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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1955)
, o - ' . . - . . . 0 - . . 0 s 0 O - o o 1 I National Grange Raps 'Shabby Job' By Dairy Industry Washington (U.PJ The Na tional Grange yesterday blamed a "shabby job" of selling by the dairy industry as one of the major causes for the industry's current woes. In an extensive report on eight barriers to fluid milk sales, the -Grange also cited con sumers' growing fear that milk Is fattening. The report said that "what rankles dairymen" most about .the charge that milk is fattening gis that "many people who have ecut down on milk consumption . . . continue to indulge in rich gravies, desserts, and other truly fattening foods," Diets Rapped It said "erratically self-imposed" diets based on magazine, newspaper or neighborhood 0weight reducing projects are probably those that shift most readily from whole milk to skim milk or to no milk at all as opposed to die.ts undertaken under doctors' direction. e Besides the weight conscious consumers, the Grange listed these barriers to fluid milk con sumption: 0 Weak merchandising; the in - dustry's complacency and resist ance to charges like paper car tons and gallon jugs; lack of co ordination in the industry; labor practices which restrict price competition and marketing inno vations local sanitary regula tions which are often "exces , sively detailed;" wholesale and retail milk price control; and "cumbersome" federal rules under milk market orders and other federal problems. 0 AND NO INSURANCE Hartford, Conn. (U.R) Dur ing a farm census in Connecti cut, six enumerators were bitten oby dogs. Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1955 6 Pages I GOING UP IN SMOKE Firemen and volunteers move to battle the blaze that is consum ing this National Air Lines Lockheed Lodestar at St. Petersburg, Fla. The plane crashed during takeoff but all 10 passen&ars and three crew members escaped without serious injury. ' 'Phone Price Set By Central Point Telephone Company Central Point A committee of the Central Point Mutural Telephone company has reported that subscribers will be paid from $3 to $21 for telephone in struments they are now using when the company is taken over by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. Sale of the mutual organiza tion to PT&T was announced last year, following approval by the Federal Communications commission. The committeemen, Gaston Floux and W. B. Kincaid, said they set the prices after careful consideration at $3 for wooden instruments and $21 for plastic telephones, with a 50 per. cent discount for damaged instru ments. Must Be Returned The sale agreement with PT&T specifies that the. mutual company is to return all tele phones of record, plus exten sions, to , the Pacific company. As soon as possible after the change, Raymon G. Ekdahl, the manager, will remove the old telephones, leaving a receipt in dicating the amount to be paid for it. At a Dec. 4 meeting, the com pany voted to redeem shares in the company on record as of that date. Proceeds of liquid ation ... will be divided equally among the shareholders. . ..Twelve U. S. officials i have been the subjects of impeach ment proceedings. . . Jackson County S&L Assets Up Medford A 12.9 percent gain in total assets in 1954 was re ported today by W. J. .Warner, president of Jackson County Fed eral Savings and Loan associa tion, in a statement released with the association's annual report. John Pletsch, secretary-manager, said that the association's assets increased from $8,016,757. 23 on Dec. 31, 1953, to $9,052,, .439.04 on the same date a year later. The report also revealed that a total of $215,490.99 was paid in dividends on savings invest ed in the association. Net sav ings increased by $805,191.41, or 11.2 per cent, in 1954. Savings in the association now total $7, 978,700.77. . At the same time, home loans increased by $680,245,79, oor 10 per cent, over 1953. Pletsch said that all indica ionst are for a more prosperous year in the Rogue valley in 1955. He predicted that home building this year would prob ably equal or better the 1954 level, with a possible increase due to new industries in the val ley. He also predicted savings would increase in 1955. Liftrell Parts Has GM Distributorship E. A. 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