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Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- TTVO YOU THINK it's easy to bring out a newspaper once a -LJ week in a small town? Listen to this sob-story from the Star Valley (Afton, Wyo.) Independent: "Publishing a small paper , ,, . is no picnic. If we print 2 JokS ARE S,LL jokes, people say we are uQSTlB OME NsWk sruffi. Vou- silly; if we don't, they say we are too serious. If we stick to the office all day, we ought to be out hunting things to write about; if we go out and try to hustle some news, we ought to be on the job in the office. "If we don't accept con tributions, we don't appre ciate genius; if we print them, the paper is full of junk. If we edit the other fellow's story, we are too critical; if we don't, we're asleep. "If we clip things from other papers, we're too lazy to write them; if we don't, we're stuck with our own stuff. Now, like as not, some guy will say we swiped this from some other paper. .... We did, and admit it." O 1353. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Nasser Rides High, But Faces Serious Economic Problems By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst President Gamal Abdel Nasser is riding high in pres tige but he has a monumen- t a 1 problem tnat remains unsolved. That prob lem is to bet ter the lot of the ordinary Egyptian who hails him as a hero. Nasser has n a t ionalized Charles M. McCann the Suez Canal. He has joined Egypt and Syria in his United Arab Republic. Pro-Nasser elements have seized power in Iraq. They present a grim danger to Lebanon and Jor dan. Nasser has made himself the dominant figure in the Arab world. But all Nasser's triumphs have done nothing to improve his country's weak economy. Egypt remains poverty stricken, as it was when Nas ser and his fellow conspira tors unseated King Farouk six years ago. . His policies have deprived Egypt of the economic aid which the United States and Great Britain might have given .it. He has tied Egypt's econ omy dangerously close to that of Soviet Russia and its satel lites. Egypt is spending much more for foreign goods than - it gets for its exports. Russia, instead of the Western coun tries, is buying most of Egypt's Reservists Leave for Two-Week Training Portland (TPD Approxi mately 440 Air , Force and Coast Guard reservists left here Saturday for their an nual two-week active training duty camp. Gowen Field. Boise, Idaho, will be the training base for the Air Force reservists, members of the 313th Troop Carrier Squadron. cotton. But Egypt cannot get from Russia the goods that it needs. This situation is not en tirely Nasser's fault. A lot of Egyptians are bet ter off than they were under Farouk. Notably, Nasser has broken up Egypt's big estates. Hun dreds of thousands of fella heen peasants hiow own lit tle farms of two to five acres. Rents of tenant farmers have been reduced to one-third the amount paid under Farouk. The government is opening up many rural community centers, each consisting of a hospital, a school and a meet ing place. New schools are being opened at the rate of two every three days. But Egypt's population of 23,400.000 is increasing at the rate of 500,000 a year. Needs More Land One great need a desper ate one is for more land. Egypt's people are crowded into a narrow strip of six mil lion acres of fertile land sur rounded by 244 million acres of sand. Nasser's dream is to add two million fertile acres by building the gigantic Aswan dam. That project received a big setback when his tieing-in with Russia caused the United States and Britain to cancel credits they had promised. Nasser has another answer to his problem industrializa tion. He plans factories of all sorts sugar refineries, auto mobile factories, steel mills. He has just opened the first steel mill. Russian and West German credits are helping him here. But industrialization is a long range project. What he needs is equipment from the West ern countries. To get it, he must increase Egypt's exports to them. Nasser's big trouble is that while he is winning victories in the Arab world, his coun try is in danger of going broke. I never dreamed m'v cavlnns i VA could do so well I actually thought income on a savings account was more or less token and just couldn't ever amount to anything . . . Then I checked up . . . found I could get a really liberal return, regularly,' end with full safety. Current Dividend 3Vi Per Annum (June 30, an extra dividend of Wz per annum was declared) FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Hertford 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle, Manager Ciro's Auction Recalls Some Famous Fisticuffs By VERNON SCOTT (IPC Hollywood Correspondent Hollywood (UPD Movie folk experienced the end of a zany, glamorous era this week when Ciro's nightclub was auctioned off in bankruptcy court. The plush saloon, and