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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1959)
MAIL TRIBUNE .Medford, Or. Monday, Nov. 30, 1959 Three Injured in Saturday Accident Three persons received minor injuries in an accident Saturday night on the North Phoenix rd., state police re ported today. .- Injured were Richard Stan lley Lingren, 16, of 2386 Table Rock rd., the driver; and passengers, Linda Sue Coop, 15, of 1916 North Elm t, and Sandra Gail Riech, 15, of 1173( Casino rd., Med kord. ' , Stanley told state police that his car was headed north 'on the North Phoenix rd., when he swerved to avoid a dog crossing the road. The car went onto a shoulder and into a shallow ditch where it turned over, state police said. Extensive damage resulted to the car and the occupants were taken to Rogue Valley hospital for minor bruises and bumps. They were re leased after a check-up. A brake failure was blamed for an accident at 9 a jn. Sun day on the North Pacific high way, 14 miles north of Med ford, state police said. No injuries were reported but ex tensive property damage re sulted, officers said. The driver, Joseph Angelo, 68, of Portland, told state police that toe vehicle brakes failed on a right curve causing it to slide into a near by private drive. The car crossed the drive, a lawn and rolled into a small orchard where it hit a tree. - i Salem Tot Chokes To Death on Raffle Salem - (CPD - Randy Lee Thomas, seven-month-old Salem boy, choked to death n a baby rattle late Satur day. Randy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lee Thomas, was in the family automobile with his two-year-old brother when the tragedy occurred. The victim's mother discov ered the infant, with the rat tle, shaped like a dumbell, In his throat. The parents were delivering . household goods to a local truck line, preparing to move from Salem to Wyoming. Be a real Santa Claus ! GIVE A PIANO! Wurlitzer Knabe Steinway Everett . Checkering Fischer Spinet or Consolo TradU t i o n a I, contemporary and . modern designs. Dark, med " ium and light finishes. Benches to inarch. Low down payment low weekly pay ments low monthly terms. OPEN TONIGHT UNTIL 9 P.M. . PURUCKER MUSIC HOUSE 111 No. Central Phone SP 2-5702. Time Magazine Tears Onto Rep. (Porter By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington (Special)-Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) says that when a politician kicks someone's sacred cow, he can expect to be compared to a gooney bird. Porter ought to know, for this week's issue of Time - t u Eugene con gressman and s describes him as a migra tory species ox wnooping c o ngressman "r e c o gnized by its raucus cry and by its A. Boot. Smith frequent fumbling, bumbling, freeloading flights to exotic lands, where it lays eggs of the oddest shapes." The article was touched off by Porter's recent trip I k 'V ; rf'fy W iSSt"' "'1 .. .. 7 V I FIREMEN DRENCHED - An unexpected, shower drenches unidentified firemen during a fire at a laundry in San Fran cisco. The break in" the hose widened to deluge proportions within moments. The fire, fought by 70 firemen, damaged delivery trucks as well as piles of linen with destruction estimated at $10,000. (UPI Telephoto) Small Business' Problems Solved bv Lonq-Term Leases By ELMER C. WALZER -UPI Financial Editor New York (DPD Small business is solving problems of tight money through long- term leasing of production eq u i p ment. And equip ment leasing in turn has become big business for several firms which are able to raise sums of mon Klaer Walzer - ey more readily than the little business man. Robert Sheridan, president of Nationwide Leasing co., third largest unit in its field, told United Press Internation al that leasing is going to" be come an integral part of cor porate finance for large and small business. He explained that the lit tle business man faces diffi culty raising capital and with out leasing would have to rely on outmoded, inefficient equipment. Big Firms Lease Too Big firms find leasing ad vantageous too. Sheridan cit ed a billion dollar oil com pany with ample credit and Lumbermen's Building Schedules Open House The new- Lumbermen's Building will formally open Dec. 5, with an invitation open house given by Devoe Lumber Sales Inc. and Forest glen Lumber company, two of the occupant firms. The building, located at 1307 West Main st., is a one story wood structure built in two units, at a cost of nearly $85,000, according, to E. J. Devoe of Devoe Lumber Sales. Besides Devoe Lumber Sales and Forestglen Lumber, other occupants are Wickes Lumber corporation, , Union Pacific railroad, and Chicago and Northwestern railroad. There is space available for one more firm, according to Devoe. Owner of the building is the Lumbermen's. Realty cor poration, a corporation com prised of the owners of Forest glen Lumber and Devoe Lum ber Sales. The offices of both firms were formerly located in the U. S. National Bank building. LI to the Far East, where he visited Japan, Okinawa and Formosa. He went there for the House Civil Service Com mittee to study problems af fecting U.S. civil employees at foreign posts. , The sacred cow, says Por ter, is the prevailing China policy of the State Depart ment, which Time magazine reveres ut which Porter kicks at every opportunity. Last Phrase Dropped Time jumped on the con gressman for having said that "Chiang Kai-shek should be sent to an old soldiers' home, preferably one with barbed wire around it." Porter com plains that the magazine dropped the last phrase of that quote, which was "for his protection and ours." Porter concedes it was an unfortunate description for his desire to see the aged Nationalist leader retired, and one he has no plans to repeat. He insists he doesn't working capital w hi c h leased a big analog computer because it could treat it as an expense rather than cap italize it and depreciate it year by year over its life. A big mid-west super market leased $77,640 of equipment-from Nationwide, including ' nearly 100 items ranging from a $17 cheese cutter to $7,164 of cash reg isters. A chicken processing com pany in Arkansas leased $60, 000 in special processing equipment. A Florida drive in leased its kitchen and in terior equipment. A hospital leased all its equipment. A state bank in Illinois leased calculating equipment. Sheridan's firm is ready to lease anything to firms with good credit ratings, efficient management and good out look. The company doing the leasing selects the type of machinery or other equip ment it wants and Nation wide makes the purchase, leases it out and collects the annual payments in one sum instead of separate sums on the many individual items