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6 A SUubAY, JANUARY 47, 1963 MEDfORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND - Bones of a pliocene norse, wnicn lived 1 to 3 million years ago, were found in a grave' yard excavation at San Diego, Calif. Amateur achaeologist Thomas Peterson studies one of them. (UPI) On the Air By ELEANOR WIESE A documented study of the dramatic eventj of six criti cal years in recent Russian hislory-from the final months of Joseph Stalin's rule of of terror in 1B52 to ti.e emer gence of Nikita Khrushchev as undispu'ed leader of the Soviet Union in 19jb-will be presented in two programs, a week apart, in the NEC White Paper series. The first program, 'The Death of Stalin," will be tele cast today at 10 p.m. on KMED-TV, and its sequel, "The Rise of Khrushchev," next Sunday. To sift truth from fiction and to present the most au thentic accounts available of what were, In many cases, secrcv proceedings, producer Fred Freed and his staff sought out persons all over the world who were in the best position to k..ow the facts. These included Com munist and former Commun ist officials, leaders and diplomats of non-Communist countries and distinguished journalists, authors and polit ical experts from the United Stales and abroad. It took two months to locate K. P. S. Menon, former Indian ambassador to the U. S. S. R., who was the last non-Communist to talk with Stalin, 16 days before his death. In a filmed interview in Bangalore, India, Menon tells how the Red dictator re vealed his apparent suspicions that he was surrounded by conspirators. Chel Huntley is narrator for the two programs. LOVE OF THREE KINGS, 2 p. m. Sunday KMED-TV. Rebroadcast of the NBC Opera Company's production of Mmtemezzl's opera about love, infidelity and a blind king. Phyllis Curtin and tiiuruio Tozzi of tlic Metro politan Opera sing the lead ing roles. SPORTS SPECTACULAR, 2:0 p. m. Sunday KBES-TV. The Harlem Globetrotters demonstrate their clowning wizardry again?! the Amer ican Giants in London.. MEET THE PRESS, 6 p. m. Sunday KMED-TV. Secretary of State Dean Rusk will be Interviewed. TWENTIETH CENTURY, 6 p. m. Sundny KBES-TV. "Italy's Booming North" re ports on the prosperity ex plosion In Milan, which has become the mecca (or Italians seeking the good life. STARLIGHT CONCERT. 8 p. m. Sunday KBOY-FM radio. Brahms' First Sympho ny; Respighl's "The Pines of Rome"; Rimsky Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture; and Chopin selections performed by pianist Van Cliburn. AMAZING PSORIASIS STORY Inn. in. I960 Pittsburgh, Pa. "Doctored for psoriasis 30 years. Spent much money to no avail. 'I hen ied GUI Ointment and 'I nblets for 2 weeks. Scales dis appeared at if by magic. In A weeks skin completely cleared and clean. First lime in 30 years, 1 hanks for your marvelous prod ucts." This much abbreviated re port tells of a user's success with a dual treatment for the outward symptoms of psoriasis. Full in tormaiinn and details of a 14-day '-rial plan from Canam Co., Dept. 0J, fyxkport, Mass. O. E. 1'KUK, B:30 p. m. Sunday KBES-TV. "Firebug, dramatization of the behind- the-scenes activities of Forest Service personnel as they track down an lncendiarlst. DISCOVERY, "O p. m. Monday KBES-TV. Viewers will see the traditional Chinese New Year celebration In New York's Chinatown. WINSTON CHURCHILL, 7 p. m. Monday KMED-TV. The Burma-India campaign against the Japanese push. The Burma-Ledo roads and the airlift over "The Hump" are established. AS CAESAR SEES IT, 9:30 p. m. Monday KMED-TV. Sid Caesar presents a series of sketches on movie goers, travel via communication satellites, and .the trend to longer plays and movies. U.S. Finds Itself Alone in Choosing Course in Congo DICK POWELL SHOW. 9:30 p. m. Tuesday KMED-TV. urnmy wnner Peter Falk stars with Carol Lynley in The Rage of Silence," the story of a deaf mute whose explosive temper erupts when he learns that he has mistaken sympathy for love. At.other outstanding performance by actor Falk. WAGON TRAIN, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday KBES-TV. Joan Fontaine gucsl stars as frustrated singer whose plans for a career are blocked by her late husband's will. PERRY MASON. 