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.
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"MARBLE CRINKI"
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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."
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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.
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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.
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