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Glass Blown Around It
Silver Dollar in Bowl;
The flying eagle silver dollar
has always seemed to me one of
the most beautiful coins in the
world. I looked enviously at the
one my friend Paul had recently
acquired.
It was in virtually mint condi
tion. With the aid of a magnify
ing glass it was possible to de
tect tiny scratches on it, but to
the naked eye it appeared quite
clean.
I studied the face of the coin
which showed a seated figure of
Liberty with a shield. There is
nothing else on the face except
the date, 1836, in small letters
beneath the figure. On the re
verse is a flying eagle, winging
through a sky in which there are
28 stars. Around the edge are the
words "United States Of Amer
ica One Dollar."
I asked Paul how much he had
paid for it, expecting the figure
would be nearer S150 than S100.
"I got it for $25," he said.
His story was that he had
come across a glass bowl and
DECANTERS WITH HEART, CHAIN DESIGN RATHER RARE
Mr. Filieque glanced at the
cruet and pushed it to one side..
He reached past me to pull an
enormous wooden bowl toward
him. It easily measured two feet
In diameter.
The olive oil appeared in a
quart decanter. The decanter
was a fairly squat piece of
pressed glass. Not attractive but
very handy. Its ornamentation
was plain. It consisted simply of
a chain effect around the lower
part of the piece, about two
inches up from the base. And
rising from the chain halfway up
BUY FIRST. TEST LATER RIFLE
Jim was in the market for a
.22 rifle, but the price and sign
on the one in the pawnshop win
dow made him siispiciows.
The price was $19. The sign
read "U. S. Army practice rifle,
.22. Guaranteed perfect. Never
used."
The gun looked like a regula
tion .30 calibre Springfield of
about 1903. It was a typical bolt
action job with two bands bind
ing toe short barrel to the stock.
Only" one thing differentiated it
from the famous weapon the
tiny bore of the .22.
"It would be a wonderful buy
If the guarantee means what it
says," Jim said.
Jim told the proprietor he
would like to examine the .22.
"This is the same," the propri
etor saidt, taking a rifle from the
casejpehiind him. "The only dif
ference is this is .30 calibre."
"But I want to heft that .22."
New Extract Aids Heart Victims
Chicago (IP A crude ex
tract made from brain tissue and
taken by mouth has normalized
the blood cholesterol level of
some heart patients, a University
of Chicago medical scientist re
ports. Cholesterol Is a fatty substance
fi meats and milk, and in
nall amounts1 in most parts
sf the human body. High con
centration of cholesteral is re
lated to arteriosclerosis (artery
"hardening" and heart attacks.
Dr. Richard J. Jones, assis
tant professor of medicine, said
the brain extract was adminis
tered to 50 patients, 42 of whom
had had heart attacks. Their
blood cholesterol levels ranged
from normal to quite high, he
said.
The extract's main action was
to Speed up the elimination of
cholesterol from the body
through the intestines, he said
in a report to the American Soc
iety for tht Study of arterioscler
osis. !
Dr. Jones said no attempt was
made in the six-month study to
DEAR FRIENDS AND PATRONS:
THE ASHLAND ANTIQUE SHOP
91 and 80 North Main St., Ashland, Oregon, on block north of the
. Plaza, renowned as one of the finest of its kind on the coast for 20
years, last 4 years in Ashland, is forced through circumstances to re
return to California. A TOTAL SELLOUT from Dec. 5 to Jan. 10, 1958
will take place cn the premises. PRICES REDUCED 20 to 50 , a
rare opportunity to acquire the finest things for yourself and the most
unusual Christmas gifts at bargain prices! Thousand of items from 50
cents to hundreds of SS! Antiques and objects of art from every
where! American, Continental, Oriental! Rugs Tapestries Needle
point Fabrics, Gobelins, Drapes, etc. Paintings, water colors, prints,
hundreds of fine old engravings, etc. China: Dresden, Meissen, Royal
Vienna, Berlin, Old English, French, Chinese! etc. Old Glass: American
pattern, colored, cutglass- English, French, Cranberry, Bohemnian,
Persian, etc. A big lot of brass, copper, bronze, silver, pewter, iron,
etc. Antique Furniture: French, English, Continental, American, Chi
nese. A GORGEOUS CHICKERING ROSEWOOD Square Grand Piano
in all-around perfect condition, with needlepoint stool! Small Estey
walnut reed organ! Fine antique clocks, fire tools, fenders, etc. Statu
ary! etc
Respectfully yours,
0 F. and J. DOMASCHEDITZ, Props.
Open Daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 1-5. Evenings by Apopintment.
