Monday, January 13, 1938
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U.S., Russia Waging Propaganda War On Bookstalls, Box Offices off Egypt
By LARRY COLLINS
United Press Correspondent
Cairo HP) The United
States and the Soviet Union
are fighting a propaganda
war in Egypt today with the
country's bookstalls and box
offices for battlefields.
This year the United States
will spend $500,000 on its in
formation program here, the
Soviet Union considerably
more.
The money goes into books,
magazines, movies, cocktail
parties and exchange visits
anything that can affect the
way 22 million Egyptians
think about the two countries
or win some of their goodwill
and sympathy.
The propaganda war here
is just one phase of the broad
scale battle going on globally
for the world's uncommitted
millions: the people whose
sentiments may eventually
decide the East-West struggle.
U.S. at Disadvantage
The United States starts off
with a disadvantage. First,
U.S. policy gets an almost
daily roasting in the press.
Rightly or wrongly, U.S. pol
icy is read by Egyptians as
supporting her two biggest
enemies, Israel and Western
colonialism.
"We could spend all the
money in Ft. Knox here and
not overcome the psychologi
cal success the Russians have
scored with the sputnik,"
said a United States Informa
tion Service official.
But on the other hand, the
United States has one enor
mous advantage: American
films, books and magazines
have a following here the So
viets have not been able to
crack.
The Soviet offerings suffer
from one universal shortcom
ing their propaganda value
Is high, but the entertainment
value is low.
Russian publications range
from dense Marxist ideology
to soya bean raising and the
feeding of babies.
Soviet Books Cheaper
Their biggest advantage is
their price. Most are practi
cally given away for one, two
or five piaters (three, six or
15 cents) a fraction of what
Western publications such as
Life and Newsweek sell for.
But they are dull as yester
day's dishwater and after
splashy starts, follow-up edi
tions usually gather dust on
the newsstands.
The OSIS official answer
to the Russian output in
cludes a weekly paper in Ara
bic mailed free to 50,000
people, and newsletters on
economics, science, military
affairs and current events
going to some 70,000 people
each month.
But they suffer, though to
a lesser degree, from that
same disease: dullness.
West Strong at Box Office
USIS men say their most
effective action is in subsi
dizing the publication of anti
Communist books in Arabic.
The agency finds locally writ
en anti - Communist publica
tions or hires a translator for
international works and
quietly subsidizes their print
ing.
In the last' six months, the
USIS has spent almost a third
of its budget on translations.
At the box office, the West
APPLEGATE VALLEY
Assigned to Station
By MAUDE ZIEGLER
Applegate Valley With
the speeding up of the Forest
Service timber sale program
in the Applegate district, Her
man Walitati, forester recent
ly graduated from Michigan
State college, is being added
to the personnel at Star
Ranger station, according to
Vern Taylor, district ranger.
Mr. and Mrs. Walitati
were expected to arrive Fri
day. He will be an assistant
to Robert' Sorber, present
timber sale officer.
Kenneth Johnson, forester
with Alley Brothers mill at
Medford for some time, is em
ployed temporarily in the
work, and two men will be
put on detail from Klamth.
One will be Ted Cobo, for
merly stationed here.
Timber sales will be step
ped up 14 million feet each
year for two years, Taylor
said. The sales program will
embrace an area in O'Brien
creek, head of Carbury, and
in Kenney creek.
Taylor also stated that an
expenditure of S3, 000 is be
ing made for improvement
of McKee bridge forest park,
where 10 new tables will be
added, and an additional wa
ter supply will be brought
from a spring on the east riv
er bank. Francis (Pete) Greg
ory, ure suppression fore
man, will be in charge of this
program, which is being car
ried out by a small crew of
summer fire guards. Tree
planting, which had been un
derway for the last two
months, is almost completed
1260 Iowa st. in Ashland.
Gettling has leased the Moun
tain View dairy, and expects
to sell milk to private custom
ers. Before going to Ashland
they lived on Midway road
near Central Point.
The executive council of
Ruch Parent-Teacher associ
ation has changed the date of
their meeting from the third
Tuesday of the month to
Wednesday of the same week,
according to Mrs. Francis
Gregory, PTA secretary. The
council meeting this month
will be Wednesday, Jan. 22,
at 8 p.m.
outdistances the Soviet eas
ily, since Russian films just
do not measure up to their
Western counterparts for en-
tertainment value.
But in the person-to-person
departments, the Soviets are
ahead of the United States.
Most of their information
people speak Arabic; only
one of USIS's dozen-odd offi
cers does.
More important, the So
viets have their exchange
visits program.
The United States has noth
ing to match the exchange
program.
The reason, USIS men an
swer no money.
FIRE EXTINGUISHER
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John Van Der Laan of Ox-
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rushed out with it and extin-.
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Mrs. Marcel LePiniec, Mrs.
Robert Sorber, and Mrs.
Lance Offenbacher are mem
bers of the nominating- com
mittee of the Applegate Val
ley Garden club which will
meet at the home of Mrs. Ed
Ramsay, Jan. 22 at 1:30 p.m.
Election of officers will be
held, and Mrs. Wilfred Pear
son will give a talk on house
plants. Anyone interested is
welcome to attend.
Voodoo Jef Plane
To Receive Test .
