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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30. 0
and 50 years aoo.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec, 22, 1950 (Friday)
Medford police during the
past two days have shown
thnv are in the Christmas
spirit by giving season's greet
ings cards in place ol park
ing meter tickets.
A formal charge of stealing
U.S. mail was to be brought
today against a 45-year-old
employee o( the Medford post
office who has admitted steal
ing two Christmas packages
containing watches.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 22, 1S40 (Sunday)
Forty Mall Tribune carriers
attended the newspaper's an
nual dinner-party given In
their honor last night In the
Hotel Holland.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Yes
terday was the first day of
winter, and was Just line
Spring with cherry blossoms
near Ashland and the dog
wood blossoms barking at the
pussy-willows this side of
Prospect."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 22, 1930 (Monday) ,
The Jacksonville Chamber
of Commerce has denied
charges by the sheriff that
dances held in the city are
"shameful."
Henry Wahlers of Eagle
Point purchased the first 1031
dog license last week.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 22, 1S20 (Tuesday)
Illicit Mexican whiskey, sel
ling for $30 a case, has made
its appearance on the Med
ford scene.
An epidemic of colds has re
portedly struck the Trail dis
trict.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 22, 1910 (Thursday)
Eagle Point has recently
been having a building boom
of its town with a railroad
depot, a new bank and a $10,-
000 office building, being
built.
It has been reliably estimat
ed by local merchants thai
$500,000 worth of Christmas
gifts have been purchased In
Medford this season with only
two shopping days remaining.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ttn correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five el
lis is flood.
1. With what cause do you
associate the name Mrs. Em-
meline Pankhurst?
2. Bible: Matthew 1:18
treats with what event, impor
tant to Christmas?
3. Iceland is noted for its
hoi springs; true or false?
4. In which country is the
Leaning Tower of Pisa?
5. At tile close of which
war did the U.S. acquire tlic
island of Guam?
6. In which slate Is Mar
tha's Vineyard?
7. What is an abattoir?
8. How many yards are in
a mile?
9. What body of water bor
ders Honduras on the norlh?
10. In which season of the
year did the U.S. enter most
of the wars In which It has
engaged?
l"oul
Answers: 1. Woman suf.
frage. 2. The Nativity. 3. True.j
4. Italy. S. Spanish-American
War, 6, Massachusetts. 7,
Slaughterhouse. 8. 1,780. 9,
Caribbean Sea. 10. Spring.
DECEMBER 22, 1960
Don 't Shoot a Cop
About the stupidest thing anyone can do is
to take a shot at a police officer.
Offhand, we do not recall a single case where
a policeman was shot,
away with it. This is the
onicials really bear down.
And it's a good thing, too.
Not that police officers are any more ex
pendable than any other citizen far from it,
But they are the backbone of our entire system
of law and order, and
to be injured or killed,
to get away with it, threatens the entire system
THERE are several reasons why almost no one
1 can get away free
with a policeman.
For one thing, the officer in question, if he
survives, is in a position to make an immediate
and informed call for help a call which is an
swered rapidly and in force.
For another, all law enforcement men take
a dim view of anyone taking a shot at a brother
officer. "There," they think to themselves, "but
by the grace of God, go
all-out. It is the instinct
well as a natural fraternal affinity.
And for still another, anyone who will use
force and violence against a police officer is a
pretty dangerous guy to have around. If he does
not hesitate to tangle with a policeman, he d he
even less hesitant about taking a shot at some
helpless citizen. And officers of the law know
this.
CO, BOTH from the standpoint of the esprit
de corps of the agencies involved, and from
the standpoint of an orderly society, it is a good
thing that policemen will expend their best ef
forts to capture and bring to trial anyone who
violently challenges their
Without attempting to
who was so rapidly apprehended yesterday after
a shooting affray (and he will have his day in
court), it is a tribute to the skill and facilities
of the police these days that the job was done
so rapidly.
Only a fog which limited visibility to zero
allowed him to escape in the first place, despite
the swarm of officers who had him surroun ded.
After that it was only a matter of time. Ra
dios, teletypes, telephones, cars (and if necessary,
planes) , organization; cooperation and know
now, doom most hot suspects to almost immedi
ate capture.
