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ROAD ROUTES Showing an aerial photograph on which
the present route of the Redwood highway over Oregon
mountain is shown as the white line, California Highway
department engineers have drawn the proposed new high
way as the black line and the proposed Mountain tunnel
as the broken line where the new highway crosses the old
one in the right center portion of the picture. Plans call
for shortening and straightening the route between Grants
Pass and Crescent City. Ground-breaking ceremonies for
the project have been set for July 8 at a point on the
present old highway near Hazel View summit. The en
deaver is slated to be completed in 1962.
Africa's Largest Territory
Will be Independent June 30
Leopoldville, Belgian Con
go - (UPD - Africa's largest and
potentially richest territory
becomes independent June 30
1 against a backdrop of flight
and fear among thousands of
white residents.
The territory is the 905,000
square mile Belgian Congo,
one of America's principal
suppliers of uranium. Most
westerners-e x c e p t for the
handful of Europeans who set
tled it-know so little about
the Congo they are inclined to
associate only exotic jungle
drums and grade-B adventure
movies with the huge land.
- But people aware of the
gathering force of African na
tionalism and of the uranium,
diamonds, zinc, tin and cobalt
that pack the Congo subsoil
are awaiting June 30 with not
ungrounded fears.
With less than three weeks
to go before the 13,000,000
Congolese take over their own
government, many of the 115,
000 white settlers are near
panic and in fear of native
violence.
Mass Exodus
The mass exodus of inde
pendent white settlers -who
have booked solid virtually
every means of transportation
out of the Congo in the next
two months-is an indication of
their belief that Europeans
will have a very limited fu
ture in the mineral - rich
Congo.
The main fear is that rival
ries among the 60 odd tribes
and growing resentment
against whites will erupt into
massacres.
Violence already has oc
curred between rival tribes
and between Congolese and
European police with terrify
ing frequency since the first
rumblings o f independence
were heard early last year.
Last January, after 111
Congolese were killed in a
tribal war, Belgian troops
were flown into the diamond
rich province of Kasai to pre
vent a "war of extermination"
between the rival Lulua and
Labuba tribes.
Congolese riots against po
lice in Leopoldville, Eliza
bethville and Stanleyville in
the past year-and-a-half have
been as bloody as any of those
in South Africa or in Kenya
during days of .Iau Iau ter
rorism. Occupation Slate
Last month during the Con
go's first legislative election a
"state of military occupation"
was declared in Leopoldville
because of the threat of open
warfare between rival tribes.
Crack Belgian troops were
flown in to help the 20,000
colonial troops maintain order
during the transfer of power
to the new state.
The troops were instructed
to keep an especially keen eye
on Congolese city slickers
who were trying to hoodwink
their less worldly cousins in
to "buying" from them white
women for use as wives after
independence day.
It is no wonder that the
white man with financial in
terests in the Congo is wor
ried. The Congo was annexed by
Belgium in 1908. It never was
a colony in the traditional
sense because Belgium did not
encourage settlers. At the
peak of her "paternal" rule
in mid-1958 there were only
120,000 Europeans in the area
which is one-third the size of
the United States and three
times the size of Texas.
Among the Europeans were
5,000 independent settlers.
Dr.ii'i Want Whites
Most of the Belgians have
transferred their money to
banks in Belgium if, indeed,
they are not already packing
up in anticipation of post-independence
day violence.
The new Congolese leaders,
headed by Patrice Lumumba
of the extremist national Con
golese movement, do not want
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the whites to remain. They
have deprived them of the
vote unless the Europeans as
sume Congolese nationality.
But with less than one-quarter
of the Congolese popula
tion literate enough to vote
and few Congolese past the
high school level, the natives
may find themselves depend
ent on European help. White
technicians will be needed to
operate the vast mining con
cerns which provide 60 per
cent of the Congo's exports.
White lawyers and doctors
also will be required. There is
not one single qualified doctor
among the native population
in the entire Congo.
Whether the Europeans will
fill the technical and profes
sional gaps will depend on
the young republic avoiding
anarchy and bloodshed.
The outcome is of vital Inter
est to the United States, which
signed an agreement with Bel
gium in 1955 giving the U. S.
and Britain a virtual monopo
ly over all the uranium pro
duced in the Congo.
In January, 1959, after
bloody riots in Leopoldville,
Belgium announced the crea
tion of locally and provincial
ly elected councils in prepara
tion for eventual Congo inde
pendence. A year later at a spirited
round table conference in
Brussels, Congolese leaders,
headed by Lumumba demand
ed total independence from
Belgium, instead of member
ship in a Belgian common
wealth or federation of states.
Belgium Approves
Because there were only a
few thousand permanent Eur
opean settlers in the Congo,
Belgium said yes.
