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Today's Poland Nation of Great Contrasts; Necessities Lacking But Drink Flows Freely i"..ll Jnns. ho rnvrr.ij the Hull- z trian ."It, behind th. iron' urt?m a:ain. thit H. hai spirit ..ral after driine trnm 1 ?.rh'ilakla. Here linpr.Mionf . " 'i hn Sy P.USSEL JONES Uniled Pres. Correspondent Poznan. Poland "? This s Pohmd today: Packed Catholic churches, a CommOmst government, stom-ache-wrenching poverty, a mil-, lion dollars worth of vodka drunk daily. People who make no bones of their dislikes for their Rus sian neizhbor to the east hut feel thp blank rtpnth rf hatrerl toward their German neighbor j to the west. A county whoe own Com munist leader himself so rec ently knew the "darkness at noon" of a Red prison. One where Josef Cardinal Wyszyn ski, Roman Catholic primate of Poland, is virtually as free and influential as in pre-war days Twenty-eight million people with oniy lou.uuu trucKs ana cars among an 01 mem. loo . . poor to buy one suit in five ! Mn. M. R My husband and The Council There is some years, but cooking in butter ; j are quite concerned about our thing awfully wrong with this Drunkenness so widespread all ! ,7. year-old daughter Caroline. ! picture. These two young people vodka shops are closed paydays o at least some money gets home. Steal To Live People speaking with aston ishing candor of their Com munist government and about ' the Russians, yet a Parliament i with no electoral opposition to ! the Communists. A nation with 1 an alm,t fully socialized econ- omy, yet one where S2 million in goods are stolen every dav; by people who must steal to stay alive. A strange country of contrasts! and contradictions It was in this city Poznan a year ago this month June 28 that the worker. rose against the Red Regime. Fifty-three were killed and more than 300 WOUnded. But the SPark Of!f a,it rarnlm. tr, crntL.thor rirU c tlm-, Ko,..l V.mt Poznan brought Wladislaw Gomulka, "Poland's Tito," back to power from a prison cell The I spark jumped national bound , aries it helped ignite 'he bloody revolt in Hungary. I drove here from Vienna across Czechoslovakia. On the trip you can see the full range from free Austrian democracy to Czech Stalinism to the Polish "road to socialism." After Vienna, its streets teem ing with cars and hardly a uni form in sighU the Czech frontier came as a brutal reminder that we still live in two worlds. Poland a Contrast As I drove up to the Czech border, soldiers trained their tommyguns on my car from be hind accordions of barbed wire. Steel rails barred the road to I MlliMMjP". ' I i ii lai. 10:$100 I CORN I 3 I- . , . . une v-ecn snov. ca more i man a sullen curiosity at the new German-made car and its American driver on the 200 miles across Cechoslovakia. I What a contrast once in Pol - and: The people were interested in the car and its driver. What kind was it and how much fuel did it burn? Would it be pos - siblc to sit for a moment in the car. Would one dare to ask for a short drive? Where was 1 going and why? Here in Poznan I met Boni - ienwner at nis wortsoencn idutuij. u ustru The Family Editor'! not: The Family Council j three clergymen a newspaper editor, a women s editor and two writers fcach article is a summary of an actual report The Family Council does not civ advice: it merel reports no problems agencies ind rounelnr Mrs. M. R Wp'tp afrai'H far- 0iine win get hurt. Carolina R. I rinn't mind waitinz She is very much in love with a bov two years older, who is now in the service: We liked Roddy very much at tirst. He eemed well mannered and intelligent and comes from - n,iri h.,me U e oav the two voune DeoDle Dlentv of encour-icnts agement and they have been ex- rh anoinif letters rerrnlarlv RnH. dy keeps writing that he loves Caroline. But when he is home wi leave, Roddy often goes out with other firi"w telle rriir, that 1.0 wjii call and keeDs her waitine arrmnri and then he neuteri her We have spoken to him about '. were Prepared to go. this, but he says that as long as . Now they find themselves for they aren't engaged, there is no ced to manage the rest of the harm in his seeing others. We ; affair. If Roddy is writing love rinn't Irjinw u-hat tn rir ahnitt if letters he shotilri n, t ho snr-inir hurt ... Caroline R I know that what I Roddv does isn't rieht. but I'm : afraid that I'll lose him alto gether if I complain too much. After all, things are pretty tough for him in the service and he says that he has to have a real good time when he comes home. He likes to see some of the other i sins ne um-u iu urn. wiiu. j My parents want us to get en-! gaged now so that Roddy will ' stop going out