Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 15, 1961, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text8 A WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY IS, 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, ORE. Florida Fights Calypso Competition Miami-IUPII-Florida, the na- new attractions have appeared sprang from the starting gate tion'i vacation host, Is won dering this winter if its iwank hotels, horse races and night clubs can overcome the lure of Calypso, rum and British accents farther south. Manv sun-glassed eyes are being cast in apprehension to ward the Atlantic Caribbean, uhnra tha Rnhnma .Tamaien and Trinidad are bidding with : some success for an increas ing share of the traveling Yankee dollar. Florida tourist men, under standably reluctant, to knock their own product, offer small speculation on how badly the Caribbean resorts may hurt them this winter. But the competition has been a recurrent topic all year, even bringing a cam paign pledge from newly elect ed Gov. Farrls Bryant that lie will work to help the state , meet the off-shore threat. : . January, February and March are expected to tell the winter's tale. Association seemed to speak for most when it estimated - the number of Caribbean va cationers as "relatively small1 when arrayed against . the number who would remain in Florida. The island-hoppers, said the AAA in a special report, will Include the "big spenders. But "Florida still leads as the prime cold-season vacation spot," the AAA concluded. Encouraging Words Oilier encouraging words Included: Charles F. Sharp, vice pres ident of National Airlines: "We are confident the 1961 winter season will be a good one for Florida. We are hop ing it will be one of the best." Eugene Weiss, president of the Miami Beach Apartment Association: "Our officers and directors report rentals are ahead of last year and the year before." i Wes Ficht, general passen ger agent of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad: "So far as the Seaboard Railroad is con cerned, Florida should have its best season since 1053." Florida is not taking its Caribbean competition light ly, however. In a slate where the care and feeding of tour ists is the number one indus try, complacency could cripple checking accounts as swiftly as a freeze of the citrus crop. So this season, as always to augment the old: At Miami Beach, a $600, 000 renovation has swept au tomobiles from Lincoln Rd. in favor of fountains, plants and promenades. The noted shopping street has been trans formed into a traffic-free mall. At Tavernier in the Keys, the first underwater park in the United Stales has been Thanksgiving Day and scores of days of racing remain. Gamblers also may wager legally at jai-alai frontons in Miami, Dania, West Palm Beach and Tampa, and at 13 dog tracks scattered down the state from Jacksonville to Key West. The 30,000 rooms In Miami Beach's 379 hotels for about $40 a half-day, $75 a full day, usually with four fishermen as minimum ballast. And for the blase who have "been everywhere" and "seen everything," Florida has some thing, too. As Cassadega, seven miles from Deland, the Cassadega Spiritualist Association holds a three-month meeting begin ning in January. Teachers and students of the occult gather established two miles off shore 1 sland ready for tne tourist's from many states and several loreign countries to swap shop-talk about theosophy, ex trasensory perception and communicating with the dead. the Atlantic. More than 1,200 types of fish and marine life and 40 varieties of coral are there to tempt the skin diver, the scientist or the sightseer riding at case in a rented glass-bottom boat. At Canaveral Groves, 12 miles from the missile test center at Cape Canaveral, a 80-foot observation tower has become a magnet for taxpay ers wanting a personal look at the launchings that head line their newspapers. The rockets climbing on their fiery exhausts are clearly visible from the tower. Established Attractions More established attrac tions, of course, await the practiced spender as before: The first race horse tread. Such big entertainment names as Harry Belafontc, Joe E. Lewis, Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Mort Sahl and Sammy Davis Jr. are booked at clubs and hotels. Room rates during the peak season from late January through March range from $20 per person per day at such hotels as the Carillon and Dcauville to $200 a day for the penthouse suite at the Americana, an easy-living lay out of three bedrooms, living room foyer, bar and terrace overlooking the sea. Along the Southeast Gold Coast, the blue marlin, tarpon, sailfish and boncfish abound. Charter boats - with bait, tackle, skipper and mate in- cluded-are available at Miami fefia V4 i I" 4m IK QUITS DRIVING - Mrs. Eunice Cochran gives a last look as she turns in her driver's license for good. Mrs. Cochran, who is t)u years old, says that with traffic getting thicker and faster, it Just isn't fun to drive any more, so she voluntarily turned in her license at the Santa Monica, Calif., police station. A driver since IBIS, she has had only one citation, in 1039 when she didn't see a "No U Turn" sign and made the illegal turn. She has never had an accident. (UPI Telephoto) 1 1 .. .