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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
Dec 28, 1944
(It was Tuesday)
County Judge J. B. Coleman
and Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna
both absent from offices in
courthouse because of illness.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Citizens
have started making their New
Year resolutions. The main ones
are about as unbreakable as the
windshields of automobile were
once supposed to be.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 26. 1934
(It was Wednesday)
"Doc" Hayes and Ted Lindley
lead scoring for Medford High
school Cubs basketball team in
37 to 32 victory over Christian
church quintet.
Six arrested in Medford area
during series of '"mopup" liquor
violation raids conducted by lo
cal law enforcement officers. .
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 26, 1924
(It was Friday)
Medford area radio fans re
port reception is improving and
they have no difficulty in getting
coast stations.
Motorists warned to keep off
state highways in southern Ore
gon because of flooding and
freezing conditions,
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 26. 1914 .
(It was Saturday)
Not one arrest for intoxica
tion reported by Medford city
police on Christmas eve or
Christmas day.
Medford merchants to hold
Special meeting for discussion of
a reduction of freight rates.
What's the Answer?
(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report
1. Most of the U.S. Senators
who are Catholics voted for or
against condemning Sen. Mc
Carthy? 2. Some new autos are being
sold on . terms . allowing three
years for final payment; right
or wrong?
2. Some new autos are being
sold on terms allowing three
years for final payment; right
or wrong? .
3. When the U.N. General
Assembly endorsed the ' Eisen
hower plan to share atomic en
ergy data, Russia voted Yes or
No, or abstained from voting?
4. The number of amend
ments added to the U.S. Consti
tution is 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, or
25?
5. Pope Pius XII was crowned
before, during, or after World
War II?
6. The coffee trade says it ex
pects coffee prices to be higher
cr lower in three months or so,
or about the same as now?
7. William F. Cody was better
known by what name?
1. Most voted to condemn. 2.
Right. 3. Voted Yes. 4. 22. 5.
Just before the outbreak of the
war. 6. Lower. 7. Buffalo Bill.
RECEIVE LEAVE
Long Beach, Calif. (U.R)
Veteran crew members of the
much-decorated LST 799 were
granted holiday leave Saturday.
The vessel with a 103-man crew,
docked after seven months in
Korean waters.
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Don
A correspondent feels very sorry for Senator Guy
Cordon because he has been forced to leave Oregon
and make his home in Washington where he will
practice law.
We feel sorry for anyone who has to endure the
climate of Washington, D. C, rather than enjoy the
climate of this state, and particularly this part of it.
But we don't feel moved to tears exactly, because
of Guy Cordon's fate.
For with his prestige and influence in the national
capital and skill as a lobbyist he will make more
money in a month than he made in a year as senator.
AND he wants to make money.
Cordon will, moreover, be entirely his own
boss, will have no one to tell him what to do or criti
cize him for what-he doesWVe will not be surprised
to find him starting out with a retainer fee of $50,000
a year. . .. -.;
We grant the sacrifice involved, climatically, but
in a year or two we predict our former senior Senator
will agree that his defeat. at the hands of Dick Neu
berger was the . luckiest thing that ever happened
to him. - : :. . ;
Money isn't everything of course. But plenty of
it when, one is still active and doing what he likes,
is important. R.W.R.
A Modern Samson
As the year 1954 approaches its end, there is a
gleam of sunlight ' and cheer in the circumabient
gloom, to wit:
The doctrine of the "Big Lie" seems definitely
on the way out. .
The McCarthy use of the "Big lie" came to its
apogee of irresponsible absurdity when the Wiscon
sin Senator made his familiar charge against the
President of the United States of being soft toward
Communism and by implication, aiding the cause
of the enemies of the country.
-.
THAT was the last straw!
McCarthy had made that charge unjustly time
after time but many people did not KNOW tha victim
so many were inclined to give him, rather than his
victim, the benefit of the doubt.
But when the charge was publicly made against
President Eisenhower whom everyone in a sense
knew, the bars were down, the clouds were cleared,
all doubts were removed. The American people then
KNEW McCarthy was a liar.
. And there was only one conclusion that could be
drawn, that if the Wisconsin Senator would, make
charges so completely false against the President
of the , United States, he would have no regard for
the truth concerning similar charges against ANY
ONE. - ' i
Then and there the political build up of this dema
gogic imposter and phoney crusader came tumbling
down, and his "Big Lie" technique with it.
.
