Number of Tourists
Increases, Dollar
Vol ume Up in 1962
Salem - ll'Pli - More than
nine million visitors swarmed
over Oregon during 1962,
spending $217 million - a rec
ord in both tourist and dol
lar volume, according to the
highway depart m e n t travel
information division.
The 31 per cent increase in
tourist travel during 19B2
gave tourism a stronger hold
on third place among Oregon's
leading industries. Only lum
ber and agriculture provided
more dollar income, the de
partment said.
The travel information di
vision conducted a national
advertising campaign, answer
ed thousands of inquiries from
prospective visitors, provided
information to publishers of
newspapers, magazines and
books, operated travel infor
mation centers in other slates,
conducted a tour of the state
for travel editors and dis
tributed thousands ' of bro
chures describing Oregon's va
cation attractions.
Direct Mail Replies
The travel division provid
ed information to about 600,
000 persons in 1962 through
direct mail replies to inquiries
from more than 180,000 fami
lies. Most of the inquiries
were a direct result of an ad
vertising campaign in 21 mag
azines and 63 newspapers and
on nine television and 36 radio
stations.
More than one million per
sons visited the travel infor
mation center at the Seattle
World's Fair.
Travel editors from Dallas,
Houston and Cleveland news
papers and Sunset magazine
toured the state for two
weeks. The travel division
and local Chambers of Com
merce were hosts for the edi
tors. Department p h otographcrs
added more than 300 black-and-white
and more than 200
color photographs to the trav
el division files during the
year. Thousands of photos
were provided to magazines,
newspapers and book publish
ers. In addition, travel stories
were released to newspapers
and magazines throughout the
nation.
Joins Other Slates
The division joined other
slates in the Pacific North
west Travel association in
operating exhibits in major
travel shows in Cincinnati,
Minneapolis, Los Angeles,
Oakland, and Dallas. The di
vision also staffed information
booths at sports and boat
shows in Portland, Seattle
and Los Angeles.
A full - color brochure on
Oregon wildflowers was add
ed to the divisions list of pub
lications covering all facets of
vacationing in the state.
Visitors to the state capitol
also set a record in 1962. More
than 65 thousand persons had
signed the guest register at
the capitol by Dec. 1. This is
10,000 more than for 1961.
"OIL TO BURN"
Mobilhc.lt
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MEDFORD FUEL CO.
Trucks Partially
Block Highway in
Area of Phoenix
Two truck and trailer com
binations of the Oregon Ne
vada California Fast Freight,
Inc.. slid off Highway 99 and
partially blocked traffic south
of Phoenix yesterday, state
police said.
One truck and trailer com
bination driven by Joseph
Herbert Taylor. 47, of Pleas
.ant Hill. Calif., started to
slow down for what appeared
to be an accident ahead, the
rear trailer started to slide
and spin. The tractor slid into
the ditch and the two-semitrailers
blocked the two
southbound lanes and the in
side northbound lane, police
said.
A second truck and trailer
combination driven by John
Edward Long, 38, of Free
mont, Calif., tried to stop and
also spun on the thin sheet of
ice. The tractor and part of
the first trailer went over a
bank.
In another accident, three
people were injured in a one
car accident about 9:30 a.m.
yesterday on Hanley rd. near
Central Point, state police
said.
In Rogue Valley hospital
for observation were the dri
ver, Alex Clinton Kendall,
18, of 2970 Old Stage rd.,
and his passenger, Roger W.
Kendall, 15. same address,
and Luis Gene Alvarez, 15, of
673 Cedar St., Central Point.
All were treated for cuts and
bruises.
The car was westbound on
Hanley rd. where the acci
dent happened.
SECTION B
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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1963
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DAILY DIP While the eastern half of the nation is caught
in the grip of a cold wave and frigid wind blasts, Edward
S. Lameka takes his daily dip in the cool waters of Lake
Michigan off a Chicago beach. The temperature on the lake
front was 19 degrees and that's ice surrounding Lameka.
