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I Chamber Problems Discussed During Annual Workshop Representatives from eight Chambers of Commerce in south ern Oregon and northern Cali fornia compared problems and discussed techniques of carrying out organizational programs at a Jackson County Chamber of Commerce workship at the Jack son hotel, Saturday. More than 40 Chamber repre sentatives from Ashland, Brook ings, Cave ' Junction, Grants Pass, Gold Hill, Yreka and Med ford attended the all-day confer ence. Representatives from other areas participated in panel dis cussions concerning Chamber fi nancing, tourist travel and con venton business, ad activity in the field of taxation. Increase in Costs Guy E. Leonard, Portland Chamber of Commerce, chaired the panel on financing and the responsibility of the board of di rectors and Chamber staff. Leon ard pointed out that increases in operational costs have made an increase in minimum dues neces sary in most instances. Most Chambers are willfully underfi nanced, he said. Dudley McClure, Cole and Weber advertising agency, Port land, and Eric Bergman, travel K division, Oregon State Highway department, served on a panel discussion of tourist travel and 'convention business in southern Oregon. Samuel Stewart, Ore gon State Tax Commissioner, participated in a discussion of Chamber activites in the field of taxtion. Leith Abbott, assistant passen ger travel and public relations manager, Southern Pacific rail road, Portland, was the principal speaker at the evening dinner. A special award was given to representatives of the Klamath Falls Chamber for having the highest attendance at the confer- Boy Scouts Troop 16 At the last meeting of Troop 16 colored slides taken in Ger many and France were shown and plans were made to show pictures of Africa at the next meeting. The troop meets Fri days at 7 p.m., in the Pythian building. Parents and friends are invited. A snow excursion is planned for the near future. ! KELVINATOR'S PRICE -$549.95 ft, 429'5 Pplill $15 Down $20 Month - Hg $8 : : :j: HOLDS 630 POUNDS pll 31 W WIDE, 61" HIGH KSL iv-v? jf , SHIP RAMS TEXAS T0WE2 The 5200-ton Sagitta, a military transport service ship, rammed into the Texas Tower Radar Island 100 miles off Cape Cod while attempting to unload supplies in heavy seas. The ship radioed it was "listing seriously" and its 42 crewmen were "standing by the lifeboats." Despite a gaping hole in her starboard side, the Sagitta started for Boston under her own power at five knots. The tower is shown above last November when an Air Force p arty of high ranking officers was stranded aboard it as it was being battered by high w inds of hurricane force. Fringe Area Sewage Problems Discussed Corvallis (U.R) The problem of uncontrolled growth on the fringes of Oregon's cities was described graphically here last night by Benton County Sani taian Robert Zimmerman. He de clared flatly that many of the residents of the south Corvallis fringe area were drinking sewage. Zimmerman said inadequate drainage and sewerage had con taminated 95 per cent of the drinking water wells in the finge area. "We put dye in the toilets ,and it shows up in the wells," he said. Zimmerman was one of sev eral city and county officials who testified at a hearing be fore the legislative interim com mittee on local government and fringe area problems at Corvallis city hall. Witnesses said the south Cor vallis fringe area was one of the most critical facing the city. Coal production in the U. S. during 1954 averaged about 2.5 tons for every person' in the country. I Special Purchase 3.8 Cu. Ft FREEZERS Don't Avoid Divorce for Sake of Children, Is Word Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Un happily married parents who avoid divorce "for the sake of the children" may be doing the youngsters an injustice, accord ing to Judson T. Landis, associ ate professor of family sociology at the University of California College of Agriculture. After studying results of a home life questionnaire answer ed by 3,000 students from 11 col leges and universities, Judson said: . "This research suggests doubt about the desirability of parents' remaining together for the sake of the children." The study showed that chil dren of cleanly separated par ents had certain advantages ov er those of unhappily married mothers and fathers. But it also revealed that the two different situations usually cast the youngsters from each into just about the same problems. This indicates, evaluators suggest, that it is not necessarily the act of divorce, but the tense home atmosphere it springs from that will show up as children mature and start facing life's problems. The fact that children from unhappy or broken homes fail ed to display as much confi dence in marriage and religion was also brought out in the student-answered survey. These young people had more trouble making friends of the opposite sex in adolescence, maintained a further separated relationship with their parents and would more readily accept unorthodox marriages than children from happy homes. Other major findings of the questionnaire, were: .1 Children from unhappy domestic situations scored low est in desirable and highest in undesirable attitudes as far as sex in wedlock was concerned. 