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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Straight Bourfxm Whiskey is
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expert distilling -nethodsin
usesinca 1898.
Bottled tit Bond tinder the
supervision of the U.S. Govt
Sellings! thesamc low prices
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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.
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