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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1959 f6 S . .V--L U if -tW i - v. t - r c ' CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY U. S. Senate Majority Lead er and Mrs. .Lyndon Johnson read. congratulatory teiegruns while celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary at their ranch near Johnson City, Texas. . (UPI Telephoto) Quotes From the News ' By United Press International " ' ' London Laborer Anthony Leslie, 22, explaining why he wrote a letter -to his girl friend threatening to kill her: - "I have a cold and you do foolish things when you have m cold." Halifax, Nova Scotia Soviet First Deputy Premier An- astas Mikoyan, commenting on the TV quiz show hearings in Washington: , "1 was not aware of any scandal, but when I'm asked a . question I never know the answer." I . : Los Angeles Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), calling X. for all-out efforts in cancer research- ' ' ; "This country is attempting to fight cancer which will " strike 40 million Americans with less than half of what - ire spend annually on permanent waves." i Lausanne, Switzerland Princess Ferial, eldest daugh I ter of Egypt's ex-King Farouk, celebrated her 21st birthday and stating she was happy with her job as a $35 a week ? i "I have a job and can take care of myself. Such inde- Z. ' ... .. ...... . v . . . : i I - pandence is toe finest cirtnaay preseni i coma na wunvu I tot." . 7 . . t r ' ' ' X A ' ' 5- , - V ;u , . , . 1 ' ' - S ; . V V - . p wiiiia 5 rr - - i , , - - , ? S S IB .t:,.y . .j ....,.. - 'COPTER MOVES TOWER A Marine Corps helicopter 2 moves a 1,387-pound aluminum communication tower in a Z civil defense demonstration at Los Angeles. The tower, built 5 by Reynolds Aluminum company and consigned to the Pa C cific Gas and Electric company in San Francisco, is 33 feet high. The demonstration showed the rapidity and ease with J which the tower could be moved in case of emergency. 5 . (UPI Telephoto) Gun Discharge Kills Spray Man Heppner - (DPD - A promi nent Wheeler county man, Albert Williams of Spray, was fatally wounded Tuesday af ternoon when a gun in a car discharged during a hunting trip in the Tupper Creek area about 30 miles south of here. State police said he was with an elk hunting party when the accident occurred. The body was taken to a fu neral home here. Williams was a. former Wheeler county commission er. His son, Johnny 'Williams of TKinzua, is. known through out Eastern Oregon as a rodeo announcer. .The son also oper ates a restaurant in Kmzua. - It was the 23rd hunting death of the year in Oregon. Eleven have been by gunshot and the rest by heart attack. POISON APPLE WARNING Bristol, England-(DPD-South- west England, unaffected by cranberry poisoning reports because the berries are rarely sold there, was warned today about poisoning from import ed apples. Bristol medical of ficer Dr. R. C. Wofinden ord ered 200 cases of apples from Lebanon confiscated because the fruit was coated with sprays containing arsenic and lead. Sale of imported apples was stopped, in several south west cities. Impressions of Trip to Russia iewed by Leonard Mayhem i i "a Qooh Wanted Prefer Woman With Pie Baking Experience, Family Style Cooking. Phone 2-6247 or See Secretary at Elks Temple. Impressions of his trip to Russia some of them con flicting were recounted yes terday by Dr.- Leonard May field to the Medford Rotary club. Mayfield, superintendent of Medford schools, recently re turned from a trip which took him 10,000 miles through the Union of Soviet' Socialist Re publics in three weeks. The country club dining room was decorated with post ers which he brought back, and a sign (in Russian) saying "Welcome Back, Citizen Len." The meal was as nearly typi cal a Russian meal as it was possible to prepare, Mayfield explained, and included borscht, cheese and fish, beef stroganoff, ice .'cream, . and various kinds ' of " ' mineral water, t. - - - The trip, taken with 31 other school administrators under the U.S.-U.S.S.R. . cul tural exchange program and the auspices of the National Education association, was the first such exchange in volving public school people, Mayfield reported. He added that it would not have been possible for him to go with out the assistance and en couragement of a number of, local people. Includes Impressions His talk included impres sions selected from six hours of dictated recordings, and 60 pages of notes, Mayfield ex plained. He opened by stating a ba sic conflict in his impressions, the fact that much of what he saw was "refreshing, stimulat ing, and . encouraging," but other things were "confusing and a bit scaring." His talk, he said,' was lim ited largely ' to the "human side" of what he had seen, and he said several times that the Russian, people, as human beings, seemed to him more like Americans - than other nationalities-even British or Canadians in their attitudes, sense of humor, actions and