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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
Jan. 3, 1945
(It was Wednesday)
Thyre Dodge, 1932 Medford
high school graduate, resigns
position with Manhattan Beach;
Calif., public schools to accept
oteaching job in Medford school
system.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: On the
Western Front, in the "Battle of
the Bulge," victory rides with
the Allies? The conflict at no
time had anything to do with
the dieting of fat Nazi generals.
50 YEARS AGO
an. 3, 1935
(It Was Thursday)
Influenza causes several
deaths during " past week in
cJackson0 county, according to'
jjr. 1. urummona, county
physician.
District Attorney., George Cod
ding reports major crime was at
a low level in Jackson county
during 1934, with no murders,
five suicides, four accidental
deaths, and no hunting or acci
dental gunshot fatalities.
80 YEARS AGO
Jan. 3, 1925
(It was Saturday)
,Ward Beaneynd Rudy Sing
lerstar for high school alumni
basketball team, but high school
live, led by Knips and Chastain,
wins by 33 to 25 margin.
Miss Linnie Hanscom, Med
for city treasurer-elect, sworn
into office by City Recorder
Alford. .
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 3. 1915
(It was Sunday)
New Jackson county officials,
including Recorder Chauncey
Florey, Treasurer Fred L. Col
vig, Coroner John A. Perl, and
Commissioner Frank H. Mad
gen,, take office.
0 From the Local and Personal
column: Dr. Gowdy, one of the
best known men in Medford,
and a southern gentleman of
the old school, celebrated his
Q"73rd birthday Sunday with
greetings and eggnog to his host
0 of friends. Though nearly three
quarters of a century old, Doc
ias not lost faith In the Demo
cratic party.
What's Ihe Answer?
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(Can You Get 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report
I. If you bought a fifth of
liquor for New Year's Eve,
$0.69, $1.10, $1.60, $2.10, or
$2.60 of what you pay is for the
federal excise tax?
2i Agriculture Secretary Ben
son says the Government should
or shouldn't sell some of its sur
plus buter stocks to Russia?
3. In the first full fiscal year
o under Eisenhower the Govern
ment spent more or less than in
the year before, or about the
same? 0 0
4. More Americans earn9 a
-living by working for federal,
state or local governments than
by farming; right or wrong?
5. Former President Truman
says Sena McCarthy is or isn't
justified in charging Pres. Eisen
hower with weakness in handl
ing the U. S. Reds?
6. Americans this year are
saving more than they lay out in
taxes, or are laying out more in
taxes than they save, or is it
about 50-50?
7. No President of this cent
ury lived to be 80; right or
wrong?
The Answers: 1. $2.10. 2.
Should. 3. About $6 billion less.
4. Right. 5. Isn't justified. 6. Are
laying out more in taxes. 7.
Wrong; Mr. Hoover is bow SO.
MAIL TRIBUTE
An Important Start
The turn of the year is the time, when newspaper
offices receive a large volume of roundups, reports
and discussions of what went on during the past year.
Here .are a few of those which have arrived within
the past few days:.
"Sixteenth Annual Report of the Oregon Unem
ployment Compensation Commission," "Biennial Re
port issue of the Agriculture Bulletin," of 'the State
Department of Agriculture,
tions of the Oregon State
"Information Bulletin No.
Research and Service, Property Tax Review m Ore
gon Cities, 1954-55," "The
Oregon, Report of the Legislative Interim Tax Study
Committee, 1953-55," and
sources Committee."
THESE aje just a few of
rive. All of them are not, of course, read, although
many of them do furnish background which shows up
during the year in the coverage of the news.
The most interesting of those listed above was,
m many ways, the last named.
First of all, it delves thoroughly into a problem
which could easily be described as possibly the most
crucial facing the state for
Secondly, it proposed
plans to deal with the problem.
Third, it was largely the work of Don Lane, ex
ecutive-secretary of the committee, who is better
known in Medford as f ormer manager of the chamber
of commerce here. Anyone knowing Don would ex
pect the report to be as sound and inclusive as it ap
pears to be.
