Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 11, 1963, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY. JANUARY 11. 1963 Local Musicians To Play in Salem Gov. Mark O. Hatfield's pre-election promisj to a Medford musical group has come through, and Ralph Eltel's Combo will be playing at the Governor's Inaugura tion Monday, Jan. 14, Ettel reported here today. Ettel, tenor banjo player, said he had been assurrd by Travis Cross, administrative assistant to the governor, this morning that the inauguration would go on as scheduled in spite of political squabbles rioted Thursday. Playing with Ettel in a 10 minute "Special" at 7:3" p.m., will be Mrs. Eve Prentice Webster, accordionist; Ted Jennings and Ron Bartlett on the saxophones. The group also will play background music at the inauguration, Ettel said. The invitation was given the Medford musicians at a pre-election breakfast spon sored at the Roxy Ann Grange here by the Republican Worn' en. The Combo entertained at the breakfast and the gov ernor and Mrs. Hatfield both voiced their appreciation of the program. The governor remarked that morning "We're' going to have you at the inauguration next January." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS One hundred years ago Gov ernor Leland Stanford of the youthful state of California (it was admitted to the Union in 1850, and was then jusv entering its teens as a state) stood on the banks of the Sacramento river and with a silver shovel broke ground for what was to become the United States of America's first transcontinental rail road. Six years later, at Promon tory Point, in Utah, Governor Stanford drove the golden spike that fastened down the last rail that linked the Cen tral Pacific to the Union Pa cific and thus made it possible for railroad trains to travel on one .track from the Atlan tic to the Pacific. Tuesday Governor Edmund Brown, using the same silver shovel, and standing at the same spot on the bank of the Sacramento, re-enacted the century-old ground-breaking ceremony. TTmmmmmmmm. One rather Imagines that no one present at that ceremony a century ago would have been able to imagine that 100 years later the then-infant state of California would be the biggest state of the Union, with a population exceeding 17 millions. Dennis the Menace lit Nor -I think - Could anyone then imagine that a century hence railroads would be regarded as so slow that they would be used al most exclusively for the trans port of freight. Or that a Call fornian, a century hence, would be able to climb into his own carriage, step on the starter, and in somewhere be tween four and five days, if he drove early and late and pushed down hard on the throttle, be in New York. 0R v That a Cahfornian, 100 years from then, could step aboard a jet liner after an early breakfast and eat a late dinner in London, or - com ing the other way and racing the sun - that he could have an early lunch in London or Paris and a reasonably early dinner in San Francisco. NOR - 11 For that matter - Could anyone standing there on the Sacramento's banks a century ago to watch the turning of that first shov elful of earth marking the beginning of the western end of the then new and fantastic transcontinental imagine that a century hence we would be designing space vehicles to carry earthlings to the moon - and taxing the people to pay for them. Blouse Bonanza ill 12Vi 221 It's a Lime ewss thins this tone. Ano if Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- RIVALRY BETWEEN those two fine old Ivy League col leges, Yale and Princeton, now extends far beyond the confines of the football gridiron. Just how far I discovered when I journeyed up to an d VWans "Yes lecture at Yale recently. The very next night Old Eli's debating team was scheduled to meet Prince ton head-on. I've never discovered who won. But "Yale emerged victorious in two previous debates with, the same Princeton team by defending the affirmative in "Resolved: That a College Education Is Wasted on the Amer ican Female" and "Re solved: That Harvard Should Confer An Hon orary Degree on BrigitteBardot!" An author who had submitted a 900-page novel to Editor Hiram