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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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"Speaking of the Catholic
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Father 'T' said. 'The Catholics
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additional trials beatings, con
finement, exile, etc., because we
were Catholic'
"There is one thing that Father
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Portland HP The Portland
school board announced last
night that school children will
be dismissed from classes next
Monday and Tuesday for the
purpose of helping pick the
bumper crop of strawberries in
this area.
But, school officials stressed
the fact that the children must
have the written consent of their
parents in order to be allowed
out of classes those two days.
The school officials also said
that there is a slight possibility
the same procedure might be fol
lowed on Wednesday.
Schools in the Portland area
will be dismissed for the sum
mer at noon on Thursday.
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the youth confessed he just got
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jyard and drove away.
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