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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuetday, Julf 23. 1957 Morrow Grain Harvest Peak Due Next Week SINGIN' THE BLUES New York IP A group cf 21 French singers cancelled a scheduled television appearance here Monday after some rapid calculation. They discovered they would have to join the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists at $115 a head but were only getting $87 each for the TV appearance. Quotes From the News They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo Heppner, Ore. npi The grain harvest in Morrow county was nearing its peak today with about 100,000 bushels a day being harvested. Al Lamb, manager of Morrow county grain growers, said the peak is expected next week. Some 600,000 bushels had been harvested through Sunday, he said. The yield is about 30 bushels per acre, compared to 26 to 27 bushels in 1956. Lamb said stor age is expected to be adequate and that no car shortage is ex pected. THE TOCK IS "TO DUMP THE CRUMMY JOSS OJ SOME DOPEV MEMBERS AND MAKE rT LOCK LIKE AH HOrtOR- 6CO0SL0B ,40 64SBILL THOUGHT THEY WERE JOirJlMG I -VjOE GOOOSLDB! JUSrf SO THAT'S THE CLUBS 1 rJOW, LET'S VI GIVE HIM 4 SOJG 4M0 J STEERING COMMITTEE yj SEE- WE U D4MCE 460UT "WE 4LL J LL THEy" OO IS r4 a SGMEiODV M Hc'LLBlTF A TO RU THE SHIP- v'l-V TOMEJDTHE v 1" iS T-,C7 COMMrTTEE-nLA MEV COfJ LI rV4 THINK WE CRHE (MADMM V7 "THEV COUL0ffTVUry r C-AM HCOKP A I GOT THE fiUV-TW4T AS4IU MEM-HEM-J?.pH NEW MEMBER His WiFEHV nI2r5? J CUJ8 70 TT'V TSILLy-LCOKlK' jlT1"; .! VjEH-HEH ijf gimk wh4tzis iilVJifis ''sVTrr rs Plottisig TO PASS Pw'i la onE eV-ll Dorr5 r 714 Ji" 'IN0 li171"0 Impressions of Germany Reviewed In Letter From David Frohnmayer (Editor's not: David Frohn mayer. ion of Mr. and Mri. Otto Frohnmayer, I6S6 Spring at.. Medford, it in Germany this summer under the Ameri can Field Service Summer Ex change student program. In the following article, he dis cusses some of the things which impressed him on ar riving In Germany.) By DAVID FROHNMAYER Greetings from a "Hamburg er." At least, that I what I'm called since the town I'm spend ing the summer in is a few miles from the seaport of Hamburg. This summer, I'm living with a family In the town of Molln, the trip having been possible through the American Field Summer Exchange student pro gram. Molln is a very old town, around 1.000 years, and is quite enchanting to one who has lived in a city which is relatively new. Here, the streets are mostly cob blestones, and the houses of red brick with orange-red tile roofs make a very beautiful picture. In addition, lakes almost com pletely surround the town, and forests are abundant. Molln is famous as the town of Till Eul cnspiegel, a man who in the early years of German history was known throughout the land , for his witty sayings. Every five years they have a festival commemorating him, and this year I am lucky enough to be able to see It, starting in Aug ust. Modern Automobiles I don't mean to give the pic ture that everything is quaint here, for while there are still a few horse drawn produce carts in the streets, modern automo biles such as Mercedes. Ford and Volkswagen are crowding the streets. Coca-Cola signs are vis ible, and on any radio station, the latest American hit tunes are always playing. I am living with a very won derful family, the Rohwedder's. Doctor Rohwedder is the head gynecologist at the great new Hamburg - Bergederf hospital. The family has a very modern house which was built in 1950. Before and during the war, Prau (Mrs.) Rohwedder was liv ing in what is now Mecklenburg, in East Germany while Dr. Roh wedder served in the German Medical Corps. She abandoned her home and fled to Molln with her four children only one day before the Russians came and stopped all refugees. M" 1 1 I FUTURE? It's up to you! You want your children to have a good start to ward) success whether you live or die. And it can be arranged! j Call me todav and let me tell ?i you now, SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA $ Charles E. Jones Local Agent HONE SP 2-9772 Their activities- and interests are very similar to those of my own family and I find it not too hard to adopt, outside of learn ing their language. Fortunately, they all speak English, and I have no trouble in making my self understood. Most things here are very sim ilar to American life, but as the differences are the most remem bered, I should like to share some of the interesting ones with you. Probably the first in cident which told a lot to me was our train ride across Holland from Rotterdam, the debarka tion point of our Atlantic cross ing. We had quite good and fast passenger train services and were all commenting on it when the train suddenly stopped in the middle of a farming area. We' watched as our engineer calmly got down out of the cab and walked to a group of farm people working in the field. He talked with them for a moment, and after agreeing on a price, took out his wallet, paid the far mers for three quarts of straw berries, and we resumed our journey. It seems that Europeans, un like many Americans, have time to enjoy all the little things in stead of being in such a hurry that nothing is done. Another Ihing I noticed about Holland was that the people are very friendly, neat and efficient. The people, especially the work ing men consume many pints of milk each day as contrasted to the soft drinks and coffee we Americans like. All of the farms here look very efficient. All the land was used in one way or an other for growing food or crops. even to the very edge of the rail road. The farms in Germany, al so, are the same. Something lo Be Desired German driving leaves