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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 24, 1948 (Friday)
A county iail inmate re
ceives- Christmas clemency,
and is released after serving
three months of a one-year
sentence.
Strong winds this morning
rip a board from a scaffolding
and drive it through the wind
shield of a car, but the driver
escapes injury.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 24, 1938 (Saturday)
Three Medford markets In
troduce "quick-frozen" foods,
the very latest in modern gro-
cerydom. ,: - ' "
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Dear
Kris Kringle: Don't leave any
boy or girl with nothing in
their stockings but their feet."
30 YEARS AGO
Dee. 24, 1928 (Monday)
Local farmers and orchard
ists hail a soaking rain as the
nicest gift Santa could have
brought.
Because of inc lement
weather, the -judging of out
door Christmas lighting has
been postponed to Dec. 26.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec 24, 1918 (Tuesday)
Trains southbound through
Medford are in two sections
and packed with . doughboys
homeward bound for Christ
mas. Post office crews just about
get one shipment of packages
to their local destinations
when Train 13 brings in an
other. What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct ts superior;
even or eight is excellent; five et
six is good.
CHRISTMAS QUIZ
1. Spingerle, a kind of
cocky with an embossed de
sign, is of French, Swedish, or
German, origin?
2. "Xmas" - the shortened
form for Christmas - is a
word of Greek, Italian, or
Latin, derivation?
3. At the time of Jesus'
birth, who was King of Ju
dea? . - .
4. How many reindeer does
Santa have?
5. The wise men from the
East brought three gifts to
the newborn Infant Jesus;
name the gifts.
6. Why did Joseph and
. Mary have to take shelter in a
stable?
7. What celebration by the
ancient Romans took place at
the same time of year as
Christmas is now observed?
8. Why were Joseph and
Mary in Bethlehem at the
time the Infant Jesus was
born?
9. How many days after his
birth was the Infant Jesus
given the name Jesus?
10. The custom of candles
. on a Christmas tree was in
troduced by whom?
Answers: 1. German. 2.
Greek. 3. Herod. 4. Eight. 5.
Gold, Frankincense and
Myrrh, 6. No room for them
at the Inn. 7. The Saturnalia.
8. To be counted. (Census) 9.
Eight days, (at time of bis
circumcision) 10. Martin
Luther. ...
A Christmas Parable
Labor legislation still languished in Congres
sional subcommittees, but Santa Claus wasn't
worried about it.
Up at the North Pole, the gnomes and elves
employed in his "open workshop" were all mem
bers of Arctic Artisans, Local 1. They worked
cheerfully under a contract featuring liberal
fringe benefits for those with whiskers. And they
all had whiskers.
But one day two strangers arrived by dog
sled. "We represent the
hood of Teamsters,. Chauffeurs, Warehousemen
and Helpers of America," they told Santa. ."We
have come to organize you.
"Me?" chuckled jolly
employer!
"Get with it," the men said. "There's no per
centage anymore in being an employer." They
pointed to his reindeer. "You're the only team
ster left that hasn t been organized. Wp need
you.
CANTA offered them
pasteries, and after
was persuaded to sign
Mrs. Claus, "technically
deer I am a Teamster anyway. And they told me
I d be a great asset to their union.
He soon received an
headquarters enclosing
card and a letter that began, "Dear Brother San
ta." The letter stated that since the union's treas
ury was growing so huge the Boss desired a new
safe for Christmas. It gave specmc dimensions
for the safe and stipulated that the combination
be secure' against federal
It was a big order,
fill it, even though they
dreds of toy trains to provide enough metal. They
finished the mammoth safe on schedule, wrapped
it in gaily colored paper
it.
Then Santa discovered that when the safe was
placed 'in his toy sack, there was ho room left
for any toys.
This would never do.He sent a telegram to
Teamster headquarters, informing them; he
couldn't deliver the safe after all. '
AGAIN, two men from
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were heftier than the first pair.