2 The amount and quality of sex education received in the home by a youth depended up on how happy and stable his par ents were. Only 23 per cent of the poll subjects who came from unstrained homes received no sex teaching. 3 The greatest number of virgins came from happy homes, nl Famous Kelvinator Quality! O 56 INCHES LONG SEALED UNIT WITH 5 YEAR WARRANTY olds KELVINATOR'S PRICE $449.95 OUR J $34995 British Comet Jet Plane Little Like Other Craft By ROBERT C. MILLER United Press Correspondent Sydney (U.R) Come along with me for a preview of a jet you'll probably be riding within four years. The plane is de Havilland's four-barrelled Comet III which recently broke the London-Sydney record on its round-the-world flight. By 1959 these, and similar jets, will be in regular trans-continental and trans-ocean service. London will be less than a day from Australia, San Francisco five hours from Ha waii and Vancouver 20 hours from Sydney. You'll fly eight miles above the earth with scarcely a quiver or vibration, and only a constant low whine from the engines. You duck upon entering the heavily pressurized door and find the same deep, soft seats, port-holed windows and plastic interiors of today's propelled planes. The similarity ends with the first movement of the plane. No Warm-up There are no thrashing pro pellors, staccato roar of exhausts or tingling vibrations. The four Rolls Royce engines cut in with a whistle that never builds up into more than a conversational sigh in the sound-proof cabin. The plane taxis gently as the shark-mouthed jets suck in acres of air and thrust it back with a potential of more than five tons. Outside the long aluminum wings sway noticeably, their de ceptive strength hidden by the flexibility of their construction. but the margin was not great in relation to the other groups. This lack of notable difference, said Landis, tended to deflate other studies that showed sex ually promiscuous girls to be the products of unhappy homes. Evangelistic Services EVERY NIGHT, 7:30 P.M. Except Monday and Saturday REV. MACKEY AND REV. KUNKLE Speaking and Singing The public is invited FOURSQUARE CHURCH East Jackson and Biddle Road Mi 530 lbs. PRICE mi rn 112' S Tuesday, January 24, 1956 There are no engine warm-ups in this plane; no tedious waits at the end of runways. You swing onto the field, get clearance from the tower and are off and flying. The howl builds up for the first time as the spinning blades scoop in the air and exhale it with a thrust so great it flattens you against the back of , your seat. Sail planing must be like this. The asphalt blurs, the land scape rushes past and nine sec onds later the plane is in the air. The other half of the runway lies unused below. Pilot John Cunningham takes her to the sun, but there is only the angle of climb as an indi cator that the great plane is now under the urging of nearly her full load of power. Silence Is Strength Outside the roar must be deaf ening. Inside your neighbor chats in restaurant tones, and the drink placed on the tray has a surface unmarred by a ripple. The air speed indicator shows eight miles a minute. It lies. There's a clear sky ahead and Cunningham highballs. He flat tens out at 20,000 feet and the earth moves lazily below while you hang poised in space. It takes a while to get used to the silence. There is no changing of prop pitches, no shifting of supercharges; only that incessant soprano high that scarcely var ies a degree during the flight. The descent begins more than 100 miles from your destination, and the speed stays welL above 400 miles an hour until the flaps go down and the 10-wheeled landing gear snaps into place. Your landing is .faster, but equal ly as smooth as those by today's transports. You'll use more run way before coming to a stop. At the terminal the sound dies out completely as the engines coast to a stop, and the flight Wj) DOWH UTH RIV Mackie Returns From OSC Inspectors Course . H. E. Mackie, city building in spector and architect, returned recently from Oregon State col lege, where he attended a three day course for building inspec tors. Some 53 Oregon cities were represented. Instruction covered founda tion requirements and construc tion practices in timbers, con crete blocks and reinforced con crete. Speakers included repre sentatives of lumber and allied building industries, and staff members from OSC. The course, first of its kind held by the college, was de signed to improve knowledge of construction and related subjects and to bring inspectors up to date on trends in building, Mackie reported. is completed. Tickets for the reg ular service are available at the counter about March of 1959. Mighty tasty! What goes better after an evening get-together than fried chicken? More than likely you've discovered how easy and how much fun it is to phone up and have it delivered hot to your door. Your telephone's mighty handy that way. And after all, that's what it's for. The men and women of Pacific Telephone work to make your telephone more useful every day. S51 A MONTH erside MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE About 71 per cent of all U. S. hospital beds are in institutions controlled by the government at federal, state or local levels. .-. Dse Mail Tribune Want Ads LEARN TO . 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