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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVKM South Grape Street Industrial Area Mushrooms Within Space of Four Years Sunday. May 36. 1951 Nine New Business Firms Built on Site Of Early Orchard Varied Products Handled by Concerns In the short period of four years, the South Grape street "industrial area has mushroomed out with nine new businesses which carry a variety of prod ucts, from 8-foot culvert tubing for county roads to fresh ta- ! males. All the new businesses have been built upon the site of one of the first two Rogue river val- ley pear orchards. The father of O. T. Whitman (who still resides here) owned the orchard, which J was pulled out in 1907. 'f Steel Company Fint ', The first of the nine new busl I nesses during the late expansion J period was that of the Moore I Steel Service company which ' opened its new plant in Septem , ber, 1948. The company's build . ing includes 16,000 square feet J of floor space housed within wood frame construction cov- 4 ered by aluminum. The firm is in the steel Job bing business, handling, accord ing to Manager Ray Mencke, such steel products and other metals as structurals, plate, sheets, shafting, boiler tubes, re inforcing steel, alloys, copper, brass and special metals. Moore Steel has nine employees and covers the territory south to and Including Dunsmulr, Calif., east to Lakeview; north to Roseburg; and west to Brookings and Eu reka, on the coast. The company is an Oregon corporation with its home office in Eugene. In handling the var ious products in its warehouse, a five-ton bridge crane is used and shipments are unloaded from a railroad spur which en ters the building. Packing House Next The next business to take root at the new area was the Myron Root and company pear packing house about November of 1949. The packing house had been in another MedfoTd location previ ously and now built "one of the most modern packing houses in the valley," according to its Vice-President Robert Root, who is also an Oregon state repre sentative from this district, The plant has three fruit washers with automatic dump. I lng machines. Root said he be lieved that his plant was the first business of its type to use the lumber carrier (straddle truck) in transporting packed fruit from the packing house to the Medford Ice and Storage, two blocks away. He described the carrier as "remarkably ef ficent." During the fruit season Myron Hoot employs 175 workers. Distributing Firm The third business began op eration in February, 1951, and is housed in a building with 6,000 square feet of floor space. Its the Hayes Distributing company which leases its building from the Kay Paper Products com pany. The Hayes company is a wholesale distributor of beer and wine. It covers Jackson and Josephine counties with its own trucks and is a re-distribution center for wines only as far north as Eugene. The wines are shipped In from all parts of the world, the owner, D. E. Hayes said, and are redistributed north by railroad. All types of im ported and domestic wines are handled by the company, in cluding wines from France, Chile and California. Hayes noted that he believed his concern was the first of its type to utilize a fork lift for products stored on pallats (sne-' ciany constructed wood plat-. forms used with the fork truck). He said that the system "worked out nicely with the bottled bev erages." Paper Firm Moves The next month, March, 1951, Kay Paper Products, a Medford concern for 14 years and started by the late Dick Kay, moved Into its new building with 12,000 square feet of floor space on South Grape. Kay's is a paper converting business which supplies pads and liners for boxes in the commer cial pear packing industry. It processes paper by waxing, cut ting and creasing it with one "of the largest creasers and cutters on the Pacific coast," according to Plant Superintendent Tony Morristy who has been associ ated with the firm since its be ginning. Mrs. Dick Kay is vice president of the company. The firm employs from five to PARK VIEW NURSING HOME 906 Wast Main Street Medford, Oregon Phone 2-6938 Completely equipped Nursing Home for chronic -nd convalescents. Hot water heat throughout bulling. Licensed by the State of Oregon. 