Phone MU 9-3401
bought It because the coin was
in the bottom.
"The glass had been blown
around it, but somehow or other
the glass had been left in the
sunlight and had become col
ored. I couldn't be sure of the
condition of the coin, but I was
pretty sure of the date. So I
bought it."
"But what of the bowl?" I
asked. "How did you get it out?"
Paul said he had tried to cut
It out with a diamond, but some
how the glass had shattered. He
showed me the fragments and
a color photo he had taken cf it
before the breaking.
The glass, originally clear, was
of a pale violet color. The shape
was beautiful, the design simple
I suggested that the coin in the
glass might have been worth
considerably more than the coin
alone and the glass broken. And
it would have been.
Paul shook his head. "No. Not
to me. This way I can feel the
coin. It's too beautiful to be
locked up in glass."
the sides was an occasional
heart. I recognized the heart and
chain design as one that was
fairly popular in the 1880s.
"Why so interested in the de
canter?" asked Mr. Filieque.
"It's a pretty piece to use for
olive oil," I said. "That heart
and chain design is rather rare."
"So? How rare?"
"It's worth $40 to $50 in some
shops," I replied.
"Hah!" he said. "I got a couple
more. I bought out an old bar.
I'll show you later."
SELLER'S DEMAND
The proprietor regarded Jim
silently for a moment or two
and shook his head. "No, I'm not
taking that out of the window
just to satisfy your curiosity. It's
just like the guarantee says. If
you want to heft that gun you
buy it first."
There was an argument. Jim
demanded and got a copy of the
guarantee. Then he paid for the
rifle, two boxes of ammo, and
we left.
The guarantee was good, but
the rifle didn't work. The .22
cartridges had to be set in a
dummy cartridge holder of .30
calibre size. After Jim got one,
a couple of weeks later and for
another $5, the rifle worked
beautifully.
And he was further gratified
to discover tht his .22 was some
thing of a collector's item, with
a value of $40 to $75.
(Released by McClure
Newspaper Syndicate)
determine whether the lowered
cholesterol levels, in fact, reduc
ed the occurrence of later heart
disease.
Any effect on heart disease,
he said, would require a long
range study lasting several years.
Stamp Savers Broken
Into Income Groups
Chicago (IP) Americans with
annual incomes ranging from
$6,500 to $9,000 form the largest
group participating in trading
stamp programs, a study shows.
Peter Volid, president of King
Korn Stamp Co., said 46 per cent
of the stamp-savers are in this in
come brocket.
He said 34 per cent of the
stamp-savers have incomes rang
ing from $4,000 to $6,500. The
group under $4,000 acounts for
nine per cent of the total and the
group over S9.000 amounts to 11
per cent, Volid added.
The first cargo of bananas was
brought to Boston in 1870 by
Capt. Lorenzo Dow Baker.
Severely Disabled
Find Doors Open
New York (If) Severely
disabled workers, once virtually
shut out. from all job opportun
ities, are finding "the door is
open now." ' :
Richard C. Brockway, execu
tive director of the New York
State Division of Employment
said the disabled have proved
their ability in more than one
quarter million jobs to which
his agency has referred them
since World War II. And, he ad
ded, they now are being hired
in increasing numbers.
"Last year alone, we found a
record 34,000 jobs for disabled
workers," Brockway said. "And
to 2,200 of those jobs workers
brought major disabilities which
would not have been contenanc
ed by employers as recently as
five years ago."
For example, he cited the vir
tually chairbound paraplegic
hired as an assistant bookkeeper
and the ex-fisherman with a se
vere heart condition who was
retrained into a competent re
pairman of fractional power mo
tors. "Time, patience, repeated tele
phone calls and visit after visit
to employers are still required
every time our specially trained
interviewers place a severely dis
abled worker," Brockway noted.
"But the significant thing is
that the door is open now and
through it are walking more and
more handicapped workers who
can do a job well disability not-
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
WANTED Metal canopy for
Chev. pickup. SP 2-6373.
ton
FOR SALE Chest of drawers, dresser,
double bed, single bed, and electric
range. SP 3-1009.
REG. Hereford bull, 3 yrs., S175. El
som 3-Link Ranch, Butte Falls.
