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III Y 10 A IIS AGO
Dec. U. 195.1 (Thursday)
New transmitting antenna for
KBES-TV is expected to be
raised by sections this week
end and should go into service
to broadcast New Year's Day
bowl games.
Donald T. Wilkinson, an air
man, arrived Saturday to visit
for two weeks with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wilkin
son, 726 S. Kcenewiiy Drive.
20 YKAHS A;0
Dee. 21, l!li:i (Friday)
Mrs. Edward C. Kelly leaves
for Detroit, Mich., to spend hol
idays with her husband who is
an Army captain.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Kmnnno Pnt" column: "It is
now loo Into to do your Christ
mas shopping early.
.10 YKAHS A(i()
Dec. 21, IM (Sunday)
Ed G. Brown, Mcdford, in
jured in automobile accident on
Ross Lane.
lilack Channel mine, sold at
Sheriff's auction on the court
house steps for $1.5-111. 115.
II) YKAHS AGO
Dec. 21, ira (Monday I
Modfuiil Mayor E. C. Gaddis
nppolnts himself as temporary
city judge.
Former Mayor C. E. Gates
talks to children attending com
munity Christmas party in city
park.
5(1 YKAHS AGO
Drr. 21, l'.n:i (Wednesday)
J. Percy Wells. Jackson Conn-,
tv school superintendent, elect-!
cd president of western division
of Oregon Stale Teachers Asso
ciation, i
Portland Attorney B. H. Bock-,
man in Mcdford to spend holi
days with his parents. Mr and i
Mrs. C. C. Bcekman.
What's Your I.Q.? j
Nina or ten correct it lupcriot;
leven or eight it excellent; five or
til it good. I
1. Mozart had what given
name?
2. Over what ancient country ,
did the dynasty of the l'liaroiihs
rule?
3. The title Dalai l.nma sug
gests what central Asian cotiu-!
try?
4. A "lift" is ordinarily lound
where in a shoe?
5. Name the longest river i
system in Ihe United Slates I
6. Kor how many veors did j
Jack Dempsey hold the heavy-!
weight boxing championship ti
tle? 7. Are there approsimaloly
2.0O0, 4,000, or fi.Ootl coltco beans
in a pound?
8. Who was the male star nl
the motion picture "Ben lltn '"'
9. Does a cal use a front paw.
or a rear paw to sci -alt h its
head?
10. Is brandy made from veg
etables, grain or fruit''
Answers: t. Wnllgang. 2.
Egypt. 3. Tibet. I. Heel. 5. Mis
sissippi Missouri, li. Seven
years. 7. 4.IHKI. 8. Cliaillnn lies
ton. 9. A renr paw. 10. lrtiil.
FltlMl.ll l I lt I It 1-: I I
POINT AHGIKI.I.O. Calif
(UPl) The Greek (leigliter S S.
Ellin, struck on a sandbar near
here for six days, was finally
pulled free Sunday and went on
to Los Angeles today under lis
own power for inspection
4
L VSj Ai S O C I A 1 1 0 N
DIX'EMIIEI'. 21, l!H
Would We Crucify Him?
To the Editor: Some of us here at the Manor were very
deeply impressed by Sydney J. Harris's column, "Would We
Crucify Him?" which appeared in your paper on Dec. 25, 1962.
Could it re-appear Christmas week, cither as an editorial
or as a special article? We believe it would be very worth
while.
Ijiretla Smith
Itogue Valley Manor
Mcdford.
By SIDNEY
If there should be, on Christmas night, a,
second coming would there not be soon a
second crucifixion? And this time, not by the
Romans or the Jews, but by those who proudly1
call themselves Christians? I wonder.
I wonder how we today would regard this!
man with his strange and frightening and "im-j
practical doctrines 01 numan nenavior and re
lationships. Would we believe and follow, any more than
the masses of people in his day believed and
followed?
