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MEDFOKD MAIL TRTBUXE. MF.DFOTtT. QT?EflONT. WEDNESDAY. MAY fi. 1937. PAGE FIVE ABBEY, INC., START CONSTRUCTION OF AUTO SALES ROOM Construction of a $20,000 modern garage and sales room by Walter W. Abbey, inc., at the corner of East JJtnth and Bartlett streets was an nounced today by Walter W. Abbey, president. Actual work started this morning. The building will be ready for occupancy in 90 to 120 days. Abbey said. A one-story concrete structure, the garage will be one of the most mod ern In Oregon. It will be 100 by 100 feet square, and will house a beau tiful showroom, a completely equip ped workshop, and offices, part de partment and bookkeeping space. The worshop will take up half the space, with the showroom being 35 by 100 feet In size and the office space 15 by 100 feet In area. A feature of the shop will be the installation of an electrically oper ated automobile hoist, the latest In that type of equipment. A modern washrack, greasing paraphernalia and tools will be located in the shop. The new garage will be equipped with gasoline pumps, both Inside and outside, modern rest-rooms In the In terior, and beautifully appointed fix tures. There will be a six-foot fire place In the showroom. The building will be heated by gas, and lighted by a semi -Indirect sys tem. Entrances to the showroom will be on both Bartlett and Ninth streets, and to the shop, on Bartlett. The shop entrance will be 35 feet wide. The lot on which the garage will be built was purchased by Abbey In February, 1936. The old Allen home, one of Medford's landmarks, was re cently demolished to make waj for the new structure. Commenting on the expansion pro gram. Abbey said. "Business has been so good that we were forced to move to a larger space. We are here to stay, and wanting a permanent home, de cided to build. The garage is de signed to be practical, but win be beautiful, also." Abbey stated that the present loca tion of the garnge at 123 South Riv erside avenue would be retained un til January l at least, but that most equipment would be moved to the new quarters as soon as they were completed. The garage was designed by Wl! Ham Lang, local architect. Con tractor is Elmer Chllders. New Type of Legal Tender rKUnu!h fete Kwim Ckih ''V43rtt W 1 first Cbnvtrta Rapstuto j V 71 V x i 'conic 'to Portland V Vl i V committee ' S X? i I -j&W- , , -j The check on Klamath Falls white pine the receipt on a Port land made barrel top, good to the last dollar as attested by Rut tel Watson (right), bank, executive and chairman of the Kiwanis Northwest District Kiwanis Convention to be held in Portland, Oregon, August 15-17. The $350 check was brought to Portland by Past President Henry E. Perkins (left) of the Klamath Falls Kiwanis as Klamath's initial 100 registration fee and the first convention registration to be received by Chairman Charles F. Walker of the Portland club's "Come to Portland" Committee. Pioneer School Abandoned. SALEM, May 26. (AP) Oregon's oldest school house at Eola , five miles west of here, will be abandon ed at the end of the present school term. New Spud ft Dull Marts. PORTLAND. May 26. ( AP) A flood of new potatoes from southern sections has created an extremely dull tone for remaining old stock supplies, a market survey revealed today. SEALS WIN AGAIN; SEATTLE BEATEN (By the Associated Press) Johnny Bassler, the Seattle In dians' new manager whose hobby is raising flowers, today sought to cul tivate a winning streak for his sixth place Pacific Coast league baseball team. The Indians opened In Seattle last night against the Son Diego Padres with Johnny, who replaced Spencer Abbott, In charge for the first time. The home folks gave him a bg hand and then his team, apparently from force or habit, went out to lose, 7 to 1. The Indians were limited to sev en scattered hits by Howard Crag-head. There was no eighth place team In ; the league today because San Fran cisco rallied In the ninth inning last night to push across three runs on hits and Oakland errors to win 5 to 4. The loss tied the Oaks with the cellar place San Francisco Missions who were kept Idle in Portland by rain. Although they outhit Los Angeles 14 to 12, Including three homers and a triple, the Sacramento Solons lost. 9 to 6 and found themselves three full games behind the league leading Seals. T STATE PROTESTS Meteorological Report ACT1VIANS. 