Haydn at Atheneum explained, "Often I walked alone lata at night to the very end of a Hudson River pier to collect my thoughts." "Wonderful," nodded Haydn thoughtfully, 'tut I wonder If you went far enough." Observes Robert Nathan In his spritely volume, "The Married Man": "Whoever or whatever was responsible for the extermina tion of the woolly mammoth, the rose, and the mastodon (Being dissatisfied andor derisive) You can be sure that when Man is finally made to disappear from this earth It will be faster done And more decisive." C l-3. by Bennett Cert. DUlrlbuted by King Features Syndicate TlfORE fantastic figures: In the census year of 1860, the population of the United States was 31,443,321. The population of New York, at that time, was 3.880,773 -about half the present popu lation of Los Angeles and its far-flung suburbs. California's population in 1880 was 379. 994. Incidentally, at that time, the population of Oregon was 52,465. Now - The combined population of New York and California is somewhere in the neighbor hood of 35,000,000-more thar the population of the entire United States a century ago. Slightly scary thought: What will things be like a century HENCE? Trading Stamps Buy School Bus A new 54-passenger school bus for the Rogue River academy made its initial run yesterday afternoon. The bus, driven to Medford this week from the bus com' pany in Lima, Ohio, was pur chased by the valley Seventh- day Adventists f. 4,000 books of trading stamps. The project was started In December, 1961, by the four area Adventists churches-Ash- land, Medford, Eagle Point and Valley View. The local academy, with an enrollment of 173 students, uses two school busses. Plans are under way to start saving trading stamps for a second bus. The academy had originally planned to purchase a 37 passenger bus, according to Forrest W. Bigger, who flew to Ohio and drove the bus back. But when a last minute dceision was made to buy the larger one, the company al lowed them to obtain the bus now and pay the balance of 800 books of trading stamps later. One family. It was noted, gathered 347 books, some be ing sent from as far east as Ohio. Trio of tops to triple your wardrobe! Team them with suits, slacks, skirts now - pedal pushers later on. Easy! Printed Pattern 9354: Half Sizes 12'2, 14 V6, 16'2, 18V4, 20'4, 22'i. Size 16Ki top style Hs yards 35-inch; middle V.i Barton Has Plan To Speed Measures Salem - rtlPD - A plan to speed action on noncontro vcrsial bills has been suggest ed by House Speaker-designate Clarence Barton (D-Co-quillc). A study showed in the last legislature more than half the measures approved in the House passed unanimously. Under Barton's plan, non controversial bills would be listed on a consent calendar. Otherwise, the calendar would be voted on in ils en tirety at one time. Aim of the procedure is to eliminate lengthy exp 1 a n a- tions of noncontroversial bills Reed College Head Appointed To Board Portland -lUTO- Dr. Richard Sullivan, president of Reed College, has been appointed to the executive board of the College Retirement Equities Fund. The CREF is a nationwide retirement plan for college teachers and staffs and the staffs of other educational and scientific institutions and organizations. Operations of Pacifica Group Hearing Subject Washington JUPD- The Sen-I ale Internal Security subcom mittee began closed hearings Thursday into the operations of the Pacifica foundation, which operates listener-supported radio stations in Cali fornia and New York. Acting Subcommittee Chair man Thomas J. Dodd (D Conn.), issued a statement say ing the committee would seek to determine whether Com munists had infiltrated the chain of stations. The American Jewish Con- Gas street lights are still used in 33 U.S. cities. grcss said the "obvious pur pose" of the hearing was to intimidate the network's pres entation of a "wide variety of viewpoints -including some which the Senate subcommit tee apparently docs not like." The Jewish group register ed its protests in a letter to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. It urged Johnson to have the hearing cancelled. Professor Subpoenaed Among persons