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. Several Ar
gentine newspapers announced
they would not publish today, by
agreement between management
and labor. -'
ANTI-FORGER ARRESTED
New York (U.PJ Charles
Carson Chitty, 33, had great
plans for the Anti-Forgery
League of America, which he
founded recently. The plans
were cancelled Thursday when
Chitty was arrested on a forgery
charge.
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