See here Santa, they
in your membership contract says you gotta do
what the .Boss tells you.
goods or we snip off your beard. " -
Santa knew he had no choice. Without a
beard, he wouldn't be recognized. Children see
ing him come down the chimney would think
him a burglar and be frightened.
.No, he had to deliver the safe. He would
store all the toys carefully away, and next year
there would be that many more for the children.
And so on Christmas
minute misgivings, Santa
for .1 eamster headquarters. His reindeer stramed
against the heavy load.
AS THEY passed over
uauua wcto oul ut-A. vjy uuuouai oiguic. . j-i v u g
lines of men .carrying placards trudged through
the streets. Windows normally a-glitter with
Christmas tree lights were
When they reached
Santa discovered a man with a tommy gun guard
ing the chimney.
"Take it down to the
growled. "The Boss is waiting for you."
The Boss dragged on
"Good," he grunted as Santa pulled up. "We'll
put it in a stockroom for the time being."
"Just a moment,
please explain why those
cold carrying placards?"
"They're picketing. Don't you know about the
Strike?" And the Boss
were on strike during the
time ot year," he said.
"But why must there be a strike?" Santa
asked. "Why do you want to ruin Christmas for
people?"
"Higher wages," the
charge higher dues and
new safe you brought me."
Santa stroked his beard for a moment "Well,"
he said with a twinkle, "I suppose , since I'm "a
Teamster I must be on strike too. I guess I can't
deliver your safe, can I?"
"Oh yes you can," t h e Boss said sharply.
"Come on, let's get in unloaded."
RUT Santa gave the reins a vigorous jerk. "On
Dasher!" he cried. "On Dancer!" And the
reindeer sprang upward intothe night sky.
They returned at top speed to the North Pole,
where Santa's helpers dumped the safe into a
snowdrift and re-filled his sack to the brim with
toys and good things to eat:
- And Santa set out a second time that night.
This time he visited the homes of good children
all over the world, leaving presents just as he
always had.
He couldn't resist visiting Teamster head
quarters once more, though. The man with the
tommy gun, his coat collar about his ears, was
sound asleep.
Santa - dropped his union membership card
down the chimney. On it, he had written: "MER
RY CHRISTMAS TO ALL." E. W. -
International Brother
St. Nick. "But I'm an
mint tea and marzipan
a long conversation he
up. "After all," he told
with my sleigh and rein
envelope from Teamsters
his union membership
investigation. '
but Santa's helpers could
had to melt down hun
and tied a ribbon around
.........
the union came to the
said. There's a clause
Either you deliver the
eve, frowning with last-
embarked with the safe
the rooftops, however,
darkened.
Teamster headquarters,
warehouse," the man
a stubby brown cigar.
Santa said. Would vou
poor men are out in the
told Santa all Teamsters
holidays. "It's the best
;
Boss snapped. "So I can
put more money in this
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Matter of Fact
WHERE IS THE EPICENTER?
Paris-The doubts and trou
bles of the West are so numer
ous that it is easy to ignore the
Wf!M si ens of some
thing very like
an earthquake
inside the So
viet system.
Yet the follow
ing recent
signs are well
worth ponder
ing: ITEM: A
meeting of the
4osph Aisop central com
mittee of the Soviet Commu
nist party, differing in cer
tain ways from any such
meeting in the past, where
poor old Bulganin has public
ly accused himself of wallow
ing in "an anti-party swamp."
ITEM: Extraordinarily ven
omous attacks at this meet
ing on the other members of
the "anti-party group," and
especially on Khrushchev's
former rival, Georgi Malen-
kov. These attacks, delivered
by both Bulganin and Khrush
chev himself, appear to fore
shadow a show trial. Or per
haps they pave the way for
a simple announcement that
the traitors have received
their just desserts.
ITEM: The sudden dismissal
of the grim Chief of the So
viet Secret Police, Gen. Serov,
the last Soviet official with
real power that antedated
Khrushchev's consolidation of
power.
ITEM: An even more unpre
cedented, immensely prolong
ed meeting of the Central
Committee of the Chinese
Communist party at Hankow.
