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Subscribers To report improper or non-delivery of The Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pjn daily and 10:30 am. Sunday. . r If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. " Medford M news arm s United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1954 Pages 1-6 JBSTribune from Jobless Insured Payrolls in Oregon Drop in First Half Salem U.R) Oregon pay rolls covered by unemployment insurance declined 2.56 per cent in the first half of 1954, com pared with the -previous vear. ac cording to the State Unemploy ment Compensation Commission, but many non-seasonal groups registered increases. Some 18,000 employers covered by the unemployment law reported paying wages of $606,298,467 up to June 30, com pared with $622,206,355 in the same period of 1953 and $593, 539,441 two years ago. Employ ment dropped off even more markedly with every month be low the corresponding period of 1953. June's total of 327,173 cover ed workers was 4.3 per cent be low the mark for the previous jear. lumber Down First half-year payrolls in lumber and logging aggregated $162,423,654, more than $11, 000,000 below the previous year and $3,500,000 under 1952. Be cause of reduced dam activity, construction wages also were below either of the past two years. The 1954 total was $40, 337,852, compared with $42, 300,000 in 1953 and $43,500,000 in 1952. small gains over both of the past two years with increases of about 2 per cent to $25,579,200. Fabricated metals, paper pro ducts and textiles were among manufacturing' activities paying out more wages than before. Thirteen of Oregon's 36 coun ties had bigger payrolls during the first half of the year than in 1953. Most of the gains were in eastern Oregon and other scat tered areas. Best increases came from Sherman county with 23.7 per cent. Curry with 21.2 per cent, Gilliam with 18.7 per cent and Morrow with 15.2 per cent. Many Counties Down Mulnomah county declined less than one per cent to $278, 758,991, about 46 per cent of the state's total a greater propor tion than ever before except during the wartime emergency. Clatsop, Hood River, Polk, Tilla mook, Umatilla, Wheeler and Yamhill counties reported de clines of more than 10 per cent. Jefferson and Columbia also dropped materially. , Douglas county held within a few dollars of the previous half year's high mark to hold third place among the groups. Lane county in second place dropped more than $2,000,000 to $51, 598,479. Coos held fourth place but declined 5.1 per cent and Marion county in fifth place also was down, 6.1 per cent. Christmas trees allowed to stand in a pail of water sweet ened with a cup of sugar: will, gretain freshness man days longer. - - - Policeman Learns Einstein's Political Philosophy But Can't Figure It Out New York UJD A Brook lyn police lieutenant made a friendly wager he could find out what Albert Einstein's political philosophy is. He did. But he's still trying to figure out what it means. Lt. Edward. J. Shea said he was "very honored" to have re ceived a letter from such a "great man" in reply to a letter he had written, and he intends to keep reading the answer for years if necessary :until he gets it figured ot. Einstein Answers Shea asked Einstein to state his beliefs about government. Einstein wrote from his Prince ton home on Nov. 30: "Thank you for your letter of A curious froglike fish of Af rica, the goby, climbs trees to feed on wood ants. Often some gobies climb while others -stay below to nab dislodged victims. YOUR POSTAL CLERK - - - ' 9 November 22nd. A good govern ment resp. constitution sic ab breviation and spacing is is my opinion one which gives the citizen that maximum amount of liberty and political rights as is desirable in his own interest. On the other hand the state has to provide for the citizen per sonal security and a certain amount ,of economic security. This situation necessitates a compromise between those two requirements which has to be found according to circum stances. "Your very sincerely, "Abert Einstein." His Friends Laughed Shea said the question of Ein stein's political beliefs came up at a social gathering last month after the mathematician had stated that he might prefer to be a plumber rather 'than a scientist if he were to start over in today's world. ; Shea, a gray, 38-year-old vet eran of 13 years on the police force, said he suggested the question be put directly to" the scientist. His If riends 'laughed. But Shea thought , that Einstein would answer. He said he wrote Einstein that there had been . a . discussion about his political beliefs and "I felt a man of his stature, who had done so much for the world, should lead a little and make his beliefs known." ' 'Says Something' . : Shea said today , he thought Einstein's answer . might .be., a typical product of "a mathema tician's mind. He says something and you can think, about it. for months and . wonder about it, and suddenly it' may become clear." "I think it's a wholesome and humane type of government he's describing," Shea said. "I disagree with him in . some of the things he's said, but I think he's a fine man and a great man and a kindly old man. I , feel very honored to have received his reply. I am going to keep it carefully for my children." Mil EARLY O DINE at - - - - WORLD FAMOUS micidm nDiEsnm - -- i Dinners Served from 6 p.m. Till 11:30 p.m. . 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