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Self-Sgrvjcing Cars May After Service Stations New York -(UPB- That great landmark of our times - the roadside automobile service station - may be on the way out. n may De replaced by a tore that sells gasoline-but does even more business in meals and other non-automo tive merchandising. There are many reasons for this, r irst, there is the immi nent arrival of the "service free auto. Some manufac turers claim their 1961 models are almost service free - need oil changing only every 4,000 miles, greasing only once or twice a year, for example. And some of Detroit's ex perls say that by 1965, new cars will have virtually all greaseless bearings - no greas ing ever necessary. Tires, mufflers, spark plugs, genera tor brushes, fan belts, commu tator points and brake linings - the parts that service sta tions have had to replace or fix most - also are becoming longer lasting. Lost Business Even annual changing of water and anti-freeze could become a lost business for the service stations. Some en gineers talk of sealed engines in a few years that can be taken out of a car in a few minutes and replaced by a rental engine - as you do a battery today. That would eliminate most of the work done now by mechanics at service stations. Of course, there are plan ning enthusiasts who peer farther into the future and Bay the private auto itself is going to disappear - that it will be replaced by fool-proof renlal air cars that you can rent any place, with or with' out driver, and leave almost any place. They argue that the parking problem is sure to kill the privately owned ve- hide long before the end of the century. But the magazine Pctrole- um Week says change already is hitting the service stations. Some are dropping the grease pit already. New stations are being designed with the some what unsightly grease bay relegated to the back. The gasoline pumps are being, put underground with one pump operating as many as six hose dispensers. Vending Machines To replace the service busi ness being lost and expected to be lost in the future, the major oil companies are ad vising their franchised service station operators to put in vending machines and to tie tip with other businesses that will help persuade motorists to stop and buy gasoline -lunch counters and gift shops, or outdoor patio restaurants ' with much more elaborate lounge facilities than service stations have had in the past. The trend is being speeded up by high costs of keeping old service stations refurbish ed. It's getting to be cheaper in most cases to rebuild en tirely, rather than modernize. MEN ARE DELICATE Chicago - IUPII - A former president of the American Heart Association has said women recover more success fully from heart attacks than men, who "maintain their youthful appetites" without corresponding physical capac ity. Dr. Louis M. Katz, ad dressing a fund drive dinner ior the Chicago Heart Asso ciation, said that men, com pared with women, are "deli cate prima donnas who don't know how to live." A Airml (torn lh Cowlhoull nun MC0N -HAICHO SMOOGIMS. UNIIM OWCTOtS DAY Oft NIGHT fHNE 20X Art Us About the OREGON FUNERAL INSURANCE PLAN Which We Heartily Recommend and Endorse- How Ycyr March i - Was Used, 1938 -I960 J MEDICAL CARE PROGRAM 60 I lr j'Vl',,i5Ai,-ii.P 4 .,3 Fund-Raising Expense 137, I Community Services 4 Education 8 S3 r"anwiw jw Legislative Briefs Salem - IUPD - A Portland attorney representing labor told the House Judiciary com mittee Thursday that Gov. Mark Hatfield's veto of a 1959 bill cost millworkers in Roseburg $16,000 in lost wages. The measure, which would allow liens to be placed on warehouse lumber, has been introduced again this session. The attorney, Sidney Le zak, took issue with Hatfield's position that the bill is un necessary. Lezak said work ers now lack necessary pro tection. It was explained that at present if lumber is in a yard, the lien law applies but if it is shifted to a warehouse, the law no longer is effective. The proposed lien would pay salaries of workers should lumber operators fail to pay. , House Speaker Robert Dun can, Medford, said loggers are now protected by liens on logs in case of unpaid wages, and he saw no reason to protect only these workers and ex clude mill employees. Salem - UPII - The Senate State and Federal Affairs committee Thursday voted out do pass" a bill that would give surviving spouses an op tion in receiving death bene fits from the Oregon public employees retirement fund. The bill provides thai a beneficiary could choose be tween monthly payments or a lump sum. Salem - IUPII - A bill to con struct a $2 million correction al institution for sex offend ers within 20 miles of Port land was introduced Thurs day by Rep. Mel Gordon (R- Portland). If the bill passes, Gordon said, the proposal would be referred to the voters in 19H2. Gordon said the rehabili tation facility should be built near Portland because the metropolitan area contained the largest percentage of deviates. mpressive of Dines Dollar VP-- ''.IP i riesearcn Program 11 Administration1 " 4 Program Portland - IUPD - The mi grant missionary department of the Oregon Council of Churches voted this week to support a legislative bill pro viding up to $155,000 in the next two years for schooling migrant children. Salem - flJPD - Rep. Richard