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Newspaper Page TextV 6 C THURSDAY. DECEMBliR 12. 10(13 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREfiON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 19H3 South Bend, Ind., Wlarks End of Era as Studebaker Plant To Close Independent Africa Confronted With Variety of ... ..,.. p.,,... .' sniiTH BKND Ind. (UPD-llhe early morning shift at I this impossible, he said. Such , be a private conference. They i ed of the highest I g Editor's Note: Filtccn days before Christmas, an econ omic crisis confronts thou sands of workers at the Studebaker plant In South Bend, Ind., today. Here is a UPI team report on the dis location. Duvid Smothers of UPI, Chicago, Robert Page. UPI, Indianapolis, and South Bend newsmen cooperated in this dispatch.) Qnnlh Rnnrl nnl llm word tndav by long distance: The auto pro duction line at Studebaker will start closing down in a week at the earliest, two weeks at the latest. By Christmas, the automotive saga which was Studebaker of South Bend could be a memory. While Studebaker employes shuffled through the snow onto ind University Student Sets High Goals To Achieve By JOAN SWEENEY United Press International LOS ANGELES (UPI) -Michael Yale of Burbank, Calif., is a study in dauntlcssness. Although he is blind, 4hc 19-year-old junior at the Univer sity of California at Berkeley manages to accomplish more than many who have their sight. He recently made a 27-day accompanied only by his guide dog, Archie. Not only did he travel alone, but he made all his own arrangements as he went along. He qualifies as a conceit pi anist, has won medals for de bating and public speaking, earns high grades, writes poe try and fiction, plays Softball and bridge and bowls. "I made up my mind that tf someone said there was some thing a blind person couldn't do, 1 was determined to do it," Michael said. "1 have never found anything I couldn't do yet. I've had to modify it sometimes like Softball, but I've been able to do It." Ho explained that the blind use a rubber ball for Softball. The pitcher rolls in along the ground to the batter, and coun selors at the bases use noise makers to give a runner the proper direction. Nor has Michael lot his handi cap dim his future ambitions. A journalism major, he plans to altend law school and hopes lo serve in the Peace Corps. Ho has a double reason for hoping to be accepted by the Corps: "First of all, I want to help tho blind in other countries where they have pretty bad rnnrlifinnK Kpmndlv. I Can't CO into the armed forces, and this would sort of be compensation for the tact innt I can i. An Fm- his liln. Michael said "I had never been cast of Re no, Nevada, before but I had traveled around California, and I thought I could do it." A cross - country trip alone seems fraught with difficul ty for a blind person, but Mich ael said he had very few prob lems. Climbed Monument "I'm glad I look tho trip," he said. "It helped Rcnerato more confidence in myself and to become more independent than before. It gnvc me more experience in meeting different people in strange silualions." During the 'trip, Michael climbed to the top of the 550 foot high Washington monument and hack down aBiiill in 30 minutes. He was spurred on by a guard wno expressed tun liirWnhin skenticism in Mich ael's ability to do it. Swimming in tnc ureal oan Lake and in Lake Michigan with a Rrnadwav ruling, oh.hmhb 7 .... play, visiting a Greenwich Vil lage cottce nouse lor a iuiu :.Lt fnlb- coccinn InurinC ' the Ford plant and assembly line in Dearborn Mien., were aiming the highlights of his trip. . Maui Vniimra often maluzncd as cold and hostile to strangers, have found a champion in ivucn acl. He found them the most friendly people in the country. However, his sentiment didn't extend to the city itself. He thought it was loo crowded and noisy. He also gave aau l.hrb -hj and Chicago residents nign marks for their hospitality. Michael brought back a large collection of sculo model souve nicrs from the places he visited. "They let me see what these things are like," he explained ... i,- e.,i in tlm l.os Angeles office of the Braille Institute of America. "You can tell me the Capitol is a big building ...ill. n rlnmn fill Inn. llllt I Call t Willi a uuii.k r. , really picture it too well. But if I can teei me hub i.