Springfield Teacher
Enthusiastic Over
Cultural Exchange
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
FRIDAY. JULY 12. 1963
Franklin
By YVONNE FRANKLIN
Mail Tribune
Washington Bureau
Washington-Zane Phoenix,
whose name suggests that he
might have risen from the
ashes o a Hol
lywood west
ern is a young
teacher of
Russian from
S p r i ngfield,
Ore. High
School who
has just com
leted six
months with
change exhibit of technical
books in the USSR.
Phoenix, 30, explained be
fore catching a plane for Eu
gene and a reunion with wife
Iva and his three sons, Ste
phen, 12, Rocky 8, and Monte,
6, that he was one of 18 ex
hibit guides sent by the Unit
ed States Information Agency
to Russia as interpreters.
Phoenix said that because
of his experience in his fa
ther's contracting business he
was assigned to the transpor
tation and construction sec
tion The 7000-book exhibit
was shown in Moscow, Lenin
grad and Kiev, and lasted a
month in each city. The books,
al printed in English, cover
ed engineering, medicine,
theoretical and applied sci
ence, arts and crafts, music,
agriculture and business ad
ministration. He was constanly amazed
at the number of Russians
who could speak English. He
said that although the exhibit
naturally drew those who
could read English, neverthe
less the total was startling.
He told of an automobile
mechanic in Moscow who
spoke stumbling English, yet
was easily able to read the
English texts about automatic
transmission and the like. He
said the Russians seemed to
take it for granted that a spe
ialist should be able to. read
technical books in English.
His duties were to help the
visitors find the books that
were of interest to them and
answer their questions. Some
came back repeatedly- and
copied or photographed the
texts which could not be tak
en out.
Phoenix said that the Rus
sians asked him questions
?bout American education,
the standard of living and
sometimes about the? racial
troubles. He said that on the
whole they were extremely
friendly and curious and only
occasionally were the ques
tions rude.
He regularly read the Rus
sian newspapers, which he
said were well supplied with
pictures and text of southern
policemen and their dogs at
tacking Negro women and
children, but the tenor of the
Russian questions were mere
ly curious "is this so" and
not hostile.
Phoenix said he had a total
of 70 students last year in
his five Russian classes in
Springfield. He expects to re
turn to teaching and wistfully
hoped that more students
would be interested. He ma
jored in history at the Uni
versity of Oregon, with two
years of Russian, and took his
masters at Indiana university,
under the National Defense
Education Act program for
high school teachers.
His wife taught in a Belle
vue, Idaho, elementary school
during the six months he was
away and is at present attend
ing the University of Oregon
summer school. He was en
thusiastic about the worth of
the cultural exchange pro
gram.
"I feel it is very worth
while, because the more op
portunity that the Soviet peo
ple and Americans have to
come in contact with each
other, the better chance of
improving relations," he said.
Under an agreement signed
with the USSR in 1959 we
exchange visits of artists in
the peorfoming arts, and ex
perts in technical fields as
well. In some cases experts
study in their various fields
in either country. The Bolshoi
Ballet came to America, as did
the Ukranian dancers to Port
land, under this program, and
Benny Goodman was one of
the many artists sent to
Russia.
Petition Filed In
Court by Ann Todd
A petition for writ of man
damus has been filed in Jack
son county circuit court by
Ann Todd, Eagle Point,
against the board of directors
and secretary - manager of the
Eagle Point Irrigation district,
seeking certain irrigation dis
trict records for use in her
preparation of legal proceedings.
Defendants in the petition
are Phillip Nevin, Elbert M.
Bigham and Stanley Straus,
directors, and Lawrence R
Silveira, manager.
The Medical Roundup
(V. J - r:
Emtrrnu Consultant In Medicine
mayo -iuue
Emeritus Profenor of Medicine
Mayo CUnle
(Beclsur and Tribune Syndicate.
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Ridgefield, Wash. - fUPD -Northwest
Natural Gas Co.
was granted a franchise by
the Ridgefield City Council
Thursday night to distribute
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natural gas in the community.
The company will construe! .
a line about S'i miles long
to bring natural gas to tha
community.
