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A Alienor Worth of . . . Comment On This and That y HARMAN W, NICHOLS United fwm hMw Wriw Washington (U.PJW. Wads worth Wood and his pretty wife, Ardietta, have just returned a nine-week trip to 22 coun tries in which they made col or movies of housing in the foreign lands. After they got home they dub bed their films in with sound and gave it a pri- Kaxman Nichols ate sho wing here at the National Convention of Home Builders. The films will be shown around the country. "Waddy," a salty old guy who ovflks his own yacht, but prefers the airlines when he is circling we globe, also publishes a couple of home magazines. I saw the film and it's pretty good. It gives you an idea that people in other lands like the better way of life. "One thing we found out," Waddy said, "is that the differ ence Qbetween Capitalism and Comawnism is owning your own homeThat seemed to be demon strated every place we went." , Big Plans The hope of West ' Germany, he said, is to produce 600,000 new units a lot of them nice new .homes, this year. That would put that part of the world cor0 only to the United States in production. , "The people in most of the 57 New Members Join Chamber Some 57 new or delinquent members have joined the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce, representing, an income of mere than $1,500, in the or- taiunugn s memoersnip arive which includes a bonus trip to the Hawaiian islands for the membe)who solicits the most new members. - ' Chamber leaders anticipate more activity before the Oct. 15 deadJtne, by which time all re turns must be submitted to the Chamber office by membership committee members. The good-will tour flight to Honolulu, worth $296 including transportation and hotel ex penses, will leave Medford Nov. 5.0 , ' The Chamber membership ac tivity is spearheaded by. Chair ' man Ken MacDonald, and is open to all Chamber members. Ac tivity is spearheaded by' Chair-, new members are Bert Pree, Bill Mitchel and Al Hiebert. countries we visited," the editor discovered, "give a lot of thought to youth. Playgrounds for the kids. In the public developments, there are playgrounds. The peo ple, a lot of them anyhow, are looking ahead." Things differ according to the climate. In Bangkok, the new homes have wide overhanging eaves and shuttered windows to protect them from the hot rays of the sun. In Austria, a lot of places typify the designs of the Alps, with balconies and shutters in abundance. The windmill hasn't disappear ed from Holland, but the "ranch" home: is popping up there, ac cording to the Woods. In Bagdad, both oriental and occidental influences are seen in the, architectural designs. In Pakistan, where it gets . hotter than Washington, the roof often is used for sleeping. No mos quitoes. " Fancy Houim Sweden' doesn't have to look far for materials for new homes. Native lumber is used, and the designers have come up with some pretty fancy houses. Hong Kong, the travelers found, is beset with 500,000 refugees. - Some of the places in China now resort to plastic swimming pools, following the ' modern trend. One of the most trying things about racing across the acres of the earth is going through cus toms. In nine weeks," Wood said, "we went through customs 44 times. The time we spent watch ing people go through our dirty laundry would have taken us around the world several times, I imagine." No Indictments Seen For Highway Workers Salem (U.R) Marion County District Attorney Ken neth E. Brown said , today his office had found no evidence to seek indictments of two State Highway Department employees suspended Aug. 29 for "irregular conduct. . The two suspended men are Edgar O. Ferguson, assistant resident engineer, and Charles O'Neill, transit man, both of Salem. They have appealed their suspensions to the State Civil Service Commission. Arthur T. Garrow, street in spector who was suspended at the same time, pleaded guilty in Dallas Monday to a charge of ac cepting $180 from a contractor. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 1 a. m Monday for Monday: other , days 9:30 previous day " i "s tp& n HAY! HAY! Getting in a little barn work at San Francisco's Cow Palace is Joanne Cope land (Miss Grand National 1955). Joanne will rule over the rodeo part of the live stock exposition, horse , show and rodeo Oct 28 through Not. 6 at the Cow Palace. Friday, October 7. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THRU Auto Industry Reports September Sales Soar To All-Time Record Detroit (U.R) The automo bile industry reported today sales soared to all-time record levels in September, indicating the boom in the nation's key in dustry was getting even bigger instead of leveling off. General Motors, which pro duces more than half of the na tion's automobiles, said it ' sold more new cars during Septem ber than it ever sold in any prev ious month in its history. Ford Motor Company said its sales in the last 10 days of Sep tember were higher than in any previous 10-day period in its his tory. The record sales, coming in a mortth when automobile sales usually are at one of their low est points of the year, were viewed as a strong indication that even all-time record sales of 1955 models might be in danger in the 1956 market. Significant Figures Both company figures were considered significant. Ford's figures 1 included the first week of selling 1956 models. Some persons had predicted the market for 1956 models, which generally are face-liftings of the radically re-designed 1955 cars, might fall oii because the new models didn't put enough cars out of date. The Ford report was the first