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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History front) the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5, 1946
(It was Saturday)
Four men escape from Jack
son county jail by sawing bars;
two recaptured shortly after.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Water flow
ed freely all week "in Jackson
county. Jgyen Lost Creek found
itself.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5, 1936
(It was Sunday)
Capt. Carl Y. Tengwald, the
commanding officer of local Na
tional Guard, announces cam
paign to bring unit up to full
strength.
Executive committee of Med
ford American Legion post ap
points Col. W. H. Paine as adju
tant replacing Fred Fry, who
moved to Grants Pass.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5, 1926
(It was Tuesday)
Showing at Hunt's Craterian
theater is Charlie Chaplin in
"The Gold Rush."
From Local and Personal col
umn: Allen Perry left yesterday
for Corvallis to resume his stud
ies at the Oregon Agricultural
college following a holiday va
cation spent here with relatives.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 5, 1916
(It was Wednesday)
The Southern Oregon School
masters club will hold its sec
ond annual meeting here this
week end.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The temperature was 21
above this morning, but many
guessed it to be colder. The
orchards were covered with a
"clinging frost" that remained
on till noon, reminding one of
the hoary mornings "back east."
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of iha 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rsirt
1. Christianity does or doesn't
have more professed adherents
than any other single religion
in the world?
2. Has any child of a Presi
dent been born in the White
House?
3. Of all men buying a new
car these days, about one-third,
half, two-thirds or over three-
fourths drive regularly to work?
4. Under the reciprocal trade
act the President can wipe out
altogether the existing tariff
duty on an import; right or
wrong?
5. With what sport is the
name Walter Camp associated?
6. A thermostat controlling
the operation of an oil or gas
burner furnace is or isn't a good
example of "automation"?
7. Saul of Tarsus, in the Bi
ble, is better known as ?
The Answers: 1. Does. 2. One,
to President and ! Mrs. Cleve
land. 3. About two-ihixds. 4.
Wrong; he. can only change the
rate. 5. Football. 6. Is (one piece
of machinery controlling anoth
er). 7. St. PauL
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They Better Not Try It
Our neighboring contemporary the Ashland Ti&
ings, says there is no doubt that Governor Patterson
will run against Senator Morse for the U.S. Senate
and, quote "he will make a strong candidate with a
oroad appeal.
But he will have his work cut out for him, warns
the Ashland paper and to beat Oregon's senior sen
ator he will need a lot of
One reason cited for the strength of Senator
Wayne Morse as a candidate for reelection is his cap
acity (as well as that of
for tireless campaigning and his ability to talk "about
everything under the sun
about it or not.
17E would be grateful to
" ' campaign really starts it would name a few of
the subjects upon which our Senior Senator likes
to talk, whether he knows anything about them or
doesn t.
In the U.S. Senate, Mr.
and being of the outspoken, combative type, he has
of course many enemies.
tial survey of that great
show complete agreement
no member documents his
and completely than Oregon s representative in the
Upper House.
There are always plenty
the record will show, we believe, very few 11 any, who
care to challenge his facts or deny his mastery of the
subject as far as the reliability and extent of his in
formation regarding it is concerned.
1M0RSE has conducted two campaigns in Oregon for
ATX the Senate. He has never dodged an issue or re
fused to give a direct answer to a -question from the
floor or anywhere else. While there has often been
disagreement with his conclusions, this is the first
time, we. have ever heard it
former Dean of the Oregon
a complete grasp of the subject at hand, and did not
know what, from his standpoint, he was talking about.
THAT quality in fact is the Senator's great strength.
And the one Governor Patterson will find as
suming he is the Republican candidate the one most
difficult to overcome.
For Wayne Morse, whether one agrees or dis
agrees with him, never has and, we predict, never will
engage in any "double-talk," any make-believe, any
pretense or do anything other than hit straight from
the shoulder, make his charges plain and clear, and
support same by citing the record and giving the
facts.
He has never been one to expect complete agree
ment, or resent criticism. In fact he has always wel
comed disagreement, in the hope that through the
exchange of views and consequent clarification of his
position, there would be a better understanding all
around.
