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In the Day's News By FRANK The Department of Agricul ture announced the other morning that about 40 per cent of all milk sold at whole sale by farmers during 1959 was priced under terms of fed eral marketing orders. As of Dec. 31, there were 78 of these "orders." The areas covered by them are scattered from Connecticut in the East to Utah in the West. More than 78 million consumers now reside in regulated milk marketing areas. IN THE areas in which they operate, these orders estab lish the minimum price that handlers must pay farmers for their milk. These "orders" don't regulate the producer and they don't set a retail price for milk. If the milk producer can show a profit (with his costs) at the minimum price, no lim it is prescribed to the amount of milk he can produce. If he can't get his costs into line, he'd better get out of the bus iness. With retail prices "uncon trolled, there is room for the play of free enterprise in the market. The producer can run as many cows as he wants, within the limits of his feed supply. WE might as well make up our minds that government will have its finger in bus iness throughout the foresee able future and adapt our-: selves to that fact-at the same time trying to see to it that what the government does is reasonably sensible. This milk marketing "order" system seems to meet that standard. COMETHING new in the world: This is SILENT WEEK. RECORD I'm not just sure what it's all about, but this is the way it's described in dispatches from Detroit. Shhhhh! This is silent rec ord week, an international tribute to jukebox peace and ouiet. The week is being ob served to mark the first anni versary of the appearance of SILENT records - three min utes of SILENCE for a dime on University of Detroit juke boxes. The observance is interna tional since a man in Holland has written to Hush Label, the university's silent record organization, for permission to mark the occasion as "stilte platte week." "Stilteplatte," according to Hush Label im presarios, is "silent record", in Dutch. HOW will it work? That isn't described in detail. But one presumes it means that when one is in a jukebox joint and gets fed to the ears with jukebox noise he can drop a dime in the slot ft "" s I Grow your Money Tree with us! Yoa will have the money you need for the things yon want if you have a savings account with us and add to it regularly. Your Money Tree will grow fast . earnine excellent returns. If vou haven't jB started four Money Tree with us, open a savings account now and watch it grow! When yoa save does make a difference9 Tim CURRENT DIVIDEND 4 PER ANNUM 1 Open a savings account noW; FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 29 North Ivy Street Robert F. Kyle,' Manager JENKINS and get THREE MINUTES OF SILENCE. I'm all for it! One reason I'm all for it is that it recognizes the principle that the rights of each indi vidual are limited by the RIGHTS OF OTHERS. Under that principle, the poor devil who wants a little silence is entitled to get it if he's will ing to pay for it. H MMMmmm. A word at this point on this business of freedom to do as you please. There was a time in our his tory when if you didn't like the way things were going in your neighborhood you SOLD OUT and took the Westward trail into the big woods or the wide prairies where there would be nobody to worry you except some savages, and if you were a better shot or quicker on the trigger than they were you got them out of the way. If the savages were quicker on the trigger and truer in their aim than you, they put YOU out of the way, and that was that. ALL THAT has gone into the limbo of the past. There are few such places left to move on to. So- We have to find ways to adapt ourselves to a world in which complete isolation and complete freedom to do as you darned well please is gone where the woodbine twineth. This "three minutes of silence for a dime" sounds like a tol erably decent idea. Mountain Sheep Hearing Under Way Salem -IUPD- The Oregon Water Resources Board began a hearing today on the pro posed Mountain Sheep dam of Pacific Northwest Power com pany on the Snake river. The company asked the Or egon Hydroelectric commis sion for a preliminary permit to build the dam and the mat ter was referred to the board. The project proposed would be 690 feet high and initially would turn out 875,000 kilo watts of power. The long range plan calls for a capac ity of 1,750,000 kilowatts. The firm has also requested the federal power commission for a license to build the dam. KING-SIZE CHESSMEN Palm Springs, Calif . - (UPD -Police today wondered what a thief was going to do with a partial set of chessmen stol en from Charlie Farrell's Racquet club. The eight chess men worth S360 stand nearly two feet high and were con versation pieces on an out door "chessboard" of patio blocks at the club. 'ihii 1 1 mi f-ii ir-- 'in ipmi'diiz es'Sin Poflsce Crack Down On 'Daubers'; 13 Berlin -OTD- The West Ber lin city government today ar rested 13 suspected Neo-Nazis and decided to outlaw extreme nationalist groups in a move to wipe out an anti-Semitic un derground. A West Berlin court today sentenced to .10 months impris onment a 23-year-old sales clerk who Monday painted swastikas and "out with the Jews" signs on three build ings. He pleaded drunkeness. The Berlin police action, toughest crackdown yet against a wave of anti-Semitic outbreaks in West Germany and other sections of Western Europe, came even as new in FILM STARS WED Actor Ernest Borgnine and Mexi can star Katy Jurado were married in a civil ceremony at Jurado's home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The ceremony will be repeated in California when Borgnine completes a movie he is making in Mexico. Witnesses As FCC Resumes Radio-TV Washineton-4l!?D-The feder al communications commis sion todav called nrize-win- nin? TV writer-producer Rod Serling to testify at the re sumption of hearings on radio television programming. The FCC is . seeking to determine what; powers it needs to prevent quiz show rigging and other deceptive radio-TV practices. The first phase of its inquSry was held last month when representa tives of civic and religious groups testified. 