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4 " THE RIGHT IDEA This wild duck at Pittsburgh s North Park seems to have the right idea as he glidft gracefully in the lake By WILBUR G. LANDREY United Press International Monrovia, Liberia - IUP1I -3nc of the most backward :ounlries along Africa's west :oast - Liberia - was inde pendent for more than 100 voars while its neighbors -caped the economic benefits ?t colonialism. Now Liberia is on the move ind promises to become one if Africa's richest countries. It is doing it the capitalist vay by offering favorable crms to foreign investors. "It's hard to recognize his place from one year to mother," said one frequent merican visitor. A country with the drawl if the American deep south, :olonized early in the 19th rentury by freed slaves from he United States, Liberia vas neglected by the United States while Britain and "ranee were developing, ed ucating and profiting from heir colonics. The muddy streets of Li icria's capital and primitive onditions were in sharp con rast with the strict protocol if top hats and cutaways ob erved by the "honorablcs," he ruling minority descended rom the former slaves. Sharp Contrast Monrovia still offers a con rast with the gleaming build ngs and wide boulevards of )akar. Abidjan or Accra. But t offers an even sharper con rast with itself 10 years ago. n a few more years it should le unrecognized from the amshackle town of the past. In 10 years most of its treels have been paved, itreet lights and modern sky crnpers are appearing. Ten years ago Liberia had oid-n'Sweet . afflower margarine r fR III lifeh." past a budding branch. The temperature climbed to SO degrees, making it rirj"t for a swim. (UPI) Liberia Once Backward .Country, Promises To Be One of Richest less than 300 miles of mostly unsurfaced road and much of the back country was impen etrable. Today there are near ly 1.700 miles of road, in cluding 1,000 miles of all weather surfacing and 150 miles of paved highway. Ten years ago, govern ment revenue was $1 mil lion a year. Today it is $35 million and in 10 years will be an estimated $100 million. And as one foreign resident recalled: "Five years ago there was hardly any native wom en (as distinguished from the ruling class of Americo - Li erians) clad above the WDtsi. Now it's hard to find one who it not." Census Planned The first census will soon be under way and is expect ed to reveal whether the pop ulation is around one million as many observers suspect or the officially estimated Qi million. Liberia's currency is the U.S. dollar. Its main riches are rubber and iron ore. Firestone went into Liber ia in the 1920s to build plan tations and rubber rapidly be came the leading export. Now it is being surpassed by some of the world's richest iron ore. American interests opened the first mines in the Bomi hills in 1951 and they now produce about 3 million tons a year of ore up to 67 per cent iron. The second mines, also under American manage ment, began shipping late last year and will eventually produce another 3V4 million tons a year. In 1963, a Liberian-Swedish-American company should be gin producing the richest ore the The most natural Jtuior since iTie 70 spread. ,J7i most poly, unsaturates of any margarine ) oucan buy Because-new Gold-X-Swect is mostly liquid afllouer oil highest of all vcgclghle oils in healthful poly. unsaturates. Your fami6 deserves the 6c.if...ask your doctor ahoul the nu tritional benefits of Gold-N-Swcct Safllower .Margarine. neir!offoId-n-Mirfvt itaffloirvr inarfjarinv for people who enjoy good food and good health nvirl your ffraevr noir ha ffolthn-nirPtf fSnfflouer salad oil wicnm.y of all from mines in the Nim ba mountains. Production is expected to reach 6 million tons a year. Liberia promises to be one of the world's big gest exporters of iron ore. The country's basic prob lem is education, the lack of trained and trainable men. The first American technical aid programs, which began in 1951, fell short of their goals because Liberia lacked men educated enough to absorb them. Educational Aid Now basic education and reform of the public admini stration are the major aims of American aid, which should reach more than $10 million in the fiscal year 1962. Most revolutionary of all, education is being spread to the often still-primitive na tives of the back country. Traditionally, Liberia has been ruled by the Americo Liberians. Now, slowly, the government is moving to end the "internal colonization" which often oppressed the tri bal natives. Most observers believe the process will eventually end . the political dominance of the "honora bles." . The man at the op is 66-year-old William Vancanarat Shadrach Tubman, who runs Liberia, observers say, like the boss of a political ma chine. He has been president since 1944. His mother and father came from Georgia. Observers here say that Tubman makes every major decision and fills every im portant job. But under Tub man, Liberia has made the greatest progress in her his tory. Under Tubman, it is gov ernment policy to remove the and shortening o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Senior Citizens Week Plans Made By Medford Group Senior citizens week will be observed in