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THURSDAY. U.S. Cowboys Thrill Young Russian Actors New York 4UPD What Rus. sian young people want to see in the United States today is cowboys. "For me it was Indians,' said Moscow-born u e r a i a Severn, the U.S. film execu tive who recently shepherded two prize-winning young Rus sian actors across this country, "We all wanted to run away to America to join the Indians." But cowboys "lerruiuauy romantic." said Janna Prok- horenko, 20-year-old feminine star of "Ballad of a Soldier, which took top honors at San Francisco's October film fes tival Janna. a slight, green-eyed girl with a dusting of freckles and a wealth of long hair piled loosely on top of her head, and her 21-year-oia co-star, Vladimir Ivashov, en joyed the festival, uut even better, they agreed, was the rodeo they saw in San Fran- Mum's Cow Palace. "I had heard of it, but never saw one," Janna said in halting English. Moat Romantic "It is the' most romantic thing America has." Severn said the first thing he had to do when the young stars arrived in San Francisco was buy them cowboy outfits -"Jeans, cowboy boots, sniris, cowboy hats, even the pistols." Both Janna and Vladimir, known as Volodia, are stu dents at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography, where they have an opportunity to see a number of American western movies and, like non professional Russian young people, sing American cowboy ballads in both languages. - Volodia dressed up in his cowboy suit and carried his guitar on a visit to Mills Col lege, across . the bay. He speaks no English, but it was a great- day for s i n g 1 n g, Severn said. "Wonderful college," he translated for Volodia. "Very nice girls." The young film stars also Phoenix Students Place High in Speech Tourney T)U.Atu D Vi n a n I v Utah school placed . nine finalists In the 28th annual speech tournament held at Linfleld college in McMlnnville 'last week end. : Of the finalists, Liz King went on to win first place In junior women s extemporane ous speaking, and received Phoenix' first trophy from Linfleld for individual speak ing. She also placed third In junior women's oratory where 105 girls competed for the top award. Gene Holt placed second in men's humorous reading, and a sophomore, Laura Griffith, 1 captured third place In wom en's Interview. : Other finalists were Karen Mocabee and Shearon Poole In women's Interview, James Tompkins and Gene Holt in men's Interview, and Nancy Pettitt in women's impromptu. More than 700 students from 35 various high schools throughout the state partici pated In the three-day tourna ment. Beit Effort According to coach Bob Myrick, this was Phoenix' best effort in gaining recog nition in individual competi tion although all did not make the finals. Myrick noted that SUyton and Phoenix High schools were the only schools with less .than 500 enroll ment to place students in the finals and that each school took hnmp nnn nf thn pnvptpH trophies. Although the Phoe nix debate teams won more than half of their debates, no one team made .the finals. Students making the trip were Liz King, Karen Moca bee, Laura Griffith, Chyrl Bowman, Shearon Poole, Pen ny Simmonds, Barbara Gysin Nancy Pettitt, Pat Dlederich Gene Holt and James Tomb- kins. The group traveled with Ashland and Eagle Point by bus, leaving Wednesday after noon and returning early Sun day morning. Columbia Compact Approval Doubted Salcm-IUPD-Spcaker Robert Duncan said Wednesday he ioubts if the House will pass a bill for creation of a Co lumbia compact commission. Duncan said the "need for another do-nothing group does not exist - If it ever did." The bill he referred ho would ratify the pending com pact among Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah. He said the only phase of the compact where Oregon might benefit would be In flood control, but he added he feels existing Interstate agencies are doing as much as thenew compact could be expected to do. FEBRUARY 23, 1961 tried out their jeans climbing trees at a Napa Valley winery and on horseback, in Golden Gate park. Most Comfortabl. "Most comfortable clothes I ever had,'" was Volodia's judgment, although his legs were still sore from an un accustomed western saddle. America, all in all, is "like we imagined, only more so better and bigger," said Janna. The Hollywood movie stu dies both found were just like movie studios in Moscow, or anywhere." - Volodia was asked whether fellow students in Moscow would be more impressed by the film prize or their cowboy costumes. 