Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 03, 1960, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextMAILTWIUN!,M.dfrrf,Or. A Sunday, April J, 160 8 Farm Families Take Advantage of Program A number of farm families in Josephine and Jackson counties are taking advantage of the farm-housing loan pro gram offered by the U. S. de partment of agriculture, ac cording to Eugene M. Denney, supervisor of the local office in Grant Pass. The program is designed to "provide decent, safe and san itary farm dwellings, essential farm service buildings and re lated facilities to farm owners who do not have sufficient re sources to provide such hous ing and cannot secure it frum other sources on terms which they could reasonably be ex pected to fulfill," Denny ex plained. Interest rate is 4 per cent on the unpaid principal and the maximum repayment period is 33 years. In order to qual ify, the applicant must be owner of a unit with sufficient acreage in agricultural pro duction to provide a substan tial portion of his total cash income and be recognized in the community as a farmer, rather than a rural resident. Anyone desiring further in formation about the program and credit available should call at the local office, room 9, Manchel building, or write to post office box 311, Grants Pass. Foreign Language Lab Tc Be Explained The foreign language labor atory at Medford High school will be explained at the regu lar monthly curriculum meet ing between 7:30 and 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 5. Miss Dorothy Wilson, head of the foreign language depart ment at Medford High school, will discuss equipment recent ly installed in the laboratory, which is the first such lab in Jackson county and one of the first in the state. Students will demonstrate the equipment during the presentation, which will be held in room 30 in, the south west corner of the first floor of Medford High school. Members of the school board and the lay public are invited to attend, school offi cials announced. Marconi sent a wireless message across the Atlantic in 1901. EASTER TIME! Time for , . . BUNNIES & BASKETS! GREETING CARDS & GIFTS. CANDIES & PARTY GOODS! PRETTY RIBBONS t WRAPPINGS! . . . and we have 'cm plenty, too. CASH DAVIS PHARMACY THE REXALL STORE Wo Give S&H Green Stamps 135 West Main, Corner Grape Ph. SP 2-2330 .it tit nSiiii of VISIT MEDFORD Officials of the Chicago Great Western Railway company, who are calling on shippers throughout the north west, stopped in Medford Friday. Pictured above are, left to right, Freight Traffic Man ager Frank P. Wright, St. Paul, Minn.; Sales Manager Leonard J. Kuckelman, Medford; Vice President B. R. Harris, Kansas City, Mo., and Western Traffic Manager Louis Smith, San Francisco. Kuckelman greeted the group at the Medford hotel upon their arrival. Also present was William L. Clout er, sales manager for the Eugen-ared. Basic Changes in Workmen's Compensation Law Needed Ashland - Pressures of the modern industrial revolution now taking place in Oregon demand basic changes in the Oregon Workmen's Compen sation law, Rep. Keith D. Skel ton (D-Lane county), chair man of the house ways and means committee, told Ash land Rotarians last week. This law was defective when It was enacted and basic changes are now required, Skelton said. He invited em ployers and employees to Join in a crusade for improvement of the law. The original law provided an employer in hazardous in dustry could insure his re sponsibility to his employees 51 ClJl Trade In Your Old Water Heater On a Gas JETGLASS Water Heater America's Finest! Waterproof - Rustproof - gives you over 30 more hot water - faster and more economically! Reg. 99.50 Lett Your q3 irade-in Allowance.. 50 OHOT WATER... all you need all the time! With GAS! Moke sure now to hove all the hot water you need-when you need It Get a modern, automatic Gas water heater. Costs so little to buy, install and use. Have plenty of hot water for baths, laundry needs and dish-washing ... all at the same time. Check with ut now about our $25.00 Trade-in Bonus Allowance on your old heaterl 4 In one of three ways: (1) through the slate Industrial ac cident commission, (2) through private insurance, (3) by self insurance. In Liability Act However, this law only ap plied to those employees in hazardous Industry, the state representative pointed out. When an employer decided he wanted private insurance or to be self insured he and his em ployees were not given the benefits and protections of workmen's compensation. In stead they were brought un der the employer's liability act. Benefits of workmen's com pensation to employers and employees included certainty of payment of compensation, reduction of red tape and de lay, removal of cases from tax supported courts into adminis trative procedures financed i by industry and insurers, i gives the employer an oppor j tunlty to choose between buy- ing insurance from state or private enterprise, and im proved safety and medical re search thus