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.
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start at his new job and turn
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fore dawn Wednesday. But
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locked office.
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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."
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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
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Cold Damages
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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,
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