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Tuesday, February 14, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE West Germany's Decision To End Funds To NATO Puts Mew Burden on America By LYLE C. WILSON United Press, Correspondent Washington U.R) For United States taxpayers there is $350,000,000 worth of annual bad news in the dispatches from Bonn. Maybe a lot more. Bonn is the capital of West Germany, a valued ally and a mem ber of the North Atlantic Treaty alliance (NATO). The West German government has informed Washington, London and Paris that after May 5 it will stop paying some $762, 000,000 into the NATO treasury. .That is the annual West Ger man contribution toward the cost of maintaining NATO forc es stationed in Germany. The charge was assessed and accept ed before West Germany had a defensive army of its own. West Germany has no defen sive army now. But it has vot ed to have one and intends to divert the NATO money toward Lyle C. Wilson building up its armed forces. Whether West Germany is well or badly advised in refusing fur ther payments to NATO will be disputed. But, it does appear that the payments will end this spring. That means the United States taxpayer will pick up part of the tab. It raises another ob stacle to a balasced budget in the fiscal year 1957 and to a tax cut by vote of the Congress now in session. Three Way Split ' The German contribution has been divided ' this way: $350, 520,000 to the U.S.; 8266,700,000 to Great Britain; $144,780,000 to France. Some of the payment to Great Britain was for distribu tion among Belgium, the Neth erlands, Canada and Denmark, whose NATO forces in West Germany are assigned to the British, administratively. The blow will fall heaviest on the French and British, although the sums they receive are small er. It will be heaviest on them because their currency is weak and off the dollar standard. West Germany, where they will pay the costs of their occupying troops, has strong money. The German mark has been through the wringer but hard work and a lot of help from outside have put ihat free nation on a sound financial basis. The , mark is worth as much today in terms of the U.S. dollar as it was back there in 1914 when the-Kaiser escorted Germany into World War I. It is possible that the French or British, or both, might plead comparative poverty and ask the U. S. to pick up some of their new NATO costs in Ger many. When Prime Minister An thony Eden recently was in Washington he said the British could stand on their own feet henceforth. But he qualified that statement a bit with respect to defense costs. " One Way Out Any way to slice it, the added burden on the U. S. taxpayer will be at least $350,520,000 which is enough to scramble President Eisenhower's . 1957 budget estimates. It will be that Stevenson Uninjured In Tractor Accident Timberline Lodge, Ore. (U.R) Adlai Stevenson got a jolting but was not injured : Monday when a snow tractor in which he was iding on Mt. Hood hit a hidden bump, rolled over and fell 35 feet into a gully. Stevenson, who has been stay ing at Timberline Lodge since a Saturday night speech in Port land, was taking a short sight seeing trip on the slopes of the mountain with several other persons when the accident happened. John Macone, a Timberline Lodge official, was driving the Sno-Cat, a tracked vehicle, and Stevenson was sitting beside him when it hit the outcropping of rock or ice which had been par tially covered with snow. A heavy wind was blowing up at the time. Also riding in the vehicle were Ralph Wiese, district for est ranger; State Rep. Alfred Corbett of Portland, and Den nis Stack, a photographer from Los Angeles. 117 S. 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The United States is paying $200,000,000, probably consider ably more, annually, to maintain overseas more than 400,000 de- Civil Service Jobs Are Available Now Applications are being ac cepted for civil service positions of airway operation communica tions specialist and pharmacy resident. Airway operation specialists are needed for duty at various communications stations in Alas ka, and pharmacy positions are available in veterans adminis tration hospitals and centers. Additional information and application forms are available from Chester W. Silliman, in the Medford post office building. pendants of American officers and enlisted men. Other NATO nations do not so indulge their military on such overseas duty, probably on the theory that a man or woman does not join the armed services with any guar antee of home life in the field. Disadvantages Outweighed The Pentagon party line is that the advantages of sending families with overseas troops outweigh disadvantages. Presi dent Eisenhower supports the party line. A question unanswer ed, however, is how the women and children would be protected if the Soviet Union suddenly made western Europe a World War III battlefield how would their military fathers and hus bands have time to fight and to Discovery of Still Leads lo Prison Riof Sugar Land, Tex. (U.R) Pris on officials said yesterday that "rough and raw" home brew set off a two-hour visitor's day riot of more than 100 convicts at Sugar Land prison yesterday. The convicts set mattresses afire and smashed windows until tear gas and fire hoses were used to break it up. No one was hurt, according to O. B. Ellis, general manager of the Tmms Prison system. Ellis said guards found a still where- the , prisoners had -made the "chock" beer prison slang for home brew with, sugar stol en from the kitchen. Parts of it were hidden in their . lockers, he said. ' ;-. : "- ' Ellis said most of the men taking part in the riot "smelled to high-heaven," and' many of them were "high." move their families to safety in, for example, Spain?' .-'; An extreme viewpoint on that recently v was stated by Sen. George W. Malone, (R-Nev). "They'd all be in the salt mines," he said, "within a fortnight." REVERSE TWIST Grand Rapids, Mich. (U.R) A house crashed into two cars here. Police said the two-story frame house was being moved to a . new location when it snapped its cable, rolled down a grade and hit two cars, "'flattening" one of them. lit" O Cook 1 W Is- imm! 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