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EIGHT MEDfORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, July I, 1956 Leader of Cypriot Rebels Says New Government May Be Formed (Editor's Note: Georxe Plpal. Unit ed Press business manager for Eu rope, hai obtained an unprecedent ed and significant Interview with "genera!" George Grivas. hunted leader of the Greek Cypriot rebels seeking union with Greece. Pipal obtained bis interview through Greek sources able to get In touch with Grivas. They submitted his questions to the rebel leader and returned with the written replies. Pipal's dispatch follows.) B7 GEORGE PIPAL United Press Correspondent Athens, Greece U.R) "General" George Grivas, lead er of the outlaw Eoka guerrilas in Cyprus, Saturday declared war against the British govern ment. He said it was "most , probable'' that a government will be set up by the Cypriot rebels in the near future. Grivas made his unprecedent ed statement to the United Press in written reply to a question naire submitted to him at an "unknown place" through Eoka channels in Athens last week At the same time, Grivas said that the "single step" by Britain of granting self-determination to Cyprus would "bridge the gap and solve the problem peace fully." Price On Hit Head The British authorities on the island in the Mediterranean have placed a price of $28,000 on Grivas' head. His capture was the objective of the unsuc cessful encircling operation by British troops in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus earlier this month. Twenty-one British soldiers were burned to death by a forest fire believed set by the Grivas forces to cover his escape. Grivas was trained by the Bri tish for guerrilla fighting against the Nazis during the oc cupation of Greece in World War II. He also led anti-Communist troops in the 1944 Greek Civil War. Grivas denied reports circu lating in Athens that he directs the rebellion from Rhodes or . another location outside of' Cy prus. "The leadership of the revolu tionized Eoka is definitely on the island," he told the United Press. Answers Questions Following are the questions submitted to Grivas through the underground channels and his replies: Q. Does Eoka plan to achieve belligerent status and thus place its members under the acts of war by adopting uni forms with an -open show of arms and by declaring open war against the British government. A. oka has declared war against the conqueror of Cyprus; its objective and aim is therefore the liberation of the island from the British yoke. We will do anything to gain freedom. Q. Has Eoka undertaken any military or para-military opera tions against the British govern ment outside of Cyprus for example in the Uniled Kingdom, as London newspapers reported recently. A. Eoka is a revolution and can be found everyhwere ready to claim the just right of the Cyriots and the freedom of its fatherland. We do hope that the occupation government will not force us to use our power outside Cyprus. To Form Government Q. Do the Cypriote engaged in open rebellion against the Crown government intend to es tablish a government in the near future? If so, is it likely that the government would be' formed in Cyprus, on the mainland of Greece or on one of the Aegean islands? A. It is most probable, as we don't exclude anything. Q. There are reports that "Dhigenis" the nom-de-guerre signed to Eoka proclamations is a committee of three persons and not general Grivas alone. Are these reports true? A. Dhigenis is a mythical hero of Cyprus; every Cypriot there is a Dhigenis. -fir ,i Sr5 REVERSING TKINGS Just when everyone else is get tine into tie fishing swing, Walter Hart man, former New York hotelman, is com ing out of retirement and will hang up his rod. He will take over presidency of the new $4.5 million Garden Ho tel, Mill Valley Inn, at Mill Valley, Calif. Hartman spent the last seven years fisning while living at Newport Beach, Calif. Q. There are reports that Dhigenis is not in Cyprus but bases his operations elsewhere. Is this true? A. No one has contested up to now the existence of liberation centers in many parts ef the world. The leadership, in any case, of revolutionized Eoka is definitely on the island Q. Archbishop Makarios, in his recent letter to British Lab orite member of Parliament Mr. Francis Noel-Baker, said "The Cyprus question is not a military question, but a political matter which can only be solved by negotiations in a spirit of good will and mutual understanding." Does Eoka share this view? Gap Not Wide A. For the leadership of the struggle, this is a political prob lem of an international charac ter, while for the Cypriot people it is a revolutionary one aim ing at the liberation of the island, as guaranteed by Eoka. Q. In the same letter, the arch bishop said "the gap which sep arated the government's views and ours was not wide." Does Eoka share this view, and if so, what is the present chance of closing this gap by negotiation. A. Just a single step forward of the British government, by granting the right of self-determination plus showing good will, will be quite sufficient to 'bridge the gap' and solve the problem peacefully. And thus, for exist ing hate between the Greek and British peoples is not yet inex tinguishable. There is still time for the Crown government to take advantage of it before it will be too late. 