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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Recording Contest Cancellation Brings Feeling of Suspicion By ELMER C. WALZER Uniled Prest Financial Editor New York HP) America has a billion dollar hi-fi busi ness, including the sets, rec ords, etc. And no nation comes close to i this branch of musical repro faj) duction. And , t h e n there's s ?a American iaz A w h i r h i. unique with the United . y. ,).m - 1 timer Waller States Or SO the Belgian World's Fair peo !,..pie would tell you. Anyhow therein lies a con- .troversy which is gathering . world-wide notice. And Russia may brag she has beaten the U. S. in cultural achievement. There was supposed to be a contest on recordings in which . each nation represented at the - Belgian fair would submit three records each in 14 cate gories. It looked as if the U.S. would win hands down and make Russia look like a sucker. The United States group asked the music critic of Sat urday Review to help get our selections into line. Before ' Irving Kolodin could get his records into an envelope came - a letter telling him the con ' test was off. Contest Cancelled : Belgium called off the con- test and Kolodin. writing in " the current Saturday Review, "gives the impression that the Belgian government was in cahoots with Russia on that little deal. He doesn't say so in so " many words, but In connec ' tion with the cancellation, he "'has this to say: "Could it be that the cancel lation was possibly related to -"-"-Russia's well-known deficien cy in the field of high fidelity ' recordings? The subject seems " hardly worthy of an interna- . tional incident but when ac- "tions are unexplained sus picions are rampant." --" Kolodin notes that Russia seems to be choosing the ac tivities in which it excels and he warns against a half-heart-ad, penny-pinching participa tion by the U.S. "that would -" be worse than no participation at all." r So It Goes r And so it goes all through :.lhe cultural field. Russia is sending vast numbers of .. works of art to the exhibition and is spending some $60 toajSWffioiaaaa.4 U U UL) Csi n Colombos Sour French Bread OCCIDENT All Purpose mpPl FRESH Again this Friday rpn . y-P Have some with our b 1 1 ?Tl Fl Fl T 10-b- )n 9 CSi" 4FT XOf Fresh Crab fir Avocado Salad! U UPlyJIJ Bag tW MECO BRAND 303 CAN FREESTONE J - Aft W 1 S$ Xf ETOB P 1 jjQFFEE- 79i I P" f a. m I 1 LETT! JUMBO SIZE AV lion, against the U.S. spend ing on one-fifth that amount at the fair. We are going to have the same trouble in the theater, says Henry Hewes, theater critic of the Saturday Review We've got to be careful about offending any of our allies, which leads him to remark: "All this makes one wonder if it wouldn't have been simp ler to follow Rose's sugges tion that we send an aqua cade. Long stemmed Americ an beauties are uninhibited, inoffensive, and impressive. Futhermore, they lose nothing in translation." To all this the American group handling Belgian fair publicity says "no." The U.S. will make a good showing at the 500 acres of fair to be held from April 17 to Oct. 19 this year, it asserts. Perhaps, say the cynics, Coca-Cola will give us the pause that re freshes. Sammy Davis Jr. To Marry Dancer Las Vegas ilP) Sammy Davis Jr., actor-singer-dancer, said today he would marry dancer Loray White Friday at the Sands hotel. Davis, bubbling happy over plans for his first marriage, said he had known Miss White for three years and that they had secretly been engaged for almost two months. "I've wanted to tell every one for a long time but Loray had been married in Mexico eight months ago to a non professional and it was being annulled. Yesterday her at torney said the annullment had gone through and we could go ahead with our plans," Davis said. A honeymoon will be post poned until they finish their current commitments. Miss White is appearing at the Sil ver Slipper, Davis concludes his Sands appearance Jan. 21. POWER ON PROBATION San Juan, P.' R. 0P Kansas City first baseman Vic Power, playing winter ball in the Puerto Rican League, has been placed on probation until Feb. 15 by league president Carlos Garcia. Garcia said the action was taken "for the good of the league" because I of a recent fight between mil-'Power and umpire Jim Walsh. Finest Fresh Produce at Solid Fresh LARGE 0 CAD Thursday. January 8. 