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2A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ore, Friday, April 11, 1938 Local Business Men Hear Information On Morrison-Knudsen Construction Co. H. W. Morrison, Boise, Ida., president of Morrison-Knudsen Co., one of the largest construction firms in the world, visited Medford yes rterday, and was host to about 30 Medford businessmen at a luncheon at the Rogue Valley Country club. .. Morrison, who was accom panied by several top execu te tives of the firm, was en route -to Portland in the company's plane, and left yesterday afternoon. The luncheon was held as Z good-will gesture to busi nessmen of the area, to in form them of the company's vorld - girdling operations, and to let them know, Mor ryison said, "of our company's interests in this area." They Zhave performed a number of -jobs in southern Oregon and "northern California, and oth ers are under way now, in cluding construction of the California Oregon Power company's new dam and pow der plant at Big Bend on the Klamath river. Z Morrison, in a brief talk, discussed some of the com pany's projects, and reminisc ed about incidents he recalled from his travels throughout the world. He said the com pany has been accused of ."helping both sides" during Zihe current fighting in Indo nesia, but said with a smile, -"when those fellows come at you -with guns, what are you going to do?" Often, he said, the M-K company pays rates of pay to native labor far below what they would like, but must do so because the governments involved insist that American rates of pay would make the Slafe GOP Group Adopts Principles Salem (IP) A statement of party principles adopted by the Republican State Central Committee has been released here by Robert Mix, Corval lis, chairman of the statewide GOP policy and action com mittee. Mix said the statement was prepared by his committee in cooperation with Republican county central committee chairmen. "It is our hope that this firm statement of where we stand will make it clear that all are ' welcome in the Republican f party," Mix said. ; Included in the principles ; were statements advocating I fullest beneficial utilization of r natural resources, strengthen- Ing of local government and favoring responsible labor ; unions as a valued and desir- auie pan 01 our society. Air Force Bomber Explodes in Flight North Collins, N.Y (IP) An Air Force B-47 bomber from the Lockbourne, Ohio, base exploded in flight Thurs day as it passed over western New York. Apparently all members of Its crew, usually three or four ; men, perished. The six - turbojet plane ; plunged to earth in two main sections, striking with an im : pact which was felt five miles ; away. The bodies of two members ' of the crew were found wedged in one of the larger pieces of wreckage. workers unljit for anything else after the project is com pleted. Instead, Morrison said, the firm frequently feeds its workers so that all their pay can go to their families. He said this sometimes actually doubles the amount workers receive. A film about Peru, and about the company's construc tion work on a big irrigation project there, was shown fol lowing the luncheon. Among those accompanying the company president were James N. Wells, vice presi dent and manager of the Los Angeles district, E. W. Glass, Boise, treasurer, and L. C. Wicks, general superintend ent of M-K work on the Big Bend project. A. C. Cummins and John Boyle, president and vice president, respectively, of Copco, helped arrange the luncheon, and spoke briefly. Feeding fhe Family By ZOLA VINCENT Food Editor Teeners Name Potato Chips Top Vegetable Teen-agers are forever com ing up with surprises. Imag ine naming potato chips as favorite vegetable. Investiga tion reveals that 14.2 per cent of our entire table stock of potatoes goes into potato chips. More than 2Vz billion pounds of potatoes were con verted into 642V2 million pounds of potato chips in 1956. 1957 figures are not yet available. Per capita consump tion therefore approximates four sounds and is growing steadily'. Potato chips, long the per fect accompaniment for ham burgers, hot dogs and other sandwiches as well as cokes, are increasingly piled high in vegetable dishes on the family meal table. Corn chips too are growing in populari ty. Millions of pounds of po tato chips and corn chips also get dipped in flavorful party dips and dunks which are popular with all agers. The distinctive flavor and texture of chips is increasing ly enjoyed too in casserole dishes that are layered; and in meat, poultry, fish and vegetable stuffings. Fruited Ham Loaf Is Flavorful Treat Make the best possible use of any leftover ham, use. table ready meat or a canned lun cheon meat for this. Recipe is for four servings. If family is larger or you're planning for guests, two loaves make an attractive service. Cook four ounces medium noodles in three cups boiling salted water. Boil rapidly, stirring constantly for two minutes. Cover, remove from heat and let stand 10 minutes. Meanwhile, combine VA cups sweetened applesauce, one tablespoon lemon juice, one half cup orange juice, one tablespoon grated orange rind, one-fourth teaspoon salt, one-eighth teaspoon dry must ard, one- eighth teaspoon cloves, one tablespoon brown sugar and one cup cubed cooked ham or table - ready meat. Mix well. Rinse noodles with warm water and drain well. Fold noodles into ham mixture. Pour