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10 B Natural Gas Line Suggestion Made Washington -TO- The Jus tice Department has reconv mended to the Federal Power Commission that Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co. be set up as a separate corporation and be allowed to build the Rock Springs pipeline from Wyoming to California. The recommendation was made in a petition filed with the FPC, which is consider ing applications to serve the California natural gas market directly from Wyoming and from Texas. The justice department has fought a merger between El Paso Natural Gas Co. and the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co. in the courts. It told the FPC that operation of the Rock Springs line by North west alone would better serve both California and the Pa cific Northwest. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Shipping Union Ratifies Contract Long Beach, Calif.-(UPI)-The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union has overwhelmingly ratified a new 44l-month West Coast contract with the Pacific Maritime Association. Announcement of the ratifi cation by union officials offi cially ended a strike against West Coast shipping firms which had tied up 50 flag ships before President Ken nedy intervened. The Wat Coast vote was I. 629 for ratification and 213 against. The Sailors Union of the Pacific and Marine Firemen previously accepted a new agreement with the association. "' " 'ft'"'"- 1 " , SADNESS SETTLED - Youthful residents of Camanche, Calif., play in the "downtown" area where sadness has settled, for this is its last summer. Engineers are building the $33 million Camanche dam on the Mokelumne river a few miles away and when it is completed sometime next year, tire town will be under 30 feet of water. Founded in the early 1850s, Camanche was a leading gold rush town. (UPI) Residents of Doomed California Town ecall Glorious Days of Another Era Camanche, Calif. - IUPI) - The doomed town of Caman che came to life for one last time this week. A $33 million dam is going in a few miles down the Mokelumne river. When it is completed sometime next year, the town will be under 30 feet of water. Some 450 friends and visi tors joined the 50 remaining next time you pour a Lucky Lager, notice the age-date, this is your assurance that it has been properly aged ...to give you the same fine flavor, the same smooth beer, glass after glass, one taste and you'll know why IT'S LUCKY WHEN YOU LIVE IN AMERICA ST? Iff: .!Cf:S , J ; ' ' -' in -: ?q .' . :, . f ---.'4 1 . . .. F " '' ...s. residents in a "last dinner" which turned into a party reminiscent of Camanche's most glorious days as a lead ing California gold town. Once again the community east of Lodi, echoed to youth ful, playful voices and the joking of oldsters. ' Again almost a dozen saloons were operating, indoors and out. Note of Sadness But amidst the gaiety there was a distinct note of sadness which grew as the evening progressed. For the residents, many of them in their 70s and 80s, couldn't forget that next year the town will no longer exist. "We'll miss it here," said Beula Scales, the last post mistress. "It's a peaceful place. Maybe, when the water comes we can come back and look at an island sticking up and say 'I used to live right there'. " A century ago a visitor to Camanche would have seen hundreds of Chinese laborers walking up and down Main st., making way only for an occasional horse race. The Wells Fargo stage might have been loading some of the $15, 000 in gold dust shipped weekly to the San Joaquin Valley.' Booming in 1860s In the 1860s the community boasted four grocery stores, two clothing shops, two black smith shops, a meat market, two hotels, two drug stores nd 17 saloons. Today it consists only of a bar, a general merchandise store with gasoline pumps, a post office, a school, closed in 1057 when it got down to six pupils, and an old Catholic church. Disasters look their toll. Fire struck Camanche in 1873, destroyed 30 houses and caused $15,000 damage. A cloudburst followed, inundat ing most of the community. It never grew back lo its former size. Only two dwellings on Main st., date later than 1885. The population over the years has decreased from a peak of about 1.500 to its present 50. "I'd rather see the place flooded out than go the way of Lancha Plana or Poverty Bar," said Andrew Cavagnaro, 61, a native. The two nearby towns he mentioned are noth ing but ruins now. Gold Rabidly Exhausted The easy-to-find gold in the region was exhausted rapidly. Then came the Chinese, who worked for almost nothing, to dig gold ore out of the rocky ground. "Most of the people who made money left," according to Paul Lewis, local historian. "They didn't settle down. However, there were some who were never able to go back east. Some left sweet hearts who didn't wait. They never went back home. They died in the county hospitals." Even today, gold Is more than a memory in Camanche. The surrounding land contains low grade ore, but with the price of gold held at $35 an ounce it is too expensive to mine. And there are rumors that the old Catholic church stands on high grade ore, which was never mined. ' "If the price of gold had gone up to $100 an ounce two years ago, there never would have been any dam," said Fred Lyons, who has lived in Camanche all his 50 years. Team Process Said Necessary For Productivity Nework-IUPD-Two busi ness leaders agree that what U.S. industry faces today in coping with possible; future tariff cuts is a need for in creased productivity to meet changed operating conditions. They think the task won't be easy. Writing in the August issue of Production Magazine, Ladd Plumley, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and Francis J. Trecker, president of the Na tional Machine Tool Builders Association, were alike in say ing that government could play a part in effecting great er productivity of industry in general. - Productivity Defined Plumley defines productiv ity as the value produced by a quantity of productive re sources; Trecker says it is a correlation of constant mate rial, economic and social pro gressions resulting in the bet terment of the nation's stand ard of living. Trecker, head of an asso ciation whose members are in a highly competitive world market struggle, contends that only with government, business and labor function ing as a team can costs be brought down and prices re duced. Encouragement Urged In explaining the team pro cess to achieve greater pro ductivity, Trecker wrote that government "should encour age business expansion through enlightened fiscal, tax and regulatory actions. Business should constantly re duce its produce prices by applying continuing advance ments in technology. Labor should receive its benefits, not through the rapid, pyra miding of ever increasing wage structures, but rather through the constant reduc tion In costs of all products and services." Plumley, who han voiced his views before various gov ernment bodies, said that per haps the most important sin gle step government could take to aid increasing produc tivity would be revision and simplification of the tax code. JAYNE WALKS OUT j Hollywood-WTO-Jayne Man fitld and husband Mickey Hargitay separated Wednes; day, but attorneys said the, blonde actress did not plan to seek a divorce at this time. What? this season's shoes so little priced! regular to $8.99 LARKS CASUALS $! 1199 to $14.99 ' JACQUELINE and C0RELLI DRESS SHOES 7 Now's the perfect time to replace or enlarge your shoe wardrobe with heels from high to flat in fine, supple leathers, stylish straws, rich silks and smart combos! 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