto in; dustry had anticipated. Paying for Autos on Road What isn't going into autos is going to pay for the ones on the road and into services that in- ! - aft, r-. Ural volve in part the use of those autos for travel. People are spending money to get those cars fixed tip a serv ice in the regular use of the term. Then there's the vacation. This year it's going to be longer and farther from home. Many other services enter the picture. More people are visit ing their dentist and their doctor. A few more might be going to their lawyers, perhaps draw ing up a will now that they have a bit of money in the bank or in stocks. There are many other services, i including the movies and shows, dry cleaners, lanudries, and : utilities gen erally. Of course, j there's maid service and more people are spending money on i maids to do their housework, j Adds Up To Big Item This all adds up to a big item. So far in 1957 the natiori has been spending at an annual rate 'of nearly S103 billion for serv ; ices, more than $6 billion above : tlie annual rate of a year ago.w) This big item helps bolster the Lasl of Nazi War Criminals Released Werl. Germany .in The last three Nazi war criminals were released from the British war crimes prison here Tuesday and the prison closed. The prison at one time held 249 Germans convicted by Brit ish tribunals of war crimes, in cluding former Luftwaffe Mar shal Albert Kesselring. The United States still holds 24Tvar criminals in its prison at Landsberg and the French have three in Wittich Prison. Nation's Hog Herds Said Free of Disease economy. Economists note that while employment is manufact uring is declining moderately, it is rising in the service industries. This is seen as another step of the little man to improve his standard of living. While he's spending money for services and saying up his bills, he's becoming a potential customer for durable goods later on. That's what the automobile and applance makers are bank ing on. Incidentally last week the hot weather boomed sales of air conditioners, which indicates that there still is money for dur able goods. All that is needed is to stir up the demand. Chicago IP The Ameri can Veterinary Medical associ ation reported that the nation's hog herds have been free of vesicular exanthema for nearly a year. AVMA officials said the last case of the ailment, which re sembles foot and mouth disease, was reported in June, 1956. but warned that it might reappear The disease first was reported from California in 1951 and then reached a peak two years later when more than 150,000 herds were infected. To avoid infection, hog farm ers should stop feeding uncook ed garbage to their herds, of ficials said. Vaccines are im practical, they said, because the seven types of virus causing the ailment do not cross-immunize. They recommended that if the disease reappears all exposed animals should be destroyed and rigid quarantines set to prevent a major outbreak. Oregon Suicide Safe Lowest in History Portland '1! Oregon's sui cide rate was tlie lowest in re corded history in 1956, tlie SVa'.fr Board of Health said today. Aj total of 205 suicides were report ed, or 11.8 deaths from this cauf( for each 100,000 persons. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was born in Oxford, Mass. 7. 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