AN IDEA of the scope of the 203-page booklet can
be had by glancing at the table of contents, which
goes into climate, precipitation, snow surveys, stream
gaging, stream flow, ground water, history, legisla
tion, demand for water, use of water, dangers inher
ent in waters, public proposals and suggestions, ana
lysis and discussion, recommendations concerning the
most immediate needs, and specific bills for legisla
tive action.
To make the publication
are 13 plates and 23 tables,
report.
It is a good job.
THE booklet begins with a quotation illustrating
the exceeding importance of water. It says :
"Water contributes directly or indirectly to the
supplying of more human wants than does any other
natural resource. It is an absolute necessity in the
functioning of the human body, with regular daily
supplies as important as food. It. is .essential to the
maintenance of all plant and animal life. In varying
degrees, water is vital in all segments of economic
activity. As the population grows and the plane of
living is raised, the total demand for water increases
through new uses and intensification of old ones."
All of us realize these facts, but at the same time
most of us still take water supplies pretty much for
granted.
THE importance of the committee's report lies in
the fact that it is an official governmental recog
nition of the problem and of the fact that the problem
will get worse before it gets better; and because it
makes specific recommendations as to what to do
about it.
The report points out that the problem is particu
larly applicable in Oregon because of the population
gain. It might be added that it is just that much more
applicable in southern Oregon, which does not have
the high average rainfall of the Willamette valley and
the coast, and which has a rate of population increase
even higher than much of the rest of the state.
-
THE committee's recommendations consist of two
broad proposals, each including specific points.
In general they are :
1. The formation of an Oregon Water Resources
board, which shall assume many of the functions per
taining to water now held by various other agencies
of government, plus some new powers; and
2. The establishment of a code governing the use
of ground water, to protect the sub-surface water
tables, and to provide equitable regulations for the
use of ground water.
THE job of the committee was, in one sense, a job
of pioneering, of exploring new fields. In another
sense, it;was a repetition of mankind's age-old. job
of trying to make inadequate supplies (of money, or
food, or jobs) go as far as possible.
Viewed in any light, it was a job which had to be
done, if Oregon is going to continue to advance inan
orderly manner. The time has long since passed wh'en
society can permit range .wars, or water-hole wars.
"Big government" or not, the administration of.
water supplies is a job which has to be done, and gov
ernment is the only agency big enough to take it on.
The well-thought-out, thoroughly considered pro
gram suggested by the Water Resources committee
is a good start. E.A.
Currency Comptroller
Asks Bank Conditions
Washington (U.R) The
Comptroller of Currency today
issued a caU for the condition of
all national banks as of Dec.
31.
The Federal Reserve System
issued a similar call for all its
member banks which are not
national banks. The Federal De
posit Insurance Corp. issued a
call for all insured banks which
do not belong to the Federal
Reserve System.
Monday, January 3, 1955
Organization and Funo
Department of Education,"
95, Bureau of Municipal
Property Tax Picture in
"Report of the Water Re
the publications which ar
the next decade.
some concrete and specific
even more graphic, there
illustrating phases of the
Clark Gable Denies
Kay Spreckels Romance
Hollywood (U.R) Actor
Clark Gable today - denied
rumors circulating in Holly
wood that he plans to marry
Kay Williams Spreckels, former
wife of sugar heir Adolph B.
Spreckels II.
"There is absolutely nothing
to it," Gable said. "Kay and I
have been friends for 15 years
and that's all." -
Mrs. Spreckels also denied
the report.
Matter of Fact
ANOTHER GREAT DEBATE
Washington' At this time,
when prediction of things to
come is much practiced, it seems
at least a
sporting bet to
predict a tre
mendous row
about ' Ameri
can foreign
policy, to start
almost as soon
as Congress
assembles.
The first or
der of business
in the Senate,
as regards for
Slewaxi JLttcp
eign policy, will be two key
treaties the mutual defense
pact with Formosa, and the
Manila pact for the defense of
Southeast Asia. It may seem un
likely that these treaties could
generate a row, since there is
not the slightest likelihood that
either will be defeated. Indeed,
it is always possible that they
will slip quietly through Con
gress, without fireworks. But
they could also act as detonators
for some very impressive fire
works indeed.
The present intention is to call
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, possibly Assistant Secre
tary of State for the Far East
Walter Robertson, and the mem
bers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
to testify on the treaties, before
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. Sen. WiUiam Know
land, Republican leader, is a
member of -the Foreign Relations
Committee.
