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llegofiaiion Prepared In Telephone Strike
San Francisco U.R) Top
leaders of the striking telephone
Orken union prepared today
to confer with a federal media
tor if it;appeared likely such a
step would help settle a strike
gainst the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph company.
'-A. T.Jones, vice-president in
c Charge of bargaining for the
jvCIO D Communications Workers
w of America, arrived here yester
day to direct union strategy in
the tvoo-state walkout.
Three thousand CWA mem
bers in San Francisco were to
attend an "information meet
ing" today to hear a progress re-
port on the strike.
The strike began Monday
morning when the telephone
company refused to give in to
TIRES INTO SHOES
Among the natives of many
poor nations in Asia one of the
most popular items is old rubber
tires. The people cut these up
and make crude shoes from them.'
wage demands of the CWA and
two other unions, the United
Brotherhood of Telephone
Workers and the United Broth
erhod of Telephone Workers of
northern California and Nevada.
Substitute Clerk Exam
Slated for Phoenix PO
Phoenix Federal Civil Serv
ice has announced an examina
tion to fill the position of sub
stitute clerk at the Phoenix post
office. The position pays a sal
ary of $1.71 an hour.
Applicants for the job must
reside within the Phoenix post
office delivery area or be bona
fide patrons of that office.
Further information and ap
plication forms may be obtained
at the Phoenix or Medford post
offices. Applications must be
filed with the Director, Eleventh
U.S. Civil Service Region, 302
Federal Office Building, Seattle
4, Wash., not later than Oct. 31,
1955.
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HANDSHAKE MARKS END, for this year at least, of plan
by 40 and 8, American Legion's fun-making group, to form
separate organization. J. Earl Simpson (left), Chef de Chemin
of 40 and 8, extends his vote of confidence to National Com-1
mander Seaborn Collins at Miami Beach, Fla. (International)
Skunks Prefer Peace
But Capable When Riled
Washington Take it from
Melvin R. Ellis, who learned
about skunks the hard way, a
truly ornery, "polecat" probably
never lived.
Moreover, labeling contempti
ble people as "skunks" is libel
ing one of Nature's least offen
sive creatures.
That's the way Mr. Ellis
sizes up Mephitis mephitis (the
animal's scientific name taken
from the Latin for "a pestilential
exhalation from the ground.")
Takes Different View
In an article entitled "Skunks
Want Peace or Else!" the au
thor shows he holds no sym
pathy for the attitude expressed
in the old French - Canadian
epithet for the animal as "child
of the devil."
Mr. Ellis had his "own hard
lesson" with Mephitis as a small
boy. "Evening shadows were on
the pasture when another young
ster and I vaulted a stone fence
into the middle of a family of
skunks," he relates. '
"Time stood still. A meadow
lark on a near fence post stopped
singing. The cows we had come
to bring in lifted their heads as
if in anticipation. It was a
moment of great decision, and
we made the wrong one.
"Instead of remaining motion
less and permitting the skunks
to amble off, we turned to flee.
We might have come off only
faintly scented had we turned
in opposite directions. As it was,
we turned in upon each other.
smacked our heads together,
and went down dazed.
"The six skunks, a mother
and five half-grown youngsters,
switched their sterns about, and
then all 12 guns belched salvo
efter salvo of malodorous fluid
over our inert forms."
Semiblind, sick, almost suf
focated, the boys found that
time was to be their only real
salvation. At home they were
scrubbed with lye soap. Today,
Ellis says, they would probably
get a tomato-juice rubdown or
an ammonia rinse, both consid
erably more effective.
He Learned Later
It was years before the author
learned the facts of skunk life:
that each animal can fire, al
most from birth, both guns at
once or one at a time, and that
a mature skunk is capable of
from four tc six successive dis
charges accurate from 8 to 15
feet.
However, the skunk takes
little joy in inflicting such in
dignities upon its adversaries,
real or imagined, for mostly it
wants to be alone. By nature,
writes Ellis, it is aloof, uncon
cerned, indifferent to all ex
cept other skunks.