WOULD NOT the militarists among us assail
him as a cowardly pacifist because he
urges us not to resist evil?
Would not the nationalists among us assail
him as a dangerous internationalist because he
tells us we are all of one flesh?
Would not the wealthy among us castigate
him as" a troublemaking radical because he bars
the rich from entering the kingdom of heaven?
Would not the liberals among us dismiss him
as a dreamy vagabond because he advises us
to take no thought for the morrow, to lay up no
treasures upon earth?
TlfOULD NOT the ecclesiastics among us de-
nounce him as a ranting heretic because
he cuts through the cords of ritual and com
mands us only to love God and our neighbors?
Would not the sentimentalists among us de
ride him as a cynic because he warns us that
the way to salvation is narrow and difficult?
Would not the Puritans among us despise
and reject him because he eats and drinks with
publicans and sinners, preferring the company
of winebibbers and harlots to that of "respect
able" church' members?
Would not the sensual among us scorn him
because he fasts for '10 days in the desert, neg
lecting the needs of the body?
4 w v
WOULD NOT the proud and important among
us laugh at him when he instructs the
twelve disciples that he who would be "first"
should be the one to take the role of the least
and serve all?
Would not the worldly-wise and educated
among us be aghast to hear that we cannot be
saved except we become as children, and that
a little child shall lead us?
Would not each of us in his own way find
some part of this man's saying and doing to be
so threatening to our ways of life, so much at
odds with our rooted beliefs, that we could not
tolerate him for long?
I wonder.
Christmas
We share a fairly widespread prejudice
against the use of the word Xmas in place of
Christmas. !
But it is, simply, a prejudice. For the use of!
Xmas as a shorthand w rcl for the day is hal
lowed by long and reverent usage, dating well'
back into the middle ac.es. i
The use of the capital letter X was consid-
ered a si.mi of reverent reference to the Son of
(!od by early Christians, in Creek, X is the let
ter "c'hi" which is the first letter in the word
"chrislos," which is the origin of the lMiglsh
word "Christ."
WAKIOL'S modifications of the X symbol have
been used over the years, with all rev
erence. Some of them were quasi-secret in na
ture, duriiii; the period that the early Christians
were beine. persecuted.
One of the symbols was that of a fish (which
ilsell was one ol the early lorms ot the X, used
lone; before Christ). This symbol had special
mettninu', for the Creek word for fish was iehthys,
and this in turn contains the letters of the name
and title of Christ: lesous Cllristos, Theou 11Y
ios, Soter Jesus Christ, Son of Cod, Savior.
Thus the symbolism of Christianity has lone;
been with us, and remains so in many churches.
Still we prefer Christmas to Xmas. 1'). A.
Full
Each person, probably, has his own way of
visnalixini: a year. Our personal version is a
circle, with Christmas ami the winter solstice
at the top.
Now, as the days uiatlnally begin to net
lotiuer, ue descend through winter and spring,
with the long, hot days of late July ami early
August tit the bottom.
The long pull from Labor l)ay to Christinas
is all up. We're glad we've arrived at the top.
Christinas is, to most of us, the most beloved
and most joyous holiday of the year. To Chris
tians it has special meaning-. Hut even non-Christians
can and do take comfort in its message.
Too. al! the "hi legends the Yule log, mis
tletoe, holly, the tree, the spirit nf giving, the
tinse! and glitter and subdued excitement all
the non-Christian aspects of the day, can be en
joyed by everyone. Anyone who doesn't must hej
an impervious old Scrooge. K.A.
J. HARRIS
vs. Xmas
Circle
MEUFOIID
"You Don't Think He
"'fpp
A l)l-'.IIT IS OWED i the second chapter of the story
WASHINGTON In the last; that opened with the U-2.
three years, the true shape of j Because the intervals be
thc world we live in has been ! tween U-2 flights were unavoid
radicallv chanced bv a new i ably long, and (or other tcchni-
fact, which very few people
know about even today.
