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o o o C o rOUBr-MEDFORD (ORECON) iveryone rr SouUiern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Fubhsr.l Dally Excer Saturday by MEDFOKD PRLNHNG CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6 HI ROBERT W KUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advs"-.is Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN j. Managing Editor IARL H ADAMS Cit Edator HARRY CHIP.MAN Telwauh Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts EdJtor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Cditer DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at ?4alford Oregon under ct of . March 3 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily snd Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa A2i Sunday Only One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville C.old Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Roirue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday Or-.a year S18 00 Dally an1 Sunday Or:e month UO turner ana ueaiers luc per copy All Terrrs Cash In Advance Offlrlal Papr of tha City of Medford Official Paper of. Jackson County United jreas FU Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising enresentatlve: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPAPTY INC Offices In New York Chicago de trolt San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B Or- DO NATION Al Flight Time Medford. and Jackson, County History: from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 aij 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec30.19S8(MondaYj A lS-cent per hour wage in crease it AFL lumber industry Oemployees iu the Klamath basin district "council recommended by AFL annV Pine Industrial Rela tiorsQcommittee negotiators, p From Arthur Perry's Ye Pmf.ge Pot column: "The na tion has plenty cof frve-cent ci- J?ars but they are selling at 12 cents." (Pierson Progress.) The need is for a 15c nickel. 20 YEARS AGO fcfe; 30. 1938 (Wednesday) ; Divorces granted Jackson county this year total 132, two less than the total granted in 1935. O' CA. Pryor takes charge of $fce United States deputy marsh al's ff ice here. 0 (YEARS AGO Bee. SO. 192S (Thursday) GSick Kime and his orchestra will take the air tonight on IsMED, operated by the Mail TriTitne" and W. J. Virgin, dur ing its first broadcast. Subscribers are urged to or der copies of the New Year's edi tion ot the Mrjl Tribune now to InsureJsetting them because de mand is Iirge. 40 YEARS AGO Da 00. 916 (Saturday) ,MedfSrd Fruit and Produce a.ociation announces it receiv ed anQaverage of si. 74 per box on0ill s;zts and grades of pears during 1916. During 1916 the Rogue River Valley " Construction company spent S100.000 for labor and ma tel moat of which was put in erfaJation. in the valley. O Whal'f Yar I.Q.7 f or ten correct Is superior: sev en or eight is excellent; live, or sit Is ernl. 1. Are Eedouin Arab nomads, (rr a, battalian of Arabs, in the breach Foreign Legion. Xj Is it easier to move a weage-slwped object through the air wi'ji its wide nd or its thin er.d forwarcj t Are Beelzebub or Satan ssostjaned in the New Testa ment as a cd of the Philistines? 4. Florida, Alabama, Missis sippi, Louisiana and Texas, have Owhat maritime fact in common? O 5.CJ3 Begota the capital of either Venezuela or Equador? ! B. Lord North was the Prime Mmiit oX Ergiand when what gres American event took pi ace? O Flax, Jute, hemp.' cotton, ftiirp sisal, are aii used in the rnanttiac'.ure of rope; true or falser 0 9. The opera "Daughter of the Regiment" was composed by D 9. Irricility is feebleness of mejtal action, or the imperfect deelopnient of the "mind. Is :t also a term frr idiocy? 10. "The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice." "The Lord Qs Klah.: th -earth may'beglad tiiaeof." Are both quotations in the OJd Zostnment? AnMwers: 1. "Arab- nomads. 2. Wide er.. 3. Yes. oih terms are so used. 4. They all border ,,ca the Gulf of i-Iexico. 5. 'No. Colombia. 6. The American Rt olution. 7. True. 8. Doniietti. 9. No. . Yes. Portland (US'- Tou'ists sperli about S35 million in Port land duriei 1556? ' EDITORIAL ocfel lASS0C5ATSN O rXfl NEWSPAPER 0 rvxji(? PU81ISHERS VS'Association O rl J 1 cl I MAIL TRIBUNE Greeley Was Right, But ... Dan Sellard, city editor of the Eugene Register Guard has been attending the annual seminar for "city editors" conducted by Columbia University, New York, and has written his impressions of that incredible metropolis for his paper, what may be the first installment appearing under the caption "Trip to New York proves Horace Greeley was right" City Editor Sellard, however, would modify the well known saying of the fighting and somewhat eccentric editor of the famous and ancient "New York Tribune" "Go West Young Man, go West" by the following admonition : "Stay West my friend stay west." Apparently after his first visit to that Bibulous Babylon, he decided there is no place like home, the largest city in the United States "being too big and too hectic" to repay the visitor for leaving Oregon. ELL it is a familiar refrain, and to anyone for tunate enough to reside in a small town (we hasten to