We have a pious idea the Republican advisers to
Governor Patterson realize all this, and that in next
year's campaign while there may be heckling and
name-calling, particularly along the traitor and turn
coat line there will be precious little challenging of
the factual basis for our Senior Senator's remarks, no
matter where he may make them or on what subject.
For unlike the Tidings they will , surely realize
that to take this challenging line would be attacking
our Senior Senator where he is strongest, and his op
ponents would be most easily repulsed. R.W.R.
A President Picks His Successor
If President Eisenhower decides not to run again,
will he be strictly hands-off as to his successor as Re
publican presidential nominee? Or will he agree with
party leaders warning him that he must pick his suc
cessor to prevent the party from being torn asunder
by bitter rivalries for the succession?
The last previous time that a Republican president
designated the heir apparent was 48 years ago, in
1907-8, when President Theodore Roosevelt tapped
Secretary of War William Howard Taft.
COR what the precedent may be worth today, T.R.
had no trouble getting his man nominated. Taft
received 702 of the 979 votes on the first ballot at the
1908 convention, the rest going to a handful of fav
orite sons as an empty gesture of honor from their
respective states.
The election was a walkover, too, with most vot
ers having become bored with William J. Bryan, Dem
ocratic nominee for the third time. Though some of
Taft's decisions while a federal judge, years before,
had antagonized labor, he carried every non-Southern
state except Colorado, Maryland, Nebraska and Nev
ada ; the general verdict seemed to be : "If he's good
enough for the President, he's good enough for me."
Teddy not only lived to regret his action but be
cause of the ultra-conservative record of Taft, he
left the Republican party, formed the Progressive
party and as its presidential candidate defeated his
1908 choice and elected Woodrow Wilson. R.W.R.
Soow Cover Gives Good Wafer Outlook
A wet snow cover around Fish
and Four Mile lakes indicates
good irrigation prospect for next
summer in the Medford Irriga
tion district, Jack Hoffbuhr, secretary-manager"
of the district,
said yesterday..
Both lakes have a below av
erage amount of water for this
time of the year, he said, be
cause of lack of run-off. "But
there is a lot of water in the
snow," he said, "and there is a
good snow cover."
Four Mile lake had 5,196 acre
feet Dec. 31, he said, compared
to a capacity -of 15,640 acre
Thursday, January 8, 1958
help."
his senatorial teammate),
whether he knows anything
the Tidings if before the
Morse has many friends,
But we believe any impar
deliberative body would
regardless of party that
remarks more carefully
to disagree with him, but
said or intimated, that the
Law School, did not have
feet. Fish lake had 3,740 acre
feet, compared to an 8,000 acre
feet capacity.
Snow measured 55 inches
deep at Four Mile lake Dec. 31,
he said, with a 35 per cent den
sity, or 19 inches of water. Last
year at the same time, there was
12 inches of snow with 19.8 per
cent density, for 2.4 inches of
water at Four Mile lake.
Fish lake Dec. 31 had 34 in
ches of snow on the ground with
a 30 per cent density, or 10.4
inches of water, compared to 5
inches Dec. 31, 1954, with 29
per cent density and 1.14 inches
of water.
The Old Fox' Adenauer Earns
Congratulations on 80th Year
By CHARLES M. McCANK
United Press Correspondent
The old Fox, as he is called,
is getting messages of congratu
lation from all over the free
world today.
It is the 80th
birth day of
leather!-tough,
pokelr- faced
Konrad Ade
nauer, chan
cellor of the
Federal R e-
public of West
Germany.
caanes MccanD J. n e mes
sages, from presidents and kings,
prime ministers and foreign min
Religion Still Held
In Shackles in USSR
By HELEN B. SHAFFER
Washington Whether the
chills of returning cold war will
stiffen the Communist attitude
toward religion will be disclosed
in all likelihood in the early
months of the new year.
While the spirit of Geneva was
in the making, the Kremlin
sought earnestly to convince the
western world that religious tol
erance prevailed under Red rule.
The Iron Curtain opened to per
mit an unprecedented number of
churchmen from western coun
tries, including the United
States, to visit freely in the
Soviet Union and to observe re
ligious activities there.