And particularly if
Home Rule
In several Oregon counties, home rule study
committees are at work,
ernment with an eye to
charters, to give the counties a greater degree of
both responsibility and authority over their own
affairs. ;
Benton county is one
been at work along lines
done in Jackson county.
bob Ingalls of the
comments on their work
"The biggest unresolved problem to date is what
, to do about the basic county administration system.
Should the three county commissioner system be re
tained, or should it go to a county manager system?
"Many people who recognize the weakness of the
county commissioner system feci that it should be dis
carded, but they would like to see more voter control
over a county manager if this system were to be sub
stituted. They are perfectly willing to let an elected
county council hire the manager, but then they think he
should later stand for election on his record."
INGALLS goes on to discuss a proposal whereby
the manager would so before the people every
few years, not in contest
suiipiy mi- a vote oi approuauon or rejection Dy
the people a plan similar to the "Missouri
plan tor judges.
Such a proposal would have both good and
bad points, Ingalls believes, but he thinks the
bad outweighs the good.
And he adds:
"The alternative Is to let the counly council fire
the manager who doesn't do his o' well, and let the
people retain their control through their elected county
council representatives.
"This is the system we prefer and which we think
is the most efficient. After all, the council Is much more
aware of the manager's ability, his strengths and weak
nesses than would be the rest of us.
"But if following this system meant that the public
would not vole for the change In our county system
of government, then we would be glad to go along
and try out having the manager run on his record."
yUEN COMES Ingall's punch line:
"The most Important thing Is lo get rid of the
archaic system of county government under which
we are now laboring svlicre no one is the boss and
each department head runs things in his department
as he darn well pleases and no one can tell him any
thing and no one can fire him."
County government as now constituted may
have been fine 100 years ago, but it hag been
amply demonstrated, over and over, that it is
not responsive to today's needs and today's problems.
The city manager system has worked well
and grown in popularity in recent years, servintr
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no nil chicumh, nieuioil UI COntlUCting DUSIIICSS
under the city's home rule authority.
wny it, or a modification of it, would not be
just as effective at a county level is a question
still unanswered. E.A.
and the guilty party got
sort or case wnere ponce
for one of our protectors
and for the perpetrator
after tangling violently
I. As a result they go
of self-preservation, as
authority.
pre-judge the suspect
he s shot a cop.
-E.A.
Question
surveyintr county gov
nronosintr home rule
where a committee has
similar to the job being
Corvallis Gazette-Times
as follows:
with anyone else, but
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... Communications ...
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certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.
The Mail Tribune reiervei the liaht to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not
printed in this column do not
contrary is often the case.
Bethlehem Story
To the Editor: Would like to
share a few thoughts which a :
friend of ours forwarded to us
in a Christmas letter. The min
ister responsible for the re
search work is Pastor H. M. S.
Richards, the speaker of the
Voice of Prophecy" radio
program which is beard lo
cally over KBOY each Sunday
at 9 a.m. Will enclose a part
of Hazel Lo veil's letter, as I
believe your readers will ap
preciate all that you may
have space for.
Harold J. Reith,
113 Briggs Bldg.,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Editor's note: Portions of
the letter follow:
Perhaps a few thoughts
about the little town of Beth
lehem would be calming to
holiday-frayed nerves. Just to
forget our world of whirling
wheels and to think of the
mode of travel In the time of
Augustus Caesar is soothing.
Many Christmas cards picture
Mary riding on a donkey, or
the wise men rocking along on
camels, or shepherds making
their way on foot, all jour
neying, at different times, of
course, to Bethlehem.
Are you ever tempted to
think that nothing new can be
said about the Christmas
Story? Here are three facts all
connected with Bethlehem
that may be new to you, as
some of them were to me,
when I encountered them in
Christmas Catechism" by H.
M. S. Richards. One is about
the Inn of Chimham. One is
about Mlcah, and the third Is
about the Edict of Hadrian.
Chimham, a friend of Da
vid's, had once been enabled
by the gonorosity of David to
build an Inn at Bethlehem.
(II Sam, 19:37.) The people In
the time of Jeremiah once as
sembled at the Inn of Chim
ham near Bethlehem. (Jer.
41:17.) Perhaps this was the
inn where Jesus found ' no
shelter, though it had been
built through the kindness of
his ancestor, David.
