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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
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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
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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.
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