St. Louis UP) The F-101B
Voodoo jet fighter, which can
destroy an entire formation of
enemy planes with its atomic
missiles, will be put through
its paces here Wednesday,
celebrating its inauguration
into the North American Air
Defense command.
The Voodoo, manufactured
by McDonell Aircraft here,
will be the newest and fastest
all-weather interceptor in
NORAD, the air force said.
The two-engine jet features
an almost vertical supersonic
climb.
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Mrs. C. E. De Shazo was
injured in a car accident
eight miles south of Merced,
Calif., Jan. 3, according to
her husband, who was with
Mrs. De Shazo when the ac
cident occurred. Both were
returning from Los Angeles,
where they spent the holi
days, when the left rear tire
blew causing the car to leave
xne nignway ana to spin
around in sand. Mrs. De
Shazo was thrown from the
car and was taken to a Mer
ced hospital. She had not re
gained consciousness, accord
ing to last reports.
Her sister, Mrs. Vertise
Skalitsky, of Los Angeles,
was driving the car, and she
and De Shazo were not in
jured. De Shazo has return
ed here, where he operates
a service station.
Magazine sales ladies that
usually appear with the first
signs of spring were in the
community on New Year's
Day. One of them was the
sort who takes the place by
storm with charm and famili
arity, and upon being sent on
her way with a reminder of
a no agents" sign at the front
gate, stopped at the next
house and brazenly reported
the number of votes she had
received at the last house.
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Pfc. Robert Rhodes, station
ed with the Army in Ger
many for two years, has re
turned to a base in Texas af
ter spending the holidays
here with 'his sister, Mrs.
Kenn Paine. Other holiday
guests were Paine's brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Shuck of Los Angeles.
Medford High school stu
dents from this community
who played in the Medford
band at the Shrine. East-West
game in San Francisco last
month were Billv Straube.
Harold Lamb, and Mary Beth
and John Ramsay.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Fletch
er of Medford were recent
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lance
Offenbacher.
Mrs. Sophia Straube is
spending sevejal days in Eu
gene visiting relatives, includ
ing a sister, Mrs. Earl McMul
len.
Mr. and Mrs. George Mitch
ell are spending three months
at Westminister, Calif., visit
ing their daughter, Mrs. Joe
Shattuck.
A number of valley people
attended "John Deere Day"
in Medford Tuesday, among
whom were Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Ramsay, Mr. and Mrs. Milton
Houston, Glenn Smith, Mrs.
Nellie Rose, Mrs. Willis Scott,
Jim Corson, and Larry
Tweedy. Corson was one of
those winning a prize at the
close of the movie at the Cra
terian theater.
Mr. and Mrs. Clem Palmer
of Portland were recent
guests of Mrs. Palmer's sister,
Mrs. Rex Davis, and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ficht
ner and family of Medford
were at the Circle G ranch
here Sunday, where they pur
chased an Angus calf for a 4
H beef project this summer.
The Fichtner's son, Donald,
and daughter, Cecilia, are
members of Central Point 4
H clubs.
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The Ruch Community
church is nearing completion
now, and the rest of this
month will be given to vol
unteer finishing work, both
interior and exterior. The
wdmen's missionary group
will meet every Thursday of
this month in order to paint
and do other finishing work.
Upper Applegate extension
unit is contributing S12 to the
March of Dimes as a result of
a "silent auction" held at the
unit meeting Wednesday at
the Grange hall. Mrs. Truman
Hard of Medford, vice chair
man, presided, and Mrs. Rob
ert Sorber gave a discussion
of methods of making soups
and of types of soups served
by people of other nations.
Mrs. Harley Hall, a beauty
school graduate, demonstrat
ed care and styling of hair.
Mrs. Lynn Valentine, chair
man of the committee on As
sociated Country Women of
the World, read correspond
ence from England, and re
ported that the unit sent 43
Christmas packages to the
mental hospital in Salem. A
number of boxes of clothing
and food were sent to local
families as well.
Rural reflections: The nice
est thing that has happened
in this department in a long
time occurred when a local
teenager went to answer the
telephone, and on lifting the
receiver he heard Helga
Mitchell and son Jim sing
ing "Happy Birthday."
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Correction on an address
given last week for receiving
old greeting cards: 136 South
Holly St., Medford.
Lance and Fritz Offenbach
er drove to Klamath river
area recently, where they
made a cattle exchange at the
William Rogers ranch. Cattle
from the Klamath and Apple
gate districts mingle on the
summer Siskiyou range and
often take the wrong direc
tion when winter comes.
Engineers Move In
To Research Lab
Hawthorne, Calif. 0PI Aero-
nautical engineers have start
ed occupancy of one of the
worlds' most advanced scien
tific research centers at the
Northrop division of Northrop
Aircraft, Inc., here, it was an
nounced Saturday.
Some 2,800 engineers and
scientists working on the
firm's new T-38 supersonic
trainer aircraft program and
advanced guided missile and
airframe projects will be
housed in the research center.
Mrs. John. Collings is spend
ing two weeks visiting rela
tives in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Gettling,
who formerly resided here,
ar making their home at
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Contents of Booklet
PARTY MENU IDEAS
MAIN DISH . IDEAS
PANCAKES and WAFFLES
APPETIZERS
DESSERTS
CAKES and COOKIES
PARTY BREADS
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