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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY, DECEMBER 26, I960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON MEDFORDjWrRIBUNE "Everyune in Southern Oregon Reads Tha Mail Trlbuna" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFOHD FrUNTINU tu SS North Fir St.. Ph SP 8-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor RERB GREY Adveltlslnj Manaer GERALD t laihah mia aigi ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teles Editor nifHARD jewett Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women Ed'.tor DALE ERICKiNuircuiaiwnmgr An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as second clais matter at Med terra, ureeon. unoer aci oi March 3, 1B97 SimKCRTPTION RATES By Mai) In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday I year $19 00 Dally and Sunday 6 mos 8 Oft Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.28 Sunday Only One vear J4.20 mm s-t.rr(r In Advance Med'ord Ashland. Central Point Essie Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove. Roirue Rlv or Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 vear $lBnn Da'.lv and Sunday 1 mo 1-0 Carrier and Dealers - copy 10c AllTerms Cash In Adyanea 0lal Paper of City of Medfnrd Official Papsr of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire ri.P.l Telephoto Kewnplctures "MEMBER OF AUDIT MliREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York. Chlcoso Do trolt. San Francluco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis. At ' lanta. Vancouver. B.fi NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION Al EDITORIAI ASlSO CW-ATIIOih sc(jJl(o)l' Flight o' Time Medford and Jackjon County History from tha flies of Tha Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30 40 and SO vrs ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1950 (Tueiday) A 10-year-old Portland boy Is in fair condition at Com munity hospital here after he accidentally shot himself while examining a gun at a iriond's house in Medford. A capacity audience attend ed, the Phoenix Presbyterian church Sunday school Christ mas program Friday in the church auditorium. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 26, 1940 (Thursday) The local postoffice is now In its annual clean-up of Christmas mail which was - mailed too late to reach Us destination by Christmas. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "It's all over, and Only 364 days un til the next one." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 26,. 1930 (Friday) Mcdford High school will play Its first basketball game of the season tonight. A number ot local people have journeyed to bun nv Cisco for the East-West Shrine game. 40 YEARS AGO Dtc. 26, 1920 (Sunday) Nine carloads of wood have arrived from Glendale and will help to relieve the local wood shortage. The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce plans to dis cuss the prospects of oil dis covery in the valley when It meets next week. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nina or tan correct Is superior: iivsn or eight Is excellent; Nvo or lis Is' good. 1. Which Scandl n a v i a n country was not invaded by V' Germany in World War 11? 2. From which State is Or ville Freeman, the newly ap pointed Secretary of Agricul ture? 3. In which country is the Tlsza River? V rjamc the two English "houses" that fought the War of the Roses. B.tls a bonlto an oil gush er, a form of blessing, or a kind of fish? 8. Correct the following sentence: The data on veter ans' benefits is ready for pub lication. 7. For what was Duncan Phyfe famous? 8. Aluminum 1 obtained frorrj B c? ,9.yName the capital of Ver mont. 10. What two teams will play In the Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1. 1961? Answers: 1. Sweden. 2. Minnesota. 3, Hungary. 4. Lan caster (Rod Roto) and York (White Roso). S. Fish. 6. Tho data . . . ire ready . . . 7. Cibinat making. 8. Bauxllo. 9. Monlpellor. 10. Washington and Minnesota. Hoof Gibson Must Return to Hospital Lar Vegas, Nev. tUPU- Hoot Gibson, 68, oldtlme cowboy star, was able to spend Christ mas day at home with his wife, but he must return this week to Southern Nevada Me morial Hospital. The actor underwent three major abdominal operations last month and was told by his doctors it would be best to spend some more time in the hospital rccouperating. Doc tors said hit condition was good. Time to At a conference of attorney generals earlier this year, the chief legal eagle of the state of Texas told his harried colleagues, "We are the most self-destructive public officials in the coun try." Oregon's quiet, patient, long suffering attor ney general, Robert Y. Thornton, did not fail to appreciate the soundness of that remark. . Thornton, a Democrat, has been so consist ently judged "wrong" on major questions by the Republican controlled Oregon supreme court that at times he