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o Soviet Intellectuals Have Trouble To Free the Arts Concrete Cocoon Adds Time To Air Readiness Bitburg Air Base tU.R) A squat concrete cocoon on the edge of this U.S. air force base in Germany has added precious minutes to the free world's read iness to meet an enemy air challenge. The 36th fighter-day wing re cently unveiled "Zulu." a super sonic age version of World War H i "ready rooms," but this time the pilots and their planes are only a few strides apart. The Air Force "scramble" alarm was traditionally a pic ture of organized conf usioT. Pilots dashed from the ready room across 100 yeards or more of mud or snow to their aircraft. Ground crews ripped off the nose covers, canopies, tail covers and other protections against the weather. Then the engines were started and warmed up. Minutes went by before the de fense was airborne. It doesn't happen here. Duty pilots, already laced in to their spaceman G-suits, are sitting in a comfortable lounge on the second floor of Zulu. An unidentified "blip" shows on the radar screens that constantly monitor the skies over the bord er. A siren sounds, and a lot of things happen in a hurry. t our pilots race down a mgnt "Socialist realism," a form ot of steps, grab up helmets and ; art officially accepted by the So- paracnutes ana nana-vaun into viet Union. their waiting F-100 supersabres. Ground crews plug in an electric starter. Zulu's control tower, mean while, has taken over command of the air field from the main control tower. All other traiffic is ordered off the runways. A "hot" telephone line direct from Ground Control Intercept, which mans the radar screens, crackles "go" and two blunt nosed Supersabres burst out of the concrete hangar, down a high-speed taxiway to the air strip and fling into the skies. Within minutes, the other two "century birds" of the ready force are also airborne. Pilots and ground crew of this crack wing, stationed in the Eifel Mountains in Western Ger many, are enthusiastic about Zulu. Col. Walter B. Putman, commander of the wing, said: 'The opening round in any future air battle would inevitab ly be preceded by a punch start ing hi$h but aiming low. We have Jnod reason to believe that it won't be telegraphed vol untarily. Time and distance fac tors involving the incredible speeds of aircraft in attack' and interception here in Europe are, pointedly cogent reasons why the 36th must be and ready." ' - v - m- " - rf' ' :!',,: ; z frl ! : f i . :" ' ' " JWIT' V.- J ' -' - - - ; n . -fy. t-- Jm j':t. :; -- : . .v - - .- --. I Z. : :- 4 . 4-' -'- -' -. ". 'y - COMMITTING AMERICAN FORCES to halt communist aggression in the Middle East, the President solemnly put his signature on the resolution passed overwhelmingly by both House and Senate. (International Soundphoto) Moscow ,U.Pj Some Soviet intellectuals have been waging a losing offensive to free the arts from rigid party supervision since the death of Stalin. On the surface, the clash of ideas looked like nothing more than innocuous housecleaning of Preliminary Plans For Hospital OK' d Salem (U.R) Approval of preliminary plans for the first phase of the $15,100,000 Wilson ville mental hospital was grant ed by the State Board of Con trol Tuesday. The board also approved draft ing of plans for landscaping the site, building roads, sewers and service tunnels this summer. Working plans for the first phase will be drawn by the Portland architectural firm of Stanton, Boles, Maguire and Church and a contract is ex' pected to be let next April. Facilities for 460 patients will be included in the first un it.' The completed hospital will have 1,500 beds with room for later expansion to provide for a total of 3,000 patients. UP MANAGER DIES Kansas City, Mo. U.R) Charles D. Nethaway, manager of the United Press bureau in Kansas City since 1951, died of a stroke Tuesday night at a bowling alley in suburban Bel-ton. All agreed that Socialist real ism had to be scrubbed clean of all Stalin worship, and that henceforth there should be no more kow-towing before the tastes of any other Soviet leader. But it soon became clear that the intellectuals were trying to go beyond this. In a subtle, round-about way, they were say ing one thing and meaning an other. Some of them frequently at tacked one-man rule and also criticized party control of art. After the 20th party congress last year, this small group of intellectuals gained momentum. In addition to criticizing mis takes of the past in the arts, they began to seek new forms of expressing their creativity. For awhile the party was too preoccupied with international affairs and the de-Stalinization program to keep a close check on the ferment inside the Soviet Union among writers and artists. The Soviet press began carry ing articles by artists and re ports of students praising im pressionism as "a great achieve ment in western painting, a model for Soviet painters." Last October, Muscovites' dis covery of foreign art went one step further. Crowds of students and intellectuals thronged the Pushkin Museum where Picas so's semi-abstract works were be ing shown publicjy in the Soviet Union for the first time. Their reactions covered the whole range from disgust to out right admiration. It was easy to see that Picasso had aroused a common feeling, despite the range of reactions a curiosity and desire to see more of this strange western art. After letting the post bubble for a while, they embarked on .a determined campaign to re establish ideological boundaries of Soviet art. In recent months authorative Soviet newspapers have blasted at impressionism as a decadent art form which had nothing in common with Socialism and viy orously denied that Soviet paint ers had anything to learn from modern French masters. As for abstractionism, a re cent major article in Sovietskaya Kultura, organ of the culture