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THURSDAY DECEMBER 13. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON FORMS BREAKWATER - The ship Equa tor, which belonged to Robert Louis Steven son, lies against a Jetty near Everett, Wash. She spent her last days as a working boat on Puget Sound. The Equator, with many other boats, helps to form a breakwater op posite a fancy yacht basin at the mouth of the Snohomish river. (UPI) Robert Louis Stevenson's Boat Now Serves Part of Breakwater By ELDON BARRETT Unitad Press International Everett, Wash. - (OPIi - On a plaque cmbeded in his con- Defense Debate Seen as Result Of Hike Success Washlngton-llMl-A new de fense policy debate today ap peared likely following an Army announcement that the Nike-Zcus anti-missile missile has again intercepted an Atlas Intercontinental rocket over the Pacific. Congressional partisans of the Nike-Zcus are expected to renew early next year their fight to get full production of the defensive weapon. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara was reported to be still strongly opposed to full - scale production, but sources said ne rnigm De ready to make some budg etary concessions in favor of the Nike-Zeus, The newest test was con ducted Wednesday from the Army's $75 million base on Kwajalcin Island against an Atlas fired more than 4,000 miles from Vandenberg Air Force base on the West Coast. The first successful Inter cept, also of an Atlas, was last July 19. More than $1 billion has been spent on the uevclop ment of the Nike-Zeus, but this has been on a research basis costing between $200 and $:t00 million a year. Defense officials said thai full-scale deployment of the weapons around American cities and strategic centers would cost close to $10 bil lion. Ccn. John K. Gerharl, North American air defense commander, is known to lie pushing (or production of the Nlke-Zeu?. Gerharl has argued that the first nation with a defense against ballistic missiles will have an enormous advantage. Despite the huge cost, there Is no alternative to the Nike Zeus presently in fight, air defense commanders have argued. crete sarcophagus at the crest of Ml. Vaea in western Samoa are eight of the most beauti ful lines every written by Robert Louis Stevenson, who died 68 year ago Dec. 3. "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me die . . ." In this city on Puget Sound 5,600 miles from Samoa is a graveyard of broken ships - Jetty of rotting, splintered hulks that forms a breakwa tor opposite a fancy yacht basin at the mouth of the murky Snohomish river. No engraved tablet marks this burial place. Bui among the derelicts is one whose name still is boldly visible on her bow. This was the Equator, once a proud schoon er, BlVi feet in length and as sturdy as a redwood tree. Her prow had felt the splash of phosphorescent waves In the southern seas; her keel had knifed through the blue lagoons of Papeete, Pago Pago and Apia. Hawaii's King Ka lakau had swilled champagne on her deck until ht was roaring drunk. And In her cabin Stevenson had written lasting words. "Glad did I live and gladly I die. And I laid me down with a will . . ." Equator was built in 18BB. And with her two tail spars Tax Commission Collections Up Salem -WW- Tax commis sion collections for the first five months of the 1062-03 fiscal year were up 7.3 per cent over the same period last year, the commission said to day. Collections totaled $44,718. 447 for the five-month period. Personal Income taxes to taled $40,601,331, and corpor ate excise and income collec tions were $3,647,832, Amusement and other taxes made up the remainder of the total. sporting a full spread of spanking new sparkling can vass, she carried R.L.S. with dignity and grace through Polynesia until he finally came upon Upolu, the Samo an island where he chose to live out the few remaining years of his life. There he became Tusitala, "teller-of-lales," beloved by the natives who had never heard of "Treasure Island" or A Child's Garden of Verses": and beloved by readers throughout the world who had. "This be the verse you gave for me Here he lies where he longed to be . . ." Tusitala died on his planta tion, Vailima, at the foot of the mountain on which his frail, tubercular-wracked frame finally was laid to rest in a tomb overlooking the blue Pacific. But the Equator sailed on. Her ample 22-foot beam and shallow draft caught the prac tical eye of a fisherman. He unstepped her masts, stuck noisy steam engine In her guts and filled her holds with the bounty of the sea. Eventually, she worked her way to Puget Sound's busy waters where she was harness ed and put to towing logs and barbage scows. After many faithful but oblivious years of ignoble toil, she was finally earned against the jetty and left with the other wrecks to the wash of the tide and the swirl of the river. And there on a sandbar he serves today, even in dcath-as does R.L.S., who left to the world a literary legacy, not the least of which is his haunting "Requiem." a fitting epitaph (or both the vagabond and his ship. "Home is the sailor home from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill." Private Airports Bowing to Taxes, Population Growth 3r -1 By ZAN STARK Salem - (UPD - Privately