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TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, January 23. 1958 Economically-Better Okinawa Wants To Get Americans Out Editor f Note: Okinawa 1 the Keystone of American miliutrv . .the t"n Pacifir. It is within 1.S00 miles of everv trouble pot tn Asia. Forty-thousand American troops are stationed there. -Vet. last week Its bigrert ny elected a Communist-harked maror. This dispatch examines why. By ARNOLD DIBBLE United Press Correspondent Tokyo tip Uneasy is the mantle of a domocratic con queror. That , over-simplified per haps, is the story of Okinawa today. Twelve years ago, Okinawa was conquered. It cost the United States 30,000 young men killed or wounded. Since then. America has: Poured billions of dollars into Okinawa. Virtually doubled the the gross national product. Raised sharply the per capita national income. It now has modern primary and secondary schools and its first university, a modern series of hilltop buildings still going up. TV antennas poke up , over shack-settlements. There are four-lane highways and there are rutted, muddy roads that would swallow a small car and make even oxen movement tough. It is not un usual to see a wizened, stoop ed cleaning woman take a taxi to work. The girls are pretty and well-dressed. Don't Like Americans Yet, the Okinawans don't like Americans. They show ed last week how they felt by putting into the Naha mayor's office a slick little political go-getter, Saichi Ka neshi, who had heavy Com munist backing. This reporter was in Okin awa for 10 days covering the election. My ear is still bent to the shoetop by various fac tions who wanted me to know "what is really wrong." They included Okinawan politicians and businessmen, Okinawans in general and Americans in general. There are many specific reasons why the Okinawans voted against an America that helped them, and voted for the return of a Japan which ex ploited them. But, though log ic has no place, it boils down to: The Okirawans want to kick the Americans out be cause they are there. Knew Japanese Ways They want the Japanese back because that is what they knew. Everyone feels the United States has made mistakes. Each has some point. For in stance, when military-licensed taxis driven and occupied byH Okinawans come to a military police gate, the driver is stop ped, questioned and often his auto is searched! But if an auto is driven by an Ameri can citizen or the passenger in the car is obviously Amer ican, the car is waved through. Militarily, it's sensible. But to Okinawans, it's discrimina tion. However, as one hard-headed American told me: "You can't fool around with demo cracy. You either got to go all the way or your got to go the other way and run a real auth oriatarian operation." In this man's opinion, the U.S. military would be ad vised to bottle up talk of domacracy so long as Okinawa is considered a base whose military potential must ab solutely he, protected. Slick Maneuvering Take the case of U.S. high commissioner Lt. Gen. James Moore in getting rid of form er Mayor Kamejiro Senaga, an outright Communist. Moore was under pressure to get Senaga out. The Communist had slipped in with 40 per cent of the popular vote. By some slick maneuvering Senaga was voted out of of fice by the city council when a number of his supporters were absent. No one would defend the action as really domocratic. But it wasn't clear cut and autocratic either. And be cause it was pretty much a slipshod compromise, it boom-eranged. Okinawans I talked to weren't for the new Mayor Kaneshi. They were against the United States' way of "do ing things." Oregon Poison Control Registry Furnishes Information to Physicians PnrtlonH A 1 5-m nnth-ftld I ment in dozens nf arnirlpnfal i niihlif -riA-n. - i . T : a i n i --. , , Portland A 15-month-old Oregon child recently ate rug cleaner, an 11-month old swallowed paint brush restor er, and a two-year old con sumed a batch of skin fresh ener. Fortunately, all survived, thanks in part to the prompt action of Oregon's newest and least known life-saving serv ice, the Oregon poison con trol registry. Since it was started last August as a cooperative ven ture of the state medical so ciety, University of Oregon medical school and the state board of health, the registry has furnished attending phys icians and hospitals with on-the-spot information about in gredients and proper treat ment in dozens of accidental poisoning cases. Clearing House The registry is basically a physicians' central clearing house of information, operat ing around the clock every day of the year. Whenever the need arises, the registry and its sponsoring agencies will also conduct educational pro grams to keep the general Linnton Lumber Yard Due To Be Rebuilt Portland HP) Company of ficials said today the King sley Lumber Company mill at Linnton, destroyed last Octo ber in a 5200,000 fire, would be rebuilt. It is expected to be in operation by early summer. puDiic lnxormea or new or particularly- dangerous pro ducts. Health officials are general ly agreed that the question of what constitutes a danger problem in preventing acci dental poisoning. Most people can't bring themselves to ad mit their homes aren't safe, even in the face of national safety council statistics show ing about a quarter of a mil lion accidental poisonings and a thousand deaths a year in the United States. The average American par ent, for