The birth of Jesus in Beth
lehem was the fulfillment of
a 700-year-old prophecy by
Mlcah. a contemporary of
King Hezekiah. "But thou,
Bethlehem Ephratah, though
thou be little among tne
thousands of Judah yet out of
thee shall he come form unio
me that is to be ruler in Is
rael: whose goings forth have
been from old. from everlast
ing." (Mlcah 5:2.) Now the
Jews knew this ana Deiievea
It, but still the birth of Christ
caut'ht them unprepared ana
asleep. The wise men inquired
of Herod: "Where is he that
is born King of the Jews?"
Herod asked the Jewish lead
ers and they answered: ' In
Bethlehem of Judea; for thus
It Is written by the prophet,
. . ." and then they quoted
Micah. Thirty years later the
people applied the same proh
ecy to Christ. (John 7:41-42.)
In A. D. 133 the emperor
Hadrian compelled all Jews
to leave Jerusalem and its
vicinity, including Bethlehem.
They have not been in tins
strictly Christian city since.
For the last 19 centuries no
"son of David" could possibly
have come from Bethlehem.
Micah 5:2 was fulfilled once,
and the date of that fulfill
ment divides the centuries, all
time being counted backward
(B. C.) or forward (A. D.) from
the night of Christ's birth.
Foreign Policy
To the Editor: There is one
question, consistently clinging
to my mind, as to why we
should alienate our friends. I
refer to Mexico.
Our legislators are now en
gaged in the forbidding of
labor from Mexico in em
ployment in the United
MEDFOHD
Menace
S4NTA QMSIs'SVffiTO 66
HEART ATTACK
necessarily represent the views ot me paper; in ion "
I States. Do these individuals
have any conception of that
which this implies?
We fought many a war and
battle with Mexico. But,
eventually, these people be
came our friends.
Permit me to describe these
people. I was privileged to
spend several years as their
guest, and in various strata
of their social structure.
They are the most cour-
eous, kindly, and generous
people on this or any other
part of the globe. They are
also as determined in purpose
as that which we attribute to
this part of the globe.
Have you seen the art, the
colleges, the perfect -engineer
ing, the schools; . the police
force that holds down crime
to a minimum?
Why should there not be
Communistic infiltration in
our other nearest and closest
neighbors? We take the po
sition, on the one hand, that
"los Norte Americanos" are
almost perfect. And we, at
the one and same time take
the position that "Americanos
del Sud" are completely in
ferior. No wonder our foreign
policy has been so inept.
Kick your friends and help
your potential enemies" has
appeared to be the basic pre
mise of the past administra
tion. We had better change, and
quick, for if we don't it's
going to be too late.
Eugene T. Foster
135 North Ivy st.
Medford.
Qualifications of D.O.i
To the Editor: Recently
published news stories report
ing the possible merger of
California osteopathic physi
cians with the medical pro
fession have given the im
pression that standards for
D.O.s in other states are lower
than in the Golden State.
We have received numerous
inquiries about this matter
and wish to correct that er
roneous impression.
Oregon's standards for os
teopathic physicians and sur
geons are as high as in Cali
fornia, and are equal to those
enjoyed by the medical pro
fession. We have unlimited
practice rights. All Oregon
D.O.s are licensed by the Ore
gon State Board of Medical
Examiners, They must face
the same licensing board as
those of the medical profes
sion, and pass similar exami
nations. Upon licensing they
have full practice rights for
medicine, surgery, obstetrics,
physical therapy, rehabilita
tion and all other phases of
modern medicine.
Educational standards for
the osteopathic profession re
quire that D.O.s take their
training at one of six osteo
pathic colleges approved by
the American Osteopathic as
sociation. They must have at
least three years pre-medical
training, followed by four
years In one of the approved
colleges. This must be fol
lowed by a year's internship
in a hospital approved by the
American Osteopathic Hospi
tal association. Specialty
training requires an addition
al three to five years resi
dency. The specialties include
surgery, obstetrics, anesthe
siology, pathology, internal
medicine, orthopedics, pedi
atrics, radiology, psychiatry
and other fields. Each special
ty has a board of certification
supervised by the American
Osteopathic association.
