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MEDFORD, MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1948 PAGE FIVE SPENDING HEAVY FOR FURBELOWS purs, Jewels, Fine Clothing Getting Big Call; Wartime Earnings Enable Splurge. By United Preii ' American women, whose pock etbooks are filled with war time earnings, are on a record breaking shopping tour for furs, jewels and the finest clothes, a United Press survey showed to day. While inductions into the armed forces are curtailing men's purchases women buyers are thronging into stores from coast to coast in search of a variety of luxury items. Furs, Jewelry Co Florist shops, theaters, depart ment stores and dressmakers re port skyrocketing sales every where. Furs and jewelry are be ing bought at an unprecedented rate. War industry wages of women or their husbands and "scare" buying of irreplaceable articles are believed responsible. Here is the situation at a glance: Clothing Women's clothing sales have Jumped 60 per cent over the same time last year with the trend toward the more finely woven garments. San Francisco's women shipyard workers and wives of the men workers are leading the way with a 72 per cent increase in purchases, made mostly at the city's most expensive shops. New York stores report a SO per cent rise in sales of women's and ' misses' coats and a 37 per cent inrrpaf in nurrha-p- nf Hlr rayon and linen piece goods. Minneapolis department stores report that their high-priced Clothing sections have replaced the bargain basements as the biggest revenue earners. Lingerie , and blouses are fastest selling items at Denver. Cheap Furs Spurned Furs Sales have doubled and tripled since last year with em phasis on mink and other super luxury pieces. Cheap fur coats and neckpieces have been dropped by most stores to make way tor better furs, which are in demand. Jewelry Purchases have risen 35 per cent from a year ago on a heavy demand for dia--. mond rings, earrings, brooches (9 and clips. Prices have been boost ' d by the use of sterling silver and plated gold to replace war needed metals jn brooches and clips. Record jewelry sales are reported by stores at Buffalo, Kansas City, Mo.; Springfield, HI., and Atlanta, Ga. Flowers and cosmetics De mand for corsages, plants and cut flowers is up about 25 per cent, while supplies are reduced by lack of manpower and the use of greenhouses for Victory gar dens. Boston and Chicago flor ists report all-time record sales. In the southwest, purchases of orchids and gardenias have more than doubled. Beauty shop busi ness has increased about 20 per cent in major cities. In midwest em cities, beauty parlors have been obliged to ration appoint jf iments. Cosmetic sales are on jMthe upswing everywhere. mi .1... nril . - tendance has increased 35 per cent at the big New York motion picture houses, and along Broad way the usual summer theater lull failed to materialize. Record attendance figures, made pos- MEAT CENTER Opening Date FRIDAY, OCT. 1 231 E. Sixth St. CUBE STEAK E 39' MADE TO OHDtH POT ROAST J.. 25' vntiNO TENDER BEEF VEAL STEAK 2 SHOULDER PORK SAUSAGE Fresh Ground O Cc BEEF Lb. -W WHY PAY CEILING PRICES WHEN YOU CAN " buy FOR less? Jackson County Farm Notes Compiled by County Office O.S.C. Extension Service Keep Records For Milk Subsidies It will pay every producer to keep records of sales of home milk and butter fH k.ainnn October 1 because subsidies ap pear to be in the offing. Dairy feed price adjustment payments umjr oo msea upon sales made from October 1, through Decem ber 31 of this year. Detailed instructions have not yet been received. . This is an effort hv 4h arm. ernment to adjust feed prices wiuioui increasing tne cost of the finished product to the' con sumer. Hog Ceilings . Effective October 4 Hog ceilings for this district which go into effect Monday. October 4, will be $15.15 per hundred. This is the very top that can be paid and is based upon the prices of $14.75 at Chicago and $15.75 at Portland. By R. G. FOWLER, County Agent. Apricot Twig Blight Control , ' Apricots are quite susceptible to the peach blight disease which causes a blighting of the twigs and a spotting of the fruit. sible largely by women, also are reported. Restaurants report booming trade throughout the country. Bars and taverns have more customers than liquor, and proprietors report that increas ing percentages of the customers are women. FREE GERMANY GROUP IS SLOW London, Sept. 30 (U.PJ Or ganization of a free Germany committee in London is proceed ing slowly, apparently pending the outcome of the tripartite conference at which the Allies are expected to lay down their future policy toward Germany. German refugee groups here have been watching closely the development of the free German committe in Moscow and the formation of the German of ficers union there, and have taken preliminary steps to es tablish a duplicate organization in London. The chief support for London's committee comes from British Communist quarters, although the Socialists also are participat ing in a more or less watchful waiting role. At present, the London group is composed of 23 committee members, all promin ent refugee Germans who have banded together to lay the groundwork for a permanent or ganization that will represent all free . Germans ' in Great Britain. BOYS AT FRONT GIVE TO ORPHANS New York, Sept. 30 U.R) The Veterans of Foreign Wars today received a $3,000 cash donation from a