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10 A. After Two Quemoy Now Says He Regards Shooting . Editor's note: The writer of the following dispatch report ed the 1958 Quemoy bomb .bardment for United Press International. Now, two years later, he has returned to the offshore island to report on life in the world's only hot war area. ;; By HULLEN SHAW United Press International ; Quemoy-(UPD -Ong Chinch! is a young farmer who culti vates a scrap of land in the center of a battlefield. He did not sleep on a night two years ago when Commu nist China began its first sat uration artillery bombard- ment of the Quemoy offshore islands. But today, almost one mil lion shells later, Ong shrug ,ged his deeply tanned shoul ders and said, "Scared? Yes, But not so much anymore. I work my land every day, dawn to dusk. This shooting is lust a nuisance." . Communist Chinese shore guns, less than four miles from Ong s farm, have been bombarding Nationalist-held Quemoy since the night of Aug. 23, 1958. From Formosa, President ,Chiang Kai-shek has vowed he will never surrender Quemoy and his other offshore islands. ' Ong was born 32 years ago on this small piece of real estate, little larger than New York's Manhattan Island. Home for 43,000 Quemoy, a hot war battle field on the fringe of the Bamboo Curtain, is home for some 43,000 farmers, fisher men and small shop keepers. The island's parched red soil, broken by forbidding Minimum Wage Action Is Blocked ; Washington-IUPD - A Michi gan Republican today blocked a move by House Democratic leaders to start immediate negotiations for a compromise between differing House and Senate bills to boost the flan-hour minimum wage. Rep. August E. Johansen (R- Mich.) objected to a request by .'Labor Committee Chair man Graham A. Bardcn, (D- N.C.), for unanimous consent to send the conflicting bills to a House-Senate conference committee. 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Be first with the newest send 23 cents nowl Years, Farmer on as 'Just Nuisance' gray stone hills, is tired from centuries of cultivation. With his hands and the same tools used by his ances tors, farmer Ong, tall and stocky for a Chinese, scrapes the earth for peanuts, vege tables and maize. From the maize, Quemoy ferments one of China's most famous-and powerful-wines, its production uninterrupted by two years of hostilities. Ong stood on his land bare footed ana stripped to the waist against the August sun. his blue cotton trousers rolled to the knees, while he de scribed his rendezvous with war. "When the shcelings are light, I just go on working, When they are heavy, I curse against my lost time and go nome and into the shelter, Private Bomb Shelter His mother, 60, his wife and their five children, rang ing in age from 1 to 10, join him in their private concrete bomb shelter when Mao Tsc tung's cannoneers get hot. Ong built the shelter him self behind his squat, two- room red brick house with cement given by the govern ment. Since the initial 1058 as sault, the U.S. and National ist Chinese governments have provided a bomb shelter for nearly every house and school on Quemoy. Ong counts his blessings in a strange way. Once he could take a sick child only to a medical quack. But now he knows that Que- moy's wounded civilians are treated free in modern mili tary hospitals and clinics es tablished in the past two years. Many of these facil ities have been built under ground. Ong's neighbors are lucky. Free Schools May Help Others Find Basic Freedoms These vnnr sini'p ihp onH of World War II have brought us manv nf ffrpninsf mo ments in the history of free men. Never has the lonulne for freedom and indpoonrienrp stirred the souls of so many men as in our times. Throughout the world-as currently evidenced in Africa and Asia particularly-people are seeking their rtffhtfnl frpr- dom and self-realizntlon from authoritarian forces. And the concept of public cducation-a free school sys tem may well prove to be the avenue of communication and development that will help peoples in other parts of me worm acnive tnclr basic freedoms. Education is not a static force or fixed Drocess. In the midst of ever-present changes m social, economic and po litical sructures, values and forces, education changes also. Outside Influences Outside influences are put tine tremendous teachers and schools "to keep up with Russia" . . . or . . . "get ahead of them" or bring forth stmilnr tlipmno tncnit-nri by the original Sputnik sur- pricc. However, keeping pace or leading the race is not solely a matter of more science courses in the curriculum. Well-trained tonchers. in-put. cr number of teachers, more schools, more adequate facili ties, and a greater Interest on the nart of our unlit I ml nnrl solcal leaders, parents and the cmiarcn themselves, are im portnnt factors thnt can pnl lectively contribute to better education. What hannens to. Aniprlnnn education in the Immertintp fn. turc depends on how much people Know and learn about their schools and how much the power of the people is brought to Its support. ' This is the challenge to ed ucational leadership. STOP BUGGING YOUR FRIENDS! buy BIG and pay LITTLE Look dreamy and AO Men's Clothing Sale BARKER'S Main-Central In two years, only one person has been wounded in Ong's Ding Pao village, population 600. But thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed and wounded elsewhere on Quemoy. The exact number of casualties is a military secret. Shell on Alternate Days Since November, 1958, the Reds, by announced policy, have shelled the offshores only on alternate days. Com munist China said it would withhold fire on even-numbered days of the month for "humanitarian reasons." "We used to keep track which days were odd and which were even," Ong said, "but we always were getting mixed up. Now it does not make any difference to us." The Nationalist Chinese De fense Ministry, counting artil lery rounds toy U.S. World War Two battlefield techni ques, reported that the Reds have fired 827,467 shells at Quemoy since Aug. 23, 1958. Nationalist military officers believe the Communists can never pierce Quemoy's beach es, ringed with mines, barbed wire and underwater spikes sharpened to rip the bottoms out of landing craft. Every inch of the Quemoy beaches is covered by ma- chincgun motar and artillery muzzles. Quemoy will stand, Nation alist officers say, so long as the sea supply line is kept open across 100 miles of the Formosa Straits to the main Nationalist Chinese island, Formosa. And that's the job for the atomic-armed U.S. Seventh Fleet. 