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14 MAIL TRIBUNE, Uedfati, Org., Thursday, August T4, 1958 Treasure Awaits Driftwood Fans A j j j t, jnqnrTCTjTTrnr" I ) '';iiiinr if","w ' tin lrT, i . mrysfc-ij At Driftwood Cove, off North Jetty road, Kris Hansen chooses piece of driftwood in shape of slingshot. Mrs. Keith Hansen and family dog Toby take close look at specimen. Collectors, Interior Decorators Find Plentiful Variety in Long Beach Area Tt Mlearfn to condwiMttoa r mtortaa appMiins in ttw Sunday Or Ionian, en el an annual Mrias Mon tana ieintlr by Tba Omonian and tM Oram Stat (Motor Asia. Time travel article describe vacation trips and des tinations tnrouthout the Northwest and are recommended for out-of-state visi tors comina te Oreeo durins the Cee ennlai Year observance. By CONNIE McCREADT Special Writer. The Oregonien When -Aunt Agnes and the Hr1 arrive from Kansas this ;ummer you can heap frosting ron their caxe 11 you iouow inis foolproof AAA motonog recipe. Take a dav or two or three (whatever you can manage land head for the Long Beach jPeninsula. Located on the southwestern tip. of Washing ton, this stretch of beach long has been famous among clam tafficionados as an outstanding ,'hunting ground of the delect jable razor clam. But there is ianother, usually overlooked, hunting preserve here that should appeal to the latent in terior 'decorator in most wom ena humdinger of a spot that draws driftwood and fre quently glass floats as picnics attract yellowjackets! The peninsula is about a three-hour drive from Portland and there is a choice of routes. We recommend the Oregon drive to Astoria Sunset High way for speed, Columbia River for scenery then across the mouth of the Columbia by ferry to Megler. It's just a few short miles around Baker's Bay to the Long Beach Peninsula. But when time is an import ant factor, you may find it ad visable to cross the Interstate Bridge to Vancouver and drive down the Washington side of the Columbia River. Popularity of the Megler ferry ride, par ticularly on Sunday evening re turn trips from the peninsula, sometimes makes for quite a wait for boat space. Once on the peninsula, there are a number of reasonably priced accommodations in the various communities. If you want to make advance reserva tions you can get the names, rates and descriptions from the Portland Chamber of Com merce information center, the Driftwood collectors can find plenty of material along North Beach peninsula. Motorlog car here is parked by , North Jetty which protects north shore of Columbia mouth. Oregon State Motor Assn. travel rienartment in Portland or by writing the Long Beach Chamber or commerce. Triprp's no trick at all to find ing the fore-mentioned drift wood mecca. Just take a road leading west out of Ilwaco, the cnut.hprnmost communitv o n the peninsula. Signs are apt to read Bearers nonow, norm Hpad. North Jettv. Fort Canby or Cape Disappointment. When you see any oi tnese, youu know you're on the- ngnt rxacK. Stav on this road till it ends in a fork. Take the one to the neht anrf vmi'll find vourself imme diately on Coast Guard grounds . j ' 1 xl ana a sign aamonisnes you uie area will be closed to the pub lic at sunaown. iou ve oitivcu, You're on Cape Disappoint ment. Jetty Collects Driftwood From here the long, thin arm of the North Jetty reaches out into the Pacific and with the aid of tides and the Columbia River current collects about its base magnificent heaps of enarled. twisted, sea and sun- silvered logs and roots, small and mammoth. Here is the hunting, limited only by imagination, to delight the artist, the collector, the decorator and the bargain hunter. (These polished, grace ful, sometimes ludicrous, crea tions of nature bring fantastic prices even in cities on the coast.) Just wait till Aunt Agnes shows her bridge club back in Kansas the piece of driftwood or glass ball she discovered HERSELF! While there have been ghastly crimes committed in the name of0drutwooa decor, there is frequent handsome evi dence of its versatility. To the artist and to most the piece is beauty in itself, complete. Its popularity in flower ar rangements can be seen a t any show. As a single point of interest! on a brick fireplace wall, fop example,' it can be striking. There is sharp divergence among driftwood collectors as to its ultimate use. To the utilitarian type, the stuff is worthless if it can't be transformed into a lamp base or coffee table pedestal. The other camp maintain! that while there is an occas sional creation of merit along these lines, on the whole sucr desecration is on a