subpoenaed to appear before the commit tee was Dr. Peter H. Odegard, former president of Reed col lege in Oregon and now a pro fessor of political science at the University of California. Odegard said he answered all the committee's questions but declined to say what they were. Asked whether he was dis turbed by the inquiry, Ode gard said "Goodness no." His attorney, Joseph Raul, said "I've been in some hot ones but this was milk and water." In a statement prepared for 5212 Have Switched SEC BRUCE BAUER LUMBER AD ON PAGE 2A I the committee, Odegard said the inquiry might deslro, the foundation's three non-profit stations. They were listed as KPFA at Berkeley, Calif., KPFK In Los Angeles and WBAI In New York. the bible D SPEAKS TO YOU PI Sunday, 9:00 a.m. K-SHA-860 ke flu ami's Cltriaim Sriix pin'" "What li The G teit.it Power?" yards; lower 134 yards fabric. THIRTY - FIVE CENTS in coins for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mail. Send to Mar ian Martin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. FREE OFFER! Coupon in Spring Pattern Catalog for one pattern free - any one you choose from 300 design ideas. Send 50c now for Catalog. A SPRY 70 London (UPD Mrs. Jessie Self, 70. jumped 20 feet from a window Thursday night, bounced off a shed roof, fell into a garden, got up, climbed a wall and then called fire men to put out a blaze in her house. She was treated for slight bruises. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo yAV----THEpT Tat so? whatN'shoehorn's been 8WiwV?wETlLNEiftu- VOL I 47E,OIL5LICK-Ylod&E 15 THAT? I'M X WASHED BV OUR-FRlENDlY MiyaVpROACM-.. HEV.' DiO I TELL VA OUTSIDE SER&EAMT AT B WXZQ" TV COMMERCIALS.' J LDUP ABOUT MV LOD&E UrmS IN MV LODC-H-l THINK ! HES , BUCiNR A HOLDUP VOTING ME MAN OP I DO VOU KWOW OTISf VE)(-TELLER-j I iirpp SHOEHOPN THE YEARPWAIT'LLjTOESQUEAL? HE'S ) lrr WOULD TALK t I SHOW VOU THE T7 ONE OP THE WHATISTHIS- f 1 MOWI IS "paO OFF 'I PIN THEY CAVE ME.1 If FOUNDERS OF jA BANKOI? A CONVEN-M HOW TO " ZL VP AH-I'M OHA OUR OUTFIT- TiON OF THE EATA fSULT HIM )71 T-JE INITIATION V WAlT'LL I TELL V BlTTA PI? THEY'RE A UP;-ASK -PAM-SEF-SO VOU tMAT WE I 1 &AB81ER THAM MV WHIM FOR A) 1 t AST Vpa5..T?.J L DID TO HIM- f-OLD UBVS HEN Atf llloAN , - sjft rtri imJk I Tin ir ft p.. I v j.-rTVJ T3VSL0S MOTEL, jjZl I l I ' ' I Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hill Syndicate, Inc. WHERE ARE GAS PRICES HEADING? As a consumer of gasoline, you have had a better break on prices in recent months than in many years-partlcularly li you live in one of the hundreds of areas where price wars have been raging. What causes gasoline price wars? Where are gas prices like to head in 1963? Here, from Albert L. Nickerson, chairman of the board of Socony Mobil Oil Co., are answers to these and other questions about gasoline prices of interest to every car ariver. Porteri In spite of recent price wars, haven't gas prices been rising during the past few years? Nickerson: No. Gasoline prices actually have been trend ing down, but this has been more than counteracted bv in creasing taxes. Exclusive of taxes, gas prices at the pump loaay are oniy aDoui 3 per cent Higher than in 1051, but taxes are up over 50 per cent. Taxes now average more than 10 cents a gallon-a third of the price, a customer pays. Porter: What lies behind falling prices and the price wars? Nickerson: We have always had a lot of competition in this business. All of the oil companies are very ambitious, and in recent years they have been moving Into new areas, reaching for new markets. This has greatly stiffened the traditional competition in those markets. As a result, prices in the last year have been very de pressed. We thought 1061 prices were low-they were cer tainly below our expeclations-bul prices in July of 1982 were a cent below 1961 levels. They have recovered a bit since the bottom in August, the peak driving season, but in the fall prices traditionally go down because the com panies are running a lot of crude for heating oil and they sell off the excess gasoline produced as a by-product, thus depressing the gasoline market. Also basic to the price picture is a general