The fact is that we now
KNOW the true nature of the
power balance between this
country and the Soviet Union.
Despite its closed society, the
Soviet Union is now open to in
spection in the most literal
sense. We could only guess be
fore; but since August, l'JiiO, we
have KNOWN.
This is a change incalculably
profound and far-reaching. It
is also an incalculable gain for
the United States. And this
needs to be pointed out now be
cause the man to whom this
change and gain arc largely
owed is now leaving the public
service, uncelebrated, unre
warded, almost unlhankcd.
I
F ANY member of the gen- i
1 era! public recalls the name
of Richard M. Bisscll, it will
probably be because of Ihe Ray
ot Pigs. Before that fiasco, Bis
scll was due lo succeed Allen
Dulles as Director of Ihe Cen
tral Intelligence Agency. But
someone had to lake tile rap
(or this sorry failure, for which
everybody from President Ken
nedy on down had a share of
blame; and Bisscll was chief
among those who took the rap.
Another job followed n fair
ly big job, but one which is now
ending for reasons which arc
not especially relevant. All that
is relevant, at the moment, is
lo record just how the closed
Soviet society ceased to be
closed for all practical pur
poses. This remarkable story began
in Ihe summer of lifil when one
ol President Eisenhower's num
erous special advisory commit-!s"e
tees, the Killian Committee on
Surprise Attack suggested
hiiildine a in'mmaiiii, ,,i,,,n
of the tvpe of the U-2. Such -t
plane had already been pro- s,lte coulsc was 10
posed to Ihe Air Force hv the 11,0 Soviets were indeed produc
brilliant Kellv Johnson of Lock- i ,nS "' deploying these ulli
heed Aviation, but ihe idea had matc 'Pons. Their failure to
been turned down flat. I 00 s0 was facl a ggat
By Ihe intricate, half-acciden-!01"""'- . '11AT did the convicts do?
Inl processes familiar in gov- ' But after August. I'.niO. we II T,roc f them ran to the
eminent, Ihe Killian Committee began ' KNOW that Ihe j (.amp raij0 t0 loi) (1e sheriff's
recommendation brought io- ICBMs were not there; aiul this i office of the deputy's accident,
gether a three-star team, com- in turn changed the entire stra-!Somp f tlc rCsl'gavc emer
posed of Kelly Johnson, the fa- 'egic aspect of the world by the , B(,nt.v fjrst aj(i t0 c deputy
mnus E. 11. Land of Ihe Polar- lime President Kennedy took of-; , u:jn(, hjm batk ,0 conscious
oid Co . and Bissell from Ihe ticc. No historian oi analyst , ncss
1 1 A. who was the friend of
both the others ;
' '
I : IU-A tutu lllle. Iliese Iliree
1 bulled the U-2 through from
concent to reality. The stranee
new aircraft was thereupon as-
(signed to the CIA. Bissell thus
became commander ot an Hide-
pendent U-2 air force, in addi-
lion lo his other duties.
So much is fairly well-known
to informed persons. What is
not weu-Kiu wn and wotuu not
lie discussed in this space il the
main fads had not already
been published elsewhere) is
"l or Mime reason il doesn't
It should be!"
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MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOItU,
Mean Us, Do You?"
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
TO New York Herald Tribune Syndkate
cal reasons as well, the U-2 did
more than open a small
chink in the Iron Curtain. Con
trary to what many imagine
the U-2 did not really replace
guesses about the Soviet Union
with true knowledge.
Yet the new plane's success
was very great, all the same.
And this success in turn direct
ed attention to the reconnais
sance satellite project previ
ously initiated by the Air Force
Research and Development
Command.
IjMlOM this public project, un
til then rather languidly
prosecuted, a chunk was quick
ly cut off, as it were. The chunk
was strictly classified, but
amply financed. And an all-out
secret effort to build a work-
able reconnaissance satellite
began.
