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O SIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, December 18, 1957 c O O 0 0 Growers' Cooperative Controls Most United States Lemon Sales Los Angeles T? Even lem ons have a headquarters these O days. A large building off the free way interchange in downtown Los Angeles serves as a com munications nerve center for about 77 per cent of all lemons sold in the United States and Canada. The lemon market, highly sen sitive to weather, finds prices fluctuating as the thermometer goes up down. Hot weather brings on a rush for lemons; cool weather chills the demand. To adjust supply to demand, a growers' cooperative, S u n k i s t Growers Inc., oerates a teletype system that links the Los An geles headquarters with sales offices in 55 cities. Another tele type line connects the headquar G ters building with 18 district ex O changes in the producing areas. D Thus, nearly instantaneous corn s' munication is possible with the 0 entire organization. Each of the major offices re ports weather conditions, supply demand relationships and open ing market prices as early in the morning as possible. On the Move Other sales experts plan where the day's shipments are to go. In addition, the experts can divert a shipment of lemons already en route if the market changes sud denly. The Sunkist cooperative, re sponsible for about 77 per cent of all lemon sales in North 'America, is owned and directed by farmers. They grow their crop on much of the 60,000 acres of highly-cultivated lemon grove O land in California and Arizona Two coastal counties of Califor Du Mont brings you quality p hih fidelity GOVERNCtt WWHNQP HIGH FIDELITY Ingenious desk design in genuine mahogany, limed oak or fruitwood. AMFM radio. 4 speed Garrard, world's finest record changer. Diamond stylii. 40 watt peak output. 4 matched speakers with bass-reflex sound chamber. JOHr.STOII STORES 112 S. RIVERSIDE -:&:- ". O i it- o Yv I nia, Ventura and Santa Barbara account for approximately 60 per .cent of all lemon production. Sunkist serves as the market ing agency for some 130 indi vidual packing houses that ship X-Ray Clinic Open Thursday Afternoon The chest x-ray clinic operated at Sacred Heart hospital by the Jackson County Public Health association will be open Thurs day, Dec. 19 from 2 to 5 p.m. but will be closed for the next two weeks during the holidays, ac cording to the x-ray committee. After tomorrow, the next clinic date will be Wednesday, Jan. 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. X-ray machinery provided for the clinic to find early tubercu losis, lung cancer and heart trouble is made possible by Christmas seal funds and has already saved taxpayers of this county many thousands of dol lars through the detection of early tuberculosis, according to Dr. A. E. Merkel, county health, officer. Negro Suspended at Little Rock School Little Rock, Ark. HP) One of the "Little Rock nine" who in tegrated the city's Central High school under the protection of paratroopers last fall was sus pended Tuesday for throwing a bowl of chili at a white boy. The Negro, Minnie Jean Brown, was suspended for three days by School Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom. Blossom said the girl "heaved" the bowl of chili at one boy, hitting him di rectly and spattering it on an other. The girl, contacted at her home later in the day, said she was ''jostled against a chair, which caused me to drop my tray of food." Christmas Trees To List Safety Data Portland (IP) About 47,000 Christmas trees sold in the Port land metropolitan area this year will have tags attached to them that list special home safety in formation, the State Board of Health said today. The tags, furnished by the board through a grant from the W. K. Kellogg foundation, are being circulated to Christmas tree dealers for the third year in a row. Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state health officer, said reports to his office during previous years indicate the tags have been highly effective" in reducing the number of holiday emergen cy calls by the fire department. Portland Woman Killed When Struck By Auto Portland OF) Maude Franck, 71, Portland, was killed Tues day afternoon when struck by a car in southeast Portland. Witnesses told police she was jay-walking. It was the city's 44th traffic death of 1957, surpassing by one the entire 1956 total. WWW.V.W -J.' V WM' 'J 'fWW3!lWI-m'.Vf.W.W W.' W V'jIA iMJU.I.IIMJrA'. VV. . W '. :.