20-30 BALEM. May 26 AP) Dissatis fied with conditions attached to the M50.000 federal grant allocated to the capitol building program the recon struction commission announced Ralph Moody, deputy attorney gen eral, would leave for the national capital this week to negotiate for better terms. The commission stated that under the proposed terms using labor from relief rolls, plus a 15 per cent ad ministration cost, acceptance of the grant would not be practical, and doubted receiving favorable bids for construction. Governor Martin, at the sugges tion of the commission, petitioned President Roosevelt for the 4S per cent grant under the old PWA terms which would provide additional funds under favorable conditions, simitar to that now used on the new capttol building. He urged the fed eral government to re-allow that amount as off red when the legisla ture appropriated funds for the cap ital. At that time the grant was earmarked on the basis of a $3,500, 000 building, but the legislature re duced the cost by a million dollars. May Z6, 1937. Forecasts. Medford and vicinity: Fair tonight and Thursday: warmer Thursday. Oregon: Generally fair tonight and Thursday but unsettled north por tion tonight; warmer In Interior of southwest portion Thursday: moder ate northerly winds off coast. Loral Data. Temperature a year ago today : Highest. 88: lowest. 66. Total monthly precipitation. 1.6J Inches. Excess for tha mont h, .0J Inches. Total precipitation since September 1, 1936, 14.84 Inches. Deficiency for the season. 1.70 Inches. Relative humidity at 5 p. m. yes terday. 63: 5 a. m. today. 88. Sunrise tomorrow, 4:40 a. m. Sunset tomorrow. 7:35 p. m. UP IN E. I. U. Ninety percent of the Medford Cor poration (Owen-Oregon Lumber com pany) workers in mills and timber have signed up In the Employes In dustrial Union, Inc., It was announc ed today. The E. I. U. la an out growth of the former 4-L organiza tion. The plant employs 435 men. It was elso reported that employes had asked for a 10 percent Increase In wages. A conference committee of the E I. U. has been named to discuss the wage Increase sought with General Manager James H. Owen, and other company officials, at an early date. Observations Taken at 5 a. 130 Meridian Time. m., crry si ii n s? si i o"o "3 o o I i I 1 D ? i i 9 Carrier pigeons were used by Ro man generals to convey me&snaes. Nan and Halt Honored. WASHINGTON. May 26. ( AP) Nan Wood Honeyman and Walter M. Pierce. Oregon representatives in congress, are members of the unof ficial steering committee for a meas ure providing government owner ship of the twelve federal reserve banks. A London daily's $50,000 prize of fered for the first flight across the Atlantic was won by Capt. John Al cock and Lieut. Arthur Whttten Brown. BELCASTRO BALKS AT MEETING POLE The grappling match that was con sidered a natural Pete Belcastro ver sus Joe Smoiinskl struck a slight snag yesterday when Belcastro, when asked bv Promoter Mack LUlard to i wrestle the Polish PaJooka on next week's card, told the lmpressarlo to "go to Directly following, the Medford boxing commission warned the Mad Italian that he might be Indefinitely suspended if he keeps up his bellig erent ring tactics and refuses to wres tle whoever the promoter select as his opponent. LUlard said that lie would try again to match the two dlrt-sllngcrs for one of next Monday's events, but If he were unable to do so. he would prob ably choose Smoiinskl to meet Cow boy Dude Chick, Junior heavyweight champion of the world, who will be here for certain Decoration Day even ing. However, the promoter said. If Bel castro could be forced or coaxed to meet Smoiinskl. then probably Alvln Brltt would be named to welcome Chick back to the local armory. LUlard also announced that the Black Dragon would probably appear hero June 7, with Chick, Belcastro or Smoiinskl the more probably 'oppon ents. He said that If Chick and the i Dragon battled, he would see to It that there would be no time limit to the affair, insuring a winner to be I produced. Boise - 68 44 .... Clear Boston 76 54 .... Cloudy Chicago 78 60 .86 Cloudy Denver ...... 66 46 .03 Cloudy Helena 82 46 T. Clear Los Angeles 64 60 .01 Cloudy MEDFORD 61 50 .34 Cloudy New York - 80 56 .... P. Cldy Omaha .............. 78 60 .63 Cloudy Phoenix - 82 62 .... Clear Portland .... 68 48 .12 P. Cldy Reno 60 42 T. P. Cldy Rose burg 60 50 .14 P. Cldy Salt lake 80 50 .01 Clear San Francisco .... 