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Russia Leads as Iron Curtain Gains On Output of Steel Cleveland, Ohio-4lTI-Russia led the way as Iron Curtain countries gained on the free world in 1958 by inching up their share of the world's steel output. Steel magazine reported Russia broke its steelmaking record for the 14th consecu tive year as the Communist bloc nations produced 29 per cent of the 1958 world total. Last year it was 25 per cent. The bloc still produced less than the United States alone in a slow business year. World output of steel in 1958 was 294,437,230 tons, down 8 per cent from 1957. This was the first time since 1954 that the 38 steel produc ing nations of the world fail ed to set a production record. The nine Iron Curtain countries made 83,933,190 tons, up 4,462,190 tons from 1957. Only one countryt North Korea, showed a decrease. The free world turned out 210,444,040 tons, down 31, 148,956 tons from 1957, as only 11 countries of the 29 gained in output. U. S. Production Down The U. S., world leader in steel production, contributed li No thanks, Lady. Those aren't SANTIAM BLUE LAKE STRINGUSS GREEN BEANS!" 45 per cent of the free world output. Its furnaces produced 84,750,000 tons of steel, down 27,964.996 tons from 1957, as operations averaged only 60.2 per cent of 1958 capacity. Russia, which made 71 per cent of the Iron Curtain steel, was in second place in world production. Its 1958 output of 59,524,200 tons was 3,306,200 tons more than was produced in 1957. Observers believed Russia was producing as much as its capacity will permit. The weekly metalworking Industry magazine noted that in two decades the Soviet Union has changed from a predominantly agricultu r a 1 nation to one which today is second only to the U. S. in economic strength. In 1930, when the first five-year plan was launched, Russia produc ed only 6.4 million tons of steel. Germany's West zone rank ed in third place in 1958 with a production of 26,175,220 tons of steel, down 838,780 tons from 1957. Among the free world na tions which increased produc- tion during 1958 over the pre vious year were South Africa, Australia, Mexico, Spain, Yu goslavia, France, Saar, The Netherlands, Norway, Argen tina and Formosa. Decreased outputs were registered by the U. S.f Can ada, Great Britain, Japan, In dia, Brazil, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy, West Germany, Chila, Den mark, Finland, Turkey, Rho desia and Colombia. The eight Iron Curtain countries which upped pro duction were Russia, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Po land, Hungary, Rumania, China and Bulgaria. 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Brand Inspector Rex Wood ward is investigating. The owners reported that the heifer, weighing between 400 and 450 pounds, was kill ed and bled in the corral be fore it was removed. Belgian Congo is larger than the U.S. east of the Mississippi. lussia's Seven-Year Plan Promises More for Citizens Moscow-(UPI)-If Russia's new seven-year plan to be launch ed next year succeeds, the So viet citizen will be somewhat better off in 1959 than he was in 1958. He will have more food and clothing, shorter work hours and more elbow room. His. children will have only eighl; instead of 10 years of compul sory schooling so they caia start to work at the age of 1 5 with the opportunity to coii tinue their education in nigJlt schools. ; At the recent meeting of the Communist Party's Cetti tral Committee, ordinary citi zens were promised an -Jnp-surge of agricultural and oth er consumer goods, better housing and higher ieal wages. But" the political develop ments of 1958 in the USSFt do not give hope of lessening ten sions in 1959, with the con stantly shifting focus of :risis -the Far East, the Middle East and now Berlin. Any agreement on disa orna ment, which doesn't seem to be in the cards now, ttfould materially aid Soviet easnom ic progress. Same Foreign Policy ; Therefore, during 19J.J9, the Kremlin will continue t o plug disarmament and a s ummit conference as the solution to Berlin, and mid-Eastaim and Far Eastern problems, though there is little prospect of suc cess. ' The year 1958 was marked "by uninterrupted domestic, economic and political tri umphs for the leadership of Premier Nikita Krushchev. He has been an unchalleng ed, dominating figure since the June, 1957, Central Com mittee meeting with the ex pulsion of the powerful oppo sition group of V. M. Molo tov, Georgi Malenkov, Lazar Kaganovich, Dmitri Shepilov and Nikolai Bulganin. The December Central Committee meeting laid the groundwork for the forthcom ing Communist Party Con gress in late January with the final disgrace of the opposi tion group and the absolute consolidation of Khrushchev's position and policies. Communist Party control of all instruments of Soviet power - the state apparatus, armed forces and security organs-seems assured. Khrushchev made short shrift in 1958 of the last chal lenger of party control, Mar shal Georgi Zhukov, who's been easily thrown into the limbo of forgotten men. Control of Arts The party this year also tightened its control of litera ture, the arts and sciences. This was evidenced in the December Congress of the Writers' Union of the Russian Republic which reaffirmed its principle that art is a weapon and writers are the Commu nist Party's first assistants in the construction of commu nism. In science, Trofim Lysenko, who audaciously criticized the august Academy of Sci ences from the platform of the Central Committee, will apparently again play an im portant role during the com ing year. Advocates of technocracy engineers, economists, techni-cians-who bade for increased political authority a few years ago haven't been much en couraged. Professional Leaders The key figures of the Pre sidium Central Committee's Council of Ministers are all professional party leaders, al though many had engineering or economics training. One of the last professional specialists to have headed an important power organ was General Ivan Serov, removed in December as head of the security police. His successor is Alexander M. Shelepin, a young Communist Party offi cial. The 21st Communist Party Congress in January