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"MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, 0r., Wednesday, December 3, 1938 bsi iiThTl j LU VfeL, if --ir WOMAN'S TOUCH - Even the most glamorous kitchen requires a woman's touch, and the touch that your White Christmas kitchen must have, is the touch of your wife herself. She has one big advantage over all the professional experts. She knows her own family's needs. Obviously she can't replace the architect or the kitchen specialist, but only she can tell them of her basic requirements. They can then proceed from her plan, to provide glamor, conveni ence and efficiency in just the proportions she wants. EXCITING HOLIDAY SURPRISE LOW BUDGET TERMS General Electric "DESIGNER SERIES" PORTABLE TV Most beautiful, most practical design in television at a down-to-earth price! Features wide-angle, 110-degree aluminized picture tube, front sound projection, console-size chassis with full power transformer, , dark safety window dust sealed . . . and famous G-E dependability, trade-in value and warranty protection! (Model illustrated: 17T2405) See Dave now for the finest in New and Used Appliances! HOME APPLIANCE CO.'t 303 SO. FRONT ST. Ph. SP 2-5595 ' "I'M CARRYING ON Eliav Simon cabled United Press International, when hia older brother, U.P.I. correspondent in what then was Palestine, died suddenly daring World War IL . Simon has carried on ever since brilliantly and with an impartiality all sides have praised to cover the big news that the little country of Israel has made. For the best-informed news and what's back of it from the eye of the Middle Eastern hurricane, read Simon's latest United Press International dispatches, in Bedford Mail Tribune 0 Survey Shows Most Bankers Help Good Customers in Loans By OTTO LORENZ Associate Editor. The American Banker A recent national survey of 100 leading bankers under taken by the American Bank er revealed the faith these re sponsible men of business have in their borrowers. One hundred per cent of them said they are ready and willing to help good customers during periods of uncertainty such as reduced income, temp- -orary layoff and unemployment. Here are some typical com ments gathered from bankers around the United States: From Detroit, where layoffs and unemployment were prob ably more frequent than any where else, one of the nation's naturally are sympathetic to cooperative borrowers, partic ularly if delinquency is caused by unemployment. "We have been through prolonged per iods of unemployment in the past, and while delinquency has risen sharply during those periods, losses were kept to a minimum as we nursed our good borrowers over the bad spots." .A well-known banker in Kalamazoo, Mich., states: "We will extend every considera tion to those borrowers who have had a reasonably good record. We'll refinance the loan, extend it or, if necessary, even charge it off and allow the customer to pay as he can. . ." The same consideration ex tends, to Texas where the con sensus of opinions from, bank ers was that they weathered recessions, strikes, and even a depression and had always met their customers as indi viduals and handled each loan with patience and understand ing. Throughout the South west and over to the Pacific coast, the same thought pre- THE UNDERWORLD Springfield, Mass. -TOPD Ju dith Bar den, 19, reported to police that her wallet, con taining $21,- was stolen from her handbag while she was in the grandstand watching a night baseball game here. She said the bag was lying beside her when someone apparently swiped the wallet by reaching up from beneath the stands GEOGRAPHY LESSON Alanta-flJPD - Why geogra phers in Georgia talk to them seles: Monroe is the county seat of Walton county, but the county seat of Monroe county is Forsyth. Forsyth's county seat is Cumming. Then there's Jaokson, the county seat of Butts county, but the the county seat of Jackson couny is Jefferson. Jefferson county is Louisville, for a county seat. The county of Bibb county is Macon. Macon county has Oglethorpe for. a county seat, and Oglethorpe county has Lexington for a county seat. WATER EVERYWHERE White Plains, N. Y. fUPD On the day Westchester County opened its new public swimming pool here, it ramed ... of course. NO ARGUMENT Washington -(UPD-A U. S Office of Education bulletin recently advised that "the place to study high school mathematics is in. high vailed. The bankers would continue their long-standing policy of fair consideration to borrowers. From Nashua, N. H., came this welcome comment: "This bank is very much aware of the fact that if a man has trouble, he is still the same man of whom we thoXight of pretty highly when we made him the loan." Florida Bankers Down in Florida, bankers believe that a liberal exten sion and renewal policy, prop erly applied, will reduce losses and create good-will among deserving customers. "Tough tactics," says an Or lando financier, "are a poor substitute for intelligent col lection policies. . ." And similar, heartening voices were heard clear through the farming areas of the country and across the northwestern states as well. There is no reason to let lack of cash and fear of the future stop or delay you from buying that appliance you have in mind. Go see your banker. It will be worth it. Mill Provides Continuous Sheet Material for Modern Kitchens Hidden away in the back of the house, the old-fashioned kitchen was a gloomy place of drudgery for most women. By contrast, today's kitchen is likely to be a showplace. Bat teries of gleaming appliances make it one of the most at tractive and exciting rooms in the house, and have done al most as much to emancipate women as the right to vote. Of course, the "good old days" boasted