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Matter of Fact i io,Ph a,SoP signed U. N. uniform. At that time, both the world at large and General Burns expected the U. N. force to administer the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period. A military government section had been hastily organ ized for the purpose within Gen eral Burns staff. NASSER'S BORDER GUARD Gaza It is still a secret in Cairo and the Western capitals; but here in the Gaza Strip it is easy enough it-A 4 Q.-6LJ to foresee the final stage of the transfor mation of the f , J U. N. force in IV ' f 1 Egypt into "Nasser s bor- '1 der guard," as some of the of ficers call it. fgViPb 4lop This will be thj ar esult of the as yet uriafBVMoooae deal that has been vifteaily signed and sealed be- tw$fw U. 2T. Secretary Dag Ham maaricjoU and his assistant, Dr Ralpe Junche, on the one hand and Egypt's President Nasser on the other. Havraarskjold and Bunch have conceded another cardinal point t President Nasser. They have agreed that the U. N. pa trols on the Israeli-Egyptian demarcation line will be ac companied by armed Palestine police under the command of the Egyptian civil governor of the Gaza Strip, Maj. Gen. Mo hammed Abdul Latif. The Egyptian controlled po lice will moreover have the right to use arms against border crossers. But the U. N. elements in the border patrols will not enjoy this rather essential mili tary privilege. TN return, President Nasser has also made certain con cessions. Arrangements have been made which are presumed to increase the likelihood that Egyptian border crossers will really be punished by the Egyp tian authorities. Furthermore, the accord, when published, will contain a positive statement by President Nasser the first of the sort that he has made posi tively condemning Egyptian border crossings into Israeli territory. So ends a process remarkably like one of the old fashioned vaudeville "transformation acts", which has radically alter ed the real character and pur pose of the U. N. force here in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere on the demarcation line. How far U. N. Sec. Ham marskjold actually expected or even desired this transforma tion, no one can judge from this vantage point. The facts have to stand for themselves. On March 7, the Israeli Gen. Moshe Dayan, pale, thin lipped nd coldly polite, handed over control of the Gaza Strip to U. N. Gen. Edson Burns, smart in his new horizon blue self-de- THE entire basis of this ex pectation seems to have been a commitment given to Ham marskjold by the Egyptian For eign Minister, Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, that t he Gaza Strip would be under U. N. adminis tration until its future status could be settled by later nego tiation. President Nasser, however, had failed to give his personal endorsement to Dr. Fawzi's promise. In addition, no one seems to have thought very much about the probable mean ing of the presence in the Gaza Strip of 220,000 tragic, passion inflamed refugees from Pales tine who are, in the last an alysis, almost wholly controlled by Egyptian agents. The inevitable therefore oc curred with great speed. The refugees rioted on order. The strictly non-shooting U. N. force had no means to control' them. General Latif was forthwith ap pointed as civil governor and took over the administration on March 13. His appointment and authority have not yet been of ficially recognized by General Burns. But General Latif is an accomplished fact all the same. I went to see him and he ap peared to have no doubts about it himself. THUS the first stage of the transformation of the U. N. force into an Egyptian border guard was successfully accom plished. The process will of course be neatly rounded out by the new arrangement, to in clude an Egyptian controlled armed element in each U. N. border patrol. The U. N. force presently oc cupies not only the Gaza Strip itself. Picket like elements are also posted at all the key points which block another Israeli ad vance into Egypt. Thus the shield is complete. Meanwhile, the Cairo press has ceased proclaiming that the U. N. force would be invited to leave Egypt the very, moment the last invader had departed from Egyptian soil. The question now, in fact, is whether the new U. N. guard on the Egyp tian border is going to become a permanent fixture. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS DRIVING IS NO VACATION Water note: Maj. Gen. Walter K. Wilson Jr., army engineers deputy chief for construction, told a gather ing in Seattle the other day that industry all over the country now uses six times as much wa ter as in 1900 and by 1975 will be using TWICE AS MUCH AS IT IS USING NOW. He added: "Water, in all probability, will soon become the most import ant single factor in determining the location of new industrial plants." HAVE FUN ALL THE WAY ON A GREYHOUND TOUR WW o O A Greyhound tour takes care of your whole trip . . . hotel reservations, transportation, sight-seeing trips! Choose from two types of pre-planned tours. On an INDIVIDUAL TOUR you travel anywhere "on your own" by convenient bus schedules. Choice of hundreds of tours ... at amazingly low prices. On an ESCORTED TOUR you travel aboard a special bus. Friendly escort provides complete service. SAMPLE INDIVIDUAL AND ESCORTED TOURS Individual Tours (from Medford): California , .... 12 days $ 85.72 New York City ... 15 days 181.70 Florida Circle .... 31 days - 385.15 Escorted Tours (from San Francisco): Southern California . . 