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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1955)
Tair Trade' Law Repeal Is Urged Washington (U.PJ A special Justice Department committee has recommended repeal of the federal "fair trade" law which permits manufacturers and re tailers to make price-fixing ar rangements in most states. The committee reported to Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. after an 18-month study that flict with federal anti-trust pol such pricing arrangements con icy. The federal "fair trade" law of 1952 gives immunity from anti-trust prosecution to agree ments between manufacturers and retailers to fix the retail price of products. This immunity is effective only in states which have enacted their own "fair trade" laws. When the act was passed in 1952, 45 states had such laws. These state laws permitting pricing arrangements are at odds with "the most elementary prin ciples of a dynamic free enter prise system," the committee said. A majority recommended that Congress repeal the 1952 McQuire federal law and its 1937 predecessor, the Miller-Tyd-ings act, so that "resale-price maintenance, as other price-fix -ing practices," will again be come subject to federal anti trust controls. NOTICE Your Stationer Will Be CLOSED for ANNUAL INVENTORY Saturday, April 2nd Prompt Blue Print Service Will Be Extended At Rear Entrance AW SHUCKS! Six-year-old LeRoy Curtis of Denver turns bashful after presenting the symbol of the American Cancer Society, the Sword of Hope, to President Eisen hower in the White House. He had just been introduced to the President by Wisconsin's Governor Walter J. Kohler (right), chairman of the Society's board of directors. Boy, Symbol of Cancer Society Drive, Is Grandson Of Couple at Central Point LeRoy Curtis, six-year-old Denver boy who helped President Eisenhower open the annual Cancer society drive for funds this year, is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Curtis, Rt. 2, Box 658, Central Point. LeRoy, who underwent surgery for cancer when he was only two months old, handed Mr. Eisenhower a sword, symbolic of the annual cancer drive. A United Press dispatch from Washington said that the presi dent gave the lad a smiling, enthusiastic welcome, and helped him adjust the massive sword handle. LeRoy was presented to the presidency Gov. Walter J. Koh ler, Wisconsin, chairman of the board of the American Cancer society. LeRoy and his younger brother, Steve, are the stars of a movie short made by the American Cancer society which will be used throughout the nation this month to call attention to the annual fund drive. The film points up the fact that cancer, if found in time, can be cured. The two boys are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Curtis of Denver, and the film was made in Denver City park under the auspices of the Colorado division of ACS. masy, April 1, 199S MCOPORD (OACOOW) MMS. TRIBUXE FXVX Scandanavian Logging Methods Now Modern as Any, Anywhere (Editor s note: This is an other in a series of article written for the Mail Tribune by Portland Newspaperman Walter Mattila. now on a xour of the Scandanavian coun tries.) By WALTER MATTILA Mail Tribune Special Writer CAR DAMAGED Talent No personal injuries resulted from a one-car accident about 9 p.m., Thursday when the car driven by Mrs. H. Bailey left Highway 99 north of Talent and knocked over a pear tree in the Nye orchard, according to a state police report. The car, ree istered to Edgar Harison Bailey, Klamath Falls Star route, Box 80, was damaged extensively. Mrs. Bailey told the officers that she struck a curb in the middle of the highway and lost control of the car. mm bp a new Ford during the big MARCH 25 -APRIL 30 See your Ford dealer today. Get a top trade-in allow ance for your present car on a brand-new '55 Ford. He's out to round up a supply of good used cars for the big Spring and Summer selling season. Stockholm (By Air Mail) A trip through Swedish woods reveals even to the casual ob servation of the American tour ist that the Industrial Revolu tion is running far on its sec ond wind in this most industrial ly advanced country in the North. In a few years logging has been mechanized to a startling extent. Previously it had not changed for hundreds of years from the pattern of dumping horse-drawn logs in streams dur ing the spring freshet and then fishing them out at mill and collecting sites. Trucks Now Used Now the Swedish truck is working its way into timber with only minor road work, for the underbrush and rought terrain of Oregon timberland . is un knbwn in these regions. Logged over several times, Scandinavian forests in general appear as well kept parks in American eyes. Trucks usually are equipped with self-loading gear which two men can handle. Thirteen foot loads are not rare. Horses still are used to snake out logs except in the heaviest timber where tractors have replaced them entirely. But the long haul of the log sleds to rivers is gone. Tractors drag to streams when they are near. Trucks make the long hauls, sometimes delivering directly to the purchasing mill or pulp and paper plant. Compact Power-Saws And the logger's hand saw j in Scandinavia one logger is enough for one tree has been replaced by a light and compact power saw. One Norwegian model weighs 19A pounds and a Swedish one 36 pounds. From one winter camp (be cause there is much marshland in forests logging is done when the ground is frozen solid) the trac tors haul pre - fabricated huts, kitchens, lunchrooms and even Finnish steam baths to the next logging site. This revolution in logging will result in construction of im proved roads. At present, load limits are imposed because of to a lesser extent in Finland, the inadequate road beds for mod ern traffic. Eventually the state - owned railroads will feel the pressure of modern truck transportation, owned and 'di rected by private enterprise. Plants Modernized The processing plant of the forest industries has been mod ernized for some time. Many plants have been rebuilt seve ral times. Scandinavian engin eers claim that in general then plants are as technically up to date as anywhere. In Sweden and Norway, and existence of hydroelectric ener gy in considerable abundance has contributed to industrializa tion that is apparent far and wide. In old villages the most modern appearing plants arise. Old parts of. Stockholm, Oslo, TYPEWRITERS & . ADDING MACHINES Repaired ' MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Pheee 2-4100 Copenhagen and Helsinki are neighbors to new industrial communities of delightful mod ern design. The industrial plant is part of the attractive scenery of pleas ant surroundings. Nowhere is there even suggestion of a slum. 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He alleges none of the firms would sell him gasoline because he cut prices. , , ' ' . George W. Jansen, attorney for the Texas Co., said the an swers in the California case con tained confidential information about the oil companies' busin ess and that neither the answers nor the questions had been used in the California case so far. Bowen held that when such answers are forced under the law they are not admissible as evidence. Defendants are Standard Oil Co., of California, General Pet roleum Corp., Union Oil Co., Richfield Oil Corp., The Texas Co., Tidewater Associated Oil Co., Shell Oil Inc., and its suc cessor, Shell Oil Co. 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