EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. August 13. 1944
AMERICAN FRUIT
Solid Construction, Meas'
sures for Comfort, Effi
ciency Impress Visitors.
Two thousand visitors who In
spected the new pear packing
plant of the American Fruit
Growers on Soutti ir street lasi
week-end were impressed by the
substantial type of construction,
the harmonious design and hand-
Home finish of offices and work
rooms and the numerous innova
tions for the comfort of em
ployees and for heightened effi
ciency of the crews.
Visitors entering through the
main office door found them
selves facing a large room with
equipment show space to the left,
a general office space ana coun
ter to the right with private of
fices, vault space and the hard
ware department at the back.
The finish of these departments
is Nu-Wood in beige, tan and
brown and lighting fixtures and
furniture are modern in design.
Grower! Office
Here are the offices of the
plant manager, George S. Green
his assistant, E. A. Pringle, and
u special office designed for the
use of growers calling on busi
ness. Miss Thelma Tolles Is of
fice manager. The telephone
switchboard is located In this
general office.
The hardware department Is
considered unique in both design
und content, since it is the only
one of its kind in the district. A
Mini-circular counter divides the
department from the main room
and tiers of specially designed
(shelves hold a large stock of
hardware needed by farmers and
agriculturists of all types. Ron
nie Hudkins is manager of the
hardware and supply depart
ment. Most of the lower floor space
Is given over to the packing ma
chinery. Four complete pear
packing units have been in
stalled, two new and two car
ried over from the old plant.
The washers, sorting tables and
sizers, which cost about $2,500
a unit, have a capacity of from
10 to 12,000 boxes a day, or be
tween 15 and 17 carloads of
fruit. An Innovation in this de
partment is the Installation of
cull chutes from the packing
units, these being arranged so
that culls are not handled by
hand. This device weighs the
culls In order than an accurate
count can be given each grower.
Sorters Comfortable
With a thought for the com
fort of tho sorters, steam heat
has been Installed under each
sorting table. Chutes from the
second floor bring tho boxes,
with liners already In place, to
the packers. The nowly installed
sizing units have circular, re
volving bins into which the
pears drop conveniently to the
hands of the packers.
Overlooking tho packing room
Is a balcony from which specta
tors may watch the plant In oper
ation or visitors may wait.
Each packed box of fruit Is
weighed and then passed by an
enclosed checking stand where
it is recorded for size, variety
and packer. Sinco the checking
is exact work, the stands were
enclosed in order that the check
ers might not have their attention
distracted while at work. Doors
through which tho packed fruit
goes for loading onto trucks are
of vpecial design, being flexible
and on tracks which facilitate
their operation. On the north
porch are located two large
tanks for storage of lime-sulphur
spray and a small building Im
mediately adjacent will house
the boilers for the heating sys
tem. Opening from the packing
room to the south is tho large
unloading porch, with which of
ficials ol tho company are very
pleased. This large porch, nearly
the size of the entire old plant,
will hold 15,000 grower lugs of
fruit, the equivalent of between
15 and 18 carloads of fruit. The
porch has cement ramps and is
well lighted for night work
Efficiency Promoted
Gordon Green, division mana
ger of the firm, believes that the
new plant will greatly aid the
firm in maintaining their aver
age schedule of from 14 to 16
hours between picking time and
arrival of the packed boxes in
the cold storage plant.
On the second floor are
large, well equipped lunch room
where employees will be served
free coffee and wafers twice each
working day, a hospital room
equipped for emergencies and
which will be in charge of a
nurse each working day, offices
and work rooms for the gift de
partment. One large space will
be devoted to typists and steno
graphers for tho gift depart
ment, numbering some 100, and
another for workers who will
assemble the gift packages. Main
officers for this department are
enclosed and tho Interior finish
corresponds to the downstairs of-
flees. Opening from this are the
handsomely furnished office of
Mr. Green, firm manager, a con
ference room, the office of Mrs.
Paul Dulkin, sales manucer of
the gift department, and the
head bookkeeper's office.
I ho south section of this floor
will house a postoffice and mail
ing room, and supply rooms.
Supplies now are mainly for
packing and as these are moved
out, supplies for the gift depart
ment will be brought In.
Since these supplies are heavy
in nature, the building was con
structed to withstand a load of
450 pounds per square foot. The
box making machines, which
turn out some 2,000 pear boxes
a day, are located on the second
floor at present.