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A recent survey showed that 10 of the 200 odd in the 1951 graduating class from this famous English school are working in Manhattan alone, In the past decade, Eton, which has been cradited with victory at the Battle of Water loo and the loss of "the revolt ing American colonies," has sent an increasing number of its alumni across the Atlantic, It's getting so that New York firms who really want to be "one up" on their com petitors must not only have an English secretary to take a call, but . an Englishman to whom the call can be refer red. English Are Clannish But while England's blue blood is streaming over here in increasing quantities, it is showing little inclination to get into the American circu lation. These young Englishmen are clannish, tend only to see each other or other Europeans, and avoid American girls. "Your girls are not fem V 1 1 0 i t i ft i J EAE9S TRANSFE fiO jpjyj C0ri:;rc:3cndG;7hr r Aug. 24-27 n m n Mr M h M or 'til sold iyjullL, f 10 ajirj-9 BUY- 'FOR LESS THW CIS FREE TOY ALLIED SPECIAL T ALL SALES A DEPOSIT WILL HOLD YOUR PUR CHASE FOR 30 DAYS TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. inine. They demand masculine chivalry when they should w a i t to be offered it," one said. "They attach too much importance to money. Mar riage for American girls is simply another status sym bols," another reported. Weather a Factoi What brings these young men to the States is obviously not the American girl. It does not seem to be money either. But the weather apparently has something to do with the Englishman's emigration hab its. While over 27,000 Britons settled in the States in 1957 and again in 1958, last year, when England had a long and glorious summer, the number dropped to 20,000. But the principal reason for leaving home seems to be the increased opportunities in this country. Back in England the phrase "children are seen but not heard" tends to apply until a child is in his forties or fifties. Here, say the young English men, elders are not necessari ly considered betters and the youthful voice is positively encouraged. If the present out-flow of England's ruling class con- .J r! Jaek Says Religion Won't Hurt in South Washington (UPD - Demo cratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy said today he cannot believe the South would not vote for him be cause of his religion. "I can't believe," Kennedy said, "that in the year 1960 I cannot become president be cause of the church I go to." Arson Ruled Out in Salem School Blaze Salem (UPD Marion coun ty sheriff's deputies said Tuesday they have all but ruled out arson in last week's $100,000 Hoover Elementary school fire here. Chief Deputy John Zabin ski said investigation indi cated the fire started in an attic over the girl's rest room and near wiring connecting the school's automatic bell system. . Olympia-niPB- A petition by former Teamster President Dave Beck for a second re hearing of his appeal from a grand larceny conviction was turned down Monday by the Washington Supreme Court. tinues. the old countrv mav soon be suffering from execu tive anemia. EADS Must Liquidate Gigantic Surplus Furniture O Bedding Appliances Television Floor Coverings O Accessories O Sectionals O Sleepers -i 1 ,i VAN with any Purchase Ove Douglas County Fair Sets Opening Roseburg The Douglas County fair in Roseburg opens tomorrow with Kiddies Day. Special events include hour ly performances of Dancing Waters, the water show and queen contest each evening at 7, and the eighth annual Ricketts Revue and Talent contest nightly at 7:30. There will be Sally Hilt's Polynesian dancers in the gar dens each afternoon, John Strong's circus, the Lesselli Marionettes and the High Fire diver with a number of shows each day. Thursday evening will be highlighted with a fireworks display at 8:30. Friday and Saturday evening holds square dancing on the outdoor floor and professional wrestling in the grandstand arena at 8. Horse show activities will be featured in the arena on Saturday and Sunday after noon. Dedication of the new exhibit hall will climax events at 6:15 p.m. Sunday. Speaker for the event will be Hillman Lueddeman of Portland, prominent lumber executive. The auto show, gem and mineral show, exhibits, gar dens and zoo will be- open throughout the four-day event. Many 4-H contests are also scheduled during the morning and early afternoon each day. L M P 1 FTATfrl til M j LVlil ;.-6FURNITURE cKa Wlfn9 Portland - (UPB - A West Coast Airlines flight landed in Olympia Monday night aft er the Portland airport re ceived an anonymous bomb scare telephone call. i' you , tasted l Mrs. Murphy's i Chowder? Chowder ... . candied radishes . . . homes ... no telling what might turn up in the home-canning competition at the fair.; Be on hand to argue with the judges' decisions it's good, clean sport. rides .prizes .races .displays .surprises .judging ;h;3f; : D O U 6 LAS! !;inp-;ic;uNTyi .its' if'f'V 1 .1 " -"ViJSi W A u e u's T M?7TPrLIANCES " T7ASHERS r 4 t ' 7CM'- Z2S Tonite WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 24, I960 The starfish eats oysters in the shell by pulling the bi valve open with its suction tentacles and then turning its own stomach inside out to digest. 25.'":'2 8 ,Jh E GO 2ATORS thru Sat. r 520 v. 1
