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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1959)
DOCTOR DRAFT Montpelier, Va. tPB Col. Elbert Kimball, state selective service director, "drafted" two doctors from nearby coun ties to serve as medical ad visers for the local draft board in Grand Isle County, which has no doctors. There are about 2,000 known species of mosquitoes belonging to the Culicidae family, according to the Na tional Geographic Society. Columbian Optical Company GIFTS... ft wo Indoor-Outdoor l iV THERMOMETER THE BYRON DESK BAROMETER Trim Weather - teller with (ray-green, plas tic case. White dial. Brass trim. Ac. t Cft curate. Only .. VWiJU Aeeura t 1 1 7 tells both in side and out id. tempera tures. Easy to mount. Dark gray or Ivory case. Height 8 Inches, only COMBINATION DESK SET Atif Te Princeton is ' an fiXv accurate; barometer al 'n&F so tells temperature 'mSx and humidity. Two K tone dial, brass trim. VIGATO?" TYPE COMPASS fSk For ear or boat. Liq- M uid damped. Easily in- iWi, sUllod. . jfT . $6.95 Jf? ivSHV Mayflower AT 8-Power M TELESCOPE ryfVi Powerful achromatic lenses. Genuine vul jjftt canixed fibre body of InrS. Morocco grain, chrome SjVA ' Plated .draw tubes. ft leather $8.95 FINAL PAYMENT Dwight L. Houghton, seated right, treasurer and board member of Rogue Valley hospital, accepts a $500 check from the Medford Lions club Satur day as final payment of the S2,000 pledged by the club towards the hospital's construc tion. Making the presentation for the Lions is Michael Beck, center,, club president, while looking on are past presidents (stand ing left to right) Herbert Seitz, Alan Jewett, and Louis J. Ruhl, and Leland J. Knox, sec retary, left. Wealthy Denver Banker's Body Found in Park Denver -RIPD- George Rock, the wealthy- banker and poli tician whose body was found Sunday in a park, may have suffered his fatal brain con cussion in a fall down the stairs of . a Negro woman's apartment, according to po lice. -:,;. . - Police said Darlene Gresh am, 29, told them Sunday night that Rock was knocked unconscious when he fell backwards down the stairs of Other famous makes . . . Opera Glasses, Barometers, Thermome ters, Magnifiers and Hand Read ers. Wl GIVE GREEN STAMPS - Convenient Credit Our 55th Year COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. MEDFORD SHOPPING CENTER Matter of Foot bv Joseph aip OJPI Telephoto) GEORGE ROCK Left Against Tree an apartment in "which he lived. They said a Negro cab driver and the woman admit ted taking him to an East Denver park and leaving him lying propped against a tree. Found By Woman The body of the Democatic national committeeman from Colorado was 'found in the trash-littered park area by a woman on her way to church. He was lying face down on the grass between a sidewalk and a curbing. The woman and the cab driver, identified as William E. Trimble, 28, were being held along with Clarence Mc Groom, 32, for investigation of homicide, police said. Dete'ctive Sgt. Keith Morris said authorities had not com pleted checking on their story. . Cleopatra is said to have applied castor oil to her skin as a protection against mos quitoes. - Wormealen Pulpit Paris - The Americans have come to Paris to lecture, the Europeans, and especially the CEl fench, about "JT J -u bearine their part or. tne Western de fense burden. The. chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Nathan Twin ing, began the lecture course Joseph alsop some days ago. Secretary of State Chris tian Herter is expected to pick up where Twining left off. ' ' The facts of the situation entirely justify the lectures. The French divisions that were pledged to NATO are in fact engaged in Algeria. Gen. de Gaulle is coming closer and closer to an overtly anti NATO attitude. The smaller powers, with the Belgians in the lead, are also more and more reluctant to honor their NATO pledges. Even the Brit ish would visibly like to go down" the same-road. - Yet it must also be noted that the American lectures are being delivered from a pulpit so wormeaten, so to say, that one can all but see the lectur ers teetering on their insecure perch. Everyone here knows, in fact, that President Eisen hower, the true founder of NATO in its present form, very recently came within an ace of the kind of action that would have knocked the stuf fing out of NATO for good and