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i! 10 6 SUNDAY. DECEMBER 25, I960 MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. (J THE SHAPE OF THINGS Religious Art for ace Aae Awaited Sp LARGEST SNO-CAT George Bannister, (at and Kaarc Niclson, transportation depart left) representing Tucker Sno-Cat Corpora- men I head at Timbcrline, after delivering tion, Mcdford,) is shown with Erich Sailer, the largest Sno-Cat manufactured at the cor ski school director at Timbcrline Lodge, poration. Tucker DeliversSno-CalfoTimberline Portland-The largest Sno-1 features such as Hie bus-type Cat In bp used in anv ski area seating and the observation in the United States was de livered to Timbcrline Lodge at Ml. Hood last week end. The 20-passengcr Cat was built by the Tucker Sno-Cat Corporation o Mcdford, and was specially designed for pas senger transportation. The $15,000-dnllar Sno-Cat was patterned after the same type of vehicle that is being used in the Antarctic for scientific exploration. This brings to three the total Sno-Cat fleet at Timber line Lodge, all of them built by the Tucker corporation. George Bannister of Tucker said thai production on this vehicle was over Wi months because of the made-to-order windows which are not built in other Cats of this size. Richard Kohnslamm, area operator at Timberline, was one of the first to try the Cat on the slopes of Mt. Hood. He explained thai the Cat would be used mostly for the transportation of skiers to the 10,000-foot level of Mt. Hood, for sight-seeing tourist trips. and for emergency operations for rescue or forest service! work. Manti Temple (Mormon Church of the Latter-Day Saints) in Ulah cost one mil lion dollars. It was built in 1870 on a foundation of solid rock. jfti'fS Modern vVV f'f INSULATE YOUR PIPES If $1 STOP DRIPPING PIPES ffijk ,,,;,,,;, &h INSULATE HOT and Will IS Vgjft COLD WATER LINES Ijj'ffl i J J3 ?I0P.FREEZIN6 wSi I ' CnTi WRAP0N 'NSULATION fAl 1 1 ' ' Is an easy do-it-your- self Job. Simply wrap on the liber glass A. Iff ' Insulation & cover with tha' included jf$W vapor seal tape, $1 pkf. covers 17 ft. JF of Vi" pipe. Set vt today, (f f Modern Plumbing & Sheet Metal Go. 613 E. Jackson - Medford - SP 3-5368 Five Men Appear In Court Thursday The Jackson county district ; attorney's office cleaned the slate of scheduled criminal trials before the holidays by bringing five men to court Thursday afternoon. Leo Patrick Davis, North Front St., Medford,. and Joe Francis Dubuque, 242 Beatty st., appeared in Circuit Judge James M. Main's court on charges of burglary not in a dwelling involving the Graff and James Construction com pany tool shed near Ashland. They pleaded guilty previous ly. Jurtgeain ordered a pre sentence report on Davis, and suspended imposition of sen tence for three years on Du buque. A pre-sentence report was ordered for William S. War ren, 2532 Table Rock rd., who pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining personal benefit un der false pretenses. He was charged with using a credit card which did not belong to him and obtaining $62.75 In merchandise from a service station in Medford Nov. 28. Judge Main also suspended imposition of sentence for five years oh Jack Byron Gund lach, 25, of Lozier lane, Med ford, who had pleaded guilty to contributing to the delin quency of a minor. In suspend ing imposition of sentence the judge ordered him to stay away from all minor girls. Jack Kenneth Colwcll, Mer rill, Ore., pleaded guilty to charges of non-support, and .Judge Main suspended impo sition of sentence for two years on condition he support his children to the best of his ability. He placed Colwell on probation. By RICHARD HIRSCH Director Uentown Art Museum Surrounded at Christmas by outpourings of art, mostly religious, frequently com mercial, we might consider a question. Will this Space Age have a religious art of its own? And, by the way, what is religious art? At Christmas time this seems an easy ques tion. Most of us would be tempted to say: Religious art, illustrates a religious story. At Christmas, religious art, many of us believe can be summed up by a Virgin and Child by Botticelli, a proces sion of the Three Kings from a medieval manuscript, a drawing by Leonardo for the Virgin of the Rocks, the stone shepherds, kneeling, carved on a capital in a 12th Century cathedral, such as Moissac, a Flight to Egypt by Giotto. Not Accurate Answer This is a simple answer. Happily, it is not accurate. Happily