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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MeijfordUTribuni "Everybody m Southern Oregoa Published Daily Except Saturday by , MEDFORD PREfTOiG COT 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 man inpane HOBEHT W. RUHL, Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C FERGUSON. Managing Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph EdltOl OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor " ' JACK JACKSON, Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 - SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three raoi 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 129 Sunday Only One year 3.50 Br Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eaele Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday one montn Carrier and Dealers sc per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jacfcson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising ReDresentativa: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York. Chicago, De troit, san Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL? E DITOt I AL NEWSPAMt PUILISHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackson County. History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20,:30.'and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec 31, 1S44 (It was Sunday) Chateau night club on Pacific highway, north of Ashland, de stroyed by fire; damage esti mated at $12,000. From Arthur Perry's . Ye Smudge Pot column: Tomorrow is another yeaar. Its successor, 1945, will arrive at high mid night. The old year could have been better, and could have been worse, though many confess they can't imagine how. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 31, 1931 at was Monday) Jackson county court names Frank E. Anderson to serve as constable for Medford district. Ronald Phir, former resident of Medford, - one of two Oregon people callr-5- to missionary work with Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 31, 1924 (It was Wednesday) Newton C. Chaney, district attorney-elect, names Allison Moulton, who recently located in Medford, to serve as deputy. G. A. Briscoe, Ashland, re elected president of Oregon High School Athletic association. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 31, 1914 (It was Thursday) Medford Elks lodge to christen new building on North Central ave. with New Year's eve watch party and dancing. Mrs. Alan Brackinreed elect ed president of Medford Drama league; plans to bring Forbes Robertson to Medford are dis cussed. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. The auto industry reports that the new 1955 models are selling well, or poorly, or so-so? 2. Many crops set all-time high production records in 1954; right or wrong? . , , -. , 3. A couple with two children and income of $5000 after de ductions has. left of it after fed eral taxes about $4000, '$4250, $4500 or $4750. s. . 4. Do all the 48 states grant di vorce for cruelty, either -physical or mental? 5. The island of Cyprus,, which wants to join Greece, is now under British, French, Italian, Turkish or Yugoslav rule? ; ; 6. Epileptics are forbidden to marry in many states; right or wrong? 7. Who was Vice-President un der President Hoover? The Answers: 1. W e l I. 2. Wrong; only a few (inc.-: soy beans and sugar beets). 3. About S4500. 4. No. 5. British. 6,-Right. 7. Charles Curtis of Kansas. low Student Loses Appearance in Court y Miami (U.R) University of Miami law student Helene G. Hillabrandt, 24, lost her first case on Thursday when she was hailed before a city judge on a charge of "appearing without sufficient covering or dress." ;- Miss Hillabrandt, who is working her way through col lege as a strip tease dancer, was fined $25. .. , MAIL TRIBUNE Subscription TV Sought A petition filed with the Federal Communications Commission by the Zenith Radio corporation of Chi cago may carry a hint of things to come in the tele vision industry. Zenith's petition asks the FCC to au thorize immediate commercial operation of subscrip tion television by properly equipped TV stations. THE petitioner claims that establishment of sub 1 scription television would make possible a new and better kind of programming that will not dupli cate present commercially sponsored programs. It would also restore to home TV viewers many import ant events, such as grand opera and championship fights, which have been lost to theater TV or blacked out altogether. . .r In particular, subscription television would make possible the showing of top Hollywood movies instead of the ancient films now provided. . According to Zenith, if subscription TV is approv ed the public will be able to see box office events in the home at a fraction of the cost of attending them in person, or seeing them in a TV equipped theater. The payment of only a few cents per person in mil lions of homes would provide a box office to finance the fine arid costly productions which cannot now be seen in the home because no advertiser will undertake the high cost of sponsorship. Subscription TV would also tend to increase the quantity of educational and public service features in general, Zenith asserts, as stations would be able.to afford more programs of this nature because they would receive income, therefrom. 