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
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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.
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Age of Objects
Learned From
Novel Machine
By ELDON BARRETT
United Press International
Seattle, Wash. (UPD Take
a section of a 16-inch gun bar
rel! from the scrapped battle
ship USS Colorado, mix in
some household canning par
affin, a box of borax and 325
pounds of quicksilver, insert a
couple of tubes and what do
you have?
Well, if you're William
Schell you have a "time ma
chine." It's not a contraption
like the one H. G. Wells im
agined to transport man phy.
sically back into the past or
forward to the future, but one
to determine the age of things
through a system known as
the Carbon-14 process.
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."
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Gasolines actually clillcr in many ways.
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