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Stuffed Shirt Bank Receives Homier Look Through Hands of Businessman St. Louis (U.R) An neretic 61-ycar-old business man whose schooling went only as far as the sixth grade is busy giving banks around the country a face-lifting. Joseph Bernard Gander's first professional contact with banks was 38 years ago when he began peddling tellers' cages, lobby desks and other bank fixtures. While making h i a selling rounds, Gander got some impres sions about banks and their op erators which wouldn't wear off. , "The bank atmosphere was all wrong in those days." he recalls. GRADUATION CARDS and a GIFTS ,4 MUIiililli.W,Bff How to Get A Lot More Vacation For A Lot Less Money' An easy way to "balance" the vaca tion budget is offered by Greyhound expense-paid tours. The major costs transportation, hotels, side trips, sight seeing are included in the low price of each tour, and the complete tours are pre-arranged and "made-to-order" to fit the traveler's time and budget. Low costs are illustrated by these examples: 3-day tour to British Colum--bia, only $36.80 . . . Shasta Dam, Shasta Lake, San Francisco, Redwoods, 5 days, $31.30 . . . Redwoods, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, 12 days, $63.55 . . . Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, Los Angeles, San Francisco, 13 days, 582.40. Many others to Western Wonderlands, na tional parks, the East, Canada, Mex ico. M. 6. Becker, Greyhound Agent in Medford, Ore., offers complete infor mation on tours. Phone 2-2202. Or a card to Greyhound Travel Bureau, 509 S.W. Taylor Street, Portland 4. will bring a free tour folder packed with wonderful vacation ideas. ; v : i Jno : MAKE YOUR WITH EVER NEW -LOOKING SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PORCH Always ready for guests . . . so. tiger host! Cheerful, colorful Porch & floor Enamel keeps smiling through seasons of hard wear. It gives you the smart looking, lastingly attractive floors everyone admires, everyone wants! One coat of Sherwin-Williams Porch Y Floor FREE! 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Then Gander began a nation wide tour, selling bankers on his idea of a "new look" for banks: the need of a "homey," cheerful place of business with real cus tomer appeal. His Bank Building and Equip m e n t Corporation began re modeling what Gander terms the "great marble barns horse and buggy banks." Now, with some 2.100 banks either built or remodeled by his firm, Gander has figured promi nently in much of the bank con struction in the United States. A Gander-built project doesn't tolerate such bank building standbys as bars, heavy chande liers, Greek temple-like exter iors (he uses as little marble and bronze as is possible!, high ceil ings. dimly-lit tellers' cages and cuspidors. Ban Removed A Pana, 111., teller once com plained to Gander that the bars around his cage made him feel depressed. Now Gander's banks have the tellers working behind counters that reach 13 inches at I the top. The teller conduct' his business with the customer through glass windows instead of bars. j Bv carefully blending eye , pleasing color schemes with i brightly-lighted interior layouts. Gander says his banks have a "living room atmosphere. Nor are the bank executives cloister ed in drab, secluded quarters any more. Gander has them working in modernized, air-conditioned offices out in the open where they readily can be seen and contacted by the public. Gander says his "new look" project has met with almost uni versal acclaim since the war be cause "bankers are learning at last that cheerful quarters are not only desirable, but are a com petitive necessity." Dead line Sunday Ctoulfled la Noon Saturday!. PORCH SHOUT & FLOOR ENAMEL Boamel does i solid covering job. Ic wishes easily ... retains that "freshly piloted" CI CD appearance... standi up Tl Uw under the roughest kind I of wear! Give your floors I this 'carpet' of paint now! Sherwin-Williams WlilOUSEPAIlIT GIVH YOUR HOME nn mmnmt K ?? 0F BEAUTYI W MR. L. Box 5 14 Representatives Of Counties Tell Tourist Planning Members of the Grants Pass and Josephine County Chamber of Commerce and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce got together here at the Medford hotel yesterday noon to exchange information on the tourist at tractions in the two counties and decided that the meeting was so successful there should be sim ilar gatherings held at regular intervals. A delegation of eight Jo sephine county chamber mem bers here was headed by Charles McLean, who reminded the group that this area is the focal point for vacationists looking for mountains, trees and water assets that are available in abun dance in the Rogue valley. He said the Chambers of Commerce in the two counties should fos ter loop trips around the valley that would give visitors some idea of the remarkable diversi fication of attractions offered here. Outline Program John Saider and Ray Clark of the tourist committee of the Jackson county chamber out lined the widespread invitation al and public information pro gram that has been undertaken by the local group. E. C. Ferguson, managing ed itor of The Mail Tribune and one of the leaders