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0 uTCFnicl1ODS Monday, February 27, 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Iff,? v w J l' J EMERGENCY MEETING Labor Party leaders and Cabinet members leave No. 10 Downlng-st in Lon don alter an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Attlee following the Party's narrow escape from defeat in the British general election. Left to right: Hugh Dalton, former Chancellor of the Exchequer; George Tomllnson, minister of education: Harold Wilson, president of the Board of Trade, and Georg Isaacs, labor minister. Others are unidentified. Nickel Losing Folding Money Use Gaining Bv Raymond H. Wilson United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Feb. 27 U.R The nickel is losing its popular ity. Suffering from the effects of postwar inflation, the five-cent piece no longer pays for a sub way ride in New York, a bus ride in Washington or a cup of coffee in many restaurants. The nickel, however, is not the only coin that isn't being used as much as formerly. Gov ernment figures show that all coins are declining in use and "folding money" is gaining. Peak In 1945 Even the advent of retail sales taxes and parking meters in the past 1 years has failed to halt the postwar decline in coin usage. The United States mint deliv ered only 149,064,000 nickels to banks in fiscal 1949. The peak was 223,870,000 in 1945 and the number has been dropping since. v Production of other coins is off even more. Banks required only a third as many pennies in fiscal 1949 as they did four years earlier. Sixty million half-dollars were shipped out by the mint in 1945; in 1949 only 11, 455,000 were dispatched to banks. Meanwhile, the bureau of en graving and printing has been hard pressed to keep up with the demand for currency. In 1947, bureau presses rolled out 113, 000,000 sheets of currency with 12 bills on each sheet. In 1948 the figure jumped to 124,000, 000, and last year the number rose to 140,000.000. New Coins Asked Despite the reduced usage of coins, congress has been asked this year to approve at least five new coins: Three cent, six and a quarter cent, seven cent, seven and a half and 12'4 cent pieces. However, treasury department officials take a dim view of the ideas, particularly in regard to the fractional currency. The fractional coins, they maintain, would cause more headaches than its worth. Cash registers, change mak ers vending machines and mil lions of dollars worth of calcu lating machines would have to be materially altered or scrapped. Businessmen and the public would be so annoyed by the coins "they probably wouldn't fool with them," according to Lejand Howard, assistant director of the mint. Would Be Handy He agrees that the coins would come in handy for such things Relieve distress almost tnsitmt Be sure to use . stmt wm$m .SSSiA IT PAYS TO PAINT IN THE FALL EtlAMELOID When your detorotiv schema In good loile, uie Enameloid. It gloss finishes for adding new room in your home. Walls . . . niture. Sparkling, duroble and agcin and again. Popularity; as transit systems, where to kens, representing fractional amounts of money are used, but he does not think the public wants them. Secretary of Treasury John W. Snyder has not expressed any preference one way or the oth er. He said that if the proposals reach an advanced stage, his de partment will huddle and decide what should be done. But. as an experienced banker himself, he concedes that the fractional coins could cause plenty of trouble at first. As for the declining use of coins, one treasury worker said it is hard to know what to expect from the American public. When New York city subway fares were Increased from a nickel to a dime, he said, the treasury was all set to increase the supply of 10-cent pieces in the New York area. "But what happened?" he asked. "The demand for nickels in New York started going up and has been going up ever since. We're still trying to figure that one out." New Lions Club To Get Charier Here April 3rd Presentation of a charter to the newly formed Medford Cra ter Lion s club is set for April 3, according to Secretary Frank Knox, who said 38 men have signed as charter members and that it is hoped to have more than 40 when the charter closes on March 7. Gordon Hudson is president of the new organization wnicn is meeting at noon on Tuesday at the Colonial inn. Officers Named Other officers are Mannville Heisel, first vice president; Al bert C. Wonderly, second Vice president; Floyd Barnes, third vice president; Lloyd Evans, treasurer; Jack Ingram, Lion tamer; John Bacon, tail twister, and Scott McLaren, Morris Far rell, Tom Limpo and Cliff Horn, directors. Knox emphasized that the club has all new members and does not represent a split in the older Medford Lions club. He said that the new club will not have an organized