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i. FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. Oetober IS, 1ISS Tax Collections In Oregon Drop From 1954 Figure Salem CU.R) Tax collections by the state of Oregon from June 30 through September of this year lagged behind collec lions for the same period a year aeo bv S158.543. according to figures released by the State Tax Commission. Tax collections for the first three months of this fiscal year, through September, totaled S9 832,175, compared to $9,990,719 during the same period a year ago. Income Taxes Up Personal income taxes paid directly to the commission by taxpayers and through withhold ing payments made by employers showed an increase for the first three months of the present fis cal year. The total of personal income taxes paid added up to S7,499,251, compared with $6. 939,142 in the. first three months of the last fiscal year. However, corporate excise tax collections fell short, as did amusement device taxes. Corpo- ate taxes for the quarter totaled $2,077,767 compared with $2,- 855,546 for the similar period a year ago. Amusement device taxes for the quarter totaled only $74,583 compared with $219,847 for the similar period a year ago. Decrease Reported A marked decrease in total tax collections last month was reported, the 30-day total being $943,186, a drop of $185,760, greater than the three-month de crease. The September tax returns showed a decrease in personal income taxes with a slight in crease marked up for the corp orate income taxes, .reversing the earlier trend. In September $375,771 was collected in personal income taxes compared with $584,376 in September a year ago. Cor porations paid $553,433 last month compared with $520,313 In September a year ago. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. Pickin' Pears News and Notes From Camp White BY SID HOLLINGSWORTH Los Angeles It came as something of a surprise to find such a large part of the Camp White membership living at the Los Angeles center, on arrival here last week. Hartman was the first of the greeters, at the admission office, where he is now working in a similiar capac ity to the place he filled in the domiciliary office at Camp White. George Mitchell, who was at the admission desk during June when the high water mark was leached in admissions as well as departures at Camp White, has turned up here and is en gaged at the present time trying to clear up a few misunder standings about his disability status. Carl Krogstad was out for a while and then decided to check in here. In considering a detail assignment, he told the detail leader he could run a mimeo graph. Now he takes care of this kind of assignment over in the regional office. Carl, it may be remembered, did the printing of Dominews for a longer period than any other member doing his job. He has just received a letter from Ingvald Hansen, in Nor way, which he shared. "Since I got home to Norway I've been busy all the time, if not fishing then I'm cutting wood," Hansen writes; "Yes, we use wood to cook with here and to keep warm with, too. We've got electric lights and radios. That's about all. No telvision here yet, but I suppose they will get it some day here too. But I don't think I will be here to see that be cause I'm coming back to the states again next summer." with Ken Williams in Grants Pass was published in the Mail Tribune. Frank White is now a "deputy sheriff" in the detention quart ers. He was having trouble and came in for a checkup, where upon he was induced to remain and take the job. He is still hope ful of seeing the big leagues extended to the Pacific Coast now that Kansas City has been reached in the westward move ment. "We have some good players and teams on the coast and now that baseball interest is reviv ing, the public here can be de pended upon to support big league games," he said. Jack Shipman is another Camp White personality now stationed here. He kept the "chicken farm" back of the cof fee shop until the bantam family grew so large it had to be moved. It was also a pleasant sur prise to encounter "Sergeant" Frank White who left Camp White last spring when the base ball season started. White is the brother of the famous "Doc" White of the Chicago White Sox in the days before the wars. He was a scout for Cleveland for a number of years. His interview Special greetings are sent' to Dr. Todd by "Harry" Creswell who came here via Salt Lake City and Reno after some hos pital experiences. He is taking it easy and wishes to be re membered all around the" lot. It may take some time to get around for a little more com ment with Camp White transfers on different dates of tenure, and in consequence this "supple ment" to Pickin' Pears will have to be extended at least to anoth er report. The same administrative changes are taking place here that now engage the attention of the manager at Camp White: One member, making a kick about the change in nomencla ture, had this comment: "There aren't any captains and sergeants any more; they're sec tion leaders. I suppose that makes us section hands. Well, I refuse to work as a section hand." . There are about 221,000 miles of railway line in the United States, not including mileage of yard tracks or sidings or parral lei trackage. Use Tribune Want Ads o the fa 4n 7)7717" 771 WWJJ- -v " v 1 gotll.eerrhitop.p.ck-c medbeef,.. If M is just one of the inviting fresh fruits e nd vegetables featured this week in the xUi your money 1 back on any item that doesrft please you FILLING WITH WATER while en route to wharf after trial run, Donald Campbell's speed boat Bluebird sinks with tail surface high before