'The cowboy costume," he answered after a moment's thought. He took home an extra pair of jeans for an older brother. Hereafter he expects to en slave the b r o t h e r," said Severn. LA Plans 'Satellite' Los Angeles -IUPH- Los An geles' new $50 million Inter national Airport passenger terminal, believed by many to be the most modern in the world, is ncaring completion with the first planes sched uled to use Its facilities by June of this year. The terminal, financed by a municipal bond issue, cov ers 265 acres, and was de signed with an eye to the fu ture. The many buildings are being constructed around the perimeter of a 5,000-car park ing lot that Is 14 feet below the surface. In event of ex pansion in years to come, it will be only a simple matter of adding a roof to double the parking capacity. Each of the major airlines will have its own satellite building and its own ticket building. Whereas the satellite system has been used at many of the worlds larger airports, the airlines have done the con struction themselves with an obvious difference in styles. Six satellite buildings are included in the first construe tion plans, with space avail able for two additional build ings. Each satellite building is be ing constructed with four lev els. Each will contain 108,000 square feet of floor space. The public level of each, above the ground level, will have a lob by, restaurant, coffee shop, cocktail lounge and gift-news stands. It is from this floor that passengers will board their airplanes by means of telescoping metal covered ramps to give protection from the weather and reduce jet blast noise, The other floors will con tain baggage handling facili ties, offices for airline opera tions and rooms for crews. Many of the major airlines, which have their own private clubs, will locate these in their satellite buildings. Each satellite will be for In ternational flights and con tain customs, public health and Immigration quarters. An other will be for the Joint use of the regional carriers. Each satellite building will have its own separate ticket ing building located at the edge of the parking lot. From the ticket building the satel lite can be reached by an un derground passageway. Directly In the center of the parking section stands the $2.2 million Theme Building. In the shape of a huge 135- foot high parabolic arch, the Theme Building Is symbolic of the futuristic plan of the in ternational terminal. Over Half of State Government-Owned Washington OJPD The fed eral government owns 51.1 per cent or 31.5 million acres of Oregon, according to an in ventory of federal property by the General Services Ad ministration released Wednes day, The report showed the gov ernment owned more than half of the property in five states. The other four were Alaska, Nevada, Utah and Idaho. Total federal land holdings amounted to 771.5 million acres or 33.9 per cent. Fed eral real property, including land, buildings and other structures, was valued at $46.3 million. California ranked first and Washington second In real property value. The government owned a high of 364.5 million acres or 99.7 per cent of Alaska and a low of 6,575 acres in Con necticut. 6 RESERVATIONS Tlicre are six Indlau reser vations In South Dakila. AGAINST TRAFFIC LIGHTS Herman Atarams, 6D, above, was granted a new trial in Los Angeles on the charge that he ran a traffic light. He said he has received 430 traffic tickets In the last 42 years, some of To Be Using New Air Terminal The giant steel arches used in the building span a distance from leg to leg large enough to accomodate a football field. At the 70-foot level of the Theme Building there will be a restaurant with an observa tion dock 10 feet higher. Oth er facilities in the Theme Building will be an employee cafeteria and central kitchens and commissary for restau rants located in each of the satellite buildins. . Nerve Center Nerve center of the terminal will be the 12-story Adminis trative Building and its con 'rol tower on top. Much of the ipaco in this building already has been occupied by airport administration, Federal Avia lon Agency and control squipment. Airport control will be shifted to the new con trol tower In March. This vulldin? cost $1.4 million. The address of the new In ternational Airport Passenger Terminal will be No. 1 World Way, the name of the drive around the parking area. For an ultra-modern novel ty as well as utilitarian means of intertermlnal transporta tion a monorail will be in stalled around the entire per imeter of the terminal. Passenger-carrying cars will trav el under a rail suspended above road traffic between the Theme Building and all airline ticketing buildings. To operate these horizontal elevators the rider will step aboard, drop a quarter In a slot and push a button with the name of the airline office he desires. The car will leave when he closes the door, circle the terminal and comes to stop at the desired building. : M - ." , u MEDFORD MAIL which he displays here. He admitted that he just doesn't like traffic lights, sometimes running them on purpose as a form of pro test. (UPI Telephoto) Relief Donations Pass Million Mark Washington (UP1I Officials of the Christian Rural Over seas Program report that do nations to that overseas reliel program went over the $1 million mark in 1900. The program is a church sponsored drive to distribute foods to needy people abroad. Gifts to the program in commodities and cash came to $1.47 million last yer, an in crease of more than seven per cent from 1959, and the highest figure since 1952. The Rev. Albert W. Far mer, national director : of CROP says the largest per centage increase last year was in Iowa. The state reported gifts of $129,000, up 74 per cent from 1959. States contributing over $100,000 last Vear also , in cluded Kansas, Illinois, Indi ana, and Ohio. Kansas led in total gifts with $168,591. - TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Chef Says JFK Is Easy to Please New York -HJPH- President Kennedy has chosen as his official New York City resi dence a veritable White House in the sky. It is the 35th floor duplex suite of