-.a then 1 can tell." Blinded Mii.hnnl him hecn blind since the age of five when a can of in nn inrinnrnlnr blew un in his face, lie suffered third degree burns (rum the waist up and for a time It was mrougiu his left arm would have to be amputated. Ho credits his independent ways to his mollicr and to his plastic surgeon, who advised her to make him do things for himself without her help. Al though it was difficult to watch him struggle, sin forced her self to follow the doctor's ad vice. However, It paid off, and now Miohunl manppK ills nwn Hliai't- mcnt near the Berkeley camp us with no difficulty. While still recuperating from his Injuries, ho began using tho facilities of the Braille institute. Michael's dream is to enter politics and to run for office. What office? "As high as I can gel," he replied. If determination counts, it could be president.. Ihe early morning shift at South Bend, and while civic leaders gathered in the red brick administration building for a word with company offi cials, Chairman of the Board Randolph 11. Guthrie dished out cold turkey at a news confer ence in New York. He spelled out the details of Monday's announcement, stun ning in South Bend, that Stude baker was ceasing U.S. car production and moving its auto motive production to Hamilton, Ont. Guthrie said the production line will start closing within a week or two according to the present production schedule. Severance Pay There won't be many techni cal or engineering employes moving lrom South Bend to Hamilton, Guthrie said. Canadi an law, if nothing else, makes this impossible, he said. Such salaried employes, Guthrie said will get severance pay. As for the men in the plant, an estimated 6,000 of them, they'll have to get by on sup plemental benefits provided by the United Auto Workers con tract, Guthrie said. "We are sorry we find it necessary to put people out of work in South Bend," the board chairman said. "The Hamilton move is the only way to stay in business in definitely and make a profit. We were being bled white in South Bend," Guthrie said. Figures Show Loss He said recent figures showed a $40 million loss in Studcbakcr's South Bend car operations. The civic leaders in South Bend got much the same word in the company's administra tion offices. U was supposed to filed out of the elevators alter ward with drawn faces. The two conferences an swered the big question in South Bend: "When?" The loss to this prosperous city on the northern edge of In diana was still to be estimated. One educated guess was a loss of $38 million in pay checks to the city's economy annually. The first blow came Monday in another New York announce ment from company President Byers A. Burlingame. His word that South Bend car produc tion would cease meant the end of a tradition of work and craftsmanship which had pas sed in South Bend from great grandfather to grandfather to father to son. South Bend wasn't afraid of the future. But it was sad. To South Bend, a pleasant city of 135,000, which has boast come in the state of Indiana, the time and the minute seemed of secondary impor tance. South Benders knew it might happen. It was just hard to believe when it hit. According to the United Auto Workers, that meant 7,000 hour ly workers out of jobs and thousands of families without a regular paycheck. The Cham ber of Commerce put the num ber of jobs at stake at about 4,000. Stunning Effect Nobody denied the shutdown at Studebaker would have a stunning effect on life in South Bend. Conservative estimates ran at $580,000 to be lost in weekly paychecks. The word from Studebaker was, to all appearances, rushed. It had been scheduled for a New York news confer ence Wednesday. Press leaks nouncement That Studebaker would dis continue auto assembly at South Bend and shift its pri mary auto base to Hamilton. Studebaker would stay very much in business with the di versified industries which have provided much of its profit since its automotive business went sour after the great year of the Lark in 1949. Studebaker "regrets the necessity of curtailing South Bend operations, but the eco nomics of the operation permit no other course." On automobile row in De troit, that meant a shift in the basic statistics. Now there were only four automotive giants producing in he U.S. General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors. It also was the end of an American story which began ers studebaker came to mis simple agreement: "I, Pete studebaker, agree to sell all the wagons my brother Clem can make." Booming Business Actually, the Studebaker boys had