Pacific Northwest Firms In Argentina
When Pacific Northwest man.
ufacturers go "international",
their accountants and business
counselors go with them. Bue
nos Aires, Hong Kong, Tokvo
airline baggage checks are
among the many you see fre
quently on the luggage of busi
ness friends at Portland Inter
national Airport terminal.
Returning recently from Bue
nos Aires, where two financial
planning meetings were held for
Northwest firms now going into
Argentina, was William F.
Meyer, head of the accounting
firm of Yergen and Meyer.
Portland. The organization "has
long had a local office in Med
ford managed by Glenn Schnei
der, CPA, also a partner. Meyer
stated that a dozen companies
represented by his firm are op
erating now in South America
and the Orient and require tra
vel of staff members to Tokyo,
Hong Kong and Buenos Aires.
Companies represented by
Meyer in Buenos Aires are
Northwest manufacturers of
equipment and supplies for the
fruit industry, which offers a
rapidly expanding market in
Argentina's fruit growing Rio
Negro Valley. These companies,
like a number of other well
known local manufacturers, arc
expanding in South America and
the Orient through joint ven
tures with foreign firms, Meyer
stated.
Like Yakima Valley
Commenting on the growth of
Argentina fruit industries.
Meyer said, "The Rio Negro
Valley in Argentina is a dead
ringer for the Yakima Valley,
even to their river. They grow
and pack 20.000,000 boxes of ap
ples and export half of them,"
Meyer reported. "While the
largest portion .of Argentine ex
ports go to Venezuela and Bra
zil, their growers arc just as
concerned about the European
Common Market as Yakima,
Medford and Hood River
growers."
A unique crop in the Rio Ne
gro fruit district is regular rows
of popular trees grown as wind
breaks for the orchards and
harvested as wood box material
to pack fruit from the same
orchards. Usually fast growth
permits cutting of these trees
in as few as ten years, Meyer
stated.
"Expanding fruit production
in South America, Africa and
other areas does not necessarily
mean competition for our own
great fruit growing districts
since the harvesting season is
in January and February in the
southern hemisphere. However,
there are benefits in having
Northwest firms that manufac
ture equipment and packing
supplies participate in this add
ed foreign business," Meyer dis
closed. "Development and
manufacturing costs of equip
ment and supplies used here at
home are kept lower by the add
ed volume and profits from for
eign sales generally are pumped
back into our own economy."
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Three Accidents
Checked by Police
During Weekend
Three vehicle accidents were
investigated by the Medford city
police during the weekend, po
lice said.
A vehicle driven by Jesse
Marion Chancellor Jr., 20. of
510 Marie St., collided with a
parked auto owned by Robert
H. and Frankie Harris, 2216
Harrison St.. at Eighth Street
near Grape Street, at 10:30 p.m.
Sunday, according to police.
Chancellor was cited by offi
cers for violation of basic rule.
Chancellor, who complained
of a headache, was driven home
by the police officer.
At 9.45 p.m. Saturday a truck,
driven by John Ogden Crcigh
lon. 55. San Leandro. Calif., hit
a traffic control sign at 13th
Street and Riverside Avenue,
police said.
A vehicle driven bv Dennis
Noble Chancier, 20. of 1211 W.
Main St., struck a parked auto
owned by Carl and Gloria Mc
Lean. West Linn, Ore., at Man
zanita and Manlic Streets at
2:30 a.m. Sunday, according tp
police.
Chancier was cited by police
for violation of basic rule.
Ronald Arty Laws, 21. of Tal
ent, a passenger in the Chancier
vehicle, was treated at Rogue
valley Hospital.
Wife of Roseburg
News Editor Dies
ROSEBURG (UPI)-Mrs
Charles Stanton, wife of I h e
editor of the Rosnhurg News-
Review, died in a hospital here
Sunday following a long illness.
She suffered a stroke in April.
The couple was married 44
years.
