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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Caio>lina
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1956
Hungarian Escapee, Refugee Parents To Meet For Christmas In New Jersey
Qcrn iR-vpar-niri .Tn- Spvpral weeks aso Horvath was “It seems so long ago now,” away in Vienna where Americ
Four years ago, 18-year-old Ja
nos Horvath whispered goodbye
to his family aind with his older
brother Jozsef, crawled through
mine fields and booby-trapped
barbed wire entanglements across
the Hungariaui border to freedom.
Now an American paratrooper
at Fort Bragg, Pfc. Horvath plans
to give his parents their best
Christmais in yeairs. With his bride
of five months he hopes to meet | ^ wire,
them at Camp Kilmer, N. J. this
month to welcome them to their
new home in America, and the „
freedom they’ve been long await- I their chance. Luck
ing. [third evening.
Several weeks ago Horvath was
surprised with news that his par
ents had also escaped through the
Iron Curtain to seek asylum in the
West. Their reunion, will end
long years of prayers by adl of
them, for such an event.
But back in 1952 this family re
union seemed impossible. In fact,
crossing the closely guarded Iron
Curtain with its ragged rows of;
vicious dogs and
“It seems so long ago now,
the 23-year-old soldier says. “I
wonder how my parents man
aged to escape?”
If their escape was anything
like the harrowing experience he
and his brother suffered through
in 1952 it’s sure to reveal the tri
umph of courage and iron wills
over Communist oppression.
For endless hours the two shiv-
^'ards appeared hopeless, jering men had lain con^aled.
For two days and two nights the watching sentries and blood-
brothers lay concealed, waiting patrol the minefield md
smiled the (barbed wire tangles that barred
the path to freedom.
After surveying a likely route,
the two young men started crawl
ing. Using their handkerchiefs
they erased their prints on a plow
ed and raked strip to avoid detec
tion.
With his 19-year-old brother
leading, Horvath inched foot by
foot across 50 yards of minefield.
CarefuUy cutting their way
away in Vienna where American,
British and French shared control
with the Russians.
During the hectic night flight
through the Austrian countryside,
the Horvaths learnfed survival
methods first hand.
They lived off the land, eating
raw potatoes, picking apples and
whatever else they could find.
And during the three days and
nights they avoided all contact
with people for fear of exposure
and capture. Without compass
they guided on the stars to reach
Vienna, 80 miles in three nights.
There they found refuge with
American authorities and rested.
Several months later they were
on their own and free in Salzburg,
Germany.
A farmer at heart, Jozsef took
advantage of his opportunity to
settle in Australia. Now 24, he
has his own farm there.
Janos chose to enlist in the
North Carolina’s cotton produc
tion is estimated at 360,000 bales
of 500 pounds gross weight, ac
cording to specialists with the
North Carolina Crop Reporting
Service. This 1956 crop is 9,t)00
bales or 2.6 per cent above the
1955 production, but it is 97,000
bales or 21.2 per cent below 1945-
54 averages. The estimated 440,-
000 acres of cotton harvested this
year is the lowset since 1869. The
1956 harvested acreage is 8.3 per
cent uijder last year and 35.4 per
cent below the 1945-54 average.
v./circiLUJ.y vv j w —-— - —
through the booby trap rigged United States Army and se^ citi-
wire, the two Hungarians hugged
the earth as powerful searchlights
from towers 700 yards apart peri
odically swrmg across- the border.
“Luckily the guards didn’t pass
our way with their dogs until we
had cut through the barbed wire,”
Horvath recalls.
But once across the border they
had not really • reached freedom.
In 1952, Austria was under Rus
sian controL Safety lay 80 miles
zenship here. He joined in March,
1954.
Returning to Camp Kilmer for a
reunion with his parents will take
Horvath to his first home in this
country.
Long saddened years separated
him from his family. But Christ
mas, 1956, in Newi Jersey will be
much different, and much happier.
Their Christmas present will be
a new life of freedom in America.
Minimum prices in Federal
milk marketing orders apply to
all milk handlers in the regula
ted market. They are fixed by
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture according to supply and de-
many conditions described at
public hearings by producers,
handlers, and consumers. Before
a marketing order is issued, it
must be approved by two-thirds
of the dairy farmers affected.
Federal marketing orders thus
make dairy farmers’ marketing
plants more effective and help
them receive the best returns.
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