THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1963
MEOFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON
Nation's Largest Cities Preparing To Gamble on Rapid Transit Systems
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The na
tion's big citlei are becoming
choked with traffic and civic
planners believe rapid transit
is the answer. The following
dispatch is the first of a se
ries of three reporting on
what's in the future for city
dwellers, how much it will
cost, and how it will work.)
By BARNEY SEIBERT
United Press International
The nation's dozen or so larg
est cities are preparing to gam'
ble $10 billion against the auto
mobile in the next 17 years.
The money will go for rapid
transit facilities which the cit
ies hope will lure the American
commuter out from behind the
steering wheel of his car and
into a seat in a bus or subway
coach.
Stakes are high and the cities
are at a disadvantage. For,
while they are spending their
$10 billion, three times that
amount will be spent on urban
freeway construction.
But most big city planners
feel the investment must be
made. Unless the commuter
can be lured back to public
transport, the planners foresee
cities meeting the fate of Los
Angeles, where a third of the
downtown area is given over to
parking lots, expressways and
streets.
"A city and a region have to
decide it tney want to save
their central core," said John
Bailey, who distributes Phila
delphia's municipal subsidies to
privately operated rail commut
er lines.
City planner C. W. Griffin Jr.
of New York put it more blunt
ly: "We should treat the commut
ing motorist as a public nuis
ance." Despite a 131 per cent popula
tion gain in 20 years, depart
ment store sales in downtown
Los Angeles dropped 32 per cent
in a 12-year period, Kaiser In
dustries figures show. Downtown
property values sagged and tax
collections along with them.
The Kaiser study found that
despite Los Angeles' hundreds
of miles of freeways the most
elaborate such network in the
world the traffic jam has be
come a way of life. The sight
of a driver in a stalled car
shaving, reading a newspaper
or dictating into a portable re
cording machine while he waits
a break in traffic has become
common.
For the urban complex of a
million or more persons, many
city planners say, rapid transit
is the only answer. In the met
ropolitan area of half a million,
they believe, city fathers should
begin now to plan right-of-way
acquisition for rapid transit and
to provide interim solutions such
as express buses or limited
tramways.
The U.S. Census Bureau esti
mates that within 30 years 43
American cities will have a pop
ulation of a million or more
and will, presumably, be facing
these problems.
Rapid transit is the mass
movement of people on multi
passenger vehicles along an ex
clusive or "private" right-of-way.
It most commonly implies
use of rails (monorail or dual
rail), as opposed to automotive,
ferryboat or aircraft transport.
Advantages
Traffic engineers say rapid
transit's chief advantage over
the expressway is that one ve.
hide occupying the same space
as four to six private cars can
carry up to 60 persons while the
autos would carry nine. Studies
show the average rush hour
commuting auto has l.S persons
inside.
And rapid transit cars, mov-
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Farmer's Share of
Consumer's Food
Dollar to Drop
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Agriculture Department has pre
dicted the farmer's share of the
consumer's food dollar in 1964
will drop to 36 cents.
This is down a penny from the
first three quarters of 1963 and
down two cents from 1962. The
36 cents will be the lowest farm
share of the dollar spent at re
tail for farm foods since the de
pression days of the 1930s.
In 1931, the farm share was
35 cents. It was 32 cents in 1932
and 1933, and rose to 34 cents in
1934. . The highest take of the
consumer's food dollar was 54
cents In 1945.
In a review of the marketing
and transportation situation, the
department said the marketing
bill for getting the raw product
off the farm and onto the check
out counter at the food store
probably will go up again next
year. But the increase is ex
pected to be smaller than in
1963. Marketing charges aver
aged four per cent higher in the
first nine months of 1963 than in
the same period last year and
double the average annual in
crease during the past 10 years.
Continue Ulslnir
The agency said operating
costs for food marketing likely
will average a little higher next
year than in 1963. Unit labor
costs probably will continue ris
ing. The department said
strength in raw material prices
may bring price Increases In
some supplies and other goods
bought by marketing firms, but
the increases are not expected
to be large. Unit transportation
costs, except ocean freight rates,
are not expected to rise and
some decrease might occur. De
preciation, state and local taxes,
and some other costs probably
will c o nt I n u e climbing, the
agency said.
Prices farmers receive for
most major groups of food prod
ucts in 1964 are not expected to
change much from level this
year except for wheat which will
be lower than in 1963.
Symptoms of Distress Arising from
STOMACH ULCERS
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At Phoenix High
PHOENIX - Attending the
open house at Phoenix High
School recently were almost 200
persons.
Following inspection of class
rooms, parents were Invited to
the Home Economics room
where refreshments were serv
ed. Coffee, punch and cookies
were served.
A short program featuring the
chorus was held In the gymna
sium. The choral group sang
several selections, Including
"Fifty Nifty United States,"
"The Sound of Music" and "I'm
Sitting on Top of the World."
