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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1960)
jiasf and Editor's not Thnmac ited Press International vice president and general manager for Ifcarope, has just completed a six--ek tour of Africa. He visited 15 aations and talked with all the knding political figures. In the fol lowing dispatch he describes the strmggle that is going on between last and West for the allegiance of t kimds of the Africans. Spy THOMAS R.CURRAN Xhartoum, Sudan (UPD - A tug-of-war is going on between last and West for Africa's 26 nations and 230 million per Dns. Of those 230 million only two per cent are white. ' The West is not taking any chances in this struggle and can not afford to do so. Top most in th minds of the West trn nation is the old saying tht a mn "with bare feet fnd an empty belly is a can didate for Communism." Who is winning? At the mo mnt, nobody. For both Com munism and capitalism are econdary in the minds of the Africans, and that means pan Africanism and nationalism. Stoaders Visiting Indicating the extent of the struggle for Africa, leaders of both sides have visited or plan to visit the continent. President Eisenhower touch es down in Tunisia and Mo rocco on his journey to the Mediterranean and Asia last Icember; Prime Minister Harold Macmillan toured the British areas in January, Ni feita Khrushchev has indicated h will accept invitations from Guinea and Ethiopia later this year. There's even talk tht Khrushchev may go to Liberia, the first independent country on the west coast of Africa which was settled by e-slaves from the United States 138 years ago. To this day Liberia uses dollar bills ' printed in Washington for legal tender. It has no cur rency notes of its own. Sks Soft Spots Red China and Russia are probing for soft spots as the new African states get their independence after 300 years of European colonial rule. Nevertheless, most leaders of the 26 nations on this huge cnfitinent-five times the size of continental United States are friendly to the West. Least favorably disposed are METAL WORKS Ctnmercial industrial ftgifeitial Sheet Metal Work dfeainless. Galvanized aid Copper Fabrication 287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 Thursday, SatwrtfUy Table Sck Road at 4 WE GIVE BRILL TOM Picnics Swift's Premium, fully cooked ish Fillets Ocean Fresh Red Snapper Frankfurters Nebergall's Skinless SOUSQCje 100 Pure Pork Beef Pot Roast U.S. Graded Good. WE GIVE LettUCe Crisp Green, Garden Fresh CarrOtS Golden Snoboy Quality . Potatoes Klamath U.S. No. 1 OllfOflS Sweet, Medium, Yellow WE GIVE CoftOO Hill I""" MorootinG muoi, ciri an,r, SyrUP Nlly'i lumberjotlc Off Cenuint Tillamook, Modium Aad GREEN STAMPS WE West Staging Tug - ii&iZ0lly I Jq I ..'"v,","''' uk cam t&sr f,xr: nfLtiiAtt fTNs1 ' A 1 1 1 1 O 4 W-iwvl nW- ANGOLA fj J AFRICA r.va,,., a thought to be Sekou Toure of Guinea and President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, but neither of them has moved to ward making his country a Communist state. Taking advantage of the East-West jockeying, the Afri can countries may be expect ed to play both sides against the middle. If Uncle Sam isn't sufficiently generous and open-handed, African leaders may seek Russian aid. Nasser got Russian help for the first stage of construction of As wan dam on the Nile; Emper or Haile Selassie recently got Midget Prices HUM Corners We S&H GREEN S&H GREEN S&H GREEN a whopping Russian credit of the equivalent of one billion dollars. It's all in rubles, how ever, and has to be spent in rubles. Black Leaden United The black leaders of all the new African states are united in denouncing "racial discrim ination" and "colonial imper ialism." The Communists love to hammer those themes, too, but the European powers have been divesting themselves of the colonial tag as fast as they could. Great Britain, France and Belgium have all 8 a.m. -7 p.m. EVERY DAY reserve the right to limit STAMPS 35 29 43 $J00 49 lb. lb. lb. lbs. lb. STAMPS 29 79 49 39 Heads lb. cello bag 70 70 lbs. lbs. STAMPS 70 $J59 $J00 29 oz. jar lbs. 22 ox. bottle lb. loaf GIVE S&H off - War For Africa's offered independence to their former colonies. England started it three years ago when its old Gold Coast colony became the free nation of Ghana. Nigeria be- Legion Presents Plan lo Congress The American Legion has presented to Congress a plan for care of the chronically ill veterans in convalescent cot tages recommended for con struction at five widely scat tered VA hospitals, according to Eugene Orr, Medford Le gionnaire. Orr was in , Washington, D.C., to take part in the 37th annual national rehabilitation conference March 1-4. Among other recommenda tions the Legion ms.de to the house veterans affairs , com mittee were cost of living ad justment in compensation for the service-connected disabled and for surviving dependents of those who died as a result of. war service; granting a one-year period in which vet erans of World War II and the Korean conflict could re new GI life insurance; extend ing the GI home loan guaran tee program; and giving the administrator of veterans af fairs the same authority to set interest rates as is now exer cised by the commissioner of the federal housing adminis tration. Documentary Film On Trip Available A documentary film based on the 1959 Oregon Centen nial covered wagon train is now available for free show ing to schools, civic and social groups, according to Ivan C. Hoyer, administrative director for the On To Oregon Caval cade, Inc. The film, "Wagons .West,' was produced by - the New York Life Insurance company in cooperation with the Caval cade organization, sponsors cf the epic trek. It is 16 milli meter with sound.. Seven authentic wagons manned by a crew of over 30 men, women and children made the trip. Any school, civic groups and other organizations inter ested in showing "Wagons West" may obtain a print by contacting their nearest local New York Life office, or by writing tQ the company at 621 S.W. Morrison st... Portland, or 163 East 12th ave., Eugene. 'Good Friend' Takes Man Second Time Alliance, O.