This lime I,t. Gen. Bernard
Schricver of Ihe Research and
Development Command worked
with Bissell. Brig. Gen. Oswald
Ritland was Bissell's day-to-day
partner. "Din" Land again lent
a hand. And others might be
mentioned.
Yet in the official Air Force
account of this matter, the main
credit for the success of the re
connaissance satellite is none
theless given to Bisscll. Au
gust, IDliO, when the first of the
new "birls" with seeing, re
membering eyes made its suc
cessful flight, is a date that will
be remembered in history
books.
1 1 IS A date with much bear-1
uig. to begin willt. on Ihe
silly controversy about the mis-
S'1!'- Lm" Wl' mcjun meir way io me jou. uiey
I ov'ots ',a(' not deployed the I were led by a deputy sheriff.
intercontinental ballistic mis- j whose job was to show them
siles which Ihev were entirely where lo work and what to do.
cl,Pa0'c ' producing, Ihe only
can compute wnai uus irue
knowledge has since been
"'" I"- i" 'hi: desperate days of
l"C swomi v noan vusis, mi in-
stance, or much earlier, when
Khrushchev at Vienna threat-
ened a big war over Berlin. i
Such. then, is Ihe debt owed
to Dick Bissell. As he happens !
lo be this reporter's oldest:
friend, the debt is here asknowl-:
edged with pride. But every i
thinking American will surely
: wisi o say. " I naiiK you am
good luck, to thus exceptional
public servant who is now re-
turning lo private life
. I -TW
srrtti as bright and merry
AM -
feff
OREGON
Pakistan Remains Unconvinced
Would Not Side With India in Dispute
By
PHIL NEWSOM
UPl Foreign Sews
Analyst
If surface indications may be
believed, then Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor in his visit to Karachi
little more success than j
other distinguished Americans
in reassuring Pakistan on the
question of U.S. military aid to
India.
Nor is it likely that he was
any more successful in at
tempts to dissuade Pakistan
from its increasingly close re
lations with Red China and
other members of the Commu
nist bloc.
Pakistan mistrust of India
reaches emotional peaks
scarcely even equalled by the
people of divided Berlin and
springs from similar sources.
India splits Pakistan into east
and west in an arrangement
based upon religious groupings
rather than geographic practi
calities. Pakistan is convinced that In
dia intends eventually to re
absorb Pakistan and that Amer
ican arms flowing into India
will help her to do it.
Reassurances to the contrary
by the late President Kennedy
and a personal visit to Pakis
tan by Undersecretary of State
George W. Ball, all within the
last few months, failed to con
vince Pakistan otherwise.
Typical of the Pakistani atti-
In Ihe Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington, Secretary of
State Rusk urges the Western
Allies to help Russia win its
power struggle with the Chinese
communists.
Question :
Is he right?
Or is he wrong?
SEEKING an answer, let's try
another question:
Did you ever butt into a fam
ily quarrel in an effort to bring
peace and tolerance?
If so. you will be prepared
to say lo Secretary Husk: "You
are wrong, sir. NEVER inter
fere in family quarrels. Both
sides will gang up on you, and
you'll come out of it beaten to
a pulp."
Let's STAY OUT OF IT!
I-JOWN in San Mateo County,
1' in the Bay Area, they have
what is known as the honor
camp system. Under the honor
camp system, prisoners in the
county jail go out each morning
to work on various public proj
ects. They give their word of
honor that they won't try lo
escape. So Ihcy are not guarded
while thev work. In the evening.
when their shift is finished, they
come back to the jail house
The other morning a crew of
0 was starting out to work.
He had the keys in his pocket
Suddenly, he fainted and
fell and hit his head on the con-
crete floor, knocking him out i
completely.
i 'h0 ,.fst wcnt about
wolk assignments
No, one (lcw ,hc coop
heir:
You never can tell about peo-
i pie
. x .NC1ENT question
i )no ()a( iias puzzled us all
a( nno t imo or another
j(m, (ops sim(a claus. who
1-Cj,lltetllv roiind and rolv-
!, i,u .,' ..,ii m,,ln ihai
would shock the average tailor
, lkm. K, avel.aRC mixk,,.
iinlnt,v-
i ' '
IT PUZZLED
aged :i. who
John Deodluc,
lives down in
Santa Clara.
