Medford mail tribune., December 31, 1939, Page 12, Image 12

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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1939.
CITY'S BUILDING
BEST SINCE 1929
TOTAL $454,955
Building permit! totalling
$454,953 were issued here in
1939, making the year just end
ing the largest since the peak
year 1929 when permits with a
value of $660,720 were issued,
it was revealed by statistics
compiled yesterday by Frank
H. Rogers, city building inspec
tor and assistant superinten
dent. The 1939 figure compared
with $251,540 in 1938, an in
crease for 1939 of $203,415 or
88 percent. In the 1939 total
was the $170,000 for the re
modeling and extension of the
postoffice. With this extraord
inary item excluded, the 1939
Increase over the 1938 total
would be $33,415 or 13 per
cent.
The December total was $33,-
373 as compared with $8,095
for the same month last year.
The year ended on a rising
caie as me JJecember permits
included four for new dwell
ings with an average value of
Sd.ooo, a high average, Mr.
Rogers said. In addition to the
four new residences with a to
tal value of $12,000, the De
cember permits were for: re
pairs to dwellings, $5,125; new
business buildings, $16,000; re
pairs to business bulldinm.
$150; and private garages not
inciuaea witn the new dwell
ings, $100.
Permits for the entire year
1939 were classified by Mr.
Rogers as follows: 54 new
dwellings, $142,700; 94 repairs
and alterations, dwellings, $27,
840; seven new business build
ings, $41,400; 36 repairs to busl
ness buildings, $60,345; ono ad
dition to a school, $9,000; one
addition to a church, $2,000;
20 new private garages not in
cluded with new dwellings,
$1,970; remodeling and exten-
lion ol postoffice, $170,000.
January, April, July, Septem
Der, November and December
of 1039 exceeded the game
months of 1938. The other
months In 1939 were below the
corresponding 1938 periods.
EXTRA POLICE TO
IRK NEXT YEAR
Washington, Dec. 30. (P)
The federal works agency today
allocated $156,000,000 to 48
states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and Hawaii for
highway improvement and elim
ination of grade crossings.
John M. Carmody, adminis
trator, said the funds would be
available on July 1, 1940.
The projects were authorized
py congress on June 8, 1038,
In an act providing $115,000,000
for Improvement of the federal
id highway system and Its ex
tensions through cities; $15,
000,000 for improvement of
secondary or feeder roads, and
$30,000,000 for elimination of
hazards at railway grade cross
ings. Allocations totaling $2,000,
000 for construction of roads
on public lands and federal
reservations in 13 western states
also were made.
Carmody said the new allo
cations would finance the Im
provement of approximately
9.786 miles on rural portions
of the federal aid system; 2,971
miles of secondary or "farm to
market" roads, and 725 miles
of highway through municipal
ies. He estimated that about
468 grade crossings would be
eliminated or improved.
The allocations include:
California, $6,048,689; Idaho,
$1,837,110; Montana, $3,031,680
Oregon, $2,466,018; Washington
$2.4!)5,370.
The allotments of public land
funds included:
California, $190,476
$107,029; Montana
Oregon, $129,201
$38,805.
Idaho,
$107,034;
Washington,
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Extra city and state police
patrols went on duty last night
to tighten control of motor traf
fic during the New Year's hol
iday period.
The augmented staff will con
tinue on duty until Tuesday and
it was indicated no toleration
will be shown careless or reck
less drivers simply because they
are imbued with the New
Year's spirit.
Accidents reported showed a
decline yesterday after tapering
off the day before from the
epidemic that started during
the Christmas holidays.
Jack Davis, 20, of 9 Mistle
toe street, reported to city po
lice yesterday that he was the
driver of the car that crashed
into a corner of the Huson con
fectionery store at West Main
street and North Oakdale ave
nue about 2 a. m. Friday. Jim
my Murphy, 22, of Central
Point, riding In the car, was
thrown through the windshield
and suffered lacerated hands
and arms, police said. Davis
was quoted as saying he was
afraid to report the accident
immediately. The car's bumper
and pieces of headlight and
windshield glass left at the
scene were used by police in
their investigation.
Wallace G. Dutton, 30, of
route 1, reported that his car
was struck in the rear when
he stopped at an Intersection
Friday evening. He did not list
the name of the driver of the
other car or the place of the
accident,
Mrs. Hazel Holllngsworth of
Central Point and J. A. Clark
of routo 4 drove cars that col
lided Friday afternoon at East
Jackson boulevard and Crater
Lake highway. Clark reported
Mrs. Holllngsworth failed to
stop at the street stop and she
reported she did not see the
stop sign.
