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i r i - v i i 2 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Sunday, March 20, 1960 Cuba Presents Washington. emisphere With li ea'dache w ' ' 1 1 if r&mi, 4 , . " 1 'fc 1 ir' RELEASE BRINGS TEARS Carole Tregoff, 23, breaks into tears in Los Angeles as she learns she is to be released on $25,000 bail. Superior Judge John G. Barnes ordered her co-defendant, Dr. Bernard Finch, held in jail until their new trial on May 23 for the slaying of the surgeon's wife. (UPI Telephoto) 18 Adult Education Classes Scheduled During Spring Term Eighteen adult education courses, including four college extension courses, are being offered in the spring term schedule sponsored by the Medford school system, Lind sey Vinsel, director of adult education, has announced. The courses will begin the last week of March and regis tration will take place at the first meeting of the class. Classes with insufficient en rollment will be cancelled. Courses being offered, list ing the course, day, time, place, room number, and in structor, include: Fundamentals of mathemat ics, Tuesdays, 7 to 10 pjn., Medford High school, room 13, Marvin Trautman; funda mentals of physics, Thurs days, 7 to 10 p.m., Medford High, room 19, Floyd Pawlow ski; business letter writing, Tuesdays, 7 to 9:30 p.m.f Med ford High, room 220, Mrs. Barbara Tomlinson; begin ning typing, Wednesday's, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Medford High, room 225, Mrs. Marjorie Ten ney; business machines, Mon days, 7 to 9:30 pjn., Medford High, room 226, Miss Gertr ri&le Fredrickson; intermedi ate Spanish, Thursdays, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Medford High, room 219, Carl Bergman. Hobby Courses Jewelry, Mondays, 7 to 9:30 p.m. (eight-week course), Mc Loughlin Junior High, room 7, Mrs. Helen Gebhard; oil paint ing. Thursdays, 7 to 9:30 p.m., McLoughlin, room 7, Jack Teeters; basic mosaic, Thurs days, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Med ford High, room 223, Mrs. Audrey Sims; art apprecia tion, Tuesdays, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., five-week course, Med ford High, room 224, Warren Wolf. Knitting, Wednesdays, 7 to 10 p.m., Medford High, room 207, Mrs. June Milestone; Bishop clothing I, Thursdays, 7 to 10 p.m., Medford High, room 207, Mrs. Jean Hood; cake decorating, Mondays, 7 to 10 p.m., Medford High, roogi 17, Mrs. Barbara Vinsel; cake decorating, Thursday, 7 to 10 a.m., Medford High, room 17, Mrs. Barbara Vin sel; upholstery, Mondays and Thursdays, 7 to 10 p.m., (five- week course) 917 West Mc Andrews rd., Medford, Heinz Bertram. College extension courses include diagnostic and reme- Gunmen Hold Bar Patrons Hostage Watson ville -(LTD- Two gun men held six persons hostage in a bar early Saturday be fore being captured in a police tear gas attack. One woman bar patron was raped during the two-hour reign of terror. William Gunter, 27, and John Avritt, 23, surrendered to squads of officers after a tear gas bomb was tossed through the window of the Towne club and bartender Henry Dini, 57, warned them they would be killed if they did not' give up. dial instruction in reading, Thursdays, 7 to 9:45 p.m., Medford High, room 209, Mrs. Barbara Westra; education of the exceptional child, Mon days, 7 to 9:45 p.m., Medford High, room 209, Floyd Horo witz; social control, Thurs days, 7 to 9:45 p.m., Medford High, room 239, Dr. Fred Trost; and workshop: Prob lems in school administration, Wednesdays, 7 to 9:45 p.m., Medford High, room 201-B, Dr. Deith Goldhammer. Courses are scheduled for 10 weeks unless otherwise noted. Additional information may be obtained from the adult education office at Med ford High school, SPring 3-5341. New Pension Law Explained for Vets Retirement payments re ceived by veterans under the Railroad Retirement Act will be counted as income under the new pension law effective July 1, S. T. Brannock, con tact representative, VA Domi ciliary, Camp White, said Sat urday. Under the present pension law, railroad retirement pay ments do not count as income. This will remain true for those veterans who stay un der the present law, which they are allowed to do even after July 1, Brannock said. Those veterans, however, who choose to come under the new law must count all of their railroad retirement payments as income. The present law requires that a single veteran's income must not exceed $1,400 while a veteran with dependents may have an annual income of $2,700 and still be eligible for pension payments, Bran nock pointed out. Under the new pension law, a single veteran's, income lim it is increased to $1,800 and a veteran 'with dependents may have an income up to $3,000, although amounts payable de pend upon level of income under these limits. Additional information on the new pension law may be obtained at the contact office, VA Domiciliary, Camp White. Tim BUNNIES GREETING CARDS & GIFTS! CANDIES & PARTY GOODS! PRETTY RIBBONS & WRAPPINGS! ... and we have 'em plenty, too. CASH DAVIS PHARMACY THE REXALL STORE We Give S&H Green Stamps 135 West Main, Corner Grape Ph. SP 2-2230 Great Decisions Topic Reviews Policies to South (Editor's not: This is an other in the series of arti cles in which Great Deci sions . . . 