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and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 1 IlS.'t (Friday)
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Struck ex
pect sons Vein and Kenneth,
who are both in the Navy, home
for Christmas.
A meeting of Gold Hill resi
dents will he held Monday in
the city hall to form an organ
ization to promote tho area,
particularly in relation to high
way conditions through the city.
211 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 11H3 (Saturday)
Hiram Andrew Hoolcn, tw,
veteran of Civil War and long-
lime resident of Brownsboro,
Sams Valley and other Rogue
vallcv areas, dies after brief
Illness.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The last
week of the year is coming up.
Quite a few will devote it to
finding a New Year's resolution
they can keep and a lull calen
dar." Illl YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, 19X1 (Monday)
Bill Straus, Sams Valley
rancher, severely burned in an
explosion caused by escaping
gas.
Neva Samuels returns to Med
ford after spending holiday in
Portland.
Ill YEARS AGO
Dee. 25, 111211 (Tuesday)
Medford City Recorder M. L.
Alford announces proposed city
budget totals $711,112.
Professor Irving Vining pre
dicts a record breaking "tourist
crop" In the Rogue Valley dur
ing 11121.
5(1 YEARS AGO
Dec. 25, lllllt (Tliurtiduy)
Medford City Recorder E. T.
Foss requests opinion from Ore
gon attorney general on recall
petitions against two city coun
cilmen. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct li auperlorf
even or eight il excellent; five or
lii ii good.
1. Give the next line: "Twns
the night before Christmas,
when all through the house . . .
2. Who wrote the story in
which Ebonczor Scrooge is a
principal character?
3. What great German-American
contralto singer was famed
for her Christmas eve rendi
tion of "Silent Night" some
years ago.'
4. If you get the (uri'lulum of
the fowl at Christinas dinner,
would you get the wing, neck,
or wishbone?
5. Name (lie eight reindeer in
the poem, "A visit liom St.
Nicholas."
ft. Kid the decorated Christ
mas tree originate in Germany,
France, or Holland?
7. Mistletoe is associated with
what ancient priesthood In
Britain?
B. Who composed the oratorio
"The Messiah"?
9. Profits from the sale of the
double-barred Christmas seals
arc used to fight what disease?
10. In what countries are the
following Christinas specialties:
Strasbourg pie, marzipan, Magi
cakes, doughnuts?
Answers: I. "Not a creature
was ulli ring ,nnl even mouse."
'2. Charles Plrkriin, ,1. Mm.
SclHiiniinn-llrink. I. Wishbone.
5. Dasher, Dancer, Pnitircr. Vi
xen, Comet. Cupid, Homier,
niittrn.
Druids.
I'-iidd.
France,
land.
Grrmnnv. 7. The
S. Frederick George
ft. Tiihrrculnsls. III.
Germany, Italy, I'o-
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VJAHOCIAIION
DECEMBER 25, 1963
Happy Holiday, You All
Another year is almost done,
Old Father Time is on the ran.'
It's Christmas, time of sheer delight,
When trees of green are all alight,
And families all gather 'round
To make a joyous Yuletide sound.
The heartsick days a month ago
Begin to fade, although it's slow;
We cannot truly yet forget
A nation's grief and shame and yet,
The gentle, healing hand of time
Makes possible a wish in rhyme.
In this season, without remorse,
We have good thoughts of Wayne L. Morse.
Mark O. Hatfield, Clarence Barton,
Earn our greetings, a full carton.
Medford's Mayor, rotund Jimmy,
, May his festive cup be brimmy.
To all the teachers in the schools
We wish the best of all the Yules.
To each policeman on the beat
We wish full comfort for his feet.
And firemen may they remain
So warm and dry, not in the rain.
For paperboys and salesmen too
We wish a special sky of blue.
For car-hups working in the cold
We'd wish a greatcoat to enfold.
And all who work on Christmas day
Are made of very special clay.
Our hat we doff to those who write
The letters always free from spite.
