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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1955)
o Kee 'cm Sober at Office Party, Liquof, Traffic Directors Advise Wednesday, December 21. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAII. TRIBUKE FIVE Washington (U.R) Here's a season-of-cheer thought for the boss: Go ahead and throw that of fice party. But don't let anybody get stiff. o Instead, give all hands a bottle with this instruction: Do not open until you get home. That is one of several ideas distilled at a lunch attended Qhere ihis week by a group of traffic authorities and represen tatives of the liquor industry. Japan Strikers Fail To Half Rocket Test Tokyo U.R) An attempted sjjiiown strike by Japanese dem onstrators in the target area ,'-ied today and the U.S. ' QrT carried out its third test fJrir of the "Honest John" (ffSg't launcher. Only about six of more than 1) labor demonstrators man age to sneak into the impact $r at iBe foot of Mt. Fuji. Japa nese police ejected them and the launcher was fired only 45 min utes behind schedule. Jt In a space of 54 hours during the holiday season last year 515 Americans were killed and 10,000 were hurt in traffic. So Paul E. Burke, director of the Maryland Traffic Safety Commission, thought it would be worthwhile if he and others con cerned with mayhem on the highways had a talk with the people who sell liquor, by the bottle or drink. Dangerous Season It turned out that the liquor people had been giving about as much thought to this most dan gerous season as the police had. They had, in fact, come up with what they say is the best possible drink-for-the-road: A cup of coffee, hot, black. They and the traffic directors also 'had a word to say about office parties. M. A. Rappaport, of Jessup, Md., eastern vice-president of the National Licensed Beverage association, said the "one great problem" of the sea son is "Christmas parties." His advice to the people who throw them: "Appoint a committee of peo ple who don't drink. to see that everybody gets home safely. If anybody takes one too many, take his car keys away from him and put him up in a hotel." George E. Keneipp, director of vehicles and traffic for the District of Columbia, said the season of the office parties is a "time of foreboding" for author ities. His advice paralleling Rap paport's, is: Sober Bartender "Appoint a non-drinker to be vice-president-in-charge of the bar. If anybody calls for a drink-for-the-road, give him a shot of black coffee." It was Frank De Sando, secre tary of the National Licensed Beverage' association, who pro posed that the boss keep his party guests sober and "Give 'em a bottle to take home." Representatives of local tav ern keepers said the word has gone out to bartenders to give drunks a jolt of coffee for the road "free." -- ' . Max Dorfman, president of the District Retail Liquor Dealers association, recommended this thought for everyone who buys a jug of Christmas cheer: "Drive this bottle safely home without opening it." Store Closed Sunday & Monday, Dec. 25-26 c We Will Close P.M. XMAS EVE Premium Oven Ready I TURKEYS J Toms . . . lb. 55c V Hens . Ib. 63c J Roasting Hens, Fryers, Long Island Ducks, Stewing Chickens Shank Half or Whole Cascade Hams Ib. 55c Tenderized Dry Cured Morrell's Frontier Sliced Bacon lb. 37c FRESH OYSTERS pt. 55c FANCY Sweet Potatoes 1 lbs. or Golden Yams 25c EXTRA FANCY RED DELICIOUS 2 lbs. 35c JUMBO ORANGES 3.29e FRESH CRANBERRIES 1 -lb. Clo Bag o 29c UBAN COFFEE Mb. Tin 99c &ASY-OFF Q Oven Cleaner "r 98c NEW CROP Almonds Brazils Walnuts Peanuts Mixed Huts Filberts Cello Pack Lb. Pkg. DUNDEE Sliced No. V2 Pineapple Tin PENNANT Maraschino Cherries NUCOA Margarine 2 n 55c PLANTERS Peanuts 39c HEINZ Kosher Dills "r 39c CUBED o o 528 So. Riverside Dressing Bread Pk9. 20c Christmas Season Finds Holy Land With Uneasy Armistice Jerusalem (U.R) Another Christmas season finds the Holy Land still divided and living under an uneasy armistice, as it has been for five years. For seven years, the young state of Israel has clung to its beachhead, hemmed in by Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. A large area of erstwhile Mandate Palestine fell to the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, including Bethlehem and the "old city" of ; Jerusalem. But despite the tension and distrust marking the Arab bor ders. Christmas has sufficiently overcome ill-feeling to secure the safe passage of pilgrims from Israel to Bethlehem in Jor dan At dawn on Christmas Eve, whole families of Christian Arabs will begin crossing the frontier separating the ''new city" of Jerusalem, in Israel, from the "old city" in 'Jordan. This is one of the only two oc casions in the year when pil grims may cross into Jordan and return by the same route. The other is Easter. Normally, the Jordan government permits one-way traffic only. Open 36 Hours On Christmas, the frontier post stays open for 36 hours, with a strong supplement of of ficials to check the identity of pilgrims and inspect their bag gage. Several thousand Arabs, mostly Greek Catholic -with a sprinkling of Maronite, Protest ant and Latin Catholic, will travel from all over Israel to make the annual crossing. ' On the other side of the check post, shouting delirious wel come,, will be their relatives. Arab families resemble small tribes and many Israel' Arabs !