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o it A MAR. TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, May 13, 1958 'Studio One' Joins Rush Of Japanese Plays With ' Iho Kurishiki Incident1 oBy WILLIAM EWALD ViiJee" Press Correspondent ftew York (IF) This na 'He seems to be on a mild (Japanese kick. Japanese furniture has en- yed a bit of a twirl and Jap- ' and groommg seem to be A i- M having a slight flutter among 'S tho cHrla Jarv o x- anese films HfiSrjh like "Rasha , m Iran n" and rfi IV I "Gate of Hell" jolted Amen- Ewald can movie go ers and Hollywood film mak ers jumped on the wagon by filming major offerings like "Sayonara" in Japan. Japanese pop singers have appeared on TV, the beat gen eration has taken a fix on Zen Buddhism and some of the avant garde have gone ga ga about Japanese "no" plays. Just this year, a Japanese ac tress won an Academy Award and another actor was nomin ated. 'Studio One' Takes Not The twain seem to have met after all and Monday night "Studio One," taking note of the meeting, hopped in. The CBS-TV drama hour unpackaged a number called "The Kurishiki Incident" with Michi Kobi and Sessue Haya kawa representing the in strutable East and John Cas sevetes the scrutable West. The plot of the play seemed to be a combination of a re cent news incident plus the standard Madame Butterfly Sayonara American - boy-meets-Japanese-girl bit. Cassevetes was cast as an American soldier who kills a young Japanese boy caught pilfering an American depot. After acquittal, the G.I. tried to salve his conscience by visiting the family of the boy. He falls in love with the boys sister (Michi Kobi), but she dumps him when she learns who he is. It all ended on a tidy upbeat note with forgive ness and forgetness sprayed all over the screen. I suppose the author's main intent was in having each of the characters stand for some thing larger: Cassevetes as a loner of a G.I. who expanded his horizons and learned to savor the delight's of living outside the American pattern; Miss Kobi as a representative of the currently rootless Jap anese generation who learned to value some of the traditions of her culture. It was a very earnest little play, but unfortunately like most earnest dramatic docu ments, a rather dull one. Cas sevetes, who limits himself to about one TV play a year now, chose rather badly in this case, aUhough he worked about as competently as pos sible. Miss Kobi was appealing, but rather inadequate in her role. Hayakawa was properly enigmatic as her uncle. Pioneer -Warrenton Resident Passes Astoria (IP) Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Agnes Georgianna Day, 86, pioneer resident of War renton and the last of the original Clatsop tribe of In dians. She died here Satur day. Mrs. Day was a grand daughter of Solomon and Cel iast Smith who had known and conversed with members of the original Lewis and Clark expedition. Her father, Solomon Smith, was one of the first school teachers in Oregon and was one of the signers of the original pro visional government of Ore gon at Champoeg. r ELECT A Man Who Looks to Hie FUTURE off the FARMER Fair and Equal representation in the Legisla ture on current farm problems. EDUCATION Adequate schools for trades and skills as well as COMPLETE preparation for higher learning. TAXES A realistic Tax Structure that will attract industry. MINING Mining to be stabilized as a permanent and profitable development. the AGED Real property tax relief for elderly citizens on inadequate incomes. 1 Republican State Representative Lattie for Representative Committee, Charles F. Johnson, Chairman, Phoenix, Ore. Pd. Pol. Ad. A& zzR ft ?, dx-t: If if (0M"l w y & HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY Former President Harry S. Truman cuts birthday cake during surprise party celebrating his 74th birthday at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo. The former chief executive was greeted by a chorus of "Happy Birthday" as he walked in the door of the library. ' PROSPECT School Clinic Slated By MICKIE LARSEN Prospect A school child conference will be held at the community hall May 15, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. All children from 6 months to 6 years are eligible. Im munization will be offered. Dr. A. E. Merkel, public health physician, will be the examining doctor. Appoint ments may be made by calling UNion 9-2044. Tuesday evening, May 13, at 8 p.m. the" music depart ment of Prospect schools will present its annual spring concert. Sunday, May 4, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Ash attended a meeting for the Lions .in Grants Pass. "Chuck" Hooper, employed by Darwin Bevens and Harry Goode, had his thumb cut off while working in the woods. He is in a local hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence San derson and daughters, Pat and Sandra, and a friend, Nan Govenor, spent the past week on the coast. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Town are leaving to make- their home in Brookings. Town and a brother have purchased a 52 - unit trailer court at Brookings. Friday, May 9, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Grant and daughter, Helen and son-in-law, Don Owesley, and Pat, all former ly of Prospect and now living in Eureka, Calif., visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ells. Several new cases of the three-day measles broke out in the Prospect school Friday, May 9. ProsDect home extension will hold a meeting Wednes day, May 14, at the com munitv hall. A notluck meet ing and election of officers are scheduled. Plans for the com ing vear. and the coming Hill O a - r - u Billy Jamboree will be dis cussed. This year they will have young married couples run ning. In the past years they have had young children and teenagers. From the sound of all the planning going on this Jamboree will exceed the others by a large margin. Home ill with the measles is Diana Ells. School board election was held Monday. May 5"! with one office of the board to be filled. Mrs. Luke Biden wag elected. Others already serving on the board are Gene Burrill, Frank Boothby, John David son, Clarence Hedgpath, and Marge Biden. Mrs. Jack Ells and Mrs. Sharlod Chapman and son, Lonnie, and Mrs. Bill Ferns and children, Richy, Tommy and Peggy, visited Mrs. Dick Larson, Wednesday, May 7. Red Blanket sawmill start ed its night shift May 7. Plans to operate the "Sweede" mill are underway. Mrs. Nick Freed visited her son in Portland recently. Several plans for "Mother's Day were altered due to the rain. Picnic parties were moved inside and buffet style lunches were served instead. Sherman Poole, who was injured by a flying piece of steel, did not lose the sight of his eye. High school graduation will be held May 28 in the new High school gymnasium. Grade school will be dis missed for the summer on May' 29. Mrs. "Blonde" Marshall vis ited Mrs. Dick Larson Friday, May 9. Military Pay Increase, Passes In Vote by House Washington (W The House today passed a compro mise $576,438,000 military pay raise bill aimed at keep ing skilled men in the service. Speedy Senate concurrence was expected, paving the way for servicemen to get fatter pay checks June 1. President Eisenhower re quested the legislation on the basis of the so-called Cordiner report. The report warned that technicians and other specialists, trained at high cost, were leaving the serv ices in droves to join private industry. ' The measure sets up a "pro ficiency" pay system in which most members of the armed forces will get raises. Pay hikes range from 14 per cent in the corporal third class-petty officer grade to 47 per cent for members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Privates with more than two years duty would get a six per cent raise. The original House bill called for a $683,327,000 in increases. The Senate scaled this to $576,038,000. Confer ences adjusted" the differ ences. ' The compromise includes a senate provision under which captains, majors, lieutenant colonels and colonels and their navy counterparts will get "responsibility"-increases if their jobs warrant it." ay for Justice of the yPREME COURT POSITION NO. 3 An Experienced lawyer An Able Judge Fd- Adv- SIoan tor Ju3e Comm. 209 Franklin Bids, Medford, Ore Wiley Smith Sees Tax Apportionment As Campaign Issue WILEY W SMITH For Equitable Apportionment Editor's note: This is another in a series of profiles on candidates for governor in Oregon's primary election May 16. Today: Wiley W. Smith. Portland (IP) Wiley W. Smith, 66, the Multnomah county assessor is after the D e m o c r a tic gubernatorial nomination in the May 16 Ore gon primary, a position he once changed his mind about seeking. Smith said in 1953 he would seek the Democratic nomina tidn but later changed his mind. In 1956, Smith was the Democratic nominee for state treasurer but lost to Sig Unan; der, who seeks