Medford Business Ends Year
On Optimistic Note As Pear
Gift Box Sales Hit New High
(continued irons uae one)
Gift Package Growth
In quarters that keep close
tab on the pear trade, it was
calculated that the Christmas
gift package business this year
showed an increase of 30 per
cent over that of last year.
The gift package business is
strictly a Medford creation,
though it is being copied up
and down the coast in other
fruit-producing areas. When it
was inaugurated here just six
years ago only about 100 pack
ages were sold.
In the beginning only pears,
of choice variety and selection,
were used in the gift packages.
Since then, however, the busi
ness has been enlarged and now
other choice commodities, such
as exotic fruits, preserves, con
serves and novelties, are also
put up in gift packages. Quar
ter, half and standard size boxes
of pears also are put in special
Christmas wrappings for the
holiday trade.
One enterprising packing
house this year added pheasants
to its list of products done up
in special Christmas packages
for expressing prepaid to all
parts of the country. It was
said the pheasants proved to be
the company's second best bet,
being exceeded only by the gift
packages of choice pears. The
pheasants, quick-frozen and ex
pressed In dry Ice, were sold
in pairs.
Big Order Received
Largest single order received
by the company this year was
for 48 braces (96 birds), from a
Denver firm. Another order was
for four braces to be sent by air sign of better times ahead.
express to a point In Arkansas
The air express alone cost $34.
A $500 order for a variety of
the company's gift packages was
received from a wealthy eastern
socialite,
Another index of the swift
upswing of business here at the
year-end was the Christmas
business at the postoffice. A
new all-time high record was
established in both volume of
mail handled and cash receipts.
The year in general was good
economically for Medford and
Jackson county. It would prob
ably have been a banner year
in every respect excepting for
the European war that broke
loose in early September and
suddenly knocked the export
trade from under the west coast
pear industry. Up until then
prospects for the pear business
had been brighter than m sev
eral years. The war blow to
the pear industry was subse
quently softened somewhat by
government purchases of the
fruit in its relief program.
Optimism Returns
The year-end recovery from
the pessimism engendered by
the war effect on the pear in
dustry was so positive that even
the most melancholy of the fruit
growers and shippers looked to
the new year with renewed
confidence and hope. The de
termination was to find new
outlets to replace the European
and other foreign pear markets.
There was general agreement
yesterday that the economic
strength revealed here in the
year-end wind-up of business
could be interpreted only as a
YOUTHS HELD FOR SALEM HOUSEWIFE
S
TOTAL 6.70
December rainfall Increased
to 6.70 inches at 5 p. m. yes
terday when the weather bur
eau announced that .84 of an
Inch had fallen since the cur
rent storm began Friday morn
ing. Excess above normal for
the month increased to 3.59
inches.
Rainfall for the season be
ginning last September 1 stood
at 5 p. m. yesterday at 9.13
inches, an excess of 1.97.
It rained hard all day yes
terday at Crater Lake national
park.
OF SWINE PLAGUE
Farmer were advised yester
day by Dr. G. A. Gitzon, county
veterinarian, to have their hogs
vaccinated against hemorrhagic
septicemia or swine plague, ns
tne disease Is more commonly
known.
The disease, rare In this part
of the country, has become
prevalent in Jackson county
and at least 200 hogs have
already died, Dr. Gitzcn said.
Cure, he added. Is expensive.
but vaccination, which prevents !
the disease, is cheap insurance.
The doctor advised fnrmers
raising hogs to stay away from
the stock of other farmers.
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CONFESS THEFTS
William E. McCrory, 19, and
Jack Gardener, 16, both of 115
McAndrews road, were held in
Jackson county jail last night
after being arrested by city po
lice on a charge of larceny from
a car.
City police said the youths
confessed to rifling cars over
the past two months and snitch
ing an occasional article from
stores. An assortment of loot,
said by the police to have been
found In a closet of the boys
bedroom, was taken to police
headquarters where efforts were
made to identify the articles
by checking reports of thefts.
Persons who have missed art
icles from their cars In the last
two months were asked to give
police a description of the prop
erty. In the loot were flash lights,
cameras, fishing poles, plugs,
reels and other tackle, a quart
of oil, a skull and other types
of gear shift lever knobs, a base
ball glove, boxes of shotgun
shells and cartridges, tools,
whisk brooms, goggles, an auto
robe and a pair of white ear
muffs. The boys are to be arraigned
In justice of the peace court
Tuesday. Home of the Gardener
boy is In Talent but he has
been residing with McCrory,
police said. The arrest followed
a systematic check of meager
clues.