Funeral will be held Tuesday.
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At What Age Does a Woman
Become Infertile?
Every week 1 get letters from
women, usually around the age
of 50, each of whom says that
she keeps having heated argu
ments with her husband as to
when she will be "safe" as re
gards the bearing of a child.
She docs not want to have a
"menopause baby." Some of
these women are still very an
xious, even three or four years
after they have had the meno
pause.
On turning to the records of111,1.""" amas e, ln?
"lving-in" hospitals, 1 find that I wa,ch for imZcl s,,als- suth
very few infants are ever bornia,s. nausea much weakness, a
to women over the age of 46
years. One American author
ity on obstetrics tells me that he
confined one woman who said
she was 52, and I have had let
ters from two or three women
who said that their mother had
a child when she was 52. How
ever, I cannot be sure of these
statements because I have not
! seen the woman's birth certifi
cate.
On consulting the United
States census figures, I find
again that hardly any children
are born to women who are
over the age of 48. Accordingly,
I think that if a woman is 48,
and especially if she hasn't mcn
stratcd for six months, she is
not at all likely to bear a child.
Today I get a letter from a
woman who says that at oper
ation, both her fallopian tubes
were removed. She wants to :
know if a surgeon could make i
lubes for her so that she can
have a child. 1 have read sev
eral statements by surgeons,
saying they could make some
thing that would look like a
tube, but they doubted very
much if it would function as a
tube and enable the woman lo
get pregnant.
Search For Persons With
Active Tuberculosis
How I wish (hat all of our
people who have a chronic
cough, or a chronic mild fever,
or who occasionally spit a little
I blood would realize what a serv
ice to humanity they would per-,
ii in il iney wuuiu gu uicmv
i to their doctor or to the local
; health department, and have
i their lungs checked with an
x-ray film, and their sputum
with a microscopic test.
Why is this so needed? Be
cause if all people wilh tubercu
r.
.v,.,,.. ',.. i,,. .. hi it,-;, i
would save the lives of a num
bcr of the people they live with, j
and especially the children.
Also, if they all were to get!
cured, the country would soon i
i be free, of tuberculosis, and the
I disease would have gone the i
way ol tne once universal iy-
phoid fever, diphtheria, and ,
"shaking ague." '
New Drugs lor the Nervous
In recent years, many drugs
have been found that will either
quiet nervous and distressed pa-
tients or will stimulate those
been a great increase in the
percentage of patients dis-
charged each year,
! Thus I read that between the
years of 1955 and I9W), in the
New York State hospitals, the
number of persons who had to
be restrained was lessened from
27 per 1.000 to two per 1.000.
while the number of persons be-
ing given tranquilizing drugs
went up from 20 per 1.000 lo
some son per 1,000.
Not all of the melancholic per
sons can be helped by the anti
depressant drugs, but evidently
many persons arc being helped
because I hear that, of late, the
number of patients who hav e to
AW ..laT ..
hit a broken rail. About 25 persons were in
jured when 16 of the 19 cars spilled off the
tracks. Three of the cars overturned. (UPI)
Roundup
receive clectroshock treatments
is half of what it used to be.
One of the good things that
tranquilizers do in a mcntnl
nospual is to make many an ex
cited and uncooperative patient
so well - controlled and rational
that he will sit down with a
psychiatrist to talk to him, to
listen to him, and to profit from
his help.
One sad thing about the new
drugs is that many of them
have unpleasant side reactions.
and hence the doctor and the
""" . "eeu,s, jdumucc, or
If you are approaching the
menopause, you'll want to read
Dr. Alvarez' informative book
let, "Menopause and Hysterec
tomy." To obtain your copy
send 25 cents and a large,
stamped, self - addressed enve
lope with vour request to Dr.
Waller C. Alvarez. Dept. MMT,
Box 057, Dcs Moines, Iowa
(50304).
