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.
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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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Wednesday and Friday library
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According to Mrs. Jewel
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in order to make it possible for
business people to visit the li
brary more frequently. The en
tire family can now attend to
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men are received regularly, as
well as a supply of reading ma
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NO PRIVACY Actress Marilyn Monroe chats with her
future husband, playwright Arthur Miller, in front seat
of his station wagon. Marilyn avoided photographers and
nr wsmen as she left her New York apartment. .She fled
in a taxi and met Miller at a predetermined spot but the
press closed in on them and the couple was slightly de
layed in departing to the north.
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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