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Ml Out 1 for mmw Moscow a Clumsy Export Red mm (The London Observer's chief an extensive tour of Communist China. This is the second of five articles telling the Inside story of Red China to escape censorsnip.j By DENNIS BLOODWORTH HTNS-Londoa Observer Foreign Service Singapore-What passed , Khrushchev and Chinese Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung at their meeting in Peiping in early August is still largely secret. But the joint Mao-Khrushchev communique and subse quent international developments have been revealing, de spite the secrecy. The communique called for although in reality Peiping is natonal teoson. But it also devoted disproportionate space to condemning Yugoslav "revisionism," a subject on which China is infinitely more sensitive than the USSR. Khrushxhev evidently bowed before Mao's objections to the holding of a Middle East Nations Security council, for posed a debate in the U.N. General assembly instead. Khrushchev Mad Promise! But when that meeting cessfully blunted the edge of Communist Chinese guns opened up on Nationalist-held Que moy within 48 hours. This move, however, must mation from Russian sources ki Peiping that Mao asked for more arms for China and Khrushchev made certain promises. The urgent necessity for sion becomes clear if it is set Soviet relations, of the delicate balance that Moscow and Peiping must always strike tions if Communist solidarity is to be preserved. Other Slates Held Inferior The Emperors of China regarded all other states as infe rior, and this sublime arrogance acteristic of Chinese thinking dignities inflicted bv foreign conscious of the unchallengable heavyweight status that a growing population of more than 600,000,000 confer, the Communist regime demands that every Chinese pour out his sweat to make of Chma the the world as auickly as possible. The discipline, unity of purpose and power of coercion that this effort demands can inism in the Communist context, and the "hundred liowers ramnaisrn last vear proved to tion from Marxism-Leninism, nprmitted. . . But since China is still relatively weak and depends on the solidarity of the Soviet bloc as a whole at this stage, any tendencey within it toward liberalization, toward tolerating variations on the rigid ideology that cements the bloc, toward nnpnin? the door to alien democratic influences is anainema Peiping's policy that the opposed camps and that international tension must pe main tained has three roots. It springs from a desire to exclude dangerous Western political thought, from an emotional hatred of the Western Pnwpn that have backed Chiang Kai-shek and refused Pei ping recognition, and from the . . ... Chinese millions at an uncritical nationalistic iev yn.v.11 an atmosphere of constant campaigns and crises. (Continued on Page 11) De Gaulle Sweeps French Election Paris-flJPD-France has .voted its shaky Fourth Republic out of existence by a four-tc-one landslide that makes Premier Charles de Gaulle the nation's undisputed "strong man." . Returns from Sunday's ref erendum showed the constitu tion drafted by De Gaulle for a Fifth Republic had been ap proved 17,666,828 to 4,624,- 475 - a majority 10 per cent greater than even the most ardent Gaullists had expected. The only report of a nega tive vote came from the French West African colony of Guinea, where the expect ed "no" majority was in ef- Zip Gun Mishap Endangers Sight Ashland - Walter Wayne Cook, 10, of 746 C st., Ash land, may lose the sight of an eye because of an accident with a home-made "zip" gun, it was reported today. Ashland General hospital attendants said his condition is fair. - The accident occurred Sat urday afternoon, Ashland po lice said. The youth evident ly had converted a piece of conduit pipe into a gun bar rel. He drilled a hole in the . top, bent over one end and fitted it to a piece' of wood for a handle. The boy stuffed it with match-heads, used paper wads and shoved in a piece of a spike for a projectile. The pipe backfired, hit him in the eye, and tore some skin off his nose and cheek city police said. Cache of Half Dollars Found at State Prison Salem - (UPD - Twenty silver half dollar coins, apparently hidden by a convict for a rainy day, were found while razing cellblock B at the state penitentiary, Warden Clar ence Gladden said today. The half dollars, with dates rang ing from 1854 to 1876, were found buried in mortar. The coins will be put on display after they are cleaned. . - i Ally From Far East eorr esoondent has fust mad today. It is written from Sintapor , - between Soviet Premier Nikita holding summit talks at once. not interested in relaxing inter- conference within the United after leaving Peiping he pro approved a resolution that sue the crisis in the Arab world, be read in the light of infor this top-level give-and-take ses against the background of Sino- between their divergent ambi remains a fundamental char today. Smarting under tne in barbarians past and present and most powerful modern state in be achieved only through Stal China's leaders that no devia as Mao interprets it, must be world remain divided into two need to keep the hard-pressed - i - t r x : 4-..1. i i feet a declaration of inde I nfnrfpnv De Gaulle told African colonials they could have their freedom if they were willing to give up French aid. In Algeria, the principal trouble spot in French Africa, the constitution was approved by . a majority of nearly 98 per cent, with a vote of i,- 023,069 to 56,392. Despite guerrilla threats of retaliation against Arabs who voted, only about 17 per cent of the vot ers stayed away from tne polls. The new constitution will trive the president of the Fifth Republic-virtually certain to be De- Gaulle himself-great- cr powers than any irencn man since Napoleon. Although the new republic probably will not come into being until about Jan. 1, the constitution confers imme diate emergency powers on the premier, including the right to decide how French men will vote in the parlia mentary election expected in November. Oregon Bus Line Declared Bankrupt Portland (UPD An order declaring City Transit Lines of Salem, Eugene and Spring field involuntary bankrupt was signed today by U. S. Dis trict Judge William East. -The order was signed over protests of the-company's at torney, Frank .E. Bocci of Ju ?ene. that no act of bank ruptcy has been shown. Judge East said the company was free to renew its opposition after testimony is taken. The bankruptcy petition was brought by three former Salem bus drivers for tne firm. Thev claimed the com pany owed them about $400 each in back wages. Their at torney, Paul Bailey, told the court the company owed $16,- 000 back wages to 40 em ployees. Hollywood (UPD Actress Dolores Donlon, 31, says she will file for divorce from her actor's agent-husband, Vic Or satti, 50. .. 53rd year 16 Pages UPREB9E COUR JloSl 14th Amendment Cited in Opinion For Integration Written Opinion . Backs Up Ruling Omaha, Neb. - (UPD - Two federal judges today issued a temporary restraining order barring the turning over of the Little Rock public . high schools to a priyale corporation for use on a segregated basis. Washington (UPD The Supreme Court held unani mously today that states may not "nullify" the constitu tional rights of Negro pupils through "evasive schemes" for maintaining segregated schools. In a sweeping formal opinion that clearly sounded the death-knell for Arkansas Gov. Orvall E. FauVis' plan for converting public schools into "private" segregated schools, the court said: Fourteenth Amendment "State support of segregat ed schools through any ar rangement, management, funds, or property cannot be squared with the Fourteenth Amendment's command that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The high court laid down this principle in a 5,000-word written opinion backing .up its Sept. 12 ruling that the Little Rock, Ark., School Board must proceed im mediately with court-approved desegregation at Cen tral High school. Faubus reacted to the Sept. 12 ruling by closing all pub lic high schools in Little Rock. Preparations were being made in Little Rock today to re-open the schools under "private management with state tuition funds. Court Outlaws Evasion The Little Rock School Board today leased the city's four high schools to a private corporation to operate them on a segregated basis. ' The tribunal plainly struck at such arrangements by say-' ing that: . '. . . The constitutional rights of children not to be discriminated against, in school admission on grounds of race or color . . . can neither be nullified openly and di rectly by state legislators or state executive or judicial of ficers, nor nullified indirect ly by them through evasive schemes for segregation whether attempted "ingen iously or ingenuously." The court sharply criticized Faubus and the Arkansas Legislature for trying to block compliance orders. It said every governor and state legis lature "is solemnly com mitted by oath" to support the U.S. Constitution and therefore to obey "federal court orders resting on this court's considered interpreta tion of the Constitution." Hatfield Proposes Property Tax Exemption' for Persons Over Age 65 Eliminatio n'.of proper ty taxes for those' -over 65 years of age having a gross income of less than $2,500 and whose true cash value on their residences does 'not exceed $7,500, was recommended Sunday by Oregon Secretary of State Mark Hatfield, Re publican candidate for governor.- Problems Discussed The proposal was made here in a televise speech dis cussing problems of senior citizens and youth rehabili tation. Hatfield also suggested am endment of the anti-discrimination law to make it unlawful to discriminate against a per son because of old age and to - jr A Tr MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1958 HAY RIDE-A warm autumn evening and a big yellow moon provided just the right atmosphere for more than 40,4-H young sters when they went on a hay ride Satur day. Two tractor-drawn wagons were used to transport the group to the Valley drive-in theater, where they viewed a triple feature. The theater charges a dollar per car and the whole group was admitted for $2. The Nixon's Charge of Policy Sabotage Draws Rejections Washington -(UPD-State De partment , officials tQday-cetfle-Tnn,, jected Vice President Richard M. Nixon's charge that