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LA GRANDE OBSERVER t Observer, La GrandeOre.Thurt., June 4, 1959 Pag 9 ft 1 1 Employment Upswing Noted In This Area Employment is gaining in this area, particularly in the logging and timber industries according to the May report of the La Grande office of the Slate Employment Service. Ernest 0. Burrows, manager of the local office, said that the -recall of workers in logging, lumber ing, construction and transporta tion that began in April continued through May. There were some new hires in retail trade and ser vice. Increased demand for agri cultural workers was confined largely to workers experienced in the operation of mechanized farm INSPECTING BARLEY Vance Pumphrey, right, agronomist at the Eastern Ore gon Experiment Station, Union, and Bill Raymer, plant pathologist, Oregon State Col lege Extension specialist, examine barley for disease that may effect this year's crop. Raymer and Pumphrey made an extensive study of all crops in the county and found most crops in excellent condition. . . . - Red China Is Busy Stirring Up Trouble In The Kingdom Of Laos By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Staff Writer Red China, having swallowed up Tibet, now is busily trying to stir up trouble in the tiny South east Asia kingdom of Laos into which the United States pours about 35 to 50 million dollars aid money annually. The present Communist tactic is to charge a conspiracy under way among Laos and her neigh bors, Thailand and South Viet Nam, to form a military alliance tied to NATO's Southeast Asia counter-part, SEATO. This alliance, says Red China's official newspaper, the Peiping People's Daily, "would act as an accomplice and a willing pawn of the United Stales aggressors.',' . Laos, landlocked "kingdom -of the elephants," is just a pinpoint on the map geographically, eco nomically and in population. It is another of the small na tions to which the United States has contributed heavily , in . the years since World War II, and twhicb .in,iurja.-have. -It nothing else, contributed heavily to the average U.S. citizen's awareness, if not knowledge; of world poli tics. Common Frontier Laos' misfortune is its strategic importance in the world struggle between the free nations and in ternational Communism. Its borders touch Red China, Burma, North and South Viet Nam, Thailand and Cambodia. . Of special, interest to the Com munists is the fact that Laos has a 620-mile common frontier with North Viet Nam and Red China. Heightening this interest is the added fact that pro-Western Pre mier Phoui Sananikone is rooting out leftist influences in the king dom and is turning more and more to the West. Hanoi, capital of Communist North , Viet Nam, and Peiping fear the next step may be to per mit the, U.S. to establish bases on Laotian soil. Laos is a tropical country, with few roads, scarcely any industry . and with a population that only can be estimated since there nev er has been 'a real census. It is believed to be about two million. Control Centers On Brothers U.S. interest in the country goes back to the French defeat in Indo-China and the fear that the weak, newly independent na tion would almost fall automati cally to the Communists without strong support. Prior to Sananikone's assump tion of office last August and his take-over of special powers in January, the struggle for the con trol of Laos had centered on two half brothers. The brothers represented an irony of Laotian politics. On the one side, frankly pro-Communist if not actually a card carrier, was Prince Souphanouvong and his Communist-supplied 6,000-man army called the Pathet Lao. The Pathet Lao controlled two of Laos' northernmost provinces and was the potential spearhead for a Communist drive to take oyer the whole country. :' In the job as premier was Soup hanouvong's half-brother, Souvan na Phouma, a neutralist. Personally and socially, the two were friends. But their armed forces frequently clashed, keep ing the nation in a constant state of ferment. ' ! . A year, ago Souphanouvong ap peared to be winning the upper hand and it seemed the country was about to be swallowed by the Reds. ' Souvanna's neutralist policies proved his undoing and it was Year In Prison For His Failure To Salute Officer SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI) -An Army court martial board sen tenced a recruit who refused to salute officers to one year in pris on at hard labor yesterday. The recruit is Lou A. Lennear. 20, of Oakland, Calif., a member of the Jehovah Witnesses religious sect. He claimed his religion for bade saluting. The court martial board also de creed that Lennear will forfeit all pay and allowances and receive a bad conduct discharge at the end of his imprisonment. Lennear was found guilty of failing to salute Capt. Henry H. Gaskins last March 12. The next day, as Lennear went to explain why he didn't salute, he failed to salute Gaskins a second time and was sent to the stockade at Fort Sam Houston. Lennear enlisted in the Army Nov. 25. into this chaotic situation that Sananikone stepped last August. An early step was to renounce the 1954 Geneva accord which ended the Indochina civil war but which bound the Indochlnese na tions affected not to join any mili tary alliances. By renouncing the Geneva ac cord, Sananikone cleared the way for Laos to join SEATO. That's what has the Reds worried. equipment, Burrows reported. Burrows, in his monthly report, look note of the authorization to sell $410,000 school bonds for the construction of a new Greenwood school and modernization of Ri vcria; the authorization of $155,000 of construction by Eastern Oregon Co'lege; and VMO.tm added paving construction on Highway 30. Bur rows reported La Grande build ing permits at $92,351 in May com pared to $95,980 in April and $17,335 in May 1958. Estimated unemployment by the end of May was 550 compared to 780 a month ago and 720 a year ago. The demand for both experienced and inexperienced workers is ex pected to increase during June. A survey of the smaller scwmills in Union county disclosed that oper ators do not plan to operate night shifts this summer, Burrows said. Douglas Hails First Air Force Academy Grads AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. lUPI) Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas hailed the first graduating class of the new Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs as a future bulwark against the spread of Communism. He said the graduates were be ing commissioned in an Air Force which spans the Free World and has a "major role in holding the Communist world in check. "As the first graduates of the academy," he said in a com mencement address, they "may play a critical role in keeping the history of the western world a history of free men. Four years of intensive training and study ended for 207 young men who were part of the 306-man class that entered the interim aca demy at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver July 11, 1955. The aca demy was moved to this still in complete 17,900-acre campus in the foothills north of Colorado Springs last summer. At Annapolis, 797 midshipmen graduate. FAT i OVERWEIGHT Now available to you for the first time without i doctor's prescrip tion, our new dug celled ODRI NEX. You must lose ugly ft in 7 days or your money beck. 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