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r SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. July 8. 1957 P Writers' Monlh ... This year the roaring writers of the region are putting on a bigger conference than ever be fore. Registrations are stream ing from four northwest corner states to "Short Courses. Univer sity of Washington," which is cooperating on the lectures and workshops that experienced free-lance writers will conduct on the campus July 26-27. The opening banquet, to be held on July 25, will be off the campus. The " speaker featured for this affair is the eminent best-selling author of the day, Gypsy Rose Lee. Her publisher is the oid house of Harper's. Her book's title is simply "Gypsy." Life Magazine says of it, "Gyp sy's story is gaudy in places, grim at times, rarely dull, and far more entertaining than any burlesque show." And reports from literary gatherings in New York and Hollywood proclaim that Gypsy Rose Lee. all dressed up, is a nost entertaining and instruc tive speaker. Seattle is her home town. She and her 12-year-old son, Erik, are going salmon-fishing while she is out here. And, look out, loggers: A trip to a tree farm may be coming up too. Another stellar attraction for the student writers, but one from a different galaxy, is John Wesley Noble, president of the California Writers Conference, and a glittering name among the top ten in the national list of free-lance non-fiction writers. One of Noble's best essays was his "My Unforgettable Charac ter" in the June "Reader's Di- xppP The secret of Vodka enjoyment is in Itfolfschmidt's $A10 " 4 5 Qt. ltd.. Dundalk. Md. W pitrf. 160 Grain Neutral Spirits rYiduct of U.SA gest." The subject wag his fath er, a West Coast timber cruiser of the old school, now retired at Oregon City. Yet another star is Dr. George L. Savage, who had a giant's hand in the early training of scores ol student writers in the Northwest, and is now a famous personality at the University of uaniomia at Los Angeles George also grew up in the tim ber at Shelton. In his high school years Dr. Savage was known as "the whistle-punk poet of Mason county." Archie Binns, novelist whose name is better known in New York than in his native state also had a boyhood in Shelton and in Port Ludlow, where his father was a dock foreman of Pope it Talbot. For any writer, most of all for the non-fiction writer, this is a region of rich "raw mater ial," a region that reeks with "local color." No place holds bet ter promise for the apprentice writer. And the region has more prime examples of literary suc cess. Dr. Stewart H. Holbrook has made a large place for him self in the grand field of nation al history. Richard L. Neuber- ger is making hay in the U. S. Senate. The region's resources of art and letters were never more in the public eye than they are today. The Writers Conference brings many editors as well as writers to the Pacific Northwest. They leave orders for articles and books when they go home. This kind of national publication in creases for Oregon and Washing ton inksiingers year after year. And now the basic rules of the game are being demonstrated each July at "Short Courses. University of Washington." Drop them a card for the details. Latin Leaders, Editors Convinced Gerry Murphy Didn't Die in Vain Auxiliary Starts Subscription Drive The American Legion auxil iary of Medford is sponsoring its annual magazine "subscription campaign to raise funds for pur chase of sickroom equipment. The equipment will be given on a free loan basis to any resi dent in Jackson county, auxil iary members said. The countywide campaign started Monday and will continue for three to four weeks. A va riety of magazine subscriptions will be offered for sale and all solicitors will have identifica tion papers signed by auxiliary officers Gloria Minneci, presi dent, and Betty Fichtner, secre tary. Mrs. Thelma Williams, 1003 Reddy ave., Medford, is in charge of the project. Further information may be obtained from her by telephoning SP 2-4877. BY A. ROBERT. SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Top political leaders and newspaper editors in two Latin American republics re convinced that Gerry M u r phy, the Eugene f 1 ier, did not die in vain. In Col um bia and Pan ama, where this reporter 1 n terviewed A. Bobu smitb them about the case of Murphy and Dr. Jesus Galindez, the missing Co lumbia University lecturer, the editors and politicians reflected these thoughts: 1. Trujillo. the dictator of the Dominican Republic, who ap parently called the shots in the Murphy-Galindez mystery, is the symbol in Latin A m e rica of what all democratic elements hate and seek to undermine. With 27 years of dictatorial rule behind him, Trujillo is now the senior dictator of Latin America. Editors and democratic lead ers in Colombia, who suffered during the dictatorial rule in their own country of Gen. Rojas Pinilla before his ouster in May, are looking .anxiously to the United States to shift its policy of treating the dictators as fond ly as the democratic govern ments of Latin America. They Boy Scout Trip Starts Out Well, Reporter Writes Editor's Note: The follow ing article was written for the Mail Tribune by Stan Dawson, one of 63 Crater Lake Area council