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8 A WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13. 1963 Oregonian Finds England Changing, But (Editor's note: J. Wesley Sullivan, newt editor oi the Oregon Statesman, Salem, ii spending two months in the British Isles, accompan ied by his wife, under the sponsorship of the Oregon branch of the English Speaking Union. During 'World War II he was sta tioned in England as a U. S. serviceman. In the following articles, he tells his impressions of Britain two decades after the war.) By J. WESLEY SULLIVAN London-1 had my hair cut in a West End London shop this morning by a barber (gentlemen's hairdresser over here) who used a pair of hand clippers. I asked him why he wasn't using electric clippers and he replied, On, they are using them now in the prov inccs and even in the sub urbs, but my clientele here in the West End expect me to use hand clippers - that's the way I was trained This Is the story of Britain today. Efficiency, moderniza tion and power tools are clos ing in on gentle archaic life, which was born of the fruits of the once-great British Em pire. A generation ago, millions of American servicemen used these islands as a jumping off place for war. They came away scoffing at the British Dennis the Gee,yoo tafr m&s oatcm You SUKIe AW A UOUO Superbly smooth and mellow Fine Straight Kentucky Bourbon o Taste Favorite since 1869 in 0 I (IIITIIf llimillf old fashioned way of doing things. If they were to visit England again today, as I am doing, their first impression likely would be one of amaze' mcnt at the amount of con struction since the war. Sky scrapers are rising in London where none existed 20 years ago. Every city, even the tint est of hamlets, has areas of new homes. Satellite cities, each with over 60,000 people, have sprung up around Lon don, each with its own indus trial complex. Less Than Startling Britishers, who have lived amidst this change, find it less than startling, however, They complain it hasn't gone fast enough. Nine million pco pie still have outside toilets, they are fond of repeating, The cry for central heating is just now becoming a gen- eral uproar. The returning American is just as impressed by the public demand for such things as he is in their progress towards achieving them Britishers aren't just call ing for material things, ei- 'ther. The younger generation is calling for more education and questioning a system which shunts the vast major ity of the population away from a pre-university training on the basis of tests taken at age 11. There a rent nearly enough university places for Menace SCIEKI Mennitage is now 6 years CO.. MIIIIIUI. It. II V' on Oregon's 465 . C tnostpopttUT $295rI'S V those qualified. In a some what unfair comparison young people here note that more Negroes are attending universities in the U.S. than all Britishers here No Outstretched Hands Ignored By Rep. Powell Washington - IUPD - Rep Adam Clayton Powell (D N.Y.) has made it clear that when he travels abroad, no outstretched palm is ignored. In one of the most detailed reports of "counterpart" fund spending yet submitted to the House, the veteran congress man listed $346 in tips and other miscellaneous expenses on his highly publicized 35 day European trip during the 1062 congressional session. Two women , members of the House Education and La bor committee staff accom panied him. Powell ie chair man of the committee. Detailed Breakdown The Negro legislator said the trip was for the purpose of studying the European Common Market. He gave a detailed breakdown of his spending of the U.S. -owned foreign currencies. Altogether, Powell spent $1,543 on his trip to England, France, Italy, Greece and Spain, he said. Mrs. Tamara Wall, former associate coun sel of the committee, spent $1,653, traveling to seven countries. Corrine Huff, a committee secretary, spent $1,773 in six countries. Tips Described Some of Powell's biggest tips were $15 to his ship's cabin steward, $30 to the maitre d'hotel in his French hotel, $36 to the capo earner- lere portinaio in the Italian hotel where he stayed, and $24 to the major domo por tero at his Spanish hotel. The tips in each country averaged about 30 per cent of his spending for meals. But Powell was not the champion of his committee, which spent a total of $18,063. Former Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R-Pa.), who traveled to eight countries in Europe, spent $2,366 In counterpart funds. Kearns took the trip after the end of the congres sional session and after he had been defeated for relec- tlon. GEKF1 old KKNTVCKY WHISKEY - , MEDFORD The same wonderful Brit ish people who put up with so many privations and with Hitler's bombs during the war are now sick and tired of being the poor relations in the Atlantic alliance. They are even poking fun at their own