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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
Iff YEARS AGO
Feb. 12. 1947 (Wednesday)
Glenn L. Jackson, president
of Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce names chamber com
mittees for 1947.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: C. Holmes,
Rye ins. agt., has returned from
a month in the south, where he
ran into several valley residents.
20 YEAXS AGO
Fe& It. 1937 (Friday)
Q K. P. McReynolds, assistant
Jorester at Rogue River National
Storest, is transferred to a staff
position for Umpqiia National
O forest.
Fish la Iff irrigation reservoir
is now 64 per cent full, accord
ing to R. A. Vork, resident en
gineer. 0
r WTJ I LSI L O AUV
T"eb. 12. 1927 (Saturday)
H. Van Hoevenberg reelected
president of Jackson County
Fsitgrowers league.
Scout tree planting program
is planned in Jionor of Arbor
day.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12. 1917-(Mnnday)
Ralph Bardwell, associated
with Medford fruit houses for
several years, is appointed rep
resentative in Medford for Stew
artDFruit company.
Judge Charles McNary, of Sa
lem, will be speaker at Lincoln
club banquet at Medford hotel.
Q
What's Your I.Q.?
N4ne or ten correct Is superior; sev
esp or eight Is -.excellent: five or
six is good.
American was opened Sept. 5,
1752, in W g.
2. For many ages the "Im
perial City was one of the
names of which Italian city?
3. Bible: Who "lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness?"
4. What do the following have
in common: agate, English, pica,
o century?
5. Was a second atomic bomb
dropped on Japan?
6. It is impossible to freeze
gasoline: true or false?
O 7. Wich NasJoleon was the
(Jp l&nperor of France?
8. In which State is the Taos
Indian-reservation?
9. Which is the more force
fiil word: disremember or for
get? 10. "High on a throne of roy
al state, which far Outshone the
wealth of Ormus and of Ind . . .
Satan exalted sat." What does
"Ind" mean?
Answers: 1. Williamsburg, Va.
2. Rome. 3. Moses. 4. They are
kinds of printing type. 5. Yes.
6. False. 7. Napoleon III. 8. New
Mexico. 9. Forget. 10. India.
Carmichael No Dope
When It Comes To Dope
Trenton, N. J. (U.R) No
body can slip Carmichael a
Mickey Finn, no matter how
fancy the trimmings.
Carmichael, a bear in the Cad
walder Park Zoo, has a tumor
on his neck which Norman Reed,
city veterinarian, would like to
inspect first hand.
Reed figures he can do this
with a minimum of discomfort
while Carmichael is comatose,
so he attempts periodically to
feed him doped treats.
Carmichael, who apparently
is no dope, eats everything in
sight except the food treated
with the knock-out drops.
MAIL TRIBUNE
"What Are We Waiting For?"
While President Eisenhower is shooting quail on
Secretary Humphrey's Georgia estate, and Vice Presi
dent hixon is preparing for his triumphal flight to the
Gold Coast of Africa, what the Portland Oregonian
calls "Malignant Inflation" is going on and on AND
ON!
Yet why need this be so?
DEFORE Messrs Eisenhower and Humphrey went
a-hunting and before "Richard the Lion-Hearted"
received his gold-plated invitation to Africa, the prob
lem, had been solved.
At least what both the President and his able
Secretary of the Treasury had asked for so plainly,
had been answered.
For they both asked for SOMEONE to tell them
how they could reduce the largest budget in peace
time history, which after months of great endeavor,
they had been unable to do.
TF THEY couldn't find any excesses in their own
"baby," it seemed to the people of the country, as a
whole, that no one else could.
But the "dear people" as sometimes happens,
were mistaken. The entreaties of the executive and
Treasury Department heads had barely been stilled
before their prayers were answered. And by a Re
publican. More than that,, by a former Republican
PRESIDENT of the United States, the outstanding
"Elder Statesman" of his party, and conceded to be by
members of both major parties the most highly quali
fied expert on national depressions, their cause and
cure, in the country, if not the world.
N Needless to say this was none other than Honorable
Herbert Hoover, sometimes termed affectionately
the "Great Engineer" or "Mr. Magic II" by his faithful
followers, including, of course, the always orthodox
and stalwart "Oregonian."
