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. Central 2 Phone 2-6241
f notordin-rvresses-b,
copies ol Wards bes
mum
most wanted styles coat,
step-in, zip-front types,
many, of Wards regular 2.98
dresses also included
MADE TO WARDS SPECIFICATIONS
Wards picked the styles and patterns.
Saw that our percale cottons were cut and
tailored to a TI Priced sweet 'n low I
LOOK AT THE QUALITY DETAILS
Find many 2 pocket styles, full 2"
hems, set-in sleeves. There's no skimping
on trims or workmanship;
SPRING FRESH NEWS IN PRINTS
Rejoice in pretty florals, paisleys, and
geometries In bright, gay spring shades,
which stay bright through many wasFiings.
TOP COLORS
FOR SPRING
k Turquoise
Tr Rose
Maize
Lilac
IN SIZES
Misses 12 to 20,
and Womens'
Half Sizes
16'2to24i
BUY ON WARDS
MONTHLY PAYMENT PLAN
ra?tC ft
much unless U.S. NATO costs
are cut. There is a way out on
some of that added costs, but
the Pentagon won't take it.'
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!
ITT. i II
e n i u
flctnouit tiotpoint
ANYTHING on Your New
mm ft
1 956 HOTPOINT Electric Range
2J95
Model RB-69
$
n
MODEL RB-69
"Skyline-Silhouette
Push Buttons
"Super 2600" Calrod
(Faster than Gas)
Giant All Calrod Super Oven
Automatic Time Controls
V Florescent Lamp
3 Big Storage Drawers
1 055 HOTPOINT Electric Range
MODEL RB-65
Automatic Push Button Controls
Raisable Thrift Cooker
All Calrod Super Oven
Instant Heat Calrod Unit
All Porcelain Finish Insideand Out
FRYER & GOLDEN GRIDDLE
Optional at
Extra Cost
- j ii ii.
Reg
Electric Range H
Regular $199.95 U
II
Every Day's A Holiday With HOTPOINT"
VALENTINE CANDY
WINNER Pr;.
Mrs. Clyde Bunn
925 Lawnsdale Road
Medford, Oregon
VISIT OUR USED DEPARTMENT
1 Used Frigidaire Dryer .......... $125.00
4 Used Wringer Washers......$9.95 and up
1 Used Leonard Refrigerator.. . ...... $35.00
(Cfitty AjpjpIlfisiini(Ee9 Eimcc.
"Jackson County's Exclusive Hotpoinr Dealers'
127 North Central Avenue 137 East Main Street
Medford, Oregon-Phone 3-5306 ' Ashland, Oregon-Phone 9-5831
OPEN
Wed. 'Til 9 P.M.
Itotpaint
Itoipauit
NEW STORE HOURS: 9:30 to 5:30; WEDNESDAYS 9:30 to 9 p.m
Itotpaint
V1 I'H