Knowland has already taken
sharp issue with the Administra
tion on foreign policy in Asia.
He has called for another "great
debate" on foreign policy, and
he has proposed that the Joint
Chiefs and the highest civilian
officials te called to testify on
their views about foreign policy.
The hearings on the Manila and
Formosa pacts, in other words,
will give Knowland just the op
portunity he has demanded.
Nor is this all. It is no secret
whatever that there is a pro
found division inside the Ad
ministration on the basic issues
of foreign policy above all,
policy in Asia.
WITHIN recent months there
have been two occasions
when this deep division has al
most led to a surface explosion.
The first occasion was when
Adm. Arthur Radford, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs, Adm. Rob
ert. Carney, .and Gen. Nathan
Twining favored committing
American air sea power to hold
Indo-China. The second occasion
was when the same men favored
committing air-sea power to the
Chinese mainland, if necessary
to hold the Chinese Nationalist
off-shore islands.
Both times, Gen. Matthew
Ridgway made up a minority
of one on the Joint Chiefs. And
both times, the issues were final
ly settled in Ridgway's favor by
President Eisenhower himself. .
It is no secret either that ithere
is now a certain tension among
the Joint Chiefs, of the kind
which is almost inevitable after
this sort of policy clash, and of
the kind also which often leads
to public, blow-ups. Radford,
moreover, has certainly discuss-.
ed his views in private not only
with Knowland? but with other
influential Republicans, like
Sen. Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire.
Radford is a brilliantly per
suasive man, . who has always
been very decidedly outspoken
about issues on which he feels
deeply.
It is probable that he feels
even more deeply on the issue
of Asia policy than he did on
the issue of air policy, during
the B-36 row between the Navy
and the Air Force.
The other Joint Chiefs in
cluding Ridgway are not given
to hiding their lights under a
bushel either. Thus it does not
take a great deal of imagina
tion to see how the forthcoming
hearings before the Foreign Re
lations Committee might bring
fully into the open the split in
the Administration.
This split has heretofore been
largely concealed. But with
Knowland and other Senators
questioning 1 oth Dulles and the
Joint Chiefs on Asia policy, it
is hard to see how it could con
tinue to be hidden. The sub
stance of any testimony before
Senate committee, even testi
mony taken in executive session,
always becomes public property
before too long.
P11 THE hearings do start in an
Otv foViat nn Acta rinlirv rii
Administration will be in for
a difficult time. For it is the
President himself who has taken
the basic decision on Asia poli
cy. His decision is to avoid com
mitting American forces in the
area, if this can be done short
of dishonor. Yet if Radford, for
example, is asked at the hear
ings whether American forces
should be committed if seeded
to save the Nationalist off-shore
islands, what can he say other
than what he is already known
to believe?
Thus it is at least possible
that the hearings on the Manila
and . Formosa pacts might give
rise to' the kind of major crisis
which led to former President
Truman's firing of Gen. Mac
Arthur. If the Chinese Commu
nists choose in the next few
weeks and months to move
against the off-shore islands,
moreover, this kistd of crisis
will become, not simply possi
ble, but highly probable.
Yet the public debate on Asia
policy which now seems likely
wUl surely be a healthy thing.
For it is a most unhealthy thing
for the kind of basic policy divi
sion which now exists in the
Administration to be bottled up,
and to fester in concealment.
(Copyright, 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Is That So?
By Eugene Burns '
Ranger-Naturalist
Did you know that ... the
American northwest Indian had
a domestic white dog, perhaps
brought in from Asia, which
was bred and sheared for its
wool-like covering. After the
white man's arrival, it soon be
came extinct. Likewise, the Poly
nesians had a lap dog which was
used for food. It, too, has dis
appeared. ,
A kingfisher usually perches
high up on a dry branch or snag
the better to survey his beat of
the river. The conspicuous posi
tion gives him an unobstructed
view and at an angler's approach
he sounds off his alarm, spread
ing it -to much of the other wild
life.