Declares the Oregonian, quote:
Mr. Hoover believes more than ten billion dollars an
nually could be saved by reforms and improvements in
only three phases of federal government operations. '
Could there be a clearer answer to a "maiden's
prayer tnan tnat.' Ur an
thentic and exalted source?
a
SO WHAT are we waiting for?
both asked for it, and in only a few days later they
got it.
But as far as noted they have done nothing about
it. Why Not?
MOREOVER we are assured by the Oregonian that
these reforms and improvements in three de
partments of the federal government, would not im
pair national defense, weaken national security but
would merely add up to whittling away "unnecessary
expenditures attributable to inefficiency, bureaucracy
and empire-building," whatever the latter is.
Strangely enough the Oregonian laments in con
clusion, quote:
"There is no quick road to salvation." ,y
Why not?
What could be "QUICKER" than to appoint
former President Hoover
partment of Malignant Inflation," give him a free
rein to cut the fat out qi the present budget to "more
than ten billion" as he assures his party (and the
people), can easily be done, and presto!
With the budget reduced to approximately 60
billion instead of over 71, would not the frightening
prospect of a runaway inflation "eating up" the U.S.
economy, as the Oregonian fears, be quickly re
moved? To a man up a tree, with a clear view of the White
House request, and the high calibre of the three prin
cipals under the general heading of "questions and
answers," it would seem so.
Or are we being unduly naive? Should both the
urgent request and the prompt and authoritative
answer, be dismissed as just some more post-election
and purely partisan CONVERSATION a part of the
G.O.P. sham battle signifying nothing?
If not, then again WHAT are we waiting for?
R.W.R.
Another "Holy Crusade "
The prevention of war and the preservation of
peace has long been the aim of various and sundry
organizations, including, of course, the present United
Nations.
Every newspaper office gets propaganda by the
truck load from individuals and organizations seeking
to capitalize on this human aspiration that is growing
steadily throughout the world, but is so frequently
frustrated.
Something new among these recently arrived at
the office, however. It is called "The Citizens Foreign
Relations Committee," with its headquarters in Wash
ington, D.C., and a large and imposing list of "di
rectors." THERE is no beating about the bush for this super-
militant organization. It even sees no inconsist
ency in calling on spiritual aid from Christianity and
tht Bible for a program of which the following is the
salient part:
Break diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia.
Fighting fire with fire, to-wit:
Do unto Russia what Russia is doing unto us. Place
volunteer American fighters for freedom behind the iron
curtain. Also U.S. subversive cells, also within Russia and
better organized and financed than the Communist groups
in this country.
This committee believes there are millions of
"unafraid Americans" who are fed up with seeing our
Tuesday, February 12, 1957
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Russia, Satellites, Said Facing
Serious Economic Difficulties
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia and its satel
lites are facing serious economic
difficulties.
The situa
tion stems
from ' the re
bellions in Pol
and Hungary.
Russia itself,
East Germany,
C z e choslova
kia and Hun
gary are the
countries chief-
rnarles McCann ly a 1 1 e c lea.
But the difficulties extend also
to other Soviet satellite nations.
The Soviet government' has
disclosed some of the problems
involved in a series of announce
ments that started in December
with the dismissal of Deputy
Premier Maxim Z. Saburov, its
chief economic planner.
Russia has sharply cut back
the rate of its industrial expan
sion. East Germany and Czech
oslovakia are threatened by pos
sibly the biggest shortage of coal
since the end of World War II.
Hungary's whole economic situa
tion is little better than chaotic.
Reasons For Troubles
What has happened is that the
tightly - interlocking economic
systems of Russia and the satel
lites have been thrown out of
gear.
For years, Russia was able to'
direct, exploit and loot the in
dustries of steel, coal and build-
lites.
Matter of Fact
THE WILD FRONTIER
Koustenay Over the flat
featureless, illimitable, snow
clad plain of this strange land
of western Si
beria, a young
pilot was fly
ing about six
years ago to
ward this place
which was then
a lonely rail
road town of
about 30,000
people.
Some 70 kilo-
Joseph Alsop
meters from
here, the pilot's
compass failed him utterly and
in a way that indicated a strong
magnetic disturbance. That was
how the vast twin bodies of mag
netic iron ore of Sarbi and Soko-
lovsky were first discovered.
