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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Oip. Fridav. .Tanuarv 1. 1!)(!0 PAGE 3 B Momentous Indecision Looming For This Year By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press Foreign News Analyst The coming twelvemonth likely will go into history books as a memorable year of momentous indecision. Already 19R0 is beginning to shape up as a year of high-pow ered, jet - propelled diplomacy which promises to be far more spectacular than fruitful. In prospect is a summit con ference of the heads of the four great powers. But the travels of world leaders are hardly likely to be limited to that, now that a pat tern has been laid down with such commanding authority in 193J by President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Khrushchev. Statesmen, politicians and lead ers probably will be engaged in what will have the look of a Iran tic search for formulae purport edly aimed at preserving the peace, but without surrendering either national interests or nation al ambitions. The statesmen of the Big Four also will appear to be searching for a plausible-sounding approach to disarmament. It is doubtful that they will have much hope, pros pects or even intentions of any serious degree of disarmament yet. While the world remains carved into basically hostile blocs as it seems destined to be for a long time, the notion of anything approaching the total disarma ment, now being talked of with tuch portentous seriousness by world leaders, can be little more than a pleasant dream. There can be little in the way of decision in the disarmament field, nor is there likely to be much in the way of decision with re gard to other major problems grating on the worlds nerves, For one thing, 1960 will be a presidential election year in the United States, and the outcome of that voting will have impor tant bearing upon the diplomatic wars to come. Barring a dramatic accident, 1960 seems fated to become a year of furious activity dedicated to the major purpose of marking time. Here is how the prospects look for the world's major troubles as 1960 dawns: F0B NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, 1960 can provide the excuse should he need it for pulling the rug out from under those who welcomed his determined 1959 peace offensive as a harbinger of lessened tensions. By the end of this year the United States will have a new president, a new administration Pair View Happy 1960 CLEVELAND, Ohio (API The year 1960 holds happiness for John Armonas, 54, ana nis aaugn or. Donna. 24. His wife, Barbara, and their son, Johnny, 19, have started the first steps on their way from be hind the Iron Curtain to the family home in nearby Wickliffe. Donna, who hasn't seen her mother in M years, received a cablegram Thursday from ine Lithuanian village of Pasvalys. "I filled out the forms for my self and the boy for getting exit visas," it said. Mother and son have been trapped in Europe since 1940. Both were born in Lithuania, and were detained there after World War II by the Soviets. Donna appealed directly to Ni liita Khrushchev when the Soviet Premier was in Pittsburgh last September. He assured her she could expect her mother and brother soon. Timber Firm Loses Fight YREKA Siskiyou County super ior court Judge James M. Allen granted a final $10,000 judgment on behalf of W. L. Cobb, E. T. Cobb and W. L. McCallie against A. L Harding, Inc., and Bate Lumber Company of Oregon on Monday. Initial hearings on the civil suit were started here on September 16, 1958, and involved mining claims owned by the plaintiffs in the El liotts Creek district of Siskiyou County. The defendants were also restrained from trespassing on the mining property by court order. . The original suit, filed by the plaintiffs, was for 16 million dol lars in damages for construction of a timber access road across unpatented claims. Judge Allen's memorandum on his decision was issued October 30, and filed Mon day, December 20, in the county clerk's office. Khrushchev has hailed President Kisenhower as a man of peace, but he has made no such com mitment with regard to the man who will succeed Eisenhower However, Khrushchev himself likely is in a mood for marking time, for waiting to see what hap pens. He will have worries close to home to contend with. In the Soviet Union itself the trend toward rising popular de mand for more and better con sumer goods is not likely to be checked. In the satellite nations of Communist - ruled East Europe there promises to be a need for a Soviet crackdown to remove the political dangers which Khru shchev himself has admitted have come from the deflation of the Stalin myth. Red China, too, iikcly will be come an increasingly burdensome problem for Khrushchev. Its brand of communism and that of the Soviet Union seem at the mo ment to be tugging in opposite di rections. And the Red Chinese in addition, give every evidence of intending to throw their weight about to demonstrate their author ity as the paramount power in Asia. THE RED CHINESE do not seem to intend to surrender the momentum of their bid to coin mand the fearful respect of the world around them. They are un likely to want to become involved in anything as serious as open hostilities with their neighbors at this point. But their noise and their pressure are likely to con tinuethe noise concerning what they claim to be the necessity to liberate Formosa, the pressure re minding their neighbors of their fearsome potential for throwing the world's hopes for peace into a tailspin. In the Middle East, too, lead ers are apt to be marking time, waiting for 1960 to pass into his tory after giving some indication of the direction of world politics thereafter. The Middle East is nervous. Its young men in the Arab East, in Iran are stirring with a feeling of revolt against the past. Its leaders and rulers have cautiously been mending fences. THE FRENCH will continue trying for a way out of the dead end in Algeria, but with hopes only for highly limited success in the year to come. The rest of Africa, like the' Middle East, also seems to be stirring with revolu tionary ferment, but the time for an explosion does not yet seem to be at hand. There can be no hope whatever for solution to the problem of di vided Germany, which is a key question of European politics. The Soviet Union has served notice of the permanency of the East German Communist regime. Short of war that is unlikely to be changed. Similarly, there seems little real hope for anything approaching a permanent solution of the charged question