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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune' 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.;
10 YEARS AGO ,i-
Jan. 17, 1945
(It was Wednesday)
Dr. LeRoy C. Jensen appoint
ed to succeed Dr. A. F. W. Kres
se as physician on the city box
ing commission.
From Arthur Perry's -Ye
Smudge Pot column: A rural
resident towned yesterday look'
ing for a horse collar., and might
as well have been hunting a tire
in a haystack.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 17, 193$ . ' v'., ri
" (It waslThursdayr- X
Floyd Hart, Medford, pur
chases the Sanderson property
west of Central Point.
r Dr. C. Q. Haines elected presi
dent of Jackson County Medical
society, and Mrs. . Gordon Mc?
Cracken named president of
auxiliary.
30 YEARS AGO -,
Jan. 17, 1925
(It was Saturday) -H.
Chandler Egan, Medford,
rated top golfer on Pacific coast.
. E. C. Gaddis and family re
turn to Medford after trip to
California.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 17. 1915
(It was Sunday)
Sheriff informed that "mis
creants on Galls creek are using
their neighbors' hogs for tar
gets." '
From the Local and Personal
column: Owing to agitatory con
fabs on the streets regarding
the respective merits of the ir
rigation projects, it was neces
sary for the police to clear the
sidewalks upon a couple of oc
casions. Some of the agitators
have been on the job all this
week, and are, frantically bitter
against water as a community
builder.
Whal's the Answer?
(Can You Gat 4 of the 7?)
Copr. 1 935, Editorial Research Report
1The U; N. General Assem-
Mir ic rr icn't nAiir in eeceiAn?
2. All net gain from stock
sales is subject to federal in
come tax. Can all net loss from
stock sales be deducted from
income subject to the tax?
r 3. The average length of time
before divorcees remarry is
about one, two, three, four . or
five years? - - . "' ;
4. Ankara is the capital -of
which important country in
Asia?
5. The number of families
with . husband and . wife' both
working is about one in every
two, three, four, five . or six
families?
6. Do many more persons in
the world have white or non
white skins, or is it about 50-50?
7. Ted Williams, Red Sox
star, says he will or won't play
baseball this year, or is unde
cided? The Answers: 1. Isn't. 2. No.
3. About thito yaars, 4. Turkey.
5. About ona in ry lour.
6. Many mora non-wbitaa than
whites. 7. Sayt ha won't.
Thirty-six per cent of the stu
dents at Haverford college are
receiving scholarships aid, larg
est percentage in the 120 years
of the oldest Quaker college. .
MAIL TRIBUNE
A Worlds Fair?
In 1959 Oregon will celebrate the 100th anniver
sary of itsadmission as the 33rd of the United States.
It has been proposed that a centennial celebration
be staged. There is also sentiment favoring the plan
that it be made into a big, "World's Fair" type of
event.
.-,..
AN extensive study is now under way to determine
what would be a logical method of approach,
what the potentialities' are, how much it would cost,
how it could be financed, and all the other questions
which must be answered before a project of this
magnitude can be undertaken.
Various sections of the state have been asked to
put up limited funds to underwrite this survey. The
Jackson County Chamber of Commerce has been ask
ed to give $500 for the purpose; The Stanford Re
search Institute, nationally-known for its detailed and
sound analyses of problems, of this nature, has been
selected to do the survey in two phases. !
The first phase would merely to be to determine
whether it would be practical to hold a World's Fair,
or whether the centennial observance should be more
local than national or international, according to
Charles Bollinger, secretary of the Governor's Cen
tennial Committee. '
If it is found that there are no conflicts, and that
indications for a larger show are favorable, then the
second phase of the survey would 'be made to go
into ajl the other, details involved in such a big undertaking.
AT a luncheon meeting
detail.
He said that the centennial committee had con
cluded that the state's income from the tourist bus
iness, conservatively estimated, at $125,000,000 an
nually, could be doubled by a World s Fair. In addi
tionhe said, there would be millions of dollars worth
of publicity, a period of growth and prosperity re
sulting from world attention to Oregon, and a lasting
.park site where the fair was held. ' -
"All this may not cost a dollar," Bollinger was
quoted as saying, because backers who purchased
revenue bonds to, finance the World's Fairs 'in San
Francisco and Chicago either got all of their money
back or made a prof it.
