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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1954)
10 Sc 1) Statesman. Salem Ore.. Friday. June 25, 1SS4 Ex-Teacher With Memories . ants to Help Felloiv Men Live Z'. " By JOHN BARROW .CHICAGO INS A 62-year-old displaced person who willed his pension back to his place of work Jfj rounding out his remaining years by scrubbing floors 48 hours 3CLweek : at Chicago's Passavant -Memorial Hospital. One-time Serb Zaa Schoolmaster Dragoslav Mitro 3JCh explains "If I had more. I would give it. I have nothing else TSUI gratefulness." The meager employe retirement Iliad from his $62-a-week salary represents the total of his world ly goods. Funds just began ac- Smulating when he passed his ird year on the hospital payroll. J5it the more Mitrovich swings his mop, the bigger the annuity grows J&r the "free bed fund." He has no glib explanation for lui dedication. He says humbly: Here I belong. I want to con tribute." Ia contrast to his solemn mis sion. Mitrovich is noted by co workers for bis spirited tenor sing ing voice. He handles arias from tbe opera "Rigoletto" and Serb ian folk songs with near-profes- stonal flair, life's Mission - Yet behind the five-foot-eight Janitor with the close-clipped, mil itary mustache lies a tale of the likes sometimes heard in the bit tEr-sweet melodies, of a Gypsy vio lin of home and nation lost, of Cither and mother and wife dying, ad ending with a wanderer doom fed to be buried in alien soil. Troop movements and gunfire luprooted the hapless scholar when he was 20, at the University of Bel grade. War erupted in 1912 be tween the Balkan states and Tur key and Mitrovich volunteered as Lospital attendant. Why? "-"To help others live," he replied with a shrug. "To be an asset to humanity a positive force. It is the purpose for living." Be indicated this idea provided him with a life-line to grasp dur ing the 42 years between that first JgKpital job and the one he now holds in Chicago: "After the Turkish war came World War One with Mitrovich and the Serbian Army driven into retreat to Greece. Fate sent him to Italy and then to France. As a fin ale to the "Great War," he saw his homeland of the Serbs welded fcfib. the Croakian and Slovenian etnmtries to form a new nation Jugoslavia. ""By mid-1920, the University of Belgrade) awarded him a diploma Stth specialities in geology and geography, and three years later became a full "professor" of njr gymnasium, j or iioerai arts academy, at his hometown of Chachak. Each city had a gym nasium, a combination high school and junior college like France's lycee, enrolling students from the age of ten to 19. The nex 18 years made up the "humdrum" home - office - church slice of' a man's life which some times flits by, unrecognized as the richest part of all. Metro vich, how ever, could regard it as "the real part of his existence." His dark brown eyes grew ani mated as he told of his home, his students, the community sokol celebrated for its mass drill and calisthentics, of the choir in the Eastern orthodox cathedral and of singing in concerts. The calendar turned to darker pages and Mitrovich's father died in 1938, his mother in 1939 and his wife in 1940. And with a flew war, the 48-year-old school master don ned a quartermaster corps uniform in 1941 on April Fool's Day. Nazis captured him two weeks later and he spent the next four years in a POW camp near Osnabruck, Germany. Reaches U. S. British Tommies freed him in April, 1945, but Mitrovich said: "A number of Yugoslavs refused to re turn to their homeland because the Communists had assumed rule." He remained in Germany to teach school in the British zone where many Yugoslavs with chil dren had collected in DP centers. The British commander named him superintendent of the schools for the Rhenish-Westpalian dis trict. .An old man's final prayer was answered in late 1950 when Mitro vich strode down a gangplank at Ellis Island, N. Y. He exclaims: "People are so friendly, so decent, so bptimistic. As a professor I tried to help young people become healthy in mind, body and soul. Here, I see it everywhere." He looked questioningly at his boss who had acted as interpreter, conversing in German and supply ing English translations. Philip Hollman. 37, grinned and said: "I know what he means, I came across myself, from Germany." TELEVISION ALARM HARTFORD, Conn. (JP) Dean W. Moores reports that daily at 4:40 a.m. a woodpecker attacks the television antenna on his home. The , unwelcome alarm gives him plenty of wakeful hours to plan woodpeckercide, but so far he has found no answers. raw THAT stingpouse Be Sure to Attend Our MOT At 1:30 P.M., Friday, June 25 II 1 ,v I Miss Marian Hylen Westinghouse Home Economist will be in in our store to demon strate to you the won ders of the marvelous new Westinghouse ap pliances. See proof of an easy way of life for you. Many valuable prizes to be given away at close of demon stration. Plan now to attend. ' Arc r - -J tC4 ItowMiytot " 1 m&mm a FREE Box of ALL "It's All You Need" To Each Lady Attending Friday OPEN FRIDAY NIGHT TIL 9 mAIEB-JtPPLIAtXE 1EOTS0M.C0. Predicts Dutch Bulb Sell-Out USSE, Netherlands (INS) Jan van der Groot, one of 8,017 Dutch farmers who make their living growing flower bulbs just below sea-level, predicted a sell-out sea son in the United States this fall fcr the yield of his four acres of tulips, daffodils and hyacinths. Jan's hopes were based on both weather and economic forecasts. which he, like all Hollanders, stu dies with equal diligence the year round. Before the bulb crop is ready for export, a full farm cycle of bloom and maturing must take place in Holland's 50-mile "bulb belt" In April and May the flow ers will turn Holland into a ma gic carpet of color; the blossoms will be removed and made into mosaics and floats; the June sun and warmth