IS FORCED TO HELP
IN JAIUSCAPE
Portland, Ore., Dec. 30. (P)
While a middle-aged Salem,
Ore., housewife recovered from
shock tonight, police sought a
jail escapee who forced her to
drive him 80 miles to Portland.
Sheriff's Deputy L. L. Pit
tinger, Salem, said the man's
description tallied with that of
W. E. Bartges, 26, who escaped
from the Marion county jail
with Jack Tomlin, 32, this
morning.
The woman, Mrs. A. R. Hunt
er, was seized on a Salem resi
dential street near where police
lost all trace of the men. Once
in the car, the man dropped his
pretense of wanting to reach
a hospital, threatened to shoot
Mrs. Hunter and forced her to
take him to Silverton, McMinn
ville and finally, to Portland.
The circuitous trip took three
hours, during which the man
kept one hand concealed in his
pocket, Mrs. Hunter related.
Bartges, held on a bad check
charge, and Tomlin, who was
released from the state prison
yesterday but was held for
California authorities on a pa-1
role violation charge, escaped
through a small fire exit in the
cell-block corridor.
Salem, Dec. 30. (0) Eighty
five motorists lost their oper
ators licenses through revoca
tion or suspension during No
vember, Secretary of State Earl
Snell announced today.
Dan Hay, executive manner
of the Associated Employers of
uregon will address a dinner-
meeting of the Medford unit in
the Hotel Medford at 6:30 Wed
nesday. He will discuss the af
fairs of the association.
Mr. Hay will be accompanied
to Medford by Ed Heydcnburk
of Grants Pass and L. A. Rho.
den of Roseburg, both business
men.
Everyone Interested in the
work of the association is in
vlted to attend the dinner-meeting.
Fogs Halt Ships
Portland, Dec. 30. ipi-
Warm rains melted Ice on Ore
gon's mountain highways todav
but heavy fogs tied up shipping
at the mouth of the Columbia
river.
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M
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WE'RE STARTING ANOTHER
DECADE of the twentieth century,
and it seems like a good time to look back
and look ahead.
It was almost at the beginning of this
century that we started our company. We
wanted to build a good, sound car and sell
it at a price low enough so pretty nearly
every family could have one.
We were all alone in that idea then. But
the experience of thirty-seven years and the
building of one-third of all the motor cars
ever made have proved it was a sound idea.
A lot of interesting things have resulted
from it. '
One was our discovery that there are
very few high-priced things that can't be
produced at a low price, if you're stub
born enough to stick to it until you find
the way. We're finding new ways to do that
right along.
Another was our discovery that you can
pay high wages and cut the cost of your
goods at the same time, without cheating'
on the quality of the product. That idea is
pretty widely accepted today. Not as much
as it might be, or as it will be in the future,
but already it's the rule instead of the
exception.
We have learned that stability of employ
ment with every possible security for the
worker is one of the most desirable things
that can be achieved. We want to keep all
our 120,000 men at work throughout the
New Year if it is at all possible. And we
have planned our production schedules
accordingly to level out the peaks and
valleys pf production and employment.
Our payrolls are now the largest in recent
years. Because the increased business of last
year permitted it, we raised the wage rate
of thousands of our men. We also put into
effect a $150,000,0Q0 insurance plan for
the benefit of our employes.
A lot of other things have resulted from
the success of the low-priced automobile.
The roads that have been built. The oil and
gas and tire and service businesses that have
grown up. The new markets that have been
built up for farm products to be used as
raw materials in industry. The freedom that
people have to move around and see their
country.
But the most important thing we have
found in these thirty-seven years is that this
country is always good to a business that
never sells the country short a business
founded on the belief that this country is
going steadily ahead, and is willing to
invest everything it has in the future.
That is why our plant here at Dearborn
is never completely "finished" in the way
that a house is finished. That's why we are
always rebuilding and adding to our facili
ties as we are, even now, to provide for
the new tractor.
That's why we can say Happy New Year
with confidence. We know that, no matter
what happens, America will be able to
review some more real progress at the end
of 1940.
Again - For The 27th Time
So So ATE
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Wishes One and All A Happy New Year!
CINCE February 2, 1912, this pioneer Medford automobile
concern has served the people of this community . . . Our
facilities for performing this service have been increased and
modernized to keep pace with a growing, progressive community
.... It is with pleasure that we again for the 27th time; greet
our friends upon the opening of a New Year. We hope that
yours will be filled with a generous measure of happiness and
success! C. E. "POP" GATES
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