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14 A- this Is Mieo-ll TUESDAY. JANUARY IS. 1983 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Rise of Middle Glass Mexico's Outstanding Development in 30 Years a HARRY FERGUSON ' Mexico City -Him- It Is our pleasure today to have a chat with Senorita Isabel Valdez Ramirez, an attractive steno grapher - translator for the Continental Ensco Co.. dis tributors of oil field equip ment. . . Senorita Ramirez doubtless never thinks about it, but she Is the end product of a series of revolutions in Mexico. Wars have been fought, presi dents assassinated and the nil nl Mexico soaked with blood to make it possible for her to have the job sne noms. buy the things she buys and do the things she docs. The outstanding develop ment in Mexico in the last 30 years has been the rise of a middle class. Senorita Ramir ez is a member of it. So are millions of other salaried em ployees, small businessmen and union workers. Until the rise of the middle class Mex icans were either enormously wealthy - and there were precious few of them - or lived in grinding poverty. Modern Mexico can give us its birth date the day it be came possible for girls like Senorita Ramirez to go out and get a job. Income Improving The per capita income of Mexican middle class still far below that of America. But still it is getting better all the time and as It Improves so do living conditions. Se norita Ramirez earns $240 a month. Here is her budget: Cloths, cosmetics and beau. ty parlors, $120: lunches, $28; transportation, $1.60; filter cigarettes, $1.92; ballet les sons, $7.20; Italian lessons, $8; income tax per month , $1.28; rent, none because she lives with her parents; savings for vacation, Christmas etc., $72. - In the romantic atmosphere of Mexico It seemed ungallant to ask Seniorita Ramirez her age or why she spent half her income on clothes and beauty treatments. Suffice it to say that she is in her early twen ties and matrimony is not ex eluded from her plans. The Spaniards conquered Mexico in the 16th century and began to mingle and inter marry with the dark-skinned Indians. As a result there are three racial types in the na tion today - Spaniards, per sons of mixed blood and In dlans. It is impossible to ar rive at precise figures but the ratio in the present popula- tion is about this: Spaniards, 13 per cent; mixed blood, 56 per cent; Indians 29 per cent No Mexican is handicapped because of his racial origin One of the national hcros is Benito Jaurez, a full blooded Indian who in 1855 led a re- MAR 22 jJAM. 201 ON 4-Jl 30-44 W47-C2-74 . TAURUS J APR. 21 ( MAY 21 STAR GAZER V By CLAY R. FOLLAN' OIMMI (OP, MAY 22 jFjSJjUNE 21 OU2-43-J5-5fl Sy1-70-83-90l CANCIR e. JUNE 23 JULYU -rIB.26-34-4l UO frV, AUu. 23 1150-32.40-51 Jt7-n 85-Ml VII90 AUG. 24 SEPT. 22 1 3-10-1? 24 60-75 Your Doily Activity Guide M. l' According to lot Start.. 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PISCSI - riB. 20 MAR 2t ir . 9-17-25 49SJ 77-78 8? 84V& form movement that eventual ly was to change Mexico from a feudalistlc state into a mod ern nation. Slow Transformation It was a slow painful and bloody transformation. In the process large estates were seized and turned over to the peasants, American oil property was expropriated, unions were organized and -only since 1933 - women were allowed to vote. The result was a more equitable distri bution of the national Income and more jobs available. And more leisure time. The average Mexican embraced this joyously. There is no country in the world where o many different sports are played and watched. The Mex icans have bull fighting, jai alai, boxing, wrestling, ten nis (very good, too), baseball, Limited Copies Made of Painting by Ashland Artist Ashland - Art works of David Hagerbaumer, 200 Crowson rd., are gaining new recognition following release of a limited number of copies of one of his paintings "Octo bcr Evening-Pintails." Only 350 reproductions have been made by the Brit ish firm of Frost and Reed and all are to be autographed by the artist, making them collectors' items. The prints will be distrib uted through Sportsman's Gal lery of Arts and Books, New York. Several will be on dis play at Frames Etc., 1051 Highway 66, Ashland, whore Hagerbaumer held a one man show last year. The painting was donated to Ducks Unlimited auction at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in 1962 and was sold for $1,075, the highest ever paid for a picture at an annual auction of the organization. The artist's ability to por tray game birds and water fowl in minutest detail has resulted in many commissions and awards. Among some of his wild life exhibits was the bird refuge grouping made for Harney county and dis played at the Oregon Centen