KEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1960
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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
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Henry Ford's successful intro
duction of the Model T. Ford.
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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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