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1 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon. Wednesday, May 21, 1958 prodigies Do Last! Violinist Proves It By DOC QUIGG United Press Correspondent New York OP) A bouncy young fellow of 67 named llischa Elman is cele brating his golden anniver sary year as a concert artist in the United States. Who aid that prodigies don't last? Elman, one of the great violinists of the age, was a paring prodigy in Europe for four years before he came here. He made his debut to ild acclaim in Berlin in 1904. He was hailed as a ge nius in short pants in London. When he got his first pair of long trousers, at 17, it was time to invade America. Now, half a century later, having delivered the famed "Elman tone" in more than 4,000 con certs to 8,000,000 listeners not to mention millions more in radio and TV appearances he's looking ahead, not back. More Enihsiaslic Now - A short, stocky, bald, stubby-fingered man with' sharp blue eyes and a vigorous speaking voice, he produced, at an interview, pictures of himself as a boy violin vir tuoso with a big bow tie and mop of hair. He said he be lieved his enthusiasm now, is greater than when he made his debut at age 12. "I do hope my health will keep up the way it is today and measure up to the en- and my desire to go ahead and improve all the things I have accomplished," he said. "That's my ambition, and I think it should be the am bition of every artist, especi ally in these days when for tunes, particularly in the arts, cannot be accumulated any more. Elman has some decided ideas about present-day suc cesses. Needed Personality "In my day as a young man you had to have person ality to make success," t he said. "Today people without personality make successes through this publicity. But a great personality will always succeed. A, personality to me is a man who is creative. Some one who has a message a new message something that no one before him could convey to the public. Today, the performance average is high, but they pull down the top. We're not prolific in producing giant musical per sonalities such as were pro duced in an earlier day. "I'm not saying the younger generation isn't good, but no one of them has made his tory except this young Texas boy, Van Cliburn, and he has yet to prove himself. What is emphasized about Cliburn is the same thing the old masters had and not the young ones and that Politician Hit By Colored Group New York OP) The Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People has accused Negro Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.) of raising "the banner of ex treme racialism" in his fight for reelection. In a statement Monday by its executive secretary, Roy Wilkins, the NAACP also de nounced the Harlem congressman-minister for seeking "to drag our name" into his feud with Tammany Hall, the New York County Democrat or ganization which disowned Powell last week. Van Bergen Resigns As OLCC Assistant Portland (IP) The Oregon Liquor Control Commission announced Tuesday that V. George Van Bergen has re signed his post as assistant to the OLCC administrator, ef fective June 30. Administrator John A. Nance said Van Bergen would enter private law practice in Lincoln county. USE OLD FILE Gretna, La. (IP) Police today sought two prisoners who broke out of the "escape proof" local jail by sawing bars in two with a finger-nail file. Outlives Critics Says Oswald West Portland OP) Oswald West, one-time Democratic governor of Oregon, observed his 85th birthday Tuesday. West, admitting he didn't expect to live this long, ad vised, "for a long life be mod erate in all things but don't miss anything." West also took the occasion to compose a poem: Dead and buried have they had me. So that ready tale they spread. But I've lived to see the tell- . ers buried, All themselves dead. Student Poems To Be Published in Anthology Two poems written by Su san Coffman and Walter Humphrey, Medf ord high school students, are being published in a 1958 anthology of poetry written by high school students, according to the Pacific Coast Poetry as sociation. Miss Coffman's poem is an experiment in free verse and Humphrey's poem is in bal lad form. London (IPI Ernest Hill 49 head of the London bureau of The Chicago Daily News since 1953, died Monday of a heart attack. Dam Town Ready For Sale Soon Ephrata (IP) The sale of the town of Coulee Dam by the federal government will officially begin at 10 a.m. next Monday, Phil Nal der, Columbia Basin project manager here, said today. Nalder said present occu pants of residential and busi ness properties' in Coulee Dam had its beginnings about 15 years ago when engineer ing for Qrand Coulee Dam got underway and has , been federally owned since its founding. ATTENDS DEDICATION Ashland Dr. Arthur S. Taylor, chairman of the so cial science department at Southern Oregon college, at tended dedication of the Josh ua J. Walton hall at the uni versity of Oregon in Eugen May 18 as representative from Southern Oregon college. . NOTICE r I will be out of my office this week attending the National Clinical Convention in Metabolic Diseases and Weight Management,. Dallas, Texas. My office will be open again Monday, May 26th. DR. C. D. LEMLEY Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon 426 Medical Center Bldg." thusiasm I have for my artis the grand style. New Chemical Made Federal Scientists By By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (IP) Govern