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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1962 B 3 D B3 i COUPON Q E3 E3JI ID u r a nil ATiAk.i kill ix n D D TALI CANS limit SIX with coupon. With U out coupon 2 for 29c. Good through ft Sunday, August 26. u n u HQ'S D D ODD aCOUPON qqqq qj1 THRIFTY GREEN ji CTAMDC U With This Coupon At Your Groceteria-Good Through Aug. 26 Dennis the Menace GROCETERIA SCHOOL OPENING SPECIALS 200 SHEET FILLER PAPER Wide Line or College Ruled Reg. 7e 49 24-COUNT CRAYOLAS Reg.. 35c 25 4 10c PLASTIC RULER 5 PENCILS 3 for 10c grade-35c Value PEE-CHEE PORTFOLIOS Reg. 10c. 1Q package of 12 17 .3 for 25 SCHOOL SPECIAL 3-Ring Wide . R . v . SCHOOL BINDER Vli O A 100 Count Filler Paper S"n ,jJ 3000-Word Dictionary i Tab Index B fn-rm-VTrtf Y-im- BLUE CANVAS 3-RING BINDER Wide Ring Reg. 79c Value 66 1 BONUS STAMPS Jj WITH ANY SCHOOL SUPPLY ORDER Q OF $2.00 OR OVER 0 d c3 MADE WITH TASTY BRAND WEINERS V v- v 'A '- ,.v, "j. - I .TV 50 BONUS i THRIFTY EACH GREEN STAMPS I With Purchase I ANY 3 MEAT ITEMS FROM OUR MEAT DEPT. No Coupons Needed 50 BONUS THRIFTY ' GREEN STAMPS With Purchase I ANY 3 PRODUCE ITEMS 1 FROM OUR PRODUCE DEPT. . i MINIMUM PURCHASE 50c No Coupons Needed I I - 50 BONUS THRIFTY GREEN STAMPS With Purchase ANY 3 BAKERY ITEMS FROM OUR BAKERY DEPT. MlhJIMlIM BIIDCUACE CA. No Couooni Needed I p ; ; SERVED 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. SATURDAY ONLY ; -T xxk : h iiv UL I IAUIJ --: N -1 till 1 1 Consfrucfort Worfcers Gef $143.26 Weekly Salem -(OT- The average weekly wage for contract con struction workers in Oregon in June was $14:t.2fi, up S3. 83 from June, 1961. the Oregon Employment Department said. Construction workers had the highest weekly averajc wage in Oregon during the month. Apparel workers con tinued to have the lowest weekly wage in Oregon among production workers, the June average being $66.83. but up $8.03 from the June, 1961 average. PENSION DURATION Washington - The final sol dier pension for the War of the Revolution was paid to a widow in Vermont in 1906, or just 123 years after the offi cial termination of that conflict. An estimated 7,000 square miles of salt underlay Ohio. Better Mileage From Gentle Acceleration New York-Wll-To get more mileage out of each tankful of gas, warm up the engine by idling it for a few seconds and then driving it gently for a few miles; adopt slow and easy acceleration and steady driving speeds; avoid starting the engine only to run the car a few minutes. Martin J. Tustin. a designer of economy cars and president of Standard-Triumph Motor company, said the woman who follows these tips will, save the cost of several tankfuls of gas in a year and keep her car's maintenance bills down. EFFICIENCY FACTOR Schenectady, N.Y. - The electric motor, converting into service about 90 per cent of the energy supplied to it. is rated about five times more efficient than the steam engine. Memphis Cotton Industry Capitol No. 1 Idaho-Oregon NETTED GEM otatoes I 4 lfl.li. . (jk f1 I 5 U KJ ' Your choice of 10-lB. MESH BAG or select your own from our bulk display. Melons are a welcome treat any time and here is your chance to please every member of the family. CASABA MELONS Creamy White Flesh-Sweet Spicy Flavor HONEY DEWS Emerald Green Cool-lo-Ejl Flesh PERSIAN MELONS YOUR CHOICE Thick Orange Sweet and Juicy Flesh LOCAL SQUASH Butternut andor Danish Your Choice Now In: Local Tomatoes, Corn, Beans, Squash (4 kinds) Cucumbers, Peaches, Plums, Onions, Bell Peppers CAULIFLOWER Cello Wrapped Cream White Compact Heads Well Trimmed BONUS STAMPS WITH 3 PRODUCE ITEMS MINIMUM 