TEXAS TO HOLD
2 MONTH PARTY
FOR STATEHOOD
Austin, Tex. (U.F) Texas will
extend its "centennial of state-
hood"observance from Dec. 29,
1945, until Feb. 19, 1946.
The long observance period
is due to a conflict in the dates
on which Texans and the U. S.
Supreme Court hold that the
Republic of Texas ceased to
exist and became a part of the
United States of America.
Dec. 29, 1945, was held to be
the official annexation time in
a decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court In a tax case. Texans
cling to the later date because it
was on Feb. 19, 1846, that the
Lone Star Flag of Texas was
hauled down over the capitol
and the Stars and Stripes run
up-
In ceremonies that day, An
son Jones, last president of the
Republic of Texas, turned over
affairs to Pinchney Henderson,
first Governor of the State of
Texas.
The federal court ruling on
the earlier date was based on
the fact that the President of
the United States on Dec. 29,
1845, signed the joint resolution
for admission of Texas to the
Union.
The intervening months were
used in election of state offic
ers to replace those of the Re
public of Texas.
The celebration will be en
tirely different from that of
Texas centennial of indepen
dence, celebrated in 1936. There
will be no exposition, no histor
ical monuments and markers
such as were features of the
1936 observance.
Instead of series of public
and school activities pointed to
stress agriculture and Texas and
fhey gave their
own blood
As Bvery good soldier eventu
ally lays aside his uniform, so
must we lay aside our wartime
mementoes.
There's the Army-Navy "E"
flag with its four stars our
Richmond Refinery people won
for production; the Treasury
Bag our employees won for al
most 100 per cent bond buying;
the Coast Guard banner the
Company received for port se
curity service; and, above all,
our service flag with its 8,006
stars.
But before filing away the
record, we'd like to tell you of
another war contribution by the
men and women of this Com
pany, one for which the figures
nave only recently been round
ed up.
They gave 12,000 pints of
blood.
The original goal was one
pint for each Standard Oiler in
the service. Our people had
passed that mark, and were half
way along a second lap when
the Japanese surrendered.
What's more, with only five
blood banks available all lo
cated in metropolitan centers
many of our people had no
chance to share in this effort.
Their share was made up by
Standard Oilers who gave blood
again and again and some
times again.
Two donors gave 18 pints
each, one gave 17 pints, and
four gave 16 pints each. But
tJ-.is supply of plasma and whole
blood came in the main from a
large group. How many lives it
saved, none knows. Yet certain
ly such a record might do credit
to a Florence Nightingale.
Our people formed their
own committees, set their own
goals, and gai e their ou n blood.
As a company, our only claim
to distinction in this matter is
that such people work for us.
To them goes our final wartime
salute.
Their Ju'dqes Now on Trial
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Four who went on trial before Jeering Nazi Judqes and later were hung
for their part In an attempt to assassinate Hitler In July, 1044, were
among 5000 persons either shot or hung for the plot. Trial pictures
taken by Nazi cameramen show Field Marshal Von Wltzleben (upper
left) forced to wear outsized trousers as cesture of humiliation; Count
Von Leonrodt (upper right), an Army staff major; Count Werner Von
der Schulenberg (lower left), and Chaplain Wehrle (lower right), who
advised plotters that murder of the tyrant would be no crime, but who
pleaded for mercy In court. Collier's Magazine photos from Acnv
SCIENTISTS SEEK
BROADCASTING TO
ANY GIVEN POINT
Chicago U.PJ Science, at
tempting to bridge the gap be
tween the longest light waves
and the shortest sound waves,
may one day discover how to
direct a broadcast to single
point, focussing it as precisely
as a small stream of light.
Dr. Phillips Thomas, Westing
house Electric research engineer,
recently stated that ultra short
wave radio development has
reached a temporary barrier
which he said would last only a
short time.
Tn our efforts to bridge this
gap between radio and light
waves," he said, "we apparently
have reached an impasse. But
in every other case when science
has reached an impasse, some
way around the obstacle has
been found.
'Were it possible to still
further shorten wave lengths
and still obtain reasonable
amounts of power, our radio
waves would begin to act like
light waves," he said. "They
could be reflected from small
mirrors, condensed by small
lenses into narrow beams like
light beams. Instead of broad
casting them indiscriminately
into space, they could be sent
to only one receiving point.
This would solve the problem
always with us in long-wave
radio, that of secrecy."
