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FRIDAY. JANUARY 20. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. BEDFORD, QRE. Third in a Series 'CLEAR THE LOT" Used Car Sale! J. Y. Police Head Feels Men on Duty 24 Hours Daily 16 Moonlighting Has Official Blessing In Many Areas VAltnr'm note! Thfl ll the third of three dispatches on the conflict between New Tories zt.uuo mem her police force end the clty'i po ur commissioner. SteDhen P. Ken nedy. Much of the friction hai arisen over hli ben on moonllsht inf the holding of outilde Jobs while off-duty. The final dlipatch examinee the moonllfhtlnf picture In police department! elsewhere in me nation. A story on mouniinni In the Meaiora ponce ana lire ae parlmenU will appear Sunday. By EDWARD V. MCCARTHY New York - (UPD - Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy, boss ot New York City's 24,000 man force, is ot the opinion that a policeman may be assigned to work only eight out of every 24 hours r but that he is on duty for all 24. .- : Therefore, opines Kennedy, a cop can't very well hold an outside Job while off-duty and still be doing his police Job properly. The city policemen, . most of them young, married, ieea lne anywhere from two to six children, paying off home and - or car mortgages, prefer to earn an honest dollar or two off duty to try and make ends meet. - ' One patrolman told this re porter: "You'd think Kennedy would be glad to see us take outside jobs in legitimate work." . "After all," the bluecoat noted, "a cop who spends his free time working hard for his family .isn't likely to be hanging out in bars, messing around with the wrong kind of characters or using his service pistol to pull stickups to pay his bills." How does the situation be tween Kennedy and his men relate to those of other major United States cities? Do they have the same problem? Moonlighting In L.A. " In Los Angeles, where the average policeman gets near ly $200 a year more than his New York counterpart, police officers are permitted to hold outside jobs, but at a maxi mum of only IS hours per week after department ap proval. - They cannot hold Jobs under union supervision. Such jobs as acting as bouncer in a bar room are forbidden. ' Los Angeles cops may work off-duty for the movie Indus try, at $3.43 an hour, while outdoor location shots are filmed. They also are permit ted to work in plain-clothes In department stores to prevent shoplifting during the holiday season. A New York City cop, aware of this practice, notes that by working in the store, the store gets expert police help; the policeman involved picks up needed extra money: and the city is saved the cost of assigning somebody to pro tect the store. Allowed in Texas Dallas, Tex., policemen also are permitted officially to moonlight. Police Chief Jess Curry estimates about 40 per cent of his 1,025 men have taken advantage of this chance to supplement their top an nual salary of $3,172. Curry says outside work Is -okay with him as long as it does not Interfere with policeman's Job. - Police in Philadelphia, Pa., may work outside if there is no conflict of interest, thus adding to their present top pay of $5,540. Relations be tween the police commission- 'er and the Fraternal Order of Policemen, a non-union group 'representing the men, are de scribed as "excellent." Another major city where Beginners' Pride Want something ultra-sim ple yet smart? Trim towels, scarf, cloth, pillow with these designs. Look! It's all running stitch -one line at a time. Ideal for beginner or child. Pattern 7060: two 4x16 - inch; four 634x8; four 3'4x4'8-inch motifs, Send Thirty-five cents (In coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first - class mailing. Send to Med ford Mall Tribune, House hold Arts Dept., P.O. 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Despite a $200 a year pay increase gained this year by the men through this policy, the rank and filers complain they still are underpaid, Not Likely To Chang No outside work Is permit ted by members of the force of Newark, N.J., just across the Hudson river from New York City. This has always been a de partment rule, and is not likely to bo changed by Po lice Director Joseph Weldon a graduate of the New York City police force, where he was an inspector before he took his present job. Newark policemen were getting a top annual salary of $3,700 in 1950 - and get only $5,400 today, although the cost of living is pretty much comparable with that of their brother officers across the river. About 40 per cent of Chi cago's force, which has a top salary of $5,928 a year, work Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn W. Watkins (Ret liter It Tribune Syndicate, 1861) If any of the family had a cinder, or any other loreign object in the eye, grand mother had a ready remedy- a small, yellow seed which she placed In the affectea eye. It was a flaxseed and granny said, because the seed was so smooth and shiny it would skate around in the eye and dislodge the offend ing cinder, sawdust, or any thing else that was in there. After the offending object was dislodged, the flaxseed would easily pop out by itself. And, too, flaxseed ground up In an old coffee mill and cooked until soft was used as a poultice for the "drawing out" of boils. Some pioneer families, as well as some folks today, have used "flaxseed poultices" as a remedy for ulcerated teeth. The poultice was reported to have terrific drawing powers. Not surprising that flax seed, as well as the fiber from the inner bark of the flax plant, has had so many, and varied uses, aside from the making of linen and oil, for this slender, erect plant with the lance-like leaves, and delicate blue flowers, has been extensively cultivated since the very dawn of his tory. The seeds of the flax plant are about as Important as the fiber; from them