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M EDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, .1954 Pages 1-6 November Job Seekers Increase 5200 Over Figure of Year Ago Salem U.R) Job seekers in creased by 10,300 in November, but the 40,700 total estimated by the State Unemployment Com pensation Commission Tuesday was 5200 below the figure on Dec. 1, 1953. Most of the improvement over last year came from western timber districts where activity remained strong despite seasonal limitations. 17 Report Decreases Of the state's 26 employment offices, 17 reported decreases from a year ago, eight had in creases and one remained the same. Every area noted more un employed than on Nov. 1, and Hood River, Salem and Toledo more than doubled last month's figures. "The Portland metropolitan area reported 3000 more without work than a month before and 600 more than a year ago. Most of the job gains over 1953 came from Corvallis, Lebanon,' Eu gene, Coos Bay, Toledo, Grants Pass and Roseburg. Seasonal increases in unem ployment resulted in payments to workers advancing to $1,486, 847 in November, nearly 40 per cent higher than the previous month and $49,209 more than in 1953. It was the 38th consecu tive month in which benefits ex ceeded the similar period a year before. Highest Payment Year November's payments brought the total for. 11 months to $21, 893,800, higher than ever before recorded for a calendar year. More than a third was paid out by the Portland office, while Eugene and Salem added $3, 144,426 to the total. jWorkers who had gone to other states after holding Oregon jobs drew $1,984,102. More Than 10, Drivers Convicted During November Salem (U.R) More than 10, 000 drivers arrested for traffic violations in Oregon during No vember were subsequently con victed, according to Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. Driver's licenses of 545 'motor ists were suspended during the month 131 upon court recom mendation, 137 by discretionary action of the State Department, and 307 after court convictions on traffic offenses calling for mandatory license suspension. 'Repeaters', Suspended Newbry - said his office sus pended 29 persons whose driv ing records branded them as re peaters." Three drivers lost their licenses because they were at fault in fatal "accidents. . . . In addition, Newbry's office sent 632 letters to motorists ad vising them their driving records had been placed in the repeater file due to too-frequent convic tions or accident involvement. Any further entries, they were told, would result in being called in for an interview with driver licensing officials. Last month 104 such nterviews were con ducted throughout the state. About 500 cubic feet of air enters the human nose every 24 hours. jh- CHAPMAN'S Q SSjr WySk SOLITAIRE . 3 $150 Weekly I .Mjmm 8-DIAMOND PAIR $14950 $2.75 Weekly , "17 Jmh 17 Jewefe $2995 2995 $1.00 WEEKLY A Bargain! Was $49.50 $1.00 WEEKLY Expansion Band Free with Purchase Prices'do not include tax , Wednesday SPECIAL O Costume Pins Earrings, Etc. 3f"T0 OPEN 'TIL 9 urn QED QUE) We Give . Northern Stamps JEWELERS 109 EAST MAIN O PHONE 2-5623 SITTING ON TOP OF WORLD is Anthony White, 53, Portland, Ore., mailman, after winning title of male crochet enarapion of 1954. He won free trip to New York and $100 for feat. Draped over his shoulders is winning entry, a tablecloth. (International) New Rules Designed To Speed Handling Of Cases by Courts Salem U.R) A new set of rules concerning the administra tion of Circuit Courts, designed to speed up disposition by the Oregon Supreme Court and sent to all Oregon circuit judges, ac cording to Chief Justice Earl C. Latourette. ' ; . A committee appointed; by the chief justice drew up the set of rules later approved by the Supreme Court. On the commit tee were Paul R. Harris of Eu gene, William - M: ' McAllister of Bedford, Circuit Judge William G. East of Eugene, Circuit Judge Eugene - K. Oppenheimer , of "Multnomah county, A. S. Grant of Baker, Nicholas Jauregey of Portland, Alva C. Goodrich of Bend, Francis Marsh of Mc Minnville, , Glenn R. Jack - of Oregon City, immediate past president of the Oregon State Bar, and Jonel C. Hill, adminis trative assistant to the chief justice. Under the new rules each cir cuit judge must submit a month ly tally of undecided cases, mo tions and demurrers made up on the last judicial day of the month.1" 3 ; ' : ' - -Three Months Deadline . - .... Another rule provides that cir cuit . judges must - decide all matters of - judicial 'business ex cept motions, within . "three months after submission unless excused by the chief justice for illness or other good cause. -' Motions made to the circuit courts must ' be decided within one month after submission un less a judge is excused for cause by the chief justice. ' The rules further provide that county clerks must submit quar terly reports on all circuit court cases, ; filed" and still pending. The report is to be mailed to the administrative assistant to .the chief justice not later than the 24th day of the month following the. end of the quarter.. Law Gives Authority.: The new rules form a part of the supervision of the Circuit Court authorized by the 1953 Legislature in the law which gives the chief justice specific authority to appoint pro tern judges and other powers to speed up court work. Chief Justice Latourette ap pointed Jonel C. Hill as his ad ministrative assistant and Hill has checked court records in all judicial districts in the past year. Chief Justice Latourette said the act was working very well and cited the fact that , the Circuit Courts in Multnomah county, 14 months behind in hearing of cases a year ago,- now are only seven months ' behind. " , Besides naming temporary judges-to help break the-legal log jam, Chief Justice Latourette has assigned circuit judges with light case loads to Judicial . dis tricts with heavy; case loads, to help in the program to break the log jams in the c6urts. -. . . ". -, -a French traders . and mission aries settled in ; Wisconsin in abbut 1670. r :,..', I Most Juvenile Briton's View New York (U.R) Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Mont gomery believes school teachers should have the authority to whip unruly students. Montgomery said here recent ly "a good beating with a cane can have a remarkable sense of awakening on the mind and con science of a bad boy." . : Most American experts on juvenile problems disagree. Here's what a UP check of sev eral authorities showed. Not Used at Boy's Town " Msgr. Nicholas Wegner, direc tor of Boy's Town: "Corporal punishment is not used at Boy's Town and I don't think it would do much good. Many of the boys here have had too much of that already."' Dr.' Martha M. Eliot, chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau: ". . . He (Montgomery) is taking a position that our country has few advocates among specialists State- May Feel Christmas Tree Crop Shortage Salem (U.R) Oregon, one of the nation's principal sources of Christmas trees, may feel a shortage of the decorative crop this year. V State Forester . George Spaur said there were several reasons for the short supply. Indiscrim inate harvesting is no. longer permitted now that landowners realize the value of young trees; commercial cutting on national forests is on the basis of competi tive bidding and those contracts were let more than a month ago. Higher stumpage: prices have dis couraged many speculators. Many Requests Received ' Spaur said his office has re ceived a number of requests for names of sources of trees for the Christmas trade in the east and south. More.than 2,000,000 acres of timberlands in western Ore gon are now dedicated to tree farms and Christmas tree cutting is held to a tight minimum, he said. Retailers; who must have well formed trees to be successful in the-highly competitive down town .trade,' are reluctant to buy "orchard run" trees at the cur rent price of 50 cents each or more. Spaur said the shortage has started a trend . toward Christmas tree ' plantations . de voted solely to the planting and harvest of small trees for the hol iday trade. . STATUTE FOR HONUS ' Barrie.Vt. 4U.R) A21-ton granite foundation nearing com pletion here will serve as the base for a statue of professional baseball's great shortstop, Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh Pi rates. The bronze statue of -Wagner to be placed on the base will weigh about two tons. 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Hendrickson (R-N. J.), chairman of subcom mittee on juvenile delinquency: "I have great respect for the military genius of Viscount Montgomery but it is clear .that he has occupied his mind with military matters to the exclusion of a full understanding of the many facets of juvenile delin quency." " , Bandleader Bob Crosby, whose three boys recently 'ran away from home: 'T prefer to talk things out with my children vid I believe spankings should only be the last resort. Talking it over has worked fine with us. I never . have really paddled them." ; ' .' 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