FOR RENT Completely furn. 1-bdrm.
newly decorated, modern house,
with car port. S60 per mo. SP 2-4482.
EVERYONE KNOWS there is no Fuel
like an old Fuel, and Prestologs
have been around for a long time.
They are a good buy at 50 for
$4.50. Free city delivery.
MORTON MILLING CO.
Jackson' St. & Railroad
FOR SALE Alfalfa hay, 1st. cutting
70c per bale, 2nd. & 3rd. cutting
85c bale. Roy Nordwick, 226 Ross
Lane.
GOOD USED PIANO
Your children too, deserve the bene
fits of a musical education. Costs
can be low with one of our recon
ditioned spinets or uprights, and
what a wonderful. Christmas present
that would be. We are closing for
vacation Saturday night, Dec. 21
but deliveries can be made on the
24th. Easy terms of course. Come
in today. Open Sunday, and daily
until 9 p.m. Erskine's Piano Store,
1304 Kings Hwy.
FOR sale a new auto harp, 32 strings.
SP 2-8967.
KEYS MADE
SISKIYOU HARDWARE
225 W. MAIN
CASH & CARRY
INVENTORY SALE
3i" sheet rock 5'bc ft. 'i" sheet
rock 6c ft. 13.000 ft. dry 1x6 No. 3
common V-mstic white fir $40 per
M. 250 sq. B grade panel shakes
with undercourse. $10 sq.
NORTON LUMBER CO.
Phoenix. Ore. KE 5-2037
Christmas Sale
WHOLESALE PRICES
GOLDEN WEST PAINTS $2.40
$4.20 gal.
Rubber Base, $4.20 gal.
Shake Paint, 50 colors. $4.20
Shingle Paint. $3.29 S3.78
House Paint. $3.45 $4.40 gal.
Sealers, all purposes, $3.61 gal.
Varnishes, all kinds. $3.61 S4.18.
Everything on sale low prices.
NORTHERN STAMPS besides
Opportunity of a life-time.
WHERE? 906 N. Riverside. Med ford
STOCK CUBES $3.30 per CWT
Cheaper bv the TON
PACIFIC FEED & SEED CO.
With dry under-cover loading dock.
4th & Front St.
FURN. apt. for rent. Mrs. E. E. Evans,
Jacksonville. TW 9-1268 mornings,
510 E. California St.
FROLICS KIBBLES
Complete Dog Ration containing
Chlorophyll Ask for FREE sample
.FACLFiC FEED & SEED CO.
4th & Front St.
"WRAP-ON" HEAT TAPES prevent
frozen pipes, jyionarcn seed & leea
Co.
ALFALFA PELLETS. No waste, tests
show better results. Monarch Seed
& Feed. Co.
NO MILK-Hungry CALVES
Come in let us explain advantages
of complete milk replacer.
CENTENNIAL MILKSAVER
Reduces Losses from Scours
PACIFIC FEED & SEED CO.
SP 2-2413 4th & Front St.
FOR sale 8 volume set of Children's
Religious Books. '2 price. SP 2-4091.
LAYERS IN A SLUMP? Feed Purina
Flock Chow, $4.55 C. Our Custom
ers report 70-75 production. Mon
arch Seed & Feed Co.
WILL purchase small contracts and
mortgages. Write Tribune Box 363 .
STEER FEED. Try our economical
Check-R-Mix Steer Feed. Better
than and costs less than rolled
barley. Monarch Seed & Feed Co.
TRADE 160 acres cut over land,
Applegate area for farm tractor. HI-6-3754.
FOR SALE two 5x6 foot windows,
8 pane. SP 2-5029.
YEAR END CLEARANCE
of used refrigeratorrs. all makes.
$15 & up. 47 So. Fir. St.
CHRISTMAS TREES
Silver Tips, White & Douglas Fir,
1' to 15'. Large cones. Special trees
for mobile homes & hospital pa
tients. Same location as past years.
226 W. Jackson.
SAVE SAVE
Cedar Siding Kiln Dry; 4"x8" Bevel
"B" $135 Per M. 4"x8" Bevel "B"
$170 Per M. 3i"xl0" Bevel "B" $200
Per M. I"xl0" "V" Edge "D" Select
$165 Per M l"x8" & 12" V-edge No. 5
Air Dry $35 Per M. Flooring No. 2
Oak shorts $110 Per M. Plywood
i4"xA'x8' Shop $2.25 Per Sheet.