for the implied an swer furnished by these ex amples would give a negative answer to our question re garding a religious art of and for the Space Age. The French contemporary architect, Le Corbusier, has spoken of the present drama of our arts and artists as be ing "the anguish of being use less. ' Our people are pursuing the arts, turning out acres of painted canvas, tons of twist ed metal. This is being done by tens of thousands of paint ers and sculptors who talk and write a lot about their despair, their aimlessness, their shattered sensibilities. Perhaps, then, it is not sur prising that the obscurely pri vate symbols which they serve up from their tortured egos carry inspiration only to a small public of the like-minded. 'Random Forms' For it is not the function of art to be carried out by those who are blind, even when they feel compulsions to paint or to contrive carefully planned "random forms." The enduring art of the age must be something else. Fortunate ly, a look at the Stone Age can guide us. Any study of the cave man takes us to his arts, his ani mals, splendidly alive, painted for all lime on the walls of his less accessible Cavern chambers, the symbols which he engraved on his javelin heads, on his bone fish hooks. Always, it is pointed out tluit these arts involved the cave man's approach to the great issues of his world, a hunter's world, where magic was need ed to cope with hostile forces. Art, to the cave man, was the channelling and evocation of these powers which, without the artist, he would lack. Ay. - 't Equipment- Installed CAVE PAINTING Reindeer painted, per- tical purpose, haps 30,000 years ago, on the cave walls of universe. Can Font de Gaume. Such paintings had a mys- an art that wi This was religious art. It aimed at renewing the face of the world which man's hunt ing might deplete. In this art, man mystically looked out at the universe as he understood it and sought to make himself harmonious with it. with its laws. This was 30,000 years ago. No Other Purpose , The early Greeks, likewise, had no other purpose. Their arts, when they still intensely believed their myths, move us deeply, witnessing a search for harmony with a universe mirrored in their understand ing. When they lost much or most of their faith they yet gave us splendid ishapes, but seen from the outside. The Roman copyist went a step further, producing mere dec orative art, barely skin deep. Startlingly, the universe of our times has exploded to in finite dimensions. From the planetary systems of the atom, whose discovery has made the material world into a concre tion of blazing energy, to the inconceivable vastness of a universe where we know that galaxies race ever oulward in a glory of cosmic speed, we have our mind furnished with such images of towering grandeur as man has never known before. These v infinites are ours, they are our new world, as the drama of the hunt was the cave man's world, as the myth was the Greek artist's world, as the pictorial repre sentation of the Gospel for those who could not read was the world of the medieval centuries. Like the ages before us, we have an objective world. To compass it spiritually, to be at home and at peace in it. we need perception, we need to be guided across a bridge of harmony. Like earlier ages, we need the artist, as prophet, to build us such a bridge. As in earlier times, this will be a slow process since the ob jective world will always be interpreted by a subjective artist'. But what a challenge! The key word here is har mony a vision of order-objective order-where the un trained eye and mind see only unrelated fragments or reality. The cave paintings taught broad lessons of the cycles of nature to the individual hunt er involved only in the trag edy of the big one that got away. The Greek sculptor heightened the perception of the onlooker, pointing out that man and woman were beautiful because they reflect ed another and higher Beauty which was divine. The med ieval artist pointed out the nature of man's redemption and the examples that would lead him to salvation. Unmoved at Display Currently, our artists point mostly to their metnphoric, Freudian, navals. Predictably, most of us are unmoved at this display. Somehow, our artists are out of step. More superficial than Ro mans, who traded superstition for religion, less intense over their discoveries than the Baroque artists of three cen turies ago who traded crafts manship for fervor, our peo- interpreting