Evening star. [volume], July 06, 1955, Page ** A-17, Image 17

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Peiping's Five-Year Plan
Seen Lagging 20 Pet.
By tb. AmocUM mm
American officials see b 30 per
cent lag In Red China’s five
year plan as probably the gravest
problem facing the annual Peo
ple’s Congress now under way
at Peiping.
It means, in the view of spe
cialists here, that this is a make
or break year for the Commu
nists in their race to balance
China's agriculture with indus
try bythe end of 1057.
The Reds may adjust their
goals downward, as they have
done Before. Even so, officials
here say they must take a major
stride during the next 12 months
alone or concede failure.
Floods Take Toll
A major cause of Peiping’s
falling behind its self-imposed
goals was the terrible toll of last
year’s floods. They were the
worst in a century in a land
which has some floods every
year.
Added to the water’s ravages
was a drought. Together, flood
and drought knocked a further
hole last year in the Red Chi
nese five-year plan. The 20 per
cent estimate for over-all lag is
based on careful analysis of sta
tistics from the area.
It is viewed as significant be
cause China’s agricultural econ
omy operates on a very narrow
margin in a country where flood
and famine are to be expected.
Fluctuation by one percentage
point affects millions of people.
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Peiping has just completed a
deal to buy 200,000 tons of rice
from Burma. Specialists say
that will feed about one million
people for one year. China’s pop
ulation is over 463 million.
The bad thing about last year’s
floods, officials say, was that they
struck in areas which normally
escape the annual inundation.
In their wake they left sand and
silt, six inches to three feet
deep, in rice paddles of such
areas as South China, which
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normally must import some rice,
r Any new floods this year would
- add to the hardship sUU r»-
t maining. A major item on the
- agenda of the legislative con
r gress at Peiping is a proposal to
control the Yellow River.
. With all these handicaps, the
t Red Chinese are able to claim
. progress ln building industry
b where there was none before
. Their success drew notice yes
terday in the press of Japan, key
r industrial power of the Par East.
» The big economic newspaper
s in Japan. Nihon Keixal. said Red
r China was -giving Japan stiff
s competition in Southeast Asia
with such consumer goods as
cotton, soap, pipe and nails.
i Suspect Cleared;
l Was in Hospital
J Ruflno R. Oarrido, Jr., was
cleared in Municipal Court
s yesterday of housebreaking and
i assault' charges after it was re
l ported that he was a patient at
r District General Hospital at the
s time of the crime ln which he|
* was a suspect.
Mr. Oarrido, 30, colored, of the
* 200 block of Bryant street N.E.
* had been charged in connection
J with an incident May 28 ln the
i Capitol Hill area. He was ldenti
*• fled in a lineup a month later by
* the woman victim.
" 'After police were advised that
Mr. Oarrido was a patient at
, District General from May 21 to
e May 30, however, the govera
-9 ment moved for dismissal of the
n charges against him.
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Peiping Plans
Industrial Use
Os A-Energy
TOKYO, July • WV—Radio
Peiping today painted a roseate
picture of Red China’s indus
trial progress and said China
would soon begin the develop
ment of atomic energy for in
dustrial use.
The Communist radio broad
cast parts of Vice Premier Li
Pu-chun’s 3 Vi-hour report on
tiie progress of Red China’s first j
five-year plan, starting in 1953!
and ending in 1937. The report,
was made to the first National |
Congress of Peoples’ Representa
tives.
The Vice Premier slated that
: "with direct Soviet aid, China
would in the present five-year
, plan period start to develop the
peaceful utilisation of atomic
' energy ln the service of the na
tional economy.”
Mr. Li said Red China’s total
, | Industrial output would be in
creased by 98.3 per cent by 1957
and production of China's “mod
' em industry” by 104.1 per cent.
Unlike most Soviet announce
-1 ments on Russia’s successive
! five-year plans, Mr. Li’s reports
; gave figures.
For example, he said Red
China’s steel output by 1957
[ would be 4,120,000 tons, or 3.-1
' times the 1952 level.
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Elects John G. Conkey
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Knights ot Columbus has elect-1
ed John O. Conkey grand knight!
; fa- the 1955-8 season.
Other officers elected are: Wfl
! drid Corridon, deputy grand
knight; Leo McLarney, chancel
: lor; J1 Dent Farr, warden: Jo
- seph 8. Guido, financial secre
i tary; Francis McKay, recorder,
: and Dominic Pul vlren ti, treas
’ urer.
GW Plans Party
The faculty and students of,
i George Washington University;
1 win get together at a “cooler.
, party” from 3:15 to 4:30 pm.
i tomorrow at the university yard.
In case of rain the party will
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