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vl Th Stoteamcox, Satan. fN Favor Sways Vs No Fear Shall Awe" From tint SUteanaa March 2S, 1S51 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Pubnsoed stst morula. Business office JS? North Church SC. salcm. Or, Telephone 22441. , Catered at the poctofSe at Salem. Ort. as second . elasa matter under act of Congress March 2. 127ft. Member Associated Press The Aaeociated Press ts eaUUed cxciuslYSly to the of fer republication erf all local news printed is una Okinawa No 'Key' to Far East : Demaree Bess, regular contributor to the Saturday Evening Post has an interesting article in the current issue on Okinawa, , the chief island in the Ryuku group which was seized at considerable cost by the United States in the war with Japan. One of the first to viiit it, as Bess points out, was Commodore Matthew Perry about the same time he ob tained the treaty opening certain Japanese ports to trade. Okinawa has been made over into a very powerful military base particularly for sea and air operations. And Bess quotes Gen. Ralph Stearley who is retiring after several years in command there as saying: "Okinawa is the key to the whole thing out there. The nation which controls .that island will control the Far East, and that Jk one part of the world which can be controlled by a single nation. "Okinawa is a bastion of defense and a base from which we can strike. A powerful balanced airforce on this island supported by the army and navy will control all military action and movement in the Far East" ;At the risk of a layman's presumption in challenging a military authority we cannot help saying the General is all wrong. We con trol Okinawa now but we do not control the Far East save at sea and in the air. It seems utterly absurd to say that a single small is land like Okinawa gives full control of the Far East; and even more absurd to say that the Far East can be controlled by a single nation. It never has been controlled by a sin gle nation, and the future offers no promise that it will. Okinawa itself could be made untenable unless the occupying nation maintained con trol of the sea around it and the air over it. If Okinawa is so vital why do military men stress the importance of bases in Japan and the- Philippines and Formosa's remaining in friendly hands? TT ie?fT?r11r ahi t-v1 i r-r Viae ViAAn f r nrAtronf any single nation from dominating China and eastern Asia. That was the basis for John Hay's Open Door policy, for our steady in sistence on preserving the integrity of China, fq Our friendly attitude toward Japan vis-a-vli&Russia in the early 1900s, for our resist ance to Japan's attempt to impose its "co prcsperity sphere" on the Far East, and for ouffintervention in Korea to prevent its sue- . climbing to Communist (Russian) authority. Okinawa is important as an advanced base; but its possession is not determinative nor would its loss be fatal to U.S. power and posi Xion. After all we lost the Philippines, Gaum ard Wake in 1941-42; but recovered them all -and seized Okinawa from the Japanese. German Revolt Reveals Soviet Episode May Be Turning By STEWART ALSOP B E R L I N What has been happening in East Germany has transformed the whole world 'situation. The !best way to trn dtrstand What has been happening i s to consider in some detail certain recent events in the small industri al :city of Bit-; terfield, in the I Soviet zone of Germany, a s tStrwart A!ot seen through - the eyes of two brave men. -These men arerWilhelm Fie bejkorn, a schoolteacher who looks like a high strung, un healthy, very intelligent Amer ican Indian; and Horst Sovar da, a skilled electrical worker who looks like a genial, ham fisted football tackle. Fiebel korn and Sovarda arrived a few days ago in the safe haven of West Berlin, after being con demned to death by the East German Communist regime. For Sovarda, the worker, and Fie belkorn, ' the intellectual, were the 'leaders of a revolt which actually seized and for a time exercised power in the city of Bttterfield. Sovarda tails the first part of the story. Towards the begin ning f Jane, when the Com munist regime was announcinnx all sorts of "easements for the population," the workers in the big Bitterfield electro-magnetic combine learned that their pr4ctiB nrnas were tm be creased. Already, Sovarda aad other workers' leaders had. or gaaized. an elaborate cell sys tem their plant, precisely pattern e the Communists' cell system in capitalist coun tries. . The time kad come, they decided, to risk everything. The rder ta strike was passed Ihr lb tit cells, aatd tb paexx&g f Jut It the whole that elated dews !;Sovarda and 'the others, ex pecting arrest, eannily. refused to . meet tho Communist func tionaries who came to the fac tory. Then on June 11, the Com munists capitulated completely nd astonishingly. All tb work- -era demands were met, and tb ten went bit to.worL u . - ' ' ' For three days the workers iralettT absorbed this evidence 1 w Ore.Scrturdar. July 11. 