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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Woman Arrested for Talking Too Long Oh Phone; Laws Being Passed for Use New York (U.R) A woman has finally been arrested for talking too long on the tele phone. She may not be the last. Legis latures around the country are -being asked to pass the same telephone party line law that was the undoing of Mrs. Mary L. Kayes. Mrs. Kayes, 42, whose hus band is caretaker of a summer camp in Dutchess County, N. Y., was arrested last week and re leased under $500 bend on a charge of refusing to get off her American Business Alters Venezuela Buying Caracas (U.R) American business is changing the buying and eating habits of Venezuela's 5,000,000 people. . The changes are the result of a private "point four" program founded by Nelson Hockefeller and his brothers and assisted by the, major oil companies now producing nearly 2,000,000 barrels of oil a day in this mineral-rich country. Heinillv Viie nrnsrom Has two parts. To Improve Production : t The first is the Venezuela Basic Economy Corporation (VBEC), which is a hard-headed business proposition designed to improve food production, food processing and food distribution throughout Venezuela. ... The second is CIDEA, a phil anthropic organization, dedicat ed to a program of raising health and nutritional -standards in a country where death from mal nutrition once was common. . Both VBEC and CIDEA have produced startling results. VBEC is "a subsidiary of the International Basic Economy Corp. founded in 1947 by the a ' i a j i- HVVUJbU I IUIUVIVI Tl I I", l! - ' - inanKsrouceman Marshf ield, Wis. U.R) A 20-year-old Marshfield man, await ing trial on charges of murdering his grandfather, wrote" a letter nf thanks, to the nolice' chief of his home town who once tried r efraiffViion tiim nut.. Rodney W. Herman fled the state and" lived for two years under the alias of Steven Ban non. but he was arrested in Illinois where he had been work ing. , Police Chief Walter Wohlfahrt saiH ha hart tallrpH with Herman .many times when the youth was in trouble. Wohlfahrt . recently received ' the ' following ., letter from Herman who was being held in jail at Phillips, Wis., for trial for the 1953 slaying; e "Dear Chief, "Ttfrvnr T'm sittintr in a pell in , 'PhilHnc waitincr fnr a nossiWe life in prison. I was too smart to listen to you and now it's too , late. I want to thank you for xuhat vrm trieH in rfn fnr ne. "I regret the grief I have given my mother and I hope that may . be someday I can make it up to her. I wish there was some I way I could warn other .kids : who have already started like I did, but they would have the same attitude 'it won't happen to me.' "In the last two "years T had to learn to work with other peo ple and understand what I had to do to live in this world. But I learned too late. But wherever I ; go, or get, I will do my best. I - still might get the satisfaction of living a right kind of life. I wish I would have listened to you and at least tried to under- ; stand what you were trying to , say. In the last year, I did. "I made some " wonderful '- friends, honest and hard-work ing. I tried hard to be like them at the last. I think I was. "But you can't live on lies forever. Steven Bannon was found out to be Rod Herman, T . cuiu su uci e x Mill. "Again I say thanks for try ing. Goodby. - "! - "Yours truly, "Rod Herman" To PORTLAND SACRAMENTO OAKLAND SAN FRANCISCO Return Trip 20 LESS MEDFORD 212 North B artier. St. NO CHANCE OF BUS NO . DAILY SERVICE FROM MEDFORD : '6.35 LOS ANGELES 10.70 1 party line so a man could call the fire department. . Her case made history. It was the first prosecution under a New York law, in effect only four months, making it a mis demeanor to refuse to yield a party line in an emergency. If she is convicted and if a judge wants to throw the book at her, she could get up to a year in jail, a $500 fine, or both. Other States Have Laws The states of Washington and Michigan have similar . laws, passed within the last two years, Rockefellers as a financing de velopment company. Some of its early projects, ad mittedly, were failures. Sums spent to modernize farming and the fishing industry did not bring good results. Farmers and fishermen resisted changes in their ancient methods. But after these early failures, VBEC really got going. Customers Outnumbered In 1949, in Maracaibo, the big oil capital, the average grocery store was a dingy little hole-in- the-wall where meat and other produce was in the open. Flies far outnumbered the