And that was the beginning of
one of the most astonishing en
terprises this reporter has ever
seen.
Since then the immense eov-
ernment-directed Dloueh-uD of
the virgin plain has transformed
little Koustenay into a, roaring
frontier city of more than 80,-
000 people. But the transforma
tion of Koustenay seemed to me
a mere nothing, when compared
to the transformation brousht
by the discovery of those two
ore bodies. I learned the storv
in half a day's talk with Nikolai
Fadyevich Sandrieailo. one of
the three or four top men in
Soviet iron mining and now the
director of the Sokolovsky
mines.
AS he told the story, the Soviet
swiftly to map the ore bodies the
young pyot had discovered. The
ore deposit was estimated at
above one billion tons of mag
netic ore with 48 per cent of iron
content. The Sokolovsky deposit
was found to be almost equally
large.
The report was then trans
mitted to the Ministry of Black
Industry, which controls all iron
and steel production in the
Soviet Union. The Ministry de
cided that the discovery should
be exploited and ordered a proj
ect drawn up by its hive of ex
perts at "Lengyproruda" the
Leningrad Institute of ore proj
ects. The project officer at Len
gyproruda in turn called for help
from 14 other project planning
agencies, ranging , from the
Leningrad City Planning Insti
tute to the Leningrad Industrial
Projects Institute.
The result was a massive com
bined plan for two enormous
open cast iron mines at the Sar
bi and Sokolovsky deposits; an
ore enriching plant using a mag
netic separation process situated
halfway between the mines; a
small city and a lesser town to
house the miners and enriching
plant workers; two new railroad
lines to carry the ore to the outer
world; a local narrow gauge rail
system large enough to require
"OMNIPOTENT" nation being used as a verbal
punching bag and a Cold War whipping boy by the
Red dictators.
So onward to peace is proclaimed and world
amity, secured by opposing all activities looking to
ward a world state, a super government or the trans
fer of decisions of American security and welfare to
foreign powers.
Also quote :
Reform the United Nations, secure the expulsion of all
Communist member states from it, and separate it from its
specialized agencies, thus basing American foreign policy
solidly on moral law, patriotism, enlightened nationalism
and the Teachings of Christ!
All those wishing to volunteer in this "Holy Cru
sade" behind the iron curtain, should not write to
this office but apply to the
Committee, Woodward .Building, 15th and ri streets
N.W., Washington 5, D.C. R.W.R.
Now Poland is directing its
industry for its own good under
Wladyslaw Gomulka, its inde
pendent Communist leader.
Poland's coal was used, for in
stance, for Russia's benefit until
its rebellion. This coal was sold,
by Russian demand, at lower
than world prices. Now the So
viet government has been com
pelled to agree to renegotiate
its coal contracts. But even with
that, Poland is getting first bid
in its own production.
Hungary, which was a source
of food, raw materials and in
dustrial products for countries of
the Soviet bloc, has become a
liability instead of an asset and
is crying for aid from Russia.
Production Goods Missed
On Jan. 30, the Soviet gov
ernment announced that there
was a rise of 11 per cent in in
dustrial production in 1956. But
it disclosed that the basic in
dustries of steel, coal' andbuild
ing materials, among others, had
failed to meet their quotas for
the year.
Last Saturday the Supreme
Soviet, the parliament of the
Soviet Union, approved a 1957
budget which provided for the
biggest cutback in 20 years in
the rate of economic expansion.
On Feb. 6, Bruno Leuschner,
chief economic planner for East
Germany, announced that 1957
production quotas must be cut
and the program for capital in
vestment whittled down because
of the failure of Poland and
By Joseph Alsop
120 electric locomotives; plus
power stations, shops, water res
ervoir, recreation facilities and
everything else needed for a new
mining development almost com
parable in scale, cost, difficulty
and remoteness to the famous
Labrador mining project origi
nally sponsored by Secretary of
the Treasury George Humphrey.