the Stone Age's we, in the Space Age, have 11 satisfy a similar end? pie are on the sidelines of their calling, anguished, as Le Corbusier says, by their uselessness. This need not be so. First, however, the artist must real ize that art-lo be art-must be religious, that the arti'st-to be an artist-must take up his task as seer, as prophet. . . Look at Universe Then, he must look to his objective universe, finding ways to resolve its breathtak ing riddles, meaningfully, for the eyes of his fellowman. Lastly he must lead us on to the praise of the marvels which he has perceived. This is his function. Carrying it out defines religious art. We can read now. What we can read, the artist need no longer illustrate. But the orderly grandeur of the more sublime Creation about us needs interpretation. Only the artist in awed humility can achieve this notation of the new song of the spheres. The Gospel at Christmas says: "And they shall be taught of God." But, first, there must be humility, then, praise. (Copyright 1960, General Features Corp.) The State ' of Missouri's name derives from that of a tribe of Sioux Indians who '"re called Missouris. mi a HAPPY NEW YEAR! From y4 of Us Ai MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE Barnett Realty Bob Hart Charles Ray Harry B. Marshall Pioneer Realty Central Realty H. O. Martin Agency Security Insurance & Realty Crater Realty Bill Wright Realty Fred Middlebusher Western Realty Wm. Frohnmayer Agency Picked Real Estate Clark J. Walker Agency Whitney Homefinders Vandagrift-Leever-Whalin Feme A. Kellow Wallace W. Watkins 'Ztrr'" CSS f fJC Hi Tooley Real Estate Co., Inc. Chez Agency Mackenzie Agency Town & Country Realty W. T. (Bill) Fasel Pacific Telephone-N o r t h- west is adding two . lanes to its communications super highway that speeds over Medford via the Baldy moun tain microwave site, J. H. Creager, local manager for the company said Friday. Western Electric crews are installing transmission and re ceiving equipment on Baldy mountain and the other micro wave sites extending from Portland south to the state line. When the $225,000 job is complete,, both a north and southbound channel for com munications will have been added to present facilities. This will make a total of six channels from the south and three from the north. Each of these channels is cap able of carrying some 600 messages or one TV program. Since the Pacific Northwest is linked with the national TV networks via California, the three extra northbound chan nels are needed to bring pro grams in from over the nation. This is the second major addition to microwave radio system since it was put into service in the summer of 1956. Built to provide high qual ity transmission of both TV pictures and long distance calls, the $4 million system has proved to be almost in vulnerable to winter storm damage. Each of the nine stations has built-in devices such as automatic switches that trans fer a TV picture over to a standby channel in 281000 of a second-faster than is hu manly possible-when neces sary. Standby sources of power are provided at each point should commercial electricity fail. A diesel generator takes over automatically. At four of the more remote locations a propane gas engine provides a second power reserve. Relay stations are' located at Siskiyou summit, Ashland; Baldy mountain, Medford; King mountain, Grants Pass; Mt. Nebo, Roseburg; Harness mountain, Cottage Grove; Blanton hill, Eugene; Peter son butte, Albany; Silverton and Carver. At the Oak st. long distance building in downtown Port land, the radio relay connects with existing systems to Seat tle and to Spokane. 27 Influenza Cases Reported in County Twenty-seven cases of influ enza were reported in Jack son county last week, accord ing to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician. Ten flu cases were reported in Ashland, three in Medford, six in Central Point and Shady Cove, and one in Rogue River and Jacksonville. Ten cases of pneumonia, 7 of them in Medford, were re ported. Other cases were list ed in Ashland, Eagle Point and Central Point. Other communicable dis eases reported during tha week included pink eye, Cen tral Point 1; and whooping cough, Medford 8. 1 vs. if MMMl MERRY kjtf, 5 CHRISTMAS P HAPPY NEW YEAR 'if Mjph$fiP from all of us at i: BILL WRIGHT Eg REAL ESTATE , W IpC CENTURY BLDG. SP, 3-1612 ijpteiSf Don't Forget We're moving into "5??p THE MALL 1005 E. 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