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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1940. E TO FEES E Coach Oliver's Contract Ex tended, Salary Increased To $6,660 on October 1 Portlind, Sept. 11. P) The state board of higher education ruled Tuesday that any student who enlists in the nation arm cd iorctt or If conscripted after enrolling at any state Instltu tlon will receive a refund of his fees. The board also made plans (or new facilities at institutions f the system to train students in defense Industries or for mili tary service. Only the $3 building fee will not be refunded to a student who enlists or Is conscripted. This fee. under law. Is not re turnable after 10 days of a term The board approved a "PA application covering an armory project at the university of Ore gon. The proposed building would cost $214,879, of which the state would pay only $30, 000. A cooperative arrangement for continued research In the recovery of chromium and other minerals by an electro-chemical process at Oregon State college was approved. The Martin-Den nil company of New Jersey will finance two $730 research fel lowships and purchase $2000 in new equipment. Personnel adjustments and new appointments drawing board approval included: University of Oregon Exten sion of contract of G. A. Oliver, head football coach, to March. 1043, and increase In salary from $8000 to $6800, effective October 1. Southern Oregon College of Education Appointment of Stephen Epler as dean of men and instructor in education; ap pointment of Otto Wllda as as sistant professor of art during extension of leave of Miss Lu die Burtls- AVERAGE POCKET HAS $1.28 IRE Washington, Sept. 10. (IP) A $1.28 Jump In cash in circula tion per person In the United Suites was reported by the treas ury today as having occurred during August. The average citiien went into the month with $58.63 of cur rency and coins in his purse and wound up the month with (60.01. There was $8,037,566,697 to divide on August 31. Except for a few days during the 1833 banking holiday, this was an all-time record. The fig ure, however, has been going up nearly every month for the last few years. SALEM 1LKIEITES Salem, Sept. 11 (A) T h e Salem WIllkie-McNary club promised today the city would put on a real show when Wen dell L. Wlllkle arrives here Sep tember 22 on a western tour. Wlllkle will speak for 13 or 20 minutes from the rear plat form of his train. A club official said "we're going to show Willkie that Sa lem and Oregon appreciate the trust and confidence he express ad In Senator McN'ary by in sisting upon his nomination for vice-president" KALE to Boost Power Washlnton. Sept. II. (,Pl Radio station KALE of Portland was authorized by the federal communications commission yes terday to increase Its night power from one to five kilo watts. Auto. Truck Crash Hood River, Ore., Sept. 11. W An automobile and a truck collided head-on on the Colum bia river highway yesterday, gravely injuring Mrs. Ida M. Gaines, Alameda, Calif. Weather Northern California: Fair and mild with occasional cloudiness tonight and Thursday; overcatt night and morning on coast with local morning fogs; gentle vari able wind off the coast. Dm Mill Tribune want ad. Electrical CONTRACTORS Medford Electric flantnt Mrnirnrd) aids rrmne t.no More Miles Per Gallon Next Major Change Br Howard W. Blakeslee Associated Press Science Editor. Detroit, Sept 11 WV-The next major change in automo bile driving, the American Chemical society was informed today. Is likely to be doubling the miles per gallon of gaso line. Laboratory tests already show both that it can be done, and that while the gasoline for dou bled mileage will cost more, the driver still may cut his fuel bill by perhaps 20 per cent. The reports were made by T. A. Boyd of the research lab oratories of the General Motors corporation. Up to now, he said, the buyers of cars have preferred more power, more ac celeration and more hill-climbing capacity rather than Jus more miles per gallon. They can't have both, he explained. "It begins to appear," he then GREATEST I). S. MAY BE AT Taeoma, Wash., Sept. 11. OP) The biggest ships ever built In America 41,000-ton luxury lin ers that will be 759 feet long and carry 1,048 passengers and need a 513-man crew will be built in Tacoma if the maritime commission accepts the Seattle Tacoma Shipbuilding corpora tion's lone bid on two of the marine monsters, shipyard of ficials declared today. Awarding of the contract would necessitate