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Touring Newsmen Inspect Auto Works, University in (Editor's Note: Marshall Formby and Robert llix were airtone a group of American newsmen who have just visited the Soviet L'nlon while on a tour of Europe. They have written their views on some aspects of the Soviet scene in the following dispatch written while in Moscow. Formby owns several radio stations in Texas and Tix is a Ravenna. O.. newspaper publisher.) By ROBERT DIX And MARSHALL FORMBY Writled for The United Preta Moscow (U.R) The people of Moscow have two institutions they like to show the few visitors who ever get behind the Iron Curtain the Stalin auto works and the University of Moscow. Both are modern, and the uni versity's buildings are new. So viet officials went to great pains to show both of these to the American editors visiting here. About 35,000 persons are em ployed at the Stalin auto works, which is of course, owned by the state. Here the workers manufacture Zis automobiles, a special large car for government officials, Zis trucks, bicycles and refrigerators. The Zis is the largest car made in Russia, and looks like a pre-war Packard. The car can not be bought, but if it could it would sell for about 40,000 rubles, or about $10,000, according to our exchange rate. The trucks are well built and sturdy. The bicycles are lighter weight than American-made ones, and sell for 620 rubles, or $155 in U.S. money. We never got to see any of the refrigera tors. At least 40 per cent of the workers at this factory were women and in some parts of the huge plant, we saw only women working. And they were doing heavy work. Most all of the bi- cycle factory work was done by women, most of them girls in their late teens and women under 30. wages are oasea on piece work, units completed during the month, rather than on an hourly wage. Laborers make from 600 to 2,000 rubles per month, which would be from $150 to $500 per month on our exchange. But it must be remem bered that extremely high pricey prevail for just about everything except rent. The ruble equi valent of our dollar won't buy half as much as it will buy in America. We talked to one girl in the auto plant who was doing a man's work. She averaged about 1.100 rubles per month. Workers all appeared to be in excellent health and well fed, but most all were dressed in shoddy and poor clothing, according to our stan dard. Working conditions are satisfactory, . but proper safety precautions are not taken as at horne." 8 A hi diamond. 9 SOUTH CENTRAL On the southwest outskirts of Moscow stands the 32-story tower of the main building of the University of Moscow, built in 1953. There are 37 buildings in all on this 700-acre campus. Living quarters for the students and some faculty members are on the top floors of the large building. There are rooms for 6,000 students and apartments for 200 instructors. Founded in 1755 The University of Moscow was founded in 1755 with its first buildings on Red Square. Two years ago, the university was moved to its present location to make room for expanded growth. The science buildings, favorite of the Soviet government, are near the main building. This university, one of 36 throughout the entire Soviet na tion, has an enrollment of 21,500 students. Men students only slightly out-number the women. More than 9,000 students are en rolled in natural science courses. At least 97 per cent of the stu dents are on a scholarship, which means the state is entirely foot ing the bill for their education. It takes five years to get a regu lar degree, as we classify college work, because the freshman year at the university is somewhat similar to the senior year in high school in America. Freshmen are admitted only after passing a rigid competitive examination. Medford Music Groups Win Four 'Superior7 Ratings In Festival, Top Entries Medford student musicians won four "superior" ratings dur ing the Southern Oregon Music festival and contest here Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, it was reported today. This was the largest number of the top ratings won by any music department. Klamath Falls was next, . with two top ratings. Judging was not competitive, but based on standards set up in each group. Judges included Charles Lawrence, University of Washington, Oscar Bjorlie, Southern Oregon college, and Karl Ernst, San Jose State col lege, for the vocal groups: and Clarence Sawhill, UCLA, Maur ice Brennan, Willamette univer sity, and John O'Connor, Oregon State college, for instrumental groups. Ratings Given Ratings were I, superior; II, excellent; III, good, and IV, poor. 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Assistant instruc tors start at 1,100 rubles per month, a senior assistant gets 2,800 per month and many of the professors get 6,000 rubles (about $1,500) per month. Those who are voted into the 110-member-ship of the Academy of Science get an additional 6,000 rubles each month. Also some profes sors are furnished automobiles, which is considered a great privilege in Moscow. We talked to students from various parts of the Soviet Union. They were serious-minded, but pretty much like college students everywhere. They talk ed and visited in the halls, ate ice cream bars and candy and are interested in many kinds of sports. The percentage of young persons attending a university in the Soviet is so small, that university students are consid ered among the very select of the country. Near