MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1960
Homesick Chinese
Crowd Capital of
Nationalist Leader
Taipei, Formosa - (CPD -President
Chiang Kai-shek's
capital-in-exile is a smoky,
. dusty, weatherbeaten city
! crowded with tens of thous
ands of homesick Chinese.
The Nationalist Chinese
fled to Taipei ten years ago
seeking temporary shelter un
til they could fight back to
the China mainland.
Then are still here.
For nearly nine years, the
Kuomintang government vir
tually prohibited any major
civilian construction which
might suggest that the Nation
alists were settling down in
Taipei to stay.
But quietly in the past year
scaffolding has been erected
around ramshackle buildings
and new foundations dug
where shacks once stood.
Like mushrooms after a
spring rain, new apartment
houses, modernistic office
structures and a mammoth
wide-screen movie theater
started sprouting in a city
old beyond its real age.
New neon signs sparkled
at night, and huge rubber ad
vertising balloons, populariz
ed in Tokyo, floated for the
first time in Taipei's smoggy
skies.
Taipei, only 140 miles east
of Communist China, held its
first beauty contest in history
one year after the Quemoy
crisis, and threat.', of war
seemed far away.
But the skyline is broken
by anti-aircraft guns perched
atop buildings and, beyond
the city's four corners, by
Chinese-manned Nike Hercu
les missiles which can blast
a flight of planes from the
sky with one shot.
By historic coincidence, this
city of 20th-century exiles
was conceived nearly 300
years ago as a home for wan
derers from mainland China.
In 1698, an official of
China's' Manchu dynasty,
Chen Lai-chang, obtained im
perial permission to develop
the city that became Taipei.
The fingerprints of Japan's
50-year rule of Formosa from
1895 to 1945 are pressed in
delibly into the face of Taipei,
a city of some 800,000 population.
The Japanese ruled Formo
sa from a five-story brick
building with a center tower
piercing the sky. Today that
building in downtown Taipei
is Chiang's headquarters and
the seat of the defense minis
try. One block away stands a
gray, soot-stained Victorian
mansion, built as the official
residence of the Japanese gov
ernor when Emperor Hirohito
was crown prince. Now the
government guest house, the
mansion is the scene of Tai
pei's biggest diplomatic re
ceptions. A dinner jacket for the
guest house? Not in Taipei,
where government officials
earn miserly salaries and
"black tie" means a dark bus
iness suit or the high-necked
tunic and slacks popularly
known as the Sun Yat-sen
uniform.
Movie theaters are packed
to near capacity every night.
The city offers little else in
the way of entertainment out
side the home.
The government, preaching
austerity and urging full
dedication to the task of de
f e a t i n g the Communists,
frowns on public dancing and
prohibits public cabarets.
But for the benefit of
American GIs, officials per
mit a group of night clubs to
operate along a street nick
named "Sin Alley where
painted hostesses dance in
exchange for cups of tea cost
ing about a dollar each.
And, from the Japanese oc
cupation of Formosa, the Chi
nese inherited one institution
of pleasure which they had
never experienced on the
mainland "girlie restau
rants," a sort of poor man's
Japanese geisha house where
comely waitresses permit
themselves to be hugged be
tween courses.
On the outskirts of Taipei,
the government built the
show-place Grand Hotel, pri
marily for foreign visitors,
one of the most ornate hotels
in all Asia.
But most Taipei Chinese
live in tiny frame houses,
stained only by the sewage
of the sky. There many wait
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MEAT CARVED A House Agriculture tion was an attempt to show that consumers
committee hearing was converted tempor- are misguided in protesting government
arily into a. butcher shop when Clifford plans to stop grading lamb. Bowes, left,
Bowes, a Chicago meat consultant, cut up displays the meat to Chairman Harold D.
a carcass of a fat lamb federally graded Copley (D-N.C.)
"U.S. Choice". Purpose of the demonstra- '. (UPI Telephoto)
Legion Post To
Meet Tonight
Medford American Legion
Post 15 will meet in the audi
torium of the Jackson county
courthouse . at 8 o'clock to
night, according to Post Com
mander M. C. McElhiney.
The regular meeting will
be preceded at 7 p.m. by a
meeting of the post's execu
tive committee.
Main topics at the meeting,
McElhiney said, will be dis
cussion of plans for construc
tion of the post's new home
and outlining of the member
ship program for 1960.
All Legion members, as
well as other interested vet
erans, are invited.
for that day when they will
go home again. And wait. And
wait. ...
