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3 fcS&X. MEBFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON THURSDAY. MAY 2, 1963 .10 D fenyd Tribesmen to Vote For Independent Statehood T P CONTENDER-Jomo Kenjutts Knya'i air.fiter ct state for consti'.ulionul iiffairn a 'id econumic planning, looki. i't book about h mself ii library of the Kenya Initilutii of Administration. Kenyatta, former Mail Mau leader, is one of top contenders for leadership of Kenya when it achieves in dependence. (UPI) . By JACK EMSOLL -. r-'j wted Pttn Intunalional " ' Ljrobi, Kenyr.-flJPD-Nearly !!.( 0c 00 Kenya tribesmen f.n I yne 60,000 white citizeiu will 'so w the polls neiu mitvii to vote into power vhi u tint hemcmle govern jni nl - . V tribesmen await the o ft in delighted anticfua. i bar of lio. f approaching Indepc.id-, r-rsin People's. Paii: (APP) under Paul Ngi. i The b eakdovn of political parties reflects profound poll tical, e.onowli and social ti.olits "51'scd b;' ancient tribal fiara oni'. jcilo isies. KADU is p. coflilion oi! the smaller tribes th")Uhcut Kenya who ?i.ve dn-wn together out of ;tlm powerful and oi y Kikuyu tribe. en .i i taiehiiod. The whiles of I KANU ii a uininn of the Kiku yus with the equally militant bit sma lcr ILno tribe. Kanu i'ormei'ly receh cd the support of- the Kamba- tribe from whose lank!' most of the Kcnys Army-. ind police are drawn hut ist November Kamba ,lcfide, Paul Ngcl, took his tribe ut of the alli ance aivl for ncd his own party, th ! APJ'i with the slo gan "Freedom and Land." Warrior Tribe The Kimliai arc a warrior tribe riutitv.-ihg 750,000 and aril the ftcrth oiggcsv in Ken yn. They mate up half of the km I'n! African rifles, which ciiuld cause a great deal o!. trculita after inde (vnden te . H- ) Igei can carry U.'i'se aoliiiors with him. Ve;i i tall handsome man, Is Wttctl V nl'-European. His - iMitfa aail It Riarfully. XTwy ih.vK bitterly of "another Polling - will 'be' staggered , o'' tr one week - from May 11 In May 26. The elections ..iili i .'or the two Housen of i tlii' National Assembly the .'Seti'e and the House of Kop i reientativeti. There also wiil he elections for seven regional asi efUies. (o.iya has been a British snm i,-olony for 43 years. At onr !rne it was thtught to , tin r. ' the lerritory into a wLa dominion" :.'n Eat AIki but the risinn tide i.f Af'ican nalfonalism n swept av ay : thess, British . ijopes -an I f.'.ie hopes of its vastly oun;imbered whiw settlers. H lhe coming elections the lai t v .stiseii of European poli here of political bitterness and. incipient violence the white Kenyans wait their fate uneasily. They remember the days and nights of terror dur ing the Mau-Mau atrocities in 19S2-S3. Then, gangs of Kiku yu banded themselves togeth er with barbaric rites and oaths. They swept out of: the hills and forest to slaughter white farmcs and their wom en, and hacking ineir came to death. Those of their fellow Kiku yu and other Africans who refused to take the bestial Mau Mau oaths also were slaughtered. When the gangs were finally broken up and driven permanently into the forest after three years, 84 Europeans had been killed and 1,500 Kikuyu cut to pieces by Mau Mau Pangas. It is es timated 10,500 members of the Mau Mau gangs were kill ed by the police and troop. The Europeans fear that on Independence there will be a mad scramble for land and they will be the chief victims. For land hunger is the basis of the tribal differences. Bullish Loans In a final desperate effort to solve tho land problem be fore handing over the country to its natives, the British gov ernment has made loans of nearly 12 million sterling ($33,600,000) and outright gifts of nine million sterling ($25.2 million) toward land resettlement schemes for Af ricans, under which white farmers will be bought out or new land opened up for small holders. Whether this land plan -which will take five years to complete - will slop the mad rusn lor land by various tribes when Independence comes Is anybody s guess. No date has yet been set Dy uriiain ior Kenya s inde pendence. The new govern ment will be required to prove It can function and full independence' will come after another constitutional confer ence, probably in a year's time. The new constitution which comes inf.o effect with the elections is a compromise be tween a ledoral and central. Izcd form of government. The regional system was decided on because of KADU's fears that the smaller tribes would be overwhelmed by a Kikuyu dictatorship. Under the two tier legislature it is hoped the rise of a single party dictator ship will be prevented. M'he House of Representa tives will contain 117 single member constituencies. These members will then choose a further 12 specially elected members, making a total for th House of 129 members. The Upper House or Senate will have a total membership of 41 - all directly elected. The total membership of the seven regional assemblies will be 211 and each regional as sembly will have an elected president. The executive au thority of each region will be vested in the regional as sembly, not the central gov ernment. Then there is still another major and potentially explo sive problem. Once the home rule government is in power it must face a decision on the issue of the Somalis of the Northern Frontier district. The Somalis occupy nearly one-quarter of Kenya's terri tory in the north-east corner. There are 350,000 of them. They are a Hamitic people and don't want to be ruled by Africans in Nairobi. Nomadic People The Somalis are a nom.idic people who wander over the huge desert uplands of their country seeking seasonal pas tures. Thcv seek the right to Join up with their fellows in the Independent Somali re public to the north when Kenya becomes independent. And they have stated they will fight for this right of self determination if it is not granted. The British government has posinonet! a decifi i' of the Sornaits but went part way by designating their ter ritory as one of. the .wvon dis tricts of Kenya, making de tachment easy if such a deci sion were made. But this did not satisfy anyone and last month the Somali republi broke off diplomatic relation with Britain despiie Fritisl assurances that once the nev Kenya government was elect ed it would discuss the scpara tion question. Leaders of both the KANl and KADU parties have sale thry will not agree to sccc-s jitn for the Somalis. En'irely apart from th worries of what the futun wii; bring for Kenya itscl snd its white minority, failure to settle the Somali questior quickly could sow the scedt of war in the horn of Africa Dennis the Menace t.Kj Sii Kenya will disappear, i poU'iva I pliitlorm is simple. Tliree Seek Powei! fhree Afiican nationalist ptrtas are contending for ptprr - the Ke.r.yt Alrican D r cratic Untoft (KADU) le (f Ronald lnr, the Ken yii"African NiiBJunal Union (KANU) Jed by cue-time Mau M tu leader. -Jomo .Kenyatta an I. the newly iormed Africjn He . tells his people: t'You want la il, The Europeans have Inn 'I. tick to me and I will e , Su 'opcan land and give II t jot ." He is Idolized by t,lr; i ciiof e ' in the same way th'i i tin veteran nation alii I, Ko ,y;ilU, is idolized by thi -Kiln jm. In the mid it of this atmos- km i it 4 v-r ; !fLfL t v - " ;- m kSimKmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmitrmtmtmmmmmmmmmmtlSSil I Ill 11 w)ilif,itiM,,imAl TWDCIE AS mC Another fi.'st fof MD Ti attc. Two-ply softness at a price you ordinarily pa for ordinary single-ply tissue. New MD is softer, stronger, is gentle as its colors, too. Pastel pink, aqua, yellow, tine, and white. More than ever, MD is the West's best "aluii, Piy new MD two-ply tissue today at your favotito i, . 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