1953 ' crete mixers rolling down the street. It does ! n't look very pretty, but it is quite important i in the scheme of things. For it is making de f livery of concrete mix to some construction job, or hurrying back for a fresh batch. And ; when youfrealize that construction means em ; ployment and use of materials and "progress" the rotating globe ahead of you takes on a certain degree of attractiveness. This method of; supplying a ready-mix in stead of the raw; materials is comparatively new. Several -decades ago concrete was mixed by hand labor right on the job: so many bar rows of gravel, so many barrows of sand, so many bags of Portland cement; add water, then shovel and shovel and shovel, and shov el a while longer to make sure the batch was thoroughly mixed. Then came the cylinder hand-power mixer to which a- gas engine soon was attached to provide power. It still was an on-the-job performance. Some sand and gravel man with a vision conceived the idea of a central mixing plant; and so ready-mix was born and now has pretty well taken over the business except for odd jobs or for distant work. There are' certain advantages in this method: greater economy in use of materials, a more accurate proportioning of ingredients, less messing on the job, more efficient use of labor. The big idea of the globular delivery truck is for it to keep moving. The truck moves to make delivery on time, and the globe rotates clockwise as the truck travels. With any de lay or stopping of the rotation the cement would "set." . Concrete is the principal construction ma terial in this part of the country. It is rather fickle too: the wrong proportions, the wrong kind of cement, poor mixing, tardy pouring and the job can go to pieces. Failures show up often in cement sidewalks whose crumbl ing or peeling reveal poor workmanship or poor "materials. The well-done job however carries its load indefinitely. of the regime's weakness. On June IS they struck again, with increased demands, and again the factory closed down. Again, the regime failed to react with the expected violence. Then, on the evening of June 16, RIAS, the American radio station in Berlin, carried word of the con struction workers' strike in East Berin, and the word spread rapidly throughout Bitterfield. Until then, the strike had been confined to the electro magnetic plant. Now every fac tory in the Bitterfield area struck, and on the morning of June 17 the workers filled the streets of the city. Here the German instinct for order as serted itself. A mass meeting of workers elected Fiebelkont, fa vorably known as a "militant in tellectual," as chairman of the "Bitterfield District Strike Com mittee.'' In a methodical man ner, the committee set about or ganizing the city. The Communist mayor was quietly evicted from his office. The workers took over the headquarters of the communist party, the secret police, and all public buildings. Eighty-six po litical prisoners -were freed from the jail, while six crim inals were firmly relocked in their cells. The workers took over the telegraph office, where Fiebelkorn drafted and dispat ched two remarkable telegrams. The first was addressed deris ively to the "so-called Democra tic peoples' government in Ber lin." It contained a list of eight curt demands, including free elections, the release of all political prisoners, the dis solution of the "ioalled peo ples' army," and the dissolution of the government itself. The second was addressed to "the honorable Semyonov." This, message to the Soviet procon sul was most polite: "We re spectfully request that you will lift the seige in Berlin and pro claim your solidarity with the workers in the Eastern zone. We hope that you. sir. will act in accordance with our wishes, so that we can believe that you 'are the champion of peace, in ternational understanding, and Democracy. With the. free tings of the Strike Committe of Bit terfield." Unlike the telegram to the government, this includ ed space for a prepaid reply, as a further mark of respect- ; Rolling Concrete Mixers You see one of these bulbous mobile con- Think haw sharp the needles have been in the seat cushions of the editors of Pravdavand Izvestia. How would they know whose orders to follow, Malenkov's or Beria's? And what if they guessed wrong and published the wrong man's stuff? For that matter those in all echelons of power in Russia must have been growing peptic ulcers ever since Stalin died. Canada's new Consul General in San Fran cisco told a luncheon group there that his country's industrial progress outstrips that of the United States in many fields, taxes have been cut, and the cost of living is falling and Canada operates with a balanced budget. Anyway it's nice to have such thrifty people for neighbors. Walter Reuther is going to outdo Eisen hower and Dulles. He flew from a trades un ion meeting in Stockholm to Berlin to assure East German workers