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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 14. ,1944
(It was Tuesday)
CpL Bill Thorndike of Med
ford reports he is recovering in
Army hospital in England from
shrapnel wounds received in
Germany.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: It beats all
how gasoline rationing drastical
ly restricts "traveling. The first
blizzard of winter roared over
the Sierras and only 1,500 auto
ists en route to Lake Tahoe, on
their week ends, were ' caught
in it. - '
20 YEARS AGO ; v :
Nov. 14, 1934 ' 'O-f
(It was Wednesday)
Mayor appoints "committee to
study plans for building a city
park on the b a n k s of Bear
creek. . -.
Rogue Snowmen meet . to dis
cuss plans for-winter, sports sea
6on in southern Oregon.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 14, 1924 ,
'(It was Friday)
Georgia Minstrels, appearing
at Page theater, parade on down
town Medford streets.' .
First heavy storm of season
hits southern Oregon; many auto
accidents reported in Siskiyous
.because of icy pavement on high
ways. 40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 14, 1914
(It was Saturday)
J. Percy Wells, Jackson coun
ty superintendent of schools,
asks county students to make
contributions to Boys and Girls
Aid society to be used to help
needy families at Thanksgiving
time.
From the Local and, Personal
column: The .water department
issues, warning that all water
users from now on should take
precautions to prevent freezing
by packing their pipes.
What's the Answer? '
(Can You Get 4 of the 77)
Copr. 19S4. Editorial Research Report
1. This is or isn't the first time
a special session of the Senate
has met on censure of a member?
2. More money is spent by
the federal government for de
fense or by aU the state and local
governments for education?
3. The average 1954 car sold
new will depreciate in price in
its first 12 months about one
fifth, one-fourth, one-third, or
one-half?
4. A Supreme Court appoint
ment is confirmed by a majority
of House and Senate, two-thirds
of the Senate, a majority of the
Senate, or the other members
of the Court?
5. Which college football team
is called the Terrapins?
6". Which two of these Sena
tors are considered anti-McCarthy:
Bricker (R., O.), Daniel (D.,
Tex.), Lehman (D., N. Y.), Mundt
Ot., S. D.), "Smith (R., Me.)?
7. A choreographer composes
music, writes songs, carves stat
ues, arranges dances, or leads a
chorus?
The Answers: 1. Is. 2. More for
defense. 3. About one-third. 4. A
majority of the Senate.' 5. Uni
versity of Maryland. 6. Lehman
and Mrs. Smith. 7. Arranges
dances.
NATIONAL EOITOIIAL
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MAIL TRIBUNE
The Election Aftermath
As someone has remarked, you can prove anything
by statistics. - ; '
Well, so you can prove ALMOST anything by
election returns.
And both of the major parties are proving it, to
their own satisfaction, at least. . :
-THE Democrats got control of both houses of con-
: gress, against the determined and super-charged
opposition of the President, so it was a great victory
for the former, and a stunning defeat for the latter.
That is ONE view-point.
MOST of the pre-election polls indicated a great
" Democratic landslide, yet the Democrats barely
squeeked in, the usual bye-election majorities were
cut to the bone, the net result therefore, was a victory
for President Eisenhower and the G.O.P., especially
for that 11th hour sweep, by airplane.
That is another viewpoint.
So put up your money and take your choice.
THE MAIL TRIBUNE refuses to add to the' con
fusion by giving its interpretation except as to
Oregon.
. In fighting parlance in fact we would call it na
tionally a "draw."
THE; important thing as we see it, is not just what
: happened on November 2nd in detail, but what is
going to happen, in the immediate future.
If rushing through that
the Atomic Energy Commission so unceremoniously
is a fair example, then there will be plentv of political
fireworks in the next two
in 60 days.
Moreover Joe McCarthy wont be the man to set
them off ! R.W.R.
He Can't Win!
The Mail Tribune two
Senator McCarthy a dangerous man, using the Red
menace as merely a means
and "rule or ruin."
Very few believed it then.
But more have seen, the danger since the reveal
ing army hearing, and more we are sure will see it
before the present censure
FOR it is quite apparent now that the Wisconsin
demagogue isn't interested in the censure proceed
ings per se. In lact he has gone out of his way to
admit that there is no escaping such action the sen
ate being what it is of course and the committee that
voted censure, ditto!
