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O O MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1968 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. 'TI""U to FK' L""""'1 ZZ"" " on a recent campaign tour CAMPAIGN TRAINS STILL ROLL This may be the jet age, but the campaign train still will be rolling in this election year. Here, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John F. Kennedy, left, greets well-wishers recent campaign through Cali fornia. In the photo at right, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican candi date, speaks during one of his swings. (UPI Telepholo) Election Campaign Trains Not Sidetracked by Jet Plane Age Washington - (UPI) - Election campaign trains, colorful re minders of America's political past, refuse to be sidetracked by the jet age. Sen. John F. Kennedy was to pleased with his whistle tops through California's central valley this month he directed his staff to add more train trips to his campaign schedule. Vice President Richard M. Nixon also has announced he'll alternate trains with jet planes on his campaign tours. Their rear-platform speech es in small town and city sta tions are keeping alive a century-old tradition. Lincoln Foe Credited The Association of Ameri can Railroads credits Stephen Douglas, foe of Abraham Lin coln in the famous debates, as being the first man to hire a special train for purely po litical purposes. Douglas, with all the in stincts of a showman, added a cannon-carrying flat car to the train to salute his arrival at each station. Former President Harry S. Truman's "give-'em-hell" cam paign in 1948 was marked by seven railroad trips covering more than 21,000 miles. The 300 speeches he made on those "whistle-stops" were re garded as decisive factors in his upset victory over Thom as E. Dewey. But there are drawbacks to train campaigning. Cost Railroad Votes Dewey, twice defeated Re publican contender, snapped "idiot" at a locomotive en gineer who nearly backed a train into a crowd during the 1948 race. The hasty remark undoubtedly cost him some railroad votes. The late Franklin D. Roose velt, described by the AAR as the champion rail traveler of all presidential contenders, once drew up his own sched ule and made a 24-hour mis take. FDR's train had to dawdle along, taking roudabout routes and parking at night, until the extra day was ab sorbed. And in 1952, the train bear 1 n g President Eisenhower overshot a waiting crowd at one station, stopped short at the next two stops, and later pulled away from 20,000 per- ON UNITED. . . MOST JETS SOUTH OMJETS fl5r- 1 JETS LEAVE PORTLAND FOR LOS ANGELES 12:50 p.m. 5:45 p. m. FOR SAN FRANCISCO 5:45 p. m. FOR CHICAGO, NEW YORK 10:30 a.m. FOR RESERVATIONS, First Class or Custom Coach, call your TVavel Agent or United Air Lines, jSPring 3-6233. DC-B and 780 JETS united sons before he started to speak. "Whoops!" Eis c n h o w e r cried. "They're taking me away." The association said three time White House hopeful William Jennings Bryan gave train campaigns a real boost in 1896. He traveled 18,000 miles in hot wooden coaches and ca booses to deliver 569 speeches in three months. He made 24 talks in one day. Warren G. Harding, cam paigning in 1920, became the first presidential contender to have a loudspeaker installed on the rear platform. This was a crowd-pleasing novelty. When frugal Calvin Cool idge was advised that special trains cost more than regu larly scheduled trains, 'he switched to conventional rail transportation. Coolidge also ate in the public dining car until the railroads serving Washington began operating presidential specials at no extra charge. Truck Driver, Patrolman Seek Pro Driver Award Chicago -IUPD- An Indiana truck driver and a Minnesota highway patrolman have been picked as finalists in the Na tional Safety Council's search for the nation's most outstand ing professional driver. Charles Espich, 58, Fort Wayne, Ind., and Alex J. Keilen, 52, Montevideo, Minn., were selected Sunday after completing three days of in tensive road testing and ques tioning. Test Run Scheduled The two will finish their test to determine the nation's top safe driver on Oct. 7 through Oct. 9 on a stretch of highway from Fraser Colo. to Furnace Creek, Calif., or from Pike's Peak to Death Valley. The gruelling run will cover conditions which the average motorist would find while driving through the United States in one year. Espich, a veteran truck driver for 42 years, and Kei len. an officer for the Minne- osta Highway Patrol, were se lected from six semi-finalists. Espich has won the Nation al Safety Council's safe driver award for 28 consecutive vears. Keilen has received the council's safe driver award for 24 years. The contest is the first of its kind sponsored by the Safety Council. 