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AH Nonmineral Applications for Public Lands Halted for 18 Months Employees Donate Five Weeks of Work To Assist Company Pittsburgh-IUPU-Workers at the Oswald & Hess Packing Co. will work without pay for five weeks this year in an effort to keep the little pigs going to market and the wolves away from the door. When Oswald & Hess was hailed into court by its cred itors, its 400 employees, mem bers of five unions, decided to act. At a meeting called by themselves, the workers voted to work without com pensation five weeks this year to give the company an addi tional $200,000 in operating capital. Joint Survival Effort "This is a joint effort for survival," said Carl Peiper, president of the meat packing firm. As each worker entered the meeting, he was handed a card which read, in part: "... I voluntarily propose to agree to donate to the Oswald & Hess company my services for a total of five weeks without pay. . . " The signers agreed to give Up one week's pay immedi ately and another every three months in hopes the 42-ycar-old packing house can continue operating. The " agreement : was ap proved by locals of the Amal gamated ' Meat . Cutters and Butcher Workmen, the Meat Salesmen Union, the Machin ists Union, the Stationary En gineers Union, and the Team sters, all of which represent O&H workers. Have Obligation "We took this action be cause we want the firm to stay in business and we have an obligation to keep our membership in jobs to sup port their families," said Wal ter Lieke, president of the Meat Cutters local. , Oswald & Hess has applied for a government small busi ness loan as another means of overcoming the financial crisis. Labor Secretary Ar thur Goldberg, who visited Pittsburgh during a tour of distressed areas, gave manage ment and union officials en couragement that it would be approved. ATTENDS RECEPTION MoscowUIPIl Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev at tended a reception Monday night at the Communist Chi nese Embassy. Ambassador Liu Hsiao was host to several Soviet leaders and foreign diplomats. San Diego, Calif. - IUPII - A sailor by the name of Chris tian is the clerk in the chap lain's office at North Island Naval Air station. His prede cessor was named Lord. MEDFORDi SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1961 PAGES 1 to 8 Tribune JfT,ta! tna unscrupulous Land Speculation 4 lk. -1 . if" x JiJ,'W StS3 SNOW NO PROBLEM The "deep snows" . widdie of Columbia. Robie travels in a sled of Missouri are no proDiem for Rooie Din- ins father bunt, pulled dy tne Dinwiddle s widdie, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Din- St. Bernard. (UPI Telephoto) Subscribers To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med fa rd and Ashland, phone SP 2-6141 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call, please notify office, thus eliminating special messenger service. ' Swem BARGAINS GALORE IN ALL DEPTS. EVERYTHING PRICED TO SELL ' Come Early - Sray Late! Take Home Armloads of These TERRIFIC BARGAINS at the GREATLY REDUCED PRICES Doors Open 9 A.M. Daily - Use Your "Charge Plate" i SALE ENDS SATURDAY, FEB. 18 NOTICE!! More Sale , Merchandise Added to ' Sale Tables" Daily Don't Miss These New Bargains! ' ' ' ' ' J .TELEPHONE SP 2-9331 FOUNDED IN 1911 FREE PACKAGE DELIVERY WITHIN REGULAR DELIVERY ZONES Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins (Register and Trlhuns Syndicate, 1961) Primitive Man Must Have Turned to Insects lor Food Primitive man was often hard put to supply himself with food. He had to eat what he could find or kill. He culti vated no crops; what vegeta ble matter he had was gath ered from his surroundings. Probably he made himself sick many times when trying to find what was edible and what was not; he dug in the earth; he gathered what ber ries he could find, what roots could be chewed; There must have been times when Rame was scarce, when lakes were frozen, when the green things were gone or unattainable. So, in despera tion, he turned to other things, in fact, anything that contain ed the slightest amount of nourishment. .One of those things must have been insects. In Good Supply These were always in good supply; they were easily cap tured, and with a little ex perimenting he and his hump backed wife must have found many of thorn edible. Prob ably, if they lived on them for some time, they were su stained. Insects are a form of flesh, and there was some nourishment in them. The caveman wouldn't starve if his stomach was full of grass hoppers, beetles or ants. Until primitive man found out how to plant crops, garner sufficient roots, barks and ber ries, or hit upon an easy way to capture more game or catch more fish, he must have cx- The Family Council Editor's Note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychia rlst, three clergymen, three editors and a women's editor. Each article s a summary of an actual case history. The Council renorts on nrob- Icms that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. (Copyright 1961 General Features Corp.) perienccd many times wlien a feeding of insects lasted pretty good. There are tribes