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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1930)
BEDFORD MSTC TRIBUNE, MEDFORrj, OKCToy1Wg;:gTOUST. 3, 193ft 111! tl'l I FAIR PILOTS TOUR NORTHWEST AREA j Camera Glimpses People and Planes On Program IJCITY KEEPS STEP PSGE FOUR IS AKRON, Onto., Aug. 4. There h nothing more romantic in thin city of tire manufacturing than the siiiell of .rubber and the wlht of thousands of tire bplng loaded into freight earn and truck to be nent to all parts of the world. In the short period of seven years, tlre hove changed , the habits of a nation. The public wa jouncing around on the oJd-fashioned high pressure tires in 1S28 when the Kirefltona Tire end Rubber company offered the original balloon tire. Auto mobiles were summer luxuries and the mam of the people were pedes trians not motorists. The balloon tire changed the picture. The automobile became an all year 'round necessity. Farm ers now were Able to drive into the shopping centers and city dwellers were permitted to move into the suburbs and the country with a minimum of time spent in traveling. In these seven years, Firestone development has gone to such an extent that tires now cost only b2 per cent as much as 1923, they have 60 per cent more material In them and they give four times the mileage with one-tenth the trouble. . Slow America has 20,000,000 mot orists, - .Economies in tire building and distribution arp continuing to make prices lower without- cutting qual ity,, according to Firestone offlc-ialsV- i"'.' V ' Firestone' has established offices in all ,t he primary rubber markets of . the world. Rubber romps Htralght from the grower to the Firestone factories. Work Is profit-easing rapidly on ' Firestone's 1,000,000-acre plantation in I.i hefla. - The fabric used In Flre otone tires is manufactured In the company's own mills In New Bed ford and Fall River, Mass. The erection of factory branches and '-warehouses near Firestone dealers has saved millions of dol lars .that formerly were wasted In small shipments, Firestone officials now announce. "It- is not enough to apply the economies In building quality trees in the most efficient tire factories in- the world," executives stated. "Economies In distribution are now bringing the dealer and the manu facturer closer. We. are able to well at -lower prices without cut ting the quality of our tires," 5 -The local Firestone dealer Is Rod Waters of Firestone Service Htores, Inc. ' . liy Kk'lmrd Maxnark NEW YOKK Lflhd pirates cruel reckless robbers like' their brothers In crime, the river pirates Infested the American wilder ness just after the revolution. The story of these plrutes now In told by Hobert M. Coatos, a Now York writer, In "The Oulliiw Years." It Is an historical account or fantastic depredations un the Natchez Trace, where traders came back from the New Orleans market, and the Wlldornoss Hoad, where immigrants came Into Ten nessee and Kentucky from the east. Those Terrible llnrprs . Most terrible of all were tho mad, fiendish Harpes: Big Harpo Mlcajah, and Utile Harpe Wiley, who raged out of North Carolina, ,. With a harem of threo women these two brothers terrorised tho territory around Knoxvllle. From petty thievery they developed Into Insatiable murderers, horrible sad ists who killed out of blood-thirst. : Meeting a lone traveler In tho forests they would slay and rob him. then rip his body, fill It with stones, and sink It In tho river. Usually they tomahawked their victims. , Their most funtastlc stunt was driving a victim, Btrapped to a horse, off a cliff to his death. For this they were oullnwed by tho murderous outlaws of tho Ohio river. Finally His Hnrpe was killed by a fellow named Htolgal, himself a suspicious character who hrul 1 Don't Miss The Airport Dedication and Air Circus am! I Don't Miss the Delicious CHINESE and American Foods at the J. N. CAFE 27 South Front St. Upper lc-rt Scfly V. Hull. Mcdfonl nlrimrl Kiiix'iinUMiilt-tit. mill stale I'luilrnuui of Ami-i-lni n lx'irlmi Acninaiitlcs roniinlttce, who will aft as (tenernl flutlrtimn of Ilia Mcclfoiil nlrxn-t