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Canadians Opening New Railroading Era "Please Go Easy," as the Paci fic Great Eastern railroad in British Columbia was known for three decades, is throbbing with new traffic and construction and is now pushing its rails into rich new territory of northeastern British Columbia. In day when railroad build ing is considered a thing of the past, the brash, aggressive Pa cific Great Eastern is opening a new frontier and sometime next spring, it's sleek diesel lo comotives will clatter into Fort St. John, near the southern end of the Alcan highway. The railroad is owned by the government of British Columbia and with the importance of west ern Canada's rich natural re sources now recognized, it has become a prosperous public car rier. The P.G.E. started years ago in the middle of nowhere with the intent of putting a line be tween Vancouver and Prince George. The private promoters failed and the government of the province took over, extend ing the line south to Squamish, some 40 miles north of Vancou ver, and as far north as Quesnel. For years, freight and passeng ers were ferried between Van couver and Squamish. Then came the boom in west ern Canada. The provincial gov ernment appropriated funds to bring the line the final 40 miles into Vancouver and to push on to Prince George. Outmoded equipment was replaced with diesels and new passenger and freight cars. Two years ago, oil and gas were struck in the Dawson Creek area and the P.G.E., pros perous for the first time, under took to build to the booming new frontier. Last winter, track gangs worked in temperatures that ranged as far as 40 below zero, but they spiked the steel rails down in the finest traditions of the pioneer railroad builders of the American west. It is a great drama of rail road building that is going on in western Canada and someday the line into Fort St. John may be a link in a railroad to Alaska. In a day when many believe there are no new frontiers, en terprising Canadians have open ed a new one in northeastern British Columbia. Ashland Tidings. Goblins . . . Ghosts ... all sorts of spooks prowl on the new HALLOWEEN CARDS MFWWO.CR'WU 1 $8 Million Building Planned at Portland Portland fW Plans for a modernistic S8 million building which would include a 320-room hotel were disclosed here Mon day. The building would be located at the west end of the new Mor rison street bridge. Jack Bain, chairman of the Multnomah county board of commissioners, said it is hoped to have the structure completed in time for the 1959 Oregon centennial cele bration. The plans call for parking fa cilities for 2600 cars. The building would be a motor hotel on top of the large park ing garage and motorists would drive through the building to get on the bridge. A helicopter landing field on the roof also is planned. The project is being sponsored by Sanford Langoe and George Crow, Portland businessmen. DANIELS PLEADS GUILTY New York (W Singer Billy Daniels pleaded guilty Monday to illegal possession of a pistol. The conviction stemmed from the shooting of boxing trainer James R. Jackson in an atfer hours bottle club last year. Dan iels, 42, was indicted for feloni ous assault in the shooting. A general sessions judge set Dec. 5 for sentencing on the gun posses sion charge. , Wall Streel Wails Standard Oil Terms On Stock Offering By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor New York UP Wall Street is awaiting announcement of the terms of the Standard Oil com pany (New Jersey) stock offering which is expected at the latest Nov. 1. The compa ny plans to raise S250 mil lion to $300 million for ex- Eimer Waizer pansion and exploration for more oil, consid ered by Wall Street as a quarter billion dollar vote of confidence in the future of the nation. It has set at 6,565,000 shares, the limit of the offering. It will be made to permit stockholders to purchase additional stock at the rate of one additional share for each 30 held as of Nov. 8. The offer will expire Dec. 18. The figures lacking in the of fering now are the exact number of shares to be offered, and the price at which the offering will be made. The. company through the un derwriting syndicate headed by Morgan Stanley & Co. has pre pared a preliminary prospectus and submitted it to the securi ties and exchange commission. Must Be Effective No stock can be offered in any state until the registration state ment becomes effective. If the SEC so ordered, the company would have to amend or change its prospectus before the offer ing could be made. The final prospectus pam phlet, it is expected, will be in big demand in the financial dis trict because it gives detailed information on the giant com pany. , The prospectus will show the vast ramifications of this near eight billion dollar oil company biggest in the world. Presently Standard Oil (N. J.) has 196,939,278 shares of capital stock outstanding. If the full to tal of 6,565,000 shares is floated it will bring the total to 203, 504,278 shares. That is beaten by only one United States com pany General Motors, which has 277,690,000 