conduct. Mayfield said that he makes no pretense of being an "ex pert" on Russia as the result of the trip, but pointed out that anyone could gain valid impressions of that country in their own fields of com petence. Here are some of his obser vations: Women Work Women in Russia work, probably more than 9 out of 10 of them, aggregating some 48 per cent of all work per formed there. " They do all types of work, including heavy physical labor, except that he saw no policewomen or female taxi drivers. But some 80 per cent of the doc tors of medicine are women, about 10 per cent of the law yers, and about 80 per cent of those in education." . . - Living conditions, by our standards, are primitive, lim ited to 1, 2 or 3-room apart ments, no matter what tne size of the family.-It takes up to three years to obtain- ap proval to move. Shopping is done almost daily by the women, the re sult in large part of the lack of refrigeration .equipment. Food is not wrapped as here, or at most is wrapped in a newspaper. Children between 3 ana 6 years are in nursery schools or kindergartens most of the day. and are picked up by their families in the evening. Parents pay for the small chil dren's schooling according to their ability, with charges ranging from nothing up to about $50 per month. Individual Homes There are few individual homes (although recently the government has encouraged home building), and most workers live in giant, com munal apartment houses, mostly within a short distance of their work. Leisure hours are devot ed to neighborhood teas or sessions of music, or to con cert, ballet, circus, cinema or opera going. There are no service or fraternal organiza tions as such, and "bridge luncheons" are unknown. Children of demonstrated ahilitv in some fields are i Brando, Ex-Wife Discuss Custody Santa Monica, Calif.-(lP&- Actor Marlon Brando and his former wife appear in court today to work out a custody agreement of their infant son. The case-in which Brando, 35, charges former wife Anna KashfL 24, violated a court order by refusing to allow him to visit at will their 12-month-old son Chris tian-was continued to today after the couple failed to ar rive at .an agreement last Oct. 30. . Superior Judge Allen T. Lvnch who is hearing the case said "we are trying to work this out in a gentleman ly manner if possible. ' The couple, married in 1957 divorced last ApriL' taken from the regular schools, and sent to special fields, a practice which in large part accounts for the ex pertness of Russian perform ers in the ballet, opera, ath-' letics, and other fields. 1 Parents are" responsible for the behavior and ability of their children. Failure of -a child to measure up may re sult in the loss of the parents' identity cards, which is dis astrous. As a resul there is no . problem of juvenile de linquency as such. Transportation,, in cities in particular, is well taken care of by buses and . street cars. There are more automo biles than he had expected to see. The new Russian jet air craft are impressive, but older aircraft, used in large part on airlines, are similar , to but smaller than the American' DC-3, and are old and suffer from bad scheduling. He said he made one 1,200-mile trip in a jet in 2 hours and 10 min utes but the return, in older planes, took three days. Continue io Work Workers can retire at 50 (for women) and 55 years (for men), or they can continue to work into their 60s, in which case they draw both their base pay plus their, retire ment pension, or a total of about 140 per cent of their earlier earnings. The people seem basically happy, and there is no appar ent dissatisfaction with the government. Many of them, in fact, "never had it so good." Workers are paid on the basis of the "norm," or set minimum of production. What ever they do above this re sults in a yearly, bonus. If they fall below the norm, at tempts are made to find them other work. If they still fail, they're "out of luck." No beggers or loafers are to be seen. Those resting in the parks usually are workers between shifts, and tney usually are reading. Book stores and stalls are every where, and people seem to have a real "thirst for know ledge.", ' The only opportunity to work for oneself is by farm ers on the collective farms, who, under certain conditions, can obtain plots of land up to two acres, and who can then sell the produce of this area, so long as it is . not manufac tured or processed before sale. The Marxist axiom, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," is, at least as far as the group could observe, car ried out to a large extent. Russian medicine, on an average and excluding the brilliant advanced scientists, seems to be on a level of about three years behind ours. Mayfield described a few incidents, ' including one in which a Russian could not understand our two party sys tem, and when told that one of. the visitors was a Republi can and another a Democrat, asked incredulously, "And you're still friends?" Talks With Mayors Others