CELOTEX 3-tab roofing $8.90 Per
Sq. 90 lb roll roofing $3.75 Per
roll. saving on all building ma
terials at: WESTSIDE LUMER CO.
Nortl end 924 Summit Ave. SP-2-2559.
"On. TO BURN"
MOBILHEAT
We give S & H Green Stamps
MEDFORD FUEL SP 2-2 111
BIG & BETTER GREEN FIR
Rough blox Slabs. 12" or 16".
Heaping double loads. MEDFORD
FUEL. SP 2-2111.
BUY AT WHOLESALE
TOYS COSTUME
3
TAPE RECORDERS
Allen's Purchasing Service
39 S. Bartlett St.
Open Evenings
Kiss
HAPPY BIRTHDAY California's Gov. Goodwin J. Knight
receives a helping hand from his wife as he makes first cut
into cake during party in Los Angeles celebrating his
61st birthday. Some 1000 persons attended the party.
It was the governor's first major public appearance since
he gave up his campaign for re-election and decided in
stead, to run for the U. S. Senate next year.
Snow Can Trigger Lightning Bolts
Chicago (IP) Lightning bolts
can be triggered by snow falling
through electrically-charged sec
tions of clouds. University of
Chicago scientists report.
Horace R. Byers, professor
and chairman, and Donald R.
Fitzgerald, research associate, of
the university's meteorology de
partment, said snow in the upper
part of a cloud has a positive
charge, while the moist lower
cloud is negatively charged.
When snow falls through the
clouds, they said, the negative
field is boosted to where it can
release a giant spark that often
shoots past the snow to the positively-charged
earth below.
They said the reaction is the
reason lightning often accom
panies a heavy downpour.
The snow, falling in a large
mass, melts at lower altitudes,
takes on more water from the
cloud and reaches ground as
heavy rain, they said.
The millions of volts in a
cloud, they said, are built up by
strong currents of rising air that
pull electrically charged air
molecules from surrounding air
into billowing turrets of the
cloud.
This high voltage, Byers and
Fitzgerald said, is greatest near
strong updrafts and. increases as
the. cloud's tiny water droplets
absorb more and more negative
ly charged air molecules.
As the drop of the cloud
climbs through the atmosphere,
it passes into freezing levels of
air, where the droplets turn into
snow and take on a positive
charge. After congealing into a
mass too heavy to be further sup-
New Wool Grading
Process Developed
Logan, Utah (IP) Research
ers at Utah State University here
believe they have hit on an idea
for taking the guesswork out of
wool grading.
Prof. Milton Madsen said re
searchers found indications the
length and fineness of wool mea
sured at shearing time make it
possible to gauge accurately its
quality and that of articles made
from it.
Present wool grading systems
depend on judgment rather than
specific measurements. Thus the
sheepmen generally must rely on
buyer's estimates as to what the
wool is worth.
Scientists here hope to devise
methods that permit accurate
measurement at shearing time to
determine manufacturing value
of grease wool offered for sale
AN OLD BOOK
Lowell, Mass. Iff! The earli
est known printed book on dye
ing and spot-removing has been
presented to the Alumni Memor
ial Library at Lowell Technolog
ical Institute. The 12-page vol
ume from the celebrated collec
tion of Dr. Sidney M. Edelstein
of New York was printed in 1532
at Mayence, Germany, where the
Gutenberg Bible was printed.
BUNDLES Or OLD NEWSPAPERS fat
sale 20c each Mail Tribune office
33 North Fir
JEWELRY
GIFTS
Medford
SP 2-8044 -
Dec. 16 Thru 23
ported by the vertical air flow,
the snow falls.
Only about a third of the light
ning bolts ignited by snow ever
reach ground, they added. Most
go into positively charged parts
01 other clouds.
Byers and Fitzgerald said that
after a bolt is fired, the cloud's
negative electricity is rebuilt by
strong upward air currents.
They also disclosed that by
growing and recharging their
electrical fields, neighboring
clouds can form a thunderstorm
of almost one billion volts.
The researchers also found
that the electrical fields of tropi
cal clouds were 10 to 100 times
weaker than those of the tower
ing land clouds.
Fjf TOURNAMENT of ROSES . . . DISNEYLAND !
