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0 G FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HAkHY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor EARL H. ADAMS, Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ol March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Dfi'ly and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3J0 Sunday Only One vear $3.50. By C&rrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ., Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5e per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Sfflclal Paper of the City of Mediord Official Paper cf Jackson County TTnitrt Press Full Leased Wire ' "'MEMBER OK AUDIT BUKISAU S :. , t.4... TmtToludaycompany inc. Offices In New York. Chicago, pe trol' San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAL ASSOC'l-ATHON 7 J J PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION might o' Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribun 10. 20. 30 and 40 years go. ' 10 YEARS AGO Dec 26. 195 (It was Wednesday) Total of 248 are killed in high- way pDcidents over Christmas holiday. from Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: People are putting out bread crumbs for birds. The early sparrow gets them. 20 YEARS AGO rac.2i, 135 (It was Thursday) Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carr. 744 MPS, West gackson t., have Medford's only Christens baby a girl. Continued rain is forecast for RoguS valley. 30 YtJlRS AGO DSc. 1435 (It was Saturday) Thie persons freeze to death In Chicago as result of mid-west's wor cold snap in years. G Gforj B. Hunt company holds fr movi fbr children at Rialto thtir. 90 Y2A19 AGO nscj,. mi (It -vts Sunday) ' TcAtr9 from throughout GWesteJVa Orgon start arriving for lStA Annual meeting. From octl end Personal col umn: It omme nearly being a whit Christmas. It lacked only, a few miles of it. The forest in the foothill vts white on Christ mas morning and remained so until noon. Indications today are that "th mtntel of white" was delayed only a few days. What't thi Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr.(955. Editorial Research Report 1. Stock prices in relation to earning represented per share are higher or lower now than just before the 1929 crash, or about the same? 2. Most, cities do or don't get the biJk.of their tax collections from the general property tax? 3. Babfes born in. the U. S. today igjill five on the average about (a) 5, (b) 10, (c) 15 or (d) 20 years onger than those born 50 years ago? 4. Former President Truman says he would or wouldn't like to help write the 1956 Demo cratic plform? 5. No Soutiftrner was on the Supreme Court when it handed do8 its anti-segregation ruling in 1954; right or wrong? 6. Which two of these are classed as Soviet satellites: Af- ghanistan, Austria, Finland, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Ru mania, Yugoslavia? 7. What is now the state, of Texas was, or wasn't once an independent nation? The Answers: 1. Much lower, 2. Most do. 3. About 20 years longer. 4. Says he would. 5 Wrong; three justices were Southerners (Black, Rsed, Clark) 6. Hungary and Rumania. 7, Was. Hair Driers Rushed To Flood Stricken Areas San Francisco (U.R) The Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph Company rushed several nair drvers into flood stricken areas today along with thousands of other repair items. A company spokesman said the hair dryers were perfect for drying watersoaked cables and equipment. MAIL TRIBUNE '5ft' Its "Merry Christmas" It has been a rather un-Christmasy Christmas week end. The usual joyousness has been considerab ly subdued by the destructive floods which have hit northern California disasterous blows, and which were the worst in history in Southern Oregon. Jackson county could, we suppose, be said to have gotten off "lucky." A tiny minority of its 64,000 or so people were seriously affected by the high waters. But those of us who were lucky 'cannot simply brush the misfortune of others aside with a casual "too bad." OOMES and businesses have been destroyed. And for those who lost themj Christmas could not have been much other than a pretty dismal holiday. Our hearts go out to sufferers at any time, but particularly at Christmas. The agencies charged with affording relief, assis tance and rehabilitation to the flood victims have started their tasks of mercy. Families and friends have opened their homes over the Christmas holiday to those who have lost so heavily. Hundreds upon hundreds of people have pitched in to carry on the rescue and salvage work. Thousands of others, if asked, will, we are sure, willingly assist in whatever relief work still needs to be done. E.A. Rescue One of the suggestions arising from last week's flood disaster, and more particularly the plight in which Barney Governor found himself marooned in his home amid the surging river waters was that a water rescue unit be formed for just such emergen cies. We are informed that there are a number of men in this area who, banded together in an organization, wquld form the experienced nucleus of a rescue unit which could respond in such cases. 