30 Years of Driving Eligible were winners of the council's 20-year safe driving awards. The majority of con testants had averaged 30 years of professional driving with out an accident or a parking ticket. Espich, upon receiving the finalists' award, said: "You only find one or two damn fools on any stretch of highway." Adm. Radford Doubts Communists To Fight Chicago - rtlPD - Adm. Ar thur W. Radford (ret.), for mer chairman oi me joint Chiefs of Staff, believes world Communism will not use armed forces to achieve its aims where other means will bring about the same re sult. ' Speaking before the Chi cago Regional Strategy Sem inar Saturday, Radford said Communist armed might was used in Korea only because they miscalculated U.S. re action to the takeover of Ko rea. "The Communists will nev er use organized armed forces if there it a reasonable chance through other means," he J , A 7 Once Prominent Aviafrix Found Dead in Bathroom New York -d'PD- An autopsy will be conducted today to de termine the cause of death of Ruth Rowland Nichols, 59, one of the world's most fa mous women fliers. Miss Nichols was found dead on the bathroom floor of her apartment here Sunday by the building superinten dent. Police said she left notes indicating suicide. The aviatrix took to the skies in 1921 when she was a student at Wellesley College, Soon she became known in headlines as "t h e society flier" and shared with Amelia Earhart the adulation of the public. In 1931 she held the three major international women's records - the speed mark of 210.6 miles an hour over a closed course; the distance record of 1,977 miles on a flight from Oakland, Calif., to Louisville, Ky and an alti tude record of 28,743 feet. In 1930 she clipped an hour off Charles A. Lindbergh's transcontinental flight record, making the Los Angeles to New York trip in 13 hours and 21 minutes. In 1932 she became the first woman airline pilot when she joined the New York and New England Airways. She had a number of close brushes with death, notably her escape from a flaming plane at Columbus, Ohio, in 1921, and from an exploding passenger plane at Troy, N. Y. in 1935. 6th and Grape Hedford Gulf Coast Area Deluged By Heavy Rain By United Press International Rain deluged the Gulf Coast states from Florida to Louisi ana Sunday night. Largest single amount was 2.9 inches recorded in a six hour period at Shreveport, La. Lake Charles, La., and Talla hassee, Fla., reported more than one . inch of rain in similar period. Rain, generally In amounts less than .10 of an inch, also spattered the Southern and Central Plains and the Great Lakes area, Stretches Westward The heavy rain in Southern states came generally along the line of a static cold front that stretched from Massachu setts, south-westward to Lou isiana. The lighter showers in the North also were triggered by a cold front stretching from near Lake Superior into Southern Colorado and west ward into Southern Oregon. Temperatures across the na tion ranged from an 85 degree high at Needles and Blythe, Calif., to a low of 30 degrees at Havre, Mont. Temperatures across most of the nation were in the 50 to 60 degree range. Readings in the 70s were reported in Southern California and the Gulf Coast states, while a few 40 degree readings occurred in the Upper Great Lakes Re gion. More Showers Seen Scattered showers and thun derstorms were looked for again today along the Gulf Coast and from Texas north ward through the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes re gion. Cooler temperatures were expected over the Northern and Central Plains. Fog was predicted during the night time hours along We facuic Coast, Some Areas Back On Standard Time By United Press International The Far West and some scattered midwestern areas set their clocks back one hour Sunday, returning to standard time for the winter. But on the East Coast and other Midwest regions, day light time will remain In ef fect until Oct. 30. ' The early clock changing however-widened the time lag between the two coasts from three to four hours. The Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains area and the South never adopted daylight time FOUND SHORT CUT Tyncmouth, England -OTt- Erroll Wardle, 20, looking for a shortcut to the beach, Sun day vaulted a small stone wall -and plunged 100 feet down a cliff to the rocks below. 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