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o S4S00 Bus Takes Broadcasting'sjSenafe Committee Travelsngest Show Around Nation To Investigate Price Increases Br WILLIAM EWALD TJmlod Press Correspondent ,- New York T?i The travel ingest show in the broadcasting business is a country mjsic parXage tha wheeis around this nation in a $45 000 bus The bus conia rs cithes clos et, a Cjub liurje. a saaerir,g of liad.es a"d i3 rnenibers ol the troupe f the "Courrj-y Mu :sie Tmie ' sIvjw. Tne program, a. 25-rriOuie pution of d"wn-hnre tunes. P'Klc n roil a.id coned", moes oer t ie CGS raoio this Fr.day after a hucn with Mutual rad o. 'It seems to me we've been al 'mosl eoerywnere ut the Smith and S lutuftest ocr the r-ast six morths Bicliinoim, Memphis. Lruisi!ie. Eeutiont. Tex.," said E.ft CoUe. couee of Lie mww. "As a rtiie v play six towns a week and it cccn to me we've been, in aimust 175 cities so far. In one town eai'b week, we tape our weekiy shuw for radio." -.0 : " Egypt Challenges US. Wiih Threats Beirut. Lebanco tr Egypt and Savjdi Arabia cha!lev.g"d the Unired State baturnay witli re newed threats of force to bar Israeli shipping from the Suei Canal aid the Gulf of Aqaba. Egypt's recent acquisition of three Soviet submarines lent new weight to a threat which amount ed to little more than Words when it was first uttered early last year. Despite Saudi Arabia unity with Egypt on the Aqaba issue, there were growing indications here that the oil-ricli desert king dom is heading IV an open break with Syria, Ecypt's chief il amoruj the Soviet-aider! Arab states. The strongest restatement of the Suez-Aqaba t!i-eat was broadcast from Cairo by Aly Sa bri. President Gamal bdel Nas ser's chief political aide, ho hinted that Efeypt expects the United Nations to support the ban. "If Israeli ships try to force their way through the Suez Can al or the Gulf of Aqaba, we will prevent them . . ." Sabri said. "If Israel attempts to obtain for eign assistance in such a move, the outcome will be the same as the outcome of the tripartite in vasion." The "tripartite invasion" he was talking about was the Anglo-French-Israeli attack on Kgypt last fall, which was halt ed by U.N. pressure. While other shows are fighting the battle of Trendex, Collie's outfit is wrestling the elements. All Types Of Weather "We ve hit just aoout any thing you can imagine rain storms, floods, tomad jes." said Collie. "On the way to Fort Knox. Ky . our carburetor en ked out on tiie rad. In Mobile Ala., we hit a rainstorm so bad. we had to push the peoples cars with our bus after the show " Si iow business on tires may be bumpety-bump, but Collie re ports that the reception accord ed country music is smooth. In some towns the troupe has play ed to audiences as large as 17, OOfl in a single night. "I know there are people who look down on country music and who think of country perform ers as illiterates, but I think those opinions are gradually changing." said Collie. i 1 Music On Upswing 1 ''Country music has come a long way the past five years. It has infiltrated the pop field and . if you look at the top 20 songs in : t:ie country right now. you'ii , f.nd almost half are of country1 origin like 'Eye Bye Love' and A White Sport Coat.' " j For the distant future. Cillie ' sees a merger of all the commer-1 cial fields of music into one di-j vision. But lor his immediate fu- j ture, Collie can only see a long i tour by his troupe in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas. "It's a rough grind, ' admitted , Collie. "I kiiow it's a grind for j I me and I'm sure it is for the rest j 1 of the cast. But we're certainly I getting exposure. And we're kind of getting to see the coun-; . try, too.' Ambitious Plan for Transporting Flock Of Penguins Revealed Portland 1" Portland may become the only place in the world, outside of Antarctica, where a whole flock of Giant Emperor Penguins can be ob served at work and play. An ambitious plan was an nounced here Saturday to fly Ix tween 12 and 15 of the three foot tall birds, relics of the ice age, to a $50,000 sanctuary at the new Portland zoological gardens, now under construc tion. jack Marks, director of the Portland zoo, has made arrange ment with the Navy and Ai" Force to fly to the subcontin ent armed with specially - de signed strait-jackets with which to capture a whole flock of the Emperors. . Keowo To Survive Only two Emperor penguins have been known to survive in captivity. They are at the Bronx zoo in New York. Marks h a high hopes that hi flock will thrive nicely in his new $3,800. 