has seemed either grossly incompetent, possessed of a frighteningly strong Thanatos, or both. THORNTON'S overall the court is pretty good. His correct opinions. of course, have not received the spectacular news treatment accorded his Since the attorney that Gov. Holmes and Mark Hatfield, should appoint a successor to Hat field as secretary of state, the sledding for Thorn ton has been rough indeed. Not only has he seemed determined to politically speaking, but all the considerable resources at his command to bury Thornton, too. CO MACHIAVELLIAN, so cunning have been the Hatfield thrusts at Thornton that we were not at all surprised recently to find the governor attacking the people s attorney tor retarding the economic growth of our Thornton was away in Washington, D.C., seeking publicity, the governor said, when he should have been at home deciding whether the state could lease 600,000 acres of its offshore lands to Shell Oil Co. on news reports on the Dec. 3 meeting of the state land board at which Hatfield criticized Thornton, one got the distinct impression that an affirma tive decision was expected on this issue. Or per haps Hatfield, knowing Thornton's desire to please him and end their inane bickering, only wanted his attorney general to think this. H OW SPLENDID it Hatfield s standpoint, a bad decision on such an important question. But the attorney general moved with utmost caution, researched carefully and wisely decided that neither Shell nor any other company could lease qffshore lands on any basis without enabling legislation.- Hatfield, , meanwhile, was stunned by the enteiwise of the Salem Capital Press in bringing to light a number of aspects of the proposed deal ...iiu oi.ii lp j.v-..:i t..: wiLii oiieii. inuiturictia it mi news aiunus un uie proposal also aroused public opinion against non competitive leasing. THE governor, being a devout political realist, decided to say that he had been against the whole idea all along. Score a point for Mr. Thornton. We suggest that now is the time for the gov ernor to get off Thornton's back. In spite of Hat field's vendetta and The Reporter's endorsement of his opponent in the general election, the people of Oregon have expressed their confidence in Thornton. Hatfield's continued attacks are dis rupting and damaging to the state, if not actually costly in terms of dollars. Thornton has never sought to prolong the ieuci. rortland Keporter. Proportion The tragic fire aboard the aircraft carrier Constellation points up a difference in peace and war. In war we lose our sense of proportion. The fire did $75,000,000 damage to a ship that cost $250,000,000 (that's a quarter of a billion dol lars). The death toll will be in excess of 45. Now this is a tragedy. Yet, at Midway, at Loral bea, at Leyte unit, the death toll was much higher and the property loss much greater. In the great land battles sucli as the Bulge, a quarter billion dollars wouldn't much more than buy the bullets. And a death abnormal for a single company of infantry. VET, so involved in wartime do we get with the big issues of war, and so accustomed do we become in times like that to great figures, we tend to forget that war is made up of hundreds of tragedies much like the one at Brooklyn Navy Yard the first of the week. We like the peacetime attitude better. It's more realistic. Eugene Register-Guard. Should Not Happen The Coquille Valley Sentinel reports that Sen ator Chapman of that district plans to introduce a bill calling on the Highway Commission to spend $4,000,000 state money on improvement of Highway 42, without waiting for any federal money. This should not happen. It's a mistake for the Legislature to be laying out the road program. Highway 42 is tortuous, but its improvement will will come in orderly manner as fast as funds are available. Oregon Statesman, Salem. End Feud record of reversals by wrong ones. general decided in 1958 not the new governor, do away with himselr the governor has used racific Wonderland. an exclusive basis. From would have been, from to urge Thornton into toll of 45 would be not Dennis the 'see what Mr. Wilson save Demis? fourteen1 fascinating GAMES TO B6 (WZO HOME I' ... Communications ... Loiters to lho Editor must boar tho nam and tddross of lho writer, although undor certain circumstances tho us of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune roiervos lho right to odit all Utters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not nocossarily roprosont the views of tha papori in fact the contrary is often tho cose. Land Board and Socrocy To the Editor: In seeking, in your editorial, to explain to your readers why neither you nor other newspapers re ported the Land Board's con sideration of the Shell Oil Company lease application, you allege that the Land Board attempted to keep the matter to itself. Such an al legation is not supported by the facts. The first