MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Brought and Mismanagement Heap Hardship on People of Red China
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26. 1961
Durno, Neuberger
Bucking Each Other
On Dunes
By A. ROBERT SMITH
' Mail Tribune Washington
Correspond, nt
' Washington - Congress has
' received its second bill for
'developing the Oregon Dunes
area as a pa
cific coast
p 1 a y g round
and for crys
t all zing the
cost roversy
s u r r ounding
this proposal
Rep. Edwin
R. Durno (R-
Ore,) of Med'
ford has Intro-
Smltk Huced n meas.
' lire authorizing establishment
r of- a "national shorelands"
which would He wholly with'
-. i In the present boundaries of
: Siuslaw National Forest. From
Its northern end near Flor-
i ence to its southern. tip near
Coos Bay, this proposed shore-
v lands would extend about 3a
; miles along the Oregon dunes
l and teacoast. : !
. Sen. Maurlne Neuberger CD-
J Ore.) earlier introduced her
l bill for a ' national seashore"
extending from Florence to
i tiear Reedsport. The chief dif-
; , ference between the two pro
posals highlight the elements
" of the dispute. Mrs. Neu-
. berger would extend the park
; inland to include some fresh
water lakes and foreitland,
! Including much private prop
erty, chiefly summer homes;
Durno would keep hands off
the residential areas and keep
! . the park within the present
, limits of federal lands. . ,-
' "I think that Including
these large areas of private
land is not necessary or de
' sirable to conserve 'and de
; velop the beauty and public
' values of the shorelands
. area," Congressman Durno
J itated. : .
- Mrs. Neuberger takes the
! attitude that the Durno bill
isn't necessary If the park is
to be limited to the area al
; ready-owned by the govern-
ment whioh could "be dovel
i oped for recreation without
i further- congressional sane
I tlon. . -:-t: : y
. The Durno bill will please
Cc.r.iM:3 Studies
D::$ Proposals f
Saleni - (OTD - The gover
nor's committee - on natural
'resources was to review con
flicting proposals in Congress
for development of the Ore
gn Dunes as a national recre
ational area today.
- The meeting was to air Sen.
Maurine Neuberger's bill for
.a national seashore park and
Rep. Idwin Durno's bill for
4 national shorelands area. '
: Durno wants the dunes tin
ier federal forestry service
and Mrs. Neuberger proposes
development under the nation
al .park service, .' V-.' f :
v Darrell Jones of Mllwaukle,
Clackamas -' county i commit-
loner and president of the
Association' of O St C Coun
ties, was to ask support tor
a multi-million " dollar access
toad and recreational program
developed by the association.
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Proposals
the local property owners and
developers who have mus
tered a strong and vocal cam-,
paign of opposition to the
Neuberger bill. The Neuberg
er proposal delights the con
servation groups and park en
thusiasts who are not likely
to give the Durno measure
their backing.
Both sides now have some'
thing to stand for as well as
something to be against. But
the prospect of either side
gaining the advantages very
soon appears dim
The Neuberger bill has been
virtually shelved for at least
this year by the Kennedy Ad
ministration. Interior Secre
tary Stewart Udall is busy
pushing for three other na
tional seashores this .year
Cape Cod, Padre Island, Tex.
and Point Reyes, Calif. The
White House has told Sen.
Neuberger that the reason for
deferring action on her bill
this year is budgetary limi
tations. ,. , : ' . - j
Waiting In House :
' Even If she can persuade
the Senate to move with her
proposal this year or next,
Congressman Durno stands
waiting to block it in the
House Interior Committee on
which he sits. The House Is
not accustomed to forcing
public works spending proj
ects down the throats of un
willing congressmen in whose
districts they would be i lo
cated: so no matter how
strongly the Democratic ad
ministration might later push
lor this bill, this lone Repub
lican lawmaker would have
considerable power to stop
it.
