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.
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JUMPS TRACKS At least 20 poisons
were injured when four cars of this New
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Indian Harbor, Ind., Wednesday. The 11
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from Cleveland to Chicago. A railroad
worker looks over damage of one of the
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Negro Actor Says Race
Accurately Portrayed in
Film, 'Raisin in the Sun'
By VERNON SCOTT
UPI Hollywood Correspondent
llollywood-IUPIi-Negro actor
Sidney Poitier said today his
race finally has been accurate
ly portrayed in motion pic
tures. An intense man with strong
feelings about his race, Poitier
said. "For the first time Ne
groes are appearing in a play
that was written by a Negro
who understands our people.
"Portrayal of Negro life in
America since 1900 has been
restricted to stereotypes. 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. He is no different
from any other American liv
ing by the dollar value. The
play and movie transcend 'Ne
groness'." He went on to say that the
stereotype Negro never was
typical of his race. "There
still are such prototypes
among us, but they are a
minority and they always
were," he said.
"These caricatures are dis
appearing as writers, both
white and Negro, have come
to understand the problems
and feelings of Negroes. And,
most important of all, there
is a feeling of responsibility
toward my race."
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