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,.k7il'lji'iwlli'iliirii SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Medfoi UNB Everyone In gooihern oricoa KHOI M - Daily etoraay Published by MEPrORD PR1WT1NO CO. S7-J8 North Fir St Phone J141 ROBERT W. RUHU tor ERNEST R. CILSTBAP. Manafer HERB CREY. Advertising Mr. . C rEROUSON. Managing Editor ARTHUR PERRY. Sunday Editor MRS OUVE STARCHER. Soc. Editor GERALD LATHAM. ClrculaUon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered es second elasa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March a. 1870 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year...$7 50 Dally and Sunday all monfhe J 00 Dally and Sunday three moa. 2.10 Dally and Sunday one month .78 v Carrier In Advance weaioro A.htni4 rntral Point. Jackson vllle. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Talent. mni nn mnlnr routes: Daily and Sunday one year.... 00 Dallv and Sunday one month .75 All terma caib In advance. Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper 01 4acnaon ioun7 United Praia Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU or CIRCULATIONS Arivftrtlsina Renresentatlve WEST.HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offlcea In New York, Chicago, De troit, 8an Franclaco, Loe Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louli, Atlanta, Vancouver. B. C. Ore cloi ipft PuiiishIer. I A T 1 0 N Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry The New Year starts Tuesday. Many autolsts won't, the way they have been driving, the Safety Council forecasts. e Fifty-seven years ago last - week, Royal Brown of the E. Ft. Browns, was an actor and played 'Among the Pines' In Frisco. He was a villain and got his In the third act. e e The'Les Taylor boy Bob of Phoenix got a cowboy suit from 8. Claus, and has started walking bow-legged, squatting on his heels, and yelling 'Yip-pee' at Crandpaw. Rain fell copiously most of last week, reaching Its crescendo Friday when the need of an ark. as well as another park was demonstrated. The voters as a result had more places to swim, than sit down. e e e Len Carpenter of the rawnch set headed south Wed. C. Wig Ashpole, who went to Needles and returned, Is on pins, and will dig out for Paso Robles soon. The Dock Hayes boy Bob, after four years in khaki, will be separated and estranged from the army next Tuesday. e Candidates for high office have started showing up. All balk at the Idea just enough to be polite but willing. e e A Texas liquor dealer In righteous and heroic wrath des troyed $60,000 worth of rum, wines, and brandies. Imbibers of these fiery, high-priced, low grade fluids throtiKhout the land, have often felt like doing the same thing, but never got a good chance. Longvlcw aided by the flu, nipped the B. Tornado quint Frl. eve.. The visitors were slick artists, and one of them was then boy of Jack Heath, former well known local oil squirt. e Ed Kubll, the Applegato cow man towned Wed. His boy Nor man will be out of the navy In time to do the spring plowing, he hopes. a e Dick Applcgute Is now a sports feature writer In the south. He started his scribbling career on this sheet, In those days he couldn't say "Shucks" in less than 20,000 words. a e Peoria BUI Gates rounded up some statistics last week, and reported he had been here 1,433 Fridays. He gave no Inkling as to how many of them fell on the 13 th. e The Louis Ulrlch boy Russ was here recently, and is a lleut. In the navy. In the Joy of the visit, Louis almost went down the street with a hat on. e a The tonsorlal parlors closed two days last week, and will pull down the blinds twice again the coming week. If this keeps up men without wives, will have to start cutting each other's hair, e a e This burg Is neutral on the Rose Bowl game. The majority don't care who wins it, s long s It isn't Southern Cal. e a e J. Tannchill Walker's Uncle Bill Is now a full-fledged Mister, and unjointcd from the military , service. i ! Butter and eggs are getting scarcer than hen's teeth, and rural residents to meet the emergency with pioneer day churns have returned to covered wagon days. Ham however, Is becoming less of memory. Sunday. Te. 30, I94S Editorial Correspondence Mt. Klsco, N. Y., Dec. 24: It was the day before Christmas and all through the house the turmoil was terrific in a last-minute effort to wrap presents, which should have been wrapped and mailed ten days ago. In fact, this department's unpopular desire to have Christmas reformed is stronger than ever not the spirit of the day but the wholesale collection and distribution of gilts. Ok tor tne cnnaren, hut thi frenzied meticulous matching of presents in older boy- and-girl circles strikes this column as, well fast approaching the status of an abuse. (Ah there, e General Patton's number apparently was up and the general, in spite of his gallant fight for life, knew it. When he was first injured he said to his aide "this is a hell of a way to kick the bucket," and later when the bulletins were issued declaring mm out of danger he remarked to a nurse: "Yes, I am feeling