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Monday, August 12, 1963' SalfahaaBtt Drmarrat CHANGE IN DOLLAR VALUE OF FARMLAND Why Escape? Woman Tells Her Story Percentages, March As Berlin Wall ears 2nd Anniversary allowed to visit her twice, but the 1 (EDITORS NOTE The author of this article Is one of the hundreds of East Germans who have escaped to the West despite the Berlin wall, barbed wire, mine fields and trigger-happy guards. On the eve of the second anniversary of the wall she recaUs her life behind it and the reasons people risk their lives to But we had finally decided to flee and our two children had already gone to the West. We planned to follow after a short vacation in a health resort. There we heard the news of Aug. 13.

Our hearts sank. Our escape route was blocked. It took nearly two years to find a way out. The one good the wall did was to wake people to the horror of communism. escape.

She use. a pseudonym to Communists wouldn't let her leave. In desperation the girl tried to escape by hiding in her husband's car. She was discovered at the border. The young man went to jail for eight months.

He is now free and lives in the West. His wife is stuck in East Germany. An older couple of our acquaintance took care of their little proect her family ana irienas till in East Germany. By KATE RIKA THOMAS FRANKFURT, Germany (AP)- I lived for 16 months behind the U.S. INCREASE 4 Berlin wall.

Except for the year my husband spent in jail during the height of Stalinist frenzy back in 1952-53, they were my worst granddaughter. Bettina, after her parents fled to the West. Eventually friends took the child to East Berlin and smuggled her out, too. CHANGE DECREA 1 I 1 or lest 2 or mere ftBjfttarsmop months under communism. mm V.Vg7 I When authorities learned the child Eight months ago my husband and I managed to escape.

It was gone, they held the grand meant leaving a large family home and garden where we had spent 24 happy married years. It HARDLY DIRT CHEAP American farms are getting larger and more valuable. U.S. Department of Agriculture figures show that farm real estate market prices moved to new highs during the period March 1962 to March 1963. Average market value of all farm real estate in the 48 continental states rose 4 per cent.

Estimated value reached $144 billion, up $6 billion from the previous year. Average value per farm climbed to $45,000, up from $42,000: average per-acre price rose from $124 to $130. Wisconsin was the only Hate to register a decline. Farm price extremes ranged from $264 an acre in the Pacific States down to $48 an acre in the Mountain States. meant leaving behind almost ev parents responsible.

Only by last-minute flight did they escape arrest and imprisonment. Western magazines, books and newspapers are forbidden. Permission is denied to travel to the West even for funerals or wed erything we owned, including the worthless sentimental things woman treasures. It meant leav ing friends with whom we shared dings, even when one's own father, mother or children are involved. hard and unforgettable years.

It was a sacrifice and a great A Flexible Goal risk. Other people might still es cape by the route we took so won't go into details. But we read every few days of Doctors and scientists may not attend conferences abroad. I clearly remember Aug. 13, 1961.

For years my husband and I felt we should stay in East Germany. One has a responsibility to one's home and people, and problems are not solved by running away. the dangers people run to escape. They scale the Berlin wall in a Director Position Space Science Defends U. S.

Today Tuesday The trut story of Lt. John F. Kennedy's hail of bullets. They swim the icy Havel River in freezing weather, incredible adventure in the South Pacific They crawl through tunnels that might cave at any moment or run across mine fields that could blow naissance satellites by the Air ELACKSBURG. Va.

(AP) A Force, communications satellites government scientist today chal bility so that we will have the ability to move in any direction required by future events to meet any threats along whatever lines them up at any step. Some are killed by Communist border ROBERT E. BUSSARD, C.L.U. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE U.S. Office 222-459 Res.

385-1741 105 Avant Building by the Army, and navigation i lenged critics who want more emphasis on space weapons develop guards. satellites by the Navy. The Air Force is training astro might develop." ment, saying the present U.S. What drives people to gamble their lives in order to leave their nauts for NASA's two-man Prof Newell's defense of the space space program is laying a broad base for both scientific and mili THE WALL An East Berlin policeman puts bricks in place as the Berlin Wall was heightened 15 feet last autumn. This was just about the time Katerina Thomas, author of a special AP story, escaped with her husband from East Berlin.

(AP Wirephoto) ect Gemini orbital and rendezvous program came at a time when homes? It might sound strange to Amer flights. Later, Air Force astro many defense officials and some tary operations. ican ears, but I'm sure the chief congressmen are taking a closer nauts will- fly Gemini capsules Homer E. Newell, director of space science for the National the real necessities. And no one look at military needs in space, reason is the longing for freedom SCOTSMAN MOORE DISTRIBUTOR SCOTSMAN ICEMAKERS SALES SERVICE 413 W.

