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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1960)
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Jan. 26, I960 19 IU 1 DRAINAGE CULVERT Drainage water w - from the west slope of Roxy Ann will disap pear underground for several hundred yards iin the vicinity of Hillcrest rd. and North -Phoenix rd. junction, when the culvert shown above is completed., Workmen are .coating the corregated metal '"tunnel" with concrete by the gunite method, in which the material is blown on by air pressure. Part of the nine-hole addition to the Rogue Valley Country club golf course will lie over the culvert. Varying shades of gray show the concrete in different stages of drying. Plastics Reported to Have Big Decade Ahead; 11 Billion Pounds By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York - (UPD - Plastics have a big decade ahead of them with the outlook for pro duction of 11 billion pounds by 1970. Last year, according to tne annual survey of Modern Plas tics Magazine, the plastics makers turned Elmer Walzer out 5.5 billion pounds. That was three times the output 10 years before. And those euphonious names, polyethylene, styrene, vinyl, cellulosics, and so on, have become household words over the years. Polyethylene has done the best of them all. In 1959 its use crossed a billion pounds. .Greatest Use The greatest use of poly ethylene was in film 310 to 340 million pounds. Of this 30 million pounds went into gar ment bags to the extent that the use of this plastic pushed out paper bags completely, leaving no room in that de partment for expansion. The industry had an unfor tunate problem arising from the garment bags for a time when many infants smothered in those films which had been used as mattress covers. This situation has been remedied by the use of thick er 'film, paper-film combina tions, and an information cam paign conducted by members of. the industry. Oihtr Uses Other uses of polyethylene Include bread wrappers, froz en food containers, heavy bags for shipping fertilizers, and many others, including toys, pipe, wire, and cable cover ing. Markets for polyethyene look so big to the producers that they plan to add 40 mil lion pounds of capacity by 1962. The new uses include rigid bottles for detergents. Number two in plastics for 1959 was styrene which reach ed a use of near 900 million pounds. Much of this went into refrigerators, packaging for such products as berry boxes, containers lor ice cream and cottage cheese, bobby kits, dinnerware. Vinyl chloride rated third place with production at 830 million pounds, against 650 million a year earlier. Vinyl producers look for consump tion of 1.5 billion pounds within another five years. ' Much vinyl is molded or extruded (extrusion is push ing the product through dies on the order of toothpaste through a rube.) Vinyl Future j Of course, there's been a spurt in use of vinyl floor coverings-157 million pounds, up 41 million in 1959. A rise to 250 million is foreseen in a few years for this branch of the industry. Then there are such vinyl uses as wire covering, metal coatings, furniture cushioning, gasketing, and so on. Also boat bumpers, floats, inner linings, and packaging. Not so many years ago, it was said that plastic would replace steel, wood, many metals and so on. Actually all these items continued to expand in use and plastics carved out their own future. "It is, of course, always satisfactory to see plastics consolidate their gains," Mod ern plastics says, "but there's different kind of excitement when plastics encroach on roarkets traditionally reserved for metals, glass, wood or other conventional materials." Other Breakthrough The magazine cites such breakthroughs as molded polyethene luggage, replacing canvas; reinforced plastics used instead af aluminum in the construction of outboard motor covers; blowmolded bottles that were cheaper than Valley Man Appears In District Court LeRoy Story, 380 Ashland st., Ashland, was bound over to the grand jury Monday af ter appearing in district court on charges of doing malicious and wanton injury to personal property. Story was released after posting 51,500 bail in district court. He is charged with shooting a jar Jan. 9 contain ing a mining title belonging to Everett Lester Eastman. The jar containing the piece of paper was nailed to a tree at a mining claim 6 miles north of McKee bridge on Kinney creek, sheriff's dep uties said. The number of two-car fam ilies in the U.S. is constantly growing. In many cases, the second car is a used one. The average automobile dealer al located 72 per cent of his used car advertising budget for newspapers, where he knows his ads will be seen by practically all of his potential customers. metal cans; and molded plas tic valves that cut into an all-brass faucet line. "In the over-all picture of current plastic consumption," says Modern Plastics, "these applications count for little They speak eloquently, how ever, of things to come. "Moreover, many of the plastics used to make them are still relatively new, and it may be assumed that as the plastics industry and its con sumers explore the properties of these plastics and learn how to handle them they will prove the vanguard of new plastic breakthroughs in the decade ahead." With the growth of plastics, the machines used to produce them rose sharply in 1959 al so. Sales of injection machines jumped 54 per cent; extru ders, 23 per cent; vacuum forming machines, 42 per cent; compression presses, 18 per cent; and blow-molding machines showed a five per cent rise. Plastics is a relatively new industry. The first plastic-celluloid was invented about 1869 by John Wesley Hyatt, head of Hyatt Roller Bearing company which eventually be came part of General Motors along with Alfred P. Sloan Jr. who controlled the com pany The real push to plastics, however, came in 1907 when bakelite was invented. Today