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PAGE ETGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1941. OF BEAUTYFORESEEN AS GLITTER GOES Tinsel Effect Is Banned By Defense Needs False 'Illusions' Are Decried. Br Anthony Q. De Lorenso Detroit (U.R) The government order stripping 1942 model au tomobiles ol sparkling bright- work because of shortage of certain vital defense materials may prove blessing rather than a handicap to the industry, One school of automotive de- signers believe it will enable them to break away from the "ornamental, Christmas-tree' el feet created by shiny trim and concentrate on designing cars of beauty and simplicity unmarred by "Illusions. The order bans use of nickel, chromium, copper or aluminum In non-functional parts of auto mobiles. This means glittering grilles, shiny hub caps and vir tually all other sparkle is taboo. Bumpers and bumper guards will be permitted to retain their luster. Manufacturers Prepared The ruling didn't surprise car manufacturers. For some time they have ordered designers and engineers to experiment with paint and plastic substitutes. Painted steel strips for automo bile trim and painted grilles will be used freely. One of the group applauding the ban on brlghtwork Is George W. Walker, noted Detroit Indus trial designer, styler of automo biles and booster of an all-plastic car of the future. He believes the restriction will stimulate de sign Innovation. Car of Beauty "A car of beauty," Walker said, "should be designed so that its own highlights can be ac centuated. We shouldn't depend upon lot of ornaments and tin sel for effect. They only create false Illusions. Eight or nine years ago we had little chrome outside of that which was on the door handles. We had two tone painting and the public liked it. There are Infinitely more possibilities with three- tone painting. It should be very popular." One manufacturer. Walker said, experimented with a plastt gold paint and reported encour aging results. The paint was used on the grille, for strips along the doors, steering wheel parts and exterior and Interior trim. Walker said the use of paints and decorative plastics in the Interior of new cars would be a safety feature. Use of chro mium for dressing up a car's in terior, he said, can be a haiard to safe driving with a bright sun overhead. The quartermaster corps of the Fourth Corps area, with headquarters in Atlantac, pur chased 3,289,000 paper bags and 143,913 pounds of wat paper to wrap lunches for troops during the war games. Meet us each week! Cn joy "Telephone Hour Mondays, 9 to 9i30 P. M. (Pacific Standard Time) N. B. C Red Network THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Research Against TB Scientist (above) Is on of many waging laboratory war against tu berculosis. Christmas Seal funis sop. port nationwide medical restarts program In tuberculosis. LOTTERY MONEY BUILDS ICELAND Students Pay Tuition of Only $2.30 Yearly For Mod ern Collegiate Studies. By Phil Ault Reykjavik (U.R) Thanks to the profits from the Iceland na tlonal lottery, students at the University of Reykjavik are stu- dying in a modernistic new building at an annual cost of $2.30 each. The building. Itself equaling the newest American universi ties in lecture rooms, decorative appearance, and such Innova tions as Indirect lighting, was built from lottery profits for $300,000, It was opened last year and Is one of the city's show places. Profits from current lotteries, which are run 10 times a year, pay the operating expenses of the university. The 800 students must pay only a small matricu lation fee and their own living expenses. Many of them receive scholarships and actually make money on the school term. Literacy Is High Iceland is one of the most lit erate countries In the world and takes great pride In Its ability to provide higher education for 300 students each year from a popu lation of 120,000. Many other students study abroad largely In Denmark before the German occupation, and now in consid erable numbers in the United States and Canada. The univers ity expects a steady rise In en rollment. University life and studies have many similarities to those In the United States, and the curriculum is more closely adap ted to the needs of the country than those of most American col leges. The university was found ed In 1911. There are one-half million more women than men in urban areas in the age group1 20 to 24 years, as shown by the 1940 census. A TO IN DEFENSE JOBS Even School Children Are Receiving Permits For Part-Time Employment, By Lucrece Hudglns UP) Feature Writer Washington, D. C. Remem ber the days when Pop couldn't retire from business because his children came home to roost? Well, today many a youngster Is building his pop a home in the country and stocking up the cup. board with foodstuffs for the lean days that may lie ahead. Youth finally has a chance to take off Its coat and sweat at honest labor. Just for Instance, here In Washington the D. C. Employ ment Center alone placed 34,332 young people in local Jobs dur ing the period January 1940 to June 1941. 