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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. March 27, 19S5 " 5 I REFUSING TO DIE, case of MaJ. Irving M. Peress, promoted, given honorable discharge after taking refuge behind Fifth Amendment, continues to occupy center of Washington's stage. Far mer Army Counselor John Adams (right), denies taking part in "conspiracy" to call off hear ings. Senator McCarthy (R). Wis. (left), defends James N. Juliana (right), against charges jhe testified falsely about Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker during earlier hearings. (International) Employee-dDwned Form Formed To Buy Wood Products Plants Formation of Western Pro ducts Corporation, an employee owned firm, was announced here last week. It was incorporated on March 14, and has established an office at 1016 North River side. The incorporators announced that the firm was organized to purchase and operate one or more plants for the manufacture of veneer and plywood, and other wood products. One of the proposals which is being considered is the possibil ity of purchasing the assets of the Medford Veneer and Ply wood Corporation. Officers of the new company, after organi zation is complete, plan to con tact stockholders of the Medford Veneer firm to see if negotia tions for such a sale are pos sible. ' Medford Veneer and Ply wood's assets include the veneer, plywood and mouldings produc tion of the firm, and two wholly owned subsidiary companies, Medford Door company and Pa cific Veneer company, Crescent City, Calif. The officers of the cooperative type organization are Jack E. Rowbotham, president; Paul JI. Bodenhamer, vice-president, and Everette Stokes, treasurer, all of them now employed at Medford Veneer, and Bernard A. Fetzer, secretary. Fetzer said the corporation has been organized along the lines of other cooperative, worker-owned corporations recently A Ni choi's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That br VfARMAN W. NICHOLS Unitad Pratt FJtur Writer frr sYJ if , i Washington OJ.B A century ago in the nation's capital hous ing wasn't much of a problem. There was plen ty of ground where a man could put side boards and a roof, and if he couldn't afford that he could rent a place cheap. An advertise ment in one of the papers 100 Hainan Nichols years ago this week mentioned a "very reason able home for rent." It was on Missouri ave. between 3rd and 4Vi sts. There were "10 to 12 rooms." There were two parlors on the first floor, a dining room and a large kitchen in it, equip ped with a pump with "excellent water." Almost apologetically, it seem ed, the owner, P. W. Browning, said that he would have to get $400 a year for his place. Business in the two houses of Congress had simmered down to little that caught the eyes of the editors. There were squab bles, pro and con, on the ques tion of slavery. Also the Indian problem came in for consider able talk. The postmaster general of the day published a notice about the new postal law. The man was a little disturbed. He said: "Under the new law, all ma terials must be prepaid and if not, after a decent wating pe riod, things must go to the dead letter office. Hundreds of thou sands of letters are mailed with out any direction whatsoever, and many more have the wrong address on the cover!" "v The postmaster general sug gested that people ought to take their letters and packages to the window of the post office "while the window is open and they can get some advice." Papers had a habit of picking up items from fellow editors around the country, and in fact the world. There was one item from Bos ton relating that the paying tell er of the Merchant's Bank there had hanged himself in the bank cellar. "His accounts, so far as is known," the dispatch said, "were in order." A man, also from Boston, who apparently was in business, got a letter to the editor in the Wash ington prints. Same letter in three papers. He said: "I promised to inform you of the effect of a remedy recom mended to me. I have taken one bottle and am now a well man. I thank you a thousand times. This preparation is the exclusive property of the writer." Then the writer signed his name. A correspondent from Key West, Fla., wrote in to say that the growth of shrubs, flowers, and vegetables down thataway "now is luxuriant, and as far advanced as in mid-summer back home. We daily have on our ta ble, beans, peas, lettuce and cel ery. The sweet potato flourishes in our soil, but the Irish potato does not." Red Chinese Trade Delegates in Japan Tokyo (U.R) The advance party of a Chinese Communist trade delegation arrived Satur day for talks with Japanese in dustrialists anxious to sell their wares to Red China's 500,000,000 "customers." The Red Chinese were invited by the International Promotion association and the China Trade Promotion diet members league. While the negotiations will nom inally be private, they have the endorsement of Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama's government. Japanese business groups hope that negotiations with the Reds will double exports to Red China in 1955. Japan imported S46.172.000 worth of goods from Red China last year while ex porting only $19,900,000 worth. However, industrialization of China, Communist political and trade restrictions, the UN strategic goods embargo and problems of payment have caus ed Japanese government leaders to look for only slight expansion in trade. j Churchill Planning Stay in Parliament Woodford, England (U.R) Prime Minister Winston Church ill Saturday told the voters he has represented in parliament for more than 30 years that he hopes to continue to be their spokesman for some time to come. Churchill's speech in his "home" district neither con firmed nor denied reports he plans to retire as Prime Minister within the next two weeks. He can continue in parliament as le-ug as Woodford elects him, whether as Prime Minister or merely as a rank-and-file mem ber. Apart from the passing refer ence to his hopes of continued service, the Prime Minister's speech was devoted to general comments on political responsi bility, with an occasional dig at the Laborite opposition thrown in. Carl H. Blair Fined For Assault, Battery Carl Hoean Blair. 