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g g SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1962 MEDFOHD MAIU TRIBUNE, MEPFOHD, OREGON p Examples of Recent Complaints in Communist China Are Noted (Editor! note: What li life like today In Commu nist China? Few westerner! are permitted to enter Chi na and they usually have little opportunity to see the countryside or talk to the average Chinese. Lately, however, increasing criti cism oi Red China's internal problems have been printed in publications which find their way to the outside world. In the following dis patch, a veteran foreign cor respondent cites some ex amples of recent complaints.) r 1 TttsvKt JJ" By CHARLES R. SMITH United Press International Tokyo niPIl One morning last June, while darkness still covered Shup Cheng county in Communist China's Anhwei province, 50-year-old Chang Hsing Chang arose earlier than usual. He stole quietly to head quarters of the Lofcngkang People's Commune and left a letter in the crack of the door. He returned home quickly and prepared for another day of back-breaking digging at t h a Hsiangkuszu reservoir, which his production team was helping build. When Commune Chief Tzu Ko-Ting opened the door to his office that morning the Tetter fell to the ground. It was for him. Startled By Letter According to the official Peking People's Daily news paper, Tzu was startled by the unsigned letter because it criticized him, his high-handed methods and commune policies. The letter also complained of "certain" shortages. Did what any good Com- . -f , V-tJ fey XAZI jOV$ ; W PICKING RICE SEEDS Women workers are shown here picking out rice seed to be used for planting. The stiene Is at a commune farm in Communist China. (UP1) Four Persons Hurt In Three Mishaps In Medford Area Four persons were slightly Injured In three vehicle ac cidents In Medford Thursday, according to city police. Two other non-Injury accidents also were investigated. Beverly Jean Graves, 20, and her son, Tommy Terrel Graves, 2, passengers In a car driven by William Terrel Graves 22, of 519 West Fourth at., were treated as out-patients at Sacred Heart hospital after they were involved in a two-car accident about 4:35 p.m. at Fourth and Ivy sts. Driver of the other car was Kenneth Lee Brumback, 53, of B12 South. Ivy st. He was cited for failure to yield the right of way. Hnrlen Dcwaln Soper, 17, of 214 Noiih Columbus ave., was eilod for violation of ba sic rule after the car he was operating struck a house at 12!) North Columbus ave., the properly of Wlllard Lloyd Casey, 24 Portland ave. Slightly Injured Soper was slightly Injured, according to police reports, but was not hospitalized. Damage to the residence was estimated at $2,000, police said. The Soper vehicle sus tained major damage. Alvin Richmond Coals. 35. of 1IIIH Ingrid St., was injured slightly, police said, when the car he was driving struck a city-owned traffic signal at Eitihlh and Hamilton sts. about B:25 p.m. lie was not hospitalized. Police cited him for violation of basic rule. Thomas Joseph Marmo, 1116 Loal si., reported to po lice that an unknown vehicle struck and damaged a fence owned by him at Stewart ave. and Hamilton st. The incident occurred about 8:25 p m Marmo said. Vehicles operated by Arn old Gene Pence, 24, Central 1'ninl, and Sleaven James Wy ntl. IB, Jacksonville collided about 2:55 p.m. at Eighth and J-'.ast Main sis. No injuries were reported police said, and no citations were issued. Oct. 12 Windstorm Tops News Stories For Year in Oregon By United Press International In the late afternoon of Oct. 12 Columbus Day winds whipped off the Pacific and bore north from Califor nia to Canada. The storm, an extra-tropical cyclone, was thought to be part of Typhoon Freida. The occurrence of the two storms In the North Pacific region at the same lime, however, was coincidence. The storm left more than a score dead and caused millions of dollars In damage. This wag the major Oregon news story of 1062, according to UPI newspaper and broad cast editors. Elections, Lumber Tied The Labor Day week end riot at Seaside was chosen second among the top ten stories of the year. The gen eral elections Nov. B and the Northwest's lumber crisis were third and fourth with the same number of voles. The birth of Packy at Ihc Portland Zoo, the first success ful birth of an elephant in this country In nearly 41 years, was fifth. Oregon's scrambled summer tunc, fi nally resolved by the electo rate In November, was sixth. Death sentences of convict ed slayers, including that of Jcaunace Freeman, (lie first woman to be sentenced to GIANT MOTORS Spokane - Two electric mo lors Willi capacities of 65,000 horsepower have been in stalled in the Grand Coulee dam In Washington for the purpose of pumping for Irri gation projects. aeam in Oregon, were num ber seven. Summer construc tion strikes and the legisla tive reapportionment issue were eighth and ninth. The campus visits of com munist party leader Gus Hall look the number 10 spot. Grenfoll, Textbooks High Other major stories of Ihe year, in the order of Impor tance listed by UPI editors, were: The case of Stale Sen. Wil liam Grenfell; Oregon Su preme Court's landmark de cision prohibiting free text books to parochial schools; proposed constitutional revi sion; Gov. Mark Hatfield's record budget for the next biennium; rookie stale police man shot down near Arling ton; t tie boom In higher edu cation; Hie scandal at National Guard Camp Withycomhe; Ihe visit to Oregon of the only Japanese pilot to bomb the continental United Slates, No buo Kujita; and floods In Jo sephine and Jackson counties. Other stories which made headlines were the beating of four children at Lake Oswego and the subsequent trial of their assailant; the Judi Reed or murder case at Bend; dis covery of radiation scrum at OSU; the Columbia county election recount which result ed in a vole fraud trial: pro posed llittli Mountain Sheep dam on I he Snake river; res cue of crewmen from a wreck ed lumber vessel at Coos Bay; prison labor issue which split the three man board of con trol; and a truck fire which claimed a life under Port