Oregon recognized the os
teopathic profession over 50
years ago, by first licensing
D.O.s in 1907. The Oregon law
became a pattern for other
states. The Oregon Osteopath
ic association has steadily
strived to lift the profession's j
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
West Nominates List
Forgotten
By DICK WEST
. Washington-iUPll-This is the
season when a lot of us news.
papermen become engaged in
HTJi uTI i n e proauc-
,isMsiJ&l tion of retro
spective artic
les known in
C 11 JC.1 C11UC13.
j m xiicac pieces
!J(C?'jJ, J usually take
r.9 T U mi :
jit m tne iorm 01 re-
r g't m vicwa ui out..-
' El marics of the
ings of the year. One tradi
tional "year ender" is the
selection of "the 10 most im
portant news stories."
In most cases, the "year
enders" appear in print dur
ing the Interlude between
Christmas and New Year's
when the normal flow of news
dwindles somewhat. But for
me. the holiday doldrums ap
pear to be setting in early
this year.
. So, if you don't mind, I will
go ahead with my "year end
er" now. Herewith, then, is a
exceed 400 words. The letters
standards ever higher. We ex
ercise rigid control over our
members, and sponsored state
legislation to better the pro
fession's standards. There are
now approximately 140 D.O.s
actively practicing In Oregon.
They are represented on the
State Examining Board, the
State Board of Health, the Ad
visory Council on Hospital
Licensing, and the Advisory
Council on Hospital Planning
and Construction.
In recent years our profes
sion has seen notable expan
sion and growth. More new
doctors are steadily entering
the state. Two hospitals have
been built, in Portland and in
the Medford area, while plans
are in the making for other
new and remodeled facilities.
D.O.s serve as local health
officers and work with school
and civil defense programs.
We are also represented with
numerous local and national
public health agencies, serve
in Veterans Administration
hospitals and are eligible for
commission in the armed
forces.
Russell R. Sherwood, D.O.
President, Oregon
Osteopathic Association
J. C. Long,
Chairman of Directors,
Portland Osteopathic
Hospital
Portland, Ore.
Trouble for Kennedy?
To the Editor: As one of the
many political commentators
at White City, I wish to state
that I foresee trouble for our
new President over the ap
pointment of his brother Rob
ert to the office of attorney
general.
Short sighted, heavy seated,
narrow minded politicians
with axes to grind will make
much over this for the next
eight years.
It would not surprise me to
see impeachment proceedings
against President Kennedy,
started by disgruntled Repub
licans who tried to upset the
regular election.
Should a man, because his
brother has been elected to the
high office of President of the
United States, have his life
time career upset because of
that fact? Even Khrushchev
would say no to that. Right
Nikita?
It is time to rid our con
gress of those old 'Fogies.'
What we need and are getting
is young blood, new faces,
new ideas, courageous young
men with ambition as well as
ability.
Give those old sports a pen
sion of $66.15 and the priv
ilege of a V.A. Domiciliary,
provided they keep their
mouths shut.
I'd better shut mine,
Merry Christmas.
Malemute Slim,
White City, Ore.
too.
Medford and Ashland
To the Editor: I noted your
"Good Question'1 editorial in
last Thursday's Medford Mail
Tribune, and I think it very
appropriate.
Ninety-nine per cent of the
people in Ashland are proud
of Medford, as well as Ash
land, and have great interest
in the development of the
Rogue River Valley as a
whole. I think the people of
Ashland are appreciative of
the things Medford people
have done for Ashland, and
we know Medford folks recip
rocate that feling.
I do not approve of the
stirring up of antagonism be
tween cities. Instead, we
should have continued coop
eration between the two main
cities of this valley, such as
we have had for many years.
We can help Medford. Med
ford can help Ashland. What
benefits one, contributes to
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OREGON
Stones' During Year 1960
month-by-month chronicle of
"the most quickly forgotten
news stories of I960:"
JANUARY Rep. Charles
E. Chamberlain (R-Mich.) in
troduced a bill to create a
free capitol guide service. He
claimed there was a precedent
for this in the distribution of
free government booklets on
"the sex life of bullfrogs."
FEBRUARY Sen. Wayne
Morse, (D-Ore.), opened presi
dential campaign headquart
ers next door to a rubber
stamp store.