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WHAT he IS interested in --as usual is Mc
p.aptttv .- "'n ' '. .':
What he is appealing
play or justice for himself,
fears of his fanatical following and through them to
gain suppui L ui uie Aiuencctu people or a SUlllCienT,
number of them to attain his selfish ends Doliticallv.
The "Big Lie" is still his
knuckle technique, his chief
The cruel, unscrupulous, unfair way he has at
tacked the senate censure committee and particularly
its kindly and conscientious chairman; has been
shameful, and should turn all decent, self -respecting
ciueus rtgduibb nun - uui wim uierjjoison OI JUS
phoney anti-communist propaganda, so deep seated
and widespread, and feeling he has aroused running
so high in certain quarters, it won't.
H
OWEVER, there is nothing more certain than this:
The "Huev Lone of Wisconsin" i rid inn f o
y Q - A AUAllg MI CSj
fall, and thanks to the fundamental riispernmATif o-nA
7
good sound judgment of
1.-1- -X 1-
wnoie, ii may come mucn
1 -r-V TTT T-fc
now expect. k.vv.k.
No Alternative to Peace?
A phrase of President Eisenhower's which has
caught the popular fancy expresses an important
truth.
The phrase is: ( .:
"There is no alternative to peace."
What the President means is that in this atomic
and hydrogen age, keeping the world at peace is more
important than anything else could be; that to have
another world war would mean world destruction to
victor as well as vanquished global ruin.
That is true. "
But it is also true that it doesn't mean the policy
of this country is or ever will be "peace at any price."
And the danger is Soviet Russia, might make the
mistake Hitler made and decide she can continue her
policy of aggression unimpeded for Uncle Sam would
be "too proud to fight."
In other words, what every thinking person real
izes or should is the necessity in our own self
interest of avoiding war on a worldwide scale at
(almost) any price. If that almost were overlooked
it might prove an inadequate prevention of war, be
cause of a mistake, not in this country, but the other
side of the Atlantic, not . in American calculation but
in Russian interpretation.
CO we think it might be well if President Eisenhower
would, when some opportune time comes around,
make it clear that of course here IS an alternative to
peace. In case of attack by an enemy power for ex
ample or imminent danger of worloV conquest, and
consequent destruction of our freedom then we
would fight. R.W.RS ,
Sunday, November 14, 1S54
Dixon-Yates contract with
years and they might start
or three years aero, termed
to gain personal power
'
- session has ended.
; '.; . .
to is not any sense of fair-
but. to the prejudices and
forte, the oratorical brass-
weapon.
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the American people as a
,1 .
sooner man many observers
'
Matter of Fact
THE VENGEFUL DEMOCRATS
Washington The genUy cool
ing noises about harmony and
unity which the Democratic
leaders have
been making
should be al
lowed to fool
nobody. The
fact is that the
Democrats,
cons ervatives
and liberals
alike, have
blood in their
eyes.
ThpV TI7 O A
Stewart Altop infuriated by
the Republican line as it was
developed by many Republican
orators, notably Vice-President
Nixon. In the Democratic view,
the Democratic party was sland
ered, if not quite as the party
ux treason, at -
least as the
party of Com
munism and
War. "That
wasn't a politi
cal campaign,"
one hard hit
Democrat has
remarked, "it
was a war of
e x t e r m i n-,
ation."
If they can Jo,ePh Alsop
only hang on to their control
of the Senate, the Democrats
fully expect to enjoy the sweet
taste of revenge. Revenge is to
take the form of washing every
scrap of Republican dirty linen
in the most public possible way.
In this process, of course, the
Democrats expect the usual as
sist from Sen. Joseph R. Mc
Carthy land his dwindling band.
But if they retain control of
the committees, the Democrats
expect to do most of the linen
washing themselves. In the
words of one Democratic strate
gist, "We'll investigate the living
daylights out of the Republi
cans." Here, then, is an incom
plete list of the investigations
now being planned:
ONE: "The numbers racket."
The Republicans' campaign use
of the firing of "security risks"
really got under Democratic
skins. More than anything else,
it lent a certain air of solid sta
tistical validity to the Republi
can charges of Democratic "soft
ness on Communism."
