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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY. AWf.IL 30. IMS i M Edited by The Mail Tribune Advertising Department TOTAL RETAIL DOLLAR VOLUME FELL CONSIDERABLY during the 7-day period end ed Wednesday, April 24. below the corresponding week last year. Dun & Bradstreet re ported today. National Percentage Changes varied from the corresponding levels of a year ago by the following percentages: . to -5. Regional Percentage Changes varied from the comparable levels of a year ago by the following percentages: South Atlantic -14 to -10: Middle Atlantic and Pacific to -8: West South Central -9 to -5: West North Central -8 to -4; East North Central -7 to -3; New England -6 to -2; Mountain 3 to 7. FURNITURELAND. INC., a new furniture store for Ashland. will open soon, according to H. R. "Buck" Graves, well known H southern Oregon furniture man. The new firm will be es- ja tablished at 164U Highway 66 in Ashland and William Rom- I bach of Phoenix will be co-owner with Graves. Buck Graves, who will be general manager of the new I firm, lives in Ashland with his wife and two sons. For the past 27 months he has been manager of Gray's ft Furniture Barn, Centra! Point, and before that he was associated with Montgomery's Furniture here. Furnitureland Inc. will carry a full line of furniture and is appliances. The store will be a retail outlet for Admiral tele- K vision and appliances. ?V Mrs. Graves and the couple's son, Ray, will help on the H that the store front will be repainted and new signs will be I erected. Mrs. Graves and the couple's son, Ray, will help on the H sales staff and Mrs. Sylvia Snyder will be in charge of the office. PRESIDENT OF DENNY'S RESTAURANTS WINS AWARD. Harold Butler, president of Denny's Restaurants has been selected by the world famous City of Hope National Medical Center, as the recipient of Iheir Industry Achievement Award, on the occasion of tlieir Golden Anniversary Year. The award will be presented to Butler at a testimonial dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Beverly Hills. California. Thursday. June 6. 1963. Butler has lor.q considered the City of Hope program of treatment, medical education, and research in the catastrophic killing diseases, a great humanitarian cause. In accepting the award. Bugler's friends have arranged to make the event the occasion for raising addi tional funds for the City of Hope to establish a Harold Butler Leukerr.da Research Fund. WJk. i m t tr t-r-rr. -r- , CTIMUTDT Ilk H 7 f r U 7-DHTT E- t '.,.., Dl!V.a OCX inL CrYV-c u oui'irini o vrtrtwin inflii. r mm u.q'i lu lina, from Lake Michigan to Lake Ponchartrain, more vacationers will be using their bikes this summer than al any time in history. There are more than 30,000,000 bicycles in Amen ca today, and they are becoming more and more popular as the perfect vacation com panion. "BUCK" GRAVES Tourist information bureaus at Colonial W Nantucket Island, Atlantic City, and points n more tourists taking in the sights by bike. T off calorics, and actually see more of what th Organized budget vacations by bike have b American Youth Hostels program. AYH spo in and around such areas as Cape Cod. the B sion country, northern California and New E for governors of many states in the union, Saudi Arabia. Called "Command Performances", the spc china which hps been displayed as art treasu Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York C and other outstanding museums throughout th service plate with wide border of etched gol in the center of the plate m raised gold. Center: Dinner plate bearing Presidential s Plate's border features a narrow band of teal shown is a tea cup and saucer. RARE CHINA TO BE SHOWN AT SWEM'S Fine j china for the mansions and palaces of presidents, kings. J governors and ambassadors I around the world is part of an exhibit showing treasures of , ceramic art which opens Mon- j day. May 6th at Swems, ac- j cording to Phoebe Ewaldson. Rare museum pieces, costly hand-painted, gold - decorated plates are also shown in the display, now at Sucm's, 217 E. Main st. The dinnerware master pieces were created by crafts men of Lenox, Inc., of Tren ton, N. J., on special order from U. S. Presidents since the time of Woodrow Wilson: d for such foreign dignitaries as the King of cial dinner services arc typical of (he Lenox res in such distinguished institutions as the ity. the Ceramic Museum in Sevres. France. Country. Shown in the nl.ntn nLn n d and teal green. The Presidential scbI appears eal in etched gold, surrounded by 48 gold stars. green circling a design in etched gold. Also illiamsburgh. Va., Yellowstone National Park, orth, east, south and west report more and hey avoid traffic and parking problems, burn ey came to see in the first place. ecn given added stimulus this year by the nsors bike vacations of from one to five weeks erkshires, Lake Michigan, the California Mis-ngland. Whether an organized tour is in the offing, or just some relaxed two wheeled touring with no particular plan in mind, today's American-made two-wheeler is ideal for summer vacation fun. Light in weight but ruggedly made, the modern domestic bike pedals along macadam highways or back woods roads withequal ease, and with the addition of luggage carrier or saddle bags, can be easily loaded with anything from overnight camping gear to a picnic lunch for two. For those concerned with physical fitness, or their lack of it, It should be noted that from 500 to 600 calories are burned up in an hour of moderate cycling. Inspection by a competent service man to insure brakes, tires, steering mechanism and other vital parts are in good order will help make the planned bike trip a su' essful one. During American Bike Month in May, r.tany bike retailers will offer free inspections as a special service. All retailers will offer the free booklet "America's All-Time 10 Best Bike Games, containing the rules of the road, riding tips and a sell-inspection chart. Crater Lake Post 1833, Veterans of Foreign Wars, is conducting an effective campaign here in the interest of greater bike safety, according to Ed Smith, bicycle committee chair man. Smith is a past post commander and is southern Oregon VFW department representa tive to the Veterans' Administration. This special service was ordered by President Truman Lenox, Incorporated. 