3 Million Needed Over at the labor department, statisticians figure that Ameri ca will need "an additional three million workers before another year." And the apprenticeship unit of the department adds: "Youth, unskilled youth, will supply a large part of that need. Even the kids in school are becoming breadwinners. In 29 states, during the first six months of 1940, more than 1,200 youngsters received certificates permitting them to do part-time work. But, what about the kids working in non-defense plants which have to shut down be cause of priority difficulties? Where is their slice of the pros perity pie? Heads of the federal commit tee on apprenticeship declare these boys are rapidly absorbed In defense industries. The prob lem is not one of re-employment but of migration. In most cases the youngsters must move to dis tant cities and this intensifies the already serious housing shortage In defense centers. What about opportunities for unskilled youth with no work training at all? Well, It so hap pens that the federal committee on apprenticeship Is especially LUSED GARS 12 Prices Ato the bone Probably The Finest Lot Of Used Cars Wa Have Ever Had The Pleasure To Offer THE PUBLIO Our Prices Have Not Raised. Lew Finance Rates. As Long As II Months To Pay. 1940 f VAX ,UK' $795 Radio, Heater. Bportlight. Like new. 1941 JS- $975 Radio. Heater. New ear guar. 1941 reu4orCh'rap$995 O'rdrWe. Hlllholder, rdo. htr. 1939 co,u'F;Co" $775 Rad. htr. new paint. Ilka new 1939 dor2,ph- $895 A fine car In perfect condition 1936 Oldsmobile Tudor $395 Good motor, good tires, clean 1938 Plymouth $475 Coupe New paint lob. nice condition I OIK Dodae Fordor s.IJ A clean car. a real buy. 1940 Ford Coupe $895 New paint, good motor, 1940 KSK5II250 I speed Eaton, 7:S0x6:2S tires 1940 Ford Truck $975 speed Eaton. Browner, 8:25s 1939 $525 Good condition. Good tires. 1934 Ford Pickup $225 Clean as a whistle. 1933 Ford Truck $350 Heavy Duty Worford. authorized by Congress to fix things so that young boys, at work for the first time, may learn skilled labor while actual ly on the job. Learns and Earns Under this plan a young fel low goes to work for around 33 cents an hour. While he's learn ing the trade he's also speeding up the defense output. During the last months of his apprenticeship, the youth gets as much as a dollar an hour. Of course, there's many a lad who still Isn't able to draw a week's pay today. It may be be cause he hasn't found just the kind of Job he wants. Then again, it might be be cause he Just doesn't feel Jike rolling up his sleeves and get ting his hands dirty. Pigs get big faster and make better bacon If fed certain amounts of high protein feeds along with their corn or cereal rations. I r$&3p rtf' III- mhM CAR THEFT TRAP SET ON BORDER Mexico City (UP) Mexico and the United States are coopera ting to cope with International car thieves who shuttle stolen automobiles across the long Mexican-United States border, stretching from California to Texas. Edward Gormley, of Dallas, Tex., chief it the southwest di vision of the National Auto Theft Bureau, recently consult ed with Mexican officials here on the theft traffic and on how to check it. Officials of both nations have agreed to increase the vigilance at border towns. They will establish devices to deal with . the traffic, such as the construction of artificial lined with bright, exciting windows freshly stocked with today's news, the newspaper is the busiest thoroughfare in town . . . busier today than ever before. In some windows you, find news of the home town, the nation, and the rest of the world. In some you find entertainment, advice, interpreta tion. In others you find news of the goods an services offered by manufacturers and retailers. Every day in the week, every week in the year, you and your family travel this busy street looking for things that interest you . . . and finding them in both the news and advertising windows. Practically everybody in every community walks along this thoroughfare of news and advertising "bumps" In the highways near the border, to prevent such In cidents as the recent crossing of the border at El Paso, Tex., by a stolen car which sped across the bridge, through the internation al gates at Ciudad de Juarez and disappeared in the night at a speed of 60 miles an hour. ON HUNGRY PREACHERS Duncan, Okla. W; A Dun can minister never eats a meal DIAL 1340 Kilocycles on Your Radio Sat., Nov. 29 OREGON vs. ORE. STATE Football Game Broadcast begins 1:45 p. m. A service to Jackson County friends of KUIN. GRANTS PASS before delivering a sermon. "A i hungry preacher always de-1 mm im m r ' Thii high quality, mellow Straight Bourfxm Whiskey is now aged lor five years! A lull strength product of expert distilling -nethodsin usesinca 1898. Bottled tit Bond tinder the supervision of the U.S. Govt Sellings! thesamc low prices 7? if ho vtti every day . . . simply because the newspaper is indispensable to everybody everywhere. That's why the 37,000,000 families in the United States and Canada buy, and read, over 43,300,000 newspapers every weekday . . . over 33,000,000 newspapers every Sunday. And because every body is so intensely interested in the contents of the newspaper, it's easy to un derstand why advertisers, national and local, find newspaper space the most effective medium with which to tell their story and sell their goods. THE BUREAU OF ADVERTISING AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION "V Which the MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE is a Member livers better sermon than filled one." he says. HOHOGBflH Sr3 1 CRATER LAKE MOTORS 145 Kortb lurtlelt