some one " in, the department has tried .to "sabotage" the ad ministration's Formosa policy Nixon made the charge Sat urday after reports were pub lished that mail received by the department was over whelmingly opposed to the administration's decision to defend the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. No Disciplinary Action Department press officer Lincoln White told newsmen no disciplinary action was being taken against the de partment employee or em ployees who gave this infor mation to the press Other department officials ruled out the idea that "sabo tage" ' was involved. Nixon, meanwhile, told newsmen that "a great num ber of letters received. by the State Department were in- spired-were mimeographed." Importance Discounted He conceded some of the let ters may have been written by "well intentioned people," but he said the -department should not make public un evaluated mail.,. He said gov ernment policy could not be formulated ' "on the basis of inspired mail." Department officials also discounted the importance of the mail received as a true indication of the attitude of the American people. They said the majority of the let ters simply opposed the U. S. doing anything to become in volved in war. They also said the mail was surprisingly small when com pared to that received during other crises. remove the legal requirement that state employees retire at age 65. Hatfield pointed out that there is an ever-increasing proportion of the population over 65, and that there is a wide difference in the ability and usefullness of older peo ple. Cosily in Lost Taxes "How ridiculous it is to say categorically that a man must retire at 65," Hatfield said. "Not only are we losing the value of much ability but it is also costly in lost taxes and welfare." -. Hatfield also urged educa tional emphasis on the respon sibiyties of individuals to care for older parents." "We have rui In oo S275,000 Required To Rebuild Theater Ashland The board of di rectors of the Oregon Shake spearean Festival association have set a total of $275,000 as unt needwtto rebuild the famous Elizabethean theater here to open, the 1959 season next July.; . ! Workmen began demolition of the old stagehouse, con demned by the state fire mar shal, more than a week ago, and a campaign to raise re building funds is now being organized, i The executive committee for the fund-raising effort will consider the board's proposal at its regular meeting Thurs day, Oct. 2. Alfred S. V. Car penter, Medford, is chairman and Everett Craven, of the J. Henry Lan Financial organi zation, San Francisco,' is di recting the campaign. ' ' The $275,000 figure was. set Firecracker-Type Device Exploded Atomic Test Site, Nev.-(UPD Scientists of the Atomic En ergy Commission fired the second of their 1958 fall test shots today, a firecracker- type nuclear device that shook the desert and sent a rum bling shock wave over ob servers huddled in its path. The shot, suspended from a balloon l,50p feet over Yucca Flat, banged sharply with a force of about 10,000 tons of TNT. The shock was meas ured at "more than usual' be cause of cloud conditions and was followed by . prolonged rumbling. . .. It was heard at Inyokern, Calif., 150 miles west of the Nevada test site, but appar ently was not . audible at other observation points. Of ficial blast pressure was re ported as 18 millibars.- people in our state institutions who are not really- ill but who have no other -place to go," he said. . Hatfield urged the home communities of problem chil dren to accept them back and help them after they ' have been released from the state rehabilitation program. "If you are not willing to receive them back and help them, we are failing in the entire pro gram," he said. The Secretary of State was accompanied to Medford by Mrs. Hatfield. They were in Curry county Saturday, com ing here late Saturday night. They left Sunday evening for Lincoln county where they will spend Monday, Price 10 cents Tribune Nc. 162 EMS two young men and their "dates" in the picture above are, left to right, David Foote, Central Point, Marjorie Wonderly, Med f ord, Jack Esp, Eagle Point, and Pauline Denyer, Medford, Chaperones were county 4-H agents Mary Lou Garner and Glenn Klein. The youngsters are all members of the Jackson county 4-H council. by the directors of ' the. Fes tival, after careful considera tion of revised building plans, amd estimates of costs from architects, : contractors. and. suppliers. The construction planned for this year 'comprises ; the three-storied stage-house, in cluding dressing rooms, .stor age facilities, : costume vaults, and lavatories; stage and audi torium, lighting and equip ment; revision of the audi torium section, including new seats, raising the rear tiers of seats, and addition of public lavatories, and the costs of the campaign itself. Figures Given The building committee of the board broke down the total figure this way: stage house, with all integral facili ties including wiring and lighting, $200,000; auditorium section work, $9,000; produc tion .lighting, both stage and auditorium, including more powerful lights and improved equipment, $49,000, and mis cellaneous construction ex