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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. October 19, 195B Dream of Returning To America Shattered bv Presence of Reality rditir' mil: Thii i fh Ijiif in sri bv Rhrt .. Jarkon. I'nitd (Ten rnrr.pondnt Jut rturnd fvn-nr ai(nmrnl In Europe. iminarizin how America loukf lo him. BY ROBERT E. JACKSON United Press Correspondent New York U.Rj In the dreams of coming home after seven years in Europe and the first flush of the magic world which opened to us. we somehow got the idea that nothing would ever go wrong. We were shocked to see the windshield wipers on the new car go dead in the second rain. The wheels fell off the boys toy truck in the first hour. We had to make our own beds in a nudtuwn New York because all the maids had gone home for the day. A New York laundry, with a bill of S9.33 for a rush job. sent me back Joseph Morelli's socks and underwear tops. Trains and planes run late here, too. Children are Children In the excitement of showing my London-born boys the Statue of Liberty and Mrs. Andrew Stewart's maple tree, which I climbed as a boy. I forgot that children are children every where. In Connecticut, the neighbor hood gang welcomed my strange boys from Europe with taunts of "Slay out of my yard" and a barrage of apples and rocks. We expected too much. One real estate agent bluntly told me, "You want a three bedroom, two-bathroom house with a yard full of trees, a garage full of cars, next door to a school, but you don't want to pay for it. In that case, you can't get it." I am so new on a once-familiar scene that I had to ask the barber bow much to tip him and news stands how much papers cost. One waiter broke off a con versation with me in mid-sentence when I tipped him 15 cents on a bill of $1.05. We have been floored spend S15 on a morning trip to the drug store for "necessities" and 53.50 apiece for a mediocre meal. But then my shirts cost me a third what they did abroad, my 21-inch TV set was half the price of a 12-inch model in 1949. Food is expensive in Italy, too, and it took seven shops there to buy the food offered in one I American supermarket. The growth of America is staggering glass places, muiti acre factories, six-laned turn pikes, bargain-rate motels, work ing men's boating clubs. "A backyard swimming pool costs less than a Cadillac," a butcher told me. Without abandoning its tradi tions and charms, small town America has kept up with the Joneses of the big cities. New promise. nouses, new industries, new leisures, television, for all its faults, has brought culture. entertainment and the nation's great debates to people once cut off. Europeans charge that we eith er have no culture or try to "package" and "market" it like an industrial product. Nonsense. We have found more support of symphony orchestras and in terest in all of the world's af fairs here than in a Europe parading its past. We had a choice not open to all of you to educate our child ren in Europe or America. We chose America, and I am glad. This may not be the promised land, but it is surely the land of In County Schools JACKSONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Attending the 30th annual Oregon High School Press con ference at University of Ore gon, Eugene, Oct. 12 and 13 were staff members of Jacksonville High school publications. The Arrow and The Tomahawk, newspaper and annual, respec tively. Students were Jean Smith, Romelle Fossen, Louella Snyder, Gypsy Beams, and Nancy Nied ermeyer. Accompanying the stu dents were Mrs. Clara Wendt, Arrow advisor, and Mrs. Jean Richardson. Student interest in publica tions is heightened by the pro spect of attending the conference and through exchange of ideas with other students and advice from authorities in the journal ism field. Recently purchased and re ceived by Mrs. Clara Wendt, to librarian at Jacksonville High school, is a collection of books and pamphlets dealing with the United Nations. This is part of the school's effort to focus at tention on United Nations Day, Oct. 24, and to establish a U.N. bookshelf. . The following books are ex amples of the type of material received: "The United Nations and How It Works," by David C. Coyle, a handbook which ex plains structure, functions and achievements of the U. N. and specialized agencies;" "Favorite Recipes from the United Na tion," by the United States com mittee for the United Nations, 170 recipes from 76 members nations: and "You and the Atom," by Gerald Wendt, expla nation in layman's language of atomic energy and peaceful uses. The Minnesota Department of Conservation says there are any where from 20,000 to 40,000 different species of fishes. ,rwf n.ii 1 v " zZ'CSJ 'TT- ':;f - J. iZ-t - 5xi i NEW THUNDERBIRD The new 1957 Ford Thunderbird, with up to 20 per cent more horsepower, went on display today at Crater Lake Motors, Main and Fir sts. The Thunder- dt- - 'j bird has 15 per cent more luggage space, and five inches greater body length. Ride and handling-are improved with a power center of gravity. Area SOC Students On Newspaper Staff Ashland Nine Jackson coun ty Southern Oregon college stu dents are members of the staff of the college's newspaper, The Siskiyou. Dick Simonson, a senior and son of Mrs. Bernice Simonson, 522 Haven St., Medford, is busi ness manager for the paper this year. Jim McDonald, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. McDonald, route 1 box 653, Eagle Point, is editorial writer, and Bob Bohrcr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle H. Bohrer Keene Way dr., Medford, is a cartoonist. McDonald is a sopho more and Bohrer is a freshman. Reporting news for The Siski you from this area are Duane Daley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wal tor P. Daley. 122 Willamette ave., Medford; Miss Jan Gilhou sen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gilhousen, route 1, box 442, Medford; Bob Mason, son of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Mason. 633 Ash st.. Central Point; Don Floyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl L. Floyd, box 544, Phoenix; Jack Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cook, postoffice box 312, Phoenix; and Miss Nancy Jennings, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George S. Jennings, 218 Saginaw'dr., Medford. Miss Jennings also has been selected for a part in the fall Fifty years ago copper ores containing three per cent metal were not considered worth working; today, with improved extraction techniques, ores as low as one-half per cent are reg ularly used. play "My Three Angles," which will be produced Nov. 16. NOW! 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