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.
The House bill would boost
the wage floor to $1.15 an
hour, the Senate bill to $1.25
with several million more new
workers included under the
legislation's coverage.
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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
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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
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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,
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MEDFORD MAIL
Many College Graduates
From England Come to
Work for Firms in U.S.
By ANTHONY ROUSE
United Press International
New York - (UPD - American
businessmen are being train
ed on the playing fields of
Eton.
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
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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-
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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.
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Appliances Television
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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.
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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.
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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
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