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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordwTribuns "Everybody in Southern Orecon Rea ds The Mall Tribun" published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editof RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. - An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mail In Adrance: Per copy lGc Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 .Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos, 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.0fl Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c pet copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jacitson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising ReDresentative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPAN5T. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. - NiWSPAMI ASSOCIATION ION Alt EDIT EDITOKlAL Flight V Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 "arid 40 years ago. - :0 YEARS AGO Dee. 20, 1944 , . (It was Wednesday) Robert A.' Duff, chairman of Jackson County Salvage . com mittee, urges county residents to redouble their efforts to save waste paper and tin cans. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Only four days till Christmas. Junior high school girls are helping Mother wash the dishes this week. 20 YEARS AGO Dee. 20, 1934 (It was Thursday) Ralph O. Stephenson named federal farm census director for Jackson county. ; State police raid illicit liquor resorts in Jackson county. 30 YEARS AGO Dee. 20. 1924 (It was Saturday) Gold Hill city officials an nounce that they plan to fight legislation curbing -powers of cities to make arrests for speed ing. Mail Tribune carries press service story saying geologists have warned that, at the present rate of consumption, there will be no gasoline left in 12 years. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1914 J ' (It was Sunday) Victrola concert to be given at Medford public library by Miss Elizabeth Richards. From the Local : and Personal column: Roy Elliott of the S. P on the fire department left vacant by the resignation of force has accepted the position Charles Boussom. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 19J4. Editorial Raseareh Report 1. The Administration is re . studvinz its checks on the loy alty of federal employees, or is about to change them, or insists they need no change? 2. There are. 25 leap years in every 100 years; right or wrong? 3. Averell Harriman is a rail president, assistant secretary of state, ' ambassador, governor elect, or new Senator? 4. The battle of Gettysburg was fought north or south of the Mason-Dixon lane, or along the Line? 5. The AJL. says its goal is a normal work week eventually of (a) 40, (b) 35, (c) 32, (d) 30 or (e) 28 hours? 6. In Spain Gen. Franco is . called the Duce, Caudillo, Gaul- leiter, Marechal, Imperator, or Fuehrer? 7. The Achilles tendon is In the heel, knee, thigh, shoulder, elbow, lower arm, or hand? The Answers: 1. Is re-studying them. 2. Wrong; there are 24 in most. 3. Governor-elect of New York. 4. North of the Msson-Dixon Line. 5. 30 hours eventually. 6. Caudillo. 7. HeeL Old putty on storm sash and windows can be removed faster if you just run a hot soldering iron along the putty. The heat softens the putty so it will peel off rapidly. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. IN AT MAIL TRIBUNE Bill Retire? Never! A news item of special, interest to newspapermen appeared last week. It told liam Tugman as editor of after almost 28 years as of that excellent paper. He has purchased the Port Umpqua Courier, a weekly at Reedsport. He said he has at last "fulfilled a newspaperman's dream" of owning his own news paper. ' . ; "1X7E are glad to see that Bill is doing what he wants. " But, golly, he's going to be missed by the good people of Lane county whether they know it or not. Bill is what is known as a "controversial personal ity." He doesirt have many smooth edges. And when he gets in a fight, it usually is a ring-tailed stem-winder. But he's always been scrupulously fair and com pletely honest, with himself as well as his readers. THE list of his accomplishments is too long to record here, but it's an impressive one. It's a personal op inion, but to this writer his greatest badge of honor is the inspiration he has given to hundreds, or thousands of young newspapermen with whom he has come into contact, . Bill believes that a good newspaper should be a good citizen of its community, and he has always been a good citizen himself, whether he was needling the city council, or banging away at the Highway Commission, or rapping the knuckles of the Ameri can Society of Newspaper Editors, of which he is a distinguished member. - .' DILL Tugman