1958 Mothers Visit Sons Imprisoned On Spy Charges Tokyo IW Three Ameri can mothers held their first visits today with their sons imprisoned in Communist China on "spy" charges. The Communist New China news agency reported that Mrs. Ruth Redmond, Yonk ers, N. Y., met her son Hugh, 38, in a Shanghai jail for their first reunion in more than 11 years. A later broadcast said Mrs. Mary W. Downey, New Brit ain, Conn., mother of John T. Downey, 27, and Mrs. Ruth Fecteau, Lynn, Mass., mother of Richard G. Fecteau, 30, saw their sons in Peiping. The news agency quoted all three mothers as saying their sons appeared in good condition. Accompanying Mrs. Downey on her visit was an other son, William. He, the three mothers and a U.S. at torney, A. L. Wirin, Los An geles, arrived in Red China Monday as the first Ameri cans to enter the Red-ruled country with the approval of the U.S. State Department. Downey and Fecteau, Army civilian employees, vanished on a flight to Korea in 1952." They later turned up in cap tivity in Red China where courts sentenced Downey to life imprisonment and Fec teau to 20- years on espionage charges. Redmond, former employee of an export-import firm in Shanghai, was called a "pro fessional U.S. agent" by the Communists and sentenced to life imprisonment. The Communist news agency today made no men tion of whether steps had been taken by any of the mothers to appeal to top Chi nese Communist officials for the early release of their sons FOREMOST DESIGNER DIES Rochester, N.Y. (IPl Hen ry F. Kurtz, 70, one of the world's foremost designers of microscopes, died at his home here Tuesday. Kurtz joined the Bausch & Lomb Co. in 1901 as a glasscutter and re tired in '1949 as chief of mechanical design of new products for the firm. He was considered responsible for the firm's pre-eminence in the microscope field. Salem (IP) A two million dollar shopping center will be built just east of the city lim its here, realtor Al Isaak has announced. GOLDEN RIPE t Ea. Young Man To Live in Space Under Conditions off Voyage San Antonio, Tex. (W A young airman from New York will enter- a three-by-five foot space chamber next month in an attempt to live a week under the same condi tions that will face man on his first voyage to the moon. Airman 1-C Donald Farrell, 23, volunteered Wednesday Nixon Gets Birthday; Cadillac Idled Washington (IP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon began his 45th birthday today with a broken-down car and no family lo fix his break' fast. The vice president man aged to scrounge a breakfast of sorts, but he was balked by his 1957 government-furn ished Cadillac limousine. It was "dead as a doornail" from the 18-degree cold. His chauffeur drove him to Capitol Hill in the family's 1955 Oldsmobile, leaving the big shiny limousine -stranded in front of the vice president's home. Just Another Day With his wife and daugh ters out of town, Nixon whip ped up and tucked away a breakfast of orange juice, cold cereal, pink Texas grapefruit, and coffee. It was just another day of work for the vice president except for one departure he was prominently in the lime light as President Eisenhower went to the Capitol to deliver his annual State of The Union Message. Traditionally, the vice president shares the presiding officer's rostrum with the speaker of the House when the President addresses a joint session. Only Wednesday Nixon himself , warned in a Phila delphia speech that the United States could fall behind the Soviet Union in statellite and missile development. But he promised that the Eisenhower administration is "not going to let it happen." . Nixon's wife Pat and their two daughters, Tricia, 11, and HANEY CITED Columbus, Ohio OP) Man ager Fred Haney of the world champion Milwaukee Braves will be honored by the Colum bus Touchdown club on Jan. 17 as the "Manager of the Year." Chicago White Sox Billy Pierce also will be on hand to receive an award as the "Pitcher of the Year." OK Market $1100 MEDIUM SIZE NAVELS ib. M(p)c to enter the tiny cubicle at the School of Aviation Medi cine at Randolph Air Force Base. Officials at Randolph said the cubicle was believed to be the only one of its kind in the world. Unable To Stand Doctors at the School of Aviation Medicine said the Own Breakfast on 45th Julie, 9, were in Newport News, Va., today where Mrs. Nixon was to christen a new Grace Line passenger vessel, the S. S. Santa Paula. They were due back this evening when the usual quiet family birthday celebration would.be held. Cake From Staff Earlier a surprise chocolate cake with "happy birthday" iced on top was readied by Nixon's