will mature the bulbs left 4n the ground; and in Jul; they will be harvested and made ready for export. Behind the expectations of bulb-growers for a sell-out fall season is the news they have had of America's billion-dollar garden- supply industry; reports of con tinued home-building and devel opment of suburban areas; and the stepped-up advertising and promotion which the Associated Bulb Growers of Holland are sponsoring to push sales of Dutch bulbs in the U. S. A Title Changes Hands Balloons Are Hazardous HACKENSACK, N. J. (P) A New York man didn't like the hos pitality he got' at an Aldecress Country Club party last summer. In a Superior Court suit for $25,000 damages, he told how the place was decorated with novel ties and balloons. The guests were invited to pull down the balloons with attached strings at a given signaL Sol Atkins said the signal was given. He pulled and down came the balloon, and also the chande lier, which crashed on his head. I lljjw 1 . .mi i ii. i i i ;--' , ... - t 4) cr J J W J it . T -- jits' - Ml;: A I : .-.;- fl f ' ;7 .Of! QP mmSM Titian painted "Christ and the Crown of Thorns" when he was 95. i VICHY, France Happiness was shortlived for Christel Schaak, cen ter, Berlin mannequin, who poses with second and third place win ners after being named "Miss Europe" in beauty contest at Vichy, France. Contest sponsors later gave her the title of "Honorary Miss Europe" after finding she had been married and awarded the title to the runneVup, Miss France, Danielle Genot, left. At right is Finland's Yvonne de Bruyn. (AP Wirephoto) Reds Foster Tibet Religion TOKYO C) Although commun ism is an implacable foe to all types of religion, Red China is walking softly in religion-steeped Tibet. The communists have dealt gently and carefully with Tibet's Dalai Lama, spiritual head of Ti bet. Recently Peiping radio broad cast that a representative of the Red China government and the commander of Red forces in Tibet presented gifts tb the Dalai Lama on the occasion of awarding him the" order of Bkikkhu, bestowed to those who have mastered the Buddhist scriptures. The average Canadian ate 140 pounds of meat in 1933. Jersey Club mr Convention Plans Begin By LIIXIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman WOODBURN Plans for enter tainment of some 1,500 folk who will probably come to Salem in June, 1955, for the annual con vention of the American Jersey Cattle Club got underway here Thursday at the home of Neal Miller, president of the Oregon Jersey Cattle Club, and Mrs. Mil ler. Joe Sawyer of Gault, Calif., one of the west's most widely known Jersey breeders, was at the Mil ler home Thursday to offer as sistance in plans, as all western states will help in entertaining the large number of guests from the east coast and midwest. Three years ago the conven tion was held in Sacramento, Calif., and this year it was held in Springfield, Mass. Most fre quently it is held in the Colum bus, Ohio, region where the na tional offices are situated. Couche Chairman Charles Couche of Sherwood has been named convention chairman. Floyd Johnston, Columbus, Ohio, executive secretary of the national club, will be the featured speaker at the Oregon Jersey Cattle Club's annual summer pic nic to be held July 25 at Cape Lookout State Park near Tilla mook. Johnston is planning to spend a week in western states in July, Miller reports, and the time has been so schedule?, that he will be able to make the state club picnic. He will attend the Idaho state picnic on July 18, and Mr. sand Mrs. Miller plan to drive over from their home here, also to i attend this picnic. Meeting Planned A meeting of OJCC directors will be held at the Senator Hotel at Salem on Tuesday, July 20, at which time complete plans for the state picnic will be announced by committee chairmen. At this i time, too, plans will be discussed Alienation of Affection Suit Asks $100,000 An ex-husband who says his former wife's company was worth $50,000 to him filed a $100,000 alienation of affection suit in Marion County Circuit Court Thursday. The extra $50,000 is for puni tive damages, the complaint says. It was filed by Donald N. Hor ton. C. R. Reed was named as defendant In his complaint, Horton charges that Reed persuaded his former wife, Goldia Sylvia Hor ton, to leave him and apply for a divorce. He accuses Reed of gaining Mrs. Horton's affection beginning about November, 1952. Horton is represented by Port land attorney Clifford G. Schneider. West's Biggest Family Picnic Set August 1 CORVALLIS The west's big gest family picnic Mary's Peak Trek will be Sunday, Aug. 14, this year, according to Percy Lo cey of Corvallis,. trek manager. The peak is 27 miles west of Corvallis on the Philomath-Wald-port Highway. Setting for the trek is a huge mountain meadow in the Suislaw National Forest. It is sponsored by the Benton, Linn, Polk and Lincoln Shrine clubs as a benefit for the Shrin ers Hospital for Crippled Chil dren in Portland. for the Jersey Show at the Ore gon State Fair and the Pacific In ternational, as well as for the Jer sey sales to be held this autumn. An intensive membership drive will be conducted between now and next summer prior to the coming of the national conven tion, Miller said. Harold McHugh, state youth chairman, reports that the 1953 Jersey queen and princesses will be invited to the state picnic, and that a new queen contest will be carried on this summer similar to those held previously. Counties wishing to enter a queen should select them promptly. Choice of the state queen will be made at the State Fair in September. Portland Fire Damage Setv At $250,000 PORTLAND (fl A swiftspread ing - fire caused a quarter-million dollar damage to an electric and plumbing supply firm in downtown Portland Thursday, and injured 10 men. Calvin W. 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