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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. JULY 17. 1963 Asia Is Answer to Tourists Who Seek Adventure, Romance By ARTHUR HIGBEE . Tokyo -flJPD- Asia is "in" for the travelers who find the Western Hemisphere too near, Europe too tame and Africa perhaps too wild. Asia travel is growing at a startling 15 to 20 per cent a year. Japan and Hong Kong each are expecting a third of a million tourists (roughly half of them Americans) this year, with Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent coming UP fast. For the traveler, Asia com bines comfort and conven ience with romance and ad venture. The Greeks must have coined the word "exotic" to describe the wonders that Alexander saw on his marches . into Asia. Asia today is a cornucopia of tigers and temple bells, stu- pas and stilt houses, bazaars and Balinese dancers, as won derous today as Kipling, Con rad and Maugham ever found it. Travel formalities are sim ple and getting more so. Prices are generally reasonable, serv ; ice usually excellent and the food good, particularly if one ' likes Chinese food which can be found everywhere from ' Kyoto to Karachi. English is widely spoken. Asians are almost universally pleasant in their manners; the outstretched palm is relatively rare, the sullen glare almost unknown. The eternal lures are there: ' Mount Fuji (which is climb ; able), the Himalayas (which generally are not), Manila Bay at sunset, the harbor of Hong Kong, the templed plateau of Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, the Vale of Kashmir. Asia also has some stunning new hotels: The Okura in To kyo, the American in Hong Kong, the Asoka in New Del hi, the Indonesia in Djakarta, and more are going up, like the Singapura in Singapore, the Mandarin in Hong Kong. In Korea the scars of war are still healing, and the mod ernity, where it exists, has a government-issue look about it. A brand-new pleasure dome ' named Walker Hill has just opened, however. Korea's vil lages are poor and its roads ' are dusty, but the people are " proud, the civilization is an cient and the land has an aus tere beauty. Formosa is as much of Chi na as any American citizen is likely to see for some time to " come. Here, probably, one can find a more profuse variety of Chinese food than in any sin gle city on the mainland, for all the refugees from the mainland have brought their special styles of cooking with "them: the seafood of Shang hai, the hot peppers of Hunan, -the barbecues of Mongolia. A flight to one of the off - shore islands, when it can be managed, puts one almost within eyeball - to - eyeball range of the Communist-con-trolled mainland. "Hong Kong is one of the most marvelous harbors on earth, especially when viewed iom the top of the peak (the tarn ride costs 10 cents). A drive up into the green hills of the new territories brings one within binocular range of Red China, though there is little to see except rice fields, watch towers and an occasion al farmer or soldier. Rickshas in Hong Kong are convenient for short distances, but the price should be settled ahead of time. German cam eras and Japanese transistor radios sell for less than in their countries of origin. A "certificate of origin," by the way, showing that purchases did not come from Communist China, is required for taking them into the United States. Macao, the Portuguese en clave a few hours from Hong Kong by ferryboat, is redolent of history and the China trade. Its sights include a floating casino. The Spanish were in the Philippines for 400 years and they have left their stamp on the islands, particularly in re ligion, architecture and place names. In Manila the old city is called "Intramuros," and the fortress walls around it are crumbling, but still in evidence. Cochran Appointed To Field Office Grants Pass Former Med ford resident William G. Cochran has been appointed by the Oregon Automobile Insurance company to head a new field office in Grants Pass. He will be adjuster in charge of the Grants Pass, Roseburg and Suthcrlin area. Cochran, a graduate of Medford High school and the University of Oregon, joined Oregon Auto in 1960 after receiving his degree in busi ness administration. After 1V4 years in Portland as a trainee adjuster, he was transferred to the company's Eugene of fice. He will move to Grants Pass with his wife, Karen Jean, and their children. Prineviile Area Ranch Auctioned Portland-WPlI -i The 12,681 acre Yancey Dry Creek ranch near Prineviile was auctioned off in parcels here for about $300,000, it was reported Tuesday. . The ranch is one of the oldest livestock operations in the Prineviile area. The ranch was sold earlier