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MTTOFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD. OKEGOX. SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1937 REGARDLESS of EXPERIENCE Elsewhere WHITE HUGE DELAY SENTENCE OF STEP MOTHER Await Starter's Flag for Indianapolis ClassicI YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD HERE PAGE TWO TO ' Nailtated by the tremendous vol- umi of Increased business, plana for the largeat expansion program ever undertnken by the White Motor com peny were revealed yesterday when . Walter W. Abbey, local White dealer, announoed that more than 92,000,000 will be spent within the next year and a half for new machinery and tool, property repair, building con structlon and the Installation of a complete new plant for the building of heavy-duty coach bodies for city service. . Moat Important Items In the plan are those calling for tho construction of a spacious combination testing plant and research laboratory, and the bus body building division; pur chase and rearranging of new ma chinery, tools and heat-treating equipment; dy nanometers for tfnglne testing, creation of greater storage facilities, and general property lm provement. "Although this program has been under consideration for quite some time, Immediate action was necessi tated by the surge of additional busl neas created by the introduction of the new White 91000 truck lino, and the Increasing popularity of J3-cyl-Inder "pancake" engine city coaches and heavy duty trucks' Mr. Abbey said. "Considering that 1036 was a banner year In unit sales and deliv eries, the fact that deliveries alone for the first two months of this year Increased 8ft percent over the same period last year explains the need for expansion. "This broad program will double production capacity for trucks and buses, and thereby relieve pressure on various divisions now taxed to the limit. Launching of the $2,000. 000 plan expresses the faith of the White Motor company In their belief that the present national uptrend In business will continue, ALL MM OF STATE OPENED PORTLAND, May 29. T") The ftp proaoh of the summer travel season sees virtually all major roads open In Oregon, the motor association said today, Exceptions are the north and south Santlom, McKenxle pans, Cra ter lake rim and Sand creek and north entrances. Skyline trail, Willamette pass and the Mount Hood loop from Cooper spur to Wapinltla Junction. tw'i r-'- r A yvsLJi -t" n-'K-'vT" i With practice trial runs establishing new performance marks, experts are generally predicting that the forthcoming Indianapolis 500-mile race on May 31 it will see all former records broken. All cars in the blue ribbon event this year must uso strictly stock gasoline. Above left, Rex Mays, Glendale, California, driver and farmer Pacific Coast Champion, turning a fast Up on the brick oval In his sensational eight-cylinder Alfa Romeo, Above right, Wilbur Shnw, one of the nation's most skilled drivers, who is one of the favorites bj virtue of his phenomenally fast trial runs. Lower left, Bob Swanaon, World's Midget car champion, will vit ' v new honors In the "big car" event. Lower right, the rail birds clock Shaw as he averages 125 miles rw "fh of these drivers Is usinv stock Cilmore Ethvl gasoline in the race. Suspension of nearly all WPA pro jects In Jackson county during the summer months was announced yes terday by Harold drey, district direc tor, who gave the withdrawal of work ers Into private Industry as the prin cipal reason for the temporary curtailment. Yoti 11 1C PACKARD $1133 at Medford Made by America's Oldest and Largest Fine Car Manufacturer JUST ARRIVED A Carload of Packards. See the New Colors! Perry L. Ashcraft 128 South Riverside Phone 191 In addition to the seasonal em ployment, which annually draws mnny workers from WPA rolls, Gray stated the blister rust control pro ject would use some of the workers employel by WPA during the winter months. However, he said, by far the larger number would find employ ment In private Industry. The same condition Is true In Josephine and Klamath counties, the district direc tor said. ' A small number of workers remain on tho Medford airport project dur ing port of Juno r.nd the WPA con struction project at the Jackson county farm would be comploted early next month. Grey announced. Commenting on the generally ex- ccllcnt conditions which enabled WPA workers to procure outside employ ment. Grey statod, "we are pleased ! to not the Increasing ability of work-1 ers to secure normal private employ ment at this time of the year." FERTIG ELECTED ! COrtVALtia, May 39. p) Direc tors of the Oregon State college Alum ' nl asMwlntion elected Arthur Pertlg of Astoria president at their annual meeting here today. FVrttg succeeds Allan Rlnehart of Portland, who remains on the board, ticlng re-elected for the Multnomah UMNct. ! Other new officers are George Knutsen, Portland, vice-president; Ar thur Dorman, Corvallls, treasurer, and (leorge Scott, mannger. Tho association voted to change Scott's title from secretary to msn- , . j Directors re-elected lncludrd A. K. lor man of the central Willamette valley district, Kenneth Denman, ! Medford, southern Oregon district. j Scott reported to the board that a ; now campaign on long term mem . bnrshlps had Increased the assocla ' tlon enrollment by almost 100 per ; cent and would be continued throvigh tho coming year. FOR APRIL GAIN SALEM, May 30. (p) While the number of automobile accidents showed a 30 per cent Increase In April over that of a year before, and per sons Injured totaled 491 as sgalnst 434, the 17 fatalities wore six less than April 1938, the secretary of state reported today. For the first four months of the vear 81 persons wcro killed In Oregon ns the result of motor accidents, an Increase of four over the same period a year ago. Persons Injured were 1,604 In the 11,063 listed accidents. Of the 17 fatalities last month four were pedestrians, one a bicycle rider and two killed while riding motor cycles. Pour were killed In Multno mah county, two In Coos, Jackson, Morrow and Tillamook courtlea, and one each In Klamath, Linn, Malheur, Polk and Umatilla counties. Be Correctly Corseted in AN AKTIST MODEL by Ethelwvn B Hoffmann snail SEE THE NEW The Finest Cars Ever Built by Walter P. 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Jflo immnt Sedan oie sundays and i:kninos PROOF THAT PANAMA HATS ARK NOT MADK IN PAN WIA Panama hats are manufactured almost exclusively m Ecuador and Peru. Tne misnomer arose because the hats, originally made In Ecuador, were Intro duced to the commercial world through Panama. 1. "Nugget of Knowledge" Oeoige V Stimpson. IN CHILD DEATH ROSEBtma, o., May so. (R Further poetponement ox sentence or Cordelia Hopklni. who baa pleaded guilty to a charge of Involuntary manslaughter, was required today by tbe Illness of Mrs. Hopkins. Suffering from a digestive illness, Mrs. Hopkins was reported considerably weaker. Mrs, Hopkins Is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to a grand jury Indictment charging her with Inflict ing head Injuries which caused the death of her four-year-vld step daughter, Barbara Irene Hopkins. She stated In her confession, which was submitted to the court for study, prior to passing sentence, that she struck the child on the bead with the handle of a table knife. As the woman will be wanted as a defense witness In the trial of her husband, Leonard Hopkins, Canyon vllle barber and father of Barbara, who has pleaded no,t guilty to a charge of assault and battery, the court Is In no hurry to pass sentence, Circuit Judge Wlmberly said today. He Issued an order postponing sen tence until Friday June 4. FOR ALTURAS CASE ALTURAS, Calif.; May 29. JP Herbert Welch, Lake view, ore,, attor ney, will bo the special assistant pros ecutor at Harry French's ' murder trial, District Attorney K..A. Wylle Eald today. The district attorney disclosed that noted San . Francisco psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph L. Catton, will testify for the state. Dr. Catton was a witness at the Winnie Ruth Judd trial In Ari zona and the Masse trial at Honolulu. French has been In Jail here since March 25, the date of the shooting of Claude L. Mccracken, publisher of an Alturas newspaper. 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