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Wednesday, April Z, 18SS
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TOTAL $101,000
' Eleven paving projects,1
mounting to some $101,000,
were awarded here last night at
a regular meeting of tue Medford
city council The city also award
ed contracts for the weening of
East Main street and Dakota
"avenue.
Only two local contractors
entered bids on the paving jobs.
They were E. C. Conrad and T.
R. Florey.
.. Contracts awarded to Conrad,
and his low bids, included South
Peach street from 11th to 12th
streets, $4,471.20; South Peach
street from 12th to 13th streets,
$4,957.30; Murray street from
South Peach to Hamilton streets,
$10,008.65; Beekman street from
the end of the pavement to the
end of the street, $9,320.90; Lin
coln street from Main to 11th
street, $16,016.10; Pennsylvania
avenue from Rose to Peach
streets, $9,383.58; Pennsylvania
avenue from Summit, to Rose
streets, $6,118.20; Pine street
from Maple to Jackson streets,
$14,004.90 and Maple street from
Central to Riverside avenues,
$14,359.40.
Florey Contracts ,
Contracts awarded to Florey,
and his low bids, were West 13th
street, from Peach to Newtown
streets, $7,008.35, and Madison
place from Jackson to Reddy
streets, $5,655.
Each of the 11 bids was slight
ly in excess of the city engineer's
estimate, which totalled $96,
616.56, or about $4,500 less than
the successful bids.
Everett Den Herder was
awarded contracts for the two
street widening projects in com
petition with two other bidders,
T..W. Thomas and P. L. Knox.
Den Herder's low bids were
$10,105.35 on the East Main
street project and $3,424.80 for
Dakota avenue.
In action on other paving pro
jects, the council adopted plans
and specifications and set May
6 for a public hearing on Wilson
place from Eastwood to Keene
way drives. Haven street from
Summit avenue to Oak street,
Jasper street from Melrose to
Stewart avenues, Haven street
from Columbus to Summit ave
nues, and South Peach street
from 13th street to Dakota ave
nue. '
Hearingi Held -.
Public hearings were held on
paving of Washington street
from West Main to West 10th
streets and Fifth street from
Oakdale avenue to Grape street.
No opposition was voiced to the
projects and the city attorney
was instructed to bring in ordi
nances on them at the next reg
ular meeting April 15-
A new petition for paving of
Alta street from Melrose to
Stewart avenues was presented
to the council. It was referred
to the city superintendent and
the council streets and roads
committee. .
Plans and specifications were
ordered on 12 other paving pro
jects. They included Haven
street from Oak to Woodstock
streets and from Woodstock to
Grape streets, Alice street from
Niantic street to Riverside ave
nue, Elm street from Main to
10th streets, Withington street
from Hamilton to Plum streets,
Woodstock street from Jackson
to Second street, Oak street from
Clark to Jackson streets, Taylor
street from Myrtle street to the
end of the street, , Keeneway
drive from Main street to Wood
lawn drive, Chestnut street from
Main street to the city limits,
East Ninth street from Portland
to Vancouver avenues, a'nd King
street from Belmont street to
Stewart avenue.
To Rent House
Other business acted on by
the council included a decision
to rent rather than sell a large
house on property acquired by
the city for the municipal air
port, issuance of a license to the
U. S. weather bureau for con
struction of a temporary balloon
inflation station at the airport,
and retention of a triangular
piece of property at Haven and
Grape streets for the citjr, parks.
(See story on page 1)
Lebanon Authorized
To Get House Project
' Washington (U.R The Pub
lic Housing Authority Wednes
day cleared the way for acquisi
tion by the" city of Lebanon of a
defense housing project to which
the community has been trying
to win title for more than two
years. , .
PHA officials told Rep. Harris
Ellsworth. R-Ore., an executive
order will make possible the
transfer.
Lebanon will be required to
purchase the land on which the
housing stands, but otherwise
will obtain the property without
cost.
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Opening Tomorrow;
Will Give Prizes
Ed Hall has- announced the
grand opening tomorrow of his
Pennywise ' Walgreen Agency
Drug store. To observe the event
he is conducting a store-wide
sale.
Prizes, balloons for the chil
dren and favors for women will
be given out daily and a foun
tain special will be featured.
Hall also announced the em
ployment of Robert B. Morris as
general manager of the store.
Morris was graduated in June,
1951, from the Oregon State
college school of pharmacy and
is a member of the Kappa Psi
honorary fraternity. He first
worked after graduation at the
the Redmond Drug store at Red
mond, Ore., as manager. He is
married and with his wife mov
ed to Medford in December.
Prescriptions Important .
