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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1983 3 Children's Eyes Become California Artists Hallmark Six Vehicles Are Damaged in Four Accidents in Area Six vehicles were damaged In. four automobile accidents investigated by Oregon state police Wednesday afternoon and early today. Two girls were treated at Sacred Heart hospital for bruises after the car in which they were riding missed the exit road on Interstate S at Crater Lake highway Inter change and turned over. According to police, oper ator of the vehicle was Caro lyn L. Nelson, 16, of route 3, box 16B, Medford. Passenger was Louise Anne Hoover, 17, of route 2, box 227, Medford. The accident was reported at 9:15 p.m. A cow owned by the Mid way Meat company had to be killed after it was struck by a car on Table Rock rd. about 5 o'clock this morning. State police said the car was operated by Eleanor Ber nice Poythress, 39, of 323 East Vilas rd. Lodged In Jail Lodged in the Jackson county jail on a charge of drunk on a public highway was James Charles Rezac, 53, of Portland. He was arrested about 3 p.m. Wednesday after the vehicle in which he was a passenger was involved in an accident on Highway 99 in front of Bear Creek orchards. According to police, Rezac was a passenger in a vehicle operated by Leslie Edward Burho, 46, of Portland, which pulled from the orchard park ing lot onto Highway 99 in front of a car operated by Danny Wayne Mclntire, 2209 Allen Creek rd.. Grants Pass. Also Investigated by state police Wednesday about 4:30 p.m. was a two-vehicle acci dent at the intersection of Valley View rd. and Highway 99. Officers said the vehicles were operated by Eada Lo rena Calhoun, 63, of 259 Fifth St., Ashland, and Virginia May Neidoyer, 40, of route 1, box 250, Talent. Police said Virginia Nei doyer complained of back in juries and said that she would contact her physician. WHO'S IN CHARGE? Oklahoma City f-IUPD- New Republican Gov. Henry Bell mon wanted to get an early start at his new job and turn ed up at the state capitol be fore dawn Wednesday. But someone had forgotten to fur nish him with a key to his locked office. THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW.Morrison St. PORTLAND, OREGON . All traniient gucstj. All thoie who come, return,. Rates not high, not low. Free garage, TV 1 and radioi. Reputation tor cleanlinesi. Children Under Seven No Charge BY JOHN BARNETT World War II, his only in United Prns International terest was in becoming a good Woodside, Calif.,-UPD-When enough artist to devote his life a young California real estate to painting, broker named Walter Keane But he returned with more went to Europe shortly after than he bargained for. He Georgia Merchants To Clear Shelves of Communist Goods Columbus, Ga. (UPD When the whistles blow at midnight Dec. 31 that will be the signal not only for the start of the new year but for merchants here to clear their shelves of all Communist-made goods. On that date, this south west Georgia city becomes perhaps the first municipality in the nation to virtually ban by restrictive ordinance the sale of Red-made goods. While merchants may sell such goods, they must first purchase a special business h- sence that costs $1,000. They also must display a sign read ing "Licensed to Sell Commu nist Products." ' All stationery and bill heads of such businesses must have printed on them the informa tion that they sell Red-made goods. No Applications So far, no one has applied for a license and officials say they don't expect any applications. A section of the ordinance, adopted Nov, 5, says it "is designed to afford adequate police protection and regula tion of such businesses which sell products produced by la borers whose political philos ophy is the overthrown of our form of government." Just 16 days after the Co lumbus city fathers passed the prohibitive license fee, the county of Muscogee, in which Columbus is located, adopted a similar ordinance. Idea May Spread The idea may spread to oth er localities throughout the country. Letters are pouring in at the city clerk's office, all of which praise the com missioners for passing the or dinance. A sample of the let ters that arrived as of Nov. 14 showed postmarks of San Di ego, Calif.; Kalamazoo, Mich.: Ocean Springs, Miss.; Hous ton, Tex.; Duarte, Calif.; Boi se, Idaho; Arlington, Va.; Sa vannah, Ga.; Baldwin, Ga. Taylor, S. C; Ontario, Calif. Memphis, Tenn.; Orlando, Fla.; Alexandria, La.; Green ville, S. C; Green Bay, Wis.; Los Angeles and Richmond, Va. Furniture store owner Sam Persons, 60, requested the city commissioners to pass the or dinance. Worried about the influx of Communist - made goods. Persons said he felt something should be done about it on the local level. Constitutionality Regarding the constitution ality of the ordinance, a num ber of attorneys here say they doubt it could withstand a court test. Muscogee county attorney Charles M. Evert not ed that to prove a case against a merchant selling Red goods in court would be almost an impossibility because an item found in the merchant's store bearing "Made in Russia" is not proof enough to convict anyone. The point also was made that once merchandise gets into the stream of commerce it would be a denial of equal protection of the law to whole salers and retailers for his goods to be discriminated against simply on the basis of origin. Undisturbed Backers of the ordinance, however, who include all the commissioners and apparent ly all the business community, are not disturbed about whe ther the law might be unconstitutional. Their position is summed up by Persons, who says: We feel we have the right to protect our community against the influx of merchan dise made by slave labor. 