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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10," 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 20, 1949 (Sunday)
Gov. Douglas McKay and
Congressman Harris Ells
worth are to speak at the
Camp White domiciliary dedi
cation ceremonies today.
Over 2,000 persons attend
the Big Pines district Boy
Scout exposition at the Med
ford armory.
20 YEARS AGO
Fab. 20, 1939 (Monday)
A total of 617 persons visit
Crater Lake national park,
most of them being interested
in winter sports. ' ;
From- Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudee Pot" column: "Peo
ple are now pondering the
problem of stopping the Legis
lature, in the 40 days allotted
by law. The only way to do
this, is not to start it 40 days
before they want it to stop."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 20, 1929 (Wednesday)
The Medford city council
paves the way for a park atop
Roxy Ann.
Medford plans to build a
new water reservoir as a pre
cautionary measure.
43 YEARS AGO
Feb. 20. 1919 (Thursday)
Fish are being caught in
the Rogue river with worms.
Banks prepare to close Sat
urday in recognition of Wash
ington's birthday.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 20, 1909 (Saturday)
A banquet is planned for the
Crater Lake road boosters on
their return from Salem.
The Rogue river fish bill
setting an open season is de
feated 15-13 at Salem.
What's Your I.Q.7-
Nine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Who is the new Chair
man of the U.S. Senate For
eign Relations Committee?
2. Male bees cannot sting;
true or false?
3. Who wrote "The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow"?
4. Complete the quotation,
"Laugh and the world laughs
with you . . ."
5. In the history of Ameri
can musical composition, who
was known as "the march
King"?
6. What Strait is at the
south tip of South America?
7. What does I.Q. mean?
8. Which of these instru
ments is used to measure
wind velocity; barometer,
speedometer, anemometer?
9. Little Nell is the hero
ine of which Charles Dickens'
novel?
10. The science of races of
man is known as e y?
Answers: 1. J. William Ful
bright. Ark. 2. True. 3. Wash
ington Irving. 4. "Weep and
you weep alone." 5. John
Philip Sousa. 6. Strait of Ma
gellan. 7. Intelligence Quoti
ent. 8. Anemometer. 9. "Old
Curiosity Shop." 10. Ethnol
ogy. SNYDER VS. SNYDER
Denver - (UPD - It was Wes
ley Snyder vs. Wesley Sny
der Thursday in Municipal
Court. Wesley E. Snyder of
Lakewood, Colo.,' the defend
ant, was fined $31 for his in
volvement in . a traffic acci
dent with Wesley F. Snyder
of Littleton, Colo., the com
plainant. .
What is 'Practicality'
Some individuals who are more concerned
with saving money than with progress have sin
gled out "pure research" as a target for their
criticism. -
They couldn't have' picked a place 'which
shows up their lack of information more seriously,
Pure research, to be
single "practical" or immediate objective. It is
simply a pursuit of man's curiosity about the un
known; a delving into
sake of increasing knowledge.
IT IS hit by the critics
no tangible benefit.
wrong.
All our scientific advances have come from
"pure" research. Without it there is nothing for
the practical scientist,
gineer to fiddle with
tools and appurtenances
A government-sponsored project, for instance,
may be to determine the mating habits of a ' ela
tively obscure insect. "Silly," scream the econ
omy-minded congressman, "a waste of taxpayers'
money.
And yet, out of this project, which may have
cost several thousands of dollars, comes a method
by which fruit-growers in Florida or California
are saved millions of dollars . every year through
the elimination of a fruit pest. .
IF MEMORY serves it was Charles Wilson, the
unlamented former secretary of defense, who
said something like "Who cares why grass is
green;"
If Engine Charlie had
work a little more he would have discovered that
if scientists can discover why grass is green, they
will probably have solved the mystery of photo
synthesis, and unlocked the secret of why and
how plants grow and are nourished a discovery
which can lead to a new revolution in a dozen
branches of agriculture, chemistry and, eventu
ally, industrial development,
ALBERT EINSTEIN was a mathematician the
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esoteric realms. He dug no ditches, built no auto
mobiles, invented no new plastics. And yet, with a
brain and a paper and pencil, Einstein has revolu
tionized mankinds concept of the universe, and,
almost incidentally, formulated the theoretical
formula (Emc2) on which the entire structure
of nuclear physics has been built.
The atom bomb, the nuclear submarine, the
revolutions in agriculture, medicine and industry,
all stem from that bit of "pure" scientific research.