&j Offered by MEDFORD NEW CAR DEALERS
VtiK ' CF Bl FUN
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TRIBUNE yp)
Sunder. Dteimbtr IS, 1SS7
Ways Sugesfed To
Cut Post Office Cost
Chicago (IP) An engineer
ing consultant contends that the
U. S. Post Office could cut costs
20 per cent without sacrificing
efficiency.
Edmund Cyrol, management
consultant,- said private" indust
ries using time-motion studies
have cut their material handling
and housekeeping costs by an
average of 42 per cent.
He said similar studies should
be made of the post office oper
ations. As a second step, Cyrol sug
gested that the post office elim
inate hand-sorting of mail.
"This might require that all
mail would have to be sent in
envelopes of four standard sizes"
he said. ,
"Each envelope would have at
one edge a tab similar to the
tab cards used by business for
various sorting operations. The
original coding might have to
be done by an operator in a man
ner similar to the card punch
ing in industry, or it mighf be
possible to develop an electronic
scanner that would do this auto
matically." At present, Cyrol said, six or
seven manual, sortings are nec
essary for each piece of mail.
Using four standard first class
envelopes, he said, only one man
ual sorting would be necessary,
saving a minimum of six hours
of labor.
"The initial punch can carry
all data for proper delivery," he
said.
Not quite fancy enuff
for our gift boxes.
Please bring your own
containers.
BEAR CEIEK ORCHARDS
8 to 5 Every Day
Sunday Too
Give
Former Cruggist
Victim of Habit
Perry, Mo. (IP) A. B. 'Y'ojing,
former postmaster and a druggist i
for 39 years, is a victim of the !
drug store habit. He. simply can-1
not stay away from them. j
Young, a registered pharma-1
cist, sold his drug store in 1946
and wound up a 17-year tenure
as postmaster in 1953. But in
1956 he took over a drug store in
Palmyra for a friend who needed
help. ' '
So successful was he that he ,
later did temporary duty for
friends at Troy and Louisiana.
Then drug salesmen spoke to him
about others who would appre
ciate his services, and he began
to receive long distance calls.
"After all, I did retire." the
74-year-old Young remarked. "I
might do fill-in work again, but
it will be for friends who have
unexpected emergencies."
PTA Keeps Pace With
Increased Enrollment
Chicago (IP) At least one or
ganization has kept pace with
the rapidly rising school enroll
ment since World War II the
National Congress of Parents and
Teachers.
The PTA numbers 10,694,000
members and ranks as the
world's largest voluntary service
organization. The current roster
represents a gain of 114 per cent
over membership 10 years ago.
In the same period school en
rollment rose about 40 per cent,
from 24,036,000 in 1948 to an
estimated 33,624,000 in the cur
rent term, the national PTA said.
SAVE!
BUY WONDERFUL
COMICE
PEAR
$100 p"
I Lug
about 2c per pound!
2 Miles South on
Highway 99
the Family a Used
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Area
Representative
We need an associate of long
term value, age 30-50 pre
ferred. A permanent position
for a high-calibre man to con
duct personal interviews for
adult education. Contacts fur
nished by company. We train
you car necessary some
travel required. Commission
Bonuses Vacations make
above average earnings for man
who will work. For local in
terview. WRIT! BOX D-304
' MAIL TRIBUNE
Office Space
For Rent
Good location
Telephone Answering
Service, If Desiredl
139 SO. FIR
Phone SP 2-6273
or MU 2-8552
T
Lumber Bargains
Reject Paneling
ALSO
No. 5 Cedar Sheating
$15 per M
No. 4 White Fir 2x4
$15 per M
No. 4 White Fir 2x3
$10 per M
V.H. Daugherty Go.
WHITE CITY
J
CUSTOM KILLING
CLEAN - RELIABLE
at Your Place and
Delivery to Your Locker
Aging room available. Expert cut-
ing, wrapping & marking of your
meat for locker or home freexer.
PHONE SP 2-6219
MEDFORD ICE
& STORAGE CO.
Your Pullman ticket on the
deluxe S.P. Oregonian Rose
Bowl Special train.
Your tickets to tne Rose Bowl
Games between Oregon and
Ohio State.
Your grandstand seats to the
Tournament of Roses Parade.
s 3 nights at the magnificent
Statler Hotel in Los Angeles.
A trip to fabulous DISNEY
LAND! A day at San Francisco on the
way back.
Meals, tips, etc. en route, and
some big surprisesl
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