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STUDENTS RIOT Uniformed Salonika Greece, where demonstration tove be7 f staled againthe Great Britain over U.S. support of a British move to postpon? ronSdeSlSlSl' union of Cvnrus and fireppo Poii rr-.r?.. voaeration of the demonstrations in riot-torn Unordered-Mail Racketeers Time: Recipients Under No Washington U.R) That lu minous necktie or cardboard wallet you find in your Christ mas stocking tomorrow may be a holiday memento of how to get clipped for Christmas. The Washington Better Busi ness Bureau said today that the unordered - mail racketeers are busier this time of year than Santa's elves. They work year- round, but reach their full flow er in the open handed yule sea son. Bureau Manager Leland S McCarthy said their gimmick is the package of merchandise you did not order and do not want With the package, or sometimes later, comes a dunning letter insisting that you pay up or re turn the merchandise, Millions of Dollars . . , McCarthy said there is no way to tabulate how much money this dodge milks from the pub- PERMANENT WAVES From COMPLETE CUT and SET Anyway you desire it ... CRATERIAN BEAUTY SHOP 41 South Central Phone 2-4830 v THE .CALIFORNIA OREGON POVJER COMPANY A Western Company owned and operated by Watem People cities of Cyprus. " tcur gas to Dreax up dwindling lie. But he figured it easily amounts to millions of dollars a year, country-wide. In the first place, McCarthy said, the goods are invariably overpriced. They have to be, for the shipper must charge enough to cover the packages which are neither bought nor returned. Few persons have time, in the midst of wrapping their gifts for Concrete Builders Get Wage Increase Portland (U.R) A six-cent hourly pay increase for 4000 of the state's building laborers was announced yesterday by the Concrete Contractors' Associa tion and the Portland chapter of the Associated General Contrac tors. The agreement, , according to Wilford C. Long, secretary of the two associations, provides that the present contract shall be the basis for the new one, which is effective Jan. 1, and runs to Jan. 1, 1958. Negotiations would be re opened at specified dates before termination of the agreement for review of the wage scale. A joint health and welfare fund, costing less than 10 cents an hour, is also provided under the pact. - Present base pay for building laborers is $2.17 an hour. YOUTH KILLED Oregon City (U.R) Bruce Oliver Moore, 17, Oregon City, was killed early today in a high way accident about one mile east of Tualatin. YOUR PERFECT SERVANT The Maharajah kept a bevy of pretty maids to pick up after him and attend to all the little chores around the harem. But in spite of his generosity, the old gentleman had a rough time of it, having to listen to their bickering over who would wash the dishes. Today, praise be to Allah, the lord and master is protected by law from his better nature ... no bevies. But he's happy. For with the help of her powerful servant efec tricity, his one loving wife keeps the manor m Having B usy Obligation I Aunt Minnie, to rewrap the un I wanted package and send it back. And so when they are I j J i i.1 i ai aunnea Dy me snipper, uiey pay up. No Obligation But the Better Busines Bu reau said you have practically no obligation toward the ship per of unordered merchandise, You do not have to: 1. Acknowledge its receipt. 2. Return it. 3. Pay unless,, you use it. 4. Give it particular care so it won t be ruined. 5. Keep it beyond a reasonable length of time., T The only .thing you must do is surrender it to the shipper or his agent, . if either calls for it in person within a reasonable time. Even then, if you want to make trouble for them, you can insist on storage charges. You may not want to haggle over the warehousing cost of one frowzy necktie, but you're enti tled to it. And it doesn't matter if you unwrapped it before in specting it and deciding ho sale. You don't have to wrap it again and you certainly don't have to pay the cost of returning it. '- . Girl Scouts Troop Entertained Girl Scout Troop 100 recent ly entertained Troop 22 with a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Sam Jennings. Games were played and refreshments were served ' by the hostesses. Mrs. Alfred Potter, Mrs. William Barker, Mrs. Sam Jennings and Mrs. Elliott Beck'en were moth ers present at the party. Troopscribe, Nancy Becker in perfect order. And there's no bickering, either. She has push-button control over her many electrical helpers. ' ' So enjoy the cool comfort and cooking convenience of an all-electric kitchen the automatic ease, of the electric laundry the safe, perfect comfort of electric heat. COPCO brings you electricity . . . the -perfect servant... inexpensive, convenient and dependable. And its amazing power promises an even better life in the future. On THe Side (Distributed by King What nam would plemie her, Charlotte. Julia or Louisa? Joan's too formal for a woman,- . Edith's pretty but that looks . Better in old English books. Ellen's left off lone ago. Blanche is out of fashion now. Xo name I have mentioned ycl Is so good as Margaret. , Emily is neat ndfine. What do you think of Caroline? Mary Lamb. The average length of a baby at birth is twenty inches. An infant first smiles at four weeks, laughs aloud at four months, starts reaching for things at six months, has a first tooth at seven months, says first words at ten months, begins