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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. New Development in Auto Tires Give Luxurious Ride Detroit - (UPD A new de velopment in automobile tires may soon save the motorist money while making his ride more comfortable and safer. Reports from the tire in dustry indicate that every major producer is working on development of tires that will use two plies instead of the present four. X Trees ... By JOHN GRIBBLE (Editor's note: The fol lowing comments on trees, particularly those adapta ble to street use in Medford, have been prepared by John Gribble, well known re tired forester, and will be run in a series from lime to time. , Magnolia grandiflora-Syn-Laurel M. Native of south At lantic and Gulf coast areas. A magnificent tree with mas sive foliage, symmetrical, wide-spreading crown, grows to lofty height; thick, glossy 5 to 8 inches long evergreen leaves, polished above, rusty red beneath. Flowers are cup shaped 8 to 10 inches diam eter, with spicy fragrance. This is the state flower of 'Louisiana and Mississippi. . This magnolia is for John son st., 60 to 80. feet apart. European Clump Birch (Bu tela pendula) Clump Birch is for Barnes st., 100 to 125 feet apart; Oregon terrace, 140 to 160 feet apart; Stratford st. (on property), 140 to 160 feet apart. . Clump Birch is so named as it grows in "clumps" from the stump or root, sprouting as do Gray and River Birch. It is native of eastern United Slates and as far west as Min nesota, and south to Texas. After several shoots have started some may be pruned off, leaving only the desired number. Good samples of "clump" None of the tire companies is willing to admit publicly that it is working on develop ment of a two-ply tire but Walter Lee, director of re search development for Good year Tire & Rubber Co., agreed to discuss the advan tages and disadvantages of such construction as an in dividual. Especially Important Lee said two-ply tires could prove to be especially im portant on high-speed through ways, such as the Federal In terstate Highway System now taking shape across the nation. Plies are the rubberized fab ric cords which give strength and body to a tire casing. Each layer, or ply, is placed at a different angle to provide added strength. Originally tires had six plies of cotton cord. But develop ment of rayon and nylon cords, which have greater strength than cotton, led to four-ply tires becoming stand ard through Die industry. Now tire engineers feel they can use cord of a larger diameter and reduce the number of plies to two with out losing strength. A reduction in the number tree growth may be seen where far-wandering Cotton wood, Poplar, or other tree roots spread and send up shoots. Pull up the sprouts, and in a few days several oth ers are doing right well from where the first one was re moved from the feeder root. That's "clump" growth. Stumps of some blight-killed chestnut trees in New Eng land sent up shoots, a few aft er the stumps were partly rotted away. So the question was asked, "Could chestnuts have lain dormant so long, and then germinated?" All that shows on three-fourths of New England's once farm ed lands that white man dwelt and worked there, are the hard-labor .man-made stone walls (fences). Even cellar and privy pits are nearly all oblit erated by clumps and other growths of trees, brush, vines, and other vegetation. Defoliating a young white oak tree or stub 10 to 15 feet tall, wHl cause it to put out new sprouts, often in clumps, nearly to the ground. As a boy I developed good muscle by chopping "clumps" from hundreds of sprouting ground-level-stumps of oak, hickory, etc., with a man-size dull axe. Cottonwood sprouts come up 150 feet or more from the tree. of plies will mean less heat buildup in the tire, Lee said. This is especially important in turnpike driving because tires build up heat faster when driving at high speeds for sus tained periods of time. Lee said two-ply tires would give improved skid resistance because less fabric would make them more flexible, making the amount of rubber on the road greater. They also would make it easier for the tire industry to produce tires and to exercise more quality control over their production. Because it would be easier to produce two-ply tires, they would be less costly and there is likely to be some small re duction in the retail price of the tires. Lee estimated they also would provide the motor ist with an increase of about three per cent in fuel econo my. More Luxurious Ride The major advantage of the two-ply tire, however, is that its greater flexibility will pro vide the motorist with a softer and more luxurious ride. On the negative side, two ply tires will have only 95 per cent of the life of a four-ply tire and they will have less rolling resistence. The major problem block ing immediate introduction of two-ply tires is recapping, A mechanic often cuts through the first ply of a tire when re capping it. This isn't serious if there are still three plies left but it would be fatal on a two-ply tire. Some progress has been made in this area in the form of a metal reinforcement. Industry sources say all of the problems should be sur mounted soon and it is likely that two-ply tires will make their first appearance on 1962 model cars, perhaps first on the compacts and later on the larger cars. CANDIDATE RETURNS Republican congressi o n a 1 candidate Edwin R. Durno re turned to Medford toda yafler attending the Oakridge picnic which ended a week of per sonal appearances in Lane county. Saturday he will at tend the Josephine