50c it I SIXTH i i r GRAPE FREE PARKING LIMIT RIGHTS By MARY TOBIN United Press International Memphis, Tcnn. IUPU - The big sternwhecler, laden with cotton bales, chugged slowly to the foot of the levee where roustabouts and Negro slaves waited to unload the valuable cargo. The riverboat threw down j its lines. Dozens of hands be-: gan moving the 500 pound bales on the cobblestones sloping down to the Mississip pi river. The Negroes pushed the bales on sled-like contraptions called drays, and mules hauled the loads up the levee to Front st. This was Memphis In the 1800s, shipping and market ing America's "white gold"-cotton. Since cotton production first rose to prominence as an industry nearly 200 years ago, Memphis hRS been the hub of a wheel that spreads from the cotton fields of the West to the slates of the deep South. Hailed as the "Cotton Capi tol of the World" and the world's biggest spot cotton market, Memphis handles the buying, selling and shipping of about 40 per cent of the entire crop each year, more than any other center. Same Location The cotton Industry still makes its home on historic old Front st., the nation's "cot ton row." High on the bluffs over looking the river, the street became the heart of the sweaty, multi-million dollar business. Here cotton was and still is-bought from the farmers and sold to the tex tile mills, where all arrange ments were made for shipping the bales from plantation to factory. The riverboat now is almost extinct. Shipping cotton by waterway is mostly a thing of the past. Yet many of the buildings which housed early cotton firms still operate; many of fices occupied by cotton mer chants in the 1830s are used now by their grandchildren. Memphis cotton men sold 6,484,899 (m) bales last year in transactions that stretched across the nation and from Japan to Western Europe. The bulk of the crop was ear marked for textile centers of Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas, but a large percent age went to the Orient and to Europe. Modarn Methods Cotton bales sell for an average of $175 each. They are brought overland by rail or truck from farms to strate gically located warehouses throughout the cotton belt. While the cotton Is stored, samples are taken from each bale and sent to Memphis where they are classed and categorized. When a buyer is found, the bales are tagged and shipped from the ware houses to their destinations. A cotton office is downtown Memphis is apt to be a com bination of rich mahogany desks and cubbyholes filled with bins of cotton where the classrrs measure samples for length, grade and color. The cotton merchant is like ly to be descended from a family that once owned a prosperous plantation and countless slaves. Methods of handling cotton have changed. It is produced and picked with mechanical help: bought and sold more efficiently; shipped faster and farther. But the romance of the by gone days lingers. Negroes till pluck the fluffy bolls in the fall when the fields of the South are dotted white. The visitor often can find bales of cotton standing by the century old buildings 20 OFF! FIRE INSURANCE (Medford) $10,000 With Extended Coverage $57.26 American Mfg. Mutual Dividend $11.45 Net Cost $45.81 VICTOR C. SETHER, Agent Brophy Building Ph. 773-1784 SALE Friday 24th & Saturday 25th I yienni itp p' Sq. Ft. SOLAR - BLOCK O COOL Friday Wth & your ,, layout, plans anu "ergaw Blank t s . ets AV sq. ft. iK2c sq- 62c q. ft. 0 Reg. P"te Eacn iri. : 1.09 ClOSEOUT PRICE .99 1.39 1.69 1.99 2.39 2.69 3.09 3.39 4.29 765 So. Riverside-Medford, Ore. Open 8 to 5 Monday-Saturday along Front st. I
