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MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Or. Friday, Nov. 13, 1959 3 Hapco's Wednesday "One Day Sale REPEAT SPECIAL - SATURDAY yiyiHiljimWlllWJjMllli UNDERGOING TEST The U.S. Air. Force X-18, the western world's largest vertical take-off and landing project, is now under going ground taxi tests at Edwards Air Force base, Calif. Built by Hiller Aircraft Corp., the leVi-ton tilt wing giant will com plete th-se high speed runway tests prior to actual flight testing scheduled to begin before the end of the year. (UPI Telephoto) Business Failures Declared Running Against Season Trend Hair Wilnt By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York - (UPD - Business failures are running against the usual seasonal down- Wmmm ' 'i trend. Dun & IB r a d street, which is rated as a top au- Jkjfrk subject, notes V $ ii ' i in we current "Dun's Re view & Mo dern Industry." , au u r e s rose to 1,144 concerns in Sep tember. That was more than any month since June and 10 per cent higher than in Sep tember, 1958. The usual tendency is for business failures to decline in September. Thus is one of the indica tors which businessmen watch for a clue to the future. . The number 6n indicator, of course, is the stock market. Also on the list of things to watch is the size of install ment credit which has been rising sharply. All of these items can give a false impression, and it is often difficult to measure a trend. The stock market was thrown off course by the steel strike and the prospect of its renewal in 80 days. But just now that market has something more tangible than it has had in a long time. The steel recovery in pro gressing much faster than anyone had anticipated it could. 1 Steel Settlement Foreseen And, some in Wall Street feel there just could be a set tlement in the steel situation before the 80-day cooling off period ends. ' The rise in installment buy ing has attracted both criti cism and arguments in its fa vor. Not a few think the na tion can stand a high install ment debt total on the basis of high disposable income. The same thing could be true of business failures. The experts who compile and an alyze them haven't as yet ar: rived at an opinion "on why they are rising at this time, or if an uptrend is develop ing. , The failures in September ran at an apparent rate of 58 per 10,000 enterprises. While this rate was" the most severe of 1959, it was well below the toll of 70 per 10,000 in 1939 and less than 40 per cent of the 155 set in September, 1932, Dun's said. ' Liabilities of failures rose for the third month. They totaled $154.7 million in Sep tember. In all size groups ex cept the $5,000 to $25,000 class, more casualties occur red than in August. Those companies with liabilities of morei than $100,000 were the most numerous since April. Failure Total Down So far this year, the failure total is under last year. The figure for the period January through September is stated at 10,719 failures with liabili ties of $529,700,000. This compared with 11,490 failures with liabilities of $567,200,000 in the corresponding period of last year. The Dun's article noted that more concerns succumbed in all types of operation than in September of last year. Constnuction fatalities rose 17 per cent, largely in heavy engineering and general build ing, it noted. , , ' General increases were no ted also in retailing divisions with increases in food, general merchandising, apparel, and automotive trades outweigh ing declines of small amounts in other lines. G e o g r a p hically failures were reported on an increase between August and Septem ber in all regions except the East, ' North Central, Moun tain, and Pacific states. Increases of 30 per cent or more were recorded in Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Il linois, Wisconsin, Kansas, Ar kansas, Alabama, Washington and Oregon. Ceaseless Battle Waged To Protect Photographic Film Binghampton, N.Y. -UPD- This peaceful city in south- central New York is the scene of a ceaseless battle to pro tect photographic film and pa per from being ruined by at omic fallout during maufac- ture. The fighters are scientists and technicians at Ansco who produce acres of color slide and movie film, black and white films for amateurs' and professionals, X-ray materials for dentists and radiologists, and papers on which prints and enlargements are made. Could Be Spoiled ' s Any of these light-sensitive products could be spoiled -peppered with little black dots or completely fogged - if the jraw materials used to make them were, contaminat ed with the radioactive