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o o Wednesday, December 21, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Almost Daily Incidents in Berlin Raise Question of New Blockade By JOSEPH FLEMING Berlin (U.R) Is West Berlin 4n peril again? Do the almost daily incidents, the arrests, riots, Communist threats to seal oft the city and the Sovereignty" given the East Germans mean the Reds are get ig, ready for a showdown to to push out the Americans, Btetish and French? TEb correspondent .has been posted in rseriin much of the time nee World War II, and frankly I don't know. No one on tJ Western side professes to know, but certainly there are siens in the threats and tersjbns of the past few weeks which igriicate that the west may be faced again with the blockade it broke seven years ago only through the mir acle of the airlift aijd the spend ing of millions of dollars. Is the West capable of mounting an other airlift? ' The ajgwer to that is an em phatic yes! ne man who ran the 1948-49 (Jjjjijft was Gen. William H. Tun jier: Now he is commander of the U. S. r Force in Europe. Tunner, asked about the pos s.'btfAy of a new air" lift, said "We are ready to do anything ithin our capabilities that our newtouartexs orders us to do." Asked itJthe capabilities in cluded mounting an airlift, he A$e Livq By J.fSftMTH HlLOOC. PH.D. Parent can be badly hurt by theirchildren. However, when a$t) emergency arises, the chil- come to the rescue, in spite of what they may have said. (Q) "Five years ago, my daughter w$i married, 9 ho rtly' afler Dr. JfJorjMfc thif cme home; ft oi IhSSr Redding trip her 'feiwttnii 5id, 'It is not the daivghtg! f utf to 1gJe cre of ner EfHtaJf tn ihT old. It is W$pTtg duty.' I -as ter riblv hurt nd mor so when mydaughitr agrd rith her husband. "Just last $-eeip, when toe were at their home, the husband said the same thing and my daughter agreed with him again. My husband was so hurt and angry that he put on his hat, walked out, and said he ovculd never 'go to their home again. We" are comfortable and there is no thought in our minds we -will ever have to call on them for help. We have two sons and another daughter but they do not mie these remarks. We feel her husband has influenced Iter this w3y as she was suh a cO civoted daughter before she igarried." D.E. . (Ai There is no question that jfeir daughter has been influ enced y her husband to believe your srms should be responsible for you and your husband in your old age, should the neces sity arise. He, unquestionably, wants you to understand now, before the time arrives, that you cannot expect to receive any help from him rr will his home be open to you. o It is certainly most unforru they have taken this stand ariS hav? made it soclear how thegj feel. Naturally you and your husbaOd are hurt and re sentful. HoweTer, you need not worry too much as .you can count on the0help of your other child0rejn, should the need ever arise. You should not let this pass with just hurt feelings on your part. Instead, you should make a point of informing them that you and your husband have given serious thought to their remarks whicjh, you assume, expresPtheir true feeling about you. Then pSint out that you feel justified in iving sny help you can, eitb i money or id. to yemr otht cillrtn rather than to them. Sos't lift t finger to help this uhtr inS her husband in anp taierfency they have unless tr.$y iftinjt thir tune about you. (Copyright General Features Corj.) answered "Yes Some aviation authorities as sert a new air lift would be even more successful and easier to mount than the last one when, from June, 1948, to May, 1949, the American and British air forces carried in 2,243,301 tons of food and other supplies on 277.264 flights. The Air Force now is better equipped. It has better guidance systems, better radar, more sup plies. New high altitude trans ports such as the C118 and C132 could fly faster and above the weather. But there are hitches. Back in 1948 the 2,000,000 West Ber liners in this outpost 110 miles inside Russian-occupied territory were barely existing and the problem was merely to keep West Berlin alive. Now the city has considerable prosperity. Businesses have been re-established which must have contact with the outside to sur vive. Precious Lift No Victory . Then, too. it would appear un likely that the Russians, having been beaten once by an airlift, would , permit another blockade of Berlin without taking counter measures. Some American military men have long felt that the 1948 air lift, while a logistic miracle, was no victory for the West. One who holds that view is Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley who was American commandant in Berlin under military governor Gen. Lucius Clay. Howley put it this way: "If I try to get in the front door of my house and some fel low stands in front with a club and dares me to try and get in, it is not a victory if I go around to the back, climb the garden fence and then go in the kitche window. "Yes, I'm in the house all right. But I didn't go in the way I had every legal right tofjse. That's no victory." So a question facing the Allies now in case' of another blockade is "Do, we go in throu$i the front door?" It. kit I I v PAINT WITH MEDFORD PAIBT WALLPAPER ST61E Formerly Burgess Pai 1 Wallpaper Store Corner 6th & Holly, Diajirf Across from the Post OH'tm VVeive S&H Grein ttampe PHONE 2-9321 DON' "T-V"-SAY . . . n OPEHN J Shopping H U Y R YOUiSELF ore Vi A v Ai yO ifh Each Philco Television Purchase! .V. LAMPS! Antenna Plus Your Choice of J-AmA, UNTIL : CHRISTMAS "'--W EVE . (Ml ' - ' " For You, Ik ''2Zl$, tfi. ' (AAA . (tJJ ON APPROVED CREDIT I CONSOLE CABINET With . 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