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SGI BOB ARCHER TELLS OF INDIA Discomforts of life in India and details of an Interesting visit made to Calcutta are described by Sgt. Bob Archer of Mcdford in a recent letter to a friend. Sgt Archer has bwn overseas about eight months and is in the air corps. "If you ever have the desire to see rainy country, I suggest you visit India during the monsoons. It really lets 'oose and nothing is ever dry. We are living in barracks now that have thatch roofs. The thatch keeps out most of the rain, but the air is so damp and hot, if that makes sense, that your sweat and rain soaked clothes never dry. They always feel clammy. That Is, If you haveny clothes left after they come back from the laun dry. We have two very modern laundries on the base, an In dian and a Chinese laundry. I suppose you nave seen pictures of the Indians sitting on the bank of the river beating hell out of their apparel well, that is the way they operate. If the buttons are not off when you put the garment on, they are soon after you attempt to button up. "I took a trip to Calcutta the other day, quite an experience. The railroad cars can only be entered from the side, they are not interconnected, and with much luck, all you need to do is step outside when the conductor comes through and climb back on when he leaves, because he can't go from car to car while the train is in motion. "I had quite a time looking around the place sightseeing. I visited different Indian temples, watched one sect burn their dead. That is quite a ceremony. They had about six corpses lay ing around in the yard. They give a prayer, then sprinkle water !n his face, pile wood on him, burn him up and then throw his ashes in the Ganges. "Among the notable 'shrines' I visited was Firpos, a very large and spacious bar with fans all over the place, and you can be sure it got its share of attention. "The ice cream in this coun try is fair, but nothing like home. I think I miss plain, old i cold milk more than anything. I But the absence of milk didn't stop me from eating my fill. I gained two pounds on the trip, although I have still lost 15 since I have been in India." Sgt. Archer's wife resides at 23 Rose avenue and his brother, Harold, on Spring street. The sergeant's mother lives in Klam ath Falls. PRESS EXECUTIVE DIES Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 25 U.R) William Foust Wiley, 70, pub lisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer and one of the nation's leading newspaper executives, died last night of a cerebral hemorrhage. Asia's Salwin river measures 1750 miles in length. '' -iXii ''Jti JT K " ; A 'A- if jdk. "Mwm .f.i - MM 15 capsules 23 72 capsules 89( 250 capsules 2.67 J Irate; ISP 15 capsules 29 64 capsules 89? 220 capsules 2.67 these, are busy days for Doctoral Every Physician must "spread Iiimsclf thin" to meet pressing demands upon his time. You can help must help by avoiding unnecessary homo calls, espe dally at night. 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M. 30 North Central Dial 3874 "Up In Mable's Room" Booked mi' " 1 -JV" I i f 1 5A 6,r n. mm HlttWi'ell Lee Bowman, Marjorie Rey nolds, Dennis O'Keefe and John Hubbard in a scene from "Up in Mabel's Room," with Gail Patrick. The picture opens Sun day for a throe-day showing at the Craterian. Lower Wage Income Ahead Babson Says Lower Incomes Without Any Reduction in Wages Soon to Come By Roger W. Babson Babson Park, Mass., Aug. 25 (Special Correspondence For the year 1943 total industrial wages and salaries, without in cluding incomes of those em ployed in agricultural enter prises, amounted to $89,500,000, 000. Of this, some $12,000,000, 000, or approximately 13',4, represented payments. for over time work. If the above work ers had not benefited from over time they would have earned only $77,500,000,000. Overtime Out While, the war lasts, manufac turers cannot complain too much at the high cost of labor. As a matter of fact, currently high wages, including overtime, arc a direct operational cost and in the instance of most war con tracts the government pays the bill. However, in the final analy sis, it is really the taxpayer who foots these charges. When the big war contracts are a thing of the past, manufac turers will not have their present high volume of business, while selling expenses will be much I higher. Their first step, however, ; will