'THE petition points out that, many commercial sta " tions are finding it increasingly difficult to make financial ends meet because of production costs and insufficient advertising revenue. J . The company stated that 31 operating TV stations have already .been forced cial difficulties, and that who have received permits for television station con struction have backe4 out after further consideration of the potential revenue. E.C.F. Plastic Fruit Bags Developments in the packaging of fruit, used by many packers of-this area, recently-were recognized in' an extensive article in the Wall Street Journal, the financial and business world's top publication. It was plastic bags, which are used to encase the fruit and are then exhausted of air, which drew the Journal's attention. The developments, which have been reported from time to were reviewed by the Journal in an article written by btaif Keporter Kay . J. Schnck. . , DEARS are the main crop to get the protection of the plastic sacks, the article reports, although cherries, .grapes and some kinds of apples also are thus packed. The use of the bags slows up the "breath ing" of the fruit,-and the life of pears in cold storage is lengthened by six to eight weeks, and pears on shelves also will last up to twice as long. Results include better pears, and more competi tion among fruits, Schrick longer penod of time m which they can be marketed. v One produce buyer in Yakima was quoted as say ing that about a third of winter pears to be purchased this year will be in the boxes lined with plastic film. They will be shipped next spring to New York, Dallas, Wichita, Kansas City, Little Rock and Washington, D. C, among other points in the country. fNE cherry producer in Washington cited another, benefit, that of decreased shipping costs. Longer life for the cherries means they can be safely shipped, by freight, rather than express, saving almost half on shipping costs. More than a quarter of the 4,000,000-box winter pear pack on the West Coast will move to market in the new bags, according to estimates by the Oregon-Washington-California Pear bureau. This will amount to about 1,000,000 boxes, or ten times the number so shipped last year. Magnitude of the entire industry is shown by estimates which place the three-state crop value of winter pears alone at $16,000,000 or some 90 per cent of the supply for the entire nation. E.A. Plywood Industry Sees Banner Year " 4 Portland U. The Pacific Northwest, plywood industry faces a banner year in 1955,. ac cording to industry sources quot ed 'in the-24th annual Plywood Review published this week by The Timberman magazine in Portland. The industry expected to con tinue the growth trends record ed in 1954 when production and sales moved to new record highs, despite a three-month, summer long strike. The industry begins 1955 with 51 softwood plywood plants in Oregon, 36 in Wash ington, 17 in California, 10 in British Columbia and one each in Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Eight new plants are expected to. go into production in. 1955, including two in Medford, Ore., alone.- .' v V Production in 1954 of douglas fir plywood was an estimated 3,850,000,000. .square feet, high est total in the 49-year history of the industry, The Timberman reported. A sales increase of 10,000,000 square feet a week was expected for the coming year. Some of the industry optimism was based on reports of 1,200, 000 new housing starts predict Friday, December 31, 1954 off the air because of finan more than 100 applicants time m The Mail Tribune, reports, because of the ed for 1955 and on increased use of plywood in remodeling, maintenance and repairs. By 1975, the industry expects a de mand of 7,200,000,000 feet of plywood per year. Aluminum Executive Sees Bright Future Pittsburgh (U.B I. W. Wil son, president of Aluminum Company of America, said to day "the future of the aluminum industry continues to be bright with promise." . - "The market outlook of 1955 is good," he said, "and new mar kets for aluminum are develop ing steadily." "The rate of aluminum ship ments for civilian use in 1954 was even higher than in boom year , 1953," Wilson said in a year-end-statement. "The 1954 production, of pri mary aluminum by the industry in the United States should amount to approximately 1,460, 000 tons or more than 16 per cent above the record-breaking tonnage of 1953." Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 ajn. Monday for Monday; other day 6:30 previous day. French Approval of Western E u ropean Union Tops News By CHARLES -M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the . international balance sheet: THE GOOD : 1. The French National Assem bly approved the ratification of the Western European Union treaties which provide- for the arming of Western Germany. The vote was close, but it saved the United States-British-French alliance, and it was given desipte French fears of the might of a rearmed Germany and despite the desperate protests and threats of Soviet Russia. Rati fication by the French Senate is expected by a larger vote, and it is hoped that all member countries will ratify the treaties by March.' Later, the Big Three Western, allies may decide to hold a showdown cold war con ference with Russia. 