the industry is growing and producing more and more new things that add to the color and ease of living. Mansfield Writes Off Adlai's Hope For Presidency Washington (UPD Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield has written off Adlai E. Stevenson's chan ces of becoming the Demo cratic presidential candidate again this year. Mansfield said Sunday the Democrats' standard - bearer will be one of four senators John F. Kennedy (Mass.), Lyn don B. Johnson (Tex.), Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.),, and Stuart Symington (Mo.) - and "nobody else." Gov. Edmund P. Pat Brown of California agreed that the four senators have emerged as the leading candidates. He said he did not believe Stev enson "can sit back and be drafted." Brown said he could fore see the circumstances in which a deadlocked conven tion would turn to Stevenson but added, "I don't think that will happen." Ail-Out Candidates The four senators in the presidential picture were looking, talking and acting more than ever like all-out candidates in the wake of developments over the week end. . Their backwardness ap peared to fall sharply away as a result of the Democratic party's big presidential "style show" Saturday night, in which seven prospective presi dential candidates participa ted. Johnson, who says he isn't running despite a Texas boom in his behalf, smilingly greet ed the other White House hopefuls as "fellow front run ners" in his speech. Symington, who like John son doesn't plan to enter any primaries, voiced sincere thanks for being included in the "parade of prospects." He observed that "everybody wants to run for president this year." Kennedy and Humphrey had no problem about disclos ing their intentions. They had already announced they were active candidates for the nomination. Burglars Attempt To Take Coin Boxes Ashland-One coin box on a soft drink machine was taken and attempts made to break into several others Monday morning, city police reported. Between $2 and $3 was be lieved to be in the box taken from a machine at Bill Lang ley's Texaco Service station, 744 North Main st., early Monday. Attempts to take the boxes failed, police said, at Wolff Brothers Service station, North Main st., and four boxes on dryers at the laun dromat in the Gateway Shop ping Center. One family in five in the U.S. now has a home freezer. a drink is only as SURE as the whiskey that makes it 4Qt. Code 265 B $400 Pint Code 265C Confidence comes straight from the knowledge that the incomparable taste of 7 Crown never varies. The pleasure is in the trying. One taste will make you sure. say Seagrams and be Sure BLENDED WHISKEY. 86 P!00f. 66X CUM NEUTRAL SPIRITS. SUGMMHSTIUIIS C0MPMIY, lY.t- What Is The This column is prepared as a public service by the Colleae of Law, Willamette University, Salem, to explain basic legal principles, not to provide legal advice. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases to his own problems without an attorney's advice, for differing facts may change the outcome. A Trespassing Hunter Has No Legal Claim to the Animal He Shoots Mr. Snyder imported two silver foxes from Canada for breeding purposes and kept them in a pen. One fox knaw ed through the wall of the pen and escaped. Later Mr. Hunter shot the fox while he was hunting in the unenclosed woods belong ing to Mr. Smith; these woods were in an area posted on all sides with signs warning hunt ers and other trespassers to keep out. Snyder, Hunter and Smith all claim the very valu able pelt. To whom does it belong? Recognises Title Ordinarily the law recog nizes the title of one who cap tures and confines a wild ani mal only so long as it con tinues in his actual control. It also recognizes his owner ship in case the animal has become so domesticated that, although roaming free from restraint, it was its custom to return to him. Unless this returning could bo shown, the owner's title came to an end upon the animal regaining its natural liberty. Thus Snyder had no claim to the pelt. Assuming that Snyder has lost his right to the animal or the pelt because it had escap ed, did Hunter or Smith have the right to the pelt? If Hunt er was a trespasser on Smith's land, the pelt would belong to Smith. Had the unenclosed land of Smith's not been post ed, it is probable that Hunter would not have been a tres passer. Open To Public It is often the custom to consider such land as being open to the public for hunting where there are larg ; unculti vated tracts of land which are not enclosed and where the owner has not taken steps to notify the public that he does not want people to enter the tract. If the land were not posted or not effectively post ed, then there would be good ground for Hunter to claim the pelt. For Smith to properly post his land it was necessary that he post it in accordance with the requirements of the state statute. The ttate statutes often read, "Printed or writ ten notices have attached thereto, by authority, the name of the owner or person in the lawful occupation of the lands or premises, and re quiring all persons to forbear trespassing on the lands or premises and to depart there from, posted in three conspic uous places on the land or premises, is sufficient prima Approximately nine and a quarter million patients were admitted to hospitals in the United States in 1937. In 1957, the figure was a record 23 million. . facie evidence of notice." Of course, if an officer of the law has occasion to enter upon the land posted in the performance of his duty, he is not a trespasser. Since 1950, U. S. retailers have greatly increased their dollar expenditures for news paper advertising. Sporting crnnHc rtAalprs fnr inctannp o . . , . ... have upped their investments ing supply dealers, 78 per cent; appliance dealers, 67 per cent. One hundred years ago Maine lobsters were caught in nets. l :.' . 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