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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."
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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.
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