pense, $7,700. These esti mates, plus the costs of the fund campaign, total $275,000: Members of the building committee and , consrufcion and equipment experts point ed out that about 20 per cent of the cost of the new cpn struction will be for lighting and equipment. They explain ed that production effects in the outdoor theater depend to a great extent on lighting, and that physical aspects of the theater pose ' special lighting problems, which raise the cost of wiring and equipment. The 20 per cent figure for electri cal work is about double that of ordinary , residential con struction, they said. If the figure proposed by the board is approved by the fund-raising . executive com mittee, the campaign is sched uled to start in early Novem ber. Drives will be made throughout Oregon Califor nia, and other areas, as well as in southern Oregon. Light Bulb Sale Planned by Lions The annual electric light bulb sale sponsored by Crater Lion's club will be held Tues day, Sept. 30, from 6:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. throughout Med ford. ' Proceeds from the sale will be used to help buy eyeglasses for children who need them. Club members have asked that persons wishing to pur chase the bulbs to turn on their porch lights. Washington (UPD . Vice President Richard M. Nixon took off today on a congres sional campaign tour to try to put the. GOP "on the offen sive. r Lowry Criticizes Tax Committee's Draft of Report Pearson Joins Medford Senator Portland- (UPD - State Sen. Philip Lowry, Medford Re publican, Sunday criticized the Legislative Interim Tax Committee's first draft of a report to the Legislature. ' Lowry said the report dealt only with favorable aspects of the state's tax structure and included material . the com mittee had not discussed. Whitewash Seen State Sen. Walter Pearson. Portland Democrat and com mittee chairman, said the Legislature's directive called only for detailing favorable aspects. Lowry said "it sounded like a report intend ed to whitewash the tax struc ture and brainwash the tax payer." He said the report stated "that higher taxes may be a good thing for business if they reflect higher serv ices." Lowry said that "may be true to a point but we had not discussed that phase of the question." A subcommittee composed of Pearson, State Sen. Rudie Wilhelm, Portland Repubu can, and Myron Katz, com mittee executive director, will work on the report be fore an Oct. 12 meeting of the committee. Moves for Deletion Wilhelm moved that 13 pages of the 40-page report be deleted and this brought a party-line vote with six Dem ocrats against five Republi cans. Pearson said the sub committee would not insert unfavorable aspects of the tax structure. It will mostly "remove some of the verbi age," he said. At Lowry's suggestion, Pearson said he would ask a representative of Gov. Rob ert D. Holmes to attend the meeting. ' Capital Gain. Tax The Committee decided to recommend enactment of a capital gain tax provision with sliding schedule but with "a federal provision for capital loss treatment. It turned down a proposal to-set -up, a capital ' improvements budget plan, which would have state institutions con struction financed by bond is sues instead of the pay-as-you-go plan. The Committee also voted for a bill which would take account of individual owners' cutting cycle in applying the present discount to timber taxation. The State Tax Com mission at present applies cutting cycle figures on a county-wide basis. Reuther Urges Return To Work Detroit (UPD Nearly' 66,- 000 United Auto Workers Union members were expect ed to return to their jobs at General Motors and Chrysler Corp. plants today. The workers began return ing to their jobs Sunday after UAW president Walter P. Reuther sent a telegram to all locals saying local strikes at GM plants were interfering with the union's attempt to reach a national contract with he world's largest company. Reuther postponed a strike deadline against GM for two days and recessed negotiations until 10 a.m. (e.s.t.) Tuesday in order to allow time for the workers to get back on the job before making further at tempts to reach an agreement. - Postponement of the strike deadline, originally set for 11 a.m. Tuesday, until 10 a.m. Thursday, gave Chrysler a second chance to reach an agreement with the union be fore General Motors. Portland-rfllPD-Sen. Richard L.. Neuberger (D-Ore.) has an nounced a grant of $1,297, 955 by the National Institutes of Health toward construction of a medical research build ing at the University of Ore gon medical school here. WEATHER - FORECAST: Continued fair and mild tonight and Tuesday. Law tonight 47. High Tues day S5. TEMP. Highest yesterday 89 Lowest this morning 47 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:5 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:07 a.m. The Moon rises 6:52 p.m. today and li in Apogee. Last Quarter . Oct S A combination of the move ments of the Earth and Jupiter on their orbits around the Sun brings the latter planet lower in the sky each evening. It will soon disappear and will return as a- morning star late in No vember. - . British Sailor Doing His Duty Portsmouth, England-tCPD -A quartermaster aboard the aircraft carrier Albion saw a black chape sliding through the water and turned in an alarm. Naval patrols headed for the scene. Police were called out. Divers went down to ex amine the hull. An Admiralty spokesman finally stated: "We think the quarter master mistook a porpoise for a frogman. It was very proper of him to report it." Butte Falls Boy Dies Following Auto Accident The 11th traffic fatality this year in Jackson county, and the third this month, oc curred on the Butte Falls rd. Sunday with the death of Wilifred Leo Moore Jr., 2, of Butte Falls. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilifred Leo Moore, Butte Falls, died in the Sa cred Heart hospital Sunday morning of head injuries. He and his family, who were in the car with him, were all taken to Sacred Heart hos pital by Medford Ambulance Service. The car in which the fam ily was riding crashed head on into the McNeil bridge on the Butte Falls rd., about 9V& miles east of Highway 62, of ficers said State police said the accident occurred about 1:40' a.m. Sunday. The driver of the car ap parently went to sleep and the car crossed the highway and ran into the bridge, offi cers said. Injured were Mrs. Wilifred Moore, 22, who received a fractured jaw and fractured right foot, and is improving; Sandra Jean Moore, 3, head injuries, whose condition is poor; and Wilifred Leo Moore Sr., fractured ankle, condi tion fair. The car was damaged be yond repair, state police said. Charles Porter Here Wednesday An open house, tour of area sawmills and a fishing trip are on the agenda of Rep. Charles O. Porter when he visits Jackson county Wednesday through Friday, his campaign manager an nounced. Porter is scheduled to ar rive, in Medford Oct. 1. He will then make a tour of var ious sawmills and will visit businesses in Talent and Phoenix. An open house is scheduled Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 9 P.m. in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Norton, Phoenix. The public is invit ed, spokesmen said. Thursday morning Porter will hold office, hours in thel law office of Kelly and Kelly in the Goldy building, Med ford. No details were given on the schedule for Thursday afternoon. Former Falls City Mayor Taken by Death Salem-(UPD-Ferris A. Lucas, 93. who as mayor of Falls City near the turn of the cen tury was ' instrumental in bringing railroad and tele phone service to the commu nity, died Sunday. "Five Years, Eight Month and Two Days Five Years, Eight Months and Three days War-or-Peace Stand by Reds Seen Wednesday U.S. Faces Disaster, Warning Declares - Taipeh, Formosa-(UPD-PresU dent Chiang Kai-shek today ruled out a cease fire for Quemoy and it appeared the Chinese Communists would deliver their war-or-peac stand by Wednesday, the Communists' National Day. Communist Premier Chou En-lai set the stage for such a declaration Sunday night when he declared the United States faced "disaster" if it did not stop its "war provoca tions" in the Formosa Strait. Russia echoed the pronounce ment. Intentions Not Known Many observers felt the date-conscious Chinese Com munists would choose Oct. 1, the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Red republic, for important military action or a key declaration. Thus far the Communists have not fully made known their intentions. Chiang, at one of his rare press conferences, said the Nationalists reserved the right to bomb the mainland if Que moy is threatened seriously. He said the action would be carried out with or without American support but ex pressed conviction the US'. would sunport him. Opposes Concessions , Chiang said Nationalist China would make no conces sions at Warsaw or the United Nations and said "Quemoy Is not a pawn for international bargaining.' He said Quemoy had endured five weeks of bombardment but -would not endure it forever.. "When the crucial time comes," he said, "there are no restrictions on our taking the right of self defense and bombing bases on the main land." He said the Nationalists hoped for aerial and naval support, they are now receiv ing from the-U.S. "plus moral and material support." Missiles for China The U.S. Army disclosed ia Washington that a U.S. Nike Hercules missile battalion is en route by sea to Formosa. Launching sites already are under construction by an ad vance unit. The missile is used to defend against- enemy planes. The chief civilian adminis trator of Little Quemoy Island crossed the dangerous twe mile stretch of water to Bii? Quemoy and reported food supplies on hand for only ,25 days. He said Red artiilery had sunk, the fishing fleet there and 'made farming im possible. s Little Rock High Schools Leased Little Rock, Ark.-IUPD-The Little Rock School Board to day leased the city's four high schools, closed four weeks in the integration crisis, to a corporation for operation as private, segre gated schools. Members of the board and school Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom doubted, however, that the schools can be put into operation before Wednes day. The lease does not take ef fect until Tuesday. Blossom announced that a six-hour daily television school, which, started last Monday, ends with today's lessons. -kis