..
TOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS is a name not many
people have heard. He was a professor of
mathematical physics at
1871 to his death in 1903.
during his lifetime.
A mild-mannered man, he was dedicated to
mathematical thought and study. He -was not a
practical man. He never
payroll," never invented anything, or applied any
of his formulas to the problems of the day. He,
like Einstein later, was a researcher in the realm
of pure science. . r: '
One of his works was a little book entitled "On
the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances."
It attracted little notice at the time; in fact there
were few people around who could even under
stand it.
DUT AS the science of mathematics grew, and
as technology advanced, his work began to be
"rediscovered."
A biographer of Gibbs did some tracing of its
effects. It off ered clues which :
". . '. have led to explorations ' in geology, metal
lurgy, the study of the blood, political economy, his
torical theory, exchanges in goods, theories of currency,
refrigeration, the interpretation of the propeties of
steel, the airplane industry, the work in high" explo
sives, and the study of salt deposits that in some
measure account for the roles of England and Germany
in the First World War, and the explanation of the
activity of volcanoes.
"In the second half are the foundations for the
thermodynamical theory of surface tension and capil
larity, of colloid chemistry, work on the galvanic .cell
which has given Gibbs his tremendous influence on
electrochemistry, and the work on films and crystals
on which some of the researches of Einstein and Pierre
Curie, to name only two, have rested."
MOT PRACTICAL enough? There's more.
A He developed and used in his treatise
statistical methods which inaugurated the whole
statistical trend of modern physics and physical
chemistry.
The treatise contained a four-page section
an equation known as the Phase Rule. He gave no
concrete illustration of it, and proceeded to fur
ther problems.
When more "practical" men started applying
it (after they had gained enough background to
understand it), it became the way through which
new substances were predicted, formed the basis
of alloy metallurgy, permitted development of
efficient methods of manufacture of high explo
sives without which the allies, in World War I,
"might have lost the war at an early stageL owing
to shortage of explosives." -
He also, more or less incidentally, formulated
theories of flight used by Langley and the Wright
brothers, and without which successful airplanes
might still not be possible.
. And Gibbs, poor fellow, was one. of those
"impractical" dreamers! E.A.- -
sure, is not angled at any
nature's mysteries for the
on the basis that there is
They couldn't . be more
the technician or the en
and to translate into the
of progress.
,
boned up on his home
Yale university from
He gained'little fame
married', never met a
Dennis the
'LOOKMOM! I'M E4TIN' SUGAR
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Matter of Fact
THE VANISHING RACE
' Washington-One of the sen
ior Eisenhower Republicans
in Congress, Sen. George D.
Aiken of Ver
mont, has now
said in public
what most
other Eisen
hower Repub-
1 i c a n s have
been saying in
private. He
has said, in ef
fect, that he
jos-nh aisod aoes noi con
sider himself an Eisenhower
Republican any longer. Take
this opening. . .
"During the years he was
President, Lincoln never bal
anced the budget ... he could
have balanced the budget and
lost the Union. He could have
held down the national debt
and perpetuated slavery. And
no doubt, had he chosen the
latter course, he would have
been applauded by many sol
id citizens of that day."
Deadpan humor of a rather
high order was the method
of Sen. Aiken's remarkable
speech, which attractedx far
too little attention when de
livered in New York over the
week end. As another exam
ple, take his answer to the
me too" charge levelled at
the more modern-minded Re
publicans by the party's con
servatives.
"If .a Democrat says we
need better health," remark
ed Sen. Aiken (and one can
almost hear the flat New Eng
land twang), "I'm not going
to come out for poorer health
just to disagree with him."
MORE generally, the Aiken
speech amounted to an
acid assault on the whole sys
tem of priorities now prevail
ing in the Eisenhower ad-
ministration-an attack hot by
any means limited to the im
plied comparison with the pri
orities followed by Lincoln.
First priority for national se
curity and national growth
was what Aiken demanded,
and he denounced those who
"cling to the status quo" and
lack "faith in America." He
never mentioned the Presi
dent or the administration.
But he came pretty close to
doing so when he predicted
a Republican disaster at the
next election "unless the Re
publican party leadership
demonstrates greater faith in
the future of America than
it has been doing recently."
