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In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I wonder if you read the tales in the papers the other day about the Russian budget. And, if so, I wonder if you were as much confused as everybody else including, probably, the Russians. rpHE story, as given out in -1 Moscow, went something like this: The Soviet government pro poses to spend in 1959 the ruble equivalent of about 177 BILLION DOLLARS. This more or less fabulous sum will be expended for industry, re search and social welfare (what is referred to in these days as cradle to the grave se curity). Nothing is said about mili tary spending. The Kremlin communists are quite secre tive about that, going on the theory that the less said about it the better. Their expendi tures for military purposes are' presumed to be tucked away somewhere in the 177 billion total. CO MUCH for what commies & propose to put out. Let's take a look now at what they propose to take in. It amounts to a sizeable chunk of dough. They esti mate their income at about 180 billion dollars (meaning the ruble equivalent thereof) which will not only balance their budget but will leave them a SURPLUS of some three billions. And They add They'll accomplish all this without levying any direct new taxes! Pretty neat, is it not? TUT wait a minute. This Russian fiscal sys tem is a good deal like an iceberg. All one sees of an ice berg is what sticks up above the surface of the water. What sticks up above the surface is A STUDENT REMEMBERS . Ithaca, N. Y. -JF&- A new 1.400.000 residence center for 200 Cornell University Law School students will be named after the late Charles Evans Hughes, one-time Chief Justice of the U.S. Hughes served on the Cornell faculty In 1891. One of his students, Myron C. Taylor, he later be came chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, donated ane million dollars toward con struction of the new building. Georgia is the largest state in area east of the Mississippi river. AT THE CURRENT PLUS AN EXTRA Our investors have proof that it pays to have a savings account at FIRST FEDERAL. Twice a year on. June 30th and December 31st investors receive worthwhile earnings here. Savings and investments are auto matically insured to $10,000.00 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. This is an assurance to you that your account will always be worth the full amount. Assure yourself of a full six months' earnings on your Investments made by I the 10th of the month I earn dividends as of I the First I 29 North Ivy Street a very small part of the totaL - It's much the same with the Russian fiscal system. A lot of it is HIDDEN. l?OR example: the govern- ment owns everything. If there were a General Motors in Russia, the government would own it. If there were a Ford Motor company, the gov eminent would own it. If there were an AT&T In Russia the government would own it, And so pn down the line Russia s ' communist govern ment takes in all the money and it spends all the money. AND- It keeps the books. So, you see, it has the inside track all the way around. A WORD now about Russian taxes. One would think that in a country where the govern ment owns everything and takes in all the money and pays all the wages there wouldn't , be any taxes just like Papa and Mama, who own the house and pay all the bills and give the children an al lowance. Papa and Mama don't charge the children for the privilege of living in the house. In Russia, it's different. Russia DOES charge the chil dren. It levies taxes on them. It take the taxes out of their allowance. IN RUSSIA, the government has another cute little trick. It sells bonds to the people. It doesn't really SELL them. It TELLS them. It tells them how much in the way of bonds they must buy or else! Even that isn't all. It pays them no interest on their bonds. And When the bonds mature The government decides whether or not it will pay back the principal. So far, in most cases that have come to light, its. decision has been that -it won't pay that Ivan can keep his bonds, but the government will keep the money. o 1 You see It isn't too hard for the gov ernment of the U.S.S.R. to show a balanced budget or, if it chooses to put it that way to SHOW A SURPLUS. If you wonder how the So viet government does all these miraculous things it claims to do, the answer is really quite simple. It does it with mirrors. it s DIVIDEND TIME . . . For Investors At First Federal! RATE OF DIVIDEND OF investment by opening an account now or add to your present account before the tenth. For Safety of your account and liberal earnings Invest NOW! FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford Robert it. 4 ...i Lw t J.I New Hospital This is how the new $200,000 Osteopathic hospital will look when it is completed at Central Point during 1959. Ground will be broken on the modern 29 bed structure this spring to replace the present Medford Osteopathic hospital. "The hospital is designed for expansion to 50 American Mother Asks for Assistance In Finding Son Who Vanished in Japan Tokyo - (UPD - An American mother appealed for help yes terday in finding her only son, a former serviceman who vanished in Japan 21 months ago. The missing man is Manuel Phillip Kautzman Jr., 25. He cashed a traveler's check in Tokyo March 27, .1957, then disappeared. - "We have gotten about to the end of