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T a. J Britain's Moral Clean-Up Drive Taken Up by Politics iffiimjiiT'ifii-r'-rmr' .r WdMa EASTER SEAL CAMP Oregon s first and only summer camp exclusively designed and operated for crippled children is Camp Easter Seal, located on North lake of Ten Mile lake, near Reedsport. The camp, opened last summer, is financed through the sale of Easter Seals by the Oregon Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Children from all parts of the state enjoy it. Air Force in Germany Has Difficult Housing Problem Wiesbaden, Germany (U.R) The U. S. Air Force in Eur ope, with a total resident pop ulation of some 187,000 airmen and dependents, is fighting its toughest cold-war battle hous ing. In France, North Africa and England, the problem ranks with plane strength and tactics, and it appears to be almost insolu able. Air Force officials in Wies baden, headquarters of the complex network of fighter and bomber wings in Europe and North Africa, claim that current conditions are "making first class American citizens into sec ond and third-class people." They say that almost 11,000 housing units are urgently need ed to get people out of drafty, slum-type village houses, "tin huts" and trailers in France, Britain and North Africa and into units that at least have plumbing, heating and in some cases water. Germany Okay The problem has been licked in Germany mainly because this has been an occupied country. Housing units were requisition ed and confiscated. Entire Luft waffe air bases in some cases were taken over complete with substantial ' housing. . New units mushroomed around new bases with the German government paying the costs as part of its occupation debt. The Air Force in Germany ex pects to be out of its last requis itioned house and intoall-Amer-ican quarters within the next two years. But the prospects outside Ger jmany are depressing. Housing experts claim that no considerable new housing units have been built in France since the turn of the - century. War damage has complicated the sit uation. The same situation, to a lesser extent, prevails in England. The remote country location of new American fighter fields in France has almost hopelessly scuttled any quick solution ex cept with unsatisfactory and un comfortable "trailer camps." Morale Factor Many fighter pilots and their families are now living as far as 30 and more miles from their bases in central and western France living in small French towns with heating and sanitary facilities that can only be classified as primitive by Am erican standards. This situation, Air Force oi- ficials stress, also constitutes a distinct morale problem. "In many cases, the husband must drive 30 or 40 miles to his base and he has to have car because there's no other way to reach some of the country fields," ope officer explained. "He leaves his wife alone in a dismal apartment in a strange small town, with everyone speaking a strange language. "If the couple has children and there is an American school on the base, the wife can ac company husband and child to the base. But she must stay there all day doing nothing until the child is out of school and the husband finishes his work. That is not very satisfactory." The Air Force needs almost 5,000 housing units in France. French contractors will not put up new housing in the remote base areas unless the Air Force can guarantee 90 per cent oc cupancy for at least seven years. At present, the Air Force can give only a five-year guarantee. Trailers Inadequate In an effort to break the stale mate, the Air Force has just been authorized to buy 675 trail er units which will be rented to officers and airmen, many of whom have already bought the expensive units out of their own pockets. But at least 3,000 trail ers would be required to have any effect on the housing short age. And, at best, Air Force offic ials admit, a trailer is no substi tute ofr a home unless elaborate "on base" camps are establish ed with electrical supplies, sew age disposal, wash houses, rec reational facilities and the secur ity of fences and guards. The problem is just as critical in Libya and North Africa where the Air Force maintains spraw ling bases. In French Morocco, some 1,900 housing units are needed only 99 are presently avail able. In Lybia, the Air Force needs 147 units. In England, thousands of air men and their families are liv ing in World War II Quonset 'tin huts, others in trailers and some in high-cost private housing un its. "Four thousand housing units are needed for U. S. Air Force needs in the United Kingdom," a spokesman said. "We have a London (U.R) Britain s 18-month-old moral clean-up cam paign has moved into the politi cal arena. Parliamentarians, church and civic leaders and even members of the cabinet are weighing leg islation to wipe out prostitution, homosexuality, pornography and obscene literature. The Churchill government lately has been so plagued with demands to ban the sale of so called horror comics that two cabinet ministers have hinted at the introduction of laws to keep them off Britain's bookstalls. The government also is faced with what has been described as "intensified activity" by prosti tutes and perverts, while variety theatres are being scored for presenting "nude" shows to the exclusion of what is called "tra ditional British variety." The comics at issue are those whose central characters, are ghouls or vampires, the "crime often pays type, and others that exploit excesses and amoral acts. One Firm Stops The storm against this type of children's "entertainment" has reached such proportions that already the largest firm producing "horror" comics here Monday. March SI, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Funeral Is Arranged For Victim of Fire Eagle Point Funeral serv ices have been tentatively ar ranged Thursday afternoon at the Chapel mortuary for Mrs. Bertha Briggs, 80, Eagle Point, who died Sunday at a Medford hospital. She had been hospitalized since Feb. 2, when she suffered first, second and third degree burns to about 60 per cent of her body. She received the burns while starting a fire that morn ing in a wood stove and a jug of kerosene exploded in her hands. She made her home at Eagle Point with a son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mitchell. J. N 'C vv For Get Acquainted Offer! Buy One Box For 75c Get One FREE White and Wyckoff Autocrat White Stationery LIMITED OFFER! Get Yours While They Last! 1 njni-!mT..Mi.n