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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
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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. . . .
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.,
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Merry Christmas
Ronald Curren