The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 6, Milford, Kosciusko County, 8 March 1972 — Page 10

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U ua- aU.. MB NNA GROUP — From left, Walter Potter, Douglas Attaway, Augustus Robbins. Marian Attaway. Tom Coad, Marie Robbins. Barbara Richardson. Evelyn Harrison, Nellie Arnold, Jane Tefft, Della Baumgartner, Caroline Klesh. Kaye Pfeiffer. Robert Johanson. Ed Lehman. Margaret Johanson, Margeret Lehman. Katherine Dhiority, Peg Serrill. Ray Dhiority. Janess Westerfield. Dick Westerfield, Arch Baumgartner. Time. Place — Friday. Feb. 18,1972, Hilton International Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey.

Istanbul, Turkey - Bridge Between East And West

By DELLA AND ARCH BAUMGARTNER ISTANBUL, Turkey. Sat., Feb 19 — When one is traveling in the troubled Mid-East, one cannot expect airport departure and arrivals to be as prompt as one would like. And so it was when we left Tel Aviv yesterday for a two-hour flight to Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), Turkey We left on time, but arrived 30 minutes late. Our trip was north from Tel Aviv across the Mediterranean Sea, over Cyprus which we had visited earlier, and into a land that is part East and part West ' We were traveling the Israeli El Al line, and our guide at the Istanbul airport said. ’ What did you expect? El Al stands for •Every Landing Always Late’." The Twain Meets The celebrated English writer Rudyard Kipling had not visited Istanbul or he never would have written: "East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." For Istanbul is separated by the well publicized Bosphorus, a 19-nule Strait which is a vital seaway in this part of the world. The western part of the city is aligned with the European countries, and the eastern part is aligned with the Asiatic world. Our landing, and all our • visitations were on the western side. Upon landing, we were to make contact with another plane for the

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Turkish capital of Ankara, but in failing to make this connection our guide took us downtown to the " Istanbul-Hilton for a hurried lunch. We found the hotel suitable, and comfortable, being 16 years old and the first Hilton Hotel built overseas by the huge chain. Back at the airport at 2 pm., we boarded a flight for Ankara, about 25 minutes air time to the east, covering some of the most hilly country we had seen. The mountain tops were covered with snow a Meet Ambassador A motor bus met us to whisk us into the downtown section of Istanbul, past the American Embassy, and to the residence of U. S. Ambassador William J. Handley. The Ambassador greeted us all with a warm American welcome. I took the occasion to tell him Indiana had a governor by the name of Harold Hanley, and could they be related. He said, ‘‘No," that his family was from Virginia. The ambassador briefed our group on the country of Turkey, stating they have a heavy alignment with the West, that they are observing 20 years in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. At the end of the formal part of the briefing, be showed us a poppy plant, which is a cash crop for small Turkish fanners but is such a headache for America. He said there is no dope addiction problem in Turkey, but that the oil from this plant finds its way to Marseilles. France, which it is refined and sold on the American market. Last year was the last year to grow the opium poppy legally, he said, adding that 10 kilos of oil would bring the Turkish fanner $l5O, but would bring from S4OO- - $500,000 on the U. S. market. The subsidy to this small Turkish farmer will cost the U. S. taxpayer $35 million over the next five years. Until a year ago there was no strict licensing of poppy growing, he said.