plunge into Lake Mead, Nev. Campbell had made top speed of 162.85 miles per hour. (International) Students Plead Guilty To Corvallis Incident Corvallis (U.R) Six Univer sity of Oregon students pleaded guilty to charges of burning "U 0"-in letters 12 feet high on the turf of Parker stadium at Oregon State College here yesterday. .AH six bailed out of Benton county jail after posting $30. They had waived the right to at torney and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of "injuring grass' following their arrest yes terday. District Judge Richard Meng ler set sentencing of the boys for 9:30 a.m. Friday. Twenty of our 28 national parks are located west of the Mississippi River. The territories of Hawaii and Alaska each have one national park. Portland Council Delays Park Transfer Portland (U.R) The Port land city council agreed to post pone for or.e week consideration of a request for transfer of Delta Park to the Exposition-Recreation Commission. The postponement was pro posed by the E-R Commission because two of its members were scheduled to be away from Port land today when the transfer request came up, for consideration. Delta Park, chosen by the commission for Portland's eight million dollar recreation center, is owned by the city. , A NiehoVs Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pre Futvr Writer Li Washington (U.R) You don't have to pay fancy antique store prices to collect rare old pieces of fur niture, jewelry and house wares. If y&u know what you're doing, you can often find real ba rgai ns in junk stores fi T I shops. t s I That's t h e Human Nichols advice of an expert antique collector from England, Charles Gray. Gray is touring America as a goodwill ambassador from Lon don's Grosvenor House, a high type hostelry that is famous for having more help than cus tomers. This makes for fine if expensive service. . Part of " Gray's jobs with Grosvenor ' House is to help guests from America and else where find the best places to shop for antiques. So it was natural for him to bring along some of his own notable relics to show off on his tour. 'it takes some time to know a phony piece of old furniture from the real thing," he told me over breakfast. "Same goes for jewels. Furniture isn't too tough'. Take a stick of furniture and if the dealer is honest he will h?ve scraped it down to the raw. If the grain shows a chocolate color you can be sure it is an oldpiece. Jewels you have to be more expert about." In 26 years of collecting, Gray has picked himself up some fab ulous bargains. He has 10 grand father clocks, all of them dating way back. Some have wooden works , which still work. One of his most valuable clocks is a "postman's alarm,1 which he picked up for a few pounds in a second-hand furni ture place. It is equipped with pull cords. When it was invented there was no' electricity in Brit ain, and you couldn't snap on a light in the dead of the night. Postmen had to make their ap pointed rounds on time, same as here. They would wake in the dark night in a sweat, won dering about the hour, - and would yank a cord. Chimes would tell whether the postman had time for another cat nap. Gray bought another old time piece for the equivalent of about $10 a decade ago. It's called a. Parliament clock, and he found it in a side street junk place while looking for a second-hand umbrella it was raining that day. This thing is three feet, six inches high and is two feet across the face. A stone weight, carefully balanced on the pendu lum, keeps the timepiece ac curate. On account of the high taxes on time pieces in Britian at the time hardly anybody could af ford a clock. So Parliament passed a law that every public place had to have a clock where all could see it. "It was not a striker," Gray told me. "But it could be seen for yards around, you could be sure. These things today are rare, indeed." Most of Gray's personal col lection is kept in his home. He wouldn't part with any of his keepsakes for any price. Besides seeing that Grosvenor House guests are informed about the best places to pick up an tiques, Gray operates a little business of his own on the side making old things work like new. A long time back some friends from ' San ' Francisco bought." a grandpappy clock, crated it and took it home. "They paid a pretty penny for it," Gray said. It was a wooden works granddaddy. A few years later Gray visited the couple hi Francisco. There hadn't been a tick-tock out of the thing since they bought it. "I got out my kit and went to work. In a couple of. days she was ticking like jolly-be. 'ifint gin, my Betsy!" I just can't get over tfie marvel ous way my Betsy outsmarts her housework. Take wood floors for instance. I hear other wives com plain about all the scrubbing and waxing they have to do. But not my Betsy! She cleans and waxes them in one easy operation with Bruce Cleaning Wax. Why, she'i through in half the time and fresh as a daisy! And our beautiful wood floors are always getting compli ments. My Betsy and her Bruce : Cleaning Wax sure make small work of a big job. Fm mighty proud of both of them. P.S. For lighter waxing on linoleum and wood, Betsy uses Bruce Floor Cleaner. C"" Yes... you'd have to buy 37 cents' worth of other food products to get the vitamins, 1 . y calcium and protein supplied by o f just one quart of milk. f 1 A That's why, when you're reaching for I j l real bargains in your store... . J j 1 reach for dairy products, ' 9 j I I 1 your best buy! REMEMBER... DAIRY FOODS ARE YOUR DEST BUY! HEAR THE WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP - KMED, 8 A. M. 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