1I7E WILL watch with interest to see if this sugges- ion meets with public approval. Many of the men live in and around Central Point, and could use the services of the Central Point Fire department as an alerting and centralizing agency. Boats, ropes and other rescue gear could be listed and readily avail able. It would require little time and effort to maintain a roster of experienced men. But if and when lives were menaced, one would know where to go. If the project is organized, the group could un doubtedly be accorded some sort of official designa tion, perhaps through the sheriff's office, to give it authority to act in emergencies. E.A. Holidays, and After Holidays after holidays are odd. Here it is Monday, Dec. 26 the day after Christ mas yet it is a holiday. The festivities are over, the gifts are opened, the dinners are digested and the guests are leaving. And yet, here it is, a holiday. TT'S kind of nice, really. It gives one a chance to sit -- around and think things over, to rest up and get ready to go back to work again. There's not much else to be done, in winter weather, except to relax, take a whirl at one s hobbies, or Maybe we should always have a holiday after a holiday to rest up from the New Calendar The coming year 1956 times in this century when people can get a sample of what a proposed new world calendar would be like. January 1 is on a Sunday, the first day of the week, and all of "January fits neatly into place, much as is proposed in the world calendar which the United Na tions has been considering on and off for years. THE principal objection -i - come irom religious- groups wno pase uieir oppo sition on theological grounds. The business community, generally, favors the change, for each year would be the same, the quarters would be even, holidays would be on the same date and day of the week each year, and many bookkeep ing problems would be eliminated. . ' It would all be neat and orderly rather in con trast to many other affairs of mankind. E.A. DOUBLE KISS IS GIVEN BRIDE, Dorothy Warren by her father, Chief Justice Earl Warren and groom, Dr. Carmine D. Clemente, following marriage at Palos Verdes Hills, CaL, in th Wayfarers Chapel, made largely of glass. (International) Monday, December 26, 1955 Agency read that book. holiday. E.A. will be one of the few to the new calendar has i l ji Matter of Fact By SCENE IN A COURTYARD Washington Sometimes a small scene sticks like a stub born burr in the mind of the traveling reporter, when the things that he ought to re member the interviews with the great and near great, the famous pros pects and the history mak ing moments have long since faded from his mind. Joseph Also One such scene occurred last summer in the courtyard in front of the en trance to the ancient catacombs of Kiev, where the magnificent ly clothed corpses of medieval holy man are preserved in wind ing underground corridors the courtyard was a shabby place, with the special inimitable shab biness you find everywhere in the Soviet Union. There were half a dozen Uk rainian children playing a slow, c o m p 1 icated game on the c o b b lestones, and an elderly cripple, bis twisted legs doubled up un der him, heat ing something in a can over a bf us hwood fire. T h er e were a few casual visitors, Stewart Alsop Soviet citizens in loud prints or baggy suits, peering at the Me dieval paintings of devils tor turing sinners on the walls of the entrance to the catacombs, or just standing idly about. But the scene was dominated by two dozen or more old peas ant women, with kerchiefs over their heads and voluminous skirts reaching to the ground, looking exactly like illustrations from an old edition of a Tolstoy novel. The peasant women stood or sat or crouched in a bunch in one corner of the courtyard ob viously waiting for something. SUDDENLY there was a stir- KJ; ring and whispering among them. A big old man in priestly robes, with a crucifix dangling below his long beard, has enter ed the courtyard. With anxious eagerness, the peasant women crowded around this patriarchal figure, with a kind of heaving fluttering movement, like elder ly birds, to kiss the crucifix and receive a blessing. There were no men at all in the crowd around the priest. But there was one very young girl, in a long white dress, with her hair braided in pigtails. She was being pushed fiercely forward, to kiss the crucifix by mous tachioed old peasant woman. Alone among the old women, the girl looked terribly embar rassed and shy. The younger men and women looked on with tolerant amuse ment at the little crowd around the priest, and one or two laugh ed outright. But there was no thought of molesting the old women or the priest. There was no need to. ' - TOR the old peasant women in - their shawls belong to the last Christian generation in Rus sia. Such old women, and the aging priests who cater to their spiritual needs, are tolerated now in the Soviet Union, because they do not matter any more. Before too long, they will be dead, the old women and the priests too. That is why the small scene in the courtyard seems worth recalling at this time. For when that day comes, there will be almost no one left throughout the vast Soviet land mass to whom Christmas, the great annual reaffirmation of the Christian ethic, means any thing at all. To be sure, in the younger generations there may be a few perhaps even the embarrassed young girl in the courtyard who have caught a whisper from the past, and still feel a need. But even if this is so, there wiU be no way to satisfy the need, for there is no religion without a clergy, and the priesthood is a dying race in Russia. It is very much more likely that the young girl in the court yard, like her whole generation, will embrace the new state reli gion with genuine conviction. Lenin and Stalin will be her dei ties. Marxism-Leninism will be her bible. The anniversary of the October revolution will be her Christmas. She will believe with a simple faith that Com munism is good and all else bad and that Communism must tri umph soon, all over the world. "DERHAPS it will. Despite the shabbiness and the ugliness which is everywhere in the So viet Union, all the instruments of naked national power are available in great profusion to the new high priests of the Com munist state religion. And the extent to which Communism is a religion, passionately believed in by the youngest Soviet gen erations, is greatly underesti mated in the West. Indeed, this genuine faith in the false Communist religion is itself a great Soviet instrument of national power. Combined with the new weapons of total destruction, it threatens Chris- Joe and Stewart Alsep tian civilization as never before. Yet somehow, in this season of the year, one feels a perhaps il logical conviction that the Christian ethic, which has sur vived so stubbornly for so long, will not die; and that the time wiU never come when Christ mas means nothing at all, all over the world. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Big American Plane Crashes in Azores Angra Do Heroismo, Azores (U.R) An American f our-engined airplane crashed on Terceira Island in the Azores last night, airport authorities reported to day. Commercial airlines in New York said no commercial planes were missing. The crashed plane was presumed to be a military aircraft. Officials here said the plane was not immediately identified and it was not known how many died in its flaming wreckage. A check of U. S. Air Force bases and civilian airline offices across Europe indicated no American plane had been re ported as missing. Officials said, however, it was possibly a military aircraft fly ing from the United States or a North African base. They often refuel in the Azores. GIFT CAUSES DEATH Tokyo U.R) Eighty-year-old Chie Nagao hanged herself in her small Tokyo apartment Christmas Day when she be came angered over the kimona material given her by her 63- year-old daughter, police report ed today. , taw-. . xm& : t ? i 7 ii' v X 1 r - k - Vi , ? - PALS Howard (Hopalong) Cassady of Ohio State gets acquainted with two patients of the Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children in San Francisco as members of the East and West football teams visited with the children. Cassady will play with the East when the All-stars meet in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium Dec. 31. The hospital benefits from the annual game. Police Seek New Suspect in Death Of Chicago Boys Chicago (U.R) A pimply-faced young man who tried to pick up young boys and beat one of them when he refused was the top suspect today in the dogged hunt for the sadistic killer of three young Chicago school boys. The man tried to induce four boys to enter his car on Chi cago's northwest side Thursday night. He offered one of the boys money to come with him. When the boy refused, the man slapped him twice across the face and brought his knee up into the lad's stomach. Prime Suspect Lt. Patrick Deeley, in charge of the special police detail in vestigating the triple murder; said "This may be the man we've been looking for." "The viciousness of this fel low's approach and the fact that he's after teen-age boys leads me to call him a prime suspect in the murders," Deeley said. Chicago police have been hunting for almost two and a half months for the killer or killers of Robert Peterson, 13, John Schuessler, 13, and his brother, Anton, 11. The boys disappeared on the northwest side Oct. 16 and their naked mutilated bodies were found two days later stacked in a forest preserve ditch. Two had been strangled and one beaten to death. RETIRED MERCHANT DIES Senatobia, Miss. U.R)' Re tired merchant Lawrence Frank lin Woodruff, 74, died here Saturday. Services were held today at the First Baptist church. Schrunk Removal Opinion Called Inconclusive' Salem U.R) State Sen. Mark Hatfield said here yester day that an opinion from the at torney general caUing for re moval of Multnomah county Sheriff Terry Schrunk was "con fusing and inconclusive." Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton had said that state law requires Schrunk's removal be cause of a $12,970 judgment filed against the- sheriff for al leged failure to serve papers in a personal injury suit. Thornton Takes Issue Thornton took prompt issue with Hatfield's charges, how ever, saying it was obvious "he has never seen, much less read the (bpinion he is presuming to criticize. Thornton recommended that Hatfield study the limitations of the attorney general's powers before assuming the role of legal authority. . Hatfield, in a prepared state ment, commended Schrunk for his "fine record" and Gov. Paul Patterson for refusing to act on the 1870 statute on which Thorn ton based his bpinion. Should Change Law The senator said that Schrunk should be removed only if the law "clearly requires the gov ernor to do so" and not on the "confused and inconclusive opin ion of Attorney General Thorn ton." If the law positively requires Schrunk's removal, Hatfield said, it should be changed by the next legislature. French Election Campaign Closing Paris (U.R) France's roaring national election campaign en tered its final week today with three of the top vote-seekers making major speeches in the provinces tonight and tomorrow. One of them, Pierre Mendes France, spoke Sunday night at an uproarious Christmas Day meeting . that almost ended in a brawl.