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
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Portland HP) Company of
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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.
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return to Washington, after attending a GOP $100-a-plate dinner in the Windy City.
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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
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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.
A rear wing still is habitable
and beer is served in what
once was the servant's dining
room.
Here, too, is Stalin Allee
where the legend of Stalin
still lives and flowers are
placed at the foot of his sta
tue. On Stalin Allee, once
Frankfurter Allee, are clust
ered some of the few Russian
built structures in East Berlin,
their massive facades and
shallow interiors seeming to j
overshadow the street's few
pedestrians as in a vast but ,
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