'The political leaders are in favor of the move because they want to defend our coun try, labor is in favor of it and industry is in favor of it. Therefore, who is against it?" Mayor Steve Knight, one of the main supporters of the or dinance, said the sale of Com munist goods in Columbus was "not a big economic fac tor. It was estimated that around 20 stores are involved in the sale of the Red-made products. They include a large grocery chain, a department store and discount houses. Cameras, Rifles Communist-made items sold include cameras from East Germany, air rifles and pock etbooks from Czechoslovakia, hams from Poland, cocktail tables from Yugoslavia and Christmas ornaments from Red China. "For quite a few years, American industry has at tempted to get legislation en acted on the national level which would limit the impor tation of goods that come from behind the Iron Curtain so far this effort has been without fruit," Columbus Chamber of Commerce Presi dent Frank W. Thompson said. "This action on a local level is goine to start a new trend of awareness on the part of the consuming public to the fact that all of these goods are coming into this country to the definite benefit of the communistic countries. came back with a memory of the children he saw amidst the rubble of the war-torn continent. He remembered their faces, small and thin from under nourishment, and most of all he remembered the eyes dark.brooding eyes that look ed grossly oversized in tiny faces. Today those eyes, incorpor ated from Keane's paintings, have become his hallmark. They appear in galleries and homes throughout much of the world, either in original paints or in the thousands of lithographic reproductions he has sold. Hanging alongside the works in many cases are paint ings by his wife, Margaret, an equally successful artist. Drew on Streets In the early days of their marriage, the Keanes drew $3 sketches of tourists on the streets of San Francisco's Bo hemian North Beach and in night clubs to earn money for paint and canvas and grocer ies. Then a combination of pop ular appeal and super-salesmanship unprecedented in the art world rocketed them to the position they enjoy today. They now receive $1,000 to $10,000 per canvas. The Keane story begins with Walter, Now 42, who in the mid-1940's was solidly established as a successful real estate broker in the San Francisco bay area. He was growing even more successful with the post-war real estate boom. But Keane was a Sunday painter, having inherited a painting tradition from a grandfather and two uncles who were artists. Gradually the feeling grew in him that his weekend excursions with brush and easel were' not enough. He wanted to be a seven-day-a - week artist. He went to Europe to study, Develops Skill There he developed his painting skill quickly, study ing at the Beaux arts and the Grand Chaumiere in Paris. He also saw the children who were to become so important. 'My paintings reflect my experience, feelings and be lief," he explained, "in my in- terest in humanity, I paint the universal a c k n owledgement of the riddle of life. I use a child as my symbol of human ity Margaret Keane's subjects are adolescent girls and some what older young women whom her husband jokingly identifies as prostitutes. They are invariably por trayed with elongated faces and bodies in a somewhat abstract, impressionistic fash ion. She, like her husband, de votes a great deal of attention to the eyes of her subjects, putting in them a sense of melancholy, of quest. ' Freid Comments The major art critics gen erally do not comment with favor on the Keanes' work when, indeed, they comment at all. Alexander Freid of the San Francisco Examiner summed up the attitude of many others in his reply to a request for comment. "I really don't have any- thing to say about them,'' he declared. "Theirs is a popular type of art, and they know what they're about. Keane conceives that he will do his paintings and sell them in a modern and dashing way, and-well, I will say that it strikes me that she's an artist of more talent than he." Keane just shrugs off the criticism. "What we've done," he said, "Is to circumvent the formal world of organized art and go directly to the people who buy our work. We sold our paintings and became known the only way we could -by opening our own galleries San Francisco and New York-and the commercial art world resents it." 'I'm working on a new painting now, Keane said. 'It s going to have 50 children in it from all over the world." When completed, the paint ing will be unveiled in Japan. Then it will not be shown again until 1964, when Keane expects to exhibit it at the New York World's Fair. It won't be for sale for a long time," he said. "But when it is, the price will be $50,000." ' rnM ii.-.. 