their appliances too. Pwered by elbow grease, they were crude and heavy affairs, often hammered out by the local blacksmith. It was almost as much effort to use them as to get along without them. Today's lightweight, high speed appliances owe their ex istence both to the wonder' of electricity and to a machine most people have never heard of, much less seen-the contin uous sheet mill. Developed by the American steel industry during the 1920's, the continu ous sheet mill spews out a rib bon, of steel faster than a mile a minute. And much of this ribbon will end up in the kitchens of America in the fbrm of appliances. Triumph of Economics - Before this mill was devel oped, sheet steel production was a slow, expensive pro cess. Available only in limited lengths and widths, the sheets were hard to fabricate. Smooth curves and rounded corners were virtually impos- CRIME WAVE Haverhill, Mass. MUPD- The police blotter in Haverhill, he cently reported the following wild incidents, all in one day: One four-year-old boy bit an other; a six-year-old boy stuck a garden hose in somebody's window; a woman complained that her neighbor was swear ing at her. Haverhill is a quiet town. TIME STANDS STILL Scituate, Mass. - (UPD - "In stead of the intoxicating dance, with profanity and scenes of dissipation and ruin, all frequently combined, we should have the public li brary, the lyceum, industry, enterprise and virtue. That's not a report on the latest doings of teen-age rock 'n rollers. It's the Scituate school report for exactly 100 years ago. EASY DOES IT Nashville, Tenn.-OJPD-Mag-gie Gibbs and her mother went to the movies while Mag gie's father went hunting for possum. On their way back from the show, mother and daughter found a possum ly ing on the street and took it home. Maggie's father came home empty-handed. NEW! 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Substitute materials like wood were too bulky, and just not rugged enough to stand up to high speed manufacture and a life time of trouble-free operation. It's no exaggeration to say that modern appliances would be virtually impossible with out the continuous sheet mill. If that seems a little ex treme consider this: Modern appliances are as. much a tri umph of economics as of me chanics. Remember when they called the automobile "a rich man's toy?" It was the same situation. ' Appliances (like automo biles) must be produced in high volume: costs go down as production goes up. And high-volume production means that appliances can be hold at a price you and I can afford. Without mass produc tion, only a few of the very rich could afford the things we all take for granted. And modern mass produc tion would be impossible without the low-cost high quality steel produced by the continuous sheet mill. These virtually endless ribbons of steel can be formed, stamped, assembled and painted with a speed that's hard to believe even after you've seen it done. Sheet steel is by no means the only way in which the steel industry helps lighten the nation's housekeeping la bors. A typical kitchen might contain virtually every steel mill product with the excep tion of railroad tracks. In weight, steel in a kitchen can easily run over 1000 pounds. A standard refrigerator uses almost 180 lbs. of various forms of steel. And much of it is pretty special stuff. Gleam ing stanless steel-the "jew elry"of the industr y is a commonplace; electrical mo tors are virtual "time cap sules" of electrical and metal lurgical science.' The . special electrical sheets used' in mo tors are very expensive, but worth everr penny as far as the motor makers are con cerned. Remarkable Improvements There's a whole story in the special cold-rolled sheets used for procelain enameled sur faces. These sheets-"enamel-ing iron" to the men whs make them are among the most carefully made of steel mill products. And improve ments in them as well as in the enamels have been re markable. Like so many steel advances, they may "look the same," but the locked-in im provements become apparent during their long life and high-quality performance. In the parlor, it is consid ered impolite to talk about how much things cost. But in the nation's steel mills, most is a vital topic of conversation. It is theoretically possible to build at least some appliances without using a pound of steel -but you wouldn't like the re sults. .The substitute products would be impossibly bulky, for one thing, and the per formance highly questionable. But the biggest drawback would be price. There are ma terials which can substitute for iron and steel in some jobs but they usually cost many times as much. But how can you compute the price of drudgery? How can you figure the dollars and cents value of a washing ma chine compared to hours over a scrubbing board? And the great value of today's appli ances is the way they free the housewife to become a real homemaker and not a kitchen slave. In 1940, washing ma chines were just coming into their own, while dryers were a new innovation. Today, washer-d r y e r combinations are commonplace, and dish washers are becoming equal ly usual. All of these advances, and the new machines just aroHhd the corner, have been based on the assumption that enough steel, of , the right kind, and at a suitable price, would be available. The steel industry has spent literal ly billions of dollars in the last decade to fulfill all three conditions. In addition mil lions have been spent to de velop new steels, and un relenting efforts exerted to hold down costs before that purring machine in the kitch en could even be considered. Sanntas Make It a White Christmas the FRIDIGA1RE WAY! DOLLAR for DOLLAR... 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