been making wagons in South Bend for 11 years before the 1863 agreement was signed. In the Civil War, and as the West was opened, Pete sold all the wagons Clem could make. And in 1902 the Studebakers had a new-fangled electric car on the road and in 1904 the lat est thing a "gas buggy." Studebaker was a , proud name on the roads through the first decades of the automotive age. The South Bend company boasted of craftsmanship of how South Bend father handed down his knowledge to South Bend son. In large part it was true, that meant that a great many of the men of Studebaker were past their prime as far as the labor market is concerned. Men of 50 or older are of the suff of which craftsmen are made, and there are many of them at Studebaker. But it is tough for them to line up at the employ ment office. r 7 Problems Now Quality comes first, then the low price NU-MAR MARGARINE MADE BV Viitlibli Oil Products CemHfty. Inc. Wilmlnrtnn. Calltsmil By United Press International Africa is big, poor and turbu lent. The world's second - largest continent, Africa is smaller on ly than Asia. Its 11,500,000 square miles give It a land ' mass nearly equal to North America and Australia combined. It is 5,100 miles from tip to stern and nearly that across its middle. Potentially rich in natural re sources, this vast continent is poor through lack of develop ment and communications. Its political emergence from colon ialism has been the major world event of the past decade. It looks now to the "have" na tions for economic help to raise its standards to theirs. With the Asians, Africans can command more than half the votes in the General Assembly of the United Nations. And the Afro-Asian bloc has used its votes to tip the balance of power in the world organiza tion away from the West. Where only votes count, it is the ar biter. Ghana Is First The rush to independence in Black Africa below the Sahara began with Ghana in 1957. In 1960 alone, 14 countries be came independent. Following Kenya and Zanzibar, Nyasa land and Northern Rhodesia are expected to gain their independ ence in 1964. Like Kenya, Northern Rhode sia will be a test. Bordering Katanga, it has a white mi nority of 77,000 which controls most of the economic life cen tering around its rich copper mines. Zambia, as its name will be, is on the road south. Beyond lies trouble for Africa and for the world. In the south- em half of the continent lie most of the territories which black nationalism still aims to "liberate" from white rule the Portuguese territories, South em Rhodesia, and, finally, South Africa and South West Africa. In Africa, black South Afri cans are getting guerrilla train ing in several countries to at tempt terrorism and revolt should other means fail. The fighting already has begun in Angola and in Portuguese Gui nea. Mozambique is crowded with Portuguese troops ready for trouble. Whites In Control In South Africa, the whites are in firm control. They have been settled there for more than 300 years, as long or long er than the black Africans in some parts of the country. Outnumbered more than three to one, the whites still number over three million. Most have no place else to go. They fear black rule. ' Economically, black Africans are better off in developed South Africa than in any other country on the continent. Po litically, they are helpless. As the pressure mounts. South Af rica's white Nationalist party government is working against time to put into effect a plan of its own which it calls "sep arate development" and which the world knows as apartheid. It envisages a scries of black tribal states to be self-governing and perhaps eventually in dependent. But it does not meet African nationalist demands of majority rule, which would give them control of the country. The first crisis points else where, in Angola and Mozam bique, then perhaps Southern Rhodesia. Eventually, the black Africans are determined that the test will come in one form or another in South Africa. African liberation is supposed to lead to African unity, to a United States of Africa. This is the announced goal of all Afri can leaders. The differences have been over how to achieve it in one great rush toward political unity as advocated by President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana or by gradual coopera tion in all fields as favored by most other leaders. The gradual school prevails. Under the leadership of Emper or Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, African heads of state met in i his capital of Addis Ababa last May. They formed an Organiza tion of African Unity (OAU) to organize cooperation on a con tinental scale. They decided to seek more power in U.N. coun cils and to finance and coordi nate the efforts for liberating the rest of the continent. But aside from liberation, Africa's own dangerous prob lems are beginning to emerge. One-Parly Rule Almost every African state has moved toward one - party rule which is supposed to con centrate talents for develop ment while leaving room for discussion within the single party- The Sudan has its own "racial problem" between its Arab north and Negro south. Togo president S y 1 v a n u s Olympio was assassinated by rebellious soldiers; President Fulbert Youlou of Congo (Braz zaville) and Hubert Magam of Dahomey have been over thrown. Bomb attempts have been made against Nkrumah. And plots have been discovered in Ivory Coast, Senegal and Chad. In October, fighting broke out between Algeria and Morocco over their border. Emperor Haile Selassie and Mali presi dent Mobido Keita hastily ar ranged a ceasefire, and African foreign ministers again con verged on Addis Ababa last month to establish a mediation commission. Its work is still ahead. Other border disputes threat en to explode from Somali claims on parts of Ethiopia and Kenya inhabited by nomad So mali tribesmen. Border raids on Ethiopia and Kenya have deep ened Ihe crisis and Somalia has accepted $30 million worth of Russian military aid to build up her armed forces giving the Russians a foothold, many fear, on Africa's last coast. Herd of Deer Wired For Sound To Help Research Project By ROBERT L. K1ENBERG United Press International WEST GREENWICH, R. I. (UPI) A herd of deer is being wired for sound and licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to help researchers here learn more about wildlife management. Miniature radio transmitters, originally developed to gather information from rockets and orbiting satellites, were filled to 10 while-tailed deer by Univer sity of Rhode Island scientists. Then the deer wcro turned loose. Tho deer wear Ihe tiny trans mitters on special plastic col lars around their necks. Each transmitter weighs less than half a pound and has an anten na built Into the collar. It emits a steady signal which can be picked up from two to four miles away. Minute frequency changes caused by slight movement and vibration of the deer's trans mitting antenna aro interpreted to determine whether he is bed ding down, eating, running or walking. Study Possibilities Prof. John J. Kupa, projeel director, said the same tech niques can be used with other animals and anticipates that the study will lead to a broad se ries of wildlife management projects. He said the informa tion will be useful in drafting wildlife management and for estry policies. The research may tell scien tists how much land male and female deer and their offspring cover; whether the area that deer live in is used by the same family group and how bucks re act toward each other during (lie mating season. Kupa said the study may show how move ments of deer are affected by forest practices such as clear cutting, partial cuts, thinning and planting. An inked stylus traces a per manent record of the transmit ted data on a continuous chart. One permanent receiving sta tion and three portable receiv ers maintain an around the clock watch on Ihe deer. Heavy Packs Researchers carry 4 ' is pound receivers at their bells and walkie talkies slung over their shoulders when they take to the field. They hiko many miles, if necessary, should the test deer leave home and strike out over the hills. Attached to Ihe collars arc mercury cell batteries which arc expected to provide trans mission power during the two year project. Trof. Kupa said experiments will also be con due'ed with solar cells, which conduct light directly to clcctri- cal energy. In the past, Kupa said, scien tists had to rely on relrapping or reports from hunters, but that no information on the whereabouts of deer during tho period between initial marking and later spotting. h3 jiuiii i ij i.i j1 i i.iiiili www TTrrm mi i mm iwrrn i v i vi t p p ji-n"rT' l i wtm .t. t irr.Trj u i ti ,i if i l f j fti -5 lnn imi ii mraiiiia i r m wv 1 14 iii a'.jvv-hm lain orvi m atj iiKi'jiin -vjui : zm I'i'iii -b - In most of the continent, in dependence has been won, and Africa has her way on to the world stage. Now the world is watching to see whether the continent it long called "dark" can solve the classic problems which have faced and divided nations on other continents throughout history. "We do not," one African leader said with unconscious irony, "want to become another South America." Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERr Subscribers To rport improper or on delivery oi the Mail TriUtna In Med ford, phone 773-6141; Ajh Und e&ll M 416 Hridf it, or Phone 4M-:i0O2: Yrrkn. phone Victory 3-2HDR before 6.45 p m. I dm I end 10:30 a m. Sunday. If regular nVhverv arrival i hortlj after you cull plrMM notify offfre, thus hmtnatinf J tpeclaj mtMcnger atrvlca. j ys i sar ip?ii usda- dot mast ND ONE ROOF! U'V fT fX n : is I v - : rxf- : h iifif Ann s I IJIlii trUUP no. i Tm - - " 'Tr.: - . m m sf A BIB'Y' at tarts BAKERY Everything Baked Fresh Hourly, Not Frosh Daily. WHIPPED CREAM LOADED WITH FRUIT rKJRESH FRYERS ujiiiii I . 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Although India is the world s biggest recipient of foreign aid, none was used for construction of Bhakra - Nangal. The project originally was conceived In 1048. When it ran into congressional opposition in the United States, the Indians decided to build their biggest river valley proj ect with their own resources. being distributed to 3.6 million acres of farmland, along 3,000 miles of freshly dug canals. Eventually the water will nour ish 6.7 million acres of semi desert, northwest India. Indian farm experts predict an annual, new production of 1,100,000 tons of grain, 800,000 bales of cotton and 500,000 tons of sugar cane. ELBOW MACARONI MARKET HAWAIIAN SLICED PINEAPPLE T'N 11 (j VAL VITA-WHOLE MM! POTATOES "13 For 00 OCEAN GLEN-GRATED TSIII A ' F3SI1 & T For s1 00 BEEF SHORT RIBS 29? 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Slocum's widow receives a pension from the In dian government. The Bhakra Nangal project has succeeded in Its first aim, which was to tame the annual floods of the Sutloj River. The river's waters now are confined by the Bhakra Dam in a 55-milo-long lake which holds enough water to supply the needs of India's 450 million peo ple for a full year. The project has been supply ing electricity since the first turbines began turning in the smaller, Nangal Dam, in 1055. Nangal now can generate 154, 000 kilowatts of electricity, but It is dwarfed by Bhakra's new ly finished power house, the largest In India, which produces 450,000 kilowatts from five gen erators. When all the finishing touches arc added to the project, Bha-kra-Nanal will produce 000,000 kilowatts, bring electricity to 3,000 villages and turn the wheels of a host of new, small Industries. The water behind Ihe dam is limit Rights Roiorved No S.loi ta Dolors Drive-ln Theater Opens in Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) This time of year, drive - in theaters in many parts of the country arc closing for the win ter. Speakers are moved Inside, concession stands are locked and marques post "closed for the season" signs. In Alaska, Ihings are different. The BlUiken Drive-In, Alas ka's first and only, opened this fall and plans to slay that way through the long winter. Anchorage seldom experiences Alaska's fabled 60 below weath er, but the mercury does dip to a brisk minus 20 on occasion- hardly ouldoor movie weather, even in Alaska, But the Billiken has the an swer. Speaker posts, in addition to sound, provide heaters for each car. The owner of the 600 car capacity theater, Edwprd llanby, concedes Its possible the weather may get bitter enough to make ihe heaters in effective, and if that happens, he says the Billiken will close, but only temporarily. But in June, when hordes in shirtsleeves and convertibles arc flocking to drive-ins else where, the Billiken will be forced to close because of too much daylight. In mid-summer, Anchorage has almost 20 hours of it. The sun sets a little be fore 10 at night and rises again a little after 2 o'clock in the morning. The other four hours arc twilight and dawn rolled into one, and it's never dark enough long enough to show much more than a cartoon. As a concession to the sun, 4hc theater will show one fea ture and a cartoon each night during May, July and August. The rest of the year, It will fea ture a double bill plus cartoon. Dennis the Menace SEE? LfATrlER ON Trie OUTSIDE, silk oh THE INSlOe.MA f?4l WCK AN' KEY. JSNT THAT A HgfttfVX KR KEEWRXKS IN ? ' i