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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
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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
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LOCAL SQUASH
Butternut andor Danish Your Choice
Now In: Local Tomatoes, Corn, Beans, Squash (4 kinds)
Cucumbers, Peaches, Plums, Onions, Bell Peppers
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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
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