the exclusive Carlyle Hotel, where heads of state, monarchs. and the cream of international society check in and out as frequently as the everyday visitors. The Carlyle's setting on a fashionable avenue dotted with art galleries and chic shops can rival any in Paris. Its sweeping view of central Park is one of the finest in New York. The Presidential Suite, car peted in beige and decorated with Louis XV furniture and paintings by Degas, Pissarro and Murrillo, is at the top of the hotel tower. From its terrace or picture windows the President can see west to New Jersey, east over the United Nations Building to Long Island and south to the tip of Manhattan. Both former President Tru man and Indian Premier Ja- waharlal Nehru have occupied the elegant apartment before Kennedy was elected and des ignated it as his New York residence. The very select ho tel guests took in stride pres ence of the former. But the arrival of the younger and more glamorous President with, of course, the Secret Service caused a stir in the usually subdued 18th Century surroundings and raised the blood pressure particularly of the manager, chef and head of room service, who are most directly involved in serving the President. Chef Ernest Didier, former ly of the Hotel Crillon in Paris, said in an interview in his . glass-enclosed office which commands an unob structed view of the kitchen, that "your President Kennedy is one of the easiest persons to feed-not like the presidents of France." "When he decided to stay Tiere Iwas told to remember that he came from Boston and that he liked simple American-styled food." , So Didier laid in a supply of every Massachusetts spe- cialty available, ranging "from bay scallops to Boston baked beans. "But the President pre ferred lamb chops and mashed potatoes-he is crazy about them," said the chef to whom heads of state, princes and kings are as commonplace as everyday customers. v "He also likes chicken the way it is done in Boston-very, very dry with celery stuffing." He stressed the . "very, very dry." It is Didier's chore to per sonally supervise and taste every morsel of food that is sent up to suite 34-B. "This is primarily for se curity, but I consider it a special privilege. "The President, orders from the menu and eats well be cause he gets exactly what he wants. Your Mr. Truman (also a Carlyle regular) did not eat very much." On a recent departure one of the President's aides car ried a thermos bottle and paper box which had been de livered upstairs from the kitchen. The chef was asked wheth- Plasterers Union Refuses Pay Hike Los Angeles -flJPD- A local plasterers union kicked off what it hopes will turn into a nationwide anti-inflation move by turning down a wage in crease. Local 2 of the AFL-CIO union, by a majority vote of ils 1,376 members, passed up a 12.5-cent hourly wage in crease to support President Kennedy's campaign to stop inflation - and to set an ex ample for other unions and businesses across the country. "I hope some others will follow through," President Burt Chapman said today. Under terms of a two-year contract with Southern Cali fornia contractors, the pay in crease was due to go into effect May 1. Chapman said the members generally felt their present wage of $4.25 an hour was sufficient. er the box contained sand- wiches, "Sandwiches?" he gasped in dismay. He adjusted his cap while he regained his com posure. "I would not prepare a luncheon of sandwiches for the President of the United States. In that box was cream of chicken soup, double lamb chops, mashed potatoes and string beans and a little angel cake. I made it specially be cause it is one of his favorite desserts." The luncheon was prepared to be eaten on the flight back to Washington because the President's private plane, "The Caroline," has no cater ing facilities. The man who serves what Didier lovingly prepares Is the head of room service, Mr. Eric. He said the President was easy to please and that he usually expressed delight after his meals-with one slight ex ception. "The other day the Presi dent ordered poached eggs for breakfast. He was on the tele phone when they arrived and so they were slightly, hard when he ate them. The follow ing morning when he saw his eggs he smiled and asked, 'Are MAKE IT A WEEKEND Pick up an Extra Carton they soft?' He likes them done only about SV4 minutes." , Eric said breakfast, always is served at 9 a.m. in the liv ing room. Luncheon, he said, was served on the fruit wood table in the dining room on a special silver service. The dining room is dominated by 1 a Degas sketch, the living room by ' a painting by Ca mille Pissarro. "The President eats very quickly," he said. . So far the only concession the President has made to the culinary artistry of master- chef Didier is to order onion soup with dinner. His preference after this is usually either la'mb or chicken. Ken nedy leaves the choice of wine to Eric but he thoughtfully tastes it and usually expresses his approval. ' Luncheon usually is at 1:30 p.m. and dinner anytime after 8 p.m. ! At the guest's' request Eric has stocked the refrigerator with gingerale, milk and fresh orange juice and the bar with one bottle each of scotch, bourbon and gin. A bottle of champagne sent by a friend was still unopened when the President left after one of his most recent visits. SOCIABLE
