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Bedford mail Tribune Second Section Four Paget Second Section Four Pages lull, TOTfitr-fourlh Ymp. lVefkly h'irir-Mten!) Vr. MEDFOR1), OtiKdOX, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929. No. 78. LL BLAZE 0 - - --- - in . i , . MEW LIGHTS Wl DAN IC E AND INAUGURA Throw Switch On New Illumination for Business Artery at 8:45 Tonight Elks Band Concert Starts at 7:30 Occasion Marks : Culmination of Long Effort. Marking: the realization of nn other important Mctlford achieve ment, the Sixth street lighting system, extending- from Oakdale avenue to Riverside, will be inau gurated tonight at 8:45. A spec ial program, Including- concert from 7:30 to 9:30 by Elks' band, a ceremony attending1 the closing of the switch promptly at 8:45 p. m., and a street dance following will feature the event, anticipated for weeks as a gala event In the city. The new system places Sixth street on a par with any illu minated street In cities of com parable size in Oregon and of the Pacific coast. - Its illumination is a, step farther from the Main street type of city, which Mcdford has long deserted, and will make Sixth street the moat brilliantly lighted in Medford. The installation of the 60 lights fix to a block, is the result of long pioneer efforts and untiring Work on the part of many prop erty owners of the streot. The heed of better Illumination be came apparent When Sixth street was opened two years ago for Its complete length, Including the opening of the- Sixth street rail road crossing and that portion of the street between Oakdale and Main. The opening of the street was recognized as an all-important ( progressive step and shortly after, or during its construction, the new lights -were proposed. The proposition was considered a big undertaking. After many preliminary arrangements and plans, the- final plan was evolved, resulting in the artistic and effic ient illumination system, which will be inaugurated tonight, crowning a first success with a i second. j I He place Arcs, ! The new lights will replace arc lights that had hung over inter sections of the street, with the exception of Front and Sixth and Riverside and Sixth. The old method of illumination 'was so crude that tho new installation is regarded as being able of trans forming night into day. The old lights burned out frequently and illuminated only a small portion Immediately surrounding tho in tersection, often leaving tho re mainder of the block in darkness, offering more excuse for auto col lisions and possible midnight rob beries. With the new installation In operation, a person can read a newspaper standing In the center of the street, the light strength in technical terms being measured in "five-foot candles." Strength of the lights is measured in 4000 lumens each, corresponding to 1175 watts or 400 candlepower. Candlo powor is not often In presont day measurement of light, lumens being tho accepted unit of measurement. The Installation was made by the People's Klectric store under the direction of Walter Cormany, store electrician, and under the supervision of City Electrician Harry Rinabarger and City Engi neer Fred Scheffel. Each steel pole is 16 feet in height, with the pole furnished by the fjnion Metal company, the globe by the General Electric company and the lamp by the Westiughouse com pany all the latest in design and manufacture and similar to 18,000 new lights recently installed in Cleveland, Ohio. The contract for the concrete work was sub-let to the Hartley Construction company of this city which has yet to complete the pouring of concrete at the various street intersections effected by the systom, cables having been laid beneath the pavement level. Owners Bear Kxpcnso. Tho cost of the system is being borne entirely by the property owners on tho street, with the ex ception that the city of Medford will pay for the supply of elec tricity, to keep tho lights burning. Each lamp is guaranteed to burn 1500 hours and through spec ial transformers and switches, should one lamp burn out tho en tiro system will not be affected, although connected in series. The lights might have been placed In operation earlier, but the late arrival of several shipments of cable, delayed the Installation' for several days, a special grade of cable being used. The contract for the installa tion was $10,584, and the cost is assessed at $3.00- per front foot for every property owner on tho street. However, the entire cost of the system Is expected to reach narly $12,000. In keeping with improved ap pcaranco of the street, effected by tho lights alone, all utility poles are to be removed by to morrow evening, providing a clear MEDFORDS NEW "WHITE WAY" LOOKING WEST GNOC0B FAITH MERCHANTS ON In IN 6TH SEEN JUSTIFIED A D STREET SIXTH STREET NX Txxklng west on Sixth Ktrcet with new lighting standards In right nud left foreground, block of tho business artery. Six light will shed brilliance each vision for the length of the street. Trees, which had grown on park-, ing ' lots, are In the course of removal, making Sixth street a metropolitan-appearing thoroughfare. TROTZKY WOULD ENTER ENGLAND, FOR HEALTH CONSTANTINOPLE, Juno 8. (JP) Leon Trotssky, former Red army leader who Is now In exiio here, today asked Premier Mc Donald, Great Britain's new labor prime minister, for authority to visit England "for urgent medi cal treatment and scientific work." After Trotzky bad sent a tele gram to Mr. McDonald, tho exiled JIussian's son gave the Hrltish con sul at Pera a letter from his father, asking a visa on the grounds of the necessity for very urgent medical treatment and the desire to survey tho publication of his autobiography in English. PEOPLE'S ELECTRIC STORE 212-214 W. MAIN TJ. ' ! -MST'-I PHONE 12 CONTRACTORS AND IN STALLATORS OF T H E NEW SIXTH STREET LIGHTING CON GRATU LATE THE SIXTH ST. BUSINESS FIRMS AND PROPERTY OWNERS ON THEIR ,$12,000 STREET LIGHTS. LIGHT STANDARDS ARE ADOPTED IN LEADING CITIES The fact that Medford's new Sixth street lighting system Is not only on a par, but practically iden tical to that use in many of the leading cities In the United ; States will be additionally grali- j fylng to tho merchants who have ' made this civic project possible i Cleveland. Ohio, Nowark, N. J.. ! and a number of other eastern centers, are using a large number t of tho same identical standards , as those selected for this city. J They are known as tho Columbia! design. Cleveland recently rc- ( vamped its lighting system and placed an order to augment a; system put In two years ago, i bringing tho total number of union! metal standards up to, around j 18,000. ' j On this subject, the- Newark Advocato and American Tribune of reeent date comments: j "'Tonight tho city of Newark Is formally starting her new era,' j says Mayor Hunter. 