walking at fif teen months. So says an expert on child rearing. How does this check with your baby? Or didn't you keep a record? Every moth er should keep a diary and a photographic album showing her child's progress. Also a series of moving pictures . should be taken. Especially some showing the c hild starting on .the first walk. Asking Queries from clients. Q You say Joan Crawford made her first film appearance in 1925. Get it right. In that year she was a floor show girl in an Ernie Young Terrace Night Club in Chicago. A. It was in 1922 three years before the date you men tion, that Joan Crawford was in that Ernie Young night club revue titled "Innocent Eyes." After that she was a chorus girl in Shubert's "Passing Show" at the New York Winter Garden. In 1925, as I said, she made her first film appearance in a. pic ture titled "Pretty Ladies." You lose. Please forward stogie care fully wrapped in an aluminum container to avoid breaking. Love Letters How was the charming young woman who became your wife as a writer of love letters? One of the greatest love letter writers of all time was Sarah Bernhardt. What follows is a let ter she wrote to Victorien Sar dou, the playwright: "Wonder ful boy: where are you tonight? Paris is a morgue without you; before I knew you it was Paris, and I thought it heaven; but now it is a vast desert of desolation and loneliness. It is like the face of a clock bereft of its hands. I cannot live apart from you. You are everything to me. Your Sarah." . , : Please Note Note it reported Jimmy Stew art is to play Charles Lindbergh in a film based on the flyer's non-stop flight to Paris. That could be quite a strain on the imagination. Lindbergh was 25 when he made that historic flight. Stewart is now 46. Still, if actresses of 40 can play Joan ey f. v. DU,,-ng Futures Svarficatc, IneJ of Arc, who was 19 at the time of her death, or Juliet, who was 14 at the time of her love af fair with Romeo, why shouldn't a 46 year old actor, play the part of a 25 year old man? Horses and Women Women prefer male bosses. Feminine executives are unpop ular with their own sex. So it is continually claimed. Can't be proved by case of Hazel Ham mond, managing director of Jay's, furriers of London. Hazel has 500 women working for her and they love her. Incidentally, I have heard of a business world rarity. A feminine executive with a male secretary. The sec retary is not happy and is think ing of resigning. Says of his boss, "She can't" make up her mind. Takes her 30 minutes to make a decision." Song Writer The mind of a sbng writer is always on songs. That's why chance remarks have been the inspiration , of so many popular songs. Irving Berlin, who has been a song writer for nearly fifty years, suffers from in scmnia. "I don't sleep so well," he once said to his wife: "Guess I'll count sheep." His wife said, "Why count sheep. Why not count your blessings?" That gave Irving the idea for the ex tremely popular song entitled "Count Your Blessings." . : Asides -. ;' The first ten gasoline auto mobiles on .the market in the order named were:, Duryea, Ford, Franklin, Haynes, Knox, Olds, Packard, Pierde-Arrow, Stearns and Wintbn. : ' Medford Man Named Journeyman Plumber Jack L. Coffeen, Medford, is among 60 young men " awarded journeyman certificates by the Oregon Aprpenticeship council upon completion of their on-the-job education in trade skills, the State Bureau of Labor has an nounced. Coffeen received his journeyman, standing , as a plumber. Under Oregon's job - training system, journeyman certificates conferred by the council signify two to six years of learning in industries requiring specialized craftsmanship. .The length of courses varies with the trade. Training for the full term of. ap prenticeship is given in the plant under supervision of a master technician of the trade and in classroom on related the ory and trade techniques Twenty-four trades will receive 'the new journeymen into their ranks. 7 : " Nationalists Raid Communist Islands Taipei, Formosa (U.R) Na tionalist Chinese commandos raided two Communist , - held islands early today under cover of Nationalist naval, units. Army spokesman Col. Hsiung EngrTeh said raiders landed at Chicuanshan, 35 miles southwest of Nationalist-held Tachen at midnight and killed 70 Chinese Communist soldiers.- The Chicuanshan raiders also blew up fortifications and de stroyed two barracks. Hsiung said another band of Nationalist raiders went ashore at Weitou Island, . nine miles northeast of Nationalist - held Quemoy and took prisoners. , The raids were the first since the signing qf the U.S.-Formosa defense pact in Washington re cently.;. ' ;. ".. "'-.