fighting Communism that their union brothers will give them "more than moral support." Just what it would be he didn't explain, nor can we guess. Part of the "land of the midnight sun" had "darkness at noon" when volcanoes erupting near Anchorage, Alaska poured out smoke and ashes to blot out the sun. Mother Earth still has to belch at intervals to relieve its in ternal pressures. Weakness; Point in History The reply came, of coarse, in the form of Soviet troops and tanks. By early in the evening of June 17, all public buildings had been occupied, martial law had been declared, and Fiebel korn and Sovarda hadbeen con demned to death as "criminal saboteurs." So- ended Bitter field's great revolt. But has it really ended? I Asked how such things could happen in a supposedly mono lithic police state, Fiebelkorn shrugs his shoulders and replies that it is as though "a lighted match were thrown on a hay stack." The haystack he ex plains, is the universal hatred of the East German people for the puppet regime which has ground their lives into misery. The match is the weakness of the regime which the workers began to sense soon after Sta lin's death, and which they sen sed with certainty with thessud den adoption of the policy of "easement for the populace." The haystack and the match hatred and contempt are still present What happened in Bitterfield, happened in almost exactly the same way in more than 75 oth er German cities (though Fie belkorn's telegrams were uni que). As this is written, more over, it looks as though the hay-. stack were again beginning to smoulder. Seventy thousand workers in East Berlin have proclaimed a sitdown strike, : and the movement is beginning to spread to the Soviet zone. "We know now that they can't kill all mt as," SoTarda says. It would be very wrong to im agine, as some officials in Wash ington like to do, that a few blasts on the propaganda trum pets will now bring the whole Soviet empire crumbling down. The Soviet tanks which crushed the Bitterfield revolt are still very much present. It would be equally wrong to imagine, as other officials are able to do, that what has happened here is aa interesting but not very im portant phenomenon. It might well be, instead, a great turn ing point in world affairs. (Stewart Alsop is in Europe and win ' report directly from Berlin, Bonn. London. Paris and : other cities during the next six weeks.) Cyrts-kt lts Mw York Hcrdd Tribune, lac) GRIN AND BEAR "No!... you can't have an increase in your silo wince just bees you have more time darinf summer vacation to spend it! . . . Inside TV . . . We've No Worries Regarding TV Color By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD The mailbag grows bigger by the day with repeated queries from readers about what to do with their black and white sets when color TV "comes of age" within the next W satf - ' when tmss production of color sets enables .the average viewer and economically by trading in his black and white receiver. There will always be a market for these; as there is for low-priced used autos. The reception of color telecasts on black and white sets won't result in an inferior picture, according to network officials. They say, too, that the first color sets, with 14-inch tubes, will sell for $800 to $1000, but prices will drop once mass production is achieved. WHA1"S NEW: Syndication in TV. What is it? Simply this: Instead of a show being sold to a network or owned by a network, the producers sell it to any agency or syndi cate who in turn sell and distribute the property to individ ual stations around the country lor a flat fee. One small distributor sells half-hour video films for $15 to $20. Ziv, United Television Proorams, and Atlas Television Inc., three of the biggest syndicates, offer several shows in a package which enables stations in small markets to buy top half-hour filmed shows for $40 to $50 per episode. Such shows usually make more money for the producers than if sold to a network. This is due to the rise in TV pro duction costs during the past two years. TV films in par ticular have been hardest hit. What syndicate shows are you most likely to see? "Boston Blackie," with Kent Taylor and Lois Collier, ii one. "The Life of Riley," starring William Bendix, "Abbott and Cos tello" and "Man Against Crime" are all showing a neat profit, their producers admit. STARR SPECIALS: The comedy sister team, the Keans (Betty, and Jane), have been signed to a five-year NBC pact for both radio and TV . . . Frank Wisbar starts 22 additional "Fireside Theater" telefilms July 20, in Hollywood. (The NBC "Fireside" series next season, by the way, will have Gene Raymond as host narrator in place of Wisbar) . . Such well-known names (believe it or not) as Donald Crisp, Arthur Shields, Marsha Hunt, and Jan Clayton will be offered supporting roles to Lassie in the TV series being planned by Robert Maxwell associates! . . . Dan Duryea's "China Smith" telefilms are now in 40 