Eymann (D-Mohawk) said to day instead of reducing the gas tax he would like to see any extra revenues returned to local districts. The money could contrib ute to property tax relief and could be used for local roads, he suggested. A bill to reduce the gas tax from six to five cents a gallon was introduced in the Senate Thursday by Sens. Waller Pearson (D-Portland) and Boyd Overhulse (D-Mad-ras). Some Medical Bills Are Now Deductible Washington IUPI) - Medical expenses of aged parents are now fully deductible from your income tax. A law passed by Congress last year permits full deduc tion of medical expenses of a person 65 or older who is a taxpayer's parents and de pendent. If the taxpayer himself is 65 or older he also may de duct all of the parents' medi cal bills which the taxpayer paid. Other than these excep tions, the 3 per cent rule still stands. A taxpayer must sub tract 3 per cent of his income from his medical expenses be fore deducting them. Payments for drugs and medicines must be reduced by 1 per cent of income regard less of the age of the taxpayer or his dependents. London - IUPII - Dr. Alfred B. Alexander has this advice for motorists who are afraid of falling asleep at the wheel: Take off your shoes. In a letter to the British Medical Journal Alexander said driv ing with bare feet was a good remedy for pulling out of a snooze. For the more fastid ious, he had another sugges tion Rub eau de cologne on your forehead. Model HI-12T 1 2 cu. ft. capacity Troublesome frost never accumulates in spacious refrigerator or 101-lb. "zero-degree" freezer. Activated Cold keeps crisp, cold air circulating, guards food freshness. Bushel-size crispcrs. Super-storage door. Cabinet fits (lush at sides. Appliance Parts and Service lor RCA Whirlpool, Holpoint, Kelvinator, Myt9 and All Miku ol Television. Dependable Good Workmanship Competitive Rates Auditor Reviews Organization; Suggests Five Commissioners George S t a c e y, auditor hired by the Jackson county court, gave an accountants' views on county government needs to the home rule study committee last night in the public Library of Medford and Jackson county. He offered several sug gestions. Thev include: (1) A five-member county commission with higher sal aries for members, (2) appoin tive department heads under direct control of the county commission, (3) a county-wide purchasing agent, (4) a county legal counsel, (5) a personnel system controlled directly by a county commissioner, (6) one budget and one tax cover ing all schools and local gov ernment units within the county, and (7) election of all county officers, including the county commissioners on a non-partisan basis. Analyzes Own Position Analyzing his own position, Stacey said he has been hired as auditor for the county for about 10 years. There is not sufficient auditing work to have a full-time county audi tor, he said. "County government is big business now and requires five commissioners to handle it. Each commissioner should be responsible for certain phases of county government, One man, for instance, would be in charge of personnel which would be governed on a merit system, Stacey ex plained. Each of the county commis sioners would be elected for five years under Stacey's pro posal. One would be elected each year with balloting done by mail. In his fifth year, one commissioner would serve as chairman. Budgetary Control The county court now has only budgetary control over various departmental heads, Stacey explained. He recom mended higher salaries to at tract higher caliber men with certain qualifications set. The county commission would be responsible for hiring and fir ing, but each of the county officers would report -to only one supervising commission er, and not to the entire coun ty commission, he said. Stacey expressed opposition to district representation for commission members, since two or more commissioners could get together to obtain benefits for their districts "Now certain girls in various offices may be doing the same thing but are paid on different wage scales. Un der supervision of one com missioner, the pay scale should be unified and perhaps a work force pool established so personnel could be shifted from office to office to meet peak demands," Stacey sug gested. Opposes Officer The auditor opposed estab lishing an administrative of ficer since no one man could handle all phases of county government and would have to be paid loo much money. "I favor one big budget and one big tax for all the schools," Stacey emphasized. "A county unit school admin istration would be desirable if it could be worked out," he noted. Stacey said it would be im practicable to unify all water or irrigation districts because of personality differences. Fire districts need equip ment in each particular area for immediate use, so unifica tion of fire districts into one district would not be practi cal," he said. Stacey traced a purchasing order for a typewriter through-) county office channels and also the check to pay for it. He indicated the present sys tem provides for a good check on spending, and doubted if REFRIGERATOR FREEZER Ends defrosting i HV itJ I TRADfc W 1 lV Bctri9"" J MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. e 1 the system could be unified or speeded up more. Unification of treasurer's, sheriff's tax department and assessor's offices would only place checks in the treasurer's hands five days sooner, he said. Purchase in Quantity A purchasing agent should buy in quantity for the entire county, county offices, cities and schools. In the case of fuel oil it would mean a big saving through quantity dis counts, he noted. The auditor favored hiring a lawyer who would be direct Spinster, Young Blonde Jailed for Bank Embezzlement Shinnston, W. Va.