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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-
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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.
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golf, horse racing, swimming,
fishing, judo and two kinds of
football - American and soc
cer. If all of these things
should pall, a Mexican can in
vest 24 cents in a ticket on the
proletariat national lottery
and dream of winning $24.
000. 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
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