Crippled Geese
At Portland Zoo
PORTLAND (UPI) - Th
Portland Zoo had 99 crippled i
geese and ducks today. i
loo Director Jack Marks re-1
turned with the birds from the
Tulelake National Wildlife Rc-
lugc m Northern California.
The birds were injured during
ine Hunting season. They first
will be given a chance to build
up their slrenglh and become
familiar with their new sur
roundings at the zoo and then
will undergo surgery.
The birds thai recover will be
set free.
Marks has been collecting i
and Helping wounded birds from
the Tulelake refuge since Will.
Home Brew Threatens
)0;ce Evlcence Room
I TOPF.KA. Kan. (UPD-About
90 bottles of home brew seized
I in a raid last week were held
I as evidence today, though Un
! dersheriff Don Becker warned
i unstable temperatures could
j cause them to explode and
"wreck the evidence room."
Shawnee County Atty. Robert
Brown insisted that chemical
tests be run on the brew before
it is discarded.
The brew was seized from the
trailer home of Sylvester W.
Lollis, 65.
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, Mb'DFORD,
WHAT METRIC SYSTEM WOULD MEAN TO YOU
A bill to pave the way for the adoption of the Metric Sys
tem of weights and measurements in the U.S. is slated to be
introduced in the next session of Congress and odds on its
passage are the best in years. The bill would call for exhaustive
study of the feasibility here of the system currently in use in
8)i countries including 90 per cent of the world's population
today.
Unprecedented pressures for our conversion to Ihe Metric
System are now coming from some of our nation's most pow
erful scientific, educational and industrial forces. While, of course,
a changeover would be spread over decades a time-span most
often suggested is a full generation or 33 years our conver
sion is considered essential and inevitable.
When and as we do take the giant step, we would dispense
with the inch, the pound, the foot, the yard, Ihe mile, the pint,
quart and gallon, the teaspoonful and lablespoonful, Ihe bushel
and barrel, fathoms and fractions. Instead, we would use Ihe
beautifully simple, neat Metric equivalents of grams and kilo
grams, meters and killometers, liters and kiloliters.
What would so radical n changeover mean to us?
All distances would be converted from miles In kilome
ters ami millions of new load signs would have to be posted
across the country. A distance of 2,501) miles, for instance,
would become approximately -t.OlKl kilometers.
All desk rulers, dress pattern, nuts and bolts would have
to be redesigned from terms of inches, feet and yards to me
ters, centimeters and millimeters. When ordering material, you'd
specify meters, not yards.
All measuring cups, milk bottles, butcher scales and gaso
line tanks would have to be changed. Instead of 10 gallons of
gas, you'd ask for around 40 liters, lnstaead of a cup of sugar,
a recipe would call for about 200 grams. As for your new baby,
you'd announce its weight at around 3.2 kilograms, not seven
pounds.
All packages would have to be replaced to indicate Ihe con
venient, round metric sizes instead of today's pounds, quarts, etc.
All postal weighing scales and postal rates would have to be
switched to the metric letter and package weights.
Eventually, conversion would mean new sizes and shapes
of products ranging from home water and gas meters to huge
factory machines and machine tools.
For us who are adults it would mean a re-cducation process
to accustom us to the new measures and for school children,
new textbooks to teach them the
motor and liter
For science and industry, it would mean re-doing literally
millions of technical designs and specifications. For commerce,
it would mean re-pricing most of the products we use accord
ing to new weights, lengths and volumes.
Why even contemplate so enormous a task at a cost con
servatively estimated as running into the billions?
Because by maintaning our cumhcrsunic system of
weights and measures, wc ure getting uul of step with most
of the rest of the world. More ami more countries which once
usrd the traditional "English" measurements system, arc
changing over. Recent "converts" include Japan. India,
Red China. Even the few English-speaking holdouts in addi
tion to us arc indicating increasing interest in switching to
the "international language" of the Metric System.