all. THE stimulus which almost drove the President to de stroy his own creation was the stimulus to which he al ways responds most easily the stimulus of the budget. In the budget's sacred cause, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson and Budget Director Maurice Stans put on a great drive, this autumn, to withdraw two American di visions from Europe. For a long time, moreover, they had the President on their side. This was budget-first policy making on a par with the cheeseparing that has pro duced the missile gap. On the one hand, it was plain to be seen that if the United States set this kind of example, all the European allies would seize the opportunity to go one better. An Eisenhower or der recalling . two divisions from the forces under Gen. Lauris Norstad's command would have instantly touched off a general flight from NATO, and a flight so hasty f You don't have to be rich to enjoy mCH IK)1JRBK)W V MaUAWy $420 ' (t'wvS " coDn45B ' A BARREL OF QUALITY IN EVERY BOTTLE J land disorderly that NATO it self would have been killed in the rush. On the other hand, there were (and there still are) the disarmament negotiations with Nikita S. Khrushchev, loom ing up ahead in the near fu ture. Starting a flight from NATO at this time would have been the quickest way to give Khrushchey what he mainly wants in advance of the bar gaining. There is no greater folly than making presents to Russians before a bargaining session.- - , These arguments were vig orously pressed by Secretary of State Herter, with General Norstad backing him from Paris, and the courageous new Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Ly man Lemnitzer, carrying the ball for Norgtad in Washing ton. By sheer good luck, the argument was also joined by the special committee on dis armament set up long ago by the late John Foster Dulles. It includes a number of old style policymakers like John J. McCloy, who spoke up with great force and frankness. TN THE end, therefore, this A proved to be one of the rare occasions when Stans and Anderson did not get their way. All that survived of their project was a sort of vermi form appendix, a mere sym bolic vestige - the withdrawal of the battalion of ground forces from Iceland. But the ideas of Anderson and Stans are still exerting .their influ ence on the vital planning for disarmament talks with the Soviets. The idea now current in Washington is "to test Soviet bona fides" by a "thin out" of the NATO forces in West ern Europe and the Soviet forces in East Germany and Poland, coupled with an in spection system to police the "thin out." This is not very different from the disengage ment schemes proposed by the British Laborite, Dennis Heal ey, George F. Kennan and others. These used to cause General Norstad to proclaim that disengagement would be the signal for his own prompt resignation. ' This thin out idea is even a step towards the famous Ra packi Plan cherished by the Soviets. But the thin out would also give Anderson and Stans at least part -of what they want.- Hence the emerg ence of the thin out idea at this time' can hardly be con sidered coincidental, -c In short, everything "that General Twining said about the shortcomings of the French and our other allies was perfectly factual; but the Americans first task ought to be ' setting our own policy making house in order. (Copyright, 1SS9, New York ' Herald Tribune, Inc.) STRAIGHT ROUISON WHiSKfT MOOf OlD QUAKER D1STUUNG CO, 1AWSENCEIUIG IHD Russian Seaman Dies in Alaska Kodiak, Alaska -HOT)- A Russian seaman, brought to the Naval Station Hospital hete in critical . condition, died Monday. Officials were awaiting word today from the State Department in Washington, D.C., concerning disposition of the body. S h a s h a Pyetrinktov, 32, flown here last week after a Russian fishing vessel on which he was a crew member delivered him into the hands of the Coast Guard, died of toxic poisoning. He had been suffering from a perforated duodenal ulcer accopanied by internal bleeding. Burlington, Va. UPD Don't warry if your child isn't a chip off the old block. Dr. Dalton Vernon, human relations specialist, said "just remember that five genera tions back your child had 32 ancestors. Eight generations back he has 256 ancestors and in 10 generations, 2,046 an cestors. From all these he may, inherit something." Tensions in Middle East Partly Relaxed for Christmas Season Bethlehem,. Jordan - -rtJPD- O little town of Bethlehem! How still we see thee lie . . . Bethlehem today is a city of 10,000 persons, with another 15,000 refugees barely subsist ing in camps on its outskirts. Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by . . . Not Dreamless Bethlehem's sleep is not dreamless. It shares the night mare problems of the modern world. There are those .15,000 refugees; the tense border be tween Arabs and Jews 11 miles away; the religious schism which spreads the ob servance of Christmas here over three weeks. Yet in thy dark streets shineth The Everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight. This, at least, is still true. For here, at the spot where Christ was born, the Chris tians of the world celebrate the birth of the hopes of all the years. Here, because of the manger of Bethlehem, the explosive tensions of the Middle East are at least partly relaxed -for this one occasion. Here, Arab and Jew cooper ate to help Christians cele brate the greatest event of their religion. And Christmas in Bethle hem is a great event. It begins Dec. 24, ends Jan. 19, and in between sees the most bril liant ritual of all the Chris tian faiths of East and West. Each faith observes Christ mas on its own day-a division arising from the choice be tween the Gregorian and the Julian calendars. But all use the same church, the 'great Basilica of the Nativity, to celebrate the holiday. Christmas starts here at noon on Christmas Eve. Then the Roman Catholic Patriarch leaves Jerusalem for a police escorted drive to Bethlehem. The Patriarch is met in the square of the manger by a religious procession, which grows in size as it moves to ward the basilica. At midnight on Christmas Eve, the. Patriarch celebrates a high pontifical mass in the Catholic Church of St. Cath erine, within the Basilica of the Nativity. " This is the service attended by the consular corps in Jerusalem and by masses of pilgrims who are allowed to come to Bethlehem at Christmas-time only. ,They are some of the ap proximately 1,500 Christian Arabs living in Israel for whom the usual regulations are lifted so they can enter Jordan through the Mandel baum Gate for 48 hours and then return home. Meanwhile, on Christmas Eve, Protestants hold an eve ning carol service (with carols in English and Arabic) on the Field of the Shepherds, where "shepherds watched their flocks by night" when the Star of Bethlehem appeared in the east. The Roman Catholic mass is climaxed at 1:30 a.m. by a procession during which . an image of the infant Christ is carried out of St. Catherine's Church to the Grotto of the Nativity, also inside the ba silica, which supposedly marks the, precise spot where Christ was" born. The image is placed in the manger in the grotto, and the Star of the East placed overhead. Christmas has been cele brated in much the same way here since the reign of Byzan tine Emperor Constantine, who ruled from 323 to 336 A.D.' Constantine built the first basilica, a tiny part of which still stands. Greek Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas in the same basilica on Jan. 7, and Armenian Christians on Jan. 19. This year, about 10,000 pil grims will come to Jordan from all over the world - by Heavy Mail Rush Seen at Portland Portland (UPD Postal offi cials said today they expect a heavy last-minute rush of par cel post here. Although some 150,000 pieces of parcel post are mov ing through the post office every day twice the normal amount officials said this was a little below normal for this late in the Christmas sea son. Retail sales were reported good and Postmaster Albert Hodler said packages and let ters should be mailed as soon as possible. The post office has about 2,100 extra employees. 