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Medford tJnitca Pre -Full Leased Wira Tribune United Prese Fall Leased Wire Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1955 Pages 1-10 FTC Can't Relax Efforts To Expose Trade. Practices Endangering health Editor'! Notet Following if the sec ond ol two dispatches on the Federal Trade commission. Br JOSEPH L. MYLER " United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON (U.R) The Federal Trade Commission can never relax its efforts to expose andistop trade practices which endanger the consumer's pocket- book or even his health. That is because some of the offenses it wars against, if not the offenders, are repeaters. An example is the bogus cor respondence school which prom ts you a federal job if you will lust take its course on now to pass Civil Service examinations, This apparently is a ripe field for the unscrupulous, a field of countrywide proportions. i Every year the commission has to make one or more schools of this kind stop implying it is an agency ot the federal govern ment, or stop making other false advertising statements such as: A Civil Service job (obtained through the school) automatically guarantees exemption from the draft. Just Rabbit v On the other hand, the FTC hopes it is coming close to stamping out forever some kinds of false fur labeling. Thanks to FTC, it has got so you can hardly find American seal, Baltic leop ard, beaver, black lynx, ermiline, northern seal, French leopard, or minkoney. It might be more accurate to say you can find them, all right, but under labels correctly iden tifying them as what they really are, which is rabbit. Many FTC actions are studies in black and white: You can't advertise something as free if it isn't; you can't say a shrub is profitable and easy to grow if it isn't; you can't say your insecti cide will kill insecte if it wont; you mustn't tell your customers your tonic will cure boils and pimples if it has no effect what ever on boils and pimples; and it really isn't cricket to tout as French a perfume made in New ark. UnfairCrilicism. . -, , Then there is the knock the -other-guy technique that the FTC has to. watch out for. This is exemplified by the maker of stainless steel cooking utensils who proclaim that aluminum efitted happened to spill a bit of hot pipe dottle on his. If he had been an arm ampu tee he would be dead. He wasn't, and so was able to wriggle out of the jacket before he was cre mated. A subsequent test showed that the burning time for a 3.5-by-5-inch sample of the bed jacket was 1.5 seconds. The FTC. recently started a new service for the public. Once a month it recapitulates cases of the preceding month under the heading "pitfalls." Consumer pitfalls for August dealt with "summer specials." pots and pans poison the food cooked in them. Perhaps the most scoundrelly character the FTC comes up against is the let's-make-a-fast-buck type who preys on victims of chronic and incurable dis eases. The commission hits hard at arthritic cures which cure nothing at all. It has little sympathy for mak ers of flammable clothing. Some kind-hearted ladies of Walla Walla, Wash., recently bought some bedjackets for hospitalized veterans. One veteran thus ben- On The Side (Distributed by King By E. V Feature Syndicate, . Durling Inc.) A major factor in Marciano's success is his continuous punch ing of the arms of his opponent. This weakens the opponent's punch. Have a strong young friend punch you on the arm a few times and you will see what I mean. Along about the middle of the fight Rocky's opponents don't punch so well. The brutal beating administered by Marcia no's powerful blows has taken the zip out of their arms. Then Marciano absorbs their blows with no difficulty and finishes them off with his still powerful punches. Wedding Rings A woman weiring a wedding ring on her right hand is not necessarily a divorcee. She may be happily married. As to a woman with two wedding rings on her right hand, she ' is a widow, originally from some European country, probably Hol land. The significance of, where wedding rings are worn varies with nationalities. For example, in Holland, . when a couple be comes engaged they present each other witha wedding ring. These rings are worn on the left hand. When they are married the wed ding rings are switched to the right hand. When a woman be comes a widow she keeps her late husband's wedding ring and wears it next to hers on ner right hand. ' " .. -" Sidelights Sportscribe says Grover Cleve land Alexander had best control of any pitcher in major league history. How about Christy Mathewson, who once, pitched 68 consecutive innings without walking a man? . . i Add mem bers My Name Is a Poem Club: Etail McCail, Wayne, Mich. . . . Among my favorites I still find too often absent from restaurant menus are Philadelphia pepper pot, apple dumplings and pine apple upside down cake. Passing By Mrs. Robert Waterfield. Bux om cinema performer known professionally as Jane Russell. The Waterfields have been hap pily married for 12 years. I sup pose you know what gifts are appropriate for the 12th wed ding anniversary. If not, .please be informed it is the silk and fine linen anniversary. Going Strong How old is that delightful ballad titled "Charmaine?" Off hand I would say about 25 years. Yet it is still going strong and paying off plenty in royalties. British Bandmaster Annunzio Mantovani, the celebrated "sweet music" specialist, made a re cording of "Charmaine" that has sold 1,000,000 copies. Horses and Women If your wife has a 28 inch waist she can never win a Mrs. American contest, get a job as a model or be chosen one of the ten best dressed women in the city. She won t be a sensation in beach attire, either. If you want to streamline your spouse a bit buy her a 24 inch tape measure belt. Then tell her when it fits her you will -give her a prize. (mm 2 rr SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, OCT. 7 - 8 The Best Fresh Produce Available! Finger Bananas Good Clean Trim LBS. 25 RUBY RED f - Florida at Grapefruit 96. ize 3 for LOCAL JONATHAN APPLES Sweet, Crisp -and Juicy. O 4CP Fine for Pies WLbi.WtV Jp-NUCOA Tuna Boniia Hakes ! Nalles Brand n!7T""l NalleyV UiriCEUEAT s&H LUMBERJACK SYRUP 28 MR 35 I 1 24 &,29 OVEN FRESH SODA CRACKERS 2 . 39 GRAHAM CRACKERS Box 53 VELVEETA CHEESE 2 93' Special Prices on All Brands of Fruits & Vegetables in Case Lots BEEF ROASTS U.S. Grade "Choice" 4$c lb. Well trimmed Lean & Tender STEW MEAT 59 ,b' U.S. GRADE "CHOICE" LOCKER BEEF Front V 41c lb. Vi BEEF 47c lb. Hind Va 57e lb. No Charge for Cutting, Wrapping and Freezing ,V We Reserve the Right to Limit Quantities . Store Hours: Weekday s-8:30 - 8:00 Sundays 10:00 - 7:00 It said "more than 30 firms had their knuckles whacked" by the FTC for reaching "too eagerly for the consumer's dollar ninety-eight." v It cited among other things the case of the "sun burned red head" who got sore at a firm which said it had a sure-fire sun burn protection "for red heads." Despite their preoccupation with such cases, the people around the FTC aren't convinced that the world is made up of crooks on the one hand and suckers on the other. In this technical age it is hardly fair to call a man a sucker because he lacks . the laboratory facilities and skills to test what he buys. Sidetrack Sought For Algeria Debate United Nations, N.Y (U.R) United Nations diplomats sought yesterday to sidetrack debate on Algeria and bring France back into the world body. The explosive Algerian prob lem was assigned to the UN Pol itical committee which held its organizational meeting follow ing the close of policy debate in the General assembly. France walked out of the Un ited Nations after the General assembly decided by a one-vote margin to debate the Algerian crisis. France objected on the grounds that the North African territory is a part of metropoli tan France and therefore not a subject of international consideration. TWAIN'S TAKE Redding, Conn. (U.R) Mark Twain earned $11,655 last year. An accounting filed with Pro bate Judge Hjalmar Anderson by trustees of the estate of the writer, who died 45 years ago, revealed the money came from motion picture companies, liter ary ' agencies and publshing houses. 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