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EIGHT MEDFORD (OHEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. July 9, 1950 First Housing Units Started At White City Development A self-sustaining city someday may flourish on the Camp White plain of Jackson county where soldiers trained for World War II. Confident of the future of the White City Lumber company de velopment at the former army camp site, Bruce Bauer, Inc., has outlined a long range plan for establishment of residential and business districts. It is a ten-year program, part of which is al ready underway. Construction Started Construction of 25 two-bedroom homes has been started by the Bauer firm, according to T. J. Hight, Medford realtor, who is handling the sales under fed eral housing administration terms. Depending on the sales of these, he said, another group of 28 multiple dwellings or three bedroom homes will be construc ted. In a third group 24 homes are contemplated. The home sites are plotted on a huge, half-oval-shaped area and the dwellings, when the en tire project is completed will front on three wide streets. In the center of the residential sec tion will be a large recreation area. This area, where the head quarters of the 91st infantry division once stood, is about 800 feet southeast of the veterans domiciliary center. Business Sactioh Across a wide division street from the residences and set far back from the thoroughfare, Bruce Bauer, Inc., plans a busi ness section with off-the-street parking. This shopping center would be designed to attract highway trade as well as local shoppers. Offices and stores for a variety of businesses are an ticipated in the overall develop ment. A church, a school and an athletic field are included in the master plan. Facilities would be leased to businessmen. Hight said the homes will be erected on spacious lots, the smallest to be 75 by 100 feet. The dwellings will have hard wood floors and will be well insulated, he reported. Windows will be weather tight. All utili ties, sewer, water, heating facili ties, will be provided. Paved streets are included. Fire Protection Buyers will be protected fully by restricted covenants, Hight slated. He said that fire protec- WOOD CORNICES 27 COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM Wakefield Drapery Shop 6TH & BARTLETT PHONE 2-6010 tion for the area has been worked out with White City Lumber company and the veter ans adminisration domiciliary center. The $7,000 two-bedroom houses will sell for a $400 down payment which includes closing costs. Monthly payments will be $37 plus a small sum for taxes. The tax amount to be included has not yet been determined, Hight said. Completion of the first group of houses is expected in August. Hight reported that a number of prospective buyers have already indicated interest. The homes will provide near-the-job resi dence for employees of the veterans center and various in dustries of the area. Medford Cadet Earns Distinguished Rating Seattle, July 3 Robert E. Kahlcr, Medford, Ore., was one of eight air force ROTC cadets to be designated distinguished military students at the Univer sity of Washington, it was an nounced here today by Col. George H. Dietz, professor of air science and tactics at the university. The cadets were selected as a result of outstanding qauilities of military leadership, high moral character, definite apti tude for the military service, and an above-average academic record in all university courses. SINATRA SIGNED UP London, July 3 iU.R) Croon er Frank Sinatra has signed a S3. 000.000 throe-year radio and television contract with Colum bia Broadcasting system, his manager said today. Out czmiorjfcODS BILLY'S DRIVE-IN HI WAY 99 O CENTRAL POINT NOW OPEN SSSSS& 7 Days A Week 12 NOON TO 12 MIDNIGHT Featuring Famout Richardson's Root Beer and Broiled Richburgcrt FOUNTAIN SANDWICH BAR 'Grange Convention Lest we forget, it Is well to think over how many people we know in the service of federal and state governments who are farmers past or present or the sons of farmers. The political extremists among these farm folks in government service are few and far between. In this sense they are mainly mid-road Americans. To put it another way, they are good Grangers, in spirit if not in actual membership. They were to be met withall around the big Grange state convention at which I recently spoke a piece. One