000 plant in Portland West hills. Rear Adm. George J. DutVIt. Navy commander of the tak force supporting seven Ameri can bases in Antarctica, wrote City Commissioner Ormond Bean, "your plan has my full concurrence" and he assured th? parks commissioner "that the complete cooperation of myself and all members of my staff will be given to Mr. Marks in the ex ecution of this project." Previous attempts to trans plant the Emperors to this coun try have failed, primarily be cause of the long over-water voy age. Marks plane leaves here in October and fly to McMurdo sound. Navy pilot will fly him and his captured penguins to open water by helicopter. Then they will be flown to Christchur-h N.Z. and be transferred immed iately to another Globemastcr for the flight to Portland. Advising and assisting Mars in his project will be Alan Best, director of the Stanley Park zoo in Vancouver. B. C. He is considered a top authority on the life and loves of penguins. Chinese Reds Say Hen Laying More Than Norm London If The Chinese Communists Saturday hailed a little "red" hen for exceeding production norms. The hen, according to a Pei ping broadcast, has been laying three eggs every two days since February. And, the broadcast said, the eggs are "larger than the usual size." The hen is owned by an agri cultural cooperative in Mongo lia, according to the broadcast monitored here. Washington OF The Sen ate anti-monopoly subcommittee will investigate recent price in creases ordered into effect bv U.S. Steel and other major in dustrial producers. Chairman Estes Kefauver D Tenn ), announced plans for the inquiry Saturday. He said the first phase will deal with industry's pricing pol icies in general. Later, he said, the subcommittee will study par ticular industries. Group of Economists He said a group of economists will be questioned July 9 and 11 about "administered" prices that is, prices which are fixed by a company by executive de cision rather than set in the competitive market place. Administrative prices, Kefau ver said, are held rigid and sal-s fluctuate with demand at that constant price. In a statement announcing the subcommittee's investigation, Ke fauver called attention to th3 S6-a-ton increase just announced by U. S. Steel and other steel producers. Informed sources said the subcommittee will re quest, in preparation for hear ings on the steel industry, com plete operational data on which the companies based their ac tion. Unjustifiable' Walter P. Reuther, vice presi dent and chairman of the Eco nomic Policy committee of the AFL-CIO, Saturday branded the U. S. Steel increase as "unjusti fiable, socially irresponsible and dangerously inflationary." "It is big business' contemptu ous and defiant response to the appeal of President Eisenhower only last Wednesday for re straint by industry in initiating price increases," Reuther said. At his Wednesday news con ference, the President expressed new concern about the dangers of inflation and called on both business and labor to exercise "statesmanship" in avoiding un reasonable price and wage de mands. U. S. Steel cited a new round of wage increases granted its employees as the main reason for raising its prices. Reuther said: "The facts on steel prices and steel wages prove conclusively that U. S. Steel's effort to blame the price increase on increased labor costs is completely false.'' US. Jef, Italian Fighter Collide in Air Napies, Italy IT A U.S. Air Force jet fighter and an Italian fighter collided and crashed into the sea off nearby Sorrento Thursday, the NATO Air Force command in Southern Europe announced Saturday. An intensive search failed to turn up any trace of the wreck age or pilots of the two planes taking part in NATO's "Opera tion Rosie-Rosie" which ended the Mediterranean Friday. The American pilot's name was withheld. Sunday, June 90, 1957 MEDFORD (OSEG08) AfL flftUfffK THREE 'Slight' Outbreak Of F!u Not Asiatic Fort Ord. Calif HP The "slight" outbreak of influenza which occurred at Fort Ord "is not believed to be the so-called Asiatic flu." according to an Ar my spokesman. However Don English, chief of information for the post, said that the matter "is still in the clincial stage." He said 52 cases had been re ported in the last four days, but pointed out that the military population of the post "was near ly 25.000, and this is certainly nothing approaching an epi demic." English said the sick soldiers suffered from light fever for about two days and usually were able to report to duty on the third day. The Fort Ord outbreak was the third of its kind in North ern California in the past week. About 140 school girls were stricken with the respiratory in fection while attending the an nual girls' state meeting at the University of California college of agriculture at Davis late last week. Earlier this week, about 50 boys at the Log Cabin Ranch Juvenile Detention quarters in San Maleo were reported stricken. Students Attempt to Block Base Runway Sunakawa, Japan flP Pro Communist students attempting to block runaways at a nearby U.S. air base battled police for an hour and a-half in the rain soaked pre-dawn darkness Sat urday. The police eventually drove off the leftist-led teenagers and tore down the 60-foot bamboo poles they had embedded in the run ways at Tachikawa Field. Darkness, heavy rain and mud slowed up