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Great Changes Noted In 7-Year Occupation Of Japan by Allies PL 1 Ms-. i'hil Newsom BY PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst Seven years ago the first GIs and a handful of American cor respondents rolled in jeeps through de feated, fire bombed To kyo. The famed G i n z a To kyo's shopping street with its little open air boo t h s stand in g beside modern de partment stores lay in ruins. Asphalt streets reared up in misshapen waves, the result of the searing heat of the fire bombs. A near decimated populace, hiding behind a mask of inscru tability, watched in silence as the jeeps threaded their way through the debris blocking the 15-mile route between Tokyo bay and Tokyo's Haneda airport. The GIs and correspondents glanced nervously over their , shoulders, still not sure but that ' a sniper's rife might be aimed at the space between their shoulder blades. Occupation Began In this atmosphere of destruc tion, hatred and mistrust the Allied occupation of Japan be gan. A part of the emperor's pal ace was burned out. So was one wing of the famous Imperial hotel. Hiroshima and Nagasaki lay among their atomic ruins. In Tokyo, not a single dog roamed the streets or sniffed among the ruins. The starving people had eaten every one. Japan returned Monday to the family of nations. It's a different Japan, too. People Now Prosperous The people are prosperous and well-fed. Health standards are at an all-time high. Most of the war damage has been repaired. Taxicabs are almost as numer ous on the streets of Tokyo as they are in New York or any other American city. Japanese factories assemble American au tomobiles, the national budget is balanced, and Japan has $1,000, 000,000 stockpiled in foreign ex change. In fact, some say Japan lost the war but won the peace. It isn't quite that simple. Japan still is technically at 1 1, war with Russia and Red China. Cuts Self Off By aligning herself with the West she has cut herself off from a large area which woujd be her natural export market. The Japanese realize they are riding the crest of a Korean war boom which will halt once the Korean war is settled. Almost at once they must assume the task of building their own armed forces. Reparations to countries which suffered damages under Japanese World War II occupa tion must be settled. The Phil- ippines alone are asking $3,000,- 000,000. In addition trade barriers al ready are rising. Tariff Increase Talked There is talk in the United States, of raising tariffs against Japanese ceramic ware. Trade controls are restricting Japanese exports to the sterling bloc areas. Japan also Is feeling the world-wide textile slump and al ready has cut back her produc tion. The steel, chemical fertil izer, soap and rubber industries expect similar cutbacks soon. Phoenix Officials Schedule Budget Hearing May 19th Phoenix A public hearing will be held on May 19 for Phoe nix's city budget for the next fiscal year, according to Mrs. Marvin C. Fisher, city recorder. All interested tax payers are invited, Mrs. Fisher said, to at tend the hearing and discuss the proposed budget. The budget as proposed at the April 22 meeting of the city council and citizen's committee contains a total of $28,672.20 in estimated expenditures. The total tax levy needed with this esti mate is $10,656.20, Mrs. Fisher explained, with the excess over the 6 per cent increase limita tion being $10,370.91. Election Necessary A special election will have to be held to sanction this excess, she said, which is considerably lower than last year's $16,614.46. This lowering was made possible, the recorder added, by raising the water rates from a minimum charge of $2 to $2.50, effective July 1. Members of the citizens' budget committee are Marie Furry, Leo Bohls, R. P. Wolfe, M. E. Randies, Frank M. Lovett. Bert Stancliffe, G. G. Skinner, E. G. Briscoe, H. R. Jensen, Cecil M. Norris, R. S. Furry, and Col. A. H. Dudley. The city council will hold a regular meeting next Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the city hall, Mrs. risner concluded. Former Medford Man Seek Friends' Letters W. Estill Phipps, who was an attorney in Medford for many years and who at one time pub nsnea the t-lanon newspaper nere, recently underwent a series of operations and is now in a nursing home at Gresham, it was reported by friends today. They said he is lonely, as his only son is in Australia, and mat he would like to hear from some of his old acquaintances. ramps once was a prominent cherry grower at Gold Hill. He may be reached at the Bel Air Nursing home, 1426 West Pow ell, Gresham, Oregon. jJjjgg UTJION PACIFIC Where the Union Pacific goes ; ; ; there's Taxation land! Glamorous cities i 1 1 friendly little towns . . . the old home place. 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The Wyoming Democrat, who heads a panel of the Senate pre paredness subcommittee study ing military "incentive" pay, sug gested that a special civilian commission "take another look" at the whole question of risks and rewards in the armed services. Wants Hook Commission He proposed that the so-called Hook Commission be revived to make the study "as soon as pos sible." The commission made the 1948 studies which resulted in the present armed forces pay act. The commission derived its name from Chairman Charles R. Hook, a steel executive. Mem bers were President John J. Cavanaugh of Notre Dame; Keith S. McHugh, New York telephone executive, and Lawrence Whit ing, Chicago businessman. Personal Problems Blamed Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D.-Ill.) Boy, M, Strangled " By Cord Tied to Door Vancouver, Wash. (U.R! An 11-year-old boy was strangled at his home here Sunday. His body was found hanging by a plastic lamp cord to a door knob. Gary Lowry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lowry, had been prac ticing Boy Scout knots, accord ing to a younger brother, and Deputy Coroner Fred Apple said he believed the death was accidental. The Grange Roxy Ann Grange Home Economics club of Roxy Ann Grange will meet Wednesday-, April 30, at the home of Mrs. C. P. Van Ortwick, 1369 Poplar drive. A dessert luncheon will be served at 1 p.m. followed by a regular business meeting. All Grange ladies are invited. Roll call will be "Canning Tips." said recently that he thinks per sonal problems not pay prob lems caused the stay - down strike of reservists at several Air Force bases. Hunt took a different view. "I think, if we cut off this in centive pay, we would have a lot more stay downs," he said. GOP Headquarters Opening Thursday In Jacksonville Jacksonville A Republican headquarters, to remain open here until the fall general elec tion, will be opened with fanfare and ceremony Thursday at 3:30 p.m., It was announced today. Ralph Moody, noted Salem at torney formerly of Medford who is also an authority on phases day of Southern Oregon's history will be the principal speaker, and will comment on the Repub lican party today as following the principles of Andrew Jack son, after who Jacksonville was named. In addition to noting the Jack sonville is a fitting place for "the rebirth of the Grand Old Party," Moody will discuss the signifi cance of the old U. S. hotel, and will comment on the conflicts in historical record as to what presidents and generals slept there. Three In Charge Announcement of the doings was made by Ed Hanley, com mitteeman of Precinct 65, who with Mrs. Curtis L,. Hopkins Tuesday. April 29, 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE commltteewoman of Precinct 69, and Miss Claire Hanley, presi dent of the Southern Oregon Historical society, will be in charge of the event. The headquarters will serve the entire Jacksonville and Ap plegate areas as a Republican central station, Hanley pointed out, and he added that it is the first GOP headquarters to be opened there in about 50 years. It will be located in the former police office, next door to the barbershop, and will include a complete file of candidates' pic tures, literature and a library of -Republican campaign ma terial." Music, Flowers Planned The opening Thursday will feature music, a reception for the ladies attending, and free orchids and gardenias furnished by Tommy Luke, Portland a not able figure In the state Repub lican party. Gus Newbry, long-time attor ney and Republican of this coun ty, will coordinate the opening event. The opening will lead up to a massive Republican rally at the West Side school at 6:30 p.m.. May 12, Hanley added, to which voters in all west side precincts and candidates will be invited. 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