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IIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wdnidar. July 11, 1956 Theyll Do It Every Time l i By Jimmy Hatlo say, aac tu4tS my GdC P4I5KEO OUTS1DE- z ear to go io a sales MEET1NS DOWN TUE STREET WILL VOU GO OUT EVEW UOOR AMD PUT 4 DIME IM THE FJJSKWG METES? HEvES THREE I DON'T YVsTT TUE COP TO AIM ME A TICKET warrt.L you see Him i S4UMTEO OVER PO(?4 , GLASS OP Wi3TER.4MD HE DO" T EVEN BUY 4 STAMPS HERE vgi W now WrrS4 YT TV lrr A r-s WuJrkjncO LllX a K? EVERYTHING.' P DIDN'T ASK U THIS IS 4 1 COGTO AwAHCE fi NEW SERVICE THE DOUSH OR L A. mOUriNC. MP7FB? 1-1 OUT IMS DIMS IN AO SET UIM -4TTVI4T I I HEi?'STHRE- i ffJV OP EVEf A w"Ek' THE S4LES MEETING IP'HE I 1 nErf wlTui 1 Vf?E ' k.COP COMES SE7S 4 NY PHONE C4LLS a. coptoaimme yA i PKsvsrPCa, r-rr-ii Vt-tswUere? j P' J I. f " u. III J M Out : MOCP PfST COO DRUGGIST TO PUT UP WITH-- -YV 40 4 tip oc -rye U4TLO U4T TO ISS J4K6 BRESUM, U.S. Firms Doing Booming Business in Columbia Cali. Colombia (U.R) The Conquistadores came to Colom bia in search of gold, but U.S business in the past few years has discovered pay-dirt undream ed of by the early Spaniards. Throughout this land of health ful uplands and rich valleys many of the" best-known U.S. Corporations have established factories and are doing a boom ing business. Some, like Colgate and Goodyear Rubber company, already have overrun initial pro duction estimates and are ex panding or building new plants. In Call alone, more than 50 US. companies are now operat ing, and some 250 Americans and their families have become a part of the city's industrial and social life. But It is not only big busi ness that is profiting from Co lombia's expanding markets. Men with only a few thousand dollars, to investbut with sound technical know-how have been rewarded beyond their dreams. Take Bernard Rosenberg, for example. Bernard hails from Brooklyn. Four years ago, with $50,000 in capital and a master electrician's degree, he started manufacturing fluorescent lamps in Cali. Today, he sells S350.000 worth of lamps a year and has ' 1 A 1 1 JU 1 t I 1 1 a piant ne wuuxan i sen lur iiau. a million. Al Schaeffer, now prominent in Bogota's construction indus try, has done equally well. Modtllin Also Attracts According to" Richard Lanke nau, who handles business in vestments for the Banco Popular, Schaeffer arrived in Bogota just after World War II with around $10,000 to discover that nobody in Colombia was making a good building block. He knew the an swer, started manufacturing blocks with cement bought from a local cement firm and now has a $500,000 business. John Miller, another Bogota resident, has blossomed into a building contractor on the basis of his knowledge of how to dry wood properly. He is now com housing project for the Banco Popular and building lumber yards in Bogota in addition to managing his firm, Colombia En Eineering Enterprises. He owns both woodlands and sawmills Two Miami, Fla., boys, Al Turner and William Hart, recent ly joined Miller to expand his building business. According to Lankenau, Miller had "eight or ten thousand dol lars" when he came to Bogota from the States. Medellin, one of the oldest set tled parts of Colombia and home of the country's largest textile mills is also attracting Americans. Like Cali, Medellin is about 3,000 feet above sea level and enjoys a mild year- round climate. The 250-odd Americans in Me dellin are in everything from hea,vy construction to engineer ing consultation. Many are in business for themselves. Tony Keil from Seattle, Wash., now owns Medellin's smartest furniture store. His goods, well made and in excellent taste, are being gobbled up by rich Me dellianos as fast as his -workmen can turn them out. He is also selling to Sears Roebuck stores in Bogota and Barranquula. Two other Stateside boys will move down from Indiana soon to start a modern chicken farm at Medellin. They'll bring their own breeding experts. Up to now, Medellin's poultry demands have been uncertainly supplied by small farms. "Capital is useful," said Jorge E. Quesada, director of the Co lombia Association of Small In dustries in Cali, but most of all we need skills and know-how. There is ample Colombian Jap ital available for any sound en terprise to serve our expanding markets." New enterprises needed, ac cording to Quesada, are in the fields of plastics, electronics, ma chine trades, pharmaceuticals, food processing, furniture for of fice and home, leather industries, office supplies, bakeries and confections. The largest aluminum marine structure is in the upper decks of the liner United States. The weight of the aluminum alloys involved is 2,000 tons, producing a direct weight saving of 2,500 tons and a fuel saving estimated at 8 or 9 per cent. Citizen Groups Help to Improve Urban Living Chicago U.R) Citizen groups across the nation have been helping city officials improve urban living, according to the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment officials. The Association listed seven recent examples of how such groups have provided advice and support on urban renewal. The association