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4 -1 V f a m Vi : i4 -.1- riJrrj5cr r .-it IT. JrV'.'-"-'-'- M 'JlTrj in in iiiiittfTfirnl Seven-yard capacity ready-mix vehicles load concrete at a bulk plant, shown in this picture, at a location north of Phoenix along the Interstate 5 freeway. (Knackstedt photo) Equipment on rails, which serve as forms for concrete along the Freeway route, smooth and level concrete pour ed from large ready-mix vehicles. (Knackstedt photo) Concrete Highway Without Joints Under Construction in Valley A concrete highway with out joints is being built for the first time in Oregon on a stretch of Interstate 5 Freeway from Medford to Ashland. This type of construction, which is referred to as con tinuous strip concrete pav ing, is a departure from the state's practice of install ing joints every 86 feet on concrete Interstate Free ways. The 9.45-mile Med-ford-Ashland link will be the longest single stretch of continuous strip concrete in the country, according to Cement Industry of Ore gon. Paving of the S2.5 mil lion project is now under way by Fred H. Slate com pany and E. C. Hall com pany, Portland. Cross joints are eliminat ed by use of heavier re inforcing steel, which binds the concrete and causes tiny cracks at more fre quent intervals. To the mo torist, these cracks are ttn noticeable and virtually invisible. Because the concrete is paved at a width of 24 feet, the joint between lanes will be sawed. The only other joints will be installed at the bridges. New methods of construc tion employed on other concrete sections of Ore gon's interstate system have also resulted in a bumplcss surface. The "bump-bump" which many motorists associate with concrete is a result of the slab-type of construction used for the older concrete highways, most of which were built prior to WW II. Another "first" distin guishes the Mcriford-Ash-land project. A ready-mix type of operation is being utilized, rather than mixing the cement in batch ma chines at the paving site a procedure followed in all previous concrete paving on Oregon's interstate high way. According to the con tractor, this system is re sulting in n faster paving operation due to elimina tion of mixing equipment from the train of concrete machinery. Seven ready mix trucks work in a con tinuous cycle to maintain a steady flow of concrete on the highway. Features Medford, Sports mJTribune SECTION B MKUFUUD. OHBXiON. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1UH2 PAGES 1 to 8 White ussions Leove China (Editor's note: Relations between Russia and Communist China are strained. Russian technicians have been with drawn from Cntna. Russia's consulates in Red China are being closed. And now, the so-called While Russians, refugees from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, are being encouraged to leave China, the only home most of them have ever known. In the following dispatch, Arthur J. Dom mcn, UPI Hong Kong bureau manager, reports on his talks to some of the new wave of refugees.) Three River district about 200 miles east of Hailar. He said they lived well, better than many other Russians who settled farther south in Harbin, before the Bolshevik Revolution, at the time the trans-Siberian railroad was built. By 1945, many of the White Russian farmers in the BY ARTHUR J. DOMMEN United Press International Hong Kong-dJPP-Four adults and a small boy stood at the Communist Chinese checkpoint as the immigration inspector studies the scrap of paper they handed him. It was printed in Russian and was their lifeline to the outside world. These were "White Russians," part of a steady flow of aliens who have been asked to leave China, the only home most of them have ever known. Russian consulates are being closed in Communist China and the White Russians, China's only sizeable non Asiatic minority, have been issued exit permits and told to start traveling toward the Hong Kong or Macao border. Couple Looks Uncomfortable The. young couple in their heavy jackets looked un comfortable in the hot sun as they peered across the ridge at the British police waiting on the other side. The elderly man and woman looked down at the ground. The boy was quiet. These five persons had traveled by train together for the past 10 days over hundreds of miles. Now they were going to board one more train, which would take them the last 25 miles to Kowloon station and the start of new lives for all of them. Valenchin Ivanovitch Starnovsky, 24, his wife, Anna, and their son, Ruftin, had never been out of China before. And Anna's aging parents had been only small children when they were taken to their adopted land by Czarists fleeing from the Bolshevik Revolution. Fairly Productive Tract The fnmily had worked a fairly productive tract of land near Hailar, a major city of the Communist Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. Hailar, a norther agricul tural center, corresponds geographically and economically to Bismarck. N.D., in the United States. The Starnovskys said they were happy to be leaving China. But no one was smiling. Another White Russian farmer en route from Inner Mongolia to New Zealand told a typical story. He de clined to give his family name, but said his first name was Constantin. He said his parents arrived in China in 1918, crossing the Argun river out of Russia. "They were poor but could take as much virgin land as they wanted," he said. Constantin's family had a 55-acre farm in the so-called pIII: ji l: r White Russian emigrants aboard a ship in Hong Kong that will take them to new homes in other lands after a life time in China as farmers, artisans and shopowners. In the wake of recent coolness between Communist China and USSR, White Russians, refugees from the 1017 Revolution, are being encouraged to leave their homes in China. (UPI) A rTT Efc i nrm TTT. tiVth ir r am : mimr is- I 'V S . 