apologize' to the Eugene Chamber of Com merce but that thriving municipality like Medford, comparatively speaking, would be placed by the U.S. Census Bureau in stich a category) and particularly in the Oregon section of the Pacific Coast, it is a per fectly natural and practically universal one. JLIOWEVER, we can't go as far as the Eugene Editor, as he raises an iron-curtain between this section of the Pacific coast and Manhattan Island, suggesting a visit to the latter now and then or as often as circumstances and one's bank balance per mits, would not be both rewarding and worthwhile. t is an ancient bromide, the modern term is cliche but like most of both is fundamentally true. Namely: to the non-resident, New York City appears no place in which to live, but is a wonderfully exciting and stimulating place to VISIT, so the advice "Stay West," my friend, stay West, be you old or young, is the exclusion of a trip to New York and way stations, which is a bit of advice we believe few of the readers of the. highly readable Register-Guard will care to follow. R.W.R. "Biggest Show on Earth " Speaking of New York there are a number of facts concerning that Fabulous Island, that the initial visit usually fails to disclose. In the first place to millions of people in all walks of life and representing all the varied brackets eco nomically, Manhattan is just as truly "home sweet home" as Eugene or Medford or any other "small town" in the wide open spaces is to the residents thereof. In fact, believe it or not, millions have actually been BORN there, want to die there, and while some of them travel about the country, and even go abroad, nothing could persuade them to live elsewhere. They are native New Yorkers, proud of it and we must admit it seems, rather TOO proud at times. DUT the first-time visitor doesn't see many of them walking around Times Square, window-shopping on Park, Madison or Fifth Avenues, or even watching the sea lions in Central Park zoo. They are at their various and sundry homes or their places of business. And not all of them luxurious places by any means, or mansions on Fifth Avenue, in fact the latter have about disappeared. Probably a numerical majority live quietly and modestly in such unfashionable dis tricts as the Bronx, Queens or within a stone's throw of the Brooklyn bridge. THE point we wish to make is that saying "Good 1 morning," or "please" and "thank you" with MEANING, is net as rare an occurrence in Greater Manhattan, as our Eugene commentator (and a very good one incidentally) seems to think. Our guess is New Yorkers are, as a whole, per fectly normal and rational human beings, they have their relatives and friends, their joys and their sor rows, and . their neighborhood contacts, too, the tempo is different, of course, but the fundamentals hot strikingly so, and in their special groups they are just as warm hearted, hospitable and kindly as the America genus homo is to the south, north or west. TN FACT in our fairly frequent visits to New York during recent years, we have often wished the New York Chamber of Commerce yesthey have one would pin complimentary badges on the coat lapels of all the "visiting firemen." We can't prove it, but it is our strong belief, that those not wearing any such identification tag would be outnumbered approximately 100 to one, so the visitor would be shocked, under such regulations, to discover that most of the hurry and haste and noise was being made by him and his crowd, not by the local inhabitants, particularly those like himself, there for a limited time, hell bent to see everything and take in everything, before the train or plane for "home sweet home" would be due to depart. IN SHORT there are many New Yorks. The two main ones are the permanent residents and the tem porary very temporary residents. The latter are there to see the "Biggest Show on Earth," and since the folding up-of "Ring-lings Broadway particularly in and around Times Square, and the upper 40's supplies it It is worth seeing, and our advice to those who don't have to remain within the boundaries of Oregon all their lives is to see it, while they have the youth and wherewithal! to enjoy it. But they should not be misled into thinking that after a tour of the side show, the animal exhibit and Sunday, December 30, 1956 Matter of Fact WHY WE MUST HAVE ALLIES Washington There is one sim ple fact that ought to be very well understood in this country. Whether we like it or not, for the next several years at least, the United States is going to be more ST5" it-J v Stewart Alsop jumuu aisod and more, rather than less and less, dependent for national sur vival on its allies, above all Great Britain. National survival is now squarely based far too much so, in the view of competent judges on the capacity of the Strategic Air Command to de liver nuclear bombs on target in the Soviet Union. SAC's ability to do this grisly job is just about all that stands between us and Soviet domination of the world at the least, or the destruction of the United States at the most. Always maintaining this vital ability is a sort of unending rat race. Soviet air defenses are con stantly improving, and at