JUST , because It hurt so much,
the Democrats are especially
thirsty for revenge on this score
Their plans for achieving re
venge are elaborate and inter
esting, and merit a further re
port. Here it is enough to say
that the Civil Service Commit
tee,, under Sen. Olin Johnston
of South Carolina, is expected
to undertake a full dress review
of the . whole government se
curity program. The purpose, of
course, wiU be to prove that
Republican claims of having
found the government crawling
with subversives are phony.
'.' TWO: Dixon-Yates. The Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy
wttl put under the microscope
the role of the Atomic Energy
Commission in the business of
the Dixon-Yates contract. Rep.
W. Sterling Cole, chairman of
the committee in the 83rd Con
gress, has been an avid admirer
of A.E.C. Chairman Lewis
Strauss. The prospective com
mittee chairman, Seh. Clinton
Anderson, has no such chummy
relatidhship with Strauss, and
Strauss may be asked some em
barrassing questions.
THREE: Dixon -Yates again,
but from another angle, the pub
lic utilities angle. What is in
prospect is an investigation, not
only of Messrs. Dixon and Yates
and their companies, but of the
public utilities as a whole. If it
comes off, this investigation is
likely to be undertaken by the
anti-monopoly sub-committee of
the Judiciary Committee, with
the ambitious Sen. Estes Kefauv
er playing the leading role. This
possibility is at least real enough
so that Messrs. Dixon and Yates
are said to be most unpopular
among their fellow public utility
men.
FOUR: The Brownell-Rover-
Youngdahl affair. United States
Attorney Leo Rover's unprece
dented action in asking Judge
Youngdahl to disqualify himself
in the case 01 Owen Lattimore
may-be the subject of another
Judiciary Committee inquiry.
The main target in this case
wiU be Attorney General Her
bert Brownell, much unloved by
Democrats since the Harrv TW-
ter White affair.
FIVE: The old Truman sub
committee of the Armed Services
Committee is likely to be rein-
vigorated, for a good look at de
fense contracts especially the
contracts let to General Motors.
There will also be investigations
of defense waste, the pumose
being to prove that Charles E.
Wilson and his Republican col
leagues in the Defense Depart
ment have no monopoly on ef
ficiency. "Don't you worry." one
Democrat has remarked, "we'U
find plenty of oyster forks." ,
SIX: An investigation of unfair
Tinlitiral nrarticec ie o1ci- v
ing seriously considered. The
Democrats' exhibit A in this con
nection is a recording, sent out
by the National Republican Cam
paign Committee, in which a
mysterious gentleman says in a
marvelous fake-Russian accent:
Defeat the Republican Congres
sional candidates in 1954. That
is our order from Moscow. Re-
c 1
.ii ii mm m
B Jottph and Stewart Atop
turn America to a New Deal type
administration. Moscow orders
that!"
- AU in all, (the Democrats in
tend to show the Republicans
that they are still the unchal
lenged masters of the techniques
of investigation-for-political-pur-poses.
After aU, the Democrats
first brought this technique to
a peak of perfection way back
in the '30s, when Joseph R. Mc
Carthy was not long out of knee
pants. i s : ,
(Copyright, 1954,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
Political checkers as played
in Washington:
GOP Senator Homer Capehart
of Indiana says he will propose
that the senate put off UNTIL
JANUARY a vote on the Mc
Carthy censure resolution.
Democratic Senator Henry
Jackson of the state of Wash
ington promptly arises in his
place to predict that if such a
resolution is introduced it will
be voted down quickly.
TffHY does Republican Cape-
hart suggest postponement
of the McCarthy censure reso
lution? It's as simple as pic.
He'd like to dodge responsibil
ity for either censuring or refus
ing to censure the highly contro
versial senator from Wisconsin.
WHY does Democrat (and New
Dealer) Jackson so prompUy
proclaim that such a resolution,
if introduced in the present spe
cial session of the Senate, wiU
be voted down pronto?
It's equally simple.
The senate, as convened now
in special session, is a REPUB
LICAN senate. It wiU have to
take the responsibility for what
ever is done now about Mc
Carthy. The senate that will as
semble in January will be a
DEMOCRATIC senate. So what
ever it did about McCarthy
would be a Democratic respon
sibility. That's the long and the short
of it.
I THINK perhaps a lesson of
ereat nntential imnortance
emerged from the recent politi
cal campaign. It was provided
by Secretary of Agriculture Ben
son. Secretary Benson, away back
at the beginning, laid down the
line that fixed high supports for
certain basic farm crops are
economically unsound and must
eventuaUy cripple, if not com
pletely wreck, American agri
culture. He proposed instead a
system of sliding supports that
could be lowered when overpro
duction threatens and raised in
the case of underproduction.
