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History from tha files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 28. 1946
(It was Wednesday)
American Fruit growers plant
on South Fir st. smolders after
worst conflagration in Medford
history causing loss estimated at
$1,000,000.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Some boys
In Oklahoma found a nail-keg
full of money in a vacant lot
where bank bandits buried it
Some local people, unable to
build a house, due to a purport
ed lack of nails, want to hire the
boys to find a nail-keg full of
nails.
20 YEARS AGO
June 26. 1938
(It was Friday)
New Union Creek resort opens
among the cool pine trees, with
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Regnier, pro
prietors and hosts.
20 YEARS AGO
June 26. 1926
(It was Saturday)
Little towns of Worden and
Keno in Klamath Falls district
saved by men back firing against
forest fire in Klamath county.
From the Local and Per
sonal column: The Trowbridge
Cabinet works, in order to meet
the demands of its increasing
business, has just added a new
moulding machine and triple
drum sander, both the latest in
wood working machinery; the
plant is one of the largest and
most complete in southern Ore
gon and northern California.
40 YEARS AGO
June 26, 1916
(It was Monday)
From the Local and Per
sonal column: W. R. Scott, vice
president and general manager
of the Southern Pacific will pass
through Medford tonight in his
private car, Delmonte, attached
to train 16.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research
Report
1. California. Illinois. Michi
can. New York or Pennsvlvania
leads the states in labor union
membership?
2. The oldest legislative assem
bly in the world is the British
Parliament, Iceland's Althing, or
the Norwegian Storting?
3. Melachrino is the name of
one of Napoleon's generals, a
city in Italy, or a once popular
cigarette?
4. The typical large U.S. daily
newspaper gives most of its space
to advertising, most to news and
editorial matter, or about equal
ly to each?
5. The Soviet Union has more
or fewer inhabitants than the
U.S-A.'s 165.000,000?
6. Earwigs are muffs for the
ears against cold, insects, fish, a
type of deodorant, bird?, or head
dress for British judges.
7. The largest lake in the
world is In Africa, Asia, or North
America?
The Answers: 1. New York
(slightly orer 2.000,000 mem
bers). 2. Iceland's Althing (1,026
years old). 3. Cigarette. 4. About
60 per cent to advertising. 5.
More (200.000.000 in USSR). 6.
Insects. 7. North America (Lake-
Superior).
A Minority Report
We have received the voluminous minority report
of the Senate committee investigating the Al Sarena
mining case.
The majority report has not yet been received.
Until it has been, FINAL judgment as far as the
Senate probe is concerned probably should be re
served. AS EXPECTED the minority report represents the
Republican defense to the Democratic charge of
"mining for timber" under
minerals. The two mam
so-called "deal" was a perfectly proper and entirely
lawful transaction, and the Democrats are claiming
otherwise for political purposes only.
As has been stated in this column many times be
fore, we never believed there was anything unlawful
in the sense of anything criminal, in the transaction,
but we did not agree and
cism from the Democratic side of the aisle, had no
justification in fact, and were advanced for political
purposes ONLY.
e
IT ALL WAS, we believe,
but it represented a policy
and should be corrected
by new legislation covenng such matters.
In the first place the new legislation should recog
nize what this minority report fails to properly em
phasize, namely: that this mine was not an ordinary
mine, but was within the U.S. forest reserve. In other
words it was in an area,
laws should not apply, or at least consideration should
be given to the fact that the PARAMOUNT interest in
such restricted government lands, should not be
mining, anymore than it should be oil-prospecting,
but should be concerned
preservation, conservation
ber.
LI AD some such law been in force then the original
ruling of both the U.S. Forest Service and the
Bureau of Land Management, that 15 of the 23 mine
patents, asked by the Al Sarena company not be
granted would have been
But without such a provision, the Al Sarena com
pany, paid no attention to these decisions, went else
where to their home in Alabama for their mineral
assays (which of course were favorable), made their
appeal to the friendly and cooperative Department of
the Interior and did not
green light to go ahead
while the getting is good.
That even the members of the minority group had
some qualms about the propriety of this procedure
is indicated by the following extract from their report,
quote :
' "The mining laws require the Issuance of patents if
there is a sufficient mineral showing to warrant the taking
of additional risks or loss. Assurances of economic or profit
able operation or known mineral reserve, are not re
quired under the mining laws which are applicable in the
Al Sarena case. The majority know that many mining
claims have been lawfully patented with no history of pro
duction whatever."
