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Medford 2nd SECTION Americans More, Eating In Home Less By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York -UPD- Americans with their well-filled purses are dining out more and more and eating home less and less. Figures just made available in the current issue of Food Topics show that sales of eat ing and drinking places rose in 1959 by 10 times the rate of increase for food stores. The publication found that while food sales in food stores failed to keep up with the 1.8 per cent increase in civilian population in 1959, food sales in dining-out establishments far outstripped the population increase. Rising Food Costs "In a rising economy and with increasing family in come," says Food Topics, "ex penditures for food are known to increase." Whether this increase will come to a greater extent in goods purchased in food stores for home consumption or in foods for consumption away from home is very much the question. "It is also open to specu lation whether, in the years ahead, those consumers mov ing up in income will adapt their tastes to include higher priced quality foods, or whether their grown income, coupled with an increase in leisure time, will induce them to eat out more fre quently. "In the latter instance, re tail food stores could very definitely lose a certain sales volume to eating and drink ing establishments." The food stores didn't do badly in 1959. They main tained an unbroken record for the decade of the 50's in setting new sales records each year. In 1959 they sold $53,660, 000,000 of food. This was a 10-year jump from $33,264, 000,000 in 1950. Grocery store sales made up 86.7 per cent of this total and the re mainder went to specialty food retailers. Back in 1950, sales of eat ing and drinking places total ed $11,158,000,000. There was a rise in 1951 and 1952 but a substantial decline came in 1953. Then came a series of gains each year to 1959 when the sales amounted to $15,546,000,000, against $14, 792,000,000 in 1958. Restaurant Sales Up Sales of the eating and drinking places were up 39.3 per cent over 1950 while all food stores showed an even greater gain - 52.9 per cent for the period. Grocery stores increased their percentage of business in non-food items. Their sales of food rose only half of one per cent in 1959 but their Education Leader Gives College Funds Salem PUI-Bequests in the will of the late Charles Leon ard Starr, state education leader, include $5,000 to Wil lamette university and $2,000 to the children's farm home at Corvallis. He was a trustee of both in stitutions. Starr died last week at the age of 82. MEDFORD, OREGON, Are Dining Out sales of other products gained more than 11 per cent. Chain store sales of grocer ies have shown a steady in crease. Their share of the 1959 business amounted to 45.3 per cent, according to Food Topics. In 1958 their share was 44.5 per cent and in 1950 it was 38.4 per cent. It was noted that Americans have stepped up their buying of so-called luxury items -exotic foods which not long ago were beyond their reach. "It is precisely such a quali tative change that is to be ex pected as incomes rise and one that is to be desired in the face of increasing expen ditures for foods purchased and consumed at eating and drinking establishments," says Food Topics. "Retailers during the gold en sixties are expected to The Family Council Editor'! Note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual rase history. The Council reports on problems that have been dealt wi ta by responsible agencies and counselors. Stephen L. - She must com promise. Audrey L. - How far can I compromise? Stephen L. -1 am a married man of 30 trying to help my sister Audrey, who is 29 and unmarried. My folks can't do a thing with her and have begged me to try to find a man for her. Audrey isn't bad looking and has a nice personality- when she wants to be nice, But most of the time she doesn't put herself out to be attractive to men. They think she is on the cold side. We all know the reason for this. Audrey is in love with or thinks she is in love with one of the top men in her of fice. This man took her to lunch a few times, but they were really more business dates than anything else. This thing has been going on for four years and nothing will come of it. At her age, Audrey mus start compromising or it'll be too late. Audrey L. - It's probably too late already, and nobody knows it better than I do. Every one of my old friends both girls and boys-has got ten married. As you get older, your chances grow slimmer. Steve thinks he does a lot for me when he tries to steer every unmarried man he knows my way. Big deal! What does Steve care if they happen to be about a foot shorter than I am, if they look like a cross between Frank enstein's monster and some thing horrible from outer space? Compromise, says Steve, but how far is a girl supposed to compromise? I have just about given up hope of ever getting the man I am in love with. But I can't help comparing the others to him. He is handsome, intelli gent, a real gentleman. Do I want too much? The Council: There is a wide spread misconception that marriageable women outnum VALIANT- Dependable dealer FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1960 help this qualitative change along through special promo tions." The $53,660,000 sales of food at retail in 1959 showed a gain of 1.5 per cent over the $52,870,000,000 sales of 1958. Grocery stores alone had sales of $46,540,000,000, a rise of 2.1 per cent over the $45, 580,000,000 total for 1958. Chain stores increased their sales of groceries to $21,090, 000,000, a rise of 4 per cent over the $20,290,000,000 in 1958. Independents had sales of $25,450,000,000, a rise of only 0.6 per cent over the 1958 figure of $25,290,000, 000. Specialty food retailers in 1959 had sales of $7,120,000, 000, a decline of 2.3 per cent from the $7,290,000,000 of 1958. ber men in the United States. As a result, the Audreys and their families get that 29 pan ic. They think there is some thing sinister about age 29 and there is no hope beyond it. The fact is, according to official statistics, there are more single, never - married men than women in every age group up to the age of 60. In the years 18 to 45, there are two million more single men than women. The problem is not statis tics. The problem is that both men and women who re main unmarried in their 30's tend to have personality diffi culties or fears or hostility toward the opposite sex. We'll agree that many mar ried individuals have the same quirks-and even to a worse degree-yet something or somebody in their back ground ' propelled them to ward marriage. However, those like Aud rey, whose resistance has re mained stronger than the fac tors propelling others toward marriage, should try to ap praise their situations more honestly. Compromise is the word girls like Audrey hate to hear. They feel it means giving up all their high hopes, lowering their standards. We would put the matter in dif ferent terms. We would say, "Try to grow and change. You may find a man of even higher stature than you now set as an ideal if you give up some of your rigid and super ficial ideas about what a mate should be like. Give a man a chance to prove his real worth." Audrey has used her un attainable ideal as a shield against really seeing other men in an objective light. In this she is not unlike those many bachelors who might be her husband-if not for their mental blocks. (Copyright 1960. General Features Corp.) DICK KNIGHT CO. Plymouth DeSoto Valiant 33 So. 