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Ten Years Editor's note: Ten years ago this month a middle aged Russian school lecher leaped from a lhird-slory window of the Soviet con sulate in New York City. She said she had been held prisoner and jumped rather than be returned- to Rus sia. Today, a decade later, she lives in seclusion, still fearful of revenge. This week she granted United Press International an ex clusive interview on condi tion the news agency keep her present whereabouts secret. United Press International Oksana Stepanova Kassen kina sat in her tiny one-room PERSISTENT SALESMAN Making a last-minute sales pitch, a Lebanese carpet vendor offers his goods to a group of U. S. Marines leaving Lebanon. It's apparent that the vendor hated to see the Marines go since they represented fine prospective customers. News About Books From the Library It is one of the sad facts df life that things most enjoyed and most constantly used must sometimes be taken out of service for repair and ren ovation: clothes and cars and television sets library "books and library 'buildings. The Jackson County library is no exception. From Sept. 1 until Sept. 15 the Medford Public library headquarters will be under going extensive repairs that necessitate closing the build ing for two weeks. To help supply readin'g to last over this period we shall issue each borrower a double allowance of books during the remainder of the month of August. Books will also be checked out for a longer period of time so that none will fall due while the library is closed. While the headquarters li brary is closed, branch librar ies in Jacksonville, Central Point, Phoenix, Talent, Eagle Point, Gold Hill, Butte Falls, Table Rock, and Shady Cove will remain open to serve you. A library card issued by any of the Jackson County library agencies may be used in any branch or at the headquarters "library. Books, however must be returned to the agency from which they were bor rowed. New titles made available to Jackson county readers dur ing the past two weeks are as follows: Animals: Prehistoric Ani mals, Augusta; The Animal World, Tylinek; Introducing Monkeys, Stanek; The Horse in Magic and Myth, Howey. Sports and Entertainment: Camping and Outdoor Cook ing Oetting; Outdoor Hori zons, Brings; Salt Water Fish ing, Heilner; Parties for Chil dren, Kohl. V NT 1 - V PEERING FROM BEHIND his brief case, Teamster Presi dent James R. Hoffa searches for data to present to the Senate Rackets Committee. Not taking the Fifth? Ago Russian Teacher apartment and recalled the day' a decade ago "when God helped me to warn America." "I think God did send me to this country in time," she said. "I had to tell Americans to watch out for Russians with out souls." . She had been sent to the United States to teach chil dren of Soviet officials, in cluding a son of present So viet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyke. Abruptly she was summoned home and the school ordered closed. She knew what that type of or der meant; her husband ' had disappeared at the hands of Soviet Secret Police in 1936. Travel and Adventure: A Pic ture History of Russia, Mar tin; Wilderness Men, O'Hagan; America Visited, Coombs; Herb Caen's New Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area, Caen.' Philosophy and Religion: Meditations of Marcus Aurel ius, Aurelius Antoninus; Say ings of Buddha, Hanna; Por trait of Pius xn, Padellaro; The Story of Jesus, Komroff; New Approaches to Dream In terpretation, Fodor; Late Me dieval Mysticism, Petry; Se lected Essays, Emerson; The Lost Books of the Bible. f Literature: The Best Known Works of Oscar Wilde Wilde; The Golden Ass, Apuleius; Chinese Proverbs from Olden Times. Homemaking: The Hostess' Manual, Kohl; Tfce Food-Finder, Gaunt; Feast Day Cook book, Burton; Book of Mod ern Kitchens, American Build er Magazine. Science and Technology: What's Going on In Space?, Holmes; Young People's Book of Science, Blough; Birds' Nests of the West, Headstrom; Popular Mathematics, Miller; Motor Service's New Automo tive Encyclopedia, Toboldt; Land Birds of America, Mur phy. Other non-fiction: How to Hold An Audience, Garrett; Taming the Forty -Niners Margo; Who's Who in the West; 2,000 