return on how the public would respond to 1956 cars. The report that sales were the highest of any 10 days in history couldn't have been a more cheering one for the industry. Ford officials said they were almost certain already they would be keeping their, assembly shifts running at full speed, a 53 hour week, through the first six months of ndxt year at least to try to meet car demand. -GM Report on 1955 Sales General Motors' report was on 1955 car sales. It is cleaning up its 1955 model run and shifting to 1956 model production at pres ent. The normal trend has been for car sales to lag badly at the end of the model run, despite cleanup sales. ;So the GM report that its September sales were at the highest point in history, running exactly counter to the normal trend, was viewed espe cially significant. . .The spurt in car sales during August and September, when the companies expected a downturn in sales, has caused officials to predict that 1956 will be just as big a year and probably a big ger year for car sales than this year when sales ,will approach the 8,0U0,000 mark. The size of. the boom can best be understood by pointing out the industry never, has achieved even a 7,000,000 car sale year before. , Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: otner days 5:30 previous day Hoover Confers With Syngman Rhee Seoul, Korea -jOJ.PJ Under secretary of State Herbert Hoo ver Jr. conferred with President Syngman Rhee for about an hour today but they avoided discus sion of Korean, hopes for more American aid. . - . Hoover, at a brief press con ference following the meeting, said "We did not touch on sub stantive questions at all.',' "'--Asked directly if he and Rhee had talked about Korea's request for about- $100,000,000 in addi tional economic aid this year plus restoration of a military aid cut, Hoover replied that Rhee "never referred to .that at all." . TEACHERS TICKETED 1 Detroit (U.R) Red-faced Red- ford Township school officials said today they were glad police answered their complaints and installed electric speed timers near a school even though four teachers were ticketed the first day. - More than 7t,000 retired Army veterans are drawing retirement checks amounting to approxi mately $15,000,000 (M) a month. u PAINT WITH BURGESS PAINT & WALLPAPER STORE Corner 6th I Holly. Diagonally Across from the Post Office V Give S&H Green Stamps PHONE 2-9321 "Let Us Recommend a Reliable Painter" Eight Medford Students Attend Press Conclave Eight Medford High school students left this morning for Eugene to participate in a high school press meeting on the Uni versity of Oregon campus today and Saturday. . ,The conference is sponsored by the school of journalism. Mrs. Frank Bash is, accom panying the group. ." Representing the Crater, Med ford High school yearbook, are Deanna Bruning, Nancy Mc Keowen, Jane Bash, Pat Callo way, Nancy Eck, Jim " Materie, and Greg Milnes. The one repre sentative for the Hi-Times, week ly high school paper, is Lois Kelley. The sessions opened today at noon and after a coffee hour the delegates visited exhibits in the Allen hall reading room. The ex hibits are representative of Ore gon high school yearbooks and include prints from a national photo contest. Fifty of the top photographs taken by high school students throughout the country are included in the dis Play. This evening a banquet will be held in the Student Union ballroom. . Speech topic for the main speaker, William E. Drips, will be "You're the - Big Picture." Drips is a "retired" journalist and veteran of 35 years in radio and ' television work. Saturday's schedule includes a series of roundtable discussions on news paper and year book planning and policies. Discussion will be led by staff members of the Emerald and the Oregana with conference delegates acting as panel members. . : Personal Income In August Declines Washington "(U.R) The Com merce deaprtment reports that the annual rate of person income in August dropped $300,000,000 below the July rate to a total of $315,000,000,000. The department said the por tion of this total represented by wages and salaries eased off from an annual rate of $212.- 400,000,000 in July to $211,600, 000,000 in August. , But it said the annual income rate for the first eight months of this year still was $13,000, 000,000 higher than for the same period of 1954. Court Records POLICE COURT Gary Rea Rupert, violation of the basic rule, $10. Eugene Earl Lawson, violation of the basic rule, $10. DISTRICT COURT James Earl Holt, failure to stop at a stop si En. $10. Gerald Clinton Walker, failure to stop at a stop sign, $10. Robert Mattes, failure to operate on the right side of the highway, $25. (bail forfeiture) Kenneth Merle Callison. viola tion of the basic rule, $10. Donald Raymond Minkler. violation of the basic rule. $12.50. Timothy Jay Hamilton, violation of the basic rule. $10. John Fein, overload. $129. Robert Carl Metschan, violation of the basic rule. $15. Edward Joseph Fogel, violation ef the basic rule. $10. Milton Francis Gorden, no emer gency brake. $6. Gayle Donald Christlieb. violation of the basic rule, $10. CIRCUIT COURT Jesse Archibald Storm vs. Irene Storm, divorce complaint. James Thomas Roach vs. Donna Anna Chambers Roach, divorce com plaint. Inez Vera Williams, vs. Elmer Leroy Williams, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS - , ' Bennie Dale - Kinney, 20. of 1806 Spring ' st.. and Florence - Suzanna Sprague. 19, route 3. box 69. Medford. Kenneth - Merline Nelson. 19, Box 496. Jacksonville, and Patricia Gail Brown, 16. of 551 Fifth st.Gold Hill. . 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