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Williams, who successfully defended Hoffa against a bribe - conspiracy indictment m 1957, was reported to be feuding with the tough-talking union leader. But that was not the reason he decided against appearing in Hoffa's behalf, close asso ciates said. They said Wil liams compared himself to the counsel for a bank who would not think of representing a bank president charged with embezzling the bank's funds. Court - appointed monitors have accused Hoffa of trans ferring $65,000 of funds be longing to his home local in Detroit, into bank accounts bearing no interest. Most of the money was switched into an Orlando, Fla., bank as security for a loan to a Florida real estate venture in which Hoffa had an interest, the monitors con tended. Flu Epidemic Said Sweeping Europe v London -UPD- An influenza epidemic sweeping across Europe kept millions of Euro peans away from jobs and schools today. Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland were hardest hit. Six deaths were recorded in Switzerland during the week ending Jan. 23. In Brit ain, where the flu has not reached epidemic proportions, four nuns in a Roman Cath olic convent in Liverpool died two weeks ago in what was described as an isolated out break. Thus far, the epidemic has not reached the severity of the 1957-58 outbreak. A Bel gian health official said the epidemic appeared to be caused by an Asian-type virus but of a milder variety than in 1957-58. Newspapers reported 300, 000 persons in Paris stricken with the flu and hospitals overflowing with patients. It was estimated that 4 of 100 Frenchmen were ill. In West Germany, many cities reported up to 40 per cent of workers flu-ridden. Diana Barrymore's Life Full of Episodes, Questing Vainly for Love, Theater Status (Editor's note: Unlucky with men, participant in scandalous episodes, quest ting vainly for love and theater stature as a member of America's "royal family" of the stage, the late Diana Barry more was a tragic figure. This dispatch tells of her loves, career, and downfall.) By H. D. QUIGG United Press International New York - (DPD - The head lines were sensational. "So, 10 drinks or so later, Diana shows her, husband the door." That was in 1953. "Diana and the cops do that bit again." That was 1954. Hubby returned home and knocked Diana's admirer John McNeill, 27, unconscious. And she later charged a date named Tommy Farrell got drunk and beat her up in her apartment. "Diana felled by sleeping pills - despondent, emotional ly upset." That was dateline Boston, 1955. And all this was John Barrymore's daugh ter, being a Barrymore off stage. Onstage was a different matter - very un-Barrymore. She ripped scenery, disre garded cues, flubbed lines, cursed fellow actors, found UNLUCKY AT; LOVE Unlucky at love was ' Actress- Diana Barrymore, a " daughter 6i - the late John : Barrymore, who ' was found dead in her apartment in New York if liw gives and redeems Silver Dollar Stamps. Then - SPEND 'EM - CASH 'EM - PUT 'EM IN THE BANK Or - KEEP 'EM IN THIS HANDY CADDY! Only at Silver Dollar Stamp Merchants herself by 1955 practically blacklisted among producers and unable to get even a walk on part. Diana Barrymore, who at 38 was found dead in her apartment last Monday, was an only child, the product of two "fiery strains" of family blood. Her mother was the brilliant and erratic poetess, novelist, and actress Michael Strange. Her father was the renowned - and brilliant and erratic - "Great Profile" of the stage. Mother Had Money A friend once described the violent home-and-public spats of these two as "a tennis game in hell in which no one missed the ball." Diana was born in 1921. Her mother had money. "Michael Strange" was the pen name of the di vorcee Blanche Oelrichs, of Newport and New York, whom Barrymore married in 1920. After Barrymore di vorced her, she married at torney Harrison Tweed. Diana wrote in her auto biography that she had been a girl "who had everything -name, breeding, talent, op portunity after opportunity -and seems to have done her best to throw it away." She remembered seeing her father q Save Get One or more from ANY comparatively few times in life. But she followed his esca pades, and gradually she seemed to copy his fast way with liquor. She was sent to schools for rich girls. Un disciplined, given to tantrums, she had been expelled from 16 private schools by the time she was 16. At 17, in 1938, she was "debutante of the year." At 19, she made her Broadway debut in "The Romantic Dr. Dickens," and got excellent personal notices. She had a number of other Broadway and stock roles. She went to Hollywood at 20. Had Series Of Affairs Perhaps her professional failure there and her drinking contributed equally each to the other. There began a series of affairs with men, police blotter cases, saloon slugfests, street brawls, ambu lance calls - and return to the theater and to late curtains, arguments, black eyes. After a year in Hollywood, in 1942, she married Bram well Fletcher. She divorced him four years later and mar ried tennis player John How ard, only to divorce him in six months. Howard was jail ed later on a morals charge. Diana married actor John Monday. Above, Miss Barrymore is shown with tennis player John Howard, who later became her second husband. She divorced Howard six months after the marriage. You can Silver Dollar Stamp Caddy 1 nollar StamP Si ver D,,a ... - CtarrVuS Dollar IT'S Wilcox in 1950, and this seems to have been her true married love, although they fought in public, were locked out for non-payment of rent, and were caught stealing food from a supermarket. 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