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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1954)
EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, WoTmfcer 28. 194 m.,..wHyu . . MlllilMlMMMi-iiiiiwMl ILUHWMI II I I"'" '" III.I II..I1IIIIIHI. .1 II1IJIIIII...II . ii i. Li. .... ...guy.. ..i... . , -4 .A,... : OPEN HOUSE SLATED Pictured above is an interior view1 able in the previous location. The new building is the culmi- of Gates Furniture store at 341 North Central ave., which nation of 14 years of planning by the owners, George and opens Saturday with an "open house" event. The new store, Dora Gates. Added parking space is prodived adjacent to the which occupies a new building constructed for Gates Fur- new building. Gates Furniture also operates stores in Ashland . niture, will provide the firm with twice the floor SDace avail- and Grants Pass. -MBrainerd Photo) Better Conditions Raise Production Washington (U.R) An ex perimental post office at Rich mond, Va., shows how improved working conditions can raise pro duction, according to the post office department here. After the department had ac renteA recommendations from leading light and color engineers, ' there was an eight per cent pro duction jump in mail handled between December and January of 1953. The department pointed out that it handles more than 50, 000,000,000 pieces of mail an nually and employes need to read the address on each piece of mail five times or more to route it properly to the addresses. The hundreds of billions of visual operations resulting from this volume of mail makes proper lighting conditions a must. From the experience gained in the "Richmond experiment," the post office department has embarked on a modernization program of building larger post offices as rapjdly as funds per mit Working with the General Services Administration, the de partment's initial ' goal is the modernization of 8,000,000 feet of floor space in the largest buildings within the next three years. Ultimately the modernization program' will be a large under taking. The department said the program will involve the instal lation of modern illumination and ventilation systems in some 3,200 government-owned build ings and 20,891 leased buildings. .The department feels the pro gram will give the American people faster, better mail serv ice at a reduced cost. y PUBLIC INVITED The Sunday evening services at the First Baptist church will be especially featured and all interested persons are invited to attend, church officers have an nounced. The services will begin at 7:30 p.m., and members of the youth choir will present the music in an informal song serv ice. ' .. . " ".' CHRISTMAS TREES DUE Montreal (U.R) New York City was down for some 3,000,- 000 Canadian Christmas trees to day as railways prepared 3500 cars to carry a total of 11,000,000 evergreens to the United States. Mother Strangles Daughter; Severely Cuts Self With Knife Modesto, Calif. (U.R) Mrs. Marguerite Blanchard, 38, told police yesterday that she strang ed her , nine-year-old daughter, severely slashed herself with a paring knife and razor blade, and then lay for 36 hours near the body of her child. The tragedy was discovered by Don Lapan, Mrs. Blanchard's brother-in-law, who came to the house to take the woman and her daughter out for Thanksgiving dinner. -Went To Police Lapan told police that when he arrived Mrs. Blanchard opened the door part way and whispered, "I think I've, killed Carol Ann." Lapan -went to the police . without ' entering the house. ' Authorities said they found Mrs. Blanchard lying on the bed beside the body of her daughter. There was blood all about the house. The mother had two deep slashes on her neck, two on each 0B mm). I temple and one on each arm bove the elbow. She was rushed to the county hospital where her condition was reported as "fair. Recently Divorced In broken sentences, Mrs. Blanchard told police what had happened. She said she was re cently divorced and had con sidered killing her daughter and committing suicide, but lacked the nerve. . She said she made her decision Wednesday morning, after'lying awake all night. Mrs. Blanchard said she used a silk scarf to strangle Carol Ann "but i took a long time because sne struggled." She then tried to take her own life with a paring knife, but later switched to a razor blade. A large pool of blood in the bath room indicated 'she may have stood in front of the mirror so she could see where to strike the blows. .-;-, ',' . Mrs. Blanchard said that she was "up and down" several times during the 36 hours that elapsed before Lapan arrived at the house despite the fact that she also claimed to have taken 20 sleeping tablets. She told police: ."Don't know what troubles caused it . . . just everything . . . been in. my thoughts for some time . . . recently divorced . . . maybe it was just Thanksgiv ing." ! 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