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Theyll Do It Every Time . By Jimmy Hatlo Tuesday, February 25. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVE1C . . ,, p-O AJC. -.ccS VS3,M!J'-C ur ur vl ATI- 5 i- a . . ucr?'f..?irr7H4rsiM . -- fees: AD!- OP ' .-r to 2-2; ft Lumber Industry Said to Blame For Slump in Market for Wood By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The head of the National Lumber Manu facturers Association says the lumber in dustry itself is to blame for the slump in the market for lumber and wood products. N. Floyd I NLMA presi- I d e n t, claims Eobt smith mat tne in dustry most needs is a lumber merchandising campaign. He ridicules the frequent analy sis that the lumber market is sagging because of the drop in housing construction. "There is widespread agree ment that unified action and aggressive sales efforts are the only answers to the prob lems confronting every mill owner, large and small," de- clared McGowin, who is head of W. T. Smith Lumber Co., Chapman, Ala. NILMA last week issued this comparison of market facts to indicate the indus try's current condition. In 1955, the size of the lum ber market was $3.5 billion, representing sales of 39 bil lion board feet. In 1957, these figures slipped to $2.9 billion and 33.6 billion board feet. Profits dropped from $190.6 million in 1955 to S67.5 million in 1957. Substitutes Supported "Behind this decline are the inroads made in wood's traditional markets by metal, masonry and plastic build ing materials," argued Mc Gowin. "Each of these substi tutes for wood has been intro duced and steadily supported with large-scale national ad vertising campaigns in every communications media reach ing consumers, architects and GOLD HILL Extension Unit Meets By MRS. CLYDE KELL Gold Hill Pastry making was demonstrated by Mrs. Herman Priema and Mrs. Ralph Ellis at a meeting of the Sams Valley Home Ex tension unit held in Mrs. El lis home in Antioc Tuesday, Feb. 18. There were 10 members present, in addition to guests Mrs. Edwin Sollinger and Mrs. Harry Ellis, both of Sams valley. j Arrangements were made to hold a basic dress making class at the home of Mrs. Ralph Ellis Friday, Feb. 28, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Lead ers will be Mrs. Edgar Plea sant and Mrs. Milton Sander son. The next meeting of the unit will be held in the home of Mrs. Edgar Pleasant .on Meadows road, March 18. Meat cookery will be the pro mpt for that meeting and demonstrators will be Mrs Pleasant and Mrs. J. R- Shope. The Great Decision meet ings which are being held in Sams valley are sponsored by the Home Extension unit. the home of Mrs. A. W. Mc- Quat, Medford were Mrs. Roy Eskew, Mrs. Norman Gail, Mrs. Paul Molloy and Mrs. John Bruce. Mrs. Eskew, Mrs. Gail and Mrs. Molloy sang several numbers as part of the eve ning's program accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Bruce. Mrs. Gail presented two whistling solos, Mrs. Molloy played the violin and the hostess played several organ solos for the 45 guests. The history of the Sams Valley school was presented by Mrs. Edgar Pleasant, the president of the Sams Valley PTA at the Founder's day meeting, Thursday, Feb. 13. According to statistics, the first school was built in the middle 1800's and was located on the Burl King property. Two teachers taught the pu- . nils at that time. The second school building for this area was located in the vicinity of the Straus Dairy ranch. Wes McDonough recalled stories ; he had heard as a youngster concerning the founding of the first school house in Sams . valley. Arrangements were made , during the . business session to promote a first aid class ' At least 15 are needed in order to get an instructor to come out from Medford to teach, it was noted. Plans were made to sell pop, popcorn and candy at the basketball game Friday, ieb 21, between Shady Cove and Sams Valley, to raise funds for the PTA expenses. Mrs. Susan Ambrose's third lnd fourth grade room won the contest this time for hav ing the most parents pres ent. Following the business session these youngsters pro vided a program in conjunc tion with science, which they have been studying in the class-room. A portion of the program consisted of sing ing, which was led by third and fourth grade students, ac companied on the piano by " Mrs. William Brewster and two films were shown by Principal William Brewster At the close of the meeting a social hour followed in the school cafeteria. Hostesses were Mrs. Victor Croxton, Mrs. Betty Davis, Mrs. Lester James, Mrs. Wayne "Sig" Milkowski and Mrs. R. Shope, A group of 35 members of the Women's Missionary Council