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Mason Ehrman's New $300,000 Warehouse To Start This Week Rainy weather interfered with an official ground-breaking cere mony planned Friday, but work on the $300,000 Mason Ehrman warehouse to be built north of town will begin this week any way, according to John Bunker, local manager for the wholesale grocery firm. Seven local men met Friday at the Medford hotel with Engineer Leslie Pool, Portland, who drew up the plans for the warehouse. The weather kept them from go- Letter to Oregon Delegates Urges Kefauver Support Portland (U.R) A letter to each of Oregon's 12 delegates and 12 alternates to the Demo cratic national convention urg ing them to say publicly they will vote for Sen. Estes Kefau ver at the convention''until re leased by him," has been mailed by a group of the Tennessee Senator's supporters. The group, headed by W. E. Josslin, state Kefauver-for-Presi-dent chairman, said in the letter it had heard some delegates would like to shift to another candidate after casting several votes for Kefauver, who won Oregon's 12 votes in the May 16 primary. Oregon law requires delegates by their signed pledge "to use their best efforts to bring about the nomination and election of the candidate with the highest vote in the primary." Rev. Gavin Appointed Portland U. President Portland (U.PJ Appointment of the Rev. Michael J. Gavin as president of the University of Portland was announced Satur day by the Rev. T. J. Mehling; provincial of the Congregation of the Holy Cross at Notre Dame university and former president of the Portland school. Father Gavin succeeds the Rev. Robert H. Sweeney who has served as president of the university since 1950. ing to the property for the cere mony, though. The rain also kept S. Mason Ehrman, senior part ner of the firm, from flying from Portland. Ehrman got as far as Eugene, but was advised to turn back. Contract Let June 9 The general contract for the 50,000 square-foot warehouse just north of the city limits, was awarded to the Smith- Phillips company, June 9. The contract amounted to about $245,000 ac cording to Don Sharp, of Mason Ehrman. The total investment for the project is expected to be more than $300,000. A well has been dug on the property, according to Bunker. The major construction could not begin until the well was com pleted because the property has no access to city water. A plat of the property has already been filed. Rolling Stock Acquired The contract for the sprinkling system has been let and other contracts will be awarded in the next few days. Sharp said. The company has acquired three additional pieces of roll ing equipment for the project. One arrived in Medford Friday. Local men who attended the pre-ground-breaking -meeting at the Medford hotel Friday were Mayor Diamond Flynn; Coun cilman Dwight Houghton, Rob ert Holmes, Southern Pacific; Jorgen E. Jorgensen, Jorgen sen's dairy; Eugene Thorndike, First National bank; S. A. Gibbs, retired manager of the Medford Mason Ehrman warehouse, and Bunker. : - m -feci '- Automobile Accident Kills Dallas Boy, 5 Dallas, Ore. (U.R) Five-year- old Davis Archie Mathews was killed and his mother, Mrs. Her schel D. Mathews was seriously hurt late Thursday when their car went out of control and over turned in a ditch, Deputy Sheriff Robert G. Lef ors of Polk county said. An unidentified truck driver flagged down Russel H. Stroud of Portland, who took the -worn an and the boy to the hospital, The boy was dead on arrival. Dead line Sunday Classifieds is at 5:30 p.m. for following day: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; coon Saturday for Sunday a.m. ft (sl I" " jj $f LOTS OF SHOVELERS. NO DIRT When ground breaking ceremonies for the new Mason Ehrman "warehouse were cancelled Friday by a steady rainfall, members of the group sched uled to take part in the event went indoors to have their picture taken. Construction of the warehouse will get underway this week, minus the ceremonies. Mayor D. L. Flynn is shown above handing over the official shovel to John Bunker, local manager for the wholesale firm. Looking on,, left to right, are Jorgen E. Jorgen sen, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce; Leslie Poole, Portland engineer who drew up plans for the building; Eugene Thorndyke of the First National bank; S. A. Gibbs, retired manager for Mason Ehrman here; City Councilman Dwight Houghton, and Robert Holmes, of Southern Pacific railroad. Sunday Jen SI. 1152 -' MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Columbus Rocked by Series Of Sewer Gas Explosions Columbus, O., (U.R) A series, of explosions of sewer gas in the city's business district rocked Columbus Saturday. Five persons, including two firemen, were injured in the blast which sent firemen and police with sirens roaring into the area only minutes before the city was scheduled to sound a siren testing its new civil de fense equipment Power Shut Off Electric power was shut off throughout much of the city. All city buses were stranded. United Press teletypes stood idle City Schools Off ice Moved After 20 Years in City Hall After 20 years in the city hall, the offices of the Medford pub lic schools have been