All animals, save man and
sometimes foolish dogs, respect
(he skunk's . desire to avoid
trouble. Only in rare emergen
cies, when starvation stalks the
land, will coyote, cougar, and
mink risk the skunk's noxious
barrage.
X-Rays May Show
Heart Ailments
Chest x-ray clinics being con
ducted in Jackson county serve
as a screening device for some
heart conditions as well as for
tuberculosis and lung cancer, it
was pointed out today by local
physicians.
The x-ray clinic is open each
Thursday from 2 to 5 p.m. at
Sacred Heart hospital.' Those go
ing to the clinic are asked , to use
the main entrance to the. hospital
on the ground floor at the south
side of the building.
"Although experts disagree on
borderline heart problems, 60 to
70 per cent of cardiac abnorm
alities picked lip by screening
films are' real and need atten
tion," according to Dr. T. L.
Badger of the Harvard Medical
school, in a recently published
article.
Enlarged hearts can be recog
nized on the x-ray films, accord
ing to Dr. Earl Lawson, radiolog
ist who reads the films' taken at
the x-ray center. .
The clinics are provided
through use of " Christmas seal
funds in cooperation with the
Jackson County Medical society,
Sacred Heart and Community
hospitals, the Jackson County
Public Health association, and
the county health department.
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Control Board Inspects .
State Hospital Building
Salem (U.R) The five-story
$1,500,000 new patients build
ing at the Oregon State hospital
was inspected today by the State
Board of Control prior to its ex
pected opening later this week.
Facilities will house about
675 patients and help cut down
congestion in other departments.
Funds for the building were ap
propriated by the 1953 legislature.
Deposits, Loans Up
At Rogue State Bank
Deposit and loan figures of
the Rogue Valley State bank,
1109 Court St., have increased
since last June 30, it was an
nounced today. The figures were
issued in response to a call from
the comptroller of currency for
banks' statements of position.
Deposits as of Oct. 5 totaled
$2,648,118.56, compared to the
June 30 figure of $2,015,775.50.
Loans totaled $842,638.34 on
Oct. 5 compared to $796,740.84
the last of June.
Officers of the bank, the only
independent one in Jackson
county, said they are extremely
pleased with the .growth of the
institution since it moved to
Medford from Eagle Point a
number of months ago.
Despite its yen to go its own
way in peace, it makes a reason
ably good pet if handled while
young enough. Deodorized, it
becomes as docile and amiable
as a kitten.
But facing danger in the wild,
the striped skunk stamps its
feet. Its cousin, the I spotted
skunk, throws its body and hind
feet into the air, stands on its
front paws and bristles its tail.
Then watch out. Attack is
imminent.
Time Beats Answer
To Video Question
New York U.R) Baseball
fan Patrick (Paddy) Keough
made, the' agonizing decision to
risk the $16,000 he already has
won on a television program and
try for the $32,000 question,
only to have the clock run out
on him before the question was
asked.
The pudgy Irishman from St.
Louis returns next week to the
program, "The $64,000 Ques
tion,'' to take up where he left
off when the show ended last
night, with Keough in the isola
tion booth waiting for the $32,
000 question.
Another contestant on the pro
gram, the Rev. Alvin Kershaw.
Oxford, O.. won $8000 by an
swering difficult questions about
jazz. The boyish-looking 35-year-old
rector of Holy Trinity Epis
copal church of Oxford will
have a chance at the $16,000
question next week. '
If Keough successfully an
swers his question he will have
the option of taking the money
or answering' an even tougher
question, the following week for
$64,000.
Steel Producers Face
Worry on Expansion
New York (U.R) The nation's
steel producers are facing a new
worry: How to finance much
needed expansion.
Iron Age, metal working
weekly, said today the problem
is "a tough one." Expansion un
derway or planned was largely
predicted on continuation of the
government's fast tax write-off
program, Iron Age pointed out,
"and the government has closed
the door to further rapid amor
tization for steel ingot expansion."
"With the domestic market
about as tight as it has ever
been, some steel people and in
dustrial economists believe the
economic picture would support
higher prices," Iron Age de
clared.
Higher prices would insure a
continuing supply, as contrasted
with intermittent shortages, the
publication added.
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