An American Baptist leader,
one of four members of his faith
invited to the U.S.S.R. last sum
mer, said" on his return to this
country that Russians "certainly
have full freedom of worship"
even if they "do not have relig
ious freedom the way we know
it." A British Methodist who
went to Russia in July remarked
that Christians there had been
living under "relaxed condi
tions" since the death of Stalin,
which proved that "some, kind
of coexistence" of the Christian
church and " atheistic Commun
ism was possible.
Arrests Fall Off
Release from prison of sev
eral Roman Catholic church dig
nitaries in the satellite countries
was attributed to pressure from
the Kremlin. Meanwhile, new
arrests of church leaders in the
Soviet orbit have fallen off no
ticeably. A year ago, in Novem
ber, 1954, Communist Party
chief Khruschev ordered anti-
religious propagandists in the
USSR to stop ridiculing the
clergy and religious believers.
In general, people in Com
munist countries are free to wor
ship as they please and the
clergy suffers little interference
in the conduct of services. How
ever, religious activity beyond
this rather narrow sphere is se
verely restricted. The church
has been stripped of most of its
educational, charitable, and mis
sionary functions and any resist
ance to state regulations Is se
verley punished.
Communist attacks on religion
have been aimed,, not at imme
diate eradication of religion, but
at rendering the church organi
zations subservient to the Red
political regimes. When this has
been accomplished, the church
is allowed a number of privi
leges. Its benefits are won, how
ever, at the cost of servility
toward the state and other sacri
fices. . '
Priests Take Oath
In Czechoslovakia, largely
Roman Catholic, priests must
take an oath of loyalty to the
"people's democracy" and the
state defrays church expenses.
In Poland a church-state agree
ment provides freedom of wor
ship in return for church sup
port of the regime. In Bulgaria,
where the Orthodox Church is
known as "a national people's
democratic church," a state
bureau appoints all officials and
a priests' trade union has been
set up.
The constitutions of Commu
nist countries as a rule guaran
tee "freedom of religion" and
equal "freedom of anti-religious
propaganda." Even in periods
of relative good will toward the
church, however, the campaign
to guide children in Christian
home to an atheistic way of life
continues. The emphasis current
ly is on "scientific" instruction
Oregon Prunes Due
To Gel Army Tesl
Washington (U.R) Rep.
Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) today
said the Army and the Air Force
have agreed to test Oregon
prunes at the next meeting of
the two services' joint menu
board.
Norblad said both services
have purchased only ,sweet
prunes grown in California, for
many years, and have given no
consideration to the tart variety
raised in Oregon.
The Oregon Republican said
'it would be a boost indeed" to
Oregon orchards if specifica
tions were changed to include
the Oregon variety of prune.
Highest Ohio river flood on
record was in 1837.
isters, are not mere formalities.
They are warmly sincere. '
For to Adenauer, more than
any other man, is due the fact
that West Germany has become
a bastion in the Allied defense
against Communist aggression.
It was on Sept. 15, 1949, that
Adenauer was made chancellor.
He was elected by his Parlia
ment in Bonn, the West German
capital, by a majority of one
vote his own.
How important that one vote
was, it is difficult to realize.
At that time West Germany,
demoralized, 'was still digging
out of the ruins of World War
II.
Booming Nation
Under Adenauer's firm, far-
in atheism, rather', than abuse
of religion.
Decree Hailed
The Khrushchev decree on
anti-religious propaganda was
aimed primarily at over-zealous
propagandists whose attacks on
religion were so harsh that they
threatened to antagonize rather
than convince the faithful. The
decree was widely hailed by
churchmen in the West as an
indication that the religious
spirit had remained strong in the
USSR despite more than a gen
eration of oppression.
A Russian Orthodox prelate
recently estimated that 90 per
cent of the 215 million people
of Russia are faithful to God
Approximately one-fourth of the
population holds membership in
the Orthodox church. There are
20 million Old Believers (an
Orthodox dissident group), 20
million Moslems, three million
Baptists, and an unknown num
ber of adherents of the Jewish
faith. The USSR has 20,000
Orthodox churches today, com
pared with 46,000 in 1917. The
Baptists have 5,400 churches
There are relatively few Roman
Catholic churches or Jewish
synagogues.
Communications
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tion must not exceed 400 words.