24-HOUR NURSING CARE Registered Nurse in Charge Lhjipiiiii,..,i,i m i.iuijn ii j i n ,i nil , i mil wpww"'wpw ' : ' ' ' ' - ' - ....... ' - i - ;:- . . ' . . ' , . w r: i - " , . : m " NORTH VIEW Shown above is one sec tion of the new industrial development on South Grape street as the development is en tered from Medford's city center. Pictured (left to right) are the Myron Root pear packing com WEST VIEW A portion of the South Grape industrial area which has been Increased, since 1948 until nine businesses now exist is shown above. Pictured (left to right) is the west side of the street which shows the Electric SOUTH VIEW A section of the South Grape street industrial area is pictured above from the south end of the area which in the past four years has seen nine new businesses form and erect buildings. Shown (right to left) are Broyles Wholesale company, dealing in building materials; Moore Steel Service com pany, the first of the nine businesses which be seven people near the fruit har vesting season. Portland Firm's Branch The fifth concern in the area was the Electric Steel Foundry (Esco), a branch of a Portland firm, which is a wholesale ware house dealing in sawmill, con struction and mining items. The building is of the quonset-type made of wood with Gothic arches and has 3,780 square feet of floor space. The back wall of the building is only temporary and provisions are made for a 40-foot expansion. The Medford branch serves to Dunsmuir, Calif., on the south and as far north as Riddle. Two men are employed with Ralph W. Filsinger in charge. Douglas F. Coghill, a former Medford high school football star, is of fice manager. In October of 1951, the larg est addition to the new area was the Woodbury Medford firm, an Industrial wholesale supply house. The firm is a separate corporation headed by Sid Wood bury of Woodbury Portland. Its major line is in steel along with (general and industrial supplies, tools, equipment, aluminum and heavy hardware. The firm now has in use 30,000 square feet with another section almost as large in re- sprve. Thp huilriincr is maHp nf reinforced concrete walls with an aluminum roof and has railroad spur running inside the building for loading and unload ing freight under cover. At the present 11 people are employed by the company, ac cording to Clair Larson, mana ger. He cited the new enterprise as coming to Medford "because the area Is growing so fast in dustrially." Bottling Company The seventh firm opened for operation in November, 1951, as the Dr. Pepper Bottling com pany. Soft drinks bottled there besides Dr. Pepper are Cherry and Cider, Grape, Mason's root beer, and a chocolate drink put up for local dairies. The building is the same type as the Electric Steel Foundry, with 3.800 square feet of floor space. The corporation employs five people (occasionally six), according to Bob Holcomb, manager. pany, Woodbury Medford, industrial wholesale supply house; Kay Paper Products, incorpo rated, (adjoining Woodbury) manufacturers of pads and liners for boxes of the commercial pear packing industry; and, partially shown, Moore Steel Service company, steel jobbers. 4 -n- (,rlf I " ISi'l ill 2 i s h 'f ' i m Z'.-y . imam DiU44f44w'IU7nii . in mm n ii i k The manager explained that the local company has the fran chise for distribution and bottles the soft drinks from the syrup which is shipped in. The company services Jack son, Josephine and Klamath counties. Newest Businesses The two newest businesses be gan operation in January, 1952, and are the Broyles Wholesale company and A. N. Bishop's Supreme Tamales. Broyles Wholesale deals in building materials, hardwood flooring, wallb'oard, plywood, in sulation, siding and panneling, shingles and shakes, hardware and other miscellaneous special ties. The building housing the busi ness is made of reinforced con crete walls with a trussed roof and includes 9,360 square feet in floor space, including a balcony. The company services lumber dealers in Jackson, Josephine, Curry, Klamath and Lake coun ties in Oregon, and Modoc, Del Norte and Siskiyou counties In California. "It is the first strictly whole sale lumber business of its type in the area," according to Own ers A. C. Broyles and B. J. Broyles. They said they consid ered Medford as the "logical dis tribution point for the area." The closest warehouses of this type are in Eugene on the north Take My Money To most folks who gtt loan It's dellari tnd cents. It's ht whert-with-ll to do something with. To me It's semsthing difftrent yes. It's money til right . , , It's my only merchandise ... but wrjpped up In every loan is lot of sstisfsetion. Doctor bills paid . . cash for the new baby ... the old ear repairsd. It's all done with cash my merchandise, and sincere desira to be of service. So, if a loan is to your advantage taka my money, use It where It . will do the most good, and If you haven't the time te coma in and chat about It, pick up the phone and call ma. I'm known as the "Yes Man because I like to say "Yes" to loan requests in fact I say "Yes" to 4 out ef 5 and I'd Ilka to tay "Yes" to you and