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L Blood Clings To Tall Swampland Frontier Last Refugee Hope Rushes Along By JACK MEEHAN United Preis Correspondent On the Austro-Hungarian Frontier (U.R! Tall rushes froz en into flint-hard spikes thrust their way upward through the ice of this swampland frontier. There was blood on those reody bayonets today. They call it the "iron curtain." this swampy bit of borderland chosen by Hungarian refugees in their flight to fredom. Rut it should be called the "terror curtain" for that is what it is. The only sour4 n the siflp zero dawn is the wnispering of the wind through the frozen reeds. Ar hen thweis the shriek of a woman in despair. Her ice rises in terror gnd pain too fierce for silence. Occasional Gucvd You see nothing excnpt ah oc casional Communist border guard swathed in an overpaddcd coat a he Saddles into view across the trcaIttrous ocean of Tee that the frontier. 'Xjm knoig he sSlvers. oo, for Sou can see beat his hands togca.er for warmth. o There is no warmth in this icy a : world that is one of the main un derground railway stations on the foad from Budapest to Vien na, and still the refugees come throueh. It is one of the most bor' nd-soul-battering roads chosen and conquered by man. Thousands have chosen this path and won. Some have failed, killed by Communist border guards within a Russian rifle shot of neutral Austria's beflag ged frontier. Signs of their passing, tinselled with frost, lie !atteid about like crazy remnants around some mad-man's Christmas tree. Signs of aha Tim A tiny tot'sred zippered snow suit with its fadel abel from a Budapest department store lies huddled near the reeds. Two patched o inner tribes to whfch men and women clung and pad dled tftrougothe 8one-nurbing paters of a border canal. A taby picture book whose (jmrsery rhyme illustrations are the same the world over though the words are in Hungarian . . a child's blue knitted woolen tat and mittens held together by a, piece of tattered cord. In fhe tall rushes where the woman screamed the ice thick- i ness varies. The water depth I varies, too. Many of the refugees fighting through, to freedom here have plunged neck deep into the j water through the ice. The sudden chilling shock has driven some, already buffeted by fatigue, to the verge of shrieking hysteria. More hardv ones have dog trotted circula tion and warmth into frostbitten limbs on the safety of Austrian soil. War-hardened American news- ungarian 'Terror Curtain' men sometimes weep openfy as they watch the tortured and pathetic parade of refugees. A French photographer smashed his camera to the ground in a fury of frustrated rage. A rlz vision cameraman kept his cam era whirring although he was unable to focus through his tears. Sobbing Mass ' In one fantastic dsh for free dom scores of men, women and children hurled themselves across the border in a sobbing mass, stumbling, crawling and smasning through the reeds that 51st Year Medford United Press Full Leaed Wire Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire 2nd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1956 8 Pages stabbed their clothes and tore their flesh. A rustle stirs the reeds and the woman who screamed stag gers into sight, drenched to her hips with muddy swamp water and clutching her heaving breast. She is 60, she says, and she has walked half the 158 miles from" Budapest although she has a weak heart. She says : she screamed when she Jll through the ice and felt her self fainting. The reeds part and ftur men slip through, followed by a wori an with a child in her srms. The woman is silent, numb, and is offered a drink of brandy. The silent numbness gives way to hysteria and she screams that her baby is dead. But the child, numbed with cold, is safe. Plod Across Field The refugees plod across the open field toward a Red Cross station a mile away. One man wears heavy boots of the Hun garian army, but the others have only broken leather bound to gether with rags that are no match for the reedy bayonets. Seven more refugees h a v joined the 93,000 sheltering in Austria and the fresh blood on the reedy bayonets freezes in the wind that sweeps the Hun garian plains. The Family Council Kd1tor9 note: The Family Council roniUti of & Jndg pyehiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article li a jummary of an actual rert. The Family Council does not rive Mvice: ltmerely reports on problems mat havdCbeeia; dealt with by responsible agencies a counselors. GRANDVIEW MAR Huge . 2330 .CRATER LAKE AVENUE. INVITES YOU TOJOIN IN TfcJESR lQA I Mrs. Sally D. My mother refuses;) come to live with us. Mn. D. W. illy takes too uch on herself. ' Mrs. Sally D. I wonder QO'hat makes old people so stub born My endowed mother, who Qs in h(g, 70's and not very well, absolutely refuses to come to (fcve with us. despite the fact that my hfifband and I have begged ?r. I tell my mother it would be much egj'er if she ved with r us because she is ill so ften that I have to keep tunning bacft and forth between my apartment and hers to care for her. -ilothe' says her neighbors are wiuig 10 neip ner u sne rally nee4s help, but I don't want If trust my mother to the care strangers when she is not ell.D o - o fan. D. w1. I jlways. prom ised melf I wouitt not become a bijrOn o my children. My own mother lived with me in the Jast years of her life and I know it was vry Sard on me and the family. My neighbors are not strang ers, bufegood friends. They real ly d everything necessary for mi. Anyway. Sally bothers me when she takes jare of me. She can't seem to dp enough. She takes too much oe herself. Sally is really afraid that I'll die alrgie in the middle of some nigh$ She cSn't believe that I'm not afraid. old peop9 so stubborn, it is the insGJtence of many young peo ple, like herself, who project their r&tirs and anxieties on older ones. ' It is understandable that 'Sal ly should not want to leave her ill mother to the care d? strarg 9's and that she would fear that her mother would be alone in the midst of crises at night, but from both accounts it ap pears that Sjlly siows her anxi ties much .to readily to the po't where it disturbs her motho. . Mrs. D. 'v?. appears to be try ing to protect herself from Sally's oversolicitude.'' She is the kind of woman who feels STeong as long as se at allowed, to use her own inner resource and courage. Sally, who has less courage, would take away her motherj ability to stand up to her trials. . 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