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.
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not required for a cabinet min
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the1 lowest buck private in its
army. A soldier is the only per
son on the government payroll
who must be legally married if
his wife is to qualify for pension
after his death. The regulation
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wife."
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Post 8
Paul Haviland, Medford at
torney, spoke to members of
Boy Scout Explorers Post 8
when they met Wednesday
evening. His topic concerned the
vocation of a lawyer. ;
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