Also performing were the girls
who make up Triple Trio, the
singing group at Phoenix. The
girls sang "Moon River."
- Directing the chorus and Trip
le Trio was Gary Monical, head
of the music department at
Phoenix.
ing along an exclusive right-of-
way of their own at precise,
controlled intervals, create no
traffic jams.
That may be the reason rapid
transit expansion plans in such
cities as New York, Chicago,
Boston, Cleveland, Philadel
phia and San Francisco have
met surprisingly little resist
ance from automotive interests
so long as funds for highways
aren't tapped.
Standard Oil Co. of California
said in one of its publications,
"Rapid transit might tempor
arily reduce our company's
sales of petroleum products . . .
but in the long run the com-
Sany's prosperity is tied to the
eaithy growth of the communi
ties we serve. Rapid transit
should contribute to this
growth."
The American Automobile As
sociation said in a policy state
ment it recognizes the "desir-
BEEFLAND
FARGO, N.D. (UPI) - The
big surplus beef producing
areas in the United Stales are
the North Central and Great
Plains, where 51 per cent of fed
beef is produced, according to
North Dakota State University.
The states are Iowa, Minnesota.
North and South Dakota, Mis
souri, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla
homa and Texas.
ability of adequate public trans
portation systems."
The Automobile Manufactur
ers Association told the House
Public Works Committee that
rapid transit provides important
peak hour service to downtown
areas in large cities and urban
freeway system requirements
are relatively independent of
transit to the downtown area.
The Highway Users Confer
ence, like the AAA, has no ob
jection to rail rapid transit but
opposed diversion of highway
funds to construct such facili
ties. Boston's Jenny Oil Co. bought
advertisements to further the
cause of rapid transit in Mas
sachusetts. In 1906 a horse-drawn car
riage could average 8 miles an
hour through the streets of
New York.
In 1963 the average speed of
a car through the . streets of
New York is 6 miles an hour,
traffic engineers have found.
New York has the nation's
most sophisticated rapid transit
system. Without it, the engi
neers say, traffic might come
to a complete halt in the city.
Chicago's annual $838 million
commuting bill could be cut by
$205 million if one of three per
sons who drive to work could be
induced to ride mass transit
systems, according to an esti
mate of the city's First Federal
Savings and Loan Association.
San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Wash
ington are facing serious com
muter problems and are draft
ing plans for their first rapid
transit systems.
New York, Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia and Cleveland
the only U.S. cities presently
operating rapid transit systems
have mapped major expansion
of existing facilities. . .
But recognizing the need for
rapid transit is only a first step.
Money must be found to build
it, and the commuter induced
to use it.
Needs Subsidy
Gene R. Schaefer, director of
the WABCO Mass Transit Cen
ter, an, information library on
rapid transit at Pittsburgh, said
"No major system may be fi
nanced out of the fare box
alone. It must have a certain
degree of subsidy.
"The return is not great
enough to interest private en
terprise. One by one, the major
systems operating without some
type of subsidy are going un
der." , Walter J. McCarter, president
of the Institute for Rapid Tran
sit, Chicago, said government
officials in Washington must
provide the stimulation "to get
people to vote to pay for rapid
transit." ...
Making rapid transit popular
could be a greater problem than
financing.
A survey of one Chicago sub
urb showed 'that to entice auto
commuters to leave their cars
at home you would have to pay
them 55 cents a day, even
though it was costing them
about 3'A times as much to
drive as to ride a bus and
twice as much as to take the
train. -
However, planners noted that
the same study showed that to
be attractive to auto commuters,
rapid transit would have to pro
vide (1) greater convenience,
(2) greater economy, (3) great
er speed. If any two of the three
factors were present the auto
commuters said they would give
up driving to work.
The planners also cite a De
troit test of better service un
der a federal experimental sub
sidy which brought a 17 per
cent increase in bus use. A sim
ilar test at Boston, Mass., in
volving better service and low
er rates drew a 25 per cent in
crease in commuter train use.
i First Transits
Rapid transit began in 1863
when London built a 3.5-mile
subway to connect three of its
railway stations. Work began in
1898 on New York's first sub
way, the 76-mile Lexington Ave
nue line, which is still in use.
The same year the French gov
ernment began planning the first
five lines of Paris' Metro. There
are Rapid Transit systems in
operation on all the world's in
habited continents. -
The most modern rapid tran
sit system in the world is the
semi-automated subway under
Stockholm, Sweden.
However, the Stockholm sub
way will be outdated by San
Francisco's $792 million, fully
automated rapid transit system,
unon which work will begin this
year. A new system also is un-,
der construction at Montreal,,
Que., and Toronto, Ont., is adK
ing to its system.