Information as to Shell's interest was present ed by the clerk to the Land Board at its public session of November 3. All the details that Were available to the Land Board were printed on the agenda of that date. News paper reporters were present during the entire discussion. Those who were not present had been previously urged to attend Land Board meetings. It is pertinent to note that th editor of the Democratic newspaper upon whose irre sponsible story you base your editorial was among those who did not bother to attend. The sum and substance of your complaint, then, would seem to boil down to the fact that we didn't aggressively take it upon ourselves to over rule the professional judgment of the newspapers who were present as to what the news papers should print and what they shouldn't. If you mean that we spend loo much time running Land Board business and not enough running the newspapers then I am pleased to plead guilty. The fact of the matter is that the entire discussion was conducted in public, open ses sion at which reporters were present and the Land Board, according to advice prevailing from Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton at the time, was fully authorized to enter Into such a lease as Shell proposed In his legal opinion to the Land Board dated October 14, 1953 the Attorney General said that the administration of Oregon's submerged lands is under the jurisdiction of the Land Board and that is is free to negotiate leases un der such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon be tween the Board and the leasee. It was only after the Land Board, in seeking to thorough ly explore every aspect of the matter before making a de cision, asked the Attorney General to consider this ad vice again that he reversed his previous opinion. This, as you may know, is not an un common phenomenon. You will find the members Try and -By BENNETT CIRF- AN ANGELIC Utile girl !n bell of a solid citizen "Trick-or-Treat." The solid delicious apple to nibble on himself before retiring;, but was so taken with his beguiling young visitor that he popped the apple into her open paper bag. The little girl looked Into the bag, then kicked the solid citizen hard on the shin. "You of mean ie!" she exploded. "You busted all my cookies!" Ron's s rather startling beauty hint from designer Cecil Beaton of London: "For breakfast, try a bowl of of an egg. Then apply to your later dabbing face with cotton and rouge. Last thing at night, IMsVQr, gTOT owes Menace of the Land Board now, as in the past, glad to assist the press in reporting the news on all occasion when the press indicates an Interest in doing so. , Howell Appling Jr., Secretary of State, Member, Oregon State Land Board Salem, Ore. Editor's note: Mr. Appling has a point. But it was stated far better and more complete ly and honestly in the Salem Capital Journal, conservative- leaning daily newspaper in the state capital. Under the title, Sleepy Press, Sneaky Board," it has this explana tion of the incident, which we find far more convincing than Mr. Appling's: The members of the State Land Board have been taking a beating at the hands of the Oregon press the past week because ot the board's quiet dealings with Shell Oil Co. which wants exclusive off shore oil exploration rights. The weekly Capital Press here in Salem dug the story out after noting two incon clusive mentions in the Ore gon Statesman. One referred to an unidentified oil com pany negotiating for unspeci fied exploration rights. Anoth er mentioned "secret" negotia tions by Humble Oil Com pany. It turned out to be Shell, not Humble, and the negotia tions were for off shore rights. The Capital Press, dedicat- edly Democratic in view, flayed the Republican Land Board (made up of governor, secretary of state and treasur er). This, said the paper, is public business and shouldn't be secret, especially since it involved a request by Shell for exclusive rights obtained without bid-an irregular and as it turns out, illegal, pro ccdure. The whole undertaking has been stopped by a ruling of the attorney general which leaves the matter up to the next legislature. The Medford Mail Tribune however, has joined the fray, blasting away at the Land Board. So have several other papers, without saying single word about how secrets are kept. We agree with the Capital Press, the Mail Tribune and the others that this is a poor way to transact business. We know the members of the Land Board well enough to know that if they had wanted Stop Me Ottumwa, Iowa, rang the dew on Hallowe'en anrl rlpmnnrliv. citizen had been saving a large, goat's milk, glycerine, and whtu face a mask lined with raw veaL and a light application of powder at an onion stuffed with butUr. Writer Discusses Prospects Of Kennedy Legislative Plans By RICHARD SPONG Washington, D.C. "The country is with the President, and the country runs Con gress." This adage is