"We consider the compound
ing of prescriptions as the most
important part of our . business,"
Morris said yesterday. Sick room
supplies- and a wide variety of
emergency : supplies for physic
ians and surgeons are also. car
ried. Hall, who purchased the store
in December, has been in the
drug business since 1934 and has
been associated in the trade in
Medford since 1941 except for
service in the Navy from 1944
to 1946. He was employed here
by Wainscott's drugs until he
and Harold Wainscott" purchas
ed the Hunters for Drugs, now
known as Central Rexall drugs.
Hall in president and general
manager of that firm.
Councilmen Authorize
Letter of Sympathy
A letter of sympathy to Mrs.
Charles E. Gates was authorized
yesterday by the Medford city
council. Mrs. Gates is the widow
of the late Charles E. (Pop)
Gates, ex-mayor and councilman
and long-time civic leader, who
died last week in Salem.
The motion authorizing the
letter was made by Councilman
Harold Frye. It was passed un
animously by the council.
ARRESTED-
Grants Pass State police offi
cers yesterday arrested Melvin
Keller, a transient who has been
residing in Glendale, and are
holding him in the Josephine
county jail for Los Angeles au
thorities. He is wanted in con
nection with grand theft investi
gation involving a stolen trailer.
Medford's f '
high school I J j
crowd is Jri
wild about f fCs-ds
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None Hurt in Two
Vehicle Accidents
" Two motor vehicle accidents
in which no one was injured
were -investigated by state police
officers yesterday.
' One accident occurred at
Voorheis crossing . on Highway
99 south of Medford, when a
pickup truck driven: by Miles
Leo Mosher, Central Point, and
a logging truck driven by
George Robert Jensen, 1615 East
Main street, Ashland, were in
volved in a collision as the pick
up was passing the-truck. ;
: Cause of the accident, which
happened about 9:30 a.m. was
not- revealed on the police re
port, but only minor damage was
listed for the pickup and none
for 'the truck. A third vehicle
was also indirectly involved in
the accident, the report indi
cated. The other accident happened
at about 1:12 p.m. two miles
south, of the Siskiyou mountain
pass summit, and involved cars
driven by Clyde Hobson Jones,
San Fernando, Calif., and Ed
mund Joseph Kiras, Albany,
Calif. Both cars were severely
damaged but no one, including
three passengers, was hurt.
" The first airplane flight from
San Francisco to San Diego was
made by Silas Christofferson,
Feb. 16, 1914. i
Taft's Fading Hopes
Revived in Nebraska,
Wisconsin Primaries
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (U.PJ Nebraska
and Wisconsin voters put Sen.
Robert A. Taft back in the con
test for the Republican presiden
tial nomination with a bang
Wednesday with a solid showing
of his midwestern strength.
Taft won the Wisconsin pri
mary and was pulling away from
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in
tabulations of Tuesday's Ne
braska primary poll.
Taf t's First Triumph
It was Ike's first reverse at the
polls and Taf t's first triumph.
Republican voters in the two
great midwetern states fingered
the senator and the general as
far and away top candidates for
their party's presidential nomination.-
The returns revived Taft's fad
ing campaign for the. nomina
tion. Incomplete Nebraska tabu
lations maintained a consistent
lead for Taft in a head-on write
in contest with Eisenhower. Ne
braska and Wisconsin put a solid
Midwest foundation under Taft's
pre-convention efforts.
Kefauver Scores
Wisconsin Democrats gave
Sen. Estes Kefauver an over
whelming victory and 28 Demo
cratic national convention votes.
And as the Tennessean main
tained a big lead in the Ne
braska primary popularity con
test, which does not bind the
state's convention delegates, his
opponent Sen. Robert S. Kerr
of Oklahoma -conceded to Ke
fauver. ; Kefauver's stature steadily
grew with the victory while
Kerr's diminished.
Taft won 24 of Wisconsin's 30
nominating convention votes.
Gov. Earl Warren of California
took six. Harold E. Stassen and
two others, including a stand-in
for Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur,
were blanked. ,
Taft Popularity Winner
Taft also won the popularity
contest, although his vote did not
equal the combined total Of his
opponents.
The returns broke the back
of the MacArthur for president
movement in Wisconsin and
probably elsewhere. Grant Rit
ter was the MacArthur stand-in
without the general's blessing.
MacArthur managers in Wiscon
sin announced they were trans
ferring their support to Taft.
The Wisconsin primary was
crucial for Taft. His campaign
could not have sustained a se
rious reverse there. He needed
a real victory such as he won to
get back on the pace. Taft said
Tuesday he was in the race for
the nomination, win or lose in
Wisconsin. Many, however, judge
that for Taft in Wisconsin it was
win or else.
Warren said Wednesday he
also was in the contest to stay.
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