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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1955)
o o oo o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 21, 1955 A Nkhol's Worth of , .... Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pt- Future Wier Washington 'V.P.i What's (ew in Washington: In this congested city, the Washin gton Parking Asso ciation has done s o m e thing pretty nice. Anybody who wants to drive down town for church can park in any lot or garage free on Sunday. The program v.. runjgast the yuletide from now on. Harn.Qn NichoU The Farm Bureau news letter reports that if each of the 50, 000gp0 families in our land serves just a single kraut, pork and apple dinner, a 100,000,000 pound dent could be made in the pork supply. The suggestion originates with the kraut pack ers, naturally. Maybe you never heard of the Peripophthalmus barabusus. Well, according to the Smith sonian Institution, which knows most everything, it is commonly known as the Mudskipper, de scribed as a "pop-eyed aquarium fish that can sigip, or jump as far as 20 ftSt. It has two large eyes with an extension on top of its head that allows them to be raised or lowered at will. Each eye is capable of independent sight. One may be looking under water, while the other is observ- n ine out of the water." You learn O something every day. The National Democratic O Committee received a letter ad- aressea 10 .rresiaeni or oeu. Adlai Stevenson." There was no signature, but there was a $5 bill inside. taxes, and redistribute the money? Turned out the senator was just talking, not proposing. That was a joke, folks. But it happened here. The postmaster of the House of Representatives, Hap Morris, says that mail going out of the House Office Building is heavier than usual this Christmas time. Packages and cards and letters back home. The incoming mail, for some reason, isn't so heavy. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon has a Christmas card from a little girl named Judith in Tucson, Ariz. "I know we have never met. You are my vice president and I feel it necessary to give you a Christmas card." Reporters covering the Joint Congressional Economic Com mittee hearings on tax policies stopped loafing and put pencil to pad when Sen. Paul H. Doug las, the Democrat from Illinois, started to spiel. Why not, he said, let the government take over collections of 11 state income Made-To-Measure SUITS By TIONUI-'40imf MTIORHIY fllCEO CHRIS the TAILOR 36 No. Bartlett ?hone 2-8473 Nixon also had a long hand printed letter from a young fry in New England who said he wished the vice-president would "pass a law so we could have school a lot longer. Maybe 14 months a year." Mr. Nixon is giving that one more than considerable pause. Indians Pessimisiic On Beaver Dams New Delhi, India (U.PJ An Indian woman politician today failed to convince the govern ment that American beavers are dam builders of the highest order. Mrs. Kamlendumati Sha, mem ber of Parliament from Tehri Sarhwal, said beavers should be imported from the United States to help fight erosion. But the deputy minister for irrigation, Jaisukh Lai Hathi, said no. Mrs. Shah asked the follow ing questions: 1. Whether it is a fact that an animal called the beaver is used to construct dams in the United States. 2. Whether it is a fact that the above animal can finish an 18-foot-long, six-foot-wide dam in about three weeks. 3. Whether it is a fact that beavers have been credited with saving thousands of acres in Northwest America from ero sion, and whetner tne govern ment proposes to import these animals for a similar purpose. Hathi replied that "it is under stood beavers are used as such in logging areas," but he said he had no information on parts two and three, and did not plan such a program. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo 4 ' OH.YES-vWD HERE'S A r f SPECIAL DELIVERY LETTER T t'n5 4GENCYIT SAYS THEY U HAVE THREE EXCELLENT L aeh ii ft fi FDsrnoas for you-office ll g I U V AUK'46ER,PURCH4SlNS J- g ' ooClW KN,WisCr-?r-?S jCF MSffiim. ittNo features syndicate, i,. :;;:;; .S UjjrSt l"gHT RESERVED. -Xv: :'-ff Russian People Go On Shopping Spree But There's No Christmas Celebration The two largest cities in Mis souri St. Louis and Kansas City were linked by railroad ser vice for the first time in 1865. By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Writer Moscow Of.R) Tall, fir trees, strung with lights and cap ped by shining stars stand in all the principal squares of Moscow. Figures of Santa Claus are in every store window. People shopping for gifts crowd the big department stores and the scene looks just like Macy's basement. But all this has nothing to do with Christmas. There is no Christmas, offic ially, in Soviet Russia. This sea son of exchanging gifts is the celebration of the new year. Grandfather Frost The decorated trees are not Christmas trees but something called the "yolka" which Rus sians have used for generations to. mark the mid-winter season. The star on the top is the five pointed star of the Soviet