of Indians living today in parts of this world that feast on dried grasshoppers. While explorers have tasted these tidbits and found they had a crisp, nutty flavor. The large wood ants, so plentiful in many jungle sections, when gathered in quantities and fried in hot fat are often enjoyed as human food. In some sections the eggs of aquatic insects arc consid ered a rich, nutritious source of body fuel. Rattlesnake, Anyone? Primitive peoples, and even some not so primitive, have eaten rattlesnakes and snails; have even tried with a reserv ed relish the eggs of such marine oddities as sea urchins. Necessity mostly has prompt ed the intake of many things that others have looked at with distaste. Anything that is flesh, is, of course, edible if one has the stomach for it. Today, we know of a rare delicacy. Baby bees are enjoy ed not because we are hungry but because they are unusual and expensive. Ealing them gives us a certain, question able prestige or a wordly and misplaced sophisticiation. The cycle almost completes itself, from primitive to modern man. "Please pass me another helping of those delicious fried grasshoppers." NYLON & FOAM FIRST TIME EVER at this low, low Price! JUST ARRIVED 3 & 4 PIECE CURVED SECTIONALS Hew Styles - Hew Stock ralEiJl.. Washington - lUPD - Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall Tuesday halted all new non mineral applications for pub lic lands for 18 months. He said the action was be ing taken to protect the public interest from unscrupulous speculation in public lands. "The moratorium goes in effect at once and will last until Sept. 1, 1962," Udall said. "It does not affect any applications now pending. It applies only to certain types of applications and conditions under the non-mineral land laws." Udall said "unethical land locators and promoters have abused the privilege of filing nonmincral applications at the cost of millions of dollars to the public." He added the land offices have been "deluged with thousands and thou sands" of applications. He said the new policy would permit the department to process more than 60,000 pending applications and to "develop legislative proposals and administrative remedies." Udall conceded that the im mediate effect of the order would reduce the public's op porlunitles to obtain public lands for private use. "In the long run, however, the moratorium will put pub lie land development on much more sensible program basis. Under new programs it will be possible for the pub lie to acquire more needed land in ways that will pro tect the national interest." Udall also announced a new public land conservation pol icy which put a "public in terest lest for all transfers of land out of federal owner ship. Under the policy, lands which cannot be "properly developed" under existing laws will be retained by the government "until necessary laws can be enacted." Land Inventory Udall also announced the department will undertake a land inventory that will "classify, open and make ap propriate lands available for transfer to the states, local governments, individual and business firms." But the government must get "a full return Xor its property in terms of money or other values," he said "No party to a transaction with the government should receive a windfall." The secretary said the mor atorium would give a "breath ing spell ... to completely rewrite the public lands laws." He said the depart ment's recommendations "will keep congressional commit tees quite busy during the coming months." He added that he hoped to send the first of these proposals to Congress in two weeks. Udall also said "many rami fications" of the Eisenhower policy on development of power resources will be reviewed. They (the Eisenhower ad ministration) regarded public power as a necessary evil," Udall said. "We regard n as a necessary good. He said this did not rule out cooperation with private power utilities. When pressed for an exam ple of how his administration would differ with the previ ous administration on public power he said the "most notable example" was Hell's Canyon on the Snake river in Idaho. Albert M. - He's trying to force me out of the business. Myron M. - He's 50 years behind the times. FROM $110 ARRANGE AND REARRANGE! Miraculous Value! NEW Beauty, NEW Luxury WE INVITE you to shop the town for the equal of These stunning values at Gates! Why? Well, we want you to be just as convinced as we are (and take it from us YOU WILL be) that this is without doubt the greatest buy of the year! Each big. plump cushion is fully reversible, and 100 PURE FOAM plus luxurious NYLON pile FRIEZE fabrics, your choice of smart colors. Button tufted and welted backs, extra wide arms. With all these units, you can give your living room a different look each day if you like. See this amazing buy at Gates Today! SAVE AT GATES BECAUSE t) FREE Off-Street Parking FREE Delivery Service No Finance Company Member AFA 400 Store Buying Power 100 Foam Cushions TJJ." . x n&T77! mm Sunday, Feb. 19 CRATER LIONS TV AUCTION furniture store MEDFORD GRANTS PASS Albert M. - My brother and are in our 60s. When our father died 20 years ago, he left us his umbrella business