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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1963)
J." Nelson Reed Recounts History Of Rhodes On Flying Visit To Ancient Greek Island :-: By NELSON REED : ; : Rhodes, April 10 "Just an hour'! flight from Crete brought us lo Rhodes, an island which is some 70 miles! long and 30 miles wide. It is very mountainous with a surprising amount of timber, pine, oak and Cyprus, for it has ample rainfall and some small streams. The first thing that impressed us were the magnificent colors of the ocean, which shades from a love I-dark Crater Lake blue to a pale 3'jOamarine over the shallows. Evfry so often there is a fine beach of yellow sand. Off on the far-horizon to the west stretched a : jagged skyline of mountains that is Turkey. Like all of Greece the story of Rhodes has its beginning far back in antiquity with all its mythology of gods and men. No place in the world' has been in volved in more interesting his tory. The Greeks, the Persians, the Romans, the Italians, and the Crusaders all were here, and the Germans, of course, lately. AH have left their mark in the ruined temples, the fine buildings tbat exist today, and an occasion al bombed out house high on the: bill. .'Most impressive of all is the Walled fortress of the ancient city. It was built by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, a Cru sader organization, as a base of operations. It was said to be the best fortified city in the world, and we could well believe it as we walked around and through it Between the very ; thick . stone outer and inner walls is a moat about 75 feet deep, idry. There were endless parapets. some with openings for guns or chutes through which round stone balls they still lie around in piles could be dropped on scal ing ladders of the invaders. High er up are the archers towers. The fortress looks and was im pregnable. Only by starving out the defenders in a very long seige was it ever captured, with the usual tale of being betrayed by traitor. It must have taken years to build for it seemed to us we walked for several miles around it. Inside the walled city is the Palace of the Grand Masters which was completely restored by the Kalians when they occu pied the island prior to the last war. The palace has over 100 rooms and today many of them are partially furnished with me dieval European furniture, tapes tries and pictures. The beautiful floors are made of a great vari ety of Greek marble surrounding fascinating mosaics made of col ored small pebbles. Around the harbour arc many fine public buildings of modern Greek and Byzantine architec ture. A very fine large Greek Or thodox Church that we wandered! through has wonderful murals of the Bible stories, magnificent crystal chandeliers and a beautiful altar with many ikons. One thing that has impressed us very much the last few days is how good looking the Greek men Motf Airport Ownership Handed To Two Cities DUNSMUIR - The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors through F. II. Clirlstensen, air- port coordinator, has informed the cities of Mount Shasta and Dunsmuir that the county is turn ing financial responsibilities for Molt Airport over to these two cities, but legal transfer of title lo the airport will bo delayed. In a letter to the city council Monday night, Christenscn said the supervisors are not budgeting any funds for Mott Airport for the coming fiscal year. The let ter: started the last bill the county will pay will be the elec trical meter reading of June 30, 1!3, and maintenance and ulil ity costs must then be met by Ihe two cities. Mount Shasla and Dunsmuir agreed last year to accept own ership of the airport, which serves the two communities, upon completion of a $82,275 project of surfacing and lengthening the airport runway. Christcnsen explained in the letter the deeding of the airport lo the cities must await a final audit and clearance by the FAA. Members of the council expressed doubt that the city can assume financial responsibil ity for an airport owned by the county. The cities had planned on partially meeting operation costs by qualifying for state and federal aid. These applications cannot be made until a two-city ownership is established. City Clerk Elizabeth Cavin was authorized lo get a breakdown of Mott Airport expenditures for the last three years from the county auditor's office. Councilman Claude Slade, chair man of the airport committee, said he would arrange to meet with the Mount Shasta uirporl committee and then meet with the board of supervisors to clarify the matter. and women are here and in Crete With very regular features, fine physiques, clear skins and curl) hair tliey truly resemble some o! the beautiful old marble and bronze statues. We were sur prised at the number of fair skinned blonde girls and small children. It makes you wonder how widely their ancestors must have traveled. Everywhere throughout the sub urbs and even down in the dry moat of the citidcl there are chil dren playing with their lambs and small goats. They lead them around on ropes, carry them in their arms or draped over their shoulders, petting and fondling them. These are their only pets for dogs must have meat which isl hard to get and expensive and green feed is everywhere. Wherever there is a piece ot flat bare ground little boys are playing football soccer to They ore very clever with their feet but sometimes a shoe flies olf along with the ball on a long kick. Walking along the waterfront the other day we saw an old man sitting on the seawall. Be side him was a pole with a net on one end and a small spear on the other. He was dangling a small dead fish on a wire in and out of the crevices of the rocks and under the sea wall down in the crystal clear wa ter. Presently he teased a small crab about twice the size of a dollar out from under the wall. Picking up his spear he gigged it and brought it up. Taking it off the spear he carefully wrapped it in a newspaper with some other small crabs and put it in his coat pocket. A poor man's dinner no doubt. A couple of hundred feet off shore a fisherman was hanging over the stern of a rowboat, peer ing through a large water glass, searching the bottom for a crab, lobster or small fish he could spear. One evening as we ate supper at a small seaside res taurant, we watched a rowboat with four men in it fishing with a flickering oil flare to attract the fish while they tried to man euver a small net under them. Rhodes is a port of call for the many cruise ships that ply the Mediterranean. One day there were six large liners an chored in the harbor. Their pas sengers came ashore in lighters to be met by buses and tour the city, swarm through the shops, orl sit outside the many restaurants in the sun, drinking beer or ouzo We are getting accustomed to ouzo which is a rather sweet li quor that turns milky when v. a tered and tastes of anise seed. However we would not rccom mend that the "Green Front Stores" stock it. The hotels in Rhodes are a "tower of babble." Every Euro pean and some Asiatic languages are being spoken all around you In fact, one night at dinner my w ife and I were sure that we were the only Americans present, judg ing not only by the language spoken, but by the left handed caters and the different features. No longer can you guess by their clothes, for more and more the world dresses alike in the large cities. Only in the country vil lages do you still see occasion al native dress. ROBERTS GETS JOB NEW YORK UPI - Muralist Morton A. 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