8 D. m. Thursay KBES - TV. Guest star Bctte Davis portrays a woman attorney who defends a defiant youth accused of murder. Miss Davis is the flrrt guest to substitute dur ing Raymond Burr's absence for minor surgery. PREMIERE, 10 p. m. Thurs day KBES-TV. George Gobel heads a musical variety show which includes Jugglers, trained poodles and pianist Peter Nero. ANDY WILLIAM: SHOW, 10 p. m. Thursday KMED-TV. Ann Snthern sings, and "Bonanza" co-star, 300-pound Dan Blocker, dances the Bossa Nova. ARTHURGODFREY SPECIAL, 8:30 p. m. Friday KBES-TV. Godfrey takes viewers on a tour of "The Sounds of New York." Guests Include dancer Chita Rivera, singer Linda Scott and Jazz trumpeter Jonah Jones. DAVID B R I NKLEY'S JOURNAL, 8 p. m. Saturday KMED-TV. The conlrovcrsial coal production process called strip mining, which has be come a hot political potato in Pennsylvania, is studied. By ROBERT M. ANDREWS United Press International "If this is the way the United Nations conceives Its mission of pacification, it would do better to abandon the Congo to the cannibals." The words were those of the official French televi sion network. Paris was adding its dissent to cries of outrage over the UN use of armed force to drag fab ulously rich secessionist Ka tanga province back into the Congo. Paradoxically, Washington at one time considered leav ing the Congo to the canni bals. Yet, In tl.3 end, It threw its full weight behind UN efforts to reunify the Con go. Its motives are Involved and - to many - obscure. In choosing this course, the United States found It self alone among its allies, as seldom before. Promise Not To Oppose Even British Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan was understood to have told President Kennedy at Nas sau that his government could go no further than to promise not to oppose Wash ington's Congo policy in public. There also was criticism at home. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D Conn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee and a warm sup porter of Katanga President Moise Tshombe, recently asked the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva to Investigate the legality of the UN role in the Congo. He said he favors a reunified Congo, but ac cused the United Nations of carrying out a "flagrant, inhuman act of aggression" that exceeded its Congo mandate. Rep. E. Ross Adair of In diana, the second-ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs committee, asked the state department "why people In our govern ment are pushing this ha rassment of the people of Katanga?" Senators Complain Sen Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) and Sen Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.) also complained. In reply to all this, the Kennedy administration in sisted its only goal was to isolate the Congo from the East-West cold war, to pre vent it from becoming an other Communist infested Korea or Laos. To back up its argument, policymakers pointed to re cent, disturbing signs of re newed Soviet activity in the Congo. The same ominous activity was detected, and thwarted, once before; but the danger remained, they said. After its first heady taste of freedom from Belgian rule in July, 1960, the Con go suddenly fell to pieces. The army mutinied. Feud ing tribes clashed. With civ il war imminent, the infant Congolese government ap pealed to the United Na tions to help it restore law and order. Dispatches Military Mission Secretary General Dag Hammarksjold, with Secur ity Council approval, promptly dispatched a UN military mission. The alter native, forbidden In the UN charter, was intervention by outside powers, with the risk of confrontation of So viet and American arms. Washington decided It could not turn its back on the prospects of anarchy and prolonged bloodshed in the Congo. To do so would be tanta mount to inviting the Rus sians to establish a Com munist stronghold in the heart of Africa from which to spread dissension. The Russians, it turned out, overplayed their hand and were forced to pack up and leave. Their chosen standard-bearer, Patrice Lu mumba, was shot. His leftist heir, Antolne Gizenga, even tually was stripped of his power as deputy premier and jailed. Trouble Never Solved Once the immediate So viet threat was eliminated, state department strategists MURRAY S. GARDINER EDWARD R. HOPPE Receive New Responsibilities Gardiner, Hoppe to Have New Positions With Utilities Firm M. E. Sands, vice president and Southern Oregon division manager of California-Pacific Utilities company, has an nounced that two Medford employees, Murray S. Gardi ner and Edward R. Hoppe, will