program until the charter is closed. Gordon H. Smith, Lions inter national special representative, is organizer of the group. He has been assisted by Larry Neely, Medford Lion. GOES FOR BEER Providence (U.R) -Brown un iversity's mascot has outgrown his job. Butch Bruno X, a bear, got so big that he was donated to the Roger Williams park zoo. Butch's particular delight is a bottle of beer with a bit of honey added. Cse Mall Tnnuna Want Ads colli for smart, modern colon li the professional's choke of Interest to very woodwork . . . fur ss easy to clean 0OS Jkm Qf, fbLM I 1 1 L (Acme Radio-Teleph'-to In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS After breaking diplomatic re lations with Bulgaria the other day. we now FREEZE THE AS SETS held by Bulgarian, Hun garian and Romanian citizens in the United States. All three countries are communist satel lites. It's a grim road we are trav eling. There is no use kidding ourselves. We have traveled this road before and usually it has led to war. Sooner or later. IN London, Prime Minister At lee says his Labor govern ment will carry on, even though it has perhaps the smallest par liamentary majority in a cen tury. (As this Is written, the Labor majority appears to have been whittled down to about nine. Morgan Phillips, secretary of the Labor party, said yesterday majority of 30 is the MINIMUM with which any single-Darty British government can effective ly get through its major poli cies). Premier Atlee announced his decision to carry on after a 75- minute emergency session of his cabinet. It means that the Labor party will form another govern ment even at the ."ontinuous risk of being forced into a new elec tion at any time. I ET'S get this- new election - business straiffht- in our minds. In our country, a new con gress is elected for a definite per iod of time. Under the British system, a new parliamentary election is called whenever the parly in power is defeated in par liament on any major issue to which it has committed itself. For example: The Labor party has com mitted itself to nationalism of the steel industry. Before the election, it passed the enabling legislation. It is now obligated to put the nationalizing law into effect. If, in the new parliament, there should be a defection of ONLY A FEW Labor votes, the party would fail to carry through its steel nationalization policy. and there would have to be a new election to choose a new house of commons. JT could come even quicker. The new parliament elected on Thursday will convene next DISH-A-MATIC SUPER-HEATS ITS OWN WATER Bjcloire bnlll-la beater booitt household water to ITV-the seem of DISH-A- MATICi better dishwashing. Complete!? AUTOMATIC! Waihei, rinses, drie. dflhtt spotlessly clean with one setting of the dial Hith-wlocity SWIRLPOOL action rigorouily water-icrubs erery inch of awry diih. Com- filete washing, thorough tins lia, fofced.air drying girt 700 ipmmuy turn dishes, aiBi.ware, iiiver, pans. y Capacity: trrlee for 6. Sue: 24 z 24 I 36 In. GjLEX. ' s&Z$f-Xj- rpex JOS) rw Foresters Say . . . The whole woodland harvest thinnings plus final crop will bring more money from thinned than from unthinned woods, and in a shorter time. Thinning makes lumber. The last crop may not be as large from a thinned forest but it will have wood of higher lum ber grades in it, bringing better prices. In thinning harvests "crown thinning" will produce best lum ber quality, best prices. "Crown t h i n n i n g," which means taking out tall trees from among tall trees, calls for heav ier logging and risk of consider able damage to the trees that are left. This should be calcu lated when amount of timber to be cut is decided. Crown thinning at a profit can be started sooner than "low thinning" in the stand. Low thinnings are more sim ple and easy to carry through, they do not call for so much technical knowledge as crown thinnings do, and they have less risk of expensive mistakes. Thinnings do not only provide for better growth but they lower the death rata among the best woodland trees, bringing more of them through to a ripe old age for lumber harvest than in na ture's way of letting the trees fight it out. Farm Forest Mainstay The sawlog is the main prod uct of the farm woodland in the long-range harvest, as it is the first product of the industrial forest. This rule will surely hold good for many years to come. The plywood peeler log. the pulp log, the shingle bolt, the fuel log, are side products. Since the 1820s the railroad tie has provided a market for the American farmer with a wood land, and has helped pay for forestry. Hewn ties were the rule through most of the history of the railroads, a time when the farmer was as skilled with the adze as with the ax. Now prac tically all ties are made in the sawmill. The "tie mill" that specializes in this market is one for the farmer