Designs, Forms and Ornaments, Estrin; 101 Ornamental Alphabets, Cohn. Adventure Stories: Valley of Adventure, Gregory; Out West, Schaefer; Company of Adventurer's, Tharp. Other Fiction: Mrs. Lori mer's Family, Clavering; Ka lena, Booth; Beasts and Men, Gascar; Mary of Scotland, Kenyon. jf ., -;.'' I : s Mrs. Kassenkina sought refuge with anti-Soviet Rus sians but was allegedly "kid naped" by the Communists and held in the New York consulate. "- At mid-afternoon on Aug. 12, 1948, as diplomatic and legal battles on her behalf appeared lost, she jumped from a third-floor window of the consulate. Police rushed the Ukrain ian ("I am not a Russian") school teacher to a hospital. Seeks Happiness In the 10 j-ears since, she said, she has been "looking for happiness." She has wandered from place to Tlace, changing her room sometimes to avoid re porters, other times because, in the words of a friend, "she sees Russians under every bed." Short, smiling, she looks like a typical grandmother. As for money, "I have enough," and as for clothes, "I get some when I need them no more." J Mrs. Kassenkina wore a tiny black crocheted cap, a Tropicana Starts Gambling Again Las Vegas (DPD The lavish Tropicana, flush again and back in the gambling business after a $500,000 transfusion by Chicago stockholders, to day faced a state Gaming Con trol Board investigation. The board which controls gambling in the state ordered an investigation to this gam ing city Monday to inspect the Tropicana after the hotel closed its casino briefly. Wheels, cards and dice which shake, rattle and roll around the clock seven days a week were stilled for four hours when manager Mickey Colohan announced, "As they say at Monte Carlo, the bank is busted." . Colohan blamed customer luck in winning as much as $20,000 to $30,000 at a time for depletion of the Tropi cana's bankroll. By 11 a.m. (PDT) stock holders had voted to supply the hotel with another batch of money, fired Colohan and hired former manager J. Kell Houssels, a familiar Nevada gambling figure. . Houssels gave his "personal guarantee" that any losses by the hotel .would be made good, turned on the lights and signaled for play to begin. Colohan said he had warn ed hotel stockholders five days ago that the casino was operating too close to the edge. Move to Raise Tax Base Meets Failure Portland (UPD A move to raise the tax base of the Port land school district to support salary increases for teachers failed to get support of the school board here Monday night. . The motion came from a new member of the board, Nicholas . Granet, who had campaigned for the position on a platform of higher teach er salaries. Granet had asked for a 35 per cent increase in the tax base to raise some $6,500,000 for pay hikes. There was no second for his motion. Three teacher organizations had asked for the proposal to be put on the November election ballot for voter approval. Convenient Terms Your old washer will more than make the down payment! Jumped From Soviet blue sweater and a lavender and brown dress. "And don't forget my southern shoes. They call me Yankee down there but I belong in the. sun of the South." What has she found in her new homeland? Last fall she became an American citizen. Last winter she joined the Catholic church. She has learned to paint. "Oh, you should see the colors I use." And, she says, "God helps me to read." Has Been Sick Besides all this, she has fought and won against what she calls "sickness and suf fering." The injuries she suf fered in her leap. The stroke she suffered four years ago. It helps, she says, to have "two, three, maybe five" pil lows at night. But it's a lonely life. A dentist today. A doctor to morrow. A friend, a passerby for conversation. "My 'business now," she said, "is with God. I feel best in church. When I visited the South, I spent every day in church one, two, three times a day. The service was beau tiful and the people so nice." Gray-haired, she holds her cane and tips a pill from a bottle. "I don't feel able to do all I'd like," she said. "I can't be excited." She was one of seven sis ters, but after she leaped into the headlines, "they all dis appeared. . . . What has hap pened I do not know." What to Tell Khrushchev