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6ii SOUS fefOU p 18 lasce uve Portland, Ore. (U.R) An all faiths religious organization to day promised to heed an Indiana soldier's plea for someone to take over a pathetic little or phanage for blind Korean chil dren. World Vision, Inc., said steps to assume the responsibility for Pfc. Fritz Moeller's "off limits" (orphanage already are fteing taken, and funds will be made available before Moeller is sent back home to Southport, Ind., in February. "So you tell that boy and his mother not to worry," Roy Wolfe, director of publications at World Vision's headquarters in Portland, told United Press. Moeller, 22, started his or phanage in an "off limits" area near Seoul despite objections from the Army and assurances it would riot be successful. Once he was jailed by Army author ities for visiting his charges, but the Army later relented and issued Moeller an unlimited D3SS. Moeller grew fearful about the future of the orphanage when his rotation date ap proached. He wrote his mother, Mrs. Christian Moeller, for help. She got the name of World Vis ion, Inc., from her Baptist min ister and asked for help. "Help is coming," Mrs. Moel ler was able to cable her son in Korea late yesterday after con tacting World Vision in Port land. Moeller's flock is made up of refugees and orphans from North and South Korea. About half of them are blind, either as r Soldiers' a result of diseases or from war injuries. Their ages range from 6 and 7 years to a few youtns in their 20s who are as helpless as 5-year-olds. One 7-year-old boy, a United Press reporter cabled from Korea, sports the biggest smile of all though he has no right arm. He has never seen himself and he doesn't know the wounds which blinded him make his face a horrible caricature. Each night two of the children walk four miles to the service company of the' 24th Division Wednesday, December 21 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Orphans ge for Blind Korea Children near Moeller's unit, United Press Staff Correspondent Rob ert Brown cabled. They carry two large paint buckets to re ceive leftovers from the mess hall. The two girls who pick up the leftovers each night also act as guides for the others who stum ble and fall if not helped through the doorway of the small mud walled, tin-roofed building Moel ler is having built for them. Moeller said he found them in August living in an old Army squad tent and "I couldn't be- eorge Predicts Congress Administration's Foreign Aid Will Reject eques Washington OJ.R) Chair man Walter F. George of the Sgnate Foreign Relations Com mittee predicted today that Con- Qress will reject an administra tion request to double foreign aid apjtgfjpriations rxt year. The influential Georgia Demo crat was one of a number of con gressmen who said the $4,900, 000,000 in foreign aid funds the administration plans to seek will be trimmed sharply. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said Tuesday that Con gress would be asked to fix for eign aid appropriations at that level nearly double this year's allotment although actual spending would be boosted only by $200,000,000. QSee Congress Rejection "I am satisfied that Congress will not approve any $4,900,- 000,000 if they (the administra tion) ask for it," George said at his Vienna, Ga., home. " Sen. Mike Mansfield (D Mont.), another member of the Foreign Relations Committee, agreed. He said the adminis tration appears to be "overem phasizing the value of dollar aid" and that it is time to re evaluate both economic and mili tary assistance programs. Both George and Rep. John Taber (R-N.Y.), ranking Repub lican on the House Appropria tions Committee, said that Dulles' announcement was not in accord with what he told congressional leaders at a recent White House briefing. Taber said he was led to believe the, new foreign aid request would be only $2,703,000,000. Cold Delays Opening Of Highway 99 Section Olympia U.R) Opening a new five-mile section of Highway 99 between Centralia and Grand Mound will be delayed because of the effects of cold, wet weath er, the State Highway Depart ment reported today. The two-lane Droieet was to be opened tomorrow along with a 14-mile, section of four-lane highway south of Chehalis. Con crete had not hardened, how ever, because of' inclement weather, the department said. Rep. Omar Burleson (D-Tex.