shares outstanding. A train wreck at Wellington, Wash., in 1910 killed 96 persons. SCHOOL'S OUT WEDNESDAY Bring the family to Newberry's for these Wednesday Specials. You Save More in a Newberry Store PL YARDAGE SPECIAL Woven Ginghams Values to 98c y , special n "If u c yd Plaids, checks, stripes and novelty weaves. Sanforized, crease resistant. HURRAH! SCHOOL'S OUT! HOT FUDGE Tulip Sundae Special Generously topped with hot fudge and nuts Ladies Nylon Panties Regular 49c pair SPECIAL 3 - 1 Sizes 5-6-7. Brief style, assorted colors. A terrific buy at this low price. School Vacation SPECIAL Howitzer Cannon Regular $1.19 Special 88 With small bag of plastic bullets. Actually shoots bullets, which can be used many times. , CANDY SALE OLD FASHIONED Chocolate Drops Regular 49c lb. Special Strawberry, vanilla, lem on, chocolate and maple centers. A real treat. A terrifically low price! 10 Cm i$ Sixth & Ce ntral jj Medford's Bargain Corner Complete Variety Department Store Neuberger Heartened By Testimony Given At Prooosal Rearm a Tuesday, October 22, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE By SENATOR NEUBERGER Portland, Oct. (Special It was heartening to hear the great preponderance of testimony be fore our Senate subcommittee from Indian and white alike given in favor of our proposal providing for Federal acquisition of the timber and marsh of the Klamath reservation in south eastern Oregon. This has become urgently nec essary because of the hasty and reckless liquidation of these re sources which is called for by the termination bill put through Congress by Senator Cordon and Congressman Coon in 1954. Spokesmen both for the Indians and for the Klamath Falls Cham ber of Commerce testified before the subcommittee that the bill was changed fundamentally at the 11th hour, to require a far speedier disposal of Indian as sets than ever had been origin ally intended. Unless we can bring about Federal purchase of the reserva tion, this liquidation still will occur, and with three disastrous -tif hmmA Hi Adenauer Elected To Third Term As Chancellor Bonn, Germany (IP) Kon rad Adenauer was elected today to a third term as Chancellor of West Germany on his policy of rearmament, European Feder ation and close cooperation with the United States. The 81-year-old Adenauer was returned to power for another four years by a vote of 274 to 192 in the lower house (Bundes tag) of Parliament. Nine deputies abstained from the voting. Twenty-two others were absent. Adenauer's Christian Demo cratic party won a record-breaking 50.2 per cent of the popular vote in the Sept. 15 general el ections, giving him an absolute majority and ensuring him of his victory today. Single Vote in 1948 In 1948, Adenauer was elect ed Chancellor by a single vote majority. In 1953, he was re elected by a vote of 304 against 148. On the eve of the vote, Aden auer was reported working out final plans for a new two-party coalition government pledged to speed up German rearmament and retain the close ties with the free West. The Christian Democrat coalition partner will be its strongest ally, the Ger man Party. The two control 287 votes in the 497-seat lower house. Adenauer will announce the cabinet which will run West Germany for the next four years some time Wednesday. The broad lines of its policy will be made pubic at a full-dress state ment before the Bundestag Friday. 1 Dairy Farmer Quits As Video Quiz King New York (IP) Dairy farm er Harold Craig "abdicated" his television quiz show throne last night in favor of a sure $106,000 and perhaps some "grassroots politics." Craig, of Granville, N. Y., thus broke a five-week deadlock with New York psychologist Da vid Mayer, who becomes the new champion of NBC's "Twenty-one" quiz program. The 26-year-old farmer start led the audience and emcee Jack Barry by choosing an eight-point question in the second round after Mayer already had answer ed correctly an 11-point query. This indicated he was relinquish ing his title as current TV qu?z king. Craig answered his ques tion correctly, giving him 18 points to Mayer's 21. Craig, who had won $119,500 in 17 appearances on the show, thus took home $106,000 after Mayer's winnings of $13,500 were deducted. They had been playing the game at $4,500 a point. Craig said he was sorry he lost, but added he was "reliev ed." He said "a lot. of people have asked me to run for Con gress in my district." results: U) The dumping of 4 billion feet of pine timber on the market in a great suffocat ing rush, (2) the lowering of timber prices for Indian and white, and (3) the possible draining of the marsh where hundreds of thousands of ducks and geese gain sanctuary as they migrate along the Pacific Fly way. Federal Purchase Federal purchase will cost be tween $110 and S150 million. This sum will not be easy to sell to members of Congress from 47 other states. In my bill postponing the liquidation for only a few months, I succeeded in passing through the Senate a clause reimbursing tribal funds for $1.1 million spent on termination proceedings. The House slashed even this to $550,000. One of my staunchest