CANDRIGALIO is a big, calm,
J solidly self-possessed man,
who is not much given to humor
about his mines. But even he
smiled a bit ruefully, when he
recalled how the Ministry up
rooted him from his previous
job as boss of all the iron mines
in the Urals. Without warning,
he was confronted with the 35
stout volumes in which Lengy
proruda and its assisting proj
ect institutes had set forth the
completed Sokolovsky project in
full detail.
"This," said the Ministry, "is
your new job." That was in 1954.
The seemingly ponderous ma
chinery of the Soviet state must
have moved rather swiftly to
meet Sandrigalio's needs for
everything from a mobile power
station to flat cars to an initial
cadre of skilled workers. At any
rate, half his new city is built
new. Sixty-five hundred people
(out of a planned labor force of
12,000) are already at work. The
ore enriching plant is on the way
up. And at the Sokolovsky de
posit, the gigantic Soviet-built
excavating machines have al
ready dug a hole in the ground
that is two kilometers long, more
than a kilometer across, and
about forty meters deep.
"TY the beginning of 1961,"
said Sandrigailo with vis
ible assurance, "our mines will
be in full operation and each
year we shall be shipping out
12 million tons of enriched or
with 59 per cent of iron content.
Not long ago, big coal deposits
were found about 100 kilometers
from here. When they are pro
ducing too, it will be time to
think about marrying our coal
and our ore to make iron and
steel right here."
It is tempting to try to record
more of the pictures and impres
sions left by this day with San
drigailo and his' staff pictures
such as the dark clad workmen
still swarming in the freezing
dusk to complete assembly of a
14 cubic meter excavator as big
as six houses; and impressions
such as the sharp yet dreary im
pression of a company town's
atmosphere that one got at the
movie offered by the "Palace of
Culture." But one impression
left by this great enterprise
springing up in a wilderness
really overwhelmed all the
others. It was an impression of
the great and ruthless power
this strange Soviet economy is
able to mobilize.
(Copyright, 1957,
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Citizens Foreign Relations
Hungary to meet their export
agreements.
The most serious immediate
problem for the East German
Reds is the coal shortage. Com
munist leaders have started to
appeal to technicians and ordin
ary workers to volunteer for
service in Germanjnines to help
make up the shortage.
Worst Since War
Western Intelligence sources
in Berlin report that the coal
shortage threatens to be the
most serious since the war, and
that lack of fuel has caused cuts
in electric power to factories.
On Feb. 8, Czechoslovak Prem
ier Viliam Siroky announced
that unless Czechoslovak miners
increased coal production - there
would be a serious decline in
the output of industrial goods.
In addition to all these' de
velopments of the last few
weeks, there is the fact that
many leading economists ate
most skeptical of all Russian
statements boasting of industrial
expansion.
Especially they doubt all fig
ures and estimates which tend
to show that Russia's rate of pro
duction is ever likely to over
take that of the United States
in the foreseeable future under
the best conditions.
Communications
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stances the use of 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 conden
sation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words
Criticizes Library
To the Editor: The letters pub
lished in your paper a short time
ago by Jim Jones and by the
library impressed 'me so strong
ly that I ,am writing my first
"Letter to the Paper" about the
situation.
As to his complaint that the
Library does not treat young
people fairly, I am convinced
from personal experience that
he is right. Let me say right now
that I am not a teen-ager and
haven't been for a great many
years. My own children have fin
ished high school and I don't
know many students in Medford,
but what I have seen at the libra
ry when I have gone to borrow
books has proved to me that the
whole trouble is the attitude of
the ones in charge of the libra
ry, rather than that the kids
here are worse than ones else
where. I have not inquired about
the percentage of loss and dam
age in the Ashland library, or
in others where people of all
ages are treated politely, made
to feel welcome, and where it is
assumed that the books will be
properly treated and returned
in due time and no one goes
around acting as if he were a
special guard for the crown
jewels surrounded by profession
al thieves, but I would wager it
is much smaller than in Med
ford. At any rate they do not go
around complaining about their
losses.
It has seemed to me for years
that the attitude at this library
has been the public is a nuis
ance, to be put up with if it in
sists on intruding, but the real
business of the library is to keep
the books neatly on the shelves
and undisturbed as much as pos
sible. I have never gone there
for books if it was possible to
get them anywhere else, and if
our family were not one where
books are just as essential a part
of living as meals I would never
go at all.