come linseed oil. Because this oil absorbs oxygen about as fast as any known oil, it is much used as a dryer for paints, as well as in "the manufacture of many other products. "Oil-cake," the residue left after the oil is pressed out, is a valuable feed for livestock. The name lin seed and flaxseed are inter changeable, both mean the seed of the flax plant. The flax plant is a little particular where it grows the best; it is claimed that flax grown on certain hillsides, lacing the sea, and bathed by fog, and kissed by the sun, produce the very best flax for the finer grades of linen. A few generations ago, and right here in America, there were in use many strange and unusual remedies used in the home treatment of human disorders. There was "bumble bee honey" for earache, or eating a live spider to cure fever, or even putting a flaxseed in the human eye to chase out a foreign object. with department approval at outside jobs. The Chicago department is recovering from scandals which shook it about a year ago when some members of the force were charged with being members of a burglary ring. This led to a top level shakeup and appointment of a new police superintendent, Orlando Wilson, former pro fessor at the University of California. Observers of the depart ment note that many of the patrolmen are not happy about Wilson's reforms and re organization, but their atti tude is that this has happened before and they'll ride it out. San Francisco police, who have a maximum salary of $7,152 a year, are not per mitted outside Jobs, but their morale is reported high and relations with Chief Thomas Cahill, a former patrolman, are said to be good. Spring Success W 9186 12-20,40 a Flip collared shirtdress with mobile skirt - ACE of your Spring wardrobe! Choose pas tels pale and pretty, or daz zling tropic tones - orange, gold, turquoise - to spark ev ery day's doings. Printed Pattern 9186: Miss es' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40. Size 16 takes 4V4 yards 39-inch fabric. Send Thirty-five cents (in coins) for this pattern - add Fluctuations in Italian Stock Market Attract U.S. Investor By HENRY J. BECHTOLD UPI Financial Editor New York-OIPD-In Italy, a land where emotions can run high, it is natural to expect j wide xiuctua- tline Irt etrxxlr prices. But ac tion in the stock market in 1960 went far beyond ex pectations. This prompt ed Arthur W i esenberger Henry Bechtold of the invest ment firm bearing his name to go abroad and take a closer look at the Italian stock market. He found that 1960 was an Italian speculator's paradise or Hades. Fluctuations on the leading Italian stock exchang es made the New York mar kets look like a very tame affair, he declared. An index of 55 leading Ital ian securities rose in a near straight line from June, 1958 to September, 1960, for a gain of 240 per cent. Thereafter, wide daily swings of as much as 10 per cent (the equal of 60 points in the Dow-Jones Industrial average) were seen, 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. 100 FASHION FINDS - the best, newest, most beautiful. Printed Patterns for Spring Summer, 1961. See them all in our brand-new Color Cata log. Send 35 cents now! and by the end of November prices were 32 per cent be low the September peak. Wider Swings Individual securities show ed even wider swings, Wiesen berger. reported. "Anic," Italy's leading petrochemical producer, jumped 235 per cent from its 1960 low to its high, but finished the year up xinly 91 per cent from its low. Snia-Viscosa, largest textile producer, saw its stock rise 226 per cent from its low but close 74 per cent above it. Mediobanca, leading finance and investment banking group rose 210 per cent from its low only to close 84 per cent above it. Wiesenberger attributed the sharp rise in Italian stock prices in recent years mainly to the changed attitude on the part of the investor. As in this country, he said, the search for capital growth and capital appreciation played a dominant role, with dividend return a seemingly minor con sideration. He noted that the index of 55 leading Italian securities rose 73 per cent from its 1960 low to its high, and at the peak the yield was only 2 per cent on average, against 3 per cent at the yearend and 5.2 per cent in June, 1958. Italy's economy has been sound in recent years and in creasing steadily, but not nearly at a high enough rate to justify the great bull mar ket in Italian stock prices. The rate of growth has slowed in recent months, but the outlook continues favorable for 1961. In the late stages of the rise in stocks, speculation was rampant, Wiesenberger report ed. Italian speculators, often trading on narrow margins, were forced to liquidate when the market broke in Septem ber, while speculative short selling fed the reaction. Substantial additional specu lation, he said, emanated from Germany and1 Switzerland. Now, he declared, the mar ket appears to be in a health ier state. With much of the weak speculation eliminated and recently imposed restric tions on margin buying, the market may look forward to a more normal course. - 'Pow-Wow' Slated At Medford YMCA A YMCA "Pow-Wow" for all boys and their fathers in the Indian Guide program, or anyone interested in the pro gram, will be held at 7 o'clock tonight. The Pow-Wow will be held at the YMCA In the social hall. The Indian Guide program is for first and second grade boys and their fathers. The groups in Medford meet every other week and about three times a year a Pow-Wow is held for all the Tribes get to gether. The program will consist of games, songs stories, and play with it end ing up on refreshments and a swim in the Y pool. Indian Guide is a world wide program in the YMCA's of some 77 countries which tries to tighten the ties be tween fathers and their sons. 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