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WEDFOKD MAIL TRrBTTNTE. MEDFOKTV OBFG-Oy. TTETOCESTfAY. OCTOBER 5. Y938.
Opening of Two New Modern Mobilgas Outlets In Medford Boosts Local Building Records!
TO
E
OPENEDJ CITY
Investment Approximately
$30,000 Latest Equip
ment Featured Local
Builders Erect Stations
T modern new servlca stations,
one located at Rlvarslds and Fourth
street, tha other at Riverside and
Ninth stresta, ban Just bean com
pleted by the General Petroleum
Corporation at a coat estimated at
30,000. The very latest- up-to-the-minute
equipment ! featured In
both stations with a (ull line of
Moblloll, Mobilgas and other general
Petroleum products offered to the
motoring public
Complete senrlce will be provided
at both stations, according to Ted
Snyder, General Petroleum corpora
tion representative here and Orant
Bean, wholesale aent. United States
tires will be Included In the lines
handled.
Oscar Ford, district manager for
the Genera! Petroleum Corporation,
la In Medtord today Inspecting the
two fine stations and conferring
with Mr. Bean and Mr. Snyder.
R, I. Stuart and Sons, Medford
contractors, erected the two fine new
stations; Trowbridge and Flynn. elec
trical contractors, handled the elec
trical Installations and wiring: Pen
well's Plumbing Shop had charge of
all plumbing: W. R. Finch and Fred
THE
EAGLE CAFE
309 N. Riverside Avenue
Featuring
CONEY ISLAND REDHOTS
Club Breakfasts 20c to 35c
Plate Lunches 25c and 30c
Steaks and Chops
Try Our Coffee With Pure Cream
Oardner handled the painting. The
new Eagle Cafe haa been opened ad
jacent to the station at Fourth and
Riverside.
Vie Kengls and Warren Liggett are
the opera tori of the new station at
Ninth and Riverside while H. P.
"Skeets" Knight and Jim Beall will
have charge of the Fourth and
Riverside unit. The stations are now
open for business under their management.
Need 43 Years To
Count Gas Gallons
It would take 48 years to count
all the gasoline gallons consumed
In one year In the five western states
marketing territory of General Pe
troleum corporation, If a person
counted 13 hours a day at the rate
of 300 a minute.
This 'Interesting estimate by Mo
bilgas statisticians Is based on an
average annual consumption of 650
gallons by each of the three and a
half million motor cars In the states
of Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Ne
vada and California. It gives one a
conception of the magnitude of the
petroleum Industry, employing a great
army of workers In these states in
the production and marketing of Its
products, essential to present-day
civilization.
Eagle Cafe Opens
On Station Ground
An attraction on the new General
Petroleum Mobllgea service station
lot at 309 North Riverside avenue
Is the modem, new Eagle cafe opened
recently by Nellie Reed and Elmyra
Peck. '
The new cafe Is attractively furn
ished with all new equipment and
features coney Island red hots, club
breakfasts and plats lunches. Steaks
and chops will be a principle menu
Item.
OKfCE AAHKf
The Flying Red Horse Flies
Over a new establishment that
stands as a distinct credit to this
community.
ONCE AGAIN - -
R. I. Stuart & Sons have served ai
the general contractors on a sub
stantial, modern building project.
ONCE AGAIN - -
We invite your attention to our
facilities and ability for excava
tion and general construction. We
have the equipment.
R. I. STUART & SONS
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
Rreprsentative
Attractive General Petroleum Station at Ninth Street General Petroleum Station at Fourth Street Is Open
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Agent
Ted Hnvder, well known Medford
man who Is reprewntatlve for rhe
General
Medford,
Petroleum Corporation
IMPORTANCE HERE
OF OIL
CITED BY
Increase In local payroll. Increase
In money Invested In this city's per
manent Improvements. More trade
with local supply houses. Employ
ment of local bulldlnR construction
men. Use of more local building
materials. Enhanced attractiveness
of the city. Improvement of service
to the motoring public.