ministry, branded it "an ugly caricature of art and an evil of a sick mind." The article said the Soviet Union would stick to Socialist realism and steer clear of "de generate" bourgeois styles. In Soviet literature, the dis pute centered mainly on a first novel, "Not by Bread Alone," by V. Dudinstsev, a young writ er. This was published serially last fall in few World, a literary journal. This unusual novel, which de scribes futile attempts of a young non-party scientist to win recognition for an invention, was immediately acclaimed by intel lectuals and students as a stimu lating insight to Soviet life. Both publicly and privately, they praised the writer for hav ing the courage to expose bu reaucracy in government as well as excessive ambition and self- satisfaction of many Soviet officials. For several weeks Pravda did not comment, and the rest of the Soviet press remained silent Then Pravda denounced the nov el as a distorted picture of So viet life and an attempt to dis credit achievements of the So viet system and the party. The rest of the press, as well as writers who earlier had prais ed the book, quickly fell into line. Konstantin Simonov, editor of New World and one of Russia's best known writers, was criti cized for allowing the novel to be published. In recent months it has been Blade clear that whatever form literature takes, it must show the work of the party and state in a favorable light. I he theater has not been so much of a battleground. But there, too, new ideas met with strong opposition from above. ISo play currently running features Communists as incor rigible villains, although two of the most successful plays, "Aristocrats," deal with rene gades, counter - revolutionaries and criminals of trje early 1920's who refused to take part in the Soviet revolution. Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Isn't it about that time of year' New Zealand. Its ability to again that we talk about the Sal monidae? And by personal pref erence, the trout, greatest of angling fish. The rainbow, Salmo gairdneri, the western angler s favorite game fish, has confused scien tists for years. The problem? When is a rainbow not a rain bow? The answer: when it's a steelhead. Steelhead resemble rainbow trout but are colored quite differently, being silvery with a bluish head and back, in stead of greenish with a reddish gill cover and lateral stripe. Rainbows, according to the ex perts, are "landlocked steei heads. But to confuse the argu ment, rainbow trout have been found in a few places to assume steelhead coloration while re maining in fresh water! So you takes your choice. The status of several other types of rainbow-like trout is still in doubt. Some fish cultur- ists hold that the Shasta trout, the Kamloops trout, and the Kern river trout and others are all separate species. Others con tend they are only geographical varieties with not enough dif ference to require a special name At any rate, all those are closely related. Some rainbows remain in fresh water all their lives even though they have access to the ocean. Others enter the sea when a yea. or more, taking on steelhead coloration, and re turning to their "parent stream" as do all trout for spawning at the age of three to six years, Although spawning occurs in winter or early spring, steelhead enter streams almost any time of year. They spawn more than once. Thirty-six to 52Vi pound giants have been taken. The cutthroat, Salmo clarki, gets its popular name from the bright red slash under its lower jaw. Once it was more widely distributed through our far west than it is today. Each main riv er system from Alaska to Cali fornia contained them. In many places, this trout has been re placed by transplanted species or destroyed by pollution out their offspring, sad to say, are generally sterile or nearly so. Tend To Spawn in Winter Coastal cutthroat, which may go to sea for a year or so, tend to spawn in winter and very early spring; those further in land spawn in spring or summer. The record? 41 pounds. The brown trout, Salmo trut- ta, can live in warmer waters than other trout. This is one of the reasons it has been so widely transplanted throughout the world, from its home waters in Europe which are from Iceland and Norway to the Mediterran ean and also in Algeria, and as far east as the Himalayas. It has been transplanted to most of the northern U. S., Canada, Argentina, South Africa, Cey lon, Australia, Tasmania, and thrive under conditions unfavor- The Family Council Editor's not: Th Family Council eonilit or a Judge, a psychiatrist, threo clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers Each article la a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice; it merely reports on problems that nave Deen aeait wim oy responsioi agencies and counselors. CONSTIPATED? new laxative discovery un-locks bowel blocks o without gag, bloat or gripe Constipation is caused by what doctors call a "thrifty" colon. A "thrifty" colon is one that, instead of retaining moisture as it should, does the opposite: robs the colon of so , much moisture that its con tents become dehydrated, so drx that they block the bowel ; so shrunken that they fail to excite or stimulate the urge to purge that propels and ex pels waste from your body. TO REGAIN 'ORMAL R ECU LA ITY two things are neces sary. First, the dry, shrunken contents of your colon which now block your bowel must be re-moistened. Second, bulk must be brought to your colon to S-T-R-E-T-C-H STIMULATE it and so, excite its muscles to action; to a normal urge to purge. A-ND, OF ALL LAXATIVES, only Colonaid, the amazing new laxative discovery possesses Colon aid's great moisturizing capacity plus Colonaid'3 stretch-stimulating bulk that activates normal colonic reflexes. So effective that it relieves even chronic consti pation overnight, Colonaid is yet so smooth, so gentle it