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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1960)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1888 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORE. In the Day's News By FRANK Thin In w rl 1 1 o n on the Fourth of July which prninpli II ( ii'Ml Ion : Whiit In tho 4th of July? ONE fenrs nl Hums Hint too miiny people think of It in JUST ANOTHER HOLI DAY. Tliut Isn't morally true On tho fourth (In y of July In 1770 tho 13 colonic! of Grout Brltuln In AmitrlcH do- clurod their Independence of tho mothor country mid aot themselves up na nn Indopond ent nutlnn - thu United Slntca of America. In ninny wuyi, Hint li tho most Important dnte In mod- em history. IIOW did they come to do It? The iinswcr In slinplo: The people of the 13 col onlei came to Amcrlcn to find liberty. Their neiirrh for III)' crty win hiimpcred by u lies potlc uoverniiienl In the ninth' er country. Their resentment drew until In 177S u conven tion was en 1 1 i'l In (he colony of Viritlnln to discuss their Krleviuuea. At this conven tion, I'utriek Henry proponed Unit the Vlrillnln Mllllln be AHMED for ilefeinie of the colony uitulnat KnKliind. In aupport of hla proponnl, lie uttered these pnsslnnnte words: "CilVK MK I.lltKHTY OR GIVE ME HEATH." Short ly afterward, the first ahota of the Itevolutlonnry Wur were fired at Lexington and Concord. riMIE buttle of Lexlimton and Concord occurred on April 10, 1773. More Hum a year Inter, on June 7, 1770. Rich ard Henry Lee of VlrKlnlii moved In the Contlnentiil (-'undress that "these united col onies aro and nuiiht to he FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES." Hla words spnrked AC TION. The Contlnentiil Con gress appointed a committee to draft a declnrntlon of Inde pendence. Thomna Jefferson devoted 18 duya to wrltlnic and pollahlnx tho declnrntlon. llenjnmln Frnnklln and John Adorns, added their sukkcs tlona. The Continental Con gress aa a whole went over It, cutting out sonic lines, changing others and adding a few. IillE final draft of tho Dec laration of Independence wna formally adopted on July 4, but It waa not until three Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF COMIC JOE E. LEWIS confided to Scribe Herb Stein thnt he's writing a book tentatively called Horscj to Lose flu. "Rnco horses," point out Professor Lewis, "are more than 2000 years old -especial ly the ones I bet on. Do you know thnt Noah's Ark contained two race horses and 300 jackasses to bet on Uicm? Tho first famous homo player In history was King Richard of Britain, who called in his court handlcupperand begged, 'A horscl a horse! My kingdom for a horse.' So the handicappcr hand ed him n plug that enmc In ninth." Vcnlria Colwoll saw a row of kids sitting in front of her neigh bor's garage one afternoon, a look of happy expectancy on ail their fncea. "How come nil you kids are sitting thoro ao qulot ly?" Inquired Mrs. Colwclt. "Wo'ro waiting to listen to my father," explained ono child, "when ho comes homo and sees what Mom did to the right front fendor." 0 1MO, ty Bennett Crf, Distribute by Kins' Itotane SyadieaAa r MakeYourYani less Work- More Fun WITH A Trimmer, Cdgor Does a clean, fast job , profes sional edging along walks and flower beds. A well groomed yard puts the fun In outdoor living . and It's easy with SIIEXI SOQ95 CHARGE ITI LI Your BEST Buy in Tilmnw - PLENTY OF FREE PARKINS OKU JENKINS or four dnya Inter that It wna first rend In public. Copies oi It were printed mid hrond cunt all over the i;i colonies 1)ERHAPS It should be point- cd out hero thill tho word "broadens!" la a little decep live In these, dnya of almost 1 n a t a n tanooua communion llona. Hack In 1770, It look wecka for these coplea to be distributed. But the dnte of July 4, 1770 the day on which tho finnl draft wna adopted by tho Con tlncntal Congrcsa, la the for mal and accepted duto of tho Declaration of Independence and It la July 4 that we cole bratens Independence Day. fJMIE essence of the Dccla ration of Independence la contained In this concluding pnriigruph: "We, therefore, the Repre sentatives of the United States of America, In genernl con grcsa assembled, nppciillng to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our Intentions, do, In the name and by tho authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies, are, and of, right ought to be, free and Independent states, that they aro absolved from all al legiance to the British crown. ". . . And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protec tion of Divine Providence, WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES. OUR FORTUNES AND OUR SACRED HONOR." IT WAS In that spirit that the United Stiitiw of Amer ica waa founded. If wo MAIN TAIN that spirit, there la nothing wo can't accomplish. GROWTH POTENTIAL New York - (IIPD - Prcgnnl ed plastics Is one of the new est Industrlca In tho country lentlal. Sales of SI million In 1034 climbed to $20 million last yenr.Pre-prcgnatcd means' reinforcing p'asllc materials In advance instead of by hand Inyup In final production of end products. Thla Insures greater uniformity and strength. SPIRIT OF '76 Chicago -flJPt- Music tcuch er Leo Llghlncr said his Aua trallan parrot, which flew away Independence Day, wniauce "Yankee Doodle.' Edgsrl QUALITY AT LOWEST PRICESI Hotels at Airports Become Big and Different Business New York - IIII'll - Running hotels nl airports not only Is big business, It's a new and different business, says hotel man William B. Rnsor. Hasor Is vlco president of Knott Hotels, the nation's old est chain which runs the big International Hotel at New York's Idlcwild nlrport. It is one of seven new nlrport ho tels Hint serve tho IB million passengers who use Idlcwild and LaGuardla airports year ly. "At Idlcwild, we also aro mi i v ; r -yj 1 I rr-?l I I It. X M IL l 1 neiir two huge racetracks, Itanor snld, "which compli cates the operation. As a re sult, tho International Hotel la the strangest phenomenon in our company's 71 years of ex istence. Anything can happen at the International and does. Soon after we opened, for ex ample, 123 honeymooning couples descended on ua in one night. Then we discovered we only had 00 double beds." Rusor said tho activity at the International - whicn has only 320 rooms with another ill J M 1 7 V Jill I 1 A V I II I.' 1 200 to be added as soon .is possible - Is fully equal to thut of a downtown hotel of 1,000 rooms. Rusor soon dlacovercd after tho International opened that 100 per cent occuponcy didn't mean a thing. In the course of any 24 hours, the hotel was liable to be 110 or 120 per cent occupied. 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