The unimaginably ruthless
new L-ninese "agrarian re
form," the establishment of
rural "communes," was the
chief topic.
ITEM: The resulting aban
donment of all official execu
tive functions by Mao Tse-
tung. This leaves the Chinese
Communist boss in a good po
sition to blame any subse
quent trouble on the "errors"
of his replacement.
THE Western experts gener
allv afrrw that' nil tViooa
things happening almost at
once suggest that a major
earthquake is going on, or is
at least foreseen, somewhere
or other in the Communist
half of the world. There is no
other easy explanation of
the world. There is no other
easy explanation of. Khrush
chev's haste to consolidate his
own power. For that matter,
there is no "other easy explana
tion of Khrushchev's appar
ent haste to inflict the most
shattering defeat on the West,
since he will be so much bet
ter placed to threaten Berlin
a little later on, when the
period of the missile gap
begins in deadly earnest.
By why is Khrushchev in
such a hurry, when there is
no apparent reason to expect
serious trouble within the So
viet Union? The answer of the
few experts who have any
real familiarity with Chinese
conditions is that the earth
quake's epicenter is in China?
These men are inclined to
believe that the . argument
about the rural communes re
veals a crisis that can hardly
be resolved until all China
has been bathed in rivers of
blood. There is very little
doubt indeed, to begin with,
that the Chinese have now
reached the point that Stalin
reached during the first five-
year plan, when he collecti
vized Soviet agriculture. In
other words, the Chinese Com
munists are unable to finance
their program of forced in
dustrialization any longer,
without severly depressing the
standard of life. In order to
do this, they must: sternly
take in hand the countryside,
where most of China's na
tional income is.-still pro
duced. THE character of the rural
communes themselves casts
WSEffl0f TRACKS?'
By Joseph Alsop
further light. Their most ex
traordinary feature is what
amounts to military mobiliza
tion of all the peasant man
power in China, at a fearful
cost for all concerned. There
can be no point in this unless
there is an actual shortage of
manpower to maintain agricul
tural output. This is really the
only possible reason why the
Chinese have found it neces
sary to go so much further
than Stalin did. -
If there is such a shortage
of manpower to till the fields,
in turn, it can only mean that
the Chinese Communists have
been trying to carry out their
program of industrialization
by the historic Chinese meth
od of gigantic labor corvees.
The use of forced labor on a
staggering scale is nothing
new in China. Up to a point,
it works miracles, as anyone
can testify who saw the. air
fields for the B-29s being built
during the war by a corvee
totaling 600,000 men and
women.
But beyond a certain point,
the workers in the corvees
cannot easily be fed. At this
point, the excessive use of
labor corvees amounts - to
mass murder. Given the low
ness of the Chinese standard
of living, an intentional de
pression of the living stand
ard to finance industrializa
tion must also amount to mass
murder. In the similar period
of Russian history, Josef Stal
in was in effect driven to kill
something like 15,000,000 of
his own people in cold blood.
This was his hecatomb on the
altar of the power of the
state. For the same purpose,
but under much more diffi
cult conditions, the Chinese
rulers are, too, likely to have
to kill not just millions, but
many tens and scores of mil
lions. -
F appears, in fact, that just
those ghastly conditions
are being intentionally cre
ated, which no Chinese gov
ernment in the past 4,000
years, however powerful,
however totalitarian, has ever
survived for very long. If this
is indeed the case, then the
earthquake will be -very ter
rible and its outcome will be
quite unpredictable. Whether
or no the system survises, its
survival will be imperilled
while the human sacrifices
continue to the new Moloch
of industrial power.
Maybe this analysis of the
present situation in China is
too pessimistic. Less is known
today of what goes jn in
China than was known of
what went on in the Soviet
Union in the early thirties,
when the whole world was
deceived. At any rate, the
analysis is founded on known
Chinese facts. It logically lo
cates the epicenter of the
shocks which are so visibly
affecting the whole Commu
nist world-system. In short, it
is the best working explana
tion that has yet been offered
of a great mystery of extreme
concern to every thinking
person.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Record Pilgrimage
To Hoy City Seen
Jerusalem, Jordan CPD Of
ficials predicted Tuesday the
biggest influx of Christmas
pilgrims to the Holy City in
ten years.
