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THURSDAY. JUNE 6. 1963
MEDFOt D MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, OREGON
machine Oomis cairod Dynamite Shower Veimezylci IPecoce
By DAVID KNOTT
United Press International
Caracas, Venezuela - (UPt -In
this un-bright, oil-rich and
politically turbulent country,
it i I becoming increasingly
common for a peaceful day or
night to be shattered by machine-gunning
and dynamit
ings. The terrorism is directed at
the government of President
R o m u 1 o Betancourt and,
amazingly, it seems to be
guided by a former Venezue
lan nsval cutUir who Is lock
ed up in Caracas' forbidding
San Carlos military prison.
Broadcasts and messages in
the name of Capt. Manuel
Ponte Rodriguez, addressed to
Congress, political leaders and
to the nation as a whole,
claim credit for the scries of
guerrilla raids, dynamitings
of public buildings and side
street gun fights. In his last
message, published in the na
tional press several days ago,
Capt, Rodriguez offered the
nation a two-week morator
ium on terrorism while peace
talks are held.
Diracts Army
Just how this former Navy
officer, who is serving a 16
year sentence for directing an
anti-government Marine up
rising, directs a "national
army of liberation" from his
prison cell is not known. But
the "troops" of his armed
forces of national liberation
(FALN) make their presence
abundantly clear.
It boas is its responsibility
for acta of terrorism and in
their wake, the letters
"FALN" are scrawled on
walls from Maracaibo, in the
west, to the Orinoco river.
When a congressional com
mittee investigating condi
tions of political prisoners vis
ited the desert island of Or
chlla off the coast last month,
the 26 guerrillas interned
there appeared in smart kha
ki, black ties and FALN arm
bands.
When a Venezuelan freight
er was high-Jacked a few
weeks ago, it sailed into a Bra
zilian port with Its nine-man
pirate crew in the same uni
form, plus neat blue berets
of the type worn by Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro in his
Moscow May day appearance
with Khrushchev.
Until the beginning of this
year, it was automatic to lay
responsibility for all terrorist
activity at the door of Vene
zuela's Communist party and
the Communists did nothing to
disavow it. Communists made
no bones about sponsoring an
aggressive, well-trained mili
tary operation, consisting of
roving guerrillas, tactical
combat units (urban guerril
las) and saboteurs.
Now, Communists tends to
back away from the blood
shed and sabotage and ascribe
the blame, publicly at least,
to the FALN. The govern
ment claims this turn by the
Communists is a "patently
phoney peace offer, part of
the Red campaign against the
decree, last October, suspend
ing them from public political
activity."
Wherever the t.'uth lies, the
FALN-claimcd toll of death
and destruction is mounting.
In one recent week, four
police and two passersby wre
shot dead, five police and two
civilians were wounded, two
OPPOSE COMMUNISTS A loyalist soldier
drags a dead companion from the fighting
in a Puerto Cabello street during military
. JaaWHMuiwWiiliX
action against Communist - backed rebels
during uprising in northern Venezuela In
this photo. (UPI)
Tax Collecting More Civilized, Says Curator
Bltburg, Germany -IUPI1- If
It's any consolation to any
body, people have had to pay
taxes for at least 4,000 years,
according to Dr. A 1 f o n s
Pausch.
Pausch ought to know. The
Bitburg tax official is director
of Germany's only tax muse
um. The museum started as a
private collection of the av
erage taxpayer's constant
cause of grumbles.
Last fall when Pausch was
transferred to Bltburg, his pri
vate museum moved with him
to find a new home in the
former Benedictine Abbey of
this town near Bonn. 11 now Is
aonroDrlatcly lodged In the
former tax barn of the Abbey
Pausch prnudly shows his
collection. The oldest docu
mentation of tax-paying is
replica of a bus-relief dUng
back to 2,300 B.C. U shows
the tomb of ancient Egyptian
Vizier Mercruka In Sakkura
near Memphis, with two men
kneeling before the tax col
lector, while a third man, who
refused to pay, is being clob
bered by the lax collector i
aides.
'You must agree that our
methods have become more
civil with the years of exper
ience." said tax collector
Pausch.
Among other documents
Pausch also displays a tax list
of the medieval city of Trier,
listing the habitants of Engcls-
rhssc (Angels Street) in 1363
A.D.
Another document proves
tax exemption also was
known for ages, although It
was harder to get. The docu
ment atatcs that fathers of 12
legitimate children were
granted an exemption In 1628
A.D.
A tux declaration form of
1704 undoubtedly would cle
light today's taxpayer. The
form listed only four ques
tions.
The museum also shows a
picture of the lust tax soldier
ot the Black Forest city of
Freudcnstadt. The grlnvfaced,
Advrtlinni
moustached warrior used to
pause at inns while making
the rounds of the city's tardy
taxpayers, thundering at
them: "Do not booie, go pay
your taxes!"
Pausch's collection, now
kept up by the government at
a cost of $23,000 a year to tax
payers, has items which do
not please curator Pausch.
"litis Is the black sheep in
my collection," Pausch said,
pointing at the photograph of
a Roman sculpture, showing
Emperor Trajan announcing
that the people of ancient
Rome are tax-free.