some thing to be desired. While the Autobahn is the most modern highway in Europe, many vil lage and country roads are quite out of date and dangerous. Add to this the thousands of bicycles and motorcycles and the absence of any speed limit whatsoever, and driving can be quite hazard ous. The people usually drive quite fast and while in the towns the speed is limited to about 35 miles per hour, this is fast con sidering the narrow and wind ing streets. If a person is so un lucky as to be caught by police for speeding in a town, his fine is only about 2 deutsch marks ($.50). Germany today Is quite recov ered from the war, although bomb damage is still in evi dence. The nation is quite crowded as it is only the size of Oregon, but has 32 times the population of our state. America is looked up to, al though we are often misrepre sented by the movies which come to Europe. Most Germans think American teen-agers are like those in James Dean's "Reb el Without a Cause" and nearly all believe our schools to be like the one in "Blackboard Jungle." From my limited experience here, I think the best ambassa dors America could have here would be Dave Brubeck and Louis Armstrong. They are ab solutely wild about American Jazz. In future weeks, I hope to tell more of this country and its leaders. i By UNITED PRESS Washington Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R.-Ariz.) on the alleged attempts of southern Californians to tap part of Arizona's water resources: "This group hovers over Arizona's dried-up water holes with the covetous eyes of buzzards waiting for death to finally come so that they might feast completely on what belongs to us." Omaha. Neb Prime Minister Huseyn Suhrawardy of Pakis tan, after being asked whether he thought Egypt's President Nas ser's stature had diminished recently: "You shouldn't ask questions like thai. Do you want lo start war between nations?" Washington Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Mar Ion B. Folsom, on the controversial $l4 billion school aid bill: "We haven't any illusions about getting a bill through thd Sen ate this year." Santa Marinella, Italy Actress Ingrld Bergman, en the globe trotting, romance and cinema interests of her husband, Roberto Rossellini: "I know nothing about reports that the Indian assistant of my husband is lo accompany him to Rome to help him finish the film." Washington Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, on the outlook for disarmament and the elimination of atomic tests: "The very increase in urgency for reaching an agreement has contributed in recent months to an increase in the realism and seriousness of the negotiations." More Americans Said Taking To Waterways For Week End Sports Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSSY United Press Correspondent ; - -asav , fey Hollywood an Walt Disney's two TV offerings have featured youngsters and cute animals, but this fall he'll launch a third show with sex appeal. Disney has been known as the man who put the ABC - TV net work on the Aline Mosby map with his "Disneyland" followed by "The Mickey Mouse Club." He also is the only movie producer who has yet to have a TV failure. Now the unpredictable Disney will present what he hopes will be his third blockbuster on the home screens, a suave, mustach ed, sword-tossing actor named Guy Williams. Williams will star in a weekly series, "Zorro," recreating a role first imfhortalized in the movies by bounding Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and later by matinee idol Tyrone Power. The new show is taken from the classic novels and short stories about the leg endary hero of Southern Cali fornia's Spanish rancho days. Williams Excited With Disney's record for suc cess, Groucho Marx on NBC and Bob Cummings on CBS may be in for a touch rating fight when "Zorro'' is shown Thursday nights at 8 p.m. across the coun try, beginning Oct. 10. Six-foot, three-inch Williams admits he's "excited" about the prospect. Williams was a photographer's model and TV and stage actor in New York before tackling Hollywood. Here he spent one year doing 25 "doorway bits" while under contract to Universal-International. Finally he quit in disgust, and his agent suggested he join the hordes of actors trying for the "Zorro" lead at Disney studio. Disney thinks "Zorro" will ap peal to grown-ups particularly women fond of mustaches as well as children. Williams plays a dual role. Like Fair banks and Powers, he appears as a Spanish don but also as a mysterous night masked rider wearing a black cape and astride a black horse. Tornado. Speechless Horse "The horse has no lines," Wil liams says gratefully. Disney will begin another ad venture series this fall as part of his "Disneyland' Show. In the manner of the Davy Crockett series, Jerome Courtland will star in a six-part story, "The Saga of Andy Burnett," based on historical novels about young frontiersmen in the West. "The Mickey Mouse Club," has been cut this season to a half hour, but "Disneyland" goes into its fourth year still with the hour format. This year's "Disneyland" will include a third film on the U.S. expedition to the South Pole, another science-factual picture about an atomic rocket trip to Mars, and "Man's Best Friend" tracing the history of dogs. Suit Filed To Break Natural Gas Merger Washington npi The Justice Department announced Monday it has filed suit to break up the recent merger of El Paso, Tex., Natural Gas Company and the Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp., Salt Lake City. The department said it has filed a complaint in the U.S. Dis trict Court for Utah on grounds that acquisition of Pacific North west by El Paso "may substan