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THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. ft i Jib dent Knsavubu or with the deposed premier, Patrice Lu mumba, or with a reconvened Congolese parliament, Lu mumba appears to still want the Soviets back. Knsavubu wants to keep them out, and parliament is an unknown quantity, in part, because many of its members tear for their lives. What the United States most hopes for is a workable reconciliation of the conflict ing Congolese personalities, accepting the United Nations as the sole Instrument of out side aid. In my Judgment, this will not be achieved at all if Mr. llnmmarskjold Is templed to accept the advice of some of his associates to make a deal with Mr. Khrushchev that if the U. N. would bring back Lumumba, the Soviets, in re turn, would halt their cam paign to purge the secretary general. Some think that this would A 5 bo a way to save the United Nations. It would more likely be a way to 'lose the United Nations, (c) 1960 Ne wYork Herald Tribune Inc. WORK OF TIROS II This cloud photo was Tne picture, taken on direct readout, covers transmitted from Tiros II and received at an area over the north portion of midwest Fort Monmouth, N. J., during the second em United States. pass over the ground station Wednesday. (NASA Photo-UPI Telephoto) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs: i In Leopoldville, in the em battled Congo, the forces of Colonel Joseph Mobutu, t h e Congo STRONG MAN, attack the diplomatic premises of the Republic of Ghana - which were guarded by U.N. troops. . A rather bloody battle ensues. Mobutu's men were gun ning for Ghana's charge d'af faires (a charge d'affaires is ' a diplomatic official some what below the rank of am bassador) who, Mobutu charg es, was conspiring against Mo- ' butu and for Lumumba, who in the Congo ruckus appears to have been a playmate of the communists. The point is that Mobutu won the battle and the U.N. command had to agree to ex pel the Ghanian official. of $96,208 and expenditures of $96,208. Which, it might be added, amounts to a rigid ly balanced budget. Republican Candidate Elmo Smith's campaign committees report contributions of $89, 944 and expenditures of $84, 612. That could be cited as a budget surplus. But . . . Maurine won and Elmo lost! Drummond Reports Roscoe Drummond reports on the Washington scene in the ab sence of Walter Lippmann. QUESTIONS: Who is right? Who is wrong? Who's on our side? who's against us? It's all rather obscure. But CUBA'S ambassador (rep resenting the Castro govern ment in the Congo) is against Mobutu and his protege Kasa- vubu, whom he blasts as "anti-African colonial leaders and tools of the imperialists." That gives us a fairly de pendable hint as to who is on our side and who is on the communist side. Anyway, it's a mess. LET'S get closer home. In Oregon (as, of course, ' almost everywhere) a lot of money was spent in the gen eral election campaign that closed at midnight on Nov. 7. Oddly enough, the biggest ex penditure was by the organ izations opposing the initia tive measure that proposed to ' ban billboards on freeways. The Oregon Council of Out door Advertising and the tion jointly report contribu tions of $107,967 and expen- diturcs of $106,129. These or ganizations led the campaign to defeat the anti-billboard measure. rpHE campaign committees " for Senator Maurine Neu bergcr, the Democratic candi date for U. S. senator from Oregon, reported the second highest totals - contributions rVHE next largest campaign expenditure was lor sec retary of State Howell Ap pling Jr., who defeated Mon roe Sweetland (Appling is a Republican and Sweetland is a Democrat. Appling won.) Sweetland s committee re ports that it received $20,817 and spent $22,361. The Ap pling committee reports that it received $47,368 and spent $48,383. Both committees went into the red. A LOT of money? . It certainly is-in Oregon, at least. It is bad? I think not. TN OREGON, candidates have to report how much they got, and where it came from. As long as the people know how much ts being spent to get elected and WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM, they ought to be able to draw their own conclusions. The law provides that information. But- Campaign c o n t r ibutions don't have to be reported un til AFTER the election. By that time, the water has all gone over the dam. Which means that AT THE TIME OF CASTING THEIR VOTES the people don't know how much money was contributed, AND BY WHOM, and how much was spent. , It would be a lot belter if campaign contributions AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM had to be reported publicly BEFORE election day. LONG BRIDGE Salt Lake City - The Lucin cutoff, across Great Salt Lake in Utah, is the longest rail bridge in the United States, extending for 12 miles in length. 1 psiiws A Js many as the stars Our Blessings. 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In its effort to shield the newly independent and frag ile African nations from the tentacles of the cold war-in the course of which Premier Khrushchev tried to blast Dag Hammarskjold right out of his chair as Secretary Gener al - the United Nations has in its lap the hardiest kind of problem. iyE MUST hope that the " U. N. will succeed. At stake is the safety of the other new nations. At stake is the functioning of the U. N. Itself. But it will be along hard struggle. The U. N. is faced with this immensely difficult task; 1. There is no -clearly legal government in the Congo to work with the U. N. It is often literally impossible to locate it. This government does not have control of the country, does not have the loyalty of the army, and often can't find its own ministries. 2. The U. N. can't be sure of tiie loyalty of its own forces in the Congo. Secretary General Hammarskjold and his chief representative in the Congo, Rajeshwar Dayal, have not been able to count on the Ghana and Guinea troops to follow U. N. directions. Con sequently Mr. Hammarskjold has had to pursue a tentative, wavering course in order to avoid something very near to "civil war" within the U. N. This has seriously weakened his mission. 3. Political divisions pro- vent the U. N. from carrying out its assigned role freely and firmly. The Soviet Union wants to halt the U. N. from doing anything in the Congo so that Moscow can take over. It Is hard for Mr. Hammar skjold to steer a clear course while Mr. K. is doing his best to steer him off the course. The new African nations would like to be assigned by the U. N. the full task of pro tecting the Congo, but they do not have the resources to do the job and they are themselves divided over whom to recognize as the le gitimate Congolese govern ment. In a word, what wc now have in the Congo is an un certain U. 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