That was his line, and it was
based upon strong personal con
viction. He hewed to it and let
the chips fall where they might.
1ITEAK - KNEED Re pu blicans
' shook in their boots. They
thought that Benson's course was
suicidal and expected it to re
sult in the loss of aU the farm
states. As . it turned dut. the
Republicans did better in the
xarm states man elsewhere.
Uhy;
This, I think, is the rea
son:
Our neonle instinctivelv ad
mire and respect men who have
sincere convictions and the cour
age to fifiht for them. Whether
they know it or not, they are
coming to despise pussytooters
who can think only in terms of
votes.
Fthe Republican party wants
to win the 1956 election
which will go far toward de
termining whether our country
is to continue along the Eisen
hower middle-of-the-road course
or is to turn sharply toward BIG
GOVERNMENT it will do weU
to heed this lesson provided by
Secretary Benson. '
If it believes in moderate, mod
ern, regulated free enterprise, it
should SAY SO, in flat, plain
words and stick with it,
through thick and thin.
Japan Receives Atomic
Data from United States
Washington (U.PJ The
United States has given Japan
non-secret atomic energy matter
ial and once-secret data now
declassified in a complete tech
nical library of atomic informa
tion. Atomic Energy Commissioner
library Friday to Kiichi Aichi,
Joseph CampbeU presented the
Japanese minister of internation
al trade and industry, in a cere
mony at AEC headquarters.
The collection is a duplicate
of material available in 42 re
pository libraries in this coun
try. "
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Why Not?
T the Editor? In answer to
M. S. Shrock from Milwaukie.
Why not move? They have -a
Milwaukee in Wisconsin, I'm
sure Joe would like you.
Ted R. Goettling,
Box 482,
Jacksonville, Ore..,
Is That So?
So keen is the unending strug
gle for existence that animals
have taken over every hospit
able half-acre of the world's sur
face, the most rugged perhaps
being the wind-ripped mountain
slopes between timberline and
snowline.
Yet to survive the onslaughts
of winter, these animals are
wondrously flexible; some go
into a deep torpor and let their
bodies grow cold; others evade
the weather by taking" seasonal,
timeless migratory routes; while
a number conform to the sur
roundings by actual bodily
changes. . "
Nowhere do mammals exhibit
a greater seasonal migration
than in the high mountain count
ty. Elk, sheep, mountain goat,
llama, chamois and deer des
cend the slopes to warmer lev
els where food is stiU available.
(The migration being near-vertical
every 1,000 feet descent in
altitude is equivalent to a 600
mile southward migration.) And
these plant-eating animals are
followed in turn by the large
predaceous beasts the foxes,
wolves, cougars and -snow leo
pards. Upland birds also seek lower
and warmer levels this move
ment being precisely comparable
to the , southward flight of the
migratory birds from Canada to
Mexico and from England to
Africa. In the former, the move
ment is again measured in feet:
in the latter in miles.
.Others hie themselves into
protected places and become dor
mant. Let the blizzards howl and
the food crop disappear, they
sleep through it aU. Their pulse
and breathing almost stop and
temperatures may drop to with
in a couple of degrees of freezing
thus, strength is conserved.
Burrowing .Impossible
Where the soil is permanently
frozen beneath the level reached
by summer thaws, burrowing
cannot take place, hence small
tunnelers remain active under
the warm blanket of snow
eking out - an existence from
stored food, foots, and frozen
insects, spiders, reptiles, frogs
and toads which pass through
the cold period in winter sleep.
Now we come to the physical
adaptations. One of the most ob
vious is to withstand the cold by
growing a heavier, shaggier coat
of fur and this they do. As a
result, wolves and foxes of the
highlands have much thicker fur
than those of the warmer low
lands. And with it, their paws
are grown with stiffer and longer
hair for easier traversing of snow
fields.
Why this? Curious as it may
seem at first thought, a larger
animal offers less body surface
for its bulk than a smaller one.
Harkening back to geometry, re
member how a sphere s surface
becomes smaller proportionately
to its bulk as it becomes larger?
Appendages Smaller
As for the appendages, they
become smaUer in the north so
less surface is exposed. Hence,
rabbits' ears become much
smaller as one pursues . them
from temperate into Arctic
climes.