wartime record. The big gest musical hit on the Lon don stage is "Blitz" which he lives the wartime bombing raids in a musical comedy situation. The most popular revue is "Beyond the Fringe" which pokes fun at every rPT WOULD ADVANCE INTEREST Secretary of State Dean Rusk testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Commit tee In Washington at which time he said that despite the risks involved, a ban on "nuclear weapons would advance the interest of the foreign policy of the United States." Rusk said when the pros and cons "are placed on the scale, it will be tipped decisively in favor of our present proposals for a ban on the further testing of nuclear weapons." (UPI Yams Not Sweet Potatoes, Morning Glories Not Lilies A fat oppossum, cooked and served with sweet potatoes. was a traditional "one-aisn meal" of the pre-20th Century Deep South. Even without 'possum, sweet potatoes were and are-very popular. These tubers could almost be said to be step-children, for really they are not even dis tantly related to the so-called Irish potato. Neither are they related to the yams; botanical- ly they are dissimilar. Besides, they arc just a little queer in their habits and characteris tics. What we call sweet potatoes grow, of course, on vines. But the vines never bear seeds, in fact, seldom blossom. The real sweet potato's nearest relative Is the morning glory which knocks itself silly by blossom ing. But the morning glory never produces any fruit, al though it yields generous amounts of seeds. One thing both vines have in common: they both like to climb. The morning glory and the sweet potato have at least 500 close relatives scattered over the entire globe. They all climb, so much so they arc referred to as twines or climb ers. Grown for Centuries Sweet potatoes were cultiv atcd for centuries in tropical countries for their food value. The South American Indians, particularly in Brazil, subsist ed almost entirely on this food. The large underground tubers are very rich in starch. The actual origin of the sweet potato is uncertain. Plant explorers and botanists have argued about it for years, and as new evidence comes to light they have to change their theories and re vise thdir thinking. They have agreed, however, that the vine was grown in Spain in the early 1500 s. and spread from there into many Euro pean countries. Some tubers were probably brought by settlers and plant ed in the warmer parts of America. The fondness of the early sweet potato growers for this tuber were deep seated and constant. No writ ten records seem to have been preserved, but a good guess would be that about 300 years ago the yellow tuber with tlic sweet taste became a stand ard article of diet on the din ner table. There is some confusion be tween the sweet potato and the yam. Some say a yam is the same thing as a sweet potato. But, there is a great difference. Both Are Climbers Both plants arc climbers, but the yam is a native of the East Indies and strangely claims relationship with the lily. A variety of yam jtowj MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON thing which once was a sa cred in Britain - the church, royalty and even the wartime RAF. Visits People Knew I soon found it was far more interesting for an ex. serviceman to revisit the peo ple he knew than the places he was stationed. A reunion with a family which befriend ed me was most pleasant. This was in sharp contrast to a pilgrimage I made to the airfield from which I flew as a bomber pilot with the 8th Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. W ATKINS (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1963) in Java, and is known there as the "winged yam." It reaches tremendous size, and may weigh as much as 30 pounds and measure three feet in length. There is even a "wild yam" which grows in some sections of the United States. Most of the so-called "sweet potatoes" on sale in the gro cery store are really yams, characterized by a deep orange color just under the skin. This color becomes par ticularly bright after the tu ber is cooked. The genuine sweet potato is usually smooth skinned and elongated, with both ends more or less pointed. When cooked, it is a very light yel low in color. Very few genuine sweet potatoes are found nowadays on the market. The cooked sweet potato is very dry in direct contrast to the brightly colored flesh of the yam, which is exceedingly moist. Conditions being what they arc, you will probably get yams when you order sweet potatoes. You'll get yams, too, if you ask for yams. Either, of course, is good unless you are afraid of generous amounts of starch. Either is "yammy." Domiciliary Writers Prepare for Contest While City-Writers living at the Veterans Administra tion Domiciliary here are pre paring entries for the annual Hospitalized Veterans Writ ing Project which closes Ap'il 