things," wrote his mother. Mrs. Manuel Kautz man, Eureka, Mont., in a let ter to United Press Interna tional's Tokyo bureau. "We don't know where to look for Manuel now. We don't know what happened to the boy or where he went We wonder if he could have met with foul play some place." - ' Shortly before he left his home he was on the verge of telling his mother something that might have explained his disappearance. "Shall I tell you a secret? he asked her one day at their home during a conversation about Tokyo. Yes," said Mrs. Kautzman, She was surprised. Her .son normally kept things to him self. Search Is Fruitless "I acted anxious to hear it," Mrs. Kautzman wrote "and then he wouldn't tell me. I often wondered what that secret was. I never coax ed him to tell me and I've been sorry I didn't." Mrs. Kautzman said a de tective firm in Butte, Mont and the American Embassy in PER ANNUM PER ANNUM F. Kyle, Manager li U Ji ..iUt i4kliL I ...iJiijl ,K a. ft beds without hospital to be enniai year, a to be occupied Tokyo made fruitless efforts to find her boy. "I've cried a good many tears over his disappearance," she wrote. "He is our only son. We just can't figure out what happened to him." Kautzman is five feet, ten inches tall, weighs 16 0 pounds, has brown hair and brown eyes and a small scar on the back of his right ear. He goes by the nickname "Sonny." He carried neither a passport nor a visa. Mrs. Kautzman asked that any information about her son be transmitted to UPl or to the consular section of the American Embassy. Returned To Orient Kautzman served as spec ialist third class with the 57th Field 'Artillery Battalion in Korea until January, 1957. He had been home only five weeks when he suddenly an nounced he was going to visit relatives in Seattle. He left Eureka, about 10 miles from Clergy and Laymen Set Up New Center Evanston, 111. - (UPD - Clergy and laymen of this quiet "City of Churches" have set up a new interdenominational study and research center to link the Christian faith with the problems of the modern world. x The Evanston Institute for Ecumencial Studies is the first of its kind in the United States and only the second such center in the world. The institute is a direct out growth of the ecumencial movement the drive for world-wide cooperation among all Christians. Twenty-eight denominations are represented on its gov erning corporation and all major seminaries in the Chi cago area joined in sponsor ing it. Dr. Walter W. Leibrecht, 31-year-old German-born the ologian who is director of the institute, said it will study the grave and difficult is sues which confront our gen eration and which are of vital concern to Christianity." One of its first major proj ects, he said, will be inten sive research on atomic radia tion as a biological and ethi cal problem. The research will be carried out by a physi cist and a ' geneticist at the institute's headquarters: These are about 20 miles from the spot under the squash court at the University of Chicago where man unleashed the first sustained nuclear chain reac tion and ushered in the Atom ic Age. Leibrecht said the institute also hopes to train Christian laymen who are going abroad for the government's Point Four program and other aid programs. "We want to develop spe: cial four-week courses for such Americans so they will be better informed when they go abroad," he said. Leibrecht said the need for an ecumencial institute was voiced by delegates to the World Assembly of the World Council of Churches here in 1954. A committee of Evanston churchmen took up the idea and began planning. Evan ston churches chipped in from $100 to $4,000 each to help get the program under way. After four years of plan ning, the institute opened lor business recently in an old, 22-room ; Queen Anne man sion on a tree-shaded residen tial street in this North Shore suburb. Leibrecht launched the in stitute's work with a program of 13 conferences. The first of these studied the responsi bilities of the Christian lay man in tne moaern worm. The second was on "The Mis sionary Task of the Church Today." A third dealt with the Christian press and "The Necessity of Dealing With Controversitl Issues." Conferences to . come in J..iJmtti J.JalU.lUliiii-k jiililtli il.liiati-iiJ any major changes. Dr. P. T. Rutter of Medford, who founded the present hospital, is constructing the new facilities.. This will be the second new osteopathic opened during Oregon s cen near-mmion aouar plant is in January in Portland. -. the Canadian border, March 1, 1957. He carried $1,200 in travel er's checks, his honorable dis charge papers, a birth, certifi cate and two suitcases. Kautzman left Seattle March 8 and flew to Hono lulu. From there, he probably hitch-hiked to Japan aboard military plane by wearing one of the army uniforms he was carrying and posing as a sol dier. This would explain how he entered Japan without passport or visa A few days before his dis appearance, Kautzman ran in to some Army friends from Korea who were on leave at the Gaioen Kanko Hotel in Tokyo. "When they asked him why he returned to Tokyo so soon after going home," Mrs Kautzman wrote, "he would n't answer them. After many tries they gave up This was apparently the last time Kautzman was seen' by anybody who knew him 1959 will take up such prob lems as human rights, reli gion and ethics in - business decisions, juvenile