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KEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1960 A 3 Consolation Another Magic Chefs Fabulo By HENRY J. BECHTOLD UPI Financial Editor New .York - IUPD - The re cent consolidation of Magic Chef and its parent, Dixie Products, Inc., marked just another event in the fabu lous history of Magic Chef. The surviving c o m p any is Magic Chef, Inc., now one of the nation's Henry Bcchtoid largest manu facturers of gas and electrical ranges. A leader in the appliance cooking field for many years, Magic Chef became an indus try giant overnight in 1901 w.h e n nine manufacturers merged. Magic Chef was then known as the American Stove Co. The predecessor companies had been prominent in the gasoline and oil stove indus tries as early as 1870, and held most of the patents in the field for efficiency and safe operation of gasoline and oil stoves. Oddly, the company's suc cess began to decline during the early 1900s because of Befiful Basic CI7CQ 12-20; 40 l ! 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Gasoline and oil supplies then were limited and the gasoline industry naturally focused its efforts on the newly-born, gasoline consuming industry. Gasoline became scarce for stoves and the industry was faced with a severe problem. But, as fate would have it, another inventor, Thomas A. Edison, struck a blow to the gas industry at the same time, with the invention of his elec tric light bulb. Gas utilities, originated mainly for the pur pose of illumination, found themselves faced with , a bleak future. American Stove and the gas industry solved their prob lems with the introduction of the gas range. Technical im provements and design chang es for gas ranges were few during the early years, and it was not until 1913 that a tech nical advance revolutionized the range industry. New Invention An American Stove em ployee invented a device that would measure and regulate heat at a predetermined de gree, and this device changed the whole concept of gas range manufacturing. .Consumer reaction to the Few Complaints About Dogs Heard Dog control ordinances be came effective Wednesday for some Jackson county areas, but few complaints have been reported so far, according to Chris Hagler, county dog con trol officer. "We think it was due to the holidays," Hagler said. "We received only the usual num ber of complaints, but prob ably people were so busy shopping and preparing for Christmas they didn't pay much attention to the dog" problem." - ' Wednesday the ordinance became effective for all pre cincts of Medford, Precinct 68A and Rogue River. All dogs in those areas must be kept in their owner's yards, on leash or under their own er's control when off the premises, or muzzled if allow ed to run at large. First of lonse je $10, second $25 and any. offense thereafter is $25, pistrict. Attorney Thomas J. Reeder noted. , Sometime before March, or dinances become effective in Ashland, Eagle Point, and Pre cincts 57, 58B and 60, accord ing to Hagler. He is expecting many more complaints this week as attention shifts from the holidays to more routine matters. Two complaints were received yesterday, he noted. Birth Documents To Omit Racial Data New York-OIPD-Birth certi ficates issued to babies born here starting in 1961 no long er will contain reference to race or color. . New York will be the first community in the nation to eliminate racial information from birth documents, accord ing to health commissioner Lcona Baumgartner, who an nounced the change Monday. The action resulted from protests by minority groups, including the National Asso ciation of Colored People and the Urban, League. They held that such information tended to promote discrimination. Step in us History regulator was so favorable that every other range manu facturer was forced to adopt similar devices. But there again followed another lag of new devices and improve ments that American Stove finally solved with the intro duction of the Magic Chef in 1929. Magic Chef then wrote most of the records in the in dustry until 1958 when it was purchased by Dixie Products, maker of gas and electric ranges, home freezers and soft drink vending machines. Now, the consolidated com pany is in the incipient stages of building a diversified line of appliances. It will market a combination refrigerator freezer for the first time early in February, and also will introduce a line of "package kitchens," including built-in ranges, ovens and cabinets. Magic Chef President S.B. Rymer Jr. said the latter move will enable appliance dealers to offer budget-priced kitchen remodeling services to customers who do not want the expense of a complete re modeling job. Rymer said that the com pany will also broaden its appliance . lines in the near future to achieve the goal of producing a complete Magic Chef kitchen. Two to Go! Travel right into Spring in this pretty, packable hat. It's smart in one "or 2-color con trast. Jiffy-crociiet hat and clutch bag u s e 2-strands knitting worsted, large crochet hook for jumbo shell stitch. Pat tern 7246: directions; fit all headsizes. . Send T h i r t y-f i t cents (coins) for this pattern add 10 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Medford Mail Tribune, House hold Arts i Dept., P. O. Box 168. Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PAT TERN NUMBER. JUST OUT! Our 1961 Needlecraft Book. Over 125 designs for home furnishings, for fashions k n i t, crocket, embroider, weave, sew, quilt toys, gifts, bazaar items. FREE six designs for popu lar veil caps. Quick send 25c TODAY. Bureau Holds District Meet; Director Speaks Farmers should take care of their own programs before someone does it for them, F. W. Costello. field director of the 12 western states for Farm Bureau, told about 80 persons attending the Dec. 2 regional meeting in the Jackson hotel. There have been more changes in agriculture in the last 10 years than in the pre vious 60, he pointed out. It is up to agriculture to see it gets what it needs out of future changes, Costello said. Scott Lamb, state informa tion director, stated that the next three years are the cru cial ones in all departments of farming as more rules and regulations will be forced on the food grower. He said not to discount the possibility of having to secure a license to farm. It is urgent that the farmer tell his own story, he added. Root Gives Talk Robert Root, a new mem ber of the Oregon Farm Bu reau staff, serving as tax and legislation