par with Venus statuettes with a clock in the stomach! This latter camp has equally strong feel ings on the subject of painting, lacquering, varnishing or any other means of defacing the na tural gray-silver sheen. The temptation to pile ths car high with driftwood ob jects d'art is a powerful one. And the problem of what to do with it all, once home, is some times a knotty one. But just remember the fun is in the finding and if that gorgeous, twisted chunk turns out to be too big for the pot you had in mind, don't worry, it makes a wonderful fire! Stormy Weather Reported From Texas Northward By United Press International Winds up to 47 miles per hour drove sheets of rain over Southeastern Texas, late Wednesday, causing at least one death. Heavy rain pounded the Atlantic Coast and thunder showers in Minnesota were accompanied by hail up to 1M inches in diameter. Show ers also were reported over large areas of the Rockies from Idaho to Arizona. The Miani, Fla., Weather Bureau said today that tropi cal storm Becky, roaring into the Caribbean in a west-northwest direction, is expected to miss Puerto, Rico and the Virgin Islands. The storm is also expected to miss the Florida coast by several hundred miles. Upsets Boats The Texas storm swept out of the Gulf of Mexico, lash ing Galveston Bay to a white froth, and pounded up the Houston ship channel upset ting boats. Winds of 47 miles per hour hit Houston, blowing down power lines and tree limbs and killing a railroad section hand when one of the falling limbs struck him. The Coast Guard rescued 10 persons from Redfish reef, 12 miles from Galveston, and picked up the two-man crew of a shrimp boat forced aground by the storm. The crew of a tug which capsized was rescued by another tug nearby. Swine Specialists Isolate For Tests University of Nebraska swine specialists have broken the chains of disease trans mittal in their "isolation booth"-type of program. Their goal, as told in the August issue of the National Hog Farmer, is to establish a disease-free stock on as many as 15 Nebraska farms by next spring, and re-populate the swine herd at the North Platte experiment station. The pigs are taken surgi cally from the sows and rais ed in sterile surroundings to keep them free of their two worst enemies, atrophic rhini tis and virus pneumonia. After a month . of isolation arid breathing purified air, the pigs go to the steam cleaned, disinfected research center. But they are never permitted contact with pigs farrowed normally. On the farms, all hogs must be re moved and quarters thorough ly fumigated before the disease-free pigs are placed. There were reports of a three-foot tidal wave washing over fish camps. Galveston re ported! 3.44 inches of rain. In land, Ft. Worth reported hail quarter of an inch in diameter followed by heavy rain while Dallas reported the hottest Mechanical Horse Electrocutes Child Roy, Utah (UPD A 4-year-old girl was electrocuted here Wednesday by a mechanical horse at a grocery store. Debra Barber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phil C. Barber, Syracuse was dismounting from the machine when it sent an electrical charge through her body. She was pronounced dead at a hos pital after doctors tried un successfully to massage her heart back into action. day of the year, 105 degrees. Thundershowers in the north central section of the nation dumped half an inch of rain at Alexandria, Minn., along with hall. The iformi marched eastward into North ern Wisconsin and across Up per Michigan but rainfall dropped to a trickle. Phone SP 3-3613 for replacement of BROKEN WINDOWS SELBY GLASS CO. 303 North Bartlett WANT TO CO TO PLACES YOU'VE READ ABOUT? 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Six- months sales in 1958 were 27,700 tons. A smaller quantity of agri cultural minerals includ' ing soil sulfur, borax and gypsum was sold in 1958. This year 11,233 tons were sold by June 30; last year the figure was 13,091 tons. TO BETTER SERVE FAST- GLIOVJIUG souTHimpi i?! !.iss ': ':-;.J:. . ? SIj . -is; ::MiStiA 0RE60H D O CAL -WESTERN LIFE Announces the establishment of a Glenn H. Carroll New D istrkt mm 216 Main St. Executive Bldg. MEDFORD Telephone: SPring 2-8005 and the appointment of LH !1 CMMLL as District Manager . Mr. Carroll has been associated with Cal-Western Life since 1950 and served as Assistant Manager at Chico, California for two years prior to his present appointment. He is emi nently well qualified to serve our rapidly-growing clientele in this area. Home Office: Sacramento ify, zam . 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