- 'JVfffM:. VTW-' !MW wwwvwwwwj"'? tJ X 4 Jim Beam Bottled in Bond 100 proof. . . in treasured opal glassware - Beam bourbon of such distinctive character quite naturally belongs in this C W (Ml exquisite container an original design in flashed opal glassware ... reminiscent of a priceless opal gem. 0 Qt. JIM BEAM BOTTLED IN BOND, 100 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY Jim Beam... Smartly packaged in distinguished new blue and gold carton. & PR0flfK N TUCKY SIBAJGhT BOURBUN WHISKEY, JAMES B. BEAM DISTILLING CO, ! oranges and grapefruit as well as lemons. Most of these packing houses, in turn, are farmer co operatives. Sunkist owns no groves. Each grower has his packing house pick his fruit. When the fruit reaches the pack ing house, it is counted carefully and credited to the grower. Then it is mixed with the fruit of other packing house members. At the packing house, the fruit is graded. Lemons that do not have a marketable appear ance are sent to processing plants to be made into frozen lemonade concentrate and a va riety of consumer and industrial products. Wide Distribution The farmers assess themselves a few cents a carton as the fruit is sold to provide the central Sunkist organization with the money to operate. About two thirds of the fruit is sold to di rect buyers and the rest is sold at auction in eight major market areas: New York, Boston, Cleve land, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Lemons, unlike oranges, are not picked tree-ripe. They are picked to size and then cured in air-cooled rooms until the right lemon color shows up. The Sunkist members are mighty optimistic about the lem on business. They've been ex panding acreage. At present, 23 per cent of the total acreage of California and Arizona is too young to bear fruit. This acreage will come into production grad ually during the next few years, so we'll have plenty of lemons around, no matter what the weather. Poisoned Silage Fatal To Seven Cows Albany, Ore. UP) Seven cows ate poisoned silage and died last week end on a dairy farm north of here, an Albany veterianarian said today. Dr. Robert Reed said tests showed fodder stored for use as winter feed evidently contained botulism, described as a "rare and deadly food poison which kills slowly." The veterinarian said it was probably caused by dirt mixed with the silage by accident when it was stored. The botulism or ganism can usually be found in soil, Dr. Reed said. He explained that the organ ism usually spoils silage, but that cows do not object to the taste and eat the fodder any way. He warned farmers to check silage and destroy any spoiled portions. Linn County Agent O. E. Mikesell said the poisoning was very rare, and was the first case in 23 years reported in the cpunty. Fire Leaves Family Of Six Without Home Battle Ground, Wash. (IP) Fire late Tuesday destroyed a small farm house about seven miles northwest of here, leaving a family of six homeless. The blaze was blamed on an overheated wood stove. All the Lester Hill family managed to save was a box con taining Christmas presents pur chased for the children. Worthy of Your URGES 'CRASH' PROGRAM Chief of the Army missile program, Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris (above) testifying in Washington before Senate preparedness subcommittee, urged that the U. S. develop on a "crash basis" a rocket with a million pounds of thrust for space weapons of the future. Youthful Scientist Program Devised Chicago (TP) What does it take to rear the scientist of to morrow? Mrs. Robert Moore of Silver Spring, Md., answered that ques tion in a recent issue of Today's Health, the American Medical Association's health magazine. Mrs. Moore's son, Bob, 17, re cently was named the nation's top young scientist by the Science Talent Search for the Westinghouse Scholarships. Bob is attending Swarthmore College where he plans to major in physics. Mrs. Moore drew a composite sketch of the ideal environment for producing a youthful scien tist. And, as she said, this sketch is so ideal as to be ". . . down right 'discouraging, but we par ents can comfort ourselves with the thought that hardly any scientist had all these things." The perfect parents of a scien tist, Mrs. Moore wrote, "would somehow be forehanded enough to provide themselves with (1) an inheritance of somewhat above-average intelligence and abilities. (2) good education, (3) wide interests, (4) stimulating friends, and (5) a good variety of books or membership in an ex cellent library." "They would be willing and eager to have their sons and daughters follow their individual interests without interference, frustration, or ridicule," she' added. The perfect parents of a young scientist "would know how to teach self-discipline, responsibil ity, and a finely balanced atti tude of independence and non conformity blended with suffic ient warm humanness to produce an integrated, wholly function ing young person." "And, they would consistently put the emphasis where it be longs on the value and joy of learning for its own sake, not merely for the rewards of pres tige and material success," she continued. As for herself and her hus band, Mrs. Moore concluded that ". . . we aren't anywhere near the composite 'ideal'." Trust $465 A Qt. 0 CLERMONT, KY, sooo Pint Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF GEORGE OPPENHETMER, member of the Players' Club, found a letter in his box one evening, tore it open and read it before he discovered it was not addressed to him at all As a matter of fact, it was meant for one of his good friends and it came from a tailor pleading for pay ment of a bill almost a year overdue. Oppenheimer scarcely had had time to deposit the letter in the proper box when hig friend bustled in, radiating his usual charm and air of opu lence. 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