'""THE people of Oregon would expect a fair they
f can be proud of, a 'story' which will sell Oregon,
a cost which would be proportionate to the gains re
alized, and some permanent cultural and recreation
al benefit to the state," Bollinger was quoted as say
ing in the Grants Pass Courier. ' ; j
He added that tentative plans for the fair are be
ing .made for a two-year event, because both the Chi
cago and San Francisco events were "in the red"
after one year, but showed an overall profit at the
end of the second year.
. - - - . '
AS a result of the Grants
$500 to help finance the survey. No further contribu
tions for this purpose are to be asked, and additional
financing would come from revenue bonds, .which
Portland bankers have said
difficulty. 1 ,
. Since the tourist trade
source of income in both Josephine and .Jackson
counties, it appears to many southern Oregon busin
essmen that a $500 contribution would be a small in
vestment in a project which
million-dollar business tourists represent. E. A.
The Bar's Service
One of the little-known services which the people
of Oregon get "for free" is also one which is of ex
treme importance. . ,' ; :j
We refer to the legislative assistance off ice which
the Oregon State Bar maintains at Salem during the
session of the state legislature. Here senators and
representatives can obtain competent legal advice on
legislative matters, and even have bills drawn up.
.. . . . . , . '"
THE attorney general's office, with its relatively
. small staff, each two years finds itself overwhelm
ed ! with the bill-drafting task alone, and requests
for advice from legislators do not, perhaps, get the
response they should. -; ;
The following editorial, from the current issue of
the Oregon State Bar Bulletin, tells the story . .
With the opening of the 1955 legislative assembly at
Salem on January 10, members of the Oregon State Bar
. will again offer to the legislators competent legal service ,
,. through the maintenance of an office in the capitol build- t
ing which will be staffed by lawyers from all parts of the :
state who have volunteered their services. -; , f - : -
: - With only 17 lawyers as members of the legislature this
year, the, bar recognizes that committees and. individual ,.
legislators will need lgal assistance. The bar seeks to make
this assistance available and invites : all members of the
1955 session to avail themselves of it. ; -
The bar is motivated primarily , by a recognition of its
duty to the public, but, also, the lawyers recognize that J
competent legal assistance to individual legislators and com
mittees will result in better laws. j
The legislative assistance office will not recommend or
suggest legislation. Those on duty will seek to interpret the
desires of the legislators through the drafting of bills and V
through the analysis from a legal point of view of legisla
. tion submitted to them for that purpose.
THIS service is of inestimable value in keeping Ore
" '." gon's new laws "on the beam" legally speaking.
And it must be a real relief to legislators to know
that they can get competent assistance in putting
down on paper, in correct fashion, their ideas for
legislation. ; - r. 7- . J
This is one of the Bar's biggest and most import
ant services. E.A. " ; ;
Monday, January 17, 1955
in Grants Pass last week,
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Pass meeting, the chamb-
should be sold with little
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represents the third-largest
could double the multi
Matter of Fact
NEHRU'S ROLE
Bangkok, Thailand The s big
gest single if in the future of
South Asia is the future devel
opment of Indian policy, which
of course large
ly means the
future develop
ment of the
personal views
of Pandit Jaw
aharlal Nehru.
India's moral
a u t h o rity in
Asia may seem
to many West
erners it has
often seemed
Joseph Alsop
to this particular Westerner to
be largely based on pretentious
talk and a capacity for rousing
false hopes. 'But here in South
Asia, this Indian moral author
ity is none the less a. very real
thing. Whether you like it or
not, it is a hard, practical politi
cal fact that cannot be ignored.
It could have been ignored, to
be sure, if the American, British
and French governments had not
chosen to taiake a Munich in
Indochina. But the Munich was
made, and the results are now
so serious that the decay quite
probably cannot be halted with
out Indian moral authority to
reinforce western military pow
er and American economic
power.
If 'Nehru cannot be induced
to join the party by a side door,
American and free world inter
ests will still demand the very
greatest efforts to block world
communism's relentless march
into South Asia. But those ef
forts will have a far greater
chance of eventual success if
Nehru helps instead of hinders.
