Monorail Needed for
LA Transit Relief
By JOSEPH A. ST. AMANT
United Preii International
Los Angeles - IUPD - This
megalopolis has a king - size
transit headache but a mono
rail system, costing a relative
ly modest $123 million, could
provide relief, according to an
industrialist.
Sixten Holmquist, president
of the Wegematic Corp., as
serts his firm could build a
monorail which could be fi
nanced out of the fare box -without
a tax subsidy.
The Metropolitan Transit
Authority (MTA), a public
agency which operates major
buslines in this area, has
shown interest in Holmquist's
plan.
Holmquist's claim that a
monorail system would not re
quire any tax support is cal
culated to meet with the ap
proval of property owners and
others interested in fighting
tax increases.
Some MTA engineers are
skeptical about Holmquist's
plan but they don't want to
commit themselves publicly
as being against it until he
American Runs
Unique Three Ring
Diner in France
Divonne, France-IUPD-Alan
Lewis is trying to do what no
American has ever done be
fore run a three-star restau
rant in France.
There are only 12 restau
rants in this exalted category
in all France, according to
the authoritative Guide Mi
chelin. Naturally they are op
erated by Frenchmen and
all have French chefs.
. But Lewis, whose group,
Restaurant Associates, runs a
notable series of restaurants
in New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut, thinks he is
on the verge of breaking into
this exclusive fraternity.
It has been an uphill fight
for the past two years, ever
since Restaurant Associates
bought 137 acres of this re
sort town near Geneva, in
cluding a gambling casino,
two hotels, thermal baths,
theatre, night club, tennis
court and three swimming
pools-.
Divonne had been coasting
along on a reputation built at
the turn of the century
when Russian royalty and
American and British mil
lionaires came primarily for
the rouette and chemin de fer
When Lewis and his col
leagues took over in June
1962 they instituted a big-
game entertainment policy
and set out to make Divonne
an all-year rather than a sea
sonal resort.
The big name policy paid
off and Divonne, according
to Lewis, now is the most
profitable of France's 149 ca
sinos its nearest rivals are
Nice and Enghien. He consid
ers this somewhat of a tri
umph for American methods
which have been introduced
without affecting the conti
nental charm of the resort.
"We want a European and
an American clientele, Lew
is explained.
No Frenchman will ever
believe an American can run
a three-star restaurant in
France, thus there is consid
erable interest in how Lewis
plans to set about it.
"We learned a lot from our
restaurants in the U.S.," he
said, "especially 'The Four
Seasons' and "The Forum of
the 12 Caesars' in New York.
"Americans tend to shy
away from the traditional
while Europeans prefer the
classic regional French cui
sine. We are still trying to
hit exactly the right note
combining the two and when
we do we will be waiting
confidently for the Michelin
Inspectors to make their
verdict."
Adjuster Appointed
By Insurance Firm
William G. Cochran, Med
ford, has been appointed ad
juster in charge of the Grants
Pas, Roscburg, and Suthcrlin
area by the Oregon Auto
mobile Insurance company.
Pnrhran'a headquarters will
be in Grants Pass, according
to W. A. BrooKs, presiacni.
Cochran was born In Eu
gene and reared in Medford,
graduating from Medford
High school. He is a member
of the Oregon Casualty Ad
justers association, the Eu
gene Adjusters association,
and the Honorable Order of
k. cine nnnse. Oregon Pond.
He and his wife, Karen
Jean, and their children, Shel
by and Eric, will live in
Grants Pass. He is a member
of Medford'! First Presbyteri
an church.
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BAD I LlL
Lot Angeles-OT-The oc
cupation of pool sitter, a
classification officially recog
nized bv the state employment
office, i' catching on big in
Southern California. The
aquatic counterpart of the
baby sitter geis 91 iu ti.io
an hour for hil labors.
has had a full hearing.