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Record High Price Paid for Timber in BUI Oral Audio A record high bid price for Douglas fir timber in the Med ford district was received in an oral auction sale of 11 tracts " timber by the Medford office of the bureau of land manage ment Thursday. Superior Lumber company submitted the high bid of S59.10 per thousand board feet of Doug las fir in a tract in the Josephine marketing area. Average Price An estimated 35V4 million board feet were sold in the auc tion for $1,382,810.40, or an average price of $38.95 per thou sand board feet for all species. The sale included: In the Josephine area, Brown Brothers Lumber company, 4,570,000 board feet plus 260,000 board feet salvage; Rough and Ready Lumber compan, 917,000; Superior Lumber company, 2,400,000; Southern Oregon Ply wood company, 5,798,000 board feet of salvage timber in the Sykes creek burn; Fir Ply Inc., 12,237,000. In the Klamath marketing area, Pickett and Scherer, 1.641,000 board feet. Fiscal Year Total The sale brought the total O&C timber sold in the Medford Fire Record Good In Forests So Far Salem The forest fire record for the first six months of the current year on the 13,000,000 acres of forest land coming un der the jurisdiction of the state forestry department and its co operating forest protective asso ciations has been the most fa vorable since the organization of the board 45 years ago, ac cording to State Forester Dwight L. Phipps. Up to the present time the to tal acreage burned was only 40 acres, he added. The forester re ported that there had been a to tal of 146 fires but only 49 of these were man-caused. This in itself is an unusual record since man-caused fires usually run about two-thirds of the total. "Up to the present time there has been no serious fire weath er," Phipps stated, "although there have been a few brief pe-' riods of low humidities and west winds. However conditions are becoming hazardous, espe cially in the open areas and care should be exercised in the woods." Phipps cautioned vacationists to be especially aware of the fire danger during the Fourth of July holiday period. There will be no forest closures and as a result forest travel will not be restricted. For this reason he added a word of caution as to forest use, urging the vacation ists .to be careful where he camps and builds his fire. district during the fiscal year ending June 30 to 123,000,000 board feet. This is the amount of annual allowable cut under sustained yield calculations now in use. The timber was sold for a total of $4,411,582. In addition, the sale of 2,380 board feet of public domain tim ber plus grazing leases on over 300,000 acres of land, homesite leases, right-of-way fees, timber trespass collections and miscel laneous fees brought the total sales in the district for the fiscal year to about $4,550,000. Purchasers of all timber sales are required to carry on logging and removal of timber in accord ance with forest management principles designed by BLM for esters. Every tree sold, this year over 115,000 of them, was select ed and marked for cutting by a trained forester, according to the Medford office. Private Utilities Lose Fight For Exemption from Holding Act By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Four Northwest private utilities have lost their fight to gain an exemption from the 20-year-old public utility holding com pany act under a bill which is now before the Senate. ' The utilities Pacific Pow er and Light, W a s h i n gton a. Roht. smith water rower, Portland General Electric and Montana Power companies wanted this exemption in con nection with their creating joint ly the Pacific Northwest Power Co. for the purpose of building Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley dams on the Snake river. After holding hearings on legislation which would exempt the utilities involved in such a venture, the Senate Interstate Commerce committee has killed this section of the bill. It report ed favorably on the other section of the bill which would exempt utilities when they team up to build atomic power reactors. The committee's decision is re garded as a defeat for the private utility industry, which backed the proposal, and a victory for public power groups, who op posed it. The utilities argued that this would aid them in their effort to build new hydroelectric proj ects in the Northwest, specifical ly Mountain Sheep and Pleasant, which are now the subject of Federal Power commission hear- Employment Shows Rise in Portland Salem U,R) Nearly one- half million persons were gain fully employed in the Portland- Vancouver metropolitan area during June after employment increases of 4,200 for the month. The total reached 429,600. The Unemployment Compen sation commission said the total was 9,400 higher than in June of 1955. June earnings of production workers also gained with an average wage report of $87 06 compared with $86.60 for April and $82.49 in June last year. The commission credited better wages in furniture and textile industries for the increase. ings in the Northwest. Most authoritative opposition was voiced by the Securities and Exchange commission, which ad ministers the public utility hold ing company act. Referring to the Pacific Northwest Power Co., the SEC declared: "The commission believes that the corporate organization, con trol and financing of a project of this type create the possibility of evils ' against which the act is designed to guard. The com mission therefore believes that, the sponsors of such projects should submit to and comply with the act." If brought under the act. Pa cific Power and Light would have to divest itself of its hold ings in Wyoming which it ac quired when it merged two years ago with the now-defunct Moun tain States Power Co. The hold ing company act requires utility holding companies to confine their operations to one geogra phical region. Annual Cost Montana Power, if brought un der the act, would probably have to get rid of gas distributing sys tems. And all four utilities fig ure it would cost them some thing like $100,000 yearly to comply with SEC requirements of utility holding companies. Committee aides reported that after the hearings were conclud ed on this bill, there remained no support from either Demo crats or Republicans on the com mittee for this exemption provi sion. The committee is headed by Sen. Warren . Magnuson (D-Wash.). Unless there is an unexpected shift of opinion in the last weeks of this session, the exemption provision is now regarded as dead. 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