markets . . . TV helps sell movies: U-I is the first major studio to use film clips on TV ; to advertise ALL their coming theater attractions. Clips are made to fill 60 and 2Q second spots . . . Charles Laugh ton fans will be reading his biography in the near future. The book, titled "Charles the Great," is being prepared by Kirk Singer, author of "The World's Greatest Women Spies." Incidentally, Laughton on his TV show advised that: "TV has convinced many actors that a small 'role is better than a long loaf.' " (Copyrifht 1953. General Feature Corp.) Time Flies: 10 Years Ago July 11, 1943 Eleanor S. Stephens, state li brarian, became a member of the executive board of the Am erican Library Association. Brigadier Claude Nicholson, Sunkerque hero, died in a Ger an prison camp. Halverson , Construction com pany, Salem, was. awarded two contracts to be supervised by army engineers at Portland, for $30,000. 25 Years Ago July 11. 1928 Sam Koier resigned as secre tary of state, effective Septem ber 1, to accept position as di rector of the Oregon state bud get Two southern Oregon cities, Klamath Falls and Glendale, were hit by fires with an esti mated loss of more than $200,, 000. The Ismail town of Glen dale was all but wiped out. At Miami, Fla., Elks in na tional convention voted to es tablish $20,000,000 trust fund for. charitable, educational; and benevolent enterprises. 40 Years Ago I ' iniy 11, 1913 King" Ferdinand - of Bulgaria asked for! peace after the Bul garian plan to drive a wedge between the Greeks and Serbi IT ByLichty "iff-r Mii use tf 18 to 24 months. ' There is no cause for alarm. Color telecasts will be very limited, at first, probably confined to the New York area. When (years hence) they do go on the networks, the 25,000,000 ordinary sets now in use in this country will be able to receive the color signals but in black and white. The viewing public gains everything and loses nothing. It will see color programs, without the color, in addition to the reeular telecasts, and w ouy one, nc can uu so suuy From The Statesman Files ans failed. Fifty thousand of his men were forced to surrender. Supt. E. T. Moores of the bUnd school has returned after spending several days in Seat tle attending sessions of chari ties and corrections convention. The track of the Dallas-Falls City railroad on Union Street is being ballasted in preparation for paving. ICR? rjLMJLLUB TKD QPB (continued from page one.) Minister Molotov. Russia and the world wait to see if a duel now ensues between these two, for usually dictators brook no rivals. Revolutions have a way of de vouring their own children, Ro biespierre followed Danton to the guillotine. Now Beria fol lows the Old Bolsheviks into the discard. Suspicion remains that Stalin himself was a victim of a well-planned uprising. Speculation will torn on the effect of this inner conflict on the Russian people and on the Soviet Union's relations with the rest of the worKL The new bosses will move swiftly to con soli date their position and prob ably only the army could inter pose a veto. Malenkov is apt to employ the methods of Lenin and Stalin for those are all he knows. Fresh ruthlessnesS in the satellites might set off revolu tionary outbreaks but they would hardly be successful un-; less the great Russian monolith starts cracking in its citadeL The Safety Valve Book Burning ' Who's to Blame To the Editor: ' For the third time in three week the Statesmaa to-day com ments editorially on the Book burning business. And once more it carefully avoids any criticism of the exalted persons primarily responsible. I mean of course President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles whose re peated surrenders to Senator McCarthy in this and other mat ters continue to weaken U. S. leadership and prestige over sea. In to-day's editorial the States man does not mention Dulles' name. It was discreetly like wise from your second effort to apply the whitewash. This re ferred to panic "somewhere down the line." Your first piece tried to blame everything on "agitated assistants" in the Citis TlaMt 4kM j j T , : every phase of Soviet activity. The To-day indeed, reference is j strength of the party at the pres made to ten (10) directives on I ent moment has outmatched hatred the book purge: all doubtless j of the poijce network. But the bat sent out from Washington in tie may be far from ended, recent months. These Mr. Dul- ; les must have known about. If, c,i;. u:. L , . he didn't he is guilty of gross negligence; if he did he can not escape full responsibility for the confused weakness display ed in the directives, or from what you call the explosive re sults. Perhaps you do concede this! tcwiay in a roundabout fashion; by admitting that "in this cate gory the State Department hasn't lived up to the Eisenhow er promise that our foreign pol- icy would be clear definite and dynamic." In what category. m-ar has it been anv of these!. things? In Korea? I think not