THIS doesn't mean the junior Senator won't TRY to
make a "come back." He is lying low now, and
will until the storm passes. There are a few of his
die-hard supporters left and an attempt, probably
will be made to organize an anti-Ike group for some
dirty work at the 1956 convention or before.
But the corner-stone of the McCarthy edifice, built
up through the past few years has, as we see it
crumbled, and like Samson, Joe himself by that one
biggest of all his big lies, pulled it down over his ears.
R.W.R. . " '
The Big Lie Fails
The Big Lie technique doesn't seem to Je working
at the present much better abroad than at home.
At least the charge made by China that these
US airmen shot down were spies, hasn't been believed
anywhere outside of that country, except of course
in Russia and Russia has only made a pretense of it.
The countries of Europe have either said nothing,
or like England, have publicly stated, in effect, they
don't believe it. Spies don't; wear their uniforms when
they start out on their secret and highly dangerous
missions. And even China hasn't denied that these
airmen were thus attired." - ----A ;
THERE is a certain consolation and hope in this,
too. '
And it all goes Back to one of our favorite quota
tions that you can't fool ALL" the people ALL the
time and that includes the people who don't talk
English as well as those who do. ' '
Also the people who don't live in a democracy
and those who do. All the people in the world in fact.
IT IS a slow process. But is in the long run a sure one.
And we' don't "cafe what the form of government
may be, if it is based upon a lie, upon falsehoods,
cruelty and frauds, it may, like Joe McCarthy, make a;
big splash for a time but eventually, it is doomed to
fail. :7 :r: ' ; ;;V.;;,
And so. Communism, as now constituted, is doom
ed to fail.. -
Like the French revolution it will undoubtedly
make great changes in the world socially and eco
nomicallyultimate by-products,' so to speak. ;
But as the "reign of terror" ended the life and
progress of that revolution, so the reign of force and
falsehood will end the spread and vitality of this one.
And in all likelihood the end will come ultimately,
not by force from WITHOUT, but from WITHIN.
R.W.R.
f uadaf, Sembw 28 115
't Cry!
In the Day's Hews
Br FRANK JENKINS
Russia agrees in a document
signed in . Washington by the
27 small naval craft lend-leased
to her during World War II by
the United States.
An explanatory note adds that
negotiations has been under way
for years for return of these
and 121 other naval craft. Ne
gotiations, the note says, are
continuing on the other 121.
TUHS news is carried by the
V-- AP teletype in a double
spaced bulletin, accompanied by
the ringing of a beU. The dou
ble spacing and the beU indicate
that in the AP's judgment the
news is hot stuff.)
WELL, I reckon it is. Any
sign, however faint, of semi
decency on Russia's part is man-bites-dog
news.
sun;
If your neighbor had borrow
ed your snow shovel to dig him
self out of a disastrous drift and
you had been compelled to hire
lawyers and negotiate with him
f or. 13. YEARS , to get even the
handle of it back you'd know
what kind . of neighbor he is,
wouldn't you? ..
AND-.., ,
"I'd say. . .
If , you're SMART you
wouldn't pick a fight with him
that might result in both of you
getting killed, but you'd be very
cagey indeed about lending him
another shovel.
T0 you remember the story
(quite a long time back)
about the Czech family that
came to the conclusion that life
behind the iron curtain was no
longer worth living anyway, and
so put all its possessions in a
truck, pointed the truck at the
barbed wire, poured on the coal
and LET GO?
(The truck smashed through
the wire into the free world on
the otherf side and the bold bid
for freedom so amazed the Com
mie guards that they didn't start
shooting until it was too late.)
I17ELL, a note on the wire says
" they've been in the United
States now for two Christmases
and. the whole family mother,
father and six children say it's
JUST FINE, and they LOVE it
here.
A suggestion:
The next time you feel the
urge to beef about everything,
give a thought to this Czech fam
ily. Maybe we . who live in
America REALLY ARE lucky,
A MERICAN Ambassador to
"Italy Clair Booth Luce flew
from Rome to Sardinia (Sar
dinia is the big Italian island in
the Mediterranean about a third
of the way from Italy to Spain),
Her plane carried sacks of live
stock feed the U. S. is giving
to the drought-stricken island.
The feed shipment brings to
five million dollars the amount
of American from commodities
donated by our government to
Italy this Christmas season.
1I7E haven't had too much luck
buying good will WITH
MONEY in Europe.