isn't retiring. We don't think he could if he wanted to. He's moving the scene of his ac tivities from Eugene to Reedsport, from the Register Guard to the Port Umpqua Courier and that's all. But it is an event in the. history of Oregon news papers. And the people of the Lower Umpqua area can expect to get an interesting paper with Bill at the editor's desk. - We expect him to make lots of them mad. But Bill himself says that if an doesn t deserve any friends. COME of the work that goes into making a good t newspaper is awesomely tedious. He'll tackle that too, but he'll have - the most fun when he's in the middle of a good hassle. At 61, he s got-a lot of dream paper. We wish him ruckuses to make life interesting, and, if time permits, some' of that fishing he s lookmg forward to doing. ' ' ' -' ' ,E.A. : Christmas Program . Kids can do the darndest things. It wasn't too long ago that we got dragged to the annual 4-H fair, rather against our desires, and wound up enjoying ourselves thoroughly. Last week we ventured must be admitted) into the crowded school gymnasium, to watch the youngest small fry in her first Christmas program. We enjoyed that, too. Just goes to show how stu pid 'people who think of themselves as grownups can be. - , v ' . . ' 4 HPHE kids had a picnic. Some of them were scared, ,Jv but all of them did their best to put on a good show. And a good show it. was, too, although not always for the reasons that the youngsters thought. We noted with particular pleasure the grim-faced little guy who had been coerced into a big white col lar, reciting the age-old message of the birth of Christ. And the little fellow with two missing front teeth who grinned widely at his family in the audience as he sang out the same message. And the patient, patient teachers, who must have been tortured almost to the point of exasperation by their charges, yet managed to be quiet and efficient and charming as the production flowed evenly from scene to scene. ..... ; - "YHAT a problem of logistics it was! Getting that many youngsters, organized into that many performing groups, to the right place, at the right time that was an accomplishment worthy of a veteran chief-of-staf f. - " "1IE couldn't find any ..deep philosophical meaning V .in the proceedingsMost of the kids probably didn't get the significance of the timeless cadences of the venerable phrases they spoke: " , But as an exercise in cooperation, in groups work ing together to accomplish something, and f or the little ones' first experience in the spotlight of mass attention, it was really worth all the effort that went into it. We received a warm sort of inner glow watching it, and we think the other parents did, too. E.A. Bus Route Changes Get Study by PUC Portland (U.R) State pub lie utilities commissioner Charles H. Heltzel has sched uled a hearing for today in the State Office building on an ap plication from Intercity Buses, Inc., for permission to operate on both sides of the Willam ette river between Portland and Oregon City. Oregon Motor Stages, Inc., formerly served some of the routes, but, due to financial dif? ficulties,'they have been, in ef fect, out of business since Sep tember 25th. - Portland Traction company runs street cars between Port Monday, December 20, 1954 of the resignation of Wil the bugene Kegister-Oruard managing editor and editor editor has no enemies, he good years left to edit his great success, and enough forth (under duress, it cold night, to an over land, Bellrose and Oregon City, but has applied to the FUC for permission to. abandon theml SUGGESTED BIBLE reading: . ; - The American Bible So ciety, the Medford Ministerial Association and' the Medford Council of Church Women are cooperating in sponsoring daily, Bible reading in .the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. . ;.f .. The suggested scripture reading for today is: . I Corinthians 15 ; Many Changes Slated In Social Security Benefits January 1 Editor's note: New social security laws go into effect Jan. 1 and many new persons come under the federal old age and survivors insurance system. The following is the first of two stories explaining some of the changes. Washington U.R) The federal old age and survivors insurance system will undergo a big change Jan. 1 when some 10,000,000 additional persons start paying social security taxes. Payment of these taxes for the first time will entitle farmers, clergymen, architects, engineers, and thousands of others gain fully employed to social security retirement benefits when they reach age 65? Generally speaking, persons coming under the system Jan. 1 will have to continue to work and pay social security taxes for at least 18 months before be coming eligible for retirement benefits. More Liberal Payments . ' In addition to expanding coverage, the new social security law approved by the last Con gress calls for substantially higher benefit payments, for collection of more social tax money, and for more liberal methods of computing benefit payments, v. The expanded coverage under the new law" means that about 58,000,000 persons out of a po tential, 63,200,000 are on the social secruitytax rolls. ;The notable exceptions are physi cians, lawyers, dentists, federal civil service workers, members of the armed forces, policemen, and firemen. The largest single group get ting coverage' under the new law consists of 3,600,000 self employed farmers who make as much as $400 profit a year. About 3,500,000 - employees of state and local governments also Matter of Fact INDECISION ON ASIA Washington The backing and filling on what to do about the captured flyers and the other Americans in China is only a symptom of . a larger trouble. For a firm de cision has been taken about w la. a t the American gov ernment does NOT want to do in Asia, But the troub le is that no decision at all Stewart Alaop has been taken about what the government does want to do. :- The President himself has de cided, despite powerful dissent, not to risk war in Asia, if war can be avoided short of outright dishonor. But- there have been no firm decisions on what steps short of war are to be taken to prevent the communization of all Asia, which is now visibly in rapid progress. ' ; A case in point is the proposal, originating with Foreign Oper ations Administrator Harold Stassen, for a major economic aid program for the key Asian countries. This idea was first put forward as a kind of Marshall Plan for Asia. ' THE intention was, of course, to deal directly, on a long term, basis, with one of the root causes of the revolutionary fer ment in Asia, by sharply rais ing living . standards. The. pro posal was given added weight by reports . that the Soviets ere beginning an Asiatic (Marshall Plan of their own, granting gen erous credits for Soviet-made tractors, machine ; tools, and other goods. The purpose of the . proposal was certainly sound as far as it went. But it was made, under the worst possible circumstances, and it got off to a bad start from the very beginning. - For one thing, the Foreign Operations Administration is scheduled to die this summer. Moreover, the Stassen agency has a hostile Hoover Commission task force breathing down . its neck. The task force chairman, Henning W. Prentis Jr., had al ready, before he took the job, put himself on record as favor ing the immediate abolition of F.O.A. Thus when Stassen float ed his -trial balloon, there was inevitable suspicion, however un justified, that he was primarily interested in keeping his agency alive and his job intact. , ...... ' TPHIS background was hardlv auspicious. But to make mat ters -worse, btassen made the mistake of failing to consult in advance either Secretarv nf th Treasury George Humphrey or oen. waiter ueorge, prospective chairmen of the Foreisn Rela tions Committee. Humphrey and ueorge nave since displayed an icy lack of enthusiasm for the Stassen .proposal. Wow former Budget - Bureau Director Joseph Dodge has been called in to arbitrate th mat ter. This is an obvious vietorv tor iiumpnrey, since uoage is a TT , . . 1 1 become eligible for coverage for the first time. Other New Groups Other groups newly covered are funeral directors, many household workers and farm laborers not previously covered, citizens . employed outside the United States, federal employees not covered by other federal re tirement plans, fishing industry employees, and persons who work for business firms but do their work at home, such as sewing, telephoning or address ing envelopes. ' Self-employed farmers, clergy men, architects, engineers and funeral directors must pay the 3 per cent social security tax rate that applies to other self employed already covered. This rate will continue until 1960 when it is scheduled to go up to 3 per pent. Farm workers and others who come under the category, of em ployee will pay a 2 per cent so cial security tax. This will, be matched by a 2 per cent con tribution from employers. : What To Do , To get himself enrolled under social ; security, here's what a self-employed persons, - includ ing a farmer, should do: First, get a social security card from the nearest social se curity office. Then, in x195,6, when filling out his federal in come tax return on 1955 earn ings, this newly covered person should show his social security account number on. his return. Benefits ultimately are figured from this social security account. The amount to be reported corresponds to net earnings, or profit. If a farmer's total re ceipts are $1,800 or less, he has a choice between