So
He decided the other day to
find out.
LEFT his home in the
late afternoon, climbed a
six-fool fence and walked up the
sloping roof ot Ihe empty house ;
next door, climbed into the fire-;
place chimney and with no Irou- j
bit- at all he cot halfwav down.
Then-
Disasler struck.
He GOT STUCK. j
VS A small boy
screamed for
should.
help.
His
!!,, ,,, nl" do,!, The
fur laddies responded and with
Ilk'T help Ihe reached the floor
ol the fireplace some two hours
later.
As a special favor, he asked
his mother to let him stay up public is the absolute prerequisite for democratic survival. With
j ALL NIGHT on Christmas Eve: out this, trie networks and all the other media of communica-
so he could find out how Santa
I manages it.
dude was the comment of Kar-
achi's English language Daily
News regarding the Taylor vis-
I cords with various Communist lneir old solidarity.
The News said that while the nations have come thick and i The United States now turn
United Stales is arming India fast. I ishes Pakistan with $350 million
against the Red Chinese "andj Pakistan has reached a bor-! annually plus military supplies,
is trying to convince the region ; der agreement with Red China i Toward the end of Septom
of a threat of Communist ag-jin her part of disputed Kash-;ber, the two signed a $70 mil
gression, Pakistan has no prob-1 mir, has concluded air agree- lion loan agreement for U. S.
lem with the Chinese, nor does I ments with both Red China and iron, steel and other products,
she consider communism a ; the Soviet Union and entered Pakistan retains its member
threat to Pakistan." into a number of barter deals' ship in the General Treaty Or-
The News said that India's
reported approval of visits to
Indian Ocean waters by the
U.S. 7th Fleet "is at least part
ly directed against Pakistan."
Diplomatic souecs in Ka
rachi and many Pakistanis in
sist that Pakistan's moves to
ward the Communist world are
less the result of enchantment
...Communications...
Letters to the Editor must bear Ihe name and addren of the writer, although under certain circumstances
the use of a pen name or initial for publication it permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edir
all letters with a viaw lo clarification and condensation. Letters submitted lot publication must not exceed
400 word,. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact
the contrary is often the case.
Solirpnss
To the Editor: With apologies
to Gelett Burgess:
You sometimes meet a sour
puss, Sometimes youeven see one,
But I'd rather see a sourpuss
Than ever have to be one.
Jo Hcin
48 Morse St.
Ashland, Ore.
No Spiritual Existence
To the Editor: Referring to
the letter written by Mrs. Frank
M. Duncan which was nublishcd
on Dec. 12, she says she is not
a fatalist but still claims It was j taiuasuc ueyunu.
President Kennedy's "time to ' The universe consists of mat
go." The reason as stated in her j tcr that is a substance without
second paragraph reveals anoth-1 cause, without purpose, and
er false concept the idea of a i originally without consciousness.
soul." I explained in a previ
ous letter how such an idea
originated and that the true
source was the mind. It exists
nowhere else.
Her third paragraph is a con
tradiction of the first narl of her
letter. If Mr. Kennedy "could
have averted his own destrue -
I lion by adhering to the precau -
t ons set ud hv those tirofos-
sional authorities who were paid
to guarantee his safety," the
tragic event that occurred was j
not inevitable. It is not some-'
thing that simply had to hap-'
pen. Then why hold on to the I
absurd claim that it was his j
"time to go"?
Mrs. Duncan says that death
is not a disaster, it's a gradua
tion. Graduation to what? I
can't imagine the average mix-cd-up
person "graduating" to
anything beyond the natural
physical life on this earth.
