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Streamliner Derailment Hurts 58 Passengers Milwaukee, Wis (LTD A swaying Milwaukee Road streamliner packed with va cationers jumped the rails at 90 miles an hour Thursday, injuring at least 58 persons but killing no one. Eleven cars of the line's 18 car deluxe Olympian Hiawa tha left the tracks and plung ed down an embankment near suburban Oak Creek south of here. On Said Serious A United Press Internation al count showed 49 persons hospitalized with injuries to day, but only one was report ed eh serious condition. Nine other persons were treated at Milwaukee area hospitals and released. Among the 497 passengers, most of them headed for vaca tions, was Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the board of the Milwaukee Road. Crowley, who was en route to Seattle, the train's destination, was thrown from his seat but was not injured. Railroad officials said a preliminary check failed to reveal a clue as to the cause of the accident. Six Over Embankment The six rear cars broke free from the rest of the train in the jolting derailment and tumbled down an embank ment. None overturned. Five other cars rolled 300 yards down the track before derailing., A fire broke out in the din ing car, momentarily trapping passengers. Witnesses said Al Sawczyn, Chicago, played a hero's role in smashing a window in the dining car and, although cut nd bruised, helping a score of passengers to safety. Aluminum Makers Join Steel Industry In Price Increases New York (UPD The nation headed for another round of inflation today with prices for two basic materials steel and aluminum m o v i n g lip a notch. All the major steel com panies were charging $4.25 to $4.50 per too more. on.the steel product used in autos and appliances. At the same-.time Aluminum Co. of America announced it was raising prices of the light weight metal 710th of a cent per pound. And trade experts said other aluminum produc ers soon would follow the Al coa lead. The new increases mean higher price tags on every thing from hairpins and toast ers to the family car. About a ton of steel and several hun dred pounds of aluminum are used in an average car. Blame Wage Costs Both Alcoa and the steel producers said they were in creasing prices to offset'high er wage costs and emphasized the increases will only par tially offset these higher costs. Steel costs moved up July 1 when the industry gave work ers an additional 20 cents an hour under a three-year con tract with the United Steel-workers. People are talking about us AND WE LIKE IT This time of yeor there's always good news . cplenty about. the profits folks earn on their savings with us. Open your account: with us and enjoy the extra income your self ! Current Dividend 2Vi Per Annum (June 30, an extra dividend of 'x per annum was declared) FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 29-North Ivy -Streets .Robert f. Kyle, .Manpger . Festival Reviewer Sees Life in Play To Complete Canon "Troilus and Cessida," the Festival audience was inform ed following its performance last night, is the last of Shakespeare's 37 plays to be produced in Ashland. This is understandable. It could well be under stood, in fact, if the play were tactfully overlooked and not produced at all. Not that the play is a failure. On the contrary, Shakespeare has succeeded all too well in his purpose. His purpose, however, was not to offer a tragic catharsis, as in "King Lear," nor to en tertain romantic fancies and light - hearted wits, as in "Much Ado About Nothing-" No, the audience rises at the conclusion with the final woTd,- "diseases," rankling in its ears. It departs into the night with a sense of futility festering within it. The" audience at "Troilus and Cressida" is like a trout fisherman who has cast his fly only to discover, horrified, that it has landed in a stag nant pool. Audience More Tolerant But if this audience is more tolerant in retrospect, it will realize that ' the play like such a pool teems with life as much if not more than a brisk, bubbling brook. And further, this panorama of men and, women corrupt ed by a sluggish war is pecul iarly appropriate to the times. While diplomats hem, haw and haggle over summit meet ings and disarmament, and U. S. Marines crouch bewild ered at Beirut, the play offers stringent commentary on a strangely similar, situation. The setting is the Trojan War, a Middle- East crisis in The companies said the steel price boost, which averages nearly 3 per cent and lifts a ton of steel to about $150, will enable them to recover less than half of the higher costs. In the aluminum industry the higher' wage costs went into .. effect today under a three-year contract with the same union. .They also amounted to 20 cents an hour. Predicts General Increases ' Alcoa stressed its price in crease restores only part of a two-cent per pound reduction lat April 1 when the price of the metal dropped in world markets from 26 to 24 cents as the result of large Soviet of ferings. So far the steel price in crease has been on a selective basis, affecting only sheet and strip products used by auto and appliance makers. However, Bethlehem Steel Corp. president Arthur B. Homer predicted Thursday that by the end of this month the increase will be "across the board." Still to be affected are steel products like bars, tin plates, heavy plates and structural shapes used by such industries as ship-building, canning and contruction. which the ancient Greeks in dignantly invaded what is now the western coast of Tur key. Instead of oil as today the object was a woman, Helen, whom a lusty Trojan prince named Paris abducted her from Ihe palace of her husband, Menelaeus, and