reporting his net earnings, or reporting half of his total receipts. , If his total receipts are more than $1,800, he must figure his actual net earnings. If these net earnings are less than $900, the farmer may report either his net earnings or $900. close Humphrey collaborator, and has an even more suspicious view of foreign spending than Humphrey. No doubt some sort of Asia aid program will eventually emerge ail the same and with the Dodge imprimatur, it may have easier sledding through Congress than otherwise. But, with this background, ' it will be downright astonishing if it turns out to be the kind of bold and imaginative effort which is required if communism is not to triumph all over Asia in the long run! "DUT no economic effort, how ever bold and imaginative is likely to solve the short-run i i proDiem now to save the im mediately threatened countries of southeast Asia, not a genera tion from now, but in the rather near future. Take Siam as an example. As recent reports from the spot in this space have suggested, it will take something like a mira cle to save what is left of Indo China, If Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia go, Siam is next on the list. Siam is a rather prosperous little county with a food surplus and dollar aid alone is not go ing to save Siam. Neither is the recently negotiated SEATO pact. The SEATO pact provides for the use of counter-force only in case, of open aggression against southeast Asia, and the Chinese and Indo - Chinese Communist armies are not likely to resort to open aggression. . The methods the Communists will use instead are suggested by inteligence reports that sev eral thousand Communists of Siamese racial background have already infiltrated northern Siam from Indo-China. This form of pressure will no doubt increase, until the Siamese secu rity forces are incapable of deal ing with it, while the fall of Indo-China impresses the people of Siam with the wisdom of climbing on the Communist bandwagon. This combination of pressure from within and without is the gap in the defenses of non-Communist Asia which neither eco nomic programs nor military pacts can really close. Seeretarv of State Dunes and other admin istration policy-makers have of course considered ways of try ing to close the irarj. On being seriously considered is a commanao - type, international "Anti-Subversion' Command," to act as a sort of Asiatic fire bri gade. . : .. ; " Meanwhile, the gap remains invitingly oren. and the drv mt in Asia continues, while this ad ministration, like Its predecessor wracks its collective brains for ways to stop it. . . . Copyright, 1954, ! New ,Yerk Herald .Tribune, Inc. 15 N. CENTRAL -Pft. 2-2970 Swt."MJ.nii-,jvii.i a,LJ ,,, u, 'i i id imii" jj ; t -rJf u ft $ -1 imim irfyr'Viiiw! . S y" JURY. ROOM Shown above is the Cleveland, Ohio jury room where the jury has been delib erating the future of Dr. Sam Sheppard, accused of the murder of his wife. The jury, composed of five women and seven men, has spent more than three days deliberating on their verdict. In By FRANK JENKINS Secretary Dulles, speaking , in Paris to the foreign, defense and finance ; ministers of , the North Atlantic Treaty powers, deliv ered ; himself of an interesting bit of philosophy..; He said to them: : .'' "We must not be luMed by the surface- smoothness of Soviet policy, nor frightened by its surf face roughness, nor provoked by incidental rough actions." WELL SPOKEN sir. In your advice to the brass of NATO you join a noble company of able thinkers. r Back in 1904, Theodore Roose velt said in a speech in Minne sota: "There is a homely adage that runs, 'Speak softly . and CARRY A, BIG STICK and you will go far." That is as true now as it was back in 1901. TYULLES, by the way of sound advice to the communists, might have added a line from John Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel:" "Beware the fury of a patient man": If you happened to have a patient father and sometimes tried his patience ' TOO FAR, you will recall that the ensuing session in the woodshed was nearly always a rugged one. We need' to get that .idea over to the Russians. ' rFHE PENTAGON is cogitating plans for a - new military training and reserve setup which will evidently be quite different from universal military training, which we have persistently re fused to accept in its entirety. Enough of the plan has been outlined to give an idea of its major provisions. It. calls for some 100,000 young men each year -to receive six months of training, after which they would go into the reserves. They would have the option of this or the draft for a longer term The goal is to build up ' a trained reserve force of two and a half mllion men. . WHY SUCH a reserve force? The answer is quite