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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1961)
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGOV THURSDAY, MAY 1U1961 B 3 . A..-... ..N .... . ...1.,,lr... , ,f ,.,, I NAMES GAZELLE Mrs. Habib Bourguiba, wife of 'the president of Tunisia, is shown at the Washington National Zoo where she is cuddling a baby Dorcas gazelle . which she named "Reem", Arabic for "Little Gazelle." The gazelle is the first born to a pair of 'gazelles given to President Eisenhower by President Bourguiba in 1959. V '. '1 CUPl' Telephoto) Gold Coast Railroad Is Making Expansion Plans MiamMUPD-In an era when the lost age of steam." other railroads are singing the financial blues and talking of mergers, a prosperous Miami railroad with only four miles of track is making expansion plans. The Gold Coast Railroad has only one engine and five cars, none of them less than 30 years old. It hasn't a single salaried employee. But traffic is steadily in creasing at its one-room sta tion at Richmond, 15 miles south of here. Behind the suc cess story is a long line of little reasons. The reasons, are children, many of them bug-eyed and most of them smiling. For the Gold Coast Railroad's engine is an old time steam locomo tive, as rare on the nation's rails these days as bison on the western plains. Come ride, says the rail road in a small brown bro chure, "behind a real live steam locomotive, listen to the sounds of its melodious chime whistle and staccato exhaust, experience again the thrill of the clickety-clack of steel wheels over rail joints and switch points, enjoy the smell of hot valve oil, an aroma of Since last summer, the first time the Gold Coast started keeping count of tickets sold, about 20,000 persons have ac cepted that colorful invita tion. For 50 cents they rode the full four-mile circuit on the Gold Coast, a living mu seum of the way things used to be on the nation's railroads before diesels swept steam away. It is a motley train they ride. The jet-black engine, built in 1922, was formerly on the Florida East Coast Railroad (FEC). Behind it is an olive drab, 1913 combination baggage-passenger car, formerly of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Then comes a slate blue chair car, another FEC veter an, Vintage 1925. Trailing will be one of two cabooses, depending on the whim of the operators, one from the Atlantic Coast Line, built in 1923, the other an alumnus of the Apalachicola Northern, built in 1917. On a siding, rarely pulled because of its great weight, is the majestic Ferdinand Ma gellan, the armor-plated presi- SEARS int..... -7ft T IAMOND - v - JUBILEE YEAR NO MONEY DOWN ON ANYTHING YOU BUY AT SEARS! Silvertbne 21" Fringe Area TV with Base 0 NO MONEY DOWN! - " 'y' r ' !" -- j- " Low in price high in fine entertainment value. Has con venient up-front tuning; powerful chassis for strong, clear reception. TV SETS PRICED FROM $99 . "v QUALITY 17-INCII PORTABLE TV 113$ No Money Down! 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It was from its rear platform that Harry Truman "gave 'em hell" in his noted whistle stop campaign against Thom as E. Dewey In 1948. All of the cars, except for the Ferdinand Magellan, were donated to the Miami Rail road Historical Society, opera tors of the Gold Coast. By way of thanks, the society maintains the original color, numbering and lettering of each car. The society got the Ferdi nand Magellan when it was declared surplus by the fed eral government in 1959. The society's token bid of $100 was the only bid received for the massive car. The beginning of the Gold Coast and the society, now a thriving organization of more than 100 members, was almost as casual. In 1957, the U.S. Sugar Corp. at Clewiston, Fla., which had been using seven steam engines to haul cane from its fields, began replac ing them with diesels. A rail road buff named William God frey Jr., then a law student at the University of Miami, approached the president of the university on the possi bility of getting one of the discarded steam engines. Engine Donated . - The university queried the sugar company, the company donated to the university an engine it had bought from the FEC, and Godfrey and eight other charter members of the non-profit society were empowered by the university to operate the equipment on its behalf. By chance, four miles, of track were readily available. The track led around the U.S. Navy's Richmond Air Base, a blimp installation destroyed by a hurricane in 1945. The track, utilized by the Navy to service blimps and adjoin ing warehouses, had not been in use since the Navy aban doned the base after the dis astrous storm. The 12-wheel engine was set up there and other cars fol lowed as the society success- luuy appealed to Florida rail roads for additional equip ment. One of the society's big needs now is a box car, with an express car . also ranking high. "We'd like to have all the different railroads in the Unit ed States represented down here In one way or another," said the society secretary, Mrs. Lois Beekman of, Fbrt Lauderdale, wife of a retired railroad fireman, "Right now we only have . equipment from Florida railroads.' The society has several feel ers out to various carriers now and has high hopes of getting the box car. The Gold Coast, authentic down to the last detail, al ready has the hobo to go with It. "He sneaks a ride every now and then," reported Mrs. Beekman. Cancer of liver In Fish No Hazard To Public Health Olympia, Wash. - (DPD -Washington fishermen were concerned today over a news paper report concerning can cer of the liver found In many rainbow trout, but Game Di rector John Biggs said the situation constitutes "no known hazard to public health." Biggs said his office had received a great many In quiries since the appearance Sunday of an article in a Ta coma newspaper discussing research projects being under taken to study cases of the disease. A 10-day suspension of trout planting was imposed last July, Biggs said, when a fish pathologist advised the Game Department of the in cidence of hepatoma (liver tumor) in rainbow trout. Suspension Lifted But after intensive research and a conference with other fish and game officials, as well as state and federal health officers, the suspension was lifted, he said. Biggs said the matter re ceived little publicity at the time, but that no attempt was made to either "cover up" the situation or to publicize It. "We did not at that time, and have not since found any instance of cancer in fish we are planting In the waters of the state, nor have we found any instance of it In "wild' fiih in the state." he added. ! 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