TN OTHER words if the
A no intention of operating
wished to secure these added patents toTnineral land
so they could harvest the government timber thereon,
at a cost to them of only $5 an acre, that could be
done. For if the mineral showing was sufficient" to
warrant the taking of additional risks or loss and
who would decide the nsks
eral content except the Al
the gates .would be down and the sky the limit.
Well, as often remarked before in this depart
ment this is "nice work if you can get it." And thanks
to the quick action of the Interior Department under
Mr. Douglas McKay, and the inability of the U.S.
b orest Service and the Bureau of Land Management
by law to prevent it, the Al
"THE majority report of the
that because of these
ents allowed Al barena be
Unless the majority report
a legal standpoint than
neither the Department ot
Department under the present administration will pay
any attention to this directive. If they make any com
ment it is safe to say they
report and dismiss it all as
Well no ono can deny there is politics in this con
troversial case, but in this presidential year there is
politics in most everything
ing no exception.
For example the report
- A ? 1 1 l-
em, mining laws conciuo.es as ionows, quote :
"The general soundness of the law has been demon
strated over 80 years and the Democratic party did not
amend it in the 20 years in which that party was in full
control of the executive branch of the government."
What has that got to
logs: Ihe Democratic party during its 20 years did
not pass many laws that after nearly four years of
Republican rule no doubt
The past is past. What
and future. Cutting government timber at So an acre
at enormous profits under
gold is wrong, both from
forest conservation and a
who must buy government
It should be stopped. And we predict that no mat
ter what the final outcome of the Al Sarena case may
be or the presidential election for that matter it
eventually will be. K.W.K.
Tuesday, June 28. 1956
the guise of mining for
points made are (1) the
don't now that the criti
entirely "within the law"
that was basically wrong,
and effectively corrected
where the regular mining
chiefly with the proper
and regulated sale of tim
sustained.
have to wait long tor the
"all clear," and get yours
Al Sarena company had
its mines further but only
of loss in view of the nun
Sarena company! then
barena got it.
.
committee recommended
"shenanigans" the 23 pat
declared null and void.
is more damaging from
we anticipate, we predict
the Interior or the Justice
will follow the minority
partisan politics.
the minority report be
after upholding the pres-
i IS i
do with the price of peeler
should be passed.
is important is the present
the guise of mining for
the standpoint of federal
fair deal to timber operators
timber at the market price.
Turkish Intervention Stymies
Settlement
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Turkey has added a new com
plication to the Cyprus dispute.
Britain last week, after long
study, drafted
a new offer to
the Greek Cy
priots who de
mand that the
island be giv
en to Greece.
Then, at the
moment when
Prime Minis
ter Anthony
Charles uccann den was pre
paring to announce the offer in
Parliament, the Turkish govern
ment intervened.
It said emphatically, in diplo
matic representations to Brit
ain, that its own interests ir
the island and the interests of
Turkish Cypriots 'must be pro
tected fully,
As the result, the announce
ment of the new British offer
has been delayed,
It was announced that Field
Marshal Sir Gerald Templer,
chief of the British Imperial gen
eral staff, would fly to Ankara,
the Turkish capital, next week.
At the same time, Britain
started consultations with the
United States on the new com
plication.
It is understood that Templer
will try to convince the Turks
that .they have nothing to fear
from the viewpoint of their na
tional security.
London dispatches say that
Britain hopes that the United
States may use its influence to
soften the Turkish attitude on
both the military and political
aspects of its offer.
But Eden is reported to have
made up his mind to announce
JL
Administration Faces
Problem on Revision
Of Security
Washington (CQ) Two
men named Cain and Cole may
prove responsible for knocking
what once was the politically-explosive
issue of "security risks"
right out of the 1956 campaign.
This could happen if as now
seems possible the Eisenhower
Administration substantially re
vamps the federal employee se
curity program that has been
under heavy Democratic attack
since its adoption three years
ago.
Fof 18 months, however, the
strongest criticisms of the pro
gram have been voiced by a Re
publican ex-Sen. Harry P. Cain
(Wash.), President Eisenhower's
own appointee to the Subversive
Activities Control Board.