Says Ihe atomic scientist, Dr. Edward Teller, "If wc do not
change, we shall lose in the economic competition with Russia.'
Says Floyd Hough, an official of the American Geophysical
ion, "The preference in South America for European im-
Union, "The preference in South America for European im-1
yvi io may 111: uui; iu tiitii v.miimiuii iwifiuu ul un.i
measurements. In this age of ever closer lies with other nations,
it is imperative that something be done about the inexcusable
complexity and non-conformity of the English system."
Says Ihe Metric Assn., a non-profit organization headquar
tered in Washington, "Adoption of the Metric System is a world
trend thai cannot be stopped."
Still, the costs, the confusion and rc-cducation involved in a
changeover are terrifyingly formidable. The next column will
analyze the arguments against as well as for.
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stands out in fluodlighting amid the tiny Christmas dccoralion
lights adorning trees along Hie boulevard. In background is
beam of light from beacon atop the Palmnlivc Building. (UPI)
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BY JOE COWLEY
Mail Tribune Staff Writer
Jim won't be home for Christ
mas this year.
He is not an accident statis
tic. He is not a casualty in Viet
Nam. He is a casualty of our
society. He is an alcoholic.
(We arc not using his real
name to protect him and his
We5 interviewed Jim behind .
OaiS 111 U1C l-uuiliy Jtlll. ma irtui-
ily had just left him some
Christmas presents, what they
could afford. Alcoholism strikes
a person physically, morally
and economically.
"How do I feel about spend
ing Christmas in jail away from
my family? I can't put that into
words," he said grimly, his
eyes a little moist. This will be
his first Christmas away from
homo since he has been mar
ried. Won't Be the Same
From the standpoint of family
togetherness and merriment.
Christmas won't be the same to
Jim. Spiritually this Christmas
will mean a lot more to him.
For the first time in 10 years
he has realized that he is an al
coholic and he can't solve the
problem by himself. He needs
help. He needs the help of oth
ers who have "been down Ihe
same road." But, he also needs
the spiritual strength which can
come only from God
just believing in God
is not enough," he emphasized.
You must do something about
it. You must be completely hon
est and sincere about your
problem or forget it," he added.
Jim, once a successful winn
ing man, was sober last Christ
mas. He had a good time with
his family. In fact, it may have
been part of the four nvjnths
when he didn't touch a drop.
But, he did turn back to h -
quor. And that s Ins story.
Breaks Probation
His story came out in nils
and pieces over two thick mugs
of black steaming coffee in "the
interrogation room' ol the
county jail two days before
Christinas. Jim is in jail for i
breaking bis probation Irom a j
misdemeanor conviction, lie
started drinking again and will
oc in county jail one long year,
His "rap sheet" shows a series
of sentences for being drunk or
for misdemeanor offenses all
lied in with bis drinking.
"1 was gone as soon as I took
the first drink," he related. "1
was overseas and I was drink
ing lo show my manhood. 1
passed out."
At first he could lake il or
leave it alone. Gradually he
drank more frequently. At Ihe
same time he felt he had a
menial illness and turned him
self in to a government hospi
tal after returning from over
seas. But the hospital was
crowded then and the doctors
and nurses didn't have much
lime for what may have seemed
to Ihcm a comparatively minor
problem. His treatment was
brief and he was out again.
A Coiniilllsivr Thing
"I don't drink In got a lid
II depresses me. I drink lo total
oblivion by myself in a hotel
or motel. In fact, I dniibl If
many alcoholics ever feel stim
ulated. And I know what I'm
doing while I'm doing il, 'vil
it's a compulsive (hing with
me," he continued.
Jim drank lo escape his per
sonal problems. This seems lo
be one symptom of an alco
holic. He can't face up lo prob
lems or sil nations.
