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10 A FRIDAY. DECEMBER 1.1. VM-I MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON in Edited by The Mail Tribune Advertising Department RETAILERS SEE SALES CAIN IN FIRST HALF 'M. Sixty-six per cent of the 159 retailers participating in the National Retail Merchant's Association's survey anticipate a sales gain in the first half of 1964 and 51 feel that profits next year will be ahead of the same period in 1963. The median estimate for a sales advance is 5 while a 10 profit rise is the median figure antici pated. Some 29 of the respondents predict sales will hold even with present levels, while 5 say they will fall below. Profits will hold even according to 4.1, while the 6 remainder predict that they will drop. Last year, in a similar survey, only 57 of those answering then anticipated a median rise in sales of 4. For 196.1, half of the respondents predicted higher profits, but with only a 5 profit increase as the median estimate as compared with 10 now expected for 1964. "This is one of the healthiest first-half sales and profit pictures disclosed by an NHMA survey in recent years," it was noted. The survey revealed that over half of the store executives see an in crease in credit sales for the first half of '64, 41 said they will remain the same and only 2 foresee a decrease. 'lit ECONOMIC PICTURE BRIGHT. "The inherent strength of our economy will prevail and move ahead in the months to come, despite a brief period of uncertainty," said Dr. Marcus Nad Icr, professor nf finance at New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration, reports Daily News Record. "The year 1964 will be good. If anything better than 10(1:1. economi cally speaking." Dr. Nadlcr noted. He said that he based his belief "on a simple analysis of the forces that make our economy tick." The analysis, he pointed out, showed there would he a decline in the amount of disposable consumer income spent on scrvicrs. He predicted this would result In more money being spent for apparel and shoes. Other factors that Dr. Nadlcr believes will further strengthen our economy Include: personal disposable Income Is rising , . . population is up and so are wages; the year 1964 will be a good automobile year, making it three in a row. Reasons for the onto rise arc the population increase, more two-car families, the rising number of youngsters reaching driving age and requiring cars, and the availability of car financing; corporations arc spending more on plants and equipment in efforts to be competitive. BROWN & HALEY'S "CANDY KITCHEN" PROVES SUCCESS. Brown k Haley's new "Candy Kitchen," the bright pink, gold, white and black unit that is show ing up these days in supermarkets and super drugstores all over the West, is catching on like chocolate candy. In connection with the celebra tion of their fiftieth anniversary, Brown & Haley, the T a c o m a, Washington based producer and marketer of confectionery prod ucts, built a handsome unit to dis play their popular Almond Hoca, Fancy Chocolates and Fine Choco lates. They tested the unit in Port land, Oregon supermarket during the summer. After one month, the iMm ,' .1 J ff " riCJil sl0,e manager predicted that the would iiu a minimum ui ?zo,uuu worth of business for him the first year. So Brown & Haley let it be known that they had units avail able and the orders began pouring in. One store ordered four units. But Brown and Haley, trying to build the "Kitchens" fast enough to keep up with the demand had to say, "No, only one to a customer." Shown here is one of the Brown & Haley Candy Kitchens at the Big Y Shopping Center in Mcdford. Brown & Haley was established in 191.1 wilh ten employees. Today the Company, under the leadership of Fred T. Haley, president, employs approximately 275 men and women, lis prod ucts, Almond Roca, Fancy Chocolates, Fine Chocolates, Mountain Bars and others, are marketed throughout the United States, in Canada, England, Hong Kong, the Orient, the Philippines, Singa pore, Tahiti and Australia. Last August 26th, Brown & Haley received President Kennedy's "E" Award for outstanding achievement for successful export of its products. Secretary of Commerce, l.uther Hodges presented the award to Mr. Hnloy in ceremonies at Washington, D. C. On October 3, Governor Albert D. Rosellini of Washington, members of the Regional Export Expansion Council and representatives of the U. S. Department of Commerce took part in ceremonies at the Brown k Hiilcy plant in Tacoma, at which time the blue and white "E" Flag was raised. The firm's em ployees were presented with blue and gold "E" lapel pins. CENTRAL POINT HAS HOLIDAY PROMOTION. Forly alert Central