The tragic part of this is the
effect on the young people,
many of whom have not too
firmly established the habit of
reading, and who are being dis
couraged from doing so. Nothing
I have said here applies in the
smallest degree to the juvenile
department. The downstairs li-
orary is, and has been for years,
just what a library should be.
The younger children and their
parents are made welcome,
treated like reasonable human
beings, expected to act that way,
so they do, and are helped in
every way to form the lifetime
habit of considering the library
and its attendants their friends
The treatment they receive when
they move upstairs must be a
rude shock.
Mrs. Myron T. Taylor
Route 1, Box 281
Central Point, Ore.
Law Not Ended
To the Editor: In Friday's pa
per Evangelist William Brown
asks why the law of Moses and
the law of Christ are not separ
ated. He goes further to say that
the law ended with John. I as
sume when he refers to the law
of Moses he is referring to the
Ten Commandments or the
moral law.
First let me say that the law
Moses gave to the people when
they were coming out of the
land of Egypt was Christ's law
also, because Christ was the ac
tive agent in making all things
in this world, including the Ten
Commandments. John 1:1-3 and
verse 10. Hebrews 1:1 and 2.
I do not agree that this Ten
Commandments law ended any
where. Because if it had been
possible for that law to be
changed in any way, then Jesus
would not have had to come to
Legislative
Studio One Actor
Played in Festival
George Peppard, who played
lead roles for the Oregon Shake
spearen festival in Ashland for
three years, was cast in the main
role of last night's television
Studio One production of "A
Walk in the Forest."
Peppard, a festival scholar
ship holder as a student at Car
negie Institution of Technology,
first played with the festival in
1951. That year he played Mor
ton in "King Henry IV, Part I"
and other roles.
He returned to Ashland in
1953 to play Bassanio in "The
Merchant of Venicei" the clown
in "The Taming of the Shrew"
and minor roles in the remain
ing two plays.
His last year in Ashland, 1954,
the actor was cast as Horatio
in "Hamlet," and received con
siderable praise for his portray
al. He also played Slender, in
"The Merry Wives of Windsor"
and the Earl of Warwick in
"Henry VI, Part 2."
It was in Ashland that Pep
pard met his wife, the former
Helen Davies of Hollywood, who
also played leading roles in fes
tival productions.
this world and suffer such agony
and torture and finally be put
to death to fulfill the demands
of the law. It would have been
easier for God to change the
law. That moral law given to
this world through Moses is a
part of God's character, as it
(the law) is holy, just and good.
Romans 7:12.
If that law is ended, or done
away with, God help us; nothing
is safe. We have nothing to rely
upon as a guide to Christian liv
ing, violence would be rampant.
We would be free to lie, steal.
covet, or do harm to our neigh
bors, or take what we want by
force.
The only laws I can find, as a
Bible student, that Christ abol
ished were some of the old sac
rificial or ceremonial laws relat
ing to the killing of animals and
using their blood as a remission
of sin. Colossians 2:14. When
Christ came and .spilled His
blood, then there was no need
to use the animals any longer as
Christ Himself was the sacrifi
cial offering. John 1:29.
Read the words of Jesus in
Matthew 5:17 where He says He
came not to destroy the law, but
to fulfill (meet its design). Let's
keep God's holy law, because in
Isaiah; 66:23, I read that the
fourth commandment will be
still in effect in the earth made
new. Isn't it reasonable to as
sume that the other nine will be
too?
No offense intended Evangel
ist William Brown we are still
friends, O.K.?
Tom Kennaday,
Route 2, Box 459
Medford, Ore.
Invitation
To the Editor: I have read
with interest the recent letter in
your "Communications" column
signed by Evangelist William E.
Brown, in which he takes to
task the "Ministers' Roundtable
radio program of the Medford
Ministerial association.
As program chairman of the
association, I take pleasure in
extending to Evangelist Brown
this invitation to be our guest
at the next regular meeting on
Tuesday, March 12, at 10 a.m. at
the First Presbyterian church.
Mr. Brown may rest assured of
ample opportunity to express his
views and to substantiate his
charges against those who serve
on the association's radio panel.