2. U. J N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold left New York on his portentous mission to Peiping to' seek the release of 11 Americans' imprisoned by the Chinese Communists as spies. He will seek also the release of about 2,850 other U. N. per sonnel, including 526 Americans still held in violation of the Korean armistice. In Peiping, Hammarskjold will meet Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai. Strong hope was held at the U. N. that out of Hammarskjold's mission may come an agreement which will free not only the 11 airmen but 'other prisoners. 3. There seemed reason to be lieve that Soviet Russia also might free some of the Ameri cans held in its slave labor camps. Austrians who arrived in Vienna after being freed by the Russians said three Americans long held as slave laborers had been promised their freedom "very soon" and that many oth- In The Day's By, FRANK JENKINS Weather stuff: Snow and cold add up to the worst weather of the season in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Tex as and Missouri. An estimated 2000 motorists were stranded in north Texas, i Snow eigh and nine inches deep was common from the area of Fort Scott, Kan., down into Texas. Fort Scott had 17 inches. "DOUGH? Wait a minute. For several years this Oklahoma-Kansas-Texas-Missouri ar ea has been one of .the driest in the country. . Serious -dust bowl conditions have been developing there. LEGAL NOTICES No. 54-639-E SUMMONS SUIT IN EQUITY TO QUIET TITLE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF JACKSON. GEORGE GALBRAITH and GRACE E. GALBRAITH, husband and wife, Plaintiffs vs. O. W. ABBOTT ana GLADYS I. ABBOTT, husband and wife: the un known stockholders and directors ol Universal Mental Liberty Association of Jackson County, Oregon, an Oregon corporation, now dissolved: and also all other persons or parties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in and to the real property described in the Complaint herein. Defendants, TO EACH, EVERY AND ALL OF THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON each of you is hereby required to appear and answer the Complaint filed herein in the above entitled suit on or before the last day of four weeks from and after the date of the first publication of this Summons. If you fail to so appear and answer, Plaintiffs will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in their Complaint, which relief is suc cinctly, stated as follows, io-wit: That all claims that you assert of any right, title, estate, lien or interest in or to the real property situate in Jackson County. Oregon, particularly described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point South 894S' East 2158.60 feet from the northwest corner of Donation Land Claim No. 67 in Township 38 South. Range 1 West of the Willamette Meridian in Jackson County, Oregon, said point being the northeast corner of tract de scribed in Volume 158 page 218 of the Deed Records of Jackson '. County, Oregon: thence South , 89 "46' East 723.17 teet. more or less, to the westerly line of the Robert B. Purves land as de ' scribed in Volume 84 page 232, said Deed Records; thence along the westerly line of said Purves land,, as follows: South 233' East 720.27 feet, and South 253' West 48125 feet, to the north line of a 25-foot strip of land: thence North 8933' West 248.4 feet to a point .'North of the northeast corner of tract described in Vol ume 51 page 634, said Deed Records: thence South 208.0 feet to the northeast corner of said tract; thence North 8938' West 727.41 feet, more or less, to the east line of the Packard land ns described in Volume 100 page 269, - said Deed Records: thence North O'lT East 870.65 feet to the ' southwest corner of the Wagner Creek Cemetery Lot as described m Volume 15 page 26. said Deed Records: thence South 8946' East ' 232.51 feet to the southeast cor ner of said Lot: thence North 0 17' East 534.75 feet to the point of beginning, or in or to any part or parcel thereof be adjudged and declared to be null and void; and that Plaintiffs be de creed to be the owners in fee simple cf said premises, and of the whole thereof, free and clear of any and aU such right, title, estate, lien or in terest; i and that you. and each, and all -persons claiming through or un- ". . j j - " iurever injoinea, re strained,, and barred from asserting, attempting to establish, or claiming any rieht. title rtat ,-., ."s est. in or to said real "property or in 21 SfF. .F .Parcel thereof: and that Plaintiffs' title to said premises beforever quieted and set at rest : The date -of thp Onfor ....1.1:' Won of this Summons is December 6 1954 and the time prescribed for such publication is once each week for four i- Dated and first miblishort rwi... 10. 