These are a few of the advantages
of the project represented In the
new Mobllgns and Moblloll outlet,
New General Petroleum- Corporation station at Biter tide Avenue and Ninth street,
managed by Vic Kengla and Warren Liggett.
now serving the motoring public- This attractive station
the opening of which is announced
here, according to statements of
General Petroleum corporation rep
resentatives In this area. It is also
cited by Ted Snyder, General Petro
leum representative here, that the
oil Industry as a whole contributes
to the prosperity of this city, the
state and the nation.
"Today, when there are enough
automobiles In the country to take
everyone for a ride," says the Mo
bilgas executive, "everyone Is de
pendent on this Industry and Its
service stations for the supply of
essential . fuel and lubricants. It Is
also pertinent that this Industry
pays 11 per cent of all state, federal
Hnd local taxes.
"However, it Is not gasoline, oil
and grease alone that this Industry
supplies to the nation. For Instance,
a 42-gallon barrel of crude oil yields
an average of 18 gallons, of gasoline
I Congratulations '
I Cnera
Painting
W. R. FINCH
I and
FRED GARDNER
I Painting Contractors Spray Painting Decorating
I PHONE 1947 or 1512-L
and naptha, two gallons of kerosene
16 gallons of gas oil and fuel oil,
better than a gallon of lubricating
oil and many other product.
LABOR ATTORNEY
HIIS CLAIM RAIL
WAGES ARE HIGH
WASHINGTON, Oct. (AP)
Railroad labor counsel questioned to
day as Ill-founded, the testimony of
a witness for the railroads that the
wages they pay are high In com
parison with other Industries.
Charles M. Hay, representing 18
brotherhoods, asked an emergency
fact-finding board to discard a pile
of charts and graphs offered by the
carriers In an effort to Justify a pro
posed 15 percent wage reduction.
The board was named by Presi
dent Roosevelt In an attempt to fore
stall a strike voted by railroad men
In protest against the cut.
Hay sharply cross-examined Dr.
Wlllford King, New York university
economist who prepared the wage
studies for the carriers.
The brotherhood attorney contend
ed King had failed to Include thou
sands of part-time workers In his
charts. These charts showed the aver
age rail worker topped those In
nearly every other Industry In hourly
and weekly wages.
"The railroad Industry runs 13
months a year and 24 hours a day,"
Hay said, "and cannot be compared
to many of these other Industries
that operate on a seasonal basis and
employ many unskilled workers."
King had testified railroad wages
were at an all-time peak In the first
six months of this year while. In
nearly all other Industries the wage
trend turned downward.
He said yesterday the "shrinkage
The
Wising and Fixtures
IN THE NEW
General Petroleum Stations
Located at
4th Street and North Riverside Ave.
and
9th Street and South Riverside Ave.
Were Installed By
Trowbridge & Flynn
Electric Company
214 West Main
Phone 12
Operate Fourth Street Unit
Once It Was the Old Horse Truck
r'.-K far NH'
fc s m
(Irani Rpan, Medford man, who Is
wholesale agent for the General
Tetrolenm Corporation In this city.
Manage Ninth Street Station
" I
Like the gasoline
pumps of early days,
the first gasoline de
livery wagon and the
old horse team that
pulled It are recalled by
many pioneers whose
memories have been
aroused through the
Mobilgas building proj
ect featured In these
columns today.
For comparison with
the fleet, attractive,
big - capacity gasoline
and oil trucks seen on
the streets and high
ways today, this news
paper has secured a
picture of one of these
first motor fuel equip
ages. The photo, re
produced herewith,
shows the delivery equipment of one
of the first General Petroleum dis
tributors. "In marked contrast with this early
day equipment." says Grant Bean,
agent, here, "the company now has
a large fleet of streamlined trucks
to which constant additions are be
ing made.
"These, trucks carry up to 1.800
of a '
First Truck
General" Distributor
Left, "Vic Kengla and rljrlit. Warren Liggett.
new General Petroleum Corporation station at Ninth and Riverside,
associated with an automotive service firm In Klamath Falls. He Is mar
ried and has become active In this city as Skipper of the local Sea Scout
troop number 8. Warren Liggett Is well known In Medford, having been
a resident of this city for the past 12 years. He attended the University
of Oregon and was actively Identified with local DeMolay affairs here
Liggett has had considerable experience In the field of automotive service.