To those who labor in the field
Of charity, we will not yield
One jot or tittle less acclaim
Than those who give funds to the same.
To Campfire Girls and Brownies, too,
And Scouts of every sort of hue,
We wish a bag of Christmas treats;
To railroad men a box of sweets;
To waitresses and niaitres de,
A special bauble on their tree.
To Masons, Elks and Pythian Ks,
We offer up deserved praise.
To ministers, men of the cloth,
Congregations that do not scoff.
Doctors and lawyers, merchant chiefs,
Should be confirmed in their beliefs.
The newsmen of the UPI
. : Deserve a special piece of pie.
For those who serve us without pay,
On boards and councils, day by day,
Must needs receive our special thanks
Instead of their expected spanks,
And let us give a praiseful yell,
And ring the clapper on the bell,
For those unsung yet vital folk
Who carry mail though rainfalls soak.
Oh Santa Clans, bring gadgets gay
For soldiers lined up for their pay.
For sailors, loo, and for Marines,
And airmen fill them full of beans.
We'd all delight to see more praise
Of till who work in any phase
Of guarding close the nation's health,
Especially nurses. Bring them wealth.
Oh, Father Christmas, bring delight
To men and women in the fight
For peace on earth, good will to men,
May they succeed, both now and then.
And special kudos nay, some glory
To those who tell the safely story.
Oh, wave a special sort of banner
For those who live within the Manor.
To students, home at Christmas-tide,
We wish it wondrous sort of ride,
And fine reunions with their friends;
If needful, let them make amends.
The time grows long, the list grows short,
But do not overlook the Court
Where justice lives in Ihis good land,
And judges mete with even hand.
To bailiff, jailor, sheriffs loo,
Merry Christinas! It is their due.
And even those who happenstance
Hits placed in jails should have a chance
To have a bit of merryncss
Upon this holiday we bless.
To clerk and tierkess in the. store,
May Yule bring salesmanship of yore.
To boss and underling alike,
Whose youngsters always want a trike,
We hope the day will surely bring
A great big package wrapped in string.
A gentle, haunting Christmas tune
To those who think it came too soon.
And finally, to all who pine
To sing a verse of auld lang syne,
We wish ;i week of blest surcease
From problems that our foreheads crease.
Our song is done, our task is o'er.
So Merry Christmas! one time mote.
E. A.
, V r45?SteamiCf!9
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Herri
(c) field Enterprises. Inc.
(Reprinted
. NO, VIRGINIA, THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS
No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus.
There is no ruddy fat man with merry eyes and a white beard,
who comes down the chimney at night to reward little boys and
girls for being good.
Because, you see, Virginia, all over the world there are mil
lions of littie boys and girls who have been as good as good can
be but they get no toys, and sometimes they awake on Christ
mas morning without enough food to eat.
There arc fathers and mothers, Virginia, who have been ap
pointed by God to love their children and they give them love,
although they cannot always given them presents.
And these mothers and fathers, Virginia, are more wondrr
r 1 1 and magical and mysterious than Santa Clans cnulil
ever be.
They bring something infinitely mure prreious than dolls
and trains to their children they bring the mark of God's
Inve down to every boy and girl.
And, sometimes, even these fathers and mothers are taken
away. But there arc others in Hie world, divinely touched,
who look after these children and share with them their
meager possessions.
Compared with this miracle of care and tenderness, Santa
Claus is a pale figure of fantasy. For he, you sec, only re
wards hoys and girls who have heen "good." But in the eyes
of God, and parents, all buys and girls arc truly good at heart.
Presents at Christinas are fun, of course, but do you
Imagine, Virginia, Ihat the children with the most presents
are Hie happiest?
When there is little love in a home, there is little merriment
and without merriment, the doll is dust and the train is tin.
All over the world, on Christinas morning, children will be
waking up without a visit from Santa Claus or with a gift you
would hardly luok at, an orange, an extra slice of bread, a frayed
piece of string.
Yet if there is someone who loves them, who frolics with them
and heals them, they have a greater gift than any fat man in a
tight red suit could possibly bring them.