maflmonaon Keep Oregon Green Slates 10th Annual Poster Competition Oregon Green Guard , mem bers are being invited to take part in the 10th annual state wide fire prevention poster con test sponsored each year by the Keep Oregon Green association. The Green Guards, youth aux- iliary of the Keep Oregon Green association, may enter contest posters from April 1 to April 30, according to Albert Wisen danger, executive secretary of KOG. The junior division will in clude all members from 8 to 12 years of age, and the senior div ision those from 13 to 16 years prizes in each division. There There will be four $5 cash will be a $10 prize for the first place winner in each division. The winners will be presented with their cash awards by their local county Keep Oregon Green chairmen. Rules Told The posters will be 11 by 14 inches. Only one poster may be submitted by each Green Guard and must be his own work. On the back of each poster the Green Guards must print their name, address, age and school they attend. AH posters will be come the property of the Keep Oregon Green association after judging. There are now over 56,000 boys and girls enrolled in the Oregon Green Guard. Green Guards must use a fire prevention theme, and the post ers will be judged on originality, relation to educational phases of fire prevention and artistic qualties. They may be in cut outs, water colors, poster paint, oils, pastels or wax crayons. All entries must be sent to the Keep Oregon Green associa tion, PO Box 471, Salem, Ore, Farmers Agree To Deer-Killing Truce Forest Grove (U.R) A truce has been declared between Washington county father and son and the State Game Commis sion after 32 deer were killed in two days in an attempt to Keep wem trom f eeding on farm land. Lester Lee, 56. and his ton. Everett, 31, called off the shoot ings baturday -just before a cara van of local residents arrived to protest the killing. Some 25 of Lee's friends had also gathered at nis loo-acre farm near here to support his actions. a pickup load of 15 deer, mubuy aoes ana lawns, was hauled away Friday and 17 more were killed Saturday as game officials and state police watched. Everett said he and his father agreed to a truce after the Game Commission agreed to supply six herders to haze the deer with bird shot to try to keep them irom reeding on the farm. McLeod has announced that it will cease publication and devote its en ergies to better-type products. But there are still horror comics in circulation and so much concern is felt over their influence among children that the leader of the Anglican church, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, recently led a deputation' to discuss the prob lem with the home secretary, Major Lloyd George. Lloyd George promised the deputation the "most careful consideration by the govern ment" of the whole horror comics question. Soon after he announced a full government in quiry into the matter and hint ed that legislation would be in troduced into the next session of parliament to ban "horrors" altogether. Sir David Eccles, minister of education, saw an exhibition ot the horror comics sponsored by the British Teachers' Union and commented: T think it may well be neces sary to t a k e stronger acuun against these publications. The Teachers Union told its members that children may be legally punished for reading, anywhere on school premises, horror comics blacklisted by headmasters. Nudity Scored Recently the Bishop of Coven try, Dr. Neville Gorton, con demned the way in which sex is being commercialized in Britain in some films, books and news papers, and his attack received much support. Dr. Gorton said that the com mercialization of sex was the most destructive influence with which he had to deal, and it had contributed to the breakdown of the Christian principle of mar riage and "formed the greatest disintegrating evil of the day. lhere has been a campaign against the number of films be ing brought into the country with the alleged intention of receiving an "X" (adults only) certificate from the censors. Then there is the fight in the vaudeville theaters over the nude and "strip" shows. Vaude ville artists associations claim that girls with no stage ability whatsoever are crowding out real performers. Theater man agers reply that today's custom ers want to see nudity. Looking at Existing Laws A 14-member committee rep resentative of all classes and in terests in the country is at ores ent sitting as a government in quiry into the existing laws re lating to homosexual offenses and prostitution. On the committee's finding the government will judge what new legislation will be tippm- sary to combat the increase in prostitution and homosexuality m aiiiam m recent years. ir Arthur Morse, chairman of the British Holidavs and iTavel Association, said the prostitute problem in the west ern worm ana that nvnsni visitors are being continually suucKea Dy its enormity. Argentina Ends Religious Holidays Buenos Aires, Argentina U.R) The government abolished all religious holidays except Christ mas and Good Friday Sunday night in what Is called a move to help the national economy. The number of national holi days on which public employees are not required to work was cut from 23 to 11 and affected mostly religious observances. A decree issued Sunday said only on Christmas, Good Friday and nine other days would pub lic employees be allowed to stay home. The farm population of the U.S. has decreased by about 9.5 per cent since 1932, but the to tal farm production has increas ed by about 45 per cent. C McLeod Harvey Anderton irom Monte Vista, Colo., has arrived here to make his home with his brother, Glen Anderton and wife. JUr. and Mrs. O. E. Stone are spending a week visiting rela lives in Stockton, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Haag are vacationing in Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Knudson of Medford spent the week end of March 12 at their cabin on Butte Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Anderton and Harvey Anderton were din ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Alworth in Medford on March 20. Carpets are not harmed by ra diant floor heating. Tempera tures of the heating system can not rise high enough to cause damage or danger. Try This Modern Light Weight Truss Give yourself welcome relief from the nagging fears of rupture . . . from the painful pressure of a heavy. poorly-fitted truss. 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