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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.
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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."
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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.
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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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