parti cles still remaining upon the earth from nuclear weapons tests conducted many months or years ago. A visitor to Ansco's scatter ed factory buildings here learns that radiation experts, I' ""'"'"V'-n ': ON STAFF - Recently ac cepting a position at Southern Oregon college is Howard Carl Hogg, instructor of eco nomics. Receiving his master's degree in agricultural econom ics at Oregon State college in 1959, Hogg has been em ployed by OSC as a research er and . as an agricultural economist for the USDA in Portland. Hogg served with the United States Army in Korea for a year. in cooperation with the Atom ic Energy commission (AEC) and with other photographic companies, monitor the atmo sphere constantly 'to check the amount of radiation. And everything ' used in making each batch of film or paper is tested for radioactivity. If Russia or any other na tion resumes testing of atomic or hydrogen bombs, Ansco ex perts will be among the first to know it. Soviet testing would show up in increased fallout; so would that of the United States, though the AEC would notify Ansco and other film makers in advance of any new U.S. tests. Fallout Continues Although all nations ; sus pended testing nuclear wea pons more than a year ago, fallout from previous tests continues. Only the most im maculate cleanliness prevents contamination during the film-making processes. A visitor sees wet drive ways and loading platforms, and factory roofs dripping with water. The water comes from high-pressure hoses that regularly and, frequently are used to wash away dust, whe ther radioactive or not. The water comes from deep wells; surface water or even rainwa ter often contains fallout. Upon entering the -factory buildings, visitors and work ers alike walk across broad soaking-wet mats that wipe the dust from shoe soles. Sim ilar mats prevent tracking of dust and chemicals from one department to another. Dust-Free Smocks Everywhere inside the walls and floors are spotless and dust-free. And in the most critical areas employees wear special dust-free smocks and hats they don after 'walking through a minaiture compressed-air tornado that removes dust and lint from their regu lar clothing. Visitors ordinar ily don't get into these critical areas, and hence escape this aerial brushoff. No other brushoff awaits even the casual visitor. Ansco welcomes guests, ev en if they are merely tourists who have discovered the place by accident. . Replacement Parts for Revised Statutes Due Soon Salem Distribution of the 1959 replacement parts for the Oregon Revised Statutes will start about Dec. 15 in stead of Dec. 1 as originally anticipated, according to Sam R. Haley, Legislative Counsel. Unforeseen delays in the printing schedule have neces sitated the rescheduling of the original distribution date. A total of 285 of 511 chap ters of the revised statutes, or about 3,400 statute sec tions, have been affected by laws enacted by the 1959 legis lature. The up-to-date versions of chapters affected by 1959 legislation, totaling some 3, 700 pages, comprise the bulk of the 1959 replacement parts. An 888-page index and 20 pages of comparative section tables showing where each section of the 1959 session laws is compiled in ORS or the reason why the' section was not compiled, are also in cluded. New Juvenile Code Among the new laws con tained in the 1959 chapters are a ne'w juvenile code, a new trial and appeal proce dure for traffic offenses, mi grant labor legislation, pro visions for v af State Develop ment Credit corporation, a law permitting reorganiza tion of state agencies by the Governor with the approval of the Legislative Assembly, and new legislation concern ing trailer houses and trailer parks. ORS owners who have not yet ordered their new replace ment parts are urged byHaley to send in their orders promptly, while there is still adequate time to process them before distribution begins in December. All advertisers invested $3,192,800,000 in U.S. daily newspapers in 1958 . more than they did in radio, tele vision, magazines and out door combined. j zzr j NEW ON FACULTY - Among the new faculty at Southern Oregon college since Jan. 1 is Naomi M. Grant, assistant pro fessor of English. Instructing courses in both English and speech, Miss Grant has stud ied at the University of Ore gon and received her mas ter's degree from the Univer sity of Denver. A life member of the National Education as sociation, the Speech and Hearing association, and the Speech Association of Amer ica, she worked as a speech therapist for cerebral palsied children in Columbus, Ohio. 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