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Cuban Officials 'Hides' Mikoyan Havana - (CPD - The Fidel Castro government hid glad handing Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan irom signt baturaay, appar ently to protect him from possible anti-Communist at tacks. Even Russian newsmen who accompanied Mikoyan to Ha vana for the opening of a So viet exposition, professed to be in the dark as to the whereabouts of Russia's No. 1 traveling salesman. The Cuban government ap parently ordered secrecy thrown around his move ments for fear there might be a repetition of Friday's wild shooting spree in midtown Havana, a block from the fine arts palace where Mikoyan inaugurated the exposition. The home assigned to Mi koyan outside Havana, which had been the plush mansion of a leader of the ousted Ba tista dictatorship, was under heavy guard. Police at the mansion refused to say whether Mikoyan was in or had left. MEDFORD Tribune 2nd Section MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1960 Pages 1 - 8 5 Strikers Held on Bad Conduct Charge Portland - (LTD - Five men identified as members of the Portland local of the Web Pressmen's Union were arrest ed Saturday on disorderly con duct charges after large num bers of pickets gathered around the Oregonian build ing in defiance of an edict of Mayor Terry Schrunk. Mayor Schrunk Friday night issued an order against what he called mass picket ing, adding tnat 'reasonable numbers" of pickets would be allowed on the line. Greensboro, N. C. - (LTD -Demonstrations by some 400 Negro college students at two dime stores were halted abruptly Saturday by bomb scares. Wall Street Chatter New York - (UPD - Barring new severe wage concessions this year the profits of the na tion's class I railroads could climb to $750 million. Two separate studies by Standard & Poor's Corp. and the Value Line reached this same conclusion. If realized, such profits this year would be some 3o per cent above the $575 million netted in 1959 when volume was affected by the crippling effects of the steel strike. Last year's earnings were the low est since the 1949 recession, notes Standard & Poor's. Accumulate Ford Motor and General Electric on any fur ther market weakness, Bache & Co., suggests. Joseph E. Granville of E. F. Hutton & Co., says a strong technical prop to the market would be provided in the event the short interest re port shows a marked rise later this month. "This would co incide with expectations that the market can look forward to more sustainable rallies sometime after mid-February. Thus far, however, it would appear that these rallies may get started from lower mar ket levels than are now current." NIXON 'HATLESS' Milwaukee, Wis. -(UPB- Re publicans hoping Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon would toss his hat into the Wiscon sin primary today didn't bar gain on a souvenir hunter. Nixon left his hat on the air liner that brought him to Chi cago from Los Angeles and airline officials said a souvenir hunter apparently made off with it. TheyTl Do It Every Time ll III 1 1 .!' By Jimmy Hatlo NEXT THEY'LL BE TELLIM' HOW THEY LIVED IN A LOG CABIN HOMEWORK C T, JV. 7.v DRUM M ARE SORE 1 oXTX -rTr?.., VT -.uati" THAT THEY HADDA I -lt HOMEWORK ON ) , SCHOOLS TODAY TO WALK V COME TO WORK K A SHOVEL, y-Z ON ACCOUNT J' EIGHT MILES 1 AND THEIR KIDS OF THE STORM." EACH WAY UP GOT A DAY rr v tt " ? CM VA IMAGINE r TO MY NECK V OFF Jf p AND D Y TWEytt. TELL THAT? THEY CALL J IN SNOVV-THE fea CAME IN X BlGDOME THEY THIS LITTLE . : , KIDS OF TODAY I TODAY RATHER Y TJ? GO HOME FLURRY A STORM fl ARE A LOT , THAN HELP THEIR WttSLEDSO 1 WHY, WHEN I WAS h OF PANTY- SSsH OLD LADIES , AK I DUCK " " ra 3 C &F8S&Blm THE TWO CHRONIC : Q 2-8 Vx a Syaieate, Inc., Worli rna reserved. VNTHEEARVAS . THE TWO CH RON IC ' ABSENTEES TAKE A BOW FOR SHOWING UP- THAMX AMD A TIP OP flat, s .DKt)tIA, XLL. French, Italian Teams Racing To Dig Tunnel in Mountain AIM FOR THE HEART . BOOKS ; GIFTS RECORDS n Chamonix, France (UPD -French and Italian construc tion teams are racing each other to be first at the half way point in digging a tun nel under France's highest mountain. They are building a seven mile highway through Mont Blanc, the 15,781-foot peak that stands as a roadblock between France and Italy. When completed the tunnel will cut the distance between Paris and Rome by one-fifth. The French believe they have an edge over the Ital ians. They pin their hopes on "Jumbo," a 75-ton boring ma chine built especially for the Mont Blanc job at a cost of $500,000. Italian crews started on their end of the tunnel a year earlier than the French, but the latter believe Jum bo" will lead them to the midway point ahead of their .rivals- a ...... "I'll refuse my paycheck if we don't reach the middle be fore the Italians," says Robert L. Thompson, a New York city engineer working with the French. , The central element of "Jumbo" is an eight-inch steel drill mounted on enormous bars. Clustered around it are 14 smaller drills, and all are driven pneumatically. Holes bored by the drills are stuffed with dynamite. Then the big machine trun dles backward on rails, the workers clear away and the dynamite is exploded. This usually loosens about 750 tons of rock, and the process is carried out three times a day. After blasting, "Jumbo" moves back into drilling posi tion while carts move back and forth between its huge legs to remove the loosened rock. Italy had a 500-yard head start by the time the French began., their.