The Rev. George R.V. Bolster
Program Chairman
Medford Ministerial
Association
Help Needed
To the Editor: Would like you
to publish 'this letter in regard
to a widow that is in need of
help. Her husband left her about
nine years ago with five chil
dren. She receive! help from
the welfare, but has no furni
ture to speak of.
The house she lives in is un
finished and the roof leaks. Any
help from anyone that has furn
iture or that can help in any
way would be appreciated.
She recently had a heart at
tack and is in the hospital and
is not able to work.
For further information call
NOrmandy 4-1203.
C. A. Holder,
521 Manzanita,
Central Point, Ore.
School Bus Law
To the Editor: After reading
Mr. Holstrom's letter, I finally
decided to write a long overdue
letter to the Editor. I put off
writing it because I didn't want
people to know how easy it is
to get away with passing a
stopped school bus.
My oldest son, in the second
grade, has twice come close to
being run over by vehicles pass
ing a stopped school bus. Once
by a high school boy and the
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Salem U.R A bill was intro
duced in the House appropriat
ing $7 million for construction
needs of distressed school dis
tricts. It was requested by the
Interim Committee on Edua
tion. Salem (U.R) Rep. Grace
Peck, Portland Democrat, Intro
duced a bill in the House appro
priating $1 million for a worn
ens' correctional institute sep
arate from the prison and Hill
crest School for Girls.
Salem '(U.R)1 The House pas
sed a bill exempting fraternities,
sororities and student co-ops
from personal property taxes.
Salpm U.R The Senate
adopted a bill making technical
changes to simplify procedure in
federal old age and survivors in
surance coverage for state and
other governmental officers and
employees in Oregon.
Salem '(U.R) A lengthy tech
niral rpnnrt one educational tele
vision was filed with Gov. Rob
ert D. Holmes for consideration
by the Legislature. The basic
plan calls' for construction of
transmitters on channel 10, Port
land, and channel 7, Corvallis,
with studios at Eugene, Corval
lis and Portland.
second time by a logging truck.
And nothing was done about
it.
The bus drivers didn't report
it until I complained, and when
they told the school authorities
it was treated as just an un
pleasant incident.
Passing a stopped school bus
is considered a "misdemeanor"
and a witness has to sign a com
plaint. I couldn't sign the com
plaint because we live quite
a way from the highway, and ,
although I saw it both times, 1
wasn't considered a good wit
ness. I learned this from a dep
uty sheriff.
My son asked me both times
what would be done with these
people that broke the law. I
told him that they would be
taken care of by the law because
they had broken it.
When I found out I had lied
to my son (whom I naturally
want to be honest!) I had to
teach him to be very cautious
(he was anyway) and not t$be
so trusting. It's hard to teach
children that respected people
can't always be relied on.
I had to make him feel sorry
for these people who almost ran
him down, in order to stop his
questions of "Why weren't they
arrested?"
The school bus laws were
made for a purpose and they
should be enforced. What can be
done? Why should I have . to
worry every morning until my
son is safely in the bus?
Shouldn't there be a law forcing
the bus driver to take immediate
steps against these potential
murderers? Or are we to wait
un'l a child is killed? I have
three more boys to start school
in the next few years. More
worry? Or wiU some one do
something?
Mrs. S. J. Cloud,
Star. Rt., Box 70,
Prospect, Ore.
Prefers God to Dulles
To the Editor: Can't see upon
what grounds that politicians and
big church men base their pre
dictions of a just and lasting
peace when the Bible says there
will be no peace.
The Bible says that they will
cry Peace! Peace! But there will
be no peace. It also says that:
"Woe be unto the inhabitants of
the earth for the devil has come
down among you having great
wrath, for he knoweth his time
is short. In another place it
savs: "Put not your trust in
princes nor the sons of men, in
whom there is no help.
Just how far that big talks.
secret meetings, and foreign aid
is going to get the world on the
road to peace is yet to be De
termined. I am a little old fash
ioned myself perhaps, as I be
lieve in God, and the Bible as
the inspired word of God. Since
the Bible tells me not to put my
trust in the sons of men, I be-"
Hpv. T will choose the Almighty
God for mv help instead of the
Chiefs of Staff or John Foster
Dulles.
Earl Allen,
176 South Stage rd,
Medford, Ore.
Mr. Insurance
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