MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 22. 1f38.
PAGE SEVEN
Receipts 100 Years Old
PAINESVILLE, Ohio (Up) Six re
ceipts, almost 100 years old were dis
covered In some old furniture by
E. L. Cunningham. One of them dat
ed February 19, 1840. Is for a load
of wood valued at 75 cento to be ex
changed for a subscription to the
Painesvllle Telegraph from February
10 to July 25, 1840.
QfJSk4
liYONS 70-Proof
SLOe&TN
Mode from fmportad lloe ber
ries, It has the true sloe berry
flavor ... a rich, ruby color
..a distinctive, fruit-y tang.
FIFTHS, $1.30 PINTS, 85c
THE e. O. IYONS SAAS CO.
Sort Franeiico, California gt
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Nestle Down Company Vis
ions Huge Demand for
Goose Down Material
Worth Three Dollars Lb.
National distribution, through' di
rect selling In cooperation with re
tall establishments; end a huge,
mode ml y -equipped factory In Med
ford doing thousands or dollars worth
of business a day.
Such Is the future of Nestle Down
Sales company, one of southern Ore
gon's newest Industries, as seen by
P. C, Leslie, organizer of the sales
program for the makers of pure-goose-down
comforters. The company
Is located at 215 East Main street.
The active sales campaign for the
new company, which was organized
by Henry Petri of Medford following
hln Invention of the new process for
tt:o construction of such comforters,
was started Immediately after July
4. Already, Mr. Leslie revealed, 100
orders have been received from local
residents, some for future delivery
and some to be delivered at once.
Three Salesmen
Three salesmen are employed by
the company, and they have averaged
better thah one sale a day in the
three weeks the campaign has been
underway. They are Tommy Wilt,
Prank Haggerty and Hobart Luther.
Mr. Leslie stated that, regardless of
the hot weather, Medford residents
were showing extreme Interest In thi
product and that salesmen were hav
ing no trouble selling comforters. He
added that sales so far represented
a cross-section of the middle ind
upper brackets of the potential local
market.
"Judging from the reception our
product has received from Medford
people," Mr. Leslie stated, "a peak
production of 800 comforters a day
can be readied within the next six
months. When that occurs, and the
Pacific coast area Is supplied for the
first time with Nestl Down comfort
ers, we plan to open up a national
advertising and sales campaign,
bringing employment to many local
persons and a large payroll to Med
ford." Vast Market
Mr. Leslie explained that the nat
ional campaign would combine direct
selling with retail store cooperation.
He stated there were from IS to 30
million potential prospects for oom
forters In America, and that It was
possible for the local company to
reach those customers through prop
er channels.
"Immediate steps ahead," Mr. Les
lie pointed out. "are to arrive at a
1000 membership, that Is. accumu
late 1000 orders for the comforters,
it; en move to a large building and
equip it with modern machinery for
manufacturing on a large scale. Pro
duction would be stepped up to two
or three hundred comforters a day In
a short while. When that point Is
reached, we will be ready for our na
tional campaign." '
Farmers of southern Oregon will
be offered the opportunity of devel
oping a new industry as Nestle Down
sales Increase, Mr. Leslie said. At
present, the company Is purchasing
Its goose down from the middle west,
lone source In the (jountry. He stated
O'.ere was no reason why the down
couldn't be produced here; that
southern Oregon and the northwest
was considered the finest territory
In America for the raising of geese.
Down Worth 93 Lb.
During the lifetime of a goose, Mr.
Leslie explained, about one-third
pound of down can be clipped. As
the market price of goose down Is
$3 a pound, the average goose yield
would be 91, enough to pay for the
expense of raising the fowl. Tills
would leave the farmer a clear prof
It on the carcass, he pointed out.
Between three and four pounds of
goose down Is used In the manufac
ture of a Nestle Down comforter.
Mr. Leslie explained: in other words,
from $9 to 913 Is expended by the
company for down for each comfort
er. With the company producing 500
comforters a day, that would mean
an expenditure of from 94500 to
90000 a day for down, Mr. Leslie ex
plained, and added that a large por
tion of that money could be upent
In southern Oregon if farmers start
ed raising geese. He emphasized that
there was no reason why the raw ma
terial couldn't be produced on the
Pacific coast.
To Expand Selling;
Salesmen of the company have
worked only In Medford, to date, but
plan to include Grants Pass and Ash
land In the near future, then spread
out to take In the entire Pacific
coast, Mr. Leslie stated.
