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Fritz Krei si er Violin for Portrait on 80th New York-(U.R) 'Tm not a playboy. I'm not a glamorboy," the old man said to the photog rapher. "Don't make me photo genic. I don't give a damn about looks." Fritz Kreisler fixed the pho tographer with his mild nazel eyes. The photographer suggest ed he pose with violin in hand. It seemed a logical request to make of the . man accepted as the greatest violinist of our age, perhaps the greatest ever. Kreisler laughed. "I don't play any more. No. No violin. It wouldn't ; mean anything in a picture, no more than if you took a picture of a wrinkle back of my ear." , ; The man who wrote his first musical composition at the age of six is 80 years old today. His voice is firm, his health good, Bids in Salem (U.R) A special state fund of $250,000 to help small communities like Government Camp, Depot Bay and Cannon Beach install sewer disposal sys- terns has been requested here by Deputy State Treasurer Fred Paulus. He presented to the Joint Ways and Means Committee a proposed bill that would create a fund with which the state it aelf, rather than private finan cial institutions, would buy mun Icipal bonds issued by the com' munities. Paulus said the need was pressing in several small cities but that their assessed valuation was too small to. support bond issues on the open market. But they would be able to sell the bonds to the state, retiring them over 30 to 40 years with user charges, connection charges and assessments similar to bancroft street assessments. Salem" -(U.R) The Oregon Senate has passed a measure to allow small loan companies to grant loans up to $1500 instead of the present limit of $500. The bill, introduced at request of .the state .superintendent of banks, would allow interest of three per cent a month on $300, two per cent between $300 and $500, and 10 per cent a year on any amount over $500.. . Salem (U.R) Three bills per taining to roadside advertising . has been introduced in the House at the request of the Ore gon Roadside Council, the Out door Advertising Association of Oregon and the Highway Busi ness Council. The R o a ds i d e Council bill would prohibit: adVertisirigsign's along public; highways and would ban signs within 500 feet of the center of the highway. The Outdoor Advertising As sociation bill and the highway " business council bill both would et up regulations of highway signs rather than prohibit them. They would control density of signs and their location in rela tion to city limits. Salem (U.R) A bill intro duced in the House by Democrat Kaiberine Musa.of The Dalles would provide a six per cent tax on gross revenues of power and communication utilities. " Mrs. Musa said her proposed tax would be in addition to all other taxes now paid by the util ities and would be administered by the State Tax Commission. Her bill would also repeal sec tions of the law relating to a gross earning tax on cooperative distributing systems. Salem (U.R) Memorials sup porting statehood for Alaska and Hawaii received unanimous' ap proval in the House after Rep. Robert Klemsen (D-St. Helens) pointed out to the Republican sponsors that a similar measure was defeated at the 1953 session. The Alaska -Hawaii statehood memorial at that time had Dem . ocratic sponsorship. The two memorials already had the backing of the Senate and now go to the governor for signature. Legisiat "MARBLE CRINKI" - - ; 4 : ' Y4 f Refuses To Pose With his memory startlingly clear, his shock of iron gray hair neat, his mustache well-trimmed There'll be a big reception honoring him. Why All the Fuss? "What a ridiculous thing," he said. "Why all this fuss at 80? Why not 79 or some other year? I don't care a thing about it. "Too bad it couldn't have come when I was young, when I needed the publicity. My only pleasure in it now is to feel that the Musicians . Emergency fund will get something out of it. My wife and I feel that the only thing left for us now is to help someone The reception is being given by the fund, of which Kreisler is -chairman. Five years ago, When he was 75, there was a dinner in his honor, .with mes sages of greeting from Pope ure Salem (U.R) . Rep. ' Elmer Deetz predicts that, a swarm of consumers and small milk pro ducers would flock to the capital Feb. 9 to oppose a bill which would eliminate all but grade A milk in the state. A packed committee meeting Monday heard the first explana tion of the measure to wipe out