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Syracuse Fire
Razes Church,
Printing Plant
2nd Methodist Church,
2 Other Buildings
Damaged
.YRACUSE, N Y. Uft-Fire last
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church of the Central New York
Aicinodist Conference and a near
by publishing plant.
A second church and two other
DUiiaings were damaged. The fire
raged out of control in a down
town block for four hours.
Hre Chief Francis R. Ferren
said. There have been too many
oi mese cnurch fires for us to
chalk them off as accidental." He
ordered an investigation.
Fire officials said they thought
the fire started in the boiler room
ol the hirst Methodist Church,
which was gutted. One wall collapsed.
Also wrecked was a building
that housed the international
headquarters and the publishing
association o the Wesleyan Meth
odist Church of America, which
is separate from the main Metho
dist denomination.
B. Churchill Loveland. presi
dent of the board of trustees of
the First Methodist Church, esti
mated loss of that structure at
$700,000. it was built in 1904.
Damage to other structures was
not known.
The Wesleyan Methodist Church
was damaged slightly by fire and
more extensively by water. The
two-story, brick publishing house
was between the two churches.
Also contained in the triangu
lar block were the two office
buildings that were damaged.
Both were two-story, brick struc.
tures. One houses Onondaga Coun
ty Public Works Department of
fices. Three firemen were hurt, none
seriously, fighting the fires in
subzero temperatures.
THIS IS THE MIDDLE EAST II
How Can U.S. Head Off Red
Subversion in Arab World?
Queen Mary's
Brother Dies
LONDON W-The Earl of Ath
lone, great-uncle of Queen Eliza
beth II, died today at Kensington
Palace. He was 82.
He had been in failing health
for some time.
The earl was a younger brother
of the late Queen Mary, wife of
Britain's King George V. Born
Prince Alexander Augustus Fred
erick William Alfred George of
Tcck in 1874, he became the first
Earl of Athlone and Viscount Tre-
maton when titles of German ori
gin were abolished in Britain in
1917.
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst
Two world wars started in
places few Americans knew about.
It was Sarajevo id 1914, Danzig
in 1939.
World War III might start in
some unheard of dusty outpost of
the Middle East.
The Eisenhower Doctrine says
the United States will fight any
Communist-led invasions of the
Middle East. But will the United
States fight to save the Middle
East from communism? That fight
is much more difficult.
The Russians already are attack
ing one of the Arab Worlds. The
Communists care little for the
world of the Arab leaders. They
are more interested in the world
of the Arab people, and particular
ly that small world of educated
Arabs whose pent-up bitterness
against the West makes them in
viting targets.
The Arabs themselves are hope
lessly divided on virtually every
question except common enmity
for Israel. They are highly vul
nerable to the sort of indirect
attack Communists use.
Even on the question of Israel
there is no real agreement. Many
Arabs would like to turn their
backs on the problem and devote
themselves to trying to bring
about some measure of stability
in their world.
Israeli leaders I have inter
viewed say they would gratefully
welcome such an attitude. They
too say they believe only stabil
ity among the Arabs, in govern
ments and economies, offers any
chance of peace.
But in the Arab East there is
a desperate poverty of leadership.
Much of it is leadership by dem
agogucry. Arab politicians can
arouse passions over the Israeli
issue, and this is an invitation to
political power.
For many reasons, Soviet
armed attack in the Middle East
seems unlikely. But the Commu
nist world covets the Middle East
not for the oil so much as to
deny that vital commodity to the
economies of Western Europe. If
that could be accomplished, the
Communist job in the West would
be easier.
This is what the Middle East Is
like today:
Iraq A nation of about five
million people, 90 per cent illit-l
erate, a third nomadic. Rich in
resources oil, minerals and
above all the precious water of
the Tigris and Euphrates. A forward-looking
program using oil
money is reclaiming long-neglected
land. But the program is long
range, and the lot of the average
Iraqi remains a sorry one.
Per capita income is $85 a year.
The government of Premier
Nuri Said, now 68, is called the
West's best friend in the Arab
East. But most literate Iraqis
are against it. Fourteen times
prenv r. Said remains a virtual
dictator mostly because of the
lack of any other responsible
leadership. If anything happened
to him, Communists surely would
try to fill the void but not by
military means. The Tudeh (Com
munist! party of neighboring
Iran, strong in numbers, is ready
to infiltrate.
Syria This country of four
million is dominated by its army
intelligence section, whose leaders
are pro-Soviet, but not pro-Communist.
The Russians are supply
ing Syria with significant amounts
of arms. Officially outlawed, the
Syrian Communist party operates
openly and wields influence
through its wily leader, Khaled
Bagdash, a member of the Kurd
minority. The regime is at
sword's point with neighboring
Iraq. Syria's economy is rocky.
The Soviet approach again would
not be military aggression, but
gradual attrition to break down
Syrian resistance.
Syria still has many people who
worry about Communist inten
tions and look westward for ave
nues of salvation.