Got To See Ike
Consigned to the Administra
tion's dog-house by Presidential
Assistant Sherman Adams for
not playing on the team, Cain
finally got in to see the Presi
dent June 8. According to Cain,
the President was impressed by
his arguments.
Even more impressive to the
Administration was the Supreme
Court's 6-3 decision June 11 in
the case of an obscure employee
of the Food and Drug adminis
tration Kendrick M. Cole. The
Court ruled, in effect, that as
an employee in a "non-sensitive"
job in a "non-sensitive" agency,
Cole had been wrongfully fired
under provisions of the security
program.
Attorney General Herbert
BrowneU Jr. promptly ordered
government agencies to restore
to duty 17 employees currently
suspended from "non-sensitive"
jobs, and to hold off on any
firings of such federal workers
"pending further study" of the
Cole decision.
What this adds up to is an op
portunity for the Administra
tion to take the initiative and to
revise the security program in
such a way as to muffle the Dem
ocratic attack.
Cut Two Ways
Such a step, however, would
cut two ways. In 1954, Vice
President Richard M. Nixon led
the Republican Congressional
campaign with the repeated
claim that the Administration
had removed from the federal
payroll "thousands of Commu
nists, perverts and other security
risks." Democrats charged Nixon
with " playing the "numbers
game" by suggesting that all
"security risks" were tainted
with subversion. But most polit
ical observers conceded the ef
fectiveness of Nixon's campaign
claim, and President Eisenhower
congratulated him for his role.
Moreover, some Democrats as
well as Republicans are enthu
siastic supporters of the Admin
istration's across-the-board pro
gram, under which the term "se
curity risk" is applied to all per
sons whose employment is not
"clearly consistent" with the na
tional security. This category in
cludes misfits, liars and perverts
as well as traitors.
Following the Court's June 11
decision, bills to circumvent the
ruling were introduced by Sens.
Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.), Edward
Martin (R-Pa.), Norris Cotton (R
N.H.), William F. Knowland (R-
Offer to Cypriots
his offer this week, without
awaiting the outcome of nego
tiations with Turkey.
A Quiet Policy
Turkey has had little to say
about the long, bitter Cyprus
dispute which involves Greek
Cypriots and the Greek govern
ment. However, the Turkish govern
ment has issued occasional state
ments which have made its atti
tude plain.
These statements point out
that Cyprus is 43 miles from
the Turkish coast and 683 miles
from the Greek mainland. They
point out that 100,000 of the
500,000 people on Cyprus are
Turks. They point out that Tur
key ruled Cyprus for centuries
but that Greece never owned
it. They say that the island is
of enormous strategic impor
tance to Turkey, and none to
Greece.
In recent weeks also, there
have been intimations that Tur
key wiU not consent in any cir
cumstances to the surrender of
Cyprus to Greece, and that it
will land troops on the island
if necessary.
It is reported that the British
will (1) offer Cyprus a new
constitution, providing a wide
measure of home rule, and (2)
promise "self-determination'
within 10 to 15 years.
Whether Turkey will agree to
this remains to be seen. Cer
tainly, the offer will have to
protect the rights of the Turkish
Cypriot minority and convince
Turkey that its own defense in
terests are safe.
Turkey and Greece are both
members of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization. They are
linked also in a Balkan treaty
' with Yugoslavia.
Program
Calif .), Joseph R. McCarthy (R-
Wis.) and James O. Eastland CD-
Miss.), Chairman of the Powerful
Senate Judiciary committee. A
similar bill was introduced in
the House by Rep. Francis E.
Walter (D-Pa.), Chairman of the
Un-American Activities commit
tee.
Thus an Administration de
cision to "liberalize" the secur
ity program would meet the al
most certain opposition of key
legislators of both parties, and
would deprive Republicans as
well as Democrats of a strong
campaign issue.
May Do Nothing
These factors may, in the final
analysis, persuade the Adminis
tration to sit tight and do noth
ing, or adopt only minor revi
sions. Arguing for such a course
is the further fact that the Com
mission on Government Security,
set up a year ago to survey the
entire security field, has just
asked Congress to extend the
deadline for its report another
six months, untU June, 1957.
