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.
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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.
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Titian painted "Christ and the
Crown of Thorns" when he was
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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. Sommers, S3, and
Lavern A. Watson, 34, employes
who were trapped on the second
floor by the flames, were injured
in jumps from the biulding. Wat
son suffered a cut artery and
Sommers hurt a leg. Both were
taken to a hospital.
Eight firemen suffered lesser
injuries in controlling the fire with
in an hour of its start at 2:43 p.m.
The blaze sent a 'huge column of
smoke billowing high over West
Portland. Four hundred firemen
were called out to the two-story
building and traffic was jammed
as spectators crowded the streets.
The fire was confined to the
second floor of the building, which
was leased by Portland Electric
& Plumbing Co.
A cubic mile of ocean water
contains 'gold worth 93 million
dollars, but cost of extraction
would be greater than the worth
of the gold.
If a trip to the beach, or any
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