“This has been a real tough one," the ambassador said. He said he did not want to be credited with working out the arrangements with the Turkish government to restrict the growing of the poppy plant, but that he worked awfully hard on it. Among other things, he told us Turkey wants to join the European Common Market, is worried about the Collusus from the North, and that the country has growing pains of democracy. Ambassador Handley has been in Turkey 24 years, coming from Cairo. He had previously been in Mali, a country a number of our group visited last year. This gave us much to talk about. Our conference occurred in a basement theater of the residence, and the cordial, warm ambassador appeared in sip-on sneakers. American-style. Before leaving the briefing we heard remarks by Norman Getsinger, commercial attache, and Orris Draper, political science laison. They told us martial law is being observed in a number of provinces to put down anarchists. The United States has given Turkey $3 billion in aid since World War 11, and last year sent them $2 million in trade goods. "It all comes back to Uncle Sam," said Mr. Getsinger. He said Turkey sends tobacco to the United States, adding that the U. S. has a S2OO million investment in Turkey, mostly petroleum, and about SSO million in industry. He said Turkey must shift to a mixed economy with more emphasis on the private sector. Mr. Getsinger ended his remarks by saying, “Turkey will make it." Meet Prime Minister Our meeting with a second head of state came later yesterday afternoon when we met Dr. Nihat Erim in a minister's room of the parliament building. Here again we knew we were at an important meeting, for a large number of journalists and television technicians were on hand to record our questions and the responses of the very popular Prime Minister. In the early stages of the 45minute press conference, in a shuffle of reporters in the tight room, a waiter spilled several glasses of juice on the backs of Janess Westerfield, wife of our tour leader, and on Bob Johanson of Wisconsin. It was at least the second or third time this had happened on our trip, causing hubby Dick to mutter to some of us privately, "The next time, no juice, please." Dr. Erim is a tall, fairly bald, professional type man, who taught himself English in the past several years. His command of the language was remarkable He visited the United States last March and went through a crash course on English in preparation for the trip. Speaking of the poppy plant, be said his government was happy to cooperate with the United States. “Now your country is suffering; next it might be us,” he said. He said small farmers are cooperating in this matter,

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trying to work out a substitute crop. He said Turkey operates on a balanced budget, with but little inflation to plague them. He told us martial law has been necessary to stop anarchy, terrorism, and bank robbing. Recently an Israeli General Counsel in Turkey was kidnapped and killed, and while we were visiting Istanbul troops killed an urban guerilla and captured his female companion. The Prime Minister told us they hoped to be able to remove the troops by next summer. He would not say terrorism was inspired by the so-called Colluses from the North or any other outside group. He offered "no precise answer to the Cyprus problem," but hoped the dispute could be settled as soon as possible. He said since Turkey has been a Republic in 1923 it has moved to a western type of state, and by 1975 every child will have a classroom to attend. The country now has eight universities. With six parties in the country, he said Turkey is the only country with a constitutional government between France and Japan. He said, "We are proud of our democracy. He said the press is free, yet when we were there they closed down a newspaper for its anti-government editorials. Our reception by the Prime Minister was good, and some of us felt it gave him an opportunity to express his views to his home audience via television in a most unique manner. We motored back to the airport for our return trip back to Istanbul. We found many people there waiting for relatives and friends returning from Meets. The airport was dirty and untidy. Built On Seven Hills Istanbul is reportedly built on seven hills, and it is so jampacked with old buildings, narrow streets and precipitous curves as to make travel nerveracking. This city has a long history of intrigue and double-dealing, and one can see why. Situated on the important Bosphorus which leads into the Sea of Marmara, then into the 50-mile-long Dardenelles and into the Mediterranean Sea. It is clue enough as to why Istanbul and Turkey have been overrun by so many invading armies of other countries. Meet Mustafa Kamel This morning, oh the 19th, we were set for a day of sightseeing around Istanbul, and our guide turned out to be Mustafa Kamel, who had taken his Master’s Degree at Western University, Kalamazoo, Mich., on a Fulbright Scholarship. He had been to Nappanee to visit in the home of the Ray Yoders, and he spoke before the Nappanee Lions club, he said. Holder of a law degree in Turkey, he said he could do better as a tour guide. Mustafa took us to the museum of Ayasofya, formerly the Basillica of St. Sophia of Byzantine fame, converted into a mosque in 1935. Emperor Constantine the Great first erected a church on this spot over a pagan temple in 325 AD, and the present church was built by Emperor Justinian between 532 and 537 AD. We also visited the Blue Mosque, a masterpiece in Turkish architecture, built in 1618, renown for its six minarets and its blue and green tiles. Os the 500 mosques in Turkey. we finally visited the Suleymaniye mosque, built on order of Sultan Suleyman the magnificant in the days of the Ottoman Empire. Its four minarets signify that Suleyman was the fourth Sultan after the captire of the city, and its 10 balconies that he was the 10th Sultan of the Ottoman Dynasty. Our guide, Mustafa, proved a real charmer. We pressed him for an answer as to why he was not practicing law in Istanbul, and he said "all is not well in Turkey.” “Oh. yes, you fellows meet the Prime Minister and hear the official story, but if you are not on the inside it is difficult to function," he said. He took us across the Golden Horn, a large river extending from the mountains into the Bosphorus, and into the teeming marketplace. Visit Bazaar One of the moat interesting things we visited was the Bazaar this afternoon. A description of

