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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1958)
".AIL TRIBUNE, Mediord, Oregon, Tuesday, August 12, 1958 5 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There is BIG NEWS as this is written big news, that is, if you are interested in the long, long story of history. This is the news: AFTER ALL THESE CEN TURIES. THE FABLED NORTHWEST PASSAGE TO ASIA HAS BEEN DISCOV ERED. It was discovered bv the Wards rings the school bell and calls your attention to outstanding back-to-school values American-built atomic-power- j .j : a : i . . . . -U ; I cu 2UuitidiiJic iirtuuiua, which has just sailed under the polar ice from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. y . . , r- i rn 1 1 I i I i I . fT'S a strange story. It began with the Voyage of Columbus in 1492. On that historic voyage, Columubs discovered America. He didnt know he had discovered a new continent. He thought, when he made a landfall on the island that he named San Sal vador, that he had landed on an island of the Indies, near Japan or China. Hence the name INDIANS. He thought the gentle natives of the Caribbean islet were residents of the rich INDIES. He thought he had found a new, quick, cheap sea route to these fabulous lands with which EuroDe lone had traded by costly and dangerous land ; routes. , 7 ' . .-j. vij ,jSJ,. ::.M Sale! Boys' T' Shirts Soft knit, full cut to fit. Nylon reinforced. 4-ls 3 for 1.43 1.79 Boys' Ivy Shirts Wash and wear, little or no ironing AO HE THOUGHT he had it made. So did everybody else. When, after a couple of decades, it developed that all he had found was a NEW WORLD it was a terrible dis apointment. He died in disgrace. The new world he had discovered wasn't even named Columbia. They dug up another alleged discoverer, Amerigo Vespucci and named it America. Sale! Solid & Print Corduroy Velvet-touch pinwale. Machine-washes. QO reg. si. yd. ooy. 3.98 Gym Skip Army Duck White, black. Rubber soles. Boys' "i 5Q 11 to big. J.JO WITH acceptance of the bit ter fact that a new con tinent lay between the shores of Europe and the shores of the Indies, there began a search that was to last for more than three centuries the search for the Northwest Passage. In 1497, only five years after Columbus' first voyage, John and Sebastian Cabot set out from England to find it. They sailed along the west coast of Greenland as far at Baffin Land (see your map) and then gave up. Jacques Cartier sailed from France in 1534 and thought he had it when he sailed up the Saint Lawrence river. In 1609, Henry Hudson thought he had found it when he sailed into what is now New York harbor and on up the Hudson river. When Sir Francis Drake came up our Pacific Coast in the middle 1500's, he cherish ed hopes that he might stum ble onto it. In the fabled tales of the River of the West that preceded its actual discovery, the Columbia river was re garded as maybe the entrance to the Northwest Passage. 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