of the Assembly of God church in Gold Hill gave a dinner the evening of Feb. 14 to honor Mrs. Ruth McCoy in recognition of ten years service to the church. She was presented a gift from the group. Mrs. McCoy and her three daughters, Nancy, Phyliss and Marilyn, recently moved to 122 Almond st., Medford. The honoree is among the first members who attended the lo cal Assembly of God church when there was but one Sun day school room. Mrs. McCoy is now a pri mary Sunday school teacher in the West Main Assembly of God Church in Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Mil kowski and Mr. and Mrs. Cleon Botsford, all of Sams Valley, went to Bend Sun day, Feb. 9, where they at tended the wedding of Paul Galloway and Miss Donna Ma rie Taylor both of Bend. About 74 friends and relatives attended the ceremony. Galloway is a former resi dent of the Sams Valley area and attended Sams Valley school. His father Robert Galloway now resides Medford. in Mrs. Floyd Taylor said that her son, Glenn, and Curtis Payne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Payne, all of Gold Hill, have received notice that the positions they had with the Forest Service near Elk ton will be available again this summer. Both boys are students at Crater High school. Attending a meeting of the Hammond Organ society last Tuesday evening, Feb. 18, at Mr. and Mrs. Donald El der and daughter, Karen were hosts to a birthday dinner on Sunday, Feb. 16, at their home in Sams Valley to hon or her father, Elmer Milton, of Rogue River, who celebrat ed his birthday on Monday, Feb. 17. Present besides the hosts were Mr. and Mrs. Mil ton. Mrs. Elder is the former June Milton of Rogue River. Prejudice Absolved of Blame in N.Y. School Turmoil Editors' Note: Is the mixing of Negro and white causing the vio lence in New York schools? Many Southerners are convinced it is and that the North is trying to cover up. The United Press brought its Atlanta bureau man ager, a Southern born and raised, to New York and told him to try to find an objective answer. This is the first of three dispatches. Bq AL KUETNER United Press Correspendent New York (IP) You can't lay this city's school delin quency problems at the door step of race prejudice. Yes there is race prejudice and trouble in New York, big chunks of it. Gut it's a breed all its own. It's different from anything in the South, and that's really the first thing that hits you. There is no escaping the fact that much of the current juvenile delinquency is caus ed by a massive migration here of southern Negroes and Puerto Ricans. There is now one Negro or Puerto Rican for every five whites in New York. But don't go comparing this melting pot on the Hudson with Montgomery, Ala., or Atlanta or Little Rock. Your yardstick doesn't have the right measurements. I came here with this as signment: Try to find out if race friction is the real trou ble in the schools. That "trouble" in ' recent weeks has seen rape of white school girls by Negroes, stab bings, beatings lye thrown in classroom, robberies of chil dren in school corridors, beat ings of teachers and the sui cide of a junior high school principle who flung himself off a rooftop. ' Talks To Officials I have pounded the pave ments of New York for a week. I have talked to city officials and gang members, to school children and teach ers, to Negroes in trouble with the law, to white busi nessmen in Negro districts, to judges and criminals. I have talked with Puerto Ricans and youth workers. From the teeming, clut tered streets of East Harlem to the lower East Side do- Mr. and Mrs. Ray Congdon and their grandson, David Crieger, of Ashland were vis itors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Jones last Sunday afternoon, Feb. 16. Jones boarded in the Cong don home the first year he taught school in Lane county near Horton, and hadn't seen them in 35 years. The Congdons have lived in the Rogue valley for the past three years and only re cently learned that Mr. and Mrs. Jones also lived in southern Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Conner of Shady Cove celebrated their 29th wedding anniver sary at a dinner given in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith on Sardine creek last Sunday, Feb. 16. The Smiths knew the Con nera before they were mar ried, when the couples lived in McCloud. Bob Bruce Jr., from Kla math Falls visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Smith recently. Chief of Police Floyd Tay lor stated that Mr. and Mrs. William Ganong and son have sponsored a course in rifle safety for the young men in the Gold Hill Junior Police. The boys are divided into groups, and actual