staff for an informal office gathering late today. Nixon's five years in the It's Long Way From Tin Pan Alley To Vatican, Song Writer Declares BY DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York "This," said Gerald Marks, "is the love of my life and let me tell you it's a long ways from Tin Pan Alley to the Vatican." The author of such resound ing popular song hits as "All of Me" and "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" held in his hand three record al bums containing 30 songs about the Protestant, Catho lic, and Jewish faiths. Five years ago Marks, who has contributed music for such diverse outlets as the Ziegfeld Follies, the poetry of Carl Sandburg, and safety dit ties for children, discovered that he didn't know too much about the holy days of his own Jewish faith. He began studying their history and writing songs ex plaining, describing, and cel ebrating them. When he had fininshed 10, he began think ing about reports he had heard that the Vatican and various churches in Italy 'had shel tered refugees from Hitlerian persecution during W o r Id War II. He decided to do some thing in gratitude. Enthusiastic Response Marks journeyed to the Vatican,, explained his plan to write original songs about uorn-rea ino. i SLAB BA at. Sorans "Fresh" Q six-foot airman would remain in the chamber for a week, seated in a canvas chair. He will be unable to either stand or lie down, and will be com pletely cut off from the outer world except when food is passed in to him. Attached to the chamber will be a second small rectan- by Cold vice presidency have brought him to a prominence in gov ernment seldom if ever match ed by a predecessor. Partly because of President Eisen hower's illnesses but also be cause of his own driving energy he has developed the nation's number two spot into a full-time working post with many activities and responsi bilities. No vice president has ever been trained better for the presidency. None has worked harder at the training. Catholic holy days, and got an enthusiastic response. He re turned to New York and with the aid of a priest put in seven months of intensive study of Catholicism and of the - his tory of the times in which the holy days originated. He wrote songs explaining and describing 10 Catholic holy days. Then, going through the same study pro cess, he did 10 Protestant days. Ray Middleton was sec ured to, sing and do the nar ration on the three albums, which were issued recently under a new label set up specifically for them, Candle Records. Marks describes the tunes therein as "semi-sacred stand ard music." He's enthusiastic about this latest project but says it doesn't .mean he's go ing to quit Tin Pan Alley. "I keep writing songs all the time," he said. "And let Bristol, England W Rent collector Herbert Jelf was acquitted Wednesday of im properly assaulting housewife Edith Green over a two-year period of weekly visits. She admitted she never complain ed of his kisses although her husband objected. The judge said: "I suppose it is a rather dull job, rent collecting." 0 Nice and Lean Sides ojvy Pan-Ready 214 to 3 lbs. each We Cut and Package These Daily DID YOU KNOW? Saving Silver Dollar Stamps Can Save You $2 to $5 per Month on Your Food Budget! Ask Anyone Who Saves Silver Dollar Stamps No Limit on OK Specials! Chamber To Moon gular cubicle which will con tain radar, radio and other instruments needed for a voy age into space. Oxygen supply will be con trolled by a special apparatus and chamber pressure will be maintained to simulate flight conditions at 18,000 feet. The only clothing Farrell will wear during his week long "trip to the Moon" will be regulation trousers and T shirt. No other clothing will be required because tempera tures will be regulated. No Kind of Medicine Neither pressure suit nor oxygen mask will be includ ed, and Farrell will not be given any kind of medicines. Instrument recordings of blood pressure, respiration and pulse will be made. During the simulated flight to the Moon, Farrell's body wastes will be absorbed by chemicals and moisture ex creted from his lungs, sweajt glands and otherwise will be reclaimed and purified for drinking water. me tell you what Tin Pan Alley is it's a state of mind. Wherever, at this moment, somebody is laboriously try ing to compose a popular tune and set some words to it that's Tin Pan Alley." Hits Involve Luck As for the secret of turning out a hit tune, Marks be lieves much depends on luck, including the