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even while the storm was in progress, many claims were
settled on the spot. However, with nearly 9,000 claimants
and $3,000,000.00 in claims, the ta.sk of adjusting this
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Weather Stories Cain
Prizes in Burlington
Liars Club Contest
Burlington, Wis.-WPD-The world's prevarication champion
ship has been awarded to a Williamsport, Ohio, man for his
tale about the drought, according to the Burlington Liars
club.
The world's champion liar for 1962, according to the club,
is Waller Lewis, Williamsport, who claimed "the weather
was so dry this season that when my canary bird wanted
a drink, I had to pull up the well and run it through a
wringer."
The club, headed by Otis Hulctt, annually awards the
honor to the best story of the year.
Among other lies which received honorable mention was
one by Neil Clementson of Howard, S.D., who told of gov
ernment built dams along the Missouri river in South Da
kota for light and power.
"We had a lot of rain this summer and for several days
the lights were dim because of the dirty water running
through the turbines."
Another tale about the weather was submitted by Harry
Shapeero, Seattle, Wash. "It was so cold in Cheyenne, Wyo.,
on the night of last Jan. 2 that all the clocks and watches
stopped at midnight so the minute hand and the hour hand
could huddle together and keep warm."
Joe Sage, Oceansidc, Calif., lied that he had the smallest
chicuahua in existence.
"I took him for a walk the other night and had been
gone for two hours before I realized I had put the leash on
a flea. My dog was on the back of the flea.
" And finally, from Crancis Carrior, Boulder City, Nev.,
came the tale about the "mile deep Grand Canyon of the
Colorado in Arlzon which has been photographed so much
by the tourists that its rocky walls are beginning to show
wear and tear.
Medford Police Are
Busy With Mishaps
Medford police were kept
busy New Year's eve investi
gating a number of vehicle
accidents in the city.
Douglas Lee Williams, 19,
of 843 Marshall st., was treat
ed and released from Rogue
Valley hospital Monday after
the car he was operating
struck a parked vehicle regis
tered to Lee D. and Dons
Rice, 2438 Sunnyview dr.
The mishap occurred about
6:08 p.m. at Peach and 11th
sts. Williams was cited for
violation of basic rule, offi
cers said.
Blandyna McQuIrk, 820
West 13th st., was cited for
failure to yield the right of
way after the car he was driv-
More Personnel
Needed in Program
Ten times the present man
power is needed in the civil
ian defense program in this
area to operate the shelter
to control room communica
tion system now being install
ed, Douglas J. Albright, con
trol center chief has an
nounced.
A meeting of the volun
teers in the civilian defense
program has been called for
7:30 p.m. Jan. 7 in the Jack
son county courthouse annex
basement, and anyone inter
ested In the program is asked
to attend the meeting Al
bright said.
Needed in particular for
the staff are persons who can
type, for the handling of mes
sages, as well as thore who
can participate in routing
through circuits and the han
dling of long hand telephone
copy and radio-telephone op
eration, Albright added.
ing collided with a truck op
erated by Dale Eugene Erick
son, 3428 Hollywood ave.,
about 8:45 a.m. at Fourth st.
and Oakdalc ave. No injuries
were reported, police said.
Chauncey Arnold Andrus.
Eagle Point, was cited for
failure to leave information
at the scene of an accident
after the car he was driving
collided with a vehicle driven
by John L. Darland, Apple
gate, about 12:01 a.m. Tues
day at Main st. and Riverside
ave. Andrus was later arrest
ed for driving while under
the influence of intoxicating
beverages and confined to
Jackson county jail.
Police also investigated a
one-car accident about 1:30
a.m. Tuesday at 24 Myrtle
st. A car driven by Ray C.
Short, 2262 Delta Waters rd.,
reportedly struck and dam
aged a fence at that address.
Short was not injured, police
said.
Penguin Population
Reduced Further
Portland-OIPI'-Another Ado-
lie penguin died at the Port-;
land Zoo Tuesday. The death
reduced the zoo's penguin
population to 22 Emperors
and 10 Adelics. Zoo Veteri
narian Dr. Matthew Mabcrry
said.
Zoo Director Jack Marks
flew 48 penguins from the
Antarctic Dec. 1.
