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End of Regulation W Seen To Have Little Sales, Price Effect Washington (U.R) Gqvern ment economists predicted Thursday that removal of install ment buying controls will have "little effect" on sales or prices of automobiles, TV sets and home appliances. They said the Federal Reserve Board's decision to suspend "Regulation W" was based on the belief that consumers will not go on a credit-buying binge, but will continue to pick and choose as they have been doing In the face of high prices and plentiful goods. Can Counter Expectations The "no boom1' forecast from federal experts can directly counter to the optimistic expec tations of many manufacturers and dealers, who have blamed credit controls for their sagging talcs. The initial public reaction also tended to belie the government predictions. Buyers flocked to new and used car lots In many cities soon after the suspension was announced late Wednesday. Newspapers here and elsewhere blossomed out in full-page ad vertisements of automobiles and appliances with "no down pay ment up to 24 months to pay." Builders Attack Encouraged by the suspension of Regulation W, the building In dustry prepared to redouble its attack on the Federal Reserve board's Regulation X, which re quires stiff down payments on houses. But the word from adminis tration and congressional sourc es was that no "major ' relaxa tion of the housing credit rules is in sight. Informed sources said the Fed eral Reserve Board, is "consider ing" modifying the present re quirement of a 50 per cent down payment on homes In the $25,000-and-up bracket. William Fox, Fabulous Film Pioneer, Dies in New York Oregon Grange Tells Results of Preferential Vote Portland (U.R) Oregon State Grange headquarters an nounced here Thursday, all ex cept three officers were elected for new two-year terms In sub ordinate Grange preferential vot ing In April. State Master Elmer McClure, Milwaukie, running unopposed received 6803 votes in winnin second term. Bertha J. Beck, who retired as secretary after serving 32 years, topped a five-candidate field in the race for the three-member executive committee by polling 5498 votes. Luke Reif, Powell Butte, lost his bid for reelection as two Portlanders, Ray Gilwith and Charles Wicklander were elected to the two other posts on the executive board. Wicklander was running for reelection to the board. The only other new officer will be Elsie Wheaton, Coquille, who defeated Ethel Huffman, Milton-Freewater, for lady as sistant steward. Man Pulls Himself Through Pulp Rollers To Save Life Newberg, Ore. flJ.PJ A pulp and paper mill worker was strong enough Thursday to tell how he forced his whole body between pulp press rollers to end his agony when his leg was caught. Norval Haverman, 39, an era- Thursday. Mar " MEDFORO (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN in to the level of his chest. Pushing against the upper roller, Haverman depressed the lower roller. He went on through the press and dropped into the pit below. New York OJ.R) William Fox, 74, fabulous pioneer of the movies who once was master of ' $100,000,000, died Thursday. He got into the movies as the operator of a "nickelodeon" and became a titanic figure in the giant industry that sprung from the early "flickers." But he lost his power and for tune during the depression of the early 30's, became a bankrupt, served a prison sentence for de frauding the government, and died a relatively poor man. Causa Not Told Fox had been a patient for a year at Doctor's hospital, where he died. Cause of death was not disclosed but associates said he had been ill for three years of "a complication of ailments." Fox at one time was said to have been worth $100,000,000. In his first 25 years in the picture-making business, he built the Fox Film Corp. into an em pire that operated 1,100 theaters across the country. In 1930, he retired as head of the film and theater corpora tions which bore his name and sold his holdings for $18,000,000. A number of suits were filed against him almost immediately, Including one for $1,000,000 by the receiver for the Fox Thea tres Corp., another for a similar amount by a Chicago theater and one by a New York attorney for $500,000. Settlement Made In 1941 creditors accepted $895,000 in- settlement of all claims and he was discharged from bankruptcy. But later the government brought a criminal charge that Fox, Federal Circuit Court Judge J. Warren Davis, and the bankruptcy referee, Morgan S. ' Kaufman, conspired to contanv Prisoners Greeted In Jail Performance Baraboo, Wis. (U.R) Two Sauk County jail prisoners had an enthusiastic audience for their "coming-out" performance Wednesday. Sheriff James Hayes and six deputies watched the prisoners saw through their bars before stepping in as the prisoners emerged to "freedom." inate the bankruptcy proceed ings. Fox pleaded guilty and testi fied that he had loaned Davis $27,500 without security and Kaufman was the "go-between" in the arrangement. Fox was sentenced to .a year and a day in prison and was re leased May 3, 1943, after serving less than six months. Conciliator Meets With Bakery Strikers