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EIGHT MEDrOFD (OFZGOK) Facts on Shown in Assessed vaiua'ion irr Jark roijr.ty decreased 8S4 05 between 1S53 and 1956. A;es.-d valuation ior Medford Increased $S0,072 90 in the same period. This information is reported in a pamphiet. "Economic Indica tor." con-piied by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and published last month. The parr.phirt gives information on 22 phases of economy for Jack son county and the city of Med ford with comparisons for the years 1955 and 1956. Sources Listed Official'; in city, couity, state end public utility offices were sources for information contain ed in the report. The pamphlet shows assessed was SB0.638 .394 .05 in 1955 and $79,669,824 29. in 1956. Assessed valuation for Medford was $24, P46.133 It in 1955 and S25.026, 206 06 in 1956. Bank debits for Jackson coun ty were $530,946,402 43 in 1955 as compared with $629,915,471 in 1956. Bank debits for Med O lord were $465,843.499 31 in 1955 as compared with $552. 705,256 in 1956. Bank deposits for Jac kson county totaled $30, 647,026 03 in i955 and $31,219. 919 in 1956 For the city of Medford. bank deposits were 462.304.961 05 in 1955 and $44, CR7.337 in 1956. Bank Loans O Bank loans in Jackson county totaled $30,647.026 03 for 1955 and $31,219,919 in 1956. For the city of Medford, bank loans were $23,206,145.85 for 1955 and $24, 339,535 for 1956. Savings and loan association loans for Medford were $9,446, 070.62 for 1955. and $11,055, 371 97 for 1956. Savinas and in vestments for Medford in 1955 Were $9,833,392 66 as compared with $1 1,173.804 24 for 1956. In 1955. a total of 610 build ing permits were issued for a value of $2,513,029.71, as com pared with 632 permits issued in 1P56 for value of $3,815,728.83. There were 7.262 city water con nections for the total area served in 155, at compared with 8,094 in 1956. In 1955, there were 6.000 city w'r connections within the actual Medford city limits. Atomic Power for Household Use ow Costing 5 Cents Chicago 'I, The first returns .ara in on tha cost of atomic power fnr household use, and r ettperta ira conservatively optiwistie. Argonne National Laboratory ;rlre4 that tha cost of pro ducing e'ectricity with its ex perimental nuclear reactor is running about a nickel per kil owatt hour. Thig compares with a cost of M to 1 rent rr killowatt hour In roriTentionel power plants across the enuntry. But spokesmen for Argonne and the Atomic Energy Com- imisaion point out that produc " tioo of electric power from a nueiear anurca ia in its experi 6 :'i 'v THE 6 MOMENT Miss Catherine Keith Bacon of Knoxville, Tenn. is about to be kissed by her boy friend, ilid?'rjpmn William M. Mickle of Vasiion, Wash. They trt rehearsing the big moment of the June week gradu ation ceremoiiies at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, JId. Mi?t Eacon is the 1957 Color Girl and will reign over tha ceremonies. New V.W Auxiliary Fomrd Last Week Cave Junction A new auxil iary of Caves Barracks 127, Vet erans of World War I, was insti tuted here last week. Grants Pass auxiliary mem bers insta'iicd Charlotte Tryon, president: Betty Angevine. treas urer: LuciKe Arnold, secretary: Lila Moon, conductress: Frances Jones, guard: Aiice Beem and Heien Oliver, trustees. MAIL THIBUNE Economy Pamphlet as compared with 6.241 in 1356. Net effective buying income in Jackson county for 1955 was $97,629,000 in 1955. and $103. 066.000 in 1956. Net effective buying income for Medford was $32,965,000 in 1355, and $37. 