land's Ross Island bridge approach. munist should, the People's Daily indicated. He indulged in "self-criticism" before the peasants. He "rectified" his thinking and high - handed methods. But he also "patient ly explained" - and the peas ants understood, said the Peo ple's Daily - the reason for the commune policies that came from the Communist party bosses In Peking. It was only after Tzu did all this that Chang admitted he delivered the anonymous letter. No Need tot Darkness "Had we known Secretary Tzu was that serious in han dling the people's letters," Chang said, "there would have been no need for me to de liver the letter under cover of darkness." Later in the year, when the autumn harvest was getting under way across the vast China mainland, Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and other Com munist party leaders ended a conference in Peking with a j communique. It said: "The actual harvest of summer crops this year has : shown a slight gain over that I of last year, and the yield of j autumn crops is also expected to register an Increase." This did not mean, the com munique warned, that food shortages would end, that things would get better for the nation's 650 million peo ple. Difficulties Still Exist "Certain difficulties still exist," it said, and will con tinue to exisf'for a period of time ..." The members of the Shlh Chuang production brigade of the Yungnien County People's Commune in Hopei province got the message more bluntly. Although the brigade's pro duction was up during the year, the members cannot ex pect an increase in income, food, fertilizer, equipment or supplies, said the Hopei Daily newspaper and the Shih-Shih bhou - Tse (current affairs) magazine. The stated reasons were the brigade's uneconomical prac tices, failure to follow policies from above, and greater needs elsewhere. Significant to Students The publication of numer ous such items in authorita tive Red Chinese publications are significant to students of Red Chinese affairs. , Combined with Information from refugees, visitors to China and other sources, they make it possible to draw some conclusions in life behind the bamboo curtain. For instance, Chang's letter - and the many others like it - gives a fairly clear indica, Hon that life is hard, income is low and food is short for the peasants. Conditions are not much better in the cities. It also can be interpreted as an indication that discontent is widespread, that authorities are permitting - perhaps even encouraging - some letting off of steam and reacting posi tively to criticism in some cases. Security Clampdown Along with this, however, has been a stringent clanip rinwn on internal security. There has been an acknowl edged shake' up of Red Chi na's internal security forces. There has been an Increase in training and indoctrination of (lie militia, which numbers in the tens of millions and pro vides a ready manpower pool that can be tapped quickly by the regular army in time of need. There also has been an in crease In external security, particularly in conn e c t i o n Willi the border conflict with India and fear of subversion and invasion by Nationalist Chinese forces from nearby Formosa. Hut. as far as is known here, there has been no increase in Ihe size of the estimated 2.5 million-man regular People's Liberation Army. Publishes Articles One authoritative paper. Hie Canton Nanfang Jihpao. alone has published scores of articles in recent months em phasizing the need for tight securily measures to guard against subversion by Nation alist Chinese spies or sympa thizers, or attack from abroad by any enemy forces. ' The communique issued at the Communist press confer ence explained the reasons for all this: "The reactionary ruling classes which have been over thrown are not reconciled to their doom. They always at tempt to stage a comeback. "Meanwhile, there still exist in society bourgeois influence, the force of habit of old so ciety and the spontaneous tendency towards capitalism among party of the small pro ducers. Turn to Capitalism "Therefore, among the peo ple, a small number of per sons, making up only a tiny fraction of the total popula tion, who have not yet under gone socialist remoulding, al ways attempt to depart from the socialist road and turn to the capitalist road whenever there is an opportunity." If capitalism keeps creep ing back, the Communist lead ers themselves must share part of the blame. In an at tempt to quiet discontent, bol ster the communes and the economy, they have injected some fairly liberal doses of controlled capitalism. This includes the encour agement of private sideline occupations by commune members, incentive programs to boost production, expansion of rural trade fairs. The rural trade fairs, where farmers and handicraft work ers are permitted to sell their privately produced goods, under supervision, are flour ishing. Youth Main Target The youth of China have been the main target of some of the Peking regime's most spirited recent campaigns. These include a back-to-the-farm movement and a revival of birth control. "Many young comrades are now warmly discussing the question of going to take part in agricultural production," she Chunk-Kul Ching - Nien (China youth) magazine said. . This perhaps was best illus trated by a cartoon in the June 16 issue of the Kwangming Daily showing a young couple with four children, all look ing miserable. 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With a mature understand ing of the magnitude, con'olevtv. and probable long duration of the struggle we face. Let each of us re. solve to do something extra lor our country in this period of trial," frd'dent John f, ScnntJf y!'S J? t' l I'lrttn'i. j pi "The important thing is to do some thing, and not to excuse oneself with the thought that 'I can do so little rt will make no difference.' It does make difference. America is people-not things. If each of us does his own particular job a little better, and raises his personal standards a htlle higher, our country will giin in st-ength and in character." )'jh( D. Liicnhoaf MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
