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PAGE FIVK General Makes Plans For '35 Key Loss Avoided For Auto Drivers Mm? ft motorist hu been annoyed Explorer of Pan American Highway Takes Primitive Ferry Across the Valles River by the loss of an Ignition key, but this can be avoided by hiding an extra key in some accessible place about the car. the emergency rc4 RECENT MONTHS service ot the Oregon State Motor as sociation has suggested. For the per son who locks his doors, it has been found vise to conceal an "extra" In MEPFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1935. FARM PRODUCTS WORTH IRE IN side a hub cap. It also may be put By JOHN SNIDER. k National agricultural conditions are definitely on the upgrade. Statistic, received here this week, compiled by the United Statea De partment or Agriculture, are undia putable evidence of this fact. Baaed on averages of 11.809 correspondents, these figures represent a, true cross section df existing conditions of all phases of agriculture today. The reports compare the states of Oregon and Washington with the nation as a whole. The figures show the tendency of rising prices in the past year to a level equaling and surpassing those of the period frofn 1920 to 1933. Current prices of January 15, 1935 show a decided new high over the prices by authorities of the agri cultural world. A reduction In milk production, together with a sharp decline in atorage holdings of butter produced an unusual contra-seasonal Increase In the farm price of butterfat from December 15 to January 18. Milk pro duction per cow on January X drop ped to a new low level for the 11 years for which information la avail- able. Butter holdings In cold atorage on the same date amounted to only i about 47.000.000 pounds, as compared I with 111,000.000 on the same date lafit year and a 5-year (1930-34) January 1 average of 61,000,000 pounds. In consequence, the farm price of butterfat rose from 38J cents per pound on December 15 to 30.5 cents In mid-January, the high est level recorded since December, 1930. On January 15. 1934, butter fat prices averaged only 18.1 cents per pound. Fourteen agricultural commodities other than meat animals also turned higher prices to farmers on January 15 than, a momn earner. Dairy products, other than milk, "'d at wholesale, advanced contra-sea-sonallv. Wholesale prices of milk showed a ureater than usual gain Work animal prices increased. Wool and chicken prices rose. Egga showed less than the usual seasonal decline. The general level of prices received by fanners" advanced 6 points during the month ended January in result of the marked upturn regis tered for prices of meat animals. This advance raised the farm price Index to 107 ner cent of pre-war, the mgn Rt level recorded since November, man. in January. 1934. the index stood at 77. A portion of the statistics bul letln Is printed below. u - u ft C. o v if p 3 CD TJ 5 S g 5 III- Pears u. .74 .80 Hogs (per 100 lb.) 8.94 7.20 8.87 Eggs, per doz - 20 .23 .25 Butter, per lb. .30 .34 .27 Butterfat, lb .29 .32 .30 Whole milk whole sale, per 100 lbs. 1.78 1.80 1.78 Whole milk (re- - tall) qt 9 .9 . Milk cows, each .... 59 45 38.00 38.10 Chickens, live, per, lh 15 .11 .12 . . : - ;j . , , - Civ, . -: , 3 The motorist traversing the Pan American highway from the American border to Mexico City, cornea to the Vallea river about 500 miles below the border, where the new biltlge Is not complete, and Is ferried across the stream on a primitive rait. Ahead of the pathfinder is a work truck of the road building operations. Not Quoted. RSE OF SERA PLEASES Keen Interest is being shown in the SERA Spanish course being given at the senior hleh school, according to Prof. J. C. Hunter, who Is conduct ing the classes twice a week. The unusual Interest Is attributed by the professor to increased travel and trnde relations with our Spanish neighbors on the south, and particu larly to publication of travelogues dealing with Mexico and Central America, such as the tour to Mexico, an account of which Is a special Sundny feature of the Mail Tribune. The opening of the highways Into these countries is bound to effect the interest in Spanish, the professor said, and increased industrial de velopment there will bring about an Increase of Interest in this country. Piofessor Hunter was born and raised on the Texas-Mexican border, and he has spent considerable time In Cuba and Central America In the government service, so he Is an auth ority of real merit on the Spanish language. The claws started on January 22 with 41 pupils, a number which has now rlwn to 48. all of whom are adults. There has been some diffi culty in securing text books, but the suply Is nearly sufficient now. and all thow? inieiesteil in the course should attend the next meeting of the clas Tuesday evening at room 2 ' r I senior htch. GAT 3 AUTO PROGRAM 7 TO 8 ON FRIDAY ; E Gates Auto company one lio procram over KMED ive been advcrtled from 7 Friday evening The en- ; (eatnr.ng Fred Waring"! WAN"tt ans will be on the air Mtllt u Bt this time. w MOKE ten mu ( 1; ni-'ftn -'--t find-r.i'.-Ttine po:son:iu: am-n rho d ii t !hme:ves l'-.y '.):! r 'C rr-U.iMf.'