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6 The Newi-Revlew, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., June 14, 1950 Tribulations Of Hotel Managers Told At Meeting DENVER-AW Take it from the men who should know, the average hotel guest is a great guy. He pays the bills for a billion-dollar busi ness. But he can drive you stark, raving mad. He can be and often is a tip pler, a thief or a sentimental slob. He'll keep other guests awake, flood their rooYns from his over flowing bathtubs and chase them down the hall. That's one of the reasons hotel rates are high. The guest not only is paying for a room, service and convenience. He's paying for tow els, ash trays and light bulbs he loads in his suitcase. He's help ing repair the furniture he burns and atains. He's paying for detec tive service, damage suits and business lost from bad publicity. You'd think to hear them tell about it that the 500 delegates to the 40th annual convention of the hotel greeters of America the men who should know are in the worst business in the land. Not at all. Most of them wouldn't trade their iobs and ulcers for any other way of losing sleep and mak ing a living. Take A. F. Spatafora. He's the manager of the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. He started in the business as a 13-year-old bell boy 46 years ago. Spatafora claps his hand dramatically to his forehead when you mention troubles but he plans to stay in the business a while more. Spatafora still is afraid of ghosts, a hangover from his bell hopping days when a seven-foot character with a long beard used to call for service, then wrap himself in a sheet and jump out at the boys from unexpected corners. Then there was the guest that called up from a bar in the middle of the night and demanded that Spatafora find his teeth. Spata fora finally located them in a spittoon. Of course, the managers Insist, the guests in their own particular hotels aren't like the others; they are all verv nice. The delegates- guests themselves for four days Record Automobile Output. Big Merchandise Turnover Feature Fine Business Week By G. A. PHILLIPS NEW YORK (P) Business and industrial activity was fully sus tained at exceptionally high level last week. A record output of automobiles and a strong stock market were double-featured attractions. Aided by good shopping weather over most of the country, retail trade was better in terms of gen eral merchandise turnover and de mand was especially heavy for va cation items. A highly .encourag ing factor in this important indus try was heavy attendance at vari ous fall showings held in New York and other large cities. This was in sharp contrast to the situation prevailing at this time last year when the so-called "in ventory recession" was in full bloom and merchants and middle- alike were concentrating on stocks down instead of World Brotherhood Formed To Promote Friendship men getting also are models of propriety, admit it. They IS Any tire safer tire with a L0FGdiJAI2E) Safety Tube "Went U Kty... 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The current high rate of em ployment and income and almost complete lack of signs that either are in danger of any serious fall in the second half of the year, gives merchants a much better back ground for future operations than they had a year ago. Contributing Factors A high satisfactory rate of in dustrial production, generally plac id conditions in the labor Held, a strong flow of extra and increased dividends for investors in stocks and excellent demand for the larg est amount of new securities offer ed in any week this year, were other features of the business sit uation. The price wheel was given a new whirl by a rise of two cents a pound in copper and a series of new hikes in steel scrap and some finished steel products such as sheets and strip. Porterhouse steak at $1.20 a pound in the better New York stores carried housewives' memories back of the black mar kets of World War Two days. While some economists take a rather serious view of the present uptrend in the price of many of the things you use, eat and wear. A. W. Zelomek, a widely known economist specializing in the retail field, thinks it is a temporary condition. "Unless we are willing to believe the public will soon begin to spend its savings as well as its current income," Zelomek said, "it doesn't make much sense to talk about price inflation developing from cur rent levels." Auto Output Soars The thoroughly unheralded action of General Motors Corp. Directors in recommending a new splitup of the common stock sparked a vig orous and sustained rally in the slock market that carried prices to the highest average level in four years and some individual issues to the best position since the fabu lous days of 1929. For the first time in the stirring history of the dynamic automobile industry, more than 200,000 cars and trucks were turned out in this country and Canada this week. The exact total of 200,660 units cam pared with the previous high of around 186,000 in the latter part of May. PARIS. iff) Delegates from 12 western countries have formed a "world brotherhood" to spread the principles of tolerance advo cated by the national conference of Christians and Jews of Amer ica. The organization, financed pri vately and with no governmental or political ties, was lormea at the end of a four-day meeting here of 155 leaders in religion, educa tion, business, labor and civil ser vices. Purpose of the brotherhood, said its constitution, "is to promote justice, friendship, understanding and cooperation among people varying as to religion, race, na tion or culture." Everett R. Clinchy, president of the national conference of Chris tians and Jews of America, was named ex-officio head of the world group. Other Americans on the steering committee are a 1 0 m i c scientist Arthur H. Compton, chan cellor of Washington university, St. Louis Mo., who was chairman of the conference; Thomas E. Bra niff, president of Braniff Airways, Dallas, Texas; Roger W. Straus, chairman of the board of Amer ican Smelting and Refining Co., of New York, and George B. Mc Kibbin, Chicago lawyer. Other nations represented at the conference and with places on the committee are Britain, France, Canada, Italy, western Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Norway and Sweden were allotted committee seats but sent no representatives to the meeting. The U.S. Department of Agri culture estimates 1949 losses to Eu ropean corn borer at- $350,000,000. announcing. . . . The installation of a new box factory by THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO. GLENDALE, OREGON Let us quote you on shook prices from one box to a truckload all standard in stock. Termt B-tiillM,JlliM,.l,ll.Oil Invite Us to Your Next BlowoutI II ti. CARTER TIRE CO. 444 N. 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