1 1; r ' " . - .Hktt - aael eaV . PAINT AT HOME Walter and Margaret Keane get busy children with oversized, brooding eyes that have become with their palettes in "Paint Room" of their home in hallmark. (UPI) , Woodside, Calif. In background are some of paintings of , ', . , Quebec Winter Carnival Claimed Different, Gay By RALPH VILLERS United Press International For the guy, gal or couple with Winter Carnival on the brain, now is the time to pre pare, if not to pack. The where-to-go question is not hard to answer for some one looking for the different, and at the same time just about the gayest, most unin hibited Carnival to be found anywhere. Fun-loving French Canadians flock to Quebec City, and so do Americans who have been clued to the festivities In that snow-bless ed city. Carnival is pegged to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. In Quebec City, it iust eoes on a little longer, For 1963, Carnival dates are Feb. 7-26. with the biggest concentration of crowds, activ ities and fun in the final long weekend of Friday until Shrove Tuesday midnight. . Best of all is the Europe-In-North America flavor of Que bec, rightly called a Paris of the North. The Carnival par ades wind themselves throueh narrow. European like streets of quaint build ings. French Food On the final Monday there is what they call "Carnival and gastronomic dinners," but the French food is delightful on any day (and inexpensive it's not too difficult to find full-course steak dinner, wine and tips for under $7). And, of course there are all the sporting events related to winter Carnival, hockey tournaments, dog sled races, ice skating, skiing, or shooting down the icy, triple-track to boggan slide at the Chateau Frontenac at between 40 and 60 miles an hour. But, Quebec, and its reli gious people by going all out for Carnival before their 40 days of fasting, add those touches that make the celebra tion unique. For one, there's a danger ous, but thrilling to watch, ice canoe race across the ice floes of the broad St. Lawrence riv with the crews paddling furiously, then dragging their canoe onto a chunk of ice to race across to the next stretch of water. For another, there is the big bean supper and Canadian soi ree, a mass gathering of Que bec's lively French generally overlooked by the visiting American. Literally thousands overwhelm the Armory to seat plates of beans and other spe cialties and dance to French melodies. And costume balls there are too, such as the Grand Re gency and the Shrove Tuesday masquerade. Focal point of everyone gathering for Carnival is the Norman castlc-uke Chateau Frontenac, sitting like a fort ress above the city walls look ing down onto the St. Law rence. It is a gathering place for warming drinks after the parades and sporting events. Ice Palace Quebec counts on snow and Ice for its Carnival. The Ice goes to build a temporary block palace just Inside St. John's Gate in the city walls. It is another towering gather ing point for Carnival, with the sweep of glistening, aqua marine ice blocks forming a backdrop for frequent native entertainments. And in the last carefree weekend of carn ival, when there isn't formal entertainment, the young and light of spirit happily stage impr 0 m p t u circle dances about the palace's courtyard. Just wandering the streets of French Quebec at Carnival is fun. People don sashes and tasscled hats to get into the spirit of Bonhomme Carnaval (whose jolly snowman figure is seen all over the city). Bon homme Carnaval translates Into "Good Man Carnival" but Carnaval de Quebec ia good 1 lun, for man, woman or child K V-eJ I TOPSWQUAUTYl loyj in pcaca; CUEAM-UIP We have had our Flood and we have had our Flood Sale, taurines have only a little old stock left which we must move out at Cost and Below To make room for the Tremendous Stock Com ing in. AGAIN We thank RANDY'S CLEANING SERVICE for the fabulous job of cleaning up our store after the flood! 100 Wool Double Back Reg. 8.95 67S S,. Yd. 100 Wool Fine Woven Tweed Reg. 9.95 S7 W Sq. Yd. 100 Wool Go re. foul Gold Rig. 14.9S 1Q00 IW Sq.Yd. 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WIDE 15 OFF Medford'i largest Stock SHRINE BAND CONCERT SUNDAY, JAN. 27th FRIDAY & SATURDAY SALE ONLY Cold Damages California Crops, Niagara Property By United Pren International A massive ice jam built up by tons of ice churning over Niagara Falls threatened lower Niagara river property today while freezing temper atures caused millions of dol lars in damage in Southern California vegetable crops. Niagara rivermen feared the ice bridge might match the destructive Jams of 1903, 1900, 1938 annd 1955. It al ready has caused extensive damage to waterfront proper ties from Tonawanda to Lake Ontario, Plant Knocked Out The ice, 70 feet high and 25 feet thick in some places, knocked out production for about eight hours Wednesday at the Ontario hydro gener ating plant. However, produc tion nf the S720 million Ni- agra Power Project, the larg est in the Western world, re mained on schedule. Southern California suffer ed its fourth straight day of freezing temperatures wnlcn took a heavy toll of vege tables and nursery stock. Warming Expected A warming trend was ex pected to break a brutal, week-long cold spell in the eastern half of the nation that has smashed records set in the 1800s. The cold snap, worst in 14 years, already has caused more than $3 million damage to Southern California's cit rus, tomatoes, melons, nursery stock apd floral crops. Below zero temperatures were confined mostly early today to the Dakotas, Minne sota and Wisconsin, in sharp contrast to last week end when the mercury fell in 48 states, i. For Meats At Shop At Safeway! Every cut of meat is guaranteed to satisfy you or your money back. ib. 79 The family's fun meat ARMOUR STAR FRANKS They're the funsters for the youngsters that the grownups go for, too. And Armour Star Franks are so good for folks. Full of protein nourishment. RIB ROAST RIB STEAKS U.S.D.A. CHOICE BEEF Wasta-Freo Trim-Top in Roasts U.S.D.A. Choic (V))) oe&ssm Prices effective Thursday, Jan. 17 thru Sunday, Jan. 20 at Sefewiy In Medford. We reserve the right te limit. 77 T