They estimated some 6,000
persons . would come to the
ancient city of Jerusalem for
the current Western Christ
mas and the Greek and Arme
nian celebrations in January.
THUMB FUN
Pueblo, Colo. -(EPD- The
Junior Chamber of Commerce
reported that a Pueblo girl
has written Santa that she
will do her best to stop suck
ing her thumb if he will
leave a cigarette lighter and
ash tray at her. house. The
reforming miss said she plan
ned to take up smoking to
break her thumb sucking
habit.
i 'Gram paw7
To His Bribed Little
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (UPD I am
Grampaw to a nest of four
little children,
and it occurs
to me that it
is time some
one started a
movement to
protect the
very young
from the cor
ruptive influ
e n c e of me
.yie c. wiison ana my Kina.
I bribe 'em; buy their love.
Grampaws, as a class, are
scratchy old men who crave
respect and affection but who
have lived long enough to dis
appoint themselves and their
contemporaries in just about
every way. Expose old Gramps
to little grandchildren and he
resorts at once to bribery.
The bribery is to arouse in
the little tykes an idolatrous
affection and ' to convince
them that Gramps is the
world's greatest man, likely,
next time around, to be nomi
nated by both political par
ties for president.
Unloading the Loot
That is not a far fetched
conception fora little guy or
a little gal who knows Gramps
will arrive in his car a couple
of times a week and begin to
unload loot.
"Grampaw!" the kids then
holler. They come running
accompanied by the neighbor
kids, of course. The neighbor
kids know that toys and can
dy are about to be served up
and that they will get their
share.
"Grampaw!" the little, ones
chorus confidently as they assemble-around
Gramps car.
Hopefully they scan the inte
rior for packages and con the
worshipping
3?
In the Day's News
By FRANK
I suppose you read about
the aerial dogfight the other
day along the Israeli-Egyptian
border. There was quite a bit
of shooting in the clear skies
up above the desert that rules
in that region, and somewhere
from one to four planes were
reported shot down.
The Israelis say THEIR
planes were jumped without
provocation by Nasser s Egyp
tian: planes.-: Fighting back
DEFENSIVELY, . they say,
they shot down at least one
of the attackers.
The Egyptians tell an ex
actly opposite story. They say
THEY were attacked by the
Israelis, and add that they
shot down FOUR of the at
tackers. .
WHO is right?
Who is wrong?
Keep your fingers crossed.
Basically, it is a propaganda
incident, and propaganda is
apt to consist of lies cooked
up for a purpose.
I know that sound cynical.
Perhaps it is. But at least
there is as much truth as
cynicism in it as you must
be aware if you follow the
Russian propaganda line.
Propaganda is one of the
great modern evils. It has al
ways existed, but in these
days it is more potent "than
ever before because of the
fabulous perfection of mod
ern communications.
T can we do about it?
The answer is NOT
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A VISITOR to California asked Eddie Cantor how poor he had
been as a boy on New York's East Side. Til tell you how
poor we were," recalled Eddie. "When somebody telephoned,
mama, she had to walk up-
stain to the butcher shop.'
Distinguished lady author,
had an embarrassing experi
ence at Christmas time. She
suddenly recalled a nephew
she hadn't seen in years,
and impulsively sent him a
bubble -blowing set. He
gravely thanked her by let
ter, adding that he has been
a colonel in the U. S. Army
for the past 17 months.
.
Office group singing carols
on Christmas Eve noticed that something was a bit wrong. It proved
to be a recent addition to the staff, recently Imported from Mobile,
Alabamy. She was singing, "O, liT ol' town of Bethlehem . . .
