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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1958)
: - K V .. w ; i- - i TWA; a. RETURNING FROM TIBET, Father Franz Eichinger makes public photograph of "Abominable Snowman" of high Himalayas. Priest said "Snowmen" actually are saint like recluses who devote lives to healing, good works. Missionary priest now is living in Frankfurt, Germany. Liebman Travels from Third Class Bus to Prince's Palace (Editor's note: This is anoth er in a series of articles by Jerry Liebman, who is on a trip around the world. In this series, he is discussing Af ghanistan. Liebman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Lieb man, 4262 Colver rd., Med-ford.) By JERRY LIEBMAN I climbed back into m y travel clothes, a pair of Levis and Army shirt, as a guest one night of our American Ambassador to Iran, Sheldon Chapin, at a square dance party he gave for his niece. This only confused matters more. Life in Afghanistan was similar. I arrived in Kabul by bus, hot, dusty, and dent ed head, to join a school friend, Prince Falmay Mah mand, nephew of the King of Afghanistan. Off the third class bus and into a palace again, And back to washing my one suit. It was difficult, after my Kabul stay, to step back into the bus life again only this time I stepped onto the back of a flat bed truck, hitching a ride through the Khyber Pass to Pakistan. I discerned that it can be very helpful to know a prince. I -had Falmay's permission to telephone him in the face- of any emergency and I used the privilege only once and with telling effect. Needed Five Days I needed five days in Kabul to complete affairs whereas foreigners are allowed only three days in one place in OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS 'TIL 9 MEDFORO lights fhe Christmas Candle DELIGHT HER FEMININE HEART WITH LINGERIE . . . EVERY SMART SANTA KNOWS WHAT THE LADIES LOVE BEST . . . ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S AS LOVELY AS OUR NEW "GOLDEN HAZE" LINGERIE BY MUNSINGWEAR . . . 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I took tea one afternoon in the King's country residence and was given a treat of treats as I left, a huge mound of strawberries. Only a traveller who has just spent two months pushing across Mid dle Eastern deserts can un derstand the value of such a lavish gift. On returning to the city, the berries proved not only tasty but useful and I was not above letting them serve an ulterior purpose. Shows in Service My hotel service had not been too satisfactory and when I returned to the hotel that afternoon in the chauf feured limousine, the King's servant insisted on following me into the hotel, the regu lation 10 paces behind, and bearing the fruit on a huge platter. Mind you, I can carry my own fruit as well as the next man, but if the hotel manager, and hotel's assistant manager, and six bellboys are watching, I'm darned hap py to let the King's servant do the job. Especially, if it means a vast and sudden im provement in my hotel ser vice. And it certainily did. The hotels in Afghanistan are soon to undergo a govern ment directed improvement in both service and number. The country wishes t o in crease tourists visits soon but wisely realizes that the tour ists must be able to find good and sufficient hotels. As part of this program, a number of Swiss hotel people have been invited to Afghanistan to train the locals. The hotel program is just one of the many improve ments the government plans or has in progress now. The country is fantastically back ward in every field. Afghan istan is awakening at last but has a great distance to travel, having just opened themselves to the world and to progress. Lack of Financing The greatest difficulty to be overcome is the lack of finance needed to set in mo tion Afghanistan's bold and wise plans; The country's re sources are just now being charted and exploitation has yet to begin. Oil has been dis covered south of Kabul and will mean an immense amount to the country just as it has to Iran and Iraq. I am cer tain the country will use the oil revenues wisely, having been impressed with the logic of their improvement plans and above all, with the chron ology of implementing the plans. First things first and everything in wise order. Signs of the country's long, self-imposed seclusion and consequent backwardness are everywhere. For example, the streets of the capital, Kabul, have just recently been pav ed. This was a Russian gift to Afghanistan as part of their plans to woo the coun try to their side or at least to a harmless (to them) neu trality. Afghanistan and Russia are not friends historically and I suspect Afghanistan of us ing their northern neighbors to gain all they can without paying the piper. This is, after all, the world's new small government' parlor game. Knowing the Western educa tion and orientation of Af ghanistan's leaders, I can't feel that the country will be led into Russia's growing com pany of satellites. By the way, Russia s pav ing of the streets of Kabul was a great propaganda vic tory over the United States. We are pouring immensely more money into Afghanistan than Russia but with much building dams, for example, hidden well in the mountains and we are helping the air system through ICA, but the common Afghan is not aware of this help. It just isn't as visible as, for, example, the street paving which he uses daily. Kabul has no street lights, Imagine a capital city with no street lights, and as I men tioned above, no paved streets until recently. I have no fig ures as to the amount of pav ed roads in Afghanistan but it must be an infinitesimal one. Paving of highways is in progress now but is very limited and is being rationed