The question of "sensitive
versus "non - sensitive" jobs,
raised in the Cole decision, is
only one of several major issues
involved in the present security
program. Others concern the
use of one standard to measure
the loyalty, security and suitabil
ity of government employees;
the practice of suspending with
out pay persons charged as "se
curity risks even though they
eventually may be cleared after
many months of proceedings;
and the many questions relating
to the due process of security
procedures as such.
The security program is based
on President Eisenhower's Exec
utive Order 10450 of April 27,
1953, which did away with the
loyalty program operated by the
Truman Administration since
1947. The 1953 order, in turn,
was based in large part on a 1950
law which gave to the heads of
11 government agencies the
power to suspend and fire em
ployees in their "absolute discre
tion and when deemed necessary
in the interest of national secur
ity."
Extended Law
The 1953 order simply extend
ed the application of this law to
all government agencies and em
ployees. Although the Supreme
Court's opinion in the Cole case
specifically excluded a ruling on
the validity of this extension, it
all but ruled it illegal. The ma
jority argued, in effect, that the
meaning of "national security,'
as used in the 1950 law, was lim
ited to those activities "that are
directly concerned with the pro
tection of the nation from in
ternal subversion or foreign ag
gression and not those which
contribute to the strength of the
nation onlythrough their impact
on the general welfare.
Should Congress pass any of
the bills mentioned above, this
distinction would lose its force.
But it would stiU leave the Ad
ministration with a political di
lemma to revamp or not to re
vamp the employee security pro
gram.
(Copyright 1956, Congressional
Quarterly)
Turkey also is a member of
the Middle Eastern Treaty Or
ganization along with Britain,
Iraq, Iran and Pakistan.
It happens that Turkey is the
most powerful Middle Eastern
country. It is fully aligned with
the Western Allies. But unless
it is convinced that its interests
are protected in any Cyprus set
tlement, it might cause a lot of
trouble.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The Oregon legislative interim
committee on elections has been
giving some thought in this in
terim year (an "interim" year is
the year in between Oregon's
biennial legislative sessions) to
the subject of campaign contri
butions to candidates for public
office.
Oregon, of course along with
most other states and the federal
government has laws regulat
ing the giving of money to candi
dates to help them finance their
campaigns, but the committee
leans to the view that these laws
are easily evaded and that sub
stantial sums of money can enter
political channels, ANONY
MOUSLY. If that is true, it says in a re
cent preliminary report, our
present laws on campaign contri
butions place a premium on dis
honesty and if that is the case
something should certainly be
done about it.
A T ANY rate, the interim com-
mittpp tnrnArl ho npnl.m
over to its research staff, which
has come up with some conclu
sions. There are three basic
courses of action, the research
ers say, that might be taken by
the legislature. They are:
1. Declare that the problem is
one that is essentially inappro
priate for legislative action and
that the present relatively use
less regulations should be re
pealed.
2. Strengthen and clarify pres
ent law by requiring PRE-ELECTION
FINANCIAL REPORTS
and by putting enforcement teeth
into the legislation.
3. Completely change the ba
sis on which political campaigns
in Oregon are financed by enact
ing regulations that will tend to
be self-policing and will assure
fun reporting.
TTAVING named these alterna-
fives, the committee's re
searchers then point out objec
tions to them.
No. 1, they assert, would be
difficult to explain to the satis
faction of the average voter (who
would want to know why all the
holders on campaign gifts were
being taken off and would natur
ally suspect skulduggery).
No. 2, they say, would be a
"mere palliative" that would not
really provide the desired re
sults. No. 3, they add, would encoun
ter powerful political opposition
from those who would resist a
major change in traditional ways
of doing political business.
'T'HE researchers, of course, are
playing no favorites. They're
making it plain that they're
merely pointing out the roads
that are open and leaving it to
the legislature to choose the one
to be followed if it is decided to
make the trip.
Personally, I agree with their
conclusions as to No. 1 and No. 3,
but I'm inclined to disagree with
them on No. 2 which I think
might be a pretty good idea. The
substance of it is to let ANY
BODY" contribute anything he
wishes to ANYBODY RUNNING
FOR OFFICE. Let it be.spent any
way the candidate getting the
money wants to spend it.
But
Make him report WELL BE
FOR THE ELECTION every cent
he has received and where it
came from.
THEN
If it can be proved that he
fibbed in his pre-election report
on how much he spent and where
it came from, DISQUALIFY HIM
FOR THE OFFICE IF HE IS
ELECTED.
