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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1924)
it 1 V i A 3 i V L V Ik r-J: "N I X XI - IK. 1 bttP 1 4 H CITY HUE Community Benefitted By ' New Methods, Declares its City. Attorney i City planning as introduced and operating in the city of Medford has proved a success and a benefit to the community, John H. Car kin, city attorney, declared before a representative gathering of Chamber ! of Commerce members, at Klamath Falls recently. Stabilization of property inter ests, prevention of congestion and greater. Jiarmony were three of the salient benefits found to have re sulted after introduction and oper ation' of the soning and sectional plan.' ; ' ; ' r .V ';'! "City planning in my city," the speaker stated,' was the outcome of continued complaints on the part of residents over what they maintained were unfair practices of neighboring property holders in utilizing their ownerships. We just passed from one stage to the other named a planning commis sion and sectionized the city. There has been no complaint as to its workings and we, have found that it has helped admirably in making the city more attractive as well, as maintaining values." Mr. Carkin said that the Med ford ordinance was patterned after the one 'adopted by the city of Ala meda,1 California, many other American cities having turned to the same conception of city plan ning regulation and based their legislation accordingly. 1 ' Stress was laid on the fact that the ordinance is flexible and can be changed at' any time - by the council or by petition of citizens if the governing body so elects. As to Klamath Falls the speaker said arris ish P; aragraphs , By ROSE FOLGER i a Beady 11 1 jse Burned Clay Hollow ' UuUdins Tile for Beauty, I I - Kaieiy.ana ucmicru 'made in all. sizes ?i ffSMLlriXi ifJTKGS TrTil Awarding the prizes for the "Home Lighting Contest" was the main feature of the assembly Thursday. : J: ' : :: " " We are proud to learn that four of the thirteen high school prises were won by Parrish students. Wm. M. Hamilton of the Port land Railway Light & Power com pany made a short talk and pre sented the prizes. M . I Those winning are as follows:' j Opal Gesler, 2nd $20,00. Lila L. Cation, 4th, $10. Lou gene Breitzke, 5th, $5. Edith Riggs. Sth. $5. Superintendent Hug in a short address to the students congratu lated them for their, fine school spirit and for our attempt to care for the building, which shows we really appreciate our new home. The girls of the Nine B sewing classes are j beginning work on wash dresses, for the semi-annual contest held by the Miller Mer cantile company. The prizes of fered for the best garments make the sewing project doubly inter esting. . Cooking classes of the eighth and ninth gradea will make 175 individual pumpkin pies. These are to be sold to the Salem Teach ers club meeting Monday a.a all he could see no reason why an ef fective and acceptable zoning plan could not be conceived here. In Medford there is a retail dis trict, an industrial district, an apartment or rooming house dis trict and a residence district. The courts, the speaker explained, had upheld the legality of the zoning legislation and the state of Oregon has a statute -which-provides for city planning ordinance enactment profits will go into the canvas fund. Repair work on the machienry in the manual training room has been completed. The boys are starting their Christmas' projects. PERMITS HEAVY FOR SEASON Total of $57,525 are Issued During First Two Weeks i of December Building permits took a jump this week with the issuance of one for 120,000 to the Capital Ice & Cold Storage company for the erection of a big addition to their present plant. Permits for the week totaled $34,500. In- addition to the commercial permit, there were seven permits issued for new dwellings, an aver age of approximately $2,000 each. Permits for the month now amount to $57,525, a heavy figure for this time of year. , IT IS IHSTIi: M RO SMELTED The Operations of the W. W. Rosebraugh Company, Furnace Makers SCHOOL AT DETROIT STARTED Contracts for the, new Detroit school have been let' and the tim bers are being cut in the mill, at Gates and it is expected that the building operations will start after January 1. If the weather per mits the building will - be con structed within 60 days after ac cording to Mrs. Mary Fulkerson, county school superintendent. " K '. i "4 i h .4 ' i ' r . 1 i . . - - -. i , y , . : ...... f . : - - - DdDBE B t i ROTH ER5 N bw PRlces ' ; : ' "1 : . - -j ' ' ' -'.-' I ' r ; i " " 1 .: - i - The following prices of Dodge Brothers Passenger Cars became effective December 1st, 1924: Roadster . . .... $ 855.00 Touring Car . . . . . 885.00 Type-B .(Business) Coupe 995.00 Type-B Sedan . . . . 1095.00 TVpe-A Sedan . . . . 1245.00 4-passenger Coupe . . 