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Monday, February 27, 1950
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
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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
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IT PAYS TO PAINT IN THE FALL
EtlAMELOID
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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PURITAN
Two Openings In Navy
T. L. Bartholomew, navy chief
petty officer in charge of the
Medford recruiting station, said
this morning that he has two im
mediate openings for navy en
listment, but that tnose wishing
to take advantage of them must
get in touch with him on or be
For We're Open 24 Hours a Day!
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