MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Tuesday, Jan. 26, I960
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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
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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.
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