luck of finding the right person and circum stances to present it. "Back in 1931, nobody wanted my song 'All of Me,' no publisher. Around the Middle West I'm a native of Saginaw, Mich. I got 8 or 10 pretty good singers to sing it on radio, and I didn't get a call for a single copy. "But one day I ran into a siger named Belle Baker and this song hit her. Her hus band had died a moth before, and she was touched with such lines as 'Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry how can I go on dear without you." She sang it one Saturday mid-night on a New York local station, and on Monday morning it was a hit. Matter of fact, a publisher wired me right after he heard it that night, and I'll never forget the words: 'You will have a world-wide hit in 20 min utes., " SPECIALS Friday Saturday at Ok MARKET Nice STANDARD 2 1109 U Each Pentagon Braces for Wave of Opposition To Defense Policies Washington (W The Pentagon braced today for a new wave of Army opposition to Eisenhower administration defense policies in the wake of Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin's decision to turn In his uni form. The White House had no comment on Gavin's resigna tion and apparently viewed it as strictly his personal deci sion. Congress was sure to probe deeply into the three-star gen eral's claim that the U. S. Army has been deteriorating rapidly while the Soviet Un ion's ground forces have been Polaris Missile Program Pushed Into High Gear Washington OP) The Navy today threw into high gear its submarine-launched Polaris missile. It doubled the funds being spent on the high-priority weapon project while Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy re portedly backed before Con gress a proposal to start con struction at once three subs to carry it. The 1,500-mile Polaris in termediate range ballistic mis sile (IRBM) is regarded as potentially one of the most deadly to be added to the na tion's arsenal because of its maneuverability. Solid" Fuel It also is the only large missile in an advance stage of development believed to em ploy a solid fuel. Some mili tary experts feel eventually nearly all missiles could be switched to the higher po tency solid propellants if the Polaris is successful. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. reported Wednesday the new Polaris program would amount to some 130 million. This is almost double the 62 million already awarded the project, it said. Lockheed, prime contractor of Polaris, said the effect of the money-once okayed by Congress would be to "move up all dates in all areas of the missile's development to match the Navy's revised tar get dates on the entire Polaris weapon system." It is expected to be ready by 1960 or sooner. CTE A If Lean, Meaty Steaks Arrived by Truck Direct from Coast 1 7 IMGMET A u Hem of SILVER. DOLLAR STAMPS I OPEN 8:00 A.M. UNTIL I 1 I MIDNIGHT j 7 DAYS A WEEK ji h ' EASY PARK,NG j l EASY SHOPPING J 11 gaining power. Gavin, Army research and development chief, levelled that charge Wednesday in making known his final de cision to quit the Army March 31 after 30 years of service. Gavin also said he begged but could not get "one red penny" in the $1,260,000,000 supplementary missile budget for the Army's anti-missile or space program. He said the Army long had been starved for missile money. Many Army officers agree with Gavin's complaints al though few, if any, are likely to quit in protest. Whether they air their views publicly is another question. No Official Comment Neither Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker nor acting Chief of Staff Gen. Lyman L. Lemniteer was willing to com ment on the Gavin charges. Brucker told the United Press he will give his answer to Congress during forthcom ing appropriations hearings. Gavin's decision to retire was made final Wednesday after four days of public fur or during which the Army of fered him choice assignments and promotion to full general in a virtually unprecedented effort to keep him. .Senators investigating the defense pro gram also urged him to stay on. Wilmington, N. C. ID Po liceman J. S. Smith had al most finished giving the tax assessor a list of his posse sions Wednesday when his 5-year-old son, Steve, piped up: "But Daddy, don't you re member the bike you gave me for Christmas and the bike you got?" Daddy remem bered and Steve piped down. PLAZA HOTEL "Shoppingly Located" Broadway at Waihington In Down Town PORTLAND C V. 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