reducing tne acci dent rate. Employees and employers who are insured through the industrial accident commis- 5f. Mary's Student Mentioned in List Donald G. Davy, 123 Lin coln St., Medford, a St. Mary's High school student, is among students receiving honorable mention for scholarship com petition, according to the Uni versity of San Francisco com mittee on scholarships. More than 200 students par ticipated in the scholarship competition held at S e r r a High school in Salem and at 12 other locations in Califor nia, Nevada, Arizona and Col orado, according to the Rev. John H. Martin, committee chairman. The USF scholar ships range from $4,000 to $2, 400 to defray four years of college expenses. sion are receiving these bene fits only in theory, Skelton said. The commission has stood on technicalities and rules to throw roadblocks in the way of injured employees, the state representative argued. "Of the 570,000 employed at peak periods in the slate only about 330,000 are covered by Industrial accident com mission," Skelton pointed out. "This means that about 240 000 eir.-.'oyees in Oregon do not receive the benefits of the law, Skelton stated. Employee and taxpayer pay the penalty for the present law's inadequacies, Skelton pointed out. Those who are not in industries classified as hazardous must go on relief or dip into savings when they are injured seriously. Workmen's compensation costs to industry have risen from $29.5 million in 1953-55 to $48.5 million in 1959-60, the state representative not ed. Costs will continue to rise as long as the present court administered system of law re mains, he said. Skelton added that he has been retained as attorney for the committee on competitive workmen's com pensation. This consists of all segments of industry interest ed in revising the present law he explained. Safety Procedures If the law is revised private insurers could bring modern remedial safety procedures to bear on reduction of costs and injuries. In most monopoly fund stales such as Oregon the death rate is higher than in states where the private in surance writes workmen's compensation, Skelton point ed out. An alternative to his plan would mean eventual com plete socialization of work men's compensation in Ore gon, Skelton insisted. He con cluded that he hoped employ ees and employers would write him telling their expe riences with the industrial ac cident commission and with claims in general under the present situation. Now yon may charnraejat These Savings Are Available Also Through Your Plumber CALIFORNIA-PACIFIC W UTILITIES COMPANY Ph. SP 2-5284, Madford MU 5-5291, Ashland THE ONE-STOP STOKE FOR TOUR HONEY NEEDS! Yet, mm there's i ftnencial store here yee mrf ceWge noety beet Nta dMrfeaf Net er I peif of stmt m i Mfwwr eortnwnt store! It's "MONtYUND" (your Mifby Pscrfic Finance ernes) -ttx store ttwt'S let te Inmfll yew momt SMM ISMS needs, owkkty ted cevrteeutl. So whatever yee eeed money tor-ts fteuce iwootMy peyeeete, t take Ctrl of ftrstofttwiresf upensis. to teM a trip, te bey yeur (amity Hit times they want and iwe-eene te KONEYLAW mi My. it!" -CfcariMf MM ll eeowt MM dMrtMf ae-M tettew I Ma, Mr I eeck attr. PACIFIC 0 FINANCE 16 South Central Phone SP 3-5308 Bob Griffith, Manager (All loftiu mid undrr the Orrxon lnduntrlel Loan Art) Open Weekdays: 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday! Until I P.M. Cleied Saturday! OPEN SUNDAY at NOON mm LIKE A THUNDERBOLT! fllCI To Miss This Sale May Be To Count Your Losses in the Hundreds This sale hai exceeded any event ever staged by Gray's Home Furnlihingi. Folki from all over Southern Oregon have crowded the itore the past week - and have saved themselves thousands of dollar! on quality furnishings and home appliances. Don't mis out on this dramatic sale - now in iti lot; hour. Manv great values remain for the ehooiing. Shop yet todoy, or If more convenient -tomorrow, Monday. PRICING POLICY Not eve the Intrinilc whole file values have bean i guide; sole consideration hal been te accompliih immediate arock liquidation. There ire no ai coptiens or reiervationa, no thine held back all muit (e, te the bare walla In Hie nnt few weeks. TIY1LY o o APRIL 4 All Sales Final 1 IK J o o DINETTES 7 p(. Dinelfe Sels ,3..,,, 59's 5 pc. Dinette Sets W5 5 pc. Drop-leaf Sets $7995 5 pc. Round Table Sets $10995 8 pc. Table, Server. 6 Chairs z, 299S 20 pc. Set of Dishes FREE! ODDS AND ENDS Students Desk unfinished cedar Baby Cribs Mtplt-Birch-Whilt . . Play Pens Baskinettes with pads Ironing Boards All metal, adjustable P MdaWI MMJH7AY MsMfll J199S $2995 139S $695 ran s 120,000 FURNITURE & APPLIANCE STOCK SLASHED!! MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, April 3, 1960 -A In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS 99 Hivy. Central Point Phone NO 4-1226 LOTS OF FREE PARKING! M1I v iij iiii iiTff i ii i i ii i 1111 i i 11 i till i ii i i r ii- tJi vv- u xu up U-8 uu uu VZL gc-J R YCfXU Tl TT? h I El I V 1 I I I m I m I it ill I I I I II II 7 laS Ll I I 1J 3 vvi h m i lis i it, i i s ii. i r.i ii ii ii ii mi h rxsaiit I VX 111 I I I Ik E I . If! I 11 I tJTU L3UVJ I PrJ 1 V 4 I. 1:1 I I J I a 3 f ' 1 I UJ I . I I A 1 4 I I I I 'a , i ri I t I I 1 I i . k five, m unnini M n ftl !i 1 il hrfi ii Iniiixinau I B v ivy . 