out. The Eastern portions of Af ghanistan will get the first pavement a s almost every ton of goods imported into the country enters from Pak-' istan and then at only two points. Afghanistan has no sea coast. It is as though all imports entering the U. S entered through Detroit and a border city in Montana. As CHALLENGING ELECTION John F. Wells, newspaper publisher from Little Rock, waits to testify before the special House elections subcommittee in Washington which is investigating the write-in election of segrega tionist Dr. Dale Alford over Rep. Brooks Hays (D., Ark.). Wells has charged that Hays was defeated thru irregu larities, violations of law, and a conspiracy involving Gov. Orval Faubus. ILLINOIS VALLEY Christmas Party Held By RUTH RAUSCH Cave Junction-A Christmas party and gift exchange was held by members of the Farm Bureau Thursday in the high school vo-ag building. Mr. and Mrs. Les Archer talked on their four-day stay in Salem attending the State Farm Bureau convention. Wally Eichler, high school soon as possible a route for imports will be opened on the Iran side o f Afghanistan. Considering the hardship of road building, and the miles to be covered, and the amount of money needed, this west ern route will be years in the future. There is not one mile of railroad in the whole of Afghanistan. Perhaps there never will be. Kabul, the city of the fam ous paved streets, is a fascin ating city and lies in one of the world's most beautiful valleys, high up in the moun tains that, as they continue eastward, will become the Roof of the World, the Him alayas. The air of this valley is clean and crisp, delighting the artist and photographer. Intensely Lush The valley is intensely lush and green, a magnificent em erald green that boldly con trasts with the bare, brown mountain rock. Surprising long and broad avenues, lined with poplars, lead from the city to the country fields. These avenues would be a crown even in Paris. A- de posed monarch, King Abdul lah is responsible for much of the magnificence of these avenues and for two huge piles of masonry, his palaces, that can't fail to astound the visitor. How is it that Afghanistan, a poor country, could have provided the revenue for two such vast Victorian buildings? Presumably the resources were strained since Abdullah was removed from the throne shortly after completion of, his divine dreams. One now serves as government offices and the Afghanistan museum, with a jewel of a collection, hopes to move into the other. This museum will merit the visitor's attention. At the time of my visit the museum was undergoing a needed renova tion but the quality of its col lection was apparent. Exhib iting only objects found in Af ghanistan, the museum dis plays the Indie period, ob jects from Alexander's con quest, Mongul pieces, and weird wooden idols that start led me by suggesting dark Africa. Perhaps the museum is at fault in trying to show every object in its collection with the consequent multipli city of objects but, at least, it has escaped the fault of too many small national museums that offer dull acres of King's portraits and memorabilia, al ways painful to me. vo-ag instructor showed a film on soil. The annual shutdown at Moore Timber Products will be from Dec. 19 to Jan. 5. This close down period is utilized by the mill to make necessary repairs and overhaul of the machinery. The Oregon Caves Monu ment reports an increase of visitors for October and No vember compared to figures for the same period last year. The continued spring -like weather in the valley this sea son may be partially respon sible for the increased number of visitors to the Caves. MAIL TRIBUNE, MeJford, Ore., Wednesday, December 17, ItSt 9 Shell Offices in Portland Picketed Portland - (UPD - A group of about 20 men picketed offices of the Shell Oil company here Tuesday. The men said they were independent service sta tion operators hurt by the current gasoline price war. A spokesman said pickets believed Shell was trying to fix prices through its company-controlled stations. A Shell spokesman denied the firm was "fixing prices." The pickets marched around the block on which the Termi nal Sales building is located and also picketed two Shell stations later. r Builders Supply Ktflflfe QUALITY HC BLOCKS H ' $111 Drain Til SLSS Bricks, Flues, "VL W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 A new post is being created at the Illinois Valley Ranger station, that of assistant dis trict ranger. Assigned to the new post is William C. Fessel Jr., a grad uate of the University of Syracuse and recently with the Powers District Ranger station. Fessel has been serving on timber sale detail here recent ly with Ranger Clifford Fink and is expected to assume his duties here this month. The Illinois Valley High school combined band and chorus will present a program at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19. The Everett Cox family of Kerby have left the valley to spend the holidays at their former home, Salem, Mo. I . Reg. . I $29.95 A special executive meet ing of the Illinois Valley Grange was held recently at the home of Melvin Gray, Grange master. Plans and pro grams for the coming year were discussed. The Grange Christmas par ty Dec. 18, will be a potluck supper with games and enter tainment. In place of a gen eral gift exchange,' those at tending are asked to bring a toy for the children under 14 years of age. The Harlem Clowns basket ball team is scheduled to play in Cave Junction Dec. 31 against a local team which Coach Eldon Durham is re cruiting. The famed traveling cage outfit will appear here under the sponsorship of the high school Letterman'a club. 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