Point business firms, with an assist from the Central Point Lions cluh, are staging their first annual Christmas pro motion this season, according to Dale Van Wey. Firms In the Central Point Shopping Area have an nounced in a Mail Tribune advertisement that they will remain open until 9:00 p.m. week days until Christmas eve, when they will close at 6:1111 p.m. Those who shop in the Central Point area have been Invited In register for $200.0(1 in gilt ccr lllicates to he given each week, selections In lie mailc December 14 and 21. Registration may be made at any one of the forly participating Central Point firms. Professional olficcs of Central Point also cooperated In the city-wide promotion. HOME at avc- Santa's romotion of Hotpoint anuliancos. custom kitchen cabinets, lighting fixtures and floor coverings according t o Lee Stark. Part of the holiday promotion is free fruit cake with appliances purchased and a free dis posal given to one of the 1 1 i mi i i cTmmpirj SNOW TIRE SALES SOAR. Snow tires have been playing an increasingly Important reft in over-all tire jalcs since the mid-1950s, reports The New York Times. Their share of the industry's most lucrative market replacement times has advanced sharply since that time. In 1957, snow tires accounted for about 7 of the replacement market. This year they are expected to total about 11.5. In 1964, their share of this market could climb as high as 15,according to industry sources. Sales estimates for 1963 from major producers range from 11 million to 13 million tires. In 1962, about 10.8 million units were sold and as recently as 1957 only 3.9 million snow tires were purchased. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company officials point out that while all passenger tires have shown an increase of 27.6 in the last five years, special winter treads have climbed by 143. New records are also expected to be set by snow tire retreads in 1963. An estimated 7 million winter retreads will be sold this year compared with 4.6 million in 1962. TEENS HIGH ON SPORTS LOW ON EQUIPMENT. Some 9.3 million teen age girls, 83.8 of the total female teen population, bowl, indicates Seventeen Magazine's "Sports Participation Study." Practically all swim (99.2 of the 11 million teen girls in the country); 82.8 ride bicycles; 70.7 ice skate; 54.1 roller skate; 65.5 play tennis and 54.1 ride. Almost half of the na tion's teen girls have taken to water skiing and 19.2 snow ski. Golf is for 2.7 million teen girls. With millions of young women so high on sports activities, ownership of sports equipment is comparatively low. Slightly more than half own their own bicycles, ice skates and tennis rackets. The fact that fewer than 12 have bowling, roller skating, water skiing, golf and snow skiing equipment indicates a virtually untapped market for sporting goods stores. NEWBERRY EMPLOYEES RECEIVE YULETIDE GIFTS. Christmas cash gifts were present- ed to employees of the two Medford Newberry stores, according to Robert Alton, manager of the downtown store and T. J. Waltman, manager of the new Medford shopping center store, Prcscnta tion of cash gifts at this time of year is in keeping with the company's long-established policy. With over 560 stores throughout the United States, several warehouses and five District Offices, Alton said the Christmas gifts to Newberry employees this year would total $700,000. The amount eacn employee received depends on length or service. He also pointed out today that Newberry's has in force a Retirement Plan, as employees be' come eligible, paid for by the company up to the first 52,000 of annual earnings, and by an em ployee-company participation plan on earnings exceeding $2,000. In addition Newberry's provides all its eligible employees with company paid Life Insurance Policies 'and shares in the cost to them of sickness, hospital expense and surgical benefits insurance. Also he explained that Newberry employees have a Stock Option Purchase Plan thru which several thousand employees have become owners of their company's capital stock, and a discount on company purchases at their store, Senate Approval Of College Aid Bill Believed Nearing r """' i - ' . Ik. .'T-7.-T Till? I II I XWV.- V -1 SERVICK CENTER . jwi."