There are fathers who work for their children, and mothers
who sing to their children, and God who gives fathers the strength
to work when they arc weak, and mothers the spirit to sing when
they arc sad. No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus there docs
not need to be.
Yuletide Message:
"Rah, Humbugs!"
By Arthur Hoppe
Merry Christmas. All our I loo. He's warm and pleasant,
hearts arc filled with love. And ' It's not that he seems so dedi
it strikes me as the ideal oc-icated to doing what he thinks
casion for us ace newsmen to
pay tribute lo our nations po -
litical leaders. Mainly because
hardly anybody's going to find
time lo read the paper today.
So, no matter what anyone
who doesn't read Ihis thinks,
1 wish to say flatly that I like
politicians. As a friend said the
other day: "I never met a poli -
lician 1 didn't like. Nor an actor
I did." and while Ihat may be
going a little tar (1 once moi
a hit player in an amateur the
atrical who talked for several
minutes about something other
than himself), it's certainly true
about politicians.
Of course, some arc vain and
some are greodv and some are
cowards and some are overly-
ambitious. Hut all at least all
I've ever met me likeable. And
if you don't believe me, look at
Senator Coldwator.
...
As you know, half Ihe country
loves the Senator with a pas
sion. And the other hall hates
him with a passion. Half say his
brilliance will save us. Half say
his stupidity will destroy us.
The Senator himself, like most
politicians, takes the middle
road: "I'm not even sure," he
savs, "I've got the brains to be
President." ,
Sec? While you may argue
with the statement i alter all.
we've had a lot of stupid l'rcsi-
dents), you must admit it's lor-
ribly likable thing to say. II
really is.
Thus it's no surprise all us
ace newsmen like Ihe Senalor.
Some may love him and some
may hate him. But all of us
like him. And I think vou would
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is right. It's that he can laugh
ai nimscii winle lies doing it.
1 And all that surprises me is that I
j people who hate him are stir-1
prised they like him. I
For I've been sitting here.
i thinking nostalgically of all the I
other politicians I've followed!
around as an ace newsman. I
1 Call me a rollyanna if you will, I
but I like them all.
I I like Mr. Johnson (he tells!
grand folksy jokes). And Mr,
Nixon ( particularly when he's
just chatting with you). And
Governor Brown (he's wonder
fully human being). And Mr.
ltockelellcr and Mr. Adlai Sto-
nson and Mr. Robert Welch of
the Birch Society and Mr. Gus
Hall of Ihe Communist Party
and Mr. PeSapio of Tammany
Hull and all the rest.
You may love thorn or hale
them. But I think you have to
like them.
And just thinking of how
much I like our political leaders
will warm my
Christinas Pav
heart all this
It smacks of
human brotherhood. Yes, by
George, I think there's hope (or
Ibis sorry old world yet.
Because, after all. who's pri
marily responsible for the sorry
state this old world's in
Our
vain, greedy, cowardly, amhi-
tious politicians, that's who
And thus if I may offer you a
c h e e r y Christmas message,
packed with hope of brother-
hood, it's that if you can like
them, you can like everybody.
Oh. I know what you're going
to say. You're going lo say.
"Even aclnrs'.'" Well. 1 know
it's ChrNm.is, hut let's not get
carried awav.
dvJ
OREGON
Echoing Gunfire on Cyprus Is Reminder
Of Unhappy Past and
M.
By
PHIL NEWSOM
UI'I Forpisn New
Analyst
Gunfire echoing on the Medi
terranean island of Cyprus is a
i'EACE ON EARTH
It is not, I hope, frivolous or
disrespectful to say that the
most telling act of last week's
conference of NATO countries
was lo adjourn in good spirits
after two, rather than the cus
tomary three, days.
There are, as we know, sup
posed to be momentous issues
of strategy which divide the alli
ance. I here are unanswered
questions of when and how to
use nuclear weapons and wheth
er there should be a really sig
nificant buildup by the Euro
peans of their conventional
forces.
