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THURSDAY.
2,500 Baluba Refugees Live
Near Elisabethville, Katanga
By IAIAN MILLAR
Unlled Prest International
Elisabethville, Katanga -IUPD
-A few miles from the center
of Elisabethville, 2,500 Baluba
refugees are still living In the
qualor that remains of the
old Baluba camp the United
Nations reported clear the
first of August.
Their shelter consists of a
few sheets of corrugated iron
and old packing cases held to
gether with mud and grass,
How they manage to eat and
live is anyone's guess.
When the summer rains
' start soon, most of their pa
thetic dwellings are likely to
be washed away, leaving the
United Nations with a refugee
problem it thought it had
solved.
Ditpatched by Train
Keeping the promise mBde
by Robert Gardiner, UN civil
Ian chief in the Congo, the
UN airlifted and dispatched
by train some 75,000 Balubas
to North Katanga and Kasal
at fantastic cost.
By August UN headquar
ters said all refugee Baluba
tribesmen who wanted to re
turn to their homes had been
given free transport so far as
the UN was closed. The thou
sands of crude huts were
burned or torn down.
But as soon as the UN's
Irish and Tunisian troops
withdrew from the camp area
a new horde of natives swarm
ed in, began constructing
(hacks and demanded to be
fed by the UN until they
were relocated.
Agrees to Take Over
The Katanga government
agreed to lake over the admin
istration of the new arrivals
and provide them with food.
But the Balubas turned down
the offer of assistance from
what they claim is "Illegal
government."
So far the refugees have
managed to exist on francs
aaved in more prosperous
times when some of them
were wealthy traders.
According to their leader,
who refers to himself as "Mon
sieur le President," the men
refuse to work in town as
that would be taken as sup
port for Katanga President
.Moise Tshombc, whom they
despise (one reason why they
are refugees).
Intend to Sit Tight
The Baluba leader told me
he and his followers intended
to sit tight until the United
Nations decided to ship them
out. He said some of his men
did odd jobs for the Indian
troops in return for food, but
not a single refugee had, or
would, lake a job in the city.
"All we w a n I is to go
home," he said. To him and
most of the others In the
camp, "home" means Ihe Ma
nono area of North Katanga.
Escorted by an unarmed
Tunisian soldier I walked
through the new camp that
sprawls over about 50 acres.
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If the men were not at work
they must have been hiding
because very few were to be
seen. Apart from swarms of
Regulations for
Timber Harvest
Waived by BLM
Portland - Fast action .is
needed to salvage over one
billion board feet of Douglas
fir timber knocked down by
an Oct. 12 windstorm which
swept through the Pacific
Northwest, according to Sec
retary of the Interior Stew
art L. Udall.
In waiving Bureau of Land
Managment timber harvest
ing regulations for western
Oregon, Secretary Udall said
that severe losses could be
expected from bark beetles
if the wind-thrown timber
isn't salvaged expeditiously.
Altogether, there are an
estimated five billion board
feet of timber on the ground
on all ownerships in Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washing
ton. While most of the dam
age was centered in an area
the size of the State of Penn
sylvania, small outlying pock
ets of wind-thrown timber as
yet undiscovered, may raise
the damage considerably.
OUC Lands Hit Hard
Hardest hit were some two
million acres of Douglas fir
timber in western Oregon,
managed by BLM. These
lands are revested Oregon
and California railroad, pub
lic domain, and Coos Bay wa
gon road grants. The decision
to go ahead immediately
with salvage cuttings, while
trying to minimize the ex
pected Impact on timber
prices in an already depressed
West Coast market was
reached after President Ken
nedy called a meeting of
federal and state officials
and private landowners in
Portland on Oct. 30.
The conferees, who includ
ed Interior, Agriculture.
Commerce, and State forestry
officials, concluded among
other things, that risks of
spreading beetle Infestation
from the down material made
it imperative that all recov
erable salvage be taken out
of the woods before May 1064
and that wherever local econ
omy is not Jeopardized, tim
ber may continue lo be sold.
