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BIX MEDFOP.D (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, July 8, 1957 Radio Free Europe Grows From Weak Transmitter To Big System New York W Twenty-nine Radio Free Europe transmitters today broadcast eastward across Europe to battle the best efforts of an estimated 1,500 Commu nist jamming stations. The RFE transmitters, some twice as powerful as any station in the United States, are a far cry from a set that powered a thin voice seven years ago Thursday. That voice came from a truck parked in a woods out side Lampertheim, Germany. It filtered across the edge of the Iron Curtain into Poland. It an nounced for the first time: Now Major System "This is Radio Free Europe, your broadcasting station, op erated by your friends in the country of hope, the country of freedom, the United States of America." From a few men broadcasting from RFE's first unit, a weak 7.500-watt mobile transmitter, RFE has grown to a major sys tem. Its transmitters total In power 1,077,000 watts on short wave and an additional 135,000 watts on medium wave. Nickels, dimes and dollars do nated by Americans to Crusade for Freedom have built and now support a 1,400-man organiza tion of Americans, Germans, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, . Bul garians and Romanians. 70 Million Listen This staff must accomplish a tremendous job to supply the Russian satellites, an audience of 70 million persons, with ac curate news of the free world and of their homelands, RFE spokesmen say. RFE's five stations are on the air a combined total of 3,000 hours a week. Along with 10 minutes of hourly news, pro grams range as widely as on any commercial station in the United States. ' Hundreds of refugees have told RFE researchers how clan- The Family Council Editors not: Th Family Council ronsltts of a Judg. a psvrhlatrlst, thrfa clrjjymn, m newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each artlrla Is a summary of an artual report. The Family Council does not jive advlre; It merely reports on problems that hava been dealt with by responsible agencies ana counselors. Gaorgo F. I want to make it up to Caroline. Caroline) T. Sometimes I Hjt.e him like poison. fJR8ra t. I come of a de cent, self-respecting middle-ciass lafcnily, so I can't quite figure out how I've gotten into the rr I've made, and I want to do rr.p best to straighten it all out. QBiy wife died recently after an illness of several months, leaving me with three small children. While she was ill, my lyear-old sister-in-law came to stay to help take care of her and the kids. I was under a ter rible strain and one night I got drunk and forced myself on my sister-in-law. It was a terrible thing to do and I want to make it up to Caroline. I feel we should get married. The children need a mother and Caroline has been so upset by the whole thing that I'm afraid of what's going to happen to her. With the arrange ment we have now, she takes care of the kids all day and goes home to her mother's at night. O . Caroline T. I just don't know what to do. I'm so mixed up. I would really like to take the kids to my mother's house, but she isn't well and says she feels w can t cope with them. There is nobody else in either our fam ily or George's to take care of them. My mother doesn't know what has happened between George and me, but she likes George and has been hinting that we should marry. I used to like George, but now I sometimes think I hate him like poison. Just the same, I do love the children and they love me and I couldn't think of letting them go to a home or anything like that. I realize that George isn't a bad person under normal condi tions, but he is 12 years older than I. Also, I wonder whether this will affect my chances of making any other marriage, that is, if I don't marry George. V . The Council: It cannot be "the right thing" for an 18-year-old girl to marry a man simply because he has forced himself on her. Nor can it be right for such a girl to sign her life over to three children, not her own even if she does love them. The children's plight is very sad indeed, but it is doubtful whether they would be very well off with an unhappy moth er, who has married under these unpromising conditions. Caroline and George do not seem to be aware of the social agencies of every faith that are set up to cope with exactly this kind of problem. These chil dren would be better off, for a time at least, in an institution or foster home recommended by the agency. Caroline should tell her story to a clergyman of her faith or to the social worker attached to the agency that takes over the problem of the children. She needs guidance badly and neither George nor her mother is in the best position to help her. 