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Friday, Deeftmber 10, 1934 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE alesmeDn OEreatisig ProtBlemim Bedford Itinerant magazine subscrip-. with few if any exceptions, his tion sales crews have become a real problem and headache in Medford, according to Don Mc Neil, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. During the past 11 months, McNeil said, he has compiled a file of information and com plaints about subscription solici tors which measures two inches thick. He is now preparing a de tailed report based on this infor mation for use of the chamber, and will make it available to the city council. Police Helpless The police here are helpless to protect citizens from those mag azine solicitors who are unscru pulous or dishonest, or who con stitute nuisances, McNeil added, unless some overt and illegal action provides the basis for a citizens criminal complaint. Medford has no ordinance which bans or controls the activities of transient door-to-door salesmen. A few years ago, an organiza tion called the Central Registry, to which most magazine sub scription firms belonged, was organized as an industry self- policing agency, McNeil report ed, but has apparently failed to some extent in its regulatory at tempts. $100 Per Day Crews passing through Med ford usually consist of five peo ple, McNeil said, and stay from four to six days or longer, and on an average receive some $100 per day per crew, as a mini mum. McNeil pointed out that magazine subscriptions can be obtained for the same prices di rectly from the magazine them selves, or from resident dealers. McNeil pointed out that every time a magazine crew is in town, National Office For Mrs. Carpenter Sought by Board Mrs. Alfred S. V. Carpenter was nominated for membership on the national board of direc tors of the American Red Cross by the Jackson jcounty chapter's board at a meeting here Thurs day noon. Mrs. Carpenter, long active in Red Cross affairs, has been a member of national Red Cross committees, and frequently has attended national Red Cross an nual meetings. Mrs. Frank Fairweather, who presided in the absence of chair man Eugene Thorndike, report ed on a recent meeting of Red Cross workers in Roseburg. Most of the meeting, she said, was devoted to a discussion of volun teer workers how to recruit, train and retain them. Caliber High She stated the caliber of workers and their training and general qualifications in the Jackson county chapter are far above' the average in other areas. Seth Bullis reported that in a recent discussion with supervi sory personnel at Camp White, he was informed that the Red Cross workers from the local chapter were the most efficient ones, and that their services and aid to disabled veterans there has been far above average. The action of a committee headed by Jack Crawford, in purchasing a 1955 Ford station wagon for use by the chapter was approved. The vehicle has been in service about two weeks. office and that of the police have had calls complaining of rudeness, or of "fishy" stories told by the solicitors. Cites Instance A recent instance recounted by McNeil involved a 76-year old woman who had just receiv ed a small social security check. When visited by a solicitor, she was persuaded to sign it over to him for some $39 worth of sub scriptions. The amount of change she received was in question, and she also was left with the understanding that she was pur chasing some cosmetics which she could use for Christmas presents, she said. No receipt was given her, she claimed. She apparently had been "high-pressured" into the transaction. The police picked up the lead er of the crew, but he refused to return her check, and officers said there was nothing illegal with which they could charge him. He was released. The Cen tral Registry and the chamber are making attempts to clear up the matter and have the money returned. In another instance, a young ster was persuaded to forge a rjame to a check for a solicitor, but here again there was no ba sis for a charge against the so licitor. In other instances there have been reports of petty thiev ery by solicitors, as well as gen eral unpleasantness. What is Solution? What the solution to the prob lem may be, McNeil was not prepared to say. But he did point out that cities which have a type of ordinance which origi nated in Green River, Wyo., and is known as the "Green River Ordinance," have had consider able success in controlling the activities of itinerant salesmen. He said what is needed is not action after complaints are made, but something to prevent the kind of activity which brings the complaints. Meanwhile, McNeil urged ev eryone who is approached by a magazine salesman to check with the chamber office to see if the crew is registered there, as is provided in the Central Registry agreement. REFUSING TO GIVE UP DOLL, Felicia Delgado Gomez, 10, holds it and her baby, which weighed 5 pounds 12 ounces at birth in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. Tot was born by Caesarian section, Is thriving.' With Felicia is her mother. (International) As We Live