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# Byram Warns Today County Tax DeadlineCounty Tax Collector Howard Byram warned property owners that they must pay current tax bills by 5 p.m. today or be subject to penalties.After the deadline, delinquent taxpayers will be charged a set fee of $2.50 plus six per cent of the total due.Byram said about 76 per cent of the total tax charge of $63,000,000 has been collected so far..Property owners may pay bills in person at the tax collector's office, 810 S. Hill St. Remittances by mail will also he acceptable provided they are postmarked by 5 p.m.However, Byram advised citizens to mail their payments at least by noon to make sure they clear postoffices.Dinner-Dance SlatedThe Men's Club of the Sun-air Foundation will hold a dinner-dance April 17 at the Sportsmen's Lodge in North Hollywood.![photo of Diko, a refugee Bulgarian anti-communist, claiming Reds still peril him]# GUARDS AGAINST REDS# Refugee Lives in Fear of TormentorsBy DAN SWINTONA square-jawed Bulgarian refugee said today he is living a life of fear and flight even in Los Angeles because of communist tyranny.Diko, a panedonym that once ignited resistance to Red force, said that even here he had to guard against the vengeful hand of his Old World tormentors."They do not give up. Even in America the peril is great. I am always in danger," he said.Dika is Dimiter Adamoff Dimitroff, five-foot five, 140 pounds. He spells his name with the double "f" because the Russians like to spell it with a "v."He said he made one TV. appearance in Hollywood. Which was followed by a threat of physical violence, presumably Red-inspired.The pocket-sized, hazel-eyed poet and writer once sparked the Bulgarian underground. His name flamed from resistance pamphlets to teach Red puppets that the pen can be mightier than the sword.His mission today is to "show the free world how things were before and how they are now and what can happen here if the Reds take over. If they like the picture, let them go ahead and accept it."He warns agains: the Soviet culture infiltration. "This is the biggest kind of propaganda. Let them show the prisons and the torture camps, instead of the ballets and the motion pictures," said Diko."I'in an anti-communist. I frel obliged to tell this story. the story I lived. I feel it would be a crime not to tell what Communism means to the average person's life," he says.This story is wrapped up in a book Diko has written. It is based on the facts of his running fight in Bulgaria with the Reds; his imprisonment and death sentence in 1946 after a Four betrayal; his torture by electricity at the hands of the Reds; his forced starvation for 18 days; his forced thirst for 12 days; the slaughter of his parents because they bore a resistance leader.He said Bulgarian resistance was grass roots resistance. "This was different from the revolts in Hungary and Poland," said Diko."In Hungary and Poland the uprising originated among the Communists themselves, Those among the populace who hated the Reds joined later. But at first it was an attempt to set up a Tito form of Nationalist Communism," Diko explained.His first anti-Red unit in Bulgaria was the Danube Valley Organization for Resistance. This folded for lack of outside help. It was promptly replaced by the Bulgarian Democfatic Bloc, which survived from 1944 to 1953.After Diko escaped from his 1946 imprisonment, he continued the battle from Greece. Four attempts were made on his life but he kept pounding out the fight talk in pamphlets like "Farmers and Communism."In 1953, Uncle Sam offered him refuge in Virginia, including a house, a car and an income, he said. But he insisted on staying with the mountain people in Greece to guide the attack on tyranny.Fourteen months ago Diko decided he must tell his story to the West. He came to the U.S. as a political refugee.STILL IN HIDINGI have been writing my story. Besides, I have to be careful about disclosing my whereabouts," said Diko.Yankee dedication to honesty and veracity may lose the cold war with Communism, Diko warned.."Americans have to he tougher, rougher. They have to learn to lie the way the Reds lie. You can't pick up this snake with your hands," he said...He hopes the message will get through. But he admits his urgings may not sail any ships. "I'm not as important as I was," says Diko. "But I'm still the same fellow."# OBITUARIESJOSEPH M. GASKIRosary was recited today for Joseph GaskiMRS. IDA MA MURRAYRequiem Mass for Mra. Ila N. Murray# FUNERALSHOLDEN--Marla Holden.# 'Miss Van Nuys' Off to PenitentiaryMrs. Anita Baxter Esterwold, 20, attractive former "Miss Van Nuys," began a five-![handwritten note with the text "Citizen news Thursday 10.4.58"]