better, but I will probably be dead tomorrow." He did beat the rap as far as a broken neck was concerned, out wnen pneumonia sirucn from ambush that WAS too much! A great fighter, probably one of the greatest this country has ever known not so great in other ways. Human beings accustomed to the mild winters on the Pacific Coast are not the only mechanisms poorly adapted to withstand the rigors of a "Way Down East" winter. The motor-cars here abouts at least those for hire are equally Incapable of "taking it." There are two taxi companies in Mt. Kisco, and over naif their cars are now laid up for repairs, due to cold and snow. The other half, badly crippled. Took one last night to visit the grandchildren about four miles out In the country got there ok, but it took us from nine to midnight to get back finally quit and bag and baggage the family had to walk. En route we passed two other stalled cars, one of them claimed the gas feed was frozen. That was a new one, so were 14 below zero there was one incorrigible optimist In the party who couldn't get over the beauty of the night a wreck of a moon in a cloudless sky, the black trees against the pure soft white spreading over hill and dale to the distant horizons. a e a e The Grand Central station in New York is one of the largest and most attractive in the country, the Christmas decorations and choral singing being famous holiday features. But night before last when we finally caught the 4:53 there was no time to take in the station beauties for there was such an incredible mob that it took the quarter-back of the Rockford High School football team of 1898 close to half an hour to get from the 42nd street entrance to track 58, and he was benefitted by the fact a certain distaff member of the family led the interference! Pretty little choir-girls In the "Silent Night" and the star of high-vaulted celling but there good-will in that trek it was a second later we would have lost Speaking of peace and good and probably that fact should be In itself sufficient for all us non combatants to get down on our marrow-bones and praise the gc.nd Lord and the soldiers and sailors for bringing at such a sacri fice, this priceless boon to us on the day of this great CUristi.in festival. Not only should, but undoubtedly Is! However, sufficient that may days following we can see no particular profit in hiding our bat tered heads in the sand and failing to realize that while we have peace, we do not have good will at least not an adequate supply of It. And for any extended period of time, peace can not endure without good will. In fact one of the first resolutions for New Years should be a determination to Increase the world supply of good will, and the first step in that direction should be to arouse in this nation more good will toward other nations ALL other nations. As usual there is no news or Russia doesn't believe in news probably in harmony with the we should feel no Ill-will toward don't meaning the editorial "we." But a great many Americans do because they believe in a free press, and free communications between countries and in a free democracy for that matter, and Russia official Russia that is believes in none of .these things. Why not? Because official Russia believes that if she had a free Dress. free speech, free assembly In short if she hud a free democracy. she would have confusion, eventually revolution, and the present leaders of Russia would meet the over a quarter of a century ago. belief Russia Is not yet ready for nave, not a rule of the people a of a wuii-organized minority In the interests of the people, which is Russia's definition of their present soviet form of government. Now that has been the alibi the time of Charlemagne, but in lieve it Is essentially true. We American form of it at least, would work in Russia at the present time, and any man, or group of men attempting it would fail. But agreeing with the Soviet agreeing with its present foreign for the past 25 years are two different things. We believe the Kremlin's foreign policy as exemplified In the Baltic slates, eastern Germany and Poland, the Balkans, and more recently Iron and Turkey, is entirely wrong, ond If persisted in can only lead where uncompromising imperialism and ruthless tyranny always lead to trouble and eventually to war. Therefore one of the big Jobs of 1946 will be to so Improve and Implement UNO that this "rule or ruin" policy of the Stalin government con be checked and eventually abandoned, WITHOUT war. H.W.R. NAVY YARD THEFT ARRESTS LISTED Martinez, Cal., Dec. 20 (U.R) The arrest of five men charg ed with theft of government property and receivership of stolen goods from the Port Chi cago naval depot was announced by Federal Bureau of Investiga tion agents and county olfic lals tonight. The arrest of the men, and the detention of five sailors by naval authorities at Port Chi cago, climaxed a four-months May Your New Home Dreamt Coma Trus In 1946 FIRST FEDERAL t Savings fc Loan Ann. of ! Medlorl 27 North Holly I LtAMWYUR Mr. bcrooge!) e e on the last hill the car simply frosted