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1 Price 10 Cents M EDFORD 53rd Year Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1958 Pages 1-6 United States at Brink off War at Least Twice in Last Twelve Months By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor The United States stood at the brink of war at least twice in 1958-once in Lebanon, and again in the narrow Formosa Strait. But the audacity of brink manship and the fear of mas sive retaliation - twin off t pring of a world wed to an in tercontinental missile local ized each crisis and preserved an uneasy world peace. Even so, men and govern ments died in varying degrees of violence. And as 1958 ran its course, the world could see the out line of things to come in 1959. A chief pressure point is certain to be Berlin. Berlin, isolated more than 100 miles inside East Germany, is the West's window through the Iron Curtain. For the millions of persons sealed behind the Iron Curtain it also is a win dow on the West. Propaganda Fails Not all the millions of words of Communist propa gandists have been able to erase the picture of bright lights and prosperity in West Berlin as compared to the wreckage and poverty of the eastern half of the city. The Communists have declared that the window must be blinded in 1959. In 1958, King Faisal of Iraq made a desperate dash from his palace to escape invading revolutionaries. He died close to the burned out remnants of his favorite racing car in the palace courtyard. Mobs drag ged the body of his uncle through the streets of Bagh 'dad. But by Mid-East stand ards, it was a fairly bloodless coup. The government of Finland fell, victim of economic pres sure from Russia. But there were stabilizing factors in the world, too. Britain's economy improved under pressure of a govern mental austerity program. In fact, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Cons ervative Party was beginning to be lieve it could win the next general electon. The Cross of Lorraine rose over France. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who quit French politics in disgust shortly after World War II, offered to return and restore France to its former place of greatness. 'The cream of the French army was in Algeria fighting a war that never ended, that cost the French around $3, 000,000 per day and which the French Assembly, lost in a jungle of conflicting politi cal parties, was powerless to resolve. With Metropolitan France itself on the brink of civil war, de Gaulle returned, arm ed with greater power than held by any single man in France since Napoleon. The end of 1958 found France with a new constitu tion. The French president had powers similar to those held by the President of the United States, and the capri cious Assembly no longer had it in its power to topple French governments at will. But the problem of Algeria remained. It also was part of the outline of things to come in 1959. For the United States, 1958 was a year of increasing reali zation of its place as a world power. Not by choice but by neces sity, almost against its will, the' United States had taken its place as leader of the free world. The abortive Anglo-French attack on Suez had demon strated that no nation outside of the Iron Curtain could un dertake a major military op eration with any hope of suc cess without the support of the United States. Equally, it was true that no free nation could be assured of continued freedom without U.S. support. Thus, on July 15, 1958, U.S. troops landed in Lebanon. And on July 16, in a sup porting action, British troops landed in Jordan. Repercussions were immediate. Russia demanded that the U.N. order the U.S. and Brit ish troops out of the Middle East. The demand was reject ed. At the same time, Soviet armed forces began maneuv ers near Iran and Turkey and in the Black Sea. Bulgarian forces began maneuvers with Soviet air support near Tur key and Yugoslavia. In Mos cow, demonstrators damaged the U.S. embassy in Moscow and British military missions in Potsdam, East Germany. On Oct. 1, the last of the U.S. forces left Lebanon but only after peace had been re stored and Gen. Fouad Che hab had taken oyer as the legally named president. Meanwhile, working from inside its great landlocked perimeter extending from the Baltic to the Bering seas, the Communist world was prepar ing another thrust. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had urged and then rejected a summit con ference among the leaders of the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Britain and France. His rejection came after a hurried confer ence in Peiping with Red Chi nese leader Mao Tse Tung. Then came the new Commu nist threat to the Nationalist held Quemoy and Matsu is land groups. The islands, just off the blockaded Red Chinese port of Amoy, were placed 1 The family Council Editor's note: The F?mil Council consists of a judge, psychiatrist, wi ucisjuiciii ncspijjt:i ruuui, a wuiucu s vaiiur ana i wo writers. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice: it merely reports on problems that have been dealt witn oy responsible agencies and counselors. Henry G. I am 17 and I expect to start college next year. This has started a big feud in my family. My parents want me to mai- or in economics or business administration so that I can go into the family business when I graduate. But I want to . major in journalism as I under deadly and daily Red Chinese artillery fire. For a time, the Communist guns successfully blocked Na tionalist attempts to supply the islands. Once again, the U.S. stepped in. President Eis enhower declared the islands more important now to the de fense of Formosa than they were three years ago. The U.S. 7th fleet stepped up its patrol of the Formosa Strait. A Nike missile battalion from the U.S. mainland took up positions in Formosa. Nationalist-flown but U.S.-built Sabrejets flew against the Reds and knocked some of them down with deadly air-to- air Sidewinder projectiles. The Reds said they were willing to seek a peaceful solution to the Formosa ques tion and talks began in Warsaw. Another crisis subsided. The year 1958 saw an in creasing trend toward mili tary governments among young nations. Such took over in Iraq by revolt, peacefully in Pakistan and in Burma as well as elsewhere. The trend shows no sign of diminishing in 1959. In Europe, older govern ments are in trouble or facing it. Governments have changed or face a threat of change in Italy, the Netherlands, Ice land and Luxembourg. am planning to become a for eign correspondent. My parents point out that I can make much more money in business, but I just don't seem to cafe about money. I can have a great time on pea nuts. My parents don't want me to live as I like. They ought to be satisfied because one of my brothers and my brother-in-law are already in the business. Why can't I have a life of my own? Mr. E. G. - Henry doesn't know what he's talking about. Things have been too good and too easy for him. He has lived on the best of every thing, yet?he thinks he knows how to live on peanuts. He spends more in an evening out than he'd have to live on for a week on a beginner's salary. We have tried to make Hen ry understand that we want him to live his own life, but we want him to have a good life. Young men come to us every day begging for the op portunity to get a start in a business like ours. They would consider themselves the lucki est men in the world if they had Henry's chances. Henry sees himself as some kind of hero, a big-shot cor respondent. What if he never makes it? The Council: Parents might spare themselves a good deal of grief if they resolved to guide, rather than direct, their children into suitable occupations. Mr. E. G. overlooks the fact that Henry wouldn't be much good to either the business or himself if he is pressured into it. Mr. E. G.'s hand would be far stronger U he let himself the task of helping his son to develop his interests and capa cities and at the same time tried to help him understand the realities of the world of work. It is certainly true that youngsters romanticize them selves as heroes in various oc cupations and don't think much about the work itself, the drudgery and the fact that although most of us dream of reaching the top, few actual ly do. We don't think it makes much sense for parents to pooh - pooh their children's highest aims. Let them keep their goals, but encourage them to see what they must do to arrive at them. If Henry really investigated his, he would find that majoring or minoring in economics would be excellent preparation for it. His studies in this field would also leave the door open to many other possibilities if he should feel differently , about things four years from now. Henry should also be helped to understand what the oppor tunities are for him in the field he has chosen. He might very well find after a short stint on a small paper that he has neither the taste nor the ability for this type of work. If his parents encourage him to seek and find for himself he will be free to make such decisions. If they try to im pose their will, he will be forced to stand up against them, even against his own inclinations and better judgment. If Henry's ambitions should survive the various trials and tests of reality, it is reason able to suppose that he has chosen work he likes and is suited to. By that time he will be mature enough to evaluate the opportunities and disad vantages of various fields and make the decision that is best for him. (Copright 1958. General Features Corp.) energy Iow? ' get p and 3jS2 v m km m boy V White Satin SUGAR Annual Hid -Winter Concert Presenting a Varied Concert of Music and Song by . . . Orchestra of 36 Pieces Mixed Chorus of 50 Voices Male Chorus of 22 Voices Concluded with the well-loved Halleluiah Chorus By Handel Tuesday, Dec. 39, 8:00 P.M. EVERY SUNDAY Radio Broadcast, KMED Sunday School Morning Worship Young People's Meeting Evangelistic Service 9:05 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. 7:50 p.m. Wednesday, December 31, Watch Night Service, beginning at 8 p.m. and continuing until 12 midnight. APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH Loyce C. Carver, Pastor Phone SP 2-2757 3rd and Central, Medford Wish One and All a HAPPY NEW YEAR! 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