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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Traveler Describes Tour of Holy Land, Greece Writing to friends in Med ford, Mrs. C. C. Sater de scribed a tour of the Holy Land which she made earlier this spring. Mrs. Sater, who lived in Medford many years and was known for her work with the Medford Garden club, has been living in Frank furt, Germany, for some time past and from time to time has traveled in Europe and surrounding areas. Mrs. Sater wrote: Jerusalem (Jordan) made me think of the picture cards that I received at Sunday school with the Arab shep herd on the hillside with his sheep. At the airport is a well kept hedge of lavender as you go up the steps, then at right angles to it at the top is a hedge of rosemary. The guide that took over there was ex cellent, he certainly knows Biblical history. His opening statement was rather surpris ing. It was-"I want you to know we have no beggars, no Communists, and no Jews in Jerusalem. The people in this immedi ate area are quite dependent on the tourist trade. They make exquisite cross-stitch and other embroidery using the Rose of Sharon, the flower used at Easter, and the wheat (meaning life) in the designs. Many things are carved from olive wood and they make pins, buttons and earrings from mother-of-pearl, and gold filigree work - as in Cairo there is much to buy that is attractive, The houses and most of the buildings are of light buff colored lime stone with flat tops but there is a neatness and order that is lacking in some places, there doesn't seem to be too much poverty and in most cases a tiny shack will be built neatly and not just thrown together. The children as a whole are clean, happy and friendly. Education is compulsory according to the guide-he said "Just like the States" and most everyone in the shops speak English. The beauty parlor was filled with Max Factor products and a shampoo and finger wave was $2.50 and they did nice work. Visit Cave In Bethlehem we were shown a cave which is a rep lica of the one in which Christ was born. The large back room where people slept was filled thai night so Joseph and Mary went out to the entrance of the cave where the animals Were lclt. They wrapped Jc sus in swaddling clothes and put him in the manger where a cow's breath would give him warmth. It gets cold very quickly after the sun goes down. These caves are occu pied now by refugees. The Church of Nativity is built over the spot in Bethle hem where Jesus was born and the cave is split three ways as is the church-Roman Catholic, Armenian , and Greek Orthodox. The door is very low and small, depicting the "eye of needle parable with the rich man." A silver star marks the spot where Christ was born. Thirty to 35 male children ordered killed by Herod are buried under this church. The grotto is here where the angel warned Jo seph to flee with Jesus. At St. Catherine's, one of the three Nativity churches, Christmas Eve service is broadcast all over the world. All of these places have been destroyed many limes so the things that took place dur ing Biblical times are pointed out now as having taken place in this vicinity. In Jerusa lem much Biblical hlslory was reviewed when wc went to the Ml. of Olives, the place of Ascension, the Garden of Gethsomane with Its 2000-year-old olive trees, the Grot to of Agony or church of All Nations. The stone in it Is the one on which Christ spent the night, the seal of the U. S. A. is in the comer of the ceiling of the church unions those of other nations. We went to St. Stephens Gate where he was stoned to death, to St. Anne's church, the traditional place of the Virgin Mary's birth, to the pool of Belhesda and walked the length of the Via Dolorosa or Way of the Cross to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and visited the sites of the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Visit Jtrlcho We drove to Jericho, where there are many banana and orange groves and a large new housing area is being built, on across the Hills of Judca, pass ing the Good Samaritan Inn and saw the place in the Jor dan river where Jesus was baptized by the Apostle John. Later we saw the Mount of Temptation In the distance and drove on to the Dead Sea. Since people lived in caves and stone houses, wc asked the guide what carpenters did in Joseph's time and he said that they fixed plows, made small plates and forks of ! wood. The air i Jerusalem was fresh, with not much dust. I The hotel was clean, and warm, the water was pure, the waiters were dressed in clean while coats, the dishes were clean, the people were nice and I have a warm spot in, the tax list and taxes I think of life because more villages my heart for it. are high. The guide did not are being built all the time There is no TV in Jerusa-1 say how much they were. The , Araos believe that fresh lcm. The policeman dress in house and land are inherita- blue paint will keep the evil black suits with white belts ble but cannot be sold for 49 spirits away from there house it is drained and planted and becomes an oasis in the desert. 200,000 more people on the now bare sands of Negev by piping water there. Highways are lined with trees where and a white cotton full length sleeve is pulled up over the black coat sleeve and they wear a shiny metal hel met. The mimosa trees were the most colorful flower here. In Cairo it was the bougain villa that added color to the landscape. Cross Line April 4th we took a bus to the dividing line between Je rusalem, Jordan and Jerusa lem, Israel marked by barbed wire, sand bags and soldiers. We walked through "No Man's Land" and were care fully checked in one by one. Someone had told us that we could not take pictures there at the line but a Man on the i whcrl the sun fails, New Jerusalem siae saia "This is a free country, take a picture of any thing that you want to uikc. tic was one of the bankers that board- years. Fish ponds are put onSo it's easy to tell where thev the sand and after 8 months ; live This superstitition is be ing combatted with education. We went to Capernaum and They have plans for putting saw lnc ruins of the Syna, the place where St. Paul preached to the Corinthians. I In Corinth no building can be more than two' stories high j because it has been destroyed ; three times by earthquakes. I If our group is an indica tion Athens must be the place 1 to buy fur coats, hats and purses. ! There are oranges and lemon groves and many olive groves. Olive roots are given as a dowry with the bride. Artichokes grow nicely here too. A yellow flower that looked very much like pyreth- rum was being harvested whole gogue where Christ taught, ate lunch