Don't be surprised to find the
water-loving muskrat far away
from water in fields or woods
during its spring or faU migra
tion. A beaver, too, may cross
20 miles of mountainous ter
rain to get to a new run of wat
er. The glass snake is no snake
but a limbless lizard. It has the
faculty of breaking off its tail
which is left wriggling on the
ground to divert the attention
of its foe while it makes good
its escape. It regrows the drop
ped tail.
A single bolt of lightning rep
resents almost as much horse
power, for an instant, as the en
tire output of the power plants
in the U.S. .
Flashes Red Light ,
' . A South American firefly
flashes a red light at the end of
its body and a green light along
its side. Naturally it s called a
railway beetle. , .. . '.1.
A skull of a dinosaur in the
Smithsonian Institution shows
that although its head was more
than , two feet long, its brain
weighed less than two ounces
making it probably one of the
most stupid creatures that ever
roamed the earth. . ,
A miaaie-aged man, wno is
not already bald, loses about
40 hairs a day.
All members of the cud-chew
ing family, including cattle,
camel, sheep, goats, antelopes,
deer and giraffes rise hind part
first. Other large four - footed
animals get up front legs first
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Use Old Cards
To the Editor Will you
please inquire through ; your
paper what organizations col
lect used Christmas cards? I
have a large collection, and I
am sure they can be used in
children's hospitals, schools,
etc., but I do not know where to
send them.
Perhaps someone will ten me
through your paper. I am cer
tain many people would be glad
to give their cards to; someone
who could use them, rather than
burn such lovely things, but one
cannot go on saving them for
ever. Mrs. Julia Halden,
Crater Lake Highway,
. Medford. . :
(Editor's note: Old Christ
mas cards can be used by ihe
Women's Missionary council
of Medford Assembly of God
church, and the Womens' Mis
sionary society of the Jack
Qttower faces "SptimlUoiD
Congress
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower was home to
day from his Georgia golfing
fi ' -! vacation, con
fronted with
an opposition
Congress
eager for poli
tical . warfare
on the domes
tic front.
The open
ing skirmishes
of the 1956
p r e s i dential
campaign will
Lyle C. Wilson
take place in the first session of
the new 84th Congress which
convenes Wednesday at noon.
Mr. Eisenhower will unfold
before Republican legislative
leaders and members of his cabi
net his political program in a
White House meeting today. He
wUl discuss with them his an
nual message on the State of the
Union which he personally wiU
deliver aft. 6 before a joint ses
sion. Conservatives Express Anxiety
The President has drafted a
message representative of the
moderate progressive political
position which he assumes and
which he warns his Republican
brothers they must accept if the
party is to survive. There is
some anxiety among conserva
tive Republicans that Mr. Eisen- j
hower's moderate progressivism
will be so far left of center as to
satisfy the Democratic opposi
tion while antagonizing the right
wing of the President's own
party.
Seven messages in bang bang
order are scheduled after Thurs- j
day's:
Jan. 10: Foreign trade; Jan.
11: Pay raises for civil servants
including postal employees and
hiked postal rates to cover the
latter; Jan. 13: Military pay
raises and a new armed services
reserve program; Jan. 17: Bud
get; Jan. 20: The report of the
President's Council of Economic
Advisers; Jan. 24: Recommenda
tion that the federal government
set up a fund of about $25,000,
000 to underwrite extension of
private health insurance; and
Jan. 27: Multi-billion dollar
highway program.
Substantial Harmony
A substantial area of har
mony has been staked out for bi
partisan collaboration in enact
ing some of the White House
program. Rep. Sam Rayburn (D
Tex.),.who wiU be speaker in
the new Congress, told the
United' Press he is ready to go
along with Mr. Eisenhower in
postponing scheduled reductions
in corporation taxes and excise
taxes on such things as gasoline
and cigarettes.
Democrats may challenge him,
however, with a plan to increase
individual income tax exemp
tions, a gesture toward lower in
come bracket voters.