In this connection, moreover,
there have been some pretty im
portant straws in the wind in
the last couple of montns. iirst,
Nehru visited the two crucial
border states, Cambodia and
T.ans. nn whose fate the fate of
Thailand also depends. Then, at
his meeting with Ho Chi Minn,
the Indian leader gave his cele
brated warning, that it was all
very well for the Viet Minn to
take the Chinese-oriented Viet
namese regions of Indochina, but
that India would stake it very
ill indeed if a grab were also
made for Laos and Cambodia,
with their basically Indian cul
ture.
THEREAFTER, as though to
underline his warning to Ho
Chi Minn that the Cultural di
vide of South Asia must also be
the political divide, Nehru con
sented to appoint an jnaian min
ister to Cambodia, the firmest
and easiest to salvage of the two
states immediately ' : threatened
by the Viet Minh. And finally,
on his way to the Bogor confer
ence in Indonesia, he paused
here in Bangkok for a social vis
it which had special significance
because of his past tendency to
draw aside the hem of his robe
from Thailand's somewhat game
government.
What Nehru has done so far,
tn he sure, rather recalls the
story of the English 19th cen
tury Lady Jersey, who drove
milps to church one Sunday and
found there was no service. She
ordered the" footman to shove
Her railing card under the
church door; told the coachman
to take the road home, and turn
ed away with the remark to her
young, "Well, children at least
we've done the civil thing."
In view of his past, pronounce
ments about SEATO for in
stance, it will be hard for Nehru
tn do more than he has done to
save South Asia. But it will also
be hafd for him not to do more,
in view oi me pressure ui cvcuia.
His representatives in Cambodia
are warning him that the peril
there is very great. His ambas
sador in Thailand has- frankly
told him that the fall of Cam-
hodia will brine on the gau of
Thailand. And perhaps most im-
rjortant'of alL his old friend and
neighbor, Burmese Premier U
Nu has bluntly warned enru
that the fall of Thailand will di
rectly imperil Burma's , inde
pendence.
'Nehru may of course choose
not to believe all these warn
ings. But the danger to India of
a yast Communist upheaval in
South Asia is certainly more im
mediate than the danger to the
United States. Thus there is also
9 : ohanee that Nehru may be
persuaded to do something more
realistic to forestall this danger
before it is too late. V'
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THE KINEF of thing that might
be done is for the SEATO
powers to give Cambodia a hard
military guarantee; for America
to provide Cambodia with the
necessary military a.id econom
ic aid: and for India, quite inde
pendently, to provide the train
ing mission that is needed by
the Cambodian army. This kind
of naraUel effort would bring
the full weight of India's moral
authority to bear, not only in
the rest of South Asia, but also
in Peiping and Hanoi. Mao Tse
tung and Ho ' Chi Minh would
then have to think a very long
time indeed before grabbing for
Cambodia. And time is vital if
the Communist advance is to-be
halted. '.
Probably, however, it is just
pipe dreaming to think of this
kind of arrangement, for two
different sets of reasons. On the
one hand, the, American govern
ment has recently been allowing
itself, the luxury of pouting, in
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By Joseph Alsop
our relations with India which
is a luxury no great power can
afford or ought to desire. '
And on the other hand, if
Nehru's Asian policy has shown
one kind of self-delusion, our
own has shown another kind.
We have made a Munich and
hoped to avoid the conse
quences. In the person of the
unfortunate Gen. Lawton Col
lins, we have sent a general to
do the job of an army. And we
have not as yet even begun to
tackle the grand, immediate
urgent task, of forming at least
Cambodia and Thailand, and if
possible Cambodia, Thailand
and Laos, into a unity that may
stUl hold after southern Indo
china's all but inevitable fall. .
(Copyright. 1355, : .- ;
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Is That So?
By Eugene Burns
Ranger-Naturalist
Did you know that ....
. Lightning strikes pur earth
two billion times a year and
this averages about eight strokes
per square mile.
Birds sing without instruction
but they sing better; when they
have had an opportunity to hear
more adept songsters of their
own kind.