the university, as well as near the Stalin auto works, many new apartment buildings to house all kinds of workers are under construction. chorus, class E; Medford Junior High school girls' chorus, class C; Klamath Union High school band, class AA; Medford High school band, class AA; Myrtle Creek High school band, class E; Klamath Falls choir, class AA; Medford Junior High band Here are how other Jackson county groups came out, the three ratings showing how the judges voted: Other Results Phoenix Girls chorus, class C, II II II; Rogue River chorus, class C, III III III; Jacksonville chorus, class C, II III III; Crater chorus, class B, II II II; Medford Junior High school orchestra, class E, II II II; Medford High school orchestra, class AA, I II II; Medford choir, class A A, I I II; Jacksonville Junior high school chorus, class E, III II III; Medford High Boys' chorus, class A, I II II; Central . Point Junior High chorus, class E, I II II; Medford High girls chorus, class AA, II II II; Crater band, class B, II II II; Medford Junior High cadet band, class D, I II II; Central Point Junior high band, class E, I II I; Rogue River band, class C, III III HI; Jack sonville band, III III III, Talent band, II II II; Phoenix band, II III III. : Raff Lehi II Held To Satisfy $820 Fine Alameda', Calif. (U.R) De Vere Baker conferred with his lawyer today about a possible court appeal to free the Lehi II from government seizure. The Coast Guard seized the banana colored raft Friday and towed it from Jack London square to Government Island in Alameda, where it has since been in the custody of a U.S. deputy marshal. The Coast Guard seized the raft to satisfy S820 in fines levied against Baker and the Lehi Scientific Expedition be cause of deficiencies in the first Lehi. However, Baker's attorney George . E. McDonald," Oakland, said he will appeal the fines on grounds the Lehi II belongs, not to Baker or the expedition, but to Alfred Martin, Oakland build ing supplies dealer. Commentator, Gobel Head Awards List Athens. Ga. (U.R) John Daly, ABC news commentator, and George Gobel, NBC comed ian head the list of the 1954 George Foster Peabody radio and television awards, it was an nounced today. Daly received his award for radio-television news and Gobel REV. CLINE HALSET from Los Angeles, Calif. A man with a message from the hour. A welcome awaits you. Chicken Vaccine Claimed Developed Washington (U.R) The Agri culture Department's research service today announced devel opment of a vaccine for chickens that may save poultry growers up to $50,000,000 a year. The vaccine is not yet avail able to poultrymen, nor reconv mended for use by them. The re search scientists headed by Dr. B. R. Burmester at the U. S. Re gional Poultry Research Labora tory. East Lansing, Mich., first must verify their findings under a variety of conditions, simplify the vaccination technique, and get vaccine production on a prac tical basis. , . So far, the vaccine has devel oped high resistance or immunity in chicks to a cancer-like disease of poultry, visceral lyphoma tosis. It is also known as "big liver disease." . New Operation Aids Sufferers of Cancer San Francisco (U.R) Three San Francisco doctors discloS' ed today they have developed a revolutionary operation for the treatment of cancer, involving transplant of the adrenal glands The doctors said the operation has helped 10 of 17 women pa tients who submitted to the treatment although it is still in the experimental stage. The operation has relieved pa tients of pain, restored appetites, resulted in substantial gains in weight, and in some cases, caus ed shrinkage or disappearance of the cancer. Announcement of the opera tion was made at the opening of the 39th annual meeting of the Federation of American Soc ieties for Experimental Biology here. New Earthquakes Hit Philippine Islands Manila (U.R) New earth quakes today hit the Lake Lanao area toppling many of the build ings left standing in an earth quake disaster 10 days ago that killed more than 400 persons, Weather Bureau officiate said the new tremors were equal or nearly equal to the last ones that struck the area on Mindanao Is land in the Southern Phih pines. The first fragmentary reports did not disclose any deaths. A Philippine news service survey said district leaders reported "several" persons were injured ana laxen to Hospitals over crowded with victims of the April 1 quake. The earth throughout the is land of Mindanao shook under the new impacts during the night. Pope Pius Calls for Disarmament Program Vatican Ciey (U.R) Pope Pius XII, in an Easter Sunday appeal for peace, called on world leaders to "start a progressive disarmament" that would spare the. world the horrors of an ato mic war. The 79-year-old Pontiff ad dressed 850,000 Easter pilgrims who jammed St. Peter's Square and its approaches one of the biggest crowds ever seen in the Square. He exhorted atomic scientists to "persevere bravely and confi dently" with the development of nuclear energy for peaceful pur poses and asked God to prevent their efforts "being turned into an : infernal violence which would destroy everything." Abundance of rabbits reaches its peak about every years, according to recent Australian science studies. for television entertainment. The winners were announced by Dean John E. Drewry of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism of the University "of Georgia. 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