Death is as natural as life and
there is no "spiritual" existence
spart from the material body.
Life is an inherent quality in
matter. When the individual or
ganic form is dissolved the end
of that particular life has been
reached. All thai survives this
dissolution is the life energy in
the molecules and the atoms fcrcnt meaning,
that compose Ihe matter in-1 If more people would take the
yolved. trouble to look up the quotes
The anthropologists have, Ihat are "used" to prove or
shown that the belief in i disprove some question, they
"spirits" came about by ex-'probably wouldn't become so
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Harrii
(c) Field Enterprise. Inc.
CONTRAST IX TV COVKHACE TFI.I.S Mtllt M
I The magnificent coverage
lost week end was a reminder
normal use and abuse of that tremendous medium.
Why should it take a catastrophe of such dimensions lo un
lock from the closet of talent so many programs of merit,
thoughtfulness, maturity and illumination? Must the everyday
use of this medium be dedicated so overwhelmingly to' the
service of depilatories and detergents and deodorants?
One does not ask the impossible; one does not ask. or ex
pect, so relentlessly "serious" a diet of programming during
ordinary times. But the contrast was so great, so vivid, so star
tling, that Ihe sudden return to mediocrity and insipidity was
as much an insult to intelligence as it was a surcease from
tragedy.
II is perfectly line, as Ihe broadcasters Insist, that large
numbers of people will not consistently watch programs nf
quality, anil Ihat advertisers do not find It economically leas
ihlr to sponsor them. But broadcasting is a public service as
well as a private enterprise; and privalf enterprise always
invites government control when it ignores it public obliga
tions. The surest way not to get government broadcasting (as
many loreign nations have it. alongside private operations)
is to undercut Ihe need and demand for it by a more judicious
balance of programs. From a purely practical point nf view.
Ihe television networks can best maintain their profits by
Iheir willingness lo give tip a little, before more is taken
from them.
There is. however, another
changing the format of television programs. What the public
learned over that week end should not be reserved for times of
! crisis. The talks, the panels, the serious appraisals of our nation
l,c I al trends, are desperately needed as an integral part of our
cultural diet
We do not let our children
nlP"' make gluttons of themselves with peanuts, popcorn and
pie. tct this is exactly what television provides for adults -
litlln that ic nnnrichini, fnr tho minrt nnH eniril a rtmnt tin
that is soft and sickly sweet and
ol coma
This is a luxury (and a false
afford in the turbulent world of
lion cannot long remain free
1 upon a citizenry awake, not in a
with communism than the fact
: lnat Pakistan will line up with
any force against India.
In tho lad voar PnL-ictsn an.
! for exohanrze of eoods. I
She will receive 100,000 tons
of Chinese cement in exchange
for jute, and has made similar
arrangements with both the So
viet Union and Poland. She is
working on other deals with
Czechoslovakia and Hungary, j
Despite press attacks and a
continued cooling on the part of
tcrnal impressions. It arose
from physical phenomena, not
so - called spiritual influence.
Substance in some form is per
manent. It is indestructible;
therefore, it has always been in
existence and was never cre
ated. That which had no begin
ning will have no end. But or
ganized life had a beginning.
Man did not always exist. He is
not immortal. Organic life con
sists of birth, growth, decline
and death. This is perfectly
natural and is just as it ap
pears. No one escaped from this
earthly life to another in some
and subject only to mechanical
laws of attraction and repulsion,
impact and pressure. Conscious
ness has been derived from this
substance and perishes with the
dissolution of organic bodies.
Sometimes you even see one,
! of nature, and if there is any
1 purpose for life it's sclf-devel-
! opmcnt - to give the best tha
"5 mus tor me uciiciu oi an
! humanity
Lydia Burnham
814 Warne St.
Prescotl, Ariz.
Rless You All
To the Editor: As a result
of my letter you so graciously
printed in Communications Dec.