flag. , And' the man who looks like Santa Claus is really "Ded Mor roz," or Grandfather Frost, a character of Russian folklore dating back to pre-Christian times. It is Ded Morroz who, on New Year's Eve, descends from the North Pole with a team of rein deer bringing cheer and gifts to Russian children and grown-ups. His companion is "Segurocha," the snow maiden who helps him decorate the yolka. Grandfather Frost and the snow maiden were in disgrace for a few years after the Com munist revolution but by the mid-30s they were welcomed back by Soviet officials. But as symbols of the new year, not Christmas. Dec. 25 is an ordinary work ing day on the Russian calen dar. The Soviet encyclopedia de fines Christmas as "The birth day of the mythical founder of Christianity." Devout members of the Rus sian Orthodox church quietly celebrate Christ's birthday. But for the great mass of Russians, the occasion for giving gifts and general merriment is New Year's Eve. As in the West, Russians are advised to do their holiday shop ping early. They have been jam ming department stores to buy anything from inexpensive toys to prohibitive priced television sets. Popular Trees "Yolka" trees are on sale at 10 to 30 rubles, depending on size. Yolka decorations can be bought anywhere. There is prac tically no home in Moscow with out its yolka tree on New Year's Eve. Moscow's 48 restaurants are advertising warnings to custom ers to make reservations early for gala midnight dinners cost ing from 50 to 100 rubles. There will be all night danc- the and MID mm WILL REMAIN o o ' ALL WEEK For The Convenience of Christmas Shoppers Wonderful Gift . Selections! P MOW In Med ford! MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE ing to jazz orchestras in restaurants and hotels around yolkas in city squares. The big event for many chil dren will be a public party at the Kremlin, in one of the Czar's palaces. Dancing will take place around a giant yolka tree stand ing in the middle of St. George's hall where President Klimenti Voroshilov usually entertains the diplomatic corps. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Lawrence L. Clark, reckless driving, S40; operator's license suspended 20 days. Clarence G. Hedgpeth. overload, S153. David H Griffiths, drunk in public place. S15. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Willard Julian Baysinger and Alta Helen Good Solomon, both Jackson ville. Alex Henry Vahle. Pine Knot. Ky. and Monnie King, Glendale. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. Western Germany Television American TV Aces All Rolled Star Like nto One By WILLIAM EWALD United Press Correspondent New York U.P.) The chances are you've never heard of Peter Frankenfeld, but he's Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan and Hal March all rolled into one. In West Germany, that is.' Frankenfeld, says Franken feld, is the No. 1 TV star on the network that links Berlin, Stutt gart, Munich, Cologne. Frank furt and Hamburg. "West German television," ex plained Frankenfeld as he whirled through here last week is on only 14 hours a week. I am on two hours each Sunday, one-seventn of that time. And I am also on radio six hours a week." Offers Everything Frankenfeld's TV program of fers everything but free beer. It combines singers, dancers, an 18-piece band, magicians, dog acts, Frankenfeld telling jokes, Frankenfeld chatting with the audience and Frankenfeld run ning a quiz game. "We have a different kind of audience' than Amercian TV shows," said Frankenfeld as he tried to explain this cornucopis of razzmataz. "They pay to get in as much as $1.50. They ex pect a much faster show, some thing always has to be happen ing. The name of Frankenfeld's two-hour extravaganza, ' which originates in Hamburg, is "One To Zero For You." "It is like the score in a foot ball game," he explained. "It means you can win, you will win if you come up here," he added enigmatically. Toured United States Frankenfeld, who recently completed a six-weeks tour of the United States, saw many things he liked on American television. "Some of your comedians are very fast like Bob . Hope and Milton Berle. They are much too fast for Germany. We have not reached that stage in our com edy yet. , But your Abbott and Costello," Frankenfeld shrugged "we passed that stage sometime ago." Jack Benny, said Frankenfeld, is the sort of comic who would Knows Best.' If some American get the yoks in Germany. "Also writer could write something" your situation comedies like like these for Germany, he 'Life of Riley' and 'Father would make a fortune." , SEA i An Immediate Delivery O WASHERS O DRYERS O TV SETS Christmas Uam Given With Each Major Appliance Phone Medford 2-6255 Ashland-Talent Comm. 9860 $&Zy6dfaaaata& CCA DC 40So' if you can give a better bourbon... give it! There is no gift more gracious, more distinctive than this exquisite decanter, created specially for holiday giving. And inside, you have the greatest gift of all, a magnificent bourbon, rich, smooth and warmhearted. 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