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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.
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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
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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.
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