the guberna torial nomination this year on the Republican ticket. Taxes Said Issue Smith, a native of Tennes see who has lived in Portland for 37 years, says the issue in the current campaign is "tax ation a just and equitable apportionment of the cost of government among the citi zens on the basis of their abil ity to pay." He has been critical of the State Tax Commission and said in a speech that "utility assessments went down two per cent in the last seven years while home owner as sessments were going up 39 per cent." He also criticized the reappointment, of Sam Stewart, a Republican, to the Commission. Smith recently changed the tax ratio in Multnomah coun ty to 100 per cent of true cash yalue. This had the ef fect of ! raising the state's bonding limit. Elected Assessor in 1950 He was first elected county assessor in 1950 and has held the job since. He has worked for the U.S. Maritime Commission; the Federal Trade Commission, was a tax clerk in the sheriffs office, a manufacturing plant anditor and is a former ap praiser in the assessor's of fice. Smith served with the in fantry in the first World War. He is married and has two daughters and four grandchildren. Construction Strike Negotiation Slated Portland Iff) The U. S. Mediation Service said today that negotiators for the Ore gon State District Council of Laborers union and heavy construction contractors will meet with federal conciliators Wednesday at the U. S. court house here to attempt to come to terms and end the strike now in its second week. The laborers' strike, or dered by the union over a wage dispute, idled about 5,000 workers and tied up millions of dollars worth of heavy construction projects in Oregon. Glenn Blake, president of the Multnomah County Cen tral Labor Council, said he would demand an arbiter be called in if the strike was not settled by Wednesday. THE CHILLY WAR f Bonn, Germany (IP) Ger man Communists were as sailed today as would-be family-wreckers. The government said the Communists are mail ing handwritten letters to the homes of German soldiers which usually begin with, "My loved one," and end with, "Your always loving." The soldier's wife usually opened it . Lana Turner Will Remake 1934 Movie Hollywood Iff) Lana Turner, whose real life roles read like the plot of a B movie, goes back to work in July in Universal-International's "Imitation of Life," a hit of 1934. Announcement by U-I Vice President Edward Muhl Mon day that glamorous Lana would appear in the picture ended speculation on whether the slaying of her lover, Johnny Stompanato, by her daughter might finish the star in Hollywood. Lana's 14-year-old daugh ter Cheryl, stabbed Stom panato to death April 4 in the movie queen's rented Beverly Hills mansion. The slaying was called "justifi able homicide." Cheryl was made a ward DOUBLE CATCH Beecher City, 111. HP) Bass may not talk, but Mrs. J. A. Allen caught one that at least ' croaked. Investiga tion unearthed a live bull frog in the bass's, throat. John J. Frantz is a good man to know He can probably save you quite a bit of money. As an Allstate Agent, he's a specialist at taking the red tape and high cost out of insurance. Why don't you call him? 40 South Central 1 Medford, Oregon Ph.: SPring 3-4722 Voura in good hand: wllrt fl ijLLSTATEj Insurance Companies f I HOME OFFICE. SKOKIf. III. f I of Juvenile Court and placed pending a June 2 hearing temporarily with her grand- on what shall be done with mother, Mrs. Mildred Turner, her. Re-IOect MM RODNEY Pi KEATIHBEMJ REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE t FOR COUQTv JUNE Here Is How He Has Served You: i. 2. 3. 4. Republican precinct committeeman 1948 to 1954. Appointed County Judge in 1954. Elected for full term in General Election in 1954. Elected as one of the two delegates to the Republi can National Convention from Fourth Congres sional District of Oregon. 1 Member of Jackson County Welfare Committee for , eleven years. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pd. Adv. Vice-President of the O & C Lands Assn. Served 3V years active duty in U.S. Navy In World War II. For five years commander of the Naval Reserve unit in Jackson County. Unit received outstanding recognition for two consecutive years. Member of Public Lands Committee of State Ass'n. of Oregon Counties. E. H. Singmaster, Chr'rman, Keating for County Judge Committee, P.O. Box 226, Ashland. 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