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FRIDAY, AUGUST 26. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Latin American Report Romantic Argentina's True ealth Lies Unromantically n Sts Beef, Says Writer By WILLIAM L. F. HORSEY United Press International Buenos Aires - IUPD -The American diner would shud der at a S220 tab for a steak. But that's what it would cost him for a piece of meat from one of Argentina's prize Aberdeen Angus bulls. Which emphasizes that the true wealth of this romantic South American nation lies most unromantically in its beef. This year's annual stock show in Palermo Grounds drove home this fact once again in president and peas ant alike. Black and brown bulls as big as railroad box cars emphasized that in cattle lies the real wealth of the nation. Millionaire stockmen from all parts of the world gasped as public bidding on "Meri diano Julius 19" passed the five million peso ($60,000) mark. When it stopped at 11 million pesos, ($134,000) spon taneous cheers rang through the old pavilion. The price was an all-time world record. Argentina's Mississippi One of the world's great river systems which pene trates to the heart of South America is coming back into its own despite the age of jet planes. The Parana, Paraguay and Uruguay rivers are vast navi gable waterways linking Ar gentina, Ur-iguay, Brazil, Par aguay and Bolivia. For that reason, they are international and their international char acter is written into the Ar gentine constitution. The river Plato estuary -the ocean entrance to this maze of channels - is 160 miles wide at its mouth. Li ners up to 30,000 tons can dock at Buenos Aires, 170 miles from the mouth: freight ers of 10,000 tons can reach Rosario at 400 miles up and of 6,000 tons to Santa Fe, which is 550 miles up. Shallow draft river steam- Winds Blamed for Chutists' Injuries Ft. Bragg, N. C. - (UPD -Military officials blamed tur bulent winds and a naviga tional error Thursday for causing 37 paratroopers tak ing part in a massive jump to receive injuries from falling into wooded areas. Eighteen paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne division were hospitalized Wednesday as a result of being blown into trees during a mock combat exercise. An Air Force spokesman said a CI 19 troop carrier from which most of the injured jumped, flew off course be cause of a navigational error. Only about 20 of the 320 men in eight troop carriers actu ally landed in the sandy loam drop zone. The others drifted into pine trees which lined both sides of the jump zone. In juries ranged from ruptured spleens to minor lacerations. COLLISION KILLS SIX Belgrade, Yugoslavia- IUP1I -Six persons were killed and 18 injured Thursday when a speeding passenger train col lided with a stationary freight in Bihac, 200 miles west of Belgrade. The engineer who leaped from the cab of the passenger train at the last minute, said the signals were not working. ers, even three-deck passen ger vessels of up to 3,000 tons can reach Asuncion, capital of Paraguay during most of the year, a distance of 1,110 miles, while a Brazilian ship ping line operates a regular freight service from Porto Alegre in southern Brazil as far up as Corumba in the Matto Grosso and almost 2,000 miles from the sea. Argentina has learned from the Mississippi too. Therefore, it is not strange that in recent years in Mis sissippi shipyards around Pas cagoula, that she has had built fleets of powerful "push er" tugs with square bows. Argentina has faith in river transport for passengers too, although there are both land plane and flying boat services between Buenos Aires and Asuncion. The state-operated river fleet has just ordered three crack luxurious passen ger ships in Spanish yards and a fourth is being built in the Argentina naval yards at Rio Santiago. Portland Consumer Prices Unchanged Portland - IUP1) - Consum er prices in Portland remain ed unchanged between April and July, according to the regional office of the U. S. Department of Labor. The July gasoline price war was listed as the reason. Prices declined as much as 3 cents a gallon to offset in creased prices in most major groups of family spending. The Consumer Price Index for Portland, however, was 127.5, for July, 1.1 per cent higher than for July, 1959. tamealane by THOMASVILLE THE WORLD WALKS INTO YOUR HOME with TAMERLANE, contempor ary fused with Oriental splendor. The richness of its exotic holly, inlaid with Acacia burl, is matched only by the restrained elegance of its design . . . elegance so easily adaptable to any decor, any mood. 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White writers always have consider ed members of my race as semi-literate. Therefore they placed them in positions of servitude. Frequently they were placed in stories where racial identification was the only reason for appearing in a film or play. "While writers don't real ize that a man can be in the lowest economic order and il literate, and still be an inter esting, dimensional human animal who has hopes and dreams that are not one dimensional." With this in mind, Poitier added that Negro playwright Lorraine Hansberry's "A Rai sin in the Sun" is a victory for his people. Sidney starred in the play on Broadway, and currently is making the movie version for Columbia Pictures. He said "Raisin" is the first story about Negroes in which the characters are human be ings first and Negroes inci dentally. "No other playwright has come within a thousand miles of depicting Negroes so accur ately," he added. "The character I play wants a feeling of acceptance and belonging. 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