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Travel Posters Still Call United Arab Republic Egypt for Reason By DAVID L. DUGAS United Press International CAIRO (UPI)-In places like the United Nations it is called "The United Arab Republic." But the travel posters still call it Egypt for an obvious reason. Few other names so readily ex cite visions of ancient times, the smell and taste of a-country that rose in monumental splendor thousands of years be fore the epoch of ancient Greece. When you read about the U.A.R. in newspapers today it is usually a story about Presi dent Gamel Abdel Nasser, the Aswan High Dam or the Ger man scientists who are helping to build rockets beside the Nile. But there are two personali ties to this country. There is the United Arab Republic, which is undergoing radical so cial, economic and political change. And there is Egypt, which is changeless. Would Be Barren The country's geography is simple. Except for the fringe of Mediterranean coastline in the north, Egypt is an arid desert that would be as barren and desolate as the Sahara except for one thing: The Nile River. from the southern border fac ing Sudan and extending 890 miles north to the sea the an cient river feeds on oasis of fertile land. Heradotus 5,000 years ago called Egypt "the gift of the Nile." It is here that the waters of the White and Blue Nile spill the rich mud from Uganda and Ethiopia thousands of miles to the south. The river enters Egypt as a ribbon of water slicing between barren rocks and sand. North of Cairo it fans out like the Mass Transit Line Planned in East PITTSBURGH, Pa. (UPI) -The Port Authority of Alleg heny County has obtained op tions to buy 30 bus lines and two incline railways and is ne gotiating to buy Pittsburgh Rail ways Co., which operates trol ley and bus lines. The authority plans to consol idate the lines into a single mass transit system and hopes to add rapid transit lines by leasing abandoned railroad right-of-way. veins of a leaf to form the Nile Delta. To the east of the river toward Egypt's long Red Sea coast desert mountains rise above 7,000 feet. To the west are the lower Libyan Moun tains and the forbidding West ern Desert. Egypt covers 386,000 square miles, an area equal to Texas and New Mexico. Yet only about 5 per cent of this area, a green belt following the the course of the Nile, can support the country's 26 million people. To Early Stone Age Life along the Nile goes back to the early Stone Age. It was along the Nile that man prob ably first began farming. Egyptian history itself dates back to 3200 B.C. and King Menes. The ruins of his capital, Memphis, are 18 miles from the modern capital of Cairo. The virtually rainless Egyp tian climate has helped to pre serve the incredible record of Egyptian history. 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The Greek Ptole maic kings, starting with Alex ander's general, had lasted 300 years when Cleopatra, the eld er sister or Ptolemy XIV, worked her wiles on Julius Cae sar and on Anthony. Domination Follows Roman and Byzantine domi nation folio-wed. The Christian Byzantines were still running the country when the Prophet Mohammed was born in Mecca in 570 A.D. and by 640 Arab in- f7 .;f . I L all TL vadcrs had brought Egypt into me growing world ol Islam. Under the Omayads from Da mascus Egypt first became an Arabic-speaking country. The Omayads gave way to the Ab basids from Baghdad, then the Fatimites from Northwest Afri ca, and then the Kurdish con queror Saladin, whose famed citadel on the Mokattam Hills overlooking Cairo stands today as one of the city's chief land marks. The Mamelukes, origi nally Turkish and Circassian slaves of the Ayyubite sultan, took over for 267 years until the Turkish conquest early in the 16th century. Egypt remained under Turk ish domination for 280 years until the arrival of Napoleon in 1798. Napoleon lost to tne Bri tish but Egypt came under the rule of an Albanian dynasty that began in 1805 with Moham med Ali, called the founder of modern Egypt, and ended in 1952 with the overthrow of King Farouk. Since 1952 it has become the local point of Arab national ism. Nationalization of the Anglo-French-owned Suez Ca nal and of most other foreign owned business has evolved into a new program of "Arab socialism." There is a revolution in agri culture, another in industriali zation. So many changes going on si- SECTION C PAGES 1 to 12 MEDFORDtTRIBUNE LEARNED FIRST HAND Wearing a faded army jacket, the Rev. R. Paul Soupiset lived the life of a bum on skid road in Houston, Texas, to learn first hand how to better aid the alco holics and derelicts. At left he is shown in his clerical garb and at right as he appeared while masquerading as a bum. (UPI) New Quarters for Moose Lodge Opens With Initiation The Medford Moose Lodge opened its new quarters last night with an initiation ceremo-' ny for new candidates in the lodge's headquarters in the Jackson House. The headquarters are in the former Palomino Room. Other club activities will be conducted in the banquet room at the Jackson House which has been leased by the organization. Initiated by the newly formed ritual team of the lodge were Dan Cobb, Orrin Markle, Bob Hickam, Warren Hartley, Paul Hutchinson, David Doran, Char les Hundley, Jim Walp, James Westfall and Bill Wearne. Joe Cole, member of the Rose- Blind Musician Symphony Soloist ST. LOUIS (UPI) - Thirteen. year-old Michael Gerber, blind at birth, is a musician who has appeared as soloist with the nearby Kirkwood Sym phony Orchestra. Gerber is a pianist, has been studying piano since he was three years old. Dorothy Ziegler, the orch estra's conductor and music di rector, said Michael's "out standing achievement to date has been aided by the fact that he has absolute pitch. Michael has learned by ear, using phonograph records and a tape recorder. He is now learning to read music in Braille. "Michael is a remarkable boy," Miss Ziegler said. burg lodge, who recently moved to Medford, represented the supreme lodge as deputy su preme conservation chairman of Oregon. He spoke last night. To Be Unveiled Following the initiation, a four by eleven foot oil painting by William McRae, was un veiled. The painting is of a moose in its natural habitat. A pilgrim robing ceremony for John Keener, one of the youngest in the history of the lodge to receive this degree, will be Sat urday, Nov. 16. William Rogers, mayor of Springfield, who is pasL president of Oregon and now deputy supreme governor, will be the keynote speaker. A no-host dinner will be serv ed at 7 p.m. followed by the robing ceremony and dance. Be tween 150 and 200 persons, are expected to attend from through out the state. Pilgrims will con duct the ceremony. The following day a state offi cers meeting will be held at the lodge. State officers expect ed to attend the Nov. 16 robing officers meeting will be Ken neth Pence, Portland, president; Rogers; Gay Caldwell, Spring field, vice president at large; Bill Hollister, Portland, vice president for District 1; Lewis Trickle, Eugene, District 2; j Carl Sander, Medford, District 3; Charles Brightman, Merrill, District 4, and Charles Skill,! Portland, state director. j BICYCLE CODE I SACRAMENTO (UPI) - A: new section dealing entirely with bicycle riding has been added to the California Motor Vehicle Code. M case, crystal and crown art Intact Askabout Weisfield's famous "drop-it, wet-it, smash-it" one year watch guarantee. Medford Shopping Center Acres of Free Parking Shop Mon. & Fri. 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