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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. June 8. 1958 Frank Lloyd Wright May Yet Live To See Creation' of His Long Dream on 5tk Ave. New York 'UK Frank Lloyd Wright, America's most honored architect, celebrate! his 87th birthday today with the satisfac tion ot knowing he ll probably live to see a creation ot his self vowed genius rise on Fifth av. For nearly 40 years New York resisted Wright's attempts to plant his unique offices and apartment buildings amid its ar chitectural turmoil of tenements and towers. But now wreckers are demolishing a renaissance- Museum Has 3,084 Visitors in May; Schools Included -. Jacksonville A total of 3.084 visitors from 27 states, Canada, Nicaragua, Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands visited the Jacksonville museum during May, according to the monthly report issued by Miss Mary Han ley, curator. The number brought the total visitors since July 10, 1950, to 213.437. Attendance between June 1, last year, and June 1, this year, totaled 31,190. Twenty schools visited the' museum during May, Miss Han ley reported. They were Central PGint, Myrtle Creek, Murphy, Days Creek, Douglas High ( school. Butte Falls. Talent, Can yonville. Wolf Creek, Eagle Point, Phoenix, Ashland, Gold Hill, Langlois school safety pa trol, Pinehurst, Evans Valley, Williams, Roseburg academy and Jacksonville. Other Visitors Also visiting the museum last month were five groups of girl scouts. Brownies and Boy Scouts, Knights of Columbus and Shriners. Among gifts and loans last month was a wedding dress dated 1882, slippers and other hand made clothing from Mrs. Helen Carpenter. John Monroe loaned an old metal coffee grind- j er, and Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Claf- i lln gave the museum an old ' Beloubet reed pipe hand pump ed organ which came to Ashland In 1893 for the Methodist church. ; The organ was later used in the Pn-iterian church in Phoenix, i Half of a hand woven counter-, pane made after 1830 by Clar-; risy Beech Jackson, a cousin of Andrew Jackson, was loaned by ' Dwight Houghton. Other gifts included an old cane, a goblet more than 100 years old, and old ! school bijpkj. j Court Exempts Toys in Ruling Portland U.PJ Claim by a Portland toy shop owner that the city's anti-pinball ordinance ; would prevent her from selling ' certain toys will be tried on its merits in Circuit Court here. Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dob son yesterday modified his earli er order which had temporarily restrained the city from enforc ing the ordinance approved by the voters May 18. He deleted all reference to certification of the vote and restrained the city only from enforcing the law against toys mentioned in the complaint of Mrs. Hazel New hilloperator of the toyshop. Judge Dobson modified his original order on motion of Deputy City Attorney Marian Rushing who argued the court had no right to interfere in legislative processes. Hearing on Mrs. Newhill's complaint will be June 14. Meanwhile, operators of an amusement service firm which services and maintains pinball machines filed another suit at tacking the constitutionality of the pinball ordinance. Judge Dobson refused to issue a re straining order but said the case would be argued on June IS. styled backfront on upper Fifth :av. to make way for one of his most revolutionary structures. I The building-to-be is the Solo ! mon R. Guggenheim museum of I art, a S3, 000. 000 mushroom-domed cylinder inspired by the spi jraled perfection of the Cambered nautilus. In an interview at his i hotel apartment, Wright describ ed the museum as his "little tem Iple in a park," but his admirers ' refer to it as a monument to his tenacity. 12 Ytari on Board The museum was on the draw ing board Jor 12 years while Wright wrangled with conserva tive elements in the city's De partment of Housing and Build- Chin Up Members To Attend Convention Nine members of the Jackson county Chin Up club left today for Portland where they will attend the organization's nation al convention Saturday and Sunday. Those making the trip are Mr. and Mrs. L. E. McMurray. Sam Evans, John Duffy, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chipman, Paul Ol son, Erwin Edwards and Mrs. Marilyn Smith. Chipman and Mrs. McMurray are members of the national board of directors and Mrs. Chipman is incoming president of the local chapter, an organization of the physically handicapped. A banquet will be held Sat urday night with the business meeting set for Sunday after noon. A section of street has been reserved in Portland where club members may watch the. Rose parade Saturday from their cars, according to word from the Portland host chapter. WASTES NO TIME Wichita Falls. Tex. (U.P Lawrence Campo was jailed on burglary charges exactly 18 hours after his release from the state prison at Huntsville, ac cording to his own statement to police. ings for permission to build. One of the department's officials "incurably medieval," Wright termed him once had the ef frontery to refer to the museum as a "perfectly planned fire trap." Wright, a seemingly-ageless old man, won by outliving most of his opposition. He expects to be around in 1958 when the mu seum and its lavishly landscaped setting are completed. Few Concessions "Of course I've had to make a few concessions." said the tall, erect architect with a toss of his white mane and his flowing bow tie. "But the museum is practi cally as I designed it originally. I could afford to wait, but unfor tunately there are a lot of hun gry architects who have to work for ignorant employers and can't." The directors of the Guggen heim Foundation stood behind Wright all the way despite the fact building costs went up 50 per cent since modern art collec tor Guggenheim left S2.000.000 for the construction of Wright's brain-child in 1949. Wright has only praise for the ' intelligence" of the foundation and scorn for "the common man who forces builders to keep on building box es just as they did in the dark ages." Wright described the museum as an example of the cantilever principle of construction which he first applied to the celebrated Price Tower in Bartlesville, Okla. But unlike the Bartlesville office buildings, which branches like a tree from a central trunk support, the museum will take the shape of an open centered shell. Continuous Ramp "The steel and cement walls will bear a continuous ramp from the floor to the 125-foot-high plastic dome." said Wright. "The dome will light the huge interior space from the top and the walls along the ramp will slant slightly outward toward the dome so that they will cradle paintings like an easel.' Wright, who believes New York "deserves" to have grass growing in its streets in 25 years, says he doesn't know why the nation's biggest city "hasn't waked up' to the cantilever prin ciple, which is based on modern knowledge of steel in tension." Anyway, he said, the museum will be an example that few will be able to overlook. "Every good idea will make its own way," said the octogena rian in a philosophic mood as he prepared for a birthday party with his family. "But it generally takes time. Fortunately, I've had a lot of that, too." PRESS FREEDOM DAY Buenos Aires (U.PJ Free dom of the Press Day was ob served Thursday in many Latin American republics. 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