Jordan The future of this
little nation of U4 millions a
million of whom can consider they
owe no allegiance to young King
Hussein is shaky. The late King
Abdullah annexed that part of
Palestine not taken by Israel after
the Arab-Israeli war, and annexed
a headache. A million Palestin
ians, many of them educated, now
dominate the nation. Jordan,
seemingly headed for disintegra
tion, may become the object of s
Syrian-Iraqi clash.
Saudi Arabia King Saud
seems worried. Like other Arab
rulers, he faces a youthful rest
lessness characteristic of the
whole area. His economy depends
wholly on oil dollars.
Lebanon A little country of
14 millions, half Christian and
half Moslem, Lebanon often
seems to an outsider an oasis of
sense in an illogical world. The
Lebanese have a thriving econo
my. They are subject to pressures
from Syria and Egypt, but have
resisted the pressure. The govern
ment, backed by a small but ably
commanded army of about 7,000,
remains a staunch mend of the
West and a possible bridge be
tween West and Middle East.
Yemen This feudal country
of 4'i millions provides a quick
test for the Eisenhower Doctrine.
The Yemen, a feudal monarchy
ruled by its Imam, has conclud
ed a deal with Russia for arms
to use against the British in the
neighboring Aden protectorate.
Nothing in the Eisenhower Doc
trine seems aimed at stopping
this sort of penetration.
Egypt Israelis and Western
ers alike said they had g reat
hopes for the Arab world when
Egypt's revolution ousted King
Farouk in 19o2. Washington en
tertained rosy hopes for young
Gamal Abdel Nasser, who took
over as premier in 1934 and later
made himself president. The
young officers announced a plan
ning program which someday
might rescue the fellaheen the
unshod, unwashed and disease
ridden peasantry from their
eternal misery.
But event! Interrupted (he
dream. Nasser, claiming desper
ate need to defend Egypt from
Israel, got from Russia the arms
he could not get from the West.
Nasser today is more a hero to
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the Arabs than ever before, after
the fiasco of the British-French
invasion following Israel's attack.
But Egypt has vast economic
problems. Her leaders seem wor
ried at the extent to which her
economy is being tied to the Com
munist bloc.
Israel Created In 1948 when
Britain left Palestine, Israel
showed the world what Western
know how and determination
could do with hostile soil. While
her victorious army stood guard,
pioneers made desert areas bloom
and built a modern nation in the
heart of a backward world.
Hemmed into a tiny strip of
land and surrounded by hostile
nations, her economy still de
pends on goods imported from
abroad.
Israel always Is In danger of
runaway inflation. Her policy of
immigration and program of pub
lie health indicate her population,
now less than two million, even
tually will be too big for her ter
ritory. She needs Jordan River
water to open up new land in the
Negeb Desert, "Syria says it will
mean war if the Jordan is divert
ed. Meanwhile, Arabs fear Is
rael's natural growth will push
her.
Tomorrow: What the Arabs are
asking about the Elsenhower Doctrine.
Dallas Blood Day
Keport Is Given
DALLAS (Special) Twenty
eight pints more of blood than the
previous time was received when
the Red Cross bloodmobile visited
Dallas last week, Loren Seibert,
blood program chairman, reports.
Twelve donors gave their first
blood to the Red Cross program,
19 had given a gallon or more.
Gillam Is Injured
While on Ski Trip
SMITHFIELD (Special) Ross
Gillam required seven stitches for
cut on his leg in skiing acci
dent while skiing at Mt. Hood.
Becky Brown from California Is
visiting her grandparents, Mr. and
Airs. Hardin Smith.
Harold Smith is improved and
will return from the hospital soooj.
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Board Might Set C-Average as
College Entrance Requirement
PORTLAND m The Oregon
Board of Higher Education may
stiffen entrance requirements for
the state's tax-supported colleges
when it meets here next week.
It will consider a proposal that
Ho state resident with a high
school average of less than C be
admitted unless he places in the
upper 60 per cent in a college ap
titude test.
A student also could qualify by
averaging at least a C while tak
ing a full study load during a col
lege summer session. Another al
ternative would permit below-C
students to register during the
spring term, when enrollment is
lowest, and qualify by measuring
up to scholastic levels.
According to the board, only 87
per cent of the 4.545 freshmen in
Oregon colleges would have been
admitted under the C rating class
ification had the plan been in ef
fect last fall. Another fi per cent
would have been eligible under
one of the alternate plans. But
the remaining 7 per cent, some
318 Oregon high school graduates,
' would have been ineligible.
Record enrollments which have
overcrowded the slate's colleges
recent years resulted in the
plan, drafted for the board by a
committee from the staffs of all
state schools.
Requirements were tightened In
1955 for out-of-state students.
They now must have been in the
upper 50 per cent of their high
school classes to gain college ad
mission.
me report lor uregon students
did not say when it might be ef
fective. That will be up to the
Board of Higher Education if it
approves the plan. But Chancel-:
lor John R. Richards some time
ago said enrollment limitations
should be in effect next fall.
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