probably will be styled "the congress of conquerors." It will claim MAIL TRIBUNE, M4fori, Oregon, Tucuhy, December SO, 1951 Russian Time Bomb in West Berlin May Give West (Gravest Crisis of '59 London - (UPD - Russia left a six-month time bomb tick ing in Berlin today that well may confront the Free West in 1959 with its gravest crisis yet. The Western Allies were pledged solemnly to remain in the isolated city in defiance Woman Killed As Jet Fighter Hits Buildings Ipswich, England -(UPD-One person was killed and several others injured Monday when a flaming U.S. Air Force jet fighter sliced between a group of houses and slammed into a garage at Kesgrave near here. The pilot, 1st Lt. Charles L. Prescott, Santa Monica, Calif., ejected himself from the F100D Super Saber and parachuted to safety before the crash. He was treated at a local hospital for shock and minor injuries. Two houses and the garage were destroyed by fire, and several other houses and a group of unoccupied trailers were damaged. A number of dogs were killed when debris plunged into their kennel area. On Training Flight ' Prescott was on a training flight from Sutton Heath Air Base, which is shared by the U.S. Air Force and the Royal Air Force. The crash occurred five and a half miles from the base. The body of a young wom an was recovered from . the wreckage of the garage struck by the plane. She was identi fied as Mrs. Elizabeth Aggis, 28, Kesgrave, who worked at the garage as a clerk. A deep crater was left where the plane dove into the rear of the garage, and wreck age was strewn over a wide area. Police moved in to guard the scene of the crash. staggering victories in the five-year period since Stalin's death in economic develop ment, science, the growth of international authority of the Soviet Union and the consoli dation of the increasing pow er of the Communist bloc, from China westward to Berlin. of Moscow's ultimatum to them to get out. But they still had to find the answer to the question of how they would do it without risking World War III. The Kremlin touched off the slow-motion Berlin crisis Nov. 10. In a speech in the Polish capital of Warsaw, Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev denounced existing four-power East-West agree ments on Berlin and an nounced Russia was handing over to the ' East German Communists "those functions in Berlin which are still wielded by Soviet organs." In a follow-up note on Nov. 27 the Soviets handed the West a six-month ultimatum. It called on the U.S., Bri tain and France to get out of Berlin within that time and proposed turning the anti Communist Western sectors into a "free city," guaranteed by the four powers and the United Nations. The West's reply was short and tough. District Court Issues Warrant A district court warraut charging grand larceny has been issued for "Dustin Steele" in connection with the theft Christmas night of a! $100 television set and an $18 1 radio from a room at the I Wheel Inn motel, 525 South! Riverside ave. The warrant, signed by A. Eugene Piazzi, judge pro tern, sets bail at $ 1,50b. According to Medford po lice records, Steele registered at the motel as an employee of Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company, Sacramento. He was reportedly driving a 1958 Chevrolet, dark blue or blackj bearing Nevada license, W-122232. The North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) " Council meeting in Paris Dec. 16 rejected the Soviet ultimatum. It did so after U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told the 15-nation body that Russia would not risk a nuclear con flict over Berlin. But the West left the door open to East-West negotiations with the Soviets not on the Berlin question alone but on the entire Germany problem, coupled with the other major issues of disarmament and European security. Whether the Soviets would agree to such talks remained doubtful. Only two days be fore Christmas they an nounced their readiness to dis cuss European security. But they said there must be no tie-in with the German reuni fication issue, as the West al ways has insisted. Questions Unanswered Despite the West'i tough talk, there still was no answer to the question: How can the Western allies supply their 10,000-man garrison and the 2,500,000 West Berliners if the Soviets pull out. In practical terms, what is likely to happen is that the Soviets one day will pull out and hand over control func tions to the East German Reds. That means control not only of the 110-mile railroad and Autobahn (super high way) links between West Ber lin and West Germany, but the three air corridors as welL The West is reported set to mount a new airlift, similar to that which beat the Berlin blockade in 1948 and 1949. But the Reds have warned they will not tolerate one this time. A new airlift, they have said, will be regarded as mili tary aggression not only against Communist East Ger many, but against the entire Communist Warsaw pact bloc. Would the West defy these warnings and risk having its planes shot down? Would it send in tanks to keep open the land lines to West Berlin? Would it take such action at the risk of touching off a nu clear war over Berlin? Those questions are at the heart of the dilemma the West faces in 1959 and for which no answers yet have been found. Valley Peach-Pear Growers to Meet, Grant Merrill, Red Bluff peach grower, and Harry O'Reilly, plant pathologist at the University of California at Davis, will be among speakers at the annual meeting of val ley peach growers here Jan. 27. County Agent Don Berry will be in charge. i The annual pear growers I meeting is scheduled for Jan. 26, according to County Agent C. B. Cordy. Pre-Inventory Ah WHOLESALE PRICES CADMIUM ' $469 Bafterv Additive I NATIONALLY ADVERTISED S2.98 IMMEDIATE DELIVERY PALMLOOM RUG MAKER $1.19 Nationally Advertised $2.00 Doet Beautiful Work VX-6 WAXIE SPRA-SHINE Large 75 to 100 thine size BLAZE OUT FIRE EXTINGUISHER .. Replaced Free if used on fire in 60 days. Nationally advertised $1.98. $1.50 $1.00 All Items Fully Guaranteed Free Information Immediate Delivery Check er Money Order P. & E. ENTERPRISES MANUFACTURERS P.O. 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