Most of the world's rapid,
transit systems and all but one.
of those in the U.S. (Cleveland's)"
are integrated networks using,
subways in congested area, ele-
vated lines through outlying,
areas and grade or below grade
level routes through suburban,
areas.
There is a growing number of
new-fangled variations. r
A Texas department store is
currently using a closed loop
system to carry its customers;
to and from its parking" lot."
Among the cities with modern
central distribution systems in'
operation are Tacoma, Wash.,-
which has moving sidewalks in
its central business district, and'
Dallas, Tex., with moving side
walks at its airport. c .
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MEDFORO MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON
Carthaginian City Ruins Uncovered on Shrub-Covered Hill
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, IMS
By ERNEST SAKLER
United Press International
MT. SIRAI, Sardinia (UPI)
The ruins of a Carthaginian
city and bones of children
slaughtered to assuage cruel
gods have emerged from 25 cen
turies of oblivion on a shrub
covered hill of Sardinia.
Archeologists have no idea
what the city was named in the
ancient days when Carthage
ruled the waves. It may remain
known forever simplyy as "The
City on Mount Sirai."
But the facts it has revealed
about the Carthaginian settlers
of this island are fascinating.
Merchants from Carthage
the proud Phoenician settlement
near the present-day Tunis
had established a network of
military and trade stations all
over the western Mediterranean
when Rome was still young.
Sardinia was under their rule
until the Romans wrested it
from them in 238 B.C., shortly
after the first Punic war.
But the lone Carthaginian rule
as that of the Romans, had left
very little archeological trace in
Sardina.
Only Statuettes
About all there had been in
the way of Carthaginian relics
until now were crude statuettes
of Phoenician gods and goddes
ses found in sparse burial plac
es. The discovery of the city on
Mount. Sirai, archeologist Saba
tino Moscati reported in the
Rome newspaper II Messaggero
came by chance. The site, a
pink stone hill covered with
shrubs and overlooking Sardin
ia's west coast, had for centur
ies been a lonely pasture.
During World War II, a small
Italian artillery unit was sent
there to set up an anti-aircraft
battery.
The soldiers actually discov
ered the city but never realized
it. While digging an ammunition
dump, they came across huge
underground chambers and
just decided that this saved
them the trouble of digging any
more. They dumped the ammu
nition there, removed it at the
end of the war and forgot all
about it.
The real discovery was the
work of a bright local boy who
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basic rule. $10.
Charles Meredith McHeru-y, no
tail lleht. J10.
Grlffen Edward Ownby, no fixed
load license. $5.
John Edward Royer, truck
apeeding, $10.
Stephen Lee Clark, failure to
yield right-of-way, $15. .
Robert Hamilton Fenrre, truck
speeding, $10.
Bobble Lee McFarland, no oper
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Marvin Lloyd Bowden, truck
apeeding, $10.
Eugene Howard Vincent, im
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Joan Marilyn Mayfield, violation
of basic .rule, $15.
William Orved Bryon, violation
of basic rule, $20.
Ronald James Stockman, no rear
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climbed the hill looking for
mushrooms and came back with
a crude statuette of the Cartha
ginian goddess Tanit. The boy's
employer went to the site, took
pictures and informed the su
perintendency of antiquities in
Cagliari.
Impressive Results
Moscati said that although ex
cavations are still in the early
stage, results have been impres
sive. Finds include the outer
walls of the settlement, resting
on the pink-streaked rock, an
L-shaped building whose use is
unknown, and numerous tombs.
But the most thrilling and ma
cabre find was the city's shrine
with its traces of human sacri
fices. Built on top of a monumental
flight of stairs, the shrine in
cludes an ante-room, a large
hall and an inner sanctum with
a stele (pillar) which may have
been the local idol.
On one side of the shrine is
a fireplace filled with ashes and
with bones and teeth of chil
drenundoubtedly sacrificed 'to
the gods of Carthage.
All around the shrine are lit
tle urns with ashes of children
-presumably more victims
surrounding steles of the god
dess Tanit.
Moscati said some of the sta
tuettes found here are definite
ly Sardinian in style despite
their Carthaginian subjects, in
dicating a merger of the two
cultures. This, he said, would
explain the known fact that the
Sardinians sided with Carthage
in resisting the invasion of the
Roman strangers.
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The Medical Roundup
By
Etmrltiia cnnsulUnt In Medicine
myo Clinic
Emeritus I'roresaor ot Medlclm
Myo Clinic
(Retlater and Tribune Syndicate.
1083). ,
Really Low Blood Sugar
Some 10 or IS years aeo I
used to get scores of letters
from people who said that their
doctor, who was an enthusiastic
believer in the existence of a
mythical disease called "func
tional hyperinsulimsm, had
been treating them for some
time with a crazy diet which
was ust the reverse of what one
should prescribe if the person
tients I saw, and saw by the
score, were those who had the
phony hypoglycemia, or sup- ,
posed low blood sugar, which for
several years was a very fash
ionable disease.
