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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.
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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
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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
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Salem (U.R) Approval of
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The board also approved draft
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site, building roads, sewers and
service tunnels this summer.
Working plans for the first
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Stanton, Boles, Maguire and
Church and a contract is ex'
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Facilities for 460 patients
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it.' The completed hospital will
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later expansion to provide for
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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-
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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
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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
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month to a total of 63,190,000.
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become so serious that I have
threatened to leave if Carl can t
accept my family.
The Council: Debbie states
quite clearly that if things were
to come to a showcTbwn she
would reject Carl in favor of
her family and by her family
she means her parents and broth
ers and sisters.
Debbie evidently hasn't yet
realized that her family consists
of Carl and her children. In a
showdown, it is they who should
take precedence.
Carl recognizes that Debbie
has still not torn herself away
sufficiently from her childhood
relationships, and this is why he
may make unreasonable de
mands. It is natural for Debbie to
want to be with her sister when
she is critically ill. 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
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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.
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