its famed competitor across the street, Mocambo which hopes to reopen, are dark and in active victims of the unre lenting laws of economics. There was a time when both spots were the scenes of slugfests among the stars, ro mantic trysts, big movie deals and razzle-dazzle shows. Now they're empty barns with weeds growing near the en trances and paint peeling from the walls. So where did everybody go? To the "intimate" little spots that have cropped up along the Sunset "Strip," and to the emblazoned watering holes in Las Vegas, Nev. Site of Fisticuffs Ciro's was the site of the one - punch fight between Frank Sinatra and a New York columnist several years ago. And it was in Mocambo that Errol Flynn uncorked a haymaker in the midst of a show. Then there was the costume party tossed for Terry Moore at Ciro's in which she wore a white ermine bikini. Movie mogul Darryl Zanuck enliv ened the brawl by stripping to the waist and chinning him self from a trapeze at 2 'a.m. Genial Owner' Herman Hover had only one standing rule. A customer was allowed three fights before being banned. One of the better mismatch es was a flurry of blows be tween Husky Howard Duff and skinny Oleg Cassini, the dress designer. None of the fights ever went the route. Las Vegas Blamed Primary reason for the de mise of both night spots is the salaries paid top acts by Las Vegas hotel owners. Sinatra, Jack Benny, Liberace and the rest collect-more than $10,000 a week for their stands, a pro hibitive tariff for local bistros. The situation is compound ed by the trend toward "beat generation" joints. Closet-sized clubs, typified by the Interlude, Crescendo, Little Club, Slate Brothers and Avant Garde, present pseudo long-hair entertain ment in a smoky atmosphere. Performers aren't in top bracket, but the customers sit in silent worship while the comedian, singer or piano player goes through his paces. And fights are out of the question. Is That So? By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Baghdad This country ought to be a fisherman's par adise. Aside from the immense Tigris and Euphrates, there is a welter of waterways which, though nothing like what it was eight centuries ago be fore the Mongols devastated the land, is still impressive. Yesterday, I drove for s while along the great Nara wan Canal, a 350-foot wide ditch that 'parallels the Tigris for 300 miles. It was part of Nebuchadnezzar's irrigation Escaped Idaho Convict Captured In Police Chase Pendleton (UPD An es caped prisoner from the Idaho State Penitentiary's Eagle Is land dairy farm who chang ed clothes with a woman mis sionary to escape detection was apprehended by a state policeman near Adams, Ore., Saturday afternoon after a two-hour chase. Patrolman Melvin P. Hew itt captured the armed con vict, James Finas Aiken, 30, when, the man tried to sneak past a police car on a side road off Highway 11 about 20 miles north of Pendleton. Woman Tied During the chase Aiken stole a car, changed clothes with a woman and tied her up and left hei in the first car he had taken. The woman' was Loma Mae Jones, director of education for the Oregon Christian Missionary society, police said. She was en route from Portland to Cove to at tend a young people's church camp. Aiken got away from the prison farm after locking the wife of the camp's dairyman in her home, seizing a shot gun and stealing a car for the getaway. Aiken was serving a 14-year term for forgery at the penitentiary. Oregon authorities said Ai ken was seen east of Pendle ton shortly after they receiv ed word he was in the area with a stolen car. A police pa trol spotted the car and gave chase but Aiken got away by turning off onto a side road. Changed Clothes That was where he fan into Miss Jones, who had parked along the road. Armed with the shotgun, he took $3 from her and changed clothes with her. She was wearing a jack et and a pair of. levis at the time. Police said he tied her up, put her in his car, then he fled in her car. She was found by policea short while later and a de scription of her car was broadcast to all points in the area. Hewitt spotted the car and gave chase. Police said Aiken was be ing held in the Umatilla coun ty jail here in lieu of $10,000 bail on charges of assault, robbery and being armed with a dangerous weapon. system some of which is still in use. Less than 40 years ago lions were still trapped in the reedy jungles that cover hundreds of miles of the marshes and waterways system. In fact, it would be foolish for anyone to say lions are extinct here now though some say it. We went up one of the reedy waterways some 60 miles south of the city and did a little ' fishing. Carp seized the bread-paste baited hooks greedily. They were big fellows. Several were a good two feet long and one of them was a goldfish. I wasn't too surprised at that. I saw a goldfish a few years ago that was caught in