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o o 0 o MEDFORD&irRIBUNE SECTION D MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, , OCTOBER 16, 1960 PAGES 1 to 8 n v v - - C?S i1 rlt ri A : JE5Mrft' RINK READY Rogue valley's new skating rink, the Jackson County Rollarena, located about 2'4 miles south of Medford on high way 99, will be open to the public some time this coming week, according to manager Merle VanHoosen. The picture above shows VanHoosen, (left) receiving the keys to the building from Contractor Meyers Jones, an associate of Siskiyou Development corp., upon completion ot the structure last week. The skating area, covered with pecan ve neer, will be the largest in southern Ore gon, VanHoosen said. Coffee, soft drinks and sandwiches will be available at the snack bar and live music for skating will be furn nished every evening except Sunday, by Jerry Miller at the organ. On Sundays the music will be taped, VanHoosen said. Forest Products Week Observed The importance of the lum ber industry to southern Ore gon will be highlighted this week as foresters and woods 1 n dustry organizations ob serve National Forest Prod ucts Week. Local observance is being coordinated by the Rogue Valley Hoo-Hoo club with Ivan Harrington, Ross Lum ber company, serving as chair man of the planning commit tee. Cochairman is Bob Nel son, Neeley - Nelson Lumber company. Special activities are plan ned in Ashland, Medford, and Grants Pass, Harrington said. Representatives of the forest Industry plan talks before service organizations during the week to bring attention to the economic importanc of the industry to this area. National Forest Products Amendments to Social Security Law Reviewed Survivors of individuals who died before 1940 may now be entitled to Social Se curity payments, according to Edward B. Jacboson, manager of the Medford Social Secur ity administration office. New amendments to the So cial Security law provide for payments to the widows, aged dependant parents, and dis abled children of workers who died after March 31, 193B, and before Jan. 1, 1940. The deceased worker must have been employed under Social Security for approxi mately 18 months in order for his survivors to receive these benefits, Jacobson said. To qualify for benefits a Week has been proclaimed by President Eisenhower and has received the support of Med ford Mayor John W. Snider. widow or dependent, mother of a worker who died before 1940 must be 62 years of age or over. A dependent father must be 65 or over. A dis abled son or daughter must have a disability so severe that it keeps him or her from doing any substantial gainful work, he added. The disabil ity also must have begun be fore the child reached his 18th' birthday. As with other benefits, no payment may be made unless an application is filed, Jacob son noted. Individuals who believe they may be entitled to payments under these new amendments should contact the Social Security office in their area. The office in Medford Is located at 1005 East Main St., and is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday Traveler Says Suffering in China Is Not Now Noticeable By GREG NOKES Mail Tribune Staff Writer Ashland - Robert Cohen told a Southern Oregon col lege audience Friday that the suffering which used to be evident in pre-Communist China no longer exists - "at least on the surface." Cohen, 30, is the only U.S. citizen to ever take films inside-Red China. He showed these films and narrated their content before several hun dred students in the Brill student center. Cohen was one of 42 Amer ican youths who were severe ly criticized in 1957 by the U.S. state department for traveling to China against the department's wishes. Attends Festival Cohen said Friday that the trip came about when he ven tured to a 1957 World Youth Festival in Moscow. He went to the festival, he said, out of interest, and to help combat Communist propaganda di rected toward representatives of the "neutral" nations rep resented there. Toward the end of the Mos cow festival, Cohen said, the Chinese Youth federation in vited all of the non-Communist representatives at the fes tival to a three-week visit in China. , Out of the 180 Americans at the festival-most of whom did not represent any particu lar organization but were there just out of interest, like himself - Cohen said 40 of them indicated they would like to see Red China. Returns to Paris Cohen said, however, that he decided to be a "patriot and return to Paris where he was studying at the Sorbonne. Out of curiosity though he said he asked several Moscow correspondents of the U. S. press if there was any law against visiting China. They replied that there was not and Irving Levine of NBC said the company would sup ply all of the film and equip ment if Cohen would journey to China and take films to show throughout the U.S. Cohen said he then felt a greater responsibility to bring back films for people in the U.S. to see, than to comply with the wishes of the state department. He decided to go along with 40 other Americans, he said and they journeyed from Moscow to Peiping by way of the Trans-Siberia railroad. The trip took nine days. On arrival in Peiping, the first thing they were required to do was to list all the places they wanted to see while in China. A dilemma arose in the American delegation over whether they should visit the prosperous Manchurian prov ince or the poorer Canton province which are 2,000 miles apart. There was not enough time to see them both. The Chinese government then obligingly extended their stay another three weeks so that the group could visit both places, Cohen said. He said he was able to take pictures of whatever he saw, except for the inside of