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$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.
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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.
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Biggest and most important of
the sects is the Cao Dai, which
counts 2,000,000 faithful and is
the only truly religious sect of
the three.
Many Gods Worshipped
Members of the Cao Dai wor
ship a supreme being represent
ed by an eye in a triangle. The
priests practice a mixture of
Christianity, Buddhism, spirit
ualism and theosophy, and rec
ognize a curious array of saints
who include Louis Pasteur, Vic
tor Hugo, Jesus Christ and
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Cao Dai's 20,000-man
army recently rallied to the side
of the government and is not
actively opposing Premier Diem.
But its political loyalty is still
doubtful.
The posfurings and grandiose
threats exchanged by the Viet
Namese sects appear almost
comic to Western eyes. 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.
The chief problem to be set
tled at a meeting of the ambassa
dors would be the type of guar
antee Russia wants the four oc
cupation powers to give that
there would never be another
Anschluss as in 1938 when Nazi
Germany absorbed Austria.
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