more than doubling the size of the present yards here and would require the employment of at least 1,000 more men, the officials added The liners, capable of a speed of 24 knots an hour and con vertible into airplane carriers, would be more than twice as powerful as the recently-com-1 pleted America, the nation's big gest passenger vessel at present. rney would develop 58,000 horsepower in their steam tur bines. JOB INSURANCE James E. Keys, newly appoint ed field auditor for the Unem ployment Compensation Com mission, has been assigned to ter ritory No. 9, which comprises Jackson, Josephine, Coos and Curry counties. Mr. Keys, who will make headquarters at the Medford employment office on North Fir street, will start work In Curry county about Sept. 18. The commission's field repre sentatives are giving special at. tentlon at this time to securing all payroll reports for the cur rent base year, which ends September 30. Benefits for 1941 are based on the wages earned In the four quarters, starting Octo ber 1, 1939. Prompt payments of . Jobless Insurance will depend largely on the completeness of these wage reports. CANADIAN FLIERS DIE IN TRAINING SMASHUP Belleville. Ont.. Sept. 11 (CP) Flying Officer Fred L Sims of London, Out., and Air craftman William Repus Swan son of California, were killed Tuesday when the Royal Cana dian air force trainer in which they were flying crashed into a muddy swamp four miles south of here. ' i According to Ridley Andpr-j son, an eye-witness, the plane was looping the loop and the i engine stalled. Business Heads Die Portland.. Sent. 11. Death claimed the heads of two Portland business firms ve.iter day. They were Dick I. Cooper. I 65. founder and president of the Howard-Cooper corporation, and Vernon Scott, co-founder and president of the Packer-Scott company. Hop Pickers Needed Portland. Sept. U. , Hop pickers are needed In the Inde pendence area to prevent crop losses, the state employment service said today. There are 10 days of picking left and approxi mately 1,000 workers needed. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE- SaW Calami-Ane! Tail Juraa Out el Ba4 ta 111 Marians Rarin' la Ge Tk lir ilnM nm I nata f Ma Ma rata rmir aow.i. wr, ear. If thu bit ! ant ffnwtfi fraale. rur foml aw, aol dt. reel II mar Juat dra, la Um twwtla. rha r-i fcjeate up ,our euimarh. Yru act enn ftirated. You fad aowr, aual ami tha valid took, puna. II Uhn Uee fwt e)4 farter, t.lrtle LHer 1'iile to r' th.M I pinta of all. flow. 1 Inf freeir la ntake row feel "up and up." t Gat a rareaia !.-. Tav. u it-ir4 Amauruj la maktna !! m freer. At tai caiiai t Uua Li.ai 1114. lud and 2d. Facing Drivers added, "that from now on ear drivers may prefer to take the benefits of further improvements in fuel and of advances in en gineering in terms of more miles per gallon." American drivers today ride on what is known as 70 octane gasoline, on the average. Boyd said that 100 octane experiment how 53 per cent more miles per gallon at 20 miles an hour, and more than 40 per cent gain at higher speeds. But above 100 octane a car gives 50 per cent more miles at 60 miles an. hour and 70 per cent more at 20 miles an hour. One hundred octane Is already on the market for aviation. When it comes in for cars. Boyd estimated it would cost 10 cents per gallon to manufacture, or twice as much as present standard gasoline, but that with the greater mileage the driver still would save money- PASS FLIGHT EXAM 17 MORE READY SOON Southern Oregon College of Education, Ashland, Sept. 11. (Spl.) According to word re ceived at the college from Thom as A. Culbertson, In Medford, Junior flight operator for the civilian pilot training program, the following thirteen students have already passed their flight examination for their private pilot's certificate: Elmer Ayres, Kathryn Bergstrom, Marilyn Christlieb, Bruce DeMers, Joe King, James McNalr, and Wil liam Westfall, of Ashland; Rup ert Henry, Ray Wolfe, and Rob ert Young, of Medford; James Toler, of Grants Pass; Stewart Groesbeck, of Klamath Falls; and Martin Luther, III, of Talent. Talent. The other seventeen students are expected to complete their flight examinations within the next ten days. Jockeys Injured In Six-Horse Pileup Pawtucket, R. I., Sept- 11. W) Two Jockeys were Injured at Narragansett park Tuesday in a six-horse spill in the first race one of the worst accidents New England's brief racing his. tory. Jockey Elbert Suttle, appren tice rider from Oklahoma and Del Castllle, veteran Jockey