a Shanghai prison in which some Americans were jailed. His films were not censored, he said, and were not even developed until after they reached the U.S. Not an Expert Cohen said he is not an ex pert on China. He had never been there before and was unable to draw any accurate comparisons of what China was like before and after the Communist takeover. Neither did he know the language, he said, and was unable to really understand much of what he saw, nor talk to very many Chinese. However, Cohen did notice that the many prostitutes, beggars and cripples that fill ed the streets in east China cities, according to U.S. serv icemen who were there dur ing WWII, have almost com pletely disappeared. Illustrates Power If nothing else, he said, the fact that the government was able to get these persons off the streets shows what tre mendous power they must have. The group saw the "Great Wall of China," Cohen said, which the Communist gov ernment is rebuilding. He said they are doing this for two reasons: one, to show that the Communist government is the government of China, and two, to show the world that once more China is a great power. Children's Hospital China, he said, is much "a contrast between the old and the new." He said he noticed that Chinese coolies were re building the great wall by largely the same methods as it was built in the first place -by hand. This contrast was also evi dent in a model children's hospital, he said. When the I! YOURS NOW I A Sensational value in CARPETS and RUGS ! All-hew, deep-textured 100 WOOL PILE in 20 SPARKLING COLORS . . . OPEN HOUSE" CARPET 99 ONLY II II II per so. yd Easy monthly payments H yon wis "Open House" carpet combines hard wear with the rich, warm beauty of fine wool packed densely into every inch. Plunge your fingers into it you can hardly touch bottom. 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In this modern model hospital, Cohen said, one can now see the traditional and modern medical practices go ing on side by side. Manchuria, the industrial capital of China and boasting perhaps the most modern cit ies in China, looks about like mid-19th century1 industrial America looked, he said. They have the same smokestacks and the crowded workers ten ements surrounding them. In Port City In the port city of Daihren, Manchuria, apparently good ships are being built with the help of Russian technicians. In the interior of Manchu ria, Chinese locomotives and trucks are being turned out for the first time in China using Chinese steel and Chi nese labor. Tlie truck factory, Cohen said, was completed in 11154, employs 18,000 persons and has a production capacity of 300,000 heavy-duty trucks per year. Each truck has the Communist symbol stamped on it, he noted. While in the locomotive factory, Cohen said he saw brand-new heavy machinery marked "made in Rochester, New York." This was odd, he said, because U.S. trade with Communist China is forbid den. Asks at Source When he asked a Chinese worker how they got this machinery, he replied that "there is a store where if you have enough money you can buy anything." Cohen said he apparently meant the "black market." He also saw a brand-new Plymouth car in another Chi nese city. Stamped on the car, lie said, was a sign saying it was assembled in Switzer land. He assumed this also came from the black-market The Chinese Communists have built the first bridges ever constructed across the 2,000-mile long Yangtze river in central China, he said. This was a major accomplishment because trains no longer have to be ferried across the river as they were in pre-bridge days. The river had served to cut China in two in times of inclement weather. , Visits Prison Cohen said he also visited a Chinese prison which had many political prisoners, who had been jailed for pub licly speaking against Com munism and Socialism. He also visited a Chinese "commune" which is a scries of villages that have been combined into one. The only thing new in this particular commune, he said, was a bar ber shop, Cohen saw the "Sampan people" who live In little wooden boats their entire lives. They were noticeable around Canton which is said to be the city that has prog ressed the least under the Communist dictatorship. Working Women " Canton is the only city, he said, where he saw women working "harder" than men as a rule. Women work right along side men throughout China, he said, but the men usually do the heavier work. Before the Communist take o v e r, the Sampan dcodIc. which number aboue 120,000, around Canton, were actual ly forbidden by law to come ashore. They were eciuiva- lent to the Indian "untouch ables." he said. Some of these people have lived their whole lives on the water without ever once put ting their feet on land. These people still exist under the Communist government, he said, although the government lias made some efforts to re locate the Sampan people in interior China. They have also provided some schooling for the children of these peo ple, he said. Sees Celebration At the end of this trip, Cohen said, he visited Pei ping again (the capital of China) and saw the National Day Parade, celebrating the Communist takeover in China. As many as 100,000 work ers marched in the parade when he saw it, Cohen said, and he understands that last year there were 500,000. Watching the parade, he said, were Chinese Commu nist party boss Mao-Tse-tung and Hungary's Communist leader, Janos Kadar. Cohen concluded his talk with the statement that the ancient dragon of China "has come to life," and "people of the world will watch as the Chinese dragon continues its leap forward." Bank Deposits Said $20.7 Million The Medford branch of the U. S. 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