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i 8 B Seven Days in South Africa (Editor' nolo: This i another in a series of ar ticles by Luke Lang, for mer Medford resident who ii on an around the world cruiie aboard the freighter. SS F r i e 1 1 a n d. Today'! article concerns hii arrival at Durban, South Africa, and arrangements for a safari.) By LUKE LANCE Upon arriving at Durban, the third or fourth largest city in Africa, we were told we had seven days before leaving. The crew had 4,000 Ions of steel to load for ship ment to the U.S. and Canada. Durban has a large steel plant and it seemed strange to see large steel sheets being shipped from Africa to the U.S. and Canada where there are the most efficient plants In the world. It makes one wonder if, with their cheap labor and our technical help, we are not going to price our selves out of markets abroad. Most of the heavy equip r-s. ' j vc,' u vs w Y i 1 r fee. 'iiaaa- t v . RODEO FINALS - These five beauties from the Unversity of Colorado will be sitting on the top rail when collegiate teams com pete in the Championship College rodeo finals June 21 to 24. Left to right are Terry Reclamation Bureau Anniversary of Act Today The 601h anniversary of the signing of the Federal Re clamation Act of 1002 is being observed today, the bureau of reclamation has noted. Since passage of the act, the bureau of reclamation has been an important factor in the economy of Oregon, and two of the first projects under the reclamation act still arc in operation. They arc the1 Klamath proj ect in southern Oregon and the Umatilla project. in east ern Oregon. Surveys of both projects were started in 1903, and they were in operation a few years later. Through June 30, 1001, the federal government, through the bureau o reclamation, had Invested more than $75, 11110,0(10 in reclamation proj ects in Oregon, exclusive of the Klnmalh project which rovers reclaimed lands in both southern Oregon and northern California. 13 Other Projects In addition to the Klamath project, there are 13 tither ir rigation projects, embracing mure than 325,000 acres of ir rigable lands, receiving water through or from facilities con structed by the bureau in Or egon. During the crop year lflBO, . the latest year of record, crops produced on these lands that season had an estimated gross value of about $40,500.(100. A tulul of 206,904 acres were ac tually irrigated, making the estimated gross ppr acre value of the crops raised slightly more than $136. Owyhee dam, on the Owy hee river in eastern Oregon, constructed by the bureau from 1028 to 1035. is one of the major storage facilities in the Pacific Northwest. Its res ervoir has a capacity of 1,1211,000 acre feet, and serves more than 85.000 acres of ag ricultural lands. Central Oregon Projects In central Oregon the bu reau of reclamation has con-, stnuted or rehabilitated stor-; ace facilities serving almost j 120.000 acres on the Des- chuli, Arnold, Crescent Lake and Ochocn projects. The Baker and Burnt river projects in eastern Oregon em- tiraa- almost 23.000 irrigable arres, and are served by Thief I Valley reservoir on the Pow- r,. r rier. and the Unity rcser- voir on tlie Burnt river, rc tpcrtivcly. The struct ii res were built by the bureau dur- SUNDAY. JUNE 17. 1962 ment I have seen in Africa has been of German and Rus sian manufacture, and most of the smaller products like fishing tackle, lines, cigar lighters, etc., have nearly all been from Japan. The cranes and dock equipment was all made in England. In the city we did see large amounts of American clothes and appli ances for sale. First Greeting Our first greeting after get ting off the ship was from a native Zulu rickshaw boy. He was dressed in a colorful costume of Zebra skins, beads and bracelets. He was bare footed, but around his ankles were pounds of metal brace lets. He had a headdress of feathers and horns, which were from oxen and at least two feet long. All this regalia, along with the cuts and tattoes on his face put there by his mother for tribal identification when he was an infant, makes him look more savage than his brothers in the bush. Fellers, Denver, Colo; Dusty McEvoy, Vaca vlllc, Callf.;.Pot lullerton, Englewood Colo.; Lynn Wolf, Grand Junction, Colo.; and Stephanie Klimoski, Littleton, Colo. (UPI) ing the 1030's In eastern Oregon along the Idaho border, some 33,000 acres are served by Warm Springs and Agency Valley reservoirs. The first of these was constructed privately in 1019. The latter was built by the bureau in the late 1920 s. Area Projects In the southern part of the slate, the bureau of reclama tion has rehabilitated facili ties serving more than 10,000 acres in the Grants Pass proj ect, and nearly 14,000 acres in the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts. Construction is practically complete now on the Talent division of the Rogue River Uasin project serving about 5,300 acres of new lands and a supplemental irrigation wa