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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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-
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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!
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enough for the Department to
judge itself.
No one can say how wide)
this scandal spreads or how
high it reaches into the top
level of Washington official
dom, but if the Democrats
w'lo control the Senate's per
manent investigation sub-committee
do not act soon and
decisively, they will leave the
impression that they do not
want to investigate because
they do not dare investigate.
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