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the step ped up appropriation request "to put it rnildly, will be looked over very closely." The congressional complaints were voiced despite Dulles' warning that foreign aid of more than $4,000,000,000 a year must be maintained for the indefin ite future in view of recent cold war developments. The new appropriation re quest would be divided so that S3,000,000,000 would go to mili tary aid and $1,900,000,000 to economic aid. TRAFFIC COP NEEDED HERE In what appears to be a superimposed photo are skiers OJtft Weaver (left) of Yakima, Wash., and Jan Moeller of San Francisco doing a well timed double leap on Dollar Mountain above the Union Pacific resort at Sun Valley, Idaho. If this kind of traffic keeps up they're going to need cops on skis. Amended Plaint By Wood Village Asked Portland (U.R) Presiding Circuit Judge James R. Bain yes terday ordered stricken parts of a complaint by the mayor of Wood Village who is seeking to prevent Multnomah county com missioners from building a fair grounds near his community. Mayor Paul G. Sherman filed the complaint for a restraining order against the commissioners who have optioned 170 acres for a fairgrounds site near the incor porated community of Wood Vil lage in eastern Multnomah county. Judge Bain ruled that three paragraphs of the complaint should be stricken because they were based on a law amended by the 1955 Legislature. Sher man's attorneys were given 10 days in which to bring in an amended complaint. Two F84 Thunder'iets Crash in Azores Angra do Heroismo, Azores (U.R) Two U. S. Air Force F84 Thunder jets crashed, within min utes of each other Tuesday night. One pilot died in the flaming wreckage of his plane- the other parachuted to safety. The two planes were in a for mation of four jets believed en route to the joint American- Portuguese air base from New foundland. lieve they could exist like that, sleeping on the ground with no blankets or anything. He tried to buy them blankets but deliveries were not permit ted through the lines so "when found out that a house only costs $500 or $600 I decided to buy some land and have a Ko rean contractor build one," he explained to Brown. Even when the building is fin ished it won't be much of a house, no electricity or plumb ing, Brown reported. Water comes from a crude well. "But it's pretty good for Korea, and warm," Moeller said. World Vision said it was com piling case studies of each or phan which it uses to locate sponsors willing to underwrite each, child's care at a cost of $10 per month. Rescuers Press Paralrooper Hunt Ellensburg, Wash. (U.R) Volunteers drove three snow weasels into bleak mountain country today in a desperate search for a lost paratrooper whose chance of survival faded with "each passing hour." . Sgt. J. H. Horan, 23, May- nard, Mass., was hitch-hiking an aerial ride to Seattle for a Christmas reunion with his Jap anese wife and their three chil dren when he had to bail out of a spinning Air Force C45 Sun day. The plane later was righted and later landed safely. "He has a chance," said Maj. W. H. Maxwell of Larson Air Force Base. "He has had sur vival training and could survive if he has wrapped himself in his parachute and made a snow hut. But his chances diminish with each passing hour." Wnrlrl Vicinn will spnrf asKict- Iudi Airertrr Ttrwi-n "Rfip4x said. ance to the orphanage even if but contributions "are needed sponsors are not found, over-1 badly Help Fight TB - ..Buy Christmas Seals-- Gef Your earns cXV&ttlS- Finland To Start Plane Services To Moscow Helsinki, Finland (U.R) Fin land will become the Soviet Union's main Western civil avia tion partner when the Finnish airlines, Aero, opens direct ser1 vices to Moscow Feb. 18, in formed aviation circles said to day. The sources said that Aero will replace Scandinavian Air lines as the Soviet Aeroflot's booking agent on the Helsinki Moscow route. Valley View Road Opens For Traific Valley View road was open ed for travel yesterday after competition of two reinforced concrete bridges across Bear Creek, according to County En gineer Paul Rynning. The bridges were built by the state highway commission with county, state and federal funds, he said. Rynning also said a public hearing will, be held at 10 a.m. Jan. 23, in the county court on establishing the upper end of Sardine creek road as a county road. County crews expect to, fin ish work this week improving Elk creek road. TRY AC j .11 .... There are only 3 shopping days left . . . and if you've forgotten ANYONE or ANY THING . . . ACME HARDWARE can give you a BIG assist - with a WIDE VARIETY of glittering GIFTS! We've ALL the items that the DeoDle you are buyinq them for would choose for themselves. 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