It was decided that the re-
nnhlir's administration was to
be patterned closely upon Bel
gium s except that a president
(appointed by the two legisla
tive chambers) would replace
the king.
Three million males, all of
them either literate or recog
nized as tribal or political
leaders, went to the polls for
the first time last monm to
elect a 137-seat chamber of
denuties and an 84-man sen
ate. At least 14 members of
the senate had to be tribal
chieftains to ensure the many
fpiirline tribes and ethical
groups of equal representa
tion.
Kinn Baudouin of Belgium
mill nnnnint the first DrimC
minister who, in turn, will se-
lont n rnhinet. It will have to
be approved by the legisla
ture. It is reckoned that the
formation of a coalition cabi
net is essential to avoid an
archy and bloodshed.
The election campaign itself
was more than Just a lively
contest among ZU various par
tics. Superimposed upon par
ty politicking were the deep
Ingrained tribal and provin
cail rivalries.
This was particularly evi
dent May 22, the last day ol
the election. It was reported
that Joscphy Kasavubu, lead
er of the Association of the
i nuior fnnirn nartv. demand
ed a recount on the grounds
that witch doctors employed
by the rival African Solidari
ty party had loaded the ballot
boxes which, he claimed bori
the snake symbol of that
party.
CALVES NEED MOTHER
Burlington, Vt. - m - A
University of Vermont veter
inarian says "the fanner who
takes a calf away from its
mother right after birth is
takingon lne mother's job."
Dr. James Wadsworth said,
"Most digestive troubles In
baby calves can be traced to
careless feeding. The sooner
a calf learns to eat clean feed
the sooner it can be weaned
frorn milk."
Delinquent Balloon
Has Navy Guessing
San Diego-fllPD-The delin
quent 40-story balloon kept
the Navy guessing Saturday
after drifting almost 2,000
miles from where it was sup
posed to land with its valu
able cargo of cosmic ray re
search instruments.
"It's just sitting out their."
said one rather frustrated
member of the office of naval
research team that chased the
balloon across the country.
At midaiternoon, the sphere
was 450 miles west of here
at about 50,000 feet. It had
moved very little during the
aay.
The balloon, half as tall as
the Empire State building,
was launched Sunday from
Glynco Naval Air Station at
Brunswick, Ga., to sample
cosmic radiation as possible
danger to future space travel
ers at high altitudes.
Portland - (UPD - Film star
Jayne Mansfield proved a fa
vorite at the Rose Festival pa
rade here Saturday when she
suddenly dropped out of the
sky aboard a re dhelicopter to
ride the Hollywood Booster's
float.
Medford
Tribune
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1960
PAGES 1 to 8
Generals Who Criticized Ike Called
Professionally Jealous by Truman
New York - (UPD - Former
President Harry S. Truman
says that two British generals
were suffering from profes
sional jealousy in their criti
cism of President Eisenhow
er's military ability during
World War II.
He referred to the memoirs
of Field Marshal Viscount
Montgomery and Field Mar
shal Viscount Alanbrooke
which were critical of Eisen
hower as a general.
"To begin with, we have to
remember that it was a hard
pill for some of the British
generals to swallow to have
an American general put in
complete command of the
allied forces," Truman said.
"They probably thought there
was no military talent in the
United States on a level with
their own.
"They were mistaken, but
I have an idea some of them
are going to keep talking
about it for a long, long time."
Truman said in an article
in Look magazine that he be
lieved such books served a
useful purpose.
Mistakes Known
We all know mistakes
were made, and in looking
back, it is always easier to
recognize the m," he said.
Mistakes have been made in
every war."
The former president said
he believed that many books
written by generals tended to
be "mainly alibis," but the
recent ones appeared to be a
little more personal and vin
dictive.
I find that personal rival
ries and disappointments im
pel the authors to color what
happened, and thus often dis
tort thp true picture," he add
ed. "In some respects. I think
the contending generals of the
last decade might have kept
from publication some of their
views of each other until
another time. But I do not
think there is any real harm
in the current battle of the
generals."
Expressed Opinion
Truman said he expressed
his own opinion of Eisenhow
er as a soldier and a leader
when he appointed him chief
of staff and recalled him to
organize the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.
"During the war, he coor
dinated the allies, kept them
together and made the historic
crossing of the English Chan,
ncl to invade Nazi - occupied
Europe," he said. "I think ha
came out of the situation in
Europe in very good shape, no
matter what others may thinlc
or say."
But Truman said that he
thought Gen. George C. Mar
shall was the "brains" of the
campaign.
"He was the man who real
ly made the military organiza
tion work, both in the Atlan
tic and the Pacific, and this
is what brought about vic
tory." Truman added.
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