The Nestle Down comforter, whose
average weight is only 4! pounds,
is manufactured by a special process
Invented by Mr. Petri. The top and
bottom coverings are not tltched to
gether, as In ordinary comforters,
thus providing sir-plus-down insula
tion. Mr. Leslie explained. It ha
proved itself equal In Insulation to
from four to six army blankets at
almost 10 times less weight, he stated.
IS
SHANGHAI, July 32. (API Wau
Shi-Sen, Chinese member of the Japanese-dominated
local government of
the Shanghai district, was shot and
killed by two gunmen in his home
In the International settlement to
day. One assassin escaped but the other
was caught by a watchman. Settle
ment police questioned him and a
series of widespread raids with nu
merous arrests followed.
There have been more than a dozen
political assassinations in Shanghai
since the Japanese army occupied the
district. Most of the victims have
been Chinese who had taken office
in the Japanese-dominated regime.
Wan was chief of the Judicial de
partment of that regime.
SLASHED!
Coats and Suits cut to 910.95 up
Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann.
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POSTOFFICE AIM
'Clean Up Rural Week' Will
Start August 1 Through
out Country Carriers
to Seek Cooperation
An effort will be made here to
procure the installation 6t standard
rural mall boxes during "Clean Up
Rural Box Week" which will be held
throughout the country beglnnirg
August 1, It was announced today
by Postmarter Prank DeSoim:.
During the week rural' carriers
working out of the Medford post
office will endeavor to contact all
rural residents and discuss with them
the replacement of boxes not stand
ard In size and appearence, Mr. Do
Sours said. The rural carriers to
engage In the work are Myron P.
Sheets, P. Edwin Nichols. Hans Ram
mln and Qunder O. Sanden. Herbert
Hartle and Prank Henspeter. substi
tute carriers, also wHl assist.
To Aid Delivery,
Regarding clean-up week, a post
office department bulletin said:
"Unserviceable nnd unsightly rural j
mall boxes both retard delivery of
mall and detract from the natural
scenic beauty of the highway. Par
ticularly to be deplored are the non
regulation, old style top-opcnlng
boxes, as well as makeshift recep
tacles which expose the mall to the
elements,
"It Is the desire of the postofflco
department not only to correct the
above-mentioned unsat Li factory situ
ation but to encourage all rural mall
patrons generally to possess pride Jn
their boxes, both in the manner of
erection, neat stenciling and tidv
appearance."
For several years, Mr, DeSouza
said, the postofflee department hrs
been engaged in an effort to stanu
ardize rural boxes In size and ap
pearance, primarily because of is
sistance In the delivery and col
lection of mall and also because of
the appearance of the highways,
filve Bad Impression.
"Unsightly mall boxes often glvo
wrong Impressions of conditions In a
community." Mr. DeSoura said. "Peo
ple traveling along the highways w
the mall boxes first and the adjacent
homes nnd farms afterward.
"We've had fine assistance from
state and county highway depart
ments and due to their cooperation
new mall boxes with proper posts
have been Installed along prlnclpitl
roadways. There remain. However,
many rural boxes that should be re
placed with modern equipment and
we're asking all to unit with tlv
postofflee department In making
these Improvements."
PROBE DISCOVERS
NO COLLUSION IN
serious charge against the auction
companies was that the buyers,
through agreement or collusion
nmong themselves, can gain control
of prices to be paid growers."
"No proof was found of any con
spiracy to pay an agreed .price for
any commodity," the commission's
report stated. The auction market's
Bole purpose Is to sell fruit for grow
ers and shippers at the highest prices
afforded through supply and demand
In the largest population centers, It
was aald.
"The fees charged by auction com
panies for their services are 'on a
commission basis of lA to 3 percevt
of the gross returns." Therefore, Mia
auction companies earnings are in
creased when higher prices are rea
lized for growers and shippers, It was
asserted.
LOS ANGELES. (Spl.) Misin
formed growing and shipping Inter
ests which have charged the fruit
and vegetable auction markets with
various lauits, including collusion
among buyers In an effort to de
press prices to growers, have been
awakened to the advantages of the
auction marketing method by the
federal trade commission after an
exhaustive two-year investigation of
aU phases of agricultural marketing.
The federal trade commission's re
port, released officially but not pub
licly printed, was Issued here by
Henry D. Greene, special represen
tative of the American Fruit and
Produce Auction Association, Inc.
The report detailed that the "moet
U nt,bC . ' ,lbol -drool'
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