a dis mayingly rapid rate. Therefore certain characteristics of Ameri can strategic bombers notably speed and altitude must be constantly improved. Otherwise there can be no certainty that the bombs will get through to target, and thus no certainty that the Soviets will be deterred from attack by fear of "massive retaliation." . LREADY. the big B-36 inter continental bomber has fall en victim to the rat race. The bulk of SAC's heavy bomber wings are still equipped with B-36s. But it has been publicly acknowledged that these huge, relatively slow planes would be easy pickings for the Soviet Flashlight and Farmer and oth er modern fighters. The B-36 is being replaced by the B-52 there are now two B-52 wings in operation. The difference between the all -jet B-52 and the B-36 is significant. The B-52 flies much higher and faster. But its ranse is much shorter. The reason is simple. In the present state of the art of building long range jet planes capable of carrying heavy hydro gen bombs, the requisite speed and altitude can only be built into the aircraft at the expense of range. The B-52 can theoretically reach Soviet targets and return to bases in the Continental Unit ed States by being twice re fuelled in the air.But this can only be done at great sacrifice in efficiency a loss estimated as high as 70 per cent. The only efficient way to operate the B-52 is from bases abroad, notably the. SAC base in Great Britain. rpHIS means that the British. -1 and other allies, have at least a partial veto power on our use of SAC. By the same token, the SAC bases abroad also give them tremendous political bar gaining power. General Curtis LeMay. Commander of SAC, is most unhaopily aware of these facts, and he would very much prefer to operate his command exclusively from bases under firm American control. But in the present state of the art. the thing simply can't be done. Indeed, our dependence on for eign bases will increase when, inevitably, the B-52. like the B-36. falls victim to the offensive-defensive rat race. The B-58 is the potential successor to the B-52. Again, the B-58. which Is a marvelous plane (two proto types have already been tested) flies a lot higher and faster than the B-52. But again, its range is much shorter, and it will therefore be even more depend ent on foreign bases. There are two theoretical ways out of this dilemma. One is to build a plane which, like the B-58, can thumb its nose at the Soviet air defense, and like the B-36. can fly from the Continen tal United States and return. The technicians have some ideas of how this might be done their ideas involve the use of the so called "exotic fuels." But their ideas are still just ideas. ... A NOTHER theoretical answer is to build the "ultimate weapon" the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile which cannot be intercepted by any means now known and get decisive numbers into operation before the B-52 is rendered obsolete by the Soviet air defense. The first prototype of the ICBM may be tested within 18 months. But there is a long, long gap between testing a prototype of the in expressibly complicated ICBM and creating a reliable weapons system built around the missile. During this gap, the B-52 might be rendered obsolete by the So viet air defense, and the West in Winston Churchill's words, would then be "as defenseless the "big tent," they have seen New York and really know it. For the "biggest show on earth" is only a part of greater Manhattan, well worth the' price of admission, but far from being representative of the island as a whole, as it lives, breaths, and has its be ing, today. R.W.R. By Joe and Stewart Alsop as a girl's boarding school." This is a risk the United States simply cannot afford to take. The conclusion is obvious. It might be pleasant to let our allies "stew in their own juice," to use a phrase current at the time of the invasion of Egypt. But if, as a result, we lost our foreign bases, above all the British base, we would find ourselves stewing with them. In sum, the simple strategic facts of our national situation demand that our alliances, espe cially the British alliance, be maintained, whether we like it or not. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nme and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica ion must not exceed 400 words. Thanks For Clothing To the Editor: We were pleased to receive in our warehouse the shipment of relief clothing col lected under the auspices of the Medford U. N. Chapter and shipped by the Pierce Freight Lines. The weight on the ship ment was approximately 1,600 pounds. On Saturday a shipment of 26 tons of relief supplies including used clothing was sent off to Austria for Hungarian aid. We are sorry that your things just missed this shipment. To date the Service Committee has for warded half million pounds of supplies. We understand in the drive that in addition to the AAUN, the Phoenix Presbyterian Church, Seventh Day Adventists, St. Mark's Episcopal Church and many other organizations not only helped to make this an ex pression of concern for Hungar ians but a real community activ ity. Without the cooperation of the Pierce Auto Freight Lines