ment scientists have "made" a chemical which moves freely among plants by way of their root systems. Say you put a bit on a leaf. The, plant moves it rapidly down through itself to its roots and discharges it into the ground. There the roots of ad jacerV plants pick up the chemical and move it upward to their leaves. That's a very clever trick for science to pull on vege tables. It is' another step toward the day when vege tables will be as thoroughly men's slaves as machines are, Vegetables now have stubborn ways of their own. The newly "invented" chem ical is a growth regulator. Plants have a way of insisting upon over growing, of devel oping more foliage than they need to produce the parts upon which people feed. Could Make Plant Behave If you could put an end to Virginia Heads For Showdown Washington OP) Virgin la appeared headed Tuesday for a showdown in September over its program of "massive resistance" to school integration. The U. S. Supreme Court Monday shut off what ap peared a last avenue of es cape when it rejected Arling ton County's appeal from a lower court integration order Gov. J. Lindsay Almond, attending the governors' con ference in Miami, Fla., told reporters the four white Ar lington schools involved may be closed if Negro students in sist on attending them. He noted present state law requires closing of any school that is desegregated, follow ed by denial of state funds to such schools. He said he saw no reason to rush into a sDecial session of the state assembly. Virginia Atty. Gen. Albert is S. Harrison Jr. said he planned to consult with pri vate and state attorneys that represented Arlington school - officials in the case. Road Rebuilding Done Near Wimer Rebuilding of the road be tween Rogue River and Wi mer on the west side of Evans creek has been completed by the county roads department, according to County Engineer Paul Rynning. Single lane traffic has been necessary on the route since heavy rain damage early this year. Minthorn bridge in the area also was repaired. A county rock crusher was installed in the Dead Indian area this week to get out crushed cinders for Dead In dian rd. repairs, Rynning said. He also reported that coun ty equipment is now being repaired in the new county shoo addition at 'the county -fairgrounds. The new struc ture was recently built to pro vide extra room for heavy such inefficiency, you'd be making a vegetable behave as you want if to behave as you make a machine behave. The problem is how to do it with little effort and at small ex pense. Four scientists at the U. S. Department of agriculture's plant research laboratories at Beltsville, Md., began with ex isting evidence that when atoms of chlorine (a poisonous gaseous element) are added to the molecule of benzoic acid, you have a compound which a plant moves rapidly down to its roots and discharges into the ground. So Paul J. Linder, James C. Craig, Jr., Frank E. Cooper, and John W. Mitchell toyed with the benzoic acid mole cule. They added chlorine atoms here and there and tried out the various altered mole cules on bean plants until they had one which not only work ed but worked 1 spectacufarly. It was 2, 3, 6-trichloroben- zoic acid. The experiments were reported to the Ameri can Chemical Society. Growth Regulator First, they showed its high efficiency as a growth regu lator in single plants. But did it move from one plant to an other by way of the roots? They showed it did by putting it on the leaves of a single plant and then seeing adjacent plants grow in the same regu lated way as the treated plant It occurred to them, of course, that perhaps the chem ical evaporated while still on the leaves and was transmitted to adjacent plants through the atmosphere or that treated leaves on one plant came into contact with untreated leaves on another. But these possibili ties were disproved conclu sively. Thefts Reported to Sheriff's Office Three thefts were reported Monday and Tuesday to the Jackson county sheriff's of fice. Joe J. Jones, 306 North Bartlett st., reported that two lawn chairs and a fish ing pole were taken from his cabin on the Applegate river near McKee bridge the night of May 17. - Jones said vandals also broke 39 window panes and damaged furniture in the cab in. ' . A wrecking bar and a set of wrenches were stolen from the home of Edwin E. Min- nick, 5809 Table Rock rd deputies were told. Wallace B. Robertson, 4140 South Pacific highway, Grants Pass, reported the theft of 30 to 40 gallons of gas from a logging operation on Evans creek. Medford Student Gets Voted Into Honorary Eugene Thirty-four of the top scholars in the senior class here have been honored by election to Phi Beta Kap pa, national liberal arts schol astic honorary, at the Uni versity of Oregon. . Named to membership in the honorary from Medford was R. Craig Philips, the son of Dr. S. E. Philips. 1455 North Riverside ave. Philips is a history major. NEW! Air Conditioning! Shop ' in cool comfort on the hottest' summer day! r 'EM 0 W iOAIL mm wtiiit HURRY-SALE ENDS SATURDAY r wmmmmmmmmwmmm A ilii ill ill Englander Quality! Hollywood Twin Set SALE! pp 6 Regular 69.95 Qualify First time, ever at this low price! , Complete outfit with legs! Hurry! Yes, hurry in for this first-time special! Quantity is limited! Hundreds of permier wire coils uphol stered in fine felted cotton, white sisal. Special box spring. HI Sale! 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