rifle prac tice is held at the armory in Medford. A potluck dinner has been scheduled for the next meet ing of the Sams Valley Par ent-teacher association. A small charge will be made to raise funds for the PTA budget. Cancer Constellation Marked on Ancient Maps Police Arrest Youth Driving Car on Lot Medford police picked up a 15-year-old Medford youth about 5:30 a.m. Sunday after he was observed driving a car on the Medford motors lot, 225 South Riverside ave. The youth told police he was driving the car around the lot and had no intention of driving the car further. The keys had been left in the car, according to police. He was released in the custody of his parents, police added. The Military Order of the Purple Heart was established Aug. 7, 1782. By FAY BENTLEY "Now go to the marshes of Lerna and slay the fierce Hy dra" commanded King Eurys theus. Hercules, who had just returned from destroying the terrible Nemean lion, started out resolutely towards the marshes where the Hydra had its lair. According to legend this fierce serpent lived in a swamp near the well of Amyone and from this point would ravage the country of Argos.-Some claimed that the Hydra had 100 heads; others said 50, and a few said a modest nine. Just as soon as. one head was severed from its hor rible body, two more would immediately grow in its place Many attempts had been made to rid the country of the dan serous createure but none had succeeded. No Better Luck Hercules, who had arrived at the swamp and engaged the Hydra in battle, seemed to be having no better luck than the others before him. Finally Iolaus, a nephew of Hercules, came to help and suggested burning " the heads off the serpent instead of cut ting them off. This proved effective and soon the repulsive animal was subdued. The ninth head, said to be immortal, they buried under a rock. Juno, wife of Jupiter, was jealous of Hercules and hop ed to see the hero lose his life. When she saw that he was beginning to win the fight she sent a giant crab to torment him, right in the thickest of the fray. Crushes Animal Hercules, knowing that he dared not take his eyes from the serpent lifted his foot and crushed the little animal. To award the Crab who had bravely done his best, Juno plaeed it in the heavens. Cancer the Crab is an an cient constellation and has had almost universal recogni tion down through the ages although it is the most in conspicuous of all the star groups in the zodiac. It was known in Egypt and Baby loni'. at least 4,000 years be fore the birth of Christ. Can cer has been considered im portant since early times and is shown in all the ancient star charts. The Crab lies between two ! easy-to-locate constellations, Gemini the Twins and Leo the Lion. It is simply a brok en line of four faint stars, which somewhat resembles a sprawled-out figure "7." Three stars form the stem of the figure with the fourth star forming the top of the seven lying to the left or east of the stem and a little too high in the . sky to form a perfect figure. Star Cluster Slightly to the right and also between the two top stars of the stem is a beauti ful star cluster, Praesepe, sometimes called the Mang er. Ancient people said the two stars lying on either side of the star cluster were the two asses feeding from the Manger. On clear nights this star cluster can be seen with the naked eye. By 8 p.m. Gemini the Twins will be 'high in the southwestern sky. Castor and Pollux, two bright stars that appear to be about the length of a yardstick apart, identify this star group. Lower in the eastern sky The Sickle or "question mark backwards" can be easily found. Almost exactly in the center between these two constellations is Cancer the Crab. Imaginary Line An imaginary line drawn from the brightest star in the Twins (Pollux) down to the brightest star in The Sickle (Regulus) will cross the top of the "seven" just slightly to the left of the stem, at a point a little closer to Pol lux than it is toRegulus. Praesepe, the Manger, lies a little to the right or west of this imaginary line and slightly nearer to Pollux than Regulus. Although this is a constellation of dim stars it can be located, even by beginners, on a very clear night, and the beauty of the star cluster rewards the star gazer for the time and ef fort expended. mains of the inter-racial teen age groups and from the bright lights of Times Square to the neat residential streets of Queens, I have put that question about race tensions The squarest answer I can reach is about this: The mixing of the races is not the basic cause. But a huge percentage of the crimes and violence spring from the Negro and Puerto Rican ele