into IV2 quart loaf pan. Cover and bake in moderate, 350 degree, oven, 25 minutes. Planked Fish is Very Special Dish So beef is high? A whole fish baked on a hardwood plank or ovenproof platter makes a meal for special oc casions. We stuff it with well seasoned bread .cubes, sur round it after baking with broiled tomato halves and a ruffle of hot mashed potatoes. Six servings. -wrsl Vote For 1 mm smith For Sheriff Jackson County REPUBLICAN PROVEN PUBLIC SERVICE Emphasizing Planned Economy Smith for Sheriff Committee (Look at the Record): 20 Years Law Enforcement in Jackson County Business and Police Administration Training 6 Years Chief of Police City of Ashland, Oregon 6 Years Jackson County Chief of Criminal Investigation under Sheriff Sid Brown 2 Years United States Forest Service 5 Years Chief County Weighmaster 3 Years Law Study 23 Police Science Training Courses Traffic Safety Course, University of California Native Oregonian 20 Years Jackson County Home Owner Organizing Director Mercy Flights Executive Committee man Boy Scouts of America Ex-Serviceman VOTE FOR PROVEN PUBLIC SERVICE Emphasizing Planned Economy Pd. Adv. Vern Smith for Sheriff Committee Stanley C. Jones Jr., Chmn., 113 Rose Ave., Madford 3 or 4 pound fish, dressed Vz cup minced celery V4 cup minced onion Vi cup butter 1 tablespoon minced parsley 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon salt teaspoon pepper 1 quart day-old bread cut in Vi inch cubes 3 tablespoons melted butter Clean and dry fish. Cook celery and onion in butter until tender; add other ingre dients except butter for bast ing; toss lightly. Place stuff ing in fish, fasten with skew ers or string. Brush with melted butter and place on preheated, oiled hardwood plank or oven-proof platter. Bake at 375 degrees, 35 to 45 minutes or until fish is easily flaked with fork. If desired, surround with mounds or ruffled edge of seasoned hot mashed potatoes and broiled tomato halves placed under broiler just long enough to lightly golden brown potatoes. King County Rhubarb Cake From King county, Wash ington state rhubarb growing area, and our friends at Wash ington State College comes this new and different cake. Easy to make and makes very good eating. Cream one-half cup short ening and IVi cup sugar until light and fluffy. Add two eggs and mix well. Sift two cups sifted flour, one teaspoon bak ing powder, one teaspoon cin namon, one-half teaspoon so da, one-half teaspoon cloves, one-fourth teaspoon salt to gether three times. Add to creamed mixture alternately with one cup thick unsweet ened rhubarb sauce; a small amount at a time. Beat after each addition until smooth. Lightly "flour" one-half cup raisins and one-half cup chop ped walnuts; fold into mix ture. Bake in paper - lined 9x9x34 inch or approximate size pan in 350 degree oven, about 60 minutes. Enjoy Plentiful Poultry, Hamburger, Lamb, Fish If it's growing boys and girls you're feeding, waste no time muttering about the high cost of fancy cuts of beef. Just give the younger genera tion hamburgers, fried chick en and lamb stew with an oc casional fine dish of fish, mac aroni and cheese. Teen-agers are on record as favoring these good substan tial economical main dishes. While we're varying our menus, beef growers will be growing more beef just as fast as they can and the old law of supply and demand will continue to function. Fancy beef is high because it "is scarce. Poultry, lamb stews and fish are reasonable in cost because they are plen tiful. It's as simple as that. Poultry Good Buy. Broiler fryer chicks production is ex pected to continue at record levels. Commercial hatcheries in February produced more than 136 million chicks; 11 per cent more than a year ago. Turkey storage stocks in March exceeded 154 million pounds; about a third more than average. Egg production right now is at seasonal peak. Meat Suggestions. The thrifty shopper has always had an eye on the best buys; continues to find them in the stewing, braising long slow cooking cuts of beef and lamb, thrifty pork cuts. Watch this newspaper's advertisements. Look for special offerings in market displays. Dairy Abundance. Milk production continues at rec ord levels. Milk furnishes about 100 different nutrients and is one of the most vital foods. Consumers find an abundance of milk and other dairy products with good buys in cottage cheese, Ched dar cheese and ice cream. Fish and Shellfish. Excel lent variety in good tasting, nutrition - packed fresh and frozen varieties; cod, flound er, halibut, fish sticks, rock fish, sablefish, oysters, crab, shrimp. Look for bargains in canned tuna and for sardines packed in a variety of good sauces as well as in oil. Fruit Selection, f hoice low est of the year; mostly avo cados, apples, grapefruit and winter pears of good quality. Some fresh pineapples and coconuts. Five Children Die As Home Destroyed Cleveland, Ohio m Five children, all under the age of seven, were killed Thursday when a fire swept through their east side home here. The victims were identified as the children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hicks. Police said the mother, Mrs. Ann Hicks, fled to safety carrying one of the couple's six children. Science Teachers Examine Courses Salem flP) A committee of 10 science teachers is meeting here this week in the office of the superintendent of pub lic instruction to examine sci ence courses in grade and high