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Co-Operatives Babson Discusses By Roger W. Babion Gloucester Mass., Sept. 14 (Special Correspondence) I re cently walked by Lord 4c Tay lor's beautiful Fifth Avenue show windows. Behold, I saw an elaborate exhibit of Folly Cove designs. When a boy here In Gloucester I had a girl friend at a place on Cape Ann known as "Folly Cove." When I went down there my father used to call it "Roger's Folly"! As I had never since heard of any other Folly Cove, I stopped at Lord & Taylor's and examined the goods. Sure enough! they were from my own Folly Cove of Gloucester. Furthermore, I was again proud of this Cove. The goods were as pretty as the girl ! I used to go with. Better Living For Lett Money On Small Farm So, at my first opportunity I hiked back to my old home at Gloucester where I am writing this column for my 400 friendly newspapers. Well, here Is the remarkable story: A very intel ligent girl named Virginia Lee Burtun a graduate of the Bos ton art museum, married a sue- cessful sculptor named George Demetrios. (By the way, if any "Mass Tech." men read this story please note she is the daughter of our beloved Dean Burton and the sister of Senator Burton of Ohio.) Well, although this csuple could afford to live in anv apartment of any city, they chose to live as God intend ed they should live. Hence, they bought a little farm here at Fol ly Cove and are living better for less money. After the honeymoon was over and George and Virginia 4 had started two fine boys on their way, they decided to try a truly co-operative experiment in art They felt that many of the so-called "co-operative" en terprises are Just a form of big business sailing under false col ors. So this is what they did. They called together all their married neighbors, wives of farmers, fishermen, stonecutters and others. These were mothers who were doing their own housework and taking care of NO i I DELAY t Quick Action X on ' X HOME LOANS 1 j See Mr. Kyle at FIRST FEDERAL! Savings St Loan Ann. of I Medford 1 I 27 North Holly PARTS and SERVICE lor all mikei ul W ASH ERS nd REFRIGERATORS YOUNGER S APPLIANCE SERVICE CO. 31 N. Bartlett. Phone 2419 Good beer t. .1, A A A A A A A A A fcit. A J. A A A A ! TtTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTfYfT When you are warm and tired, a glass or two of light, sparkling OLYMPIA will cool and refresh you. Its the r that makes SEES 1 H 5tfrV 3' 1 f OLYMPIA BRSWIN3 COMPANY CH.TMMA, WASHINGTON, U.S.A. New Opportunities their own children. Hence, the first requirement was that the work must be done at home. Joy of Creating Found Interesting to Women The second requirement was that to hold these mothers' inter est they must be encouraged to use their heads as well as their hands. Hence, Virginia had them actually design and create some thing themselves. Yet, all of the townspeople except Dorothy Norton and Louise Kenyon thought this was impossible. Only those two believed that un trained people could design original patterns (and they must be absolutely original) for which Fifth Avenue stores would scramble. Well, these women have no company nor organization. They call Mrs. Demetrios, "president"; while all the others are "vice presidents". They also elect a jury of five to settle any disputes which may arise. Each woman makes and owns her own de signs', she carves the blocks (out of battleship linoleum); mixes the ink and rolls it on the blocks. Then the blocks are put over the cloth laid upon the floor and STAMPED; yes, literally stamp ed upon because a woman must jump up and down on her block to make a good print! They be gan by making only table doilies, scarfs, etc.; but now they make yard-goods for dresses, curtains and exquisite wallpaper. Eliminating Overhead Is Financial Lesson But there is one more feature which should be noted. It usu ally costs more to sell goods than to make them; but not so at Fol ly