simple. Never again,, when war starts, will there be a period while both sides train armies, manu facture munitions, and generally get ready to fight. When World War II was gettng under way, this period was termed "the phoney war." A lot of sarcastic cracks were made about it then, but when everybody got ready to fight, there: was certainly nothing phoney about it. . All such things are a' part of the dead past;. From here on out, the shooting will be on from the moment the war starts. : rpURNING from shooting war A to commerfeial war, an in teresting situation s arising up in Portland and Seattle where truckers in Portland have '- a LOWER rate to Eastern Oregon, CHRISTMAS GIVE THE , REVISED STANDARD VMSI0H B1BIE THE PERFECT GIFT Genuine leather luck rain '., ,., ..... . $. r. t. $10.00 S 6.00 -1 Illustrated editions $3.25 t S1$0' Come in and see our . complete selection sr- I ESfnftUDRKQI Southern Idaho and Utah, -The Puget Sound truckers demand a rate into this territory that is as LOW as that of their Port land competitors. v. i After a decade and a half when EVERYBODY has wanted HIGHER RATES and HIGHER PRICES, it sounds a bit odd to hear somebody demanding the right to charge a price as LOW as that charged by his competi tor. It's a sign that competition is coming back into our economy. Communications Doesn't Go for Christmas To the Editor: More and more we read and hear the 'slogan "put Christ back in Christmas." But was he ever there? Most persons no longer be lieve that Jesus was born on Dec. 25th. The shepherds in the open fields, the date of Jesus' death at ''3316 yrs. of age, Jesus being six months younger than John, the journey to Bethlehem, his baptism all indicate that the time of Jesus' birth was around Oct. 1st. But most per sons will contend that the exact date isn't importan:, but rather the commemoration of his birth. But even that argument doesn't have Bible support, because Christians are - commanded to celebrate" his death, riot his birth (1 Cor. 11:24-26). And what is the "spirit of Christmas?" Is it found in the angels announcement of peace on earth, good will toward men"; or is it manifested in the millions of toy soldiers, tanks, guns, and planes . that glorify war, and m the gluttony, drunk enness, lasciviousness, and mur der done , on this day of Christ mas? Peter says that true Chris tians no longer indulge in such celebrations (1 Pet. 4:3). Nor is Jesus honored by always remem bering him as a babe, since He is now "Lord of lords and King of ii n - t- Kings . , umiKe - DaDy worsmp ers" of Christmas time, Paul the apostle declares - that though Christians knew Jesus in the flesh, they don't know him that way anymore (2 Cor. 5:16). The keeping of Christmas can COMING TUESDAY, DEC. 21st to the ;-' : . Assembly of God Church at "Shady Cove v 2 GREAT CHRISTMAS FILMS o o o o "Oh Holy Night" 1' A Boy and A Christmas Storv A e'Vcd wSKtl? Hi V JUiV I KJLVLLt TREATS FOR Wishing You a . Pastor Rev. not pass as innocent fun for children, because the name and worship of God are involved. Since Christmas dates back to pagan origin (as any large en cyclopedia will verify), the asso ciating of God's name with pa gan customs is desecrating that name, taking it in vain. The Christmas festival is held high among men of this worlds But Jesus stated, that such things were disgusting in God's sight (Luke 16:15; Matt. 15:8, 9). Paul and Peter made the same point (Gal. 4:10, 11; 2 Pet. 2:20-22). . Yet cannot Christians cele brate Christmas out of a pure heart to the honor of God? God himself answers ,in His Word: "Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers . . . come out from among them and be sepa rate." (2 Cor. 6:14-18). T. R. Thompson, .. P. O. Box 361, y ' Medford, Ore. Dead line Sunday Classified fts at noon Saturday : 10 am. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevioua day. JVlotherhood , GEO. N. TAYLOR If a mother is conscious of her babe all those months before it is born; if she goes, into the jaws of death to give it birth into this world; if she knows its every move as it lies there in the crib; then what of God waiting for ages and ages, for you to come into new, birth and into his eternal family? To give birth you new birth into ily?. To give you new birth into God's eternal family, Christ who had no sins of His own, took your sins and died under them to clear you. God said that by Christ's death for your sins, he would remember them against you no more forever. Act now. Don't go on your feelings. Ac cept Christ as your own Lord and Saviour. Be saved. Read your Bible; pray and grow up., This "message sponsored by - a dairyman paid adv. ' featuring THE NATIVITY STORY ' in Color and His Bible" ytvi rrwxu i WJ-ii-iVlVlLjJ THE KIDDIES Merry Christmas Ronald Curren
