Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 31, 1963, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text2 B THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1963 MKDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORLGON " wnomit., PILUfUJIU, Ui Streetcars Diminishing on Streets of American Cities I P'W". Uc bus was the, cteco have streetcar systems. , for a handful in Boston, all i Th. .... United Press International A group of youngsters from the prairies of Kansas recently gawked in amazement at a streetcar rolling down Forbes avenue in Pittsburgh. They had never seen one be fore, which is understandable because only 11 U. S. cities now have operating streetcar systems. And the number will he re duced by one or two more in the next year or two. The elec tric trollcy-oncc the marvel of urban transportation - is ncaring the midnight of its ex istence in America. The disappearance of the trolley car has become so com plete it is hard to realize that only 15 years ago nearly every sizable city in the nation had streetcars, and there were still a number of electric intcrur bans. Passing Era The intcrurban list is down to but three in 19811- and one of these has petitioned for abondnnmcnt. Truly, an era is passing. ihc electric streetcar, in vented by a New York engi neer named Frank J. Sprague, made the modern city poss ible. Before electricity began to be used successfully for propulsion in the late 1880's plodding horsecars took Amer ica's workers to their jobs and their wives shopping. Cities were constricted and couldn't expand beyond the UfOful range of a horse or mule team. The electric street car changed all that, fostered the first development of the suburbs and changed our liv ing habits. A second-and far more important-revolution overlook the American mobility only three decades a tier the first electric trams. It was symbol. Izccl by Henry Ford and his nuxlel T. By the end of World War I streetcar riding began to decline and the trams were in trouble. Buses Take Over By 1D30. buses were taking over in the smaller lowns, picking up what traffic hadn't gone to the private autos. By 1040. even the big city street car systems were converting to rubberliird transport. Streetcar men didn't give up without a fight, however. In 1038 the Street Railway Presidents' Conference Com mittee came up with a "dream" streetcar design, pop ularly known as the PCC car. Sonic 4,500 of these stream lined, comfortable and quiet street railway cars were built. Streetcar building enjoyed a modest boom right after World War ll-as a few transit firms decided to retain cars on the more heavily-travelled lines. Orders for new trolleys lapcrcd off. however, until 1U51 when 75 cars were built for Boston and San Francisco. No trolleys have been built in the U. S. since. Private cars made even deeper inroads on public transit than even transit men feared, and by 1054 lines which had supported sheet cars would not even support a bus. The decline of the street car merely foreshadowed the general decline of any form of public transit. Today, bus lines In many cities arc in deep trouble. Transit men agree, gener ally, that the modern street car was not conquered by technology. Far from it, for except for subways the street car remains the quietest, fast CM. more efficient wav to move large numbers of people. The trouble is, those large numbers of people disappear ed into their own automobiles. With some lines carrying only 2(1 per cent of their former Diets, Incomes Receive Credit Washington IITO- Heller di els, along with higher in comes and belter medical care, have produced sturdier and taller Americans, Today's nineyear-olcl boy Is an inch or so taller than his father was at that age. At manhood, lie stands two Inches taller than the average young man at the turn of Ihc century - fie feci, 10 inches. And his weight is about III) pounds more. The U. S. department of ag riculture noted that womrn are about Iwo inches taller, on the average, than they were in ltiOO. They stood fne feet, two Inches then. Bui the ladies arc watching their weight. At the same ages, they weigh less for their height than their grandmother did -by some sis to eight pounds Recreafonci Cosfs Over Forty Billion New York - ITU - Ainei icans spend between Mu and 54,' billion