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70UR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE CONSUMER GOODS WILL BE TIGHTER, FORMER SAYS ' The supply of consumer dur ble goods will bo increasingly tighter through the cancellation of all "spot" conversion by the WPB, according to Edward N Weinbaum, manager of the Portland Retail Trade Bureau. Speaking before a representa tive group of Medford retailers t the Hotel Holland Tuesday slight, in a meeting sponsored by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, Weinbaum pre dicted wider control of the .WPB on much wider portions of civilian goods in immediate months ahead. , The speaker, who Is also man ager of the trade and commerce department of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, told merchants here that stricter ef forts may be expected by OPA to enforce regulations, and that plans for the restoration of a free economy ' are definitely postponed until after the defeat of Germany. Corporate tax re lief, too, will have to wait and will carry over into 1946. Such relief will probably become ef fective in 1947. Retailers' profits will be much less in 1945 than in 1944, Mr. Weinbaum warned local business men. Pressures for higher returns will continue by both agriculture and labor In the war days ahead. He reminded that legislatures of 44 stales now In session will attempt to reform social security problems by increasing benefits, by enact ment of compulsory health and insurance, by so-called "Little Wagner Acts" and revision of (ales tax laws by some 22 states. The greatest period of crisis will be In June, Weinbaum be lieves, and then the nation will enter a period of half-war, half peace. Emphasis was given to trade diversions by competitive groups who are tax-free and correspond ingly greater tax burdens must be borne by the nation's busi ness interests now over-burdened by high taxes. "The price of peace comes high" the speaker told Medford retailers. ''America's national debt will reach 300 billion dol lars, the annual federal budget will probably total 18 billion dollars and state and city gov ernments add another 99 billion to the tax load, all of which must be paid by the same tax payers.'' Mr. Weinbaum briefly dis cussed the three most prominent plans for tax revision, the Ruml Bonne, C. E. D. and Twin Cities plans. Higher production and greater employment are neces sary for our post-war geared up economy If America's tradition al free enterprise Is to survive. From SO to 85 million men and women must be profitably em ployed to attain the required level of national income of from 120 to 150 billion dollars. Re vision of the nation's entire tax structure la imperative If we balance ' reasonable budget, promote a healthy flew of ven tured capital, reduce expendi tures to a minimum consistent with good government and pre serve the integrity of the fed eral debt and provide for its orderly retirement. The tax basis must be broad ened, too, so that more of Amer ica's national Income Is reached, the speaker warned. In stressing the need tor or ganization of retailers, Mr. HMHtaSMBHSSaaaaS&v'.'.iaNlBISBSBiSeBSBSSSUSMSHSBSH IJTJST IN PASSINO America's top air ace, Ma). Richard Bong purchases souvenir program from L'SO hostess Pearl Meyer as hi attends Army Air Force's show, "Winged Victory," In Chicago where he stoooed on his wav to Stioerlor. Wla. MEN WANTED for ditch cleaning $6.40 per day transportation furnished.' Apply at Dis trict Off let or phono Medford 6111 or A.Mand 8981. TALENT IRRIGATION DIST. Friday, rb. t, 194S Weinbaum voiced the need for easier parking for consumers, for study of best methods of ab sorbing veterans into peacetime retail life, and emphasized the importance of cooperating among business men and utilities to solve many post-war problems. The OPA has held down infla tion and must be continued from 6 months to a year after final victory, he said. In his introductory remarks Weinbaum told retailers here that their business Is the third largest industry in the nation. According to the 1940 census 4,600,217 people were employed and the