More on Bird Count
To the Editor: The recent edi
torial comment on Bird Count
by the Salem Oregon Statesman,
printed in the Medford Mail
Tribune on Jan. 1, seems worth
more consideration. Probably
most of us love birds, and many
of us wish we had more and
a greater variety of some of our
feathered friends.
However, anyone who has
seen the starlings as they are
in parts of Canada, Kansas and
other mid-Western states, can
but hope that our West Coast
states . may te spared an epi
demic - sized starling invasion.
But starlings are here.
Driving from Detroit to Wel
lington, Canada, in 1939, thou
sands oi starlings were seen.
Fields of wheat shocks were lit
erally black with starlings. At
night the city trees were filled
with the birds, and the air with
their squawking, cackling bab
ble. A double-barreled shotgun
fired at random up into the trees
brought 24 . starlings to earth.
Walking beneath the trees was
utterly dangerous, risking ruina
tion to an Easter, or any other,
bonnet. Sidewalks were awful.
Similar conditions prevail- in
Topeka, Kan., and other mid-
West cities.
Most everyone loves birds, but
not starlings not by thousands
Trained, a few might serve as
political hecklers. In pie, they
might surpass the "24 black
birds baked in a pie." Perhaps
a year-round open season, or a
small bounty, might keep the
starlings within bounds : their
number bearable. Watch for the
increase. Report a control.
John E. Gribble,
139 Kenwood Ave.,
Medford,. Ore.
Jap" as Bad as "Nigger"?
To the Editor: Your recent ed
itorial regarding Roosevelt and
the war with Japan made inter
esting reading, as your disserta
tions always do, to my way of
thinking, but the phrase "Jap
War" in the head' still rankles.
I trust you did not write that
head and also that you will in
struct whoever did write it to
kindly drop the word "Jap"
from his future journalistic ef
forts while in the employ of the
Mail Tribune.
I cannot imagine you would
ever be guilty of permitting the
word "Nigger" to appear in
print in your paper as long as
you are editing it, and I think it
is scarcely necessary for me to
point out that "Jap" is an epithet
in exactly the same category as
"Nigger" and ' that its. usage is
a direct slap in the face of every
loyal American of Japanese an
cestry resident in the Rogue
valley and elsewhere.
Grace N. Pearson,
, Route 2, Box 50,
Jacksonville, Ore.
seeing leadership West Germany
has become a sovereign nation.
It has joined the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization. Its indus
try is booming. It has attained
the status of a world power. ,
And now, to start the new
year, the first army, air force
and navy men of what is to be
the 500,000-man West German
Streitkraef te striking force
have gone into their barracks.
To start the new year also,
Adenauer has answered the
threats and promises of the
Kremlin by saying: -
"Our place is with the free
world of democracy, constitu
tionality, social justice and so
cial progress."
East Germany remains under
Communist rule, an enslaved
satellite of Red Russia.
How great is the difference
between free West Germany and
captive East Germany is shown
by a few figures.
Many Volunteers ,
Months ago more than 160,
000 men had volunteered for ser
vice in the West German armed
forces. Undoubtedly the entire
500,000 could be raised by vol
unteer enlistment.
During 1955, 4,286 members
of the East German police army
fled to West Germany. During
1955 also 271,000 Germans in. all
crossed the frontier to the West.
In four years, nearly 1,000,000
persons have done that out of
a population of less than 18,
000,000. Adenauer, at 80, is still very
much West Germany's strong
man. Nearly six feet tall, he
remains ramrod-straight. His
face, with high cheek bones,
shows his stern, indomitable
character. , ' ,
' He shows no sign that he is
even thinking of retirement. He
can still work harder than many
men 20 years his junior. He
has just recovered, with rapidity
that astonished his doctors, from
a bout of pneumonia. He cannot
last forever. But when he does
go, he will leave his monument
in his strong, free country.
In The Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Morning after a holiday:
The nation's motorists rolled
up a record for New Year's traf
fic deaths on the highways. An
AP survey shows at least 345
killed. The previous high for a
three-day New Year holiday was
317, set year before last.
THERE are more people to -be
killed. There are more cars
to kill 'em. People haven't yet
learned to use more caution and
common sense TO KEEP FROM
GETTING KILLED.
VERSE AS polities: ...