39. resident of a local hotel, was fined S25 and assessed $5 costs in district court Friday on a charge of as sault and battery. He entered a plea of guilty, according to a court report. Blair was accused of assaulting Wendell Sipes. Robert Keith Wilburn, 24, Fresno. Calif., was sentenced to 60 days in jail on a petty larceny cnarge involving theft of gaso line from Highcroft orchard, court records disclosed. He nlead- ed guilty. The court said that wiiourn may be paroled after iu aays lor good cause. formed on the Pacific coast. Stck will be sold only to p ersons willing and qualified to tte em ployees of the company, h't said, and added that it is felt tlje suc cess of such a venture depends upon as many workers as pos sible owning shares. No shares should be owned by thase not contributing to the success of the operation through their work, he said. Authorized capital of the com pany is 3,000 shares of stock at a par value of S100 eaclj, or a total of $300,000. Shares will be sold only in units of 15, with each shareholder limited to one unit, which will entitle him to employment preference. T Application for clearance for sale of stock has been filfsd with the security and exchanfe com mission and with the Oregon corporation commissions- and no stock will be sold untitt clear ance has been given Since no one not qualified to work for the comDanv will he sold stock, the firm will '.require employment qualification state ment irom tnose wishmcr to buv stock. These statements mav hp obtained and filed at tls com pany's office. Such statements are njot com mitments to purchase stock, and acceptance is not an offer to sell nor a solicitation .to pur chase stock, Fetzer said, and such sale will be done onljy under icjsuiauuns Di Ine ami; ana the corporation commissioner. Fetzer indicated that a niim ber of present employees of the Meatord Veneer and Iplywood Corporation have shown an in terest in participating in the new urm. Low Income Group Tax Cut Predicted By Joseph Mai Jin . i Washington (U.R) 4 House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr.. sairf SatnrHa- if President Eisenhower is able to recommend an income jtax cut next year "low income groups" will benefit the most. ; The GOP leader said Mr. Ei senhower will not propope a cut unless the budget is balcinced or 'brought close" to oalaijce. Mr. Eisenhower previously h;Js stated that as his position. Counting on Balanced Budget The administration apparently is counting on a balanced budget in the 12 months starting July 1, 1956, barring "untoward" inter national incidents. Secretary of .the Treasury George M. Humphrey imported this week that there is a "very good opportunity" to achieve the administration's first telanced budget. In holding out hope fjor cuts for low income groups, Martin said in an interview that he did not see how the Democrats could develop a tax issue that would give them "political advantage" in tne isoo election campaign. The Massachusetts Reraiblican spoke out in the wake of lhe col lapse of the fight by House Democrats to cut everybody's in come taxes next Jan. li. The House - approved plan, which would have reduced taxes next vear S20 for each taxDa-per and an additional $20 for each de pendent, was killed Friday in a Senate-House conference com mittee. The Senate then promptly passed, the administration meas ure to continue corporation and excise (sales) taxes at current rates for another year. In eivine ud the fieht. Demo crats expressed confidence they could make taxes a major politi cal issue next year. They con tend the ReDublican administra tion favors a "trickle down" tax policy in contrast to the. Demo cratic policy of helping low in come groups. USE READY-MIX CONCRETE; Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 M. C. LININGER & SONS (Guard PoOot Tells off Debris, CDS! SDSclk at Scene off Crash Portland (U.R) A National Guard cap tain who flew his jet plane over the wreckage of a Pan-American plane in the Pacific off the Southern Oregon coast said the aircraft left a great deal of debris and two oil slicks on the water. Alerted by Tower Capt. W. L. Parks of the 142nd Fighter-Interceptor group said he was readying for a take off at the Air Base here when he was alerted by the airport tower and asked if he could escort a disabled stratocruiser into Portland. "I was told the plane had an engine out," he said. "I was advised to proceed under Air Force radar control. I was sent southwest and out over the ocean. It was overcast and I was on instru ments. Instructed to Search "They sent me to the last plotted radar echo from the disabled plane. When I entered the area on the radioscope where the plane was last seen they let me down through the overcast with in structions to search to the south. "I was cleared for a turn to 180 degrees. As I started to turn, I saw the two oil streaks on the water. I then saw another plane, a constellation, coming up from the south. Saw Smoke Flare "I dropped from a 15.000-foot elevation to 10,000 feet and saw what looked like fire com ing from part of the wreckage. It turned out to be a smoke flare from a life raft. On determin ing it was smoke not fire, I continued my let down and noticed smoke issuing from two large life rafts tied together." Capt. Parks said he made one circle over the wreckage, which consisted of floating debris and the larger of the two slicks. "By that time the constellation had started circling. I was run ning short on fuel." Flying Boats