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' " : VISIT SHAKESPEAREAN THEATER More and more frequently, public study groups are journeying to . the originating center of Elizabethan production experience in North America: the Oregon Shakespearean Festival in Ashland. Accompanied by teachers Mildred Black and . Deane Roberts, this group of four seventh-grade classrooms from Gold Hill Elementary school followed its Shake spearean study, plan from book to theater, and made the pilgrimage on Shakespeare's 399th birthday recently. Fes tival Board President Virginia Cotton and the theater's Founder and Producing Director Angus L, Bowmer mark ed the occasion by cutting a birthday cake for the young visitors. Next year, the Festival will launch a spirited observance of the Bard's 400th birthday. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. TRANSPORTATION 'CRISIS' CONTINUED-H ' Is our nation's transportation system in a state of crisis which can be relieved only, as President Kennedy has told Congress, "by greater reliance on the forces of competition and less reliance on the restraints of regulation" among the different types of freight carriers? Is David I. Mackie, chair man of the Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference, justi fied In urging, as he did in a recent interview in this space, removal of the Interstate Commerce Commission's mini mum rate regulation on bulk and agricultural commodities chipped by rail commodities largely carried without regula tion by barges and trucks? 1 The barges do not agree with Kennedy or Mackie, as yesterday's column underlined. Neither do the truckers. Mere's an "equal time" interview for the truckers via their ' spokesman, Clinton L. Sanders, president of the American Trucking Association, Inc. Porter: Do you think we have a transportation crisis? ' V Sanders: We in the trucking industry see no crisis in transportation. Even if the railroads were in extremis, which they are not (a colleague calls them the "permanent invalid of American business robust on Wall Street, at death's door in' the public prints and in the halls of Congress"), we would have a crisis only in railroading, not in transportation generally. . , . The railroad's real problem is you and your cars. They are making good money competing with us on freight. In 1BB1 the railroads netted $945 million on freight before deducting a $408 million loss on passenger operations, while truckers netted $119.5 million. . Portert How can our transport system be made more efficient? Sanderu If we must change the status quo on rate reg ulation, we would rather have an extension of regulation, because we think that's the only way to have orderly trans portation; If the railroad's succeed In selling Congress on the deadly idea of removing from the ICC minimum rate control power over bulk commodities and agricultural prod ucts, there will be a crisis in transportation. Porter: Why is the railroads' proposal "deadly"? Sanders: With their tremendous financial power and bar gaining leverage, the railroads, if free to set their own rates, could selectively pick off the core of a truck line's business. . Once the truckers have been put out of business, who is to say the railroads would not put their rates back up? The fact is even with ICC minimum rate control, the rail roads now charge considerably less for hauling the same products the same number of miles where there is competi tion from trucks and barges thtn where there is no com petition. Without ICC regulation, truckers would have no real recourse against predatory raid activities by railroads. The railroads actually are asking for freedom from ICC regulation and simultaneously seeking to continue to enjoy their exemption from most anti-trust laws. Porter: Mackie said in this space that our annual freight transportation bill could be reduced by several billions of dollars if competition were increased and current restraints slashed. Do you agree? Sanders: Who's getting those billions now? Are the rail road: implying that we have this staggering waste in trans portation? Are transportation profits hurting the economy? Railroads already have plenty of freedom to compete if they wish to lower rates. The ICC docs not Initiate rates, it merely passes on those submitted by the roads. Porter: Are American taxpayers in effect subsidizing trucking through federal roadbuilding programs, as Mackie charged? - Sanders: All of the approximately S3 5 billion the federal government will spend on highways this fiscal year comes from the federal highway trust fund, which in turn derives its revenues only from special federal taxes on highway users. There Is no other source. Trucks comprise less than 18 per cent of the vehicles using the highways, yet pay 37-38 per cent of the special highway users taxes. We feel we are more than paying our way. r Porter: To put it mildly, you're against Kennedy's pro gram? Sanders: It would create chaos in transportation. Yes! (Porter Postscript: With this lulu of a three-way battle going on, the. odds on railroad legislation in 1963 would seem dim indeed.) Museum Grants To Finance Expedition Eugene - Grants from two museums will help finance the scientific expedition of a group of University of Oregon graduate students to the South Pacific. Walter M. Frederick s e n, teaching assistant in anthro pology, has received notifica tion of grants from the Kon- Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway, and the Bishop Museum m Honolulu, Hawaii, Amounts of the grants were not dis closed. , Fredericksen and his wife, Demaris, also a teaching fel