with others, but j Roddy says it would be best to j waint until he gets out of the! service. Then we can have a i short engagement and get mar ried soon afterward. Sometimes I think my parents are right, but then I think Roddy is right too. We are so young that when you T , . . , enuncr is a macnine 1001 op - erator. He is one of the men who went into Poznan's street , a year ago, his arms linked jwith those of men, women and ! students who braved the rifle jand machinegun fire. ! Was Poznan worth it? j Lentzner Holds Future ; Lentzner will decide that. The 1 j future of Pland really rests on I j his shoulders and those of men like him. 1 Lentzner is a thin, tircd-l,ook-; ing man of 49. He supports his j jwife, year-old son, daughters. 10, ana u, ana nis agea momer. I 1 dsrwtru iiiiii w iiy 11c: sidtt.t:u ills Council eontutt of a Judge, a psychiatrist. that bava been dealt wirta by responsible thorp 1c nn riPPri t r hnrrir ahnut getting engaged. I don't mind ! waitine a vear or so. if I ran he ! sure of Roddy. are in love, says Mrs. M. K., but she is the onlv one who shows any certainty about this act- ! Roddv must eo out with other 1 girls to have "a real good time." Caroline relates uliai her mr. think and what Roddv j 'hinks, but s quite uncertain ! ahotit whpt she thinks What a . basis for an engagement! These parents are so overpro- ective that they leaped at the 'dea of marriage the moment ' thev saw a cleam in a vounu 1 man's eye. They pushed things 1 larther than these young people out about it. He, in return, must defend himself by telling them he isn't engaged yet and they don't know what to do. All of these interesting things are goina on above Caroline's head without her having any thing to say or do about it. This is supposed to be her courtship, but she is just a bystander in the rffair. a in.-.-,t.- jii:iiis siiuuiu i"i s their fears about Caroline's get- ting hurt and push her oil on her own. If she gets hurt this time, she'll know better what to do next time If she is forced to fight her own battle, she may win or lose, but at least it will be her own victory or defeat not Mother's (Copyright 1957. General Features Corp.) food shop at YOUR CHOICE Partytime Green BEANS Bonnie DOG FOOD Beachclift SARDINES FOR Vi GAL. ICE CREAM 79 Corner 4th & Front ,.T - j-j , . , . 1 i just man t care, ne loia me. Is life any better now? "I made 200 zlotys (S8) a month more than then." he said I "But wages are still too low and it is difficult to live." What about new freedoms of press and speech? "Well, I don't read much, but it's a good feeling to talk to you. And anyone else, without thinking thaC someone is listen ing and reporting, "You know, the change I like best is films from the West. Be- lore mey were soviet ijjms ana luo uuil lu sit uuuugii. Would Lentzner dare to pro test openly again? He smiled slightly. "One must remember," he said, "that Poland is a small country .with -great neighbors He obviously meant Russia and West German. "We can not do exactly what we want and when we want. We have made a start Things are better than they were. We must go slowly." Nickel Firm Starts Drilling Operations i Cave Junction The Nickel Corporation of America, under ' tne direction of Alex Skrecky. j has started drilling operations ; : on Eight Dollar mountain, with the Coleman drill company of. Grants Pass doing excavation work. Woodcock mountain drilling, under way for some time, hs yielded up so many s a m pies that an assay office is now under construction at Cave Junction. Previously samples were sent ! to San Francisco, after being j dried first by the sun. then by electric furnace. The Abbot A. Hanks office of San Francisco, j which will do the assay work ; here, has had a p u 1 v erizing machine and a rock crushed in I stalled at the new addition to ; the corporation's office building. According to Edward White of New York City, and John H. White of Salt Lake City, officals of the Nickel Corporation of America, it will take about 60 days more on exploration be fore plans for a processing plant will be made public. London HP Peiping Radio. j the propaganda voice China claimed that of Red Chinese Communist anti-aircraft units damaged one U.S. Navy plane and shot down two Nationalist fighters Wednesday in the Swa low coastal area. Pasco 1 The body of Mrs. Claudia B. Anderson, 68. of Pas co, has been found in Wallula lake. S1 1 a 5 Swans Down Chocolate Chip CAKE MIX 4 . S1.00 Lakeview Brand POTTED MEAT jq fer can c J n L J So Versatile! M: ' ' ' ll a.V. ? IT' SIZES It's a Printed Pattern! A cool summer sundress or favorite jumper and blouse! 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