1 Other Witnesses Witnesses at today's hear ing, besides Serling, included Prof. Eric Goldman of Prince ton University and represen tatives of the Assn. of Nation al Advertisers. Industry spokesmen will be heard later. Serline. in a preview to his testimony, gave an inter view to Broadcasting maga zine, exoressine :sharp opin ions against the interference of sponsors .in TV pro gramming. The TV writer announced the "magazine concept" of di vorcing advertiser."? from any control over program content and restricting their activity 5 Mental Patients Flee From Hospital Raleigh, N.C. (UPD Four male mental patients escaped from a maximum security building for the criminally in sane at Dorothea Dix State hospital today, freed a woman patient and fled. The men overpowered two women attendants, took keys to two buildings and freed a young woman committed as criminally insane after killing her father last May. All five escaped in a hospital employ ee's car which they later abandoned at Fuquay-Varina, N.C, 20 miles south of here. Three attendants on duty in the maximum security build ing were fired for laxity. Officer Training Conference Planned The annual officers training conference of Jackson Coun ty Pomona Grange will be combined with the January meeting of Jackson County Grange Council, and will be held Saturday, Jan. 9, at 8 p.m. in the Central Point Grange Hall. Floor work will be demon strated and problems of sub ordinate Granges discussed. The meeting is open to any interested Grange members. Youngstown, Ariz.-fDPD-Eric P. Kelly, 75, a retired Dart mouth University professor and former reporter and State Department official, cidents were reported. The outbreaks marred West Germany's celebration of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's 84th birthday, the nearest thing West Germany has to a national day. Police in Berlin raided the homes of suspected Nazis and confiscated photographs of Adolf Hitler, copies of his "Mein Kampf," anti-Jewish and pro-Nazi propaganda and military equipment of the type worn by the Hitler youth. The arrested persons ranged in age from 18 to 26. They were members of two extreme right wing nationalist youth organizations. Called Hearings to preparing commercials. Against Ratings As for audience ratings, Serling is dead set against them. The magazine quoted him as saying: "I spit on rat ings. I don't believe them. I don't think they're statisti cally accurate. But, boy, am I on the phone waiting to hear them, because how else do you judge the acceptance of a show?" The commission's broad re view of its authority to police broadcast deceptions stems from the TV quiz show scan dals and charges of payola undercover payments to broadcasters for favors. Launch Explodes Af Sf. Helens St. Helens (CPU A small launch owned by the Colum bia River Packers association exploded and burned here Monday afternoon, hospital izing its skipper.' Derwood Robinette, 49, St. Helens, sufered first and sec ond degree burns of the face and arms and was taken to Columbia hospital where his condition was described as "fair to good." A spokesman for the firm said the explosion occurred when Robinette was discon necting the batteries and a spark apparently set off the gas tanks. The launch, valued at $5,000, was destroyed. It was used to pick up salmon from commercial fishermen. Macmillan Starts On Tour of Africa London -(UPD Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan em barks tonight on a 20,000 mile month-long tour of an Africa swept by the problems of nationalism, racial trouble, and the clamor for independ ence. Macmillan's first stop on the trouble-shooting tour will be Ghana, where he planned to confer with Premier Kwame Nkrumah, whose au tocratic methods of running the government of the young nation are straining principles for which the British Com monwealth stands. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 Arrested The West Berlin Executive Council, or senate, said these organization would be outlaw ed. The senate also moved to Dan me extreme right wmg 'German Reichs Party" whose members desecrated a syna goguge in Cologne. The senate recommended expulsion from schools and universities of students who engage in Nazi or anti-Jewish activity. . West Berlin's campaign was announced at a press confer ence by Joachim Lipschitz, head of the city interior de partment. Heinz Galinski, leader of West Berlin's Jewish com munity, appeared " with Lip schitz and praised the city's swift action to counter the anti-Jewish incidents. But he criticized the slowness of the West German federal govern ment in Bonn. As the West Berlin arrests were made, three more inci dents were reported in the city. A swastika and a "Jews get out" sign were painted on a wall. A swastika flag was found in a playground. A five-mark coin was defaced with swastikas. Other European Incidents In Rome, Italian police cracked down on a Neo-Fas- cist organization they said was responsible for a mount ing wave of anti-Semitic threats in Italy. They arrested an undisclosed