Cove. The overhead advertis ing and sales expenses of these women amount to only 1VS. Hence, each woman gets 98V4 cents of every dollar which the retail stores pay for the goods. These women certainly are teaching manufacturers some thing in connection with distri bution. This lesson alone entitles this story to be in this weekly financial column. But most im portant of all, this is proof that nothing succeeds like true co operation. Here all have the same powers, vote opportunities and yet the income of each is based upon her own individual efforts. Questions: Why cannot this co-operative principle be ap plied to many other products? May there not be a suggestion here for returning veterans who want to be both independent and useful? OBITUARY ORAL W. POLLARD Services for Oral W. Pollard, 32, who passed away Wednesday, were held in the Conger-Morris chapel at 1:30 p. m. today with the Rev. Louis C. Kirby officiat ing. Interment was in Siskiyou Memorial park. Born in Deca tur, Ark., he had followed tne jewelry business all of his adult life. For the past four months he had been employed by the Forester Jewelers. He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Pollard and a sister, Mrs. Larry Manning, Fortland and two children in Idaho. Ralph and Bobby Pollard. Use Mail Tribune want Ada. Water so good Livestock Portland. Ore., Sept. 17 (UP.) Livestock: Cattle 2.150 calves 430. uneven; steexs active, strong to 25c higher- other classes mostly steady but common cows slow. Medium-good prass steers largely $14.50-16.00; few $16 50; with 2 outstanding loads $17.00; common grades down to $11.00. cutters down to $S 00; common-medium heifers $9.50-14 00: can-ner-cuter cows largely $6 00-8.00; shells down to 55 00; medium-good heef cows S10 50-12 50: pood beef bulls $11.50-12.00; good-choice calves $13 50 14 50. Hogs 150. Active, steady. Barrows and tfilts $15.75; 260-693 lb. sows S1500- choice 123 lb. feeder pigs $20 50. Sheep 2.000. Slow, weak. Good choice woo led lambs $12 25.12.50. one lot 103 lbs. $13.00; shorn lambs $10.50-11.25; good-choice ewes held Above 5.25. South San Francisco, Sept. 17 lU.P.i (USDA) Cattle 600. Early sales steers near steady. Load 840 pound medium to good stoors $15 75. Package medium $15.00 Fed classes absent. Load good 930 heifers $15.00. Bulk run range cows dull, salable $11.50-1250. Few commons $9-10 Canners and cutters tlow, weak. Largely $6.50-8.50. Com mon to good sausage bulls at $12. Calves 100. Steady; load medium to choice 382 pounds slaughter calves 15. Light sort. Hogs 100. Includes 58 feeders. Few packages food to choice 200.3U0 pounds barrows and gilts $15.75. Odd good sows $13. Sheep 1250. Around steady. Pack age good tthorn lambs $12.30. Few cull to medium ewes $2.30-4.50. Good quoted $5.50. Chicago Wheat Wheat Open High Low Close Sept. ....1.68 's 1 681. 1.67 "4 1.67a Dec 1.67 1.673 1663 1.674 May 1.63 1.65a l.fi3t I.6V4 July ..1.58U l.M"a 1.573 1.58 !a Portland Produce Portland. Sept. 17 (U. P. ) Whole sale market prices: Carrots Oregon 75c dozen bunch es delivered. Beans shelled, lug $2. Celery Hearts $3 dozen bunches. Corn Oregon. S2.15 box. Cucumbers field grown, pickling sizes, $1.10 box. Lettuce Vancouver $3.40 crate. Peas No. 1 Coast 28-lb. hamper $3. Peopers No. 1 90c-S1.25 box. Potatoes Boardman Gems $2.80. Squash Summer 75c; Hubbard 4c lb. Local ru echini 63 e; Danish $150 orang box. Cantaloupes Dillard standards $3-60 crate. Melons California watermelons 2'7c lb. Peats Medford Bart., $2 25-4 85. Peaches The Dalles, Hales, $3.50 40-lb. box. Wall Street New York, Sept. 17 (U.PJ The stock market cracked 1 to more than 3 points today in such pivotal shares as Chrysler and General Motors, largely in re sponse to strike news, but the list later recovered about half the decline in most instances. Although Wall Street almost invariably never sells in any vol ume on strike developments, the possible effects of current labor troubles on reconversion and ac celerated production of needed civilian goods has made investors wary. The preliminary closing Dow Jones averages: Industrial, 174 174.75, off 0.90: rail, 55.82, off 0.20; utility, 33.45, off 0.05; and 65 stocks, 64.73, off 0.28. Sales were 900,000 shares against 1,020,000 last Friday. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American Tel. and Tel 18H4 Anaconda 34 Chrysler 122' 4 Curtiss Wright 6Vi General Electric 47 General Motors Unquoted Montgomery Ward 68 Penn. R. R 375s Phillips Petroleum 47 'a J. C. Penney 1284 Radio 15M Southern Pacific 47:b Standard Oil of Cal 41 '4 Texas Gulf Sulphur 4414 Transamerica 13 United Aircrafts 263s U. S. Rubber 6594 U. S. Steel 71-ls Use Mail Tnnune Want Ada. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Clear and warmer tonight and Tuesday. Oregon: Partly cloudy north and central, portions, clearer south por tions tonight and Tuesday. Scatter ed lig-ht showers north portion this evening. Moderate north westerly wind oif coast. LOCAL DATA Temperature a year ago today; mjtnrsi oj; lowest 43. Total monthly precipitation .04 incni Deficiency for the month .23 inches. Total precipitation since September 1. 1043 .04 inches. Deficiency for the season .23 Inches. Relative humiditv at 5:30 p. m. yes terday 26; 5:30 today 74. Tomorrow Sunrise 6:34 a.m.; sunset 7:15 p.m. Observations taken at 5:30 a.m.. 120 Meridian Time: High Low Prec. Boise Post on ihicMpo .. .. 67 43 67 Do n v e r ...... 70 Kurekd 38 Havre ...... 83 Los Angeles - .......... 79 Medford 68 New Ytirk 68 Omaha . 80 Phoenix .. . 103 Portland 68 79 Reno Roschurg ... Salt Lake San b'ranclsco ... Seattle Spokane 32 32 62 66 Washington, Yakima D. C. 71 36 46 Court House News Marriages Donald McClellan Sheetz and ' Thclma L. Bickcll. Francis E. Brown and Frances Ellene Miller. Warren James Helms and Jeanne Alma Davis. Lawrence Chalmers Jone and Pauline Rita Clement. Leo A. Zupan and Veda V. Williams. William A. Loew and Beatrice Enialic Underwood. i Walter William Severin and Olfia Anna Johnson. i Harry Dallas Ralph and Irma June Smith. We are again issuing Standard Credit Cards. We'd like you to have one. They will be honored by service stations handling our products everywhere in the West, and by service stations handling the products of other prominent petroleum marketers throughout the rest of the United States and Canada. How to get your Standard Credit Card If you held one of our Credit Cards before the sus pension of this service, a new Card is now in the mail for you. This Card may be used in the same area and for the same products and services as before. STANDARD OF CALIFORNIA Herman L. Lofdahl and Agnes Sinnott. William M. Hughes and Caro line Templin. Divorce Complaints Jean Kyker vs. Wayne Kyker. Lily Arlene Erickson vs. El mer Theodore Erickson. Gertrude M. Szewczak vs. Fred C. Szewczak. Divorce Decree William B. Wilson, Jr., vs. Alpha Nell Wilson. News of 4-H H CLUBS Roxy Anno Club The Roxy Anne 4-H club will meet at the home of Mrs. Leh man, Buckshot Hill Road, Sept. 20 at 8 p. m. according to Charles Ashpole, reporter. BIRTHS SHERER To Mr. and Mrs. Melvin, box 467, Jacksonville, Sept. 16, a girl, seven pounds, at Osteopathic Clinic. Piano Instruction Modern Improved Methods Studio, 318 Liberty Bldg. Fred Alton Haight Have Your Montag Furnace and Oil Burner Checked Leonard Electric Go. Ph. 4427 309 I If you did not previous. , ly hold I Standard Credit Card, apply at any Standard of Cali fornia office, Standard Station or Dealer, Auth orized Distributor or it any Chevron Gas Station. We'll do our best to issue your Card promptly. by i. Main Monday. Sept. 17. 1948 MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE THRE8 Wartime additions of life iij surance have increase the aver age owned per family in the United States to 30 per cent more than the average 10 years ago. 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