annually filling in the ever-lengthening hours of leis ure due to tile shorier work week reports Alexander lliimillon Institute, Inc. Direct expenditures for rec reation were close lo mi lieu In HW2, u,, from m i u billion in 11132. passengers, tlic bus was thc)Cisco have streetcar systems. , for a handful in Boston, all only answer. Los Angeles has the only re- other U. S. trolleys arc streetcars remain m opera-, maimng narowgaugc trolleys streamlined) and New Or- 'VR" ,.r,1n.,J t .1,- I I I ...... ... tion in 1 1 U.S. cities. In most cases there were special cir cumstances which made the trams rctnin their usefulness or made them difficult lo re place. Streetcar Flcots Philadelphia and Boston operate large fleets of streetcars-all of the streamlined type. In both cities the trolleys travel underground for long distances, free from traffic de lays. And on some lines the traffic still is simply too heavy for buses. Los Angeles and San Fran- 3'6" compared to the utanH ard 4'8'i". San Francisco also operates its legendary cable cars on three lines. El Paso, Tex., has one oper ating car line-it goes across the river Into Juarez, Mexico, and is the only international streetcar line in North Amer ica. New Orleans operates two heavy streetcar lines which are distinctive on at least two counts. The Crescent City still is served by huge non streamlined trams dating back lo the early 1920's (except leans still has cars operated by two-man crews. Cleveland and Newark both have streamlined trolleys run ning on private rights-of-way in semi rapid-transit service. Business is so heavy in the Cleveland lines to suburban Shaker Heights that four or five cars are frequently coup led together and run as trains. Baltimore and St. Louis still have a handful of trolleys each, but the Baltimore lines arc scheduled lo bow out this year and the St. Louis trams may go soon afterward. The last streetcar In Wash ington, D. C, ran in late Jan uary. Pittsburgli has an extensive trolley system that is the mecca of every trolley fan in the U. S. Retention of trolleys in the Steel City has been dic tated by steep hills, narrow streets, tunnels, bridges and many miles of private right of way which would be diffi cult to duplicate by bus line. Pittsburgh's trolley fleet is relatively modern and in cludes a number of semi-air- conditioned cars. U. S. trnllrv fans nftnn journey across the border to visit me Busy streetcar sys tems of Toronto and Mexico City, both of which operate large numbers of cars hnimht from U. S. lines. Black as the future seems for streetcars, most railfans guess that a few lines will survive in such strongholds as Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco for perhaps another 20 years. Three of the biggest are the Branford, Conn., Kenncbunk Port. Me., and at Washington. Ohio. Trolleys of all ages and types are operated on week ends by traction enthusiasts and are lovingly preserved, rehabilitated and maintained. Rubber Mattresses Are Boom To Cows New York-'lTli-The coun try's 23 million dairy cows one day may be bedded down on rubber mattresses. This possible first major change in dairy barn house keeping in more than a cen tury was thought of six years ago by Mrs. Dan Stroup, a farm wife of Medina county, Ohio, when she designed an experimental two-inch mat tress filled with foam rubber. The Latex Foam Rubber council said that since, the new bed for Bossy has been undergoing tests at the U. S. department of agriculture farm in Bcltsvillc, Md Test officials report the cows sleep ing on the rubber pallets give five per cent more milk and chances of their gelling uiDer iculosis or mastitis are 80 per cent less, the council said. I Similar reports arc coming I in from the Cornell university 1 testing laboratory at Ithaca, N. Y. U.S. farm land is being con verted to other uses at the rate of about 2 million acres per year. After textiles and tobacco, timber ranks as the third big T in North Carolina industry. The state is first in the coun try's production of wood fur niture, hardwood veneers and plywood. Sunshine Is Claimed Damaging to Laundry new loru-nni-The fjrst nuns moo iiumemaKcrs dn on a Mondav morninn i . out the window to check the weather. If the day js brink, and sunny, they consider it good wash day. But, while the sun is dry Ing their clothes, it's also af! fectinc the fabrics anA not too favorable. Bright sun. shine causes fading of color' bleaching, loss nf who,.