SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 195f
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE FIVK
Russians Determined To
Put Starch In Laundry
MOSCOW (UPD Russia's seven-year
plan (or catching up with
Western living standards has got
ten under way with suggestions in
the official press that it really
shouldn't take a month to get
clothes laundered or two months
to get a dress cleaned in the So
viet Union.
That's how long a citizen must
expect to wait if he makes use ot
the few laundries and dry clean
ers that exist in Leningrad, the
country's second biggest city, ac
cording to the newspaper Lenin-
gradskaya Pravda.
Meanwhile, other papers in oth
er cities have listed other exam
ples of goods shortages, poor qual
ity, high prices and bad service.
This wave of candid criticism is
being directed by the authorities
against the legion of government
and Communist Party functionar
ies who handle the production,
sale and maintenance of consum
er goods and the provision of serv
ices under the Soviet system.
To a large extent it is they, the
managers, who are being counted
on to make a success of the gran
doise program adopted in Feb
ruary for bringing the Soviet
Union abreast of Western Euro
pean living standards by 1965 and
of the United States by 1970.
The wrong kind of manager,
the Leningrad paper made clear,
is the dry-cleaner official who
was overheard by the paper's
team of investigators refusing to I
accept a woman's dress because
"it has spots on it." When the
woman persisted that that was
why' she brought the dress around,
, the functionary said it was not
'urgent" and would take two
months to clean.
The long queue In front of the
dry-cleaner could read a sign say
ing the establishment was accept
ing only 30 articles of clothing that
day, IS as ordinary and 15 as
urgent." The paper did not say
how long "urgent" work took. But
it reported that a laundry it
checked into took as long as a
month to wash and iron clothes.
although a year ago it took only
two weeks.
A tour of furniture stores in the
city of Riga was made by re
porters for the newspaper Soviet
Latvia. The paper said Latvia is
specially noted among Soviet re
publics for its furniture. Yet it re
ported that "everywhere we heard
complaints by customers about
the shortage of furniture and the
lack of inexpensive pieces."
A pair of newlyweds fortunate
enough to have been allocated an
apartment in a new building were
looking for new furniture. They
wanted something "light, attractive
and inexpensive," the paper said,
"but where was it to je found?"
"Elegant furniture or simple de
sign may be seen at exhibitions,"
the paper said, "but it is no
where on sale, even though some
models were earmarked lor pro
duction as long as two years ago."
If you succeed in buying what
you want, maintenance is a head
ache, several articles suggested.
Leningradskaya Pravda said sim
ple things like getting a key made
or a dress or suit altered or
button sewn on" are difficult to
accomplish and cost much too
much.
"Sometimes fixing a lock comes
out costing more than the lock
cost to buy," it said. A man" who
took a damaged vacuum cleaner
to a receiving point for repair
was told to come back in a month
The newspaper Zarya Vostoka
reported on. the "tribulations of
television set owner" in Tbilisi,
capital of Georgia, who needed
new tulie for his set. Nowhere in
Tbilisi could he find a tube that
would fit his model, which he pur
chased only in 1&F7,
YOU ARE HOW
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UNDER THEIR NOSES
DIYARBAKIR. Turkey UPl
Local police finally have closed the
book on Eyup Krol, whom they'd
been hunting nine years for a
shooting. They found him at the Di
yarbakir police station where he
had been working since rJw as a
night watchman.
DIAMOND TO MOVIE SET
HOLLYWOOD UPI Larry
Pennell, former Milwaukee first
baseman who gave up baseball to
become an actor, plays the role
of James Stewart's son-in-law in
"The FBI Story," a Warner Bros,
release.
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The native home of the
lemon tree is thought to have
been in northwestern India.
But it has been grown through
, out southern Asia and in Asia
' Minor for centuries. During
the 12th century it was intro
duced into Europe by the
Arabs.' Now it is grown in all
' warm countries from Rhodesia
in South Africa to California.
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The history of housebuilding
shows that as early as 2000
B.C.; some buildings were well
planned. The island of Crete
before 1400 B.C. had palaces
with .many chambers, inner
courts and staircases. Clay
sewer pipes made it possible
to build baths and other sani
tary facilities. In Italy, by 300
' B.C., many houses had rooms
grouped around an inner court
called the atrium.
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