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Portugal Fights to Retain Position in Kich Anaola ,B JETEH KNOX jbellious natives, referred to .blacks and half castes a bin v. , .u SJ U DnilMl Piau intsmaXon.i I k. . .'" r "ua ?' f" a i . . Elsewhere in south west . astrakahn fr k.. . r United Press International Carmona, Angola - tm This town still lives on its nerves. It is the front line in Portugal's fight, to stay put in Angola. When anti-Portuguese na tives rose in bloody revolt two years ago (2,000 Euro peans were hacked to death), Carmona was at the heart of the military crisis. Today, it literally is the nerve center-the number of chain smokers appears abnor mally high-of what Governor Rebocho Var calls "the battle of the peace." With a population of about 2.000 whites surrounded by 40,000 blacks, Carmona is the capital of the rich coffee grdwing district of Uige in North Angola that stretches up to the hostile ex-Belgian Congo frontier. Revolt Controlled The revolt has been brought under control by Portuguese troops and a tough corps of local volunteers. Re- t i Trends Predict More African j Immigration Br NEIL SMITH United Press International I Johannesburg (UPO Dis I gruntled whites from other I parts of the continent still v form the bulk of new settlers - arriving these days in South Africa. But if present trends con tinue, Europe may once again take its place as the main source of immigration fto this white bastion, j Figures disclosed in the Senate by Immigration Min ister A. E. Trollip show a :number of trends. Of the 21,000 new settlers 'who arrived in 1962, 51.5 per cent came from Africa and 4S.5 per cent from else where. In 1961, when 16, 300 settlers arrived, 57 per cent came from Africa and only 43 per cent from the Test of the world, jt Considering that this swing ,; took place at a time of in creasing tension throughout ' the continent, it marked an j achievement for the republic, i and for Trollip, who has been campaigning vigorously in Europe to put South Africa back on the map as an ideal home for the potential im migrant. ; - Oddly enough. South Afri ca's chief source of new blood is not Britain, Holland, Ger many or France, the four main fountain-heads of the white race in the republic. It is the Rhodesian Federa tion, now crumbling under 3 the Impact ot nationalism. f Last year the federation sent ; 7,257 persons to the republic, most of them South Africans who left their country in the vears after World War II. At that time, Rhodesia was . booming and South Airica ! under its new nationalist gov- ; ernment, was feeling the first impact of chilly worm ais approval. Today, the frying pan of South Africa apparently is a more attractive proposition to many than the fire of Afri can nationalism north of the Limpopo river. Britain is second on the list with 4,968 settlers. The icy miseries of the past Eng lish winter, unemployment and common market problems are likely to inflate this fig ure in 1963. Third comes Kenya, with 1,707 immigrants. Some are South Africans who settled in the East African colony in more tranquil days. Others are British settlers who, lured by the promise of spacious llv infl. moved to Kenya after 1946. Almost without excep- linn thev are Dohtically rigm- wing, strongly opposed to Af rican political aavancemem. Many, stung by Britain's retreat from colonial Africa, have become bitterly anti- Rritish Fourth on the imigration list is Germany with 1.314 settlers. The Rhodesian Fed eration, Britain, Kenya and Germany together accounted for three quarters oi an im migrant in 1962. Summer Jobs Will Be Fewer Every Year Washington -OTS- Competi tion for summer jobs has been getting keener and keener year after year and ivbi will be no exception. OKwrvers in the field of employment believe this situ ation will continue for years to come because of the sharp jump in the annual number n W and Kirls who will turn 16. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, approximately 3.5 million boys and girls will reach that age this year. ?w nnnr.s CUT New York - - The thalidomide scare last year cut down the number of new ,.,. inirnHnced by the pliar- tnareutiral companies. Only n..r. introduced compared with an in 1961. according to, Chain Store Age. here as "terrorists" because of the slaying of Europeans and loyal blacks on isolated farms in March, 1961, are now confined largely to rough bush areas. Governor General of Angola General Silvino Silverio Mar ques and Rebocho Vaz have just completed a week's tour of the Uige area passing only lightly protected through areas that were once hotbeds of revolt. Vaz said that 80 per cent of the Uige area is now freed from terrorism. The white population had returned to the farms in most areas, he said, and the natives seemed anxious to work and cooper ate with the Portuguese. "After months in the bush with poor food, inadequate clothing and improper medi cal care they do not want the terrorists to return," he said. "I am convinced that terror ism will not recur unless it is instigated from outside." Sees Expansion Vaz did not, however, hide the importance of securing the peace. He said that the future of Angola was "in play" in the north and out lined his hopes for a tremen dous expansion of the area both agriculturally and indus trially. He referred to a speech he made recently in which he said "we are all certain that the only way to consolidate the hard won peace will be to achieve for everyone, whites. improvement in their living standards. "It is essential to win the peace in Angola through the rapid victory of peace in Uige." In this connection, a big native resettlement program has begun which will create 150 new villages with hospi- Youth Urged to Seek Jobs in Hospitals Chicago-WPD-The American Hospital Association urges youth in search of a career to look to the local hospital. The country's nearly 7.00n hospitals employ almost 1.7 million persons in some 200 Job classifications, ranging from accountant to x-rav tech nician. Even with this lare number of persons employed, the association reported that many positions in hospitals are unfilled because of short ages oi personnel. IN TRAVEL AGENCY Jacksonville. 