allies for Federal purchase is Thomas B. Watters of Klamath Falls, chairman of the Management Specialists who were appointed by ex-Secretary McKay to han dle tribal matters. Watters is a lifelong Republican, and he and I are not political associates. But he is an open-minded man, with the courage and candor to ad just himself to new conditions. It is a pleasure to work with somebody who places truth first and political considerations last. Our favorite person this fall is a , little 4-year-old Klamath Indian girl named Elizabeth Marie Lang. Her grandfather is Delford Lang, chairman of the Klamath Tribal Council, so Elizabeth Marie sat through eight hours of important but dull testimony before our Sen ate Indians Affairs subcommit tee in the Multnomah County Courthouse. Not once during this ordeal did she whimper, cry, protest or stir. Indeed, she put to shame her adult contempo raries for patience and good conduct. . That is why I insisted that the hearing record formally contain the name of Elizabeth Marie Lang with a star there, too, if the Government Printing Office so provides. As subcommittee Chairman, I decided that this Indian tot deserved an "E" for effort and also an "A" on her report card! Language Needed, Student Emphasizes American: schools need . to place more emphasis on teach ing foreign languages, according to David Frohnmyer, recently returned American foreign ex change student at Monday's chamber of commerce round ta ble. David said he found most youths his age could speak French and English as well as German during his two-month stay in Germany. He cited the language problem as the reason Americans can only spend two summer months in foreign coun tries while foreign students can spend a full year in America. The foreign students can speak very good English in addition to their own language while Amer icans, oh the average, can speak only English, he added. He compared the town of Mohn, Germany, where he stay ed, with Medford. Weather, in dustry, traffic, people, tourist conditions and other compari sons were made by the Medford High school senior. He was one of 750 students who went to for eign countries on the American Field service program during 1957. Camp Fire Girls Horizon Rogue Valley Horizon club met last week to discuss plans for a trip to Portland November 1, 2 and 3 to attend the Horizon club zone conference there. The conference program will consist of social and service workshops, recreation, fashion show, and entertainment, and will be held at the Boy Scout training center. Future service projects to be performed in the valley between now and Christmas were also discussed at the meeting. Refreshments were served fol lowing the meeting by hostess Linda Luman. Scribe, Linda Roberts I I HO POTATO CHtPS?" ..NORTHWEST POTATO CHIP INDUSTRV Poles Steal Plane; Request Asylum Roenne, Bornholm Island, Den mark (TP) Two young Poles landed a light civilian plane on this Baltic Sea island today and asked for political asylum. The Poles, speaking in halt ing English, said they had stolen the plane in Poland and flew it across the Baltic. The two Poles, both in their early . 20s, were identified as Eduward and Szemat Francis zek. It was not known immedi ately whether they were re lated. They told police they stole the plane at the civilian air strip at the town of Slupsk where they had been working, one as a flying instructor and the other as a radio operator. Slupsk is 10 miles from the Baltic coast and about 60 miles west of Danzig. Argentina Strike Has Little Effect Buenos Aires (IP) A Communist-led general strike delayed transport in some places today but failed to halt normal activi ties in Buenos Aires. The strike, called by the neo Peronist and Communist leader ship of some 60 unions to sup port demands for a wage in crease and a price freeze, de layed service on suburban rail way lines and on city buses. However, cafes and shops opened and most newspapers published their morning editions and distributed them without trouble. Medical Fund Group To Hear Eisenhower New York (IPI President Eisenhower flew to New York today to address a dinner meet ing of the National Fund for Medical Education, which he helped form in 1949 when he was president of Columbia uni versity. The President and Mrs. Eisen hower were to leave Washing ton this afternoon. They planned to spend the night at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel and leave ear ly Wednesday for Washington. The dinner, to be held in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf, will be in honor of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., former chairman of the board of General Motors Corp. and president of the Al fred Sloan Foundation. Sloan will receive the Frank H. Lahey Memorial award for service as a layman to the cause of medi cal education. - Picking wildflowers in a na tional park is punishable by a fine up to $500, or imprison ment of not more than tlx months, or both. INDUSTRIAL PACIFIC 16 S. Central Phone SP 3-S308 ENRICH YOUR HOME WITH THE GOLDEN TOUCH! 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