As I often say, we doctors al-.
ways have to have a fashion
able disease that remains popu
lar for a few years. The main
one today is diverticulosis, or
me coming of tiny pouches on
had that very rare disease a th. 4u. , .
real low Wood sugar due to a wnlch for 50 years B docton;
disregarded because usually it
is not a disease, but like gray
nair, sometmng narmiess that
comes with age.
Women Annoved
In the past few years, some
of the women who brought me
in children with epilepsy were
much annoyed with me because
I did not BCCBDt their hnma
doctor's diagnosis of convul
sions due to a low blood sugar
due to hyperlnsulinism. A while
ago, Some Of the nnilrnlncicte nt
the Mayo Clinic, hoping to find
cases of convulsions caused by
functional hyperinsulfnism, stu
led 2500 patients who had what
looked like epilepsy. They did
not find a Sincta rasa In uiHi.k
there was a low blood sugar!
I Wish all Dhvsicians nhn cHM
love to diagnose a functional
hypoglycemia would read a re
cent article by Drs. R. R. Ry.
nearson, E. M. Lltin, and D. W.
Mulder, of the Mavo Clinic in
see how hard it is to find cases
of this fashionable disease. The
symptoms one must watch for
are: u) spells of strange be
havior, or what the family calls
"thunderstorms" in which the .
person seems goofy or becomes
ornery, (2) these episodes come
at those times when the person
has gone without food for many
hours, like overnight. (3) The
patient and his relatives should
have noted that the taking of
looa always eitner prevented
the episodes or quir'riy brought
them to an end. T" case of
doubt, one should try to throw
tne person into an attack by
having him fast for a day or
two. One must measure his
blood sugar, and one must dis
regard low values unless they
get down below 50 mgs.; and
then one must be able to re
lieve the symptoms quickly by
giving the patient some syrup.
cancer of the islet cells of the
pancreas (the b 1 g digestive
gland back of the stomach.)
The Islet cells make the insulin
which enables a young diabetic
to stay well.
-During the years in which I
worked in the Mayo Clinic, I
saw scores of people with a sup
posed low blood sugar come in,
saying that they had been treat
ed without success for a hyper
lnsulinism. They had come to
the Clinic, hoping to get some
relief.
People Got Huffy
Often these people got huffy
when I told them, after talking
to them for three minutes, that
I knew they couldn't possibly
have hyperlnsulinism; they just
didn't have the symptoms of it.
They didn't get their distress
after they had fasted, perhaps
overnight, and they didn't get
any relief when they ate half
a box of candy. Often they told
me they could get relief with
a tablet of aspirin, or a cup of
black coffee, which couldn't pos
sibly have helped them If their
symptoms had been due to a
very low blood sugar.
Oftentimes these people
brought with them the report of
their blood sugar as estimated
by a laboratory at home. Inci
dentally, the last patient who
brought me such a report came
in a few days ago, His blood
sugar reading was 128 mgs.,
definitely higher than normal.
His medical advisor must sure
ly have been an enthusiast for
tne diagnosis of hyperlnsulinism
to diagnose it in the face of
such a report. In perhaps nine
out of 10 of the cases I studied
at the Mayo Clinic, our labora
tories found a perfectly normal
blood sugar reading. In the oth
er few cases the reading was a
little low, but obviously not low
enough (under 50 mg.) to pro
duce any symptoms.
Actually, a few questions soon
showed me that the woman with
a supposed low sugar was hav
ing mild attacks of migraine or
just jittery spells due to nerv
ousness. I happen to remember well
the doctor who came to the
Mayo Clinic, about 1927, suffer
ing terribly from -a real hy
perlnsulinism. His wife told me
that at night she had to sit be
side his bed so that, when in
his sleep he began to twitch,
she would take a medicine drop
per and put syrup into his
mouth. When he swallowed this,
he soon would quiet down and
stay quiet for an hour or two.
As I remember, this was
the firet reported case of a
tumor of the Islets of Lancer-
hans. When a surgeon removed
this tumor, our chemists quickly
analyzed the tissue and as we
expected, found it full of Insulin.
I am happy to say that the
real hyperlnsulinism which is
due to a tumor of part of the
pancreas, Is so rare that I
have never found a case in my
private practice, or for that
matter, in the huge practice I
had during my many years at
the Mayo Clinic. The only pa-
Dr. Alvarez discusses some of
the causes of shortness of
breath and suggests some help
ful ideas in his booklet, "Pul
monory Emphysema." To ob
tain your copy send 25 cents and
a stamped, self-addressed enve
lope with your request for the
booklet to Dr. Walter C. Al
varez, Dept. MMT, Box 957 Des
Moines, Iowa 50304.
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