on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and drove on to Haifa which is a beautiful there wasn't a tree 15 years citv and comnares favnrahlv ago. iney are irymg curnu wiln San Francisc0 . We wcrc commercially - the' seeding uui bay imu nicy nave taken to the top of Mt. Car- plant was cut, at Old Corinth 10 wan iuui judis ui c me, so. that, we could look knowing if it is a success. A I down on the city and see at a chemical is to be put on the I distance one of the parks that lakes to cut down evapora-, ;s considered one of the seven tion, There are experimental j wonders of the world. We stations Solar mirrors heat j wore t00 far away to know water but the push of a but- j wny jt is so raicd. ton turns on me cicciricuy The plan is to plant 200 billion more trees in the next four years and they have planted 64 billion. They im- -H the bus and changed ouriP0" money for us. He asked if any- j enough milk on- uanlM In nlanl K I, school Children ! Sees Athens I Athens seems quite clean, : surrounded as it is with water i and sea breezes. We saw the change of the guards at the but I didn't think the pyrelh rum was ever yellow. The mimosa trees were in bloom and I saw the first umbrella or china berry tree that I've ever seen outside of Arizona, and parts of Cali fornia. (They perhaps grow elsewhere in the States). Thyme was growing on the hillsides in Athens and the guide told a story about a in Israel and a little 11-year-old boy said he did so he paid $2 for the privlege. New Je rusalem is just another big city. Wc visited Mt. Zion and it was a long climb up to the Chamber of the Last Supper, went on to Sanhcdria cata combs, and to the birthplace of John the Baptist. From there we went on to the Uni versity to see the Dead Sea Scrolls, through Tel-Aviv clean modern looking city with many trees, no TV but big auditorium where all operas are booked solid. The houses are built "on stilts' because of the warm climate the ground floor is not used for living, it is a play yard, garage, storage etc. Nazareth has a huge new housing area going up. At the Church of Annunciation we saw the cave where Mary is said to have lived, there is a big flat rock for a table, a hole where olive oil was kept, second one for other food and shelf like holes in the side of the rock wall for storage. There is a well there from which Mary is supposed to have drawn water but it is some distance from where they lived. I should have mentioned that before going lo Nazareth we had been taken to a hotel at Hcrzlia-on-Sca which was ahoul four blocks from the Mediterranean. The hotel is a training school for refugees but everything was done nice ly. Describes Israel Now I'll tell you something about Israel in general and please do not feel that I've been brain-washed because since living in Europe I'm 150 per cent U. S.-all these other people can have their ways as long as they don't try to trample on the U. S. and others. Israel is an amazing coun try. It is run by labor, immi grants - or newcomers as they arc called, are given a house, a cow, and 31) chicKcns in a cooperative village where an agricultural teacher and so cial workers are kept in help them. They are given a three-months-long intensive course in new Hebrew. They arc paid wages for the time tliey put in on the acres of sand ailotcd them until it becomes pro ductive. They put leaves and branches on it, plant it to trees or some such to gel it settled so that il "stays put." They may work in a factory, on other farms or do guard duty part of the time. When their land becomes productive they are put on free at lunch. Eggs were rationed two years ago and now they export three million a year. Oranges are their biggest export and I have to admit the guide was right when he says that our U.S. oranges cannot hold a candle to them. The oranges over here must be tree ripened as they are sweet and usually very delicious. He mentioned the U.S. often say ing - "We are doing as you have done ;." Girls In Army Girls go into military train at the age of 18 for two years and are in the reserves until 26. They do office work, sec ond line duties and the second year social service work. The men go in for 2'-j years for actual line duty, work in camps and guard duly at night. They are in the re serves until 40 and from 4a to 59 are in the second line of reserves. Nine years of school are compulsory, but soon 1 1 years will be. Medicine is socialized. Doctors are paid 320 pounds month. Every baby born gets a premium of 100 pounds. The railway, airline and oil refinery are nationalized. There is a law thai states that houses must be built of rock. Most valleys produce two crops a year but the Judean valley produces three. There are miles ot hanana and orange groves. Next to oranges the bigsesl export is diamonds, they do not produce them but cut them. There are many flower stands.- it is the custom that the husband takes home flowers on Friday night. The climate is comparable to southern California so there arc the outdoor tables and chairs for coffee as seen over most of Europe. They have villages which are Utopian socialistic vil lages and the slate docs not interfere in their government. One can live in them five days and then you are asked if you want to stay and work or leave. It is said that Wen dell Willkie stayed in one two davs and ran a tractor and enjoyed it. They keep you two years to see il you will fit into the group and if you do, you arc voted in and can also vote, otherwise you may stay on and work but cannot vole. Members that work out side keep enough money for their own personal needs only and the rest is sent back to the village coffer. Some people must be happy with tins way palace, visited the Acropolis, j plague in the early days and ! saw the Hill of Mars where i the doctors could not find a Paul preached, went to the j cure. Finally someone mixed I monastery of Daphne near: thyme, honey, milk, garlic jEleusis, an industrial city, and land salt and saved the rest io jia iorimn wnere we saw ot tne people. One of my disappointments is that I did not get to taste any honey made from thyme. We are due to go home, un less things change, before August so I don't know if I'll get to travel much more or not. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Group Prepare For Style Show Cetnral Point-Members of Gamma Xi chapter, Beta Sig ma Phi, held a special work day earlier this week in prep aration for a patio style show planned for Saturday. June 16. It was reported that ail the tickets for the event are sold. Fashions from Pauline's store will be modeled. Also of interest were re ports by Mrs. Carrol Adams, Mrs. B. M. 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