Great Changes Noted
In 7-Year Occupation
Of Japan by Allies
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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.
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Cut in Incentive 7
Pay Seen Boost to
Strike by Fliers
Washington (U.R) Sen. Les
ter C. Hunt believes elimination
of flight pay would swell the
ranks of the Air Force "stay
down strikers."
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. Box lunches and other
events will be conducted at the
rally, which will operate under
the slogan "$150 per ounce for
gold put "Jacksonville's miners
back to work."
Horned toads produce living
young. The litter is born en
cased in transparent wrapping.
As soon as thev break nut of it
they start racing after insects.
catching them on their lone
sticky tongues.
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