- Tomorrow night, at Paris' Ex position Park, he will cross swords with French Communist party leader Jaques Duclos, the only one of three major political figures who has accepted his challenge to a debate. Premier Edgar Faure speaks tonight in Paris before a crowd expected to be loaded with Communists and vehemently partisan followers of anti-tax crusader Pierre Poujade. DEPUTY SHERIFF DIES Memphis (U.R) Thomas A. Sewell Sr., 69, a deputy sheriff at Liberty, Miss., died Saturday at - Kennedy Veterans hospital here. He had been a patient here since Oct. 26. - The insulation value of three inches of wood is said to be greater than 12 inches of com mon brick or 20 inches of con crete, according to recent labor atory experiments. W ok f MARKET I 1202 North Riverside IS i OPEN EVERY ft ft NIGHT 'TIL M In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On Christmas Eve, when these words are written, my thoughts run back to an old house in the great valley of the Mississippi. This old house, incidentally, was built of solid black walnut lum ber. Extravagant, you say? No, it was mere adaptation of local materials to local needs. There was ho native pine tim ber. But the creek bottoms were heavily grown with huge black walnut trees. The early builders simply used what they had. They set up little sawmills and sawed the trees into black walnut lum ber. Times have changed. In these days, only the Aga Khan could afford a solid black walnut house. It is of this change in times that I'd like to write to day. TN THIS old house one Christ- mas mfirninff a vnnrjcrcfor B, ... arose early as youngsters are prone to do on Christmas morn ing. He had hung up his stock ing the night before. He had done so in high hope. He knew what he wanted. But, to. him in those days, it was a fabulous thing too wonderful to be really possible, everything (the state of the economy and all) considered. But hope wouldn't die. So he spent a fairly sleepless night waiting for the joy that Christ mas morning might bring. LET'S cut the story short. "Rvpntnnll-w llTrinty mnm door was. opened. His eager eyes found his stocking, hanging there before the fire. It was a big stocking, borrowed especial ly for the occasion. And Joy of joys THERE IT WAS! WHAT was it? " - It was a wooden gun,, clev erly equipped with heavy rub ber cords that functioned like a crossbow,, but without the awkwardness' of the bow. It thus simulated a REAL, gun, and it would shoot a blunt, heavy-end ed arrow a surprising distance with surprising accuracy. Sub sequent testing proved that it would stun a flicker on the side of a tree. It had cost a DOLLAR whole round dollar. There were no paper dollars then. Other than a sparing number of candy canes and a vast abundance of popcorn balls stuck together with sorghum molasses boiled down to a thick and gummy syrup, the gun was all. . But it was wonderful. It fulfilled all the boy's Christmas hopes. PRETTY slim, you say? Well, it would be in these days. But those days were differ ent. TN THOSE days corn the staple crop of the region was selling for eight cents a bushel. It took 12 bushels of corn to buy that wooden toy. Twelve bushels of corn was nearly half a wagon- load. And the corn was planted and tended with mule-power and shucked by hand. Hogs .were selling for three cents per pound. Eggs brought five cents per doz- Ike's Pastor Backs Proposal by Pope Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower's pastor has endorsed a proposal by Pope Pius XII for a world ban on atomic weapons. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, pas tor of National Presbyterian church, said the Pope's plea "may well be one of the most constructive suggestions that has come to us in recent months." He pointed out that Jesus "would say peacemaking is an active rule..He said Christ did not "commend hopers or eulo gizers, but peacemakers." The Pope proposed a ban on nuclear tests and an internation al agreement on disarmament in a special Christmas message from the Vatican Saturday. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone FINER FUNERAL SERVICES en in trade at the store. And so on. In terms of human effort, you see, that toy gun had cost quite a lot. - Anyway, it made a won derful Christmas and everybody was happy and thankful and overflowing with Christmas spirit. QUITE different from today? . True enough. One of the Christmas problems of today is WHAT SHALL I GET HIM or her? HE or she HAS EVERYTHING ALREADY. That's the way it is. SHALL we be cynical? Shall we say that all this abundance is BAD? Shall we grumble sourly about this SATIATED modern wofld? MO!!! Let's be happy about it and thankful for it. This ECONOMY OF PLENTY which makes it difficult to buy Christmas gifts that will be really appreciated because near ly everybody has nearly every thing .is the final and won derful flowering of the American way of life. Let's say Merry Christmas! and MEAN it. ANXIOUS A worried AdTai; Stevenson uses telephone at Meigs Airport in Chicago be fore taking off for Goshen,5 Ind., where his son, John, 19, is hospitalized after his car crashed headon into a truck that was attempting to pass another truck. Two of young Stevenson's Harvard class mates riding with him were killed instantly? Another re- ' ceived only bruises. Money and Women GEO. N. TAYLOR " In the early days, they took their money and went to Cor inth; that capitol of Southern Greece. On a high rock above the city, 1000 lewd women served in the name of their heathen relig ion. At length the Gospel r e a c h ed Cor inth. It was God's word and it never returns to him void. True God's saved people there in Corinth fell into cliques and one man still held to one of the lewd women. But God was at work in their hearts and they grew in faith and became the stuff out of which martyrs are made. Martyrs? They who give themselves to be used of God when and where he wills. Right here in America today some of you born again would die rather than to deny Christ. The eter nal God has taken up in you, he has given you new birth; he has changed your appetites and the way you look at things You live to make God rich. This message sponsored by an Oregon Dairyman. Adv. - 2 - 6675 in every price range ' wMMn .-.v.-; malt . 11