be elevated to new re sponsibilities Feb. 1. Gardiner will become Med ford District manager in ad dition to retaining responsi- bilies as assistant divison manager of the gas company's Southern Oregon and Shasta, Calif., divisions. He has been a Medford resident for many years and is well known throughout southern Oregon for his work in civic and fra ternal organizations. Last October, Gardiner was honored upon his 25th anni versary with California - Pa cific, and was presented the President's Gold Watch award. Sands said Hoppe, who has been responsible for Medford operations, will assume the duties of the newly created position of merchandise sales manager for the southern Ore gon and Shasta, Calif., di visions, with headquarters in Medford. Hoppe has more than 35 years of selling experience. During his 24 years of service with California-Pacific, Hoppe has worked as gas appliance salesman at Needles, Calif,, Henderson, Nev., and Medford. H -jm III i? ; "y DISCUSS STRATEGY District leaders of tho Sacred Heart Hospital Community drive met to discuss the overall strategy to be employed in the up coming community drive to raise $100,000. Pictured left to right arc Richard Frcy, Carl Bismark, and Ken Wright. Accomplishments of Chamber Reviewed Outgoing Medford Chamber of Commerce President Mur ray Gardiner Friday night listed the most Important ac complishments by the cham ber during the past year and new President Bill Williams outlined material to be accom plished for the new year. Before an estimated 150 people attending Hie annual chamber banquet at the Rngtic Valley Country club, Gardin er listed as an Important ac complishment the start toward developing and revitalizing the Medford downtown area. He told of the trip to Pomona. ! Calif., to Inspect the rrvital-l ized downtown area there. Medford Architect Jacj Ed-1 I son showed colored slides of Eugene's downtown revital ized area. Gardiner was presented the president's plaque by Man vllle Heisvl, Medford lawyer. Williams stressed a better Medford business climate. De velopment of additional park ing Is a short range objective next year, he said. He also discussed development of ad ditional parking through spe cial assessment districts. Continuing Program A long range continuing program should be an effort for a more equitable taxation through the state legislature and congress. The property tax is unfair in many rcsiu cts, he said. The chamber should look Into areas of commercial and industrial development and highway construction, the new president said. But, Williams spoke against bonding by spe cial groups for special proj ects. Another long range pro gram Is a more favorable fiscal policy from the federal administration on down through local government, Williams staled. Other Goals Noted Other goals for the next year should be relief for lum bermen, a belter labor force for crop harvest, higher stand ards In higher education bol stering tourism in Oregon, and continued public school support. Orgeon packing plants should Join a form of lobby to better themselves, Williams urged. Businessmen should take a more active part in politics, but should not run to Washington, D.C., for as sistance or subsidy. People at each banquet table presented their ideas table to table as lo what the chamber .should seek to ac complish for t he new year. Suggestions ranged from set tling air pollution problems to cleaning up old structures along the new freeway, to downtown area rcvitalij.u on. ft evolved the theory that the Congo's troubles would nev er be solved until Tshom be's Katanga province was persuaded to end Its self proclaimed secession and share its lifeblood of min eral wealth with the anemic Leopoldville regime. Only then, they reasoned, could the Congo become a politically stable and eco nomically viable state. Except for Katanga's rich copper, cobalt, manganese and uranium mines, and the diamond mines of neighbor ing South Kasal province, the Congo had never been much more than an exotic bauble of Belgian King Le opold II, who carved it out for his own with Explorer Stanley's help in the 1870s. The Congo is one-third the size of the United States, yet boasts only 13.9 million inhabitants. Of these, there are only 1.7 mil lion Katangese In an area l12th of the Congo's size. A Financial Advantage But Katanga's mines, un der British and Belgian con trol, gave her a dispropor tionate financial advantage over the