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Medford Tribune WYANDOTTE Ripe Olives 7-oi. Extra Large or 5'2-oz. Medium Pitted SCHILLING PEPPER 4 ox. 41 13c SECTION C MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 TASTEWELL SALT Plain or Iodized Reg. I 00 Both for 44 4 for !' Make A Big Hit With Your Budget At TREE PLANTERS Bureau of land man--agement employees are shown reforesting' an area from which timber was harvested in 1958. The tract was planted this month using .Douglas fir trees which had been grown for two years In a Salem forest nursery prior to planting. Man Who Punched Stalin Is Still Battling Communism Geneva -(UPD-The man who punched Stalin in the face and lived to tell the tale is round ing out his long life denounc ing the brutal terror of the Communist system,, w h o s e founders he once plotted with. At 75, white-haired Khari ton Chavichvily is a man who has known conspiracy, revolu tion and terror. - In a Geneva cafe, just a stone's throw from his presenl dingy, second-floor lodging, he plotted during 1908 with Lenin for the overthrow of Russia's Romanov dynasty and the end of the reign of Nicholas II, czar of all Russia. In the uncertain years be fore World War I, Geneva harbored scores of Russian revolutionaries. Such brilliant intriguers as Nikolai Lenin, who master-minded the revo lution of 1917; Leon Trotsky, who later forged the Red Army, and Georgi Plekhanov, who was Russia's foremost Marxist theoretician, gathered at the Cafe Landolt, Names Carved " ,j ' ' Their names are carved on the massive oaken tables around which even ,today young hot-heads and left-wing intellectuals sip their coffee, smoke their pipes and discuss the ills of the world. . "In those days Khrushchev was nothing," said Chavich vily, sitting at one of the tables where he sat with Lenin more than 50 years ago. Chavichvily, who considers himself the last of the Men- sheviks, still is denouncing and protesting. But this time it is not the reaction of the Romanov regime he is against, but the terror of Communism which long agb he, too, wanted to build. "I am writing my major work: 'The Soviet Union Georgia, and Human Rights,' " he said. His conflict with terror goes back to the time he slapped Stalin in the face and got away with it. Chavichvily, who comes from Georgia, as did Stalin, agitated for communism in his youth and took part in the 1905 revolt which gave im perial Russia the ominous forecast of the bloody revolu tion that came 12 years later. In 1905 he argued for three nights running with Stalin, a Bolshevik, and Ramishvilli, a Menshevik, at Tchiatouri in Georgia. (The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks split at the London Communist Congress in 1903 because the Bolshe viks advocated force and the Mensheviks advised peaceful means for installing commu nism.) "Stalin, who was then called Koba, roughed up a good friend of mine, so I punched him in the face," Chavichvily said. "Stalin only smiled back at me." In 1908 Chavichvily joined I enin in Geneva. But when Lenin asked him to ride on the famous sealed train to Leningrad's Finland Station to spur on the revolution in 1917, he refused. : Was Journalist Between the wars he worked in the Swiss capital at Bern as a journalist. He established the Gorgian Press Bureau, and through secret contacts was able to leak news of Politburo meetings in Mos cow. In 1945 when he pub lished articles on Stalin in Ge neva's Journal de Geneve, Communist agents tried to molest him and cut off his funds. In 1952, Communist agents raided his prized Russian documents sought after by many Soviet researchers and stole precious letters signed by Lenin. But in 1961 Chavichvily, one of the oldest newspaper men accredited to the United Nations, is grinding out his fi nal condemnation. He sits in his dimly lit lodgings, wearing a cast-off button-down-collar shirt, writ ing nis manuscript by a win dow overlooking the cafe where he conspired. "There are a lot of things ynu have to jive through be fore you will ever under stand," he said. Public Utilities Groups Oppose Bill For Certificates Salem -slUPD- Public utili ties, hoping to grow in Ore gon, urged a Senate commit tee Wednesday night to kill a bill they said would do away with competition among utilities, and warned that monopoly service areas would eventually let rates creep up. The choice should be up to the customer, said Jack Fris by, manager of Salem's co operative electric distribu tion system, citing rates "30 per cent cheaper on the av erage" than private competi tors, ' 1 f'We do not fear competi tion," said Larry Bauer of Central Lincoln Peoples Utili ty District. He said the bill would give "dictatorial pow ers" to the public utility com missioner. Representatives of private utilities, serving some 80 per cent of Oregon's customers, Escapee Sought In Umpqua Country Roseburg - WPD - Additional men were sent out today in rugged North Umpqua coun try cast of here to hunt an escaped mental patient want ed for wounding a man Tues day. . A skeleton crew patrolled roads in the area near Glide Wednesday but no further contact was made with Steve Solovich, about 50, who has been roaming in the country for more than a year. Watson Talcott, a 40-ycar-old Glide man, was wounded in the shoulder Tuesday as searchers closed in on an area where Solovich was believed to be. Solovich, who has said he wants to be left alone in the mountains, has escaped from the Veterans Administration Hospital here three times in five years. Sales of Fertilizer Highest in Nine Years Salem -IUPD- Fertilizer sales in Oregon in- I960 were the highest in nine years, the Ore gon Agriculture Department said today. State inspection fees show a total sale of 197,250 tons last year compared to 186, 194 in 1959. spoke nearly unanimously in favor of the bill. "We need a referee with a rule book to settle boundaries between exchange area s," said Leslie Scott, representing the Independent Telephone Association. He said some 35 independent telephone com panies serve the Willamette Valley alone. "Duplication is wasteful and costly," said John Lansing of Pacific Power and Light Co. He said duplications In plant, porspnel, distribution systems and offices result in higher costs and poorer service. The .testimony before the Senate Commerce and Utili ties Committee came on Sen ate Bill 42, which would re quire certificates of conveni ence and necessity from the public .utility commissioner for further utility expansion. An effort would be made to clear up present overlaps in many areas. .- Sen. Andrew Naterun CD Newport) quizzed Lansing about rates in competitive and noh-competitive areas, and got the response that the com panies' rates in Oregon vary from $9 'to $14 per thousand kilowatts. Lansing also admitted the company had a high earnings statement last year, but, he told Naterlin, "this was not because of earnings in Ore gon." Urges Voluntary Decitioni Eugene Marsh, city attor ney at McMinnville, said if backers of the bill "get along so lovey-dovey why don't they get together and define their own areas." He said the de cisions should be voluntary. Other Highlights: Compact - House Speaker Robert Duncan (D - Medford) called a proposed Columbia Compact Commission "anoth er do-nothing group" and doubted the legislature would approve Oregon's participa tion in it. Tax Exemption: Action on a House bill dealing with property tax exemption for benevolent groups was de ferred by the House Tax Com mittee until it gets a look at a similar measure passed by the Senate. The committee also heard testimony supporting a bill to exempt commercial fishing boats from property taxes. I MAKE IT A SOCIABLE I WEEKEND ! Pick up an Extra pJOlA d Carton fgfjy rrr- rrt ?t iF . M I iiiiiiil ram JUST LOOK AT THESE VALUES OCCIDENT (j V"l Boyd's Coffee 25-lb. sack Lots of FREE Parking at 2330 Crater V Lake Avenue STORE HOURS Weekdays 9 A.M.-8 P.M. Sundays 10 A.M.-7 P.M. Prices Effective Through Sunday limit Rights Reserved Phone SP 2-8188 WHIFF DOG FOOD No. 1 Can Enriched With Chicken 12 ans One lb. Can Two lb. 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