MARCH Teddy Nadler,
the biggest money winner in
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Modern fashion note:
An aerospace manufacturer
has gone into couturier field
with the fall showing of his
"moon suit." The model, con
ceived and tailored by com
pany space scientists, will pro
tect the astronaut on the
moon during his stay OUT
SIDE the motor vehicle -meaning
the space ship that
gets him there.
riiHE model suit consists of a
-- two-piece cylindrical alum
inum tunic and torso, with
sleeves and legs attached
Final materials will be chosen
for physical and chemical
characteristics which make
them resistant to repeated ex
posure to radio-activity, ultra
violet and Infra-red radiation,
extreme temperature varia
tions and meteoric impact.
The dome-shaped top sec
tion is circled by a 14-inch-
high window. Inside the suit
is the radio communication
unit, the air conditioning and
oxygen supply controls, food
storage bins, waste storage
bins, searchlight control and
electrical power supply. When
he gets tired walking around
with all that stuff hanging
from his shoulders, the astro
naut can push a button and a
seat will pop out so that he
can sit down and rest.
Incidental information:
The suit won't come equip
ped with two pairs of pants.
PREVIEW of the future for
air travelers:
Flight speeds in the next
ten years for aircraft operat
ing in the atmosphere are ex
pected to level off at about
2500 miles per hour - four
times the speed of sound.
They can make 'em faster
but the engineers explain that
speeds beyond Mach 4 friction
of the atmosphere would
make 'em so hot that the
weight of the cooling equip
ment necessary to keep the
temperature down would
make 'em too heavy to carry
passengers enough to make it
pay.
QPEAKING of speed -
A Navy fighter plane built
by a U.S. aerospace company
can fly more than TWICE as
fast as the muzzle velocity of
a .22 caliber bullet. Which is
to say that if the plane got
started at the exact instant
when the .22 rifle was fired
the plane would run away
from the bullet like the rab
bit ran away from the tor
toise in the fabled race.
In the case of a race with
a .30 caliber bullet fired from
a standard machine gun, the
situation would be slightly
different. In that event, the
plane would FALL BEHIND
the bullet for an infinitesi
mal fraction of a second after
the firing of the starting gun,
but in a quarter of a second
it would catch up and after
that there would be nothing
to it. The plane would soon
be so far ahead that the bul
let would give up in disgust.
IT sounds wonderful, but
when all that comes about
there will be drawbacks.
At speeds like that, the air
ports will have to be so far
from the cities that when you
include the time it will take
you to get from your home to
the airport where you start
and from the airport at the
other end of the journey to
your hotel, it would have
been faster to make the trip
by car in the first place.
If-
That Is -
There is any room left for
highways in that day. Los
Angeles is already finding
that it takes so much room
for freeways to get people
back and forth from where
they live to where they work
that the city fathers are be
ginning to wonder if. when
the freeways are provided,
there will be any room left
for the people to build houses
on.
the happiness and well-being
of the other.
We must not fail to remem
ber that when an editor
speaks through his publica
tion, it is one man speaking.
Let us not confuse disturbing
printed observations as being
representative of the com
munity. William M. Briggs,
Pioneer Bldg.,
Ashland, Ore.
of Most Easily
the history of television quiz
programs, applied for a job
as a censustaiter oui uuu
the test. This tended to quash
any rumors that the I960 cens
us had been rigged.
APRIL A former page girl
at the DAR convention filed
a slander suit against two
DAR officials for suggesting
that she had spent too much
time in the basement with a
policeman.
MAY Sen. Oren E. Long,
(D-Hawaii), complained that a
Hawaiian liqueur called "Pas
sion Fruit" had been banned
in Texas.
JUNE During a call on
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, Shirley Temple dis
closed that while attending a
Hollywood reception for Ni
kita Khrushchev she touched
the Soviet premier on the
tummy.
JULY The Library of Con
gress uncovered a letter re
vealing what Abraham Lin
coln did on the fourth day
Newsom Describes
Background of New
Berlin Dispute
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
On July 4, 1948, Indepen
dence Day in the United
States, U.S. and British planes
dibbk. iiuvicH
DiocKaae o i
West Berlin
1A ...u:u t 1 i:
M maxed a string
of broken
"IKS o m m u nisi.
xg promises.
During the
Newsum next ten
months, flying an almost end
less shuttle, Allied planes fed,
clothed and warmed the 2.5
million citizens of West Berlin
with more than 1.5 million
tons of supplies brought in en
tirely by air.
