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."
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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."
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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. (U.R) A peace
loving student group at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin will hold
an Anit-Military Ball Saturday,
night in the wake of Friday
night's annual military ball.
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