Boy Scouts attending the annual 10-day Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington, D.C. The boys met at Klamath Falls July 2 and will return here July 27. Hi! This is your Jamboree roving j reporter reporting. Our trip started out well with the ap pointment of some capable pa trol leaders, Fred Lorish, bobcat; Dewey Gail, otter; Bill Mills, fox; Billy Stanley, raccoon; and S. P. Jeff Hawkins. We spent our first night at Klamath Union High school and the weather was moderately hot and it was extremely hard to sleep. The next day we went through Salem and Portland. On July 4 we left the Spokane station and spent an hour at Glacier park, where most of the boys took pictures of the black- feet as they danced and set up grand parade. Also, the Warm Springs Indians paraded and danced. They have very good trading material and there has been a lot of swapping. Reporter, Stan Dawson If f n angry man is Sylvester T. Bly, Who today was sold a piece of "blue sky." He'd stepped in a showroom-out of the rain, Was sold a new car before he could explain! How he hated the styling so high and square And in new features it was really bare, got a real bargain-the buy of my life But how do I ever convince my own wife?" Moral: You're paying for a new car. . . make sure you get one ! When you buy a new car, put your money on tomorrow not yesterday. Swept-Wing Dodge actually obsoletes other cars in its field. Should you invest in high, boxy styling when Dodge offers the low, low look of tomorrow? Should you invest in outmoded coil springs when Dodge offers new Torsion-Aire Kide? Should you invest in an old-fashioned lever-type transmission when Dodge offers the ease of Push-Button Driving? In other things, too engines, brakes, interiors Dodge is years ahead. So put your money on tomorrow. See your Dodge dealer. Join the swing to the Swept-Wing Dodge! hope for continued pursuit of the democracy were indignant over the president's choice of term inology. "That was not a dastardly at tack," said an editor in Bogota. "It was courageous." In Panama City, the newspa per El Dia found several days after the shooting was over, there was so much sentiment for Roberto Lopez, the man who shot Somoza, that the paper pub lished a special edition with a big picture of Lopez. Everyone wanted to have his picture, one of the editors explained. He said many in this Catholic country wanted to mount it and burn cadles for Lopez, who was killed immediately after firing on the dictator. .Mixed in with this strong feel ing against Latin dictators is quite another feeling which was on full display in the Maxim Grill in Panama City, where a calypso singer has gained fame by mocking the dictators in ca lypso couplets. His number about Somoza has, of course, a happy ending when the dictator is kil led "ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta So moza is dictator no more." In his number about Trujillo the singer uses the Gerry Mur- Murphy-Galindez case by the State Department so as to reveal the Trujillo regime for what it is, a reign of terror that is ab horrent to all those of who love freedom and individual liberty. The feeling is no less strong in Panama. The Murphy case, because it was vigorously pursued by Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.), has helped crystalize anti-T r u j illo sentiment. And this has also had the effect of making Congress man Porter, a 38-year-old Eugene lawyer who had never before been south of Panama, a hero to democratic forces throughout La tin America. '2. When the late dictator of Nicaragua. Anastasio Somoza, was shot last fall, he was flown out of his country to a hospital in Panama, where a team of army doctors from Walter Reed hospital in Washington, D.C, was dispatched by President Eisenhower in an effort to save Somoza's life. Eisenhower also sent a note to Somoza in which he decried this "dastardly" at tack on the Nicaraguan leader. Editors in both Panama and Colombia said Latins who favor phy affair to ridicule Trujillo's tenuous claim to international respect. And his hero is "Sen ator Porter" who he sings "wants to send Trujillo to the electric chair." The reaction of the crowd is perhaps more sign ificant than this calypso artistry, for it roared and clapped for more, obviously enjoying this ritual of laughing at the dic tators. 3. Finally, there is only one overriding political issue in La tin America democracy vs. dic tatorship which energizes stu dents and statesmen alike and provides a most stimulating in tellectual atmosphere for the Don't Say "Hello" Say "FILTER-FLO" visitor from Washington, where a type of political cynicism and superficial soph istication too often seems to dull sensitivity in officials quarters to such funda mental con cerns as now pre occupy our Latin American neighbors. It's a treat! Although Hollywood Special Formula Bread is a sensible bread, baked without shortening, it's a wonderful treat to eat. A secret blend of 16 choice grain and vege table flours. Favorite of millions of beauty-conscious women. Insist on the genuine. FREE Send potfvorri for Hollywood Dtt nd Color i Gwid. Awfhorifattv. Pro hnmhf illwstfotod. Addratt, Eloaoor Day, 100 W. Monro St., Comoro 3. 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