The mammoth airlift as
sured the freedom of West
Berlin and scuttled Soviet
Russia's bid eventually to take
over the whole of Western
Europe. ,
Special Past Rule
At the core of the present
controversy Is an attempt by
the East German Communists
to enforce their rule that West
Germans seeking to enter East
Berlin must have special pass
es. In retaliation for the Com
munist move, West Germany
on last Sept. 30 canceled a
MS
Quotes From the News
BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
New York The traffic control operator at LaGuardia
Aimnrt whnn h roalinH that a TWA nlan. Iminn in l.nd
was on a possible collision course:
"There's something wrong . . . who is that jet ... he may
have hit one of our planes."
Santa Monica, Calif Actress Marilyn Maxwell, who
testified at her divorce hearing that she first laughed when
her husband Jerry Davis told her after their wedding day
she could help support him:
"I found out he wasn't kidding."
Washington Sen. Frank Church, (D-Idaho), one of the
Senate's experts on Africa, warning that the U.S. stand on
Algerian independence would be a key to America's future
on the Dark Continent:
"If we fail them, I'm afraid all Africa will slip away."
Madrid Valentin Medina Poves, 61-year-old peasant who
claims he lives without sleeping because of chronic total
insomnia:
"I will sleep the day I die."
SOVIET DESIGNER DIES
Moscow (UPD Boris Chera
novski, 64, an aircraft design
er, died Dec. 17, the govern
ment newspaper Izvestia re
ported Wednesday.
Try and Stop
By BENNETT CERF
TRREPRESSIBLE JOKER Charles Lederer, top Hollywood
J- writer, once lost a $1,000 to a bitter rival at a Palm
Springs tennis court. Just to hand over such a small check
was much too simple for
a man like Lederer. So
he wangled a letterhead
from one of the ritziest
doctors in Beverly Hills
and forged this note
thereon to his creditor:
"I deeply xesent your
implication that I would
even consider perform
ing an operation on you
transforming you to a
woman. This is Beverly
Hills, not Scandinavia.
Your advance of one
thousand dollars, there
fore, Is indignantly returned herewith."
A student at U.C.L.A. has solved the parking problem. Ha
parka his car a good three mllos from the campus, emerges, opens
the trunk, hauls out a bicycle, and then pedals off happily in
the direction of his next class.
There's a disconsolate masseur who lost a fine job at a
women's athletic club the other day. He rubbed a customer the
wrong way.
O UGO, by BeaatU Cerf, Ouuisuud by Hist Ittturu lyadictta
after he was nominated for
president. He stayed home and
caught up on his correspond
ence. AUGUST The American
Bar Association met here for
Its national convention. One
of the speakers was Raymond
Burr, television's Perry Ma
son. SEPTEMBER Mrs. John
F. Kennedy began writing a
weekly column called "cam
paign wife."
OCTOBER The Smithson
ian Institution concluded, af
ter an agonizing reappraisal,
that counting the number of
rings is not always a reliable
method of determlng the age
of a tree.
NOVEMBER The White
House was repainted and Mrs.
Kennedy ceased writing her
column.
DECEMBER Sir Edmund
P. Hillary decided that the
"abominable snowman" was
only a myth.
trade agreement with East
Germany, effective Jan. 1.
The agreement provided an
annual exchange of goods
worth $130 million, and for
began a gigan-i East Germany meant an es
tic airlift losential suodIv of hard ma!
sieel ana machinery.
Now the East Germans
threaten a new Berlin block
ade unless the cancellation is
lifted.
Potsdam Agreement
The Communist East Ger
mans and the Soviet Union
base their demand for East
German recognition on the
charge that the Allies violated
the Potsdam agreement pro
viding for Germany's future
after the defeat of World War
II, and on the further claim
that the Potsdam agreement
ceased to exist after the rival
East and West German gov
ernments came into being.
The Potsdam agreement did
not include Berlin. The status
of Berlin, including Allied
right of free entry, was estab
lished by Big Four agreement
in London on Sept. 12, 1944,
and in subsequent agreements
in 1945 and 1949,
Russia began violating her
Potsdam and other pledges al
most immediately, and the Al
lies decided to set up a po
litically autonomous West
Germany.
PHILANTHROPIST DIES
Palm Beach, Fla.-flJPD-Frank
J. Lewis, 93, millionaire phi
lanthropist honored by the
late Pope Pius IX, died here
Wednesday.
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