The President can expect
strong Republican and Demo
cratic support for his foreign
policy, . including the velvet
glove approach to Asia.. But. a
big scale program for economic
aid to Asia may suffer opposi
tion from conservatives of both
parties. . '
Most Democrats are expected
to support ana many KepuDii
cans to oppose the President's
comparatively low-tariff, reel
procal trade program. On pub
lic housing, health insurance, an
increase of the minimum wage
from 75 to 90 cents an hour, the
President can expect substantial
Democratic support as far as he
wants to go. Both parties will
be notably divided on any plan
a revive the Taft-Hartley Act,
Farm Price Battle
Battle lines are forming on
farm legislation with the House
inclined to return to the high
and inflexible supports which
Congress junked last year. The
Senate might not go along but,
in any event, Mr. Eisenhower
probably would veto such legis
lation.
Sen. Richard B. RusseU, (D
Ga.), indicated to the United
Press the Senate Armed Services
Committee would give the PreS'
ident's military manpower pro
gram a long, cold look. RusseU
will be committee chairman in
84th Congress. Mr. Eisenhower
plans to reduce military man
power by. 403,000 men in the
next 18 months and to set up a
Western Pine Lumber
Shipments Increase
Portland (U.R) An 8.6 per
cent increase in lumber shio-
ments from the western pine
region has been predicted for
the first three months in 1955
by S. V. Fullaway Jr., secretary-
manager of the western JPine
Association.
Fullawav- said his prediction
was based on the current de
mand for lumber and the cur
rent residential trend, but ship
ments could be slowed by
weather-conditions and mill and
log stocks.
. The lumberman said he ex
pected shipments of 1,700,000,
000 from the 12 pine-producing
states in thee Wst.
sonville Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Lester Harris, 707 South
Oakdale aye., and other local
people conducting classes for
kindergarten groups also state
they will be able to make
good use of old Christmas
cuds.)
Eager iflor 'Warfare
new reserve system.
Public power and internal se
curity are the issues on which
the Democrats are most deter
mined to give Mr. Eisenhower
trouble in the new Congress,
seeking issues which could pay
off in 1956. Linked with over
all power policies in which the
President hopes td encourage
private enterprise to the utmost,
is the specific case of the Dixon
Yates contract with the Atomic
Energy Commission to build a
steam-power plant in eastern
Arkansas. The Democrats claim
the stiff security regulations im
posed by Mr. Eisenhower are un
just. This dispute has been per
Adenauer on Spot
As Rearmament Scene'
Switches To Germany
By CHARLES McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
Tough old Konrad Adenauer
is the man on the spot now.
v The French National Assembly
having voted
for West Ger
man rearma
ment, the rati
fication fight
shifts to Ger
many itself.
It is general
ly agreed that
Premier
Pierre M e n
des - France
was the o n 1 y
Chaneii Met a no man Who
could have forced the armament
legislation through tVio
Assembly. Adenauer alone, it is
aiso agreed, win oe able to get
it thrOUEfh th Woef rmin
Parliament.
Adenauer must overrnm i
stubborn resistance nt th a.
man Socialist Party to rearma
ment, tie must beat down the
opposition of many members of
U.S. Corporations
Disperse Record
Cash Dividends
New York j(U.R) A record
breaking total of $10,100,000,
000 in cash dividends was dis
bursed by American corpora
tions in 1954, establishing a new
all-time peak.
This total compared with $9,
550,000,000, the previous record,
in 1953, and with $5,823,000,000
in historic 1929.
Of the 1530 issues listed on
the New York Stock Exchange,
dividends Tvere paid on a total
of 1,384, involving 941 common
and 443 preferred stocks. These
aggregated $6,693,726,700, a rec
ord. In 1953 dividends of $6,
257,501,000 were paid on 964
common and 443 preferred
stocks listed.
Aircraft, utility, chemical,
electrical equipment, machinery
and metals, paper, petroleum
and natural gas, railroad, rub
ber, and steel companies increas
ed payments. Stock dividends
ranging from 2Vi per cent to 100
per cent and extra or special di
vidends were again distributed
in volume.
Decreases in dividends were
made by some automobile, farm
equipment, and textile compan
ies. ,
General Motors Corp. led all
companies in cash payments for
the year.
The following -table shows 12
companies with the largest cash
disbursements made in 1954:
General Motors Corp.
$437,330,000
American TeL&TeL 426,375,000
Standard Oil Co. (N.J.)
275,598,000
E. I. du Pont de Nem 250,822,000
Creole Petroleum Corp.