on Way "After I found out for sure that Air Force rescue flying boats were on the way I had to start back to Portland. By that time I was very low on fuel. I climbed back up and returned to the base." Capt. Parks piloted an F-86 Sabre jet of the Oregon Air National Guard. Mrs. T. E. Daniels Is 337th Flight Patient Mrs. T. E. Daniels, 1'805 East Main st., yesterday became the 337th patient to be carried by planes of Mercy Flights, Inc., when she was bought home from Palm Springs, Calif. She suffered a broken knee and a leg in a fall while there. The twin engine ambulance plane arrived at the Medford airport at about 10 p.m. yester day. George Milligan and Cecil Davis were pilot and co-pilot on ihe trip. Child Safety Conference Findings Show Parents' Responsibility Training Needs Ashland More than 100 persons attended sessions of the first Southern Oregon Regional Child Safety conference held here all day Friday. Group discussions, panel meetings, reports and demon strations took ud most of the day, which was climaxed by a banquet at Susan Homes hall in the evening, when summar ies of the days activities were given. As the conference ended, most participants agreed on three con clusions, as stated by conference reporters: 1. Parents are responsible for the safety of their children, both through protection and training. 2. Accidents are the biggest single cause of death and disa bility among children. 3. Education, both of parents and of children, through all possible media, is the only hope of bringing down the death toll. Dinner Speaker Dr. Harry F. Dietrich, Bever ly Hills pediatrician and child safety authority, was the dinner speaker, and illustrated his dis cussion of child safety problems with slides. Dr. Dietrich compared the death rate of children in 1900 (about 2,000 per 1,00,000 popula tion) with that of today (about 150 per 100,000 population). This decrease points out sharply, he said, the influence of medi cines and drugs, and also brings accidents to the fore as a lead ing death cause, for accidental deaths of children are about the same now (50 per 100,000 pop ulation) as they were a half century ago. . Accidents cause more chil dren deaths than the next six causes combined, he pointed out. "There is no vaccine against accidents," he said. Suggests Plan He gave what' he said is a "reasonable plan" to prevent deaths of children, which par ents can follow. It has three points, based on the fact that in the first six years the problem changes from one of complete protection of infants, to one chiefly of education and train ing. His three points were: 1. Forethought. Check a child's abilities and interests, and devise methods whereby the child can be protected, and trained to care for himself. vital second only in import ance to feeding the child. 3. Discipline. The child must know the limits beyond which he connot go. A combination of these will do much to aid parents in pro tecting their children from ac cidents, he said, and he suggest ed that parents keep in mind the three ways in which chil dren learn. The most effective is partici pation; next is by example, and finally, the least effective is by rote, he said. Discussion Reports Six discussion groups report ed their findings at the dinner. Elliott Becken reported on the fire safety talks, and recom mended (1) that fire depart ments encourage home inspec tion and that publicity be used to encourage the reception of inspectors; (2) that arrangements be made for widespread show ing of the film, "Too Young to Burn;" (3) that first aid classes be emphasized In schools; (4) that home construction stan dards, particularly in fringe areas, be raised, and (5) that more complete statistics on fire deaths would aid in solving the problem. Lee Ragsdale reported on pesticides, recommending that parents become informed on the danger, that they keep children away from the poisonous chemi cals and keep the pesticides out of the children's way, that such be properly labeled as poisons, and that the use of electric va porizers for pesticides be dis continued as hazardous. Russian Leader Warns Capitalism Moscow (U.R) Soviet Mar shal Kliment Voroshilov said Saturday that it will be the capi talist system and not world civ ilization that will be destroyed in the event of another World War. Voroshilov, who is president of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. spoke at the final ses sion of the Russian Federation Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet. "We cannot be intimidated by (claims) that in the event of a 2. Time. It takes time to do, new World War civilization will this job, but the necessity is perish," he said. William Unrath, Roseburg, re ported on firearms safety, rec ommending greater training and education and possibly some legislation regarding the re quirement for training before hunting licenses are issued. The other reports, on electric safety by Cleo Kent, on "all other" home safety problems, by Mrs. Floyd Barrett, Grants Psss, and on the role of safety councils, by Dr. Bill Thompson, followed similar lines, suggest ing more adequate training and education programs at all levels. j A Tribute To I 1 iniii GOLFERS TODAY is the final day of the Oregon Open Golf Tournament here and upon this occasion we mlsnri t all who nartleinatefl . . i 1 ... both amateurs and professionals . . . the gratitude of this community for making It an outstanding success. We hope our visiting golfers had a wonderful time, and will come back again the fine Rogue Valley Country soon to play Club's course. We congratulate members of the Rogue Valley Country Club for being GOOD HOSTS and mak ing Oregon's 1955 Open a real success. The peo ple of the Rogue River Valley are grateful to all . who had a part in this outstanding sporting event. Medford Pharmacy, Inc. 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