Angry Words Should Not Be Put on Paper It is never safe to put angry thoughts on paper. That is what the young woman who wrote the following letter is finding. She says: (Q) "I have been going steady with a young man for a year and I love him very much. However, he makes me so angry at times that I can hardly control my temper. He thinks he is a lady-killer and likes to flirt with the girls. Well, the other night was the last straw. , He took me io a dance and found a pretty lit tle thing he had never seen before. So, he spent all eve ning with her, leaving me high an dry. I was so angry that I hardly spoke to him on the way home. Then I sat down and let him have it in a letter. I am sure I hurt his pride, as I haven't heard a word from him since and he usually calls me several limes a day. Should I write and apologize, or just wait and let him get over it?" (A) What makes you so sure Dr. Hurlock New York U.R) Announce ment was made today of the election of Frank H. Bartholo mew as president and general manager of the United Press suc ceeding Hugh Baillie who be; comes chairman of the board. By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. that your friend will "get over" what you said to him in your letter or that all you have to do is say "I'm sorry" and he will gladly come back to you? Have you ever thought that that your let ter may have been the final straw for him too? - No one man, woman, or child likes to read unpleasant things about himself or herself. They always see so much worse on paper than they do when spoken. And the reader has no come-back, as the listener has. Because you are seething with pent-up rage when you wrote that letter, the chances are that you said even more than you would have said face-to-face. But the damage is done. The chances are that you and he will never be on the same footing as you were before, even though you may resume your friendship. He has probably pigeon-holed you in his mind as a "shrew" and has no further thoughts of marrying you,, even if he had such thoughts before. While this may be a bitter pill for you to swallow now, you should be glad that it happened. Hem i ng way, Others Officially Awarded 1954 Nobel Prizes Stockholm (U.R) The Swed ish Academy formally awarded the 1954 Nobel prize for litera ture to Ernest Hemingway today as "one of the great authors of our time." Four other Americans and two Germans collected the three other Nobel prizes awarded this year. Dr. Linus Paulings, Pasadena, Calif., received the chemistry prize. The medical award went jointly to a three-man American polio research team, Drs. John F. Enders and Thomas H. Weller of Boston, and Frederick C. Rob bins of Cleveland. ' German professors Max Born and Walter Bothe shared the physics prize. v All the winners except Hem ingway and Bothe attended in person the colorful presentation ceremony at Stockholm's Con cert Hall. King Gustaf Adolf presented the awards. .Hemingway is one of "the swiftly rising new authors from the United States whose names we now recognize as stimulating signals" on the literary horizon, Dr. Anders Oesterling, perma nent secretary of the Swedish Academy said. John Moors Cabot, U. S. am bassador to Sweden, accepted the gold medal, leather-bound diploma and $35,066 tax-free award on behalf of Hemingway, who is recuperating in Cuba from injuries suffered in two plane crashes in Africa. Prof. S. Gard hailed the re search started in 1949 by Enders, Weller and Robbins to cultivate polio virus in test tube culture of human tissue. Frontiers of Science Prof. Gunnar Haegg praised Pauling for workng on the "frontiers of science" in his re search into the nature of chemi cal bond and its application to A man who likes to think of himself as a "lady-killer" is cer tainly not promising husband material. And, from this experi ence, you should have learned a lesson about writing letters that wjll help you in your future romances. . (Copyright 1954, General Features Corp.) the study of ,the structure of complex substances. - - "We chemists are keenly aware of the influence and stim ulation of your pioneer work," Haegg. said : to the lanky Cal if ornian who was present with his , wife, Ava, their four chil dren and his daughter-in-law. Although the prize for litera ture is given for a writer's total work, Oesterling made it clear Hemingway's short novel "The Old Man and the Sea" carried the main weight. Timberline Lodge Bookkeeper Killed Rhododendron -1XU.R) Wil liam Cade, 38-year-old book keeper at Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood, was burned to death here early 'yesterday when five-room summer home was de stroyed by fire caused by an oil heater explosion. - Volunteer firemen and forest service crews managed to pre vent the flames from spreading to three , other buildings nearby but were unable to save the building's lone occupant, i Cade, a former employe of overseas construction firms, had a wife and two children in Paris. Individual prospectors have made nearly all the important new uranium discoveries in the United States, says the National Geographic Society. 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