'Hereafter! time In Newark will bo reckoned j from tliis date; events will he do- I scribed as happening cither before or after the now lighting system whs installed.' "Newark long ago reached the point when It became necessary to have a modern streot lighting system on account of, tho greatly increased traffic and bocause tho old lighting system has long since become obsolete. "Crimes and aecldonts flourish in dark streets and tho best rem edy for these is adequate street lighting and Newark la certainly to be congratulated in providing the remedy. "Tho. responsibility for providing adequate street lighting rests with tho municipality, Tho safoty of tho community at night deponds largely upon tho adequacy of its street lighting system. It is a well-known fact that light In creases the vision and statistics show that street accidents at night are materially reduced by effcclivo Illumination. "(iood street lighting should not lie looked upon as an expense, b"t as an Investment which pays f or , itself in enhanced real estate values." j ! lighting systems nre also used in the window and a large keystone poster carrios the following timely message: "Progress" The splendid progress made by the city of Modford in tho past 20 years. Is typified by the new Htb Street Lighting System which marks this community as one of the most progressive cities on the Paeific Coast. THE CALIFORNIA O It E G O N POWKR CO. Your Partners In Progress." Poland Producing FLIms. WARSAW (fP) Film production in Poland began In 1923 when the first 23 Polish pictures were made. In 192H, Polish studios issued 201 films. Gates and Lydiard Blazed Celebration of Light System Trail of Business First Venture in Preslent M. M. Store Location Nine Years Ago. KOEIILIN', Germany (P) This municipality of 3300 population has found the cost of elly admin istration U.o high. Consequently the city council has applied for legal sanction to surrender, the city charter and reorganize as a village. A word from tho "wise is also said to bo sufficient especially If tho "Wise" are pioneering. When the beautiful lump of Sixth stroet are turned on tonight, their flood of light will touch a warmly re spondent glow in the hearts of tho two commercial trial blazers of this business artery. When W. A. dates and W. II. Lydiard decided, nine yearn ago, to open their infant groceteria in a part of the space whore the M. M. department store now stands, thoir friends wished them luck, hut feared for the worst. On the corner now occupied by tho Kconomy Groceteria a vacant lot. yawned and stretched Its full length in tho sunlight. Tho Mc pherson Clothing store space was the death cell of a condemned frame building. The J. C. Penny corner location wns occupied by the Jackson County Abstract com pany, and. later by . Jarmlu & Woods. Hut in spite of everything, tho Groceteria "Bills" opened their little store to the best week day business they ever experienced. It seemed that every resident in Modford turned out that day. ac cording to Hill Gates, who has a sneaking suspicion now that they did it out of sympathy fur their poor Judgment in picking a loca tion off the main stem. '.'Yes, I was ,so Impressed with fContlmied on Pago Three.) Put On By Business Men Play Host to Saturday Night Crowds Long List of Participants. Merchants will become Sixth street conscious when their busi ness thoroughfare is flooded with illumination at 8:45 tonight. Join, ing hands across what used to bo a barrier between tho east and west portion of this new avenue, the business men from one end of the street to tho other will do their individual and collective best to show tho rest of Mcdford a good time tonight. Among tho business concerns represented along Sixth street who will play the role of hosts tonight are: Beehe and If indie service station,' Dynge and Clark Used Car lot, Mutual, Mill and Seed company: Medford Shoe Repair" shop; Independent Klectric com pany, Hand Box Millinery, Gates &Lydiard, Mcpherson's Clothing, Southern Building and Loan As sociation, Medford Investment Co., Diamond Cafo, Jackson County Abstract -company, City Hall. M. M. Department store, .1. C Penney Department storo, Medford Furni ture & Hardwnro company, Gates Auto company, Sixth Street Ser vice Station. Big Pines Lumber company and Ftchtner's Garage. Johnson's Market, in which is located People's Market, John Grim Fruit Market, Ray Sehu maker Fish Market. Kathorino West roHtaurant, Rellablo Grocery, and Klectric Bakery, Lincoln Mar-, ket, Perl Funeral Home, Harrison Continued on Pace Three. CITY'S PROGRESS Much interest is being shown in the ("opco window dlFpttiy on W'Ht Main street which portrays 1 he progress In street lighting in Med ford for the past twenty years. A crude overhead street light fixture of tho type timed here in 1 IMiK is featured in the exhibit as a strik ing comparison to the new, mod ern Sixth street lighting system, photographs of which appear in the display. Placard calling at tention to the benefits of niuUeru I Artist's sketch of the now electric light standard to be formally ini tiated tonight on Sixth street. mum. i ' JL 11 VPOWER COMPANy H '.I MEDFORD a city at night as well as by day 'A city is only luilf a city when it, is only a city during tho day. With darkness, activity ceases, beauty is hidden. Willi darkness there is no eity here during the day it may thrive. v Light will change whole sections of a city. Light will change its activity, its people. Side streets can lie made into important thoroughfares. In fact, lights aj'e a transformation complete. II is with thoughts ever looking toward progress or a more beaut ll id, more inviting, a liettcv Med ford to live in that; Oopco joins in hearty congratu lations upon the completion of the new lights on Sixth Strict. It is with this thought-of progress ever before us that we shall play our part with zeal in making Medford the same beautiful, inviting city during the night as it is by day, The California Oregon Power Company "Your Partners in Progress'