- end of -the'Ttun- j nel last May.. But "Jumbo" is moving the French ahead at Trade that old cooking device now for a modern electric range and get a r DON'T BE SADDLED WITH AN OLD-FASHIONED RANGE See the latest electric ranges cool, clean, fast, safe, and almost completely automatic at your favorite electric dealer's. Ask for details of Reddy's bonus offer, good for a limited time only. raus allowance, in addition to your favorite dealer's allowance, for any old range, traded for a new, modern electric range! 5e Your Favorite Electrical League Deafer a faster rate than the Ital ians. Discussed 10 Years It took 10 years of discus sion between Italy and France before they agreed to build the tunnel which men have dreamed about for 50 years. The project will cost more than $30,000,000 and is scheduled for completion in 1962. The French asked the American company, Inger-soll-Rand to find the heavy equipment needed to bore through the mountain rock, at some points 8000 feet be low Alpine summits. A French company at Lyons ac tually built "Jumbo." Foreign engineers are help ing the French supervise their operations, and views are exchanged in seven lan guages. Along with Thomp son, another American expert is ti. A. Anderson of Globe, Ariz. " . ' Europe's Longest Working with them are tech nicians from all over Europe -including Francis Marconi of Venice, Torstein Mathiesen of Oslo, Henry Parel of Zur ich and Jules Jadot of Brussels. The tunnel will be Europe's longest for automobile traffic. Motorists traveling from France will enter it near this famous ski resort and emerge 20 minutes later near the town of Entreves in Italy. The roadbed through the tunnel will be 23 feet wide, with an overhead clearance of about 16 feet. Every 330 yards there will be turnouts for cars in trouble, with tele phones to summon help. To defray the cost of the tunnel, a toll probably will be charged for its use. European motorists will have an all-year route through the Alpsxvia the tun nel. Now, many Alpine roads are closed by snow in winter months. This distance be tween Paris and Rome through the Rhone Valley and the French and Italian rivieras is 1,005 miles. Through the Mont Blanc tun nel it will be 880 miles. Longtime Hornbrook Resident Dies at 79 Hornbrook - Funeral serv ices were held in Yreka Fri day for Herman C. Kurt, a Hornbrook resident for near ly half a century. He was 79 Mr. Kurt was born in Ger many in 1880 and came with his mother and sister .to the Bogus area in 1882. A cattle man and rancher, he retired several years ago. He died at Siskiyou General hospital Wednesday after a lengthy ill ness. Survivors include Mrs. Mary Kurt; a stepdaughter, Mrs. W. A. Rutledge, and a stepson, Carl Johnson, all of Hornbrook; two half broth ers, George Strofeld, Yreka, and William Strofeld, Klam ath Falls, and several nieces and nephews. ASKS HIGHER STANDARD New York (UPD Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell called on both labor and man agement Sunday to follow a higher standard of morality than just good faith in ob serving contracts. Unless la bor and management recog nize a ""higher set of moral terms," he said, "there is noth ing to stop their relationship from degenerating into a bru tal battle of wills with the un distinguished object of self-gain." Happy-Go-Lucky Life in Kenya Dead After Five Years of War Nairobi, Kenya (UPD The happy-go-lucky life of pre Mau Mau Kenya is dead. Five years of barbarous civil war killed it. The need for a state of emergency has passed, but Kenya can never be quite the same again. Today the 55,000 white set tlers living in the vast colony have a more serious approach to life. Reluctantly, they are accepting the fact that no handful of whites can survive on their own terms in the midst of six million blacks. The simple truth of the matter is that Kenya will never again be a "white man's country." White men will con tinue to live here, but at best only as one of several races making up the tangled racial skein of East Africa. The visitor does not always grasp this fact immediately. He is dazzled by the mush rooming office blocks, luxury hotels and restaurants of Nair obi. There are so many white faces to be seen, so' many out ward signs of English or American-style living. It is difficult to realize that this bustling modern city is a freak, a European island in an African sea. Must Go Further To see the real Kenya, one must go much farther afield, to the fringes of the High lands, the arid north or the steamy coastlands where the white population is thinly spread and Africa takes over. But