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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1960)
W WO t.JUi..Ji.-;;!;s;. o o u ' o o o o O O OOO O0C3OC MAIL TRIBUNI, Medford, Or. Mieeav, Mir 1. 1US Morman Church Not Planning To Liquidate it's 'Em pi re Salt Lakt City, Utah -flJPD-IO. McKay disclosed In an in-.rumora that havt elreuliteri The Mormon Church ha no terview. inc tht church announced intention of liquidating the The snowy-haired, 86 year- on April 22 that it wa with vast business empire it has! old President McKay made ! drawing Irom tht commercial built up in the course of the i the statement with the ap-1 banking business, past century, President David I parent desire of squelching: It sold to private interests. inr rrjii iru iu million, UK controlling stork in Zion's First National Bank, founded under Brigham Young'i aua picej in 1873. Tiiere was immediate spec ulation that the church would divest itself of other com mercial properties which it owns wholly or in part. These include the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co.; The Deseret News Pub lishing Co.; broadcasting sta tion KSL; an insurance com pany; a big department store, two hotels, a motel, an office building and other real estate In Salt Lake City; a 2B0.000 acre rattle ranch in Florida; a coal mine; a clothing fac tory; and scores of farms. Welfare Program President McKay pointed out that the church operates many of its enterprises - for example, the farms, clothing factory and coal mine - pri marily lo produce goods for the far-flung Morman welfare program. Nearly 90,000 unem ployed, aged or otherwise in digni't persons received food, fuel and clothing last year under this program. lie said other business en terprises, which operate com petitively and at a profit, are a byproduct of Mormon his tory. When the Mormon pio neers trekked west after 1847 to found their "New Zion" in a desolate wilderness that no one else wanted, the church was the only agency which had the capital and the leader ship to provide necessary serv ices such as banking and in surance. It built hotels "because we needed places for visitors lo stay," President McKay ex plained. It started a depart ment store because no one else had done so - and Mor mon families needed a place to shop. It pioneered the sugar beet industry in the West be cause a new. exnortahle crop was needed to stabilize the agricultural economy. now much the church earns annually from its highly-diversified business holdines has never been disclosed. But its expenditures for religious nnd welfare purposes are re ported. They total about $35 minion a year. Income Source Officials say that most of this money comes, not from business profits, but from the tithes of church members. Lach of the church's 1,700,000 members is expected to give one-tenth of his income to the church. President McKay said there has been "some sentiment" among Mormons in favor of the church's divesting itself of all business properties. "There are people who say It is 'unfair' for the church, supported as it is by tithes, to compete with its own mem bers and others in private business," he said. He indicated that he per sonally has distaste for church Involvement in any highly commercial activity, and that this was a major factor in the decision to get out of commercial banking. "But I see no reason why we should pull out of the su gar business which, after all, the church started," he said. "Nor do I see any likelihood of our withdrawing from busi ness which the church started to provide necessary public services, and which are still providing those services." He indicated that the news paper and broadcasting sta tion, the insurance company, the hotels and department store fell into this category. : : ; 1 x ' - ' " r . x - ' v ' . ' 4 u . . i I 1 -Ml ' ',- t WW I " j f " 1 i s r ' 4 . -.J ';), rv - - i t"" . A f, 1 ft i ; 1 1 ?I ' . Ih'A i a ' Ml Medford's Finest Meat TO SERVE YOU DAVID O. McKAY PrMidvnt, Mormon Church Morse, Lusk Vision Good Coming From Plane Incident Spy By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - Unfortunate and regrettable as the spy plane incident was for the United States, both Oregon S e ns. Wayne Morse and U-tl O T I. IVV : Ti IVJ J I j saw the possi- ' A .. f bility of some good coming of it. Morse said he t h o light a. Kubi. siuih secretary o I State Christian Herter was right in telling the truth about American espionage efforts to penetrate Soviet secrecy. "It is about time for the nations of the world to try truth for a change," said Morse. "Secretary Herter has done that, and I think he was right. At the same time, he has challenged the Soviet Un Ion to Join us in opening her territory to the full inspection of armaments. We have been seeking for some time to con trol nuclear weapons through international inspection o f missile and air bases." "Perhaps now we will be able to make some progress in that direction. This spy in cident may help to arouse the American people, and the rest of the world, to the fact that we live in a tinderbox. Unless we change that condition, the tinderbox can explode at any moment." Real Cold War Meaning Sen. Lusk said the incident "has brought home vividly once again to the people of America the real meaning of the cold war. It has demon strated that in the cold war there are no Republicans and no Democrats, but that we art all Americans." "Mr. Khrushchev may blow up the incident for all the propaganda value that he thinks it has for him," observ ed Lusk. 'But for us, as Is evidenc ed by the statement of the leaders in Congress of both parties and in both houses, it has served to emphasize the unity of our people in the face of the Communist threat to the free world," said Lusk. Diplomatic Setback Aside from his hopes that something good can come from it, Morse viewed the in cident as "one of our worst diplomatic setbacks in years." He said the Russians were trigger happy in shooting it down and Khrushchev's brag ging that he gave the order lo shoot "inspires no confi dence." He said getting caught at obvious spy work "has given the Russians a magnificent op portunity to accuse the Unit ed Slates of bad faith, and to blame us for any failure to reacn agreement at the sum mit." A member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Morse added: "I think it is important for us to remember that this in cident is just what we must expect in a world of armed hostility. If this situation con tinues, one of these incidents will sooner or later touch off a general war." Roseburg Census Reveals 10,656 Eugene - iITT - Census fig ures released here Fridav hv the office of T. A. Iledllng shafer, acting superintendent of the census for the fourth congressional riisinet. reveal that Roseburg has a popula tion of in Kjfi. DourIhs enunty currently has a population of fi7.7IH, Linn county is 58.477 and Empire has a population of .1.720, figures show. Th People's Candidate a i. h. "ID" i M ; ' MANN (Vlt For Stat Representative , W HONEST EFFICIENT CAPAMJ 'f:-'' An Experienced legi!oer , 7 ... ... . Pj"t po'- Adv. with Sound Judgment! I H mj TO. Bn, I Mads to pamper your cat ...they're not just flavor they're the red thing. LIVER'. MEAT KIPNEY 'a MEAT 'CHICKEN MEATY MIX CHOPPED FISH NEWTOWN APPLES lbs. WHITE ONIONS lb. U MILD SWEET II IE! R NEBERGALL'S CHUCK WAGON SAUSAGE 50' BEEF 50 HAM lb. COOKED SALAMI BY THE PIECE b. SLICED lb. 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