customers, and the proprietor felt he was getting gypped unless he could maintain a markup of 100 per cent on his merchandise. VBEC erected TODOS, the first ultra-modern super-market in South America. Venezuelan investors joined VBEC in putting up the capital. The results of this project were spectacular. In ; less than 30 days "prices throughout the city had dropped 15 per cent, and in a year the price drop was close to 30 per cent under the spur of competi tion furnished by TODOS. The small store s also found that their customers began demanding re frigeration., and modern pack aging. Today there is a supermarket in Valencia, the .fabulous Auto mercado in Caracas, and another is planned in eastern Venezuela. Venezuelan investors , take part in all there enterprises. i VBEC also moved' in on food production.' v Building . modern milk pasteurization plants in many parts of Venezuela, VBEC has raised milk consumption and production 10 times over pre- 1950 levels. The Hard Way Before CIDEA came into the picture in Venezuela, tke basic diet was black beans and rice. Rickets, pelagra, beri-beri were common. Malnutrition was stan dard. . CIDEA, which receives funds from the major oil ; companies, attacked the problem with a pub lic relations program through the press, radio, schools, mobile units and. later, ' television. Comic books promoting good eating habits are circulated among the children of the coun try. The ministry of health put up half the money for CIDEA at first" and now pays for two-thirds of the program. ' ; Some 300 nutrition clubs have been formed among the children. These clubs have their own gar dens and learn the value of vitamin-rich, food. As a result of this program, deaths due to malnutrition have been cut by 50 per cent. The old dietary diseases have been cut by 40 to 50 per cent. There have been dishearten ing failures in both programs, but as Rockefeller put it: "In each case we learned the answers the hard way. But con sidering the problems that need ed to be faced, if we hadn't done it this way it would not have been done at all. "We . have accomplished . a basic objective. We didn't go in to make money where we could make it best. We could have in vested it better in this country; And we didn't pick areas just because we could make an easy profit, but areas important to the Venezuelan economy. You could almost say we had social objectives wih capitalistic in centives, rather) than straight business aims." TAKE TIID One-Way Fare ; To One-Way Fare GjJB1f 1 $5.85 FRESNO : $7.55 I fmVU 5.85; SEATTLE 9.15 1 UfSftW I 6.40 Plus FH.raI Tax A t BY7lTt&i on Round-Trip Tickets! A "many DEPOT V Phone 2-2202 LOCAL STOPS NO EXTRA FARE Monday, February 7, 1955 but at Olympia and- Lansing there is no record of their ever having been used to prosecute anyone. This year the Council of State Governments is furnishing a model bill, patterned after the New York law, to state legisla tures. The council urges its adoption as a means of prevent ing tragedy when stubborn party line users block calls to police, firemen or doctors. The model bill following the pattern of the New York, Michi gan and Washington laws also would make it unlawful for any one to demand a party line for an emergency when an emer gency does not really exist. Washington passed its law after a child died pf suffocation while its mother tried vainly to get a call for help through on a busy party line. In Indiana, the sponsor of a similar bill said homes have burned down in his bailiwick twice in recent yeaTS under similar circumstances. In signing the New York law last year, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said he realized it would be hard to enforce but he believed it would be worth while to have on the books if it would save the life of one person. Officials admit that under or dinary' conditions it would be hard to prove a particular per son was the one using the party line when someone in distress tried to get through. Mrs. Kayes, however, was a sitting duck. She was talking long distance, and the telephone " company had a record of her call. Fire Warden 'Donald Town send of Clinton, N.Y., swore out a complaint against Mrs. Kayes. He said she refused to hang up when he tried to call firemen to a blazing pasture. He said he had to. drive a mile to another phone, and meanwhile the fire spread to a barn and burned it down. "I wouldn't for the world have kept on' the line if I'd known there really was a fire," Mrs. Kayes told the, United Press, by telephone. She - is on a seven party line. 1 honestly didn't be lieve ,him. You