Present limitations seem to
lie in the vacuum tube, Thomas
Runaway
Washington, Dec. 31 (U.PJ
An additional 600,000 army men
and women became eligible for
discharge today, and the United
Press learned that nearly one
half of all combat divisions have
been inactivated.
The critical point score need
ed by enlisted men for separa
tion dropped to 50 while male
officers not in the medical serv
ices now need a total of 70.
These point changes were an-
Monday. Dee. SI, 1945 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREZ
nounced previously by the war
department.
Length of service requirements
for discharge were reduced to
these totals: enlisted men 42
months, male officers 48 months,
enlisted Wncs 30 months and
Wac officers 39 months. Medical
and dental corps officers are now
eligible for discharge at the age
of 48 while Wacs married to dis
charged veterans may be sep
arated on application.
They will visit fraternity bro
ther of Leever's In Salem before
going on to Portland.
'.
Ui Mail Trlbun Want All.
To Portland Departing for
Portland yesterday to attend a
New Year's eve Phi Gamma Del
ta fraternity dance were Pat
Thompson, Margaret Anne
Brown and William Leever.
(Acme 7 rlpnhntot
Richard Mason. 14. of Pekin. 111.,
who ran away from home with cat
and $1500 of his grnmlluthn
money, Is questioned in police sta
tion alter his arrest In a Chicago
hotel. Manager became suspicious
of cat and the boy's unlimited
spending money.
pointed out, and once those
limitations are passed, a new
field of expansion will be open
ed for further work in shorten-j
ing sound waves, he said. I
Attention Loggers
The New MALL POWER SAW
Weight 85 lbs.
Price $585.00
IS ON DISPLAY AT THE
MEDFORD SAW SHOP
765 S. Riverside
Phone 3917
ALSO ON DISPLAY WILL BE THE
New Universal l-Man Chain
Saw Weight 40 lbs. Price $395.00
Both Saws Are for Immediate Delivery
Anyone Desiring Demonstration Call or Leave Addrest
Demonstrator Will Be Here 3 Weeks
MEDFORD SAW SHOP
It It our earnest hop
that when all the vol
ums hav been writ
ten about this decade,
history will prove 1946
to have been a turning
point to wa rd man't
greater happiness and
enriched living In ev
ery way. GREETINGS!
SCHOEPEIi'S
FLORISTS
Sixth and Holly Sts.
American
planned.
history are being
Eagles Planning
Elaborate Party
Tonight At Hall
Elaborate plans have been
made by Medford Eagles for the
annual New Year's Eve party to
be held tonight at the hall. The
party will be formal and the
committee in charge states that
there will be fun-makers, the
traditional party hats and that
a gay evening is assured.
Dancing is to begin at 9 p. m.
Thursday night a homecoming
party for members of the lodge
recently returned from army
and navy service will be held
following the usual lodge meet
ing. About 135 members of the
order have been in tne various
branches of the armed forces
A program, to be followed by
refreshments, is planned.
NESWEEPER SUNK BY
E OFF JAPAN COAST
Posirl Harhor. Dec. 31 (U.R)
The U. S. navy announced today
that the heavy minesweeper
U.S.S. Minivet sanK wnn a
"moderate loss of life" off the
coast of Kyushu, Japan, Satur
day after striking a mine.
The Minivet had been super
vising mine-sweeping operations
by Japanese vessels, cleaning up
Japanese and American mine
fields. Her normal crew was nine
officers and 82 enlisted men. Air
and sea rescue operations began
immediately.
BIRTHS
SHEHAB To Mr. and Mrs.
Phil, 245 So. Central, Dec. 30.
1945, a girl, seven pounds, at
Osteopathic Clinic.
CAB RIDE BEATS CRUSH
Indianapolis (U.R) It takes
a little pull to get space on a
train, President Herman B.
Wells of Indiana University dis
covered recently. A friend, a
general division superintendent
for the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road, arranged for Wells to ride
the cab of a fast diescl locomo
tive from Mitchell, Ind., to
Cincinnati vhen Wells found
the train too crowded.
There are 1.000 chapters of
the American Disabled Veterans
in the United Spates comprised
of men who participated in the
Spanish American war and
World Wars No. 1 and 2.
L. C. TAYLOR CO.
pays the
HIGHEST MARKET PRICES
If you have a CAR or TRUCK
to sell, we advise telling it
now.