Medford May 13 through 19, according to Omar Bacon, president of the Hogue Valley Council on Aging. Dr. Frank Roberts has been appointed chairman of the week's activities. This is the fourth year for this annual observance, Ba con noted, which occurs dur ing May known as National Senior Citizens month. The first event will be an open house and art exhibit Sunday, j-lay 13, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Senior Activity center, 601 East Jackson st. Other events will be an nounced later. Appointments Made During the recent meeting of the executive board of the council. Bacon appointed Gene Williams, vice prcsroent, as head of the budget committee and Mrs. Elsa Walker as rep resentative of the council to the United Crusade board. A report on the discussion series on Preparation for Re tirement" sponsored jointly by the council and the social and economic issues commit tee of the American Associ ation of University Women, showed that 91 men and wom en took part in the five lec tures. Of the total 58 were not retired and represented 28 dif ferent occupations. The larg est attendance was for the second meeting, "Can we af ford to live?" which concern ed finance, wills and estate planning. The council thought the scries successful and recom mended that it be repeated in the fall. Mrs. Clifford Zollin g e r, Portland, founder of the Ore gon Craftsmen program, spoke on senior citizens housing projects in the Northwest. distinction between Americo- Liberians and tribal natives to make one nation of Liber ians. The United States is back ing the process, even though it may mean a period of po litical instability. Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mull Tribune in Med lord, phone SP 2-6141; Ash land call at 1224 Iowa st. or phone 482-3002; Montague and Yreka. phone Glohe 9-3171. be fore 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular, delivery arrivei shortly after you rail please notify office, thus eliminating special messenger aervlce. Drummond Reports (Wjlter Lippmjn ii in Europt. Roscot Orummond rcporti from Washington in hii atienct.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. A SCANDAL GROWS Washington - The shoddy, surrepitious, "l've-got-the-in-fluence'1 manipulations of the indicated Texas millionaire, Billie Sol Estes, have reached such proportions that Con gress cannot afford to delay long before it authorizes a full-scale, uninhibited investi gation. Enough facts have already SCHOOL NEWS Howard School BevcoVy hisum and Sally Nelson are reporters for Mrs. Dorothy Arney's first grade. They reported the first grade class went to the library on the school bus, had an Easter Egg hunt, took chairs oej.side and had a reading party, and that four students were out with the mumps. Several children in Miss Mary Klocker's room have been absent with the mumps. For our science lessons Mar sha Prince brought a turtle to class; Luana. Welch brought her two turtles, and Douglas Hoggard brought snails. Mrs. Margaret Mann's sec ond grade went to the pubic library recently. Some of us had never ridden on a school bus before. Mrs. Delbert Ross accompanied us. Our science corner is full of tadpoles. Pamela Hayes brought a mass of frog eggs which hatched into little black tadpoles. Eddie Ran dall brought a big green tad pole. . Mrs. Ann Bishop's second grade took a trip to the public library to learn about facil ities of the library, including the method of repairing a damaged book. Many of the class signeo up for a library card and the summer reading program. ' ' Students in Mrs. Evelyn Winningham's room are studying about community helpers in social studies and about animals in science. We went to Hart's Hatchery and saw the stages of chick growth from the embryo in the egg to "fryers" nine weeks old. - .; Mrs. Huldah Fisher's third grade has been studying a unit about . communication. Gary Gresham's father, who works at the post office, told us about the mail. We invited Mrs. Audrey Berry's third grade to hear him. Mrs. Berry's class went on two field trips recently. We visited the puhlic library and the post office. 1 Catherine Clark brought her Toy Terrier puppies to school for us, to see. '. We are working hard on multiplication facts. Most ev eryone knows through the 6's. Several know them through the 9's. In Mrs. Flossie Murray's fourth grade, Kristine Archi bald was elected room presi ded for April. We took a field trip to the Timber Products Plywood mill. Mr. Ford, Mr. Benglund, Mr. Gordon and Mr. Chap man conducted 'the tours through the plant. Skipper Buckliri is the first of Mrs. Nita Birdseye's class to go to Seattle ,for the World's Fair. Plans are going ahead for our Spring Concert. The band and orclKstra will play, and Howard school chorus will present Cowboy Fantasy, a story about how Little Sam became a real cowboy. The story was written by Cathy Sage; Jon Hardin will be the narrator. Art classes are plan ning an appropriate dbck drop. The sixth grade science classes have been making projects about weatner. stu dents are makisg anemome ters, barometers, weather1 vanes, and charts end posters ij showing the water cycle, j I cloift formations and different kinds of storms. The Howard school student