ter supply to another 23,800 acres in southwestern Oregon This project included con struction of the 62,000 acre- foot Howard Prairie reservoir. the 40.000 acre-foot Emigrant reservoir, the 16,000 acre-foot Hyatt Prairie reservoir, and the 16.000 kilowatt capacity Green Springs power plant. Construction is nearly com pleted on the Crooked river project serving irrigation wa ter to 0.500 acres and sup plemental water to another 10,800 acres In central Ore gon. Recent Construction Work Other recent construction work In Oregon included the 13.060 acre-foot capacity Was Eighth St. To Be Closed One Day Eighth st. between River side avc. and East Main st. is rxpected to be closed to traffic one day this week while forms arc being remov ed from the freeway. Vei n Thorpe, city engineer, ' said the closure is a safctv i precaution since some con- crete may fall from the free- way structure when forms are removed. City police said motorists should he on the alert for road closed" signs and obey them Main st. in the vicinity of the freeway structure 'was closed to traffic last week. p,.c si)id ra(fic was dpUv. ed on some streets because some motorists did not obey the "road closed" signs. He was soliciting riders to the post office. Like other eager American tourists, the three of us squeezed into his rickshaw. Along with his regalia is his art of imitating a horse. He feels he is taking the place of a horse, so thinks it is part of the job to mimic one. While he is trotting up town he is snorting at people on the sidewalk and shieing away from cars. Ever so often he jumps high in the air and hangs there. While he is in the air you are on the ground. Fare en Arrival You can't wait to get out of the contraption, but he in. sists on taking you to the post office. His fare on arri val was one pound, $2.80 American. As soon as he collected, he ran around the corner, and would not wait for us to take his picture. We soon found the reason why he hur ricd, There was a large sign V tf it A 'V- r - Observes co reservoir on Clear creek serving 2.100 acres on the Juniper division of the Wa pinitia project. Construction was started re cently on two new Oregon reclamation projects. The $5 Mi million The Dalles proj ect will provide irrigation wa ter under sprinkler pressure to 5,420 acres near the city of The Dalles. The second project, Bully Creek dam on Bully creek, will be an earthfill structure 104 feet high and about 3,100 feet long. Bully Creek reser voir will have a storage capac ity of 32,000 acre feet which will provide needed supple mental irrigation water to the 35,000 acre Vale project. Legislation is now pending before the Congres to author ize construction of the lower division of the Baker project in eastern Oregon. it CRATER HIGH Stadium Boosters The Stadium Drive is almost over the topi Your help is needed to complete the drive. If you haven't already contributed will you give now? Amounts of five, ten, or fifteen dollars are suggested but no amount is too small to be of help. Mail a check or leave a contribution at the First National Bank in Central Point. Make checks payable to Crater Stadium Fund. A receipt will be mailed to you. Funds now on hand (including animated vilue of donated material) amount to $24,325.55. An additional $3000 to $5000 is needed. HURRYI Picas make your contribution at oncel Bids for construction will ba opened Thursday, June 21st and will b 1st for only the amount of money on hand at that timet 346 parsons havt already, bought tickets or con tributed to the fund, lot's add your nam to this numberl This advertisement is sponsored and paid for bv Everett faher, F C. Avres, Paul MaNev. CVn Patterson, Don Morrow, H P. JewcU. Bid Askwith. Georqe E.is, C- A. Mever, Don Faber. Ernest Kennedy. Charles Bate man, Otto Behnert, Vern Tomlinson. is : i Gives Opportunity for Trip to Zululand next to the post office giving the fares for rickshaws and taxis, with the request that any overcharge be told to the proper officials at once, along with the driver's number. Our fare should have been 50 cents. This guy's quick and accu rate gypping of an American tourist gives me some hope that maybe these people will learn to run their country after all. With seven days to spend, we rented a car and drove nearly 900 miles around South Africa. All driving is left hand side. Controls, such as gear shift, clutch, etc., are backward. Immediately after leaving the agency, I jumped the curb and ran two wheels on the sidewalk for half a block, but in an hour or two got used to it. Poor Place io Learn A city of a half a million population, and all of them crossing streets at the same time, seems like a poor place to learn to drive a new way, but I was afraid if I told the man at the car rental I had never driven in Africa be fore, he would either give me a two-hour driving lesson or insist on a guide, which he had already recommended. We proceeded to the main police station where I re quested a permit to take