' Leaders of many flocks of
birds follow fronv out in front.
Slow-motion pictures show that
the flock often swerves first and
the so-called leader, to maintain
his position, swerves later.
The rows of kernels on a nor
mal ear of corn always .come in
pairs, ranging from 8 to 36 rows.
Don't worry about your gaso
line freezing this winter. Only
when temperatures drop "much
lower than those usually encoun
tered m the Arctic will it stiffen
up like wax, and gradually be-
4f THAT
come more viscous until it turns
into a solid mass 'at a tempera
ture ranging.from 180 to 240 de
grees Fahrenheit below zero.
Relatively speaking, fat per
sons have less blood than lean
ones.
Although most birds can move
only one mandible of the beak,
the parrot can move both, i .
Prica of Human Body
The going price for the aver
age human body today is right
around $1.74. It consists mostly
of water, oxygen and hydrogen,
which is cheap. For a rough
breakdown, the chemicals are:
oxygen, 65 per cent; carbon, 18;
hydrogen, 10; nitrogen, 3; calci
um, 1.5; phosphorus, 1; potassi
um, 0.35; sulphur, 0.25; sodium,
0.15; chlorine, 0.15; magnesium,
0.05; iron, 0.04; together with
minute quantities of fluorine and
silicon and perhaps traces ' of
manganese, zinc, copper, alumi
num and cobalt.
A parrot can learn to speak
one language as well as another.
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Fire Levels Home
On Anderson Creek
. Talent ' The five occupant
of the Roy Watson Jr., home on
Anderson creek, Friday escaped
uninjured when fire burned the
home "to the ground, according
to a report of "the fire. The fire
is thought to have started from
a motor of a washing mach
ine on a back porch. -
At the home at the time were
Mrs. Watson and her four chil
dren -and a sister-in-law, -Mrs.
Bud : Watson, who lives in an
adjoining home. Mrs. Bud Wat
son was preparing to do a fam
ily washing at the time the fire
broke out. "
Mrs. Roy , Watson Sr., who
was in the adjoining home col
lapsed and is under the doctor's
care. She has been ill for sever
al months.. :i :
The Watsons are living with
other members of the family on
the ranch.
NO DELETION
Madison, Wis! (U.R) Ray
Owen of Monona Village ordered
some new checks from a printer
sending along a copy of the ones
he was using ; but asking that
"Route 5" be deleted from the
address. The checks came back
reading: Ray S. Owen, 5807
Winnequah Road, Monona Vil
lage, Delete Route 5. ; v, ; ;
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In the news from Washington,
I ; find an interesting .item. It
reads: .
"Oregon's two senators were
among the 13 joining Senator
Lister Hill of Alabama in spon
soring a bill nronosine a federal
outlay of FIVE HUNDRED MIL-
T TrtTlT TT T A r 1 ...
j-iv-iM ujiuijAii& ior eacn or. ine
next two years to aid in .the con
struction of public schools. :
"Oregon's senators, Democrat
Richard Neuberger and Inde
pendent Wayne Morse, said the
measure would make $10,000,
000 available to Oregon for
school construction during the
next two years.
"Neuberger pointed out that
Oregon has a large budget deficit
and the federal appropriation
could provide better schools and
at the same time EASE THE
BURDEN ON TAXPAYERS OF
THE STATE."
ON The face of it, it's attrac
tive, isn't it? t
'- But it has a weak spot.
The weak spot is this: ,
, The $10,000,000 that kind old
Uncle Sam would give to the
people of Oregon to help in' the
building of needed school would
come out of money raised by
federal taxation.
The ' people of Oregon are
FEDERAL taxpayers as well as
OREGON taxpayers. -
T ET'S put it this way:
If Oregon was a resource
less, poverty-stricken, po' white
trash li'l state with no future,
might be warranted : in going
to the federal government and
asking for a handout because
in that case we wouldn't pay
much in the way of federal
taxes, anyway.'
What we got would be a
GIFT...' " x
TJUT Oregon isn't resourceless
and poverty-stricken. In eco
nomic welfare, it is well up in
the upper brackets. It pays fed
eral taxes on a, scale comparable
with that of other prosperous,
comfortable states.