in volved. Leases, usually run from three to five years. Land, Sea and Air Nationwide has leased a wide variety of items to a wide variety of companies. Sheridan says its leases ex tend to land, sea and the air. The sea venture involves several fishing scows. Through leasing, Sheridan explained, small business can be supplied with the latest type of equipment without impairing its working capi tal or its credit rating. The method provides a rapid writeoff of equipment costs. "Leasing," says Sheridan, "offers financing that does not affect a firm's ability to borrow from its normal sources. "This is because a lease like rent on a building is not CLOGSTON'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimates Gladly Phone SP 3-1014 Evenings want Chiang jailed, as the quote could be interpreted. After Porter made the barbed wire crack in a speech at San Francisco prior to going to . Japan, the Nation alist Chinese ambassador here lodged a protest with the State Department. When Porter's congressional office inquired directly with the Chinese embassy whether the congressman would be wel come to visit Formosa, the reaction was favorable. When Porter arrived on Formosa, the U.S. diplomat in charge during the absence of the American ambassador held a dinner party for Porter to which members of Chiang's cabinet were invited. Sensing a certain tenseness in the room as he entered to meet the other guests, Porter wisecracked: "I suppose that if I convince you of my point of view, you'll all be shot." Helped Relieve -Tension Porter, in telling this ac count of his trip during a press conference ,last week upon his arrival back in Washington, said this jest ing remark helped relieve the tension, and the dinner party proceded successfully. - Time reported the wise cracking remark, then added in its account of the affair: "A glacial silence descend ed on the party and Porter returned to Tokyo next day." In a letter to Time mag azine, Porter said: VOf course I knew the Time-line about Nationalist China. I didn't expect sympathetic treat ment of my activities on my recent trip but I did expect better journalism." Favorable Attitude . Porter returned from For mosa with a very favorable attitude toward land reform and agricultural production improvements instituted on the island with the co-operation of the Chinese officials and American technicians. He said" farmers' co-operatives have been established, in which the farmers have been given the right to vote -a new right that Porter said took some time to get the farmers to - quite compre hend. Rice production is . rising 5 per cent each year, he not ed, and observers from all over Asia come to see this progress. Another great ac complishment is land reform, reducing the land's share of production of 37i per cent of what the tenant or share- a liability on the balance sheet. Only the current year's payments are shown as a lia bility." Money Raising Difficulty Small business always has had difficulty in raising mon ey for equipment. It is diffi cult to float stocks or bonds, and banks will not lend for long term, prefering loans of less than a year. Nationwide has found small business to which it has leased equipment to be an excellent risk. The de fault record is very low-a small fraction of one percent -Sheridan says. ' Leasing of equipment by firms with less than $1 mil lion in assets has more than tripled in the past two years and Sheridan estimates it will reach $300 million by the end of this year, not in cluding leased railroad roll ing stock, cars or trucks. Open Tonight Mill 9:00 P.M. Widest selection of lasting gifts! Free Convenient Parking! SPECIALISTS IN 245 S. Central at 10th i ii i 1 1 ii ii r cropper produces on his land, Porter said the landlord's share previously ran as high as 90 per cent. "This. is what is important to people in all Asia," Por ter declared. "This is how you win the cold war." Rough Winter for Michigan '59ers Seen in Alaska Anchorage, Alaska - (DPD The sourdoughs are predicting a rough winter ahead for the Michigan '59ers who migrated to Alaska in a motorized caravan to homestead in, the 49th state. The original group .headed for the Kenai. Peninsula, southwest of Anchorage to take up their land. In the months since their arrival last March, however, the families have spread out. Some' remained in the Kenai area. Some abandoned their homesteads and moved to Anchorage as construction workers. One group of seven families took up acreage near Talkeetna on the Susitna riv er, 112 miles northeast of Anchorage. And some have gone back home to the Middle West. - Marino Sik, who finally ended up as trail boss of the original group of '59ers, now heads the community of Tal keetna. He said the families had built a community barn and four cabins to see them through the winter. "We're doing pretty well," Sik said, "and I think we'll have enough feed for our live stock due to the generosity of our neighbors who let us use some of their cleared land last summer to grow hay." Warm Weather The homesteaders were blessed with unusually warm weather in the early fall, and were able to get their living quarters in fairly good shape before winter arrived. But veteran railroaders who know the Talkeetna area said the region they have chosen to homestead gets some of the worst weather in south cen tral Alaska with high winds, bitter cold and extreme icing conditions. The sourdoughs are also critical of the location of the Talkeetna homesteaders. They pointed out that the seven families are living across the river from the village, cutting themselves off from all com munication except in mid winter when the river freezes. "There are no bridges across the river in their area," one sourdough, pointed out, "and they have to ferry every thing into their places, and ferry themselves out when they get into trouble." Unusually heavy rains in the Kenai Peninsula dis couraged many of the '59ers when they first tried to settle down this summer. The weath er, plus the difficulties in volved in clearing the land on the Kenai, caused Sik and his group to move to the Talkeet na area. The sourdoughs agree that if the homesteaders manage to hold out through this win ter, the rest will be compara tively easy. "It's that first winter that's the bad one," explained a 25 year veteran of the Alaska Railroad. "If they can come up smiling next spring after being hit by the 40-below-zero temperatures, gale winds and those long, dark nights, the rest will be all downhill." Cutlery, Dinnerware, Glasswares Clocks, Thermometers, Barometers Canisters, Bread Boxes, Scales Coffeemakers, Toasters, ' . Fry Pans Fireplace Screens and . 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