1960 topics are discussed. Today's article is on the subject: "Cuba and Latin America: What Makes Good Neighbors?" Material is furnished through the Foreign Policy association. Inc., New York City.) President Eisenhower's phe nomenally warm reception by the peoples of four South American republics was marred by only minor inci dents left-wing and right wing demonstrations involv ing handf uls of students or po litical dissidents. Closer to U.S. shores, how ever, Cuba continued to pre sent Washington with its num ber one hemisphere headache. Yet, experts say, the same problems which plague this country's relation with Cuba are also fundamental to U.S. relations with the rest of Latin America Why the paradox-cheers for the U.S. Presi dent in South America and a steady barrage of provocation and insult directed to this country from Fidel Castro's Cuba? Hemisphere Problems Essentially two kinds of problems - economic and po litical - are fundamental to U.S. relations with all of Latin America. The economic problems were summarized by Presi dent Eisenhower on his return early this month from his South American goodwill tour. He pointed out that most Latin American coun tries depend for their eco nomic well-being on exports of one or a few primary products-coffee, sugar, bananas, oil, and minerals. World mar ket prices for these products have been fluctuating wildly in recent years, with harmful effects on the dollar earnings of these countries. Meanwhile, the imports, these countries need-machinery and other manufactured goods-have been rising stead ily in cost. : Massive Frustration - These two factors, plus rapid birth rates and a hemisphere-wide demand for eco nomic development, lead to massive economic frustration. The United States, in turn, gets a large share of the blame simply because this country is Latin America's biggest customer for primary products, and its biggest sup plier for manufactured goods. Cuba, for example, sells over 60 per cent of its export ed sugar to this country. Latin America as a whole bought 26 per cent of all U.S. com mercial exports in 1958-sec-ond only to Western Europe as a U.S. customer. Latin American and US. leaders are generally agreed that this country has a major responsibility to help resolve these problems-to help stabil ize, world market prices for primary exports, and to stim ulate public and private in vestment in hemisphere-wide economic development. One important phase of this development, for example, is to promote diversification of Latin American economies, to overcome dependence on one or two primary exports. Principal Disagreements The principal disagree ments between Washington Shoe Shine 'Boy' Held in Shooting Portland - (DPD - A 42-year-old shoe shine boy was arrest ed Friday night in connection with a shooting on a down town street. Arrested was Charlie Burns. Wounded was Charles Kaiser, 48. Burns was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. EASTER TIME! for ... & BASKETS! and the capitals of the Latin American countries is how much the U.S. can be expect ed to io in these areas. The President pointed out, for instance, that the U.S. has already taken the lead in in' ternational studies on the sta bilization of prices for raw materials, and that extensive U.S. and international machin ery already exists for develop ment loans. Earlier, U.S. Un dersecretary of State Doug las Dillon reminded Latin American leaders that U. S. public loans to that region have amounted to more than $3,500,000,000 in the past 10 years. U.S. private invest ments in Latin America, in this same period, totaled over $9,000,000,000. Private U.S. investments in the region have been credited with doubling Latin Ameri ca's growth rate over the past 10 years. Finally, the President prom ised, the United States is will ing to consider financing ad ditional, important develop ment projects which, for one reason or another, cannot be financed through existing loan machinery. Significant Job Washington, in other words, believes it is already doing a significant job of helping re solve hemispheric economic problems, Latin American leaders, on the other hand, feel that not enough is being done fast enough. They agree that economic growth is tak ing place throughout the re gion, but not rapidly enough, in some cases, to keep pace with population growth. Fur thermore, the growth is spot ty and frequently lopsided benefiting only one indus try, class of people or region. - The gravest; danger, say many Latin American leaders, is that slow and spotty eco nomic growth will only aggra vate political discontent. In their economic frustration, Latin American peoples may turn in desperation to dicta torships of the right or left, as they have in the past. Cuba, they say, is an exam ple of what can happen politi cally if not enough happens economically. Hemispheric Problems Hemispheric political prob lems, however, are not entire ly based on economic ques tions, authorities say. Some of the political problems are his torical in origin stemming from feudal and militaristic traditions in Latin American countries. The pattern of dictatorship and revolution, characteristic of past Latin American his tory, has of course been fre quently linked with economic discontent and low.- levels of education and living stand ards. But past U.S. economic policies cannot fairly be call get ready insure hot weather comfort ! zenith Only nationally advertised Fltxofum gives you all ihese exclusive features: . 