Holmquist made his an
nouncement on the monorail
shortly after the MTA fell flat
on its face when it suggested
that a special property tax be
levied to finance a 58-mile
combination subway and sur
face train system costing $649
million. The MTA wanted the
state legislature to earmark
IS cents as a maximum on
each $100 assessed valuation
to provide the cash. Property
owners howled and the MTA
withdrew its proposal, calling
it a "mistake."
As a result, Holmquist re
ceived pleasant reception
when Jie offered his tax-free
$123 million monorail plan.
He said a monorail is less ex
pensive to construct than a
subway or a double-track ele
vated line.
Holmquist says a monorail's
construction cost is $3 million
a mile, compared with the
MTA's surface-subway system
cost of $11 million. And he
says he has financing avail
able through a Wall Street in
vestment firm.
Out of the estimated $123
million cost for the monorail,
Holmquist said, about $14 mil
lion would be used to pur
chase rights-of-way. The sys
tem would link the Civic Cen
ter with the west Los Angeles
area, with El Monte to the
east and with the San Fer
nando Valley to the north.
Holmquist also said his
group would submit a plan to
pay off the MTA's current in
debtedness of approximately
$41 million.
The monorail concept is not
new to southern California.
Walt Disney has one operating
in his famed amusement park.
The Disney monorail is one
of the most popular and use
ful attractions at Disneyland,
according to park engineer
John Wise.
Advantages of the monorail
cited by both Wise and Dis
ney are that it is noiseless, it
operates on electricity and
spews no smelly exhaust
fumes.
And absence of exhaust
fumes would be a boon to
smog-ridden Los Angeles.
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Domiciliary Names
Hospital Officer
Melbourne Holbrook has
been appointed to the position
of hospital housekeeping offi
cer at the Veterans Adminis
tration domicilary.
Holbrook is a veteran of
World War II, having served
with the U. S. Navy from
July 1943 until May 1946. Fol
lowing his discharge from the
armed forces he worked for
several private industries.
He received his first federal
service appointment at the
VA hospital, Vancouver,
Wash., in 1948 and worked
there until the end of June
1951. He again served at the
VA hospital, Vancouver, from
August 1958 as assistant hos
pital housekeeping officer un
til his transfer to the domicili
ary on July 7.
Holbrook and his family
will reside at Cascade Village.
CUBA MILITIA DISARMED
Washington-tt!PD-The Citi
zens Committee for a Free
Cuba said Sunday that a refu
gee had reported Soviet
troops are continuing to dis
arm Cuban militia to prevent
a possible uprising.
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BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Moscow Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman
explaining his mission in Moscow:
"We have come with the instruction to do everything for
the conclusion of a comprehensive ban on nuclear tests with
the proper safeguards. But if we cannot get a concrete test
ban. we are prepared to agree on a partial test ban which
would be a first step in the negotiation of a complete treaty."
Washington Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, cri
ticizing both the railroads and the rail unions for not mak
ing any real effort to settle their work disputes:
"Every single proposal which has been made in this case
has been immediately labeled as compulsory arbitration."
Pittsburgh-Bobby Abbott, one of three teen-age boys res
cued from an abandoned coal mine where they were lost
for two days:
"No more mines for us. We had enough of that for the
rest of our lives."
Washington Alabama Gov. George Wallace, challenging
President Kennedy and Congress to submit the administra
tion's civil rights bill to the people in a national referendum:
"I promise you that you will get the shock of your life'
because the people will overwhelmingly reject this encroach
ment upon their right to own and enjoy private property."
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MEDFORD
Reservists Build
Fallout Shelter
By JAMES O. CLIFFORD
United Press International
San Francisco-rtlPlt-A group
of Air Force reservists, work
ing on their own initiative at
little cost to taxpayers, have
put together an underground
fallout shelter-command post
that could be a key West
Coaost communications cen
ter in a nuclear attack.
Maj. Alan Saunders of No
vate Calif., com.iiander of
the 2479th Air Force Reserve
sector and mastermind of the
project, says it could with
stand "anything but a direct
hit." Its cost: $500.