Four Speakers Are Featured at Session
Four speakers were fea
tured at a meeting of the
Medford Toastmasters club,
which was host to the Med
ford Presbyterian- club, Mon
day at the Jackson hotel.
Thirty-three members of the
two clubs were present.
Speakers, and their topics,
included Walter Nunley, "Let
Us Not Get Serious About Hu
mor;' Russ Mitchell, "Meth
ods .of Teaching;" - Archie
Pierce, "America's Most Im
portant Product;" and Roy
Smith, "A Woman in Oregon's
History."
Evaluators were Larry Mc-
Eachron, Frank Morgan, Dr.
Ralph Hibbs and Chris Chris
tenson. General evaluator for
the evening was Dr. John
Brandenburg and grammar
ian was Russ Mitchell.
Dr. John Weisel, past presi
dent of the Medford " club,
opened the meeting with John
Smith giving the invocation.
Dwight Wilson was toastmas
ter. Dr. D. Kirkland West of
the Presbyterian club assign
ed 12 table topics, which were
evaluated by Dr. John Welch.
Guests included Dick Mc
Gregor and Ken Robiers. Dick
Swan was introduced as a new
member of the Medford club.
Program arrangements were
made by Jack Foster and Har
old Sabolle of the Presbyter
ian club, and Otto Kannasto,
Dr. Welch and Dr. Weisel of
the Medford club.
The Victorian Order of
Nurses was established in
Canada by Royal Charter in
1867, Victoria's diamond jubi-'
lee.
School News
Phoenix High School
Leslie Weigart, represent
ing the traveling sicence dem
onstration lecture program, is
conducting lectures and dem
onstrations at Phoenix High
school this week. The pro
gram is sponsored by the Na
tional Science Foundation.
Purpose of the program, ac
cording to E. M. Skipworth.
vice principal, is to upgrade
the teaching of science in the
high school by giving specific
demonstrations of what can
be done in actual classroom
situations.
Lectures cover such topics
as a mussel heart in action,
circulation of blood in the
lung, heart valves in action,
imbedding specimens in plas
tic, and seashore life. Films
and slides supplement the lec
tures. Weigert, who is an instruc
tor of biological sciences at
Grants Pass High school, is
working with the local bi
ology teacher, Donald Mitchell.
The I960 Betty Crocker
Homemaker of Tomorrow at
Phoenix High school is Miss
Linda Prince. She received
the highest score in a 50
minute written examination
on homemaking knowledge
and attitudes taken by gradu
ating senior girls. Her exam
ination will be submitted for
competition with other high
school winners to name the
state Betty Crocker Home
maker of Tomorrow.
Linda, who is ' currently
president of the Phoenix FHA
chapter, has been enrolled in
homemaking for three years.
She attended as a delegate the
1959 state FHA convention at
Corvallis.
She will receive an award
pin at an assembly Friday,
Jan. 15, in the Phoenix High
school gymnasium.
I'lr-n .... I -?v- ;
NEW REACTOR Stanford University's Nuclear Tech
nology Lab unveils the new 10,000-watt nuclear reactor.
The reactor, of the "swimming pool" type, is said to be
"fool-proof, student-proof and professor-proof." It boasts
a peak thermal flux of 100 billion neutrons per square
centimeter per second and is the highest power reactor
at any West Coast university.
Everyone Must File
Fax Director Says
Portland Every citizen or
resident of the country, in
cluding minors, who had a
gross income of $600 or more
last year, must file a federal
income tax return on or be
fore April 15, A. G. Erick
son, director of intern 3'
enue for the Oregon district,
reminded taxpayers toatj.
If the taxpayer is 65 or
over on Jan. 1, he is not re
quired to file unless his gross
income was at least $1,200,
Erickson said.
He added that even though
a taxpayer is not required to
file under these rules, he must
file to obtain a refund if any
income tax was withheld from
his pay.
RICE
delightful with chicken
GARY HAS SORE THROAT
Hollywood -(CPU Bing Cros
by held a news conference
Tuesday to explain why Gary
Crosby wouldn't appear with
his three brothers on Bing's
television show Monday night.
"He's got a bad throat and
won't be able to sing for more
than two months," the elder
Crosby said. The four broth
ers attended the conference.
A recent study determined
that the average length of pas
senger car trips in the United
States is 8.5 miles.
Annual
Fruit Grower's League
Meeting
i JAiaiu
5L:30 p.m.
Y.B9.C.A.
AMj members aire
urge t atten
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