1 v auiv urav m VI I If j i H I 13 Ii . - , p, I I 6 i I 14111 I 1 I I 1 I i I l- Omi .r v i i i s i-.i i ir -a y-f r There's i weird little tale In the new s. It concerns a childless widower who died in Chicago and left his entire es tate to a college. Included in his papers was a map. It was a buried treasure man. The map spotted a place in the city. rne administrators o( his es tate went there and dug. They tound the buried chest. It con tained GOLD-about $100,000 worth of it. Where did the gold come from? He had BOUGHT IT, a dozen years or so ago, and buried it. Of course he broke the law. By that time it had been made a crime for a U.S. citizen to own monetary gold. But he's dead now. Death wipes out a lot of scores. The college will get the money he bequeathed to it. DO- Let's go on from there to a little dissertation on mone tary gold. PAY AS LITTLE AS NOTHING DOWN -NO PAYMENT UNTIL MAY.' Living Room Furniture BEIGE, CHARCOAL, TURQUOISE Daveno and Chair Sets 18 Swivel Rockers Assortment of Rockers Occasional Chairs Swivel Chairs Drapes $9995 $6995 $2995 SQ95 eo. $2095 $095 -pr. Sectional Sectional 4-Piece Rose Foam Rubber 3-Pc. Brown Foam Rubber. Sectional MATCHING 507095 CI eV $27995 $22995 95 2-Pe. Roto Foam Rubber MAA Daveno & Swivel Rocker I Oa $4995 Recliner Chairs . Daveno, Chair, Ottoman Sectional 3-Piece Foam Rubber , 3-PIECE FOAM RUBBER Curved Sectional Sectional 4 ece Nutria Foam Rubber.. s18995 $14995 $19995 $29995 T ONLY C-f A A Oft Biltwel I Daveno & Chair Bedroom Furniture $0095 Four-Drawer Chest J $195 Vanity Lamps Blonde Bedroom Set Walnut Bedroom Set $9995 Charcoal Bedroom Set 999' Night Stands - . .'9 Bed Pillows ... S198 n I D j $QQ95 BUnK beO Complete With Martreu VV Carpet Department DUPONT "501" NYLON "Vega" by Barwick -IN STOCK'.- 10 year written guarantee! Easiest carpet to elean! $flrn.95 Ul sq Yd. 1 ONLY Sealy Hide-a-Bed Desks Plastic Top Armless Daveno 1 ONLY - BEIGE ALL FOAM RUBBER Davenport and Chair DANISH AND PLASTIC Sofa and Chair $19095 $3995 J5995 95 $ Floor Lamps Table Lamps Sofa Pillows ..from ..from 2 STEP 1 COFFEE Occasional Tables 199 $7995 $795 $095 - 99 $2595 '595 $-250 $2995 Loafer Lounges Mattress & Box Spring Sets'49 53995 $095 Kitchen Bar Stools Used Rocker PRIOR to 1933. field had been officially worth $20.67 an ounce. That Is to say, an ounce of gold was then ex changeable for 20.67 PAPER dollars. Or - putting it the other way around - 20.67 paper dollars were exchange able for an ounce of gold. I hen - By fiat of law - The government of the United States bought up ALL THE GOLD and when it had 11 the gold in its possession RAISED THE PRICE to 35 paper dollars per ounce. N THE transaction, the gov ernment of the United States made a profit of hun dreds and hundreds of mil- ions of dollars. A part of this profit was used to pay off gov ernment debt. It should be added that a considerable ether part of the paper profit was used to pay for a lot of the boondoggling that was current In those days. SO much for what happened in the na.t. T,M' nnv .fan the horizon to see what MIGHT happen In the future. IN THE 27 years since 1SS3, the debt ot the federal eov rnmerit ot the United States hel Tlien tentestlceuy. On De cember 31, 1059, Its total wee $200,924,917,717. In eel those figures are too big to be grasped, here Is the total in words-two hundred and nine ty billion, nine hundred and twenty-four million, nine hun dred and seventeen thousand, seven hundred and seventeen dollars, v That amount to a .ittie better man sieoo per present inhabitant el the U.S., or about $6500 for a family of four. The INTEREST on our na tional debt now amounts to more than THE TOTAL COST OF RUNNING OUR FEDER AL GOVERNMENT a couple of generations ago. THIS Is the point: Sooner or later, some finan cial genius on the order of Lord Keynes Is going to pro pose that we RAISE THE PRICE OF GOLD AGAIN - say to 70 paper dollars per ounce - and use the resulting profit to pay off a chunk of our debt. If that happens, keep this In mind: The money thus creeated would be FUNNY MONEY. In the long run, fun ny money never did ANY BODY any good. According to a recent sur vey, 77 per cent of new home owners buying new home furnishings, generally shop ped the page of the daily newspaper before making their purchases. National fur niture and furnishings manu facturers know this. That's why they invested an esti mated $9.9 million In news paper advertising last year. 5-YEAR GUARANTEE Innerspring Mattress 1 ONLY Philco Stereo 3 ONLY 9x12 Linoleum Rugs IRRIGATION PUMPS to 60 H.P. Prom $ 29 50 up V3 H.P. Shallow Well $8800 Vi H.P. DEEP WELL With 42 Gallon Tank and Air Charger 15450 Complete Siskiyou Hardware Ph. SP 2-J939 22S W. Maie MIDFOP.D, OREGON We Give SftH Greee Mamps 523