almost three Washington Report By WILLIAM CANADA Washington Small but plain and ominous signs of trouble for us within the western hem isphere are rising in a most unhap pily unaccus tomed place, Canada. For genera tions our hem ispheric diffi culties have been with Latin nations to the south. We have always more or less ex- public attention they would have told many people, in cluding the press. They have called attention to other sim ilar matters in the past. And the board's secretary actually asked a reporter who stumbled unknowingly onto the matter to keep It quiet. This all is as wrong as wrong can be. Gov. Mark Hatfield, as the ranking man on the board, should get most of the blame. But good government and public awareness depend on more than governing bodies. They depend on many other things, including an alert and diligent press. The press, meaning the Cap ital Journal, its statehouse re porter and the two press serv ices which work for the news papers of the state, has been loafing. Gov. Hatfield's press assist ant, Travis Cross, called the matter of Land Board cover age to our attention a year or so ago. He said meetings weren't being covered and predicted that some such situ ation as this someday would develop. Presumably he did the same for other papers. We did nothing. Meanwhile, agendas of the Land Board meetings have been available if one wont after thembut no one did. Our statehouse man, the United Press International, the Associated Press and the reporters of the disappointing ly few newspapers which staff the Capitol, had a problem they were too lethargic to solve. But it wasn't insur mountable. All reporters surmounted It this week. The problem has been that the same trio of officials makes up the State Board of Control and holds meetings of both boards con secutively, without pause. Re porters had covered the Con trol Board and then left to file their stories, thereby mis sing the Land Board. Teams of reporters now are being used, one covering while the other files. This is a case of the pot and the kettle a sleepy press calling a sneaky Land Board black. We hope both institu tions shape up. Happy Now Year To the Editor: At this time of year my heart is filled with peace towards my fcllowman. And I have dismissed from my mind thoughts of mayhem for the time being. Still, If anyone is interested, I can introduce him to two of the most vicious door slam- mers to be found anywhere west of the Mississippi river. I am prepared to match them against the brawniest door slammcrs in the state of Ore gon. So saying, I now subside. Happy New Year. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White Clly, Ore. Helpful Drivers To the Editor: Somehow this dense fog so well reminds me of Matt. 15:14. Even on one way streets, if a driver sees tail lights ahead, he will speed to get right up close and de pend on the lead car to take him safely somewhere, while he blinds that driver with a bright white glare of head lights. The Rev. A. Gilman, 322 South Riverside avc. Medford. Monte Carlo - il'PU - Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco received a Christmas gift from Greek shipping ty coon Aristotle Onassis a $120,000 redecorating job on Monaco's Opera House. decades old; it was uttered by House Speaker Rainey before the opening of the second ses sion of the 73d Congress in 1934. It is a reflection of the mood that lingered on long af- S. WHITE pected those. For many deep differences, of language and culture and custom, lie be tween us, and for nearly two centuries have so lain. Fidel Castro's Cuba, for one illustration, for months has been bedevilling us and all the Americas with a more and more arrogantly pro-Communist two-bit dictatorship. Now, with the final exasperation of a man who has been all too patient in the past, President Eisenhower has applied not the big stick but still a pretty good - sized economic stick to Castro. " TIE HAS cut off, for the first -I three months of 1961, not some but all of Castro's sugar shipments to the United States. Still, we have on the whole long since learned to live with rows with the Latins. And however sticky the going with them, we have always com forted ourselves that to the north, anyhow, we had a good solid neighbor. Here was Canada, working peacefully alongside us on "the longest unfortified fron tier in the world." Here was Canada with its similar tradi tions of government and life and with its common lan guage, that is, among its more or less economically dominant English-speaking half. r,F COURSE, one fact is that " we have too long taken too much for granted with the Canadians, who have so long been faithfully allied with us in war and peace. But now what? First, the Canadians recent ly gave their official blessings to a large increase .in trade with Castro, the very man who is endangering the peace of all this hemisphere - including Canada s peace. And now the Canadian gov ernment has put in "Canada- first" tax policies. These are flatly intended to penalize United States investment in that country, to reduce United States participation by owner ship in Canadian industry. II7ITH full acknowledgment W of the undoubted fact that Canada has every sovereign right to do these things, and moreover has reason to be a bit fed up with the colossus to her south, these somber facts remain: 1. The absolutely bedrock necessity for a stable and or derly hemisphere, a responsi ble and effective American- Canadian association, is in some degree of peril. 