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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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