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8. B WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Animated Figure Of Lincoln Arouses Heated Controversy SPRINGFIELD. HI. (UPI)-A controversy boiled today over whether a life-like Abraham Lincoln figure that sits, stands, talks and gestures is dignified and characteristic or "gro tesque." Walt Disney came to the land of Lincoln Tuesday to taix about the project, which will be the heart of tne si million Illi nois exhibit at the New York Wor d's Fair. "He is going to speak to vou." Disney said. "His voice Scout-O-Rama Set At Local Armory This is the year that Boy Scouts hold their Scout-O-Rama and it is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 23, in the Medford Armory with more than cubs, Scouts and Explorers partici pating. The show and demonstrations will ooen at 2:30 p.m. and con- tmue until 8:30 p.m. There will be between 35 and 40 booths arranged by Scouts of the Big Pines district, Clair Schiffman, . publicity chairman for tne dls- trict, announced. The Scouts prepare and man their own booths and put on . demonstrations throughout t h e afternoon and evening. In addition to the demonstra tion there will be entertainment by Scouts, Cubs, Explorers and visiting hands and performers. A magic show is scheduled and there win be music by uie Shrine German band and by a Dixie Land band, Schiffman stated, along with other floor shows. Each booth will be judged. Acting as judges will be Med ford Mayor James J. Dunlevy, County Judge Earl Miller, Ar chie Fries of Ashland and Bill Longmore of Medford, accord ing to George Brennan, Scout executive. Students will be admitted free If they are accompanied by their parents. is as close as we could get from actual descriptions of this great man. He will appear in a very dignified setting. "While seated in n chair be fore speaking he will drop his head in thought, i characteris tic Lincoln action," Disney said. "When he is introduced he will stand putting his hands behind his back as though deep in thought." Disney said the Lincoln pres entation would appear to audi ences "as life-like as I am standing before you perhaps more so." He said the figure even would tap its lingers on its chair while waiting to be in troduced. Disney's statements to news men were in answer to criti cism the Lincoln figure would be "grotesque" and would rq semble a carnival sideshow., "It's almost as ehoulish as the idea to play a mock record ing of the voices of the four presidents enshrined at ' ML Rushmore," one person said. "The next thing they'll have Mousketeers giving guided tours of the White House, ' said another. The Lincoln figure will be in a 12-minute presentation called "Great Moments with Mr, Lin coln," held in a 500-seat audi torium in the Illinois pavilion. An estimated 25,000 persons will see the show daily. i nave more at stake in this than the state of Illinois." said Disney, a Chicago native, "I am staking my reputation on this my integrity, I am not carnival operator. Disney and other Illinois offi cials did not elaborate on some of the details. In this day of' suave Innxs and sonorous tones a politi cian's television tools would they authentically reproduce Lincoln's craggy appearance and squeaky voice? Six Monorail Routes Suggested in Detroit DETROIT OJFI) A mass transportation plan drawn here five years ago recommended a primary system of six monorail rapid transit routes radiating from the central business area. The plan also recommended ll secondary routes, if given au thority by the Michigan legisla ture for a Metropolitan Transit authority, Detroit officials have indicated they will consider the 1958 plan. , GIANT. DINOSAUR Getting his first taste of flight in a test before his debut as the new est, figure balloon in the New York Thanks giving Day parade, a life-sized representa tion of a giant brontosaurus dinosaur steps out of his hangar in Akron, Ohio. The bal loon is 60 feet long and stands four stories tail. (UPI) . : ,' - 1W mac "west' Marriage, Labor Contracts Similar WASHINGTON (UP1) - The similarity between a labor con tract and a marriage contract is obvious to anyone who knows anything at all about collective bargaining. .-.i - - Up until now, however, I was not aware that the -esemblance had any official standing with the National Labor Relations Board. My eyes were opened on this point by a decision recently handed down by an NLRB trial LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Jo seph and Vivian Clark, who have 10 children of their own ranging in age from 2 to 17 and are expecting still another, adopted a 10-month-old boy Tuesday. . - . ' "We plan to adopt one more, too," said Mrs. Clark, 40, "and who knows what'U happen after that," added Clark. 43, a dentist. FIRST DANCE Princess Margaret and her husband, Lord Snowdon, take the floor for the first dance at a ball in aid of the Dockland Settlements. Ball was hold at the Savoy Hotel late Monday. (UPI) LAMPORTS MEDFORD'S FINEST & OLDEST SPORTING GOODS STORE MILL BE CLOSED THURS. FRI. AND SAT. TO SLASH PRICES! BUSINESS! LAHPORTS 226 E. Main o Medford examiner in an unfair labor practice case in Tennessee. The examiner, George L. Powell, ruled that a dairy prod ucts firm acted wrongly in turning over to an independent contractor work that had pre viously been performed by its own employes. Powell held that the company should have notified the union before taking this step, which resulted in the dismissal of some of the workers. In support of his decision he noted that the union-management relationship "in certain respects is like a marriage." "... we can well imagine the almost universal cry in every home in the land should the husband, without firsHalking it over with his wife, rent cut the spare room in t!'e home to a lovely young roomer, be she blonde, brunette or redhead," he wrote. Yes, indeedv. I can well imagine that. In fact, I can visualize the negotiations step oy step. '., First there would be what is known in labor-management- marriage circles as a "lock out," The wife would lock her husband out of the bedroom while she had a