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Meanwhile, a wholly new political dimension has arisen in hemisphere relations the growing influence of commu nism. This issue is particularly strong in Cuba, where (many experts believe) communism has made its most dangerous inroads. There are known Communists high in the Cas tro government, and some as pects of Castro's economic "reform" program smack of socialization and collectiviza tion. Furthermore, Cuba is courting embarrassingly close economic relations with the communist bloc. In recent weeks, following the visit to Cuba of Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, Castro negotiated a five-year 5,000,000-ton sugar deal with the Soviet Union and is said to be negotiating for a number of MIG-17 jet fighters from Czechoslovakia. Other communist bloc trade aid deals may be in the offing. Make Steady Progress Elsewhere in Latin Amer ica the Soviet bloc is making slow but steady progress in the trade area, and local Com munist nroDaeandists lose no opportunity to intensify U.S.- Latin American misunder standings. Castro, for exam Die, has become a left-wing hero throughout Latin Amer ica. Several of the demonstra tions President Eisenhower encountered on his tour were pro-Castro In nature. Thus. Washington's main po litical problem with its Latin American neighbors seems to boil down to this issue: how can this country help to strengthen both economic progress and political freedom in Latin America without seemine to interfere or inter vene in matters which are properly the internal affairs of the various Latin American republics? It is a particularly hard question to answer in dealing with Cuba, experts agree. If, for example, the Communists were openly to take over in Cuba-or if the Soviet Union sained a military base in Cuba-Washington would face a dilemma, not of hemispheric relations, but of U.S. security in a global cold war context. In the face of such extreme possibility, the issue would no for old sol ALUMINUM AWNINGS YOUR AWNING NEEDS SP 2-4472 I m . . m ei.iiiitiii fl longer be one of fostering bet ter "good neighbor" relations. It would be a matter of safe guarding the entire hemis phere "neighborhood" from alien intervention - a corner stone of U.S. policy since the Monroe Doctrine. The Hard Issues The immediate issues for U.S. policy toward Latin America are both economic and political. The fundamental economic question is whether the Unit ed States can or should take a greater hand in speeding Latin American economic de velopment not for "good neighbor" reasons alone, but also to insure that the West ern hemisphere will develop in economic and political free dom. The alternative-wheth-er tyranny of the left or right -can well threaten U.S. secu rity and survival. The important economic jobs to be done, experts say, are (a) increased investment J in basic growth-power, trans portation, surveys of natural resources; harbors, schools and other areas and (b) expan sion and diversification of import-export trade, at more stable prices. Both jobs call for varying degrees of public and private effort. Fundamental Question The fundamental political question is, in President Eis enhower's terms, how to work in trust and partnership with 20 Latin American govern ments, for our mutual welfare' and security, without raising the bugaboos of intervention ism or "Yankee imperialism." So far, in its relation with Castro, . Washington has fol lowed a policy of considera Rush to Wards today for special savings! 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But this legisla tion is now up for renewal in the U.S. Congress. The ques tion is whether any modifica tion of this quota would be interpreted as an up - to - date form of U.S "intervention." Hemisphere 'Cooperation' At present it is U.S. policy to handle both the economic and the political problems on the basis of hemisphere "coop eration." In his post-tour re port to the U.S. people the President underscored this policy. Hemisphere economic development, he said, must be based on a partnership ef fort. Similarly, aggression or subversion anywhere in the hemisphere would have to be met by "collective" action of the Organization of American States. Perhaps the most signifi cant development in U.S. pol icy is' what might be called an "Eisenhower corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine. The Presi dent said: "We would consid er it intervention in the inter nal affairs of an American state if any power, whether by invasion, coercion, or sub version, succeeded in denying freedom of choice to the peo ple of any of our sister repub lics." The warning apparent iTTtEl lirt SP 3-7301 ly was directed to both Cuba and the Soviet Union. The debate continues, how ever, whether restraint and (MM) When you visit this fascinating inland seaport, be sure to stay at the FLAGSTONE MANOR MOTEL, Stockton's Garden Motel. Enjoy the sunken rtfse garden, the beautiful swimming pool and the re laxing, quiet atmosphere. Family and commercial units with air-conditioning, radios, phones, TV avail able. Continental dining at the Manor House Res taurant. Cocktail Lounge and 24-hour coffee shep. Credit cards honored. A delightful place to stay. Flagstone Manor 8009 N. 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