15. according to Miss Enid Holmes, chief librarian and sponsor of the Readers' and Writers' club. The coniest' is sponsored nationwide by the group of volunteers with headquarters at 333 East Huron St., Chica go, HI. More than $5,000 in cash and other prizes arc of fered for some 20 different types of writing. Submissions range from short stories and plays to outlines for novels, newspaper columns, poetry, book reviews, and songs t o greeting cards. Last year, 1.327 hospitali zed veterans contributed 3,400 entries Through the years the local domiciliary has more than held its own in competi tion with the VA s 171 instal lations. Many famous people In the writing fields will serve es Judges in the various classifi cations of the project. They include Ogdcn Nash, Pearl s. Buck, Ellery Queen. Bennett Ccrf. Samuel Raphaelson, Richard Armour. Bob Con sidinc and editors of publish ing companies, national mag azines' and large newspapers. Air Force. It was near a small railroad stop named Elmswell in East Anglia. There has been snow on the ground here vconstantly for the five weeks we have been in Britain. My wife and I plodded through the mud and slush of farm fields to get to the 'old squadron housing area. We found the concrete buildings half destroyed, the wooden ones reduced to their foundations. The briefing rooms and mess hall have been taken over as a cold storage plant. Barbed wire farm fences now cross the concrete roads which once carried a heavy The Family Council Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a iudte a phychlatrlst. three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Each article is a summary of a family disatreement presented to tha Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Edited by Mrs. Alma Denny. (Copyright by General Features corp.) - Mrs. J. Y, - They're just shutting me out of their lives Molly Y. - She insists on moving in and living with us, Mrs. J. Y. - I'm a practical nurse in my 50s. At 17 I was married to a drinking man, Early in our marriage we adopted a 2-month-old son. I thought that would improve things. But my husband de serted us, and I supported myself and the boy until a few months ago when he got married. He was 29 then, and working on his first job. The marriage delighted me. for Molly was the girl I'd picked for him. But she changed like night to day. During the engagement she said she'd like me to live with them, she'd stop smoking, she'd change her religion. Well, already she's back to smoking, she talks about re turning to her cnurcn, ana she doesn't want me to live with them, just near them. Well, for all the attention they pay to me, I might as well move back to Omaha where I come from. Mollv Y. - My husband con fided in me that he can't han dle his mother and anything I can do to get her to leave us alone is all right with him. I don't want to be mean to her, but she takes the position that we are in heavy debt to her, that she put 25 years into Alien, bounht him a car, and so we dare not draw a single breath without including her, thinking of her, showing our gratitude to her. Before we were married, she broke up her home and took an apartment near the small house we bought. She hated the house, said it was too old but that she'd move in if we fixed it up. I told her we liked it, and that we wanted her to keep her own nlace. She does nothing but complain. If she hears we've had company, sne asss wny i,A ..,cn't tnuitr-ri She, wants several phone calls a day. Above all, sne wants to move in. The Council: By now our seasoned readers know that we can never present all the rounds in these family bouls, but must select a sampling of the Jabs. Mrs. Y.'s list of the blows she has suffered from the son she calls "weak" and from Molly whom she calls a liar, includes everything from financial fraud to physical assault. And Molly is getting deep into the snarl of trying to please her husband, her self, his mother, and her own mother who, we learned, put up the money for their house, In order to give this mar riage a chance, our words must be aimed at Mrs. Y. She had no normal marriage ex perience herself. Her mother ing of this son was of the Break Occurs in Gasoline Price War Fortland-IUPD-A break oc curred in a gasoline price war that has spread through Port land and the Willamette Val ley Tuesday when Mobil rais ed its prices eight cents a gal lon. Virgil Rukke, a director of the Oregon Gasoline's Deal ers' Association said the rest of the dealers were expected to follow Mobil s price hike. This would put the cost of gasoline for regular at 32.9 cents per gallon compared to the low of 24.9, and raise the cost of premium gasoline to 36.9, up from 28 9. Rukke said the price war started during the Christmas holidays. C 772-4534 Still Has Its Vitality flow of Jeep traffic around the big field. One runway of the