Officials said the surviving
birds continued to receive
special diets and medication. I
CP School Pupils
Receive CARE Leller
Central Points - Students of
the Central Point Elementary
school this week received a
letter from the CARE offices
in Seattle, Wash., expressing
appreciation for a contribu
tion made by them in pporv
of the 1962-63 CARE Food
Crusade.
The gift from the students
at the school will aid 124 per
sons for a month, it w-s ex
plained in the letter.
Neediest people in 20 coun
tries are beneficiaries of the
$1 Food Crusade parcels. Chil
dren are of first concern,
along wilh refugees- and vic
tims of such disasters as the
earthquake in Iran, typhoon
in Hong Kong and floods in
Pakistan, Vietnam and other
areas, it v.nj pointed out.
Alaska's Story Book Railway
Marked Bv Colorful Ermines
ta
By GORDON W. SCHULTZ
United Press International
Anchorage, Alaska - lUPU -
The blue and yellow diesel
engines of the Alaska Rail
road (ARR) shuttle back and
forth today on one of the most
colorful storybook tracks in
the United States.
With only 538 miles of
roadbed reaching from Sew
ard at the Gulf of Alaska to
Fairbanks in the heartland of
the forty-ninth state, the ARR
is a unique little line that
captures smiles from veteran
railroaders, railroad buffs and
thousands of tourists.
The ARR's passenger trips
are not famous for being on
time. A note on ARR time
tables advises:
ATTENTION: Not respon
sible for train delays because
of moose on tracks."
Passenger runs between
Anchorage and Fairbanks, a
356-mile trip, have been as
much as three and four hours
late because of the stubborn
critters.
Called Moosecatcher
On the ARR they don't call
the front part of the engine
cowcatcher. Moosecatcher
is much more appropriate.
The animals generally stay
off the tracks until the heavy
snow comes. It's hard for
them to walk in the deep
snow so they stay on the
tracks where the snow has
been cleared.
"We've chased them for as
long as 15 miles." veteran rail
roader Bob Prator said.
'sometimes they run like hell
and other times we have to
follow them at a speed of
three or four miles an hour.
Blowing the whistle doesn't
help.
"When the engineer nuzzles
them with the engine, some
times they just kick back.
Other times they turn around,
lower their heads and come
charging straight at the engine."
Sometimes the moose have
to be shot. Other times they
are accidentally run over.
The animals that are killed
(200-300 a year) arc picked up
by railroad maintenance
crews and skinned out. The
drawn meat is given to or
phanages and state institu
tions. Government Owned
The Alaska Railroad is the
only commercial railroad in
the United States completely
owned and operated by the
federal government.
Under the jurisdiction of
the Interior Department, the
ARR has paid its own way
since it was first started In
1915.
President Warren G. Hard
ing drove in the railroad's
golden spike at North Nenana
on July 15, 1923, to symbol
ize completion of the road at
a cost of $162 million.
Two narrow guagc rail
roads were incorporated and
adjusted to the original sys
tem. During World War II a
spur line was carved out to
Whittier so that port city
could join Seward as a water
terminal.
The ARR today is one of the
main supply lines to interior
Alaska and serves miners,
missionaries, p r o s p e c tors,
traders and trappers by way
of transhipment to river bar
ges on the Tanana and Yukon
rivers in the Alaska interior.
The ARR owns the barges and
also has up to date piggy back
rail-truck facilities.
Although 45 dicsel-clectric
engines haul the ARR's 2,014
pieces of rolling freight stock
and 72 passenger coaches of
all types, one steam engine is
still kept in operating condi
tion since the ARR converted
to diesel ten years ago. The
steam engine is brought out
of semi-retirement only when
diesel engines can't get
through water deeper than
four inches on the tracks dur
ing the spring months.
Converted To Diesel
The old steamer has had its
insides converted to keep up
with the time. ARR spokes
men say it is probably t h e
nation's only steam engine
fired by diesel fuel.
ARR officials are proud of
their safety record not a
single passenger fatality in
47 years of railroading as
well as their treatment of
passengers.
"We try to be casual but
still always efficient." traf
fic manager J. D. Triber ex
plained. "This railroad be
longs to the people not to
us.
