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12 A FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Russian Cities Impressive, But Howard Morgan Notes Drabness (Edilor'i not: Howard Morgan, formtr Oregon 1 public utilities commlaiion ; er and now on the Fadaral Powar commiiiion, racantly ' accompanied Secretary of '. the Interior Stewart Udall ' and other members of the Federal Power commiiiion on a trip into Ruiia. Thii ii the third in a aerial of ar- ticlea in which Morgan dii- cutiei tome ot hit Imprei - aiom of Ruiili.) By HOWARD MORGAN For the remainder of these articles I shall, instead of tracing our path through Rus sia and Siberia by air and au tomobile, break the materia! down into general headings likely to be of most interest to a casual reader or to an intended visitor. ; The things which interested me the most, after the actual purposes of our tour whicli were to examine the hydro electric plants, power stations and extra-high-voltage trans mission lines, were the cities, the people, the transportation facilities and the land. . The cities are impressive, but they take a bit of getting accustomed to. Moscow is a truly beautiful city, but It is so different from anything I have ever seen In either North or, South America or In West ern Europe that it was not un til we returned there toward the end of our tour that 1 really appreciate it. First Impression One's first Impression, just as in some of our older cities, is of drabness. The favorite colors for buildings seem to be a dull mustard yellow or faded off-green. Many are of painted are not repainted of unpainted dun-colored sand stone. Most of those which are ten enough, there being too many more important things to be done first, and many arc extremely old. The weatherbcaten appear ance of these old buildings is carried on by the newer ones, which tend to be of a ponder ous old-fashioned architecture. Somehow the Russians have a talent for building new struc tures which look old even be fore they are finished, and the visitor is constantly confused by being told that a row of apartment houses which look twenty or more years old were finished only a year or two ago. There is an enormous amount of building going on. Apartment construction seems to be the greatest urban short age and to have the top pri ority from the government (top priority for quantity, that is, but not necessarily for quality). Everywhere one looks across the skyline of Mos cow, and every other city we saw, he sees tower cranes at work erecting buildings, and in nine cases out of ten they they are building apartments. I think I am being quite con servative and realistic when I estimate that there are prob ably between two and three thousand of these tower Kennedy Fuel Oil Offering the best in: Oil Heating Equipment Fuel Oil Oil Burner Service Dial 773-5896 cranes working in Moscow alone. Counts SO Cranes It is almost impossible to find a section of skyline with out a tower crane prominently in view and In the intermedi ate and outlying areas of the city I have counted as many as SO from a single viewpoint. We were free to wander about as we pleased, incidentally, with guides If we wanted them or unaccompanied, and in the time available to us we did so. Moscow is a very large city with a population of about 7.5 million, but it is not as large In area as you would expect. The population lives almost entirely in apartments and there are no suburbs as we know them. One drives direct ly from farming country through a surrounding open belt, which will eventually surround the city with parks, into the most concentrated areas of apartment construc tion I have ever seen. The city is constantly grow ing outward so that the apart ments are now approaching the park belt, and I suppose that they will shortly leap frog over that to resume their march into the country. Large Boulevards There are several large boulevards leading into the center of the city, of which we saw only two - those lead ing to the Scheremetievo and Vnukovo airports the latter serving flights southward and eastward. These are hand some thoroughfares, broad and spacious and lined with trees and parkways almost all the way downtown, and they pass numerous monuments, parks, stadia, swimming pools, schools, training institutes and libraries along the way. The main streets and side walks everywhere, especially In the small towns, are scrupulously, even miracu lously, clean. There is far more traffic than I had been led to expect, quite enough to produce traf fic jams during the rush hours. Traffic moves on the right, as ours does, so it is not as hair-raising to an Amer ican as the British and Swed ish left-hand traffic, but it moves at a terrific pace and since horn-blowing is illegal it pays to keep one's eyelids up. Hare Right of Way Pedestrians have the right-of-way even when jaywalking but you would never guess it while riding with a Russian chauffeur. Most people in Moscow travel bv the mae- ! nificc.it fast, efficient and beautiful subways (about 3.5 million passengers a day) which deserve a whole article by themselves. The fare is 5 kopeks about a nickel the trains are long, fast, modern and comfortable, and run as often as every 45 seconds in rush hours. Each station is uniquely dif ferent and each is a breath taking work of art. We were told that even at a fare of 5 kopeks the annual profit of the subways is very large. I would say that trucks and busses still comprise a slight majority of the street traffic but there are a surprising number and, we were told, a rapidly growing number of small cars and panel delivery types of vehicles resembling Volkswagens, Nashes, Volvos and Corvairs along with the older cars resembling Pack- ards and Buicks. All are Russian-made and appear to be well-built. Among the limousines we us ually rode in I preferred the old ZIS, which I am told stands for "Automobile Fact ory Named for Stalin." Beautiful Built Car It