And
We have in the neighborhood
of six billion dollars worth of
agricultural c o m m o d it ies (for
which the taxpayers have pung-
led up) stored in wearhouses and
we're beginning to run out of
warehouse space.
,' Maybe it would be better to
give food and feed, rather, than
money.
BDT-
1 Isn't it a bit on the spectacu
lar side when our ambassador
(a woman, and rather slightly
built, at that, for the handling
of heavy feed sacks) flies the
stuff in a plane from Rome to
Sardinia? It would have been
simpler "to have the ship stop
at Sardinia and have the feed
handled by husky deckhands.
ST. MATTHEW covers that
point rather well. He says
(VI, 1,3):
"Take . heed that ye do not
your , alms., before men, to be
seen of them ... when thou
doest thine alms, do not sound
a trumpet before thee, as the
hypocrites do in the synagogues
and in the streets ...
; "But when thou doest. alms,
let not thy left hand know what
thy , right hand doeth."
Reds Said Trying .
To Thwart Plans
, London U.R) The Moscow
radio said Saturday the Russians
are "taking all steps necessary"
to thwart Western plans to use
atomic weapons in case of war.
It said a decision at the North
Atlantic Treaty meeting in Paris
last week on the use of atomic
weapons "aroused grave alarm"
in many quarters.
! "The Soviet people cannot
overlook facts which show that
aggressive quarters of the Uni
ted ' States, Britain and France
art; steering a course toward
atomic war," the broadcast said,
i "They are watching - all
maneuvers and machinations of
of the Imperialist aggressors to
take all steps necessary to frus
trate these plans in good time."
Matter of Fact b, jop
THE MOON'S .OTHER SIDE
Saigon, Viet Nam In the past
14 years, in peace and war, this
reporter .has spent something
like six years
overseas in
vestigating the
meaning to
America of de
v e lop ments
abroad. In all
that time, . in
the front lines,
in remote, un
travelled pla
. ces and in the
Vtm erVTreca nf
Jowph Alsop the great
world, no single experience has
had such impact as three days
with the Viet Minh. i- , -..."
That may .seem ., ludicrous,
specially as my visit to " Com
munist territory was unauthor
ized, and I had to spend much
of the time conversing with my
guardians in a canal bank. But
no one can be sure what is on
the moon's other side until some
astronaut goes there; and in the
same fashion, t one cannot con
ceive the atmosphere of an Asian
Communist guerilla area until
one gets into the midst of it.
As readers of previous reports
in this space may perhaps have
surmised, the first emotion I
felt was a reluctant but strong
admiration. 1
Because a man is your enemy,
his triumphs are not less trium
phant. In the area I visited the Com
munist have scored a whole ser
ies of political, organizational,
military and one has to say it
moral triumphs.
The thing that impressed me
most, in fact, was not the Com
munists extraordinary feat of
arming, maintaing and expand
ing an independent state of sou
thern Indochina without exter
ior support, and n the teeth of
French power. What impressed
me most, alas, was the moral
fervor they had inspired among
non-Communist Viet Minh cad
res and the stout support they
had obtained from the peasant
try. .
I am sure I was not deceived
by a mere appearance of fer
vor and support for a vejy
simple reason. Without many
thousands of self-denying dedi
cated men to lead the work,
without the fighting loyalty of
the villagers to depend upon in
tune of danger, what the Com
munists achieved in the zone
visited would have been abso
lutely impossible. ,
'
OOTH the mass of peasants
and the great numbers of
Vietnamese nationalists, politi
cal reformers, hopeful idealists
and the like who staff the Viet
Minh administration, firmly be
lieve the Viet Minh Communist
leaders when the Communists
intone the first of their "three
principles" mat tne iirst aim
of the state is to serve the
people. For the time being in
deed, there is good evidence for
this belief, and so the great
non - Communist majority has
been willing and eager to sac
rifice and to die for the cause.
But if my first emotion was
unhappy admiration for- the
Communists' many faceted
achievement, my second was
rage. It was enraging to con
trast the economy, efficiency and
moral unity of the area I visi-
ited with the corruption and
chaos of Saigon, where I had
been watching Gen. Collins
struggle desperately to streng.
then southern Indochina against
the menace of my hosts in the
palm hut.
It was even more enraging to
talk with these men, most of
them so unself -consciously self
denying and so genuinely warm
ed by the good will towards
their own people, and to think
all the while of the trick that
had been played upon them.
