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
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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.
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