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TEW MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, August 9, 1955 To Whom Did Russians Turn for Decision at Big Four Meeting? Full Support of Presidium Needed For Major Steps F.ditor'n Not: Th lollowine dis patch mi written bv L'.P'i veteran Moscow correspondent, who attended the bit lour "summitt' conference in Geneva. By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Correspondent London (U.R) A storm in a samovar was created in Geneva toward the end of the Big Four conference when the Soviet dele gation failed to react immedi ately to President Eisenhower's revolutionary proposal for East West exchange of military blue- Drints. Rumors circulated widely that the embarrassed Russians were compelled to telephone Moscow and ask for authority and in struction on how to deal with a question which had not been anticipated by the Kremlins collective leadership of which the Geneva delegation was only a fraction. Questions Asked Eyebrows were lifted and questions asked: Did Comrades Jjulganin, Khrushchev, Molotov and Zhukov represent the Soviet summit? Did Molotov actually telephone Moscow? If so, who picked up the telephone at the other end to give the foreign ministers the "green or red light? In the absence of a Stalin, who could make final decisions on the spot? How does committee rule function anyhow? If Molotov had really tele phoned, the man to have talked to was Lazar Kaganovich, first deputy premier. He is Russia's elder stateesman on internal affairs and acting head of the Presidium of the Central Com mittee in the absence of the big three chiefs Khrushchev, Bul- ganin and Molotov. Full Support Needed The truth probable is that Molotov did not have to and did not actually telephone. Although he and his two senior colleagues almost but not quite equal Sta lin in authority, they would have needed the full support of the eleven-man Presidium to act on anything as radical as the Eisen howercplan. For under the existing set-up supreme Soviet power lies in the hands of a board of directors roughly similar to the board of a large American industrial cor poration. Nikita S. Khrushchev, as Communits party boss, is chairman of the board. He and other senior members constitute a kind of steering committee or J inner cabinet." The Presidium or board of di rectors meets regularly in the Kremlin to discuss and vote on questions of broad, basic policy Should there be a division of opinion, chairman Khrushchev probably casts the final vote. The decision is then made unanimous in accordance with time-honored Communist practice. Zhukov Not On Board Marshal Georgi K. Zhukof, de fense minister, does not sit on the supreme board of directors a! though he may be called in fre quently to be consulted on mil itary matters. But Zhukof is a member of the 125-man Central Committee, the major "stock holders" of the corporation, who meet several times a year to pass on the decisions, of the Presidium. Final approval of Presidium policies and action is the prerog ative of the majority "stockhold ers," the rank and file 7,000,000 membership of the Communist party who, through their dele gates and proxies, meet as the All-Union Congress of the Com munist party. Under Stalin the Congress was convoked infre quently. The 19th party Congress in 1953 was the first one in 13 years. Now it looks as if it would be summoned regularly, once every two or three years, as re quired by party constitution The 20th Congress is scheduled to meet early next winter. Power Shared Power is shared and labor dl vided along specialized lines among the eleven-man ruling di- rectorate. -Every member of the Presidium heads a sub-commit tee which supervises the work of a group of ministries. On mat ters of established policy and subject only to the ultimate ap proval of the Presidium, as a rule the chairmen of these sub-committees run their own sub-empires, apparently unchallenged. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport woftieIYoods fyiVX STEVENS Disneyland Forest Herb and Lois Crisler are peo ple who have done work of en during value. They used years of effort, while making the Olympic Peninsula their home, to produce a motion picture in color and sound on the Olympic elk. The completed picture was so fine that Walt Disney distributed it over his own name, and trade mark. The picture won acclaim from pantheists and everyday outdoor lovers alike. Now the trouble with the cult of pantheism, as with that of any other ism, is that it tends to sep arate its votaries from the every day, bread-and-butter interests of common humanity. Thus all who are not of the cult are looked on as creatures of evil by the cultists. But the nature worship of the Crislers, alas, stops with elk, browse, and ancient, mossy Douglas firs and hemlock seed lings. Man is only evil in their sight. Most of all is the lumber man to be condemned. Loggers are but "looters" in the Crisler creed. Lumbering is wasteful, devastating, altogether damna ble. Judge Not The editor of Christian Cen tury decided to play the judge in this case, and published the Crisler accusations in his July 27 issue, under the title "Loggers Loot in the Olympics," as a true bill of judgment. However, I have counted 11 items of flagrant false witness in the article and have failed to find a solitary example of Chris tian faith, hope and love in any thing it says on lumbermen. We are all judged, in strongest terms, to be possessed by de mons. To understand ;this extrava gant condemnation one needs to know how pantheism grows into an obsessive force that converts good people into fanatical wil derness worshipers, of assorted sects, from Hermits to Nudists. What's Wrong With Facts? Now behold the work of the wilderness worshipers. Hundreds of thousands of acres of timber, classified as "commercial" for a half-century, have been reserved from human use, even to an extent that no eye may be allowed to see more than its mere fringe and high, far peaks. On the other hand, plain citizens who are everyday enjoyers of forest scenery and recreation, ask only that a land use-potential survey be made of all present reserved areas of "wildeness" forest, by neutral authorities. That's all. We just want the facts, ma am. The plain facts. Now I surely do admire wil derness country, and I like rec reation areas and parks of all varieties from New York City's Central to Washington's Olympic and Oregon's Crater Lake Na tional. The U.S. Forest Service Full responsibility for their de partments rests entirely on the cnairman. The major sub-committees and their chairmen are believed to be as follows: 1. Party affairs and agricul ture Nikita 5. Khrushchev. 