For of course Ho Chi Minh's
first principle; which so com
pletely guided and gripped my
friends in the palm hut, is no
more than a temporary Commu
nist tactic. The first principle
will cease to be serving the
people; the first principle will
become aggrandizing the state,
as soon as the Viet Minh have
attained full power in Indochina,
Missing Freighter
Reported as Safe
London (U.R) The 1,371-ton
Swedish steamer Petra, missing
since Thursday with 20 men
aboard in storms battering
northwest Europe, radioed Sat
urday that it was safe with all
hands off the Island of Sylt.
Deaths attributed to the
storms mounted above 150.
Snow after four days of howl
ing gales and heavy rain dotted
the continent . with Christmas
postcard .' scenes, but brought
fears of possible avalanches in
the Alps. '
The Davos Avalanche Warn
ing institute warned unristmas
holidayers of dangers of heavy
snowslides. It advised skiers to
avoid long mountain tours and
stay within marked and guarded
areas. " '
Icy highways in eastern
France caused motorists to aban
don scores of cars when tem
peratures dropped below freezing.
and have therefore ceased to de
pend upon popular support. .
According to report, ruthless
ness is already starting in the
north where the Viet Minh gov
ernment has already attained
most of the authority of a nor
mal government. All the prep
arations for the grim final
change over have been made
too, even in the southern area.
For the idealistic non-Communist
cadres are to be found in
the civil adminstration; while:
80 per cent of the .Viet Minh
army officers and all members!
of the security police are hard
core Communists.
The men who so much imprest
sed me, who gave me an idea,
indeed, of . what the primitive
Christians must have been like,
will not be happy when the
change is made from serving the
people to aggrandizing the state.
Most of them, in truth, are un
likely to survive the transfor
mation. But when they learn
they have been hideously
tricked, it wiU be too late, for
all the levers of real power are !
already in hard, core Communist
hands.
. .. . : ' .
piNALLY, to complete this
list of intense emotions
aroused by a visit to the . Viet
Minh,. besides admiration and
deep anger, there was fear as
well. It would be dishonest not
to admit that fear. It was not
fear for myself in the scrape I
was in, although I'had a few
bad quarter hours. It was fear,
rather, for the free world.
For if Communist organiza
tion and Communist deceit can
produce in Asia the kind of re
sult I saw with the Viet Minh,
then the danger in Asia is
even more acute than the worst
pessimist among us have been
accustomed to think.
' If the cause of freedom is not
to be lost in Asia, and so lost
in the world, great risk and ef
forts and sacrifices by the free
nations are going to be needed.
The present American attempt
to avert the Asian danger on the
cheap, with huckster talk ' and
feeble political contraptions, is
a dangerous fraud' which we are
practicing not only" upon the
Asians who still dare to choose
freedom but worse stUl upon
ourselves. '
(Copyright, 1954
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Ha ppy Christmas Seen
As Prelude to Bright
World
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
- Washington U.R) There
really wasn't any way to im
prove much upon Christmas day.
Around the
world, ' Christ
mas, did not
resound with
shot in war or
raid or border
action by "any
.kind of fight
ing faction.
The day re
corded no pick
Lyle C. Wilson et lirie, or ma
jor strike. That's mighty fine.
The CIO and AFL, John L's
miners, all .were well. And man
agement felt mighty spry; stock
owners read quotations high.
Christmas Boom
The stores absorbed a Christ
mas boom. For days on end
there wasn't room for one more
shopper in the aisles where mer
chants practiced bargain wiles.
- The weather was kinda cold
in spots, but where there's snow
the tiny tots and grown-ups, too,
can have some fun, the luckier j
on some ski run.
So many things added up Sat
urday to make a nation happy,
gay. - -
Prosperity is truly here. The
next may be a bigger year. And,
after that, an odds-on bet, de
spite enormous public debt, some
bigger better years are due for
me and mine and yours and you.
The dollar- bill, the silver
buck, at least seems to be safely
stuck at value fixed by other
means than tickling treasury
endrocines. . .
Beyond the borders of this
land, from polar ice to sunny
strand, there's quite a lot to
say thanks for. Example: There
is no hot war. Nor. do the eyes
of mothers mist because a cas
ualty list contains the name of
fighting son .whose little time
on earth is done. .
Hope for. Security .
From wreck and ruln.oi EIC
a hope of new security arises,
now the chips are down, to. give
the Kremlin . cause to . frown.