1954. VAN DYKE & DELLENBACK Attorneys for Plaintiffs No. 8 Goldy Building Medford, Oregoa er prisoners were being well treated in apparent preparation for early release. THE BAD 1. The conference of the so called Colombo powers at Bogor in Indonesia resulted in a victory for Communism and may .por tend future problems for the United States and other big West ern powers. India, Pakistan, Cey- Ion. Rlirma o-n-l Tn4nnocio 'Visa if ive East Asian countries r'e re. sented, decided to invite Com munist China to a big meeting of Asian and African states next spring. Also invited will be Communist northern Viet Nam and some of Great Brit ain's African colonies. This con ference can result only in stir ring up trouble for the West. It could result in the formation of a "neutralist" and "anti-colonial" Asia-African bloc. 2. Red China showed an un pleasantly strong interest in Communist northern Viet Nam. It was disclosed that the Chinese Red regime had agreed to aid the Indochinese Communist state in "improving its communica tions." The communications al ready are being used, it is sus pected, in supplying the Indo Chinese Communists with war materials in violation of the Gen eva peace agreement. , 3. Britain enters the new year beset by labor troubles. Eleven thousand automobile workers struck Thursday in protest against the firing of four union organizers. The engineers ' and maintenance men of the great government - owned British Air Lines threatened to strike in pro test against the "victimization" of a shop steward. The country's 400,000 railway men were set to strike and threaten paralysis of industry on Jan. 9 unless their wage demands were met News SNOW MAKES WATER j.eis never lorget tnat our whole economy rests on water. r'LOAK-AND-DAGGER stuff: Over in Germany, an Amer ican intelligence officer became romantically involved with an eye-appealing German blonde As too often happens, he let his tongue run too freely on mat ters that an intelligence officer he should have kept buttoned up. . . The gal turned out to be a Russian spy, and has just been sentenced to five years in jail. The intelligence officer's name hasn't been disclosed, but you can lay a fair-sized wager that he isn't sleeping well these days. THIS much is clear: . He blabbed. So he isn't a good intelligence officer. A good intelligence of ficer never confides in anybody . . . especially good-looking blondes. ttPIES? ' We've been trained to de spise 'em. But as long as there is war or preparation for war we have to have 'em. War and preparation for war are rugged business, and if you are to succeed in either you have to know what the oth er fellow has up his sleeve. THE news these days is full of tales of what the new Con gress will do when it assembles next week. One tale is to the ef fect that the Congress- may au thorize more low-rent PUBLIC housing than the President will recommend. Personally, I don't think much of low-rent public housing. It's about as near pure socialism as we can get. It is paid for by ALL the taxpayers and is en joyed by only a FEW or them. That's more than mere social ism. It's DISCRIMINATION, as well. LOW rate, low down payment loans for private home build ing is another matter. That stim ulates private, personal owner ship of homes which is good for any country. . LET'S close with the tale of the hot-tempered Spaniard in the Spanish village of Lugo who has been sent to jail for shooting holes in the tires of an automo bile. The car was parked out side his, house, with its motor running, and he claims the noise disturbed his wife s siesta. I sometimes wish he could be around with his trusty blunder buss to take a pot shot at the horn honkers who lean hard on the button while the light is still red and the cars in front are just as anxious to get going as the horn honker but CAN'T. Miss Universe To Ride In Parade at Pasadena Long Beach, Calif. UJ Miriam Stevenson, the pride of Southern Carolina who bears the title Miss Universe, 1955, will ride in the Pasadena Tour nament of Roses parade to morrow. The blonde,. 21-year-old coed of Lander college, Greenwood, Back Stairs: Scenes of Christmas Week By MERRIMAN . SMITH United Press White House Writer Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Back stairs at the traveling White House: . ' Christmas Week scenes in Au gusta s Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, during the long, waits on the French crisis, practicing golf strokes in the temporary White House press room at the Don Air Hotel. . Mrs. Eisenhower wearing her screamingly bright red, woolen Christmas gloves. The people who didn't sleep the Western Union operators who remained on duty around the clock during the French crisis. Parka Against Cold . , Secret Service agents on duty outside the Eisenhower cabin at the: Augusta National Golf Club wearing heavy parkas against the teeth-chattering cold. . Mr. Eisenhower being called off the golf course . by short On The Side . (Distributed by King O start you saw our meeting, , Two beings and one soul. Two hearts so