- ""f 4 -ixJ- - r i fit, n JU' Y-t,. if DUANE HUTCHINS - Hulohins St, Clarke Builders - Grants Pass "Trie ijwed and iom o MtoMm duhk kedt cui4 tbuw owwJii coruhactiott. cmU ..." FOR FULL INFORMATION ON SAFE. CLEAN, ECONOMICAL ELECTRIC HEAT. VISIT A CALORE ELECTRICAL LEAGUE DEALER OR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: . Baumer'i Sheet Metal and Healing, 840 N. Riverside-Medford, SP 3-4346 Brooks Electric, 1116 N. Riverside Medford, SP 2-5209 Court Street Electric, 1127 Court Street-Medford, SP 2-2463 Electronic Service, 18 North Grape Medford, SP 3-1971 : Enloe Electric, Rr. 1, Box 415-Talent, KE 5-1269 Feldman A Olion, 237 East Moin-Medford, SP 3-2811 t " " Harrison Electric, Rt. 2, Gibbon Road-Central Point, NO 4-2091 Modern Plumbing ft Sheet Metal, 613 East Jackson-Medford, SP 3-5368 Rogue Electric Service, 961 Shafer lane-Medford, SP 2-6603 Rush Electric Company, 1023 S. Riverside-Medford, SP 2 4960 Trowbridge & Flynn, 214 West Main Medford, SP 3-6241 Yow'i Heating, Air Conditioning & Sheet Metal, 1729 N. Riverside-Medford, SP 2-4534 Flynn Electric Supply, 111 West Main-Medford, SP 3-1841 Taylor Sheet Metal, 837 South Riverside-Medford, SP 2-6341 Graham's Electric Service, 1205 Sage Road-Medford, SP 2-8950 WIRE YOUR HOM1 FOR MODERN, LOW-COST ELECTRIC HEAT I ION COPCO'i WIRE-ON-TME AT LOW INTEREST RATES. COPCO SERVICE OFFICE. PLAN... MAKE BUDGET PAYMENTS ; ..ASK YOUR LEAGUE DEALER OR ' (NOT FIRE) Oldest Soldiers Veterans of U.S. Indian Warfare . Washington - IUPD - Since the last Civil War veteran died in 1959, America's old est living soldiers have been a handful of survivors of the Indian Wars. The Veterans Administra tion has 41 of the old-time Indian fighters on ils rolls. Two of them - John C. Ford 98, and Clinton R. Hamilton, IM, are living with their mem ories at the U. S. Soldiers' home in Washington. A UPI reporter went to in terview them with the idea of finding out what they think of the kind of Indian warfare that is waged nightly on tele vision. But Ford and Hamil ton were unable to render an expert judgment on that - be cause of failing vision, neither is able to watch TV. -They were ready to talk about other things, however Indian Scout Ford said he served as an Indian Scout in the Dakota Badlands during 1890-91. "I served in the backwoods all the time," Ford recalled. "There were usually two of us on scouting patrol. We were away from our main headquarters most of the wnue. We'd camp out when ever we could get out of dan ger. "We'd use sign language with our hands (he demon strated by holding up three fingers on his right hand) to ihik 10 me Indians. 'AH that was a long time ago. I don't remember it very well now. "I find it best," he added gently, "best for me, to let time go by. I don't try to take nom or It. I lust lot it en." Hamilton, still spry and an easy conversationalist, although hard of hearing, said he was born in Collinville, III., on Dec. 3, 1867. "When I was nine I ran away from home," he said. "I lived with a Sioux Indian chief for five years. He want ed to learn to speak English. learned Sioux, and Inter Mexican. But I haven't been able to use it lately, so I'm rusty at it." The old soldier mused alnurl about Indian customs that had intrigued him. "Indians never whipped their children. Instead, they'd tic their left arms to a stake and leave them in the sun for a few hours. Indian children were the most obedient I've ever known. Sitting Position "The Sioux Indians buried their dead in a sitting nosi- lion, facing south because the Indians love the south wind. "An Indian chief with four daughters was a rich man, because the braves would trade him horses for his daughters. Both Ford and Hamilton ex pressed high regard for In dians and said Indians have been treated shabbily by the whites, who took over their country. "I'm not goin' to talk about Indian battles much," Hamil ton asserted, "because the last time - a few years ago - that I gave an interview to the newspapers, I told 'cm Custer and 287 of his men got killed at Little Big Horn because Custer didn't obey Benteen's orders to wait for him and went ahead to the Indian en campment on his own. "I also said t h e Indians wouldn't have caused any trouble or fought at Little Big Horn if the government hadn't taken their lands, pre viously given to t h e m by treaty, and left them with no game or anything to eat so they had to raid the white farms for cattle to keep from starving. Gtt Into Trouble "Telling it that way got me in some trouble. But it's true just the same." .. Hamilton proudly showed an invitation he'd received to attend the 19150 National Re union of the United Indian War Veterans in San Francis co. He was sorry he couldn't have been there. 