owned public use airports are being driven out of business by higher taxes and ex panding pop ulation. Rob ert W. Dunn, director of the Oregon State Board of Aer onautics said today the loss of private lark fields is a con tinuing trend. He see no end to it. "First the city builds up around a private airport, then the airport property is reclassified to residential and the owner gets offers from Industrial and residential de velopers. "The taxes go up. The of fers get better. Pretty soon there is no choice but to sell," Dunn explained. At the same time, the num ber of private pilots and pri vate aircraft in Oregon con tinues to increase. There are now 1,819 pri vate and commercial air planes, and 2,816 pilots reg istered in Oregon. Their num bers have been increasing steadily since 1952, Dunn said. He mentioned the private ly owned airports at Beaver- ton, Springfield and New- burg. 'They are all very Busy privately owned fields. But I don't know how long they will be around. There are constant rumors of possible sales." He said about 120 planes were based at tspringneia, and about 100 planes at Bca-verton. Dunn believes more air ports are needed. He said he has a high priority list of 30, and an overall schedule of 75 areas that need airports. "We need airports to serve Oregon's biggest industries, forestry, agriculture and tour ists," he explained. At present Oregon has about 200 airports (not in cluding undeveloped farm airstrips) of which about half are privately owned. "Our ten year goal Is to have a public airport for ev ery significant community In the state," Dunn said. He con siders a town of 500 or more a significant community. The activities of Oregon's Department of Aeronautics are financed by a 1-cent a gallon tax on aviation gas, and a '.i-cent a gallon tax on jet fuel. The estimated ex penditures for the current bi- ennium are about $458,000. CI this, more than $300,000 has been earmarked for de velopment of airport facilities. Pilot registration fees are used exclusively for search and rescue work, Dunn said. "Counties, cities, chamber of commerce groups now are asking for airports," Dunn stated. Business flying makes up a great part of private air travel. It's important to a community to have an air port near its industrial area to serve these firms. "Many companies will lo cate only where there are ade quate airport facilities," he added. Matching funds, about 55 per cent federal and 45 per cent local, are available for airport development in Ore gon. "We now have eight proj ects in the works," Dunn said. New York Declines - As Shipping Center New York - (UPU New York's position as a shipping center has declined steadily in the past decade, the execu tive director of the Port of New York Authority said Wednesday. Austin J. Tobin, said the port has been "frozen in its tracks" for 10 years. He blamed the decline partly on competition from Gulf Coast ports, the ports of Baltimore and Philadelphia, and the "in equity and injustice of rail road differentials." SURPRISE Ojai, Calif. '- (UPI) - Mrs. Robert Ross, 38, went to the hospital Sunday expecting her 13th child. Today she has 15. Mrs. Ross said the triplet girls were "kind of a surprise." She and her oil products sales man husband had more good news today - the hospital will give them a single rate in hon or of the occasion. Grenfell To Appear In Court Friday Portland OJPB State Sen. William Grenfell Jr. (D-Port-land) is scheduled to appear in Multnomah County Circuit Court Friday for arraignment on a charge of leaving the scene of a fatal traffic acci dent. The charge stems from Grenfell's alleged involve ment in an Oct. 8 crash in which Harold A. Jones, Battle Ground, Wash., was killed. Grenfell first told police he was injured when he was ab ducted and pushed from a moving car. He also is scheduled to ap pear In municipal court Tues day on a charge of making a false police report. Grenfell was defeated for a spot on the Multnomah County Board of Commission ers in the Nov. 6 election. Former Medford Boy Receives Scout Award Wallace Fichtner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Ficht ner, Eugene, recently received the God and Country Boy Scout award at Eugene's First Church of Christ, Scientist. Wallace, a former Medford resident, is a grandson of Mrs. Ralph Pittock. 1014 West 10th St., Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fichtner, 613 South Holly st. THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW.Morrilon St. PORTLAND, OREGON Monthly rtes available tor short or Indetinito stay. $85.00 and up. Private bath. Children Under Seven No Charge 55 Buick 4 dr. Sdn., Century, 8 eyl. auto., R&H, Good Tires, Runs Real Good. Only $599.00 LEA RAMBLER Fifth and Bartlett Phone 772-6185 Children's Hospital Suggested by Doctor Chicago - lUPli - A Chicago surgeon urges the creation of more hospitals devoted sole ly to the care of children be cause they need special care. 'Children are not Just lit tle people," said Dr. Willis J. Potts reported at a meet ing of the American Academy of Pediatrics. "Physically, physiologically and psycho logically they differ from adults and are subject to an entirely different category of diseases." 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