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o o O :: ,:Cl. O O O o -,oc:: ::;)C :0 GCO GDO o n n O o Radio Free Europe Built to Remember Unwilling illions in Satellite Lands Bf LeROY KELLER United Presi International Munich, Germany - il'PD -One of the major compaigns of the cold war is 10 years old and still is being fought here 24 hours a day at a cost of S10 million a year. It is privately financed and directed by determined men and women who believe those unwilling millions in the sat ellite countries behind the Iron Curtain should not be ' foruotlen. How did this battle begin? Who is behind it? What are its objectives? Voice Said Needed Radio Free Europe (RFF), an exile network, voice of liberty loving refugees from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hun gary, Romania and Bulgaria, was born in the mind of Gen. Lucius D. Clay and put in these words: "When I left Germany in 1949, 1 came home with a very firm conviction that we need ed, in addition to the Voice of America, a different, broader voice, a voice of the free peo ple, a radio which would not speak the words of govern ment but would speak to each country behind the Iron Cur tain in its own language, and from the throats of its own leaders who had fled for their lives because of their beliefs in freedom." General Clay and other leading Americans went on to launch "Crusade for Free dom" to organize and support the drive for a free Europe. In 1950 Radio Free Europe went on the air from a tiny seven - and - one-half kilowatt mobile transmitter. ( Today that roving station has grown to a giant complex of 29 powerful transmitters located in West Germany and Portugal. News, commentar ies, music and other cultural programs are beamed into Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary 18 hours a day and into Romania and Bulgaria five-and-a-half hours a day. Programs Get Through East Germany is not cover ed because the regular pro grams from West Germany get through. Nor is any effort made in Yugoslavia, which has split off from the Com munist bloc. Albania is omit ted because only one family in 48 has a radio receiver. The money to support this huge task comes entirely from contributions and is solicited PI Mi1k3 Jfr - -v . ,1?. tr& r Spy 40s & HELPS FIGHT COLD WAR This is an aerial view of the the Radio Free Europe installation at Munich, Germany, which houses 21 studios and 20 control rooms, besides fa cilities for monitoring, engineering, programming and ad ministration. Broadcasts originate here for Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria. One of the major cold war campaigns, RFE is 10 years old and still being fought here at a cost of $10 million a year - privately fi- by Crusade for Freedom, in corporated under the laws of New York State. Volunteer chairman this year is William B. Murphy, president of Campbell Soup Co. His goal is a fund of $10,000,000 for 1960. Contributions came from three sources, according to Charles J. McNeill, assistant director of administration of Radio Free Europe. 1. Corporate donations. American business is dedicat ed to halting and reversing the controlled - market con cept of the Communist world and therefore gives freely, McNeill said. 2. Patriotic and other pri v a t e organizations in the United States, such as the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Amvets, Na tional Council of Catholic Men, service clubs such as Rotary, Lions, etc., and wom en's clubs. Appeal for Funds 3. Individuals reached through newspapers, radio and TV stations, magazines, and other advertising media. According to McNeil more than $5,000,000 of space has been made available to the Crusade for Freedom during the past four years to carry messages appealing for funds to support the work of Radio Free Europe. The European Division of Radio Free Europe is directed by Erik Hazelhoff. The whole of the organization revolves around five major news desks - one for each of the target satellite countries - each di rected by a managing editor. To each editor is available the worldwide facilities of United Press International and Reuters; the domestic FREE PARKING FREE PARKING CORNER OF 4TH AND FRONT STREET BEST FOODS AGED STEER BEEF MAYONNAISE SIRLOIN 7 Rr o 53 steak SWIFTNING tender KITCHEN QUEEN MORRELL'S READY-TO-EAT Sg 7? PICNICS 3? We'll Slice Them FREE! SWIFT'S PREMIUM .-.. 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Newspapers and magazines from the target areas are scanned regularly for further clues as to what is really going on inside the Communist world. Broad Sampling Finally, refugees and visit ors to the satellites are inter viewed when they come out. Olympic stars and other fig ures having cause to visit out side the Iron Curtain are in terrogated. All of this material is put together daily and utilized by each desk to inform the peo ple not only of what is going on in the free world but, as Staph Epidemics Caused by Patients Philadelphia (Science Serv ice) - Recent hospital epidem ics of staph may have been caused by patients who brought staphylococcal infec tions (staph) into the hospit als, a new survey indicates. Staph, which may be a fac tor in relapses and the slow recovery of hospital patients, has been blamed on lack of cleanliness in hospitals. But Dr. Marlin L. Cooper of Chil dren's hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, told the Society of American. Bacteriologists meeting here that staph is a community problem. He reported a study made on 5,676 children as they were admitted to Children's hospital. Of these, 45.9 per cent carried Staphylococcus aureus organisms in their noses or throats. And 8.2 per cent carried those strains of the organism likely to cause epidemics. But a study of physicians in the hospital showed a slightly higher percentage carried staph themselves. Nur ses and other hospital person nel had a slightly lower per centage than the patients. I nm-. I Vote for Dellenback The Man BIST EQUIPPIO U D the JOB Par Tan. Paid by Dellenback for State Representative Commit tee. S. V. McQueen, Chairman, 21 36 Hillcrest Rd tUPI Telephoto) often, of what is taking place inside their own country. Are these news broadcasts and other programs listened to by the captive populace and are thev effective? As to the first question. executives of Radio Free Europe regularly take as broad a sampling as possible of ail of the people who re cently have bt'en in aU'lliie countries. From these they learned that of the persons listening to foreign radio pro grams, 98 per cent hear the Britisli Broadcasting Corn, Voice of America or Radio ! Free Europe. j Of these, according to Di- rector of Audience Research Henry Hart, 92 per cent lLsten to RFE at one time or another, three-fourtlis of them regular- ly. "Furthermore," said Hart, "we know we are getting through by the violence of the attacks carried on against us in Communist media, notes to our government about our activities and by references in the Communist press and ra dio saying in effect, 'What Radio Free Europe said last night isn't so!" A final test of the effective ness of the work of RFE is the mounting effort of the Communists to jam the broad casts into tile target coun tries. "Between 1.400 and 1.500 powerful transmitters from the satellite area roam the radio spectrum, creating a jungle of sound and con fusion," Hart said. "But we keep our message of hope and freedom coming through." Section B Pages 1 - 8 Medford.BTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1960 427Tl!6. Montana 4,013,478, Oregon 842.927, Utah 307,254, and Washington 2,013,247. Wheat Farmers Schedule Vote on Marketing Quotas Washington -I'PP Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson has announced that the na tion's wheat farmers will vote July 21 on whether they favor marketing quotas on their 19B1 crop. Benson proclaimed a nation al wheat allotment of 55 mil lion acres, the minimum per mitted by law and the same as for this year. Under present law, the proclamation referendum date must be announced on or be fore May 15. However, Con gress is considering changing the wheat program. Would Change Action If new legislation is adopt ed, Wednesday's action would be changed to conform. 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