a California slough and he measured a trifle over 30 inches. The goldfish, further more, is an Asiatic carp that has been exported over most of the civilized world since his arrival in Europe three centuries or so ago from China. . Survival Chances Good While most of us think of him as native to a glass bowl, his chances of survival are pretty good no matter where he is released. It is true that his polor makes him a con spicuous target for other fish, that he has no speed for es cape and no worthwhile means of defense. Nonetheless, like other carp he has a birth rate that en ables him to compete success fully and all he needs for food is adequate vegetation, espe cially of the kind that grows in slow rivers and quiet ponds. That's plus the tiny mollusks it attracts, is what he likes. - Incidentally, though gold fish released to the wild state show a tendency to revert to the normal dull color of the carp in succeeding genera tions, the reversion will never be complete. The reason is that domestic goldfish . have been produced by inbreeding captured wild carp albinos. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: Bv special arrange ment with the editors of the F.nnvcloDedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader wno sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best na ture observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer- pnro work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many irienaiy letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 1069, San Francisco, Calif. TTvnorimpnts mav beein this n tanlrei- HpllVPTV of JCfll Uli ml liquefied methane gas to Great Britain. The Brazilian city of Sao Paulo is rapidly becoming the Detroit of Latin America. Nineteen foreign concerns have been authorized by Bra zil to set up or enlarge auto mobile plants in the city. We Take Pleasure in Announcing The Association of DR. DOUGLAS P. PHILIPS With the Staff at the ROGUE ANIMAL HOSPITAL 1455 North Riverside - Phone SP 2-4909 TheyH Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo WAVE A GOOD T7MP At -njpr PirKii- ruicc NO-I C4HT GO THERE'S A LOT OF WORK HAS TO GET OUT.' SOMEBODY'S OUT TO iaTav i DON'T MIND LET THE OTHERS H4VE THEIR pun (sigh;-- ustpm TO VFOMIKl L4Y1N rr OM THE MINUTE THE BOSS PUU-S AWAV HE'LL BE OFF TO THE TR4CK"- HE PLAYS HCOKEV AT LEAST ONCE A WEEKEND THE ONLY WORK HE EVER DOES IS PULL THE worn dvpo Bl6DOME'S 20-20'S VERMIN COLLECTED; , FOR BASEBALL EQUIPMENT SOMETHING TELLS ME HcS GOIN ON A BAT BIGDOME IS STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT WHO PUSHED HIM OFF THE DOCK LAST YE4R-HE CAttT SUSPECT , VERMIN THIS TIME I err ur & 4- '''' Sputnik Rocket Will Be Visible Over Northwest Portland (UPD The rock et of Sputnik III will pass over the North American con tinent several times today and Tuesday, according to the Bloodmobile Visit Scheduled Aug. 16 The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Medford Tuesday, Aug. 12, for its regular visit, the local Red Cross office has announced. Quota for the visit is 290 pints, for which 350 donors will be necessary, they said. The Bloodmobile will be at the Red Cross building, 60 Hawthorne ave., between 1 and 6 p.m. Red Cross officials said the Dairy Smith has donated a pint of ice cream for each pint of blood donated during the visit. Smithsonian Astrophysical In stitute. All times are Pacific Standard. "Tonight the rocket will pass north of Hudson Bay, Can ada at 6:19 p.m. and will then move into the earth's shadow over the north Atlantic at 6:27 p.m. West of Hudson Bay Also the rocket will pass west of Hudson Bay at 8,:01 p.m. and will enter the earth's shadow over Nova Scotia at 8:09 p.m. It is expected to be visible from Washington to South Carolina. - The next pass enters over Northwest Canada' at 9:44 p.m. and passes into the shad ow over Michigan at 9:52 p.m. It should be visible over the entire United States, with the exception of the Southwest ern states, the institute said. The final pass tonight will enter over Alaska at 11:26 p.m. and pass- into the shadow over Idaho at 11:34 p.m. Visi bility will be limited to the western part of the country. Visible in Northwest The first pass Tuesday will enter over Alaska at 1:09 a.m. and enter the shadow at 1:17 a.m. east of Puget Sound. It will be visible in the North west only. Moonwatchers are caution ed by Robert Boardwell of the Oregon Moonwatch team to look for the rocket about ten minutes early. All times of the institute are computed for the 40th parallel. Port land is slightly north of the 45th parallel. Boardwell said the "rocket will pass high in the south west sky at 11:32 p.m. Tues day night. Wednesday night the rocket will again be high in the southwest sky at 11:26 p.m. The rocket passes over Portland at an altitude ' of about 665 miles, Boardwell reported. 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