the combatants on both sides. No one wts serious ly hurt, and there wer no ar rests. The clash vis tha latest in a series of disorders provoked by leftist Gengakuren student or ganization or the Sohyo Union Federation to protest extension of the Tachikawa runways to ac commodate modern planes. s 'ft n a, ' 8' 15 '! sj Only about one-half of the U.S. area believed to contain oil has so far been explored for it. U.S. National Bank Lists Local Deposits The Medford branch of the United States National Bank of Portland listed deposits of $20, 619, 689.75 in its June 6 state ment of condition, according to Allan F. Perry, manager. Loans and discounts at the Medford branch totaled $10,210, 716.98. The statewide system re ported deposits totaling more than $710 million. Loans and discounts for all branches in the stale totaled $323,551,388. An increase in savings interest rate became effective Jan. 1, raising the rate to 2'. j per cent. Interest rate on three-year cer- Contact With Four Japanese Attempted Manila rr The Japanese Embassy awsited word Saturday of contact with four Japanese still hiding out near Mount Ma tutun in the belief the Pacific War is still on. An embassy spokfesmaa mid he expected a group of Filipinos to reach the Japanese ex-soldiers in Cotabato Providence, in the southern Philippines. He said the embassy hed promised the Filipinos a monetary reward if they could make contact with the four Japanese. Japanese Ambassador Morio Yukawa told defense and srmed forces officials tint his govern ment was anxious to repatriate the ex-soldiers sufely. Yukawa estimated that there are from 1U0 to 300 Japanese stragglers hiding out in the mountains of the Philippines. TESTIFYING before Senate finance committee, Treasur Secretary George Humphrey tells of howhis stock hold ings have increased in value since 19D3. (Internatiomg) IajSTALLBCiiT USJiTENCE 'aterford. Cone. IP1 Con victed of drunn Oriving, Willie Austin, 44, s offered to serve a 0-day jail SfenCSnc on the in stallment p!g. After pleading that he needed te 'jy home to care for his ill i. Austin was told to gme nch Saturday and Sunday forJ0 0ts. o a Sisstel Mt. Pleasant, 6iic6. V A sophomore fwn CfuSc was cho sen 'most eligible Bachelor" on the csjmpi of Centrel Michigan College by t'i -hoiS?'s co-eds. His name in timtt Love. I SCfEttOg J Jnajays 10:15 A.M. Kwii 140 K.C News Agency Claims largest Lab Project London ilf The Soviet news agency Tass claimed Saturday that Russia hsgjbuilt the world's largest hydrological laboratory at Valdai, near the sourca of the Volga River. The report, in a Moscow Ra dio broadcast heard here, said scientists at the laboratory were drawing up programs to devalop virgin land, aid forestry and solve biological problems. I rv TTfT tificates of deposit purchased after Jan. 1 was increased to 3 per cent. -ADCIIICC POTENT CAPSULES ORDER AT ONCI LIMITED SUPPLY ; GIBBERELLIC GROWTH STIMULANT JUST SPRAY FOLIAGE Formulation GIBREL .. Merck &Ce. licensor ONLY 2 CAPSULES IN APPLICATOR MAKES ENOUGH SPRAY ti effectively treat dozens ol plants ol all kinds indoors and out. Now raise huge flads, beg onias, mums, delphinium, phlox, daisies, carnations, roses, dahlias, etc. 2 CIB'ORO NOW AVAILABLE AT Sixth and Bartlctt or Tenth and South Fir THE FIRST HALF OF 1957! I Just Thought I Would Give You a Half Year Report on Conditions Out at the JOHN CUPP BLACK ANGUS FARM! The corn crop looks good, should make 25 tons per acre. Enough to feed the hundred head of blacks this winter. The barley crop looks fine . . . should make 60 or 70 bushels per acre. The first crop of alfalfa is up and in the barn . . . second crop looks good. Oat crop on the north forty looks pretty sick. Too dry at planting, they say. Calf crop looks good ... 14 Black Angus babies on the ground, and now they are coming 2 or 3 a week. Should have a total of 35. Cattle sales at the farm are good ... we always have a few to sell. Jack Peek's (the farm manager's son) 4-H Angus steer is gaining about 2z lbs. per day and is about ready for the 4-H shows in August. You should look at his steer at the show ... he has done a fine job with him. 35 Years Serving YOU The Furniture Barro Over on the Northwest Forty Is Still There! Business Is Good At The Furniture Barn . :: And Here Are A Few Reasons Why I Believe It Is Good! The old barn has very, very low overhead People like the benefits of our 35 years experience in serving you Free parking . . . and lots of it Free delivery Lowest possible financing All merchandise guaranteed and sold as such' No high pressure selling No trick deals 225 feet of window ... you can shop from your car It is Just Possible That You Are Paying Too Much for Furniture, Carpets and Bedding If You Are Not Buying at John Cupp Furniture Barn. Why Not Check On It? You Might Be Surprised! John Cupp Will NEVER Be Undersold On Furniture - Carpets - Beddii m a- . 1 ii-MS H,way 99 North s JOHN FURNITUR CUPP Centra? Point John Cupp, Own