Operators of the new General Petroleum Corporation station at Fourth
and Riverside streets are, left, H. P. "Skeets" Knight and. right, Jim Beall.
Ikects Knight, formerly a resident of Klamath Falls, Is mnrrlrrt and has
tne child. He is experienced In garage and service work which will stand
. ... r to tofA stead In hid operation of the smart, new service station in Medford.
operators of the attrarAM V,. mrrrfpi ,, - fnmnv. came to Medford two rears neo from
ak.. m n. i. .i,n.nlI.hir aviMFlsiiKat l aatTrtfut sitattnn nnorntlnn. fliYnril-
rmUWIU. ITT IB UHMUU5III' i( I ( lliru ass ' . ,
biff to General Petroleum officials here.
gallons on a load, servicing many
stations scattered, over a wide area,
and making many trips a day. Such
trucks have undergone Just as radi
cal Improvement a the modern pas
senger cars. They represent a heavy
investment, made necessary to quick
ly and adequately serve a fast grow
ing clientele for the 'largest selling
gasoline In America'."
FORMER DAYS ARE
RECALLED BY NEW
Oil Changes With
Seasons Is Claim
Gasoline and oil, like clothing, are
changed with the season, says a re
port from Mobilgas refineries. Vola
tility of gasoline and body of oil
must be changed to compensate for
radical cllmatlo extremes.
There are 4,000,000 horses In Po
land, enough to take all the Inhab
itant riding simultaneously. .. .
Use Mall Tribune Want Adl.
Former days of the old "horseless
carriage" and hand-operated pump
are recalled to many pioneers of the
city through the opening of the new
modern Mobilgas outlet, announced
In these columns today.
MBny of those who , "remember
when" look back to the time they
bought gasoline in five-gallon cans,
at the grocery store, carried It home,
and poured It in the tank, located
under the front seat of the family's
pride and Joy.
Later on, about 35 years ago, came
the first gasoline pump. It was
very small affair, operated by hand,
with a good stiff pull. One of these
first ones, found in the srehives of
General Petroleum corporstlon, was
set up In one of, the modern, auto
matically-operated Mobilgas stations
of the company.
About that time the Brewster twins,
popular and personable young act
resses of the 20th Century-Fox tu
dlos. happened along. They Insisted
on performing the act of operating
the antiquated equipage and pour
ing gas in the car from the bucket
Remember WHEN?
TUB fHING STATION' MAN
C PAWLED UNDER THE CAO TO LUBDICATE IT ANb
DPAIfJ OUT THE OLD OIL. IT COST $I.SO TO$2,SO TO a
TAKt IHt IH.UC VUTOF THt- fj
MID A HIGHED PPICF
K THE OIL V
ADDITION
tT TOOK MAL F A DAY AMD
OF MEN TO CHANGE AND PEPAID A
COUPLE OF TIDES. NO WOMDEP tT
COST YOU $2.50 SERVICE CHAPSe.
IF A TIPE LASTED FOP 300
MILES WITHOUT A PUNCTUP& OO
BLOWOUT YOU WEPP LUCKY.
IF IT SEWED YDO K SOOO
MILES IT WAS A MIPACIF.
TIPE MAKERS WOULDN'T
GUARANTEE- THEM FOR MOK
THAN 1500 MILES. SOMB
WOULDN T GUARANTEE"
THEM AT ALL.
IT TOOK THE FAMILY ML DAY SATURDAY TO GET
PEADY FOR THAT "LON6" SUNDAY TRIR OF SO
MILES. YOU POURED THE GAS N THE OL' &US
FPOM A S-GALLON CAN YOU BOUGHT AT
THE STOPE, TQUSTING IT HAD ENOUGH PEP
TO STAPT THE ENGINE- ANP KEEP HEP
GOING.
WE JUST DPIVE N
SEWICE- STATION MEN (YES.THEYBE
&L-AME) AQB THE ANIMATED
TmfwHO DO EVLTQYTMNG FOP
us bltt (?on oup households.
