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XGE FOURTEEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1941. CCC REPAIR UNIT READY FOR WORK, $80,000 PLANT More Than $25,000 Worth Of Machinery Is Installed In Large Central . Shop With most of the machinery now Installed, the $80,000 CCC automotive repair unit plant st the old county fairgrounds was ready to function yesterday In servicing all kinds of heavy equipment of CCC camps and other governmental agencies from Eugene to Sacramento, Cal., and from the eastern Ore gon border to the Pacific ocean. The plant Includes a complete machine shop for major repairs and overhauls and the rebuild ing and testing of all units, such as motors, front ends, rear ends, transmissions and bodies. Cars, trucks, tractors, compressors, drag lines, shovels, electric light plants, etc., will be handled in the big shop. If the plant has the load ex pected, from 20 to 30 civilian mechanics under civil service appointment will be employed, it was related by Wallace Bren nan, superintendent. The me chanics with their families, will come to Medford to reside as they are employed. Tour mech anics and an Inspector, who came to set the machinery up, were employed at the plant yes terday. Leonard Rowan has come here from Salem to be chief clerk. Mr. Brennan comes from Missoula, Mont. School Set Up As an adjunct of the repair unit, a school has been built to train classes of 40 CCC enrollees as automotive mechanics. When this phase of the program will be activated could not be ascer tained here. The shop will service the auto motive equipment of nine CCC camps and of other government al agencies in its territory, such as the U. S. forest service, na tional park service, army and Indian service. The unit here Is part of the motor repair division which has Salem as headquarters. There are only five such motor repair divisions in the entire country. Improving Grounds CCC enrollees of a South Fork side camp are now working on grounds project on the shop site. They are engaged in grad ing the land and installing trench drain tile. When this Job is finished, they will level and gravel the entire area. It is expected that the entire plant will run something over $80,000. The buildings of the repair unit cost $31,000 and more than $23,000 worth of machinery is being installed. Most of the machinery has been set up but some has not yet ar rived. The school building cost $2,263. This makes the total investment in buildings and ma chinery more than $78,283 and the work of the CCC enrollees in Improving the grounds Is ex pected to take the total to more than $80,000. PENN LICENSE OFF Salem, Dec. 6. (F) Oregon fruit and vegetable juices may now be sold In Pennsylvania without payment of a $30 li cense fee formerly imposed, A. W. Metzger, chief of the foods and dairy division of the state department of agriculture, an nounced here today. LAST PLEA MADE FOR OLD TOYS A final plea for old toys to be made over for underprivileged children was voiced yesterday by the Lady Lions. The discarded toys have not been received in the volume hoped for, said Mrs. C. C. Proctor, general chairman, In asking for more donations. Con tributions should be made in time for distribution of the re built playthings December 18, 10 and 20, she stated. The Lady Lions are also look ing for a downtown place from which to distribute the toys. If anyone is willing to donate use of a vacant downtown store for the three days of distribution the Lady Lions would like to hear from him. With a new large workshop, city firemen, who rebuild the old toys, can handle a larger volume this year than ever be fore but thus far the contribu tions have been lighter than an ticipated. To complete their work on time, the firemen said they would like to have all con tributions made before the end of the week. CAROLITA FURRY, PIONEER, PASSES Mrs. Carollta Furry passed away at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. Niel Franklin 311 S. Oakdale avenue, at 8 a.m. Satur day. Mrs. Furry was born at the'old Colver home in Phoenix In 1873 and has spent her entire life in this valley. The deceased "was the widow of the late Arthur S. Fur ry of Phoenix. She leaves three children and numerous friends and relatives to mourn her pass ing. A complete obituary will be published later. Conger Funeral Parlors will have charge of the services. BASHFUL BUT HERO Portland, Ore., Dec. 6. UP) A young man who preferred to remain anonymous was the hero of the George J. Ross home today.' He shinnled up a 73-foot fir tree late last night to rescue the family cat. (Plain) SUITS COATS DRESSES cleaned and pressed LOCAL LEADER TO AT AREAMEETING Silver Beaver, Highest Award To