FAT
OVERWEIGHT
A.,iilhla to vou without S doC
tor's prescription, our drug, called
ODRINEX. You la ugly til
in 7 divi or vour mootv back. No
strenuous exercise, laxatives, ma.
tags or taking ol so-called reduc
tno candies, crackers or cookies,
or chewing gum. ODRINEX is a
tiny tablet end easily swallowed.
When you take ODRINEX, you
still enioy your meali, slid eat trie
foods you like, but you simply
don't have the urge tor etra por
tions because ODRINEX depresses
your appetite end decreases your
desire tor (cod. Your weight must
come down, rcause as your own
doctor will tell you, when you eat
less, you weigh less. Get rid of
excess fat and live longer. ODRI
NEX costs S3 00 and is told en
this GUARANTEE: If not utislied
for any reason fust return the
package to your druggist and get
your full money back. No ques
tions asked. ODRINEX it sold with
hit guarantee by:
Western Thrift here 10 N. Can.
tfaU-Mail Orders Filled.
Hydrogen Gas Costs
Cut Almost a Million
Louisville, Ky. - ttlPO - As
much as $1 million may be
cut from the cost of typical
large plums producing hydro
gen gas, the lightest and one
of tlie commonest and must
necessary o f chemical e 1 e
mcnls.
A new catalyst converts
carbon monoxide o effi
ciently, that costly multiple
purification stages can b e
fucilitea that usually cost
about $4 million for an annual
capacity of eight lo nine bit
lion cubic feet, say Chemctron
corporation specialists.
Nashville Is Burl
Ives' Hollywood
Hollywood - (m - While
some singers select their nunv
bers in Hollywood or N e w
York. Burl Ives credits much
of his success to using Nash
ville, Tenn., as his once-a-
year liratltirtera.
Ives considers Nashville
the capital of country music
Each year he sets up shop
in a hotel suite and listens
to the wares of song writers.
new and old. He selects about
12 songs he likes and records
them in Nashville, then heads
to the Bahamas for a round
of fishing.
EXECUTIVE-WORK
New York - ICTU - Top ex
ecutives of manufacturing
concerns spend an average of
one-fourth their time In sales
and marketing activities, ac
cording to a survey by the Na
tional Industrial Conference
board,
LATEST MEDICAL
ADVANCE:
Babies for
Barrtn Marriages
At least one out of 10
married couples in the
U.S. have difficulty in
hnvinR children. To these
8,000.000 people, infertil
ity, and miscarriages, are
baffling and heartbreak
ing deprivation.
iVon a new hormone pill
permits one out of three
couplet who seem to be
"permanently" childless
to have youngsters of
their own.
I e ! ttin Him Medxal Noil
la the JUNE TH hive tl
Family
Weekly
with your copy ol the
Mtdford
Mail Tribune
Dolice kidnapped, two radio
stations were attacked, two
schools raided and a fire did
$340,000 damage to a U.S.
owned printing plant. There
also were two long and noisy
gun battles which caused no
casualties but further alarmed
the citizens of this capital city.
It was not a particularly re
markable week. Since Jan
uary, four U.S.-connected
businesses have been burned
with damage totalling S3 mil
lion, three pipelines have been
dynamited, a freighter was
seized on the high seas and a
S600.0C0 collection of French
impressionist paintings was
heisted in broad daylight
There has been a virtually un
interrupted series of attacks
on police and armed forced
personnel.
Basically, the long-term ob
jectives proclaimed by the
FALN are these:
-"A revolutionary, nation
alist and democratic govern
ment." (Their meaning of
"democratic" is unclear since
the present government was
chosen by the people in free
and honest elections.)
-"Political and economic
independence for Venezuela."
(That is a catch-all phrase tra
ditionally used by far leftists
in Latin America to exploit
nationalist sentiment.)
-"Development of the coun
try's resources for the benefit
of all the people."
Reorganise Army
-"Reorganization of the
armed forces to meet the
threats to national sovereignty
which would follow the total
liberation of the country."
(This presumably means to
stand ready to repel any U.S.
intervention, which the FALN
expects in the event of seizure
of huge U.S. investments in
Venezuela.)
The FALN claims it repre
sents every shade of opinion
from Catholic to Marxist,
united only in deadly opposi
tion to the present govern
ment, and every economic
class, from peasant worker to
the affluent. (It should be
noted that Betancourt's
strongest source of power is
the 1,200.000 -member Vene
zuelan labor federation.)
About its connection with
the Communists, the FALN's
manifesto states emphatically
that it owes no allegiance to
any political party. Or. Gus
tavo Machado, Communist
party boss, said, "Certainly
there are members of the par-
follow its strict and often im
practicable standards.
ty in the FALN but we have j
no control whatever over it." j
The cement which holds to
gether this diversity of opin
ion is nationalism. It is na-j
tionalism of the South Amer
ican ilk-deeply rooted and ex- i
tremely touchy. The FALN, '
if it overthrows Betancourt or j
not, sees itself as a watchdog
in the years to come, lying 1
dormant when a government!
heads in the direction it de-
sires and sweeping the coun-1
try with bombs and bullets
when the government fails to ,
CHURCH of CHRIST
EASTSIDE
An Invitation by the
1047 lews St., Ashland, Ore.
To attend a GOSPEL MEETING
Sun. June 9 thru Sun. June 16
Sunday Services
10:30 a.m. 7:30 p.m.
Services Week Nights
7:30 p.m.
Eston Catlett, Minister
Penneys
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