The ARR is easily the most
casual in the nation.
ARR conductor Bob Porter
told of stopping the train once
doctor could deliver a
baby in the buggagc car.
When the engineer misun
derstood the signal to stop
the train, Porter said he pull
ed the emergency cord which
halted the train and resulted
number of wheels with
flat sides. But ARR officials
forgave the incident because
of the "extenuating circumstances"
Another time. Porter 'aid.
a woman passenger with a
plane to catch misread the
timetable on a run to Fair
banks. She would have miss
ed her plane but the engineer
radioed ahead, the airline
held the plane for her, a taxi
was waiting at the station
and she made the flight.
Comfort Stressed
"We like our passengers to
be comfortable," Porter said,
"and that's the only way to
run a railroad."
Year-around, four passen
ger trains a week make the
line's famed "Mt. McKinlcy
park route" between Anchor
age and Fairbanks. During the
summer tourist season there
are two trains a day.
Happy, Clear, Windy, Hur
ricane Gulch, Honolulu, Tel-
Keetna and Malanuska are
among the colorful little
towns on the rail line.
Mt. McKinlcy, the tallest
peak in the Northern hemi
sphere at an altitude of 20,
300 feet, is visible in all its
majestic wonder for nearly
120 miles of the trip - at
least when the weather . is
clear and the days arc-long.
The scenery is some of t h e
most breathtaking in North
America.
In the hunting and fishing
seasons the train stops at iso
lated streams or good hunting
country without highway ac
cess.
And you can always flag
the train at any place at any
time of the year. For many
persons the ARR is the only
link to civilization other than
bush aircraft.
'You have to stop," engi
neer-fireman Jim De Cicco
said. "You never know if
someone may be sick or
hurt."
From New York
De Cicco is like many of
the ARR's 918 employees who
are dedicated to the road. He
came from Brooklyn, N.Y., to
Alaska in 1935 with a United
Press correspondent, got a
job on the ARR and liked it
so well he stayed.
During the winter months,
the roadbed is blanketed with
snow. But snow is not the
line's big problem. The ARR
has only one rotary snow-
plow and officials say that's
all they need.
What plagues the line is
the sub-zero operating tem
peratures that skid to the
neighborhood of -70 degrees
and buckle rails and . cover
switches and cars with sheets
of ice.
In some cases the rails arc
shimmed up as high as five
inches off their tis to allow
for the "frost heaves."
But in summer or winter,
the Alaska Railroad is popu
lar. This year the line's tour
ist traffic was the heaviest
since statehood, and officials
expect it to grow more every
year.
Eventually the ARR may
have authorization to connect
with the nearest inland rail
head connection, about 1,400
miles southeast of Ft. St.
John, B.C.
But that long-range plan,
like many facets of the story
book Alaska Railroad, is still
I just a dream.
Walsfon, Brokerage Firm Form Company
Walstcn 4c Co., Inc., nation
wide stock brockerage firm
with an office in fiedford,
has completed its merger
with Cruttcnden, Podcsta &
Miller, President V. C. Wal
ston announced today.
As approved by the New
York Stock Exchange and
other exchanges of which
both firms are members, the
merger became effective Jan.
1. Under its terms, an addi
tional 18 CP&M offices are
now operating under the Wal
ston name.
Previously, in early No
vember, Walston acquired
ten other CP&M offices -seven
in Florida, and three
In New Jersey.
With the current additions,
Walston now has approxi.
mately 900 account execu
tives, and a total of 93 offices
in 31 states and overseas.
"The merger takes our firm
Into 13 cities and six states
where we have not been rep
resented heretofore," Wal
ston said.
Babysitter Wounded
As Gun Discharges
Portland-UIN-A 14-year-old
babysitter was hospitalized
Tuesday with a bullet wound.
Judy M, Lankins- told po
lice the gun discharged acci
dentally. She said she was baby
sitting at a home when she
thought she heard a prowler.
She telephoned Robert J. Wil
son, 15, for help.
Wilson told officers the gun
discharged when he picked it
up.
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Lecturer Mrs. James Cor
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slips to Home Economics club
Chairman Mrs. Marris Frlnk.
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