this year by Orville and Don Yancey to Prineviile Lake Ranch, Inc., of Los Angeles. Barney C. Corbin, Los An geles, spokesman for the lat ter firm, said the property was sold because of other pressing business. Part of the ranch, includ ing the house and cultivated fields, was purchased by W. A. Thompson, owner of Machinery Sales, Inc., Port land, for about $62,000. Djakarta's brand-new hotel has American management and European cooking. Dja karta is traffic - choked and preoccupied with politics, but it is the capital of a vast arch ipelago as wide as the whole United States. The recent trag ic eruption of Gunung Agung volcano affected only the east ern tip of Bali; the rest of the island is as romantic as ever, and visitors are both needed and welcomed. Anti-Khrushchev Factions Seen in European Countries A 5 Singapore is one of the storied ports of the Orient, and Raffles hotel still greets guests with morning tea. The Malay Peninsula, part garden, part jungle, leads up past the port of Malacca to Kuala Lum pur, the handsome capital of Malaysia, a country about to be born. Saigon is still the Paris of the Orient, despite the close-in war and the blue laws. The French resturants are genu ine, and excellent. The gigan tic temple complex at Angkor is a wonder of the world. Downtown Bankok looks American, with its big, mod ern hotels, its delightful res taurants and clubs. But a for est of pagodas dominates the Grand Canal, and the 'Klong ' (canal) tour displays a world of canals and houseboats with lush vegetation growing right up to the water's edge. - The Indian subcontinent is a world all its own. New Delhi was built to be a capital. With in a few hours' drive are the Taj Mahal at Agra and the lost Mogul capital of Fatipur Sikri. Pakistan's mountain's, mos ques and market places are re dolent of Kipling, but the air of national progress and pur pose is unmistakable. Up-coun try, beyond teeming Karachi, are cities like Lahore, with its gardens of Shalimar, and Peshawar, which guards the Khyber Pass. One inhibition on traveling to Asia from the Western Hemisphere is that the fare is double that of Europe. One of the many encouragements is that if the trip gets as far west as Pakistan, it can be contin ued on Westward around the world through the Middle East and Europe at about the same cost as doubling back. London -0!PII- The Sino Soviet split has brought par allel cracks in the ranks of Western Europe's Communist parties, once solidly united on policy. Most Communist leaders re mained loyal to Premier Nik ita S. Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence line, and in fact have been practicing it as the only means of gaining ground among prosperous European workers. But since the increasingly bitter exchanges of attacks be tween Moscow and Peking has brought their antagonism out into the open, tiny anti-Khrushchev factions have begun to appear among Euroean Communists. Illegal Cash Sale Of Surplus Grain To West Germany Eyed Washington -IUPIU The Unit ed States today pressed its in vestigation of the illegal cash sale of $32 million worth of surplus U.S. government grains in West Germany. Senate Republican leaders demanded a congressional in quiry. One said the case would make Texas tycoon Billie Sol Estes look like a Rhode Island piker." Scheduled for Austria J. K. Mansfield, the State Department's top foreign aid inspector, confirmed that 60 per cent - or more than 24 million bushels - of feed grains scheduled for shipment to Austria were diverted to West Germany for cash sale. State and Agriculture De partment officials, who have been looking into the case since Cmristmas, said there was no evidence so far that the United States lost money in the deal or that any of the grain ended up behind the Iron Curtain. Under a barter agreement with Austria, the grain was to be exchanged for strategic materials such as industrial diamonds or platinum. Mansfield and Lester P. Condon, inspector general of the Agriculture Department, said there was no evidence that the United States did not receive the minerals involved in the barter agreement. "The United States got dol- lar-for-dollar in the transac tion," Condon said. But Mansfield did say the grains sales in Germany wor sened the U.S. balance of pay ments deficit. The government is now trying to determine whether private U.S. export ers under contract to ship the grains were in collusion with West German importers, he added. Negroes Accuse City of Portland Portland-dlPI) - Two Negro students at Lewis and Clark college Tuesday accused the City of Portland of discrinv ination in barring them from jobs as park playground di rectors: Samuel Macon and Nathan Jones, both football