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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.
REGULATIONS APPROVED
Salem (U.R) A bill regu
lating nursing homes was passed
by the House yesterday and sent
to the Senate. It would put nurs
ing homes under the State Board
of Health. It is a substitute for
a similar measure passed by the
Senate.
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The blasts forced a Navy blimp
to return to the Alameda Naval
Air Station and a ground crew
of 80 men, 50 more than normal
worked nearly two hours to
moor it.
On San Francisco Bay the jured.
'winds halted work on the un
finished San Rafael - Richmond
Bridge and power lines were
ripped down in the area. A fire-
charred building in San Francis-,
co collapsed, but no one was in-
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Snows accompanied the winds
in the Sierra Nevada, closing
Highway 40. Mt. Shasta got five
inches of snow, while the two
additional inches at Blue Canyon
raised the snow level to 18
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