of divided Berlin. That question, and the one of disarma ment, will be what a summit meet ing will be all about, if and when it comes to pass. Concessions backing away from the basic West ern position about the West's right in Berlin, and West Berlin's right to continue its independent exist ence, are likely to be considered so expensive as to be downright frightening. AT BEST, it would seem, a summit meeting could reach an agreement between the Commu nist world and the West to con tinue sparring and to avoid per mitting the issue to explode into war. Interest will continue to center upon the troubles of revolutionary Cuba under Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Whatever happens there whether the Castro movement falls on its collective face or muddles through its enormous and con stantly growing problems Cuba will have an impact upon the rest of Latin America and thus pre sent the United States with new and troublesome problems of for eign policy. COMMUNIST BtOC Khrushchev awaiting oulcomc of lummit talks, whiU keeping watchful eye on Red China FAR EAST Threats, but no major aggres sion, from Red China Al the U. 5. Summit Election and Year -i uaiun- M m world f- -a -.. rZZ7jF - r ' LP ro$y Ay y ' VK A X V.rS: IE?, , ? AFRICA MIDDLE EAST Ferment but Rulers awaiting next no explosion turn in Cold War LATIN AMERICA All eyes on Cuba watching for Coitro success or failure EUROPE Mori talk but no final settlement on divided Germany or Berlin Rescue Crews Search Ruins For Workers COLBY, Wis. (AP) - The ruins of a feed mill and grain elevator rinni'H hv two viuliMit exnlosions wi'ii- sifti'd todav for the budics of two men believed dead m the wreckage. The buililhiff was shattered Thursday and swept by tlamrs that continued to burn m isolated areas past midnight. Damage was estimated at $2,u,000. Three men were hospilaluod. The pxnlnsinns rocked this north central Wisconsin community of 1 000 persons. The mill was the SING WAV TO FREEDOM MEMPHIS, Tenn. (L'PI) - Po lice hauled five youths into court Thursday and charged them with gambling at a Beal Street dice game. The youths insisted they were just practicing some har mony. City Judge Beverly Boushe asked them to sing a song to prove it. "It sounded like 'Roll, Jordan, Roll'," said Boushe when they finished but he dismissed the charge anyway. town's largest building, with elc vators five stories tall. It was 300 feet long. Chunks of concrete were thruwn 1(H) feet. Leo Lukovicz. a commercial photographer, said the explosions "Seemed to lift me right off my feet." His shop is a half block from the mill. Old Law Invoked; $1,900 Recovered PITTSBURGH (AP) - A local man has invoked a 1794 Pennsyl vania law in an effort to recover $1,800 he claims he lost in card games. Henry Serratore filed the suit Thursday against Alvin Meyers and James Capian, contending he lost $400 and $1,500 in two card games with the pair last Dec. 23. The lti5 year old law states that if anyone loses money or any oth er thing of value in a game of hazard he shall have the right within ten days to sue for recov ery of the money or goods. "I ran out on the street and debris was still flying through the air," he said, "The whole building was a mass of flames and tha roof had been blown completely off." The community's power and communication lines were knocked down and the town cut off for more than an hour. Officials were unable to sound an alarm and the lack of electricity cut off pumps that were needed to keep up water pressure. Coroner Robert Luloff said the missing men were Jess Degner, 55 and Arnold Elpeert, 42. More than 100 volunteers kept up the search. The blast was blamed on an accumulation of milling dust. OSBORN HOTEL EUGENE, ORE. Mrs. 1, (.. Iirlr Jae lhr it. trf,t,ritfrt, Thoionghly Modem Record Year For Business, Balanced Budget. Viewed WASHINGTON (AP)-The pros pect of a record business year and the possibility of a balanced budg et despite last year's steel strike were held out today by govern ment officials. In world affairs, it will be a year of challenge to the United States and its hopes for peace Secretary of State Christian A Hcrter commented. Declining to characterize his New Year's statement as either optimistic or pessimistic, he said there is "a new atmosphere of hopefulness for the solution of world problems," but added there Men's Store Loses Payroll DETROIT (AP) The men's wear department at a local de partment store lost its shirt Thurs day. Someone walked off with a $5,452 payroll. Supervisors were calling at the cashier's windows to collect pay envelopes for employes in their departments. A man stepped up and said, "I'll take Men's Wear and Men's Hats." He signed the name of the supervisor, took the 56 pay envel opes and left. Three hours later the real su pervisor went to get the pay and the theft was discovered. The em ployes received their pay. The firm is working out a new dis tribution system. The National Wildlife Federation offers scholarships up to $1,000 in conservation education. has been no real change in com munist intentions. Secretary of Commerce Freder ick H. Mueller added a few it's also to his prediction that the na tional output will reach the rate of 500 billion dollars a year within the next six months and continue upward during the year. "Should there be excesses in credit, severe inflation and stub born selfishness in strike dead locks," Mueller cautioned, "then prosperity could be checked." The revived talk of a balanced budget was more a hope than a prediction, but Treasury officials said that even if it isn't achieved the deficit will be smaller than they had feared a couple of months ago. September estimates of a 95-mil- lior-dollar surplus for the year ending next June 30 had all but been abandoned as the steel strike dragged on. There was talk of a 500-million-dollar deficit. But barring a resumption of the strike late this month, officials said there still is a good chance of breaking even. The next official estimate of the situation is due Jan. 18, when President Eisenhower sends to Congress his budget proposals for the next fiscal year. .Two minor developments Thurs day dampened further the pros pects of any quick steel set tlement, despite the increased prodding of administration officials. The United Steelworkers Union prepared a new court action say ing the companies arc not provid ing reports required under the old contract. It also took issue with some of the companies' advertis ing statements. OWE (OCULb TMWK I THy (OERE GCXHGr V TO A FUNERAL THE . 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