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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1956)
S3I CISIO VirHAT is it? "Great Decisions" is a program of foreign affairs ' ' information disseminated through press, radio, television and brochures, designed to supplement discussion groups. It is informal and Is open to anyone or any group interested. yHERE will it be held? "Great Decisions'' for 1956 is a county ' wide program. Last year it was conducted with great success in Portland. Corvallis, Eugene, Springfield, and elsewhere, and is being repeated there again this year with apparently even greater success. XyHEN will it start? Sunday, March 25, is the starting time. One " week will be devoted to each of eight discussion topics, so the program will conclude May 20. Those participating can start, or stop, at any time. lyHO is behind it? In Jackson county it is sponsored by a tempo rary committee organized only for this purpose. Don Hansen, an attorney and member of the city council, is chairman The For eign Policy association is a co-sponsor in that it furnishes mate rials and information on organization. The city schools and South Oern Oregon college are cooperating in the presentation of mate rials, and the radio and television stations and the daily newspaper are making time and space available for the materials. The pro gram elsewhere has received high praise from virtually every re sponsible individual and agency interested. President Eisenhower last year sent a telegram of congratulations to the Portland World Affairs council, which sponsored the program there. TJOW can one participate? In two ways. By reading the materials and listening to them in the mass media, and in the prepared fact sheets (which will be available at SI per set at the Chamber of Commerce at 5 South Riverside ave.); or, for more complete par ticipation, by forming or joining a discussion group (six to twelve persons are the recommended number) to cover the eight discus- sion points. Ballots are provided for individuals or groups to ex press their opinions on each of the eight questions, and which can be forwarded to Oregon members of Congress and the state department. TIPPING DISCOURAGED Tokyo (U.R) The government-operated Japan National railway Tuesday ordered car stewards to refrain from brush ing passengers' coats or shining shoes unless asked. Officials said the directive was designed to discourage tipping. MASTER KEY STOLEN Vancouver, B. C. (U.R) Police questioned a 50-year-old man Tuesday when they found he had been posing as a janitor in the police station and learned he had stolen the master key to the headquarters building. Use Mail Tribune Want Ad France Massing Fleet for Action On Algerian Coast Algiers UP) France is mass ing a sizeable fleet, supported by U.S. -built helicopters, to seal the "African Riviera" coast against gunrunners serving Arab guer rillas in Algeria. It was reported today. The cruiser Georges Leygues, mounting nine six-inch guns, and four destroyers already have arrived in east Algerian ports, and an -undetermined number of other warships are on the way. Naval authorities were wait ing today for orders from Al geria minister Robert Lacoste to assign the growing fleet to blockade stations. To Get U.S. Helicopters At the same time, it was an nounced in Paris1 that an Ameri can firm has agreed to help sup ply the helicopters that have be come one of France's top-priority anti-guerrilla weapons. Don R. Berlin, president of the Vertol Aircraft Corp. said his firm has agreed to ship France eight to 10 H21-C heli copters a month, beginning in June. A French firm making H21-Cs under license eventually will swell the flow of "chop pers" to Algeria. The H21C, a craft designed for U.S. military service, can carry 20 soldiers armed for bat tle or 12 wounded men on stretchers. Reports from the fighting front said 17 persons were killed and two injured in sporadic clashes in Algeria Tuesday. Thirty suspected Arab saboteurs and dynamiters were arrested in the big western port of Oran. A Nichol's Worth of . .". Comment On This and That By HARMAN United Press F Washington (U.R) What's new in Washington: Rep. Herbert C. Bonner, the North C a r o - lina Demo crat, could n't find his tongue when he was substi tute presiding officer over the house. Un accustomed as he was, he Harmsn Nichols caiiea OUT. from the high chair: "The gen tleman from Holifield, Mr. Cali fornia." Bonner turned a burn and corrected himself. He said he meant Rep. Chet Holifield, Democrat from California. W. NICHOLS earure Writer mighty of Washington can walk right down the street and order tailor-made suits from England. A British firm has bought a cou ple of Washington stores. The slogans will be "British tweeds, tailored the American way." Or something like that. A gang of congressmen were entertained the other night at the Russian embassy. A fine time was hay by all, with the group looking at films of Rus sian folk dances. And inciden tally, the Americans lapping up vodka and the Russians more than tolerating fine old Ken tucky bourbon. Gene Davis of the American Automobile association has dug up an old copy of the AAA camping and camp site manual. It was put out in 1924 and is interesting enough to reprint. The pamphlet said about food . . . "Asparagus purifies the blood. Celery acts on the nerv ous system. Tomatoes act on the liver. Spinach is good for the ki eys. And white onions are tonic for insomnia." You don't have to write all the above down. . Pretty soon, the high and The Postal Service News has a couple of pretty cute chuckles. Out in Quitman, Mo., Postmast er Ethel G. Wright was a little puzzled when a kid asked for a "long two-cent stamp." The lady postmaster delivered the goods when she found out the little Wednesday. March 21. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Burglars Leave More Money Than They Took Fargo, N. D. (U.R) Burglars broke into two business firms in Fargo recently, but left more money than they took. The burglars took a money box ' containing two dollars in change from Culligan's soft wa ter service. They then entered the Pioneer Oil and Coal com pany but abandoned an attempt to open a safe. Police later found two dollars and 50 cents scattered through out the building. Owner Glenn Nelson said burglars failed in two previous attempts to rob him, but he said it was the first time they ever left him anything. 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