But here as elsewhere the Statesman (like other. Republi can newspapers) has carefully refrained from criticism and comment. So far is our one party press can do it, Eisenhow er and all his subordinates civil, political and military seem to be wrapped in an impenetrable cloak of infallibility. Personally, not being an Ike-idolater or a Republican. I feel that the cloak is wearing a little threadbare. I. Lovell Editor's Note: True Eisen- hower is President and Dulles is Secretary of State and as such are responsible for what hap pens in the State Department We have no disposition to ab solve them from this respon sibility; but so involved is the government machine that it is j not clear how much personal knowledge they had of the book business which apparently was under the Voice of America, Dr. Robert L. Johnson, director. One correspondent reported -that Eisenhower: didnt know anything about the book purge until he overheard it discussed on the platform at Dartmouth College Commencement That prompted his forthright com ments which unfortunately he later qualified. Fireplaces for Bush's Pasture Safety Value To the Editor: Under heading, "Fireplace Of fer Leaves Club Holding the Bricks" in your issue of the Oth, I notice where the Park Advis ory Board is in doubt as to just what the needs are going to be. An expression from the public might possibly assist the Board in arriving to a prompt conclu sion. The Salem 20-30 Club would no doubt be glad to have the Board come to a prompt con clusion as they very much prefer to donate these fireplaces to 3ush's Pasture. I have watched Salem grow every since 1891 and in my opin ion there will never be a great demand for a central kitchen as suggested by Mark Astrup, chair man of the Park Advisory Board. .... . i t j i j ine central Kiicnen iue wouiq be proper providing the City planned to cater to the tourist trade at the -park. I do not understand that it is the plan of the City to cater to this class of people there, but more particu larly to the local people. I understand that eventually the park will be fenced in elimina ting auto travel through the park. . The offer of the Salem 20-30 club to build fireplaces in the park, in my estimation should be accepted. Eugene F. Prescott ; 1064 Oak St ; It is not safe j to assume that Russia will crack up now; and whoever emerges as tophand in Russia probably will not venture very far with peaceful overtures toward the West. The tempta tion will be to "revert to isola tionism, to suspicion of the rest of the world and to renewal of hate campaigns! against the West' In short, while the strug gle for power might lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union it seems safer to (predict that it bodes, no good: either for the Russians or for the rest of the world, save as it reveals the con?f spirktorial character and power hunger and cynical dishonesty of the rulers of the USSR. i 3 3 l i-tj ( : i 3 ; . Beria Victim Of Showdown In World By WILLIAM L. RYAN Ap Fsreign News Analyst x Sparks from the restless Soviet satellite nations apparently hae touched off the Kremlin's powder keg in an explosion that could rock the Communist world to its foun dations. E j The showdown for power seems to havt burst prematurely before the contestants were fully ready for it. At the moment Premier Georgi Malenkov appears to have won , and i Vice-Premier Lavrenti Beria to have lost. Beria long czar of the vast net work of Secret Police and the most : dreaded man in the Communist empire seems on his .way to be coming the chief scapegoat of all the ills economic and political af flicting the USSR itself and the captive nations in its orbit. Beria for all his power in the Secret Police was boxed in by i tho llhf! nroaniTof inn nf fh. Cn. i viet Communist Party which grips I . " S9B- from the j party but he ruled the party for inany years with an iron fist. Malenkov is not the man Stal in was and may have a tough war on his hands to keep the power. Not onljr will he face the anger t u J.t r : t al ... ".--frE Vl r?u I" e Z7 I r1 1"" 1 l"! police but he may yet have to deal with the Soviet Army's offi cer cadres who make up the un known quantity in this historic struggle to decide upon the ruler V UdrT JfthV earth's suriaTe" ' J e :V . 