low, accompanied by Richard E. Ross, teaching fellow, and his wife, Barbara, will sail for the South Pacific in late June or early July aboard their unusual three - hulled trimaran. The Fredericksen's 5-year-old son, Erik, will also be along on the expedition. ' Under the Bishop Museum grant, the group will do archaeological work on Wash ington and Fanning islands in the Line Island group, not far from Johnston and Christmas islands. The group is due in the Mar quesas Islands in September to do an archaeological sur vey under the Kon-Tiki Museum grant. They will be working on behalf of Thor A Gay Littlt) Sport Game of Place-Dropping Scored in Fashionable, Remoteness Categories pi Washington - WPD - Place dropping is a gay little sport, the rules of which are very similar to those of name dropping. The main difference is that in place dropping the players w i n points for where they have been, w.it rather than for who they have been wilh. It is possible to place-drop and name-drop at the same time, but this tends to get complicated and should only be attempted by the more ad vanced players. Place-dropping points are awarded in two categories the fashionable and the re mote. For example, Monaco has a rating of 30 points in tiie fashionable category and Samarkand is worth 50 points for remoteness. Some places, such . as Hyannis Port when the Kennedys are at home, are classed as remotely fashion able and are scored in both categories. A player must, of course, be able to drop the place into a conversion in order for the score to count. During my recent trip to Venezuela (10 points), I trav eled with a group of highly skilled and dedicated players, all of whom were more far flung than I. I found myself badly out classed and, in desperation, began to drop places I had been as a soldier in World War II. Resorting to involun tary wartime military travel is considered bad form. When the other players dis covered what -I was doing. I was ejected from the game for unsportsmanlike conduct. The winner by a wide mar gin was Myron Glaser, a far flung travel writer for the Washington Daily News. How ever, it was a tainted victory. His occupation gives him professional status and ama teur place-droppers ordin arily do not compete against the pros except in open tournaments. Glascr took a commanding lead in the third round, or chukker, Ijy dropping Old Rag Mountain, Va. It caught the other players completely off Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthra pologist and author of the guard. best-selling book, "Kon-Tiki." I He not only scored 15 points for remoteness, but received a 25-point bonus for dropping a place where the other play ers hadn't been and a 50-point bonus for dropping a place they had never heard of. After the match, I asked Glaser if such a place actually existed or whether he had been bluffing. Grange News Upper Rogue Grange Upper Rogue Grange met recently with good attend ance, Master Roy Vaughn pre siding. The third and fourth degree obligation was given to Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Chandler by Past Master Herb Carlton, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dits worth of Bellview Grange were walcomed as visitors. Agriculture Committee Chairman George Moore re ported that the market for local hogs was good, and Herb Carlton spoke . on the frost drmage to citrus fruit in Ari zcha, and the water situation in that state, where, because of the low jainfall all crops are irrigated. Legislative Committee Chairman Paul Torrance com mented on bills before the Legislature. Reporting on roads, Roy Vaughn stated the Elk Creek bridge was being widened, and spoke on the proposed access road from Prospect to the new highway now under construction. HEC co-chairman Georgia Bishop announced a clean-up day at the Grange hall Thurs day, May 9, at 10 a.m., mem bers to bring a sack lunch. The HEC meeting will be held following lunch when further plans will be made for the Father's Day ham din ner to be served to the public at the hall June 18. At the next regular meet ing of the Grange on June 6 Upper Rogue Grange will be the host for the visitation meeting. The meeting will start at 8 p.m. Refreshments were served at the close of the meeting by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bar ber. ) The Grange social night will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bishop Thursday, May 16, at 8 p.m. Those attending are asked to take their own sandwiches and cookies. "Yes, Virgil, there really Is an Old Bag Mountain," ho said. "Some day I'll take you there." Our expedition is scheduled to get under way within a few hours from the time I write this. The current American expedition to Mt. Everest may overshadow ours somewhat, but we are not doing it for the glory. If all goes well, my next dispatch will come from the summit of Old Bag. Don't miss it if you can. SECTION B MEDFORDt PAGES 1 to 10 Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 1963 BARKER'S are open tonight from 6:30 until 9 MOTHERS' DAY SPECIAL! Thriftiest FRIGIDAIRE Mobile Dishwasher! Family-size capacity (9 place settings') Fully automatic No installation . Rolls to sink, stores 'most anywhere 1 - NEMA Standard $ ONLY 59 95 No Down $8.10 per , Month FRIGIDAIRE PRODUCT Of .QINIRAL MOTORS DW-STE NO MONEY DOWN! ON APPROVED CREDIT WE CARRY OUR OWN CONTRACTS LEONARD ELECTRIC CO. "Medford's Leading Appliance Daalar tor the Put 32 Years" 309 E. MAIN PHONE 773-4541 HURRY! JUST THREE DAYS TO SAVE, THURS., FRI. and SAT.... JvLl 111 OFF-STREET PARKING So Important these day. 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