In an experiment to prove
these points, mice were reared
al a temperature of 85 degrees
and they were found to have
longer tails than those of the
same strain reared in colder 65
degree temperature. Along with
it, the latter had larger and
stockier and decidedly heavier
bodies. .
In another experiment, domes
tic fowl were kept at 52 degrees
during the third and fourth
months of life. Measurements
Pluto, Distant World
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer,-Extension Division '
Oregon Higher Education System
What appeal is there for you
to live on a world so very, very
distant from the . sun that the
light and heat reaching it is only
a dreary 11600 of that which
makes our earth such a genial
habitation? Such a place is the
planet Pluto, at the far away bor
ders of our known solar system,
An eighth-grade girl recently
wrote for data on this planet to
use in a class report. We repeat
some of this here for the general
reader.
Appeared On Photographs
Before 1930 Pluto was not
known visually nor photograph
ically. It is true that since then
it has been shown that this plan
et appeared on photographs tak
en in 1914, 1919, 1921, and 1927,
but no attention had been given
it, or, if noticed at all, the dot
was taken for a star.
After the discovery of Nep
tune in 1846, some light disturb
ance seemed to exist in its mo
tion. The disturbing element was
suspected of being a still more
distant planet. During the early
part of the present century, Dr.
Percival Lowell at the Flagstaff
observatory in Arizona spent 10
years" of difficult mathematical
calculation trying to determine
where the new planet might be.
Dr. Lowell died in 1916, long
before the discovery" was made. '
In 1929 a new photographic
telescope, especially fitted for i
detecting faint objects, was in
stalled at the Lowell observatory
and put in charge of Clyde Tom
baugh, a young and recently em
cloved assistant. Alter weeks of
By Eugene Bums
Ranger-Naturalist
showed they were shorter In
body and had gained , more
weight and had shorter legs and
tails than did their former flock
mates which were kept through
out at 70 degrees.
Yet another adaptation that
of behavior must not go un
noted; it is quite common to see
a bird hide behind wind-breaking
ledges or stones during a
high wind. But in the windy
plateau country of Tibet, some
birds build a rampant of peb
bles on the side of the nest, usu
ally that is wjndward a similar
pattern of behavior being fol
lowed by various larks in Al
geria, Palestine, and Iraq.
(Copyright, 1954. by Eugene
Burns).
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Search for Missing
Navy Constellation
Plane Discontinued
Washington (U.R) The
search for a Navy Constellation
which disappeared over the At
lantic Oct. 30 with 42 persons
aboard was called off at sunset
Thursday when no trace of the
missing plane was found, the
Navy announced Friday. "
The search, one of the most
mide-spread ever launched for a
missing plane, was discontinued
as a Navy court of inquiry con
vened at the Patuxent, Md., Nav
al Air Station to investigate the
plane's disappearance. " Rear
Adm. John M. Hoskins, fleet
air commander at Quonset
Point, R.I., was the presiding
officer.
Asks Constant Vigil
The Navy said it has asked
ships and planes passing through
the area where the Constella
tion was flying ' "to keep con
stant vigils throughout their
passage" for some trace of the
plane. ; ': . -.V-"--'-xVice
Adm. Laurence T. -Du-bose,
Eastern Sea Frontier com
mander in New York, said about
260' airplanes and 27 ships cov
ered more than 1,000,000 square
miles of ocean daily for 12 days
in the search. More than 16,000
persons from the .Navy, Coast
Guard and Air Force partici
pated. The Constellation carried 32
Navy persons, eight civilians in
cluding two wives and five chil
dren of miliary personnel sta
tioned overseas, and two Air
Force men. .'
work, success came. On a pic
ture taken Jan. 25, 1930, a very
faint dot was found which later
photographs showed was mov
ing. Excitement reigned at the
observatory, .but no public an
nouncement was made until sev
en weeks has passed and many
observations had been made.
News Flashed to World ,
Then on March 13, the 75th
anniversary of the birth of Dr.
Lowell, and also the date in 1761
of the discovery of Uranus, the
news was flashed to the world
that a more distant planet than
ever known before had been
spotted. '. ' .
Various designations were for
a. time given the newly-found
planet. Finally an English as
tronomer teleeraohed tnat 1 1-
year-old Venetia Burney of Ox
ford had suggested the name
Plutc from the mythological god
of the underworld.' The name
was at once adopted.
