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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. September 11, 19S5 f? Uneasy Quiet Resumes in Gaza Strip After Latest Ceasefire (Editor's note: Egypt and Israel have been at uneasy peace since the end of the , Palestine War in 1948 and the United Nation s-sponsored truce of 1949. Frequent clashes have marred their re lationship in the interim, principally in the region of the Gaza strip a thing fin ger of land between the Egyptian and Israeli frontiers. The latest series of clashes started Aug. 22 and were end ed last Sunday . when both sides accepted a cease fire proposed by Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, chief of the U.N. Truce Supervisory Orangixa tion. In the following dispatch. United Press staff correspon dent Gerald Arathoon gives the background of the Gaxa clashes.) By GERALD ARATHOON United Press Staff Correspondent Cairo (U.R) The eight-year-old hostility between Egypt and Israel reached a new peak in the recent Gaza fighting that revived the specter of full war in the inflammable Middle East. Worsening Egyptian-Israeli re lations hit a dangerous low with the Gaza border flare-up on Aug. 22. The clash that day be tween Israeli- and Egyptian troops exploded Into a frontier free-for-all that scuttled the pre carious peace established by the United Nations after the Pales tine War of 1948. The Gaza strip is a 25-mile-long iinger of land running up the Mediterranean Coast from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. At the most it is only 10 miles wide, with the Mediterranean on the west and Israeli territory to the north and east. A thin line of whitewashed stones mark the 35-mile long truce demarcation line. Renewal of the Gaza fighting came less than three months after a comparative lull had been imposed on both sides of the line. Truce Talks Fail The new outbreak underlined the utter failure of the joint Egyptian-Israeli talks to reduce border tension. United Nations hopes that these talks would produce a workable agreement on border security sank with the firing of the first round of bullets on Aug. 22. The predominant feature of the mounting Gaza tension this year was that "seasonal" armed clashes alternated with fruitless conferences between Egyptians - and Israelis'. Hovering above the Gaza border talks was the mutual distrust of both parties, and their readiness to resort to arms on the least pretext. Canadian Major General Edi son L. M. Burns, head of the United Nations Palestine Truce Supervision Organization' (TSO), presented a four point plah in November, 1954, designed to pre serve border security at Gaza. Burns proposed: 1. Establishment of joint pa- trols along sensitive sections of the demarcation line. 2. Negotiation3 of an agree ment among the local military commanders to eliminate border infiltrations. 3. Erection of a barbed wire barrier along some parts of the frontier. 4. Manning of all outposts and patrols along the demarca tion line by regular Egyptian and Israeli troops, to reduce the possibility of fanatics or terror ists touching off incidents. Two Meetings Held Egyptian and Israeli represen tatives at the Mixed Armistice Commisison (MAC) held two meetings with Burns in January this year to examine his pro posals. But they did not reach agreement. Hardly a month had passed before severe fighting broke out on the border on Feb. 28. Israeli troops attacked Egyptian out posts across the demarcation line, wreaking havoc among the small Egyptian garrisons on the outskirts of Gaza. Following that i n ci d e n t, Egyptians and Israelis clashed daily in the biggest sustained conflict since the end of the Palestine War. The fighting lasted until the end of May. Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser warned on March 3, soon after the Israeli incur sion, that any future aseresisnn would be met by Eeyntian coun ter-aggression. The then Israeli premier Moshe Sharett retorted that Egypt would have to bear the consequences of the "state of war" she was prepetuating between the two countries. The United Nations Security Council was summoned for an emergency session to stavp off a possible Egyptian-Israeli war. After deliberating the Gaza crisis, the council adopted two resolutions. The first condemn ed Israel for the incident nf Feb. 28, and the second asked Egypt and Israel to hold new talks with Burns on his nlan for maintaining security along the Gaza border. Egypt Accuses Israel While Burns shuttled hark and forth between Jemsalpm and Cairo to lay the ground- worK lor the talks, Israelis and Egyptians continued hammering away at each other with gunfire across the border. Egypt accused Israel of putting armed pressure on ner to accept high level dis cussions. The border incidents stopped suddenly at the end of May, in apparent anticipation of the talks. The meetings began on June 28 under Burns' chairman ship. But even at the outset the talks seemed doomed to failure. The talks came to a deadlock on Aug. 9, after 10 sessions lasting a total of 55 odd hours Burns had not lost all hope of reaching agreement between the two parties, so he simply ad journed the talks. When Burns called on Nasser in Cairo on Aug. 24 to discuss the fate of the moribund Gaza meetings, Nasser promptly in formed him that Egypt had de cided to break off the talks in view of Israeli "aggresison" two days before. Quiet and peace were restor ed when both sides finally ac cepted a cease fire proposed by Burma last Sunday. NLRBl)e& 13 Northwest Firms Violating T-H Law Washington (U.R) The Na tional Labor Relations Board has found 13 Northwest Lumber Companies and associations in violation of the Taft-Hartley labor law for refusal to bargain with the International Wood workers Union (CIO) on two issues. Refuse io Agree It has ordered the Oregon Coast Operators Association, the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association, the Consumers Co operative Association, and 10 lumber companies to discuss with the union's local 7-140 the question of wrapping