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. No wonder it
has taken a special science,
Egyptology, to sort out the suc
cession of Pharaoes and dynas
ties, the Persian conquest (525
332 B.C.) and the effects of
Alexander the Great's arrival
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in 332 B.C. Alexander was only
24 years old and stayed only
six months but he founded a
city that was to become one of
the capitals of the world. And
he set the pace for Egypt's for
eign domination , for the next
2,000 years. 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-
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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-
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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
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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
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expected to attend from through
out the state. Pilgrims will con
duct the ceremony.
The following day a state offi
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the lodge. State officers expect
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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,!
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of the world's most difficult
countries to assess. Opinions on
what is happening differ radi
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Partly because of its location
and partly because of its inter
nal revolution under Nasser,
Egypt today exerts more influ
ence on the Arab world than
any other country. From the
northeast corner of Africa it is
involved in the continent's
struggle for independence and
progress. But it also links the
Arabs of North Africa with
those of the Asian East and it
is in the Arab world that Nas
ser has cast his political for
tunes. In February 1958 Syria unit
ed with Egypt and the two took
on the name United Arab Re
public. Syria broke away in
September 1961 but Egypt re
tains the official U.A.R. name.
In April Nasser signed an
agreement to federate Egypt
with Syria and Iraq into a new
and larger United Arab Repub
lic, but political differences
with the Damascus and Bagh
dad regimes have since killed
that plan. Yet few observers
would write it off entirely. To
Arab unity, the course has
been set by Cairo.
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