12. I've received some calls
and letters from persons evi
dently agreeing with me.
My husband and I, sincerely
interested in these people's be
liefs and their foundations, very
carefully read some enclosed
literature with questions and
Scriptural answers. We took the
trouble to look up these quotes,
which were in many cases only
parts of sentences, and found
ihat after reading the verses
preceding the quote, the quote
often took on a completely dif-
provided bv television over Ihat
of all that we are missing in the
and more important reason for
munch sweets all day long, and
encourages apathy to the point
one. at that) we can no longer
todav. An informed and alert i
for freedom basically depends
stupor.
That U.S.
Pakistani leaders, the United
states has been trying to re-
store relations with Pakistan to
eanization and in SEATO. It
has assured the United States
it does not intend to enter any
military pact with the Red Chi
nese. However, the Pakistanis hava
hinted broadly that the Red
Chinese would come to their
aid if they were to be attacked
by India.
easily confused and as a result
discouraged from all religion.
Anyone can prove OR disprova
ANYTHING with a quote di
rectly fr,.m the Bible.
The Bible cannot he taken
literally nor can it be inter
preted by the quart capacity of
man's mind. Very few possess
the key to the true inner mean
ing behind the words in tha
Scriptures.
I did agree with one who
wrote that only God can satisfy
man's longing It is a simple
truth Ihat EVERY man is
searching for his true identity.
Each man. being a pure cell of
the body of God, searches for
this God-part, consciously or
unconsciously. Many go about
it in the wrong ways and they
always suffer for it. If they did
not suffer, how would they
EVER come to think of search
ing for the self in the right
ways?
The day is here in which a
large portion of humanity has
already outgrown the old con
cept of Divinity. They have lost
their faith in teachings based
upon faith alone; they have
learned that to be good in order
to gain a heavenly reward after
death, is a fallacy, a very low
ideal,, this idea of being good
for the reward's sake, and llio
special privilege of playing
harps and singing psalms foi
cver. They have realized that
this is an expression of self
interest only, and completely
foreign to the teachings of Ihn
Christ of God, the God-man
fully alive.
The letter from Frances t!ay
in Sunday's Communicalio'w
hits the nail right on the head!
God bless, you. one and all.
Mrs. F. M. Duncan,
114 Summit Ave.
Medford
Farm Properties
To the Editor: As a properly
owner of some river fronlaga
and other attractions that go
with woods and streams, wa
would like lo express our appre
ciation of Senator's Moise's
stand on the Dunes Park issue.
We feel that condemning
property for no other reason
than to add to what seems ade
quate is a ralher poor way to
enhance respect (or govern
ment. It seems lo us thai E.A. knows
or cares very little of what all
comprises a farm.
If he would look around thp
valley a little he would find
that many going farms have
been handed down from one
1, oration to another.
Farms are not easily come
by. To own one usually takes
years of sacrifice and the abil
ity to endure many hardships.
And to pay out and develop a
farm to near or full potential
is apt to take two or more gen
erations. Most farmers that have put
in most of their lives acquiring
a (arm have a very different
(that E.A. perhaps can't under
stand), (eeling toward it than
they would (or just ordinary
property.
It has been the greater part
of their lives and they look for
ward to seeing it carried on
by Iheir heirs.
It is not often Ihat we agree
with Senator Morse, but on tliis
I issue we agree with him 100
I per cent.
We are also grateful that we
have a Senator that is not
afraid to look at the ral hold
as well as the loop holes in
I our taxation.
As to name calling we think
il would be a wonderful thing
if a great many of us would
lake a few minutes to look in
the mirror and repeat a few
lines from Robert Burns, to the
effect, "That the greatest gift
' f"at, God could us ould
""' " "'"t'5
SCC US.
John L. Ncalon,
Koute 2. Box 279.
Central Point. Ore
-O
Editor's note: No farm prop
erties are proposed for acquisi
tion lor the Oregon Dunes Na
tional Seashore.
O