hearthe darndest thing's on this line." Philippine Police I Nab Chinese Reds " Cebu, P. I. (U.R) Police. have begun a roundup of Chi nese residents in this Central Philippine city following the discovery of a' cache of Com. munist propaganda in a room, ing house here, it has been re ported. Documents seized -in . the raid included Communist newspapers printed in China and a sketch of Cebu with crosses marking Chinese-owned firms. The land lady said the room was rented but rarely used by an unidenti fied Chinese. Jobless Claims Drop For Third Week in Row Washingtbn (U.R) New un employment insurance claims declined during the last week of January for -the third straight week. The Labor Department said new claims fell off by 31,400 to 289,400 during the week ending Jan. 29. The Department said 39 states reported declines. The number of continuing claims however, edged upwards by 11,900 to 1,976,200 during the week ending Jan. 22, the latest week for which figures are available. ' '' , The federal - state unemploy ment insurance program covers 38,500,000 of the nation's more than, '6,000,000 workers. Japanese Leader Says Plan Would Benefit US Tokyo (U.R) Foreign Min ister Mamoru Shigemitsu said Saturday "normal relations" be tween Japan and Russia would help to stabilize the Pacific area and benefit the United States. ;T Shigemitsu told an audience of American and Japanese lead ers, including U. S. Ambassador John Allison, that recent Japan ese overtures to Russia were possible only because of the strengthening ; of Japan's ties with the United States. I CAREFUL, YOUR HIGHNESS Minister of Education Roy Joseph (front seat) seems deeply concerned as Princess Margaret stands up in this, Land Rover (British jeep) in response to cheering children at Port of Spain, Trinidad. Some 30,000 children gave the popular princess a rousing welcome. Driver is Police CpL Francique. i P4 Copyright T.WJLO.CO. 1955. JUU 8 ....(:- Superpower In... 1 r 4 Z IMP -.- 'ix- ' ' . - - ' By the New Concentrated Flying - The new Flying "A" process concentrates high octane power in gasoline. This patented process actually re-forms molecules to pack each drop of gasoline with super power. It removes impurities so-you get extra energy from a Conrad Hilton, Owner, Not Always at Top cnicago (U.R) Almost every day somebody tries to sell Con rad Hilton a hotel. This is like carrying coals to Newcastle because Hilton al ready is the biggest innkeeper in history. He operates 27 hotels here and abroad, most of them in the luxury class. But Hilton wasn't always top man in the hotel business. Back in depression days he was a half million dollars in debt. Owner Pays Account "I had a charge account at a gas station in Texas," he recalled in . an interview. "The owner heard I was going bankrupt. But he didn't want to embarrass me so he paid up my bill himself." One day Hilton was summon ed by the president of the Mer cantile National Bank of Dallas, Tex., to discuss a little matter of $55,000 Hilton owed. ."The banker told me he knew of some good oil stock," Hilton said. "He said I might as well owe the bank $110,000 and he offered to ": lend me $55,000 to buy the oil stock." '.'' Takes Banker's Advice , . Hilton took him up on the Mi gsmMJHMg mm TIDE WATER ASSOCIATED OIL History's Biggest Hotel deal, and it paid off, He emerged from the depres sion with five of his eight hotels intact, managing to save those by such stringent economies as shutting off heat to vacant rooms and - pulling but - unused tele phones to save 15 cents a month on each. . - ". ; Since those dark days Hilton has embarked on a vast expan sion program climaxed last year by the purchase of the Statler chain for $111,000,000, history's biggest real estate deal. Com pare this with the Louisiana Purchase1' for a paltry $15,000,- ooo. . : ; Hotel men credit Hilton with bringing system to a hit-or-miss business. There is no waste space in his hotels. When he bought " Chicago's Palmer House he counted . 4,000 persons a day passing through the hotel arcade.' So he convert ed a book store with . a $250 monthly rental into a fancy bar that produced: $490,000 in its first year. ' -.. ,.- Hilton looks like what he is a tycoon. 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He already operates two under such an ar rangement, one in Puerto Rico and one in Spain, and others are on the way... : ; ; "The foreign governments will benefit the most," he said, "be cause these hotels are going to t L l 1 t Hilton's plans are global. Some day he expects to run as many hotels abroad as he does here. " W - ' "'
