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MEDKORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREGON SUNDAY. JUNE 30. 19M Humigirv lis Small, Chcoinigiiinig Coyiroftiry Toddy B (Editor's note Hungary in ill long history has suiiered much under conquerors as hare to many oi the coun tries oi middle and eastern Europe. More than 1.000 years ago the Asiatic Huns came sweeping in from the Siberian plain. In this cen tury it has been the Naiis and Russians. But life goes on, and here is a look at Hungary today. The dis patch is another in a series by United Press Interna tional reporters living and working in countries around the world.) By ILONA GAZDAG United Press International Budapest (CPU Hungary, once part of central Europe's sprawling and powerful Aus-tro-Hungarian empire, is a small country today and a changing one. Once almost entirely agrar ian, It is becoming ever more industrialized. The switchover has been dramatic, with 61.9 per cent of Hungary's income! from industry, and 32.1 per cent from agriculture. But the Hungarian people remain much as depicted in song and story. The country's women have voluptuous fig ures and are renowned lor their tiny, tiny waists. The men tend to dark good looks, stocky of build, medium in height, often with black hair, high cheek bones and flashing eyes. Almost all the population over 96 per cent - speaks Magyar, Hungary's mother tongue. The language belongs to the Finno-Ugrian group and is unlike that of any of the countries surrounding. There are very small minorities of Germans, Slovakians, Roma nians, Serbs and Croats who cling to their own languages and customs. Borders Have Varied Since the first conquest of what is now Hungary by the Huns in 896, the country has had many sizes and shapes and 5 GERMANY I V-TV ; : lUNGARYli! POUNDhftii'.s , 1 ,.iiirIHilN6Riri F .. ALBANIA x MEDITERRANEAN SEA '. -"'jtA SHOWS LANDMASS This UPI newsmap shows the Austro-Hungarian landmass (top) in 1914, and Hungary's land area as it is today (bottom). (UPI) . a. .M.-ic. me Some Volkswagen owners look down on other Volkswagen owners. When you graduate from a Volkswogen Sedan to a Volkswagen Station Wogon, you really step up in the world. The Station Wogon standi a good foot toller than other cors. And it holds more than the biggest conventional wagon vou can find. But the VW Wogon isn't only tall. It's also short. We soved 4 feet of hood in front by putting the engine in bock. Big as it is inside, it s only 9 inches longer than the Volkswagen Sedan. So people who move up to the high. slung model still feel very much ot h.ne. They pork in the samt soo's' They still don't worry obout freezing or boil ing; the engine is oir-cooled. They still go o long way on a gollon of got (obout 24 miles) ond o very long way on a set of tires lobout 30.000 miles). And it just tickles them to drive one Volls wcgen ond look down on o million others. MORSE MOTORS Xjh 6th and Ivy - Call 772-7155 )& wide variety of rulers. To day, chewed down by wars and politics, it covers 35,910 square miles, roughly the size of the state of Indiana. But it is 11 times more densely populated than Indiana, with 10.800,000 people. Hungary is bordered, geo graphically, by Austria on the west, Romania on the east, Yugoslavia on the south and Czechoslovakia and the USSR to the north. Its climate is typical middle European, hot dry summers and cold winters. Roughly one-fifth of Hun gary's people, or 2,200.000, live in Budapest, the capital 1 1 y. The Danube runs through the city with Buda on one side and Pest on the other. Hungary is a "people's de mocracy" in government, tied to the East. Its premier Is Janos Kadar who also is first secretary of the Hungarian Communist party. Hungary s economy is based on the "plan" system. After World War II a land reform program was instituted which ended in 1961 with complete collectivization of the agricul tural industry. All the coun try's industry is state owned and operated and has been since 1949. Living Is Modest The standard of living, Dy estern standards, is modest but there is no unemployment. The average monthly income in business and industry is about 1.S80 forints or just under $70 (the tourist rate of xchange equals 23 forints to the dollar). There is no income tax, and premiums for chil dren and other benefits raise the family income slightly. The state provides free medi cal, dental and maternal care and schooling through the first eight years is state-financed. A low birth rate is a na tional concern. Exact figures are not known but a recent estimate noted that the num ber of legal abortions exceed ed the birth rate by some 20 per cent. Both Work A typical middle class fam ily in Hungary today