Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1955)
MEDrORD -(OREGON) MAIL .TRIBUItZ TKSZ3 nam . Bray- T Mast D War Era , Triday, January 21. 1893 Dot for fm mm Nation on Road To Being World Power Once More Kditor'i aote: West Germany's new army- will be unmll: Soviet Russia's Is enormous. Bat the . re-emercenee of an armed Germany makes a turning point In post-war European history. Many Frenchmen, and many people - la other Western countries, foresee the day when rearmed Germany ' will overshadow Bossia in the world poli tical picture. Following is the last of xnree dispatches on mo bermaa- Kussian situation. By JOSEPH W. GRICG i United Press -Corrtspondtni Bonn, Germany ': (U.R) The birth of the new West German army.,, will be a turning point in post-war ' European history ; ; The Bonn Republic will have only 500,000 men. under , arms. Russia has more than 4,000,000 . But the significance of the - new German Streitkraef te goes beyond more - figures. ?; ' It means the re-emergence of ' a sovereign Germany. Behind the West German armed forces will be 50,000,000 vigorous, in . dtistrious, free people, steeped in proud military tradition. 'Future Menace Seen " -;- Germany is already ' on the ; way . to being a world: power ; again. One reason why France hestitated to agree to German ." rearmament is that it , foresaw the day when Germany might . r again overshadow Russia as a military menace. . : -i ' West Germany- is .enjoying a - remarkable boom.: Its ; produc- tion,' its national income,, its ex ." ports are soaring. " The index of .industrial pro- ,-duction, which was 179.7 in No . Ivember, 1953, reached 202,2 in November, 1954 . .V: The volume of iorelgn trade, which was . $8,280,000,000 in 1953, reached $9,960,000,000 in .1954. . " " V West Germany's : favorable ' trade balance in 1954- was $672,- ' 000,000 compared with $600,- .000,000 . in 1953. .'-;;"".; ; : -".: Gains of ' leading ' stocks' ,bn ";West German exchanges, - av eraged about 70 per cent in . '1954.: . " ".- - Germany in "1954 produced 17,432,104 tons of raw steel,ll, .' P 462,069 tons 'of finished ! Steel arid 12,512,000 tons of pig iron. i Russian Estimates ' ;'.t t .v ; Russia's total "steel production if or 1954 is estimated,; on the i basis of Russian figures, at about 45,000,000 tons. ; Her pig iron . production is estimated at 31, r900,000 tons.: . h "..V... r Germany's steel production I was arbitrarily restricted by the allies from the end of World, i War II until July, 1952, as a security measure. The restric-' lion was ended when the Euro . pean coal and steel community the Schuman Plan came into being. ;' . ' : V ;, " ' Russia had hoped to take over alT Germany after the war'," by f means of rigged elections which jWould' put the Communists "in power, and take with Germany j the Ruhr steel and coal indus- -"if Had that happened, Russia Would have surpassed the Uni fied States in production by 1960. 11 .. Now West " Germany's unre- fx stricted - production, which is growing fast,; is added to that of .the other West European. Scha wl man Plan countries as an allied ' v asset. ' v.- : - -. - : . K - Comparison Figured Difficult m i Hard . figures of comparison - between Germany - and. Russia rare hard to get. Russia has . a : Jiabit of : concealing - its .. actual economic situation by listing its . - production in -percentages- as compared with -previous years! I j . But here are some revealing ! headlines of the last few months, based on dispatches .direct from f Moscow and on expert analyses t of figures made public by Rus- I sian agencies: fi X. i Soviet steel and iron industry fails to reach goals set f or out 4 put per man . . '. Russian grain I harvest unlikely ' to reach; ex i pected increase despite drive to cultivate new land . . . Khrush- chev denies bread shortage i i ' I Communist ' Central ' Committee j criticizes ministries for deficien l cies in spring planting campaign j . . .Moscow conference launches ! drive against inefficiency in building industry . . ; Pravda says red tape is clogging produc tion lines . v . Failure of, heavy ; industry to meet iron and steel "quotas threatens lag in produc Vtion of consumer goods ... Pre tmier of : Uzbekistan freed from ? post ... . f ;Mid Cotton Quotas The last headline refers to the ouster of Premier Usman Y. i Yusopov of Uzbekistan, Soviet 'Russia's chief cotton growing re public, because the cotton quota ; was not fulfilled. -.) ..'"l ) ''. ? J Here are some headlines about : West Germany within the last , .few weeks: , .West- Germany.