The Durno bill has been re
ferred to the House Agricul
ture Committee. The reason
for this is that it relates to
a project for the Forest Serv
ice, an agency of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The
llkllhood of Durno's getting
hearings or approval of this
committee, controlled by the
Democrats and preoccupied
with farm legislation, is re
mote. . I , . ! ,
Even if the freshman con
gressman could secure enough
support for his proposal in the
Mouse to pass it on to the
Senate, it would there be re
ferred to the Senate Agricul
tural Committee on which
Mrs. Neuberger sits, Her pow
er to kill it would be even
stronger than Durno's against
her bill.
In their first 100 davs In
office, Oregon's, two freshman
solons - have -succeeded' In
checkmating one another and
preserving the status quo on
tne ounes,
University Professors
Eeef New Officers .
Ashland -The Southern
Oregon chapter of the Ameri
can Association of University
Protessors recently Installed
officers -for the coming year
Those elected were Martin
Elle, president; Dr. Betty Lou
Dunlop, vice president; Elea
nor Everett, secretary; and
Dr. Thomas Colnsuonna, treas
urer. Dr. Richard Byrns Is
the out-going president.1
r i r tt .ihrv" v i
Fluhrer's Bakery
Daily Rations
Of Rice Cut To
Under 4 Ounces
Rditor'i note: Ai' Red China
preutd her attack ajalmt Nlklu
Khrushchev's policy of peaceful
co-exlitence with the We it, her
"treat leap forward" program to
lurpaiB the Wert In Industry and
agriculture suffered a setback of
dliaiter nroDOrtlons. Foilowlni
the last of three dispatches on the
prooiemi 01 reiping.
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Drought, flood and official
mismanagement heaped new
hardship on the long-suffering
people of Red China this year.
For the millions herded into
Mao Tse-tung's communes, it
meant a cut in dally food ra
tions from 12 ounces of rice
to less than four, or a diet of
rice husks mixed with yams
Officially, the Communist
party called it the greatest
natural calamity to hit China
In 100 years.
But party attacks on "bu
reaucratic ineptitude" and an
nouncement of a purge of re
actionaries and bad elements"
within the communes' leader
ship made it clear that mis
management was a major
cause of. the disaster.
The foregoing Is not to im
ply that its mistakes .place
either the Red regime or Mao
Tse-tung in danger.
Commune Program Slowed
The commune program has
been slowed but not halted.
Successes can be claimed in
the massive Industrialization
program, notably In increased
steel production. ,
Mao's own influence ' re
mains unquestioned. His In
fallibility Is proclaimed in a
rising cult rivaling that once
enjoyed by the late Josef
Stalin. v i ,:
The extent of Red China's
agricultural disaster gradual
ly became known after the
first of the year.
People's Dally and Pelning
radio announced that about
half of the total cultivated
land In China had' been ser
iously affected. In some areas
no harvests were reaped at all.
Hundreds of thousands of
officials were sent from their
desks. to help peasants "get
over famine."
Mao Tse-tung, a Communist
theorist who leaves It to oth
ers to transform his theories
Into reality, decreed estab
lishment of the communes on
Sept. 8, 195B. ,
In one stroke some 800 mil
lion Chinese were to be jam'
med into communes of as
many as 10,000 families each,
Homes would be abolished to
form a vast labor army or
ganized on military lines.
Said the publication,
"America:"
"Here is a nightmare phan
tom of collectivism which for
open horror, gross inhumanity
and satanic ambition dwarfs
any devil materialized within
the Communist bloc during 41
years. .
Economic Structure Upset
"'' At any rate, aside from Its
inhuman characteristics,
Mao's system of communes
had upset China's entire eco
nomic structure.
! The years 1058-59 were
eventful ones for Red China.
' The Communists had occu
pied the mainland for 10
years. Behind them were the
blood-bnths which saw the
execution of an estimated 14
million "class enemies." Col
lectivization of agricul t u r e
was well under way. Opposi
tion political parties had been
abolished.
