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In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Because Squaw Valley is 01"y a hope, a skip and a Jump from southern Oregon ' have followed the winter Olympic Games of this mod ern Olympaid with immense interest. So, perhaps, it might a good idea to fill in here " backgrounds of this oldest Ports event in the world. pAHTHER BACK than his tory records, some of the people of the Greek Pelopon nesus began to hold contests ia foot racing. (The Pelopon nesus is the ancient name of the southern peninsula of Greece.) The races were held on the plain of Olympia, in the state of Elis. This festival gradually be came an affair of national im portance and was celebrated by all the Greek states. In the course of time boxing, wrestl ing, jumping, discus throw ing, chariot racing and other athletic exercises were added to the original foot race. Those who entered the con tests had to show a name free from civil or personal dis honor. Early contestants had to be of pure Greek blood, but later, under the rule of the Romans, both Greeks and Romans took part. Since Rome by then was coming to be the master of the world, the Olympic Games came to include a wide range of nationalities. ANOTHER interesting point is that early in their his tory a general TRUCE was called during the holding of the Olympic games. The early Greeks were a cantankerous lot, givci to fighting among themselves. It was recognized that these e i v i 1 wars weakened the Greeks. Hence the truce while the games were in progress. So, it might be said, the first Olympic Games were the first recognition that international cooperation is the first essen tial of world peace. These early Greeks also dis covered that in CLEAN SPORT nations can find a common interest. That was an interesting discovery. If you watched the wind-up of the Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley Sunday, you must have noted that sportsmen of many nations, including Americans and Russians, came together in a common enterprise in which good sportsmanship prevailed and NO FIGHTS BROKE OUT. fpHE OLYMPIC games were held every four years, and this four - year period was known as an Olympiad. The first known Olympiad began in 776 B.C., and the Greeks dated all events from that time. The games endured, at four-year intervals, until A.D. 394, when the Roman emper or Theodosius forbade them. They vanished from history for 1500 years, when an inter national committee made ar rangements to revive them and to hold the contests every four years in different coun tries. The first revival was in Paris in 1900. They were abandoned in 1916 during World War I and again in 1940 during World War IL IN CONCLUSION I suppose that, like every one else, you have been acute disappointed by the rather poor showing made by Ameri cans during the Winter Olym pics session that has just con cluded. We have reason to be dis appointed and a little uneasy. The reason lies in the history of Ancient Greece. The an cient Greeks were a bold and brash people. As did we in our early history, they tended to model their thinking and their actions on the motto that the bigger they are the harder they fall. But As their civilization ad vanced, as they began to have more and more creature com forts, as they began to rely on SLAVES, their fiber deteri orated. IlfE'RE BEGINNING to rely ' ' on slaves mechanical slaves, not human slaves. But our mechanical slaves may be doing for us what human slaves did for the Ancient Greeks. They may be weaken ing our fiber. They may be undermining the bold and brash belief of our early an cestors that THE BIGGER THEY ARE THE HARDER THEY FALL. One hopes not - but history tells us it could be true. American Can To Build Eugene Plant San Francisco -(UPD- Ameri can Can Company announced Tuesday that a new plant oc cupying 70,000 square feet of floor area in Eugene will be built by the Gale M. Roberts company. The Roberts construction firm is headquartered in Eu gene. The announcement came from George P. Saunders, an, American Can Company offi- rial. Van Rie Freed on Charge of Killing Chicago Divorcee B o s t o n (UPE Handsome Dutch radio operator Willem Van Rie, 31, was acquitted to day by a jury that deliberated all night on charges that he murdered his shipboard paramour. The foreman of the all male jury returned the ver dict in a tense courtroom aft er more than 15 hours of de liberation. Cleared of All Count - Van Rie was cleared of all counts in the death of pretty Chicago divorcee Lynn Kauff man, 23, whosebody was found washed up on a Boston Harbor island Sept. 19. That was the day after the steamer Utrecht left here for New York on the final leg of a 44 day voyage from Singapore. At a news conference short ly after his acquittal, Van Rie said he believed Miss Kauff man "committed suicide. I am convinced of it." . Worrying for Months . "I have been worrying and waiting five months for this moment and now, whisk," the smiling Van Rie told news men, motiomng with a wide sweep of his arms. Van Rie stood ramrod straight in the prisoner's box