On politics she is as out spoken today as the day she leaped for her life. "I could, tell Mr. Eisen- howed what to tell Khrush chev," she said. "I'd tell him 'You've got a materialistic body, Khrushchev, but your body is empty. Try to get some of that spirit of God." Trujillo Saves Money in Canal Balboa, Canal Zone (UPD Dominican Republic playboy Gen Rafael Trujillo Jr. saved nearly $1,500 by listing his yacht Angelita as in ballast when it sailed through the Panama Canal Sunday, the Canal company said Monday. It said Trujillo, son of the Dominican Republic strong man, paid tolls of only $603.36. . When Trujillo docked in Los Angeles, he registered 'the Angelita as a naval vessel and thus avoided $2825 daily dock fees. As a naval , vessel the Angelita would have had to pay about $2,000 in Panama Canal tolls. DEFYING court order giv ing daughter to former mother-in-law, Mrs. Patricia Karam goes to Chicago jail on six months sentence. - . ' f j f . . . She doubts that Russia will make war at least in the immediate future. As to the nation she joined last fall when she was natur alized, she has this advice: "We forget our American heritage. We need to remind ROARING TO THE RESCUE, this Air Force plane arrives at Logan Airport with some of the survivors of the Nan tucket crash of a Northeast Airliner. Twenty-one persons were killed, 12 injured, in crash. Helicopters also assisted in the rescue operations from Nantucket Island. . Mercury lets you stretch out while stretching your dollar GOME IN! LET US Six people can fit in almost any standard-size car today. But how often have you been comfortable with more than four passengers? Mercury gives you extra inches inside to eliminate the "squeeze." Six adults can sit back without touching. Extra comfort is just one example of Mercury's approach to bunding cars. Mercury gives you more than you might expect more than ordinary cars offer. You'll find this equally true of Mercury's perform ance and ride. Mercury's Marauder V-8 engines (up to 360 hp) are the most advanced in the industry give you more power from less gas. Mercury's ride is a Full-Cushion ride full-time smoothness on any road. ' The price? It's never been easier to own a Mercury. ACT NOW-SAVE BIG! SEE YOUR MERCURY DEALER TODAY! Consulate curselves to be independent. And, she said, when Amer icans talk of "getting along with the Communists," they should ask themselves this question: "How can you live with the devil?" SHOW YOU HOW TO LIVE BIG-DRIVE BIG MEMY 112 South Riverside f- MAIL TRIBUNE, Mdferd. Oregon, Tuesday, August 19, 1938 3 Union Tries to Get Workers on Job Portland (UPD An interna tional representative of the Steelworkers union reported that the union was attempting to get some 425 workers who pulled a wildcat strike Mon day morning to go back to work. "The strike apparently was a spontaneous move," Lee Caldwell, . the union repre sentative, said. The workers struck the American Can company Mon day morning following the disciplinary laying off of two shipping department em ployees. Caldwell said the walkout had not been authorized by either local 2070 or . the in ternational body of the union. Company officials in Port land would not .comment on the incident. TO BUY EQUIPMENT Corvallis1 (UPD Special chemistry research equipment will be purchased by Oregon State college with a $64,272 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. A. L. Strand, school president, said today. Forests in Brazil cover about one billion acres. PERFORMANCE CHAMPION The Proudest Name In Home Laundering Double Trade In Allowance for your old washer during this Harvest of Values Event. f PUSHBUTTON honor for Polish-born scientist, Dr. Henry Samulton, who was tabbed to touch off first U. S. rocket shot at moon. Airliner Searched For Possible Bomb San Francisco (UPD An American Airlines plane en route from here to Houston, Tex., made an unscheduled stop at Bakersfield, Calif., Monday night after the airline received a telephone warning that a bomb was aboard. A search of the plane un covered no bombs and the flight continued to Houston, the airline said. ON A SMALL BUDGET FOR '58 Swem's HARVEST OF VALUES THIS WEEK ONLY! 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