. :Oe j.T.jt.ng. Splendid Juicy oranges, plucked fresh from the trees, at seven cents a dozen. Papla. mango, banana, pine apple, dates and other tropical fruits growing in profusion In the country round about, many m the courtyard of my hotel, the Hotel Vega, where a room for the night foT my interpreter and myself, and with two beds, was 84 cents. Deer, wild turkey, black bear, puma. Jaguar and small game In profusion and an open season the year around. Five good, big rivers In the 60 miles to the north of here with ten varieties pf fish, ranging from catfish to a variety of trout All of the rivers swift flowing. Ho tels that range from excellent to ade quate. "Outdoor plumbing" la the only feature that wlllmpset American tourists. Days of everlasting sun shine, but yet it does not get above 85 degrees Fahrenheit at midday. No rain. Pleasant and courteous people but who do not speak enough Amer ican for the tourist to get along with ease. No beggars, not one so far Road excellent for 470 miles; there after under light construction for 84 miles. Between here and Mexico City barred to all cars except those with special permit until about early April. Such Is the story ot the Studebaker nathflndlng trip from Monterey, 150 miles be!ow the border,, to Tazaun chale (534 miles) a town of 4.000 population. I proceeded by easy stages, taking a leisurely 48 hours for the 384 miles between Monterey and here, stopping at Linares, 80 miles below Monterey, and at Villa Juarez. 160 miles below Linares. . The road for the first 194 miles south of Laredo, Tex., Is as phalt and rock paving, wide enough for three oars side by side. It Is quite the equal of any similar road In the United States. The road for the next 180 miles Is a triple rock ballast that Is quite the equal of good paving. A speed of 55 miles an hour, five above the allowed speed, Is' safe, secure and comfortable all the way excepting for the several small mountain ranges, where It la wise to slow down a little on account of curves. From 374 miles below, the border to Tamazunchale. the 160 miles of road is under light construc tion in spots, being cut from the mountains, ballasted with rock and with five bridges under construction. Passage has to be made on three fer rles and two temporary bridges. Good speeds, 55 miles an hour on com pleted sections. 30 to 40 miles an hour on sections being ballasted, and from five to ten miles an hour on about four miles of narrow, difficult detour, chiefly around bridges under construction. Keep your gas tank full. At spots It Is 50 and 60 miles between sta tions where you can get gas. Gas ranges from 20 to 23 cents a gallon. and the beet oil Is about 30 cents a quart. Two big American companies and two big Mexican companlca op erate the gasoline Industry through this area. The products are all equally good. The Mexican gas delivers the same mileage and performance as the American. There Is no high test gas It is all the standard product on which the Studebaker Dictator six though still new. is delivering a little better than 1 8 1 a miles to the gallon The country immediately south of Monterey Is rolling tableland with mountain ranges In the distance on : either side. Occasionally the moun tains close in and one crosses thro'igh small paws. At Victoria, about 300 miles below the border at Laredo, one comes to the Hotel Victoria, conducted by W. S. Hart, an American It la the be ginning of the heart of the game country. M.ny expeditions of hunt era put up A the hotel, which is fine. Mr. Hart is one of the best hotel-keepers I have ever met. nd I have met seversl hundred, from .h Ural mountains on the Russian Si berian border to New Zealand. About 25 miles below Victoria one runs into the lower Jungle country and runs through It for shout 20 miles. It is a complete new thing The verdure comes to the very ede of the road, which is a hlRh dirt fill rock ballasted and very good. It is hard to describe the Jung'c. The growths will vary between 20 and 30 feet In heUht I counted 19 separate kinds. They ranee from bunch grays to (riant pulms. The growth Is so thick that a man co':d not go through It at more than 100 vardA an hour, cutting his may. It Is so thick from close to t:ie uro'ind to t he to p t h n t e v: n rr. 1 1 1 d ? iki li - .1. t:,iv r.-.:ia It Out of the Jungle country c tv.ui. to the Village of Juarez, with a hotel as fine as can be found anywhere, rooms with baths, spacious lobbies and a good restaurant. The rooms range In price from one dollar single and without bath to two dollars dou ble with bath. Meals In proportion Juarez Is distinguished by one of the largest sugar can mills In the world, that handles 1500 tons of cane a day from the 23,000 acres under cane cultivation. About 80 miles south of Juarez Is Valles. Between Valles and . Taza zunchale there are five rivers, rang ing from the mighty Valles, swift running and 250 feet In full stream to smaller but equally picturesque streams. New, rock and concrete abutment, steel bridges are being built across each stream. Two are now crossed on bridges on the old single track dirt and rock road, and three are crossed on ferries. The ferries are a picturesque delight and operate by the power of the stream the nearest thing to perpetuil mo tion I have yet seen. It takes only a few minutes to cross the streams and the ferries operate at all hours. The crossing for car Is 14 cents and one and eight-tenths cents for the round trip for a pedestrian. The trip from now on goes Into the real mountains, rising