579.000 in 1956. Buying Incom Effective buying income per fami!y,for Jackson county was $4,418 in 1955, as compared nil $4,601 in 19."6. Effective binins income per family in Medford was $4,484 ui 1955, and $5,308 in 1956. Employment in Jack son county totaled 11.555 in 1954 and '20.145 in 1955. This information is not yet available for the entire year of 1956. There were 2.647 farms in Jackson county with total acre age of 365.948 in 1955, as com pared with 2.647 farms with total acreage of 472.739 in 195H. Gas meter connections in Medford in 1955 totaled 3,701, and in 1956 totaled 3.730. There were 36,448 motor vehicle registra tions in Jackson county in 1955, as compared with 36.844 in 1956. Payrolls in Jackson county in 1954 totaled $42,416,798 as compared with $45,967,759 in 1955. This information is not i yet available for 1956. Popula- tion tor Jackson county in 1955 ! was 66.42C, and in 1956 was 70, j 840. Population for Medford in 1955 was 20.083 and in 1956 I was 22.222. Postal receipts for Medford totaled $574,0611 hH in 1955, and $518,782 in 1956. Power Connections There were 20,810 power con nections in Jackson county in 1955 as-compared with 2i,472 in 1956. In Medford, there were 7,520 power connections in 1955 as compared with 8,011 in 1956. Retail sales for Jackson county in 1955 totaled $83,527,000 as compared with $85,914,000 , in 1936. In Medford retail salps for 1955 totaled $53,332,000 and for 1950 totaled $54,677,000. There were 10,095 telephone connect ions in Medford in 1955 and 10, 934 in 1956. Jackson county school enroll ment totaled 14,416 in 1955 and 15.899 in 1956. In Medford, school enrollment totaled 4,282 in 1955 and 5,063 in 1956. mental infancy, and the cost is , sure to come down. Furthermore, Argonne's pow e. plant at Lemont, southwest ot Chicago, is a research tool1 not designed primarily to pro duce electricity cheaply. The example. Commonwealth Edison Company expects that its Dresden nuclear power sta tion now in the preliminary construction stage near Morris, III., ultimately will produce electricity at a cost of a cent per killowatt hour. The Dresden plant, due for completion in three years, will have a capacity of 180,000 kil owatts, and the 1-cent hourly cost rate would make it almost Chicago v Lasses with j glasses with dark, ornate frames ; are "sophisticated and worldly." ; Girls with plain, rimless or gdd filled rims tend to wear conserv ' ative but expensive clothes. The Optical Manufacturers associa tion here made the judgments i but reserved the most telling 'comment for last. Corner decor . alions on plastic rims reveal that a woman is "feminine, stylish, youthful, popular, intelligent and I capable." , Friday. Jun 7. 1S57 3. At yJv ; PROUD POP Newspaper man E. Clifton Daniel Jr. beams with pride as he en ters Doctors' Hospital in New York after his wife, Margaret Truman Daniel, gave birth to their first child. The six pound, eight ounce boy is also the first grandchild for former Pres ident Harry Truman. Coos Bay Halibut May Be Biggest Ever Coos Bay (IP Paul McDon ald admitted today that he cut up a 74-pound, one-ounce hali but and gave it to his neighbors. He learned later that his catch may have set a world's record for a fish caught on spinning gear. The halibut was taken with an eight-pound test line and took an hour and a half to land. The monster was too large to be hauled aboard the boat so Mc Donald and partner Ernie Tom berg of North Bend towed it ashore with a line through its gills. The fish was weighed at the Dick Hill tackle shop and then McDonald took it home and dis tributed it among his friends. Hill later checked the record books and discovered that the largest fish previously caught on spinning gear weighed only 68 pounds, caught on 10-pound test line. a Kilowatt competitive with con ventional plants in this area. Commonwealth Edison's new- I .......... I-mIJ.-iJ . est roat.firoH nbntp i tt.. " i.. n.e nut- as;o area generate electricity at 34 of a cent per kilowatt hour. They also burn about 36 per cent less coal than the plants of 25 years ago. Similar if not greater in creases in efficiency can be ex pected in nuclear power, the ex perts feel. Even today at a nickel per kil owatt hour nuclear power could be the answer to the power prob lem in some remote areas of the world where conventional fuel is scarce and hydro-electric in stallations are not feasible, an AEC source said. High Cost The Argonne installation was capitalized at $4,628,100, far in excess of what a conventional power station of similar capacity would cost. But it includes much costlv research and experimental equipment which would not be