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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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