The alphabet had been sim
plified and westernized. Crit
ics who mistakenly had raised
their heads upon Mao's Invita
tion to ' "let 100 flowers
bloom" largely had been
eliminated or were being re
educated. By 1858, Red China was
challenging the Soviet Union
for at least co-leadership of
the Communist world. Red
China announced new oil dis
coveries, the biggest rice crop
In Its history, and the inaugur
ation of a vast irrigation
project diverting waters of
the Yellow river to Irrigate
more than three million acres
in Honan and Shangung prov
inces.
With Russian aid, the first
atomic reactor was installed.
Crop Failures
In 1959 and 1960 came two
successive years of crop fail
ures.
Previous glowing reports
of agricultural produc t i o n
proved grossly exaggerated.
Millions of Chinese again
were on the move on orders
from Poiplng, this time back
to the farmlands.
Peasant families were given
back small home plots on
which to grow food and keep
pigs and chickens. Non-Communist
incentive plans were
being Introduced to reward
the better producers. -
Frantically, the Chinese, al
ready short of foreign ex
change, ordered millions of
bushels of grain to be ship
ped from Canada, Australia
and France. All this without I
BACKWARD INTO TIME
Space Flight Compressed
Into 89 Minutes, Society Figures
By DICK. WEST
Washington - HOT - Back
yonder when Einstein first
propounded the theory of rela
tivity, some
minor poet of
waggish tern'
perament at-
temped to cap-
ture Its es
sence in a lim
erick. As I recall
it, the poetic
i nterpretatlon
of the Einstein
theory went something like
this: : ,
"There once was a young
man named Wright,
"Who could travel much
faster than light.
"He took off one day
"In a relative way
"And returned the previous
night.".
I was reminded of this lam
poon of the tlme-and-dlstance
paradox as I was reading a
thesis prepared by the Na
tional Geographic Society on
the recent Russian I p a c e
flight,
' The Geographic Society has
got it figured out that Maj.
Yuri Gagarin's epic ride across
the firmament compressed 25
hours into 89 minutes, as time
is measured here on Earth
At one point, relatively
speak ing, Gagarin actually
was going backward Into time.
Either that, or he got ahead of
time. I can't figure out which.
, At any rate, he came dis
turbingly close to making a
prophet out of that limerick
writer. You will see what I
mean when you examine the
astronaut's time schedule as
worked out by one of the so
ciety's cartographic engineers,
Gagarin blasted off from a
base in the Black Sea area at
9:07 a.m. on. a Wednesday.
The Soviet Union operates on
daylight time, so this presum
ably was 8:07 standard time.
He soared Into space above
the Pacific and crossed the
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material aid from .the Rus
sians, i
In all this, there is no sign
either of organized uprising
against the Reds or that Mao's
own position has been en
dangered. In fact, just the op
posite. The Chmese, who once pro
claimed that "the cult of the
Individual" has no place In
Chinese Communist theory
and practice, now has a Mao
Tse - tung cult proclaiming
Mao's utter infallibility.
Mao is likened to the sun.
It was Mao who "struggled
and obtained our freedom and
enabled us to see the light
again."
A recent five-week check of
the New China News Agency's
English and Chinese releases
showed that they mentioned
Mao's name no less than 1,000
times.
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international date line north-
west of Hawaii, where it was
8:30 p.m.
"Now," said the Geograph
ic, "He was back on Tuesday,
the day before he took off."
Starts Catching Up
. Gagarin didn't began to
catch up with himself until he
passed over the Drake Pas
sage, near the tip of South
America, where it was mid
night. This returned him to Wed
nesday, the day of his depar
ture. At 10:88 a.m. he landed
somewhere in the Soviet
Union. Wherever it was, it
was west of where he started
because the Earth has turned
more than 22 degrees east
ward while he was gone.
Only 89 minutes had elapsed
in the Soviet Union, but in
space where Gagarin was, he
theoretically orbited the clock
twice around.
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can grasp this concept. It
gives me the willies just to
think about It.
I tried thinking about it for
awhile, and it brought me to
the conclusion that when Ga
garin landed, he was almost a
day younger, or older, than
when he took off.
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