ilitllciilloii .Moniley. I'ppcr iIkIH Now Uii klu-i'iV moil iiplane nlHiiil to Inml on new $120, 000 air teriuinnl. CVnler Administration hiillilliiK and liiuiKiir at Inml porl. Center rliclil "Miss .Med fi)rd," Units club bounty queen, who will preside over Amorunn Is-glnii ilnniv In Imuran- Moudiiy uiiihl. Iimver lim'lntf lloim-t -I0-B-4 plnne. ready to take off October 2 ror Inlllul mall movement from new terminal with 15,000 pieces lH'urlng -ih-cIii! caiiit'lliillou slainp. Inwrt niu shows Modfoid's cenlnil lo cution on I'ncirtc Airwuy. shielded them, tt was a crime or vengeance, for they hail Hlain his family. - Utile JIarfle escaped. Iater be was to be recognized lu tile band of Samuel Mason, a Virginia born soldier who turned highwayman In the Intense' physical envlron mct of the wilderness. Mason was killed hy his own men for the rewnrd on his head. Wiley Harpo was legally executed. Then there was John A. Mnr rell, stealer of skives, who fan cied himself a Napoleon of band itry, dreaming of founding an empire of piracy. He, loo. was a ripper. His' fate was to turn completely mad in the state peni tentiary iit Nashville. . Other hlkhwaymen of Ameri ca's own dark age cut a bloody pnth through Coates' book. It Is a vivid, startling story. Midsummer Heading Krnnk Harv's biography of Owar Wilde has Just been pub lished in a new one-vdhime, un expurgated edition ... A 7ri-cent reprint of "All tjulet on the We'd- I ern Front" nlso Is out and It eon-; walker and drug addict unwitting tains the excerpts excised fromjly from a sermon against these the previous t-ditlons. j vices In "No Bed of Itos's," n re- The mental degeneration and - constructed diary of "a lost soul." physical deterioration of a street-1 And "The Thrill of F.vlt" is an TJ Horn Telephone & Telegraph Company 0 of Southern Oregon i HIS company is proud of the fact that it is serving such a progressive and air minded city as Medford... The dedication of Medford's fine $120,000 airport tomorrow will mark a new era in the develop ment of the southern Oregon country and will give this city an important place upon the air map cf the Pacific Coast. other exciting collection of real crime stories by 11. Ashton-Wolfe, former assistant to Bert i lion, the finger-print man, who makes the police records read lik' fiction (Continued on Page 6, 8tory 1 and also held the distinction of j being the first to fly to Klamath ! Falls. The new owner cracked up . a j-hort time later by crashing Into a grandstand, but luckily no fa talities resulted. It made Its reg ular Medford landings on the ; fJore field and for a time landed I en the' l,umsden tract near the! California Oregon Power company! warehouse. In 1920-21 forest fires presented a problem and government planeai were placed In patrol use, flying over mountain country daily from) a base established first on 'the I (lore field, following a few land ings on the J. O. 'Liove tract near crntral Point. The Oore prop erty was not used lont; until the i forest planes established their base on the Lumsden field, whii-h was used for approximately n I year. t First AiriMtrt. As a ronsequence of tlie avia tion activities and the realization I that the new mode of transpor-1 tntion was to take a prominent place in the advancement and I growth of the community. Med- J ford established the first airport,! In Oregon in 1922 on the site of the present county fair grounds j acting. In conjunction with the j United States forest service. 1 Dedication ceremonies were held that vear and it was naimdj Newell Barber field in memory) of the won of Dr. and Mrs. ( M.I itnrhpr iHMed in nHion in France. The dedlcntion attracted throngs! t' the field, not much more than n level piece of ground with no I conveniences of any kind estab lished, but It was the first airport in the state and considered ade quate to meet the needs of that day. Patrol planes continued to land there until the service was dis continued. The pilots, mechan ics and others connected witTi the patrol work made their head quarters on the' field and when the service was discontinued, New ell Barber field was