volume business exceed ed $42 billion. During the fifth war loan retailers also sold '2 per cent of all "E" bonds and contributed generously to the promotion of the various drives. RaV Baker, chairman of the merchants group here, conduct ed a brief round table discussion following Weinbaum's address. Herb. Grey, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce was chairman of the meeting, and among the parti patlng speakers were W. A Gates, Noble Vincent, Glenn Utz, H. L, Brown and Frank Hull. Livestock " Portland ' Portland. Ore.. Feb. S-'"?" tock: Cattle, 2S; calvea, 10. Supply SSSir odd and end,. Scattered . .rs. . liable 81415. HOC9. 1UU. ACUVB. ieuy. ood choice IBS-lb. VJ,We,1ifiti? inn. lfed 140 lb.. 814.75. Good rows ir plus quotable li 918.50; weeks extreme top no. ... - ... Shrep, 100. Good-choice 85-80 1M. wnoled lambs IIS. Fed carloads quot .h! in lino. Good ewe aalable S7 V ISO. San Franclico c.r, lrranclioo. Feb. 8 (UP) Dairy muUer: OS acore 43c. 88 acore e21e, 00 acore 4aic, B0 acore 4Hio. Cheese: Wholesale prices, loafs 27.0c. triplets 27.2c. Ernis: Larue srnde A 43(4c, medium grado A 40 He. small grade A 37ViO. lame urnde B 40 ",4 c. Central California eRgs: Larue fade A oc, meaium K'"a y .' (rede A 30c, large grade B 43c. dlum grade A 42a, small grade A 30c. ' Chlnagn Chicago, Feb. 0 (OP) Livestock: Hogs, 7,000. Complete clearance. Good and choice 100 lbs., up 814.70; celling. S14. . Cattle, 2,000. Calves, S00. Medium rteera 81314.0; good to choice steers to around 810: good to choice 800-lb. heltera 81S-40-, bulk heifers 8131914.00; most beef cows 9tl3: ennners and cutters 87.50i8.0: heavy sausage bulls to 813.80; vealers 815.80 down. ... Sheep, 3,900. Three doubles good nnd choice fed wooled western lambs including two loada Colorados $10.85; load Just good Colorados $10.60; load medium and good lambs: load good and choice yearling weathers held above $14.50. , Portland Produce Avocados California 85.78 per flat. Onions Idaho, 3-Inch $3.88; local, Oregon $2.21. Potatoes New Florida reds 33.01. Spinach Local $292.25 orange box. Chicago Wheat ' Chicago, rah. 0 (UP) drain range: ftnM Hlsh Low Close Ma 81.82 81.62 31.60 $1.60 July 1.83 1831k 1.51 )( 1.82V. sept. i.saii i.oj'.i l ou'i .;;; Dec. iaxva l-aaii i-oum i-oms Wall Street New York, Feb. 9 U.B Stocks suffered their wildest de cline of the year today on con tracted volume. The list extended yesterday's small losses by fractions to 2 points. Market news was un changed, hence the experts at tributed the turndown after a long period of advance to tech nical factors. Many traders who had anticipated a recession with drew to the sidelines and mod erate amounts of realizing re sulted In a few rather wide re cessions. No group was spared although the oils resisted pressure better than other sections. Mercantile Air Force . . f.g- "" "wwattyy - - ' - n 1 ;,i (Acmt Telepholof Corregidor Island, symbol of herolo TJ. 8. resistance before Philippines fell to Japanese, ro:Us with American bombs for the first time as 13th Army Air Force Liberators open the attack on the fortress guarding sea ap proach to Manila harbor. Air Force photo. 'The Ascender' L 4 f m ' J - ' f , V' ' 1 . ' -v" This new Ciirtiss-Wrlght "Asosnder'' Isn't flying backwards. The power plant and the puier proper art benjnd tne pilot, toe wuigs are near tiie rear and we ruuders are niouiueci near ine suarp.y-aniiiea wuia tipa. xe oevawrs aie lurward, eiiaOung man 10 one cieamy iuio uie wuia uiaieaa oi into me wane ol uie Wings and mamng uie last ligaier snip uigmy maueu.erariie. 'ine puot la ajie to jetusou tne propeuer in emergeuues to a,oiU riu 04 ueuiK siruca; by oiuues as ns lumoa. issue losses also were restricted and the utilities yielded only fractionally. s Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel. St Tel. 162V4 Anaconda . 31 Chrysler 96 Curtlss Wright 6 General Electric ............39V General Motors 6SV4 B1H 35V Montgomery Ward Pann. R R. , Phillips Petroleum J. C. Penney Radio Southern Pacific ... Standard Oil of Cal 47 ...111V4 12 V, 40V4 .... 