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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."
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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.
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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.
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after Jan. 1 was increased to 3
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