deserted ns far as airplanes were concerned. Not long after .the dedication, the county fairgrounds were estab lished on the site. Air Mail Somes. Aviation development was slow in Medford, until the Pacific Air Transport company designated Medford ns n scheduled stop. Bar ber field was improved with the construction of a narrow runway and In September of l!2(i the first air mail flight was made. The only air mail field in Oregon was . located at . ;Medford at that time. The local airport was the nit u nil Intermediate stop between San Francisco and Portland, andj when aviation continued to de- velop, other ships began to land I lion. Kuth Klder landed there ; there, including quite a numbera short t line" later, as did Kddie 1 MOTORDOM'S MASTERPIECE" THAT IS WHAT A FAMOUS ENGINEER SAID AFTER DRIVING THE fsJIZW FIKTT TYY ATT STANDARD 6-14 4 You, too, will acclaim the newDURANT"Motordom's Masterpiece" when you drive it. You will be thrilled by its smooth power and effortless speed. You will marvel at its low price.. YOU CAN BUY ANEWDURANT6-14 FOR THE 4-07 MODEL $745 , TRUCKS Asiottaitd Press Pnoit Edith Foltz of Portland, Ore., Virginia Ogden of Seattle and Dorothy Hester of Portland, Ore., (left to right) well known aviatrixes, took part In the Pacific Northwest reliability flight to arouse interest in aviation. . . ----- of transient government planes. ( I The. field waf tnr irom guuu, ; hut it served the purpose. The ! , l ulled States army miml-the- f world" fliers had landed there when the flight was in prom-ess! State, was a frequent visitor, six years ngo, two years before j Wallace Beery, movie actor, flew the nir mail.- They stayed here; here two years ago on a fishing evernlKht and " appeared at the; trip. When more and more' pri opening of the Craterian theatre. vate planes flew in and out and The West Coast Air Transport 1 aviation business continued to company named Medford as u grow, the need for a new nir rt gular stop. ' but found the old j -tort and better facilities became field at the fair grounds inade-j more apparent. quate for their needs, and after The Pacific Air Transport' main having run off the narrow gravel- tained a hangar, its office, radio led runway and becoming stuck in station, in charge of George John he mud on numerous occasions, I S(jr1i 1UU quarters for pilots. One the company moved its field to or two K0soline companies had in Montague. ; stalled service units. The Sander I-'icld Outgrown. ! Aeronautical school was estab- Th National Kurd Reliability j lished on the field and engaged Air tour with a scoVe or so planes,! in. student instruction and pas-I'li-luding Sehbe and Brock, trans-1 senger trips. Atlantic fliers, Kddie Stinson, John ! . William Uosenbulm started with Halderman, ilot for Ituth Klder'the ny mail as mechanic with the and many other famous pilots, first flight and is still engaged at rinded on' the old field two years i the new airport. Arthur Starbuck. ai;or and found It too small for It. Cunningham and H. Miller are comfort, adding Impetus to the among the early pilots1. Cunning move for a new airport. j ham und Starbuck were pilots Colonel Charles Lindbergh was! from the beginning. Pat Patter a .visitor at the port two years j on also began duties but fog in ago when here on a fishing and the mountain country near Talent business t rip. and while he re-! claimed his life a few months fused to condemn the airport," ;ave it no word of cominenila- Many mechanical advantages never before offered in a car selling in the DURANT price class. . Durant sturdy all-steel body. . Durant designed Red Seal Continental motor. Tim ken bearings used throughout. Midland steeldraulic brakes. Full force -feed lubrication. '. DELIVERED HERE FULLY EQUIPPED VERY tOW FIRST PAYMENT lg3ww-.- Itickenbacker, World War ace, and v mKu-y jvui., 4.wu. located then at Vancouver aud the first pilot to make a dawn to dusk flight across the United later. Seely Hall was then . as now, representative for the Pacific , h Transport, but now Is also field manager at the new nirport. MODEL $72$ AND UP SABIN' A RtNDT Phone 366 o o 1040-36 .4