this place goes begging. A large street, about two blocks long, is lined with small stores, and with streets shooting off the main street at many points. The shops have excellent wares, and bargaining between store owner and customer is taken for granted. Marchants mingle in the street (all covered) in order to entice customers into their little shops. One can spend a lot or spend nothing, but even to look is trip. told there is nothing in the whole world like the Bazaar in Istanbul. Caroline Klesh, a member of our party from Babylon, N.Y., had expressed an interest in a diamond and peart broach, and found the owner at the hotel for breakfast the next morning. She bought. Three of us visiting the mosques this morning found we were cold with nothing on our heads, so we bought a fur cap. They proved warm and becoming, but this was about the extent of our purchases, aside from some minor jewelry. At the Bazaar a lad came up and gave me a trick ring. I called him back and gave him two lira (about 28 ceits) for it. At the airport before leaving I found out why he gave it to me. The complete ring is a four-piece ring, and his had only three pieces. Well, at the airport I purchased one of the four-part trick rings and have had no end of pleasure trying to put it together. Just another way a Turk can capture the fancy of a visiting American. To Attend United Nations Seminar Susan Clark and Rebecca Knisely, both of Syracuse and members of Saint Andrew’s United Methodist church north of Syracuse, will be representing the church on the upcoming United Nations Washington Seminar sponsored by the conference youth program. They will travel to New York city and tour the facilities of the UN plus meet dignitaries of the various nations. Enroute home, the girls will visit the capital at Washington, D.C. and learn government procedures in addition to several meetings planned with congressmen representing Indiana. A portion of their expenses is being paid by the women’s society of the church from the harvest dinner proceeds. — Mr. and Mrs. Fred Waldbeser, Milford, were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nyce and Vicki of Milford.

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Xi IN WHO’S WHO — Steven K. Fox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Fox of Milford and a student at Indiana Vocational Tech, college at Fort Wayne, has been accepted by the editors of Who’s Who among students in American junior colleges. This honor is conferred annually upon outstanding student leaders from approximately 800 junior colleges in the United States. In selecting candidates campus nominating committees are instructed to choose those students whose academic standing, service to the community, leadership in extracurricular activities and future potential are decidely above average. ■ Steve will graduate in May with associative degrees in drafting and mechanical engineering. He graduated from Milford high school and attended Manchester college for one year.

Receives Master Os Divinity Degree Rev. August Lundquist, pastor of Saint Andrew’s United Methodist church at Syracuse, has received word that the Christian Theological Seminary has awarded the degree of Master of Divinity, coming as a result of the recognition that the original designation of Bachelor of Divinity was not indicative of the level of work required. His recent degree is the basic degree for the ministry and involves three complete years of professional work beyond the basic college degree (AB). Mr. and Mrs. John Hare, Milford, celebrated their wedding anniversary Sunday along with the anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Scott, Syracuse, with guests at their home. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. George Auer, Milford, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Scott and family of Wakarusa and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Whetten, Kalamazoo, Mich.

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