111. - (lipn Thelma Bacon is employed at a travel agency here, and Shir ley Ham works for a travel agency at Quincy, 111. Dr. Aiy Plans Trip To Europe This Year Eugene - Dr. Bower Aiy, director of the National Office of the Committee on Discus sion and Debate, has been authorized by the committee to travel to Great Britain and France this year for observa tion of parliamentary debate and parliamentary procedure abroad, Arthur S. Flemmine, president of the University of uregon, has announced. Dr. Aiy is professor of speech at the University of Oregon, where the commit tee's national office is located. He will leave Eugene for Europe in August, and return at the beginning of 1964. The National Office for Dis cussion and Debate is a center for high school speech leagues throughout the country, and the committee is a body of the National University Extension association. It provides annual publica tions on a current topic for use by high school speech leagues, sponsors a national demonstration debate signal ling the annual opening of the forensic season in the schools, conducts an annual conference which selects debating topics, and provides debate materials under free and cooperative purchase plans. Crewe Embroidery Laundering Told New York OTD Washing experts at the Cleanliness Bureau have a practical sug gestion about keeping crewel work clean. Before laundering anything decorated with this popular embroidery, turn it wrong side out. Then there will be less chance, during sudsing and rinsing, of catching or snagging the - long floats of surface yarn or thread. Press crewel pieces on the wrong side, over a folded bath towel. SECTION C PAGES 1 to 8 MedfordWTribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1963 ANGOLA! RECALL REVOLT This is the map of Carmona, Angola, where United Press newsmen recall some 2,000 Europeans were slain by anti-Portuguese native during March 1961 revolt. (UPI) tals, schools and permament homes. "Given four or five years, we will bring about an evolu tion as never seen in Africa," Vaz said. But the problem is money. As one official here said: "Courage is high, but cash is low." Huge military expenses are one of the reasons. And the outbreak of terrorism also delayed expansion. Repulse Assault When the terrorism struck, Carmona was guarded by only 22 troops, 18 of them colored. Eight times between March and May, 1961, assaults were made on the town but re pulsed by the hastily assem bled civilian defense corps using hunting rifles and an tiquated pistols. Finally, troops arrived from Portugal and tension slack ened. But the scars of race relations were slow to heal. Black and white look at one another more carefully here than in South Angola. There, the Portuguese have mingled for hundreds of years with the native population. Multi-racialism is the answer the Portuguese come up with when they are attacked in the United Nations for refus- ing to grant independence to their African territoriea-An- gola, Mozambique and Guinea -or accused ot "oppressing1 the Afrlcan'people. The Portuguese say not only that races can live to- Benguela, a town of 15.000 (about one-third Europeans) on the Atlantic coast of south west Africa midway between Angola's northern and south ern borders, is the type of town the Portuguese like to think of as proving their Doint that black skins and white skins do not necessarily add to mutual hatred. Whites Double The outbreak of violence In northern Angola spurred no reaction In Benguela. Terror ism was confined to the far north. The white population has more than doubled in re cent years and Benguela, once known as the "city of half castes," today prefers to think of Itself as a thoroughly in tegrated town, a pace-setter in Portugal's multi-racial policy. A drive through the citv illustrated the point that the city had an A-plus integration rating. Black children ran out of one house, whites from another and half castes from a third. Black women and white women queued along side one another in the shops. Customers in a barber shop were mixed. Children at a school were all shades In the local Catholic church one Sunday morning, the priest wbs white, the acolyte black. A black took the plate around. The- congregation war a-Complete" mixture of Elsewhere in south west Africa, in Angola's capital of Luanda, whites, blacks and half castes mingled freely. When this cautious correspon dent asked on arrival there if it was safe to walk out alone at night he was told he could do so freely "and you will be safer than in New York." A city ot 350.000 inhabit ants, of whom about one quarter are of European ori gin, Luanda has an ' air cf Portuguese permanence. If it could be picked up and set down in Portugal itself or in Brazil, it would fit neatly into the background The city, naturally, has its African characteristics. The color of the people in the streets runs through every shade from pitch black to pure white. In the main bars the crowds are, perhaps, pre dominantly white, but colored men can be seen seated and being served by white wait ers. There are no "whites only" signs. Many people, including Governor Vaz, believe the fu ture of Angola will be decid ed if Portugal can d u s h through a crash development program. It Is hoped the na tives will see this as their best chance of prosperity. Oil Is Magle Oil could become the magic wand freeing Angola from Its current balance of payment problems. Month by month. oil output has been stepped up in the south to the point where production now has to be determined In terms of sup ply and demand. Portuguese farmers are hopeful Angolan beef will soon win a share of the worm meat market. A beginning was made with the establish ment of a refrigeration and packing plant in 1961 at the seaport of Mocamedcs. About 1,500 tons of frozen beef is now being exported annually. Angola claims to have the world's largest plantation of gum (eucalyptus) trees. An estimated 93 million grow in astrakahn farm has been es tablished which already Is turning out 6,000 to 7,000 skins a year. une turopean whose fam-i Angola. It has had to fiht ily had lived there for many to establish itself, and will ga years said Mocamedes re- on fighting to retain Its pres. fleeted the whole spirit of ent entity and status. 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