1 WET' TOOTHPASTE ! Providence, RJ. - (LTD If i you like your toothpaste flav ored with bourbon, scotch or rye you can look forward to a continuing supply - in Rhode Island, anyway. The novelty items - sold in tubes like ordinary toothpaste -were given official approval recently by the state's Liquor Control administration. MAIL TRIBUNE, MeJferJ, Or. -Tuesday, Dee. 15, 1959 ' The number of new biogra phies published in the United States in 1958 was 697. There were also 1,522 children's books, 2.235 works of fiction, 97 on music and 451 books on poetry and drama. The process by which a sun flower moves with the sun is called heliotropism. The ex planation is that the plant's cells grow faster on the shad ed side of the stem, causing curvature. plane by way of Cairo or Beirut, by road from Damas cus,, through the Mandelbaum gate from Israel. How to Get iiiomn from your Airline ticket to EUROPE For full details, call or visit George Lewis ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets PHONE SP 2-6779 111 E. 8th 1 ii'ii - - f : 1 1 if i Kvii iTiTi: 'I i' -J What will this year of the .IBBglflfflffm do to your new car investment? nnHE year of the BIG TURN has begun. -- Its significance should not be under estimated by any new car buyer. For the BIG TURN is more than the about-face the biggest car manufacturers were forced to make as a result of Ram bler's outstanding sales success. More than the end of the big car size and horsepower race. . . More than the introduction of imita tions of Rambler. More than the reduced number of big car makes and models. The BIG TURN not only marks the beginning of the decline of big cars, it also casts the shadow of early obsolescence over any 1960 automobile built with old fashioned, separate, bolted body and frame. Some two years ago, Rambler was the only American car wfth modern aircraft type Single Unit Construction. All welded, it is stronger, permanently rattleproof. Now, most cars have full or partial unit construction. Soon all cars will be built this better, modern way. What then will hap pen to the resale value of cars built the old way? As to Rambler, both nationwide Official Used Car Guides show it has top resale value of all low-priced cars. Trademark American Motors Since the introduction of the new U. S. small cars, Rambler popularity has soared. At two auto shows where people could compare all makes side by side, surveys showed Rambler led all cars, big and small, in buying preference. At a third, Rambler . was second only to the largest-selling car. Because people see in Rambler the New Standard of Basic Excellence ... the new yardstick by which car values are judged. What is this New Standard of Basic Excellence? How can you be sure to make the safest car investment? First, look for Single Unit Construction. Not old-fashioned bolted construction. Only thus can you be sure your 1960 car will not be obsolete in a year or two. Look for "Deep-Dip" Rustproofing. Most cars get only surface spraying. A few get "shallow dip." Only Rambler is sub merged to the roof in rustproofing primer. Look for true six-passenger room ease of entrance for 6-footers. See that only Rambler gives you the Best of Both: big car room with small car handling ease. Look for proved economy. Rambler's is certified by 25 billion owner-driven miles, as well as by official Mobilgas Economy Run and NASCAR records. Look for a full choice of models. Ram bler offers the widest choice of Compact cars, including 16 station wagon models. Look for quality of workmanship and materials. Compare Rambler careful craftsmanship with cars costing hundreds of dollars more. Look at prices. Rambler saves on every model. At least S238 on 6-cylinder econ omy wagons, for example. In this year of the BIG TURN, with so many imitators of Rambler on the market, . it is more important than ever to compare to be sure you are making the wisest, safest car investment. See your Rambler dealer today! AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION RAMBLER KELVIN ATOR METROPOLITAN RAMBLER AMERICAN 2-DOOR SEDAN Sua rttct dtlivtrtd prict tt Kt ttf. wncomm. for 2-door 0 luTistdtn SUIttm) tool Uict. My.optMui MHMirt.tlra. How Rambler 'i Basle Excellence Bflngi You Balanced Qualities of Usefulness Rambler is built to meet your spe cific needs to give the ideal bal ance of qualities most useful to you : Highest quality ideally balanced with lowest prices. Fine per formance ideally balanced with top economy. Big car comfort ideally balanced with small car handling ease. Greater strength ideally balanced with less bulk due to Single Unit Construction. Plus smart modem styling . . . "Deep-Dip" Rustproofing . . . wid est choice of compact models ... . smoother 'Deep-Coil" Ride . . . finest heating, ventilating . . . reclin ing seats . . . adjustable headrests. That is why the No. 1 success is RAMBLER world's largest builder of compact cars. IT'S RAMBLER FOR '60 The New Standard of Basic Excellence