-. ' , v . ,ii-iies5, and weakening of fibers, say iiuiou ciuiiuuiisis ai me Okla homa Stale university' cultural experiment station." Chow dogs and polar bean are Ihe only animals known to nave uiacK tongues. MIX FRUIT CCTADL Town House Light, delicate flavors. No. 303 can for White Star Every bite is delightful. No. y2 can CHUNK TIUNA $ for ANTIA IAN An Cut French Style or Wax No. 303 can (D for tissue Zee. White and pastels. CAT SUP Del Monte. Rich j F 311 flavor. nr II i " 14-oz. bottles More Zee Values Paper Towels K,. 31c Paper Napkins MBri 2 Sandwich Bags school WilV PonOf Zco' ideal sandwich tOA rdpCl wrap. 200 ft. rolls 29c 39c Great for 1A- lunches. Pk. 75 I Qi Delicious Salad Dressings Kraft Dressing 29c French Dressing Italian Dressing Roka Dressing H-ff" heosc 45c Kraft, creamy 00a thick. 8-oz. &3C Kraft. True M4 Italian style. 8-01.410 Cereal Bowls and MUGS All white Breakfast males SPECIAL EACH 0C CINNAMON ROLLS Mrs. Wright's fresh pastry. Perfect for 10 o'clock coffee break. Pkg. 39' SH SALE! FRESH RED SNAPPER Rere's a RojI Safeway Value P La ICNIC CARLOAD COOKIE SALE! OATMEAL OR SUGAR M0 COCOANUT OR CHOCOLATE CHIP " MARSHMALLOW TREAT, pi.,. Pink, While, TojiI. 34-01. Pkj. Busy Baker fresh cookie sale! good cookies at a low, low price. Per Package for ARMOUR STAR Fully cooked; no waste. Just heat and serve. No carving problems here. 3-lb. can Skinless Franks T Bone Steaks Top Sirloin Pure Pork Sausage nr I I 79 LAST CHANCE! Home and High School Encyclopedia Last opportunity to purchase these fine books. Volumes 1 thru No.) Q All $29 20 available Only t"C Others I Buy Kraft Cheez Whiz Regular or Pimiento 8-Ounce 39 Regular 14-Oz. Safeway. Always a hit. Fresh! U S.D.A. Choice aged beef. Boneless. Choice Beef. lb. lb. Popular brands. 1 -lb. rolls for Each 49 $1.09 1.39 Hlffhwau GranpfmH ?"k" sw Pineapple Instant Coffee Tenderleaf Tea Pineapple Juice 303 can Dole, crushed. No. 2 ein. Each Chise & Sanborn Save 20c. 6-oi. We Give Fancy Sliced Bacon Safeway or Armour Star r" r Mb. package dDC GOLD BOND STAMPS ILJL 5 fr 89c 33c 87c Picks you up, C7 48 bag pkg. 0 I l Et 2 f 49c v ii Thick-Sliced Bacon Safeway, always fresh. Mb. packag .1.09 low, low prices plus valuable Gold Bond Sumps Start Saving Nowl o o o o Q Missourians Take Their Own Choice souri a,v duHV" " m"de ,0 ' the pro nnn "?? P" ! nimclailon, are correct. incir a u I' HtUr'OnU Iv.AlL InlBUlr:. MLUr'CHD. GntUult Some say Missouri-' mlir "MissouiHh '. Tony HieslxTser, Univer sity of .Missouri journalism sludenl asked Ally. Gen Thomas F. Eagleton to Kive him the correct pronunciation because out-of-state students wanted to know, "Surely our forefathers, when adopting 'Missouri' as the name of our slate, left some indication as to how the name would be pronounced," ..lliesberger said. Eagleton said he used the "Missourah" p r onunciation, although no research had been So, Missourians take their choice. "Missouree", or "Mis sourali." But, .Mrs. Virginia Terry of nearby University City want ed to know, "if Missouri is really Missourah, is Missis-sippi-Mississipah?" Americans spend about 15 per cent of their food dollars for dairy products but get back about 25 per cent of their total food value in these products. About three-fourths of the states engage in growing to bacco crops. Aboof 70 Million Expected at Fair New York-il'Pl - The number of visitors expected at the New York Wurld's fair m 19b'4-65 is the rough equiva lent of th combind population of Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, De troit, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Cleveland, Seattle, Dallas, At lanta, Boston, London, Paris, Moscow, Hong Kong, Rome, Leopoldville, Brussels, Dub lin, Glasgow and the countries of Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden and Denmark. That's about 70 million. IriUHSDA.Y. JANUARY 31. 1962 New York raises about sev en times more ducks than any other state. Shopping Centers in Suburbs Give Face-Lifting to Country By LEROY POPE . dise sales up about five per. Today almost 70 nor cent, include rP.tm,rnnu il...