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Over in Prineville a while back the city council decided to try out' a be-kind-to-motorists project. So it instructed the city's cops, whenever they found a meter with the EXPIRED sign up, to put in a nickel. At the same time, they left in the usual place on the windshield an enve lope containing a coin' card which the motorist was sup posed to mail in to the city WITH A NICKEL. Thus he escaped the four bit fine for overtime parking. TT WORKED beautifully for a - while. Eut As the novelty wore off The motorists 3UIT SEND ING IN THEIR NICKELS. OO THE city fathers, sadder and wiser as a result of their experiment in philanthropy, have scrapped the project. Here after the overtime parker will be socked with the usual 50-cent fine. QJTILL The Prineville city council's experiment points a moral that is of considerable importance in the business world and it is a BUSINESS world that we live in. The moral is this: YOU CAN'T SELL IT IF YOU'RE WILLING TO GIVE IT AWAY. Parking space is a part of the modern city's stock in trade. By selling it at so much per minute and COLLECTING THE PUR CHASE PRICE the city gains revenue with which to pay its operating expenses, such as po lice and fire protection, street repair, etc. Looked at in that light, the collection of parking fees i a strictly business transaction. But when business principles are not followed that is to say, when it is left up to the customer to pay or not to pay it assumes the shape of a Lady Bountiful gift. T EXPECT that if a general merchandise store left it up to its customers to pay or not to pay it would find that a consid erable number of them walked off without paying. Human na ture, you know, is human nature. rpHAT suggests-another -- thought: If a business house should in augurate the policy of leaving it up to its customers to pay or not to pay, as they chose, it would probably come in time to be looked, upon as an EASY MARK, and too many of its customers would fall into the habit of walk ing off with the merchandise and not paying for it. I doubt if these customers who walked off without paying would properly appreciate what was being done or them. I'm afraid that a majority of them would come to look upon the establishment with a certain amount of contempt. LET'S close this with this thought: k For nearly a decade, the Uni ted States of America has been shelling out money in large sums for what it calls foreign aid. It has demanded little, if anything, in the way of pay ment, merely hoping that the good will it would gain through out the world would repay it for the money it has given away. Is that hope being realized? I wonder. There are times whan I doubt have a horde of cousins over the border. When the 36-hour reunion is over, the pilgrims will go home to Nazareth and Jaffa, laden with coffee, rice and various Oriental sweets hard to buy in Israel. Those with relatives in Jordan are spared the trouble of hunting for accommodation. Hotels and homes with rooms to let enjoy golden prosperity over the festival in sharp contrast to the normal stagnation pre vailing in the "old city" and Bethlehem and are booked up for weeks before Christmas. Both Israel and Jordan au thorities examine applications to cross the lines and reject any ore suspect on grounds of se curity. The only pilgrims to approach Bethlehem along the road tradi tionally used by the Three Wise Men will be diplomatic and United Nations' personnel, for most of this road lies in Jordan territory and is normally bar red by a stretch of mine-fringed no-man's land. UN People Participate Jordan allows these neutral groups to ride down the deso late highway from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Both . Israel and neighboring hostile states afford uncontrolled exit and entry to the officials, and the white painted UN jeeps can be seen whizzing by the frontier postsi at all hours. This Christmas more than ever, the UN staff seems to be holding the balance which pre cariously keeps in check attack ers and counter-attackers along the Israel border. One of the guests in Bethlehem will be E. L. M. Burns, UN truce super vision chief of staff who will leave his residence in Govern ment House, a black-and-white marble mansion built for the British Mandate commissioner, to join the pilgrimage. Arab Legionnaires patrol the massive wall encircling the "old city," not a stone's throw from the modern municipal offices of the "new city." A few meters from the piled rubble around the frontier between Israel and Jordan, the "old city," a cramp ed criss-cross of alleys and stop ping houses dwarfed by the great Moslem Dome of the Rock has hardly changed since New Testament times. Here lie the shrines of three faiths. No worshippers pray at the Wailing Wall, last vestige of the Jewish Second Temple, and few Christians from abroad manage to pace the Hill of Calvary. Only at Christmas does the "old city" regain its traditional religious life, thronged with celebrants and echoing with joyful bells. In the "new city" also, Christ mas brings its cheer to the handful of churches, missions and chapels which pursue their evangelical work with hindrance. 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