said that a special committee of more than 100 persons studied housing Ixonditions in New York City. and its report was credited with throwing new light on housing and redevelopment problems. Eleven Philadelphian prepared and submitted to the mayor a statement with recommenda tions for housing and urban re newal activities in the Quaker City. In Pittsburg, a 200-man Coun cil on Neighborhood Improve ment was set up to arouse local interest in neighborhood con servation. The Citizens Planning and Housing Association of Balti more is working to organize neighborhood groups to help stop neighborhood deterioration. The Community Council of Stamford, Conn., working with the local housing authority, is providing a recreation program at a housing project where there had been vandalism and juve nile delinquency. Campaigning to improve hous ing conditions in Albany, N. Y the Federation of Churches of Christ compiled for the mayor a list of all unsafe structures in the city department's scattered records concerned with housing. The association said Detroit's Gratiot re-development project has taken an upward swing since a mayor-appointed citizens committee began work to make the project more attractive to private developers. Great Bend, Kan. U.R The response has improved since the Rev. Raymond Knowles replaced Reserved ' and "No Parking signs in the East Methodist church lot with signs reading "Thou Shalt Not Park." BOTH WAYS ! 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For 70 years Cobb and Co. coaches carried passengers, mail and freight in jouncing, free wheeling flamboyance. Through the bush, over rutted dust-choking roads and muddy river fords, they cut indelible tracks across a young continent. . Founded by Yankee Adrenrurert The stage line's founders were four Yankee adventurers, Free man Cobb, John Lamber, John Peck, and James Swanton, who arrived in the 1853 rush to the Ballarat gold field. They real ized their opportunity when they saw the crude, slow stagecoach service out of Sydney. Cobb and his partners import ed "Concord" coaches built in Connecticut. Slung from leather braces, they were light, speedy, and practical over rough-country and cost a staggering $3,000 each. Crack drivers, veterans of American stagecoach companies, were recruited. Eventually they (S5,000) a year. Cobb and Co. provided them with the best horses that money could buy. The partners made a fortune in a few short years, sold out, and returned to America. Cobb later owned a stagecoach line in the South African diamond fields. Peck went back to Aus tralia with a fleet of 40-passen-ger "Jack" coaches that he sold to Cobb and Co., by then being run by another shrewd Ameri can, James Rutherford. Under Rutherford the firm grew to dominate the 'stage coach industry of Australia. His coaches, rarely failing to meet schedules, won the right to carry the words "Royal Mail" on their doors. By 1870 Cobb and Co. was harnessipg 6,000 horses a day and galloping 28,000 miles a week. 'Cabbage Tree' on th. Box Many of the drivers became famous in their own right. The best known was "Cabbage Tree Ned" Devine, so dubbed for his wide-brimmed hat woven of cabbage-palm fronds. "Cabbage Tree" thought nothing of driv ing a 12-horse team down a hill "steep as a side of a house," or of outrunning bushrangers who set an ambush for a cargo of gold. Cobb and Co.'s most spectac ular stage was the Great Levia than Coach from Castlemaine to Kyneton on the Victoria gold fields. It carried 75 passengers and required a team of 22 horses, Driver Has Trouble Explaining Auto Dent Lansing, Mich. (U.R) John Soet had a dent in the right rear fender of his car, which was rather hard to explain. Seems that a dog driving a car ran into Soet's car on the western outskirts of Grand Rapids. "I glanced up the street and to my right and saw a big red car bearing down on me," Soet said. "I laid on the horn and then did a double-take. "There was a dog just a dog bouncing around behind the wheel of the car. "I couldn't go ahead, and I couldn't back up, so I did the only thing left to do. I just sat there frantically blowing the splendid in polished harness with silver mountings, and guided by a single strong-armed driver. With the coming of railroads, Cobb and Co. pushed its lines farther west into the outback country and continued success fully to compete with fcuses and motor cars. Its last stagecoach was still running in 1924 in Queensland. When retired, it went into the Queensland Mu seum. Five years later, Cobb and Co. closed its doors. Australia, fondly remember ing the famous line, last year commemorated Cobb ' and Co. with two special postage stamps. Annual pageants bring out the old coaches that rolled on Amer ican wheels across the Common wealth's frontiers. horn while this dog-driven ear came at me, finally hitting my rear fender.-" . The owner of the car was found shopping in a nearbv drue- store. . t Soet Said the driver vnw.il after this, he'd set the brake, and not trust the transmission gears to hold the car on a hill espe cially with a shift-minded pooch lert in tne car. 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