41 Texas Gulf Sulphur ., S8 30 United Alrcrafts . U. S. Rubber U. S. Steel ., - B5U 60 BOSTON-LOS A. TELEVISION Approximately 7,000 miles of coaxial cable between Boston and Los Angeles will be used to carry simultaneously 480 differ ent telephone channels and tele vision pictures after the war. ELECTRONIC CONTROL Electronics has taken on still another Job. It controls the water-level of boilers, automatical ly shutting off the fuel supply If the water drops below the safety level. 15-YEAR TURBINE TEST Test engineers at one electri cal manufacturing plant have kept a turbine bucket vibrating for 15 years, putting It through 100 billion vibrations. ' The first by-product coke ovens In America now the source of over 200,000 different commodities from coal were built at Syracuse, N. Y., In 1893. primarily as a source of ammon ia fertilizer. Cloelna time tor Sunday Too Lett to Claaslt) 8 30 Salurda afternoon Please remember GREEN fm 12 INCH OR 16 INCH LENGTHS 300 CU. FT. LOAD DIAL 2123 TIMBERP Opens Attack oh Corregidor Looks Like She's Flying Backwards War Bonds Leading 1 Medium Of Savings -For U. S. Citizens New York Wartime savings of the American people have reached an all - time high of $100,000,000,000, recent figures reveal. . . ; . . The leading medium of these savings is War Bonds, three out of every five Americans ownina at least one, a study by the life j insurance companies in America of figures from both govern ment and private sources shows. War Bonds account for $36, 883,000,000 of the total savings. Life insurance is next as a sav ings medium, accounting for; $33,049,000,000 of the total fig ure, according to the study. About 50 per cent of the people have savings in this form. A large proportion of the pop ulation has a savings account, about a third of the population saving their money this way, the study reports. The Postal Sav ings System, next on the list, also has grown during wartime and Is now at an all-time high. The average oi'tput of bitum inous coal per man per day in the United States is more than SV tons, compared with slightly more than one ton per man in England, and a little over two tons per man In Canada. The estimated population of Portugal on June 30, 1941 was 7,760,965. WASHING MACHINES REPAIRED Parts k Service on All Makes B & B Washer Shop 406 E. Main Phone S302 Sg75 DIAL 2123 Company taseoM SUBS New Plastic Coat Used In Shipping Ford Engine Parts Dearborn, Mich (U.B Ready-to-run' replacement en gines and plastic-dipped engine parts are being shipbed by the hundreds from the Ford Motor Co. to our armed forces through out the woild. Ford is currently making use of a recent development in pack ing these engines. Called ethyl cellulose, it is a plastic coating for crankshafts, which prevents corrosion from water in the event they must be tossed over board from ships during Invasion arid landing operations. v. a Y ' Factory Method KECAP1PING 6.00-1 6 Tm OtKer Shea rWorHoweHrf Ue Tor longer mileage ana ire. tar safety, ear year rl reopped by tt Firestone Tactery Method. Factory trained experts -ill do the work, your abearance ei a Quality Job. Oar recaps ere rjirutsel NO RATIONING CERTIFICATI REQUIRED! MINISTERS VOTE PRE-EASTER MEETS WEEK, MARCH 26 At a recent meeting of the Medford Ministerial association a program for a pre-Easter series of meetings was adopted and the Rev. Dr. Russell V. DeLong of Gary, Ind., has been secured as the guest speaker for this series. This pre-Easter Passion week series will begin on Monday. March 26th. It has been planned by the association to conduct noon-day services In as near a central downtown location as possible so that It will accom modate the largest possible num ber of business men and women as well as citizens and church men throughout the city. The night session of the Pas sion week series will be con ducted in the churches going from one church to the other covering the nights of the week. Dr. Russell V. DeLong, the snecial guest speaker, is a churchman and educator of out standing ability. For 13 years he served as president of a denom inational college representing some 500 students and a member of the American Association of