players, made the accusations. An official for the Oregon Bureau of Labor said the bu reau's civil rights adminis trator, Mark A. Sith, has pe tioned the labor commission er for a cease and desist or der against the city. The Portland City Council has been called to appear at a hearing before the commis sioner Aug. 1. In some nations these splits are barely noticeable to those outside the party. In no case do they appear deep, a United Press International survey shows. Takei Not of Problems But in Italy, where pro Peking Communists have painted "Viva Mao" and "Viva Stalin" on walls in in dustrial Milan, the leadership of the largest Communist par; ty in Western Europe has had to take notice of the problem. Informed sources said the small but belligerent anti Khrushchev group in the Ital ian party may have as many as 30,000 members. They said the Peking faction may be planning a congress of its own in the fall. The split was expected to embarrass Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti but not hurt him seriously. Party leaders already have taken action to discipline the factionalists, but have made little impression. A pro-Peking group in the northern city of Padua re plied to criticism from Rome Tuesday with this statement: "It is time in Italy to create a revolutionary party." In Brussels, a dispute broke out Tuesday night over which group of Communists could speak for the Belgium's Reds. One group issued a statement criticizing the Russian stand. Later in the day, another group, calling itself the "ma jority federation of Brussels" issued a communique disavow ing the earlier statement as the work of dissidents. Franc Split In France, the Communist party seems to have almost as many factions as the non Communist political world. One organ this month pub lished the Chinese Commu nist anti-Russian letter of June 14 despite the Soviet Union's efforts, later aban doned, to suppress it. Another dissident French Communist party group this week took out an advertise ment in the respected news paper Le Monde for "The Communist Way," a new pub lication with such articles as "USSR-China: The Evidence of the Rupture." As in Italy, the French par- tv leadershiD is nrn-RiiKKtnn although some rank and file members are pro - Chinese. There also is a young group of party intellectuals which is anti-old guard and favors relaxing of restrictions on Communist artists. 24 Hour Wrecker Service AAA Approved Rep. Shell Products Courteous Service BLOCK OR CRUSHED ICE Weter Cr Olsen Shell Service Silver Dollar Sumps 1258 S. Riverside 772-9081 pHELU RESIDENTIAL HOTEL FOR ELDERLY COUPLES Eli .. B - mM 3 n I FOREST GLEN SENIOR RESIDENCE Enjoy the freedom and comfort of a modern resi dential hotel. Spacious rooms. Beautiful lounges, Delicious food in sunlit dining room. No taxes. No upkeep. Includes medical, nursing, surgery. In the finest climate for elderly couples on the cosat. 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Schell, a graduate research assistant in chemistry at the University of Washington, has set up his apparatus in the basement of Bagley hall on the campus. Of course there is more to the process than a gun barrel full of ingredients. Schell's laboratory is an array of beakers, glass tubes, wir ing, burners and other equip ment. It appears to be quite com plicated, but the process is based on the simple theory that any material containing radioactive carbon - C-14 -can be dated by merely count ing the radioactive rays it emits. And scientists are con vinced that plants, animals - even sea water - have been absorbing Carbon-14 on this earth for millions of years. C-14 is formed in the upper atmosphere by the collision of cosmic particles with nitro gen. After a series of chemical changes as it falls to earth it winds up in plants, for in stance, during photosynthesis, which is the process that pro duces carbohydrates and makes green plants green. Because they know the na ture of C-14, scientists can count its rate of radioactivity by comparing the C-14 in old material with that in new and, using a precalculatcd scale, can determine the age of the old material. Problem The problem is constructing an accurate counter. And that's where the Colorado's cannon comes in. A pure steel housing was needed to protect Schell's counter from ever-present out side radioactivity. But modern ; steel is made in a process in volving radioactive Cobalt-18. However, the gun barrels of the Colorado were forged be fore the new method was used and this is just what Schell needed. The paraffin, borax and mercury inside the barrel cli i minated even more of the background radioactivity and Schell's "time machine'' is one of the most sensitive