is that of Endre Szckely and his wife Klari. A black-haired and power fully built man, Szekely works in a motorcycle repair factory where he earns about 2.000 forints a month. Klari also works, at an elementary school where she takes care of children whose parents are at work. For this she earns about 1,250 forints a month, for a 4'i hour day six days a week. Klari has another source of income, printing colorful designs on textiles during spare time at home, for a housing industry cooper ative. The demand for this work is not steady but when she has orders she supple ments the family income by about 500 forints a month. The Szekelys have two chil dren, a son and daughter buth in their, teens. Each child is given 60 forints a month pock et money. The family's apartment on the sixth floor of a Budapest apartment house is rather too small for its needs - three rooms plus kitchen, bath, boy er and a walk-in closet - but the rent of 383 forints a month is all they can afford. They also havo the benefit of a two-room summer and week end cottage on the shore of Lake Balaton. It was bought by Szekely's mother, who lives with them and con tributes 100 forints per month of her 421 forints pension -she is the widow of a railroad worker - to the family budg et. Have a TV Set Endre and Klari have a tel evision set and it is a popular form of entertainment for the family. Their only other appliance is an electric cof fee grinder. Klari is saving for a refrigerator and expects to get it next year. Grand mother Szekely is putting aside for a vacuum cleaner and both women of the fam ily dearly would like to own a floor-waxer. The Szekelys are relatively content. They have all they i really need but, like most other Hungarian families, not much more. Endre Szekely is philosophic about his life. He summed it up for a reporter this way: "One shouldn't take life too unhappily. We've ?n bad days enough but now it Is little by little getting better. ! One can t really complain." SAMBO'S : OPEN 24 HRS. 1025 So. Riverside Business Said at High Level for Retail Merchants For Jackson county's retail merchants, business was at a high level in the past year as local residents returned to the market place in force. One reason given for this upsurge was that incomes were higher, on the average. Another is that the recession that was threatened failed to materialize. Just how consumers in the local area and those in other sections of the country spent their money during the year is brought out by the Stand ard Rate and Data Service in its annual study of the na tion's markets. For Food. Cars In Jackson county, it shows, much of the consu mer's dollar went for food and for automotive equipment. Stores selling these prod- ucist accounted for over 52 per cent of all retail business. That was more than they attracted elsewhere in the United States, 43 per cent. In the Pacific States it was also 43 per cent. The breakdwn reveals that total purchases of food last year in the local bakeries, grocery stores, butcher shops, supermarkets and the like amounted to $24,456,000, an increase over the previous year's $23,800,000. Not Restaurants The total, which constitut ed 26 per cent of all retail business locally, covers only food that was bought for home consumption. It does not include expenditures in res taurants and in other eating and drinking places. Food purchases in Jackson county were equivalent to $990 per family, determined by dividing the total amount by the number of local households. Outlets for cars and other automotive equipment, such as boats, motorcycles and ac cessories, accounted for $25,- 161,000. This was equal to more than 25 per cent of the retail dollar. Good sales volumes were also recorded by other retail lines. Department stores and va riety shops selling general merchandise grossed $8,587,- 000, equal to 9 per cent of the dollar. Those selling apparel. In cluding shoes, hats, under wear and other clothing, had a $2,737,000 total, or 3 per cent. Home furnishings stores re ported a $3,868,000 volume, equivalent to 4 per cent. GSA Announces Safe Of Used Equipment The General Services Ad minstration has announced sale by sealed bid of govern m e n t properties including used vehicles, equipment and miscellaneous items. The sales will be located in Washington, Oregon. Idaho and Montana. Locations of property and description of items in this area and inf.,. .nation for pro curing bid forms are being re leased by the General Services Administration, Seattle, Wash. 're offering a fantastic selection of major appliance values at low prices during our. 0 rtiTTTOflaBro CH53& Virg Wridge 3 BIG DAYS Mon., Tues., Wed. 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