delinquen cy, religious tolerance and Christian faith as it relates to modern art.' " By next fall, Leibrecht hopes to. have a permanent faculty and regularly sched uled classes for theological students and others interested in the ecumencial ' program. Plans for the future also en visage a 20,000-volume library devoted to ecumencial study and denominational relations. Leibrecht hopes that the in stitute eventually will give the United States a study cen ter rivaling the Ecumencial Institute of Bossey, Switzer land, which was formed after the first meeting of the World Council of Churches. Twenty per cent of all the fires in the U.S. in 1957 were caused by electricity and elec trical equipment. UNCONDITIONAL Rus sian Foreign Minister Gro- myko, speaking' to parlia ment in Moscow, has said that Russia is ready at any time to sign an agreement with the West on the dis continuance of nuclear tests, with "no reservations or preconditions of any kind." He did not mention the mat ter of controls. HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL . Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrews at Court SP 3-9068 .Ul-iiui:i tl LiUi.il till. t !. . .t tlJk U 4k It J Cigar-Smoking Millionaire Fails To Stir Muscovites Br PATRICK RILEY United Press International London ' tOPD What sort of stir would be created in the streets of Moscow by a cigar smoking, ; monocle - wearing Western millionaire? , Niibar Gulbenkian, a cigar smoking, - monocle-wearing Western millionaire, decided to find out just that during a recent trip to the Soviet Un ion. ' "I had expected the Musco vites to glower or snigger as I strolled down the streets," said Gulbenkian, whose curl ed musjachios. and broad beard are even more impress ive than his cigar and mon ocle.' ' " - '" "But I found only a few curious stares." , Gulbenkian's father -was the late C. S. ("Mr. Five Per Cent") Gulbengian, reputedly the world's richest man until his death. - . - r In ; Soviet Armenia, where Nubar attended ceremonies marking the third anniver sary of the coronation of the Armenian Orthodox church's catholicos (chief bishop), he found .-"no resentment at all" over his very obvious wealth. "In fact," he said, sipping his Armenian- brandy and puffing on a Havana cigar in his luxurious suite at the Ritz, hundreds of Armenians gath ered outside my hotel to greet me." .. Gulbenkian was one of hun dreds " of Armenians living outside Soviet Armenia who were in Vazgeh I, to help him celebrate his 50th birthday and the third anniversary of his coronation. The Western millionaire said there was "every evi-i dence" of complete religious freedom in Armenia. He pointed out that the gov ernment had . helped restore the 1500-year-old cathedral of Edtchmaidzine, cradle "of Christianity in Armenia, (Gul benkian's late father donated almost half a million dollars to the project.) . ; vUtllJ. JUitL.l 'filii is i; .i.U .ijj.'iU'U ..fc.4i.tii I'il i i HI ill Gulbenkian also said that every Armenian churchman he spoke to stressed that church-state relations were "more than cordial." He said that Armenian churchmen could not be ac cused of servility to the state. In support of this statement he pointed out that the Catho licos publicly urged the for eigners who attended his festi vities to be loyal to their adopted homelands. Gulbenkian added that gov ernment officials attending the banquets given by and for the Catholicos "remained at respectful attention during prayers." He said the banquets 4last ed five or six hours and 20 or 30 speeches' and that there was "plenty to eat and drink, and plenty to listen to." ; Gulbenkian said he was al lowed perfect liberty to travel wherever he wanted to while in Russia. "I was even given permis- Deputies Search Channel For Body 1 Portland (UPD Multnomah county sheriffs deputies searched the Multnomah chan nel Saturday for Reuel Law rence, 65: missing since Christ mas day when he failed to appear at his daughter's house for dinner. . Lawrence had been living alone in Float House No. 13 at Hageman's moorage south of the Sauvies Island bridge on St. Helens road. Beverly Ann Green, St. Helens, report ed her father missing when he failed to appear at her house Christmas. Police check ed his boat house and found a door unlocked and the lights on. In his car, parked in the parking lot was a potted plant, as if ready to be delivered as a Christmas gift. First broadcast of London's Big Ben was made in 1923. a', r 1 ...III .1 '.l.i'- . . i t . sion to visit the militarized zone along the Turkish bor der," he said. "I travelled about 200 miles by car in the neighborhood of Erenan, and went to see Mount Ararat as well as the River Alex, sacred in the memory of Armen ians." He said that during a visit of less than three weeks, he "could not form an opinion of Soviet Russia, but only an im pression." . "I was impressed by all that I saw in Moscow," Gulben kian said. "True, I saw only the finer parts of the city. But the streets were broad and there was plenty of construc tion going on." He said the Muscovites struck him as "earnest, dedi cated and almost dour." "They seemed to have a slight pity for the Western way of life," he observed. "I was struck by the ab sence of the profit motive. People do things for you not Pre-Inventory Sale of f i U H i y3 off Nice Selection Including DeGraffs Daffodils. 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