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.
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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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. .
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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?"
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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.
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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.
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