with sawtimber on his land to look into. But lumber is the main thing. Most of the wood used in every- Wednesday for organization pur poses. Just before the session, the Labor members will hold a meet ing to re-elect as Attlee their leader and as such the prime minister. On March 6, this new gov ernment's proposed legislative program will be outlined in the traditional speech by the king. (The king will act merely as a traditional mouthpiece, reading the speech that will be prepared for him by the Labor govern ment). The king's speech will have to be debated and voted on If the vote should go against the Labor party program, Att lee (according to British tradi tion) would have to resign and a new parliamentary election like the one of day before yes terday would have to be called. That is to say, the new Labor government is so shaky that it could CRASH within as little as two or three weeks. BY way of summing up the British election result and what it means, it is at least safe to say that while the Conserva tives didn't win a victory the Labor party certainly suffered a defeat. Putting it briefly, too many British voters decided after a five-year trial of it that they arc scared of more socialism. line Mall Tribune Want Ada Oulcg-icroM thhtt, hoi... Sit tht 4hl wit one DISHAMATIC DOES THE REST day building Is lumber from sawlogs. Such building is to logging and tree-growing what bread baking is to wheat harvesting and wheatgrowing. Everyday building, the light construction industry, is the meal ticket 01 lumberman and for ester, and the main hope for the farmer who wants to see money crowing 01, his trees. Timber Threshing foresters think of timber in terms of wheat or corn. It takes a tree crop longer to ripen, of course. Time aside, wheat and wood are both soil crops and both crops are har vested by cutting. Then the logs of the tree are run through the sawmill just as the stems and heads of what are run through the threshing machine. As wheat is made into flour, bread and other food products, so are sawlogs made into lum ber which is worked up into houses and farm buildings. Then, in an ideal state, new food crops are grown on wheat land and new building crops on tree land. Floods may erode the wheat land. Fire may burn the tree land. Poor management in both cases can rob the soil. There are leftovers from the threshing and milling of wheat, and there are leftovers from the logging and milling of trees. Wheat straw and tree brandies are left in the woods. Chaff compares to sawdust. Bread from wheat and houses from trees have a future. Lum ber is a permanent fixture in the American scene. And the sawlog will remain the best crop of the farm woodland. CLAM CHAMPS Seattle. Wash.. Feb. 27 IU.R) Dick Tavjor of Seattle won the third annual clam-eatinc cham pionship contest. He wolfed 277 steamed little neck clams in 10 minutes. V . ? ?s 0 s s O s? s ! o s ? ! Forever Young All That the Name Implies Table Rock Table Rock, Feb. 27 Sunday visitors at the J. S. Richardson home were Miss Marjorie An derson, physical education teach er at Central Point high school; J. M. Dodge, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Dodge of Medford and Mrs. Kobert Read of Reno, Nev. Table Rock road west of the Table Rock store is undergoing some badly needed repairs by county road crews. The road bed was getting into bad shape with the pavement breaking through in many places and leaving deep holes which made driving haz ardous. Wild , ducks are destroying grain crops in the Beagle dis trict, according to reports. The grain crop on one farm has been practically wiped out. Don Wheeler reports the loss of a valuable milk cow. A man looking for pasture for a large number of horses was In terviewing farmers here one day last week, but from last reports was unsuccessful. Next meeting of Table Rock Ladies club will be at the home j of Mrs. Fred Smith Wednesday afternoon, March 3. I Orchard pruning here Is a ! little behind schedule owing to the past stretch of bad weather, j Wnrkmpn nrp hitv nt thr ! Table Rock store where general overhauling and remodeling Is in progress. The seats and table.' for cafe customers are being ar ranged on the fountain side of the room, making it much more nr.,.nn;Ar.l n!..nln nnt ..,111, new icuiua, nrw pctiuv tiiiu un.- orations. A recent arrival is a white and tan female dog of the ter rier breed which may have been lost by some one. probably inten tionally as the dog license dead line is just a head. She Is a friendly little dog and would be a nice pet tur cniuircn, uui wim the bobbed tailed cat that moved in on us and refuses to leave, and our own bunch of cats and others pets, we don't need her. Dead line Sunday Clasalfled ta at N' t Saturdays. anoin and bartUtt (tract PURITAN Two Openings In Navy T. L. 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