airstrip has been bulldozed into a heap. The other probably will go soon. If any Oregon ex serviceman has a latent nos talgia to return to his old wartime base in England, for get it. Rent An Apartment Far more interesting to us has been our life in London, where we have rented an apartment to try to live like the British for a bit. We have a large room with beds at one end, living room facility at the other,, with central smothering, possessive type. A normal parent raises her son specifically to enable him to fly the coop, to stand alone, to make wise decisions. Here are two ways of re stating that last sentence in far more eloquent terms than ours. First, the Bible's: "A man leaveth his father and his mother, and cleaveth unto his wife, that they may be come as one flesh." And then Kahlil Gibran's, "Your chil dren are not your children; . . . their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit; . . . you are the bows from which they as living arrows are sent forth." If Mrs. Y. wants to "hold" her son, she must let go. Then he can take a deep free breath, stand aside, see her with fresh loving eyes, and come back as a good friend, rather than the obedient pup py she'd like. There must be few "must's." There can be respect and admiration. But no demanding. Instead of weeping into her pillow so much. Mrs. Y. should rejoice that she has a place of her own in which to live. Re gardless of the pre-marital talk, the present housing ar rangement is healthier. Mrs. Y. should use her spare time now to mix in new circles, make new friends. As Con fucious might put it: She who puts all into son, excepts all back. Poor she, poor son! CHEVY OWNERS! WIN LEA Motors Plus Your Choice OF A 1963 RAMBLER OR One of Over 300,000 Other Valuable Prizes in ramri PR's i nnn nnn BONUS GIVEAWAY! SIMPLE! EASY! NO JINGLES TO WRITE! Just check your car serial number against our list You May Have Already Won . . Come See! LEA MOTORS BARTLETT AT 5TH heat and an electric fireplace. We have a private bath. The steam radiator pushes the thermometer up to 60. The fireplace keeps us warm. - To operate the fireplace, as well as the refrigerator, the hotplate and the electric tea kettle, we must deposit a shill ing in a meter every few hours. The apartment costs $40 per week- Rents, except for the public housing in which the rate varies with the tenant's Income, are high. Food costs are high, too. The supermarket hasn't arrived full-scale as yet. My wife complains that at the biggest food store near here she has to pay for each item of gro ceries as she buys it. The gro cery stores sell only food. Pa per table napkins must be bought at a Woolworth's. Beer and wines at a separate store. 'Public transportation is cheap. We can get to central London for 6 cents by bus or by underground. Theaters are cheap. We can see the best on the London stage for $2.50 seat, or stall, as they are called here). Tickets to a sim ilar show in New York would be $9. Restaurant's meals are inexpensive. A three-soiirse lunch (Britishers eat their big meal at noon) at a pub costs 75 cents. History Catching Up Summing up the present situation in Britain, a me- - Complete Investment Service STOCKS BONDS MUTUAL FUNDS TAX EXEMPT SECURITIES . S T M , FIRST CALIFORNIA COMPANY-INCORPORATED SUCCESSORS TO ZILKA SMITHER ! CO. INC. Members: Pacific Coast Stock Exoaange Midwest Slock Exchange American Stock Exchange (Associate) 14 S. Central Ave. MEDFORD 772-611 32 OFFICES SERVING INVESTORS IN OREGON AND CALIFORNIA 1959-1960-1961 $10.000 AT of winning serial "iiiiiMlilimriifiiiifiii -4- ber of Parliament told me, "History is catching up with, us. For generations we en joyed a virtual monopoly ot trade within the Common wealth. Because of this our economic system grew lazy. We expended great stores of our national wealth in two titanic war efforts. We have allowed our educational sys tem to develop along class lines. History is presenting the bills for all these things at one time." With virtually no natural resources, England must, as her government leaders say, "Export or die." Somehow, this hasn't reached through to the general public as something they, as individu als, must help promote. On the other hand, the suc cess of their national medical plan and other welfare bene I U 1 4U 1. ina nlaccne onH hiv Bra tiom manding more of these. The whole nation is going through a period of asking what its role in the world is, where it is going economic ally and how it will get there. To the Britishers themselves, their nation appears to be in a muddle. To an American, however, returning after nearly two decades, the over whelming signs of progress in the face of adversity are clear indication that England still has the vitality, which made her great. Our recommended list of investment opportunities is available upon request No Obligation numbers! MEDFORD