" Unofficial and incomplete
returns from Monday's French
election eive Premier Faure's
right-center coalition about 193
in the French assembly far
less than expected.
The Mendes-France leftist, Re
publican Front has won about
156 seats, including 88 for the
Socialists. The communists have
151 a GAIN of 52 seats.
NOT so good, you say?
I quite agree But there
was an interesting side issue in
the French, election. A stockily
built French bookstore owner
in his 30's, father of five chil
dren, went out on his own and
put on a slam-bang campaign
against TAXES.. :
He accused France's post-war
governments of squandering bil
lions collected " from taxes and
"loans" from the U. S. Told that
most of the ' American money
was in the form of gifts, he re
plied, "I DON'T BELIEVE IN
FREE GIFTS." '
He added:
"Our relations svith the Unit
ed States are growing worse all
the time and it's because there
has come between our two
friendly peoples this band of
small-time cheats who went
over and waved a scarecrow
in front of the Americans and
begged them-for money shame
lessly."
TJIS party was expected to
nirV nr mnvVio 'half a rlnyen
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Portland Merchants
To Be Asked for Aid
Portland (U.R) Gordon
Steele, president of the Portland
Traction company, said today he
would approach downtown bus
inessmen for $200,000 to buy
out the San Francisco-owned
firm and operate the mass tran
sit system as a locally-owned
company.
Mayor Fred Peterson said he
understood that PTC had offered
to sell its equipment to Portland
interests for $2,000,000. Howev
er, Charles C. Bowen, vice-president
of PTC, said no offer had
yet been made.
A spokesman for the bus driv
ers union said members were
enthusiastic over a proposal for
each driver to lend a local tran
sit firm $300 each to create a
$300,000 fund for purchase of
the line.
The Portland city council has
denied an extension of the PTC
franchise until it is locally con
trolled. Deadline for a new firm
to take over is Jan. 31.
M0ttQ f Of FQCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop
GOING, GOING. GOING1
Washington The biggest,
most disturbing feature of thei
present world situation can be
rather simply summed up. The
United States is now losing its
air-atomic lead to the Soviet
Union. Or you
might say that
the sole . de
fense of the
free world is
being . limply
cast away.
One indicat
or of the gen
eral trend is
the Soviet pro
gress with in
t elrcontinental
Joseph Alsop ballistic mis
siles, discussed in the last report
in this space. The 1CBM is ngnt
ly called "The Ultimate Weap
on." Yet these vast rockets are
such complex mechanisms that
there will be no overnight revo
lution because of the mere test
ing of a prototype.
For some years to come, man
ned aircraft, will certainly con
tinue to dom
inate the air-
atomic weap
ons system,
For the im
mediate future,
therefore, the
most import
ant indicators
of the present
trend are the
figures on
Soviet and
Stewart Alsop
American pro
duction of combat planes of ad
vance types. i
In brief, Soviet output is now
far ahead of American output in
three of the four major cate
gories of combat aircraft, day-
fighters, night-fighters and long
range jet-bombers. These are
the categories, moreover, of high
est importance to this country.
Concerning these categories, the
figures speak for themselves.
TN the category of night-fight
ers, the United States has no
advanced type worth mention
ing except the F-102. About ten
F-102s are now being produced
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seats in the assembly which
corresponds roughly to our con
gress. '
It won 50 SEATS.
Maybe there's hope for France
yet.
TtfORE foreign politics: '
L1X Egyptian sourcessay the
World Bank (most of ' whose
money comes from the USA)
must clarify its terms before
the Egyptian government can
ACCEPT a 200 million dollar
loan to build a huge dam on
the uppr Nile which would
bring in more land to go into
competition with American
crops. . . '
une Egyptian omciais says
today:
"WE DON'T WANT TO
MORTGAGE OUR INDEPEND
ENCE." "
AS ONE American taxpayer,
I'm about in the mood to
say I don't want to mortgage
my home and my business TO
GIVE AWAY MORE MONEY
ABROAD. . .
TOMESTTC political note:
The 84th congress assem
bles for its 1956 session and
what is shaping up for a seven
month tug-of-war for POLITI
CAL ADVANTAGE.
