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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1960)
fMfly, March 17, 1960 A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Of. J Quotes From the News By United Press International New York Francis D. X. Finnegan, public relations director for the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, pledging the Irish would march despite predictions of snow possibly mixed with rain: "It would take an atom bomb or a tornado to blast us off Fifth ave. As long at there's pavement on Fifth ave.. we re o oina to march." MORE FOR YOUR MONEY 'XRial.Sj - w-CI nt rajs m5' St. Louis, Mo. Teddy Nadler, who won $264,000 on tV e;uiz shows, disclosing he is applying for a job as a census taker because he is broke: "Z'y heard the census test I have to take is a tough one. I hope I pai. I'd do all right if they asked for all the kings of England, or Civil War battles, or symphonies, or some thiasj like that." London Anthony G. Clifford-Brown, who was fined $356,000 for an illegal transfer of funds that was said to have saved the Banque Commerciale de Monaco from col lapse in 1958: "Honesty means nothing these days. It pays to cheat the fiddle." Ottawa, 111. Illinois state police chief William Morris, discussing the sex murders of three socially prominent Chicago area women whose bodies were found at the mouth of a cave in Starved Rock State Park: "One man couldn't have done this. To beat them that badly there must have been at least two. H's the worst thing I've seen in my 19 years as a policeman." Pressman Found Innocent of Charge Portland-(UPD-A former ap prentice pressman for the Oregonian and Oregon Jour nal Wednesday was found in nocent of an assault and bat tery charge. A Circuit Court jury re turned the verdict in favor of Johnny C. Schroeder, 23, Vancouver, Wash., who had been charged with hitting William O. Glover, Oregonian machinist. The charge grew out of in cidents during mass picketing around the Oregonian build ing Jan. 23. Two others were found guilty of disorderly conduct and fined $50. They were Jack Jackson and William James Parker, who had ap pealed Municipal Court convictions. j jiP Trees . . . By JOHN GRIBBLE (Editor's note: The fol lowing comments on trees, particularly those adapta ble to street use in Medford, have bees prepared by John Gribble, well - known re tired forester, and will be turn In a series during the 'ircet planting season" here, aer uader way.) o Sourwood or sorrel tree, (Oxydendrum arboreum). The Sourwood or Sorrel tree is a native woods tree in Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indi ana. southward to Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkan sas; often in cultivation as far north as Boston. It reaches its largest size on the western slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, up to 10 feet. In cultivation it is one of the little, slender- stemmed, dainty trees-beauti ful at any season. The Sour wood grows well in most, acid soil. It's partial to shade, but likes sun too. It is relatively free from pests and diseases It belongs with the heaths. In spring the little trees are beautiful in bronze-green foli age; in late July and August it bears long branching ra- cemes of tiny bell-shaped white flowers, remindful of the lily-of-the-valley, and the multitude of little bells sug gest the tree's relationship to the blossoming heather we see in the florist shop. After the flowers, come downy, 5-celIed capsules, with numerous pointed seeds. Its late fall flowers, with scarlet colored, peach-like, 3 to 8 inch leaves, are very striking. The capsule-like grayish fruits are conspicuous in winter. The leaves give the tree its two common names: they have a sour taste, resembling that of the herbaceous sor rels. Even in dead of winter th twigs yield this refreshing sap that flows through the membraneous leaves in sum mer. Many a temporarily lost hunter in Southern woods, quenchos his thirst by nibbling young shoots of the sour-wood. "It is the sole representa tive of its genus in the world, so far as botanists know." From "Trees Worth Know ing," by Rogers. A specimen of this tree is in the lawn at the Dr. Fred Lorish residence, 830 Minne sota St. Streets for this tree are Minnesota 40 to 50 ft.; Oland er, 50 to 60 feet apart. Sleel Report Said Step To Justify Price Increase Pittsburgh - (UPD - The U.S. Steel Corp. report criticizing the high cost of labor is "an attempt to justify future price increases," United Steelwork ers President David, J. Mc Donald charged today. Eleven pages of a 40-page report by -the corporation were devoted to labor and employment costs problems. McDonald said the USW could "quarrel justifiably with the corporation's esti mates on employment costs." Work Value Higher "We can show that while a sleelworker's wages rose only in keeping with his produc tivity, the value of an hour's work to the corporation rose by nearly 400 per cent since 1940," McDonald said. He said the average price of a ton of steel in 1940 was $53.45 compared to $148.84 in the first half of 1959. The 1940 ton took 20 hours to pro duce while 20 years later the time was cut to a fraction above 11 hours. McDonald said the steel in dustry was paid $2.69 from its customers for every hour worked by the steelworkers in 1940, compared to $10.72 an hour at present, an in crease of 400 per cent. Study Weather From Satellite Washington, (Science Serv-ice)-Before the month is out, two TV cameras in an Amer ican satellite should be mak ing unprecedented pictures of the world's clouds and ad vancing man's knowledge of the weather. The "weather eye," to be launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Admin istration, is called Tiros I. It is scheduled to be put into orbit from Cape Canaveral within a very short time. Its TV cameras are to make pic tures unprecedented in cov erage. Weighs 270 Pounds Pictures may be made in the New World as far south as the middle of South Amer ica and as far north as Can ada. The satellite will weigh 270 pounds and be 42 inches in diameter and 19 inches high. A circular orbit 400 miles above the earth is planned. Solar cells will convert sun light into electrical energy to power the instruments. The TV picture will be re corded and later broadcast when the satellite is over ground stations equipped to re-record the pictures. At the same time the ground sta tions will also instruct the satellite on when to take pic tures during its next orbit. One of the TV cameras is to take pictures of an area 800 miles wide. The other will concentrate on a 65-mile wide area within the larger picture area. Transmit for 90 Days Launched by a Thor-Able vehicle, the satellite should have an orbit inclined about 50 degrees to the equator. It will transmit for 90 days. Then ground signals will stop the transmission. The first Tiros will not contain infrared detectors, but Tiros II, planned for later in 1960, will contain these detectors. The two satellites, which will spin, will be important experiments to further man's understanding of the weather he talks about but can do little to change-as yet. The world's tallest man made structure is a television tower reaching 1,610 feet at Roswell in New Mexico. BATH TOWEL iw i. 1.19 I Jy I Ipffijl J HAND TOWEL if perfect 19 .69 1 & , ilffi S L- WASHCLOTH . perfect . .29 1 hf j Jrfenrj 1 I Y ifg . LUk i 4s --ssr j zj mam 1 .... . super absorbency famous martex bath towels slightly irregular Martex "SOVERIGN" bath towels ... in ever so slight irregulars that are harder than hard to find. 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