number of per sons in a pre-dawn raid, one while he was painting a swas tika on the door of a textile shop. - In Milan, Italy, a swastika flag was hung from the Vic tor Emanuel memorial. Swas tikas were found painted on buildings in Rome, Parma and Genoa. In Austria, officials of the Vienna Jewish community said they had received an anonymous letter threatening the only synagogue would be blown up this afternoon. Other anti-Semitic inci dents were reported in Fin land, England and Holland. Thursday, January 7 NEW, FREE LUNCH Served at Our Store At 11:00 A.M. The entire family is invited to be the guests of HUBBARD WRAY at this FREE LUNCH. Plenty of food and FUN for all. Served by West Side Extension Unit jll 909 South CUBAN STUDENTS MARCH Carrying equipment with U.S. insignia, members of the Cuban student militia march along a road heading for the site of maneuvers. Premier Fidel Castro was reported to be in Sierra Maestra mountains of Orients Province directing the "graduation exercises" of the militia. The group, numbering some 400 persons, includ ing 80 girls, is to form the cadre for volunteer battalions designed to aid the Army when needed. (UPI Telephoto) Southern Pacific Hearing Scheduled Salem -0JPD- Thursday, Jan. 14 has been named as date for a hearing in Portland into an application of Southern Pa cific company to withdraw its agent from Park street sta tion, Portland. The hearing will be at 10 a.m. in the state office build ing. The railroad wants to con duct future business through its Brooklyn station agent in Portland. VETERAN LEARNER Wimbledon-OJPD- Before be ing found innocent of reckless driving, Mrs. Dorothy Field, 69, told the judge Monday she had been driving on a learn er's permit since 1922. - DIFFERENT, Remember the Date Remember the Time STARTING' AT 11:00 Remember the Place ... JOIN THE Riverside 11 Man Sees Wife Killed in Street Ealing, England- (UPD - Des mond W. Kelly told an in quest he happened to witness an auto accident as he was casually strolling down a lo cal street. He rushed over to see if he could help the wom an knocked down by a car. When Kelly finished testi fying Monday, the coroner re turned a verdict of accidental death on the woman Kelly saw knocked down-his wife, Edna. COSTLY ADVICE Sacramento, Calif. - (UPD -Avelino Garcia complained to police Monday he got some costly advice he didn't ask for. Garcia said he found $180 stolen from a small safe in his home and a note reading: "Get a better safe." MORE EXCITING THAN . . . FUN AS GUESTS OF WRAY Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1960 Girl Key Witness In Murder Trial of Doctor and Mistress Los Angeles (DPB A young Swedish girl emerged today as the key witness in the mur der trial of Dr. Bernard Finch and his red-haired mistress. Marie Anne Lidholm, 19, an exchange student with ice blue eyes, was named by the prosecution Monday as the intervener in the wealthy doc tor's struggle with Mrs. Bar bara Finch - and a witness who was in deadly peril her self. Stale Charges Plot The trial finally got started with the state charging that Finch, boyish-looking at 42, plotted with Carole Tregoff, 23, to kill the doctor's wife and then shot Mrs. Finch when she tried to run away. Assistant District Attorney Fred N. Whichello said Miss Lidholm, a maid in the Finch home, heard Mrs. Finch's screams and ran to the garage where the doctor and Miss Tregoff allegedly had laid in wait for the unwanted part of their "triangle." Whichello charged Finch forced both his wife and Marie Anne into the car, in tending to drive them over a nearby cliff. The Swedish girl ran for police when Mrs. Finch jumped from the car and ran away over the lawn where her body was found later, shot in the back. The jury of six women and six men today visited the beautiful Finch home, com plete with swimming pool and adjoining the South Hills Country Club and golf course. The morning session was can celled because of a defense attorney's call to another trial. Pleas of Innocent Finch, a surgeon and hos pital owner with a fortune estimated at $750,000 which For All Farmers and their Families BE OUR GUEST JANUARY AM mmmwi FREE SHOW Starting at 1:15 P.M. TOM GORDON RETURNS The Gordon Famiy this year undergoes the pains and pleasures of watching Tom take another lesson in farming the hard way Other attractions. CO M Phone MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. would have been halved by a divorce suit brought by his wife, has pleaded innocent as has Miss Tregoff. Finch's attorney has indi cated he will plead an acci dental shooting and the eye filling Miss Tregoff said n a previous hearing that it was Mrs. Finch who first reached for a gun when they tried to talk to her about their three way personal problems. Two Men Missing In Washington United Press International Two men, one of them al most blind, were reported missing in southwest Wash ington today. John Stenger, about 80, who lives alone, was reported miss ing from his home near Battle Ground at the edge of the Yacolt burn in Clark county. Sheriffs officers said friends reported him missing Monday and that there was no way to tell for certain how long he had been gone. Offi cers said Stenger was almost totally blind. In Klickitat county, Keith Langfield, 32, operator, of a sandwich shop at Trout Lake, was reported missing. He was last seen Jan. 1 when he left to take inventory at the cafe. Search with planes and ve hicles on roads in the area proved fruitless Monday. TOOTH STAINS STAINS REMOVED "Like Magic" with Kip powdei Use Kep with your toothpaste. Dentists use and recommend Thursday, January 7 EVER! 1 PARY SP 3-7511 died Sunday.