of the movement to establish a public museum in Jacksonville, reviewed the his tory of the campaign that has fi nally resulted in the founding of a repository for southern Ore gon's historical treasures in the old Jackson county courthouse. Following the luncheon, the group traveled to Jacksonville where members of the Gold Rush jubilee committee gave them a special preview of the museum. The visitors expressed amazement at the progress that has been made in restoring the old building to its original beauty. Favor Sex Education In Minnesota School Minneapolis, Minn. (U.R) Min nesota parents of grade and high school age children favor sex education in schools two to one, a poll conducted by the Minnea polis Sunday Tribune showed. Sex education found greater acceptance among Minnesotans with children now in school than among others, but the same per centage definitely opposed it in both classes. Dead line Suna.r Clasained la at Nnon Saturdaya. "HELLO"! C. JOHNSON Central Point Outside House Paint IIP FvfSSl DEFY EGYPTIAN KING Cllmaxins a round-the-world dispute In which they defied the royal wrath of King Farouk of Egypt, Princess Pathia (far right) and her commoner husband, Rlftd Ohalt. are shown after they were wed In a Moslem ceremony In San Francisco. With the couple is Queen Mother Nazil. They were wed In a clTll ceremony some time ago and the King has been applying royal pressure to prevent the Moslem wedding. Lucille Ball Loses Jewelry to Prowlers Chicago. June 2 (U P.) Movie Actress Lucille Ball told police today that prowlers invaded her hotel suite and made off with S6.000 in jewelry. Her husband. Band Leader Desi Arnaz. said the thieves ap parently used a passkey to enter the suite in the Ambassador East hotel while the couple was ab sent last night. The theft wasn't discovered until litis morning. Arnaz paid 0the thieves took a 40-carat aqua i marine ring, which was Arnaz's I engagement ring to Miss Ball, a 62-carat aquamarine pendant, a gold choker chain, gold earrings, and other valuables but passed up a mink coat and several items of costume jewelry. Obliging Stork Spaces Deliveries Perfectly Robinson, 111. (U.R) The stork timed his deliveries perfectly for two busy clerks at McCoy's shoe store. Bob Hamilton had to leave his customers early on a Saturday morning. He came back just in time to relieve Leo Vicira, whose wife was having a baby at the same clinic. Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Vieira shared a double room during their confinement. -tJCAf POl - fjS pi."""" 2 payCES - WAS USED TO i aSE? Maw wac Planes H I , iNrvc- v.ER made of Jn I i frQ $4j 150 lf Ml Sixth NEW SUMMERTIME HOURS 9 a.m. to Midnight Every Day 0 CLOSED SUNDAYS Ml Jl (Arm Ttltpholo) j Prehistoric Burial Locations in Europe Singcn. Germany (U.R) The recent discovery of a nearly 4,0U0-year-old human skeleton has furnished proof of human settlement here from the early Stone Age to shortly before the Roman conquests. Dr. Wolfgang Kimmig, chief of the slate bureau for prehis toric research in Freiburg, said the discovery had "unanticipated scientific importance." ' The discovery was made near Lake Constance, together with the excavation of ten other an cient graves. Only Ones of Kind According to experts the ex cavation sites here are the only ones in central Europe through which human history since 4000 B. C. can be traced with con tinuity. The 4.000-year-old Bronze Age skeleton, most recently found, is that of a woman. She had been buried in a sitting position, fac ing east and had a ring, neck lace, a large needle, and two ankle-hoops, all made of bronze, with her in the grave. The other burial places re vealed urns dating back 3000 years. Estimates released by the cen sus bureau show that the popula tion of the United States, includ ing members of the armed serv ices overseas, totaled 150,183, 000 on November 1, 1949. Sitka Spruce ATLAS OF ALU WOODS - l OP ZPZVCZ l "STRONGEST WOOD lis THf WORLD FOR. ITS WCirSHT ift ITtOk P!Z.UCE -61 ANT Of ALL vHiCH&KOwsiNweffrettN OH.E&0 AMD WASWINSTON-TMIS WOODI BUILD PLANES FOR. TWO WOULD WARS - HAS CaUNjTLE55 PEACf TIMS USES LIKE IN PIANO SOUNDIN BOARDS AND WOODENWARB. ID and Bartlett Friday. June i, 1930 $15,000 Awaits Union Ex-Head in Pensions Chicago (U.R) The AFL Meat Cutters and Butcher Workman's Union wants to get in touch with Michael Donnelly to give him $15,000 in back pensions. Patrick E. Gorman, the union's secretary-treasurer, said Don nelly' a former president of the union, was last heard from six years ago at San Francisco. Donnelly, now in his 70s, was president of the union from 1898 to 1905. In 1904 he led the union on its first general national strike. In a subsequent strike Donnelly was beaten, Gorman said, and the union was out of touch with him from 1905 to 1916, when he turned up at Fort Worth, Tex. So far as is known, Gorman said, he has no living relatives. Gorman said Donnellv, in ad dition to the $15,000 cash, would be put on a $3,000-a-year pen sion for life. Prince Charles Will Exercise in Private London, June 2 (U.R) Prince Charles, the 18-month-old son of Princess Elizabeth, does his romping in private. 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