madly beating To mingle and be wbole. O happy night, deliver Her kisses back to me, . , Or keep them all and give her A blissful dream of me. Lowell Note it said that 37 per cent of the arguments between man and wife are started by the wife. That strikes me as an exaggera tion. I believe only about 90 per .cent of family arguments are started by the wife. How ever, don't blame the females too much for that. Nature, is responsible. A male dog never starts a fight with a female. It is the female who is the agres sor. Same is true of lions, tigers and nearly all other animals. So, when a wife assumes an aggressive, argumentative, cmar- Is That So? -. ' By Eugene Burns Ranger-Naturalist Here's another, Who Am I? I'm not what you'd call hand some. My front legs are longer than the rear pair, giving me an awkward gait, yet I can outrun any race horse. Much of my summer feeding is done under water. I'm a cracker jack swim mer. . I seldom roam m6re than five miles yet my kind is widespread Vli throughout northern forests, in America and northern Europe. Head-on, I am tall with a long head and an overhanging nose. My tail, sometimes, isn't three inches long. My hair is coarse and heavy, on shoulders and neck four inches long. My eyes are prominent yet my vision is ,not particularly good. My ears are large and I keep them in almost constant motion, and as you might expect my hearing is phenomenal. A cud chewer I eat about 50 pounds a day. . Lacking upper front teeth and canines, I am es sentially a browser, often bal ancing on my hindlegs and pull ing down foliage 12 feet high. But 1 do not disdain grasses, oc casionally dropping on my front knees to gather them up with my flabby overhanging lip. , Male Sheds Antlers Only the male has antlers and he sheds them each year. Dur ing the month-long mating sea son, he is dangerous sometimes driving men up trees and keep ing them there for hours. My distinguishing feature is my "bell" an appendage hang ing from the neck. Both males and females have it the bull's being longer. Many think my ability to swim six miles per hour is due to this comical dangling tassel which they say can be inflated that's non sense. But goodness only knows why it is there. I am a Moose. (Released by. T McClure Newspaper Syndicate Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader . who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered, i SorryA I simply can't answer Please address your questions ic; IS THAT SOI co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausali to, Calif. S.C., arrived here yesterday. She tried on a $1000 white for mal gown and a $250,000 pearl studded crown, both of which she will don for the parade. wave radio to talk by telephone with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. . .A Signal Corps scrambler made it impossible for an out sider to intercept their conver sation. ; . - Last Sunday, when the Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower at tended services at the Reid Mem orial Presbyterian Church, there was this 'item in the church pro gram by the pastor, Massey Mott Heltzel: "Your friends in the manse are most grateful for your many kindnesses toward them during the Christmas season. We thank you especially for the beautiful Magnavox television set. The children; of course, were over joyed when the set arrived. I wish all members of the con gregation might have witnessed their excitement and extreme delight. Frankly, I am a bit worried about what it may do to my reading. - But at least from now on, when the sermons are worse than usual, 111 have B f v- Dur,n9 Feature Svadicate, Inc.) -.. . . relsome attitude, she is just do ing what comes naturally. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Of what woman, and by whom was it said, "To love her is a liberal education." A. Richard Steele, the essayist, said that about a beautiful, - brown eyed, honey blonde named Elizabeth Has tings. Q. What are ; the odds against making either a seven or eleven on the first roll of the dice? A. Seventeen to one against an eleven on the first roll. Five to one against a seven on the first roll. Q. How do you pronounce Lana Turner's first name? A. Lah-nah. - Almost Confidential Have you given your wife a "rainbow kiss" lately? Just in case you don't know, a "rain bow kiss" is a kiss that comes after a quarrel. . . . Favorite alcoholic beverage of residents of Illinois is beer. Of New York ers it is bourbon whisky. Call fornians differ. Northern Cali fornia favorite is wine. South ern California it is vodka. Natives of Maine and Vermont prefer gin. . . Among the Married- Did the girl you married ac quire a more attractive name by becoming your bride? Or is the reverse true? Columbia May. pole, beautiful St. Louis society belle, married a man named Dieffenderfer. So her name was changed from Columbia Maypole to Columbia Diffenderfer. Heard of another young woman whose maiden name was Curtis. She married a man named Mucken- fuss. So, before marriage, she was called "Miss Curtis," and after marriage, Mrs. Muckenf uss. Asides Icecream placed in the cen