rest of the Congo. The vast Union Minicre ' Du Haul Katanga Mining complex exports $240 mil lion in minerals a year. Of this, Katanga get $40 million a year in taxes, du ties and royalties. By comparison, the rest of the Congo exports $37.5 million a year in diamonds, gold, tin, rice and cotton and palm oil. It was doomed to bankruptcy without a share of Katanga's reve nues. The Congo's total reve nue in 1961 was $78 mil lion; Katanga's a staggering $60 million. Half of Copper Exports France and Belgium, which together consume half of Katanga's annual copper exports, thus had a vital interest in the prov ince's political future. Although it consumes much less Katanga copper, Britain's capital invest ments are heavy. The so called "Katanga lobby" in Parliament has exerted con stant and ill-concealed pres sure on Macmillan to pro tect British mining inter ests. Aside from that, Britain considered Tshombe a faith ful friends and a steadying influence in Africa. . The British have prefer red negotiating an eventual end of Katanga's secession. While slow, they said.ut would have the advantage of maintaining peace of sorts. But the United States made it clear recently that it could tolerate Tshombe's stalling no longer. "Time is running out," warned G. Menncn Williams, assistant secretary of state for Afri can affairs, in a speech at Redden Criticizes Appling's Remarks Salem - Represe n t a t i v e James A. Redden (D-Jackson) criticized Secretary of State Howell Appling's remarks made before the Oregon Re publican club last week re ferring to the proposed four cent cigarette tax as a "trick." Redden slated that Repub lican Gov. Mark O. Hatfield had requested the tax legisla tion in his inaugural address and suggested that Appling "get together with the Gov ernor" on proposed legisla tion. "If this tax is a 'trick' and hence bad legislation, then the Secretary should advise the tricksters in the legisla ture just how we are to an swer the needs of education and still afford relief to prop erty taxpayers. The Secre tary's 'Insulated office' t-f-fords a platform for criticism, without forcing him to make his criticism constructive," Redden said. the University of Virginia. The timing of the speech was significant. The peak of the Cuban crisis had passed. In the aftermath, the state department began receiving curious reports from Leopoldville about furtive new Soviet activity. The Soviet embassy staff in Leopoldville had sudden ly doubled in size to about 50 persons. Russian diplo mats were reported to be touring Leopoldville beer halls spreading the word that the Americans were trying to take over the Con go's riches, and that the Congo premier, Cyrille Ad oula, was a "colonialist stooge. Adoula was in serious trouble. His restive parlia ment had made a life-or-death issue of his inability to unify the Congo. He barely won a vote of confi dence last November. The Congolese deputies voted to free Antoine Giz enga, the old Lumumbist, who returned to Stanley ville ready, with Moscow's backing, to take Adoula's job it Tshombe were not soon subdued. Department Assessment The state department's assessment was this: After the Cuban debacle, the Kremlin might well be looking Bround for another part of the world to make face-saving gains. Adoula's shaky rule made the Congo look promising. The Russians' hints in Leopoldville of intervention again were more likely dropped for their political effect. They were believed trying to gauge the strength of radical Congolese elec ments and perhaps to has ten Adoula's downfall. "The Communists are al ways waiting in the shad ows - waiting for us to falter," said undersecretary of state George W. Ball. W a s h i n gton observers said the administration's ur gent warnings of a direct Soviet threat in the Congo were perhaps overdrawn. But high U.S. officials em phasized the threat was po tential, and just as real as it was 2W years ago. Another reason for urgen cy was that the United States was working against time. Time was running out for Adoula. The threadbare U.N. treasury could not much longer support a Con go operation that costs $10 million a month. India had warned she would with- Aviation Committee Of C of C Studying Service to Region The aviation committee of the Medford Chamber of Com merce, headed by Myers Jones, has started its study of the Pacific Airlines application to the Civil Aeronautics board for a change in its service