An observation by the English (remember Amos V Andy?) la
always In order. "Relatives," says he, "is like radishes. Just when
you think you've heard the last of them there they Is again."
O 135. t7 Bennett Cert Distributed by Sing Features Syndicate.
SISKIYOU HARDWARE
Is a Great Man - - -
old man's pockets for any
promising bulge. ' If the car
lacks packages and there are
no obvious bulges in gramp's
pocket, the little ones will try
again.
There will be in their
voices this time, however, an
accusing note, a downward,
hopeless inflection as they
sound off. This signifies anx
iety and doubt as they get to
the point:
"Grampaw, what did you
brought us?"
According to Plan
That cues their mother, if
she is on the scene, to shush
them aU against such forward
conduct. . For Gramps, how
ever, the cue is to go into his
magician act. He planned it
that way. When the little kids
almost have abandoned hope,
old Gramps unlocks the trunk
of his car and, presto, the loot
is there.
"Hey, Gramps," hollers
Barry, "did you brought us
any toys?" Barry's mother
shushes him some more. All
the kids are squealing by n6w
and the neighbor kids are
opening packages. A small
riot ensues. From this riot, 3-year-old
Connie emerges vic
tor. Connie wins because she
has no inhibition against
seizing anything she can lift
with which to whack over the
head any brother or neighbor
kid discovered opening a
package she regards as hers.
Connie can lift her father's
little French car. .
Peace returns when the loot
is divided. The grandbabies
Barry, Davie, Connie and
Chris climb up Aid over
grampaw, whispering in his
ear and rubbing crackers or
melted chocolate in his hair.
What they whisper are invi
tations -to return for sure to-
JENKINS
MUCH.
But this we CAN do: .We
can apply the test of our in
telligence to all such inci
dents. If the alleged facts
sound reasonable, we can ac
cept them with perhaps a
precautionary grain of salt. If
they sound utterly unreason
able, the best thing to do is
to pass them off as propa
ganda and forget all about it.
TN READING the papers or
listening to the broadcasts,
it is well to remember that
fundamentally there are two
kinds of news:
1. Ordinary, factual ac
counts of something that hap
pened.
.' 2. JAWBONE news.
Ordinary, factual accounts
of something that happened
in the normal course of events
are gathered by careful re
porters and embodied into a
story designed to inform or
to entertain.
JAWBONE news is WHAT
SOMEBODY SAID. In evalu
ating it, one must take into
consideration WHO SAID IT,
and WHY he said it. Most-po-
l.'x! 1 2 i T
liucai news is jawuuuc ncwa,
which is a good reason why
all political news must be ac
cepted with caution and at
least a fair sprinkling of salt.
International news, unfor
tuately, is about 90 per cent
jawbone news. That is why
it must be accepted with
GREAT caution.
To Our Friends and
Patrons
Wishing One and
All a Very
MERRY CHRISTMAS
from all of us at
o
rf WERE VOU POOS, )
Grandchildren
morrow and, if possible, to
night. Gramps beams. Some
times they whisper, "We love
you grampaw," and grampaw
kind of squinches up his eyes.
I know it is wrong to buy
their affection and I suspect
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saper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
A "Thank You" Letter
To the Editor: We have in
our neighborhood two little
boys of 2 and 3 who are at a
disadvantage when out on the
street with the other children
because they do not .have tri
cycles. But through the kind
ness of the Lady Lions and the
Firemen, each will receive
Christmas morning his own
tricycle, so beautifully redone
as to look like new.
' So on behalf of their par
ents, I am taking this means
to thank all concerned: the
busy parents who donated the
tricycles, the firemen who re
finished them, the Lady Lions
in generalv and Mrs. Lee Mel
lish in particular, who have
charge of the project. Surely
this is an activity that is
prompted by love.
"He that loveth not know-J
eth not God, for God is love. '
1 John 4:8.
Anna M. Streed'
36 North Peach st.
Medford
Wonderful Years
To the Editor: With so
many youngsters denied the
right-to-work till past their
best years to start learning, it
is so revealing to see how
such problems of the day find
their own answer. Like a few
weeks ago when we chanced
on a 350-head herd of cattle
being brought down from high
mountain summer pastures
ahead of threatening snow.