-IDPIi-To those who knew them, Lucy Fortney and Jo Ann Stevens were as unalike as any two persons could be. Their only apparent common interest was a position of trust with the Bank of Shinnston. Miss Fortney, a 62-year-old greying spinster, was reserved and popular in this northern West Virginia community of 2,793. She had been with the bank since its founding in 1932 and became its assistant cashier. Mrs. Stevens, a book keeper, is an eye-catching blonde of 25, the wife of a coal miner and mother of two children. Today they share a common plight. They occupy adjacent cells in a Fairmont, W. Va., jail facing charges of embez zlement at the Shinnston bank. Bank officials say short ages total almost a quarter million dollars. Authorities charged the two women with separately dipping into the bank's till over a period of years. Each knew what the other was do ing but they never worked together, a bank official said. "They used two different methods and didn't help each other," said bank President Wayne C. Hawker. "I think that eventually will be proved." FBI agents arrested the women Thursday after exam iners discovered a shortage of $244,794.61 in the bank accounts. Air Cargo Developing Into Boon to Business Los Angelcs-HIPD-Air cargo is developing into a boon for people who enjoy fancy eating as well as those who want to avoid the cost of long-time storage. This is" the concensus of business and airline men who have watched the growth of this steadily developing field. Sam Dunlap, vice president in charge of cargo operations for Trans World Airlines, noted that air cargo will even tually make it possible for his company to deliver with in 72 hours fresh fruits and vegetables to any part of the world. A nine-ton shipment of tur key eggs recently was flown from California to Iowa in the winter for early nesting. Strawberry and asparagus shippers already have used air cargo to ship their pro duce to shortage areas for a higher return. Businessmen have taken to this brand of air transport because It helps them elimi nate the costly warehousing of their merchandise. A sign of the expansion of such cargo traffic is the num ber of non-jet commercial 2-spead washer I 3-cytIo dryer I Fast, vigorous agitator action for regulnr wash, slower strokes for things. Automatically filter out blends in detergent, too. Dryer special cycle for wanh V wear down ironing. HA HD-70-75. JOHNSTON 112 SOUTH ly responsible to the county commission, would attend a official meetings and give im mediate opinions on legal mat ters affecting the county. The district attorney's sal ary should come entirely from Ihe state and he should be made a state officer respon sible to the stale, Stacey recommended. Mrs. Thomas Ruttcr, Med ford, home rule study com mittee chairman, said she would invite Orval Ettcr, re search attorney for the Ore gon bureau of municipal re search, to meet with the com mittee early next month. The investigation of the bank's records was begun when officials became suspici ous of Mrs. Stevens' spending. She had a flair for expensive clothing and recently bought a new automobile. Her month ly salary was $250 and her coal miner husband did not earn a great deal more. While studying Mrs. Ste vens' books, investigators also found a discrepancy in Miss Fortney's accounts. Examiners from the West Virginia Banking Commission and the Federal Deposit Insur ance Corp. discovered the shortage. They linked a short age of $222,244.70 to Mrs. Stevens and $22,549.91 to Miss Fortney. Mrs. Stevens, apparently seeing discovery was near, at tempted suicide last Monday, authorities said. She was tak en to a hospital in Clarks burg, W. Va., after taking an overdose of sleeping tablets. She recovered and Thursday was transferred to the Marion county jail in Fairmont where Miss Fortney is also lodged. But she was shocked when federal agents placed her un der arrest. "I don't know what to do," she said. "I don't know any thing about this." Her husband, at home here with their two children, was equally stunned. "It's just a shock," he said I "I don't know what to think.'1 planes which are being con verted to freight use. TWA put 12 idle Super Con stellations to cargo use when jet planes replaced them. The Super Constellations are capable of non-stop flights across the United Slates and over the Pole to Europe. The fastest and lowest cost distribution of goods was re cently discussed at two meet ings of the American Manage ment Association. Special em phasis was given to "piggy back" service, containcriza tion and coordinated trans portation, to eliminate taxa tion on stored goods. The Raytheon Co. deter mined that for a minimum cost a new distributor could go into the electrical products business 'with no inventory beyond what he had in the showroom. The firm now is able to deliver overnight a product which is ordered by wire. 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