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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. Aoril 28, 195S Communists Tightening Economic (Grin on West Berlin Officials Doubt Reds To To Isolate Attempt City Berlin (U.R) The Commu nists are tightening their grip on West Berlin in a series of moves like those which led to their blockade of 1948-1949. West German and Allied offi cials are watching developments closely. But they doubt, as things are now, that the Reds will try again to isolate the western part of the city completely. The new Communist crack down was launched at midnight March 31. At that time the Reds imposed what was called a "pocketbook blockade" of the American, British and French sectors of the city. The "blockade" took the form of exorbitant tolls on the trucks which roll over the 110-mile su perhighway linking Berlin to Western Germany. West Berliners are ever mind ful of that 110 miles of terri tory, occupied by the Russians, which lies between them and free West Germany, for Berlin is an island in the Red zone. In their crackdown the Com munists increased truck tolls about 1100 per cent. A truck which had paid a tax of $5 to move over the highway was assessed $55. A wave of alarm swept through the western part of the city, because nearly half of the city's supplies are brought by road from West Germany. Ber liners did not need to be re minded of the cost of the first blockade which started at the end of March, 1948. That first blockade was in re taliation for the Allies', reform of West Germany currency, and to prevent the formation of a West German federal republic. The United States and Britain organized a historic airlift to supply West Berlin's 2,200,000 people. The blockade ended May 12, 1949. It had failed utterly, but at a considerable cost to the Allies. The airlift was continued, as a precaution in order to build up a permanent supply reserve, un til Sept. 30, 1949. In all Allied planes carried 2,343.315 tons of supplies to Ber lin. Thirty-one Americans and 30 Britons were killed. The cost to the American taxpayer was more than $150,000,000. The Reds latest harassing move, the increase in highway tolls, ostensibly was undertaken by the East German government as a highway maintenance mea sure. Everybody knows that be hind the East Germans were the Russians. - Apparently the Reds decided on the move first as a retalia tion for the ratification of the treaties to arm West Germany, secondly as a means of forcing East-West negotiations on a neu tralized Germany, and thirdly to force recognition of the East German puppet government. Raking Winds Wreak Havoc in California, Nevada By UNITED PRESS High winds swept from North ern California into the Southwest Dust Bowl today, ripping up 100 tents at the Nevada atomic site and postponing a major A-blast along the way. The raking winds played hav oc in the San Francisco Bay region, swept over mountains to the accompaniment of heavy snows, and threatened new dust storms in drought plagued Okla homa today The storm also granted a brief respite to Survival Town, U.S.A., the model community on Ne vada's Yucca Flat which is doomed to go up in an atomic explosion. The blast, had been scheduled Nevada Boy Wins FFA Speech Contest Litchfield Park, Ariz. (U.R) A Bunkerville, Nev. boy de feated 10 other Future Farmers of America in a speech contest among contestants of Western states last night. Clark Reber's speech was based on the topic of farm or ganizations as an answer to farm problems. He won the right to represent the Western District in the national speech finals of the FFA, scheduled for Kansas City, Oct. 10. In second place was David Schuy, Kent, Wash.; third, Wayne Gomes, Stanford, Calif., and fourth, Harvey Pace, Coalville, Utah. Close Vote Expected On Flexible Support Washington (U.R) Demo cratic Whip Carl Albert of Okla homa today forecast a "close Vtte" in the House on a Demo cratic bill to junk the adminis tration's flexible farm program. 'I will be very surprised if it is decided either way by more than 10 votes," Albert told a re porter. The measure, on which House action is expected this week or r.exi, would restore rigid high price supports for wheat, corn, peanuts, rice and cotton. It also would boost price supports for some dairy products. Eugene Man's Auto Found in Willamette Springfield, Ore. (U.R) A car owned by Clifford W. Knowlton, 37, Eugene, was found Sunday by state police in the Willam ette river near Jasper about 10 miles upstream from here. Knowlton was missing and nrpsnmed drowned. The car was found about 155 P feet downstream from where it apparently left the road, by a -McKenzie Flying Service pilot flying over the scene. " Joint Committee Approves Entire Building Program . Salem (U.R) The joint ways and means committee today cleared its desk of some of the biggest money issues of the leg islative session by approving the entire $14,900,000 proposed building program, raising the statutory salaries of 10 state of ficials, and appropriating $1, 300,000 for adjustments of sal aries for both classified and un classified state workers. OTI Fund Opposed The building program was ap proved unanimously with the exception of an appropriation for Oregon Technical Institute which was opposed by Sen. Charles Bingner (R-La Grande). Included was the first unit of the Portland mental hospital, a new intermediate penal insti tution, and new classroom quar ters for Portland State College, Oregon State College, Univer sity of Oregon and Southern Oregon College. All bills embodying the pro gram now go to the House for floor action. Requests Turned Down The joint committee turned down requests for salary in creases for Supreme Court and Circuit Court judges and for dis trict attorneys and their dep uties. 7 Statutory increases included: Superintendent of the state hos pital, $9500 to $12,000; assistant attorney general, $8500 to $9000; liquor administrator, $9000 to $11,000; director of geology and mineral industries, $7200 to $9000; secretary to governor, $7200 to $7800; director of vet erans affairs, $7200 to $8000; assistant director of veterans af fairs, $6000 to $6600; secretary of Board of Control, $7,200 to $8000; and an increase to $3600 in the governor's expense allowance. to go off today, but government scientists postponed it at least 24 hours when winds up to 75 miles per hour were forecast. Tents Blown Down But the winds showed no mer cy on the Civilian Defense ex perts who came to watch the ex plosion as gusts up to 50 miles per hour flattened more than 100 of the 300 tents at Camp Desert Rock. . Many of the tent city's 500 occupants were sleeping when the tents gave in and a dozen of them received treatment for dust particles blown in their eyes. The high winds also promised to provide a dramatic demonstra tion for Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson, who headed into the heart of the Colorado-Kansas drought area today. Benson's purpose was to find ways of stopping the very crop ripping dust storms which threat ened the area again. At Delta, Utah, yesterday, the swirling dust cut visibility to zero at times and sheepmen in the state were warned of skid ding temperatures, snow and rain today. Gales in Bay Area Dust warnings were issued for other parts of the Southwest and in Texas a 200-mile wide belt of dust left by a Saturday storm stretched from Corpus Christi to the Panhandle. Northern California, mean while, hoped for clearing weath er in the wake of gale force winds which reached peaks of 75 miles per hour yesterday. 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