The Aiken speech was genu
inely significant because, so
to say, it made official the
widening cleavage between
the great Republican Eisen
hower enthusiasts of the past
and their former hero. The
world at large has not paid
much attention to this strik
ing phenomenon, but it is
familiar to anyone who walks
the corridors of the Capitol.
The Eisenhower Republicans
to use their old name for
the sake of convenience - feel
completely deserted by Eisen
hower in his present budget
first - and - everything - else-
nowhere phase.
rFHE cleavage first became
apparent, of course,, dur
ing and immediately after the
Republican leadership fights
at the opening of the present
session. In the Senate, the
White House actively discour
aged the Eisenhower Repub
licans' opposition to the leadership-candidacy
of Everett
Dirksen of Illinois, whose
anti-Eisenhower speech in the
1952 convention was so mem
orable for insinuating bitter
ness. In the House, the White
House positively encouraged
the bid for the leadership of
Rep. Charles Halleck of Indi
ana, but the White House then
failed to lift a finger when
Halleck froze every single
man of the type the President
used to call- "modern Repub
licans" out of any position of
the slightest influence.
Since then, moreover, the
cleavage has: appeared in oth
er fields. In the field of ap
aaxnaBaaBaxM
pointments, for example, the
Menace
WITH THE SUGAR SPOON'. GOT
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By Joseph AIsop
brilliant and selfless Henry
Labouisse, though a-political,
is just the sort of man the
great majority of Eisenhower
Republicans would like to see
in the difficult foreign aid
job. Again, the able James H.
Smith, himself a leading Eis
enhower Republican, would
have been a welcome choice
for the Secretaryship of the
Navy. Yet Eisenhower has let
the party's ultra-conservatives
,veto Smith's appointment, and
he is permitting Republican
National Chairman Meade Al
corn to block the appointment
of Labouisse on the cheapest
pretexts of old fashioned pork-and-patronage
politics.
IN THE field of policy, what
goes on is sometimes even
more surprising than, in the
field of appointments. For
example, House Leader Hal
leck actively tried to prevent
the Administration from pre
senting any civil rights bill
whatever, on the ground that
this would cost him Southern
support for the President's
grand aim of balancing the
budget. The argument actu
ally won over White House
Chief of Staff Wilton D. Per
sons. The ensuing White
House debate about what to
do was time-consuming. Hence
the first serious civil rights
bill of this session was pre
sented by a great leader of
the South, Lyndon Johnson
of Texas.
This being the atmosphere,
this being the trend, no
wonder the men who used
to wear with pride the Eisen
hower Republican label now
almost think of themselves
as members of a vanishing
race. The views of George
Humphrey have triumphed
with Eisenhower. And al
though Humphrey used to be
the most powerful member of
the Eisenhower cabinet, and
is still the President's most
influential advisor, he was
never even a Taft Republican.
He was, and is, a Hoover
Republican.
Copyright 1959. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
TODAY
4
In Oregon History
(A Centennial Feature)
FEBRUARY 20, 1893
The legislature today cre
ated Lincoln County out of
the Sileti Indian Reserva
tion and the western por
tion of Benton County. To
ledo will probably be the
county seat. The name of
the county was chosen only
after a protracted and ener
getically conducted dispute,
the names - "Blaine" and
"Bay" each being favored
by a substantial faction.
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF
JONATHAN WINTERS had heard so much about a swanky
New York restaurant that he decided to try it. "I'm going to
shoot the works," he told
his waiter. "Give me the
$10 dinner."
"Very good, sir,", re
sponded the waiter. "Would
you like your coffee black
or with cream?"
"Never mind that now,"
said Winters. I'll have my
coffee after I've finished the
dinner."
"Sir," announced the
waiter haughtijy. "Coffee
IS the $10 dinner."
Warbles "Red" Travis,
poet laureate of Englewood:
"The chorus girl
And sadness traced her brow.
But she met a sugar daddy
' . . And she's ex-pensive now." ,
C 19j? by Bameit Cert Distributed by Kins feature SyadicaU.
S. P. Spokesman Defends Railroad's
Passenger
Editor's note: Since the Mail
Tribune has been highly crit
ical of the Southern Pacific
railroad in past editorials, it
herewith makes an exception
to its rule that communica
tions must be limited to 400
words, and prints in full the
following letter from an SP
spokesman. We leave it to our
readers to judge whether the
letter is a vigorous defense of
a progressive policy, or a
weak explanation of a policy
which mitigates against the
welfare of the people of Ore
gon and northern California.
Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus
Is Man of Week at Conference
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Editor
The man-of-the-week: Greek
Orthodox Archbishop Maka
rios of Cyprus.
The place: London.
The quote: "I am entering
the conference with an open
mind and with the utmost
goodwill and friendliness."
This is an era of an acceler
ating rush to independence by
formerly ' dependent peoples.
And in the case of the Medi
terranean island of Cyprus, it
is a desire for self-rule that
goes back almost 4,000 years.
" In recent years, that desire
has been epitomized in the
person of Makarios IH, arch
bishop and ethnarch-or
elected national leader - of
Cyprus.
His feelings on the subject
have been summed up time
and again in the view that
"Cyprus belongs to no one but
its own people. And that peo
ple is demanding the right to
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
DULLES'
ACCOMPLISHMENT
Washington - Powerful Re
publican Senators have
warned the Eisenhower ad-
ministratio n
that the ill
ness of Secre
tary of State
John Foster
Dulles must
not become
the occasion
for any soft
ening of our
rjolicv in the
"iKKS- cold war.
Through their leader, Sen
ator Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire, they have let the
White House know:
1. That they will keep a
snecial surveillance over the
State Department actions and
attitudes in Mr. Dunes' ab
sence.
2. That if the Secretar; 's
cancerous condition forces tis
total retirement any successor
nominated by the President
would have to satisfy the Sen
ate Republicans ' that he did
not propose to liquidate the
"tough" position Mr. Dulles
so long maintained.
THESE representations have
been made by the ortho
dox Republicans because they
are perfectly aware of a most
significant fact of life. This is
that almost any foreseeable
change in top command at the
State Department would bring
in a man much less deeply
committed than Secretary
Dulles to the line of giving no
real ground to the Russians,
over Berlin or elsewhere.
For Mr. Dulles personally
has been that policy, even if
he appeared to be turning
slightly more flexible before
his most recent illness struck.
He has literally embodied
that policy. And ijt is for this
reason, and this alone, that as
foreign minister for a "mo
dern" Republican administra
tion he has nevertheless been
able to maintain the consist
ent support of the party's Old
Guard wing in Congress.
John Foster Dulles, in a
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2-X0
was pensive,
S7
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Policy Cuts in
To the Editor: I note from
your "Corporate Dishonesty"
edtorial of February 13, 1959,
that you have borrowed the
biased bitterness of a typical
C. W. Ferguson press release
without investigation.
( The text of the material
which Mr. Ferguson quite evi
dently sent you before he
went to the hearing at San
Francisco was not followed by
him from the witness stand
under oath. Your statement
that it was his "testimony" is
therefore completely erron
eous which could have been
decide its own future."
It was with that attitude
that he arrived in London last
week to take part'in the crit
ical conference on the future
of his country.
No Mood for Compromise
The Greek and Turkish gov
ernments had worked out an
agreement in Zurich, Switzer
land, the week before. Britain
endorsed this jJlan.
, To put the final seal of ap
proval on the arrangement,
Archbishop Makarios, s p i r i
tual and political leader of the
Greek 'Cypriot community,
and Dr. Fazil Kutchuk, head
of the Turkish Cypriots, were
invited to the British capital.
Of these, the views of Maka
rios were the most critical.
He was not in a mood for
compromise, and was reported
at odds with some aspects of
the Zurich arrangement -which
some Greek Cypriot cir
cles regarded as a "constitu
tional monstrosity." But he,
S. WHITE
word, long has been very
close to being the . indispens
able man to the Republican
party in the United States,
just as now he begins to look
to be very nearly the irre
placeable man in the Western
alliance.
THHIS IS one of the under-
lying reasons why all con
cerned the President, the
Congressional Republicans -are
almost desperately hoping
that any formal . supplanting
of Mr. Dulles can be avoided,
or at worst long postponed.
Such a changing of the guard,
so late in the President's term
and quite apart from its ef
fects abroad, would bring
something approaching a aon
vulsion within the United
States Government.
For John Foster Dulles'
widely discussed "personal
diplomacy" is not the only
unexampled aspect of his ten
ure. Another is the uniquely
personal bridge he has formed
between the conservative and
liberal wings of his party. Be
cause he has symbolized the
"hard" line against imperial
ist communism he has made it
necessary for the Old Guard
to back the Administration in
foreign 'affairs generally far
more than it might have done
- and sometimes more than
the Old Guard really wished
to do. .