2. "Canada - first" policies however humanly understand able, will in the end produce the same result - general harm - that America first policies produced in the days of our long-abandoned isola tionism. Two can play at these dangerous games; and if one goes on playing them the oth er fellow will sooner or later be driven to play them. too. 3. Whatever our shorlcom Ings in dealing with the Cana dians and, to repeat, they have been real - neither Canada nor the United States can afford to look at this busi ness as though it concerned only Canada and the United States. For a right Canadian American relationship .Is in dispensable far beyond Ot tawa and Washington; it i: vital to the whole western al liance. lUIERE are times in this world when a big nation and there is nothing petty about Canada - must take the credit and let the cash go. Clearer every day, there fore, looms this central truth the most urgent foreign policy problem before the incoming Kennedy administration is a "home" problem. It is to put this hemisphere, north as well as south, really back together again. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Christmas Sales Down in Portland Portland - ll'PD - Christmas sales in 1960 declined from 1959 for Portland area stores, according to merchants. The decline was attributed lo added competition, softness in the lumber market and a cautious attitude by custo mers. Some merchants said the drop was from 3 per cent to 18 per cent. One local retailer said 1960 sales could be the lowest since 1934 or 1833. ter the famous "100 days ol President F. D. Roosevelt's first congress. Now the land is promised another 100 days of harmony between the White House and Capitol Hill, and Sen. Ken nedy's friends in Congress are doing whatever they can to make sure the promise is ful filled. Sen. Clinton P. Ander son (D-N.M-), who has taken the lead in past efforts to change the Senate filibuster rule, on Dec. 11 declared him self more interested in clear ing the way for the Kennedy legislative program than in re newing the crusade for ma jority vote closure. Short Debate Aim Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), an important mem ber of the liberal bloc, on Dec. 15 said that he hoped the time consumed by debate on chang ing the Senate's rules could be limited to 48 hours-again m the interest of the Kennedy legislative proposals. Both Senators foresaw a debate; their intent was to keep it as short as possible Leading advocates of chang ing the cloture rule are Sen. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.) and Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-IU.), both of whom are also expect ed to. back legislation desired by Kennedy. Sen, Mike Mans field (D-Mont.), ' prospective majority leader, on Dec. H warned that attacks on the filibuster rule might stymie the new President's program The fear is of course that an anti-filibuster move in itself would start a filibuster. President-elect Kennedy on Dec. 20 said that he hoped for speedy action on bills to pro vide medical care for the aged, aid for education, hous ing development, minimum wage, and aid for depressed areas. These are precisely the bills on which House Speaker Rayburn just a month ago pre dicted "pretty fast move ment. Trouble in Houso In the House the Kennedy program may, however, face more difficulty than in the Senate. Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck, reinforced with a Republican gain of more than a score of seats, is promising to maintain the co a 1 i t i o n with conservative Southern Democrats. Halleck, indeed, sounds considerably more threatening than Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen (111.), who on Dec. 18 declared that the G.O.P. aim would be to modify, not op pose, Kennedy measures. The phrase, "100 days,' goes back to the 73rd Con gress which was called into special session by President Roosevelt on March 9, 1933 In the 100 days that followed the President was armed with extraordinary powers for com batting depression and pro moting recovery in a long se ries of measures - some of which hadn't even been read by the legislators - approved by the twcC houses in substan tially the form in which they were drafted in the executive office. " The special session adjourn ed in the early morning hours of June 16, 