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Year-End Report At Airport Shows Decline In Flying Private flying activities at the Medford municipal airport con tinued to decline during 1949, fol lowing a general trend through out the United States. The local decline in reflected in figures for the past three years shown in a report compiled by Airport Manager John Applegate. He revealed that there were 29,300 civil landings at the air port in 1949 contrasted to 47, 359 in 1948 and 76,095 in 1947. Air force and air carrier land ings last year were greater than in 1947 but less than in 1948. The air force totals were 1,250 in 1947; 7,576 in 1948, and 4,366 in 1949. Air carrier figures showed 6.750 in 1947; 7,898 in 1948, and 7,825 in 1949. Navy landings were 1,289 in 1947; 1,591 in 1948, and 1,047 in 1949. Totals Given Operations and traffic showed a grand total of 85,384 landings for 1947 compared to 42,598 last year. There were 64,424 during 1948. Of last year's operations 18.694 were transient and 23, 904 local. December traffic was the low est for one month since record keeping was inaugurated in Jan uary 1947. Traffic was 1.991 compared to 2,111 in November, previous low. Air carriers noted an increase in outgoing passengers, express and freight during 1949 and de crease in mail dispatched. In coming totals were not complete because figures from bouinwcsi airways were not available. Air Lines Loadings In 1949 United Air lines boards ed 11,127 passengers, Southwest 4 915 and West Coast airlines 4.992. or 21,034 altogether (20, 031 in 1948). During last year 11,050 persons debarked from United planes and 4,778 from West Coast. Pounds air mail dispatched last vear were: United 40,527; Southwest 13,039, and West Coast 7,406 for 60,972 a combin ed total (68,402 in 1948). United unloaded 33,605 pounds and West Coast 7,063. United's outgoing express in 1949 was 6,263 pounds; South west's 7,677 and West Coast's 7,712, a 21,253 total (18,342 in 1948). United brought in 20,071 and West Coast 10,101. Freight sent from Medford's airport was, United 20,525 pounds and Southwest 58,337. or 78,862 in all (35,188 in 1948). United unloaded 43,727. Revenue Told Airport revenue during 1949 was $14,895.53 of which $5,379. 73 was from the airlines. The to tal includes land, building and office rentals 83,036.12; hangar rent $2,380.76; landing fees $4,082.23; fixed base operator's fees $280.58; gasoline and oil concessions $1,190; miscellaneous concessions $191.53; heat and janitor service $625; tie-downs $690.09 and buildings and other items sold $2,419.12. A private hangar subdivision was planned and developed dur ing the year. Leases on this area were granted to Paul Smith and to Medford Air service ior nan gar and shop buildings. Two lots in a block later were leased to C. B. Collins, Chester A. Hub bard and R. A. Skinner for con struction of a three-place T type hangar, which has been completed. Installation of elevated, med ium intensity light on the main runway was completed in August. Proposed projects including a new administration building and high intensity runway lights in conjunction with an instrument landing system were continued into 1950. Greatest single event of 1949 at the airport was the aviation fair on September 18. Not Even Conservative Victory Expected To Return Britain to Ways of Pre-War Days After Five-Year La bo rite Change (Editor's Note: Prime Minister Clem ent R. Attlee announced last niKht that a general eleeUon will be held In Great Britain on Feb. 23. In that election, BrlUlh socialism will be on trial, in the lonowlni dlsoatrn. a mem- ber of the United Press rabies staff who was assigned to London during most of the labor government's five years In power tells how Attlee and his colleagues have changed the whole uritisn way ot me.j By Homer Jenks United Prett Correspondent London, Jan, 11 Britain has had five years of socialism, and never again will be the same. Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee and his labor government have changed irrevocably the British way of life. Not even a conservative victory in this year's general election will bring DacK tne pre-war Britain. It has been a five-year revolu tion, albeit a peaceful one. Prob ably in no similar period in British history has the whole ba sis of the nation's life been al tered so completely. The socialists have brought the individual Briton unparal lelled security from womb to tomb. But they have made him pay for it with the heaviest taxes in the western world and hemmed him in with restrictions hitherto unknown in these en lightened days outside totalitar ian countries. Motheri Get Grant The benevolent government interests itself in the citizen even before birth. If a prospective mother works to help balance the family budget, she gets $5 a there are only 45 who earn more man siv.uuu. Job Dictated For the first time In any demo cratic country, the government also has assumed the power to tell workers what jobs they must take. The w Moreover, the socialist gove ernment has seized ownership of the nation's coal mines, rail ways, airlines, bus lines, road transport, cable companies, gas nnrl nnwpr nlnnlc nnri llio Ranlr ishing to change their jobs OI ,nglBntt 'Mercy Death' Trial Set For February 20 Manchester, N. H., Jan. 11 (U.R) The "mercy death" murder trial of Dr. Hermann N. Sander, Wednesday, January 11, 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Comfortable Hogs Lack In Production Washington, Jan. 11 UR- 41, will open in superior court j The farmer who can make life here February 20, it was an-, "comfortable" for his hogs will nounced today. cut his pork production costs, Clerk of Courts Arthur S.ithe agriculture department re- If returned to power, the la bor government intends to ' na tionalize similarly Britain's steel, shipbuilding, cement and other industries. The conservatives, if must go to