ter of a cantaloupe makes it cantaloupe a la Lillian Russell. . . It was Ring Lardner who said, "An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve." If there is such a thing, as a lucky number" it is not seven, but three. ... A close observer of the situation says large wom en wear clothes out twice as fast as small women. So, if you want to get-wealthy, start a shop catering to tall girls and women who are not slender. Sidelights The first man to be styled "Public Enemy No. 1" was John Dillinger. The term "public enemy," as applied to criminals was originated by the brilliant Chicago lawyer, Frank Joseph Loesch. . Briefly Has your wife a trim ankle? If so, that's good for more rea sons than one. Experts on the subject say a trim ankle is a sign of a healthy heart. ... Am asked what actress appeared in a short film titled "How to Un dress Before Your Husband." It was Elaine Barrie Barrymore, the fourth Mrs. John Barrymore. As It Was How many miles per gallon of gasoline are you getting wJth your elegant motor car? At least twenty, I hope. In 1895, just about sixty years ago, a Duryea automobile was offered for sale for $1,000 The advertisement further said, "The Duryea uses ordinary stove gasoline and costs less than one half of a cent a mile to run." . "OH THE DOT" twice a year generous earnings are to our investors.' It's an unfailing - thrill, this ' attractive rate ef pay for the use of your hard earnea1 dollars! FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save something definite to blame it' on." .- 4 ' History Point Checked Pastor Heltze, the President's preacher in Augusta, is a most engaging man. Just before. his sermon last Sunday, he ran down . the street with his black vest ments flying, to check a minor ... point of history with reporters. Heltzel wanted to refer to the . Christmas celebrations , on the -Argentine-Chile border as an ex- . ample of peaceful symbolism and did not know whether there ' had been any recent blow-up between the two nations. There ; hasn't. " When the White House staff : was really worried earlier this week about the French situation. Press Secretary Hagerty passed through the Washington press -corps handing out celluloid but tons imprinted with one word," "Relax." Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication it permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Wants All the Robins Killed To the Editor: Just finished reading your "Roosting place for 21,000 Robins found.". What a grand thing it would be for all, if they could all be killed off. The past few years it has be come almost impossible to get any of our. berries or cherries, and of course they destroy lots of other .garden, crops .but the berries and cherries they take , almost 100. Before World War No. 2 the kids were always plunking away with 22's and BB guns and thereby kin da kept them under' control,, but, this last ,10 years" the birds, principally robins have increased till they are worse than the bugs and worms put together. How about it? , ; : , A. A. Dixon Rt. 1, Box 399 : Gold Hill, Ore. Doesn't Agree With , ' ' Mr. Thompson To the Editor: I. cannot .quite . go along with Mr. Thompson and his article in the Mail Tribune of recent date about Christmas. In the first placeI think we can just as well believe December 25 is the right date as October 1, as long as the Lord has not revealed to Mr. Thompson which is the right date. And let us not single out in particular the great evil" m cnildren playing ' with war-: toys. When the world 4s so full? of other and worse , evils. I am sure cigarette and liquor adve'r-' tisements on the radio and TV, lead more kids astray than war toys. At any rate, Christmas is a season of love and .rood 'WUl among all people who believe' Jesus came to bring peace and love into the world and to teach us a better-way of life. God would not have planted the Tree . of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden if it had not been for our good. By eating of the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve brought death and sin into the world, and Jesus came to atcne,for Adam's" transgression and to bring im- mortality to all who will have " lived upon the earth. Sin is the transgression of the law, 1 John 3:4; see also Romans chapter. Were it not for our knowledge of good and evil it would be impossible for us. to progress, and we certainly could. not appreciate the good if we did not come in contact with the bad. In other words, we would riot know the sweet if we didn't know the bitter. It is up to us to teach our children the difference between good and evil and to show them the better way of life by living it ourselves. We will do: well to be in harmony with hu man nature and with the Master' Teacher and to be more positive than negative in our religious living and teaching. -i John F. Peterson, , r - ' 1316 Beatty St., i -, Medford, Ore. v May the New Year bring happiness, fill ed with glorious op portunities, for you who are our valued friends and customers FOX PHOTOStATIS 40 SOUTH CENTRAL MEDFORD. OREGON mm IV V 1 A 0 4r. 4 X V -1 e