brought to Troy. The groud and vengeful Greeks set sail chivalrously to recapture her, only to find themselves en camped before Troy in a seemingly endless siege. Graham as Ulysses For seven years this cold war had persisted. Ulysses, played with sophistication by Richard Graham, bemoans the loss of discipline in the Greek army. Achilles, the Greeks' hero, "in this dull and long continu'd truce is rusty grown." Claude Jenkins did not quite get across the de generation of Achilles' char acter Meanwhile, the beautiful Helen, whose face has launch ed a thousand ships and placed a thousand chips on shoulders trembling with gal lantry, is revealed as a drunk en, dissolute wench a mock ery of noble aspirations. And as Helen goes, so goes the war generally. The pro logue warns: "like or find fault; do as your pleasures are; - Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war." This "chance of war" has reduced heroism to bloated self - esteem, morality to muscle-flexing and love to lust.. Upon this stage there lurks one voice of truth Incisive in its cynicism, appalling in its imagery Thersites, "a de formed and scurrilous Greek." Nagle Jackson plays him with restraint, making him perhaps a more sympathetic character than Shakespeare intended. But his tongue snaps like a cat o' nine tails as he cries: "Lechery, lechery; still vars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion. A burning dev il take theml" Played With Intensity Onto this darkling plain steps Troilus, a passionate young Trojan prince played with intensity by George Va fiadis. He loves a Trojan girl named Cressida. While her father, a traitor, joins the Greeks, her uncle Pandarus a, putrid cupid brilliantly performed by Michael O'Sul livan plays matchmaker in the worst sense of the word. In the sense, in fact, of the word derived from his name a panderer. He shoves the two lovers at each other in order to insure a consumma tion of their passions, then fusses about like a bubonic butterfly, urging them on. "But still," Troilus re marks, "sweet love is food for Fortune's tooth." When Cres sida is traded to the Greeks in exchange for a captive Tro jan commander Troilus hav ing betrayed their love by in sisting on this expediency she proves quickly inconstant in the Greek camp. Margaret Vafiadis voice seemed shrill at times, but Cressida is not supposed to be one of Shake speare's more beguiling hero ines. His passion spurred ' by jealousy and the threat of dis illusionment, Troilus plunges into battle but the play ends with his sword whetted still on expectation rather than victory. And this reflects at once the weakness and strength of the play. Lacks Structure Technically it lacks struc ture, meanders, the title-plot neglected seemingly in the general confusion of the war. The story unravels but leaves one with loose ends. It concludes not with a funeral elegy or double-marriage but with Pandarus, bewailing his professions lack of dig nity, insinuatingly addressing the audience as "Good traders in the flesh" and shrieking a series of eery, unheroic coup lets ending: "Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases, And at that time be queath you my diseases." Yet it was Shakespeare's genius in this play to suit the form or lack of it to the subject. His theme is the ugli ness and degradation which this long, soul-fatiguing war visits upon the several partici pants. If the play lacks direc tion, or purpose, so at this point does the war. It has reached a stage where the degenerate Pandar us and spiteful Thersites not the senile kings or pomp ous warriers gain the aud ience's confidence and guide it through the action. E.W. Chile House Votes To Legalize Communism Santiago, Chile (UPD T h e Chilean House of Deputies ap proved a bill Thursday night legalizing Communism in the country. Communism was out lawed in Chile 10 years ago. Baby Reported Taken From Home As Mother Beaten Porter, Wash. (LTD A vol unteer search party will look today for some trace of a 6V2-months-old girl reported tak en from her home after her mother had been beaten un conscious. Mrs. Darlene Palmer, 21, told Sheriff Richard Simmons and Federal Bureau of Inves tigation agents an unknown assailant struck her on the head and right arm Thursday while she was in the back yard of her home on Gibson Creek road three miles east of here. "When I came to, my baby was gone," she said. "I want my little girl back. Please find her. "They must have taken my baby quickly because I wasn't unconscious very long." Dr. Samuel McCool, Elma, Wash., confirmed the. wo man's statement that she had been struck on the head. Simmons said there seemed to be no motive for the kid napping. He said, "we are going on the theory that possibly a hobo, a sexual deviate or a woman who was desperately in want of a child took the girl. It's almost as though the baby disappeared into thin air. Births DUNGEY To Mr. and Mrs. LaVern, 3558 Table Rock rd., Medford, July 30, a girl, 734 pounds, at Rogue Valley hospital. LINKER To Mr. and Mrs. Darrel, 130 South Grape st., Medford, Aug. 1, 1958, a boy, 7U pounds in Rogue Valley hospital. WORK To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, 606 Stewart ave., Medford, Aug. 1, 1958, a boy, 7 pounds, in Rogue Valley hospital. LUCAS To Mr. and Mrs. George Lee, 726 King st., Medford, July 31, 1958, a boy, 10 2 pounds, in Sacred Heart hospital. PARADISE To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold J., 409 Barnes st., Medford, Aug. 1, 1958, a boy, 9 pounds, in Sacred Heart hos pital. BOES To Mr. and Mrs. Reinhold, 2551 Robin lane, Central Point, Aug. 1," 1958, a girl, 8 pounds, in Rague Val ley hospital. Frenchies Sandlers Trampeze Spaldings Skoofers 3 21 NORTH CENTRAL Measure To Protect Rogue River Scenic Strip Gets By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The Senate interior committee Thursday approved a bill to add a corri dor of private land to the Siskiyou National forest to protect the scenic values of a 20-mile stretch of the Rogue river. . . The 20,636-acre corridor is mostly privately owned, much of it by the U.S. Plywood Corp. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), would permit the forest service to swap other forest land of equal value for this riverside land in order to prevent logging of. the timber along the river's banks. A similar bill, sponsored by Rep. Charles O. Porter (D Ore.). was discussed in the House interior committee Thursday. Weather FORECASTS Medford and vicinliy: Hot and slightly humid through Saturday. Afternoon and evening thunder storms mostly over mountains. Low tonight 60. High Saturday 96. Western Oregon: Fair tonight and Saturday except for coastal and early morning cloudiness. Little temperature change. Low tonight 52-62. High Saturday from 83 in north to 85 in south except 63-73 on coast. Northern California: Fair through Saturday except scattered thunder storms in mountains and fog on coast. Little temperature change. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean yesterday 78: above normal 4. Record high this date 103 in 1931. Record low this date 44 in 1937 PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to midnight, none. Midnight to 10 a .m., none. Total last month 1.35 inches, 1.18 inches above normal. Total since Sept. 1, 26.95 inches, 8.99 inches above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 21Tc, highest this a.m. 73. High 4:00" 24- City Yester- a.m. hr. day Low Prec. Brookings 63 54 Grants Pass 100 59 Klamath Falls . 87 57 MEDFORD 98 61 Portland 83 57 Seattle 77 55 . Spokane 88 60 Yakima 94 53 Eureka 62 53 Red Bluff 101 73 Sacramento 101 66 San Francisco 75 59 Los Angeles 89 67 Phoenix 101 82 Denver . 83 59 Chicago 70 64 . Miami 88 83 New York 90 68 .69 Washington, D.C... 93 73 FIVE-DAY FORECAST (Throuih Auk. 6): western Washington-W e s t e r n Oregon Scattered showers about Sunday and again about Wednes day. Temperatures averaging about normal or a little below. Highs in low 80s in western Oregon, in high 60s or low 70s western Wash ington. Lows.in 50s. v Northern. California No precipi tation except scattered thunder storms at times in mountains. Tem peratures near normal. PARKER WOODS' On v0 145" ), Skirts In beautiful matching wools . . . highly styled imported tweeds and gorgeous new plaids ... you will love the selection ... sixes 7 to 20. to Approval Private owners of the land are not opposed to it but want quick action so they can make cutting plans. The For est Service report said: "The . described lands largely are wild, forested areas. The slopes above the river bluffs generally bear merchantable timber. This portion of the Rogue river is famed for its natural beauty and also for fine fishing. Ex cept . for occasional habita tions or recreational cabins, it largely is undeveloped and there has been little impair ment of the natural beauty of the river or the open flats and forested slopes and ridges which confine it. This area offers many and varied, opportunities for camping, fishing, hunting, boating and like forms of outdoor recrea tion. A road soon to be con structed south of the river will make possible timber har vesting and increased recrea tion use." ' "The need to protect the unique scenic and recrea tional value of the area, and to provide adequate camp grounds and other public use areas can best be accomplish ed by placing the area inside national forest boundaries and thus making key recrea tional and scenic sites now privately owned available for public development through land exchange proceduress." The corridor is located on the west side of the Siskiyoufl Forest, embracing the towns of Agnes and Illahe. Western Forest Industries association has opposed the bill on grounds it would re duce the allowable cut of the forest. The forest service told Porter the bill would re sult in "no material reduc tion" in the amount of tim ber available for logging in the Rogue river working circle. British Doctor Raps Tcrfooing of Girls London (UPD A British doctor called today for action to prevent the "tragic mutila tion" of teen-age girls by tat tooers who adorn their arms with images of boy friends or rock 'n' roll singers. Dr. Derek Bunting said In a letter to the British Medi cal Journal that victims of the tattoo fad turn up fre quently at the hospital where he works. 0 Sweaters "Skirts .. 0 Dresses 0 Shoes .... 5 Divorcee Sought For Questioning Found in Coma Indianapolis, Ind. (UPD Physicians today fought to save the life of an attractive divorcee who apparently tried to commit suicide while po lice sought her for question ing in the slaying of a wealthy businessman. . Mrs. Minnie B. (Connie) Nicholas, 43, was discovered in a coma Thursday night, slumped in her car parked in a secluded woodland near the city limits. Her condition was reported critical. Authorities said she ' left two informal wills and a note threatening suicide because of a shattered romance with For rest Teel, 54, executive vice president of Eli Lilly and Co., one of the nation's, largest pharmaceutical houses. Died Without Talking The handsome executive was found dying early Thurs- I SHOES II IKS I Casuals . . . flats . . . little heel thongs ... broken lots only but values to 8.95. 2 pair for 4.95 Dress Shoes Still a large selection loft in this group . . .'many higher priced shoes have been added to this group to clear ... 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