- sets ,. new " marks in coal and .steel produc- - tion . output of industrial raw ( materials at , highest post- r ,war level . . . shipyards drive i ahead in West Germany . . . in "dustry- is now second only .to H Great Britain's . . . West Ger- i STAR GASElC0 ARKS MAR 22 AP 20 4-17-29-39 49-Q2-72 TAUtUS APR 21 i MAY Jl 6 EMM MAY 22 r 'JJUNf 22 M0-22-3344 '545-74 CANCti JUNE 23 JULY 23 154648-75 6-77-841 uo JULY 24 AUG 23 11-14-25-36 48-59-70 AUG 24 I SEPT 22 rn3-i6-27d hdV471-71 -By CLAY 8. POLLAN- K Yor Daily AdMty Gui . H T According tof.no Slen. To develop message for Saturday, reod words corresponding to numbers ot your zodiac birth siga SEPT 23 OCT 23 3-15.2647IT1 Bt-6O8I-90H I Good 2 Stnvo 3 Your 4 Don't . 5 Keep 6 Time 7 Deor 8 You . 9 You'll 10 You'll tl Watch 12 Hove 13 Fortune 14 Moves 15 In 16 Mind ' 17 Be .18 To . 19 Ones 20 Be .21 To 22 Be i 23 Energy . 24 In ; 25 That 26 Contact ' 27 I 28 Too '29 Maintain 30 Are , 31 Gov 32 Visit 33 In. 34 To , 35 Both 36 Con ' 37 With - 38 Working 39 Aggressive 40 Poise 41 Sure 42 Bright ': 43 Reiotivtt 44 A ' 45 And 46 Money .: 47 On 48 Hurt . 49 Let 50 Do -51 Elder" - 52 To 53 Or 54 Lovoble '55 Remom 56 Social 61 Ml , 62 Others 63 Your 64 Be 65 Woo4 - 66 Patient - 67 What 68 ConSKfefQtc 69 Love .-- 70 Pocketbook 71 Cylinder 72 Lead n HeorJstreng 74 Todoy 75 And 76 Be 77 A I 78 Toke 79 You 80 Minded 81 You 82 Job 1 83 A ' 84 Good 85 Listener 86 Wish , SCOtfK OCT 24 NOV 2? 1-13-24-35 M6-5849 SAGITTARIUS . NOV DEC 6-21-32-43 B3-768M7 I 57 Accomplish 87 Trip 58 And . 88 Todoy -59 Your 89 Cheerfully 60 Counselors 90 Trust Advcrsc (DncuwI CAPnCOCN DEC 23 JAN 20 VfcV 7-19-30-41 T1 152-64-73 MJ - AOUAJOUS, JAN. 21'. PEft'lO 45-56-80-88 mas FEB. 20 1 I MAR 2. 2-18-29-40if1 B(W3-82-89VJ A Nichol's Worth of... Comment On This and That . ' ' . " By HARMAN W.' NICHOLS ': ' : Unitod Pntfl Futw Wti. . ! ! Washington - (U.R) When York policeman some more food y you get the law on you, you are in a sorry mess. Particularly, u f7? it happens to '4 be the . New It Police Depart- fT (j. went- It's hannened f'4 before, and I VJ should have : Known better. But this time I wrote a piece about a .-left- Haxmon Nichols handed; p e n mat lias . just - come out. : - . ' I quoted a lovely lady. "who is right handed; about, the modern southpaw quill.' Her name-was Jerelyn Madison. She ' made a count of hands, right : and ..left, and found that there were a lot more boy left-handers than girl left-handers.1 - - -: " The ink on the ' papers was hardly dry before I got a sizzling letter- from Sgt. Thomas Con nors, also right handed, who hap pened to be preparing an article on left-handed cops in the New York Police Department . Battle' of '.S tatistica l - " The maQ' has been' going back and forth ever, since, with this clown Tin the middle. The ser geant asked Miss Madison what she meant by saying that one out of every ri6 persons winds up and writes: port-sided? : ' "So far as I can find outi he wrote the lady at Fort Madison, only one out of every: 100 New York, policemen shoots left- handed,'-. .: - : j Miss Madison replied that she was not counting shooting icops when she did her research; She was interested in writing . and whether, a pen point should be bent to the left or right for-leit- handers ; -.. : . , .