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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
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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)
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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.
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Freeway construction crews continui'd Iheir northward progress recently.