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.
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cause they need special care.
'Children are not Just lit
tle people," said Dr. Willis
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