., wr . w. ....... mixamZ7r.a m- line is featurim; a K. VT?twiI Super Market pi visitors registering at the new appliance store. B.M.I. Inc., a Medford, owned firm, has long been in the component home manufacturing, plumbing and kitchen cabinet business here. The opening of the firm's new Home Service Center offers southern Oregon people one-stop shopping for custom home needs. A special showroom for built-in appliances and kilchen cabinets is featured at B.M.I.'s Home Service Center and the company's custom kitchen remodeling service is complete from initial planning to the finished job, Stark said. SLIGHT DECLINE FORECAST FOR HOUSING STARTS. Ilmislni n.ric ..ill j,.i. iii,,k. i 1961, predicts the National Association of Home Builders, reports Building Supply News. Private, "" iiircinsi ii i,omi,uoii wins, imwn Irom an esllmalrd 1.5:i0. Some SM.ono multiple units arc expected to be built, a drop of 2o. houses this vear. 01. 1)S F-S5 STATION WAGON BUSINESS IT Oldsinobile t -to sianon wauons arc iid 45 I 1 hir 1 Dl ill " JL. I U I i T -Xktf.flTCk HI SOUTHERN OREGON TRAILER MART CHANGES HANDS. John A. Blount, manager of Southern Oregon Trailer Mart for several years, has purchased the business, which is located in Phoenix, Oregon. Blount came to Medford in 1959, after managing a Southern Oregon Trailer Mart branch in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Blount is married and his wife's name is Joan. The couple has two boys, John Craig and James Michael. Southern Oregon Trailer Mart was founded in 1951 by Roy H. Abbot and William A. Darling. The firm has been an official Travelcze dealer for about nine years. For eight years the firm has been a dealer for Nashua Mobile Homes. NATION'S HOME REMODELING BILL HIGH. A total of 511 billion was sucnt durinff 1962 on rcmonciing, reports minding supply News. This figure averages just under $250 per property, bas cd on all residential properties in the nation. PONTIAC NOVEMBER SALES SET NEW RECORD. Pontiac and Tempest sales for November were ti, oib, csiauiisning an all-time record for tne month, it was announced today by E. M. Estes, a General Motors vice president and general manager of Pontiac Motor Division. This marked the eighth month this year that Pontiac has set a new sales record, Estes pointed out. Tempest sales in November totaled ia.410, making it the highest Tempest sales month ever. Retail deliveries bv Pontiac dealers riurinu the final 10 davs of November were also the hiphosl for any similar 10-day period, totaling 19,436 units. This is the sixth consecutive 10-day record since the introduction of the 1964 models. A year ago, November sales totaled 54,914. Dean and Taylor Pontiac Company, 2177 South Pacific highway, are dealers here for Pontiac. MEDFORD MAN ON VOLKSWAGEN COUNCIL. The ni,,n f eight dealers, elected recently to the Vnlkswaeon nlslrlhnlnr- Dcaler Advisory Council of the Pacllic Northwest, were announced recently by Knute M. Qvalc, president of Riviera Motors, Inc., Beavcrlon. Ore. Riviera Motors is Volkswagen distributor for Alaska, Idaho. Montana, Oregon and Washington. Every stale In Riviera's distribution area was renresenlixt nn the hoard. Dealers elected were Earl l.ahmcyer. Lahmeyer's Automotive Service, Ketchikan. Alaska; Jim Cusick, Jim Cusick Motors. Inc.. I.ewislon, Idalioi Paul Hill, Hill's Economy Cars. Inc., Pocatcllo. Idaho: Curt Hanson, Western Motors, Great Falls. Mont.: Paul Koch, Peter Paul Motors, Gladstone, Ore.; A. K. Morse, Morse Motors, Medford, Ore.; Jim Cleland, Metro Motors, Inc., Seattle; and C. L. Bright, Bright Motors, Inc., Spokane, Wash. Qvalc said tile Volkswagen Distributor-Dealer Advisory Coun cil program was set up Inst year to Increase communications within Ihc 721) aiithnrlml Volkswagen dealers In the United Slates, the 15 Independent distrihiilim; comnanirs. and Vnlkswairrn nf America. A. K. "Woody" Morse The Riviera Motors president said such councils emphasize the importance Volkswagen places on understanding Its dealers' views and problems. I nc Advisory Council will meet In Portland one week from today to . c?; v .Mni'sc. At December 20th, according ROGUE VALLEY BRANCH OF OREGON BANK CELEBRATES OPENING. The Rogue Valley Branch of The Oregon Bank opened officially at 1025 Court Street, Monday, December 9 , ? "P house, was held throughout the day with bank manager, Barney Baxter, acting as offi fn"'.n TV bl"ld"Lg contains 7 000 sqUi,re fMt of office sPace wnich w'l enable the firm banks glowlh!" BSrWs.a.cTalCr ba"king COm'0rt "" Cnab'e lkm kwp paCe Wi,h the The bank location was chosen at the junction of Court Street and Central Avenue to fit in wilh "WS the small park which is adjacent. The huiMinir was riioni r low silhouette to blend with the setting. Ample parking and at tractive landscaping were designed to complement the new building. A drive-in banking window is provided for persons who prefer to remain in their cars for banking transactions. A night de pository is also available to accommodate merchants with coin sacks and individual depositors. Clarence Young, vice president of the bank, will maintain his ofriccs in the new quarters. From this location he will direct work on the bank's third Medford branch which will soon be under construction at West Main and Grape Streets. WELLS LEAVES FOR SEARS' VISAMA STAFF. James ells. member of the Sears Roebuck 4 Company's Medford or ganization since the local store opened in 1959, will assume the position of assistant manager of Sears' store vill rnii. nil lu ' 1. ' ' ...s . ' . " ' "" I he d on in the Rll os rnmmitlpp "".