be to cut out overtime. In , fact, overtime is already on the I way out. ; Work Hours May Be Raised i During World War I industry : was averaging a 50-hour-week. During World War II the nor mal work-week has been re duced to 40 hours with overtime paid for anything in excess of ! that. During the last great boom industry averaged better than 48 hours a week. Not until the ! New Dealers with their ideas of : "spreading work" and indirectly raising wages got busy did we hear anything about 40 hours a i week Hence I beg wage earn ers to save money now Build up savings bank accounts. Hourly wage rates may hold up; but most of you will get much less In your pay envelopes. Technological progress has made it possible to turn out more production during a short er work week. New and more efficient machinery can produce more in a given period; but ac tually even during our critical : war days, these machines have i not been permitted to work on a capacity load. With overtime out workers themselves may insist on a 44 or 48-hour week and they mav get it. But If they do they will be exnected to work and to keep the machinery working. Slow-downs will not be tolerated after the war. More or Less Leisure? Competition in all lines will be the outstanding factor as we emerge from the transition per iod of war to peacetime opera tion. This competition will not be merely a domestic issue but will be world wide. There will be no place in our peacetime economy for the Idle, lazy or In efficient; everyone must work. Very large domestic and for eign markets will exist for US. Roods. In view of this I believe, given a chance that the question of employment may largely solve itself. Workers themselves, with or without benefit of their unions, must chose whether they want more leisure or a larg er share of consumer goods which a longer work week without overtime con provide. Price Versus Wage Ratos The average consumer has learned to get along during the war on less than he had before the war. Hence, if the prices of goods rise too high and get out of line with salaries and divi dends we are apt to see "buyers" strikes rather than wage-worker-strikes. White-collar-workers have token it on the chin In re cent years. As a group, they have nothing to look forward to In the way of salary increase. Hence, prices of goods must be kept within reach of their pockctbooks A return to a free movement of wages and prices with a recog nition of supply and demand, rather than to a continuance of political and man-made laws, is in order. Unfortunately, most of us learn only by experience when evaluating hours of work, wages and production schedules. These matters are, however, definitely a port of our recon version program. The war will be brought to a successful con clusion by our military leaders. I hope our postwar plans will be as successfully handled by our political leaders. STINGY 10 WIFE 10 ASSURE VOTE ON HEALTH LEVY The inlatlve petitions, circu lated by the Jackson County Public Health association to place on the November ballot a measure for improvement of the Jackson county farm and hos pital hove been signed by the required number of voters, Mrs. El wood Hcdberg, president, an nounced today. The people of the county will therefore be given an opportunity to vote for the one mill tax levy, which will raise $108,000 in a period of three years. The money, as set forth in the measure, is to be used to finance a fire proof building with isolation ward and a ward for hospitalization of the men tally ill, awaiting entrance in the state hospital. Because of this great need in the county, Commissioner A. E. Powell I stated, the cooperation of the Jackson County Public Health association was sought in get ting the program before the people. Because of the inadequate fa cilities in this county and lack of space in the private hospitals the authorities have been con fronted with the necessity of using the county Jail for tem porary housing of the mentally ill. This is now illegal in the state of Oregon, Commissioner Powell pointed out, as well as a shameful thing for a progres sive county to do. There is also no place to hospitalize persons with communicable diseases, demanding isolation for protec tion of the public. Friday, August 25, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTTE HECKLER ACTIVE ON NAZI REPORT By United Press The newscaster on the Ger man domestic radio