from the Canal Zone, were tak en to Notre Dame hospital, Cen. tral Falls. Suttle has a possible skull fracture and other injuries while Castille suffered a prob able fractured shoulder. Freight Hits Auto. Oregon City, Sept. 11. iPi A Southern Pacific freight train struck the automobile driven by Alexander!! orn, 70, near here yesterday, seriously Injuring Mrs. Horn, 72- Horn escaped with lesser injuries. The car was dragged 100 feet. Wooden Nickels Raton, N. M- (Pi Wooden nickels paid for a double mar riage ceremony when two cou ples use! the "tree grown coins" to pay for licenses and the fee of Judge Ray C. Haner. The wooden nickels were some that were "minted" to advertise a municipal celebration. Use Mall mount want ads. I Drawn to Chins I by J strange fore over which she has lilt I control, beautiful Lynn Bntron finds her self sold in mar ria;e to a Mon gol prince by her scapegrace brother She finds, too, that she loves I h prince's messenger who is taking her, through incredible dangers, to fabled Shani Lun AnH af the end she meets a surprise that dwarfs all dan gers r mm ' vrvai tfo . V ; 1 , 1 I TTlira-aj.lJl&ldJidT.I u 2,297,186,000 Bushel Corn Crop Now Seen Wheat to Total 783,560,000 Washington, Sept. 11. ") The agriculture department forecast this year's corn crop today at 2.297.186,000 bushels and total wheat production at 783,560,000 bushels, based on September 1 conditions. Indications a month ago were for 2,248,246.000 bushels of corn and a total wheat crop of 760,623,000 bushels. Last year s total wheat crop was 754,971,- 000 bushels and the ten year average, 754,685.000 bushels. . The wheat crop includes 555,- 839,000 bushels of winter wheat, compared with 363,431 000 bushels last year and the ten-year average of 571,067.000 bushels, and 227,721,000 bushels of spring wheat, compared with 204,784,000 bushels forecast a month ago, 191,540,000 bushels produced last year, and a ten year average production of 183, 619,000 bushels. Durum wheat, included in spring wheat, is forecast at 35,599,000 bushels compared with 34 179,000 a month ago, 34,360,000 last year and 29,619,000, the ten year average. Mora Oats Also A crop of 1,206.901,000 bush els of oats was forecast com pared with 1,121,619,000 bush els a month ago, 937,215,000 bushels produced last year, and 1,024,852,000 bushels average during the ten years. This year's potato crop Is fore cast at 383,172.000 bushels, com pared with 374,314.000 bushels month ago 364,016,000 bushels last year, and a ten-year aver age of 366,949,000 bushels. Production forecasts of other Important crops, with compara tive figures giving last month's forecast, and production for last year, Include: Sugar beets 10,649,000 tons 10,553,000 and 10,773.000; hops 39,280,000 lbs.; 39,460,000 and 39,380,000; apples (commercial crop) 114,830,000 bu.; 116,721 000 and 143,085,000; peaches 52,879,000; 33,290,000 and 60, 822,000; pears 32,008.000; 31.- 372,000 and 31,047,000; grapes in;2,300,000 tons; 2,489,000 and 2,- 526.000. The acre yield and total pro duction, indicated by Sept. 1 conditions of important crops by principal producing states In clude: Spring wheat other than Durum. Montana 14.0 and 40,530,000; -i a, -a. -1. iJai f? - ' . a jf i." - OS "A if .1 ? , .'-A i .-.: Tk.Mi.' : TV J,.. 9 ft i4 .da -y Idaho 27.0 and 8,640,000; Wash ington 13.3 and 13,331,000; Ore gon 19.3 and 4,873,000. Potatoes: South Dakota 70 and 1.240, 000; Nebraska 93 and 7 626,000; Montana 100 and 1,700.000: Idaho 233 and 29,140,000; Colo rado 133 and 11.340.000; Wash ington 175 and 7,330,000; Ore gon iaa ana 7,i3u.uuu; laiuorma 273 and 11.412,000. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time Is Pacific Standard) New York, Sept. 11. Presi dent Roosevelt goes on the air tonight with a speech to the In ternational Federation of Teams ters and Chauffeurs, A. F. L. union, which is holding its con vention in Washington, The speech will be carried on WJZ NBC and CBS from 6:30 to 7. CBS will precede Mr. Roose velt's address with one by Sen. LaFolIette (Prog.