moved to a new location. The school administrators are now in their new $50,000 build ing on Monroe street, between Whitman and J streets, and they expect to be operating "almost as usual" by Monday, Superin tendent E. H. Hedrick said Sat urday. Nearly everything but the large office safe was moved to the new quarters Friday. The safe was moved there Saturday. This summer marked the 20th year that the school offices had been in the same location at city hall the north end of the sec ond floor. Prior to that the school administrators had their offices in the old high school on Bartlett street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, the Crater ian building and, most recently, in the Medford Center building. The offices were located in the Craterian building when Hed rick became school superintend ent in 1925. They were almost immediately moved to the third floor of the Medford Center building, where they stayed un til 1932. Hedrick pointed out that the new offices are rent-free to the schools. Previously they paid rent to the city of Medford. The public schools' former quarters in city hall will be oc cupied by the engineering and building departments after fair ly extensive remodeling, City Superintendent Robert Duff said Saturday. Agriculture Department Ends Prune Agreements Washington (U.PJ The agri culture department Saturday ended a federal marketing agree ment and order regulating the handling of fresh prunes grown in Umatilla county, Ore., and Walla Walla and Columbia coun ties, Wash. The department said there had been a decrease in produc tion in the areas and an in crease in competition from two nearby producing areas. Damp Weather Cuts Farm Labor Demand Salem (U.R) Continued damp weather over Oregon cut sharp ly into the demand for farm la bor this week and threatens to lower still further calls for har vest workers, the state Employ ment Service said Saturday. If rains do not interfere, the Portland and Salem districts could use up to 3000 more pick ers, mostly family groups for the next few weeks. Lebanon and McMinnville also may need help. Only a few days remain to finish gathering of valley straw berries, but hill areas may need family groups for two or three weeks. Caneberries are just starting. The cherry harvest, if splitting is not serious, could use several thousand pickers for two or three weeks. Farm labor is reported ade quate in the Albany, Corvallis, Grants Pass, Medford, The Dalles, Oregon City and Eugene districts, although a turn in the weather could bring a shortage of cherry pickers around the lat ter office. Bridge Final Link in Portland Expressway Portland (U.R) The Oregon State Highway Department an nounced Saturday that construc tion of a four-lane steel and con crete bridge over the Willamette river at Wilsonville will be un der way by late summer. The department said the bridge, last major link in the Salem - Portland "expressway," would cross the river about half a mile upstream from the pres ent Wilsonville ferry. G. S. Paxson, state bridge en gineer, said bids for construc tion of piers and approaches will be invited about Aug. 1 and the contract for this phase will be awarded by the state high way commission at its August meeting. CAP Drill Teams Set Competition Today Travis Air Force Base, Calif. U.R) Civil Air Patrol cadet drill teams representing Wash ington, Oregon, Utah, and Cal ifornia wings of the Civil Air Patrol will come here Sunday in the western region drill championship. Winner of Sunday's champ ionship will compete next month at Mitchell Air Force Base, N. Y., for the national drill champ ionship of the CAP. The inter national championship compet ition will be held at Minneapolis on August 2 when the national champion will compete against drill teams from England, Scot land and Canada. as the power was turned off. The two. afternoon newspapers were forced to delay publication because there was no power to turn the giant presses. Several manholes were blown from the pavement by the blasts, two of which were at Gay and Third streets, only a block from the state capitol. Fir in Cables Firemen said that they be lieved the explosions were caus ed by fire in underground elec tric cables. Telephone service was not affected. The explosions occurred in widely separated parts of the city. Police said the first was near the Army's Fort Hayes. They were called there when a passerby saw several utility poles burning. An explosion oc curred within minutes after thei1 arrival. Firemen said that the heat from the fires moved under ground until it hit a pocket of gas. This caused the explosions at Gay and Third streets, which came shortly after the explosion near the Army post. The downtown blasts were the most severe, offices said. CAB Approves Merger Of West Coast, Empire Washington (U.R) The Civil Aeronautics Board has ap proved a merger of West Coast and Empire airlines and allocat ed new routes to link the two company's systems. The board at the same time late Friday renewed the opera ting franchise for routes served by Empire until Sept 30, 1954. New routes assigned are: 1. Seattle, Ellensburg, Yaki ma, Pasco and Walla Walla,' Wash. 2. 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