universal cry. These Dressm-p tnrties umnlH force the husband to the bar gaining table. He would rather go to the dinner table out there wouldn't be any food on it be cause she was in the bedroom crying when she should have been in the kitchen cooking supper. Then the ncgotialions would reach a stalemate, although the husband would have settled for a slice of stale bread. As a result of the impasse, the issues would be submitted to an impartial mediator her mother. By that time the lovely young tenant would have left totfn without paying her rent. So the case would be settled by the momer moving into the spare room, Rapid Transit Subway In Ohio Never Used CINCINNATI, Ohio (UPI) - The city of Cincinnati has had a rapid transit subway since 1011 but it has never been used by passengers. Local political interests mane so many route changes while the subway was being built that It became impractical for mass transit and was converted to a tunnel for utilities lines. The city is currently in the process ot completing a $1.5 million study of a possible rapid transit system to adjoining areas in Kentucky and Indiana. Italy's Tourist Boom Not As Big As Was Expected ROME (UPI)- Italy's fabu lous tourist boom is still going strong in 1963 but not as strong as had been expected. In the first seven months of this year, government officials reported 11,709,000 foreign tour ists visited Italy, This was an increase of 10.1 per cent over the same period in 1062. But in all of 1062 tourism jumped 12.6 per cent over the preceding year, and Tourism Minister Alberto Folchi admit ted that he had been expecting the growth rale at least to keep up this pace or even in crease. What went wrong? There are a number of fac tors, but almost everybody agrees that the major factor keeping many tourists away has been the general price rise in Italy. Budget Resorts Folchi noted that tourism al so has shown a slight slump in France and Switzerland for the same reason. Economy-minded tourists are going to such places as Yugoslavia, Greece and Spain where prices are still con siderably below those in Italy and its other neighboring countries. . The most worrisome fact in Uie situation for the Italians is that the number of German tourists this year has actually decreased. They always had been the leading national group by far to visit Italy. Prof. Augusto Premoli, di rector general of the Italian Tourist Agency, says other fac tors are an insufficiency of air line flights, inadequate high ways and the neglect into which many of Italy's artistic and his torical monuments has fallen. Venice, a favorite spot with American tourists, is getting fewer Americans this year than in the past, and officials there put the blame squarely on the price situation. Expensive Venice They estimate that a tourist going first - class cannot spend less than $32 a day in Venice while the cost for one going second-class is about half that. From July 1 to Aug. 15, the peak tourist period at Venice, the number of American visi tors was 3,500 below that for the same period in 1962. Adding to Italy's worries is that more Italians than ever be fore are traveling abroad in stead of spending their vacation money at home. In the first seven months of this year, Hal lan tourism abroad was up phenomenal 44.1 per cent over 1962. NOW YOU KNOW Rv United Press International The nation's highest concen tration of college graduates is in Washington, D.C., where more than 14 per cent had at least four years of college, ac cording to a recent survey by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. U.S., Allies Vow Increased Aid for Emergent Nations Journalism Dean Cited by Columbia PARIS (UPI) - The United States and its Western econom ic Allies were expected to pledge increased aid to devel oping nations today at the close of a two-day conference. Other points likely to be in cluded in the closing communi que of the 22-member Organi zation for Economic Coopera tion and Development (OECD) were an announcement that the member nations are closer to balancing their trade and inter national -. payments and are hopeful of reaching the target of 50 per cent economic expan sion by 1970. . The council wound up its talks today with discussion of maintaining a balance of inter national payments and adapting farm, industry and manpower policies to changing conditions. The OECD is composed of the 18 Western European na tions, the - United States and Canada plus the executive com missions of the European Com mon Market and the European Free Trading Association. Raising Tariffs The meeting closed as an ar bitration panel of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva was preparing a ruling on ' how much the common market owes the United States for rais- Picture Testament Now Ready in New Version NEW YORK (UPI) The American Bible Society's "New Testament With Pictures," pre: viously available only in the King James version, has now been published in the Revised Standard version. In large magazine size with paperback covers, both ver sions are printed in rotogravure illustrated with nearly 600 pho tographs, maps and diagrams. Central Point Grange Central Point Grange . will meet Friday evening, Nov. 22. This meeting was postponed from Nov. 15. An interesting program is being planned by the lecturer. ine tariffs on poultry in the "chicken war" affecting U.S. poultry exports. OECD sources said general agreement had been reached In the Paris conference that eas ing of the U.S. dollar crisis is an important economic goal Of th pntira Western world. EUGENE The Dean of the University of Oregon's School of Journalism has been cited a "distinguished graduate" of Co lumbia University. John L. Hulteng, ve e t e r a n newspaperman and educator, is the author of a chapter in a re cently published book and has been awarded a Bronze Me d a 1 1 1 o n commemorating his achievements. The book, "Journalists in Ac tion," was published this week by Channel Press in New York in observance of the 50th anni versary of Columbia Univer sity's Graduate School of Jour nalism. 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