If he isn't elected, it wouldn't
matter much.
A S THE interim committee's
researchers point out, pres
ent Oregon laws on campaign
contributions .are easily evaded.
Money can be contributed under
dummy names. And so on. Worst
of all, nobody knows until AFT
ER THE ELECTION how much
has been spent by each candidate
and where it came from. AFTER
ELECTION, it's too late to do
anything about it.
But if campaign contributions
had to be reported BEFORE
ELECTION it would be differ
ent. They would then be NEWS.
They would be widely printed
and widely broadcast. The voters
would know before voting who
was doing what in the way of
spending to get votes, and where
the money had come from. They
could use their own judgment as
to whether it was good money or
bad money and whether or not
too much of it had been spent for
some particular candidate or
candidates.
Matter of Fact uy j0sePh aisp
THREAT TO THE ALLIANCE ,
Washington This reporter
has just returned from a long
journey of inquiry in the trou-
bled Middle
East. The pic
ture there is
ominous, very
nearly as omi
nous as the
Far Eastern
picture in the
years just aft
er the Second
World War.
.umud Aisop unless presenr
trends can somehow be reversed,
the free world must eventually
expect a Middle Eeastern disas
ter on the approximate scale of
the disastrous loss of China to
the Communists.
It may seem paradoxical.
therefore, that this same Middle
Eastern journey has firmly con
vinced this reporter that the
central problem of American
foreign policy is not in the Mid
dle East at all, but in Britain.
TPHE second partner in the
- Western Alliance, the stout
hearted ally that fought so long
alone, the brother nation which
originated so many of our own
institutions that is the common
picture of Britain. It is an ac
curate picture, but it has led to
a pernicious tendency, not least
in the State Department, to take
Britain for granted.
If the Middle Eastern problem
has any meaning at all, it very
clearly means that Britain can
not prudently be taken, for
granted any longer.
Britain can not be taken for
granted because the real foun
dations of the British structure
are still colonial and imperial;
and these foundations are now
in grave danger. Next to the
emergence of the new Soviet
empire, the liquidation of the
old Western European empires
has been the chief drama of the
post-war decade. And this dra
ma is now becoming a desper
ately serious matter for Britain
the preeminent imperial power.
rpHE principal danger to Brit
- ain is not the loss of essen-
Eleanor Roosevelt
Writes of Medford
After Recent Visit
(Editor's note: After Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt visited in
Medford recently as speaker
at the sixth annual Roosevelt
Memorial dinner, she wrote
about her experiences here in
her "My Day" column. Ex
cerpts from that column as it
appeared in the Coos Bay
Times are reprinted below).
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
New York . . In this small
town (Medford) the citizens have
held a memorial dinner every
spring for six years in memory
of my husband. Five times be
fore I had to refuse invitations
to attend, so I was very happy
that I could go this year.
There were 1,200 people pres
ent and many of them must have
come from quite a distance, for
Medford is not large. The valley
is a beautiful one where fruit
grows in abundance and I always
have associated it in my mind
with the wonderful pears and
other fruit shipped by my
friends, Harry and David, all
over the U.S.
Likes Hospitality
As we flew there, we saw the
snow-covered mountain tops,
and the visibility was good
enough for us to see a number
of the really high mountains. I
spent the night with Mrs. Ed
ward Kelly, enjoying the
warmth of her hospitality and
the pleasure of seeing an old
friend, Mrs. Nan Honeyman, who
came down from Portland.
I did one television appear
ance on the way from the plane
to Mrs. Kelly's home, and Tues
day morning the reporters ap
peared to ask me questions about
Adlai Stevenson and his candi
dacy, as well as about my feel
ing for Sen. Wayne Morse.
Speaks for Morse
I was happy to be able to
speak for Senator Morse, as I
think no one can question his
integrity and courage. The fact
that he and Sen. Herbert Leh
man cast the only two votes
against Sen. James O. EasUand
to head up the Senate Judiciary
committee speaks volumes for
the kind of a man he is.
I met with the American As
sociation for the United Nations
group in Medford, and received
a gift of $100 for the National
Association for the UN which I
deeply appreciate.
Tuesday morning I left Med
ford by plane for San Francisco.