THEY PLAN OUO VACATIONS.
AHSWEP OOP QUESTIONS-" CHECK
ANP CHANGE- TPES MA UEEr
IOBPICATE. FUORAND NSFECT
THF- WHOLF CAP IN A HUPPY.
NAIL TO THE UP-TO-DATE- S5CWQF
STATION EKPEPT ESSENTIAL TO
EVERY MODERN COMMUNITY
filled by the pump, s shown In the
accompanying picture..
In the days of this first pump, say
old-timers of General Petroleum, a
perron pulled tip a gallon, or there
abouts, at time. The only meas
urement was the bucket. Then about
the time of the World war came the
visibility pump, still a hsnd-oper-ated
affair, which also pulled only
one gallon at a time. Into a top com
partment of five-gallon capacity.
But progress didn't stop. With
more and better cars, pump manu
facturers originated the beautiful,
electrically-operated, completely au
tomatlo pumps, forming part of the
equipment Installed In new Mobil
gas stations. "It's a far cry," said
an old-tlmef, "and the motorists of
the younger generation don't reallM
how fortunate they are."
Oil Industry Here
In Condensed Form
The oil Industry, of which the new
local Mobllgss unit becomes an in
tegral part, depends on approximately
341.000 wells in the United states
tor Its production. Oil Is produosd
In 33 states, refined In SB, and mar.
keted In all of them. Soma of tM
wells now go as deep aa two miles,
and It Is predicted that oil drillers
will soon perdtrate three miles ba
low the earth's surface. Petroleum
producta, besides serving America's
millions, constitute 10 per oent of
thft United States exports.
Automobile radio sets are not per
mltted In the urban areaa of Nether
land's Oulsna.
Osa Mali Tribune Want Ala
In railway Income Is so large as to
forecast bankruptcy of the Industry
unless the situation la remedied."
Menus of the Day
By Mrs. Alexander George
USING L'P LEFT-OVERS '
Breakfast Menu
fltewed Prunes and Orange Juice
Browned Rice Cakes Syrup
Toasted Bun
Coffee
Luncheon Menn
Veal Relish Sandwiches
Cocoa
Plum Sauce cocoanut Cookies
Dinner Menu
Avocado Pear Salad
Broiled Meat Cakes
Creamed Potatoes
Buttered Cauliflower
Breed Apricot Conserve
Grapes Coffee
Chocolate Cake with Creamy
Frosting
Veal Relish Filling
(Enough for 13 sandwiches)
2-8 cup chopped cooked veal
14 cup chopped ptmlento-stuffe4 ':
olives
cup chopped celery
1 teaspoon minced onions
teaspoon salt
teaspoon paprika
S tablespoons salad dressing
M teaspoon minced parsley
Mix Ingredient with a fork and
spread over buttered slices and bread
Avocado Pear Salad
1 peer
3 tablespoons lemon Juice
Va cup French dressing
Watercress '
Peel pear. Cut It in half and dis
card the seed. Then cut the pear into
thin strips. Mix with juice - and
dressing. Chill for one hour. Serve
on cress or any other salsd green.
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Dse Mall Tribune Want Ads. ;
THE
Plumbing Work
Standard Sanitary Fixtures
and Wheeling Pipe
Were Installed
in the new
General Petroleum
Stations
by
Penwell Plumbing
Shop
E. 0, AMID0N, Prop.
g3g
' s si
To render a better service to local motorists, the celebrated Mobil Products are
now made even more conveniently available. Now, nearby, is this handy outlet
dispensing every-day motoring necessities bearing the famous Mobil brand
-MOBILGAS, the largest selling gasoline in America - MOBILGAS ETHYL,
premium gasoline leader MOB I LO I L, largest selling motor oil in the world
MOBILGREASE, leader in lubrication value and other quality products.
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FOURTH AND RIVERSIDE STATION
H. F. "Skeets" KNIGHT
Jim Dealt
NINTH AND RIVERSIDE STATION
Warren Lifjrjott
Vie Kengla