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NON-SMOKERS LUNG CANCER DEATH RATES HIGHER FOR CIGARETTE SMOKERS PER 100,000 REGULAR PIPE AND CIGAR SMOKERS UNDER 1 PAHK OF CIGARETTES PER DAY ill 33 t mm 113 OQUQUQUQQI 239 1 PACK OF CIGARETTES AND OVER PER DAY American Cancer Society Study on deaths occurring during 20 months, among 187,766 men, aged 50 to 70 $150,000 Bond Issue Slated For School Buildings at EP Eagle Point An election to authorize a $150,000 bond issue to construct a multi-purpose building for the Eagle Point ele mentary school, and a vocation al agricultural building for the high school, will be held May 11, it was announced this week. The proposal was approved at a meeting of the directors of the Eagle Point school district, No. 9, at a recent meeting. The multi-purpose building suggested would be designed for use as cafeteria, playroom, gym nasium, and auditorium. lne action of the board arose from Corvaliis Policemen Fired for Thefts Corvaliis U.R) Three Cor valiis police officers have been fired after they admitted stealing items from a store during an in vestigation. Police Chief Cecil Fruitt said the three took merchandise with a total value of $57.60 from the Montgomery Ward "store after finding the door open Sunday night. Dismissed were Noble C. Stew art, 28; A. E. Bodeker, 41, and James H. Gundy Jr., 32. Stewart had been on the force three years and Bodeker and Gundy six years each. The officers pleaded guilty in District Court to charges of petty larceny and were fined $30 and paroled from 90 day jail sent ences. Most valuable item taken was a skillsaw worth $54.95. Other items taken included a file, flash light batteries and three boxes of .22 caliber shells. Fruitt said the three admitted the theft when confronted with the evidence. recommendations by several civic groups. The proposal for vocational agricultural instruction in the high school under the federal Smith-Hughes law, originated in the local Grange. Resolutions from both the Eagle Point and the Lake Creek Granges were filed some time ago urging the introduction of vocational agri cultural instruction. Facilities for these courses are lacking at present, and the addition of a new building adapted to that work would be necessary in order to meet the requirements laid down by the federal govern ment which assists in the sup port of such courses. The demand for a multi-pur pose building had its origin with the Parent Teacher association. Adequate facilities for elemen tary play area and physical edu cation have always been lacking here, members point out. The same thing is true as to proper stage and auditorium facilities, and the cafeteria is badly over crowded. It was this situation that prompted the PTA to urge the board that such a building be constructed. Medford Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1955 Pages 1-10 Anti-Communist Religious Sects Greatest South Viet Nam Threat Editor's note: The United Statei is backing Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam in hope of estbalishing a strong anti-Communist government for the politi cal struggle against Red forces in the north. But due to political conditions hard for Westerners to understand. Diem's greatest trou ble is coming not from Commu nists but from forces that are just as anti-Communist as he is. Bi zarre religious sects are compet ing with him for power. In the following dispatch a United Press correspondent attempts to unravel the political threads which have created a crisis within a crisis in Viet Nam. Defense Department Asks Construction Funds Washington (U.R) The De fense Department has asked Congress to authorize $2,354,- 352,300 for military construc tion at home and. abroad during the fiscal year beginning July 1. The measure would include $1,305,319,600 for construction in the continental United States, $652,697,300 for overseas con struction, and 396,335,400 for classified projects. . Corvaliis (U.R) Members of the Oregon Cattlemen's Associa tion will meet here May 8-11. 'i " COMPACTLY Ml-mETM F0LDIJ1G TflDlES All-ways handy hostess table . has decorated tray-top, baked-on enamel finish that is heat and alcohol resistant, folding legs with rubber tips to save your floors. It's smart to wse in any room! limit 4 to a Customer NO PHONE OR MAIL ORDERS We Give and Redeem 1 1 'M CHAPMAN jEOTLEESS By LOUIS GUILBERT United Press Correspondent Saigon, Indochina (U.R) The greatest threat to the govern ment of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem is not Communists but powerful and primitive religious sects that oppose Communism as much as he does. These sects, headed by a con glomeration of warlords, des peradoes and "saints," are ranged in open hositlity against him. They command an estimated 45,000 men in private .armies. Their force is strong enough to plunge the country into a pro longed civil war which could wreck all chances of saving South Viet Nam for the free world. While the leaders of South Viet Nam are preoccupied with this struggle for power, the Communists watch and wait in North Viet Nam. They relish any disunity in the south. Election Near In an election next year, peo ple in North and South Viet Nam will choose between Com munism and western style de mocracy for a united govern ment. For this reason, the United States and France are anxious to bring an early end to the civil strife in South Viet Nam. Here is their problem: When Diem came to power at the end of the long Indochinese civil war last year, he attempted to launch a program of reform which would wipe out special privi leges enjoyed by tne politico-religious sects ruling much of the country. The sects there are three principal ones rose against him. Though strongly anti-Com munist themselves, the sects saw their own doom in the kind of modern democratic state Diem wanted to build. The fiercest of the sects is also the smallest. It is the semi gangster Binh Xuyen, an organi zation of thugs and former pi rates run by tyrannical General Le Van Vien. It has a signifi cant grip on the country because it controls the police and securi ty services. Seeks Premiership Vien is said to want the pre miership for himself. He com mands 9,000 troops who today are entrenched in the Saigon suburb of Cholon. It was Vien's commandos who clashed with government troops on March 29 in a battle Which .Killed 26 per sons and wounded 112. Next larger of the sects is the Hoa Hao, whose 1,000,000 mem bers practice primitive Buddhist rites mixed with sorcery and superstition. - Their leader is Gen. Tran Van Soai, a semi literate warlord who wears han dlebar moustaches and has a wife who heads a corps of Ama zons who fight as savagely as men. Soai also has a ferocious lieu tenant named Ba who wears shoulder-length hair and com mands 8,000 men operating in the rice plains of western Cochin China. These warriors have been harassing government battalions in the area, and recently threat ened to blockade Saigon. ips FREE! 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But the rebelious leaders are dead-earnest in their struggle for power. The result has been delay in cementing the people of South Viet Nam into a vigorous nation to oppose Communism. An out break of a civil war would be even more disastrous. The questions yet to be an swered are whether Diem can succeed in drawing his divided nation together, and if not, whether the United States re luctantly will withdraw its sup port of the premier and seek some other route to internal peace in South Viet Nam. Russia's Big 4 Bid Generally Welcomed London flJ.R) Soviet Rus sia's call for a Big Four foreign ministers conference in Vienna to discuss the Austrian state treaty has evoked favorable echoes" in .the West with one reservation. Diplomatic quarters generally welcomed Russia's notes asking for the Big Four conference with Austria but the Western powers thought the ambassadors in Vienna should meet first to complete the draft of such a treaty. 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