"Lying and drinking go lo
gclher. An alcoholic lies lo him
self, lo his family and to his
friends to cover up for his
drinking. Being in jail I have
had a lot of time to think. I
know I'm an alcoholic Hint I
must do something about il. I
have no reservations now. I at
tend the Alcoholics Anonymous
meetings here in jail. Only Ihi'se
people can help me. They know
i my problem.
I Has lo Solve Problem
"Once 1 quit drinking I cm .
! never lake another dunk as i
long as I live. Being an alco-1
holic can only end up in pn- j
son. on skid row or under a slab j
I in the cemetery. I know th.il. I
' I don't know what my Inline
j will be, but 1 have to solve .his
problem. It comes lirst, holme
I my job, my family, or auyl!"iiR I
else.
j "The biggest problem w'th an 1
alcoholic is that he is an oiio-1
list. He thinks he is better than
j anybody else so he can't have i
a drinking problem. Facing up i
to yourself, knowing who and
! what you are is an imporlant i
Ihing. i
"An alcoholic is Ihe lonliesl
man in the world. He can be ;
I in the center of a crowd and
still feel alone I have had oili
er alcoholics lell me that they
went to bars to be with jwopic
I don't. I'm a solitary drinker." i
he repeated. j
Hard on Helper j
"It's hardest of all on people
who try lo help you. But unless
a man wants what they oiler
wants il bad enough lo fight Ins
promem an ine ie..rs ana mrc-
1 w,,n ' '"''P' w'"'n a U"V
I is really trying, il doesn't help
-'"r Pcul''c to say he won't ncikc
il. But I guess in my case they
have had plenty of reason in
lhlnk th., ..
problem all the le..rs and fore
A person is an alcoholic when I
TUESDAY, DECEMBER
s Will Not Be
ame ror Alcoholic
he takes that first drink In , Ihe faith of his wife and chil
escape, Jim explained. He saidjdrcn first so thev will start be
he could walk into a bar and ; licving in him. this is particu
pick out five men who are alco-jlarly hard when a wife has
holies. i watched her husband go out
He knows that whipping his the door each morning not
disease, for that's wh.it it is, I knowing if he will come back
will he a long, heart-breaking j sober. Many times she has had
process. He has to win back I to almost pour him into bed.
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Bomber Probed
COLUMBUS, Miss. (UPi)-An
investigation was being made
today in the crash of a B52 iet1
I bomber which exploded shortly!
I after takeoff from Columbus I
Air Force Base Monday killing !
! all nine crewmen aboard. !
I LI. Gen. David Wade of:
I Barksdale Air Force Base. La.,
! commander of Ihe Second Air J
: Force, was one of Ihe investi
j gators.
j Witnesses on the ground re-'
! ported seeing the huge Slra-'
j logic Air Command Slratofoi l-j
; ress explode in flight. Wreckage
i was scattered over a three-mile
l area of snow-covered woodlaiidllenti.il alcoholics if Ihev aren't
15 miles northeast of here. j
The plane took off in 20 - de -
grce weather, at a lime when
snow and slocl had halted most !
civilian air traffic in Missis
sippi. The Air Force declined
comment on the possibility of
the weather having anything
lo do with Ihe crash.
None of the men aboard Ihe
plane was a resident of Ihe Far
West.
Klamath Sheriff
Named in Lawsuit
PORTLAND (UPI)
Dist.
! Allv. Dale Crahlrce and Sheriff
I Mm-rav U r i 1 1 o n of Klamath
rmmiv v.r,. n:,m,; in s7 5IM1
I dunianc suit filed in Federal
Courl here Monday.
tih. M,it w;,s hv Mrs. Lo-
, a Harrington of Klamath Falls
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n .h..ii.,.,i ih:.i in,. viMiih was
held in Ihe cnunlv jail at Kin-
m-iii. i.'.iii fm- nr, .lavs, (mm
Feb. 21 la June 7, without legal
riubt. without home, chai ned
and without due process of law.