-i..r . ... t, iS? n-u... . . . . . . Unitc-d Press International New York - itPU - The 10 year migration of retail trade to the suburbs and country side accelerated in 19H2 and now is giving the country its greatest face-lifting of the century. Retailing had a good year for the most part. Sales of all stores gained about seven per cent over ltlb'l. and by the time the last Christmas pres ents had been exchanged, the year's volume topped $232 billion, according to Standard & Poor's. Durable goods rolled up the biggest gains-perhaps 10 per cent - with general merclian- cent. The gains in sales were not generally translated into bet ter profits for merchants, though. Intense competition and rising costs prevented that. Centers Created But the big story in re tailing is the creation of 600 new suburban and rural shop ping centers and a 40 per cent rise in sales of discount stores, virtually all of them in the suburbs and countryside. As recently as 1952, about 60 per cent of all new stores were opened downtown -whether on Fifth avenue or on Main street in Podunk. Today almost 70 per cent of all new stores open in the stihnrbs or on the highways. Rural and suburban shopping centers grossed $55 billion during the year - almost 25 per cent of Ihe retail dollar. The number of centers has grown to a fantastic 7.200. Enclosed Mall The most dramatic aspect of the face-lifting retailing changes have given the land scape is Ihe enclosed mall shopping center. About 20 of these have been built. One at Moorcstown, N. J., and one at Huntington, L.I., cost S20 mil lion each. '1 hey are complete ly air-conditioned and beau tifully landscaped and often include restaurants, theaters and other recreations. The whole family can park Ihe tar and shop and amuse them selves for hours without be ing exposed lo the weather or traffic. Naturally, of retailing and countryside creates prob lems of "wasteland" and shrinking tax revenues in the downtown areas. Yet there were no big downtown department store closings in the country dur ing the year - although little department stores closed every week. I!ut the big dr partmen: store companies clearly have adjusted to the new fads of lilf. They now draw far more sales from their new suburban branches than from the central store downtown. Record Sales Most of thejn renort record this huge shift j or near record total sales for to the suburbs I the year. Federated Depart ment Stores expected to rack up a gross of $900 million, for e x a m p 1 c. Associated Dry Goods, of vchich Lord & Tay lor is the Fifth avenue lag ship, added $05 million to its volume ai one clip by acquir ing the great Stix, Baer & Fuller store in St. Louis Rullw.'ks", the west coast chain, continued its rapid ex pansion and, countering the I mi mi ii PP I II i 11 Ii, hp X ! Here's a sale that lets you save big while fitting purchases to your exact needs. Because these Mix-or-Match offers let you combine one- and two-item purchases to earn quantity-price savings, they're great for replenishing shelves. Smart shoppers will use this money-saving opportunity to balance budgets. Come in and get in on the low, low prices now ! Willer's Model Bakery Assorted Coffee Cakes cach 53c German Chocolate Loaf Cake eKh 59c We have a good assortmert of cookies More Safeway Low Prices Strained Baby Foods Gerber't Glass Canned Milk tc,; Salad Oil ar 8 for 89c 8 for $1 37c Fancy Bananas Real beauties Slowly ripened the way nature does it. Sun Fresh Crisp Heads 2 C GOLDEN DELICIOUS APPLES Quality iML lbs. ; Potatoes Yellow Onions Grapefruit No. 1 Netted Gems Med. Size Coachella Ruby Red 10s49c 10 ib, 69c 5 m. 49c CCP-yr.ghT 162, SAf-L.VAY STO1. U i;.C0CATED Priis effective Thursday, January 1, thru Sunday, February i, ir.' Medford, Wo rt'eve the ighf to linj,'t. lO O PREMIUM QUALITY BEL-AIR BRAND Green Beans DfAftAAl'l Chopped Cut or French MIX OR MATCH! Your Choice Peak of flavor Kernel Corn Vegetables Green Peas Buttery sunshine Mixed Salad perfect. Tender and Sweet PREMIUM QUALITY BEL-AIR BRAND French Fries Sii MIX OR MATCH! Your Choice Chopped. Clean and leaf. Spinach Potato Patties Squash Waffles Western favorite Grand baked with Marshmallows Heat in oven or toaster MORE FROZEN FOOD VALUES Strawberries Cream Pies Chinese Dinners Bel-air, premium quality Year round treat. IO-oi. Banquet. Banana, Lemon, Chocolate, Coconut. 14-oz. Kubla Khan. All regular 65c dinners. 