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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destine groups gather to listen
to RFE. To reach these listeners
and cut through the jammers, as
many as 22 RFE transmitters
pool their compressed beam pow
er on a single target area. The
news these groups hear was de
scribed by one refugee as "our
daily bread.
European News Bureaus
In addition to its New York
headquarters, RFE has 12 news
bureaus spread through Europe.
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. "
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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. It obviously was
built for grandson David and his
three younger sisters if David
would deign to play with the
girls and looks like it might
hold four youngsters with ease.
As far as newsmen know,
neither the guest house, rebuilt
from an old school on the prop
erty, nor the playhouse has ever
been accupied- But they're both
ready and waiting.
Thief Lifts Minister's
Wallet During Sermon
Portland W Rev. Char
les E. Harlow told police today
a thief took his wallet contain
ing about $84 from the office of
the First Congregational church
while he was giving services
Sunday.
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