the clothing would probably have been delayed and been of great cost to move to us. We wish to thank the com munity through the editor of this paper for their excellent sup port and cooperation. Russell F. Jorgensen, Regional Office American Friends Service Committee, 1830 Sutter st, San Francisco 15, Calif. Abandoned Puppies To the Editor: Last year when I drove to Grants Pass soon after the holidays I saw the dead bodies of four puppies, broken and cast-off like Christmas toys. These little creatures I pre sumed to be Christmas presents and no doubt had followed chil dren to the highway to meet the school bus. Then, left alone, the puppies became bewildered and couldn't find the homes they had known for such a short time Some of the children were saddened, others probably did not want them to begin with. Besides being kept off highways, young animals need patient training, good food and a warm bed in order to become a happy, healthy playmate and compan ion. Let us all have compassion and mercy for His sake, who was a Little Thing at Christmastide. Terry Addison, 1040 Childers ave., Medford, Ore. Make Your Own Bread To the Editor: This letter is dedicated to all mothers who de sire the health of their families and are willing to expend time and energy to achieve it. Catharine Elwood's "Feel Like a Million" tells how to make bread using sprouted wheat. I determined to experiment so pro cured wheat and stone ground flour. I placed four cups of thor oughly washed wheat in a bowl and covered it with water. I placed the bowl where it would keep gently warm. The wheat soaked for 36 hours, when it was beginning to sprout. I care fully drained off the water. This contains large quantities of water-soluble vitamins and miner als so should be used in juice, soup or gravy. The sprouting wheat is very rich in vitamin C and the B complex. Changes in the protein and starch make them more valuable as food. Run the wheat through the food chopper using the finest knife. Have ready a large bowl to which has been added 6c. un sifted stone ground flour and 2'ic. scalded milk in which was dissolved l3c. lard or oil. 'ic. raw sugar or molasses and 2 tbs. salt. Mix well and let stand at least 3 hours, or over night to soften the bran of the wheat. Dissolve two packages dry yeast in V4c. lukewarm water. Com bine "all and mix thoroughly with the hands. Let the dough rest 10 min. Oil or grease bread board and hands. Place the dough on the board and knead thoroughly for 10 min. Do not add flour, when the dough be comes sticky re-oil your hands and table top. If it seems un- Today and By Walter HUNGARY AND THE . VICE PRESIDENT The question of whether the Vice President's trip to Austria was necessary will be answered when we see the dimensions of what the administration asks Congress to do for the refugees. The purpose of his visit was, it is evident, not so much to study the prob 1 e m, which has been well studied, as to dramatize it, and to arouse American public opinion in favor of admitting more refugees and of appropriating and raising more money to care for them. Mr. Nixon will have aroused great expectations, and we must hope that it will not be said the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse. . 'T'HIS country can do a great deal more for the Hungarian refugees than it is doing today. There is a very big gap between our emotions and our actions. But at the very best we can pro vide for only a fraction of the refugees, and behind the refu gees are the Hungarian people in Hungary itself. We have a duty to them if we can find a good effective way to do our duty. What is the Hungarian situa tion? It would seem that there is a stalemate as between the people and the Soviet army of occupation. The rebellion is not crushed. But for the time being it is quelled, and the government of Hungary is in the hands of Soviet agents of Kadar and his fellow quislings. This govern ment, which is hated and can count on no willing cooperation, is confronted with an enormous, perhaps a catastrophic, economic dislocation. It is quite certain that Kadar and the Russian tanks cannot hope to set the Hungarian econo my in order again. But if they do not do this, the unemploy ment, which they themselves esti mate at 200,000, is almost certain to result in violence and the re vival of the rebellion. It may even produce a rebellion of the most dangerous kind of all, that of a guerrilla war. To make the Hungarian econ omy function with tolerable suc cess, it will almost certainly be necessary to have an Hungarian government which has some pop ular support, and in addition, speaking comparatively, very large economic assistance from abroad. The Kadar government cannot obtain popular support in Hungary and. except from the Soviet Union, it cannot obtain any aid from abroad. ... lyiTHOUT a new government ' ' and a political settlement on the lines, perhaps, of the Polish settlement, it is hard to see any way out of the dead end street in which Kadar and Moscow find themselves. Even if Moscow were willing and able to supply massive eco nomic assistance for an indefinite period of time, there is no rea sonable prospect that the Kadar government