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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE People of Hungary, Bitter in Still Turn Razor-Sharp Wit on Rulers Munich, Germany (U.R,) The people of Hungary, bitter in de feat, still turn a caustic, razor aharp wit on their Communist rulers. Current jokes in Budapest, whispered in sidestreet cafes and private rooms filter through the Iron Curtain to show the free world that the weapon of wit has not been blunted by So viet armor. The size of the cabinet of Pre mier Janos Kadar, who called in Russian troops to crush the Hungarian uprising, amuses in habitants of Budapest. Joke About Kadar "Why are there only six peo ple in the Kadar government?" one asks another. The sotto voice reply is "Be cause there's only room for six men in a tank." And the Communist claim that "Fascists and counter - revolu tionaries," staged the uprising brings this comment: "Except for nine million counter-revolutionary landlords, fac tory owners, bankers, counts and cardinals, the Hungarian people and peasants remained loyal to the peoples democratic regime . . . and all six of them formed the Kadar government." The Family Council Editor'! note: Th Family Council consists or a Jndfe, a psychiatrist, tta'e clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Eacb article Is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice; It merely reports on problem that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. Monday the family council Dan D. She won't forgive my past. Rtgina F. How can I trust him? ' Dan D. I am a bachelor of 39. Until about two years ago I lived a pretty wild life, I guess. I had many affairs with women, .rank too much, and in general, jZot into all the trouble I could find for myself. It took some serious trouble to pull me up short and one day I found myself in jail. That real ly hit me and I made up my mind to change things. Since then I've been leading a decent Jife. Several months ago the thing I never thought could happen fame about I fell in love. The girl is ten years my junior and is everything I ever wanted in a wife. She fell in love with me, too, but when I asked her to marry me I felt it was im portant to be honest with her and told her all about my past. Her reaction was not what I expected. Instead of giving me credit for pulling myself up the way I have, she became very distressed and said she doesn't feel she can trust me. How can I convince her all that is. over? Regina F. I am not so unfor giving and strict a person as Dan makes out, but I cannot under stand how the man Dan seemed to me to be could have sunk quite so low and led such a lurid life as he described to me. How can I be sure that this streak in him won't break out pgain? It frightens me to think of uniting my life to a person like that. I come of a good, religious family and I know that if my parents knew the truth about Dan they would be horrified. The police record alone would scandalize them. As it is, they ?ike Dan very much and are en rouraging me to marry him. They can t understand my hesi tation and accuse me of throw ing away a "wonderful chance." Ever since Dan told me what he did I have been unable to feel the same toward him. Per haps I didn't really know him, but loved somebody I thought I knew. I am completely confused. The Council: Regina should understand that a person who has changed as drastically as Dan has. looks upon his past with horror and loathing, pos sibly with even more disgust than she feels. He may paint that past to himself in even more lur id colors than it had in reality. In his effort to be honest with Regina, Dan has probably gone all out in describing that past. It was right of him to tell cbout the police record, but he may have exaggerated details and given the whole story an excessively sordid cast per haps because he wants so much to be forgiven by her. Since Regina is" concerned about how her parents would view the matter if told the truth, she would do well to discuss it with them. It is possible that their broader understanding of life will help restore her sense of balance. Their favorable im pression of Dan will probably be affected by the story but they may be better able to judge the i total picture than Regina. In any case, open discussion will relieve Regina of some of her Vienna (U.R) Radio Buda pest reported Friday that a mili tary court in Drebrecen sentenc ed three Hungarians to long pris on terms for violating the mar tial law regulations. A student and a truckdriver were sentenc ed to 15 year terms for "illegal position of arms." Another man was given 10 years in jail for concealing information. Radio Free Europe here, which collects the current stor ies from behind the Iron Curtain has other examples: "Why is Kadar called the Hungarian premier?" "Because Khrushchev is too difficult to pronounce." Red Army boss Georgi Zhu- kov, Soviet defense minister, came in for comment in spuri ous "advertisement of the Zhu kov company offering: "Hot and cold running war in every room. "Ventilation of your home free of charge. "Free guided tours to the So viet Union." Even the gift of laughing at themselves is not lost. One Hun garian asks another: "What na tionality were Adam and Eve?" The other replies "Hungarians they lived in a paradise with out clothes." Minor Variations Some stories turn up time and again with minor variations through the satellites. One of the latest versions of the leading Communist who died and was sent to hell comes from Ro mania. He was surprised to find the demon in charge offered him sense of shock about Dan, and help her to new objectivity. Even if in the end Regina de cides she cannot marry Dan, she should recognize that people can ?nd do change and the "streak" in Dan that she worries about could "break out" in others. There is no such thing as a guar antee about the future of any' individual. (Copyright 1957, General Features Corp.) Space Traveler Slower Than Twin Brother, Wisconsin Physicist Says Washington UR) Want to stay looking fresh as a daisy while all your friends are going to pot? Some day it may be easy: just spend your summer vacations buzzing around outer space at 186,000 miles a second. Physicist Harold W, Lewis of the University of Wisconsin said Thursday night that theoretical ly that a man barreling through space at almost the speed of light would compress into one year a normal eight years back here on earth. Group Unable to Find Beck's Relatives Washington (U.R) The Sen ate rackets committee, despite weeks of effort, has been un able to locate teamster boss Dave Beck's son, two other Beck rel atives and the union president's bookkeeper. The committee wants to ques tion them about Beck's business deals with his own union. Beck himself has ignored committee requests for help in locating the four witnesses. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy told reporters Satur day that if the four are not found, "there will be a blank" in part of the committee's case against Beck "Unless Beck comes in and answers the ques tions himself." Mikoyan Rejects Conference Proposal Vienna (U.R) Soviet Deputy Premier A. I. Mikoyan Satur day rejected Secretary of State John Foster Dulle's proposals for a new Big Four conference as "demagogic and unrealisitic." Mikoyan was especially bitter about U.S. insistence that Rus sia must fulfill certain conditions to qualify for further contact with the West. Dulles told a news conference Tuesday that there is no point to new East-West talks unless Russia shows some sign of sin cere willingness to compromise on such issues as disarmament, German reunification and self determination for the Soviet satellite states. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Monday, April 29, 1957 Defeat, the choice of two gates to hell, one marked "Capitalists," . the other, "Communists." "Which one for you?" the de mon asks. "The Communist hell, of course," the Communist replies. "There's bound to be a fuel shortage there." Poland chuckles quietly over this exchange: "My photograph appeared in the paper this morning." "Why, what had you done?" "I was smiling." ' Is That Horses have always played an important role in our country's history stagecoach, pony ex press, cowboy saga. In warfare, too. . One has but to make a roll call of leaders: Count Pulaski, whose estates were confiscated by the Russians and came - to America to offer his services to Washington; Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, who headed up the "Troop of Light Horse of the City of Philadelphia"; and Francis (Swamp Fox) Marion all of the Revolutionary; James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart of the Civil war one of the greatest caval ry tacticians of all times, whose methods were copied most effec tively by the Russians in the last great war; and Generals Custer, Stuart, and Sheridan of the In dian wars of the plains. Would Age ' Lewis said when the traveler returned he would find he was seven years youngeJ than his twin brother who had been plod ding at home. Fountain of Youth "He will have found a modern day fountain of youth," he said. Lewis told the American Phy sical society in a scientific paper that the "fountain of youth" theory is based on demonstra tions that the aging process is slowed down in radioactive par ticles moving at high speeds. , "I have no doubt that the same thing would apply to bio logical processes," he said. For example, Lewis said, it would take a man traveling at about the speed of light 186, 000 miles a second eight years of earth time to buzz from say Bangor, Maine, to the nearest star and back. If the traveler and his twin were 30 when the traveler left, the twin brother would be 38 when the traveler returned. But Lewis said the traveler would have aged only one year: he would be only 31. Not that the traveler while out among the asteroids would feel any different or realize that his twin brother back in Bangor was aging faster than he was. Lewis said the traveler while in space would feel that "every one was zipping along with him." He said that the traveler wouldn't be aware of the differ ence until he came home and saw his brother's changed face. The physicist said he had no idea how the traveler would square himself with the Internal Revenue Service. Russian Note Warns West Germany of Bomb Moscow (U.R) The Soviet Union has warned West Ger many that a future atomic war would turn Germany into "a cemetery." It proposed a nu clear vacuum in both East and West Germany. The note was the latest in a series of warnings from Russia to the western European NATO members about the dangers of another world war. Denmark, Norway and Holland have been similarly warned. OAtOK MARKET SILVER DOLLAR STAMPS! mi at: MEDFORD MUFFLER and DOODY'S RICHFIELD SERVICE STATION Navy Develops New Television Screen Washington (U.R) The Navy has announced it has developed a "revolutionary" television screen which could hasten development of color TV and three-dimensional viewing. In place of opaque white powders now used, phosphorous in the form of thin transparent film is deposited on the face of the tube in the new process. The result, the Navy said is a screen with a much sharper image and little loss of contrast. The transparent films also make possible a "completely new ap proach" to color television. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist But it was not the Allied pow ers who used cavalry first and most tellingly during the begin ning of World War II. - While western nations were placing their trust in motorized equipment, changing cavalry to armored divisions, Russians, Japanese and Germans retained large numbers of their horse drawn equipment and cavalry and in many instances, the horses served them effectively. It may come as a rude sur prise to many a western armor division - minded militarist to know that despite the publicized Panzer divisions the Germans turned up with 800,000 military horses 75,000 for transport, the remaining 725,000 for caval ry some of it from overrun countries like Poland and Aus tria. To begin with, the Germans used them well. After their Pan zer divisions had blitzed through the Low countries, the cavalry accompanied the infantry and occupying forces and followed shock troops into newiywon territory thereby saving valua ble fuel and by spreading out far