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Recent Report Given On Hungary Conditions Editor's not: Russell Jones was the only Ameri can newsman who remained in Budapest throughout the ill-fated Hungarian revolu tion in late 1956. He recently- returned for the first time since those stirring and perilous days. By RUSSELL JONES United Press Correspondent Budapest W The graves are gone from the public parks of Budapest. The bodies of the men, women and children who died for freedom in October and November of 1956 have been moved to the cemeteries. Only the dates on the headstones there bear witness to the cir cumstances under which they died. That is what has struck me most sharply on my return to this city. When I saw it last, the parks were pocked with the fresh graves of the free dom fighters. The new Com munist regime wants no re minder. It has done a good job. The black flags which hung from the buildings, mourning the nation's dead youth, are Young Airman Starts Week's Simulated Trip To Outer Space San Antonio, Tex. IW Airman Donald G. Farrell, huddled in a small steel cham ber cut off from the world, was bearing up well today against the bleak solitude of a simulated outer space trip to the moon. The 23-year-old New York airman entered the steel shell anchored to the floor of a Randolph Air Force Base lab oratory Sunday. If all goes well, he will emerge Satur day. Flight surgeons, watching him constantly on a 14-inch television screen, said the air man is an "excellent subject" and was holding up well under the oppressiveness of his three by five foot chamber, sealed off from the world and en veloped in air pressure equal to the heigh of 18,000 feet. H e undergoes rigorous work periods, matching charts and checking lights on a maze of instruments facing the seat from which he can not rise. The tests check his mental alacrity under the strain and have nothing to do with space navigation, of ficers said. Farrell's only contact with the world is soft music, which he can hear at the push of a button. Reactions Watched Flight surgeons, working in relays while others sleep in the laboratory, watch his face on the 14-inch TV screen and watch his problem re actions on another screen Wires and instruments on his body record his condition. Farrell's biggest enemy. and the reason for the test, is solitude. To make the test a succes, he must endure the isolation for seven days in the small cell, with only a minimum of room to shift his body. Only a clock tells him the differ ence between night or day. 'He can hear only himself and the optional music. United Auto Workers Set Meetinq For This Week Detroit (IP) Several hundred United Auto Work ers local and international of ficers will meet for three days this week to; work out specific provisions of the 1958 bargaining proposal to Gen eral Motors Corp. The Feb. 12-14 meeting of this General Motors council of the UAW will be the first held to work out contract terms for a single company. The UAW Chrysler council will meet Feb. 19 and the Ford council will meet March 4. The UAW bargaining con vention Jan. 22-24 approved the union's general bargain ing program. This program in cluded a "basic" economic package for many wage and benefit gains and a "supple mentary" package for a share of the profits of successful corporations. T. O. Yntema, Ford vice president-finance, this week told the Senate anti-monopoly subcommittee the UAW's "basic" package alone would cost the auto companies an other 60 cents or better per hour in labor expenses. , The UAW international has never put a figure on the cost of its basic demands. That will be the job of the corpor ation councils and of the Na tional Bargaining committee which will write up the final contract demands from where the councils leave off. The basic demands include an annual wage boost of at least four per cent. The un ion said this is the minimum production improvement rate for all American industry. This would add four per cent. The union said this is the minimum production improve ment rate for all American industry. This would add 10 Dave Beck May Have To Pay Rent Miami Beach IIP) The Teamsters Union executive board may decide at its win ter meeting opening today whether to make Dave Beck pay some rent and taxes on the $165,000 house the union built for him, sources said today. Both Beck, a former presi dent of the union, and his successor, James R. Hoffa, were scheduled to sha'ce the spotlight at the winter con ference of Teamster officials. Beck was planning to help clean up "loose ends" in the change-over of administrations in the 1,400.000-member truck union. Teamster sources said the board may decide if Beck should be allowed to continue living rent-free and tax-free in the SI 65,000 home in Se attle built with union funds. The Teamsters convention which elected Hoffa refused to grant Beck the title of president emeritus. However, Beck receives a S50.000-a-year pension from the union. cents an hour to the present average assembly 4 worker's wage of $2.40. The UAW also wants the company-paid pension increas ed from $2.25 to $2.75 per" month for each year worked. The union wants the pension