I'll try and arrange loan the same day. Oregon Finance Co. Crateriin Bldg. 45 South Central Phone 2-4433 Lie. S-211 M-217 Steel Foundry (Esco), a wholesale business deal ing in logging, construction and mining equip ment; Dr. Pepper bottling company of Medford is next with one portion of the building vacant; and A. N. Bishop's Supreme Tamale manufac turing concern's roof is visible at right. v ,;.... : . -.i e h , i gan operation In September, 1948, and is a steel jobbing business; Hayes Distributing com pany (indented at cars in third building), whole sale beer and wine distributors; Kay Paper Products (with awnings) manufacturers of pads and liners for pear boxes; and Woodbury Med ford, Industrial wholesale supply house (adjoin ing Kay's). and Redding on the south, they pointed out. Bishop's wholesale tamale and tortilla business is housed in a small, modern building with 800 square feet of floor space. The two types of Mexican food are made and wrapped here for wholesaleing in the immediate Rogue valley. The firm is a fam ily business with two people working all the time. The com pany also sells retail orders at its plant. All of the nine businesses have room for added expansion or unused floor space. Minnesota Girl, 15, Winner of Contest Litchfield, Minn. U,R) BIythe Anne Johnson, 15, looked for ward to learning more why America Is great after she was named winner of a national es say contest, "Why America is Great." The Litchfield girl will make a tour of historic American shrines and cities at the expense of General Mills, Inc., sponsors of the contest. She wrote that "America ts great . . , because we drag our faults out into the open for all to see and criticize and help correct . . , this makes America noisy and our faults public, but It is clean and healthy." STAN STARK rttMaa m DAR Plans Catalog Of County's Dead Crater Lake chapter. Daugh ters of the American Revolution, today asked cooperation it its project of cataloging the names of all persons buried in Jackson county. Anyone who knows of an unnamed or family cemetery is asked to write to Mrs. Mabel Houck, care of the Girls Com munity club in Medford. The following cemeteries are known to the group but have not yet been cataloged: Rock Point cemetery, Gold Hill; An tioch cemetery, near Sams Val ley and Beagle; Pankey ceme tery, near Sams Valley; Antelope cemetery, Eagle Point; Shady Cove c e m e t e r, Shady Cove, Brownsboro cemetery, Browns boro; Stearns cemetery. Talent; Trail cemetery. Trail; Rogue River cemetery, Rogue River, Griffin Creek cemetery, Griffin Ureek; and Medford Siskiyou Memorial Park. Other well known cemeteries have already been catalogued, the group adds. Already listed are the Ashland, Hargadine, Hill-Dunn, Mt. View and Wells cemeteries in Ashland; the Butte Falls cemetery, the IOOF cemetery in Jacksonville and four graves in the Benson family cemetery near Meadows. . The Jackson county project Is part of a state-wide plan on the part of the DAR to catalogue the names of all persons buried in Oregon. Eighteen Official price lists show that there are eighteen different models of American motor cars, produced by five sep arate automotive manufacturers, which actually cost more than the lowest-priced Cadillac when similarly equipped. If you find this difficult to believe then you're in good company! For the record also shows that, during the past few years, literally hundreds of thousands of motorists have taken title to these costlier models. And there can be little doubt that many of them did so simply be cause they failed to realize how relatively modest the cost of a Cadillac can be. They limply assumed that txcluiht in quality means ixchuive in price! And it i doubtful if a single misunderstanding ever cost so many motorists so much! It cost them, first of all, the satisfaction of awning a Cadillac! For there is no substitute for the sense of List of Presidential Candidates Over Age By Rule of By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (U.R) By the rule of averages most of the can didates for presidential nomina tion this year are over age. Among Republicans, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gov, Earl Warren of California are 61 years old. Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur is 72. MacArthur is in cluded because a frustrated deadlocked Republican National Convention might be stampeded to him. Sen. Estes Kefauvcr at 48 years is youngest among all candidates. Other Democrats stack up this day: Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, 52; Sen Richard B. Russell of Georgia, 54; Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Okla., 55; W. Averell Harrtman, 60. Vice President Alben W. Bark- ley is not an avowed candidate but he is available. Barkley is 74 years old. The average is just about 60. The average age of presidents upon first inauguration is 54 years. The youngest was Theo dore Roosevelt who became president ,upon the assassination of President McKinley, aged 42. The oldest was William Henry Harrison, who was 68 years and 28 days old when he took of fice. No president of the United States has reached the age of 70 while In that office. Franklin D. Roosevelt would have been just a few days short of 67 at the end of his fourth term, if he had lived. He was 63 when he died. Two of the past five presidents of the United States succeeded to what office from the vice presi dency. Calvin Coolidge upon the death of Warren G. Harding in 1923 and President Truman when FDR died in 1945. All of these vital statistics tend to give the office of viceglars. I ymmmmmmuimmmi m I TfH 11 1 1 ii n imi Models rs Cost More of Ca: TBE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY SKINNER'S GARAGE 149 South Riverside, Medford Phone 2-6264 Averages president of the United States an importance matching the dig nity of the job, but considerably exceeding its actual responsibil ities. The fact that only a single heartbeat lies between a vice president and the presidency is something politicians always are aware of. More often than not however, a vice presidential nomination is brought about by geographical and policy compro mise instead of through effort to obtain the best qualified man to succeed to the top job, in case. Eight years ago FDR s poor health and some other factors brought a movement to displace Henry A. Wallace as vice presi dent. Mr. Truman was put in his place with FDK's consent, by men who had a feeling they were picking a president, as well. They were right about that. The ages of this year's candi dates and fresh recollection of the events of 1944-45 may give the 1952 vice presidential nom ination contests in both parties some added spark and sputter. Detroit Warehouse Fire Kills Fireman, 2 Hurt Detroit, Ore. (U.R) One fireman, the father of five chil dren, was killed and two others seriously injured early Saturday morning when crushed under a falling wall as fire swept the three-story brick warehouse of a Detroit lumber company. The dead fireman was Stanley Thornton, 36. Hospitalized are George de Caussln and Nicholas Baubeln. Three other fire fight ers were less seriously hurt. No final damage estimate was Immediately available, but the loss was expected to run to sev eral hundred thousands of doi- of Other pride and well-being that comes from owning a motor car that is universally recognized as the "Standard of the World." It cost them, too, the pleasure of driving t Cadillac I And this, beyond any question, is the greatest penalty of all I For in missing out on the many thrills to be found behind its wheel they're missing out on motoring's finest rewards. And, of course, it also cost them Cadillac's many long-range economies its almost unbelievable gaso-, line mileage, its unsurpassed dependability, and it legendary long life. We know that you wouldn't want to make such costly mistake in the selection of your next car. But you'd better be careful because there are eighteen different ways to make it! So when the time comes investigate! And if you pay the price of a Cadillac be sure that you gtt one! Potato Ceiling Violations Charged Washington (U.R) The gov ernment has filed 61 court casei in 13 states since April 10 charg ing potato growers, wholesalers and retailers with price ceiling violations. This was 14 more cases than had been filed last week, when the total was 47 suits in 11 states. The Office of Price Stabiliza tion opened a drive six weeks ago to avert a black market re sulting from the potato shortage. The suits Involve charges of overceiling payments and tie in sales of potatoes with other vegetables, including some cases in which the other vegetables were never delivered. The breakdown showed 22 suits in Ohio, 10 in New York, seven in Indiana, six in Mich igan, four in Oklahoma, two each in Texas, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Georgia, and one each in Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina and Massachusetts. GETS KEFAUVER CAP St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) Nine-year-old Wells Chapin aspired to play the part of Daniel Boone in a school show so he wrote to Sen. Estes Kefauver for a coon skin cap. A package arrived shortly at the Chapin home, bearing the famous cap. 1 1 1U.C11 rreafc CALCULATORS Fridtfl SAltS SfRVICf MNTA11 FRIDEN CAICUUTINO ' V MACHINE AGENCY C. SKIP BAILEY PHONE 2-9314 MEDFORD Makes 1