Lumber Company Files
Circuit Court Suit
The Jackson Creek Lumber
company has filed a complaint
in the circuit court against Rich
ard F. Souza, "Jacksonville.
The company is suing for
$1,400 which it claims Souza
has failed to pay on a promis
sory note made Sept. 8, 1952,
plus 6 per cent interest per
annum from that date, and $500
attorney's fees.
in
tial strategic bases overseas.
such as Cyprus, Aden, Ceylon
and Singapore. The danger in
all these bases is very great in
deed. But the principal danger.
the really fatal danger, is the
loss of the raw material sources
in the Middle East and Malaya
and elsewhere, which Britain's
overseas bases are designed to
protect.
Britain pays high wages.
Britain suffers from relatively
low labor productivity. Britain
lives by exports. Therefore the
mere access to essential raw ma
terials, the mere ability to buy
oil and rubber and tin, for in
stance, on the open market, will
not preserve Britain as a going
concern. Britain actually has to
own and make a profit from her
overseas raw material sources.
That is what now makes the dif
ference between British eco
nomic survival and irremediable
British bankruptcy.
Malayan rubber and tin are
not only important to Britain be
cause Eritain consumes tin and
rubber. They are mainly im
portant because Malayan tin and
rubber contribute about 18 per
cent of the entire hard currency
earnings of the Sterling area.
The oil enterprises in the Middle -
East are not only vital to Britain
because Britain desperately
needs oil. They are mainly vital
because the profit from British
I ownership of the Middle Eastern
on enterprises in enect pays for
all the oil Britain consumes.
rpHAT is the true measure of
British vulnerability. That
is why Britain is the real objec
tive of the flank attack which
the Kremlin is now stimulating,
and in large part directing, in
all the ex- and semi-colonial
countries on this side of the iron
curtain and especially in the
Middle East. And that also helps
to explain why Britain's reac
tions to this flank attack, as in
Cyprus, have lately seemed un
wise to many Americans.
The British policy-makers un
derstand the danger of British
bankruptcy, which means the
end of Britain's career as a ma
jor power. As Sir Anthony
Eden has said, they are con
vinced that the loss of Cyprus
will be only tho preliminary to
the loss of the Middla Eastern
oil sources. So the British have
reacted violently, too violently
in this reporter's opinion. But so
should we react very violently,
if we felt hostile hands groping
for our jugular.
In these circumstances, it is
amazing and pretty terrifying
to come home, and to discover
that the State Department's
chief parlor game seems to be
smug carping at the British pol
icy in such places as Cyprus and
Buraimi.
a
VyHAT does it matter if Brit
" ain's struggles to defend her
own jugular have become pretty
convulsive, compared to the
hard fact that this same Britain
also happens to be the jugular of
the United States?
All of the American post-war
foreign policy, as begun by Tru
man and carried on by Eisen
hower, will rapidly crumble in
to ruin if Britain ceases to be a
major power.
Even America's national de
fense is squarely dependent
upon Britain: By a strange de
cision of the Eisenhower admin
istration, the Strategic Air Com
mand, our only real weapon of
defense, has been kept in abso
lute dependence on overseas
bases; and the most important of
those bases are British.
In short, a good deal less carp
ing, and a great deal more cre
ative ard comradely approach to
Britain's present peril, would
now seem to be rather urgently
indicated.
(Copyright New York Herald
Tribune Inc.)
Your Best Fourth
GEO. N. TAYLOR
Don't forget the man getting
over the drunken spree there in
the gutter of a city In the South.
He reached out
for a piece of
paper floating
by and reading
it, he came to
believe that God
could put him
on his feet also.
So he put him
self into God's
hands and be
came one of
God's new creation. He was born
again. God became his eternal
Father; Christ, his Elder Brother
and in time, he had his family
and business back.
GOD IS READY First, God
sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to die
for you and get your sin-guilt
out of the way. God could then
receive you into his eternal
family. Next, with sin-guilt out
of the way, Christ comes in and
gives you eternal life. So "If
any man be in Christ Jesus, he
is a new creation. .Old things
have passed away. All things
have become new. 2nd Corin
thians 5:17 BIBLE. Accept
Christ as your Lord and Saviour.
Come as you are. Let Him take
over and this becomes your best
FOURTH and your birthday Into
Eternal Life.
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