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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1956)
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thurs.t Dec. 13, 'Z3 (Sec. U)-IZ Report on China rs l'"oeliw. Proud of New Status Editor'! Not - This k Mother In series of stories by David Lancashire, Canadian reporter, who toured Communist China. By DAVID LANCASHIRE MUKDEN. China. ( - Indus- trial worken in northeast China line the praises of communism. They live in state-built housing projects that would be considered near-tenements in a Western coun try. They breathe the tour smell of too many people living close to gether. But many are living better than they have ever before, and they recall with bitterness their status as peasants in the old Japanese puppet state of Manchuria. Hut With Dirt Floor Chao Kwel-chih, a 28-year-old housewife, said: 'The house we lived In was hut with a dirt floor and straw roof. It wasn't as good as the water closet we have now. The grain we managed to raise on my family's land was not enough to pay the rent and the taxes, and half the time we starved." Her husband works In an elec trical factory in Mukden Shen lang, ' . With three small children they occupy one clean room of a two- room flat in a workers' commu nity outside the city. There arc 173 brick apartment units In this austere subdivision, housing S3,' 000 factory employes - and their dependents. I picked her apart ment with no hint from the gov ernment-mpplied Interpreter. She saiu; Put Money la Bank "My husband didn't earn enough to support himself when we were first married in 1948. Now we eat well, we buy clothes for the chil dren and put money in the bank." The family's room is a plaster cubicle 14x12 feet, filled by two wooden beds, a chest of drawers and a large plant growing from a wooden box. A plaque of Mao hangs on the wall beside a photo graph torn from a magazine. A second-hand Japanese radio is the only luxury item. Her husband was at work. "He'll be home soon. It takes just a few minutes ts he has his own bicycle," she said proudly. For his six days a week in the electrical plant. Fa earns the equivalent of US a month, gets no vacation aside from the seven na tional holidays ever the year, and attends Bight school three times a week "to improve his technical i level" fUS Mental? Kent Rent for the apartment takes only the equivalent of $1.25 a month. The ether room of the two room unit is rented out to a cou ' pie who share the twin gas burn ers in the tiny kitchen, and the water closet. There are no baths in the 7,000-family community. Factory hands shower at work, and the families use a public bath house nearby. - On clothes and food. Mrs. Chao aid aha scent 10 vuan about $27 a month. The monthly enter tainment bill "is too small to count." "We have 400 yuan in the bank." she "added. That is the equivalent of 110. which will buy a great many wings in coma, Mae Months ia Cave Mra Fun Kwei-vunff. a grand mother who poured me a cup of H water ana piacea u on me wififfawsill hMnui thera wu no ' table in the two rooms where she lived with her son, daugnter-in-law and turn grandchildren, told of living nine months in a cave in Kwangsi Province. "And now look what we have," she laid. a 9a.vMi-.AliL nwr lant mother named Yang Yu-yuan was over joyed at tne prospect or navmg two months off from the factory to have her baby, which would ' k rfnlivoriMl froa in a factory hos pital. She was more enthusiastic about getting nacK to wore, man having we cnua. Drawings Cover Wall . IT 1 , kt,t1.tM 1 Mrs. lang-naa m uwwn ready, aged I and 5, whose crayon drawing covered tne waue w inc bleak two-room Hat. "I at full aalarr while I am rr work having the baby, and 40 feet of free cotton for his cloth ' tag," Mrs. Yang said. Fort Fails to Yield Lewis, Clark Camp ASTORIA, Ore., -Dec. 13 tf -Definite evidence of the location .i ihd lanutt winter eamn of the V, 'O Lewis and Clark expediton still is missing after a weeneno oi oig olnf at the Fort Clatsop site., . D.t fiotiiimarher. San Francis- co, archeologist for the national park service, conducted me oig Mrf rJ in official invest! yiug urn f - " .tln In rnnnHlnn With Ben. auwi - Richard Neuberger's (D-Ore) bill to make the ipot a national mon ument, V . A series of trenchci was dug in the area northwest of a stock ade built for last year'! aesqui centennial celebration. Schumach- , er said a fire pit was found, but nothing to Indicate whether the fires had been built by Indians or white men. He said he wanted most to find evidence of posts of the old stockade. The work doesn t disprove that the stockade was somewhere in the area, but only that it wai not where the digging ?v .wo done, .....,.,. . I Out) CALIF. K?" 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