So ' ;''
You see
The people of Oregon would
merely be paying that $10,000,
000 ouf of the pocket in which
they . keep their federal tax
money instead of but of the
pocket in which they keep their
state tax money. - .
T ET'S keep this fundamental
fact in mind:
Before government can give
anybody anything it must first
take what it gives OUT OF
SOMEBODY'S POCKET.
In this case, the federal gov
ernment (kindly old Uncle Sam)
would be giving the people of
Oregon $10,000,000 with" which
to build additional schools, but
the $10,000,000 would have to
be taken out of the pockets of
the people in the form of federal
taxes.
The people of Oregon pay
federal taxes along with every
body else.
T TNFORTUNATELY, over ' the
'-' past couple of decades, our
people have come to look upon
money provided by the federal
government as manna- from
heaven. . " ' -
It isn't.
It's just money taken out of
the pockets of the people .by the
process of federal taxation. The
more the federal , government
spends the more it GIVES
the more money it . will have
to take out of the pockets of the
people.
, There is no such thing as
something for nothing.
Temperatures Dip '
in Upper Midwest
By UNITED PRESS
A blast of bitter Arctic air
plunged temperatures well . be
low zero in parts of North Da
kota, Minnesota and Wisconsin
today, and was. severe enough
to make most of the northern
two-thirds of the nation bang on
radiators for more heat.
It was 15 degrees below zero
at Grantsburg, Wis., the coldest
spot in the nation, and nearly as
cold over most of Minnesota and
eastern North Dakota.
The frigid air covered the up
per Mississippi Valley and drop
ped temperatures below freezing
as ' far south as : Chattanooga,
Term.,", which reported an early
reading of 30. .
Snow accompanied the cold in
the northern Great Lakes region,
the central Rocky Mountains and
parts of Nebraska, piling up to a
depth , of one to two inches in
some-places.A .. ';;.; - v
Hail and snow driven by chill
winds -closed some roads in
Southern. California. "
; Scattered light rains pelted
the eastern Gulf states and the
Pacific northwest coast.
LIGHT GLOBE STOLEN V
"Buffalo, N. Y. (U.R) Police
hunted through heavily Irish
South Buffalo today ' for prank
sters who stole the " big green
light globe from, the front of the
police station. ; ,s .
mi
for
Caribbean Legion
Important Factor in
Revolt in Costa Rica
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analysis
A shadowy little organization
called the Caribbean Legion has
hx-i '- Ant factor in the
revolt in Costa
Rica.
I It numbers
only a few
men and it has
taken no part,
as an organi
zation, in the
fighting. ,
'.But as long!
"as President
Jose Figueres
permits h i s
cuanes iauj name to ue as
sociated with the legion, Costa
Rica is pretty sure to remain a
trouble spot in Central America.
The Caribbean Legion has for
its leaders half a dozen political
exiles from the "strong man"
countries of the Caribbean area.
-Figueres personally is a wide
ly respected man. He is a liberal
and hofa leftist.
Detests Dictatorial Rule
But he detests dictotorial rule.
Hence he has given haven " to
political refugees from several
"strong man" countries.
Every time Generalissimo Ra
fael Trujillo of the Dominican
Republic, Gen. Fulgencio Batista
of Cuba, Col. Marcos Perez
Jiminez of Venezuela or Gen.
Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua
thinks of a revolt in his own
Editorial Comment
AN OREGON WORLD'S FAIR
"A, world's fair is. a natural if
it can be done." -
That's . the conclusion of the
Capital - JournaL Salem, " after
evaluating the recent meeting of
the governor's Oregdn Centen
nial committee. .:. -; .v
"A century of progress would
make it sb," the Capital Journal
continues. "But we have much
more. All indications are that
the Pacific Northwest, with its
vast water power and other re
sources, is. to play a great role
in the electric-atomic age, now
dawning. The entire country
ought to come out and look us
over. A, great fair . would bring
'em by millions."
The Capital Journal, having
thus assayed the tremendous
possibilities of a world's fair in
1959, isn't kidding its readers.
