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
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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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Heifer Reported
Killed and Stolen
- A red shorthorn heifer own
ed by Pete R. Bateman, 3088
Table Rock rd., was killed and
taken from the Bateman cor
ral sometime during Dec. 26
or 27 according to a report
given the sheriff's office.
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.
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