ears with the mercury balcony were sweetly singing Bethlehem shone clearly in the was little peace and even less fight and had we been a half- it. - will we have peace this year be unto the day Itself, for the practically none from Russia. where Russia Is concerned. And fine sentiments expressed above Russia on that account. And WE sad fate their predecessors did In other words it is the official democracy, and therefore It must minority of them but. a rule for autocratic government since this particular instance we be don t believe democracy, the claim regarding democracy, and policy or its domestic policy Investigation of thefts at tho naval base, the FBI reported. Obituary MRS. STELLA M. WILLIS Funeral services for Mrs. Stella Marie Willis will be con ducted from the Perl Funeral Home on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with burial in the Siskiyou Memorial Park. C4oslng time for Sunday Too Late to Classify 4 00 Saturday afternoon Please remember. GENE THOMAS V.WWM. ' fit vi:'v sliiilil 11 itf f J making loans of $25 to $450 or more on furniture, autos or other collateral, it our ONLY business that's mighty im portant to me. Next time you can use a loan give me a chance to lay "Yes" won't you? I'll consider it a iaror. OREGON FINANCE CO. Craterlan Bldg. 45 So. Central CHAMBER'S STAND L Reports At Board Meeting Cover Many Phases of Organization's Activity Medford and Jackson county received nation-wide attention as a result of the resolution re cently passed by the board of directors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce urging congress to force nations wish ing to borrow funds to sell their bonds directly to the people of the United States rather than making inter - governmental loans. According to reports made by Wm. A. Gates at a chamber board meeting Friday noon, three national news commenta tors, James Crowley, James Ab bey and Earl Godwin, mentioned the resolution after It was given nation-wide publicity through press wire news reports. Gates also stated that Senator Johnson of Oklahoma planned to Intro duce a bill m congress contain Ing virtually the same proposals as the local resolution. Manager Reports Reporting on a state meeting of chamber of commerce execu tives, Frank Hull, manager of the local group, stated that the three subjects receiving most at tention at the meeting were plans affecting proposed new private construction in Oregon, plans to adequately care for the tourist business In future years and veterans problems, includ ing the housing emergency. The tourist business is expect ed to bring between 75 and 100 million dollars a year to Oregon In coming years, Hull reported. and added that the state or ganization urged each commun ity to make plans for caring for tourists and creating a friendly atmosphere for visitors from other states. Vet Aid Advocated Hull outlined the proposed plan of advisor; boards made up of business men to aid veterans In obtaining employment and orienting themselves to civilian life and stated that the plan, now being successfully used in various parts of the state, would be put Into practice here in the near future. He reviewed pro jects being carried out in vari ous other Oregon cities to solve the housing shortage, mention ing the use of trailer camps and pre-fabrlcated houses of various types. He warned that many "rackets" were springing up and urged the board members to in vestigate and report question able appearing projects. Frank Rogers, city superin tendent, reported on a meeting of the Western Aviation confer ence at Sacramento, stating that he obtained little information at the meeting which would throw lieht on the problems facing city officials here In the manage ment of the airport. Park Progresi Favorable progress on the proposed new state park on the banks of the Rogue river in the vicinity of Bybee bridge was re oorted by Frank Rynning, coun ty engineer. He stated surveys were being made by the state park department of strips of land along the river which Judge F. L. TouVelle is giving for the proposed park and that Detltlons asking the government to set aside the land within Camp White had been presented. The park will be known as Tou Vejle park in honor of the late Mrs. TouVelle, Rynning said. The TouVelle land, con sisting of from 600 to 800 feet below Bvbee bridge and one fourth mile above, on both sides of the river, will probably be made Into the park even though the additional land cannot be obtained. Rynning said. The park would be maintained and supervised by the state, he said. Letters from Congressman Harris Ellsworth concerning ef forts to secure a Veterans' Ad ministration hospital for Camp YES MAN I'm the "Yes" man at Oregon Finance Co. . . . that is I'm the man who like to say "Yes" to requests for personal loans. You see I'm the man who's responsible for building up our business. The more timet I say "yes" to requests for loans the more business we do. And tine Telephone 4433 White and from Congressman Lowell Stockman concerning Crater Lake National Park were read. Flight o Time Mediord and Jackson