1952, and was created by J9i b& mKBE339BKHHRLBBV H. G. WALLACE PARADIS TRANSFER & STORAGE, 1015 Norlh Central Avenue in Medford, has added H. G. Wallace to its staff as manager of household goods. Wallace, who for three and one-half years was sales manager for North American Van Lines in Portland, Oregon, recently moved to this city and established residence wiih his wife. Audrey, and daughter, Patricia, at 813 Broad street. Wally Wallace graduated from, the Norlh American School of Household Moving in Portland. Paradis Transfer & Storage is agtnt in Medtord tor North American Van Lines. AMERICANS ON THE GO. American wanderlust is about to cue another boom of summertime travel. The number of traveler to Europe is expected to top the million mark this ! year, up from some 915.000 last yeaV, reports American j Express. Travel to Greece is also on the rise. Some 120,000 ! Americans should travel to Athens this year, up 20.000 from ! last year. BOOM AHEAD IN BUYING PLANS. The buying public will J be stepping up their expenditures in the next six months, ! according to a new survey by Sindlinger St Co., reports Ihe New York Herald-Tribune. As evidence of confidence in the economy, Sindlinger cites the folowing: (1) Consumers in the next six months plan to spend a record S52.3 billion for automobiles, houses, home improvements, furniture, floor coverings and nine major appli ances; (21 695,000 new automobiles will be purchased in the next month, a record high; (3) consumers plan lo buy 3,679,000 new autos in the next six months at an average price of S2.794 per purchase (that's ll?i ahead of this tirro last year): (4) S18.S billion is planned lo be spent for new houses in the next six months, an increase of 4o over the same lime last year; (5) consumers plan !o buy 3,957,000 used cars in the next six months, 17" c ahead of iasl year. WALLAC Exemption on Taxes Salem lUPU A bill to ex tend the property lax exemp tion to parts of labor temoles passed the House Monday and went to the Senate. The ex emption is the one already granied churches, hospitals, non-profit fund raising and social groups, and similar organizations. Pioneer Fingerprint Expert Retires By KENNETH CARR Galveston, Tex. -WPI- Folks around this island city will tell you if you'd ever been in. trouble with the law and ran up against Charlie Bock he could take one look at your hand and tell you what you did, how long ago you did it and what you got for it. Charles Edwa:.-d Bock, a 65-year-old fingerprint expert who recently retired from the Galveston police department, says it isn't so he's not that good. However. Bock lias been known to take one look at a suspect's fingers, go to his files and come back with a card of prints taken from the man 20 years before. On a tother occasion, a bur glary suspect was being ques tioned. A prime suspect, police were about to let him go be cause of lack of evidence when Bock asked to look at his hands. Had Record After a close look, Bock came back in a few minutes with the man's file. He rattled off the man's record and it was discovered he was wanted in several other cities. Bock had never seen the man be fore, just his prints. Bock is considered a pio neer in the rare profession of fingerprint experts. He started out shortly after World War I by taking a correspondence course. While taking the course, he was struck from behind by an auto. His hearing was perman ently damaged, but his eyes took up the slack. After finishing the course, he was asigncd to the identifi cation bureau of the Galves ton police department and soon became known as "Eagle Eye.' Saved Innocent In his 44 years with the de partment. Bock also saved sev eral innocent persons. He once got 11 boys released in con nection with a filling station robbery. Another time a man had been positively identified as a known criminal, by his likeness to the wanted man. Bock had him set free after checking the fingerprints of the two. Bock also is known for his ability to get prints when no one else can. A few years ago a body was found In Galves ton Bay In an advanced stale of decay. Although Bock has retired, his family still Is represented in the fight againsl crime. Both his sons are policemen. CAPSULE PLACED-Technlcians hoist "Falth-7" space cap sule to the top of the gantry at launching pad No. 14 at Cap! Canaveral, Fin , for Installation atop an Atlas booster rocket The bell-shaped capsule will carry astronaut L. Gordon Co per Jr. on a planned 22-orbit flight now scheduled for mid-May. (UPI) WOMAN INDICTED Klamath FbIIs-IUPH - Zelma Joan Ophlho, 42, Klamath Falls, was indicted by the Klamath County grand jury Monday on a charge of first degree murder. She is charg ed in connection with the fatal shooting of Florence Huitt, 26. 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Seasonally adjusted starts leaped 6 Starts increased 11 i in the Midwest and 28 TH HIGH. The rate of initial home construc y level to the highest point in four months, n private new housing at a seasonally adjusted s was way up from February's rate of 1.278. port on housing is the latest of severU indi nomy. The Government has also reported a es to hew records, plus a drop in uncmploy u says April's rate ought to rise considerably rn of home construction activity last month 'r above February's rate m the Noitheast. in the South, but declined 10rr in the WML SUDDEN SIGHT .Miss Bessie Sikes, Miami. Flu., blind for 60 years, has suddenly regained the sight of one eye. Miss Sikcs said the first thing she saw was the floor, then a bis, white refrigerator She said she rubbed her eye while getting a drink of waler and the vision returned. (UPI) Dennis the Menace MORE POWERFUL ENGINE AVAILABLE FOR VW TRUCKS. 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