qualifications liberalized to require fewer years, lower re tirement age and more liberal health exceptions. No price tag was placed on these pen sion improvements. Two Spirngfield Brothers Held for Albany Slaying Albany, Ore. (IP) A 51- year-old Albany man, Wil liam Calloway Howell, was stabbed to death on a street near his home early Sunday. Two Springfield brothers ad mitted to police they had a "knife fight" with the victim. Howell was the father of eight children. The body was found in shrubbery Sunday morning by three boys who notified police. Deputy Coro ner Walter Kropp said How ell had been stabbed seven times and his throat slashed. Brothers Detained The suspects, Andrew Wolfe, 22, and his 20-year-old brother, Phillip, were held without bail. The pair first came to the attention of au thorities when Andrew ap peared at an Albany hospital early Sunday for treatment of a superficial knife wound in the back. He told hospital atendants he and his brother had been attacked by a man as they walked along railroad tracks near Millersburg, five miles north of Albany. Police were notified. When the youths could not locate the spot where the at tack was said to have taken place police detained them for further questioning. When Howell's body was found they were placed in custody of Linn county sheriff George Miller. Andrew later admitted they had been in a fight with How ell after the man allegedly called Andrew a "bad name." Klamath Doctor, Wife Die in Fire ' Klamath Falls (IPI A Klamath Falls doctor and his wife died of suffocation "Sun day when flames swept their home. The victims were Dr. Raymond W. Oldenburg, 59, and his wife Jean, 56, resi dents of Klamath Falls for 30 years. Firemen said the two were apparently overcome by smoke from a fire which heavily damaged the rear of their house. Cause of the fire, which took four hours to con trol, has not been determined, firemen said. I gone and in their place fly again the red stars. I had seen those red flags ripped to shreds in the streets.' Stalin's Statue Gone The monuments to the "heroic Soviet liberators" of World War II toppled by the freedom fighters have been restored. All but the giant figure of Stalin. It had not been replaced. . The traffic of trucks and autos and street cars moves swiftly again today through Budapest streets once ladder ed by barricades and shaken by the tread of Soviet tanks and the blast of artillery. Here is a bakery in the Fer enc Circle where I once took shelter from the gunfire. Cus tomers now carry loaves of bread out the front door. Little more than a year ago its back door had been a supply point for the men fighting in the Killian Barracks. In Pakoczi St., I paused at the spot where a young girl carrying a rifle kissed me simply because I was an American. Visit to Cemetery I went to the Kerepesi Na tional cemetery on a Sunday morning. There both the free dom fighters and the Commu nists have buried their dead. That morning as on every Sunday hundreds paid their respects to the revolution aries. Only a few relatives stood by the graves of the Communists, buried in a circle around the monument of Hun garian national hero Lajos Kossuth. There is a pride among these people that they at least tried. I asked a doctor of medi cine, a greyhaired man in his middle 50s with a growing family, if it had been worth it all the bloodshed and the reprisals that came after wards. Yes, he said, because we stood up and were counted. ' "To me and thousands of others, even those who lose fathers, brothers or sons, it was worth it. I was a specta tor, a noncombatant, an op portunist, if you like, but I think I can answer for most Hungarians. "It was worth everything for the very simple reason that now I and almost every other Hungarian need have no fear of my neighbor. Traitors and Patriots "Before the revolution he might wear a party badge or he might not, but I never real ly knew what he was. Now all of that is done and gone. We know who are the traitors and who are the patriots." That is perhaps the most im portant result and a curious one. The government tries to pretend the revolt never hap pened. So the people have taken them up on that myth to fill the restaurants and night clubs with a desperate kind of gaiety. The physical lot of the peo ple is not nearly so bad as might have been expected. The Soviet Union has poured in $225 million in loans dur ing 1957 alone. Still the people live from day to day, with little thought for tomorrow. But despite the regime's at tempt to hide the past and the people's desire to ignore the future, the gaiety is only sup erficial. To me, Budapest is the sad dest of cities. Monday, February 10, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FTVB BIG FREE PARKING LOTS f- IN BACK OF THE (EmaD(ciEmniw9: If You're Not Trading At The Groceteria You're Paying Too Much EVERYBODY LOVES 023" They're Newl SUNSHINE Chocolate - Nut COOKIES ALL LEARl-ES&DNELESS 12 STEW From Choice Steer Beef GROCETERIA FRESH VI GUT AIL Make A Good Meal BETTER - ' J'S ' Finest Quality Obtainable Always New York Mayor To Air School Problem New York W) Mayor Robert F. 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