as the verdict was read. Thanks Jury Tears welling in his eyes, he said in a trembling voice: "I thank you members of the jury . . ." He tried to say more but was cut off by a court officer. Van Rie's wife, Nella, 31, who came from Holland to be with him after his arrest, burst into tears as her hus band was led from the court room a free man. Grange News Paper Production 'Court Records Man Injured as Car Fails to Make Curve Gerard Paul Jones, route 2, box 437, Gold Hill, received slight injuries Monday eve ning on the Ramsey Canyon rd. when his car failed to make a curve, state police said. Jones was traveling north on Ramsey Canyon rd., about Wz miles from Sams Valley rd. when his car went off a curve, hit a ditch with the left front side of the car, then spun around. Jones refused medical at tention, police said. The power installations at Sweden's large hydro-electric station at Harpranget are built in rock 250 feet below ground. Jackson County - Representatives from majority of Jackson county Granges were in attendance at the February meeting of the Jackson County Grange Festival at Central Point Grange hall with Chairman Victor Croxton presiding. More definite plans were made for the affair and com mittees were appointe d. Chairmen include Dee Hend rickson, ticket salesman; Charles Mo'orehouse, grounds; Alva Walker, Herman Kamp ing, and Bob Bitterling, pur chasing; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, games; Mrs. J. A. Edge and Mrs. Bitterling, music; Mrs. O. T. Wilson, publicity; and Mrs. Cassie Golding, menu. Mrs. Golding will confer with the home economics club chairman of all county granges at the county council meeting in April. The overall picture of the summer affair includes a full day of activities with a morn ing of games and contests-for old and young, a barbecue din ner, and music until 5 p.m. The evening program will be furnished by each county grange in a competitive order with money prizes for the first, second, and third place winners as judged. It will be held at Eagle Point. The eve ning will close with square dancing. The group will meet for thej Declared Archaic . Salem - (UPD - Erwin D. Can- ham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, said Tues day that methods of news paper production are now "only slightly" different than that of half a century ago and ! he termed this archaic and "a scandal." He said newspapers should "learn to use the technologi cal advances which have aid ed so many other endeavors." Canham- was here for the National Chamber of Com merce's "Aircade for Con gressional Actio n," a top- echelon discussion group on a national 12-stop air tour. Canham, president of the national chamber, said that both unions and publishers are guilty of the slow pro duction techniques advance. He said that radio and tele vision have not been a detri ment to newspapers but have aided them. They create in terest for one another, he said. About 76 per cent of all the nation's dope addicts are found in four states: New York, Illinois, California and Michigan. further plans at Griffin Creek in April. Mrs. Anna Scott, the corres ponding secretary, was in structed to send letters of in formation to Granges Bet represented at the meeting. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- 1 SOMERSET MAUGHAM recalls his elation when Sir Ed mund Gosse, dean of English critics, wrote an enthusias tic review of Maugham's first novel, Liza of Lambeth, m ion i. unui ne aiea some 30 years later, however, Sir Edmund never saw Maugham, who by now had written Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, and a half dozen great play hits, without patting him on the shoulder and mur muring, "Capital piece of work, that Liza of Lam beth. How smart you were never to write any thing else!" Alexander Wooiicott and Somerset Maugham t Heywood Broun, who met often at parties, hut disliked each other thoroughly, were once fellow-celebrities at an autographing party in a big Cleveland department store. 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WHO ALSO SELLS GOODWILL USED CARS WITH MORE BARGAIN MILES PER DOLLAR DEAN & TAYLOR PONTIAC CO. 6th and Grape Medford MUNICIPAL COURT Oliver Oring Ogle, no vehicle registration plates displayed, $2.50. David Ross Ryden. no operator's license in possession. S10. Henry Martin Dalton, improper left turn, S5. Raymond Allen Morton, no ve hicle registration plates displayed, ?250. DISTRICT COURT Wayne M. Turpix, failure to punch steelhead card. $30. James W. Barnard, excessive overhang, $15. David W. Hunter, excessive de clared weight, S15. David O. Turner, failure to dim lights, $7.50. Ralph Li. Anderson, failure to signal, $10. David R. Neet, racing on high way, $30. William H. Krier, 203 North Peach St., driving while license suspended, $105. Albert C. Johnson, failure to stop, $10. Raymond Anderson, parking on highway, $7.50. Maran M. Vanice, failure to stop, $10. Herb E. Russell, failure to stop, $10. Lloyd P. Black, no rear vision, $6. Rosea J. Higdon, failure to stop, $10 and $10. 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