beyond the easily-traversed highways and into the moun tainous, forested areas denied to the Panzers, clinched gains made by their mechanized spear heads and forestalled outflank ing maneuvers. It added speed to their thrusts. When Japan overran large roadless areas of China, particu larly during the muddy rainy seasons, - she too used many horses. Remnants of these 300, 000 may . be seen even today scattered throughout Japan. But when Germany began folding, the Nazis failed to do what Jeb Stuart did a century earlier in America they failed to exploit the mobility of their cavalry, to use surprise and thus make "their strength count, or use it in terrain which was im passable to vehicles. - "When Germany's fuel and vehicles gave out,- they resorted to pathetic desperation tactics with their cavalry," recalled Lt. Gen. Robert N. Young, present commander of the Sixth Army, who directed the fighting in the Colmar pocket, in northeast France. He explained to me: '.'As a last resort they threw, their mounted troops at us. We spot ted it a long way off. We used planes with anti - personnel bombs. We used artillery shells which would explode above ground. I tell you, I would rath er not think of the slaughter we gave that Nazi cavalry. I love horses too well." But the Soviets', as we shall see next Monday, used their cav alry effectively and made it count as did our own Jeb Stuart, a century later. . Copyright 1957. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. BLAST KILLS THREE . Mulhouse, France (U.R) A gas explosion in a potassium mine in nearby Staffelden kill ed seven miners and injured three others Friday. Police said the explosion occurred in a shaft 2,300 feet below the sur face. at: ROXY ANN MARKET and CRATERIAN BEAUTY SALON mm Two Junior James Ty rones Plays Starting By JACK GAVER United Press Drama Editor New York U.R) Beginning Thursday, Broadway will have Junior James Tyrones back to back. James Tyrone Jr., aged 33, will be found where he has been since last fall in the Helen Hayes Theater on West 46th street. James Tyrone Jr., aged 44, will take up tenancy that eve ning in the Bijou theater, front ing on West 45th street, directly in back of the Hayes. Both are characters in' plays by the late Eugene O'Neill. Both are based on the playwright's older brother, James O'Neill Jr. The younger James Jr. is in the successful "Long Day's Journey Into Night" which is frankly based on the home life of Mi-, and Mrs. James O'Neill Sr. and their two sons in Con necticut in 1912. Sertral Ties To Reality Son James is the only Tyrone (O'Neill) who figures in the new arrival at the Bijou, "A Moon for The Misbegotten." It is not known whether its story js bio graphical or simply a fictional incident, but it does have sev eral ties to reality. For example, "Moon" takes place in 1923 on a Connecticut tenant farm owned by the Ty rones. James, the father, is dead (1920). Some of the dialogue tells of the recent death of the wife and mother, who did die in 1923. As James, embittered and sick, leaves at the end " of the play there is dialogue to the effect that he hasn't long to live. James did die within a few months after his mother. The descriptions of James Jr. Medford's telephone numbers have changed. When you use the telephone don't forget to get the new number from your new directory. The new numbers start with prefixes: SPring 2 and SPring 3. To dial SPring 3-1080, for instance, just dial the prefix From Medford you can dial toll Now that numbers have changed, you can dial toll-free from Medford to Phoenix, Talent, Ashland and Gold Hill. Jackson ville, Central Point and White City remain in your free dialing range. There's a greater dialing range for many of you who live outside of Medford, too. on Broadway in the published versions of the two plays are much alike, even to identical long phrases. O'Neill wrote "Journey" in 1940 and "Moon" in 1943. Those who view both plays will note one odd thing. In "Journey," there is mention of the tenant farm and of its rather unreliable tenant, who is named Shaughnessy. Edmund (Eugene) relates to his father a story Shaughnessy told about how he got the better of a Standard Oil millionaire neighbor named Harker who accused . Shaugh nessy of fouling Harker's ice pond by breaking down a fence and allowing pigs to wallow in the pond. Tenant's Name Changed i In "Moon," which is set 11 years later, this incident is part of the action. Only here the ten ant's name is Hogan and the millionaire is called Harker. Son James is played in "Jour- Efforts to Have More Trade Planned Paris (U.R) Japan and America's European allies will begin efforts this week to per suade the United States to grant further concessions on trade with Red China. .U. S. leaders were not expect ed to yield to pressure from al 'ied nations who want to do bus iness with the Communists. The Atlantic pact committee which regulates western trade with "the Communist world meets here Tuesday to begin the negotiations. Japan, not us ually represented on the com mittee, has been especially in vited to attend. rvn Will Be in This Week ney" by James Robards Jr. In the new arrival, the character is portrayed by Franchot Tone. "A Moon For The Misbegot ten" was headed for Broadway once before but never made it. That was the late winter of 1947, in the same season that the Theater Guild offered the original production of O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh," his first presentation in 12 years. The guild started "Moon" on its break-in tour in Columbus, Ohio, in February and closed it five weeks later in St. Louis after one cast change en route. O'Neill was represented at the time as being very unhappy about both the casting and stag ing. He was never well enough to supervise a new production of the play after that. Since his death in 1953, var ious producers have sought to get it on, but Carmen Capalbo Buy For Less CHECK FORD TICKETS Numbers Posted April 24 FOR 7 Printed List no mMgga t ..r ..tm .m ft f g . . . gjfrmmmmmmm S-P-3 . . . then 1-0-8-0. Numbers have also changed in Phoenix Talent, Ashland, Gold Hill and Jackson ville. 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