2. State administration and de fense Nikolai A. Bulganin. 3. Foreign affairs VyacheS' lav M. Molotov. 4. Heavy industry and trans' port Lazar Kaganovich. 5.. Internal and foreign trade and light industry Anatas I. Mikoyan. 6. Electric and atomic indus tries Georgi M. Malenkov. 7. Culture Klimenti Voro shilov. 8. Press and propaganda Mik hail buslov. Economic planning and fi nance Mikhail Saburov. 10. Industrial construction and chemical industries M. G. Per- vukhin. 11. Nationalities A. I.-Kiri chenko. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NIID BACK-TO-SCHOOL CASHT Fro kiiidtrttrMi ta Mlltff , kids to noNy ... wo"y invested in ttittr fuhirti. My we help? 000 Jfcfc kit us ill the uitieiMHd btek-ta-Kfta! iiHiwt aed bring the fiiurtt to ytur luarby M effiee for a friendly 4tteuti. PF baek-te-sehaal lean may be juit the answer to your arithmetic problem. a! MRSaM 8F MOW MMHlB I PACIFIC. DUSTRIAIr Frank Wilkinson, Manager PHONE 3-3989 16 S. Central .Medford has one whole solid area of 800, 000 acres reserved as wilderness country. It has many more reser vations for recreation and scen ery, including 190 built-up and equipped camps. Out state and city parks are numbered by the hundreds. Lumbermen are working with sportsmen's organizations to pro vide hunting and fishing on mil lions of acres of Douglas fir reg ion tree farms in many places with camp grounds, shelters and facilities. There is, in fact, no end to their good works of to day, in cooperation with the forest-using public. Maybe the editor of Christian Century can be persuaded to publish some of these fact. He is a kind husband and indulgent father, and at heart a Christian gentleman. I 'Puck's Library' Readings Scheduled Ashland James Sandoe, di rector and actor of the Oregon Shakespearean festival, will appear in a program of readings entitled "Puck's Library" Wednesday, August 10, at 4 p.m in the lecture hall of the Ash land public library. This is the third of the literary events on the calendar of special activities planned for this year's festival season. According to Dr. Margery Bailey, education director of the festival, the readings will pre sent the charming nonsense which delighted Elizabethans. It's said Sandoe has a crisp, wit ty reading style which exactly suits these adult parodies of fairy-tale adventures. His career as a public reader began many years ago, and he headed a group of concert readers which appeared before packed houses at Stanford university some years ago. Anyone interested is invited to attend the program. Fort Worth, Tex. OJ.R) Some fisherman apparently made sure that the angling in the west fork of the Trinity river will be good for a long time. He blasted a hole in a dam at a government hatch ery pond and sent 26,000 large mouth bass into the small stream. SPORTS Olson Fight May Be Picketed Portland (U.R) A motion picture operations union last night asked the Portland Central Labor council to declare unfair operations of theater owner Tommy Moyer, raising the pos sibility that the Saturday night fight between Middleweight Champ Bobo Olson and Jimmy Martinez, promoted by Moyer, would be picketed. The council's executive board was scheduled to consider the question at a special meeting Thursday morning. The unfair charges were lev eled by the AFL Motion Picture Operators local, which said it was' unable to reach a wage agreement with Moyer covering employees at the promoter's three theaters. Mover, who will stage the fight in Portland's Multnomah stadium, said he would appear before the special union coun cil meeting to present his views. IF YOUR PARTNER DIES... wiD the firm be endangered? Will essential capital be with drawn; a stranger forced upon you in his place ; settlement difficulties with his widow en ' countered? Business assurance can safeguard your firm from such eventualities. Protect your own business call me today. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA Local Agent CHARLES E.JONES Phone 2-9772 PREDICTING "we will see space flight in our time" despite multitude of problems still to be solved, Dr. Wernher von Braun, German-born director of Army's guided missile and rocket program, tells world audience America's long range plans for study and travel of outer space. (International) Newberg Prepares To Welcome Hoover Newberg, Ore. U.R) This valley city prepared today to welcome home former President Herbert Hoover who returns to morrow to the scene of his boy hood to observe his 81st birth day. The home where Hoover lived with his uncle, the late Dr. Henry J. Minthorn, has been restored to its 1884 condition when Hoover lived here as a boy of 10. Hoover's talk here will be car ried, over a nationwide radio broadcast (CBS) at 6:30 p.m. (PST). He will be introduced by Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay. The Republican ex -president will motor here from Salem where his plane lands in the morning. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. Three Men Ordered To Leave Medford Three California men received suspended fines and suspended jail sentences this morning and were ordered to leave Medford after they pleaded guilty to charges of disorderly conduct, according to city police. The men. Richard Lee Flani ken, 1024 North Divisadro st., Walter Merle Callahan, Travel ers Hotel, and Melvin Joe Queen. 1104 North Turner st., all of Visalia, Calif., were arrested at 3:30 a.m. yesterday a.m. after police received reports of a fight on Hawthorne st. between Main and Jackson sts. Municipal Judge James M. Main gave suspended 50-day jail sentences to each of the men. and a suspended $100 fine to Flaniken, besides the order to leave Medford by noon today. Portland (U.R) Bids for Portland's $3,000,000 air term inal will be called for by Jan. 1 and construction will start early in the year, the port of Portland said today. BEAUTY CHOfEJt Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Donna Vogel, an 18-year-old brown-eyed beauty, last night was crowned as Miss Stockader, Queen of Vancouver Stockader days here. So smooth it leaves you breathless r- inirtfojf Jte Greatest name VODKA SO proof. Made from 100 grain nnicral spirits. Stc PierreSmirnoff Fh. 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