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MEDFOR1), OtiKdOX, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929.
No. 78.
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MEW LIGHTS Wl
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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
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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.
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11 VPOWER COMPANy H
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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'