--...y.j,'; - The pen lady said she person ally knew a lot of people, in cluding a',.few , cops,, who ? can draw; from a "hip or shoulder holster with either hand. , ', : . MAlso,": she. wrote SgtJ . Con nors, "Many's the man or gal who writes ; left handed . but shoots pool or golf right handed, and so there!". " ... -' Miss ; Madison ' gave the Jew man motion picture reaches' pre war level . i . West Germany to inaugurate ' first post-war. civil air line about March 1 . . '. ; j In tte first 10 months of 1954 German industrial production increased ' nearly twice as : fast as that of Great Britain, France, Belgium ; ancF- the , Netherlands, according to German figures- , -! As things are going, it should not be many years before West Germany is a real world power. Then may come, the time for a reappraisal, , possibly , some what agonizing, of the relative positions . of the . ; German . col lossus and the Russian colossus. GOLD ARR017 Stamps -ANNOUNCE-:Arrow. Laundry & Dry - Cleaners' 520 S. Rtoreidt u joiantf Hm atlMr NWfrenhr MfciMRts in . this vieJairy im GOLD ARROW : " STAMPSfS Double Stamps Given Until Feb. "5 'on ail:woric at th ". ; AMOW IAUNDXY & ; M'i dry. cleaners: for thought. Leave Them Alone ' ! V - .She said the University of Wis consin, did some research - and found that "there is no doubt that, left handedness tends to slow up a child's progress in handwriting. The child finds much to confuse him in a world of right handed people." , . . . Miss Madison and. the experts at": Wisconsin can. believe that, but I doubt 'it I have a left handed daughter and she writes a beautiful hand; when she feels like it, and also fast t and .she doesn't stand on her head, to do it, either. ' ' : , . ,. ; ' Child psychologists say that if a kid is born left handed, that is nobody's fault and no cause for alarm. Just let him be and don't try to make him. right handed. And Sgt. Connors, that must go for policemen, too.- If they aim straight and hit the target, what difference does it make? One bullet hurts as much as the other, no matter what hand fires it v . , ,r , WEATHER By United Prtss J; Northern CidifornitiFair ex cept, considerable ' fog' in central valley and. local morning " fog elsewhere. - t ... .- . r . , Weak Signals Boost Hope for Lost Navy Plane Down in Pacific Pearl Harbor,' T.H. U.R) A search for a Navy PBY amphi bian missing in mid-Pacific with seven men aboard took on. new vigor-- today with .reports that faint signals were picked up on the . international : distress fre quency. , ' ,"..T. .." -; i. . .More than 40 planes, aided by four .surface vessels, .took off on YNCA Membership Driver Leaders Announced Today Medford R. M. Johnson and Robert A. : Boyer, both . well known for civic work, in Med ford,. have been chosen as co chairmen for the annual YMCA membership-' campaign, ' it was announced today. : v.;;.;-. . W ...The week-long IT! campaign for members will begain Feb. vl, following a kick-off dinner for workers Monday evening, Jan. -Johnson, .'manager , of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Mdford, . has i been ; active " in YMCA, v Boy Scout, and Girl Scout work for many years. He is a Rotarian,' a -Mason, and a member, of the Shrine, and Scot tish s Rite .. organizations. --MiiJiJ - .Boyer, an attorney, -is a mem ber of the Medford YMCA and the Junior- Chamber of . Com merce, and has' been identified in the work of other1 civic or ganizations in JMedford since opening his law offices here in 1953.:: . - : Co-Workiir Namtd ;'i ' Working with tne co-chairmen will be Dr. ' G.' A. ; Dierdorff , a member of the YMCA board of directors and. : chairman of the organization's ' membership ' and spiritual emphasis ' committees. Dr. Dierdorff is a member of the Kiwanis ''club, past president of Toastmasters, : and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. ' . ' Many organizational activities are' scheduled before the cam paign opens. The annual meet ing and dinner" will be heldMdri- day, Jan. 24. The woek'of Jan. 23 to 29 is "YMCA .Week," and Jan. 30 is "YMCA Sunday'-!;: a gigantic mission of . covering 102,000 square miles of water, an area bigger than the state of Wyoming. ' ' Rtctangle Arte Searchtd . ' . The planes were ordered to scan the seas over a huge rec tangle 680 mile long and 150 miles wide' between ; Johnston and Kwajalein Islands. The . two-engined plane disap peared Wednesday while on a flight " between . Johnston and Kwajalein. The pilot sent