BOND PRESENTED Pat Redmond of the
Mail Tribune classified advertising depart
ment is shown above presenting a savings
bond to Dick Brecden, who wrote the prize
winning letter in a contest sponsored by
the paper.
Local Youth Wins Contest
Dick Breeden, 16, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Breed
en, 2640 Table Rock rd.. Med-
ford, believes that advertis
ing in the Medford Mail Tri
bune really pays. And he has
a $25 bond as reward for that
belief.
Breeden wrote the prize
winning letter in the newspap
er contest and was presented
the bond by Pat Redmond of
the Mail Tribune advertising
department.
More important, of course,
is the steady job he got from
his ad in the newspaper, he
noted, and the jobs he was
able to give his brother and a
neighbor.
His letter to the classified
advertising department reads:
"The result of my ad in the
Medford Mail Tribune was
astonishing. I have had more
than 15 phone calls for work.
The best result was a steady
job with Burens Carpet Ser
vice. Other job offers included
mowing and weeding, window
cleaning, hospital sitting, re
moving junk, digging, paint
ing (two different calls), hay-
ing, and concrete work. There
were more jobs than I could
handle so I was able to give
my brother two jobs and my
neighbor two jobs also.
Bodies Found in
Willamette River
, Portland-IUPI-The bodies of
a woman and her seven-year-old
daughter were found in
the Willamette river near the
Richfield Oil Co. Docks here
Thursday.
Multnomah county coron
er's office identified them as
Mrs. Pauline J. Cockerham
and her daughter, Janet
Eileen.
Passengers on a pleasure
craft spotted the woman about
8:15 a. m. and the girl was
found about 2:30 p. m. by
lumber scalers working on a
log raft. The two had left
their home about 4:45 a. m. ac
cording to the woman's hus
band, Albert Cockerman. He
told them his wife had been
distraught because of family
difficulties.
"I thank you for the oppor
tunity to put my ad in the pap
er. It will make this summer
very rewarding. I have learn
ed how valuable advertising
really is."
Breeden, who attends Med
ford schools, is saving his
money to continue his educa
tion at the University of Oregon.
Smokey Sayi
Use your Ash Tray I t
Inflammation Of
The Thyroid Gland
Because a few people keep
asking me what Hashimoto's
disease is, I will mention here
a paper ny
Drs. K. L.
Becker. R. H.
Ferguson and
W. M. McCon-
hey. They
studied rec
ords of 5 0 6
patients wjth
Hash imoto's
chronic t h y
roiditis (infla
mmation of the thyroid gland
in the front of the neck) seen
in recent years at the Mayo
Clinic. What is particularly
Interesting is that in almost
a quarter of the persons in the
group, there were symptoms
and findings that suggested
the presence of a collagen dis
ease of the whole body. Colla
gen diseases are peculiar and
puzzling ones in which it looks
as if a small part of the body
has been attacked and injured
by other parts because the
body has become allergic to
the small part such as a joint
in the hands, or part of an
artery, or a bit of skin or
muscle.
Four per cent of the patients
with the thyroiditis had defin
ite or probable rheumatoid ar
thritis, with its great pain,
weakness and deformity of the
joints in the hand. Perhaps
10 per cent had pains in a
number of bones and muscles.
These observations are
likely to be available because
they will help physicians to
find a better treatment for
the thyroiditis.
Today, much research is
being done in an effort to
throw light on the chemistry
of these puzzling and often
very distressing diseases. As
I have said here in this col
umn, we know they are relat
ed if only because in the case
of one patient, rheumatoid
arthritis can change into a
generalized lupus eiylhemato-
sis or vice-versa.
I am afraid this discussion
will be of little interest to
the average reader, but it will
be of tremendous interest to
anyone who is suffering from
a collagen disease. He keeps
daily watching the horizon
for a word of hope.
recognize and treat them?
Learn more about this sub
ject in Dr. Alvarez' booklet,
"Thyroid Troubles and Goi
ters." To obtain your copy,
send 25 cents and a stamped,
self-addressed envelope with
your request to Dr. Waller C.
Alvarez, Dept. MMT, Box
957, Des Moines 4, Iowa.
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