STUDENTS RIOT Uniformed
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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-
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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
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Having B usy
Obligation
I Aunt Minnie, to rewrap the un
I wanted package and send it
back. And so when they are
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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.;. ' ;. "..
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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. :'..
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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.
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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
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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
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