Call or Phone
Dodge-Plymouth Dealer
L. C. TAYLOR CO.
Phone 2965
ENDING TONIGHT
Washington, Dec. 31 (U.R)
The war labor board, which has
handled thousands of wartime
disputes and wage cases, goes out
of existence at midnight tonight.
It will be replaced by the
labor department's wage stabili
zation board, which will rule
only on wage raises where price
relief is sought.
More than 1.200 WLB em
ployes go off the government
payroll tonight. The remaining
800 will work for the WSB.
Six new homes are being con
structed in Basin, Wyo., for
what is termed the town's big
gest building boom in the last
15 years.
'P i (1 af-j. " I' Jil
the sanitary
napkin with the
"Cushion
Center"
2 pkgs. 39c
Tlip "cuiMon en(r" coflitructiofi
yo CUSHION COMFORT and me.i-wi
prottclion.
Is American Business To Be Based On Free Competition Or Is It To
Become Socialized, With All Activities Controlled And Regimented?
General Motors has faced what it believes is a
highly critical issue. It has made its decision. It is
important that the public understand the issue.
The issue at stake transcends the interests of
General Motors. There is involved something far
more consequential a most vital principle.
Is American business in the future, as in
the past, to be conducted as a competi
tive system? or is the determination of
the essential economic factors, such as
costs, prices, profits, etc., upon which
business success and progress depend,
to be made politically by 'some govern
mental agency instead of by the manage
ment appointed by the owners of the
business for that purpose?
America is at the crossroads! It must reserve the
freedom of each unit of American business to
determine its own destinies. Or it must transfer
to some governmental bureaucracy or agency or
to a union, the responsibility of management that
has been the very keystone of American business.
Shall this responsibility be surrendered? That is
the decision the American people face. America
must choose !
General Motors has made its choice. It
refuses to subscribe to what it' believes
will ultimately become, through the pro
cess of evolution, the death of the Amer
ican system of competitive enterprise. It
will not participate voluntarily in what
stands out crystal-clear at the end of the
road a regimented economy. If this is
what the American people want, they
must make that choice through their ac
credited representatives in Congress.
General Motors declines for itself to take
such a great responsibility.
It may he said that this is an exaggeration. It is
not! All business questions are interrelated.
Costs, prices, wages, profits, schedules, invest
ments must be the responsibility of management.
Political determination of such relationships
means regimentation.
The idea of ability to pay, whatever its validity
may be, is not applicable to an individual business
within an industry as a basis for raising its wages
beyond the going rate.
Consider the implications of such a principle. Who
would risk money to develop or expand a business
under such circumstances? Where would be the
incentive to do a more efficient job? Would it
be intelligent to destroy the incentive for effici
ency? Would it not be more intelligent to sub
scribe to the principle that no one should be
forced to pay more than the going rate. Should
General Motors, assuming it is more efficient, be
required to pay more for materials, for transpor
tation, for services or for wages than its competi
tion? And how much more determined by a poli
tical governmental agency?
Do you subscribe to the belief that you
should pay for what you buy or the serv
ices you use on the basts of your financial
resources? It is clear that this is the
principle involved
The President of the United States has appointed
a fact-finding board to inquire into the circum
stances involved in the demands of the UAW
CIO upon General Motors and to make recom
mendations related thereto. General Motors
stood ready to supply the board with all necessary
data regarding wage rates, employes' earnings,
hours of employment and all other relevant infor
mation regarding wages and employment. How
ever, the board has ruled that General Motors'
ability to pay will be considered as a factor in
determining an increase in wages. This would
require an appraisal of costs, prices, prospective
volume of business, investment factors, expenses
and the entire forward operating program of the
business. Thus the board would assume the most
vital functions of management.
General Motors is not contending that it
has or has not the ability to pay. It
always has paid liberal wages. It has
attempted through protracted collective
bargaining sessions to determine what is
fair and equitable today. It has made a
fair and liberal offer to the union.
Notwithstanding the importance of re-establishing
employment and resuming production at the
earliest possible moment, the above reasons have
made it impossible for General Motors to partici
pate in the proceedings of the board under the
procedures as now established, and it has there
fore withdrawn from the hearings. It takes that
position with great regret. But it does so in the
sincere belief that this action is in the long-term
interest of employes, consumers, investors, and
of the public as well and of higher standards for
all.
C. E. WILSON
President.
ALFRED P. SLOAN, Jr.
Chairman.
GENERAL MOTORS
More And Better Things For More People
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