1375.00 i . o. h. Detroit All Passenger Cars are nor ; equipped with balloon tire's. BONESTEELE MOTOR CO. 474 tiovth ComuaercUl Street Phone 4S3 Although the W. W. Rose braugh Co., makers of furnaces and boilers, whose foundry is lo cated at the corner of 17th -and Oak streets, suffered a loss esti mated at $20,000 in a fire less than two years ago, the company has steadily increased its volume of business since the disaster, and W. W. Rosebraugh states that he expects to double the output of the foundry next year. The com pany now has one of the finest shops to be found in the north west, in the ' estimation of Mr., Rosebraugh. Tollif Olsen. foreman of the foundry. Is a jolly faced, capable man, straight from the old coun try, Sweden. He has won for him self the reputation of being one of the best boiler makers in the country. The company furnishes year around employment for about twenty men. The company manufactures house heating furnaces, fruit, dry ing and packing equipment, stor age tanks, government and for estry take-down ranges, and many miscellaneous iron and steel prod ucts. Three different types of house heating furnaces are man ufactured: A small type for small cottages and apartments, and an-, other type of large furnace that is sold .under the trade name of a Portland concern. The sale of these furnaces totals approximate ly 500 yearly. Mr. Rosebraugh is the pioneer fruit dryer furnace maker of the northwest. He esti mates that there are 1500 of his fruit dryer furnaces now in use. Aside from the manufacturing of new products, the company does a large business in mainte nance of heating systems for the state and county, as well as in the manufacture of much of the equipment ' used in the county paving plants. , Interesting Machines Among the many interesting machines used in the shops are an eight; ton rotary shear, an eight ton Whitney punch, and a huge boiler roller. .- The rotary shear will cut a piece of paper or a niece of half inch steel with ease. The machine will punch a hole from a fourth inch to two and a half Inches in diameter through a piece of steel a half inch thick. The dies of this punch can be removed and a riveter in serted in their place. This riveter is used in riveting the boilers to gether. . -t " -j - it is a very interesting tnmg w watch the various f . operations which are undergone before a bunch of scrap or pig iron be comes a finished product. First the molds are made out of sand which is obtained on Mlnto is land. Great care must be taken that the sides and openings in the molds are free from all foreign substances or sand which may have caved in from her. sides of the mold. After the molds have been fashioned they are allowed to set for some time before they are filled. r , ' How Iron Is Melted f The furnace in which the iron is melted is called1 a cupola. It consists of a tubular furnace, raised ion four legs. There is a door on the bottom' of the cupola that is held shut by a prop when the furnace Is in use. An elec tric air fan supplies the air move ment of the air in the furnace! i , The coke and iron are raised on an elevator to the top of the cupo la where a platform is arranged. There is another door in the cup ola near the top, and it is through this door, that the materials are thrown in. A bed of. sand is first laid upon the bottom of the cupola and then a layer of wood, upon which is heaped 50 pounds . of cokes. . Opon this layer of coke is placed 400 pounds of scrap iron, and. then another layer of coke is added. And so on it goes, 50 pounds of coke and then 400 pounds of iron until the cupola is filled. The melting zone of the cupola is generally 27 or 28 In ches from the bottom. - As the coke burns, . the iron melts and runs out of an opening in the side of the cupola, and the next layer of coke and iron settles so that it is then in the melting, zone, and so on until the cupola is empty. Men catch the molten iron as it comes out of the cupola in ladles, which are lined with dry clay, and pour Jt into the molds. When the iron has cooled it is taken out of the ,molds and if it is rough or has particles of sand burned into it, it is put into the. rattler to be smoothed off. This rattler is a , large boiler shaped container. fiew"Rigd;n Llcrtuary to Be Occupied This 7c:!; i . Finishing touches are being giv en to the new Rigdon mortuary at Chemeketa and Cottage and the new location will be ; occupied sometime thi week, according to Lloyd Rigdon, junior member of the firm; " ' The new building is complete in every detail, is of the lat est type and has the most modern equipment. The building is made of concrete and everything is de signed to give the greatest amount of privacy and .quiet for the fun erals. Moving will be done as speedily as possible. Equality wouldn't make people happy. There would be nobody left to snub. having a rough inner surface. It rotates, and as the iron is knock ed and scraped against the surface of the container it is polished. hThe finished product is then taken out, and is ready to be used in its intended place. Cedar Post We have a car load of number 1 cedar posts.' Come and look them over. Sherwin-Williams Paints, Oils I - and Varnishes We have a large assortment of the best paints and varnishes on the market. I Columbia Plaster Board Upson Wall Board and Tile, j ! Now is the time to "doll up." I : I ; shingles ' ; : ; Wc have the best stock of shingles on the market. Standard Star-A-Slar 5 to 2 Clear 5 to 2 Perfect. We have lime, Cement, Plaster, Builders Hardware, Brick and every thing in building material. COlBBSp MITCHELL GO. ! j A. B. KELSEYJVlanager r 349 South Twelfth St., near ThosKay Woolen Mill Practical ! If A. Range t ' ' ' - ; i ...... We Will Deliver Any Wood or Coal or Heater in Our Stock for Balance in Weekly or Monthly Payments Without Interest i ; n f J (f BR!DDE-BEACH H As this offer is only good a for a short time - j Special Prices on Ailamisitim MbasteE '-.'. ' ' : - -r: - We have all sizes in stock and they are priced at a real savings STANDARD!' EliECTRIC RANGES : The beauty of Standard appeals to every woman. 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