network was delivering his regular fare last night, when a voice broke in: ' "Paris has fallen we will lose Warsaw, too." A short time later, the voice again interrupted: "Our fatherland is a field of ruins." When the announcer tried to read the German High Com mand communique, tho heckle added: "Lies, fables." The broadcast waa recorded by FCC monitors. Clotilnft time for Classified tds a. m. Too Late to Classify, 19:30 Complete Factory Approved SAFETY SERVICE Chrysler Fae tory Engineer ed and Inspect ec Parti tor Chrfsler Dodge PLYMOUTH Dodge Truck! L. G. TAYLOR CO. anGEPo&tTRUCKS 112 So. Riverside Phone 296 Hollywood, Aug. 25 (U.R) John D. Spreckels III had plenty of money for the ponies but none for her, Mrs. La Vinia Spreckels said today in asking $1,000 monthly separate maintenance from the sugar heir. He gets $2,000 a month from a $2,000,000 trust fund, the for mer Dallas, Tex., dancer said, and In three months spent $100. 000 on horses to race himself nd for bets on "dogs" that wouldn't run for anyb.idy. This, she estimated, was about $94,000 beyond his income for ! the quarterly period, but despite I his affection for racing horses, sue was forced to go without un specified necessities. "He refused to provide me with the necessities of life be coming my situation," she said. Nor would he accede to her wifely requests, the complaint soid. In Spokane, Wash., a couple of months ago she found him sitting in his automobile with "one Louise Lewellyn." She asked him to put her out of the car, but Spreckels. on fur lough from the nnvy, refused on grounds that he preferred Miss Lewellyn to his wife. His wife said she found this unreasonable. WYOMING SUIT FILED Sheridan, Wyo., Aug. 25 (U.R) Wyoming's suit challenging the president's authority to cre ate the Jackson Hole national monument was in the hands of Federal Judge T. Bloke Ken nedy today. BLITZ FOR SHEEP Laramie, Wyo., Aug. 25 fU.R) Sheriff's officers here today were investigating the report that seventeen sheep were killed by machine Bun bullets fired from a plane at a ranch, 40 miles north of Medicine Bow, Wyo, The Toltccs moved down from the north Into Mexico in the sixth century A. D. Beautiful Christmas cards, 1745 altogether and attractive enough for the most fastidious serviceman to send to his mother or sweetheart from some hospi- 1 tal or invasion front, left the Junior Red Cross office today lor the Dig l'ocitic area ware house of the Red Cross. Packed carefully in boxes of 25 to 100, the cards have been checked and rechecked in order to moke sure 1 that no identifying mark re mains on them. The Juniors do not label these cards with their own fitamp, but plan to make them like new for the service man who wants the best and has no place to buy them. From the Pacific coast ware house the cords will be shlppep overseas ond will bo distributed by Red Cross workers in over seas hospitals. Shipped with the cards were 1281 Christmas deco- I rations of varied sorts for trees, hospital wards, mess tables and recreation halls. The decorations were mode in Hobby House, vacation Bible schools and the Junior shop. LION'S CLUB GUEST Mcdford Lions club was cn tcrtaied at its Thursday noon luncheon mcctine bv Dale Wr- j ren youthful accordion pupil of Mrs. tve Prentice. His program included Trieste Overture and Czardas, A guest was James Grlgsby, Jr., fireman, 1st class In the U. S. navy, who Is here on a nine-day furlough before re porting to a reassignment cen ter in California. Closing time tor ClnMlfltd eds ft a. ra Too Late to Clawl!;, n.30 p. m. ifai ii ii i ! ii MONEY TO LOAN! 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The oil filter's job is to trap and hold all that sand, bits of worn metal, lumps of sludge, etc. But like the kitchen strainer our artist sketched above, oil filters, too, eventually get loaded with goo and can't function at all. That's why Shell people keep on hand brand new oil filter car tridges and urge you to buy one occasion ally. For if your oil carries destruction instead of protection, your car will join the parade of 5000 junkers that must be scrapped every day. And then Shell would lose a steady customer. We don't want that to happen. We love you. LADIES, IT'S FREEI It's o sparkling booklet . . Alice In Motnrlaml... unmukt the mysteries of car upkeep. Ask for your copy today. SHELL OIL COMPANY; I SHELL GASOLINE POWERS THE ATTACK-Don't wastt a itp