government employ' ment exchanges. If they refuse to take one of the several jobs offered them, the government pnn firtA thpm nnri apnrl thpm to jail. i elected, would leave the present Tne government took this uhiiuhhiimu iimusirivs largely power under the direction of I intact, but would stop any fur employment order in an attempt j "'ei- nationalization. They also to channel workers into cssen-1 have said that they will not re tial industries in the nation's I vokc the welfare state program. economic crisis Hcaly said the date had been set by Superior Judge Harold E. Wescolt. Hcaly said "presumably" Wes cott would preside since he is the presiding justice at the cur rent term of Hillsborough coun ty superior court. Sander, who cannot practice pending trial, would face a maxi mum penalty of death on the gallows if convicted of first-degree murder. ported today. The department said tests at its Davis, Calif., experiment station show there is a particular tem perature at which hogs are most "comfortable." It said they gain weight faster on less grain. The tests indicated the most favorable temperature for hogs of 1(16 to 260 pounds is about 60 degrees. Hogs weighing 70 to 144 pounds gained most when the mercury stood at 75. New Chemical Makes Grass Grow Slower Portland, Ore., Jan. 1 2 U.R) An Oregon State college agron omist had good news for per sons who dread summer-time task of mowing their lawns. Virgil Freed, agronomist at the Oregon State college experi ment station, yesterday told the Oregon Weed Growers League convention here that last sum mer he treated his lawn with a new chemical that retarded growth of grass, keeping it green and about two inches high all summer. Freed said the chemical was IPC or isopryl N-phenyl carbamate. Tuberculosis is not Inherited; it is a "catching" disease. QuIcMy Relieve! Dfsfreti of A few drops of Vlcks Va-tro-nol in each nostril work fast to relim head cold dis tress, make breath ing easier. And if usedatflrstsnimeor sneeze. Vn-trrwnnl helps to prevent many colds ueveiopingi Ary ii, follow directions in the package. VICKSVA-TCO-CSl f kwokt-Ds I Note Drags Werk Fasti Alabama Court Upholds Taylor's Fine, Sentence Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 11 (U.R) The Alabama court of ap-1 peals today upheld Sen. Glen Taylor's $50 fine and 180-day jail sentence imposed by a Jef ferson (Birmingham) county cir-! cuit court jury for disorderly j conduct. j Taylor, (D., Ida.,) was convict-; ed last April after being arrest ed while he was campaigning as Henry Wallace's running mate week "for' ISkgl", cket' I Pacific Fleet May Be Strengthened Further Washington, Jan. 11 (U.R) Adm. Forrest P. Sherman indi cated today that the Pacific fleet may be strengthened further. He said at a defense depart ment news conference on the military budget that some changes have been made in plans for distribution of the navy's 238 1 operalional warships between thej Atlantic and the Pacific. Sherman would not say what , shifts are planned. However, he said, the size of the Atlantic and i Pacific fleets "will be readjust-j ed to meet the strategic situation, if necessary." before and after the birth. She gets an additional $11.20 as a special birth grant. A non-working housewife also gets a grant of $11.20, plus $2.80 a week for four weeks. No mother, and indeed no Briton, need worry about doctor or hospital bills. Under the con troversial national health plan, all medical care at home or in the hospital is free. Mothers also get free orange juice from the government for their babies. For each child after her first, a mother gets an extra 70 cents a week until the child becomes of age. Britons Insured The government also insures all Britons for unemployment, injury, sickness and retirement. Every widow gets a pension for up to 13 weeks if she is under 50 years of age, if older, she gets it for the rest of her life. If she has children, an augmented life pension begins at once. If any Briton needs false teeth, spectacles, a toupee or even a hot water bottle, he gets them free under the national health plan. And at death, the government contributes $56 toward his burial expenses. To silDDort this eiaantic wel fare program, the government taxes all incomes over $378 a year at a basic rate of 40 per cent and a sliding scale of surtaxes. Special Deduction A married man with two eh 1- dren earning $2,800 a year pays an annual tax of $504. If he earned $28,000, he would pay $17,717. A single man earning the same salaries would Dav $743 and $17,957 resDectivelv. Then there are special payroll deductions of up to 70 cents a week for every worker to help pay the cost of the national health, insurance and assistance plans, sales taxes ranging from 33 13 to 100 per cent, inherit ance taxes ranging from 1 to 75 per cent, and assorted taxes on beer, liquor apd entertainment. This high taxation, along with the welfare state program and the war-time boost in the lower bracket wages have carried Brit ain a long way toward the so cialist goal of equality. The number of Britons with net Income above S420 a vear has more than doubled since 1939. Those earnine $14 to S28 a week has nearly trebled. But persons with an income after taxes of $2,800 or more has dropped 25 per cent. Fewer than 900 persons now earn more than $11,000 a year after taxes, and Entered Wrong Door He was prevented by police men from entering a Birming ham church through a doorway marked for Negroes only. He was given a $50 fine and a sus pended 180-day sentence. How ever, upon his appeal a circuit court jury gave him a $50 fine and 180 days in jail, not suspend ed. At that time, Taylor vowed he would carry the case all the way to the U.S. supreme court on the grounds that he was ar rested actually for violating Bir mingham's segregation laws, which he said were unconstitu tional. 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