schools. A similar committee al ready has examined the cur riculum for mathematics and within a month two other committees will each spend a week on social studies and language arts. Joseph I. Hall, director of curriculum and publications for the State Department of Education, said suggestions from lay persons and educa tors would be welcome in any of the fields under examina tion. ' The British in 1904 became the first Europeans to reach Tibet's forbidden city of Lhasa. Business Prospects Expected To Show Improvement Shortly Editor's note: William R. White, analyst for Hornblower & Weeks, stock exchange firm, has written the following dispatch for Elmer C. Waller's "Financial Gossip" while Walzer is on vacation. By WILLIAM R. WHITE Analyst, Hornblower & Weeks Written for United Press New York (IP) Unless the financial world is all wrong, business prospects should dis play worthwhile improve ment in the next few weeks. Judged by the behavior of seasoned stocks, investment managers have shown little concern over threat of a se rious recession. Share prices have held within an extreme ly narrow range thus far this year and, as a matter of fact, are not much lower than six months ago. At the end of the first week of last October, in terms of representative averages, the market was only a trifle high er than at present. At that time it was poised for a sharp setback. Yet de spite the deterioration in ma jor industries, with unem ployment rising to the high est total in many years, stock prices have held up much bet ter than might have been ex pected. Lows reached in the third week of October have not been penetrated in the subsequent six months. Although 18 of the 30 is sues comprising the Dow Jones industrial index were lower at the end of March than six months earlier, most price changes were compara tively small and the average itself was not a great deal be low the figure prevailing at the close of September. . The best showing was ac complished by foods and other so-called defensive stocks. Corn Products, as an example, rose about 33 per cent, Procter & Gamble 20 per cent and General Foods about 14 per cent. Eastman Kodak improved almost 12 per cent and American Tobac co about 8 per cent. The worst showing was registered by motor shares. Chrysler de clined 30 per cent and Gen eral Motors 12 per cent. Un ion Carbide fell about 19 per cent. Many losses were only nominal. This behavior seems to sug gest: 1. Investors are neither greatly alarmed over the out look of business nor especially hoieful of a nearby resur gence in industrial activity and 2. The need for careful scrutiny of investments is greater than ever, for selec tivity is highly important in a period of readjustment where dynamic economic changes can have a major in fluence on sales and earnings in specific industries and in individual corporations. The Weather Vane The market's response in the next two or three weeks to publication of rather bleak March quarter earnings re ports should determine with considerable finality whether the public has developed an immunity to bad news that may prevent another broad decline in stocks. Odds and ends: Extensive cancellations for tankers con tributed to reduced demand for steel. Beneficial effects of sharply increased military ex penditures are being experi enced by aircraft and elec tronic manufacturers. Ray theon Manufacturing reported its backlog had risen to a rec ord high of more than $300 million, compared with ?260 million in January, and that employment had climbed to a new peak at about 30,000. In view of an estimated de cline in Caterpillar Tractor's March quarter to about 30 cents or 40 cents a share from $160 in the corresponding pe riod of 1957 renewed appre hension over a' dividend re duction has been manifested. Earnings of Halliburton Oil Well Cementing for the quar ter Just ended are estimated to have dropped to about 80 cents a share from $1.04 a year ago. Interest in Quaker Oats has been based on expec tations of a higher dividend in recognition of improved earnings prospects. . The ROSE GROCERY will be CLOSED SUNDAYS During the Summer Months 1 hrfHton""!' Mfr IW nBIl hill 11' I i t mVjlMHIMBVMaaWHHBHmW That's a stiff price to pay for not knowing that Stat Farm Mutual . . . the careful driver insurance company . . . charges far less than most other companies. 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Vital safety factor was full panoramic visibility of windshield. Racking hairpin turns on Chilean slope of Andes tested superior torsional strength of Chevy's new Safety-Girder frame, demon strated the better road-holding permitted by its lower center of gravity. Jumbo-Drum brakes got a real workout in emergency stops for roving livestock, loose boulders, stream gullies cut across road. Drivers particularly liked Turboglide's special Grade Retarder. on long hills. Full Coil suspension, with a deep coil spring at each wheel, tool big rocks and deep chuckholcs in stride. Stability of four-link rear suspension held car true and steady on worst sections of road. Turnaround at Valparaiso on Pacific and car starts return leg of trip called impossible by A.C.A. experts! Engine was never stopped, oil dipstick still said "full" at end of 1,900-mile test! You don't have to cross the Andes to discover Chevy's remarkable ease of handling, riding smoothness and all round performance. 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