all side agreements into one contract. The union has made the proposal, but the companies have refused to agree. The board also has ordered some of the companies to supply Local 7-140 and Local 7-116 with "relevant and necessary" infor mation the unions have asked for. Given 10 Days The order was issued Aug. 26, giving the companies 10 days in which to notify the board's reg ional director at Seattle of the steps they have taken to obey. The union's complaints against the group arose from bargain ing sessions in March and April, 1954. The side agreements which the unions wanted wrapped into one document included such things as wage scales. The union argued that omission of these and other items from the main' contract made it difficult to carry out its collective -bargaining functions. Churches Condemn Slaying of Youth Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) (&he National Negro Baptist convention Saturday branded the "wolf whistle" kidnap-slay- ing of teen-aged Emmet Till in Mississippi as "worse than a lynching." But the convention delegates applauded Mississippi authorit- ies for their investigation of the 15-year-old Chicago Negro boy's death. The delegates burst into ap plause as they vpted unanimous ly Friday to adopt a resolution commending officers for their handling of the notorious slay ing of Till after he allegedly . whistled at a white woman at a rural store in Mississippi. Some 15,000 Negro delegates from throughout the nation are attending the convention at Memphis. e Circuit Judge Curtis M. vSwango at Sumner, Miss., Fri day set Sept. 19 as a date for the trial of half-brothers Rov Bryant and J. W. Milam, charg ed "jointly and separately" with kidnaping and murdering Till. Ashland Area Pioneer Dies; Funeral Saturday Ashland Funeral services for William F. Shaw, a 98-year-old pioneer of .this, area, were .held yesterday.- He died Thurs day after a long illness. Mr. Shaw was born Aug. 24, 1857, in Hyde Park, Minn., and crossed the plains as a young man. He homesteaded in the Hyatt lake area, returning a few years later to Minnesota where he married Minnie Dixson in 1897. Since 1906 he has lived in Ashland. Survivors include a number of cousins. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other daii 5U30 previous day. to run hc H Now is the time when more milk means the most money to you. We have a wonderful, low-cost supplement that goes right on your grain ration to help you see if your herd is producing as much milk as it should. Feed this new-type supplement Bulky-Las for one month as a test. Then let us help you check the body and milk response. The check takes only a few minutes of your time. We believe you will be mighty well pleased with your results. A DIG BAG OF LOW-COST SUPPLEMENT MONARCH SEED & FEED CO. TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS Corner 10th & So. Fir Corner 6th & Bartlett in 'KEY WITNESS' Mrs. Ger trude Silver (above), wanted for questioning for two weeks as a "key witness," has agreed to appear at a hearing on charges of being an acces sory in the abortion-death of her daughter. She had accom- Sanied her daughter, Mrs. ean Silver Ostreicher, to the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Schwartz the night the young bride died from the abortion attempt Child Suffocates In Plastic Sack Spokane, Wash. (U.R) A three - year - old 'boy died of suffocation Friday after he pulled a plastic bag which his mother said was his "favorite plaything" over his face. The victim was identified as Thomas E. Cael, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Cael, Spokane Deputy Coroner William E. Jones said the boys' mother had fixed the bag like those in which vegetables are sold like a cap and put it on his head. "He wouldn't play with anything else," Jones quoted her as say ing. The child's mother found Thomas lying in the yard of the family home. Efforts to revive him failed. The mother told Jones she did not know how long he had been lying on the lawn before she found him or whether he had been playing with other children when the tight fitting bag came over his face. Westinghouse, CIO Hold Conferences To Prevent Strike Pittsburgh (U.R) Officials of the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers and West inghouse Electric Corp., held top level conferences Saturday in an all-out effort to prevent ; a company-wide strike of 44,000 . workers scheduled for Sunday . midnight. . ' . . At least 16.000 workers were idle in premature walkouts as IUE International' President James B. Carey and R. D. Bla sier, Westinghouse vice-president in charge of industrial re lations, Conferred in an effort to iron out the dispute arising out of a time-study program at the firm's . East Pittsburgh plant. IUE officials said union members in 28 Westinghouse lo-' cals were voting "better than j two-to-one m favor of a com-pany-w i d e strike to back up 2,200 day-workers who walked off their jobs at the Pittsburgh district plant rather than go along with an evaluation of their jobs by efficiency engin eers. The company has furloughed , nearly 9.000 workers at the East i Pittsburgh plant as a result of i the day-workers' strike. They refused a return to work offer j In a premature walkout,; mure than 7.000 employees at' Westmehouse plants in New I Jersey and West Virginia quit j As a result of the striKes, Carey hastened here, from Wash ington IUE headquarters in an effort to stop the walkouts from spreading. The deadline for a company wide walkout was set by the union's Westinghouse Confer ence board, but at the same time the board called for a referen dum of local unions. The IUE returns from the vote showed 18 locals in favor of a walkout. The company dis puted the figure Friday night, contending that at that time only 11 of 19 locals, whose votes had been counted, were in fav or of a strike. The premature walkouts largely were the result of the company's policy of furloughing workers who left their jobs to vote in the referendum, the un tar. . 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