from the 700-foot level I am now at. to 8.400 feet in the next 100 miles. The nexi story will deal with the trip through the mountains, and the fifth of ;he stories with the Journey Into Mexico City. 4 Slipping Clutch Cause of Damage Driving an automobile with a slip' ping clutch for even a short distance will cause damage, and the condition should be remedied as soon as dis covered, the emergency road service of the Oregon State Automobile asso ciation advises. The clutch is slipping, It Is explained, when the motor runs fast while the car moves slowly or not at all. (Oontlnueo f-Jtr page one) You can get an Idea of what to expect from the states In the fact that twenty-eight states now have old age pension systems in which the av erage payment la 119.74 a month. Attorney General Cummings gave the textile labor delegation a private fill -In on his attitude toward prose cuttng New Deal labor cases, a few days ago. Said he. In effect: "There la an impression abroad that the Jus tice department la reluctant to prose cute these labor cases. Nothing ts farther from the truth. We are ready and eager ... all we want Is good cases . . ." He then mentioned the famous Houde and Welrton cases, now In the courts, and promised to push forward five additional cases submitted by the delegation. The delegation left, hopeful, but not necessarily sold. Several disinterested observers late ly returned from Oermany report that HI tier continues to stand merely be cause no one cares to take the trouble or risk of giving him a putsch. The thinking classes of Germans regard him as a stop-gap, not as permanent ruler. . They consider him a good Joke on France, and Goerlng as a Joke, but not necessarily a good one. Most of the others In the gov ernment are laughed at. Everyone keeps a Hitler picture In his office, but you can tell the vary lng degrees of disaffection for htm by the varying degrees of prominence given the pictures. 4 Automatic Cut-Out Ends Battery Wear The advent of the automatic cut out has made the practice of burning car fights In the day to keep down the generator charging rate passe, ac cording to the emergency road service of the Oregon State Motor associa tion. The proper procedure Is to have a competent service man adjust the charging rate In accordance with the particular driving requirements. Ex- Wlnilk '111 under a running mat, or, for the man who doesn't drive a closed car, It may be placed under a floor mat. Of oourse, the association warned, thieves also have brains. Mrllon'i Ron Weds. NEW YORK. Feb. a. (API Paul Mellon, 37, son of Andrew W. Mel lon, former secretary of the treasury. and Mrs. Msry Conover Brown, 30, of New York, were married today at the home of the groom's sister, Mrs. Dsvld K. E. Bruoe, Picture shows heads of divisions of General Petroleum Corpora tion who met last week at company headquarters to discuss merchan dising plans for 1935 sales of Mobilgas and Mobiloil. They were greeted by M. D. Leh, center, assistant general sales manager. Left to right: A. J. Donnelly, Northern California; Don Dawson, Southern California; M, D. Leh; A. L. Horn, Jr., Oregon; and Lloyd Bayly, Washington. Called for the purpose of formu lating expanded sales and merchan dising plans for 1935, a meeting of general managers of divisions of Oen-er.-.l Petroleum Corporation. was held last week, with divisional chiefs from Southern and Northern California. Oregon and Washington attending. Optimistic reports of sales pros pects for the current year featured tho meeting, which was held under the leadership of A. H. DePrlest, gen eral sales manager of the company, and M. D. Leh, assistant general sales manager. A review of corporation ac tivities for 1934 revealed very heavy gallonage Increases throughout Gen eral's Pacific Coast marketing area, both In lubricants and gasoline. Dur ing the same period, It was disclosed, the company's retail marketing fa cilities, mainly through Independent dealers, had been expanded to a point unsurpassed In any previous year of General Petroleum's history. Credit for the above-normal sales increases was given to the high quality of the company's brand products, Mobllgai and Mobiloil. to the enthusiasm of th, sales personnel and to the aggressive newspaper advertising support given the dealers. Merchandising plans for 1035 again Include a spec'aoular advertising campaign using many media and In corporating several new and striking ideas, DeFriest revealed. Newspapers and radio will figure extensively. More Intensive sales and service ef forts will also be devoted to Industrial lubricant users, for whose special purposes the scientists of General Petroleum Corporation and Its inter national affiliate, Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, have developed highly spe cialized products. Division general managers present at the conference were Don Dawson, Southern California; A. J. Donnelly, Northern California; A. L. Horn, Jr., Oregon; and Lloyd Bayly, Washing ton. A second conference of members of the lubrication department of the company la scheduled for this week. cesstve heat Is created in the storage battery when lights ore used for a long period, thereby ahortenlng Its life. 4 When It comes to radios, remember "Prultt's can do It " Phone 11. Hiccough Victim starving CHICAGO. Fob. S. 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