66 48 .... Clear Seattle 58 62 T. Cloudy Spokane 68 50 .... Cloudy Washington, D.C. 84 66 .... Cloudy Yakima 78 54 Clear Meeting in olnt session at the Hotel Medford last night, 41 mem bers of the local Active and ao-30 clubs viewed motion pictures taken and shown by H. D. Kem of Copco.' entitled "Vacation Bound Accompanied by music, the movies depicted the second annual 20-30 club regatta, the first annual In ternational Catfish Derby, skiing in mountains nearby, fishing at Fish lake, clearing of the road to Crater lake with huge snow plows, and nov elty shots. Some of the films were In color, and were immensely en Joyed by members of the two clubs. Frank Perl of the Activians and Harold Wall or the 20-30 club were both fined 10 cents for creating a disturbance, and Aubrey N orris of the Active club was assessed the same amount for advertising. Both clubs expressed their appre ciation to Copco and to H. D. Kem for the motion picture showing. In the absence of Dwlght L. Houghton, Active club president, the meeting was presided over by Dr. Stanley Phillips of the Activians. ' finals. The are H. H. Hnthawar ver ms Harold B ii nee; w. F. Blddla ver sus Earl Sims: and Howard LeClerc versus. Stan Sherwood. In the second flight, the winner of the Mark Miller-William McAllis ter match will play Ralph Bard well. The victor in that match will then tangle with Leland Clark for the! championship. Ivan Harrington and Bayard Oe Un fit will shoot for the third flight title and A. R. Puchner ana Fred Lennard will tee off for the cham pionship of the foutth flight. It was announced that Tony Rob erts, new club professional, would Hive free lessons to all children un der 15 years old from 9 to 10 a. m every Saturday beginning June 5 and astlng until June 26. All of that age are invited to take advantage of the offer. Creamery Merger Vote. MONMOUTH, May 26. (API A vote will be taken Saturday. May 20. BETTER ACT SOOJ TO GET MOTORIC'S BIGGEST MOAEY'S WORTH! AMERICA'S OUTSTANDING moner'a worth, the Packard IM big. luiu rlous tralght -tight. It bring you Packard' "double-life" . . , both Imt Inft Identity and lonfl mechanical Itff. Tht I 'achard 120 Touring Sedan for ftvt paittntirl Mc L OST PEOPLE who have made a study of motor cars will tell you that today's biggest dollar value is the Packard 120. Today you can get this big, roomy straight-eight Packard a real Packard inside and out, with Packard's characteristic long mechanical life and Pack ard's enduring identity of an astonishingly low price. But litis season may be your last chance to htiy so much fine car for so little money I For, with the cost of labor and materials already at much higher levels, increased prices for cars seem inevitable. It is only be cause Packard has been un usually well equipped to build cars economically that we've been able to give you such a sen sational value for so long. So our earnest advice is, come in and drive the Packard 120 now. You'll find it offers genuine and thrilling Packard performance and quality. You'll see figures which will open your eyes to the ease with which the car can be bought and you'll see proof that the Packard 120 is without doubt the most economical car of its size in America to operate! But please don't put it off too long if you want to save yourself money! ASK THE MAN BVO 0'AJ ONE PACKARD 120 Here'i what a Packard 120, aa illustrated, costs here in Medford $1455.00 Delivered price. Including alt standard - equipment, and state and local tate If you, like many others, prefer to purchase your Packard out of Income, the necessary down payment on the car is only i486. Your old car. If of average value, should cover or exceed this amount, leaving monthly pay ments no higher than M5. Equally attrac tive monthly terms are avslUble on the other seven beautiful Packard 120 body sty lea. PERRY L. ASHCRAFT 128 SOUTH RIVEP.SIDE iaigirtitfMmC'rfnV'ti;iiiiii'-ii f hi linn i rWirriniilifilWti PH0E 191 Josephine School Vote. GRANTS PASS. May 26. (API- Property owners of the Josephine county non-high school district will vote June 31 on a budget of estimat ed expenses for the coming year to taling (33,054, and Increase of M.- 131. on the proposal to merge tha cream ery department of tha Monmouth Coopet'atlve Creamery 4t Warehouse with the Cooperative Creameries of Sheridan and Carlton. Tha vota was authorized at the annual meeting last January. DON'T BUY A MOWER UNTIL YOU SEE THI PLAY NEARS END Annual spring handicap tourna ment of the R a;; ue Valley Golf club will bo completed by next Sunday evening, with winners crowned in the championship and four other flights. Battling In the finals of the cham pionship flight will be Hobart Price and O. M, Roberts. The match will be played before Sunday evening, a& will all others. There is no definite date set for the matches. Competition In the first flight Is tlll behind schedule, with three matches yet to bo played before tlw swu'' wm- I T i. ST ( .rto3. 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