-Henry. Maile, 33. told police he loaned a "good friend" his $2,500 car for an emergency trip to Wheeling, W. Va. and didn't hear from him until two weeks later, when the man phoned from Detroit. Maile complained his "friend" disappeared again after he wired him $190 to have the auto's transmission repaired. comes free in October. Under de Gaulle a whole raft of new .FATHER-SON II " -'-1 st mi a B 230 Million Persons countries are popping out inj what used to be FrencluWest Africa and French Equatorial Africa. Guinea was the first French colony below the Sa hara to ' emerge as an inde pendent state, and just a few weeks ago Belgium agreed that her big African colony, the Belgian Congo, could be independent the end of June. Speed Up Indicated Kenya, Tanganyika, North ern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Zanzibar, Uganda and Sierra Leone are on the planning board for independence in the future. Phased withdrawal of British control in from 18 months to 5 years is planned for all of them, but the irres tible surge of African nation alism may force the colonial office to step up its time-table. This correspondent saw signs in Swahili for "uhuru" in Kenya, -Zanzibar and Tan ganyika independence now. Tom Mboya, African leader Nairobi, said after the recent London conference on Keyna: "Some people talk of this constitution lasting four to five years. Personally I am not committed and do not con sider any of us committed to this." On racial discrimination, Macmillan told the parliament of South Africa in a frank speech in Cape Town that England would no longer sup port the apartheid policy. Apartheid is South Africa's program for separate develop ment of blacks and whites. United Slates Blamed Some Johannesburg editors blamed the United States for Macmillan's tough talk, but other observers pointed out that Ghana and Nigeria, new black commonwealth nations, had given their point of view to Macmillan as he traveled south to Cape Town. Portugal's holdings in Afri ca are anti-Communist oases and have been an exception to what ' Macmillan called "the wind of change." The Portugese consider Angola, Mozambique, Portugese Gui nea, the Cape Verde Islands, Principe and St. Thome "over seas territories" - pieces of metropolitan Portugal abroad. your choice T-shirts, sizes 4 to 8 regularly 2 for 1.18 T-shirts, Sizes 10-16 regularly 2 for 1.38 Briefs, sizes 4-16 regularly 2 for 1.00 Satisfaction guaranteed There is no trace of racial discrimination in Portueese territory. The Portugese have never been accused of race prejudice. Vacationers from Rhodesia and South Africa comment on the lack of ten sion in Mozambique. Tribal Law Rules In their administration' of native affairs, the Portugese whenever possible are guided by tribal law and do not try to make the natives under stand Anglo - Saxon common law or the Napoleonic Code. If a native wants to leave his cattle ; and holdings to his nephew, cutting off his own son as heir, Portugese judges do not object. Both in Angola and Mozambique the natives follow this practice with the explanation: "We know the son of our sister has blood. We can't be so sure of our own son." In some of the New African countries the Chinese Commu nists have more appeal than Gift of Faith in God Effective Antidote to Hysteria of Fear By THE REV. DR, HENRY E. HOESMAN Director of Evangelism, American Lutheran Church Columbus, Ohio Written for UPI "Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: For the powers of heaven shall be shaken" Luke 21:26. Thus the Lord Jesus de scribes conditions as they are to be preceding the great day of His coming. One word best describing life today 'in the Americas is fear Plenty of evidence exists to support a conviction of an organized campaign being underway to inoculate every last American with a repeated dosage of fear. 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So far, however, only three African countries have recognized the Peiping regime -Guinea, Egypt and the Su dan. Exchanges Provided The Chinese Communists attended the Afro-Asian con ference at Bandung five years ago. One resolution there pro vided for "cultural exchang es." Taking advantage of it, a troupe of 50 Chinese acrobats are now touring Africa. Ad vertised as a "spectacle of diablo, mimicry, trident and Chinese magic," the perform ers ran from Feb. 24 to March 4 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They vacated the Haile Selas sie I auditorium to make way for some American "culture" - Herbie Mann's jazz band, and Billy Graham's evangeli cal crusade enters the Haile Selassie Stadium March 8 and 9. I the moon and the stock mar ket dips. Cape Canaveral con- tinues reporting millions of dollars going up in pyrotech nical busts. Congressmen panic. Crash programs are in troduced into the educational systems. The hue and cry is for more scientists. Not Compatible All of this is symptomatic of the lack of faith in the one. I Imp Clnrl Fo-j r onrl -i m not compatible. "Righteous ness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach unto any people." A giant pinned down an entire army. King Saul and his troops were paralyzed with fear. A mere youth went forth in the name of the Lord to battle the profane physical specimen. He conquered. He had what the others lacked -courage, born of saving faith. Every Christian has this blessing. It is a gift God wants us to share with others. Only then can it be the effective antidote to this hysteria of fear. SEARS MAIL TRIBU, Medfgro', Or. Thursday, Wflrch 10, 1960 Society Observes Save Vision Week o "Visual training has be come one of the most impor tant techniques for hSping children who have trouble reading," according to Dr. Tom Anderson, chairman of the Southern Oregon Opto metric society. 0 The society is observing Na national Save Your Vision week March 6-12. Dr. Ander son .said "It is generally acknowledged tlat seeing is a learned process not mere ly a physical act - and that some children 'learn' to see improperly." "It is these children who need visual training in order to see as the normal child sees," he declared. A common example of children who see things wrongly are those who mistake the word "was" for "saw", or "on" for "no", or find it hard to keep their attention on an object fqj) more than several seconds. They can be helped by visual training in most cases, according to the "optometrist. G00&! 6C JACKSON AT BIDDLE SP 3-6661 Open Mondays and Frida. 'Til 9 p.m. FREE PARKING
