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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, February 21, 1955 FORECASTING APPROVAL by President Eisenhower of state hood for Alaska and Hawaii if measure passes Congress, Rep. A. L. Miller, Neb., ranking Republican member of House In terior committee, says provision of bill approved by committee, giving President authority to set aside special Alaskan defense areas, will eliminate some objections to bill. (International) Ex-German Prison Barracks Houses Russian Refugees Glasenbach, Austria (U.P.) Chintz curtains, potted gerani- and children's toys now urns brighten the infamous Glasen bach barracks where Adoipti Hit ler's SS killers once trained for terror. The Glasenbach camp is the newest home established in . Austria by the United States families that have emerged from -behind the Iron Curtain, f Nearly 300 men, women and children from eight Red Nations live in barracks rebuilt to re semble normal private homes. "Their quarters are seperate units complete with cooking and wash ing facilities. There is a kindergarten, li brary, central laundry, recreation irooms and ' shops where ref rugees learn skills to fit them -for a new life carpentry, cob bling, tool making, plumbing, cooking and more than half a' dozen others Since 1948, more than 100,000 East Europeans have braved Communist secret police, barb ed wire, bullets and land mines to escape to the West. They continue to slip through the Iron Curtain "at a rate of sev eral hundred a month," officials 0 6ay. -Resettlement Plan USEP was set up two years ago to help them bridge the gap between tyranny and freedom , The camp here at Glasenbach where the Germans built elab orate barracks during World War II to house SS "elite" troops, is a typical USEP layout 12 single-story wooden buildings nest led at the foot of Salzburg's hills The refugee families are free to decorate their lodgings as they wish, and it is hard to realize when you step into one of the , homey apartments that the buildings once ech oed with the clank of guns and the clatter of Nazi boots. The chief objective of the cen ter is rehabilitation and reset tlement of the escapees in one of the free European nations or overseas, USEP and the Austrian gov ernment provide for the bare daily needs of the inmates while at the same time training them to earn a western living. With the help of the YMCA, the International Social Servi ces, the World Council of Churches and other voluntary agencies, the refugees are given a chance to learn new languages and take their pick of trades. Newly arrived refrugees must be processed by American in telligence officers before becom ing eligible for ' residence in Glasenbach. . . No Spies Once arrived in camp, the new inmate is assigned a room in one of the large barracks. Married couples usually receive a room for themselves. Bach elors share their living quarters with two or three others. Stan Milus, USEP's assistant director in Austria, estimates that about half of the 6,000 es capees now in Austria will em igrate to overseas nations. The other half will be absorbed by the Austrian economy or find new homes in other west Euro pean countries. - The program, with $1,300,000 at its disposal yearly, not only pays the basic substance of the refugees and their passage over seas but also will assist them in getting started in Austria, Milus said. Bought Grand Piano He cited the case of an elderly woman for whom USEP bought a grand piano so she could teach music. Another refugee was giv en 4,000 schillings ($150) so he could purchase a plot of land he needed, to set himself up in busi ness. The program also will pay the $50 necessary for Austrian citi zenship papers and assist es capees in finding suitable housing. Old people are sent to homes for the aged in various European countries. USEP pays the homes $1,000 apiece for their mainte nance. ' There's little chance cf the Communists slipping a spy into Glasenbach, Milus said. Even if a Communist agent got past the intelligence screening, the fierce ly anti-Communist inmates would soon find out his leanings and report him Jo camp authori ties, he added. EP High's Annex Hears Completion Eagle Point ' The walls have been painted and floors finished in the new high school annex at Eagle Point, according to school Supt. Glenn D. Hale. Fixtures have yet to be placed in the new section, he said. How ever, at least two meetings are set in rooms of the new section this week. - '. The new annex will include four classrooms, library and up stairs stack room and spacious halls to house students' lockers. Two of the classrooms will be adjoining and will be used for science subjects. .'. Bessonette and Graff are the contractors. ; Hale said no definite date has been set yet for moving students into the new section. BIDS INVITED Portland (U.R) Bids are . be ing invited for dismantling and rebuilding, . or repairing, - the navigation lock swing bridge rest and fender at Bonneville dam on the Columbia river, ac cording to the Portland Dist rict, Corps of Engineers. . $10,305,000 Plan For Institutional Buildings Outlined Salem (U.R) An institu tional building program urged for the next biennium and total ing $10,305,000 has been placed before co-chairman of the joint ways and means committee and the chairmen of house and sen ate taxation committees by the State Board of Control. Other requests the board con sidered less urgent would mean a building program of $23,956, 300 in the next biennium. Most Urgent Job Asked which one item the board considered most urgent, Gov. Paul L. Patterson replied start of the mental hospital in it would be $6,330,000 for the the Portland area that eventu ally will cost $14,000,000 and house 1500 patients. The $6,330, 000 unit would care for 450 pa tients and allow the construction of s u c h facilities as heating plant and sewer system. The program for the hospital was outlined by Glenn Stanton, Portland architect. He said it would take another year, as suming a site is decided upon soon, to complete the planning of the hospital and he said much of the construction would be under way in the second year of the biennium. . Second On List Second on the list from the standpoint of urgency, board members said, it $1,250,000 to start construction of the inter mediate penal institution. Har old Boone of the Portland archi tect firm of Annand, Boone and Lei explained that the 1953 ap propriation of $1,250,000 would build the shops by contract la bor that could temporarily house the 100 inmates from the state penitentiary who would build the second unit. It also would build the fence around the institution, a power house and a water tank. The second unit, for which an other $1,250,000 is asked of the 1955 Legislature, would house 11 inmates and would include a class room and library, ad ministration quarters and staff dining room. Other Units Planned A third unit to be built at a later date with funds approprt ated by a later Legislature, would provide a hospital, a max imum security cell block and a hospital to accommodate 28 men It would increase the housing facilities to care for 444 inmates, at a cost of $1,250,000. A fourth unit, to be built at a still later date would cost $1,500,000 and would include an auditorium, gymnasium and chapel and would house 600 in mates. And a fifth unit, to be built eventually, would house an ad ditional 160 inmates to bring the capacity to 760. Other Priority Items Other items on the priority list include: A sum of $415,000 for completion of cell house "A" at the penitentiary and reloca tion of the power house and ex panded heating plant outside the wall; for completion of the out patient clinic at Oregon State hospital here, $100,000; for an administration building at Fair view home, $412,000; for an in mate building with a capacity of 100 at MacLaren school for boys, $285,000; for an inmate cottage at Fairview home $360,- 000; for a boys dormitory of 128 capacity at Oregon school for the deaf, $550,000; and for an administration building, kit chen and dining room, and gym nasium at Oregon state school for. the blind, $403,000. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for nionaay: otner aays sau oreviousday PLENTY OF COVER.., but is it covering all it can? "3F vs. A Are you getting the most protection out of the life insurance you now own ? See an expert . .'. 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