tially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly" in viola tion of the anti-merger section of the Clayton anti-trust act. Assistant Attorney General Victor R. Hansen, head of the Anti-Trust Division, said that as a result of the merger "pro ducers and consumers within the vast area bounded by Canada and Mexico, the Rocky Moun tains and the Pacific Ocean, are now almost entirely dependent on one company for purchase and sale of natural gas." Hollywood (IP Spike Jones wants four pints to make a quar tet a real pint-sized quartet. He wants jockeys Willie Shoe maker, Eddie Arcaro, Johnny Longden and George Taniguchi to sing on his TV show. They re cently made a big hit at a din ner for the Jockeys' Guild, which would receive any funds earned from appearing on band leader Jones' show. By FRED J. FEGUSON United Press Correspondent New York (IB Americans, 28 million of them according to one estimate, this summar are fleeing from week end high way jams to crowd the nation's waterways. Yacht club, power squadrons, Coast Guardsmen and boat build ers report the number of boats has nearly tripled since World War II. A spokesman for the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers estimated that there are 6V2 million pleasure boats in the United States today Only 2'4 million were estimated to have been in operation in 1947. A Congressional Committee on Recreational Boating Safety said estimates of the number of Americans who annually go down to the sea or lake In small boats reach 28 million But the NAEBM men said he would put the figure at around 17 million The NAEBM spokesman said the fast that 4V4 million out board motors have been pro duced since 1945 is indicative of the multiplying number of boats mostly small boats. Although he could quote some figures as to the present num ber of boats, the NAEBM spokes man said there are few com parative statistics to show the terrific growth in boating because: Only larger boats are re quired to register either with the Coast Guard or the customs bureau. No central agency has kept track of the number of boats being built in hundreds of small shipyards He- did point out that there were 434,000 more small boats afloat last year than the year Finance HOME IMPROVEMENTS through U.S. NATIONAL Make needed borne improvements now... finance the cost with in FHA loan through this bank. NO DOWN PAYMINT Je MONTHS TO PAT ' FAST ACTION Atk your lontractor mr rftorW y.OTM frilsfreRk. . MEDFORD BRANCH E. Main at Central Ph. SP 2-6126 ASHLAND BRANCH 30 N. Second Phone MU 9-651 1 Th Umtti Stotrs National hi rf PerHJ before. Although this year's in crease has not been tabulated, it is generally believed to be at least as large. Among the relatively new problems created by the rising are: Waits for a turn to navigate small channels, difficulties in sailing through crowded protect ed waters and waiting lists of applicants for yacht club moor ings. And the boating fad no longer is restricted to the seaboard, major lakes and rivers. In his report to the House committee on merchant marine and fisheries. Rep. Herbert C. Bonner (D-N.C), chairman of the sub-committee on recreation al boating safety, referred to hundreds of new reservoirs. He said that they are provid ing an "immense" recreation po tential "in regions which have been in the past virtual water sports deserts." Bonner concluded that boat ing in the United States had become a "booming activitiy." Some yachtsmen are already calling it "the new national pastime." A traveling salesman was Harry G. Blowe, Who could sell ice cubes to an eskimo, But he fell for a line slicker than his, From a new car salesman-wow! what a whiz! The car had style-years out of date, . The features were new-back in '48! Harry's still smiling, the tears hardly show, But how he wishes he could get back his dough! Moral: Don't get "bargain-talked" into yesterday's styling and features! Like a lot of people, Harry was looking for a "good buy" in a new car. But no car is a bargain if it's outmoded before you drive it a mile. For the same money, Harry could have stepped up to a dashing Swept-Wing Dodge so new it actually obsoletes other cars in its field. Obsoletes their high, boxy design with the low, low look of tomorrow. Obsoletes their old-fashioned features with such advances as Torsion-Aire Ride, Push-Button TorqueFlite and Total-Contact Brakes. So don't do what Harry did please. See your Dodge dealer today. Join the swing to the Swept-Wing Dodge! ji They had never flown before. Bot early one morning Zdnek Machflner, 19, and Karel Kucera, 20, Ucd up a Czech guard and wobbled to the safety of Wert Germany in a stolen plane. o MoftLW could fly. bu G 0hoy soloed Go freedom Th two teapexl-but 70 million others re main captive behind the Iron Curtain. And these are the people at whom Radio Free Europe beams its daily broadcasts. Escape is not its aim. Radio Free Europe penetrates the Iron Curtain to spread truth ... to strengthen hope and resistance. Said the youths above, It ( Radio Free Europe added courage and strength to strained nerves." "It offered us ... a hope for a better future," said a young nurse who fled to the West Support Radio Fro Europe Send your Truth "Everybody is listening even the Communists," said an escaped Czech skating champion. From 29 powerful transmitters, Radio Free Europe broadcasts up to 20 hours of truth a day to five key satellite countries Poland, Czecho slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria. And how the Communist bosses fear it! Each dollar you contribute sponsors a Minute ot truth on riaaio free r.uropc. now v Ve4 -.-ii rr,V? V - f many minuica m u-i Dollars to: CRUSADE for FREEDOM, alcai fi MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE 4