1933 and on that day the President signed the most remarkable of all the measures in which Congress had given its approval - the National Industrial Recovery Act, which was to be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Kennedy's 100 days, if they materialize, cannot be expect ed to be as dramatic as Roose velt's in any event. The emer gency, or so it appears to the legislators, is much less ur gent. Soo Line Plans Eugene Office Minneapolis - fUPD - The Soo Line Railroad has announced new sales offices in Oregon and Pennsylvania in line with its merger next Monday with the Wisconsin Central and the Duluth, South Shore & Atlan tic Railroads. The carrier said offices at Eugene, Ore., and Philadel phia are among sales changes that included marketing re alignment under the merger approved Nov. 30 by the inter state commerce commission The new Soo line's 36 traf fic agencies in the United States and Canada will include all points where the Soo and DSS&A currently operate of fices. Soo line also said it would maintain offices in eight additional cities where the Soo and Canadian Pacific have operated joint offices. The new line will have 4.800 miles of track in seven states. A spokesman said the Eu gene office in the Citizens' Bank building, will serve parts of the territory now handled by the Portland of fice. The Eugene office and the Philadelphia office will open early next year. In the Day's News ty FRANK JENKINS Screwball question: How much is a billion dql- lars? Well, it's a thousand times a minion aoiiars. But- - ; How is any ordinary person going to imagine 1,000 MIL LIONS of dollars? . IN AN effort to dramatize a uiiiinn rinllars. so that the magnitude of it can be grasped by the average citizen, me KiDlineer Magazine recently put it like this: "If a Derson had startea in A.D. 1 with a billion dollars nA hatt 011f.n awav SI. 000 EACH DAY, in this year of iQfin he still would nave enough left out of his original billion to continue his' gener osity at the rate of Sl.ooo a day for almost 780 YEARS, or until the year 2739. And- i That's without aetting any interest on his original billion. If interest at five per cent was added he never COULU gei rid of it. : ; IN A similar effort, the World RnnlrFnpvrlnnpHia nuts it like this: "If a billion dollar bills were placed end to end, they would extend a distance of 96,670 miles, or about four times around the entire world." By way of emphasis, it adds: "With one billion dol lars, you could buy one mil- linn antnmnhiles. each costing one thousand dollars. Placed bumper to bumper, these would extend a distance of 3,314 miles, or farther than from San Francisco to Boston. HMMMMMMMMMM The World Book fails to state whether the cars would be compacts or Cadillacs, or Lincolns, or Imperials - or, since the World Book edition in our library was published more than a decade ago, may be it was referring to Model T's. That confuses ihe illustra tion. Let's turn lo a more mod ern example. rpHE public debt of the USA at this moment in history is somewhere in the broad, general neighborhood of 350 billion dollars - give or take a' few billions. The federal budget SURPLUS at the end of the federal fiscal year last summer (and we were right proud of the fact that it was surplus instead of the rather customary deficit) was just about a billion dollars, with maybe an odd hundred thou sand over for good measure. Suppose we stay in the black to the extent of a billion dollars a year from here on which looks a little dubious in view of the liberal plat forms of our liberal politi cians. WELL . . . At the rate of a billion dollars a year, it would take us 330 YEARS to pay off our national debt. And that as sumes that we will stay in the black every year instead of going into the red to the extent of a billion or so. THE BIG question: Tcn't if calfintf ahmif flm for us to quit going into debt and start PAYING OFF? Stern Section Of Tanker Nears Hampton Roads , Norfolk, Va. - HJPD - The valuable stern section of the tanker Pine Ridge, taken, handily In tow by a big sea going tug, approached dry dock at Hampton Roads, Va., today. John Richart, a veteran sea man who has been aboard the stern since the sMd solit in two during a storm last Wed nesday, helped the crew of the tug guide the hulk safelv ts shore. He was Joined by four other crewmen from the tut whe boarded the stern section In heavy seas Friday night when it was taken in tow. Survivors Ashore Twentv nln the Pine Ridee crarWim ...-I. ed land Friday and left Nor- -oik to spend Christmas at their homes Spvcn nth.. sailors. Including th hi'. captain, went down with the tanner s bow. The Coast Guard reported that forward nrosris ni th. towing operation was slowed quite a on oy extreme sway, ine and nitchins nf ik ..,- Arrival time at Cape Henry was expected to be about 4 p.m. with another five hours remaining before it puts In at Pier 1, Newport News.