Co His tory from the filet of the Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 years aqo. TEN YEARS AGO December 30, 1935 (It was Monday) Crime wave in city police busy. keeps Rep. Pierce wants to bar straw votes from mails. Blizzard hits east coast with 16 dead, and great property damage. Col. Lindbergh and family ar rive in England. Autolsts warned as snow makes travel hazardous in moun tains. Occasional rains. High 46, low 39. TWENTY YEARS AGO December 30, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Western Europe ravaged by floods. Cold wave continues in east. State teachers endorse Grange plan for revival of state income tax bill. Cloudy. High 35, low 27. Farmers urged to form union like labor and business, by for merIllinois governor. Men six foot tall, or taller to hold 'Long Men's' banquet here. THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO December 30, 1911 (It was Saturday) Attempt made to set fire to West Side Livery stable. Holland Hotel to open New Years day. Butte Falls plans water sudpIv line from Ginger Creek. Search Continues For Missing Plane Portland, Ore., Dec. 29 (U.R) -Search was continuing today by army air-sea rescue squads and volunteer searchers for the missing marine ferry pilot who disappeared Thursday on a flight from Seattle to Portland. The missing flyer is one of eight marine pilots on a routine ferry mission from Seattle to Portland who ran into severe weather conditions Thursday after their takeoff. It is be lieved the flyer might have been forced doAn in the Lake Mer- win area in Cowlitz county. Wash. The other fliers have all been accounted for. JAP PW's TO WORK Los Angeles, Dec. 29 (U.R) Destined for use as provisional labor battalions in Hawaii, a contingent of 1120 Japanese prisoners of war embarked to day from Los Angeles harbor aboard the Dutch ship Weltcv reden, port authorities said. Closing time for Classified Ads 8:30 I i.m. Too Late to Classify 12:15 pm X H IS ATiQ JL M . Lrn trTnia ' Edward ARNOLD Matinee "4 jr, 'J .; f COMING THURSDAY ; ' , A 7TW imrtenmcaiBi J i UCHMCOLOR! v. o too ttarrhf Peal Meenea 0HIU Welter HE2AX i J NEW FEDERAL TAX GOES INTO EFFECT Applies to 1946 Income Cuts Withholding Tax And Aids Business Washington, Dec. 29 (U.R) A new federal revenue law , which will cut $5,920,000,000 from the nation's tax bill goes : into effect at midnight Monday. The new law affects income , earned in 1946. It will not ap ply to taxes yet to be paid on , income earned in 1H43. iteiurns which must be filed by next ; March 15 will be based on the old law. Here is what the new law will do: 1. Relieve from all Income tax payments about 12,000,000 of the 48,000,000 persons whose income was subject to tax in 1945. 2. Reduce the amount of money withheld for taxes from the salaries of those who must continue to pay taxes. 3. Eliminate the excess pro fits tax which corporations paid during the war and reduce the regular corporate income tax rate from 40 to 38 per cent. 4. Abolish the $5 annual use I tax on motor vehicles, which I otherwise would have been due again next July 1. 5. Allow extra time for vet erans to pay back taxes on in come earned before they entered service. Forgive taxes which some enlisted men otherwise would have had to pay on serv ice compensation. These cuts constitute what congress considers limited tax reductions. They were designed to aid both individuals and busi nesses in "the difficult period of transition from war to peace." IDLE FUNDS CAN BE INVESTED LOCALLY First Natl. Bank Stock U.S. Natl. Bank Stock Medford Corp. Stock Bought - - Sold - - Quoted GO WD BRUCE SCO 313 Fluhrer Bldg. Phone 7471 ew Year DANCE Sams Valley Grange MONDAY NIGHT Dec. 31 NOW PLAYING WEDNESDAY ENDS is. .sC - ggy ,.'jr nin lie". .. . Ginger ROGERS-Lana TURNER Walter PIDGEON-Van JOHNSON Ita-SIID df mt UJhldorf . Xavier CUGATeW Wi ORCHESTRA Today at 1:45 P.M. WWtflO BOMBER CREW ESCAPES Los Angeles, Dec. 29 (U.R) Crew members of a B-17 army bomber and service station at tendants escaped unhurt today when the plane overshot fog shrouded Municipal airport, roll ed across a boulevard and smash ed Into the station. More than half of Florida's 1,150 miles of seacoast is on the Gulf of Mexico. MON NITE I NOISE MAKERS MERRICK'S and DREAMLAND Modern music at Merrick's . . . Old Time Danc ing at Dreamland . . . Ray's Orchestras . . . Danc ing 9 'till ? . . . ONE TICKET admits you to BOTH BIG NEW YEAR'S PARTIES The Biggest Parties in the Valley! Laiajafe mars' m w srsj,. n Vr . - t v NOW, fjit THRU TUES. I 2.x .tMV EDWARD ARNOLD V r-Z.: I Frances Ray Paul l, ' y Vj RAFRRTY . COLLINS . IANGT0N t! 'J J jKT -"WIS cmim jA. urn w CONTINUOUS SHOWS TODAY, 1:45 P. M. ON CARD OT THANKS We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks for all the kindnessea shown by our many friends in our recent be reavement. Mrs. D. M. Watt and family. BEDFORD NEON GO. SIGNS and SERVICE Personally supervised by RALPH ELLIS 527 Putnam Phone 3276 EVE AT Tfyj?1 at I ABtvE . . .4? a i a r.V . e 1 ON HER DOORSTEP 40 f0ier ijpi KIRBY GRANT LOIS COLLIER ERIC BLORE EDWARD NORRIS