K .-ininl i ( nun v ( ii-oui . ill 00.
Donald A. W. Piper ordered
Gallagher released June 7 after
finding that Ihe county authori
i ties acted illegally, Ihe suit
said.
Also named in Ihe soil wore
j Crabl ree's special investigator,
John Weber, and Alvio Young
blood, a deputy shoriff.
Youngster Drowns
As Ice Giyes Way
IIO.MEDALE. Idaho (LTD
A six-ve.ir-old Easier!) Oregon :
child dro' nod Monday when he'
plunged through ice on a pond
I near his home. '
! Dead was Rodney Cox. sun of
Mr. and Mrs. Hanoi ( o of.
I llomitiale. The fox farm is -------
Malheur Counlv Ore t OAl.Ml.s.MDN ASKI'.D
The small bov had hoe,, play- SALEM (UPl) - Oregon hop
ing nn Ihe ice with two vounger i R''iwcrs have petitioned the.
.brothers, lie apparently went Agriculture Department
1 through Ihe ic al a point lhL'' a producer referendum to
had bo-,, weakened bv an air i eslabhsh a self-help commodity
pocket. The child's body was re-! commission, it was announced
covered by tw-n men who wore 1 today.
working no.n by.
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Renewal Extended
SEATTLE ' I T'l 1- Charges of
first degree murder were filed
Monday alternoon in King Coun
lv auainsl Gary Oiiinlivnn. 20,
Seallle. I:.r the deaths of Mrs.
Gladys B'idinc, VI. Kent, and
Fred Donahue, 10, Seattle.
Mis ll.t.hno was found stran
gled in her home Friday morn
im: Donahue wa.s shot with a
rifle Friday afternoon in Kent.
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then help him to get back his
physical health only to see him
repeat the same thing all over
again.
fan Lose II All
"I don't care how much you
have you may have two cars in
the driveway, a fine home, a
wife and loving kids, even a
million dollars and you can lose
it all by taking that first drink
if you are a compulsive drinker
-nn alcoholic," Jim explained.
He hopes he call go to the vet
erans' hospital and bo treated
for his mental illness and alco
holism. But, he knows, too, it is
all up to him.
"I hope your article will do
sonic good. It will if it reaches
just one person. I don't know
Houiii ine.se kkis growing up.
That's the best time to reach po-
loo cocky to listen. Maybe i
ihey saw a few walking caso
histories they would think about
it a little
"Anyway, Merry Christmas,"
he said.
Fog Causes Mishap
At Freeway Exit
A rear - end collision occurred
on Interstate 5 at the Central
Point interchange last night be
cause of heavy log. state police,
reported this morning.
A car driven by John Carl
Perry. 33, Table Rock Rd.. Med-
ford, and one driven by Orvilla
"ramus McClellan, Ha. Grants
Puss, were involved. The Me-
Clcllan car slowed to leave the
freeway, police said, and fog
limited visibility lo 200 feel.
! e.o injuries were reported,
and no citations issued, police
said.
- Clarence Julius l.ren, 5, Mar
ltolltc Eagle Point, was cited
i by stale police early this morn-
i"C for tailure to drive on the
; r'W" suio ol me roan loiiowmp.
I an accident on Oregon (i'2.
five
moos iwi'imuu
The (Jroh car and one driven
by Don Filer Rhodes, 33, Med
ford, were involved in the acci
dent, police, said.
Thompson NamacJ to
Army Engineer Post
PORTLAND Robert V.
Thompson. Lake Osweco, has
been appointed assistant chief
of Hie real esfnlc division of
Ihe Portland U. S. Army Engi
neer district, according In Col.
Sterling K. Eisiminger, Port
land district engineer.
Thompson will be principal as
sistant to William .1. Ashwortb
who recently-assumed Ihe posi
tion of chief of the real cstaln
division. Thompson will also
head Ihe real estate planning
and control blanch
For That Holiday Firs
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