BY UNITED PRESS Federal Conciliator William Hosie was to meet separately with Seattle bakery operators and union officials Friday in at tempts to settle a strike that has shut down major bakeries in sev eral Pacific Northwest cities. Hosie said he would try to in duce both parties to resume nego tiations. The Bakers and Confec tionery Workers' union AFL went on strike last Friday to en force demands for days off Sat urday and Sunday, instead of Saturday and Tuesday. Meanwhile, in Portland, the Office of Price Stabilization ruled that the price of bread could not be increased to pass shipping costs along to the con sumer. OPS officials said retail ers could raise bread prices only if costs from processors go up. Agency 'Clarifies' Duplicate Copies Washington (U.R) The Mu tual Security Agency has sent this "clarification of duplica tion" message to some of its customers: "Please note? If you receive duplicate copies of this circular. it Is unavoidable because of the refinement of our small busi ness circular mailing list. If you requested, in filling out our mailing list request form, more than one of the groups covered by this circular, you will re ceive duplicates. This does not mean you will regularly receive duplicates. This duplication is the exception rather than the rule. Dead line Sunday Claaalfleds la at noon Saturdaya. FOOD MARKET Jacksonville, Oregon - Phone 231 3Bun.10c FRESH RADISHES GREEN ONIONS FRESH CRISP LG. HEADS LETTUCE 2 for 17c SWEET, JUICY ORANGES 13-LB. QQ MESH BAG 07C FROZEN FOODS - BEVERAGES Southern Maid Brand Colored Oleo 'b 23c FARM FRESH, GRADE A Large EGGS doz.49c Yes, Your Dollar Makes More Cents Hera PRICES GOOD FRIDAY and SATURDAY, MAY 9 and 10 Skunk Smell Proves Undoing of Fox Houston, Tex. (U.R) A fox that approached Dale Barnum and Roy Robinson as they walk ed through a wooded area of Houston was at first believed to be rabid. He ran right up to the two men "and seemed to be dazed as he went past." Barnum hit the animal with a knapsack and rolled him into a ditch. The fox got up and continued following the pair down a trail. Finally Barnum clubbed him to death. Then the two men realized the fox carried a strong odor of skunk. "He apparently had been ar guing with a skunk and was just dazed by the smell didn't.know what he was doing when he walked up to us," Barnum said. Homely Philosophy f'jPays in Dividends - Dallas, Tex. iu.ra Momeiy philosophy has paid dividends for Hulon C. Robinson, wHo runs h" parking lot. Four years ago, Robinson each morning started writing a few lines of philosophy on a green blackboard at the entrance to his lot. It might be some such saying as "The human is the only ani mal that can be skinned twice." When the sayings proved popular and steady readers start ed stopping, he continued his messages with such as: "Many a man goes broke trying to bluff with two queens,'' and "He who laughs lasts." The customers started looking forward to a new sign every morning. Later, when Robinson was transferred to another lot and dropped the signs, the protest caused his employer to return him to his old location with instructions to "put those signs back up. Robinson believes one of his most successful quotations is: "Be friendly with the folks you know. If It weren't for them, you'd be a total stranger," ploya of the Spaulding Pulp and Paper company, suffered crush ing chest injuries, a pelvis frac-1 ture, sciatic nerve injury, paraly-! sis of the right leg and a hemor- j rhage of one lung. With the aid of his physician, 1 Dr. C. A. Bump, Haverman told this story from his hospital bed: j He fell against the press Mon day and the webbing pulled his leg between the rollers. Grow-1 ing weak from pain, he swung j his left leg up and put it, too, between the rollers. 1 he press seized his body and dragged him North Dafcofa Man Run Over by Own House Velva, N. D. U.P.) Henry Herr, 60, stepped out his front door and was run over by his house Wednesday. Herr fell beneath the wheels of a trailer which was being used to move the house. He was killed instantly. Obliging Filipino Has Double Honeymoon Singapore (U.R) Goh Lye Hook, an obliging fellow, en joyed a double honeymoon Thursday. He married Sim Ah Bee to grant his father's last wish and also wed Choo Kha Ngor because his brother jilted her and she had no other means of support. More than 300,000 properties of many types of land and build ings in England, including 52,000 dwellings, owned by British.rail ways are rented to employees, the total rentals amounting to 5,000,000 pounds a year. Daily Weather Report FORECASTS Mm, ford and vicinity: Consldwrnhlf cloudiness tonight and Friday. Cooler tonight and warmer Friday; low to night .18, high Friday 65. Western Oregon: Partly cloudy to night and Friday; coler tonight, with low 36-46, and a little warmer Fri day with high 64-74 except about 55 on immediate coast. LOCAL DATA Temperature year ago today: hi c nest 74: Lowest . Total monthly precipitation 1 Inch Excesi for the month .72 inch, Total precipitation since September 1, 1351. 19.43 inches. Relative humidity 4:30 p.m. yester day on-v; :ju a.m. xoaav hh'. 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