and ac curate Instruments in use to day. Golfers Use Machine To Figure Handicaps I Salt Lake City 0."PI- From no v on Utah golfers will have the aid of machines to conv : pute their handicaps for tour namcnts at many of the state's i courses. Officials say the handicap i service will be offered at ' cost of $2 per year. The list ; of golfers with established handicaps is expected to grow i to 3,000 by the end of this Another service from the 13 Shell dealers of Medford Five games that can make your next trip more fun for the whole family 1. Simon Says a game to work oft youthful energies. It's something like fol-low-the-lcadcr, with one player taking the part of Simon and issuing commands The other players must do as lie says only when he tells them that "Simon says" to do it. If he says, "Simon says put your hands on your head," everybody should obey. But if he just says, "Put your hands on your head," anybody who obeys is out. As the game proceeds, the commands come faster and faster, making it more and more difficult to keep up with what Simon says and what Simon does not say. The minute you do something that Simon docs not specifically say to do, you arc out of the game, and the others con tinue without you. The last one to remain is the winner. suggestion: It's probably best if Mom takes the part of Simon. That way she can control howcncrgctic the game becomes. If the game begins to get too rambunctious, she can always have Simon say,"Sit still." 2. Tall Stories a game (o challenge a child's imagination. One of you starts to tell a story. After two minutes, the second player gives his version of what happens next. When his two minutes arc up, the third player gets his turn. Then, the fourth, with the first player picking up again where the last player leaves o!f. The wonderful thing about "Tall Stories" is that it can go on and on. You'll find this game is most fun when you pick a story that you know, but your youngsters don't. This lets their imaginations run riot and you hear some amazing variations on your old favorites. 3. Geography a simple game dial gels progressively difficult as it goes along. Somebody starts by naming a place. Let's say it's Oregon. The next player must then name a place that logins with "n" the last letter of Oregon. I Ic might say Newfoundland. And the next person has to name a place that begins with "d" the last letter of Newfoundland. Cities, states, countries, even street names arc all lair game. Only one restriction. No name may be repeated. As all the obvious places arc used up, the game gets progressively harder. life Simon mivs, "'.'hi hands up high." A command like this Gin lie the signal tor quite a bit of fun when the children gel restless. For details, sec item 1. Whenever a player gets stumped for a new name, he is eliminated. The last re maining player wins. 4. Twenty Questions an old standby that can keep the whole family enter tained. Someone thinks of something a person, a place or an object. The other players take turns asking questions to try to ligurc out what it is. "Is it a person? A place? An object? Is it round? Square? Ilcctangular? Docs it have color? lied? White? Blue? Is it the American flag?" "Yes" or "No" arc the only answers given. If someone guesses correctly before twenty questions arc up, then he is "it" and he thinks of something. If not, then the original "it" person tells what he was thinking of. He thinks of something else and the game starts again. 5. Spcll-a-platc a game for sharp little eyes. Each player thinks of a word and jols it down on a piece of paper. (This helps prevent squabbles later on.) The younger the player, the shorter the word. But all the players in the same age group , must choose words with the same number of letters. Next, they watch the license plates of oncoming cars. As they spot their litters, they call them out. The first to complete his word with the letters he sees on the plates is the winner. One rule: you have to get the letters in the proper order. II you're spelling "c-a-t," vou have to find a "c" first, then an "a," then a "t." MEDFORD SHELL DEALERS DE-BUNK A MYTH ABOUT CAR CARE tir i It's a mylh that all gasolines arc alike. Gasolines actually clillcr in many ways. I:or instance, one gasoline may weigh a quarter of a pound more per gallon than another. And dilfcrent gasolines behave diircrcntly in your car. Why? Because cjch petroleum company lorinulates its own blend. 1 he Super Slid! formula, for example, has 9 working ingredients for good mileage, a smooth-running engine, 'and power when you need it. Thai's the real lowdown. You can count on your Shell dealer for ifrniglit facts and honest work. Sec him regularly. i i year.