He has been a peculiar am
bassador between the domi
nant Republican conservatives
and the overshadowed but ag
gressive Republican liberals
in the Senate. Neither wing
has ever quite captured him;
but neither wing has ever
quite lost hold of him, or he
of It.
TN SHORT, JohnFoster
Dllllpc find nnf nnlw Avor.
shadowed his own President
in making foreign policy. He
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has also far overshadowed his
own President in the tricky
task of giving to that Presi
dent s party the strictly polit
ical leadership required to
keep that party's diverse
wings reasonably united for
that policy.
This is why Dulles became
the indispensable man or as
nearly indispensable as to
make no difference. The tra
ditional practice has been for
a President to let a Secretary
of State run the State Depart
ment, subject to Presidential
high-policy . guidance, while
the President made himself
solely responsible for provid
ing the necessary political pro
tection for the Secretary to do
his job.
Mr. Dulles has done the
whole business. He has done
it with plodding courage and
a kind of puritanical resolu
tion. And - in order honestly
to balance the whole set of
books - he has occasionally
done it with a massive tact
lessness. The old gentleman
himself probably would ack
nowledge this in this wry hour
when those who used to have
no single good word for him
now positively drench his hos
pital bed with uncritical
praise.
(Copyright, 1959. by United
Feature Syndicate Inc.)
determined by you if time had
been taken to investigate wire
reports from news represent
atives at the hearing. If you
were interested in facts, why
didn't you have a representa
tive cover the hearing and
then fairly present both sides?
These are the facts:
1. Southern Pacific does
sell airline tickets at its own
expense at 13 station ticket of
fices in Oregon which are in
communities where there are
no subsidized airports like
Medford or airline representa
tives. Our important shippers
was satisfied with modifica
tions in the plan.
For Makarios, there could
be only one future - an inde
pendent and sovereign Cyprus
state, without any infringe
ments on that sovereignty.
That was the logical culmi
nation of his long fight in a
campaign that saw him defy
the might of Britain and wind
up in exile, only to be freed
slightly more than a year lat
er and then carry his fight to
the United Nations and world
public opinion.
Makarios is a crusader, but
he is not a zealot. He consid
ers his dual role of ecclesiastic
and national leader a tempo
rary one. With independence
for Cyprus, he has said he will
devote all his efforts to his
church duties alone.
Ran Away From Home
He was born of peasant par
ents in the mountain village
of Ano Panayia on Cyprus,
and ran away from home ra
ther than become a goatherd.
At 35 he became bishop of
Kitium, and two years later
he was elected archbishop of
Cyprus and took the title of
Makarios III.
By that time, he had al
ready started leading the
Greek Cypriots - of whom
there are four for every one
Turkish Cypriot on the island
- in their latest fight for inde
pendence and apparent desire
for onesis, or union with
Greece.
He took his plea to the Brit
ish, to Athens and to the U.N,
- all without success. Then
EOKA, the underground
lireeK uvDnot - uirect action
ment of terror to the picture.
When Makarios refused to re
pudiate its methods, the Brit
ish denounced his condoning
of violence. He was accused of
"traitorous plotting" and of
being an accessory to conspir
acy to murder by some Brit
ons. He Was Exiled
He was packed off In exile
to the Seychelles Islands in
the Indian Ocean, only to be
released 13 .months later and
enabled to carry on his fight
for the self-determination of
Cyprus.
It is a role historic to the
head of the Orthodox Church
on the island, and one which
Makarios summed up once in
a sermon on a long ago Sun
day to a group of his follow
ers: "Cyprus has known many
conquerors in the past. Now
it is face to face with the last
of its conquerors. Your church
has preserved the flame of re
ligion and nationalism
through all these centuries. It
will lead you to liberty and
deliver you from foreign
rule." ,
Pear Blight Still
Prevails in Area
Due to a lack of cold weath
er this winter in the valley
pear blight is still active.
County Agent Clifford B.
Cordy reported this week.
If the infection continues,
Cordy said, blight could pre
sent a serious problem during
the blooming period.
He said that orchardists
should check for blight as soon
as they have completed prun
ing and if any is found it
should be cut out at once.
Cordy stressed that home
owners should check their
pear and apple trees and pyra
cantha for blight. If blight is
found it should be cut out,
otherwise it will spread and
kill the rest of the tree or
plant, Cordy said.