ments because of their eco nomic and social plight. For another thing, there ap. pears to be virtually no race problem in the classroom. In those schools that are inte grated and many are not, by the way, because of neighbor hood complexities pupils work side by side regardless of race and seem to gefalong fine. Outside the class rooms, on the streets, the racial atti tudes branch out like the limbs of a tree. Race Friction Lessens Oddly enough, there ap pears to be less real race fric tion among the slum tdweL lers and street gangs than among those higher on the so- cial scales. This may come as a surprise to the South where tensions seem to mount as the economic level goes down. The reason is pretty obvi ous, however, when you get down on the streets with the youngsters. They are fight ing a battle for survival food, a place to sleep and, far from least, someone to love and be respected by. A fellow who reaches that status isn't particular whether members of his gang are Negro, Puerto Ricans, Irish, Catholic, Jew ish or Fiji islander. There are Negro gangs do ing battle with white gangs and mixed gangs backing up Negro and white gangs. But talk to members and they'll tell you the reason a certain boy was beaten was because he "invaded our neighbor hood," not because of his col or. New Yorks current trou bles weren't born yesterday, but in the hectic period fol lowing World War II. For the first time, huge crowds of southern Negroes and Puerto Ricans were on ,the move, caught up in the swirl of the big cities. The Puerto Ricans have been coming into New York at the rate of 1,000 a week. Next: Race prejudice in New York, how strong is it? FILM EXECUTIVE DIES Hollywood (IP) Funeral services were scheduled to day for Louis K. Sidney, pio neer motion picture execu tive and former member of a four-man committee which operated MGM. Sidney died Saturday after a long illness. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport - U COSTS NO MORE fo "See Your Travel Agent Airlines know we can help you have more fun. That's why they say "See your Travel Agent first." Drop in today and talk over your next trip. See GEORGE LEWIS ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline . and Steamship Tickers PHONE SP 2-6779 Lobby Hotel Jackson b u il d e r s. Misconceptions about wood and its uses have contributed to the slump in sales." McGowen indicated that in dustry members of NLMA wHo produce about 40 per cent of the lumber consumed in this country have dragged their feet on a major promotion because "product promotion is expensive." But he said "some produc ers have no hesitancy about cutting their price on a car load of lumber to move it. But they refuse to provide the promotional funds that would sell their car at its original price or higher. This con centration on price not only hurts their pocketbooks, it harms their reputations as re sponsible manufacturers. Their prices will be regarded only as a starting point for haggling and bargaining." McGowin's logic about the relationship between lumber sales and housing goes as fol lows: Logic Carried Further "The consistent decline in lumber sales and the tragic loss of lumber profits is ra tionalized in many ways. Most blame housing starts. Pure logic would demand that if we point to reduced hous ing starts as the reason for poor lumber sales, then we must also give improved housing starts all the credit when lumber sales are good. Carrying such logic further, we may then conclude that our advertising and promo tion is worthless, waseful and unnecessary, and that our fu ture depends on the rise and fall of housing starts. To be lieve this is illogical, in my view. "It is my feeling that the proper conclusion relative to poor lumber sales can only be that we are not selling wood as a commodity, and that what we are doing for wood is species promotion is not edequate to make the public wood vs. competitive materials conscious." McGowin said that NLMA is now trying to get lumber producers to come across with funds to get the merchandis ing campaign off the ground. Other segments of the indus try will then be approached, he said, if the producers take the lead. The campaign would be aimed at pre-selling the consumer on the value of wood before he ever gets to the building supply dealer where competitive materials would also be available. EDUCATOR DIES White Plains, N.Y. (W Dr. Thomas Tapper, 94, edu cator and writer about music, died here Monday. 411 ft SB VII v a Valwes! COPPER-CLAD STAINLESS STEEL Six utensils in one . . . use as a -1 'i -quart double boiler or a 2 quart covered sauce pan. 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