Election year issues to be de
bated by the lawmakers, include
tax cuts, farm prices, social se
curity expansion, federal aid to
schools, highway construction
and foreign aid all of which
involve more spending at a time
when we're already 280 BIL
LION DOLLARS in debt
TN BOTH France and America
there are two outstanding
troubles: :.--.".'':
1. Too much politics.
2. Too little statesmanship. .
SHUCKS! All this cynicism has
to do with our -nation as a
whole and the world at large.
- Here in Southern Oregon let's
concentrate on making 1956 the
biggest development year in our
history. ' '
each month, and no step-up is
promised.
The Soviet "Flashlight" night-
fighter is rated at least as good
as the F-102, if not somewhat
better. The Soviets are now pro
ducing at least 50 "Flashlights"
each month or five times as
as many advanced night-fighters
as ws are producing. Further
more "Flashlight" output is go
ing up.
In the category of day-fighters,
the United States has onlv
two advanced types, the F-101B
and the F-104, that are fit to
meet the new Soviet "Farmer"
fighter in the air. A great in
crease in output of these planes,
was promised by Secretary of
Defense. Charles E. Wilson last
spring,' after the Moscow over
flights. If anything, however,
output has been slowed down.
Present output is an inconsider
able trickle, and we shall be
lucky to be getting a score or so
per month of F-101B and F-104s
by the end of next year. Mean
while, Soviet production of the
"Farmer," fighter is already run
ning at the rate of at least 60
per month; and it is also going
up.
Over-all, Soviet output of ad
vanced day and night fighters
may well be running at a com
bined rate of around 200 to 250
per month by the egd of 1956;
as against an American produc
tion rate thai; will still be trifl
ing. 1UT the "figures are still more
--'astonishing in the category of'
the overlord of the air, the long
range jet bomber. Last Spring,
American production, target was
ostensibly raised to 17 of our
great B-52 bombers per month
which was a long way to go,
since production was then virtu
ally nil. Today, however, we are
actually turning out not more
than five B-52s per. month; and
restrictions on sub-contracts sug
gest ' to insiders that the real
Pentagon target, still very dis
tant, remember, is no more than
13 B-52s per month.
Meanwhile, the Soviets are
already producing more than 13
per month of their "Bisons,"
which are broadly comparable
to our B-52s. Furthermore, there
has been a drastic change since
last Spring, when eventual Sov
iet capacity was believed to be
17 "Bisons" per month, and 17
B-52s became the American tar
get..' x. . '
Since t8en, new information
has caused the estimates to be
revised. By the end of this year,
the Soviets are expected to be
turning out 25 "Bisons"' per
month, or about twice as many
of the overlords of the air as
will be turned out in America.
Moreover, the change in esti
mates of ' Soviet output" has
caused no change in the Ameri
can production target. In the
most votal of all categories of
combat aircraft, we are appar
ently content to stay far be
hind.
That leaves the single : cate
gory of medium range jet bomb
ers, in which Soviet output has
not yet overtaken American out
put. The Soviets are turning
out something like 30 of then
new "Badger" bombers each
month. But we got a head start
with our comparable B-47. We
now have about 1,500 B-47s in
the Strategic -Air Command, and
these planes constitute SAC's
main striking force.
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UNFORTUNATELY, however,
this complete reliance on
medium range bombers is plain
ly regarded as-intensely danger
ous by SAC's brilliant command
er, General Curtis LeMay. One
of the great secret dramas of
the struggle over this year's bud
get was caused by LeMay's bold
demand for an urgent program
to produce no less than 1,900
B-52s. His purpose was to re-"
place his B-47s with planes of
true intercontinental range.
But it is current doctrine that
the richest country in the world
is too poor to pay for its own
defense. So of course LeMay s
request was rejected.
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Colorado is known as the Cen
tenial state because' it was ad
mitted to the Union in 1876,
just an even 100 years after the
the United States Declaration of
Independence. ( s
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creased percentage for Social Security this year,
don't moan! You'll never provide greater pro
tection or buy insurance for your family a
inexpensively in any other way.
Those deductions do not mean money taken
from you it's still your money, saved for you.
Too, many do not know that it provides an
immediate death-benefit payment up to a
maximum of $255, which can be a big help
toward funeral expenses.
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