The British said: "Tear up your
pact." The . French, perhaps,
some courage lacked. But Mr.
Dulles had faith : that Europe
would' be- free; that Mendes
France could stand the gaff and
give the West a cause to laugh
at Russian efforts to deny free
men their chance to unify. '.
This lagniappe to the cause
of peace is proof that wonders
never cease; that faith and hop
and charity remain a mighty
trinity. All's well well, fairly
well, states better, the situation
as this letter is sent to you on
Christmas Day when all should
laugh and also pray. '
V v "a
POT LUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributor!)
MOST of our readers know
that this issue of The Mail
Tribune, delivered the morning
of the day after Christmas, was
edited, prepared and printed on
Christmas day. Since there was
no paper yesterday, we are tak
ing this means (one day late) of
wishing our readers A VERY
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
EACH Christmas the United
Press, which furnishes The
Mail Tribune with its news of
happenings elsewhere, gets filled
with the gaiety of the season,
and sends on its teletype ma
chines long and elaborate mes
sages of Christmas greeting.
Sometimes it. "plays' Christmas
carols on the - machine's bell.
One such offering Friday after
noon was a Christmas tree
"drawn" with Xs and sent by
the UP bureau in Denver.
RETIRING-MAYOR Diamond
L. Flynn received a beauti
ful pocket watch Thursday aft
ernoon at a party of city employ
ees. They gave him the watch,
appropriately engraved, to re
place an old wrist watch with
one beaten-up strap, which; he
has kept in his pocket and hauls
out whenever he wants to know
the time. He's never worn it' on
his wrist, Dime says, and adds,
"Wrist watches have always an
noyed me."
RIDING to work Monday
morning, County Agent
Earle Jossy, who lives about 20
miles from his courthouse office,
drove on dry pavements. But
when he got almost to the court
house, he was startled when his
car skidded on icy pavement,
coused when water sprayed
earlier by a street-flushing truck
froze.
VOUNGSTERS' Christmas let
ters to Santa are always ap
pealing. Mrs. Ruby Downing,
third grade teacher at Central
Point school, sent us one writ
ten by Elaine Johnson, "all by
herself," which she thought was
particularly good. We agree,
Here's Elaine's . letter : "Dear
Santa, I want you to bring aU
the other children toys for
Christmas. I have all i want. I
hope that all of the other chil
dren have a nice Christmas too.
We should be very thankful for
what we have. Love."
in Coming Year
Return again to thoughts of
here, the U.S.A., and all the
cheer and laughter that rang
out yesterday as Santa in his
leaping sleigh, light of gifts and
soaring high, became a speck
up in the sky.
Big Harvest Season
The harvest season, now just
passed, has left the cribs and
big barns massed with food for
man and beast and more than
any nation had before; enough
to let us give a hand to hungry
folk in foreign land. -
The pretty girl crop, mighty
sweet, was even bigger than the
wheat.. Our handsome boy crop
also pays off better than our
crop of maize. All in all, our
kids are fine.
: XI hope yours are, I'm sure of
mine. ,
Our old folks now live longer,
too, - and before the research
docks are through, we'll never
die, and there we'll be, all living
in perpetuity. And this is good
because I find that old folks are
the nicest kind.
" Among the younger, some may
shirk while others really can't
find work. But unemployment,
doles and ' such do not harass
this nation much. Be kennel dog
or baying hound, most any man
can' earn his found.
, This could be better, but also
worse. We re truly blessed
There is no curse upon this very
youthful nation which licks its
chops of Christmas ration.
If all would wish upon a star,
our world would never be sub-
par. Peace on earth, goodwill
to men. My friend, you may say
that again. ,
Five Deaths Listed
In Los Angeles Area
Los Angeles (U.R) Five high
way deaths were reported by the
California highway patrol Sat
urday to raise southern Cali
fornia's holiday toll to seven
killed.
. Donnie Dean, 38, Indio, was
killed when his car hit a cul
vert and overturned on highway
60, six miles west of .Beaumont.
Martin J. Dean, 48, was seri
ously injured.
Lee Ranald Jones, 22, of On
tario, was killed Friday night
on the Mission freeway at Cam
pus ave. in a two-car collision.
"Edwin Hippey, 84, "of San
Bernardino, died Friday night
as he was crossing the intersec
tion of G street and seventh.