None of these questions has
really been answered. Yet the
meetings seemed to go off with
no feeling that anyone had been
defeated or that the security of
the alliance was threatened.
rpHIS could not have happened,
-- Hirl nnt tho F.IIrnnnanc nnH
the North Americans feel, with
out avowing it, that they have
outlived the situation to which
Ihe supposed issues and ques
tions were addressed. Is the So
viet Union preparing to con
quer Western Europe? In the
late forties before NATO was
founded, that was a real ques
tion. Will the Soviet Union seize
West Berlin while the United
States stands supinely aside?
Only a few Europeans think so.
Perhaps one should say only a
few Europeans profess to think
so. It would require some tall
thinking to suppose that the
United Slates would abandon its
own men, women and children
in West Berlin and Western
Germany.
Is there a genuine need of
a European nuclear force which
can detonate a thermonuclear
war without American consent
Examined closely, the notion is
absurd in that tricks like that
cannot be played with matters
of life and death; an independ
ent detonator of thermonuclear
war would first of all incinerate
the detonator.
Is there, then, a really urgent
need for a sacrificial program
ol European armament? Not
unless one supposes that the
Soviet Union would contemplate
launching a serious invasion of
Western Europe in the illusion
that the United Slates would
not use nuclear weapons to de
fend its own troops.
'IM1ESE unresolved issues and
questions arc conund rums
which are ceasing to interest
the mass of the people of Eu
rope and are no longer a seri
ous concern of their statesmen.
These questions and issues can
not be settled by a formula of
agreement. For that would
mean too much loss of face.
But nobody is sufficiently inter
ested in them to insist that the
discussion about them must con
tinue. All this has happened because
there have been historic changes
in world affairs. They can, I
believe, now be identified.
Though we are not in sight of
the end of the cold war, there
is an impressive pause in the
race of armaments. And in the
two worlds of the postwar pe
riod the Communist and the
non-Communist the abnormal
unity of each great coalition is
giving way to a pluralism of
many powers.
The process is known among
Communists as "polycentrism."
The current issue of Foreign
A'fairs contains a brilliant de
scriptinn of polycentrism, which
is. I believe, must reading for
serious students. II is by Am
bassador George Kennan.
I HO NOT think it is too early
lo say thai in Ihe perspective
of history men will look upon
John F. Kennedy as the man
who seized the opportunity to
bring the race of armaments to
a halt.
I believe it will he said that
he used American wealth to
build up military power that
could not be defied, that he
siiiveoiieii in maning inis power
a quite credible deterrent to i namely Foreign Aid). This is
war and that he had the magna- rather ludicrous considering the
nimity to convince the Soviet fact that the Mail Tribune cam
In ion that it could live comfort-, paigncd for his reelection and
ably within the existing balance must accept its share of the
ot power. I responsibility for returning him
The crowning act of this poll-1 to Washington,
cy w as the signing of the test I Every one knows that Wayne
ban treaty. Since then. Ihe race ! Morse is a true independent. If
of armaments has ceased lo he ihe feels something is right he
the dramatic affair which in I follows it through come hell
the race for absolute weapons , or high water.
reminder of an unhappy past
and an uncertain future.
For three years since Cyprus
achieved independence on Aug.
16, I960, a restless peace has
prevailed under a constitution
which sought to protect in
equal portions the rights of
400.000 Greeks and the 100,000
Turks who form the island's
minority.
It is an impossible constitu
tion patched together to escape
an impossible situation marked
Today and
Tomorrow
By Walter tippmann
(C) 1963 The Washington Post
its was threatening to become.
It is no accident that the first
NATO meeting since the conse
quences of the treaty became
visible should have showed so
much good-natured loss of inter
est in the old stubborn conun
drums of the military bureau
crats. rpHE wide-reaching and close-ly-relaled
develo pment-
polyccntnsm in both eoali
lions is reducing decidedly
Ihe tensions which existed when
there were two and only two
nosme centers ot power in the
world. Now, bo it in Warsaw,
Budapest, Bucharest, Prague or
in Hanoi, Saigon and Bangkok,
there is no longer the simple
confrontation of two superpow
ers. All kinds of new political
combinations and permutations
are becoming possible.