nial. He Is equally proficient in the various media of water colors, pen and ink,, pencil and oils, and has recently de veloped ceramic game birds, which led to a commission for a 24-bird panel. Opantd Museum Last year Hagerbaumer col laborated with L. I. Hapton- stall, taxidermist, to open a museum of natural sciences in Lithia park. Their life-like ex hibits of animals and birds native to southern Oregon among natural settings have attracted widespread interest. The artist has a lifetime ac quaintance with nature and a boyhood on the Mississippi river. After serving as staff artist with the Fleet Marine Force, U.S. Marine Corps, he became preparator for the Ne vada State museum, and later was assistant curator and staff artist at the Santa Barbara, Calif., Museum of Natural History. He has held shows in many parts of the county and is a member of numerous professional a s s o c 1 a t ions, among them the Southern Oregon Society of Artists. Symposium Slated At Oregon State Corvallis-More than 25 ex perts In forestry, logging, soils, geology, civil and hy draulic engineering will be speakers at a Forest Water shed Management symposium Mach 25 to 28 at Oregon State university. The symposium is being sponsored by the Society of American Foresters and Ore gon Slate university. The four-day meeting is expected to attract foresters and other land managers from through out the Pacific Northwest. Speakers will represent in dustrial forestry firms as well as public agencies vitally con cerned with watershed man agement on forest lands. The program has been de signed to cover fundamentals of soils, water movement, geologic and vegetative influ ences on water movement and yield, floods, erosion, mass soil movement, land form and soil delineation as aids to wa tershed management, and spe cific techniques in land use that can result m good water shed management. ' ' 4 : ; ' - ' ' : r I ; " i i 5m LAST FEW DAYS FOR BIG SUCCESS SAVINGS! YOUR CAR WILL NEVER BE WORTH MORE IN TRADE THAN IT IS NOW. DON'T DELAY! TRADE NOW! Ill nil; ',r'Y I'ou'rr probably patiing the trier of a l.rSabrr hi littick tchjl not own one.' ff (! ut 10 hie rs ' we. 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The government operates several types of lotteries, and in two blocks you are likely to encounter six persons ped dling tic' its. The govern ment's share goes to welfare projects. Proceeds if the na tional lottery have built a 32-acre medical center and provided $4 million a year for breakfasts for school chil dren. Many TV Sols One estimate, possibly too high, is that there are 500, 000 television sets in Mexi- SKINNER BUICK-CADILLAC 143 South Riverside Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn W. Witkins 'Register St Tribune Syndicate, 1963) Vampire Imect (Bedbugs): Advocates of Togetherness Togetherness is a virtue practiced by the vampire in sects. Nothing pleases them more than a close and intimate as sociation with human beings. They are not particular as to what country they live in, be ing worldwide in distribution. To attain this coveted to getherness they move into any human habitation and, be cause they are nocturnal by nature, take up their perma nent residence in the bed room. By letting our voice fall to well below an audible whisper, we call them what they really are-bedbugs. To have them as guests in a home is considered a social disgrace. There are a couple of thousand species of these loathsome insects on earth. and at least ISO kinds Inhabit America. Gave Caveman Fits The vampire insect gave the caveman a bad time. The in sects moved into the cave at the same time the early hu man tried to get in from the weather. Like the true vam pire it is, the bedbug drinks blood, but if other conditions are favorable as to tempera ture and a certain degree of shelter, it can live as long as a year without eating at all. If no human being occupies the bedroom, the vampire will crawl on and bite rats, mice, rodents of various kinds, birds or any other warm-blooded creature so unlucky as to be included on the vampire in sect's preferred "together ness" list. . Although the bedbug is wingless, only about a six teenth of an inch in overall length and reluctant to crawl any distance, it sure gets around. It has been carried from one place to another, across state lines and over oceans and continents. It rec ognized no barriers; it knew no horizons. Neither docs it possess any inhibitions. Altar History The vampire bugs have act ually changed the course of human history. No records are available as to how many mo mentous decisions were right ly or wrongly made because a sleeper, who should have a cool head when the morning came, had been kept awake all night fighting a group of vampire bugs. No respecter of