Solution for blight control
Cordy said, includes two IVz
grain tablets of mercuric
chloride and two 7V-grain
tablets of mercuric cyanide in
one pint of water. Base for the
mercuric chloride must be cit
ric acid, Cordy said. If the so
lution, when mixed, becomes
cloudy, the mercuric chloride
has the wrong base.
The agent warned persons
that both the mercuric chlor
ide and mercuric cyanide are
deadly poisons. Any solution
not used should be eithsr
poured down the sewer or
buried, he said.
and passenger patrons like
this service.
This is a part of our policy
to provide a complete trans- (
portation service and our ex
perience indicates we gain
goodwill and both freight and
passenger business we would
not otherwise obtain.
2. Facts presented show
gradual decline in rail passen
ger traffic since 1946 with a
very rapid decline in seasonal
traffic in the last four years.
This pattern led to the conclu
sion that the Shasta Daylight
could be operated on a tri
weekly basis during off-tour
ist peaks, spring and fall, with
resultant reduction in our pas
senger deficit without incon
venience to the traveling pub
lic.
3. Quote, "Finally it uses
this as an excuse to reduce,
or abandon its passenger serv
ice," end quote.
RIDICULOUS. When was
this excuse made? We sell air
line tickets at only one station
where the Shasta Daylight
stops which is Albany where
there is no airport. We sell
airline tickets at Ashland and
Grants Pass -and our patrons
appreciate this service. It
saves them time and money.
We also sell steamship tickets,
all-expense tour tickets, pro
vide Hertz or Avis Drive
Yourself cars at any city and
numerous other transporta
tion services.
4. We did close our down
town, ground-floor ticket of
fice and move it to the Sixth
Floor in the same building. I
personally invite you or any
one else to visit this modern,
up-to-date facility. Let me
show you how we have im
proved our service and, in ad
dition, effected a material sav
ing which lowers our passen
ger deficit and allows us to
continue to provide those
transportation services the
public uses and needs. Do you
know that 90 to 95 per cent
of our patrons first contact us
by telephone. and use this of
fice only to pick up their tick
ets which have been prepared
in advance? We also have a
Station Ticket Office, close to
the downtown area, where
parking space is available at
all times. We do not own the
Pacific Building and had no
control over the choice of ten
ant who rented the space we
vacated.
5. No testimony was pre
sented by anyone in regard to
".on ime" performance of-our
iiuiuioutc ui. ouui
the Shasta Daylight and Cas
cade has been consistently
good.
The other allegations set
forth in your editorial could
be refuted, but I hope I have
'gone into enough detail to in
dicate to you that the docu
mented exhibits and state
ments made by the Oregon
Public Utility representative,
whom you quote, were an
swered in my testimony at
the hearing. It might be of
interest to you to know that
this representative was not
present when I was on the
stand when an opportunity
presented itself for a thor
ough cross-examination under
oath.
In conclusion, the Southern
Pacific has decided that pas
senger or any other transpor
tation service will be pro
vided If the public our cus
tomers needs it and will sup
port it. We placed the Shasta
Daylight in operation on our
own initiative and hoped to
generate enough business for
a daily operation. This effort
was successful for a time, but
when a seasonal trend of
traffic developed on the Shas
ta, our studies indicated we
could protect all passenger
traffic presented in the off
tourist season by a three-day-a-week
operation and our
daily streamlined Cascade.
This is no different procedure
than xir pre-war operation
when we added and removed
trains as traffic conditions
warranted, and with no ques
tion raised by the public or
regulatory agencies.
We will continue aggressive
efforts to examine every de
tail of service and adjust
quickly to changing transpor
tation trends. By doing this,
we can continue to improve
our services which was done
last year by the receipt of
2,349 freight cars, raising our
total freight fleet to 81,000
cars. Continuing this program
in 1959, will be the acquisi
tion of another 1,450 special
ized cars at a cost of approxi
mately 22 million dollars.
This includes 500 wide-door
box cars used primarily by
the forest products industry.
Our capital improvement pro
gram for 1959 will total 80
million dollars. Why don't
you editorialize this informa
tion since it is economically
beneficial to your area?
To run trains which the
public does not use is an
economic waste. If we were
to criticize other private en
terprises, we certainly would
make a personal investigation
before accepting a one-sided
opinion and accusing them of
"Corporate Dishonesty".
Bernal S. Quayle
Passenger Traffic &
Public Relations Manager
Southern Pacific Company
622 Pacific Building
Portland 4, Ore.