7. Once again Soviet Communist his tory repeats itself. The purger is to be purged. Beria held the reins of the Secret Police for a long time ever since 1939 but it has been always the most uncomfor table pinnacle of power in the USSR. I He himself directed the purge of his predecessor who in turn had sent the previous police chief to the firing squad in Stalin's blood purge of ; the 1930s. Moscow's, communique indicat ed that Beria himself would go on trial as a criminal who directed anti-state activities in the interests the United States, Nothing of course can be more fantastic but as a recent arrival from Moscow has commented nothing is too fantastic for the So viet Union today. The battle for power in the Krem- Un might have smouldered for some time to come except for the events in! Middle6 Europe. They ap pear to have hastened the show down. It became, clear recently when diplomats were called home to Mos cow from key posts "abroad along with the military and civilian au thorities from Germany that some thing important was bubbling in the Kremlin pot and that it might boil over; at any moment. The Communist Party fearful that its power Was on the wane throughout Europe and even in deed in the USSR itself had to strike avjriftly. Somebody had to be blamed for the ills which were forcing the par ty into a world retreat. Perhaps Beria and his allies eyed Malen kov for the honor but Malenkov once again proved the wiliest and quickest in a showdown. j From now on unless a force stronger I than Malenkov emerges in the confusion it will go hard with old, line 1 Stalinists such as Beria whose loyalty to the Soviet dictator has never been question ed, i ' Beria showed some strength for a while in the struggle. He had the strength to purge his enemies in Georgia his native state and elsewhere on the heels of the fan tastic doctor's plot. Many interpreted the reversal of th- n,nt ,ifh th- , previously accused of plotting the aeauis oi soviet leaders as, a victory for Beria. Perhaps it was. But against the tight organiza tion of the party under Malenkov's leadership Beria's control of the police was too indirect to - serve his purposes. Unquestionably this is only the first act of the new Soviet drama. There will be more shocks and surprises as the story. unfolds. St6 Nor 6 FREEZERS Both Chest Type and Upright AL LAUE, REFRIGERATION APPL 2350 State St Ph. 3-5443 IN DOWNTOWN SALEM i 1 v I BEGINNING MOH. JULY 13 Girl Comp ares on To Norway's By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman The Willamette Valley isn't too different this time of the year frop parts of Norway, Miss Kar en Mellum, Oregon's first 1953 International Farm Youth ex changee,! reports. Right now she is living on an Oregon farm, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. j William H. Trindle. Jr., Gervais, . j She hves near the ! Swedish border in: her native country and there are trees and rivers, moun tains and! valleys very similar; to this part of the country. She ex pects, she says, to find Eastern visits there after leaving the val ley, July 20. s ' Miss Mellum arrived in Oregon June 18J attending the final week of 4-H summer school activities at Oregon State College. - ; I ' 4-H Membership Surprising One surprise and one differ ence Miss Mellum said, I in speaking I of 4-H activities, was that town youth as well as rural youth take part in the 4-H activ ities in jthis country. ! "In Norway," she said in her rather hesitating English," only the rural boys and girls have 4-H activities." Miss Mellum said that the youngsters study both Englsh ana uerman in me .Norwegian schools,! adding that "Our Eng- 1! -t- . - . . . usn seems. to souna semewnat different from yours here." Four- It activities have been carried on in Norway since' 1947. j r The pleasant little Norwegian teenager says she will be in Ore gon until August 31 and after that will go to Illinois. She re turns to her native country i in December, in time, she hopes, "to be home for Christmas." Guest at Pickens Home Wednesday night, Miss Mellum h a guest ui mc rowers vrceK Livestock 4-H club meeting at the Pearl Pickens home. j Cal Monroe, state 4-H agent ..... . .u-. r - i. -J u JL yi V&X Mill bring nine other foreign youths to Oregon farms this summer. Those now scheduled are Lorna Johnson : Black, a Scotland miss, who will be here from July Jlto September 27; Dirceu Monteiro, Brazil, July 13 to October 11 El len Larsson, SwedenAugust! 6 to Nov. 7; and Tosbio Fukui, Japan; July 14 to August 31. The other five exchanges ! will be announced later. Farm fam ilies who wish to have one of these young people, ranging in age front 18 to 28, should apply through their county Sgents. Car j Violations Increase Over ,: First Half ?52 Oregon motor vehicle drivers were jcpnvicted of 29,400 traffic violations during the first) six months jof 1953, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry announced here." j 1 j Convictions increased- mj o r e than 5,000 over the same period last year, Part of the increase was attributed to . better reporting by the courts, Newbry said. . . There r were 1,591 suspensions of drivers licenses for driving while Intoxicated which was an increase! over the previous jyear. Thirty-two licenses were f sus pended because drivers were con sistent i traffic violators or acci dent repeaters. . Other suspensions included 242 . for reckless driving, 77 for viola tion of! the basic rule, 9 .for speeding and 11 for failure to leave name and address at the scene of an accident RATE ON SAVINGS Insurtd To t j$io,ooo.oc SAVE WHERE SAVINGS f AYS First Federal Savings Scene Ureg j-. 1 UJKKtNl vj i ; E3 .11 oo o l i rSS 2