8 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
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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)
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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.
Modern Farm
A modern farm will be in-
etaiipH in the Drison and the
prisoners will produce a large
part of their food. They also
will test new ways of farm
ing. A small hotel will be avail
able to visitors. The small
town of Muret, which has only
5,204 inhabitants, has been
famous so far only because
former President of the Re
public Vincent Auriol was
born there.
The jail is expected to ba
finished in three years, re
placing a prison in the Loire
Valley built in 1804 in a for
mer convent dating from 1099
which the government wants
to restore as a historic monument.
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