group of sol diers in the Solomons for a scholarship fund for war. or phans The donation was presented at the second day's session of the 44th National Encampment by Robert B. Handy, Jr., Kansas City, Mo., adjutant general of the VFW, and will be used to aid orphans at the organization's national home at Eaton Rapids, Mich. "When the soldiers fighting in the foxholes of - the Solomons against skulking Jap snipers," Handy said, "send money back to the United States because they want to help the orphaned kids of other soldiers there's no need to worry about their morale. "The act Is one that should make some of us on the home front ashamed of our hesitancy to Invest our money in war bonds and our grumbling over the high living costs." UNIQUE ALARM CLOCK San Diego, Cal. (U.R) Mrs. C. F. Hale possesses an alarm clock that has attributes that no inventor has yet succeeded in reproducing. It goes off auto matically whenever a burglar attempts to rob her apartment Mrs. Hale has notified the police that It has thus twice performed this service for her, causing the burglar in each Instance to per form a hasty retreat. DUTCH BOY PAINTS Full Stock YOUNGER S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 11. N. Bartlett Phone 2411 The fruit spotting is frequently attributed to scale because of its scaly appearance. The first step in the control of this trouble is the application of a bordeaux spray this fall. This spray may be applied any time now, but it should be on before much fall rain occurs. A 6-6-50 homemade bordeaux is the basis for control, but many growers prefer to use commer cially prepared bordeaux or a copper substitute. Twenty-four pounds of the commercial prod uct or five to seven pounds of the substitutes to one hundred gallons of spray is the proper di lution. For small quantities use one pound of commercial bor reaux in four gallons of water. It is too early for best results to spray peach trees unless a later spray is to be applied. Good control of leaf curl cannot always be obtained until after some fall rains so it would be best to wait for two or three weeks. This bordeaux spray applied now to youngberries and boysen berries will assist in controlling the cane spot disease. This dis ease causes considerable loss particularly from the standpoint of size and quality of fruit. By C. B. CORDY, - Assistant County Agent. F NEEDED HELP IN Washington, Sept. 30 U.R) The gals are working on the rail road as track walkers, section hands, foremen, brakemen, con ductors, waiters, train dispatch ers, station agents, telegraphers and so on up to and including high-priced executives. Feminine poaching on one of the last remaining male pre serves was described today in a coldly-statistical report put out by some man in the bureau of transport economics and statis tics of the Interstate Commerce Commission entitled, "Number of Females Employed by Class I Steam Railways." 64,466 Employed The report pointed out dry things such as that in mid-July 94,466 women were working for the railroads, or 6.76 per cent of all railroad employes. But it failed to show the dra matic Implications the picture of one lady gang-foreman bossing a bunch of work-train laborers, of five lissom boilermakers hard at work in noisy repair shops, or of 11 female yard brakemen and helpers waving their arms atop feright cars. To cap the climax, the report mentioned 31 female patrol wom- en and watchwomen, and five lieutenants and sergeants of po lice. What will the hoboes call them "bullesses"? PRISON ESCAPEE Portland, Sept. 30 (U.R) George G. Graves, 40-year-old escapee from the Oregon state penitentiary since Aug. 9, was back in custody today after two Portland officers pursued his stolen taxlcab for ten blocks. Graves robbed Cab Driver Tom Hughes after being driven tar east of Portland. Hughes telephoned police and Officers J. D. - Edwards ' and Howard Blakely stationed themselves at a nearby intersection and saw the cab drive by. After chase, they crowded the stolen vehicle to the curb and Graves stepped out without protest, although he had a gun in his lap ready for use. GREEN PINE SLABS 33 CUBIC t I AStfH FT. LOAD Vy3 Timber P Project Leader Training Meeting Project leaders for those units having project leader meetings in October will be trained on Monday, October 4, at the court house lit Medford. Mrs. Mabel Mack, nutrition specialist from the Oregon State College Exten sion Service, will be in Medford to give this training to leaders on "Labor Saving Devices in Meal Preparation." Project lead ers of all units are requested to be in the kitchen of the court house promptly at 10:30 a. m., Monday, October 4, und to bring their own sack lunch and table service. Griffin Creek Extension Unit The Griffin Creek extension unit will meet at the home of Mrs. Marge Mero on Friday, Oc tober 1, at 10:30 a. m. Mrs. Mabel Mack, extension nu tritionist, will present a demon stration 'Get the Good from Your Vegetables." At this same meeting program plans for the year will be made. Each mem ber is urged to be present and to bring a friend. By MARIAN J. FARRELL, Home Demonstration Agent. GAS IN STOMACH Chicago, Sept. 30 (U.R) Gas in a flier's stomach sometimes expands about six times when, he is at 38,uuo feet, tne uenerai Electric X-Ray Corporation an nounced today in revealing re sults of X-ray experiments made on men in a decompres sion chamber. 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