9 days $135.60 Utah Parks 9 days 171.95 Great Cities of the East 33 days 445.90 Add low Greyhound fare between your city and Escorted Tour point of origin. Prices are per person, plus tax, subject to change SEE GREYHOUND OR YOUR FAVORITE TRAVEL AGENT it's such a comfort to take the bus... and have the driving to us! -GREYHOUND INTERESTING agricultural note: A house of representatives rec lamation subcommittee has set May 6 for a hearing on a bill to ease restrictions on land owner ship in the Columbia Basin rec lamation project up in the state of Washington. Present project law limits land ownership by a family to a sin gle unit ranging in size from 10 acres to 160 acres. The proposed revision, which has already been approved by the senate, would limit individual ownership to 160 acres and family ownership to 320 acres. WHY is that interesting? ' It is a sign that agriculture, along with industry, is changing. In the old days when a mule and a walking plow and a hoe were about all a farmer needed in the way of equipment, he could get along with a small amount of land. In these modern days, when machines are everything, it tak es a lot more land to support the investment in machinery that a farmer must have if he is to op erate at all. THE big political question: Can taxes be cut? The answer is that taxes can't be cut (without going deeper into debt) unless SPENDING can be cut. Bill to Tax Lines Defeated in House THAT raises another question: Can government spending be cut?" T ISTEN: "A house appropriations sub committee dug up the fact the other day that, Bandleader Diz zie Gillespie was paid $2,100 a week during his "good will" tour of Africa and Asia last year. Thaat made him (during the time he was employed) the high est paid employee in U.S. gov ernment service higher even than President Eisenhower. I think maybe we could learn to get along with the Africans and the Asians without spending that much for bands to entertain them. ANOTHER one: We have 273,67' tax-paid ci vilian employees in foreign countries including 26,000 in France, 98,000 in Germany and 129,00. in Japan. I'm reasonably sure we might get along with a few less than that. Party Chairman to Bring Court Action Roseburg U.R) Attorney James Richmond, Douglas Coun ty Republican committee chair man, said Saturday he will bring action to force the ouster of the new Douglas county district at torney appointed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Richmond said the local at torney, Avery Thompson, is a friend of his and that the legal action in no way cast reflection on Thompson's professional or personal qualifications. He said that Gov. Holmes has violated the spirit and intent of the law "ethically and morally" by appointing a Democrat to take the place of the post vacat ed by Republican Robert Suits. Oregon law provides that a re placement must be made from the same political party, Rich mond said. In the case of Stults, Rich mond said Gov. Holmes acted on the assumption that because the retiring district attorney was a write-in candidate with 170 Democrats supporting him, it was technically correct for the governor to appoint a Democrat ic replacement. - ' Richmond accused Governor Holmes of making a political payoff in the appointment of Thompson who had served as Douglas county . manager for Holmes during his election. The court action will take place when Thompson takes the oath of office, Richmond said. I m Salem (U.R) A bill to tax the electric transmission lines of municipal electric systems out side cities was defeated by the House Friday after more than an hour of debate. Rep. Richard Eyman, Mohawk Demorcat, said the bill would correct a tax inequality particul arly in the case of the Eugene Water and Electric Board. Also affected would be systems oper ated by Forest Grove, McMinn ville, Springfield, and. Milton Freewater. Rep. George Layman, New berg Republican, said the bill was bad legislation because it arose from only one local situa tion and because it would open the door to one governmental agency taxing another. Approximately 9 million dol lars in property is owned by Eu gene Water and Electric in the Springfield district which would obtain about $135,000 if the bill passed, according to Rep. Keith Skelton, Eugene Demorcat. Skel" ton said the utility was in com petition with private power com panies and that all such utilites should be taxed by the state. Rep. V. Edwin Johnson, Eu gene Republican, suggested the utility might make payments in lieu of taxes on its property out side the city, but Skelton said there was doubt as to the leg ality of such payments without a statute one the subject. Rep. William Grenfell Jr., Portland Demorcat, said the bill might open the door to taking property of water, sewer and similar municipal systems. U.S. lo Continue To Bring Refugees Washington (U.P.) The Unit ed States said Saturday it will continue to bring "limited num bers" of Hungarian refugees into this country in "the next few months." Reports that the United States was ending its refugee program had created despondency among Hungarians waiting in Austria for a chance to find a new home here. But a special policy statement issued Saturday said "the United States government is continuing to assist the people of Hungary who fled from Communist op pression, and under this policy will continue to bring limited numbers of refugees . into the country within the next few months." Use Mail Tribune Want Ads The Low Cost Way To Sell Sunday, April 14, 1937 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Spifzbart Declines To Manage '57 Fair Salem (U.R) Leo Spitz bart said Saturday he would not manage the 1957 Oregon state fair because he didn't believe he could work with the new State Fair commission appointed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. John Travis of Hood River, chairman of the Fair commission said Spitzbart was called at his home at. 10:30 p.m. Friday and Livited to come down to the Marion hotel to discuss terms. Spitzbart said be had offered to stay on as manager this year, provided he would remain as manager for one more year, at which time he would be eligible for retirement under the state re tirement system. Travis said several applications for the post had been received, and some of them will be con sidered at a meeting at the state fairgrounds here Tuesday. ' Spitzbart's resignation, offer ed several days ago when the new Fair commission was ap pointed is effective Tuesday. About 15,000 hotels in the U.S. provide meals for their guests and do $767 million business per year. Washington U.R) The Agri culture Department is standing on its year-end prediction that farm income in 1957 will be "probably about 5 per cent high er" thari the $11,800,000,000 farmers banked in 1956. "WAR DANCE" Protest Madison, Wis. 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