looks like a 1949 Pack ard, is high, roomy, very com fortable and is a beautifully built car. The newer limou sines look like a cross between a Lincoln and a uaauiac, are named Chaika (Seagull), and seem to be as well constructed but not as roomy and com fortable. The fact that Russians are highly conscious of their hist ory is borne out strikingly by the way they care for old museums, the genuinely hist oric cathedrals (ordinary ones are apparently left to the small congregations to main tain and they are rapidly fall ing apart) and the palaces of the Czars, both in and out of the Kremlin. We were fortunate enough to be offered a rare trip through the great palace of the Kremlin. It is composed of wings built in the 15th, 17th and 19th centuries and each room or hall literally stuns the visitor with what seems to be unmatchable opulence and magnificence, only to be surpassed by the next one. While going through tile palace and the Kremlin cath edrals one of our party asked one of our hosts, a high Rus sian official who speaks Eng lish, why a communist gov ernment would go to obvious ly great expense in order to maintain and repair these remnants of the old order. He said, "Well, those people were not of our class, but they were of our people. They rep resent something We Russians went through, and thus they are part of us. We wouldn't think of wiping out these things. They are our history." They'll Do It Every Time IllliMriUMa. By Jimmy Hatlo . y - ME NEVER FINISHES A f JUNIOR WONT KNOW HIS LOOK POLL HE TAKES A FEW H SEVENTH BlRTHDAV PICTURES-v WHEN ARE VOL) W. ( AND THEN SWITCHES TO 11 HE'S NINE AND A HALF HOW J!) COIN& TO HAVE I ""X ANOTHER CAMERA . - DEVELOPED? WE 1 - K IT MAKES NO NEVER DID GET YEAH-VEAM.'X f AND WHEN HE .FIAnMP ll t THE ONES VOU I I'LL HAVE 'EM DOES TAKE 'EM TO feP'cM7W lT TOOK OF JUNIORS DEVELOPED SOON ) THE DRUGSTORE A Vt 1 PARTV WHEN HE AS I FINISH OUT HE LEAVES THEM ) V'TH 100K J A. WAS SEVEN -nje ROLL REMIND V THERE FOR SIX A TVZl ' srir ' V ME TO TAKE J NMONTHS OR jL .., T r 7 The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a judgr, a phychiatrlst, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Kach article Is a summary of a family disagreement presented to the Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by by Airs. Alma Denny. (Copy right by General Features Corp.) Mil MARIE Now is the time don't wait and be too late. These 1962 Ramblers must be sold now before the new models arrive and are displayed. BRAND NEW 1962 RAMBLERS Mlyjl! . SAVE UP TO... 8 33 70 Rambler . . . America' favorite compact car for years and the leader in the field. Discover why so many of your friends nd neighbors drive and swear by their Ramblers. You'll never have a better opportunity or lower prices. Be a smart buyer it's your time to wheel and deal at Lea motors. Put any salesman on the spot you'll be surprised we can go as low as he will. MEA MOTOR 5th & Bartletf 12th and Riverside Emanuel G. - She's too ser ious about her music. Her time belongs to the home. Shirley G. - I've been told I have enough talent for a career in music. He should be glad. Emanuel G. - My wife has let a lot of careless flattery go to her head. She's con vinced that she's another Lily Pons and that nothing must stand in her way toward the Metropolitan Opera House. Well, the first thing in her way is me. And next comes our three children. Only two of them are in school. The baby is three years old. But suddenly Shirley is all wound up about a career. Up to now her singing was just a pas time, a hobby. But now she has a singing teacher coming to the house twice a week. He's a character from right out of the comic page, one of those Latin,-lover types. ; The truth is, her voice Is nothing special. Also, I don't need the money she says she i can earn performing. And meanwhile I don't want her throwing out my good money ' on all those lessons. She has all she can do now taking care of the children and our home, i Shirley G. - I think I have a right to follow through on a chance for a career. Manny j knew I had a deep interest in singing when he married me. I used to entertain at our friends' homes and at amateur contests. As long as I regard ed it as a hobby, he took the whole matter lightly. He let me attend concerts and take a few seasons of lessons at a music school. But now that I'm serious, he keeps thinking up new objections. If I'm as good as I've been told 1 am by people whose opinion I respect, then I'd like to train for a recital and get some professional criticism -not Just the squelches and cold waler my husband hands out. In our ten years of mar riage I've been patient and a good wife and mother. But now that two of the children are in school, I see nothing wrong with having my teacher come to the house. The les sons take place during the baby's nap. . . The C o u n e i 1 1 Evidently what gels one member of this family irritated (we mean Emanuel), lulls another mem ber into hours of peaceful slumber (we mean the baby). So there must be more to this debate about Shirley's singing than meets the ear. There's no doubt that cer tain fears arc now assailing Emanuel, rise he'd be glad that his wife was keeping alive nn "outside'' interest. All good wives are being con stantly advised to do this very tiling as a hedge against be coming too child-centered and having nothing challenging to do when the children arc grown and the home releases her. So what's really worry ing this husband'' Can it be that lie s afraid Shirley may actually be very gifted and may some day no longer "need'' him as her pro vider Does he require a wife he ran dominate? And do the singing lessons represent the loosening of his hold on Shir ley? His arguments arc redicu lous. In one breath he says money Is no problem to him. he doesn't need what ''she might earn. But then he doesn't want Shirley to "throw out" his money on her lessons. 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