on a 50-50 basis. Myron and had worked with him since our teens. I am unmarried, but Myron is married and has two sons, i I'm convinced he's trying to ease me out of the partnership to make room for them. He embarrasses me before the help, the salesmen, and the ' customers. He treats me like I nitwit, ordering me around like an office-boy. When the phone rings, he says "I'll take it." When someone walks in, he says "Let me. handle this." It's strange, isn't it, that when my father was alive he turned to me for advice, let me make the decisions and do do all the ordering. And we made plenty of money! Now suddenly I don't count. Myron should be man enough to come right out and ask me to leave. Myron M. - Al should offer to wind tilings up, after what he did last month. He likes to play Big Shot and the sales men know they can fool him. When one supplier told him a competitor bought 1000 yards of some junk, Al took 5000 yards. We didn't need it, couldn't use it, couldn't get rid of it. He may have been okay for Papa, a quarter of a century ago. But for today his slip shod methods and careless rec ord-keeping are a handicap. He's of the Carry-it-all-in-your- head school of bookkeeping. He has no idea of how to run a business in today's rat-race. I'm willing to let him go through the motions of keep ing busy, but I ve told the salesmen to come directly to me because the firm will not be responsible for deals with Al. If he really had the in terest of the business at heart, he'd make way for my boys who are live-wires. The Council: The old order changeth. of course, but there's no need for Myron to speed it up with a demolition crew. Surely Albert can be approached as a reasonauie business partner, open to an honest discussion of what's best for the firm, both in terms of dollars-and-cents and of the human factor. Granted, Albert made a buying boo-boo. We'll wager Myron made one or two in his time, also. Some mistakes are reparable, others not. i n e 5000-yard "lemon" may or may not be a total loss, but humiliating a 50-50 panner and hacking down a hard working brother could Be an irreparable error. No. In order to make "room at the top," Myron must, find a mora humane and feelingful procedure. The nephews must respect Uncle Al and appreci ate the sweat and toil he con- Two Being Held for Attempted Burglary Two young men, one 17 and the other 23, are being held by authorities here on charges of attempted burglary of the Lithia drive-in theater Mon day. : I i he pair was caught in me theater by two sheriff's depu ties after a call from James David Sclleck from the thea ter. Sheriff's deputies charged that the two youths were at tempting to rifle the candy counter and projection room. A 17-year-old Talent youth is being held in the juvenile detention home. Earl Wayne Taylor, 23, of Third st. and Central ave., Medford, is be ing held in the county jail, deputies said. WINE EXPORTS San Francisco - Four-fifths of the U.S. exports of wine normally are cleared through Western states in these areas. I the port of San Francisco. tributcd to the family enter prise. Then, the M.'s of both generations, even Myron him self, must concede that no one is indispensable. And that part of good management includes preparing for and training re placements. Uncle Albert can be enlisted to serve during the transition. Satisfied that the "new order" is in the best in terests of the business, he can withdraw gradually and with dignity. And as "Emeritus," he'll serve as a consultant for the college-trained successors who seek an old-fashioned "short-cut," once in a while. The Bible has a beautiful psalm that begins: "Behold, how goodly it is for brothers to dwell peacefully together." A relationship that began in a loving home, and was nurtur ed by a proud father, ought not be scratched out on a profit-and-loss ledger. Albert can face and accept the hard facts of business easier than the hard heart of a brother. Oregon Ranks 17th On Teachers' Pay Salem - IUPII - The State Department of Education said Tuesday Oregon ranks 17th among states in average sal aries of public school teachers. In a report, the department said Oregon ranks 16th na tionally in percentage of pupils finishing high school 15th in the number of ele mentary teachers with four years of college, and eighth in per pupil expenditures. The report said Oregon ranks fourth among the 12 Wedding Band Sale 10 K. and 14 K. Gold : Sets ... yellow and ' i?CfeP' white gold combinations yjOsl combinations . . U ILllg 1 and many others - K "Jj price of ! I II ?x m. SIO AC tij "A Diamond Is Forever" t J y WE GIVE Cyty Green Stamps 2 STORES Next Door to Parker Woods Leon's 1 DON DAY 133 S. Central, Medford SP 3-6695 STATE FARM Th Careful Orlvtr'i (and carfful buytr's) Car Inturanca State Farm Mutual Automobile Inturanet Company Home OJfiee: Bloomington, III, 218 EAST MAIN at our back door I ffiBlMS "Are We Endangering Our Children's Children?" World-famous Dr. Milton J. E. Senn explains why we must act now to check this silent peril to future generations. Read SStTtllZy Read Weelcly February 19th issue! with your . 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