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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1961
World Almanac Includes Two Major
Domestic Events-Election, Census
Bv HARRY H1HSPH
s New York - Two major
domestic events of 1960 - the
presidential election and the
Decennial census - give spe
cial importance to the World
Almanac and Book of Facts
tor 1961.
i In accordance with its cus
tom of nearly 80 years, the
World Almanac publishes
comprehensive returns from
all the states, with the latest
figures tabulated by counties
and compared with the re
turns of the election of 1936.
It also gives the totals for all
parties in elections since 1900,
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PROTECTS EYES-Taking no chances that the glaring ice
and snow will damage her attractive eyes, Sandy Cooper,
16,' of Hyannis, Mass., make use of a pair of snow glasses
foaned by a friend. This pair of goggles had seen previous
service on an Antarctic expedition. (UPI Telephoto)
OF SMITH & MEN
Bv Jac k Smith
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Some of the more creative
PTA groups I have noticed
lately are evolving a new art
form in the field of interpre
tive dancing.
Close study suggests that
what they have done is to
borrow from certain folk
rituals of the past and re
phrase them in PTA terms.
In this way they have
achieved a style which might
be called PTA neo-baroque, if
that voluptuous expression of
the arts may be said to em
brace the dance. .
My interest in this move
ment arises, of course, from
my. personal observation of
the Susan B. Anthony Junior
High School group, of which
my wife is premiere danseuse.
; Her bold little terpsichore
an ensemble has already at
tempted the Can Can and the
Charleston, and, I fear, is
about to experiment with one
or two of the sensuous novel
ties introduced into this coun
try, by Les Ballets Africains
de.la Republique de Guinee.
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Their success with the Can
Can, perhaps, has encouraged
the Susan B. dancers to ven
ture into even more difficult
fields. I happened to catch
their performance of this
spirited French classic and
remember noting at the time
that I was impressed by their
Vigor and abandon.
One of our boys, I believe,
complained that none of the
ladies kicked high enough
even to show their garters. I
noticed this myself. However,
many of these dancers had
spent the morning at the
laundromat. As a group, also,
they don't get to sleep as late
as the girls in the Folies Ber-gere.
The Charleston was quite
another matter. I don t be
lieve this particular PTA
chapter was ready yet for the
subtleties of this wild little
domestic classic.
From talking with a num
ber of the junior high stu
dents, I found a disappoint
ment in the group s Charles
ton. It was generally felt that,
while some of the steps seem
ed authentic enough, the
ladies had failed to under
score the social attitudes of
the lost generation. .
Ihey dian t kick enough,"
was the way one of the neigh
bor boys, a B student I be
lieve, summed it up.
In the purely commercial
sense, of course, the Charles
ton was a success. The PTA
Faculty show it was in netted
enough to paint the women
teachers' powder room and
put up curtains.
Maybe I was imprudent in
taking my wife to the Bilt
more the other night to see
the African Ballet. This was a
primitive and exciting folk
art. It enflamed the senses.
When we got home, she
took off her shoes and began
tracing an intricate little pat
tern on the rug, chanting like
a witch doctor.
"What do you think you're
doing?" Tasked.
"It's Les Rois de la Jungle,"
she said. "Remember? Where
the panthers are .tyrannizing
the other animals and ruling
as queens of the jungle?"
She seems to think the Su
san B. Anthony troupe can
have the thing in shape by
spring.
I don't care what they do,
but as long as the Police Com
mission is around, they're
going to have to wear brassieres.
NEW COMMISSIONERS
Salem - (UPD - Gov. Mark
Hatfield has named three
new members to the Port of
Portland commission and re
appointed two others. New
members are Harold S.
Hirsch; president of White
Stag Manufacturing Co.; Rob
ert B. Wilson, president of
Warm Springs Lumber Co.;
and Erling E. Jacobsen, Ore
gon manager of Firemen's
Insurance Co.
and the results in contests for
members of Congress and gov
ernors of the states.
The second valuable feature
of the World Almanac for
1961 is the report of the De
cennial census, published for
the first time in history in
the same year of the Big
Count because the bureau of
the census is able to use new
tabulating machinery. The
population reports of this an
nual always have been the
most comprehensive of a n y
encyclopedia of its size.
Prove Most Useful
The new volume presents
not only the population of
states and cities, but of met
ropolitan areas, and in two
sections that have been proved
most useful it publishes the
1960 population of places over
2,500 population, compared
with their figures for 1950.
to demonstrate the tremendous
expansion of the country.
Also there is a list of places
by states and counties, includ
ing the land area of the coun
ties. These reports disclose the
great growth of such states as
California, Texas and Illinois,
the march of the cities into
suburban areas and the incor
poration of many new towns
and villages.
While the presidential elec
tion returns and the census
reports give historic impor
tance to the World Almanac,
me new volume is just as
comprehensive in giving a
complete picture of the tur
moil in foreign countries and
tne relation of the United
States thereto.
The rise of new republics
in Africa the open hostility
of Cuba to the United States,
tne intrusion of the Soviet
Union in the Congo, Algeria
ana Cuba, the attempts of
Khrushchev to dominate the
United Nations and world af
fairs, are recorded fully.
Here, too, is an account of
the shooting down of the
American plane over Russia
and the trial of Powers for
espionage, the wrecking of
the summit conference in Par
is, and many foreign matters
of direct influence on the pol
icies ot the United States.
To record the events of such
a crowded year within one
handy volume is the particular
task of the World Almanac,
which offers many other rec
ords, such as full reports on
the World Series in baseball
and other baseball games, of
the summer Olympic games in
Rome, and the winter contest
in Squaw Valley, of records
also In all major sports.
Sections on schools and col
leges, with a full roster of the
latter, and on religious activi
ties of the nation, are brought
up to date. So too are the work
of Congress, the accomplish
ments of nuclear and other
sciences, the latest research
in medicine, and the astro
nomical phenomena.
The World Almanac and
Book of Facts for 1961, now
in its 76th year, is published
by the New York World-Telegram
and Sun, 896 pages, in
two formats, paperbound and
clothbound.
Judge in Running
For Appeals Court
Portland - (UPD - Federal
Judge Gus J. Solomon said
Saturday he was In the run
ning for a position on the 9th
circuit court of appeals at San
Francisco.
Solomon, appointed to U.S
district court here in 1949,
said he was a candidate for
the post created last month by
the retirement of the court's
chief judge, Albert Lee
Stephens.
Solomon, currently chief
judge on the Oregon court,
was in private law practice
for about 20 years before be
ing appointed to his federal
post by Former President
Truman.
Oregon has not been repre
sented on the 9th circuit court
of appeals since the death of
James Alger Fee in 1959.
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