involved discussions with the deputy mayor of Moscow, and the mayor of Tblisi. To the latter he presented a "key to the city" from Med ford's Mayor John W. Snider, and received in return a lapel pin commemorating the 1500th anniversary of that city. Mayfield presented the pin to Mayor Snider. In concluding, Mayfield re iterated the basic friendliness of the people, but pointed out that Russia is virtually on a wartime footing today, all in the interest of fulfilling , the current seven-year-plan, and "overtaking America." He pointed out that we are now at a crossroads, and that oceans are now "only lakes" compared to past years He ended by saying how glad the entire touring group was to return to America, and how this nation has so much that is worth working for and, if necessary, defending. Strike Against TWA Averted Kansas City, Mo. (DPB - A threatened strike today against Trans World Airlines was averted when union and management negotiators agreed to submit their strike issues to .a neutral mediator. Roland Quinn, president of the Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (AFL-CIO) said in Kansas City Tuesday night "there .will be no strike." The union had stated ear lier that its 1,100 TWA em ployees could strike today. The strike would have grounded all of the company's domestic and overseas flights since members of other unions were expected to observe the picket lines. - The arbitration agreement was signed by Quinn and John J. Mead, a top .TWA of ficial. ,Quinn said the agreement named as mediator David P. Cole of Paterson, N J. describ ed as "ah eminent arbitrator in the airline industry." Letter Traced To Mental Patient New York - (UPD - Police traced a threatening letter re ceived by Mayor Robert F. Wagner to a mental patient in Rockland State hospital, they reported Tuesday night. They said Charles Grieg, 34, described as a paranoid, had managed to smuggle let ters out even though he was being held in maximum secu rity. Grieg has been at the hospital for 15 years. The letter touched off a four-hour : bomb search at City Hall when it was re: ceived Monday. AD MAN DIES. Boston, Mass. (DPS Joseph A. Mutrie, 53, manager of the resort and travel department of the Boston Globe adver tising department, died Mon day. . - HILTS Residents Attend Funeral ; By MRS. M. F. CAVItf Hilts Mr. and Mrs'. Ernest Spannaus drove to Brookings and Crescent City Oct. 28 to attend -the funeral of Lloyd Harbin, a friend of theirs for many years. . Mr. and Mrs. Grady Rab john and family have moved to the Frank Ohlund home on Cottonwood creek, northwest of Hornbrook. . : Mrs. Agnes Cunial is spend ing several weeks at the home of her son, Gino Cunial, and family in Yreka. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thrasher are the parents of a girl born Nov. 5, at the Ash land hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and has been named Denise Lyne. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Rose of Orick were week end guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vieira. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fergu son and children ' and Mrs. Margaret Ferguson and daughter, Janet, drove to the E. E.. Gibson ranch on the Dead Indian road Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Burns and daughter, Kathy, left last week for .' Tacoma, Wash., where they will spend the next several months. The Community club met Thursday afternoon, Nov. 12, with Mrs. Art Hartman as hostess. Both pinochle and ca nasta, were piayea wiui ivirs. Frank Groves winning high prize in canasta, and Mrs. Osie Bernheisel low. CIRCUS BANS CUBA Sarasota, Fla.-fllPD-Ringlfng Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus has decided to keep its elephants, wild animals, clowns, and acrobats out of Havana, Cuba, this winter, it was reported Tuesday. Gen eral Manager Arthur M. Con cello said Cuban Premier Fi del . Castro "doesn't ' like us (the United States) so we are not going there." In pinochle, high prize was won by Mrs. M. G. King and low by Mrs. Fred Haynes. Other women playing were Mrs. Ernest Spannaus, Mrs. Art Blanchard, Mrs. Louis Dettmar, and Mrs. H. G. Thompson. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Gwin at Sa cred Heart hospital Nov. 11. He weighed 9 pounds, 4 ounc es and has been named Vance Arthur. Mrs. Gwin's sister, Mrs. Eugene Arias, and son, Mark, of Union Creek are here caring for the new baby. Jimmie Gibson of Ashland was an overnight visitor at the Robert Ferguson home on Friday. On Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gibson of Ashland visited at the Ferguson home. They are Mrs, Ferguson's par ents. - . . - i Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Rainwa ter of Riddle were week end guests at the Roland Rain water home. . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoyt and daughter, Charla, of Med frod visited Sunday at the H. G. Thompson home. . BIG EXCITEMENT IN STEREO! 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