pattern. Pacific Airlines has asked authority to overfly certain intermediate points which gen erate the least amount of traf fic on its Route 76. The aviation committee has authorized Don McNeil, man ager of the chamber, to invite an executive of Pacific Air lines to a meeting of the com mittee to discuss in detail the company's objectives and the effect the changes would have on service to Medford. The discussion with Pacific is expected to tie in with the aviation committee's current study of air service to and from Medford. Study Patronage - ' The study is being made in an effort to determine why patronage of the airlines has decreased and whether the air service is meeting the needs of the people of th Rogue val ley. Many citizens have express ed a desire for plane service which will enable them to ar rive in Portland earlier in the morning. The second chamber com mittee to organize this week is the governmental opera tions committee with Robert D. Hcffernan as chairman, ac cording to W. J. Williams, chamber president. The com mittee has started a series of weekly breakfast meetings which will continue through the present legislative session, Williams said. Legislation on all fronts, federal, state and local, will be considered by the commit tee but closest attention will be given to matters of impor tance to Medford and Rogue Valley development, the Rogue Basin project, pollu tion of air and water, taxa tion, and the philosophy of bonding in Oregon for educa tion and highways. Controver sial legislation will be studied by the committee the same as any other type, members informed the chamber. The committee sessions will be held each Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. at the Medford ho tel. Other members of the chamber of commerce are invited to attend and partici pate in the discussions regard ing matters of importance to all residents, Hcffernan announced. draw her 5,700 troops-the backbone of the UN mission -by the end of March be cause of its dispute with . Red China. ' Maintain Law and Order Was Secretary General Thant exceeding the UN mandate in the Congo? The original mission of main taining law and order was expanaea in vaguely wuru ed UN resolutions that gave U Thant wide discretion. One, adopted Nov. 24, 1961, authorized the United Nations to use force to clear the Congo of foreign mercenaries and advisers. It also ordered Katanga to end its secession and back the Central Government' efforts to preserve its "Na tional integrity." The United Nations ap parently decided to stake its authority and future ef fectiveness on a last-ditch attempt to solve the Congo problem, even with force. -As one state department ob server remarked, "Thant is holding a tiger by the tail -he can't let go." Some argued that the United Nations had n o right to oppose Katanga's what it wanted. To this, high state depart ment officials said the only historical basis for govern- . ment in the Congo is that Belgians au-year-oia l.oi Fundamental. This "funda mental law" established a single federation of the C o n g o's diverse tribes, which speak a total of 100 different languages. aimpjy no sjeyai van "There simply is no legal case, no political case, no -economic case and no moral case for Balkamzmg the . heart of Africa," one state nnnnrimnnr. nmciai saio. W a s h i n gton denied it wanted to destroy Tshombe. Kjn lite f:omrary, lis recuiii . ! T-U U t I . his secession said specifi cally tnat mere is no de sire to deny Mr. Tshomba a place in the future poli tical life of the Congo. Tshombe is one of the Congo's best-educated, clev erest and most capable poli ticians. The United States wanted him to cooperate in rebuilding the Congo be fore his resistance lost him the support of his people. President Kennedy, rq- neciing ai year s ena on ine Congo and other world trouble spots, said of his country's unpopular stand: "I don t expect that the - United States will be more beloved, but I would hope that we could get more YOU Cfll) Still A High School Diploma 10 vita) to Finish f0"r 'uurcon yur quickly. only subject you need for Diploma. Study at your own pact, lolcit, oooroved textbook voun 4a Lhh GroduotQ Now A" ,ne'ut,ed fa io tuition. Sins' for Frit "Opportunity Bok" YOU ENROLL BY MAIL No talesmen means lower costs for us, lower tuition for you. National Schools ICH SCHOOL DIPT. Iff JMtllet ST, Cllll. 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