- inn iiiiv. nave rcsiiien ai 723 I'alm street in Medford. 11. Ill ?.".ri,,Srd, " JVa"M,r1, "m' ""cnd'd boln "Zon Sialt nA ""SO" universities, lie has been with Sears for the past seven years. James Wells By YVONNE FRANKLIN Mail Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - The dead lock in Senate House confer ences was ended this week with tentative approval of several education bills. This will pave the way for Senate approval of the "hostage - college aid bill which has a provision for im plementing Oregon's coopera tive graduate research center. Senate and House conferees tentatively agreed to a com promise on the Vocational Edu cation bill, and extension of the National Defense Education Act and the Impacted Aid bill. House conferees gave in on accepting the principle of allo cating money to States based on per capita income as well as population. This clears the path for the college aid bill which Sen. Wayne Morse has been withholding from a final Senate vote until t h e House agreed to Senate terms. If the Senate approves, the bill will be sent to the White House f o r President Lyndon Johnson's sig nature. Ransom Money Paid "The Senate has promised that when the conference was completed on this legislation that they would take action on the Higher Education bill," said a weary Rep.' Edith Green. "Needless to say, all of the House conferees will be pleased when the hostage is released now that we have paid the ransom money." This was the closest Mrs. Green has ventured in criticiz ing Sen. Morse for his maneuv ers and threats in withholding Senate approval on the college aid bill which Mrs. Green and the House conferees very much wanted, until House members "paid the ransom money" by approving the Senate version on allocation of vocational educa tion funds to the Slates. The Vocational Education pro gram is a continuing one, dating back lo 1917, with expenditures now totaling around $58 million a year. The amount agreed to tentatively is $45 million for fis cal 1964, $121 million in 1965 and escalating up to $243 million each year after the fourth year. The program will be revamp ed by the States to train young sters for the job market of to day, with emphasis on the new technology. However, agricul tural and home economics pro grams are still ongoing, only broadened, to include jobs re lated to agriculture and home economics. An amendment by Mrs. Green was accepted which allocates 10 per cent of the money spent for home econom ics training to prepare young women for jobs in the field. The formula accepted by the conferees grants more money to the poorer Slates at the ex pense of the richer ones, as has been traditional in all education bills. The House conferees maintained that it was the con gested cities, with the burgeon ing population of youths aged 16 to 21 out of school and out ! of work that needed the money more than the rural areas with its diminishing job opportuni ties. However, the Senators pre vailed and the compromise 1 reached reduced somewhat the proportion of money goine to the southern States with the lowest per capita income. Ore-! gon should get around $379,000 a year for its vocational ed program. Held in Committee Impacted Aid was extended for two years. This provides fed eral money to those areas where the schools are "impacted" with cniidrcn whose fathers work at federal installations. The pro gram spends around $300 mil lion a year. The House had not completed action on either NDEA or Im civil rights rider attached which bars federal funds to areas which discriminate. The NDEA bill was still in Mrs. Green's subcommittee when the Senate voted on it. The Senators at tached both bills to the Voca tional Ed bill. It was agreed that her com mittee would report out further amendments on NDEA by the end of January. The conferees extended NDEA for only one year so that these amendments 1 approval. "LAD" RETIRES MILTON, England (UPD Mrs. Mary Dobbie, 99, said to day she will close the black smith shop she owns because the "lad" she employes 80 year old Bill Foreman is re tiring. could be considered by the House and Senate later. The ceiling on the amount of loans any one college could give to students was raised from $250,000 to $800,000. 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