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MEDKOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON iiiuuolAi hcfUMVIbhR 26, 1963 A 5 Taxi On Water Sains Favor of IMIew York Commuters feg- j REPLACING TRAIN - This is a hydrolfoil York suburbanites. This photo was taken dur in the photo above. It is the boat that is swift- ing one of the boat's recent runs. (UPI) ly replacing the commuter train for many New By FRED T. FERGUSON United Press International NEW YORK, (UPI)-On July IS, a strange little water craft was making its first taxi run when the president of the new commuter service slipped from the deck and fell into the East river. The hydrofoil alabatross was off with a splash! "What a story I had for the boys in the office," said one of the commuters then. And what a story since. The Alabatross, which her de velopers call "The Model T of the industry," has kept a better schedule than many a commuter train. Each of two firms the one with the boat in service, the other with a slightly larger one making demonstrations hopes to have 35 Hydrofoils on runs to and from the New York World's Fair next year. Both firms are counting on fair runs to provide development and expansion of revenues to establish what amounts to water rapid transit. They plan com muter runs before and after the daily trips to the fair to cover operating costs. Describe Boat What is a Hydrofoil? Essentially, it is a boat with a somewhat conventional hull and winglike foils on struts that raise the hull out of the water when the boat gets up speed. This eliminates some water re sistance and permits relatively high speeds. Hydrofoils have been said to "Fly in the Water," but the man who started the water commuter service here prefers to compare his boats with buses. Ira Dowd, president of Ameri can Hydrofoil lines, said they are more like buses because their present passenger load is similar and the foils still meet iriction more like wheels on ground than aircraft wings aloft. During the Alabatross's first commuter run, Dowd was argu ing from the deck with a Coast Guard cutter's skipper about keeping the Alabatross' schedule and making a report later on the rescue of film maker Samuel Goldwyn, his wife, and invest ment banker Robert Lehman. He slipped and was thoroughly drenched. The Hydrofoil already was late, having stopped to take aboard the Goldwyns and Leh man from Lehman's disabled cabin cruiser in Long Island sound. Said Goldwyn, "I've made pictures with less excite ment in them." Executives Commute The executives, who were the initial commuters on the 21-mile run from Port Washington, held $200, 60-day commuter tickets thrice the comparable train fare. But they were far from dis turbed at the additional 35-min- ute delay tacked on the first 50-minute run. It was an excit ing start. "Now," said Dowd, who makes the commuter himself, "they use the electric shavers or just read their papers, talk golf and drink coffee." Since . the first saga of the Alabatross, she has been late once, when debris fouled her foils and she had to proceed like a boat in water. Otlierwise unlike commuter trains which cannot run ahead of schedule because of their numerous stops the Alabatross has cut an av erage of four minutes off her schedule each way. Her best time was 40 minutes and she even has beat her schedule in 45 MPH winds. The trip from Port Washing ton by train is several minutes faster to mid-Manhattan, but several minutes slower when a subway ride to Wall Street is added in. 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Said Dowd, "We'll run, but we may have to set down on the water and be a little late just like the trains." Dowd's competitor. North American Hydrofoils, is concen trating on demonstration of its 34-passenger boat, the Enter prise, on runs from Westchester and North Jersey. Dowd has five more Alabatross-type craft in production with one to be demonstrated in Boston Bay and another between Potomac River points and Washington sometime in October. His firm plans to start building another five this month. "Look out there at the East River," said Dowd. "Where are you going to get a million-doUar-a-mile freeway that wide? "We feel that within five years we'll see 1,000 of this size boat in the New York area. You couldn't park 1,000 buses here, but the Hydrofoils can find space to deliver passengers, then go back for more." in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The big news? The treaty was ratified. AS EXPECTED. TME vote: A HO Senators FDR 19 Senators AGAINST. Nobody ducked. Everybody stood up and was counted. The only absentee was Senator Engle of California, who is in the hos pital after critical brain sur gery. It was announced that if he had been physically able to be present he would have voted for the treaty. IOW did they all vote? " Less space is required to tell who voted NO there were only 19 of them. Of the 19. eleven were Democrats Byrd of Virginia, Byrd ot West Virginia, kaslland of Mississippi. Lausche of Ohio, Long of Louisiana, Mc Clcllan of Arkansas, Robertson of Virginia, Russell of Georgia, Mcnms of Mississippi, Talmadge of Georgia, Thurmond of South Carolina. The Republicans voting NO were Bennett of Utah, Curtis of Nebraska, Goldwater of Arizona, Jordan of Idaho, Mechem of New Mexico, Simpson of Wyo ming, Smith of Maine and Tower of Texas. Geographically, the West and the South tended to vote against the treaty. The East tended to vote for it. TN THE final showdown, 24 Re A publicans joined 55 Demo crats in voting FOR the treaty The Big Surprise ( in fact, about the only surprise) was provided by Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine. She said in a statement that her "trou bled vote" was one of the most difficult decisions she had ever faced in her 23 years in con gress. She added: "The jeopardy the treaty imposes on our na tional security is a more com pelling argument against the treaty than the political and psychological disadvantages that would stem from rejection of it." OO- She voted NO. She goes along with Kipling, who said in his The Truce of the Bear: "Make ye no truce with Adam-zad "The bear that walks like a man." SENATOR GOLDWATER vot ed against the treaty, as he said he would when his amend ment calling on Russia to GET OUT OF CUBA first was re jected. On the strength of the vote In the Senate, it is obvious that the Goldwater amendment never had a chance. Sentiment throughout the country is clear ly favorable to giving the treaty a try and it is also rather ob vious by this time that Russia never would have agreed to the treaty if it had included the Goldwater amendment. AND- -1 x Sooner or later, one sup-; poses, a test will have to be 1 i.adc of Russia's peaceful in-1 ten lions. It is possibly true that thi'i isn't the time to make the trst. would have been wonderful if Russia had voluntarily accept ed the Goldwater amendment. As long as there is a communist build-up in Cuba, we will be sus picious of Russia's intentions. Unusual Vehicles Used at Airport WASHINGTON (UPI) - The largest rubber-tired land-going passenger vehicles ever built roll back and forth to get pas sengers up and down. They arc the airport mobile lounges used to carry travelers between ter minal and airplanes at Dulles International airport here. 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