However, where the economy
will be jeopardized, salvage
sales will replace planned
green sales.
BLM foresters believe that
most of the estimated one
billion board feet on depart
ment - administered lands Is
salvageable. At current tim
ber prices, value of this ma
terial is estimated at $25
million.
Four Steps Adopted
Udall said that four steps
have been adopted lo meet
the emergency in western
Oregon. These are waivers
to existing regulations appli
cable only to the affected
area during the emergency,
or until June 30, 1064.
Existing contracts for cut
Ing standing green timber
may be extended as late as
June 30, 1064 - or until the
end of the emergency, which
ever occurs sooner - without
the normal reappraisal and
payment required, the Secre
tary said. This change in the
regulations was made so that
operators can divert work to
wind-thrown timber.
Udall explained that the
Douglas fir bark beetle will
attack downed and broken
limber in the spring, and that
unless salvage operations arc
substantially completed by
Ihe spring of 1964, epidemics
o( beetle Infestations will
move into undamaged tree."
by June, 1064.
Previous experience with
storm damage Indicates that
without rapid removal o(
wind-thrown trees, Insect
damage to standing timber
could equal or exceed the di
rect loss of the storm the
Secretary added.
Negotiations Authorlicd
Authority has bcei delegat
ed to field officials to negoti
ate, where appropriate, new
salvage timber sales of up lo
one million board feet. In par
ticular, such sales will be
made where salvage material
adjoins an existing contract
area.
Where warranted, the pe
riod for advertising salvage
timber sales on department
lands during the emergency
period will be reduced lo ex
pedite quick salvage of wind
thrown timber.
Hard-pressed timber opera
tors will get an adjustment in
(he final payment require
ments on certain existing con
tracts to reflect extraordinary
wind damage losses caused by
the Columbus Day storm to
standing timber which they
had purchased.
This waiver of portions of
current regulations Is lim
ited lo western Oregon ami
to the period of the emer
gency, or June 30, 1964.
whichever Is the earlier. i
children most of the inhabi
tants appeared to be equal
number of young women and
old men. The children were
either completely naked or
clothed In various assortments
of rags. All looked emaciated.
Ambulance Drives Up
As we left a UN ambulance
drove up and two medical or
derlies from the Italian-staffed
hospital got out and collected
an old man on a stretcher
The Baluba "president" said
that at present 25 people from
the camp were receiving treat
ment there. Whenever there
was any sickness they called
the Italians and an ambulance
came.
Officially the Tunisian bat
talion has nothing to do with
the camp apart from keeping
the peace. However, it pro
vides the squatters with water
and gives other help. Recent
ly, to prevent an outbreak of
rabies, the Tunisians had to
shoot about 4,000 wild dogs
that roamed the camp.
Claim To Be Refugees
Another thousand Balubas,
who also claim to be refugees,
are scattered around Elisa
bethville itself. About 800
have moved into a row of hous
es near the Irish lines, about a
mile from the main camp.
They tell the same story as
"Monsieur le President" and
"CHARGE
Presidential Aide
Offers Resignation
Washington -IUPD- President
Kennedy accepted Wednesday
the resignation of Howard CS
Petersen, the presidential as
sistant who steered the Trade
Expansion Act through Con
gress last year.
Kennedy loid Petersen,
"You can take justifiable
pride In the important part
you played In helping to
launch" the trade program.
Petersen is returning to his
job as president of the Fldel-ily-Philadelphia
Trust Co. In
Philadelphia.
share the same hope that the
United Nations will fly them
to the north.
In an attempt to enforce
their demands on the UN
about 500 women camped out
side the Tunisian headquar
ters for several weeks on a
"hunger strike." None of the
women looked any less (ed
than the refugees in the main
camp.
The UN is not alone in
thinking that if it starts feed
ing refugees it will have thou
sands more on its hands each
day demanding food. Even
without any apparent food
supply, the camp has grown
daily.
Whether it wants to or not
the UN may find itself forced
eventually to take some action
or risk the growth of a large
undisciplined mob in the city.
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school as a part of the regular
guidance program. They rep
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