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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Area Management Conference Slated In Medford May 2 FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1S6I A ; Southern Oregon Man agement conference, sponsor ed by the Medford Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the University of Ore gon school of business admin Unions Called by Senate Probers "7 Washington-nffD- Senate In vestigators today summoned union spokesmen to answer charges that "loafing" . and slowdowns at missile bases had cost months of time in the space race. Tom O'Malley, a missile test conductor for Convair As-tronautics-the man who could trigger the first U.S. astronaut launching-said Thursday that members of craft unions at Cape Canaveral, Fla., "are not producing . . . their capacity." O'Malley told the Senate in vestigations subcom mittee there had been slowdowns and the men were working at about 50 to 70 per cent of ca pacity. He blamed subcontrac tors for the most part, for not insisting on eight hours of work per man. (Spokesmen from several Cape Canaveral Unions were called to reply to the charges. Subcommittee investigators today cited evidence that the Air Force could save $3 mil lion if unions permitted fac tory installation of plugs on some electrical cords for Titan missiles. Workers have walk ed off their jobs when factory installed equipment was used at missile bases. istration, will be held in Med ford Tuesday, May 2. The conference is planned as a seminar in "practical problems facing business lead ers from day to day," accord ing to Don McNeil, chamber manager. The session is planned as an annual event. McNeil said that "every business executive in the Rogue valley ought to attend this one-day session because of its practical approach." Speakers from the univer sity will include R. W. Lind holm, dean of the school of business administration; N. E. Taylor, director of forest in dustries management center, David A. Baerncopf, professor of business statistics; Orin K. Burrell, professor of finance; and John B. Miner, professor of management. Others on the program are Carroll Brown, supervisor of the Rogue River National for est, and W. J. Williams, vice president of Harry and David. Topics will include "Chang ing patterns in consumer mar kets," - "Business decisions, payoffs and adequate profit," "How1 the gold problem af fects business revival efforts," and ""Selection or develop ment - management's peren nial dilemma." Reservations for the confer ence must be made no later than Friday, April 28, with the chamber, McNeil said. It will be held at Rogue Valley Country club. ' . . SNOOZE SNAFUS TRAINS Bexleyheat, England - (UPD -Trains were delayed and thou sands were late : for work Thursday because a relief sig nalman overslept 40 minutes. Add that DISTINCTIVE Touch to your Home with a CLOVER LEAF BLOCK SCREEN WALL So decorative for walls, carports, or fences. See display at Builders Supply Co. 727 W. McAndrews SP 3-4575 S(Sr v v n t; ft PAINTING ADMIRED Paintings by mod ern Hollywood masters are on display at a Hollywood art show aimed at raising money for the planned Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum. Those who came expecting to guffaw went away awed at the unexpected talent. TV actress Margie Regan admired one of actress Kim Novak's paint ings which were the hit of the show. This one is entitled "Christus." . (UPI Telephoto) Lunch Counters in Woolworth Stores Serve 750,000 Each Day By HENRY J. BECHTOLD : UPI Financial Editor ' New York-WD-What start ed out in 1910 as a small re freshment room for weary shoppers has bios s o m e d into the world's larg est commer cial dispenser of food ; pre pared, and served on the premises. -And F. W. ' Bechtoid -Woolworth Co., the nation's largest vari ety store chain, says its res taurant i operations are ex ceeded only by those of the armed forces. ... Where the . refreshment room in Woolworth's 14th st. store in New York served a few hundred people daily 50 years ago, the chain now han dles 750,000 per day, and has set a goal of one million by the end of 1961.; r While you may think your weekly family grocery list is large, imagine shopping for and feeding 750,000 persons daily; 30. Miles of Counters ; This is the task of H. W. Bode, Woolworth's general su pervisor of restaurant opera tions. Bode just released a re port listing the volume of pur chases and patronage in the company's luncheonettes and 19 cafeterias during 1960. It showed that Woolworth has approximately 30 miles of counters spread throughout all 50 states, and can seat 65,762 customers' at one time. Bode noted that thSse num bers will increase during 1961 because the company is aver aging a new store opening every other business day, all with food facilities. . . " , The enormity of customer volume is pointed up by the following examples of serv ings; 112 million cups 'of cof fee; 12 million pieces of ap ple pie; 17.5 million hambur gers; 6 million turkey dinners; and 7.5 million steak and roast beef dinners. Purchases of basic commod ities runs into - millions of pounds each. Woolworth's own bakeries last