expert, said agri culture is at the crossroads. All concerned must be alerted to the directions it can take, he said. Cliff Wright, state organiza tion director was master of ceremonies. Representat i v e s from Klamath, Douglas, Jose phine and Jackson counties were present. County organ ization directors present were: Mrs. Blaine Johnson, Glen- dale, Robert Lytic. Ashland, and John Urbach, Klamath Falls.' Douglas county is far ahead in the , 1961 membership drive, it was reported. It is the only Oregon county reach ing and passing the quota. Bakers Receive Size Orders Salem - Effective since No vember 23 is the administra tive order of the state depart ment of agriculture revising bread pan sizes. The new order defines a "pan" as including pans, frames, screens or any type of container in which bread is baked in Oregon. Bread pan sizes as defined by the new regulations do not apply1 to pans used to make round loaves or French, Vien- ha'or'Rye loaves, unless these breads are baked in pans which make them . look like standard sized loaves. Then the specialty breads must meet the same specifications as the regular loaves. The order was made follow ing a public meeting held by the department at which bak ers and their representatives from all over Oregon dis cussed the matter. Some bak ers had been "ballooning" their bread which other bak ers and the department felt was unfair to the public. "Ballooned" bread is a one pound loaf baked in a one and one-half pound pan so that the finished product looks bigger than it really is. The new order was drawn to stop this practice before it became widespread. TELLS OFF GUNMAN Champaign, 111. - (UPI) - A woman cashier in a pharmacy Monday told a gunman to get out and he got. When the bandit told cashier Caroline Covar to hand over the money in the register, Miss Covar slammed and locked the regis ter drawer and told the gun man to beat it. The intruder pocketed his gun and fled. 'Food Price Gets Explanation Washington - (UPD - The housewife knows that if she is to save money on the food bill, she must look for in scason bargains when plenti ful supplies mean low cost foods. She is somewhat puzzled, however, at the way the retail price of milk, for example, changes so little from one end of the season to another, while the price of such prod ucts as tomatoes changes sharply through the months. Although milk is perish able and production is heavier in the spring than in the fall, the consumer s e es little change in the retail price of milk. Here s why. Milk that can't be sold in the fluid market during peak production goes into manufac tured dairy products. In di verting some of his produc tion, the farmer helps balance his supply with demand and smooths out the ups and downs of prices So, the cus tomer sees only a slight drop in prices from the fall peak to the spring low Fruits and vegetables, and especially tomatoes, are at the other end of the range with wide swings in retail prices, farm value, and marketing margins. Prices are down, in the summer when tomatoes TREEMNDOUS ,- i . SHOE SPORTSWEAR - Parker TOTS - Range are produced tn abundance throughout the country. In the winter, most of our to matoes come from Florida, with some imports to supple ment the crop. Shorter sup plies and longer distances to market mean higher farm prices and marketing costs. Frying chickens are in the intermediate group with a somewhat more active season al swing in farm and retail prices. Production and farm prices usually are on the rise during the first half of the year and hit their peak in the summer. But at this point, the supply-demand re lationship takes a new turn Even though production is at a seasonal peak - and the farm value is on the way down - the retail price con tinues fairly high for two reasons. The retail price of red meat is at its seasonal high at this time ' and fried chicken is a summertime .favorite. Taken together, these facts mean the demand for frying chickens is up dur ing the summer, even though supplies are near their peak Come autumn, the retail price of chicken begins to fol low farm prices to their sea sonal low at the end of the year. . Red meat such as choice PARKER WOODS' HONS ,, 220 E. Main S-DRESSES Woods'-Leon's TO - TEENS grade beef has the same mod crate rise and fall in supply and price, though the ups and downs come at different times of the year. Ten or 15 years ago, retail prices of beef dur ing peak marketings in Feb ruary would drop as much as 8 per cent below the nearly average, and would rise to 7 per cent above , average in August and September when few animals were going to market. Today, the seasonal swing in prices is much small er, largely because of a morej even supply of beef through- out the year. , Follow Erratic Course Farm prices follow a more erratic course throughout the season than either retail prices of marketing margins. For most commodities, changes in retail prices lag behind chang es in farm prices. Consequent ly, seasonal variations in mar gins tic more closely to the retail price than to the farm value. As a result of the de layed response, retail prices and marketing margins for many products -Continue to rise after farm prices start down, and - Continue to decline when farm prices turn up. According to the agricul tural marketing service, "Ag riculture still lives by the calendar, but researcli in bet ter storage, handling, and dis tribution is helping to make our food supply a more re liable affair." SAVINGS ON ! ...- Sfafe Reeases New Grain Salem -Over 8,000,000 bushels of incoming grain were received at Oregon in spection points during Novem ber according to report by the division of grain inspection of the state department of agri- culture. 17 cargoes, almost 6,000.000 The total is somewhat less bushels with wheat over 5, than that in October. Port- 000,000 bushels and barley land inspections included 7,-' over 400,000 bushels. We Congratulate Jackson County Federal Savings and Loan Association Your beautiful new home odds a lot to Medford's downtown Shopping area. We wish you continued success. We have also been in business in Medford for 51 years! mes INSURANCE WjENGY ana MEDICAL CENTER BUILDING Telephone SP 2-4444 , TOTS-TO-TEENS 105 E. Main mm ummm "TRIM Report 651,598 bushels; Astoria, 259, 700 bushels; and in Pendleton, 255,934 bushels. Bushels re ceived by truck came to 710, 041; by river barge, over 1,- 000.000 bushels. Export ship- ments of crain inspected total io9 SSI 105 E. Main 220 E. Main