Special attention was given
to construction and equipment
of the men's and women's rest
rooms. Offices on both floors
are air conditioned.
Unique Construction
The firm manager states that
many of the Innovations in con
struction, such as the balcony
for spectators and the enclosed
checking stand, were added to
the building's design by George
Green, plant manager, and
his assistant, Mr. Pringle. The
former Is also credited with
rushing along the construction
of the big building in time for
pear harvest this fall, construc
tion having started since April
Packing operations will start
at the plant Thursday of this
week.
Designers of the new plant
were R. C. Marsons and Asso
ciates of Portland, Ed Borg of
Medford was contractor and Lee
Williams, assistant contractor.
Allen R. Smith was lumber pur
chasing agent, plumbing was in
stalled by the Rorwnlng Plumb
ing company and the electrical
work was done by Trowbridge
and Flynn.
Some 1300 visitors who at
tended the open house were
served buffet lunch, tho menu
having been prepared under the
direction of Paul Bulkln. In
cluded among the visitors were
people from Portland and San
Francisco and scores of bou
quets and floral arrangements
were sent as gifts from individ
uals and firms both in the Im
mediate district and from other
coast cities. Monday more than
a truckload of these were sent
to the Camp White Station hos
pital. DYNAMO AT Bl
Auburn. Me. U.R At 01,
Charles J. Wolff works an 8
hour day, seven-day week stok
ing boilers at the Auburn Thea
ter and ho plans to spend his
two-week vacation weeding
neighbors' victory gardens.
ADMITS JIG IS UP
FOR VEHRMACHT
Field Marshal Von Paulus",
Prisoner of Reds, Joins
in Plea for Nazi Surrender
By M. S. Handler
United Press Correspondent
Moscow, Aug. 15 iU.R) Field
Marshal Friedericn Von Paulus,
Germany's "hero of Stalingrad"
and the highest ranking mili
tary leader to fall into Russian
hands, ended 18 months of sul
len silence with a dramatic ad
mission that the Reich has lost
the war, and joined with 19
other Nazi officers today In an
appeal to the Wchrniacht to
overthrow Adolf Hitler and lay
down their arms.
Von Paulus had stubbornly
refused to abandon hope In
German victory since February
1343, when he and 21 other
generals were captured with the
remnants of the Nazi fllh army
in ruined Stalingard. Ills unex-
ncclcd about-face threatened to
have far-reachini effects In the
already-shaken Wchrrracht.
The Nazi field mar.-Jial was
taken prisoner in his head
quarters in the cellar of a Stal-
inprad department stor at the
end of that disastrous campaign
that cost the German army
more than 500.000 lives and
turned the tide of the war.
Sullen Prisoner
Correspo ndents who wit
nessed his surrender reported
that the field marshal was ex
tremely sullen and hostile and
refused to answer even the most
formal questions put to him by
his Soviet captors.
His top aides, including Gen.
Walter Von Seydlitz who be
came president of tl.e Soviet-
sponsored union of free German
officers, conceded alm ist imme
diately that the game was up
and began broadcasting peace
appeals to their forme comrades.
Until today s announcement,
however, Von Paulus had been
rcg.tded as the most stubborn
and intransigcant of ail the cap
tured German leaders.
One -Day Session
Sought To Amend
Law Of Election
Portland, Ore., Aug. 15 (U.R)
Genrgo Lavey, chairman of
tho Multnomah County Demo
cratic committee, today Indicat
ed he would go to Salem Wed
nesday to ask Gov. Earl Snell
to call a one-day special session
of the legislature to amend the
state election laws to give serv
ice men and women ample time
to vote their state ballots In the
November election.
Lavey said he had signatures
of between 25,000 and 30,000
Oregon citizens on petitions. He
contended that the uncertainty
existing regardingg the ability
of the state department to cer
tify and the county clerks to
print and mail the state ballots
far enough ahead of election
day, made it advantageous for
the governor to call the session.
Cltwing timo for cisMtfird arit 0
m. Too Uti to Claulfj, U.JO
p. m.
WARTIME YANKEES
Boston (U.R) During an inter
view with his old baseball boss,
Joe McCarthy of the New York
Yankees, sportscaster "Bump"
Ilodloy complained that he
didn't recognize any of the
Yankees' players. "If it weren't
for this war you wouldnt have
to," replied McCarthy, "be
cause none of them would be
out there.'
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17
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at 8 a. m. . : . Packers at Noon
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