one of my shotguns on our safari (any trip in Africa out of town is called a safari). This, I was informed, was impos sible. They made it plain that no one in South Africa except white officials could carry guns. The blacks will give any thing that they own to get their hands on any kind of armament that shoots bullets. They assured me, that being an American tourist, they knew I would not sell it to a native, but thought there would be a chance of it being stolen or taken away by a group of natives if I were going to Zululand. Offer An Officer They did offer us an offi cer, who would be armed, as guide. We would have to pay his wages and expenses. This was the last thing we wanted, since they have their segregation or Apartheid law that forbids talking to a black or colored person. We wanted to see these people in their villages and in the bush, cs the jungle Is called, and taking an official along would ruin any chance to see the thlnas we wanted to or talk ing to the natives. So, after the hassle and advice from the British, we took our camera and plenty of film and took off for Zulu land. The first 50 miles takes you to Pietermaritzburg, which is a small modern town and most of the Europeans are of Dutch descent. The road is a two lane blacktop highway. From here we took a dirt road, and after about 10 miles started through the the land of the Zulus. Site Depends on Wealth In the cities and larger towns, the natives must wear clothes, but it ends right there. Thcs mall Zulu villages arc called a Kraal. Its size de pends on the wealth of the chief, and his wealth is de termined by the number of cattle he owns. Quality does not enter in, just how many. The cattle are skinny and starved, but if a man has a lot of them, he is rich. In the front of the kraal is a large round hut made of sticks, covered with mud clay, and a roof of banana or coco nut leaves. The floor is dirt. Now and then one of them will scrounge an old car top MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON or fender or piece of sheet metal and work it into one of the sides of his main hut. The main hut in the front is occupied by the Chief and his, at the time, number one wife and any children by her. Directly behind the first large hut will be a smaller one and so on around, all occupied by his other wives and their chil dren. Their distance from the main but is measured by how big a favorite they are with the chief. The last hut is usually oc cupied by an old woman who was probably his first wife, before he became wealthy with cattle and bought more women. A pretty good woman can be bought in Zululand for two cows, and five cows will get you a real doll. Water Is Scarce Chickens, dogs, goats and kids swarm all over the place as well as flics. Water is THIS S;E P A RAT E Bp Sli I NOW ONLY : HI fife kmm NORGE Mp MlQlRlOg scarce, and is not wasted on anything foolish, such as a bath. In many kraals, the en tire water supply is carried for a mile or more on the heads of the wives. They can walk perfectly straight with a 5-gallon can of water on their heads. All through Africa, a great number of the natives have scarred faces. All tribes have certain marks, and not too long after birth the mothers take knives, and now razor blades.if they can get them, and cut these marks on the faces of their children and rub hot ashes in the cuts while they are healing. A per son familiar with Africa can tell to which tribe any native belongs by the marks on his face. They have another custom of marking that grew from the slave days. Some tribes still practice it (Nsasani in GOLDEN HEART SWEEPSTAKES A BEAUTIFUL 1962 2 DOOR REFRIGERATOR FREEZER Nothing To Buy! Just Come in ' and Register Easy Credit Terms FREE DELIVERY W 71J-JI0 particular). Many years ago. a chief discovered that the i slavers took only the most 1 attractive women, so they started to make their women as unattractive as they could to prevent this. They made pie crust cuts on both cheeks and forehead of a young girl's face. After this healed, they cut a hole through her upper lip, and put a big plug in it. The skin grew tight around the plug and the plug was there the rest of her days. The Europeans run the i cities in Africa pretty much io sun inemseivea, dui iney no longer make an effort to change the customs of these different tribes. If a murder or cannibalism is .committed then the law steps in, but be yond this the people in the bush live as their ancestors did before the white man came to Africa. Join the I I r w I i I r - - aaaeaoiK. - aW M . 772-7.21 r- -V " that's Swedish for beauty W.,JfcaitJ . . . and that's exactly what they're saying about the new classic Volvo. Ninety horsepower engine, disc brakes, solid Swedish steel all world-famous Volvo qualities row in a new look. Take one out for a test drive. Also ask your dealer about savings you can make by picking up a new Volvo on your next trip to Europe. 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