year pur chased more than 18 million pounds of flour. eef for ham burgers alone was more than 3 million pounds, with total beef purchases amounting to about 6 million pounds. Made Turkey Popular It is said that Woolworth, not the Pilgrims, put turkey in the regular diet of Amer icans, and Bode's figures show it is still doing it. Last year'it purchased more than 5 mil lion pounds of turkey along with more than 16 millioin pounds of potatoes. Bode emphasized that the acceptance of Woolworth's meals is its wide variety five to seven different entrees available in stores daily to 15 in cafeterias. They range from steak to fish and include full course dinners. Bode also said that the care the company takes in prepara tion of its menus also is re sponsible for their acceptance. He noted that every dish is put through numerous tests and tastings in the company's laboratories and kitchens here so that when it goes out to the stores and cafeterias the local chefs have instructions "down to a grain of salt" on preparation and serving. . . SHIP RUNS AGROUND Singapore -(UPI) The Ameri can hospital ship S.S. - Hope ran aground on a reef Thurs day but was freed after 19 hours without damage, its in formation officer reported to day. The Hope, which is bringing medical' help and training to remote areas of Asia, was en route from Lorn bok to Semarang, both' Indo nesian cities. AS DRY AS PAMPHLET Government Bookstore Good Place To Go When Caught in Rain Shower 36 By DICK WEST Washington (UPD A good way to keep abreast of literary and social trends in America is to spend a rainy nfter noon browsing around in the U.S. govern ment book store. It is also, I might add, a good way to keep from West geuing wei. 1 found this out recently when a sudden shower caught me near the bookstore, sans rain coat. I had a choice of taking refuge there or in the post office across the street. Since reading material in a post office usually is limited to "wanted" posters for fed eral felons, I chose the book store. I was glad that I did. When I emerged a , half hour or so later, I was both mentally stimulated and as dry as a government pamphlet on "screw thread standards." The screw thread pamphlet, incidentally, is on the book store's best seller list. That is what I meant when I referred to literary trends. , On of Largest Possibly nobody would be astonished to learn that the government bookstore is one of the largest in the world. We have come , to expect things like that from the gov ernment. What makes it astonishing is the fact that it puts money into the Treasury, thus vicing the versa of most federal func tions. Excess receipts current ly total more than $4 million a year. r The bookstore has in stock about 30,000 different gov ernment publications embrac ing, to quote one document I ran across, "nearly every field of human living." Moreover, the publications are not restricted to human living. Prominently displayed on the shelves is a booklet on the control of "horse bolts." I counted, while waiting for the rain to stop, 48 documents on child care, 43 documents on food, and 32 documents on Communism. That Is what I meant when I referred to the bookstore as a weather- vane of social trends. The all-time best-seller (11, 593,065 copes) is a booklet en titled "Infant Care," follow ed by one entitled "Prenatal Care," followed by one en titled "Your Child From One to Six." ' "Your Child From Six to Twelve" is fifth on the list, sandwiched between "Your Federal Income Tax" and "Your Social Security." This ranking, provides a pretty good indication of the things that we Americans worry about and the order in which we worry about them. But coming up fast - are such atomic age publications as "Prospecting for Uranium" and "Living With Radiation." I was rather surprised to find that "Septic Tank Care" is No. 9 on the list, ahead of such appealing volumes as Morse Demands Report on Cuba Washington-WPD-Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D.-Ore.) demanded a full report from the State department today on all de velopments relating to Cuba since President Kennedy took office. Morse made the request as his foreign relations subcom mittee on Latin America pre pared for a closed-door hear ing with Acting Secretary ' of State Chester A. Bowles and other officials. . . . . i. . - He told newsmen he would follow up his questioning of State department officials with a similar request for In formation from the super-secret Central Intelligence agen cy, target of some criticism for its role in the ill-fated Cuban invasion. Morse said his subcommit tee wanted the State depart ment to give . "a thorough briefing on everything that has happened regarding Cuba since this administration took over." He said he also intended to find out what both the State department and CIA were planning to recommend for the future. "Technique of House Nailing" and "Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower." ; t After weighing the matter carefully, I finally shelled out 15 cents for a copy of "Mak ing Cellars Dry." It will give me something to do the next time it rains. 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