Such a sizable herd of white
face, in fine condition is not
only a surprisingly pleasant
surprise down here in the
valley, but also proof that
this is still cowboy land.
But there was very little
of the cowboy air and dress
displayed by the following
trail-riders. The ten-year-old
herd boss seenied a bit bored
as was his sister of 7 years
and the out-rider off to the
right,' a sister of 3V& years
old, nudging the young weary
stragglers up with the main
herd as she thumped her cow-
pony's ribs with heel and toe,
far, short of the stirrups. Back
of them came their mother,
driving a modernized chuck-
wagon.
"Oh ves." she told us later
on as I remember, "the chif
dren have been riding since
big enough to hang onto the
saddle-horn. Now it's getting
to be just another chore. But
I think they still enjoy it, at
least more than some of the
ranch - work they must help
with. And I'm sure they like
to think it's necessary for
them to be in the saddle,
though I'm sure the horses
feel they could do as well
without them. And likely they
could. They surely are of real
help with the ranch - work,
more so as they grow older.
Sure would be hard to get
along without them."
As we drove on, came the
thought of when the years
had fenced these children in,
they would remark to their
grand-children, "My my, you
kids should be learning to
work as we had to at your
age. We really were lucky,
though we didn't think so
then, for work keeps you out
of mischief and gives you
something .worth braggin'
about, which children like to
do and grownups too. But
we had time to do what we
liked to do, most of the time.
Work is good medicine for
everybody, young and old,
teaches you value of money,
respect for rights of others.
They were wonderful happy
years."
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point
C M. Litwiller
May the joyful spirit of Christmas light
the way to many years of health and
LITWILLER
Funeral
Home
Mountain View Chape'
Hwy, 66 at Normal
Office 88 N. Main .
ASHLAND
Wb Never Close -
At Least
that I am warping the chil
dren's characters, making
gold diggers out of them aU.
But I'm not going to stop. Not,
anyway, so long as I can make
those kids believe I am really
a great man.
Thank You Medford!
To the Editor: I wish "to
take this opportunity to thank
the people of Medford for the
support to a successful con
clusion of the annual United
Medford Crusade.
Many people gave of their
time and contributed a fair
share, then gave generously
again to make up a deficit of
57000 m seven days when
they learned of the need.
Their generosity enables the "
board of directors to allot the
full requirements of all 26
agencies for another year.
The hard and sometimes
discouraging job of plugging
throughout the campaign on
the part of the people who
did the actual soliciting was
outstanding. The successful
completion of the United Med
ford Crusade campaign for
the sixth year is another ex
ample of the terrific Job
which the people of Medford
do when the chips are down.
I am proud to be a citizen
of Medford and to have been
a part of this effort.
R. H. Travis
Campaign Chairman
United Medford Crusade
From Farm Horn
To the Editor: This is in ap
preciation, to the residents of
Jackson county, who by their
kindness have made it possi
ble, for us as patients at the
Jackson County Farm home
to be blessed with the wonder
ful care of our superinten
dents, Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman.
We likewise feel grateful to
the nurses, culinary and other
members of the Hoffmans
staff for their never - tiring
e'fforts to watch over us by
day and night, to assure us
comforts unsurpassed.. ,
. Also our sincerest apprecia
tion to the Jackson county
court, the Jackson county wel
fare commission and others
for their kind assistance, to
the clergy, bringing to us all
comforting words of Our
Saviour, Jesus Christ, not only
at Yule-tide but throughout
the year, together with the
many pleasant visits by Med
ford and Ashland civic organ
izations and others.
May we wish you all a
"Merry Christmas and a Hap
py New Year."
Speaking for the ladies and
gentlemen of this domiciliary,
most sincerely,
Eugene Cozad Howard
5465 South Pacific
Highway "
Phoenix, Ore.
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