'There used to be about 40 of us Indian War Veterans here at the Home." he said. But all those fellows arc gone, now. PATENT RATIO Washington - Out of every 1,000 patents granted by the U.S. patent office, about one la issued to woman. .. Chicagoan Finds 'Gold' Buried in Unlikely Places Chicago - IUPD - Van Allen Bradley, who hunts for gold in such unlikely places as your attic and my basement, un covered twin nuggets in two "strikes" last year. Bradley made the unusual finds vicariously for he does most of his treasure hunting through others. His tools are a typewriter. and well-thumb ed catalogues. The gold he seeks is rare books. Bradley is literary editor of the Chicago Daily News, writ er of a syndicated newspaper column, "Gold in Your At tic," and author of a book of the same name. "A reader in the State of Washington sent me an old overland guidebook that had been carried west across the plains and mountains from Il linois by her grandfather in 1852," Bradley said. Small Book It was a small paperbound book, "Travelers Guide Across the Plains,' by P. L. Platte and Nelson Slater. Just the sort of "trash" your grand father bought and your grand mother wouldn't throw away and your mother left in an old chest because she was allergic to dust. "But it was a long-sought bit of western Americana," Bradley said. It was rare because it was a first edition and no complete copy was known to exist. One catalogue carried an estimate of $600 on it. Bradley sold the book for the owner, on her instructions, of course, "at a price well above the $600." A' few months later, Brad ley said, another reader found another copy of the book in California. "I sold it for ils finder to the Chicago book dealer who bought the first," Bradley said. It brought less than the first, Bradley said, because the second find reduced the rarity of the book." , In the rare book market, Bradley said, western Amer icana is the booming field right now. Collectors are scrambling for books about Mormans, gold mining, pioneer days in Oregon, California and Colo rado, and overland guides," he said. "This was the last frontier. People want to know what happened to their ancestors. Rare first editions are going up fantastically in price." Steady Mail Bradley, himself a rare book collector who owns 'probably $50,000" worth of first editions, gets a steady flow of mail from readers re porting discoveries, asking questions about their finds or seeking advice on how to cash in on their musty treasures. He answers some questions or tells of some of tne dis coveries in his weekly col umn. He tries to acknowledge every letter, although he can't answer them personally. Bradley said his readers have found rare first editions of almost all the classic books. including "The Scarlet Let ter," "The Red Badge of Cour age," and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." "But so far no one has found "The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' " he said. 'We're still looking for that one." Fewer than half a dozen copies of the 40-pagc, paper covered first edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "Rue Morgue" are known to exist. They sold in 1843 for 12V4 cents a copy. Today a first edi tion in good condition is worth $25,000. New French Prison To Be Like Modern Hotel Grange News Butte Falls Grange The Butte Falls Grange held its regular meeting re cently with Master Ben Ful ton presiding. Lecturer Mrs. Anion Coth- rin presented a program by introducing Nat Etzel of the Eagle Point High school Fu ture Farmers of America pro gram. FFA member Steve Gercn discussed the FFA program. Installing oficer Ted Frcd- cnburg installed Mrs. Kizzie Edmonson as chaplain, and Everett Moore a s steward. Kizzie Edmondson was wel comed back after an absence. Mrs. James Kreloff and Victor Kreloff were obligat ed in tile third and fourth de grees by Ted Frrdenburg. HEC chairman. Mrs. Anion Cothrin, reported that the chairman had received cer tificate with four gold stars showing ail reports of the year were on time. Next meet ing of the club will be at the home of 'Mrs. Ben Fulton, Feb. 14. The social hour refresh ments were served by Ted Frcdenburg and Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Arnold. The next grange meeting will be March 6. Washington - When John Quincy Adams ran for presi dent for the first time in 1820 he received only one electoral vote. Monroe had a total, of Muret, France IUPD-A "good guy" and a "bad guy" prison -with the good guys living like gentlemen farmers with a swimming pool at their dis posal - will go up soon in this little French town. Construction will begin this year on the ultra modern pris son which will combine refor matory measures - with re wards for "good" prisoners. The decision was taken to build the jail after French technicians and architects went all over Europe and the United States studying the most modern prisons. The main ideas of the new prison will be to ally security and reform measures with a modern and decent life for long-term prisoners. The jail vill be open only to those who have received a sentence of at least 10 years. , The outside appearance will be somber, with an 18-foot-high concrete wall, on top of which small walks will enable guards to patrol day and night. Somber Exterior ' Inside it, will be like a dream bouse, at least for those prisoners who have good con duct privileges. The inside will be divided into two main quarters, the first reserved for "good" prisoners where they will live like gentlemen farmers, and the second where the "toughs" will have a harder life. . The main novelty for a French jail will be the pris oners' cells. They will look more like studios, each of them equipped with running hot and cold water and cen tral heating. Shower rooms will be plen tiful. A large library along with reading rooms, television rooms and a cinema will be available. A chapel also will be built in the prison. A modern sta dium with sports Instructors and a swimming pool will be at the disposal of prisoners. 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