body, teachers and other staff members met in the school gymnasium recently to nor head custodian Ken Lacy, who has moved to Trail, where he will hold a similar position in the Elk-Trail school. Studcjit body president, Kay : Breedtn, present! Lacy a spinning reel purchased with ' voluntary contributions Irom mrmbcrj of the student body. Ron Quackcnbush, vice- principal, presented a wrist watch to Lacy as an expres sion of gratitude from Ihe Howard school staff. Baker Man &f$sd For Traffic Death Baker - HPS - Charles E. Betts, ,18. Baker, has been arrested on a charge of neg ligent homicide In concctlon with the traffic death of a Se attle man. state nolice said I Wlncsrlf3!. The victim. Herman 11. Saathoff, 34. was killed Sat urday night in one-car acci dent near Baker. come out to suggest that the big-name-dropping, influence- peddling, favor-receiving ac tivities of Billie Sol Estes reached to the Cabinet level in Washington and make Ber nard Goldfine's operations of a few years back look petty. The DMiocratic party has been in control of the machin ery of Congress for eight con secutive years. The Demo crats alone can decide what shall be investigated when and how thoijjughly-or how timidly Wheir the Goldfinc Sherman Adams doings broke out into the open, the special House committee investigating the regulatory agencies did not take two breaths before it was sending out :)bpoenas. QUITE properly so. But the Democratic inves tigators of this Democratic Congress are not yet showing equal eal to investigate the dubious enterprises and ac tions of Billie Sol Este, the big Democratic campaign con tributor and friend of many who are today politically pow erful in Washington. Is this Estes scandal just little something which smells wors-e than it is, or is it a corrupt mess which Is really worse than it smells? fake a brief look at what has already come out: The Attorney General of New! If .jm;:"i.,.i.ii4J-u-....mr.;mii,.irjr PgjejrwKi Ml mm mjm mjmmfi ff iTr vVv I. , Just Arrived V j j : New Shipment . , sjg U jj Upholstery j 1 W First quality in S to 20 yd. lengths. 1 M L' Huge assortment of assorted fabrics. ' n l . 1 ' Novelty weaves. Cuts of original values J l(. t. 3.93 yard. ' (1 H57 rim Upholstery Friezes and meteraises only. 5 to 20 yard lengths. Fine quality. Cuts from original values to 5.98 yd. hi? r DRAPERY FABRICS lift? , SOLIDS i , S ro20 yd. len . Astorter..ew pati r and colon. Com to ?8e yd. fabric ft AT' . SOLIDS PRINTS J " , i h20 yd. lengthl. ' ' . Aiiorter.'.ew patterni Al' "' quality. Com. J and colon. Compare p, ,0 ogc ya-, (,b,ici drt ' to ?8c yd. fabric. 1 Wt is4' Friday & Saturday fl 5 In. x 7 COLOR PHOTOS Any member of the family. Prints ready in one week. Pictures taken I (by Donn Ruger, famous photographer. (5 the state of Texas, Will Wil son, found that Mr. Estes's fertilizer, grain-storage, and financial empire was built on "fraud 'and loose money." Plus dubious business with the Federal government. How dubious? We don't yet know. To find out is the duty of a Congressional investiga tion. We know that in February, 1961, the Department of Agri culture granted Estes a size able favor by limiting to $700,000 the amount of bond he was required to produce as a warehouser of govern ment surplus grain. Attorney General Wilson says the bond should have been $3,500,000. Secretary of Agriculture Orviile Freeman named Estes to the National Cotton Ad visory Committee. '1MIE records show that in the single year of 1061 the gtejernment paid close to $3 million to Estes for the use of his storage facilities in Texas at a time when, according to Mr. Wilson, other West Texas warehouses were idle. ' Simultaneously Estes was i engineering a windfall of $300,000 from the government from a cotton crop on 3.000 acres of farm land in five states which was illegally cul tivated. . Some people in the Depart ment of Agriculture evident ly became suspicious. In the course of a secret investiga tion, a Department employee working on it died near Bry- 54 inch .. 1 81 Material 24n Mi Just Arrived si LAST 2 DAYS Oregon THURSDAY. MAY an, Texas, of four gunshot wounds in the chest. A local sheriff quickly ruled the death a "suicide." Doesn't it seem a bit unusual for a man to commit suicide by firing four slugs from a pump gun into his own chest'.' Following the hearings con ducted by the Texas Attorney General, one Agriculture De partment official resigned, another was fired by Secre tary Freeman, and a third is being tinsferred to the Philippines-some 8,000 miles from Washington. During it all Billie Sol Estes was sprinkling $17 shirts and, $12 neckties to Washington bureaucrats the way Goldfine Once rained Christmas checks on the desks of White House secretaries. SECRE?ARY Freeman says tile Department will con duct its own searching and independent investigation. This is a good beginning; it is as it should be. But it isn't (Republican! SAVARD FOR SHERIFF Proven ' . , Administrative Ability Pd. Pol. Adv. by Savard lor Sheriff- Comm., Glen Allen', Chm 9S1 So. Stage Rd. . MANUFACTURER'S CLOSEOUT1 Foam Rubber Squares 12 In. square, 2 in. thick. White. Reg. 88c value. For filling pillows, etc. ' , ,.. . 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