For many vears. great uncer
tainty existed as to the size of
Pluto.. On March 20, 1950, Dr.
Gerald Kuiper, using the new
200-inch telescope on a night
when the air was especially
steady and the "seeing'' excel
lent, obtained results which
seemed very reliable. The dia
meter of this planet was found
to be 0.46 that of the earth's, or
3600 miles, midway between
that of Mercury and Mars. The
mass of Pluto seems to be about
one-tenth that of the earth.
The average distance of Pluto
from the sun is 39.5 times greater
than the earth's 93,000,000 miles.
Pluto requires 248.4 years to
make a complete trip around
old SoL i
Pofluck
By M-T Stiff and Contributor
How-sillyan-we-get depart
merit: ,
At a certain veterans' break
fast last Thursday, 'alcoholic
drinks, as per custom, were,
being served. One breakfaster:
asked for a drink prepared
with Vodka. Nope, was the an
swer, not serving Vodka to
day. International situation,0
you know.
The fact that Vodka is
served the other 364 days of
the year made no difference,,
apparently, nor did the fact
that most of the Vodka' here
abouts is made in America .
from formula cooked up in (
the days of the Csars. . .
A woman made a telephone
call one day last weeK to wna.
she thought was Mann's depart
ment store, but what actually
was The Mail Tribune. When
the call was answered, she asked
for the '"baby department -
She was ' immediately, con
nected with the newsroom staff
member who ordinarily takes
the calls from the hospitals re-
It happened that the caller.
and the callee knew each other,
and got things squared around
in no time.
Peter Ryhiner, who with -Ms
wife Mercia was here .last
week for a series of peaking
engagements in Medford and
other southern Oregon points,
is a Swiss. Attending the
football game Friday night, he
asked an American ' friend,
"Why do they call it 'foot;
ball?' They almost . never
touch it with their feet after
the first moment.
Football in Europe, of course,
is a different game, with a lot'
more kicking to it than the
American brand. . ,
Sometimes, in this screwy
newspaper business, one reporter
writes a story from notes taken,
by another reporter.
This was the case last week
when one staff member took
notes about the visit of a Grey
hound Scenicruiser to Medford.
and, for one reason or another,
asked the other to write the
story. . ; . .
This he did but he wrote two
stories, one which appeared In
the paper, the other which was
his "literal" version of the notes
of the first reporter, whose hand
writing is notoriously illegible.
The second story follows, ver
batim: , -; .' 1 ";; -
Mary Miles, in charge of
showing the new ' Greyhound
Scenicruiser buses in this area,
yesterday was quoted by news
papermen as saying "stdy ptlud
slur Eugure Rlbing Alh Med
smallr teon." '.' i
Tew gg thvoughonar, she
added. "Expviss sucby istadfr.'!
All in all, it has been "very
fuvonuhe," she said.
Still another critic of style
, was heard last week. She was .
- commenting on an item in the
; paper which . told about '
Mercy Flight trip to Denver
where a woman was 'taken.
tae story said, "tor a sro-cen
hip." . ... . i
; The critic wrote:. "A friend
of mine was planning to have
her hip broken; but upon see
ing the attached article de
cided to wait Will you please
send me details -as to the
Denver system?"
Reporter dropped by ; the
Young Republicans - convention
Saturday afternoon. He reported:
jxx jruu xtavc iu w www .
charcoal-black suit, and they let
you in. Helps if you tell 'em you
voted for Cordon."
Refugees May Be
Brought to U.S. -
Chicago (U.R) Federal
and church officials have laid
plans to bring 209,000 refugees
into the United States.
More than 300 persons from
20 states met Friday at a region
al conference sponsored by the
National Council of Churches .
and the Church Federation of
Greater Chicago to discuss plans
for implementing the 1953 Im
migration Act; . '
The Act allows 209,000 more
refugees to enter the .United
States if the same number of
assurances from Americans can
be obtained. v
Dr. Elf an R e e s of Geneva,
Switzerland, the World Council
of Churches' adviser on refugees,
told the conference that the
number of homeless, persons is
increasing by about 18,000 a
month.
"Integration, inimigration or
starvation is the choice facing
many thousands of displaced
persons abroad for whom a place
can be made here, he said. . '
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