Colleges for scholastic standing. He is also rated as one of Amer ica's A-l evangelists, The association voted to cc ooerate with the present clothes drive for Russian relief. The ministers of the city are re quested to announce from their pulolts, Sunday, Feb. 11. to either get In touch with some trade school pupil or to ask 1 their members to deliver their ; old clothing to someone of the j grade schools. All wearable ; clothln? and shoes are accept able. The bundles should be tied securely with strong cord and the shoes tied together securely. The Ministerial association urges whole-hearted co - ooeratlon in this drive as many Russians are absolutely destitute of clothing. The association took unani mous action authorizing its sec retary to write- contfress that thev are opposed to the passage of the one-year military postwar conscription bill as it now reads It seemed to be the concensus of opinion among the ministers that It would not offer objection if the bill were modified to make military training compulsory for a certain period In high schools and colleges of the nation. DELICATE SOLDERING TASK Wiring a baby-sized airborne radio receiver, a key item in the aaf s. stellar Instrument land ing system used in combat op erations, requires making 600 soldered connections. COLOR TELEVISION IN 1941 Color television first was put on the air In 1941 from the New York - skyscraper, the Empire state building. Today, the average age of bi tuminous coal miners Is 45 years compared with a pre-war average of 32 ye'ars. More than 10,000 of the workers are 65 years and older, while nearly 153 000 of them are from 45 to 64 years of age. Use Mall Tribune Went Ada. P I 7.D)D) '2 4 4 JC Si ' tjj rzji i NEWLY APPOINTED Deputy Commander for Operations for Army Air Forces Pacific Ocean Areas, MaJ. Gen. Willis H. Hale will also serve as deputy com mander of recently formed Strategic Air Force under Lt Gen. Millard F. Harmon. (U S. Army Photo.) WAR REQUIRES USED FATS Most of the essential supplies of war require fats and oils In their manufacture and opera tion. Turn used fat over to the meat dealer, and collect four cent3 and two red ration points a pound. Nearly 75 per cent of the bi tuminous coal mined in this country is produced by fewer than 12 per cent of the mines. Wallets and other Leather Goods. . .12 - Price Make-up Kits V2-Price red case Motto Plasques. were 63c now 25c Valour Cologne, was $1.00 now 60c Stationery, odd lots......l2-Price Assorted Items --Greatly Reduced THIAMIN CHLORIDE I KG -23c per ICO 3 MS -69c per 160 I0MGSI.I9 per 100 VITAMIN B COMPLEX TABLETS High potency $1.19 per 100 VITAMIN B COMPLEX CAPSULES With liver and iron $1.98 per 100 W?&9ojB3RMkMsk ft TONC riOWER HAKE-DP Lipstick, 1.00. Rouge, 1.00. Fsce Powder, 1.50. Ia Sower-fresh i . t . r mrwt rn.n... Tone colors Wild Kese, Dahlia, iiojL Bittersweet, Poppy, Wood Violet, Japonic V Tone colors) Wild TAYLOR'S DRUGS 323 E. MAIN O MEDFORD Our prlctt are) fha Fair Trad Minimum. W carry full Una or Nationally Advertised Pharmaceuticals and Drug Sundries. BIRTHS WILLIAMS To Mr. and Mrs. Charles, Prospect, Feb. 9, 1945, a girl, seven pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. SELL FAT TO DEALER ' Salvaged waste fats are used to make medical jellies, lubrl- tl cants, sufla drugs, explosives, p synthetic rubber, nylon for i parachutes, smokeless powder, j opiates, marine rope and milk i tary soap. ' to Classify 8.30 Saturday afternoon Please remember Some Folks Only ThinK They Are j Hard of Hearing If rem are temporarily daaftaed. boe, atrad br rincintr. bussing had doIms due to hardened or coagulated was (cerumen), try the Ourloe Horn Method test that so many say haa enabled yieoa to hear well again. Yon most hear bsttas efter making this simple boms test or you will get your .money back at one. Ask about Ourlne Ear Dropa today at w WAINSCOTT'S PHARMACY 400 E M.ain Phone 2440 Complete Factory - Approved SAFETY SERVICE Chrysler Fac tory Engineer ed and Inspect ed Parts for Chrysler Dodge ' Plymouth Dodge Trucks L. C. TAYLOR CO. 112 So. 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