reeded in straight power pro duction. The Argonne plant with its boiling water nuclear reactor was put into operation last Dec. 29. The power it produces is used to light building and operate equipment throughout the huge laboratory reservation. So far, the cost of this power has figured out precisely at 52 mills per killowatt hour, or Just a little more than the price of a package of gum. Ready Cash To Pay Bills! Z. Don't let those bills "gang up" on you. Add t them up and wipe them out with one If loan, which you can pay off in con- ?V V venient monthly payments out of 0SllL- 9". your inc fS J25.00 to J2,500.00 AUTOMOBILE FURNITURE SALARY COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL FINANCE CORP. Phone SP 3-4564 Sparta Bldfl. Medford Catholics May Become Of Terrorists in North Saigon, Viet Nam "J" Ob servers here fear that an anti Catholic campaign in the news papers of Communist North Viet Nam might foreshadow a reign of terror against the church in the Red Southeast Asia outpost. The campaign has been under way for two months. Officials of the American-backed govern ment of South Viet Nam and Western diplomats are watching it. "It is too early," one diplomat ic source told United Press, "to determine what new course may be taken against the Catholic church in North Viet Nam. But it is obvious that something un pleasant is in store for Catholics up there." Prieiti AccuMtt Priests living under the Com munist regime are being ac cused in the press of using the concessional and the pulpit for "espionage" and "propaganda." Francis Cardinal Spllman, Ro man Catholic archbishop of New York, has been mentioned in the attacks. The attacks on priests have appeared in the Hanoi newspa per, Thoi Moi New Times, which is controlled by the Communist government and is often used to test policies before they receive official g o v e rnment sanction. Diem Ii Catholic The official Hanoi Radio got into the act by charging that South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem himself a Roman Catholic and a recent visitor to the United States, was "try ing to expel the anti-American priests from his side." The Communists linked Card inal Spellman to this alleged political activity, saying that Diem "organized the American Catholic Relief Association which is headed by Spellman." Hanoi did not use the card inal's ecclesiastical title. North Viet Nam claims it al lows full religious freedom to the Catholics who remained in Communist territory after 500, 000 Catholic refugees moved to the south in 1954 in the last WEARING official robes as Grand Dragori of Alabama Kn Klux Klan, Rev. Alvin Horn, 4"), Baptist minister, meets newsmen after police broke up marriage to 15-year-old girl. (International) Wildcat Strikers End Chrysler Dispute Detroit. fro Wildcat strik en at Chrysler Corp. returned to work on the afternoon shift Thursday, ending a two-day walkout that idled 10,000 and shut down Plymouth assembly lines here. Vice President Norman Mat thews of the United Auto Work ers Union ordered the return af ter a meeting with officers of Local 212. Some 3.100 workers at a parts plant walked out in protest over the layoff of a chief steward Tuesday. Another 7.400 were sent home Thursday because of the parts shortage. IVfld lint Sunday Clansifled to. at nnon Saturday. ' - stages of the Indochina war. The church's highest rep resentative in Indochina, Mon signor John Dooley, still lives in Hanoi. Little is known here about the conditions under which he lives and works as the Vatican's apostolic delegate. Letters Published A sample letter in the Com munist newspaper was this one written by Hoang Lang, identi fied as a Catholic youth: "On the evening of March 26, the great cathedral of the capital, the Catholic citizens of Hanoi heard a sermon by Father TV I feel it necessary to point out a statement by Father T' which Juayamu Do as we Did . . . scoop up pre-season savings on beautiful luxury-quality blankets! They're all wonderfully warm, cloud-soft . . . and priced to fit your budget! 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