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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'
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certain circumstances tho us of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible.
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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.