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0 "Seiiford mail tribune, medford. ore.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1960
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Japan Codiluiisfs lfot$ Tiny Island To Embarrass U.S. at Okinawa Base
Butte Home Wrecked
By Lightning Jump
Butte, Mont. - When Mr.
Harold Stero returned horn,
from a trip, her house wag
a wreck. Windows wer.
knocked out. Screens wert
torn. Planks were ripped
loose.
Surely the work of bur- q
glars, she thought, and noti
fied the sheriff's office.
Tokvo -IUPD-. Thp .TAnanosp
Stimulus for the npw at
seat house went to independ
ents. Socialists won three and
the liberal Democratic party
one seat.
What is significant is that
the Communist party gained
two seats and won 15.5 per
cent of the popular vote in
an island administered by the
United States until the end
of 1954.
Reversion of administra
tive authority to Japan was
the popular rallying cry of
Naze politicians on Amami
just as it is on Okinawa to
day. Perhaps no one was more
surprised than the Amami is
landers when the United
States said, in effect, you ask
ed ffff it. Now you can go
smuggled themselves Into
Okinawa via the midnight
fishing boat route.
Amami remains a desper
ately poor island with an an
nual per (Capita income far
below the Japan-wide aver
age of S285 and even drops
below (Jie Okinawa average
of S210.
The Japanese Communist
party is well aware of this
and it has organized a strong
core of diehard supporters on
Amami. 0
Okinawa's top leftist lead
er, former Naha Mayor Kame
jiro Senaga, was largely dis
credited after he tied up de
liberations in the Naha city
assembly for 10 months in
1957.
Major Istu Solved
The major issue on Okina
wa, low rental payments for
land held by the U.S.-Army,
was solved after U.S.-Oki-nawan
talks in Washington.
Senaga went into self pro
claimed political retirement
following the settlement.
Barred from holding public
office, he resigned from lead
ership of the leftist Coalition
party, M i n r e n (Democracy
Protection Council), but re
mained on as head of the
Peoples party.
(The bushy haired Okina
wan leftist has five Minren
followers in the legislature
today. Conservative, liberal
Democrats hold 14 seats with
m 1 d d 1 e-of-the-road socialist
masses in second place with
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Senaga wants to install at
previously. The Anny dou
bled the rent payments, sat
isfying virtually all the land
owners. Leftist forces have gained
some advances in the U.S.
financed University of the
Ryukyus. Many anti-Eisenhower
demonstrators were
Communist party is using a
tiny island south of Japan,
Amami Oshima, as a spring
board to penetrate the Oki
nawan political scene and em
barrass the United States ad
ministration of the powerful
island military bastion.
Pro Communist elements
came to power four years ago.
They suffered later setbacks,
but today these forces feel
the time Is ripe to strike
again.
tack came in the wake of a
leftist reception for President
Eisenhower during his June
19 visit to Naha, Okinawa's
capital.
Election of six Japanese
Communist party candidates
-the entire slate- to the Naze
city assembly in the tiny
Amami island south of Ky
ushu Aug. 26 is an indication
of the JCP activity in that
area. Radio Peiping proudly
took note of the fact that the
Communists now "occupy
first place" in the assembly.
Communists Gain Two
Actually 20 seats in the 30-
DacK io japan.
Prior to Amami's return to
Japan, it had bei adminis
tered by the U.S. government
as part of the Ryukyu island
group which the United States
retained for one of its key
military links in the Far East
defense chain. Okinawa is the
largest of the Ryukyu islands.
Many Smuggled
Ryukyu government immi
gration figures indicated at
least 10,000 Amami islanders
have immigrated to Okinawa
in the past five years. An
other 20,000 more may have
least 10 leftists in the Ryukyu
students. It is difficult to link
legislature election Nov. 13.(,Senaga's Okinawa People's
lo do so he will call on as
sistance from leftist leaders in
Amami Oshima, asking them
to Influence relatives living
on Okinawa.
Issuei Not Clear Cut
The issues in this election
will not be as clear cut as
party to student discontent,
but the proclaimed rallying
cries are carbon copies of
Senaga's old demands, Includ
ing immediate reversion of
Okinawa to Japan and oppo
sition to arms buildup on
Okinawa.
TOBACCO -COFf EE
ITX.l
by dentists lo remove
stains from teeth. St4n.free teeth
look bright, feel wonderful.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Last week the 86th con
gress, after adjourning for the
political conventions and then
coming back for a post-conventions
rump session, ad
journed for good.
The rump session was a
PURELY POLITICAL ses
sion, and it ended in a mess.
The mess was highly displeas
ing to Mr. Kennedy, the Dem
ocratic nominee for President.
He blames it on the Republi
cans. A few minutes before
adjournment he told a news
conference that Republicans
were responsible for blocking
education, minimum wage
and health bills. He accused
them of playing politics with
civil rights.
He made it pretty clear
that he will base his cam
paign on the failure of the
wicked Republicans to do the
things he wanted done.
TTMMMMMMMMM.
11 His charges fall a little flat
in view of the overwhelming
Democratic control of both
houses of the congress that
has just adjourned. In the
senate, the Democrats had 65
members to the Republicans'
35. In the house, Democrats
numbered 280 to the Repub
licans' 152, with five vacan
cies. What happened was that
the conservative Democrats
teamed up with the Republi
cans to defeat the measures
upon which Candidate Ken
nedy was planning to base
his campaign.
That's the long and the
short of it.
a.
THE whole situation
illus
trates accurately what has
happened to our parly system.
Our parties are now split
two ways, instead of only one,
as the two-party system ideal
ly contemplates. They are
split up and down by tradi
tion. They are split CROSS
WISE in practice. There is a
"liberal" element in the Re
publican party. There is a
conservative element in the
Democratic party. "Liberal"
Republicans and "liberal"
Democrats tend to flock to
gether. Conservative Repub
licans and conservative Demo
crats tend to flock together.
So our political parties are
really made up of FOUR seg
ments instead of only two.
That results in the kind of
confusion we have in our
politics and our lawmaking.
IT IS little wonder that our
governmental affairs tend
to get into a mess. It is little
short of a miracle that the
mess isn't worse than it is.
The mess will probably con
tinue lo get worse until the
time comes when common
sense will dictate a return to
a REAL two-party system in
which there is a clear-cut
cleavage between the prin
ciples and the policies of the
two parties.
If and when that time
comes. we will have a party
system that makes sense. But
not until then.
Earlier Fair Date
Possible Next Year
Salem -fllPD- The 1961 State
Fair may be one week earlier
than usual, the Oregon Fair
Commission indicated today.
The group plans to set the
dates for next year's fair at a
session this Friday.
Dr. Rex Putnam, superin
tendent of public Instruction,
wrote the commission that the
present dates are In conflict
with opening of schools. The
Labor Day week end would
be a good closing period for
the fair, Putnam indicated.
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