Gaines Ph. 224-1613 to think and do what one wants, The services, primarily the Air or at least no one I ever heard of leaves at the risk of his life modified for military missions and the Dyna-Soar manned space glider. -Advocates of a strong military The simple freedoms that Ameri Force, long have pressed for cans take for granted are worth because of hunger or material things. larger military space role. For this fiscal year, President Ken DUFF ROBERTSON E3 a life to many East Germans.

program think the United States Food is poorly distributed should be working on spacecraft It is simply that after a while JACK WARNER-usuTiffir mmt my daughter would be assigned to write political essays on the most impossible subjects. "What can you ever write about that?" I asked. "Oh, it's so simple," she answered, and then rolled out a string of Communist cliches and party gobbledegook. We would have a good laugh. "But you can't write that.

They'll nedy asked $1.67 billion for military space activities, compared there. Variety is limited. The to spy on enemy satellites and shops are poorly stocked. It al with $5.7 billon asked for NASA, destroy them if they are carrying you can't breathe any more. You are too restricted.

Your ideas count for nothing if they do not agree with those of the Commun 1:35 4:05 6:35 9:05 Recently, the House Science and ways seems that just the thing you want is sold out. But no one HICKS DRUG STORE 110 E. Jefferson St. Ph. 222-1034 FREE DELIVERY nuclear bombs.

Some say this nation should develop orbiting nuclear bombs of its own. Astronautics Committee said starves and no one goes without might be necessary to create a ists. Your individual wishes are Newell agreed the U.S. must NASA division "for developing Aeronautics and Space Administration, said: "Those who argue that we should dispense with the frills of science and space exploration and concentrate on the necessities of military development, forget that we can't really say what the military necessities in space will be and it would be foolhardy to pretend that we can." In a speech prepared for an artificial satellite conference at Virginia Polytechnic Institute here, Newell said: "We do not wish to develop a Maginot Line in space, only to have it flanked by forces of greater flexibility. We need to develop in a broad way our space capa- gnored.

A person's individuality know you are making fun of have a strong military space pos and freedom count for nothing. military application? from the civil space techniques as they Prison Mag ture, but said: "This is a capa This is what people learn to hate. them." "But I can." she said. And sh evolve." Hearings are scheduled This is why they leave. bility that we will have from the development of the ability to in this year.

I don't regret for a minute our Six Republican congressmen re vestigate scientifically with satel-ltes and space probes, from space did. And she got a good mark. It was a joke on her not-too-bright Communist teacher. But in the long run it is terrible for those children, being forced to write a Today -Tuesday Open 1:15. Starts 2:00 P.M.

2:00, 5:45, 9:35 cently issued a statement express decision to flee, even though it meant two people well past their prime had to start again from scratch. My husband was one of application, from the ability to ing concern over what they termed the lack of a defined mil perform manned space flights, from the vast complex of manufacturing and assembly plants, itary space program. the highly qualified scientists VALIANT SON When Needing Any Form of INSURANCE or BONDS CALL YAEGER, INC. Phono 222-4680 Tallahassee's Oldest Major military space efforts are Gets Award CLEARWATER (AP)-A mag-azine published by inmates of the Raiford State Penitentiary, the "Raiford Record," was given first place honors Sunday by the Flor-da Magazine Association. The association wound up a two-day meeting with election of officers: president, Alice Tompkins of Tampa; vice president, Wilbert Bach of Miami, and secretary- whom the Communists pay well OF SPARTACUS launching complexes, and track aimed at development of recoil' FIGHTS ON! and our life was materially better than most.

But this was far ing facilities. say what they really don't believe. Probably more parents leave East Germany for the sake of their children than for any other reason. Through mutual friends I know of a young East German girl who married a West German. He was 'Out of this broad activity will 7r: ma outweighed by the disadvantages of life under communism.

Five GIs Die come the ability of the Unted Ttfii 1 States to use space and to operate in space either as it may What did I personally dislike most? I think it was the way children were treated. W3 choose to do voluntarily or may find itself compelled to do in its On Maneuvers treasurer, Linda Yates of mot In her last years of high school mm own defense." SPARTANBURG. S.C. (AP)-Five soldiers participating in Swift STEVE REEVES SEMIS? Coming Season TV Hits Strike III, the nation's biggest EVERY WEDNESDAY 9:30 A.M. i i peacetime military maneuvers, were killed over the weekend.

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