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.
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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.
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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
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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. Portland, Ore., Yakima, We
natchee, Ephrata-Moses Lake,
Spokane, Wash., and Couer D'
Alene, Idaho.
The routes were substantially
those sought by the two airlines.
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