The small breaches made dur
ing the Christmas holidays in
the Berlin Wall are a small
symptom of what is happening
in all sorts of ways between
the two halves of Europe. The
partition of Germany, which is
Ihe partition of Europe, will in
time be healed by boring holes
through the iron curtain which
allow an increasing intercourse
in human relations.
And so I say we must he
careful not to hope too much.
And then I say we must be
careful not to be afraid to hope
at all. For, while there is not
nearly enough good will among
men, there is a belter prospect
of peace than we once dared to
hope for.
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Scandanavian Christmas
To the Editor: Christmas time
coincides with the return of the
sun, and it was celebrated by
the pagan Northmen many hun
dred years before Christ was
born. In Upsala, the old capilol
of Sweden, there are remains of
large stone altars, which
ethnologists declare, served at
sacrificial rites for the pagan
priests who made human sacri
fices to the Sun god, similar to
those of the lncas in Peru.
As the early Christians were
honorable and preached Peace
on Earth and good will to men,
they convinced the Northmen
that Christ had sacrificed him
self to the great Sun god and
that any further human sacri
fices were unnecessary.
The changeover lo the Hvite
Krist was brought about without
much bloodshed. The pioneer
Padres from Rome who started
to arrive in Ihe north in the 12th
Century built churches with
symbolic altars for the worship
of Christ, who was declared
the Son of God, and human sa
crifices ceased. Music and arts
were fostered and the northern
heathen eventually became civi
lized, and a different wav of
celebrating the return of' the
Sun was adopted. But the feast
ing, eating, drinking, merry
making and exchange of gifts
still remains, an old Nordic
custom
Sweden was the first country
in Scandinavia to get a Catho
lic monk to preach the gospel.
His name was Ansgarius, a
Swede, who went to Rome and
was accepted as such by Ihe
Church and returned to Sweden
to start the new religion.
After Ansgarius, the Pope
sent other monks to the royal
courts of Sweden who were ac
cepted as teachers.
John E. Ring
HM9 West 11th St.
Medford
Morse I'phrld
To the Editor: I have noticed
that Eric Allen and KM ED-TV
have been criticizing W a y n e
Morse for daring to oppose part
oi me Nonnedy National Policy
Uncertain
by years of bloody violence and
near-break between Greece
and Turkey and an accompany
ing threat to NATO aetenses m
the eastern Mediterranean.
The violence began in 1952,
when a black-bearded, Ameri
can educated Orthodox priest
became archbishon of Cvorus I
under the title Makarios HI
and used his office to press his
campaign for "enosis" union
with Greece, and independence
from Britain.
It reached its peak in 1955
and 1956 when Eoka, the Greek
terrorist organization turned
the main street of Nicosia, the
capital, into "murder mile"
and nearly 1,000 persons were
killed or wounded.
With Turkey demanding par
tition of the island and Greece
demanding its union and
neither they nor the Cypnots
able to agree on a solution, a
council of Zurich reached a
patchwork agreement later
completed in London.
It provided for a republic of
Cyprus to be headed by a
Greek president and a Turkish
vice president, each with a
right of veto.
the division of authority ex
tended even down to the com
munity level, and affected all
phases of government, includ
ing foreign affairs, tax laws
and the makeup of the army.
This is the issue which has
proved unworkable. The divi
sion between Greeks and Turks
has led to failure to collect
taxes and Turkish Vice Presi-
In the Day's News
By FRANK
From the Atlantic Ocean to
the Pacific and from the Cana
dian border to the Gulf of Mex
ico this great nation of ours
is now quiet, after weeks of
being a-bustlc with preparations
for this greatest holiday of the
Christian world.
Troublesome thought:
Could it be that these prepa
rations have got just a little out
of tune with the REAL meaning
of Christmas Day?