'lw"( t J V ill This picture was brought In Hong Kong by a White Russian farmer who lived near Tmha, Inner Mongolia before leaving Red China via Hong Kong to settle in Australia. The farmer declined to give the family name, but said his first name was Constantin. The picture jhnws Constantin by the haw and his wife and three children on the sleigh. He said his family if in the same position it was at the time of the 1917 Revolution, "moving to a new land to start life again.'' (UPI) Three Rivers area were considered wealthy. The Japanese had left them alone during their occupation of the region. After the war, the Red Chinese army confiscated an oc casional cow or horse, Constantin said, but they were not seriously molested at first. Then the Red Chinese insisted the Russian farmers get together and organize their own commune. The Russians refused. The government then started taking away their cattle, Constantin said. One cow and one horse was the maximum allowed for each nine persons. Constantin applied for a visa to move to Australia in 1954, but it was granted only a few weeks ago. He was forced to sell all his possession to the state. "A cow which could be bought for 5,000 yuan ($2,100) . sold for 500 yuan, and 1 got 1,000 yuan ($420) for a horse which was worth 15,000 yuan," Constantin said. Money lo Buy Tickets He said he sold his log house for 250 yuan and then had just enough money to buy train tickets for his whole family to Hong Kong at 120 yuan each. "My family is exactly where it was at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution," Constantin said. "We have no money, and no home, and we are moving to a new land to start life again." Other White Russian families crowded around as Con stantin told his story. Many were dcscendenls of families which fled the aftermath of the Russian revolution but who went father south along the route of the Siberian railway, to Harbin, Dairen and even Shanghai, before settling down. Many farmed the rich rolling hills of Man churia, while others became artisans carpenters, black smiths and mechanics. When the Communists took over mainland China from the Nationalist government, the White Russians had been left alone, living as an unpersccuted minority. But as the Communists began collectivizing everything, the White Russians began to find themselves more and more on the outside. They were loo prosperous. Has Given Exit Permits Now the Comuunist Chinese government has given exit permits to any White Russians who want to leave China, and apparently a great many of them do. A resttlement agency in Hong Kong is attempting to find new homes for these "misfits of the 20th Century." Today there still arc an estimated 2,700 White Rus sians left in China, but the number is dwindling rapidly. Of these, about 1,400 are believed lo be in Manchuria and the rest in Sinkiang province. The exodus of White Russians in recent weeks has enable the Chinese to tell the Russians to close all three consulates in East China, including those at Harbin, Dairen and Shanghai. Task of Commissioner , The process of finding sponsors for families like the Starnovskys, of obtaining immigration visas and exit per mits with all the paperwork involved, sometimes over as long as five or six years, has been the quietly executed task of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refu gees, headquartered in Geneva. His representative In Hong Kong has watched the pas sage of approximately 18.000 White Russians through Hong Kong since 1951. when UNIICR took over from the old International Refugee Organization (IRO). Hong Kong offers no more than a stopping-off place for a few days or weeks. From this transit point, the largest single group has gone to Australia, about 8,000 in all. Then comes Brazil, and olhers have found homes in the United Stales. France, Canada, Israel, Venezuela, Chile and Denmark. Bureaucratic Mix-Ups In the bureaucratic mix-ups which resulted from the ill-fated Chinese commune experiment, it could hardly have pleased the Chinese to have several thousand Rus sians and Russian capitalists at that, farmers, shop own ers, bakers, artisans In their midst living a sort of privileged life apart from, but visible to, the "masses" much loved by Chairman Mao. Observers believe the presence of Soviet consulates on Chinese soil must have been a major Irritant in Slno Soviet relations. The consulates were manned by large staffs all Russian. Undoubtedly, Russian curiosity about the state of China's technological progress, especially in the nuclear research, has matched the curiosity of the West. And the consulates have played an important role in the gathering of this intelligence. So Valenchin Ivanovitch Starnovosky and hundreds of others like him have indirectly benefited from the strained relations between Moscow and Pciping. Many who had brpn wating for years suddenly found exit permits thrust upon them. They were told to leave as soon as they could, and they did. .3 fk IMA ? , yt I iklM iiimi i.CTamapMiiiiM in imimji tmtmf" f,j'""" J 1 "-J isSi-- Ik I Heavier reinforcing steel is being placed in concrete to bind the pavement. It creates .hairline cracks, virtually iinnoliceable and invisible In the motorist. The only joints in the concrete between Medford and Ashland will be between lanes and at bridge!. &." . . ' j .... . . V '.'ri Laving a slrip of concrete highway in the Phoenix area shown In this picture M Freeway construction crews continui'd Iheir northward progress recently.