Officers and men of the
2479th worked sid' by side
to scoop years' accumulation
of mud and filth from a 30-year-old
coast artillery bun
ker at Fort Miley. The work
was done at nights and on
weekends, often on volun
teered time. '
Then the men filled 1,000
sandbags to place behind the
steel doors of the bunker.
The final steps was obtain
ing surplus communications
paraphernalia telephones,
the News
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teleprinters, field phones and
radios and installing it in
the bunker- The heart of the
system is a portable radio set
up which Saunders said will
serve just as well beneath the
ground as above.
The result of the work was
a 6,500-square-foot shelter,
cob-webbed with intricate
communications wiring and
safely buried 16 feet below
the hills overlooking the
Golden Gate.
Its function in event of a
nuclear attack would be to
oversee Air Force recovery
group operations in an area
from San Francisco to Fres
no, Calif.
Although seldom publi
cized, recovery groups play
a major part in the nation's
defense system. If an enemy
attack destroyed America's
Strategic Air command
bases, recovery groups would
gather at undamaged fields
to provide service and re
armament for the bombers
which the Air Force always
has in the sky.
Saunders, who piloted car
go planes over the Himalayas
during World War H, said he
and his men were concerned
about reports that San Fran
cisco had little if any fallout
protection. Their post, be
sides being a command cen
ter, would accommodate cen
ter personnel and their fami
lies. Servicemen
ENCAMPMENT
Cadets Steven D. Gray and
Roger D. Hout are participat
ing in the Air Force reserve
officer training corps sum
mer encampment at Fairchild
Air Force base, Wash.
Hout, son of Mrs. R. La
Vonne Hout, 324 North Front
St., is a member of the ROTC
program at the University of
Portland. Gray, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy C. Gray, 585 Al
lison st., Ashland, is in the
ROTC program at the Univer
sity of Oregon. Both wil be
eligble for appointment as Ar
Force second lieutenants upon
graduation from college.
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Cure for Type of Whispering
I recently had the thrill of
seeing one of my old patients,
very active, busy and im
portant man,
who for years,
was condemn
ed to whisper.
He could nev
er speak out
loud because
a tiny tumor
in his neck
had destroyed
the nerve that
should be sun-
plying one of his vocal cords.
Now at last, he has found
a man to cure him. A nose
and throat specialist, Dr. Rob
ert B. Lewy of the Univer
sity of Illinois and Michael
Reese Hospital in Chicago, in
jected enough Teflon into the
paralyzed vocal cord to in
crease its substance so that
it could move over and come
into contact with the active
cord. As a result, the patient
is now able to talk well again.
There are some patients who
underwent this operation two
years ago and are still talking
out loud.
What I must emphasize here
is that this operation is only
for persons who have one
paralyzed vocal cord. This
trouble commonly follows an
operation on a lung or on
the big artery that comes out
of the heart, or perhaps on a
goiter.
No one who whispers
should ask for this operation
unless a throat man looks into
his larynx and assures him
that his or her trouble is due
to the paralysis of one cord.
Some whispering is due to
hysteria, and this is not to
be operated on. Hundrers of
men whisper because their
voice box, or much of it, was
removed because of a cancer.
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Mayo Clinic
(Retmer and Tribune Syndicate,
1963)
Most of such persons cannot
be helped by any operation
because both of their vocal
cords are gone.
Called Aphasia
I must add also that per
sons who, after a bad stroke,
cannot talk, or can talk only
with difficulty, cannot use
this operation: it is not for
them. They have a difficulty
called aphasia. Because of an
injury to their brain, they
cannot think of the words that
would express what they arc
trying to say. Rarely, a little
stroke will paralyze a vocal
cord.
As Dr. Lewy says, in a sci
entific article, the operation
is indicated when there is a
paralyzed vocal cord which
lies away from the midline
and cannot meet the other
cord when the person has to
talk. It is applicable also when
there is a defect in the cord;
when there are scars left after
removal of a cord, and when
there is a certain type of re
laxed atrophic cord.
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Plain of Jars airstrip.
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here said the Communists
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