even if Nairobi is not typical, it is still the best place to observe the new spirit among the white set tlers of Kenya. There are still some diehards as rigid in their racial attitudes as the South African Nationalists. But on the whole, the white Kenyan is growing to accept the civil ized African as at least a junior partner. Ten years ago such an attitude would have been unthinkable. As one Nairobi hostess put it, "Even a few years Jgo if anyone invited an African to a cocktail party, he would warn all the European guests in advance. Now you just take it for granted that when ever you go to a business or official party, there will be non-European guests." It is still rare for an African to be invited to a private par ty, but many Kenyans seem resigned to the fact that this will come too, in time. Asians and Africans can use the best hotels and res taurants in Nairobi quite free- Grange News EAGLE POINT Preceding a recent meeting of the Eagle Point Grange, Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGov erfn, Eagle Point, showed their colored slides taken on their European tour. Following the pictures, Mrs. Lester McFall reported on the Ground Hog Day dinner. She said that approximately 150 persons attended and thanked Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hoover, Mrs. Kenneth Cearley, Mrs. J. D. Brown, and Mrs. W. E. Davies for their assistance. Mrs. McFall reported that the dinner served to the Pomona Grange on Jan. 24 at the Eagle Point Grange Hall was also a success. Guests at the meeting were Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Roberts. It was announced that Feb. 10 has been designated as "wood splitting and clean-up" day at the Eagle Point Grange. A potluck dinner will be served at noon and all grange members are invited to par ticipate. W. E. Davies presented some literature regarding the Great Decisions Program and invited everyone interested within this area to get in touch with him at Hlllcrest 6-3379. Mrs. Percy Scobie, chap lain, reported that Ed Putman has recently returned from the Medford Osteopathic hos pital where he was a medical patient. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bigham and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Can terbury were on the serving committee. LODGE MEETS KHRUSH Moscow -(DPD- Henry Cabot Lodge. U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, chatted in formally with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Sunday night at the Bolshoi Ballet Theater where the two attend ed a performance of Tchaik ovsky's "Swan Lake." Lodge is on an unofficial visit to Russia. He met Khrushchev during one of the intermis sions, Tass news agency re ported. WAR GAMES COSTLY Burlengendeld, Germany - (UPD- Nine persons were killed and 46 others, including civil ians and military personnel, injured during the NATO "Winter Shield" war games in this area that ended Sunday. The latest accident occurred Sunday when a bus sideswiped an American tank on a narrow road near here, injuring 10 ly. In actuality, they seldom do, partly for economic rea sons, but the breaking down of this color bar was an im portant victory for multi-racialism. No one seems to know ex actly how many of the settlers are genuine supporters of a multi-racial society based on the ideal of partnership. One government official as serted that "practically every one" is liberal-minded, but a businessman, more realistic, said: "I'd say that no more than 10 per cent of white Kenyans are liberal at heart, but they are practical about it. They know they can't go on knock ing their heads against a brick wall. Probably 50 per cent accept the changes more or less willingly." This is reflected in the growth of political parties based on the multi - racial ideal. But the country's lead ing African politician, Tom Mboya, is an outspoken op ponent of multi - racialism, which he defines as " a society in which various racial groups live together and retain their identities politically, econom ically and socially." 'Undiluted Democracy' Mboya's terms for the new Kenya are simple: all racial groups, European, Indian and Arab, must amalgamate them selves with the Africans. This, Mboya says, is the only way to attain "unlimited democ racy." , The whites' tend to discount Mboya as -a scheming, am bitious politician - but there is always an edge of nervous ness to their denunciation. They know the almost God like prestige he enjoys with so many Africans. The general feeling Is that Kenya faces a two or three year period of political and industrial unrest. But no one predicts a return to the hid eous, days of the Mau Mau. That emergency is passing into history, although its side effects will be with the coun try for many years. But perhaps the most hope ful sign of all in these first days of post-Mau Mau Kenya is that the settlers can talk of the past seven years without bitterness. When a white Kenyan mentions the emer gency, he does so with a sur prising air of detachment. 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