grades B and C. John Gale, Mo lalia, warned such a law would invite widespread "bootlegging" of sub grades of milk from pro ducers who could not afford.' to comply to grade A standards. Salem (U.R) Rep. Richard Groener (D - Milwaukie) has in troduced a bill in. the. House authorizing replacement of the Clackamas county court;. by a county board of commissioners. Salem (U.R) A . bill sDon sored by a bi-partisan group of representatives and senators has been introduced in the House to set up a system of automobile inspection in Oregon.' If passed, the bill would require inspection of motor vehicles beginning next Jan. 1. Salem (U.R) Rec Maurine Neuberger (D-Portland) has in troduced a bill that would make it unlawful for an employer, to withold or collect, anything from wages already paid to an em ployee. .Mrs. Neuberger's bill would set up penalties for "kick backs" or advance fees for med ical examinations as a condition of employment. Salem (U.R) Hospitals in Oregon would be forced by law to accept any patient for emer gency treatment, regardless of race, creed - or ability to pay, under, terms of a bill -mtrodttcedr-in the House by Rep. Norman Howard (D - Portland). Portland Bus Drivers; Reject Wage Offer Portland (U.R) Portland bus and trolley drivers and me chanics last night rejected a wage and vacation offer by Port land Traction Company , by a 15-1 majority. The company offer was a four cent hourly pay boost and two week vacations for two-year employees on a year-round basis. M. E. Lienard, business rep resentative of Streetcarmen's Local 757, AFL, said the union asked for a I5-hourly raise and vacations between April 1 and November ' 30. The union rep resents about 900 workers em ployed by the company. Amorous Couples Told To Carry Firearms Johannesburg, South Africa (U.R) Police here have author ized couples courting in Pretorie Park to carry pistols for pro tection against knife -wielding natives who have attacked a number of women recently. Chief R. J. Vanderbergh ; ad vised amorous Johannesburgers yesterday they "are - entitled to shoot to kill an assailant armed with a dangerous weapon." ' UmJi' DESSERT! ' -Mys AwbW M-wU ...wHh .' Jell-woll INSTANT PUDDINGS Birthday Pius XII and the President of the United States, among others. At the end, Kreisler rose and said: " "Gentlemen, you have just written my obituary -in your speeches. I couldn't possibly be as great as you have said. I will not play in public again." And he hasn't, except for one radio show he had contracted to do. How does it feel to be 80? "I feel," Kreisler said, "like an Egyptian soul who sees his mum mified corpse going down the river." But he's still the alert man, popping with ideas, interested in musical development. He is master , of .eight languages, in cluding classical Greek and Latin, and knows philosophy, mathematics, and history well. He studied medicine in his youth. In . 1914, when he was nearing .40 and had won world reclaim as a violinist, a Russian cavalry charge ; nearly finished him. He had gone back to fight for his native Austria in World War I. - "I was a messenger and was thrown from my horse," he re called. "Wherithe Russian came at me, I shot at him with my pistol, probably missed him. His lance went through my left side. Another blow shattered a toe in my left foot. They had to take the toe off later." What made him succeed as a worid acclaimed artist? ' "If it were not for my. wife, I'd probably be a concert master in Vienna with a pension of $25 a month.. I. considered life a men tal -fight. She considered it a physical fight. She made me go places where I -was unknown, and that's, what brought me for ward, my friend." Bridges' Union Loses Another Round San Francisco (U.R) Harry Bridges' longshore union has lost another round in its fight to avoid paying a one million dollar judgment' for calling an illegal strike that, caused the failure .'..of the Juneau Spruce company of : Alaska. " Federal Judge Louis E: Good man rejected yesterday motions to quash the judgment won by the company in 1949, . and to block examination of the union's books. W '" .