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
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News About Books
From the Library
It is with great pleasure
that we' have found our
monthly reports of new ac
quisitions for the Jackson
County library growing until
for the past several months
the lists of new titles became
so long that they must be
divided into fortnightly re
ports. 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-
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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.
Other fiction (old and new):
Brand of the Renegade, Mitch
ell; The Angry Land, Bass;
The Diplomat, Aldridge; The
Path of Thunder, Abrahams;
Masks and Faces, Bottome;
Dark Laughter, Anderson;
Lace Curtain, Berlin; The
Soul of a Child, Bjorkman;
Ride With Danger, Powers.
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