After asking how the state can
stage such a fair, it says: "It's
obviously a colossal task that
would take much of the time of
hundreds of the state's . leading
citizens, already "-jusy men and
women, for the next four years,
and millions of dollars." The
editorial then goes on to state
that Portland men already have
a good idea as to how the fi
nancing (estimated at least $10,-
000,000) can be done by a ndn
profit corporation.
The Capital Journal ' quite
properly isn't too interested ' in
making money on such a fair,
"Oregon still benefits from
the Lewis and Clark fair of
1905," the Salem editor says. "It
would not only gain new money
but new citizens and new capi
tal investments."
This, is the kind of open-mind
ed, appraisal that justifies a
thoroughgoing investigation .by
the Stanford Research institute.
It is the same kind of appraisal
that has actuated the governor's
Oregon Centennial committee to
go ahead with this study, re
gardless of tentative plans for a
world's fair at Houston in 1959
or 1960.
"Whether 1959 is to be the
biggest year in Oregon's history
or just a year. with some local
pioneer celebrations" is the con
cluding question posed by. the
Capital Journel. "Have we got
what it takes to do this tremen
dous job?"
We think we have, if the Stan
ford Research institute's study
indicates the fair is feasible, c
Oregon JournaL Portland
Treasury Building I
Gets Exterior Bath '
Washington (U.R) The
Treasury building, one of Wash
ington's oldest government
structures, is having its grime-
blackened exterior scrubbed and
washed for the first time in its
history. It was occupied in 1839.
Officials report that as fast as
the cleaned granite emerges
from the chemical steaming
process, bird-proofing operations
will be ' used to discourage
pigeons and starlings that nor
mally roost on the massive por
ticoes..; ; ';' . :
The treasury's clean-up and
bird-proofing program, ordered
by-Secretary George-M. Humph
rey, is estimated ; to cost about
$52,350. The cleaning is ex
pected to take six months.
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country he thinks of Costa Rica
and of Figueres.
That is Whv When tho Pncta
Rican revolt broke out, Figueres
cnarged at once that the rebels
came from foreign territory.
That is W'nv also the mission
sent to the scene by the Organi
zation of . Amnriran Cft.n ' ; n.
'VUU UKSVO, fcV,
which all th? American repub
lics belong, decided as soon as it
got to Costa Rica that a "sub
stantial part" of the war ma
terial used in the revolt came
irom .Nicaragua. Nicagarua is
Costa. Rica's neighbor on the
north..
The leEion dates hark
10 years. At one time, it num-
oerea pernaps 2,000 men.
ine legion was composed of
political exiles from all
Latin America, wandering sol-
uieis, oi lorxune and just plain
"comecandelas" "fire eaters,"
or men who don't like peace.
Legion Formed in Cuba
, The legion was formed orig
inally in. Cuba. It tried to or
ganize an invasion of the Domin
ican Republic from Cuban soil
in 1949. It has since tried to or
ganize an invasion of Cuba to
overthrow Batista. It played a
part in the Costa Rican revolt
in which Figueres was a leader.
It has been blamed with master
minding the assassination of a
Guatemalan leader who was an
obstacle in the path to the presi- '
dency of Jacobo G
since deposed. Somoza blames
ii iur an attempt to assassinate
him last spring.
The changing political picture
has forced the movement of the
legion from Cuba to Guatemala,
from Guatemala to Costa Rica.
It has now dwindled to a few
hundred men at most, nnssihlv
not more than 100.
But the remnants of the Leg
ion are in Costa Rica. So long as
it remains there, and so long as
Figueres is willing to give
shelter to enemies of the Carib
bean "strong men," so long will
the strong men look on Costa
Rica as a threat.
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.The lad save Christ five bar-
lev loaves and two small fishes.
Multiplying these, Christ fed
5,000 men and then: women and
children. See-
ing His power
to so multiply
the loaves and
fishes, the peo
fa"
ple would make
Him king. But
Christ had not
come down
from Heaven to
s0
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such bread. He
would" be to
them the Bread
of Life. Nor was His feeding the
5.000 the greatest service that
Christ rendered them that day.
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tain to pray for them. There
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them the urge for eternal life.
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yqu also do your utmost for
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