4 89 59 Pepperoni Pizza 89c XLNT Tortillas 29c SPECIAL! ICE CREAM Lucerne Party Pride Cherry Vanilla Choc. Chip Almond Peppermint Candy Choc. Marshmallow Vanilla Banana Nut Macadamia Nut Choc. Marble Butterf inger Maple Nut Butterbrickle Butter Pecan Neapolitan Half Gal. general trend, had much Im proved earnings. Interstate Department Store, Sears, Roe buck & company, J. C. Pen ney, Montgomery Ward and Hie other leadini! enmnanifo all had good volume gains. volume in the 2.500 dis count stores jumped to $8 billion, but behind this facade of prosperity, discount oper ators had to grapple with problems as serious as those that began toppling depart ment stores 10 years ago. discount stores A horde of new discount stores, many of th Pm CP rim it- ly undercapitalized with in experienced m a n a g ements and often bad locations in creased discount store com petition to the breaking point in many areas. Two big chains in the dis count field - Maxwell Gluck's Grayson-Robinson stores and Bargain City USA, Inc.-were forced to file under Section. 1 1 of the Federal BankruDtcv laws. At the year end, Dun & Bradstreet reported 10 to 15 discount stores were closing monthly - and there is no such thing as a small discount store. The supermarkets and other food chains had a sales gain of about four per cent. They also experienced a profit squeeze and an expensive trading stamp war, but their rate of building expansion definitely slowed down, giv ing their shareholders a hope of better earnings in the next few years. Variety and drug store sales were up 9.5 per cent and 8.4 per cent, respec tively, through October. Credit Grows Credit business grew at the expense of cash business in all types of retailing. This trend was enhanced by the eagerness of banks, finance companies and credit card clubs to earn interest and fees financing the sales- and by credit automation which cuts the cost in time and money of credit operations. People naturally ask, what is all this doing to the inde pendent merchant? Is he doomed? By no means. New inde pendent stores are born as fast as older ones close or are brought up. But the public doesn't always recognize in dependent stores - they look and function like chain stores because so many of them are franchise operations or mem bers of the what are called "voluntary chains," a group ing of a dozen to several hun dred independently - owned stores who hire management experts to direct their policies as a chain. The last stand for the old fashioned small totally inde pendent merchant may be In the tiny shops of the teeming neighborhoods of New York, Boston and Chicago. Builder Predicts All-Plastic Homes New Y o r k-IIIPIi-Bv ih 1980's builders of Dlastic hnua. the will Dour from a barrel materials for awalls and other parts. Henrv DeVore. the elastics expert who made the predic tion, said also that continued progress with the man-made building material will result in many dramatic new tech. nlques In home construction. In town for the ninth na- tional plastics exposition, De Vore, of Allied Chemical corp., cited an experimental building constructed bv Armv engineers at Ft. Belvoir, Va., as one example of advance ments In plastics. The building, about the size of a two-car garage, was con structed of plastic panels, molded and shaped from foam sprayed from a 55-gallon barrel. DeVore listed other plastic building materials alreariv rn. ceivlng attentlon-polyethyene cold water piping, plastic sew- age pipes, and translucent plastic panels for industrial skylights, windows, room dividers, shower stalls and car ports. Food Purchasing Survey Is Made New York-IUPD-The man who Invented canned pork and beans made his own con tainers for them. Gilbert Van Camp, a former tinsmith, produced the first can of this now staple vege table and meat combination In 1861 in the back of his small green grocer's shop in Indianapolis. Two years later. he began canning the combina tion under government con tract for the Union armies during the Civil War, By 1882, the output had reached six million cans a year. Today, the company he founded produces that many cans In four days, and the canning Industry, about 800 milllon containers a year. Enough material Is con tained in the ttibeless tires of a Boeing Jet a'rllner'i land ing gear to produce 100 auto mobile tires.