who is both a government man and a Granger met me and took me in hand as soon as I showed up at the auditorium where the 3,000 delegates and attending members were gather ed for the week of meetings. He was another Jim, and a son of John, as I am. John is one of the very best practitioners of farm forestry that I know. Jim is an able and whole-souled servant of the peo ple in the soil conservation ser vice. If there are only a few like Jim Granger in the state depart ment, we have little to fear from any more Hisses there. The great trouble in the state goes to the farm people for so few of its em ployees, in comparison with agri culture. A Fair Trade We could do worse than swap the main body of USDA person nel for that of USSD in the way of drastic reformation. Of course government farm services would suffer seriously for a time, but think of the value of the im mediate vast improvement in our foreign relations that would ensue. And the state department boys would all unquestionably be improved by a period of life in the farming centers. I should be in congress with my bright ideas. But this one I really like. The Grange is just the organ ization to put this proposition over and make it work. The Grange has to do not only with farm economics and political is sues but with the spirit of the land and its crops. As a lodge the Grange reaches back into the most ancient times of soil cultivation and harvests, seeking to bring alive a commun ion of husbandry through the ages and in all lands and climes. In a practical sense, the Grange keeps it members fully in formed on the workings of its government, particularly in the U. S. department of agriculture. Should the fair trade I sug gest be made, we could depend on the patriotic and knowing IMES Good Month of July v v v iMof Wnotie Be - . . V Save Now On This Great Offer at Barnes . . . EXPERT LUBBRICATION O VACUUM INTERIORS O CLEAN ALL GLASS O PAINT TIRES O CHECK ENTIRE VEHICLE For Safe Driving All For Only CUE MEM EI Grangers to tutor the transferees from the state department in the work of the county agent, the soil conservation district con servator, the district forest rang er and all others above and be low these ratings. Let's do try it. Convention Speaking My chores at the convention were to recite some Paul Bunyan fables at a salmon bake and to make a sober-sided talk between degrees at an evening session. The last needed to be worked up carefully in writing and then read with due care for facts and figures in delivery. The like is always a mean job and it lways ends with a wonder as to its worth, either to audience or speaker. There must be something to it, however, for convention or ganizers continue to Invite speakers and speakers continue to accept and to expend much time and labor on preparation. What I set forth to demon strate was that the nation-wide advertising and promotion of the West Coast Lumbermen's asso ciation and other forest industry groups does hold and develop lumber trade in highly compe titive markets and tiiat this de velopment serves farm and other small owners of commercial tim ber just as it does the large in dustrial owners. The fact is in escapable. Best of all for a speaker, it makes a whale of a good story. Grangers John and Jim said I did all right on it, ana I came home all pleased up. It was a day and evening of inspiring as sociations. Let me tell you. if you feel your faith in the United States of America slipping any, just hunt up a bunch of Grangers and horn into their comnnny for a spell. Will it give you a lift! Boy! Wimbledon Tennis Play Wimbledon, Eng., July 3 (U.R) Five of the eight players com peting in men's singles quarter finals of the Wimbledon tennis tournament today were Amer icans,, but the picture was ex pected to change radically by nightfall. Only one of those five Yanks second-seeded Billy Talbert of New York was favored to ad vance to the semi-final round. And to move up, Talbert would have to eliminate a fel low -American, fifth-seeded Budge Patty of Los Angeles. That was the only spot in the semi-finals that the Yanks, more powerful in other years, were sure to get this time. Sixth-seeded Gardnar Mulloy of Coral Gables, Fla., was given some chance of scoring an upset in his match against Jaroslav Drobny, the exiled Czech now playing for Egypt. BASEBALL LEADING BATSMEN NATIONAL LEAGUE Player, Club AB. R. H. Pet Robinson. Brooklyn 246 56 93 .378 Murial, St. Louis ...234 47 82 .3SO Sisler. Phila 216 37 73 .339 Slaughter, St. Louis 2UO 45 87 .335 Lockman, N. York 259 35 86 .332 AMERICAN LEAGUE Kell, Detroit 274 59 103 .376 Doby, Cleveland ., 219 50 81 .370 Dropo. Boston 255 47 90 .353 Evers. Detroit 236 47 82 .347 Zurllla. Boston 233 48 78 .335 PAIN HELPS WIN ONE Riverside, Cal., July 3 (UK Relief Hurler George Pain, for merly of Medford, turned back a Porterville batting attack and won his own game wtih a double in the eighth inning Saturday night as Riverside edged the Packers 8 to 7 in a Sunset league game. Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:3u pro. for following day: 10 a.m. Mon day, noon Saturday for Sunday an Seattle, July S U. Jef f Heath, former major leaguer who joined the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast league in mid-season, was given his out right release yesterday, Sheely announced. Hollywood, July 3 IU.R) Actor1 Gary Merrill says he may marry Actress Bette Davis when their divorces become final. Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:30 p.m. for following day: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; noon Saturday tor Sunday a.m. On&fflame' CHANGED RIIYINI. HABIT OF MILLIONS Public Links Tourney To Open at Louisville Louisville, Ky., July 3 (U.R) Bob Inman, a little Tulsa, Okla., golfer who can stay away from his paper salesman's job this week if he keeps his mastery of Louisville's Seneca course, led 82 amateurs into first round match play today in the National Public Links tournament. The 25-year-old Inman came here only to play in Saturday's team competition traditional warmup for the individual championship. He shot a three-under-par 67 in the team event one of two sub-par rounds posted and immediately wired R fl Ins boss for permission to play j M in the amateur seramhlp "nn- ! IVa til my game collapses." Use Mail Tribune Want Ads The Hotel Jackson Coffee Shop Will Be Closed July 4th TOMORROW So That Our Employees May Enjoy the Holiday 227 East Ninth Major Loop Pilots Not Job Secure New York, July 3 iU.R) The axe hangs higher than ever to day over the uneasy heads of the major league managers and, at season's end, there may be a rec ord number of pilots without portfolio. Already this season two have fallen, with Red Corridcn nam ed to succeed Jack Onslow as bench boss of the White Sox and Steve O'Neil picking up the Red Sox reins dropped by Joe McCarthy. You can bet all the orange : Pekoe in Cathay that those two cases aren't the end of the 1 shakeups. No less than seven other managers are walking a precarious plank and two others are on the doubtful list as of the moment. Only five men are apparently certain to retain their spots Leo Durocher of the Giants, Frankie Frisch of the Cubs, Bucky Harris of the Senators, Billy Southworth of the Braves and Eddie Sawyer of the Phil lies. Which means that the props are trembling under such as Con nie Mack, Billy Meyer, Casey Stengel, Red Rolfe, Burt Shot ton, Zach Taylor and Luke Sewell. Shakily secure are Lou Boudreau of the Indians and Ed die Dyer of the Cardinals. II WEATHER By United Press Northern California Fair to day, tonight and Tuesday except for night and morning fog along coast south of Santa Cruz and a few afternoon thunder storms in the high Sierras; little temperature change. Lima, Peru, July 3 (U.R) Gen. Manuel A. Odrla, a mili tant anti-communist, was elect ed president of Peru yesterday. Use MaU TriDuna Want Ads He Got Stomach Distress When He Ate At Pete's! let Tunis Ended Nil Gos Sour Stcmock The food is cooked good too good. Too rich and loo spicy. o lots of people end up with a burning, gassy stomach. Mul not our friend. He s heard about Turns carries a roll all the time. Turns quickly neutralire excess stomach acidity drive away the burning and gas almost in stantly. Get a roll of Turns today, fat I or J T urns after meals or whenever distress occurs, lhey work Ian. Remember keep Turns handy cat like candy. May We Make a "Date" With You TO ATTEND THE of the Newly Remodeled Home of the . . . JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL Savings & Loan ASSOCIATION At 126 East Main Street FRIDAY and SATURDAY JULY 7 and 8 Favors For Our Guests Refreshments Something for the Children w WATCH FOR OUR OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT IN WEDNESDAY'S MAIL TRIBUNE Phone 2-6115 THI-TUMM