example, stores deter gents and household cleaners under the kitchen sink, with in easy reach of small chil dren, without stopping to re alize their potentially-lethal qualities, health officials said, According to the experts, a small amount of some deter gents spilled into the eye can cause blindness. If swallowed, some of the under-sink pro ducts can cause death. Insecticides Not all substances used in a modern home need be swal lowed to be dangerous. Regist ry officials feel positive many Oregon homes contain insec- Portland To Vofe on Fire Bureau Changes Portland (IP A request for S3 million for fire bureau improvements here was as sured a place on the May pri mary ballot Wednesday by the city council. ticides in easily-accessible cup' boards which are so danger ous they can cause death merely by being splashed onto the skin. The experts say parents would do well to keep any thing not known to be edible where a small child can't pos sibly reach it. As the child grows older, he should be ed ucated to the dangers of all household products. This lock-ed-cabinet theory may not ther, but the experts say the only alternative is the risk of terrible crippling or death of the child. The new registry has an unlisted phone number, be cause it is designed to serve physicians and hospitals only. it someone m tne nome is ac cidentally poisoned, call the family physician immediate ly. Tell him the name of the product and about how much you think the person has consumed. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile ' 727 W. McAndrew Ph. SP 2-4107 9m PRESIDENTIAL PRECAUTIONS President and Mrs. Eisenhower left Chicago to return to Washington, after attending a GOP $100-a-plate dinner in the Windy City. Due to the heavy snow and high winds, precautionary vehicles were with the plane as it took off from Midway Airport. Seen in the foreground as the Columbine took off were fire trucks, an ambulance and the fire marshall's car. Prosperous West Berlin Puts Communism To Greatest Test By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Correspondent Berlin (IB Prosperous West Berlin is putting Com munist propaganda to its greatest test. Just inside East Berlin, and within sight of the jagged ruins of Hitler's Chancellory, a sign over the Communist Youth Movement building proclaims: "Youth is for Socialism that is Germany's future." But thousands of East Ger mans living in rubble and the gray world of Communism say: "What future?". Could Get Three Years At the rate of more than 500 per day they risk Com munist imprisonment to pour into West Berlin along one of the few routes left open for escape to the West. Failure could mean up to three years now is the time to call MEDFORD FUEL CO. Tel. SP 2-2111 - Court & McAndrews for Mobilheat Yes! S&H Creen Stamps. Too! in prison. A thin, jagged, at times al most invisible line, eight miles long running roughly south east to northwest, separates Berlin into Communist East and the capitalistic West. It creates out of West Ger many an island 110 miles in side Communist East Ger many. It also creates an ir ritant which not even the best Communist propagandists can explain away. Forty thousand East Ger mans work daily in West Ber lin. No propaganda can erase for them the glittering West Berlin shops, the restaurants, the new automobiles and the flashing neon signs. Never Forget West Berliners never for get their divided city or their divided country. They support passionately the hard line against Communism. ' But in the 12 and one-half years since World War II, West Berliners have rebuilt their city from rubble, recap tured their gaiety and achiev ed a tanquility seemingly im possible in the face of the Communist menace surround ing them. Three 20-mile-wide air cor ridors connect West Berlin with West Germany. They are tiny cracks in the Iron Cur tain, patrolled on either side by Communist Mig jet fight ers. West Berlin's impact makes itself felt almost as soon as the big airplane sweeps into Tempelhof Airport, its wing tips almost seemingly to brush apartment houses on either side. There is still war damage here. But each year "West Ber liners clear more debris and put up more buildings than has been accomplished by the Communists in all the years since the war. Empty blocks still appear like gaping teeth. The broken steeple and tumbled remnants of the Kaiser Wilhelm Church remain as a grim memorial at the end of the Kurfuersten damm. West Berlin's smartest shopping street. The Difference The people make the dif ference. There are the pretty girls with smartly clipped French poodles on the end of leashes. There is the hotel doorman who summons the taxi which is more than likely to be a new Mercedes. There1 is the friendly waiter serving food the equal of any in Eur ope in a restaurant equally as smart. There are the shops selling everything from automatic washing machines to Persian rugs, from a man's white shirt to the smartest gown. Then there is East Berlin, a city of mile after mile of ruins, of empty streets and silent people, physically divid ed from West Berlin only by the Brandenburg Gate but a world apart. Here are the ruins of the Chancellory and nearby a vast field of fallen bricks and broken masonry where only a huge upended rfock is a memorial to the bunker in which Hitler and Eva Braun died. Here are the remains of the famous Adlon Hotel where the world's great dined. 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