-Wis.) LaFol lette, sponsored by the America First Committee, will oppose ex tension of aid to Britain beyond the limits of the cash and carry law. He speaks from 6:15 to 6:30. Tonight: Europe, CBS, 6:30; MBS, 7, 8:30. Thursday: Europe NBC 4 a. m.; CBS 4 a. m.; 6:30 p. m.; MBS 7:05, 8, 10:15 a. m., 5:15, 7, 8:30 p. m. GSC, GSD, London S p. m. Britain speaks; Vatican city 5:30, news and comment; 2R03 2R04 2R06 Rome 5:40, grand opera; JLS2 Tokyo 5:40 Nagauta's mu sic; DJL DJD DXB Berlin 6:30 Made in Germany, organ in dustry. Lights Tarheel, N. C. (,P5 Sixty-flve-year-old Horace Roberson is not taking any more chances with his bicycle. A policeman pulled him for not having a light. Now he has 10 flashlights on his bi cycle, ranging from 10 Inches to three feet long. It takes 26 bat teries to keep the lights on. What's more, Rohorson has a siren, a bell and a horn, plus a thermometer. AS surely as the new Buick Fireball jtTL straight-eight engine sets the per. formance pace for the coming season, the graceful silhouette of the new Buick Special and Century cuts the automotive style pat tern for another half decade. The reason is not alone the grace of its Buick-created lines, nor the appearance of solid sub stance in action that gives this honey the look of a speed ster straining at its leash. PW0 fix xHI ' .1, K aw. T iSar . .J-V5Jyaai-'fc Buick prices bagln at $ 935 for tha Business Coups delivered at Flint, Mich. 143 South Riverside taatSEaraUgK. U.T tU LSa BY CCC, IS CLAIM Washington, Sept. 11. UP) Asserting that officials of the civilian conservation corps were "interfering with national de fense," Senator Johnson (D. Colo.) suggested today an in vestigation of the agency by the senate military committee. The senator said that under recent regulations of Director James J. McEntee, the CCC was enrolling young men at $30 monthly, regardless of whether their families were needy. Johnson said this at tracted men who might enlist in the army at the lower pay of $21 monthly. Supreme Court In Return To Labors Salem, Sept. 11. (.P) The state supreme court, sitting for the first time in two months, heard arguments Tuesday in the PUT WAT DINKY BOTTLE BACK.' MAKE MINE u a flu LOST RIVER astattfcisidlaekattjttid Transportation based on rail ruiat Hate una uiai iuacj ( IJ arty, cftar.jl eju:prr.ev.t and accessorut extra. Prices sub ject to change without notice. j timmmmftwmimmmmmtm r m in aida,.a,-T .. .. u SKINNER'S GARAGE WHtN IUTU AUTOMOIUtl All suit of State Rep. W. R. Os borne contesting the Republican nomination of Peter Zimmer man for state representative from Yamhill county. Osborne lost the nomination to Zimmerman by 13 votes, but Osborne contended that election officials were in error and that Osborne actually won the nomination. TWO HURT AS AUTO STRIKES SCHOOL BUS Glenada, Ore., Sept. 11 UP) A Coquille couple, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Gould, were serious ly injured Tuesday when their northbound passenger car col lided with a bus loaded with 40 first graders as it turned from the coast highway into the school vard here. None of the students were injured. Lewis Circle was the driver of the bus. a new machine. Both machines were seriously damaged. Ashlanders foWsd Reno, Nev., Sept. 11. VP Marriage licenses issued here included: Sherman Riser, 21, and Laura Polk, 17, both Ash land, Ore. a a. f, DAIRY, 1723 N. RIVERSIDE, PHONE 4076 It is the practical quality of great room en closed in sleek and flowing lines more room for legs, for elbows, for heads, more room for entrance and more room for carrying luggage that makes this the silhouette the cars of the future will seek to achieve. Why wait for that when in this Buick you travel in a car that, like time and tide, obviously isn't waiting for any man? Accariii it iki Etytbpt4u B'iuu,g ihptrmttnt MuA trtvt'avitkattriiitf ixfitnw tiki tit lAtti ttwvei ld -Ml fnjuuli it ea.' t "Fiiisau." 0t gfj IXIMPlAt Telephone BUILT IUICX Will IUI10 THEM WILLKIE ADDRESS SET r SEPT. 23 IN PORTLAND Portland, Sept. 11. (JP) Ralph H. Cake, Republican national committeeman for Oregon, said today Wendell Willkie's Port land address would be made in the municipal auditorium at 10:15 a. m., Monday, September 23. The Republican presidential candidate is due here at 6:30 p. m., September 22- ASHLAND COUNCILMAN QUITS FOR ARMY DUTY Ashland, Sept. 11. UP) Charles A. Delsman, a reserve officer, resigned yesterday from the city council, after being call ed into active duty with the army. He is a captain. The telephone system in Mon tevideo is controlled by tha state. The president of Venezuela cano not succeed himself. MOT ONI BUT TWO f fj FULL CLASSES There's oo substitute for that smooth, sparkly fla vor. That's why Royal Crown bas won 9 out of 10 certified taste-tests agalost leading colas from coast to coastl BEST BY TASTE-TEST! APradiKl af Naal CafparalUa Tuaa la the Rlplcr Show Fri. aisbb CBS Network Of OINIIAl MOTOSS VAIUI 2740 JWfaaf. -taaJ g m WW?