No details were immediately
available on the deaths of two
persons whose surnames were
given as Marias and Willis, .who
died in the Indio area. . . . i
CONCERTINA PLAYER and
V Lumber Baron Tony Laos-
xucuui was M&iag an active pars
in discussions at the weekly
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce roundtable luncheon
Monday, when he suddenly real-
izea ne was at the wrong meet
ing. He'd intended to attend the
chamber's board of directors sea-
sion, meeting a few blocks away.
Tony couldn't get up and leave
for the other session, though;
he'd already started his lunch.
.
ff:RES a paragraph from Em-.
met Mlnn' TaM Pwlr
correspondence, recruited for
those who might have missed it
elsewhere: "Last Saturday
morning's frost and ice wai felt
more keenly here than any day '
for some time. When our Scotch
boy who works for us Saturdays
came to work we noticed his
'slip was showing. So we asked
him if he had two pair of pants.
and he replied that he had on
three pair besides his underwear.
One pair didn't show."
REPORTER the other day spot
ted one of Medford's young
brunette matrons la vine the
groundwork for ah , elaborate
practical joke on guests she was
expecting that evening. She was
having a beauty operator put a
blonde switch, worked into
bangs, on her head, to be cov
ered by a kerchief. Her guests,
she thought, would be too
thoughtful to comment on the
change in her hair color; then at
a crucial moment of the evening
she'd pull off the kerchief and
switch, and appear as a brunette
again.
TN the yard at 1118 East Main
st. the past week has been a
Christmas tree which has at
tracted probably as much atten
tion as any in town. It's not big;
it measures only about 18
inches high, is .painted silver,
has colored lights and is lighted,
in addition, with a spotlight. The
tree, in competition with elab
orate tree and porch decorations,
was just "stuck in the ground"
by Pianist Abby Green, and he
reports cars have stopped,
uwu5 nave garnered, ana nes
received Christmas cards, from
strangers commenting on tht
tiny, perky, happy little tree.
STAFF member was talking on
the telephone to the district
attorney at his home last Friday,
when the conversation was in
terrupted suddenly. The DA said
"Wait a miniifoM'1 Ttiavs
' w. . .1111 V W AM-.S IIV0
quiet interval and then a wail
in the background from a very
small boy. When the DA return
ed to the phone,, he explained
"He was about to drink the ink,
and I had to take it away from
mm." , ,.
THE members of the Medford
Kiwanis club are happy that
after about 30 years of trying,
they finally succeeded in having
information concerning1 a club
activity puDiisneu in ine inter
national Kiwanis magazine.
MRS. Josephine Jerome, of the
Evelyn Apartments, , w a s
mystified, for a few- moments
Tuesday when ,she received an
anxious telephone inquiry from
a relative in Bakersfield, Calif.
"Are you all right?" the relative
inquired. Mrs. Jerome, who was
fine, was puzzled until , she
found out that news of the earth
quake which shook southern
Oregon and northern California
and been broadcast in Bakers
field, and the relative called to
make sure Mrs. Jerome - hadn't
been harmed. While the 'quake
did littlemore than give Med
ford a mild shake, it was from
here that the United Press got
its first temblor report, and in
earthquake-conscious Bakers
field,, badly hit by a recent
quake, it seemed cause enough
to call. . .
AS is their custom, Mail Trib
une employees had a Christ
mas party last week all quiet
small incident in which our
comely and statuesque book-
Keeper made a . tiying escape
from under the mistletoe and
just in time, too.
SO, until next Sunday, which is
also next year, Potluck staff
members join is hoping you
have A HAPPY AND PROS
PEROUS NEW YEAR. -
Soviets Said Ready
To Engage in War
Moscow (U.R) The Soviet
Army Organ Red Star, in an edi
torial calling for vigilance by
the Armed forces, said Satur
day that "each soldier should b
ready at any moment to engaga
in decisive combat with the
enemy and deliver a crushing;
UlOW. " : :
"Vigilance was and is one of
the most important qualities of
the fighting morale of the Soviet
soldier," it said. ' ,..
By hewing strictly to the lina
of Army regulations and step
ping up discipline, Red Star said,
rr: a h a fiirhtintf
Ul 1 lUCia tau lauv a v
preparedness of their units and
close loopholes which may bf
exploited by enemy agents. . : -"The
significance of keen
vigilance and political foresight
increases still more under pres
ent conditions, when aggressive :
forces inspired by U. S. monopo
lists are preparing lor a, ie ir
war," it said.