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Turkish Black Market Is Clue To Economic Conditions There By JERRY LIEBMAN (On of a Series) A useful clue to the eco nomic conditions of the coun try is the black market. The legal rate of exchange here is 2.8 Turkish lira to the dol lar for commerce and 5.25 Turkish lira for the tourists' dollar. But liras are available on the thriving black mar ket of Istanbul at 12.5 for the dollar. On the free market of Lebanon they can be pur chased at 15 for the dollar. Greece has controlled her black market situation and though Turkey tries very hard, exchange at illegal rates is rampant. The induce ment, admittedly, is irresisti ble if ihe tourist can get three times as much for his dollars Then too, Istanbul prices are geared to the black market rate. Incoming tourists must de dare all money, foreign and AfS MAR. 22 170-76-85-83 16 STAR GAZER By CLAY K. 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Of course we are still far from satisfied with the number of books we have to offer and the library's cover age of all subjects needed. However, it was only a few short yesrs ago that quarterly reports sufficed to list all the titles that could be purchased for the library from available funds; in 1950 only 853 vol umes were added by gift and purchase as contrasted with the 5,817 volumes obtained during the fiscal year just ended. It has taken the combined work of many persons to make this growth possible, from the painstaking tasks of cataloger, processor, and or der clerk to the efforts of library trustees and city and county officials towards mak ing necessary funds available. Manv friends have con tributed to the growth of the library by generous donations of useful books. This month they included Mrs. R. K. Ham- mons, Chester Fitch, Claude F. Grigsby, Arthur H. Thomp son, Mrs. G. Ruth, Dr. ana Mrs. R. W. Clancy, and anony mous donors residing in Cen tral Point, Gifts totalled 118 of the 398 books added to the library in July. The 95 new titles added during the past two weeks are as follows: Science: A Guide to Astron omy, Mallan; Wonder World of Microbes, Grant; The Story of Animal Life, Burton; A Field Guide to Western Birds, Peterson; Audubon Western Bird Guide, Pough; A Book of Wild Flowers, Felsko. Sports and entertainment: Family Fun and Activities, Mulac; How, To Build 20 Boats, Rudder Magazine; All About Boats, Hutchinson; How To Make Money With Your Camera. Forman: The Com plete Book of Fly Fishing,' Brooks. . Butiri.is: Work Simplifica tion, Nadler; Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Fish er; The Popular Legal En cyclopedia for Home and Business, Kling: Construction Volume and Costs, 1915-56, U.S. Labor Department Education: Home Play for the Preschool Child, Johnson; The Troubled Child, Moak; TV and Our School Crisis, Siepmann; Bending the Twig, Rudd; Vocational Training Di rectory of the United States, Cohen. House and Garden: Kitchen Ideas for 1958, Better Homes and Gardens; Sunset Land scaping for Western Living, Sunset Magazine; House and Garden's Book of Color Schemes, House and Garden; Low Cost Homes, Eisinger; The American House Today, Ford; Quality Budget Houses, Ford; Personality Unlimited, Dengel; The Cage-Bird Hand book, Poe. . History: Napoleon's Russian Campaign, De Segur; The Real Americans, Verrill; How Mar cus Whitman Saved Oregon, Nixon. - Biography: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, James; The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope, De La Be- doyere; Nothing So Strange, Ford; Prince of Carpetbag gers, Daniels; Life at My Fin gertips, Smithdas; George Washington, Man and Monu ment, Gunliffe. Travel and adventure: Be low the Surface, Hazeltine; Shipwreck Island,. Shore; Land Between: The Middle East, Copeland; African Eco nomic Development, Ranee; Algeria, Tillion; Landscapes of Alaska, Williams. Literature: The Spirit of Man, Burnett; This is Goggle, Plagemann; Best American Plays; Fourth Series, 1951 1957, Gassner. Fine arts: History of World Art, Upjohn; Burl Ives Irish Songs, Ives; The Book of Jazz, Feather; Medieval American Art, Kelemen; The Concise Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, Cooper. How io, do it: Peter Hunt's Workbook, Hunt; Paper Magic, Harbin; Papier-Mache, Johnson. Philosophy and Religion: Highways of Philosophy, Boy er; This Is the Mass, Daniel Rops; The Edge of Tomorrow, Dooley. Reference: The Food-Finder, Gaunt; Everyman's Dic tionary of Literary Biogra phy, English and American, Browning; Dictionary of For eign Words, Newmark; The Columbia Lippincott Gazet teer of the World, Seltzer; Maps of the City of Medford, Oregon and Adjacent Areas Including Jackson County; Catalog of Reprints in Series, 1957, Orton; Subject Guide to United States Government Publications, Hirshberg; How and Where To Look It Up, Murphey: Directory, Newspa pers and Periodicals, 1958, Ayer. Adventure stories: The Hu man Element, Fores; The Man Who Couldn't Sleep, Mcll- wain; The Portuguese Escape, Bridge; No Entry, Coles; Westering, Blacker. Historical romance: The Courts of Love, Bourne; Tale of Valor, Fisher; The Tall Ships, Jennings: The King Must Die, Renault; The Caval ryman, Sinclair. Serious fiction: The Enemy Camp, Weidman; Eustace and Hilda, Hartley; The Stars Grow Pale, Bjarnhof. Romance: Marry Me, Carry Turkish, and are given an of ficial paper on which all banks must note exchange of money. Only banks are au thorized to handle the ex change. The paper must be re turned when leaving the country but most tourists "lose the paper" or "were the guests of Turkish friends.' Buying Transportation The malefactor had better have a well-composed story or carefully manipulated ac counts. Buying transportation out of the country is a com plicated procedure full of red tape to assure that non-domes tic travel is purchased at the legal rate. I had a long discussion of Turkish economy in the most unlikely spot for such a dis cussion. As a guest of my Istanbul friends, I was taken for tea at the newly-built Istanbul Hilton hotel, which has become the mecca jf rich Turks as well as visiting tour ists. It is totally unlike any mod ern building in Turkey, hav ing been designed by an American firm of architect!, Skidmore Owings and Mer rill, with a definite aim of glamour. The quality of con struction is very high by Turkish standards. German contractors were employed, The Germans underbid the American firms " since they were not burdened with the costs of providing the ameni ties American workmen de mand in foreign countries. Friday Afternoon Tea Friday afternoon tea at the Hilton is "de rigueur" with the fashionable set and the hotel is crowded. The Turk ish women of wealth can be extremely beautiful and man age to be dressed by French coutouriers. The gathering would pass unnoticed in any first-rate American hotel but is an isolated pocket in the city of Istanbul. It would seem that the Americans have taken over the Takism area of Istanbul in which the Hilton is located. The American Express, the military canteen, the PX and most tourist agencies are to be found there. The wives of American servicemen do their shopping at the PX and can buy all the goods available in an American store. All Turks know the word "PX and consider it a sort of fairy land of endless bounty. Approached With Requests All Americans in Turkey can expect to be approached with requests from hotel maids and such to bring them something from the PX, usu ally coffee. It is illegal, of course, but the Turks will pay you to purchase for them. It is fair game, seemingly, in the Turkish mind to cir cumvent the government in illegal ways. This goes hand in hand with a strange sense of economy on the . govern ment's part. For example, the forest wardens of Turkey are paid an unliveable Wage and so to make up for it they take bribes. Approximately 5,000,000 feet of lumber is cut legally each year and just as much is cut illegally. The forests suffer terribly but the managing expenses for the for ests look good on paper. The government is located at Ankara, - and like Aus tralia's Canberra and our own Washington, is an artificially created city. The site is an old caravan meeting place, but was chosen because it was in the center of the nation. It sits in a valley on the high Anatolian plateau. The sur roundings are bleak and un attractive, especially so in the hot, dusty summers. Nearby are the ruins of the ancient Hittite capital, Bogh- ozkoy, dating about 1300 B.C. The modern Turks claim des cent from these vigorous and, at one time, important peo ple. But like the Greek claim of descent from the classical Greeks, it just is not so. The stock is mainly Mongol and dates from the conquest of Tamerlane, among others. The old part of Ankara, Ulus, has the charming ap peal of any ancient city. Perched high on its hill, the old houses survey the new Ankara at its feet, in the low er surrounding hills. Like most cities of Turkey, everything is either up or down; nothing is level. The architecture of new Ankara is modern but with a heavy hand. It attempts monumen- tality but achieves a standard dullness. I did see two build ings under construction that showed promise, but skeletons of buildings before being clothed are often more hand some than the finished prod- MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, August 3, 1958 5 uct. Modern Ankara is new and so most streets are unpaved. Dust blows about in swirls except after a rain, and then the dust becomes an especial ly clinging sort of muck. It would be unfair not to point out that paving is expected later. Me, Kennelly; A Husband for Janice, Craig; Whisper to the Stars, Cunningham. Teen-age: The Eagle Pine, Gringhuis; Mystery Trail, Lane; The Sherwood Ring, Pope; Son of Columbus, Bau- mann. 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