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United Press Full Leased Wire
Second Section
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1955
Pages 1-12
Russians Surprised To Learn American
Farm Women Do Not Work in Fields, Sam
Rebels Target of
Viet Nam Offense
Saigon, Indochina U.R) The
government announced today the
Vietnamese army had launched
another "massive offensive"
against the Hao Hoa rebels.
The insurgents, driven out of
Viet Nam this summer in an all
out effort to end their civil war
against the government, returned
from their exile in adjoining
Cambodia and occupied the Co-chin-China
"breadbasket" prov
ince of Saigon.
Government sources have esti
mated as many as 15,000 of the
rebels led by the elusive and fa
natical General Ba Cut were
hiding out in the mountains and
the rich rice-producing flatlands
6t the province.
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem threw
15 infantry battalions, or about
half of his standing army, into
o the drive against the religious
sect's rebel warlord and his
guerrillas.
The government - controlled
Viet Nam press agency said the
loyal .-.forces of the American
backed premier kicked off "full
scale" action Tuesday.
The drive was concentrated
around Thot Not and along the
Bassac River, some 80 miles
southwest of Saigon. There were
no immediate reports on results.
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ENDANGERED Now under construction (above) is the
nation's first offshore radar island 100 miles east of Cape
Cod, Mass., on George's Bank. With the "Texas Tower
only on temporary foundation and hurricane "Connie"
racing for the East Coast, officials were faced with at
tempts to complete a solid footing for the island or evacuat
ing the 70-man crew before the storm hit
Deadline Stated For Former POWs
Ex-prisoners of the Korean
war or their survivors must ap
ply for benefits due them under
the amended war claims act by
'AH I did was serve him vjl
I BLUE BELL Potato -fTl
August 21, according to Vere A.
McCarty of the Oregon depart
ment of Veterans' Affairs in
Salem.
Under the act, American serv
icemen ,held prisoner of war
during the Korean conflict are
entitled to $2.50 for each day
in captivity during which they
failed to receive adequate food
and were subjected to forced
labor , or inhumane treatment.
The commission announced that
the funds are now available and
would average around $2,000 in
payment to each veteran.
Applications must be ad
dressed to the Foreign Claims
Settlement commission, Wash
ington 25, D.C., and must be
postmarked on or before mid
night of Aug. 21. No applica
tion blanks are available local
ly, but a letter to the commis
sion should suffice to beat the
deadline, McCarty said. '
Much More Labor
Used by Soviets
To Harvest Crops
Editor's note: The author of the fol
lowing dispatch, written exclusively
for United Press, is accompanying the
American farm delegation now touring
Russia. He is farm department direc
tor at Radio Station WHO, Des Moines,
la..
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By HERB PLAMBECK '
Written For The United Press
Kuibyshev, Russia U.R)
An American farmer stunned
his Russian hosts Wednesday
night when he said his wife did
not help him in the fields or
barns.
The Russians, who delegate
much hard labor to women,
shook their heads in amaze
ment. They simply could not be
lieve that Charles Hearst limited
his wife's work to the house,
kitchen and garden on their
large farm at Cedar Falls, la.
Many Surprises
Hearst, one of 12 American
farmers touring ' Russia, pro
vided the Soviets with many
surprises when he was asked to
tell about his farm at a recep
tion here.
For instance, he set the. Rus
sians to buzzing amongst them
selves when he told them he
worked a 320-acre corn and hop
farm with the help of only one
hired man and a school boy in
summer.
The Russians asked if Hearst
was kidding, especially when he
told them he raised 500 to 1,000
hogs a year besides working the
land.
Other members of the Ameri
can delegation pointed out that
the Russians use much more
manpower on farms than Ameri
cans. At some state farms, the
Americans found as many as
20 times the workers employed
on a comparable farm in the
United States.
Wednesday afternoon, the
Americans visited seven farm.
homes and found they differed
greatly from their own back
home.
Many Beds
The houses all had three or
four rooms with beds in almost
every room. As many as seven
persons lived in each' house.
All had large corner stoves that
heated the rooms and dutch
ovens for cooking, although hot
plates generally are used in the
summer.
Three homes had radios and
two had Russian Orthodox
Madonnas on the wall. Old-fashioned
hand sewing machines and
heavy irons heated on the stoves
were in almost all the houses.
The Americans were fasci
nated by a wooden cradle hang
ing from a ceiling, and a bed
over an oven. The Americans
figured the latter bed would
roast the sleeper, but the Rus
sians assured them it was most
practical for cold weather.
The Americans headed east
ward today into central Asia and
Siberia where they will tour
until they return to Moscow
Aug. 18 or 19.
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Federal Aid For
Highways Allotted
Washington (U.R) The Com
merce department today
reported states shares of about
$875,000,000 in federal aid for
highways.
This was the second and last
apportionment under the 1954
law, which covers the fiscal
years beginning July 1, 1955, and
July 1, 1956.
' The primary highway system
gets $315,000,000 and the sec
ondary system receives $210,
000,000. The primary highways
systems in urban areas and the
national system of interstate
highways each are alotted $175,
000,000. The primary system consists
of 234.407 miles of rural and
urban highways and is the gen
eral network of main highways
throughout the country.
The states and their shares in
cluded: Oregon, $12,919,044.
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