a mes sage saying he had feathered a propellor' .A, "Navy spokesman said sig nals on the international distress frequency . were heard - several times last night. However, he said they were either too weak. io aetermine their origin, or else they came from - sources ' other than the missing plane... ; " ; One such signal was heard on three" different receivers; but it was too weak to be plotted. Signals Weaker V- : - None of the signals" heard last night was as strong as a distress message - picked up yesterday morning, 'which ; was too brief to plot. The spokesman said the morning '. signal "appeared" 'to have been transmitted by a Gib son". Girl type of emergency transmitter. t , t. - "It was a. definite SOS,! the Navy spokesman said. That raised hopes that the sig nal came from survivors of the PBY and that they would send a similar distress signal, at sun-J down; J .; J ; y ;: ;.:-?--'G"? ; The spokesman, said standard procedure calls for transmission of a distress signal by a -Gibson Girl at Sunrise and Sunset n:: SKUNKS COME TO PARTY.' :. Orillia, Ont . -Mr. and Mrs. Georgia Shea's' party was interrupted' Thursday when' two uninvited guests turned up. The chatter and ' laughter ' stopped abruptly when a pair of skunks walked into the living room. The party resumed when the skunks nonchalantly "walked out again. NEW POSTAL PENS 77'; Columbus, 0. U.RA' post office "institution' is on its way out here." Ball point pens are re placing the old, scratchy, ,y dip type that have . irritated patrons for years'....;;.;."; ''!'. - : 1 - -j ; . 2 i ' , .;:;;;':.::,.C;r;,-;".'.vv J ' ' tf' ' " '" -V -Fully . i sEci v; I .lillil ' v ' ' ' o ' ' I : Hi Ecpncmicals jfiv,. , - 7: To Opcraio v : ;";.;;?,' : .'...;,-...,: -; ,on kbes-tv illlliliii ; A S; a . .. , -Wis Your I VS I?' VS u hVX We'll Open Account V Minute 112 SOUTH mVGRSIDE - ; ' - - - - . v s 'siS,- - y -- - - " . . . ? -.x V JV- ' " : -v;'..7j;. - . --7 '.wis s ' - . ; . Foirca) suracfl JFtffa- sureuQ : oai?D203i . Q:, '-''t-li ' . . ' - - ." - 'yLj ' ! , 1 ' -"""';i r.i. - ; v Va.'. '' .. -- - ' . - - -Wr? . ' v ' .-. .; "SMWj- , N t . - . . v . fl V t . ....... - ,: r' - JiJys; - 1 -' - - " . - r ,wi j 'v (!.'- j.-s ? ; ivyc - , ... , - . . . i am M Mr v m B. . W MM m W AW AT A m m tr M M AT A M i ' M m m m M M .-. J m i m AT W J : W 1 AT W at mm AW m at X'ou can take our word for it when we X tell yu this: , , , The first time toe: put eyes on' the 1955 Buicks, we really raised a cheer. , ' ' To top the looks of last year's Buick the car that moved Buick into the top three of the nation's best sellers that was something. That gave us two hits in a row, we figured and it seems we figured right. For with these stunning new 1955 Buicks, we're getting even more noses pressed against our: showroom windows than last year and more folks coming in to look and study and drive and buy. ftivlrTitst SelUr 1 Witl aj, mitt - "tm i m mm m m .Kit m-m&w Irigh fcv pttmmiU toick RnrtiKA twT- drtMHs 0" tfMfv - fcor mm f uut ooia new styling, ot course, is just one , getaway or safety-surge, acceleration, but rcaMiu Aur- uic scusauuuui suuucse, .ux : uuc mstunuy, una wttn tnjiniie smooinnesSt rear earn " J -",--. oi -, - s .!,,,. .. . Oo you can see that just looking isn't enough. Newpower.fe part of the pictu-rohust u havelo take that wheel in your handVH new V8 power, in record might 236 hp in the ICentury, Super and, Roadmaster 188 hp in the low-priced Special. New performance, too from the dynamic action of Buick's Variable Pitch Dynaflow that gives you far better gas mileage in nor mal driving and cruising and full-power try that power; feel that Dvnaf low take hold "surge, sample' that MHlion . Dollar Ride and check the hard-to-pass-up prices we re quotmg. I' 1 ''.'; , '. We'll gladly help you do all thaL Why not come in this week? - , : . . cm ttbrSfiss. - - . - " f ' Hill STAM Kt IMCfeSM tU ml DRIVE FROM FACTORY ; SAVEUPTO.gOO; Sea Your BUICK Dealer .. ' ' ' . -.- . - ; . . :'i . : " - - - V U UU UUU KmtVU UiW J ViJJ iO ' whm itnat Aineneaut axs car crcx wu ku Ttea 143 SOUTH RIVERSIDE PHCH2 2-C13