193,988,000
General Electric Co. 126,343,000
Standard Oil of Calif.
90,321,000
Humble Oil & Refining -
81,708,000
Socony-Vacuum Oil 78,710,000
U. S. Steel Corp. 78,366,000
Union Carbide & Carbon
72,383,000
Kennecott Copper Corp.
64,932,000
Total
$2,227,044,000
Philadelphia Daily News
Breaks GOP Party Policy
Philadelphia U.R The
Philadelphia Daily News an
nounced in an editorial today
it was breaking its long time
political affiliation with the Re
publican party to become an
"Independent-Democratic news
paper."
The editorial, written : by
Louis RuppeL former editor of
Collier's magazine recently
named editor of the Daily News,
was the first formal expression
of policy since Matthew H. Mc-
Closkey became chairman of the
board.
McCloskey, P h i 1 a d e i phia
builder, heads the Democratic
party's state Finance Commit
tee.
Boston was covered with gla
cial ice 1,000 feet thick 50,000
yeari ago.
if
sonalized and publicized by the
case of Wolf Ladejinsky, a long
time agricultural expert in the
State Department who was
transferred, along with others,
to the Agricultural Department
some months ago.
Ladejinsky was secure enough
for State but Agriculture found
him wanting on "technical and
security grounds." Both depart
ments are standing pat. The
Democrats will seek to use the
Ladejinsky case to dishonor the
entire Eisenhower security sys
tem. They are favored in this
effort by the fact that the Re
publicans, themselves, cannot
agree on Ladejinsky.
his Bundestag who do not like
the French-German Treaty on
the Saar, which is part of the
armament package. He must
meet the arguments that ratifi
cation will end any chance, in
the foreseeable future, of Ger
man unification.
Threats From Moscow
Adenauer also must withstand
the dire threats which will come
in a stream from Moscow
threats which will be mingled
with soft talk about happy days
to come" if West Germany con
sents to remain militarily help
less. The betting is that Adenauer
will be able to do all this when
the ratification legislation comes
up for final passage next month.
It already has passed its first
reading In the Bundestag. The
second and third final read
ings remain.
If Mendes-France is rightly
called "Mr. France" on the
Seine in the present situation,
Adenauer certainly may be
called Mr. Germany on the
Rhine.
The 78-year-old "Old Fox" has
been Germany's one outstanding
leader since he became chancel
lor of the new West German Fed
eral Republic in 1949. He was
elected by a one-vote margin
and . thus, in a sense, elected
himself.
Adenauer has dedicated his
life to fighting Communist en
croachment, to regaining sover
ignty for his country, and to
ending the centuries-old enmity
between Germany and France.
Adenauer is trusted and hon
ored by all the Allies, and right
now he comes close to being
the .indispensable man in West
European politics.
Outworks Younger Men
Tall-ramroad-straight, with a
tough leathery complexion, Ade
nauer does not look his age,
and he tires, out younger men
who work with him.
He entered law practice in his
native Cologne in his young
manhood, became active politic
cally and was made mayor of the
city in 1917. The Nazis detested
him, and threw him out when
they got into power. He was ar
rested several times during
World War IL
After the war, Adenauer
started building up the New
Christian Democratic Union, and
it was as leader of that party
that he was elected chancellor
in 1949. Only then, at 73, did he
become internationally prom
inent. Adenauer worked closely with
the Allied occupation officials.
He started working also toward
getting West Germany recog
nized as a sovereign nation, and
he was one of the first to realize
the necessity for West Ger
many to arm in defense against
Communist aggression. '
Unless all signs fail, his wont
will be crowned within a few
weeks. - -
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ished his work, the two of us
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nuicklv agreed -
that we seldom
go to a doctor
unless we have
an ache or pain.
And also we
never turn to
God for eternal
life, unless we
see ourselves as
dead men in
God's holy eye.
We sin and we
die. But God so
loved us that he cave Ins Only-
Born Son, that if we should be
lieve on Hun, we should not
perish but have eternal life. Jf
your name is not written in
God's Book of Life, you are cast
into the Lake of Fire. Right
now. tell God that you receive
Christ as having died for all
your sins and God writes your
name in his Book of Lite, to
live the new life read your
Bible; pray and grow up. This
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