age, sex, station or rank, the bedbug took its victims as they came, and the old rooming houses, where the weary traveler sought restful sleep, were more often than not infested with bedbugs. The vampire bugs, out of sight in the day or hidden under the mattress or behind the wallpaper while the lights were lit, weren't in evidence until the tired hu man sought his rest and sleep. When quiet settled over the world and It was dark in the bedroom, the monsters from the dark places crawled forth, guided by the warmth and the I scent of the paying guest. The room that had appeared so vacant while the lights were on was plentifully occupied by hosts of non-paying guests -Ihirs shaped like apple seeds. Conveniently Shaped The vampire bug is conven iently shaped for the role he is designed to play . , . flat, ovate body rcdish brown in col.ir. Mis bite is all out of proportion to his size. He's lit tle but hlj bite is big. Because of his small size and shape, he can hide in the smallest crev ice - In furniture, floors or woodwork. He and his repulsive wife hate sunlight or lamplight. And rightly so: they have ev ery reason to be ashamed of themselves. co City alone. Antenna sprout from almost every snack in the poorer sections of the cap ital. In any event the Mexi cans are great fans for tele vision and the radio. There is great interest in American TV. Perry Mason wins all his cases as easily in Span ish as he does in English. Paladin's six-gun speaks the same language in Mexico as it does in the United Slates, but the words that come out of his mouth are Spanish. American TV is so popular that 500 Mexican actors have year round work dubbing Spanish on the films. Rich or poor, ihe average Mexican is a neat fellow. You almost never see a man who needs a hair cut. The shining of shoes is a major industry and there are an average of three bootblacks to the block in the large cities. It is man datory to have your shoes shined once a day, but some Mexicans exercise the option of having it done once in the morning and once in the aft- ernoon. When business is dull, the bootblacks shine each oth er s shoes. The going price is one peso eight cents, Neatness extends to your au tomobile and no Mexican al lows much dust to settle on his car. Boys with buckets and sponges go up and down the line of parked automo biles doing a brisk business at 24 cents a car. Less Tense Than Yanks It probably is a dangerous generalization, but the aver age Mexican seemed to this correspondent to be happy and much less tense than Americans. Sergio Moreno Zavala, 48, owns a small car penter shop and employs three helpers.' He pays $28 a month rent for a two-bed room apartment. His three sons are out on their own now and his ' 14-year-old daughter is living at home until she is old enough to go to secretarial school. The Za- valas go to the movies once or twice a week, listen to Mexican "ranch music'' West ern ballads over the radio, have beef steak twice a week and the head of the family likes to buy a general admis sion seat to baseball and soc cer games. After he has paid his help ers and purchased lumber, Zavala has an average month y profit of $120. He is not concerned because it is not larger and does not plan to expand his business. He is old enough to remember that it ' would nave been impossi ble for his father to do what he is doing. be your own boss and run your own business. Next: The Mexican Cot ernment and how it operates. They'll Do It Every Time i - By Jimmy Hatlo Sawmill snores eveit night away in sixteen different sound barriers Then in the morning, who gets in the opening fusillade in. the never-ending battle? listen 1 K Vvell-Vou V-lr5?" IU JUST WERE AT IT AGAIN ME? Vs HAVE TO J ALL LAST NIGHT.' J , I ME?.' OF SLEEP IN VOU SNORED SO J ai i t. I ANOTHER LOUD I COULDN'T 1 -Vat J-TrTc i WIN&-IPWE 1 V SHUT MY EYES J I I AJrJz.n 1 Kin Fsvturts E n-ikaU. lac. V TIME TO ENROLL ri In the MEDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES fa START NEXT MONDAY January 21st Here Is a Wonderful Opportunity To IMPROVE YOURSELF . . . ... by education, and do it NOW! There are general classes , In a wide range of categories, business education, hobby and craft, homemaking, etc. Simply choose the class YOU want and register at the meeting of that class this week. Courses are planned for nine more weeks; tuition may be paid during the next three weeks and it is surprisingly low. Jorgensen's congratulate the Medford Public Schools upon making such valuable courses available to the people of this community and area and urge you to ACT THIS WEEK! Classes in Homemaking-Business Education, Hobby & Craft, Civil Defense and General Education For Full Information PHONE 773-7220 Published a$ a public service by Iht OOO Fine Dairy Foods