excess supply In the industry of both crude oil and refining capacity. We run at around 82 to 85 per cent of capacity. Porter: What is the role of private brands in Drice cut ting? Nickerson: The private brands, which sell under the super market type of philosophy - big volume, low profits, mini mum service, no frills-have been taking a bigger share of the market each year. There are no national figures, but in some markets, such as St. Louis and Kansas City, they do about half of the business. In Detroit it is more like 20 per cent, and in the Northeastern States it isn't that high. Porter: How do private brands compare on prices? Nickerson: Private brands sell for a cent or more a gallon less than the nationally advertised brands, and some com panies have brought out so-called sub-regular grades of gaso line to compete with them. Mobil believes that there is no more technical need for a sub-regular grade of gas today than there was for a super premium gas yesterday. Nor would such a move help our profit factor. We do not sell to private branders either. In stead, we rely on a flexible refinery schedule, on better marketing Information and on storage facilities to prevent ourselves from developing unmanageable surpluses. Porter: Since prices have been no unfavorable to you, how come profits have held up so well? Nickerson: The domestic oil companies have hecn hav ing a harder time than the international companies. While prices abroad have also been under serious competitive pres sure, they have not dropped so sharply. Porter: What lies ahead for oil companies in the U. S.? Nickersom Other industries have learned to live with over-capacity and we may have to learn to live with it too. The government import quota program, which allows com anies to import oil on a formula related to their refinery runs, tends to encourage overproduction. Assuming we arc not able to get the prices we consider fair - and I fervently believe a price Increase Is needed and Justified in 1983 - we may have to cut back on some features, such as elaborate service stations. Even the most aggressive competitors will not continue unprofitable operations In definitely. However, as you gain efficiency, you ran begin to make money on lower prices. We're trying to Innovalc-we now have a repair center in Camden, N.J., where your car under goes 60 electronic tests to determine exactly what's wrong with It. And we are adding such Items as vending machines to help boost gas station income in the face of declining revenues from such services as lubrication. FOR REAL COMFORT 19S7 Chrytler New Yorker, 4 Dr. Sedan, VI, Automatic, RIH, Full Power. $1099.00 Rial Sharp . LEA RAMBLER Fifth and Barllart Phona 772-61 8S EVERYDAY'S A SALE DAY RED TAG SPECIALS SUIT CASES - TRAIN CASES -HAT BOXES - WEEKENDERS -MAJORETTE CASES SOME SHOPWORN OR SLIGHTLY DAMAGED 25 to 50 Off VAPORIZERS PRAK-T-KAL, DEVILBLISS, G.E. 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TRAY SETS 4 TRAYS PER SET Still a Few Left At '5.95 "SUPER SMOOTH" IRONING BOARD PAD SET SILICONE TREATED COVER A Good Buy for Just , 79c $1.98 HOMETEX PAD SET I HEAVY DUTY IRONING BOARD PAD -M QQ AND SILICONE TREATED COVER IiV "HANDY COOKS HELPER" POT HOLDER AND MITT SET 2 JUMBO POT HOLDERS 0EA 2 OVEN OR FREEZER MITTS OvU ASSORTED COLORS - REGULARLY $1.69 CORN POPPERS 2 QUART CAPACITY - GLASS COVER A $3.95 VALUE Buv It Now for SAMPLE Or "JOLIT Time rurcuriw irebiuuEv '2.98 BAMBOO PLACE MATS Set of 6 for 59c FOR HAIR AND SKIN CARE NYLON HAIR BRUSHES A Good Quality Brush for 79c NATURAL BRISTLE HAIR BRUSHES 1.88 A SPECIAL PURCHASE Enables us to Sell These for Revlon's WINTER LOTION SPECIAL AQUAMARINE OR INTIMATE HAND and BODY LOTION A $2.50 VALUE Very Special Now Aquamarine IS '1.60 LIFE LOTION HAIR TREATMENT BY NUTRI-TONIC WITH CHOLESTEROL THE HEART OF LANOLIN RUB IN RINSE OUT $j AO The $3.00 sizes-Now IVU CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE THAT ONLY THE YEARS CAN BUILD Add Federal Exclie Tex on Taxable Merchandiae T Fro Delivery In Mtdford i T MEDFORD'S ORIGINAL DISCOUNT STORE 1 p"nt thi. coupon for I ECiAumy . run mmm , nayLu J OPEN Wtcrv kA i 3 tt:30 to 9:00 - SUNDAYS V to 2