-. ;' The International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's un ion contended that the company could not collect because more tharu.f ive.. years had - elapsed since it Won the award. Howev er, Goodman "ruled that it was still a "live" ' judgment. Beer To Minors Brings Six Months in Jail Coquille U.R) Glen Farrin, 23, Coquille was sentenced to six months in the county jail and fined $500 in Justice Court yesterday after pleading guilty to a charge of furnishing beer to minors. District Attorney John Pickett said the arrest was an outgrowth of a fatal: auto accident early Sunday . in which two Coquille teenagers, Clinton Martindale and James Bradford, were killed. WHO CAN HELP YOUR HEARING? I AM A TRAINED SONOTONE HEARING AID CONSULTANT BY TRAINING and long experience, I have helped hundreds to better hearing. Now I have a wonder ful new hearing aid to help you break through that iron curtain of deafness, and bring back conversa- tion, music the laughter of life. This is the brilliant, new Sonotone "1200." Here, lot the first time, Sonotone has put not three but FOUR transistors in a hearing aid to bring you DOUBLE hearing help zli MORE POWER than ever before, for easier - hearing NOW. 2. RESERVE POWER, so you can use mis Sono tone for years to come. If your present hearing aid is unsatisfactory or if you hear but don't understand you owe it to your self to investigate just how valuable this splendid new Sonotonetan be for YOU. And remember, if hearing help is possible, I can bring it to you. Come in and let me prove it There'i no obligation. - C. R. ADAMSON, District Manager ' - 839 East Jackson Blvd. ' Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Hollywood 4U.R) The "battle of -the $20,000,000 movies" is boin" wooH full-scale today yrrm with three J" v4L' 1 movie -makers rushing to get the same pic ture on the screen. f'W a r and P e a c e," the Russian classic by Leo Tol stoy, has been . AUne Mosbjr avail able to film producers since Thomas Edison polished off the first photoplay, but nobody got around to filming it. Suddenly three producers de cided at virtually the same time to make celluloid versions of the 15-section, 1,370-page novel. Producer David O. Selznick revealed last summer he had hired Ben Hecht to '. write a screenplay of "War and Peace" with production scheduled for next year. Super Screen Producers Mike Todd and Joe Schenck then revealed they would film, the same story in their new super - wide -screen process, Todd A-O. Furthermore, they procured the entire Yugo slovian Army as extras, a state ment that no other producer of "War and Peace" can make. But last week Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis sailed , into Hollywood to reveal he already has started filming "War and Peace" in Finland, to be released through Paramount studio in its Vista-Vision system. Now there is more war than peace behind the cameras. Todd and Selznick issued a flurry of communiques that they were go ing ahead with their versions. "We won't be stampeded into it and we're not rushing out with a camera to scare people," Todd declared. "This is too important and serious a thing. Unafraid of Competition "I'm not afraid of competition. I put on 'Hamlet' in. New York with Maurice Evans. Then the English sent over another 'Ham let' but we stayed around, any way." On his battlefield, Todd has lined up Oscr-winning director Fred Zirineman, "Writer Robert Sherwood, a $7,500,000 budget, and the cooperation of the gov ernment and people of Yugo slavia, where the spectacle will be made. Todd hopes the script will be finished in ' September, with shooting' "following imme diately" and the film released at the end of 1956. De Laurentiis, however, is sued a salvo that his movie will hit 'the screen's "in a year. His "generals" include director King Vidor, "three Hollywood stars, not yet selected" and a $5,000, 000 budget. Selznick won't say when his version will appear. I suggest that the book, orig inally translated in three vol umes, be divided among the three producers. The volumes could be released on a serial basis, such as one a month, double-billed with Marilyn Monroe in "The Brothers Karamazov." Scientists have succeeded In increasing the sugar cane yield by "waking up" the plants at night with powerful lights. Light inhibits the tassel 'development Which affect sugar yield. Cr R. Adanuon or , 0 I si , , Make SicC tv THIS HER . . ' fl Aufomatic " k I Model LH7 r 0 Procelain Finish k0001 Inside and Out J rv a a n T: f I ALL PORCELAIN CHASSIS PAYMENTS ON COMBINATION AS LOW AS "Medford's Exclusive tm AX7 North Central Ave. - Across Wednesday, February 2, 195S A WEEK IIOTPOINT Dealer" The newspaper is the basic advertising medium because it always is thre to be read at your convenience as you are doing now. 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