has been proved safe even for women in the most critical stages of pregnancy. SIPERIOR TO OLD STYLE bulk, salt or drug laxatives, Colonaid neither gags, bloats cor gripes ; does not interfere with your absorption of vita mins and other valuable food nutrients; and in clinical tests, did not cause rash or other side reactions. ITS A PHYSIOLOGICAL FACT: Exercise tones your body! And Colonaid exercises your colon to tone it against consti pation, overnight! Whether occasional, frequent or chron ic, whatever your degree of constipation, get Colonaid, in easy-to-take tablet form at any drug counter, today ! The price, only 98c for the econom ical 60 tablet package, brings you positive relief at less than 2e per tablet. Carl M. I'm tired of being the underdog in Debbie's life. Debbie M. Carl must accept my family. Carl M. What can you do with a wife who is so tied to her parents and brothers and sis ters that she deserts her own family? Debbie and I have been mar ried seven years and have two young children, but she runs oft at the drop of a hat to take care of a sick sister or to do some favor for her mother. Her sister was quite ill recently, but she had her husband and other mem bers of the family to help out. Nevertheless, Debbie felt she had to be with her sister every possible minute and left me alone with the children nearly every night and every week end for a month. Our children took sick, but to Debbie that wasn't important. Only her sister's sick ness was important. This family Debbie is so loyal to has never done anything for her. They all take advantage of her because she is so devoted to them. I'm tired of being the un derdog in Debbie's life. A hus band should come first. Debbie M. My husband has always hated my family. I don't know why, because they have always liked him and would do anything for him. My sister hovered between life and death for weeks. Was I supposed to stay away from her at a time like that? My hus band kept calling me to come 1 home because the children had the sniffles and ran a slight fever. He always pretends to be helpless without me, but he is well able to take care of the children in an emergency. I like to spend a few evenings a week with members of my family, but Carl has always re sented this. He won't come with me and then he complains of being left alone at home. Carl was an only child and his moth er no longer living. He sees his father about twice a year. He doesn't understand what it feels like to have a close-knit, affectionate family. Our arguments about this have Wednesday. March 13, 1957 MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL THIBTJNE FTVE WHERE'D THEY GOT ' Miami Beach, Fla. U.R) A tipsy taxi driver tipped his cab into Biscayne .Bay today and then tipped police that two of his passengers were in the ve hicle. Police conducted a four hour search of the bay with the aid of skin divers. Later, they gave driver Lynn Johnson, 29, a drunkometer test and tipped him into jail after they learned he had let the passengers out earlier. able to other species make it a valuable game fish.. Browns spawn in the late fall. The Loch Leven is a transplant ed brown. Largest brown? 39V4 pounds. Delicious Flesh The brook trout. Salvelinus fontnnalis, has delicious fresh. trim appearance, and brilliant yet not not gaudy clors. It re quires pure, cold water and so has become increasingly scarce as such waters have become more and more rare. Brooks vary greatly in size- depending on food and size of water. In small streams, or cold- water ponds, the maximum weight seldom exceeds 1V4 pounds. Brookies remain In fresh wat er all their lives mostly, except in the northeastern coast of the U.S. and Canada where some go to sea for short periods. Spawning may take place m late fall in flowing streams, quiet spring beds, or gravelly shallows in lakes. Brooks crossed with browns in hatcheries ap parently are sterile. Brooks belong to the group of trout known as chars, and pos sesses smaller scales. The largest ever caught weighed 14V4 pounds. Coypright, 1957 By Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Read and Use Classified Ada Number of Jobholders Record for February Washington (U.R) The government has reported that the number of American job holders rose by 612,000 last month to a total of 63,190,000. This was a record for Febru ary and recouped part of the big decline in January. The Commerce and Labor de partments said the February rise was larger than usual for this time of year. The unemployed total was 3,- 121,0u0, a decline of 123,000 from January. do FALSE TEETH Rock. Slide or Slip? FASTEETH. n ImproTed powder to be sprinkled on upper or lower P' holds fslse teeth more Ormly In pLe. Do not slide, slip or rock. No fmrny. rooty, pasty taste or feeling. rAB VsETB Is alkaline (non-acid Dw aot sour. Checks "plate odcT (den Sue breath) . Get FASTEETH at nj Arus counter. 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It is very likely that Carl would accept this uncomplainingly if he felt secure in his wife's primary loy alty to him and their children. When he has no such security, he tries to fight Debbies roam ing from their home. He can't have much of a home life if Debbie spends a few evenings a week away from him. It is up to Debbie to show Carl what it is like to have "a close-knit, affectionate family." This is what Carl wants and has a right to in his own home. (Copyright 1957. General Features Corp.) Plagued Day And Night with Bladder Discomfort? Bach s common thin as nnwfae tin or drinkinr may be a ourc of miid, but annoying bladder irritation making you feel restless, Lense, and uncomfortable. And if restless niiiits. with najtsinff backache, headache or muscular aches and pains due to over-exertion, strain or emotional upset, are adding to your misery don't wait try Doan s Pills. 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