County Fair in Grants Pass accom panied by Mrs. Durno. FIRM PRESIDENT DIES New York - IUP1) - Maurice Lustbader, 69, president of the Atlas Tile & Marble Works, a firm that finished the interiors of some of the nation's biggest tunnels, died Thursday. DEMOCRATS CONFER - Democratic presi dential nominee John Kennedy is shown as he conferred in Washington with Gov. Or- ville Freeman of Minnesota, left, and Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) Thursday. (UPI Telephoto) Officials Unconcerned Over Recent Spurt in Sale of Gold Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Washington Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Air Force missile chief, discussing the history-making recovery of the Discoverer satellite capsule: "Th techniques of recovery plus the life specimens will bring us definitely closer to success in the man-in-space program." New York National Maritime Union President Joseph Curran, on his return from a tour of Russia, quoting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on the subject of Vice President Richard M. Nixon: "Nixon is not a politician; he is a grocery clerk." Harrisburg, Pa. Attorney Peter Krehcl on his pro posed trip to Czechoslovakia seeking the release of an Amer ican political prisoner: If I weren't confident of getting him released, I would not be making the long journey." London Oliver Powers, father of the U2 pilot, com menting on his son's flight that resulted in the pilot's cap ture more than 1,000 miles inside Russia: "I would not have approved of the flight if I had known." WITHOUT CEREMONY New York-IUPll-The Clear view interchange on the Long Island expressway will be opened today - without cere mony. The opening will mark the elimination of a detour that came into existence aft er construction the express way began 21 years ago. Thus far 17V4 miles of the pro posed 85-mile highway have been completed. CLOGSTON'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimate. Gladly Phone SP 1-1014 Evenings Washington - HOT - Govern ment officials say there is nothing for them to worrv about in the recent spurt in sale of treasury gold to for eign governments. -The sale nt S1RR mini of gold in three weeks does not reflect wanintr rnnfirianro in the dollar. They said there nas Deen noining recently to warrant anv nnfavnrahio re assessment of the dollar. At least Dart of thi pnlH sales can be explained by pay ments to the International Monetary fund and Inter American Development bank. Several foreign governments have made payments to these institutions in recent weeks. To keep their own gold stocks up, some governments, in cluding Spain, bought U.S. gold with dollari: thpv haH nr. hand. No Particular Significance . Lack of concern ahnnt tl-m gold sales was expressed by a nign treasury ollicial and a federal reserve bnard siaff aide. The later said that he "wouldn't, want tn ron1 on,. couple of week's changes." a treasury policy maker whn ltppns in Mnca trtnVi ...UV. monetary developments said "there is nothing to indicate anv chanee in hnsic print dence." He acknowledged that some investors may have con tributed to the gold outflow by shifting funds from New jtoric io Europe, where inter est rates are higher. The offi cial said such swings have been in the hundreds of mil- ions of dollars, a level the treasury considers safe, and not in the billions. In the week ended last Wednesday gold sales totaled $70 million, the largest one- week decline in the U.S. gold stock since early September, 1959. The new total of $19,164 billion of gold reserves was the lowest in 20 years. Read Several Ways The figures could be read several ways. One reading showed that the $158 million of gold sales in the past three weeks was more than half the $292 million of sales since the beginning of the year. But the latter figure con trasted sharply -and favora bly, from the administration's point of view-wilh the $554 million of gold sales in the like period of 1959. Officials said a major rea son for the decline in gold sales between 1960 and 1959 was the improvement this year in the U.S. balance ot payments. In 1959 the country ran a record deficit in its in ternational accounts of $3.7 CLEANERS SUFFOCATE New York - (UPI) - Two tank cleaners suffocated Thursday night in a giant beer vat. Run pert Brewery officials found the bodies of Hugh Armand 55, and Josephe Pelster, 61 lying inside the tank which is 100 feet long, 75 feet in diameter and 15 fect.high. billion. According to the pri. v a t e authoritative Foreign Trade- council, the deficit in 1960 is likely to be only $2.5 billion. With foreigners earn ing few dollars on balance their demand for U.S. gold which can be bought only with dollars-is reduced. Deficit Too Large Although heartened by the balance of payments improve ment, administration officials still consider the prospective 1960 deficit too large to be carried safely for another year. They are thinking in terms of trimming it another billion dollars in 1961, but there are as yet no specific plans for accomplishing that. The treasury refused to identify all the countries that have been buying gold in re cent weeks. The department steadfastly withholds such de tail until about three months after the end of each quarter of the year. The International Monetary fund recently received pay ments in gold from Spain, Australia and Tunisia. Since late May five Latin American countries - Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Argentina and Guatemala have made gold payments to the Inter-Ameri can bank. 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