will be accepted by the Hungarian nation. If, on the other hand, there were an Hun garian settlement, the new gov ernment could not only count on Hungarian popular support, which is indispensable, but also on economic aid from abroad. There Is a report that Kadar is applying to the World Bank for a loan. This may be the oppor tunity to make two things plain in Budapest and in Moscow. The first is that the Kadar govern ment has no credit, indeed that it is not a legitimate government. The second is that when there is in Hungary a legitimate gov ernment, it can count upon the good will apd assistance of the world. ... AMIDST the publicity' generat ed by Mr. Nixon's trip, we must not let it be forgotten that the greatest contribution we can make to Hungary would be to help to promote a workable set tlement inside of Hungary. There is no telling how much we are able to do. There is some ground for hoping that we could help a little. There is good reason to manageable let the dough rest 10 min. or so. Kneading develops the gluten and gives a loaf, of good volume and texture. Return the dough to the greased bowl. Preheat the oven 1 min. then turn off the heat. Cover the dough and set the bowl in the oven until the dough has dou bled in bulk. Return to the kneading board. Divide and shape into loaves and place in oiled pans and again let rise. Place in the oven pre-heat to 325 degrees and bake one hour and 10 to 20 min. When you re move the bread from the pans grease the top lightly with but ter. Spread slices of this bread with sweet cream butter. Let the children eat all they want. You will be surprised and pleased with results. Anna M. Streed, 36 North Peach St., Medford, Ore. Hsjler Uassuuji Tomorrow Lippmann think that the Kadar government is, as I have been trying to.say, at a dead end. There is some rea son to think that the Soviet gov ernment knows it is involved in a disaster. This is the kind of situation where statesmen will al ways look for some door they can open which might lead to negotiations. I cannot vouch for it but it used to be said, that it was a rule of the classic Chinese military philosophy that when you are about to surround your adver sary, you must leave open for him one road over which he can retreat. The reason for the rule, so someone once explained to me, was that if the adversary was surrounded, he would fight to the death since being cap tured meant that he would be killed anyway. If, however, he could retreat, he would give up the city without ruining it and without causing great loss of life. Whether or not the Chinese rule is good military strategy, it is usually a good rule of diploma cy. It is an especially good rule in the kind of desperate stale mate which now exists in Hun gary. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. !n the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS This is written on Christmas Day. On Christmas Day, the ideal of all living persons other than despots and power-mad conquerors is "on earth peace, to men goodwill." this nearly 2000th an niversary of the Christmas sea son there is on earth only, an' uneasy truce that passes, for peace and to men very little goodwill. rpHERE is little peace In the -1 Holy Land, and ,the few pilgrims that come down from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, through the hill where the shepherds watched bv nieht. look on every hand into the angry muzzles of euns. At Port Said, Egyptians have iust dvnamited a statute of Ferd inand de Lessens, builder of the Suez canal, and kicked the frag ments into the harbor. It was a gesture of hatred hatred of the foreigners who bunt tne canal that with reasonable co operation among men could have done so much to Duna me eco nomy of Egypt and make life happier and more agreeable for EevDt's people. In Hungary, conquerors with guns in their hands force slav ery upon a people who want to run their own affairs with no outsider blowing down their necks and telling them what, to do. And so on throughout the- world. Everywhere men long for peace but don't know how to go about getting it. TTOW shall we go about getting tithe peace that men long for but can t can t seem to acnieve: I wouldn't know. But I THINK we shall have to approach the achievement of peace througn- out the world in somewhat the, same manner in which we have achieved at least a close ap proximation of peace in our "in dividual cities and our individual states and our individual na tions. That is to say, if we are' to have peace throughout the world, we must agree that there shall be LAW AND ORDER throughout the world. We must agree that the welfare of all the people is more important than welfare of ANY of the people. If we are to achive for the. world the reasonable degree of peace and security we have achieved for individual com munities, we must- set up for the world the same system of law and order we have et up for our individual communities. How else can there be peace? HOW shall we set up such a system? Well, we have in United Na tions the FRAMEWORK for it. Somehow or other we mist learn how to make United, Na tions work for us ALL OVER THE WORLD as we have made law and order wcrk for us in individual cjties and states and nations. I KNOW it sounds crazy. But on Christmas Day, in a world that wants pace but doesn't know how to get it. one ought to be all w?d to harbor a crazy hope. Objectors to Service To Work for New Army Bonn, Germany (U.P.) Con scientious objectors to servir in the new West German Army will have to do 12 months labor service, the government an nounced Saturday. A spokesman said the object ors, like Army draftees, will have to serve the basic 12 months term followed by a total of 24 months reserve service spread over the period until they are 45 years old. He said the labor will serve "the common good" like lnd reclamation, caring for the sick and work on social or charity buildings. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributor:) Q The current weather continues to be a major subjectQof con- versation, and "Oh how I wish the fog would go away is prob ably Hie most frequently heard remark these days. The fog, which cambineS gith O a similar siege monjh is about the longest spell of such weather old-timers can remem ber, has it Interesting features, however. The cold accompgnying it is not to bad a faroas tempera tures go niostly in the 20s. ButO the high level of njoistur in the air makes it seem to cut lik a o knife. And the white stuff that fell to the ground several days in some' areas i not really snow at all, though it tooks like it. Te stuff is caused, as we 0 under stand it, by a corftiition where the nhnosphere is super-'saturatecP with moisture at a"be1ow-frez- o ing temperature. In this state, almost anything cSn cause it to condense and fall lfke sno9-. t c onn ho 4,,rU.,lAn Q t:l luiuuiLiic, Ul pell liUICa of smoke ot dust. A similar phenomenon occurred ao few years ago when the cloud-seedpsg pioneers, Harvey Brandau and Gene Kooser, sprinkled a foe- bank like the one last week with their "goop," causing a maior flurry of snow-like stufr? One odd thing is that on) a few hundred feet above thl'al ley floor there is b4f?lliantand relatively warm sunshine. J?gx Anrj and other higher spots,li- o o eluding the south end of the Vjsl- ley and the Applegate area hadO sunshine while Medford has Q 0 been 'fogbound. o One solicitous reader calls to O suggest that householders can n perform a real service to motorOu ists by leaving porch lights ori all niaht. He says that sometimesO such light are the only available beacons in an otherwise feature- o less ocean of swirling gray q clouds. And imagine anyOnjnotO O familiar with the streets trying to find his way around the city at night. About the only redeeming fe- q ture of the current weather Ls0 the delicate white tracery that o the frozen fog creates on he grass, trees, shrubs, fences an even automobile radio antinas. It's pretty but it's co?d!b c One woman w heard ftwut,0 0 out visiting a sick friend atSi.0 o local hospital one night last week, tried unsuccessfully to get taxi to come after herQ through the fog. As a lasbre1?0 sort she called the police, and was taken horpe i a atflbl q car c o . . a OO o a Speaking, of police officers? they're human too. q A public Official was filing Q us about driving alonj? the high way at Central Point (in t&e fog, of course), and was preparing to stop at the rd-!ight of the traf fic signal there. But Be saw a mi formed man motioning ftm (g? proceed. Puzzl,0but obedient to the authority of ft uniform,0 he went on through the signal. Seconds later he heard a siren behina him. o Q 0 q Thoroughly confused, ourCTffi cial stopped and explained to the officer what had happieed. The O officer grinned and said bhaiRhe man in uniform was int a police man motioning hgn on he was a military serviceman trying to hitch, a ride. The official was sent on Tiis way, without a ticket and with out a hiiclthikpfe ' . . 0 . ( - 0 A little girl wa know abcitrt. Just before Christmas was overhear at her avening pray- O erj, asking that "God bes Mommy, and God blfts Santa o Clause and God ISess Dadjy. o and Gtid bless Santa Claui. and O God jbtess fayne, ana God bless Santa Claus . o p, o The daytefore Christmas ot( of our operates was watchir as a quiet and seemingly tired man wgs Sweeping out the en trance to a local movie theater. He came across a sprig of mistle- O toe someone had' griped the night before. He carefullyick- c ed it up and ftuck it on the window of the ticket office. 6 And at the police station, oieon brought in a package of fogd for the officers to munch on during tKa Christ mas holiday. Officersoon dutyo thoughtfully refrained r0mo touching0it beforehand so that0 tha Christmas - duty tection could enjoy it. To days after Christmas someone found tha package, carefully put aside, forgotten, and unopened, o ... One member of our staff is a bachelor. He claims that an understanding miss is better than a misunderstanding. ' 6 Stationer) used by Medford Ambulance service has printed n it the information, "All business conducted by mail or telephone." Perhaps a little slip of a thing could jrx trans ported to a hospital by mail, but how do ftey get great big men there by telephone? ... May the New Year be a happy one for us all. And be careful!! o oo o ' oo o O O O o