Be Presented As Climax of Conclave. The Silver Beaver, highest award granted to local Boy Scout leaders, will be presented tonight to a local man as the climax of the seventh annual meeting and planning conference of the Crater Lake Boy Scout council. Name of the recipient is being withheld until the ac tual time of presentation. The ceremony, according to Kenneth Wells local Boy Scout executive, will follow immediately after a special color ceremony presented by Scouts from troop 31 of Weed, Calif. The dinner meeting will be at tended by over 125 Scout leaders from Jackson, Josephine and Siskiyou counties, will end the conference which commences with group discussion meetings in the afternoon. The regular program com mences with registration at Ho tel Medford at 12:30 p. m., fol lowing are the group meetings under leadership of M. N. Hogan, John Eddy, Frank Rogers, Don Newbury and J. O. Tostevin. The dinner will be at 9:30 p. m. when there will be annual election of officers, loyalty dedi cation presentations to troops and packs, the silver beaver cere mony and the principal address by Walter R. Whidden, deputy regional Boy Scout executive from Portland. Entertainment will be pro vided in the afternoon for wives of visiting Scout leaders from out of the city. LAST RITES FOR E Rose M. Snyder, 70, passed away at her home, 406 Beatty street, Thursday evening after six weeks' illness. She was born at Titusville, Pa., Pune 23, 1871, and had been a resident of Medford and of Oregon for 21 years. Miss Rose M. Runk was united in marriage to Halstead W. Sny der at La Mesa, Calif. July 2, 1898, four children being born to this union two sons and two daughters, Earl W. Snyder of Seattle, Wash., Ellis Snyder, Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. R. A. Skinner and Mrs. Edward Gould, of Med ford. She is survived by her hus band, three grandchildren and the above children. She also leaves a host of friends. She was a member of the pythian Sisters of this city. Funeral services were held at the Perl funeral home Saturday at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Herald Gard ner, rector of Saint Mark's Epis copal church officiating. Inter ment was in Medford I.O.O.F. cemetery. The pupil of the eye grows smaller with age, and at 60 years admits only about balf aa much light a It did at 20 years. DRIVERS WARNED HIT MOURNED BY The city police department's traffic section counseled motor ists again yesterday to note the new stop regulations along Fourth street and Central ave nue. It was indicated that after allowing a familiarization period the police are now ready to bear down hard on motorists who slide through-the stop signs. All traffic on cross streets be tween Oakdale avenue and Riv erside avenue, excepting Central avenue, must now stop before entering Fourth street, police pointed out. Fourth street traf fic and all other traffic from Sixth street to Edward street must stop before entering Cen tral avenue. Signs will soon be installed to carry out the city council's new minutes at the sides of specified ordinance limiting parking to 13 downtown alleys, police said. The ordinance is intended to help solve the traffic problem by providing convenient space for motorists who can transact their business in five to 10 min utes; Pending erection of the necessary signs, however, park ing in alleys will not be toler ated, police declared. It is a violation of a city ordinance to park in alleys at any time. HIGHER SUGAR PRICE New York, Dec. 6. (JP) A higher ceiling price for sugar was predicted in trade circles today in connection with the Unitde States offer to buy a major part of Cuba's 1942 crop. other In back of the stove pipe of the living room wood-burning heater, firemen reported. The clothes Ignited when Mrs. Med calf was away from the house for five minutes, they said, adding that the pipe be came hot from an open draft The fire was reported by Fred Llppert who was working on a new house next door. Firemen answered a ward alarm. At the regular monthly meet ing of the Grange Cooperative Supply association on Dec. 3 , the board of directors passed the ! following resolution: I "Whereas; We wish to extend our sincere sympathy to Mrs j Nora Wait, wife of the late : Perry L. Wait, our esteemed ' brother and fellow director in recognition of his loyal and faithful work. "Be it resolved A copy of this resolution be offered for publication In the Medford Mail Tribune, one be recorded in the minutes of the association and a copy be sent to Mrs. Wait. "Otto Niedermeyer, president. "Arnold Bohnert, vice presi dent. "Floyd V. Bell, secretary. "Carl Lusk, Geo. Hartley, Geo. E. 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