SEARCHING question:
What IS Christmas Day?
rpHE answer, of course, is that
- it is the anniversary of the
birth of Jesus. And that prompts
another question:
Why is the anniversary of the
I have never voted for the
man. However, I am beginning
io leei tnat in these days when
it is almost impossible for
legislator of honesty and integ
rity to survive in Washington
without succumbing to the tre
mendous pressures of lobbyists,
self-interest groups, and politi
cal obligations, one man of
Wayne Morse's stubborn individ
uality and incorrupt ability is
a very valuable asset. While his
abilities are not always chan
neled in the direction we would
like, it is a comfort to know
he is there like the rock of
Gibralter.
Before you agree with Eric
Allen that Morse was wrong in
opposing the Foreign Aid budg
et, I suggest that you write to
him and ask him "for his full
report. It certainly is an eye
oiener.
I think I can sec the pattern
that is shaping up.
The Mail Tribune will grad
ually try to build up Duncan
lo take the place of Wayne
Morse.
You can bet on it that Dun-
can will never do anything to world today?
jeopardize his voter popularity! 2- What's wrong with our
or rarty support. He is like a;tion?
cold computing machine. In
these times I prefer the Wayne
Morse type to the Duncan type
of legislator.
Leila A. Morrow
531 N. Bartlett St.
Medford
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dent Fazil Kutchuk to complain
that he is kept ignorant of at
fairs which he has the right to
veto.
Makarios, who became the
country's first president and
still holds the post, on his side
jbas complained that separate
Greek and Turkish authority in
the communities is unworkable.
and he blames the Turks for
making it so.
He has demanded constitu
tional changes which the Turks
say would infringe upon their
rights.
These changes were the un
derlying causes of the most re
cent clashes in which both
Greeks and Turks died.
Underlying the violence also
was the Turkish belief that the
Greeks still have not given up
their desire for union with
Greece, although it specifically
is forbidden by the Zurich
agreement.
Feeding Turkish suspicions
was Makarios' own assertion
last March that the Eoka
"struggle is not yet ended."
Makarios has said that Cyp
rus is "more inclined to the
West than the East," but he
has not hesitated to complete
many barter deals with Com
munist countries.
Meanwhile, the struggle In
Cyprus can only be of benefit
to Cyprus' own Communist
party, the best organized in the
country, powerful in municipal
governments and in labor.
So far, the Communists have)
been willing to bide their lime.
JENKINS
birth of Jesus the greatest holi
day of the Christian world?
The answer is this:
Into a world that had got sad
ly out of kilter, Jesus brought
a new and BETTER way of
life.
T ET'S take a look at this
world of nearly 20 centuries
ago.
The Golden Age of Greece had
come and gone. The Great Days
of Rome the period when
Rome was laying the founda
tions of a new way of life based
upon law and order had coma
and gone. :
POWER was the goal of this
world that had come to be.
SUPREME power. Power with
out limit. The power to order
the death of any man, without
trial. The power to decree the
death of any nation that got
out of line.
Power held in TOO FEW
HANDS.
Power to be exercised by the
few, with no consideration for
the rights of the many.
TT WAS into this world that
- Jesus came.
It was Jesus who, in the Ser
mon on the Mount, laid down
the rule that if followed faith
fully by all mankind could have
changed all this for all time.
The Golden Rule. The rule that
if followed by all mankind could
have made this a perfect world.
The rule that is simply express
ed in these words:
"Do ye unto others as yn
would that others shall do unto
you."
TPO THE extent that this rula
- has been followed, this world
has become a better place to
live. To the extent that it ha;
NOT been followed, this world
has become a more EVIL place
to live.
You see
It is little wonder that Christ
mas Day. which is the anni
versary of the birth of Josti.?,
has been the greatest holiday
of the Christian world.
UlNAI, probing questions:
1. What's wrong with
T THINK this is the answer:
If anything is wrong with us
. . . with our way of living , . .
it is that we have got loo far
away from the REAL meaning
of Christmas Day.
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the Christmas Message
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