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They gather a large volume of news from the satellites by monitoring 44 Communist radio stations and 11 Communist news services. Some 550 Communist and hundreds of Western publi cations are studied. From RFE's New York head quarters and from a Munich command post the news is chan neled through the system's broadcast stations in Portugal and West Germany. The RFE could only be suc cessful if it was telling the satel lites the truth about Commu nism. To find out if it is suc ceeding in this, RFE has col lected stacks of reft gee testi mony, counted Communist at tacks against it, set down the results of its news "scoops and amassed any statistics on recep tion in the satellites that it could obtain. Studies Appears Conclusive On the basis of their studies, RFE men proudly report that: Of more than 6,000 Commu nist attacks against Western broadcasters recorded since 1954, 89 per cent were directed against RFE. They consider it an indication that RFE stings the Red regimes The Reds spend more to combat RFE with jamming sta tions than RFE spends to operate. Of 410 Hungarian refugees questioned by a German re search organ 96 per cent said they listened to Western Broad casts. Of these, 79 per cent said they listened to RFE. The Communist government Hungary assigned "listening cou ples" to make surprise visits to neighbors and report those they detected tuning in RFE. Jamming Station Target One of Polish insurgent s chief targets in the Poznan up rising was an anti-RFE jamming station. The RFE men have a favorite example of their system's suc cess. It is one of many desperate messages beamed to RFE dur ing the last days of the Hun garian revolt. "Radio Free Europe! Radio Free Europe! Hear us! Help us!" A voice said in Hungarian on a weak radio signal. "Tell our story to the world! Take our message to the U.N.! Send our appeals to decent men everywhere!" Bock Stairs: Plan Pays Off For Caddies By PATRICIA WIGGINS i and framed and is enjoying it United Press Correspondent as much as the Eisenhowers en Washington n?l Back I joy their tray. stairs at the White House: President Eisenhower didn't know it, but two Gettysburg youngsters spent one whole night in a car outside the Gettysburg Country Club so they could be the first signed on to caddy for you know wh the next morning-It worke-i. "Spud" Eckert, 16, caddied for the President, and Bob Codoro, 15, drew Gen. Arthur S. Nevins, Eisenhower's golfing partner. There was some question after the match was over whether it was worth it. The President whips around the nine-hole course twice with his golf cart in about two hours. That's the usual time for others to play 11 holes. The caddies end up running most of the way, catching their breath briefly at each green.' "Whew, we've had it," puffed Spud at the close of the morning workout. They sprawled on the lawn with a soda pop to recuper ate before taking on the next customers- a The President, an amateur chef, has become a frozen food fan at his farm. At the White House in Wash ington, his food problems are worked out sort of by remote control between Mrs. Eisen hower and the help. But at the farm, Eisenhower delights in taking a personal hand in culi nary matters. He is said to be 'intrigued" by the kitchen's frozen food de partment. It includes a big lock er that was installed when the old iarm house was renovated. The President treated Konrad Adenauer to an all-frozen food lunch at the farm during the German chancellor's recent visit. Since then he's been experiment ing with a new frozen food dish: noodles and chicken. No Change Seen In Red Foreign Policy London IW Russia warned the west Saturday that the ouster of the Stalinist leaders will not result in any "compromise" on Soviet foreign policy. Western diplomats took the warning broadcast by Moscow radio and the known mercurial temperament of the now all powerful Nikita S. Khrushchev to mean the west may be in for some surprising shocks in inter national relations in the future. An English-language broadcast over the official Soviet radio said it is "entirely unjustified" for the West to hope for a "cer tain compromising attitude in Soviet foreign policy." Commentator Anatoly Bobrov said Western newspaper accounts of the possible diplomatic effect of the ouster of Molotov, Malen kov and Kaganooch "need clari fication." He said publicly expressed hopes that the new Soviet leader ship would soften foreign policy are groundless. " Iwav .ya-s RESCUED High on 12,000 foot ML Adams near Tak hlakh Lake, Wash., rescued mountaineer David Bishop of Yakima, Wash, rests after being aided from an all night perch on a glacier. Stranded with him was Mike McGuire, also of Yakima. Something new has been add ed at the Eisenhower farm house: A handsome black metal tray which bears the Eisenhower shield (a blue ironworkers anvil on a field of gold) and the family motto (Peace Through Understanding). The shield has three clusters of five silver stars denoting Ei senhower's military rank- The tray was fashioned by John C. Byers, an artisan and antique dealer at New Oxford, Pa., about 12 miles from the Ei senhower farm. Byers volun-.. teered to make the tray and was supplied with a copy of the Ei senhower crest, the original of which is in Frederiksborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark. Eisenhower wrote Byers a thank you note for the gift. Byers had the letter mounted There's a new house on the Eisenhower farm a little pink playhouse with c a n d y-cane striped pilars and blue shutters. It was built next to the guest house on the edge of the Presi dent's property. 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