-'-- Farm Census Office Closed; Job Finished Corvallis With the comple tion of farm - census work in western O r e g o n, temporary farm census offices in Corvallis have been closed, it was - an nounced today by Don C. Mote, field supervisor. ... Farm census questionnaires collected locally are being ship ped to census headquarters for editing and tabulating. The first of the preliminiary reports, cov ering each of the nation's 3,068 counties,' is expected to be pub lished early next year. , In a final statement, Mote ex pressed appreciation for the co operation given by farmers in western' Oregon. :'.. AMERICA'S LOWEST PRICED STATION WAGON r Available in 2 or 4 Door ; Models . SEE THEM NOW AT Medford x Hudson, Inc. NEW HUDSON DEALER FRONT 4 JACKSON Phono 2-6281 Friday-' Beeembe 14, rfS4 Baffle Against lightning in Sky To Aid Fianf San Francisco r (U.R) Project Sky Fire," a ' plan to battle lightning in the sky in stead of on the ground, is prob ably the most ambitious forest fire prevention program ever undertaken. "Sky Fire" aims at nothing less than breaking up the fat, rolling cumulus clouds which carry lightning over the mam moth Western forests. The U.S. Forest , Services hopes that' soon, thanks to "Sky Fire,' they will be able to de stroy lightning clouds with dry ice "bombs" or shoot ' them to pieces with "flak" from silver iodide generators on the ground. A cooperative research proj ect, "Sky Fire" is only two years old. But according to Jack Bar rows, director of the project, much new and valuable weather information has been discovered already. , Plan Outlined Barrows, whose headquarters is the' Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment : Station at Missoula, Mont.; described "Sky Fire" to a recent forestry con vention here. . '. 'In the Western U n i t e d States," Barrow said, "lightning is the greatest single cause of forest fu;es. During the last 25 years over. 145,000 lightning fires . have . occurred in the 12 Western states." To combat this menace, the Medical Society Elects Dr. Lorish Dr. Fred Lorish was elected president of the Jackson County Medical society at Ya recent meeting, it was announced to day. He succeeds Dr. Charles Lemery.' ; . Other officers include Dr. Al- vin Roberts, Central Point, vice president succeeding Dr. Florian Shasky, and Dr. Earl Lawson, who . was reelected secretary treasurer. Dr. L. W. Buonocore was elected delegate to the Ore gon State Medical Society con vention. ; ' Dr. B. Brandt Bartels will be chairman of arrangements for the annual banquet of the so ciety, which will be held Fri day, Jan .14, at the Rogue Val ley Country club. L i , IkfU .... I . , f t. 1 1AF W 7' ers of Forest Fires USES and a private group, the Munitalp Foundation of New York, set up "Sky Fire" in 1952. A cloud seeding expert, Dr. Vincent J. Schaefer, - research director of Munitalp, is working with foresters to. determine how best : to attfeck . the . lightning carrying clouds. The theory is that dry" ice or silver iodide dropped into a cloud will cause moisture : particles to become heavy enough , to fall in rain drops, thus breaking clouds up. - "Before we . can start actual cloud seeding experiments," Bar rows explained, fwe want to lo cate where clouds are born, where they're likely to go and the kind of weather they bring Three Accidents No One Injured Three accidents which result ed in considerable damage to vehicles but no injuries were re ported yesterday by state police. A sedan registered to Ken neth ' Cheethanij San'' Leandro, Calif., ran off Highway 99 the other side of. the Siskiyou sum mit yesterday morning and plunged . about 150 feet, down hill. When' . the off icer arrived the driver had ieft, and report edly, was unhurt. The car was virtually' a total loss. Thr:Collid ; ; ; T ; Three , vehicles collided on slick- pavement on the hill high way west of Jacksonville yester day at about 8:30 a.m. A car driven ' by George H. . Harper", Murphy, and two California Oregon Power company trucks, driven by James E. Bailey, 605 Childers st.; and Walter F. Roe mer," 441 Lozier lane, were in volved. There were no injuries, but two of the vehicles were damaged extensively. , i Officers said that a car driven by Albert F. Davison, Tulsa, Okla., was damaged somewhat when the driver went into a ditch ;near the Willow Springs intersection on, .Highway : 99 north of ' Central Point. It was reported .that another: car ..ear lier knocked down a flare and warning sign, and that Davidson missed the turn in heavy fog at about 7 a jn. V WW E ARE sincerely ."1 May this joyourChri: JJv Yar at hand' bri"9 Jr you, throughout the Thursday vtT x AfW v T' E ARE sincerely grateful for your "friendship . you, throughout tne Kogue Kiver vaneyi 6RATER m MOTIL Bill and Mary Schei ' MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIV? with them. "Our- lookouts cover about 28 million acres of forest land. Each, day they make five reports and map the clouds as they grow and move." . - ' Follow lh Storms From this , information, Bar rows said, "we make an analysis of what storms are on the way and where they are going." ; - The project also is investigat ing the "jet stream's" effect on lightning storms. The jet stream is "like a mammoth river of air flowing between 20,000 and 40, 000 feet,". Barrows explained. Sometimes the stream retards lightning storms but other times it aids them. .' "Sky Fire" observers have lo cated several breeding places of cumulus clouds, "the cradles of lightning storms," including the Wallowa Mountains of North- , eastern Oregon, the Priest Rapids t country in Northern Idaho and the Flathead National Park iri Western Montana. Barrows said it would be two more years before "Sky Fire" does any ' actual cloud seeding. He said seeding might cause abnormal rainfall or abnormal dry spells and "we're not going to do any seeding until we know exactly, what's going to happen " MAXIM& REINSCHMIDT wishes to thank hermany old. and new patrons for the won derful send off 'they gave her in her shop, and to wish all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. "YOUR" vVT bcAUTY 5HOP g ""V 221 No. Riverside $jj istmas season, with a bright New health and happiness to all of r
