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o o FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wedn.esd.ey, Jfovember t, 1953 Verde Hills Hesidents o Discuss Alternate Asked Flans The Medford city council last night invited Verde Hills resi dents to attend the next meet ing and discuss alternate plans for installation of a sanitary sew er system in the area. The, invitation was extended after petitions representing 65.6 per cent of the property owners indicated thev favored installa tion as soon as possible. Figures on financing alternate plans will be available at the council's next meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 15, City Manager Robert Duff, said. Alternate plans are construct ing a pump house and pressure line to serve the area, or delay ing installation until after a de cision is reached on whether or not an area southeast of Medford js annexed. If the area is an nexed, Verde Hills could be served by a trunk line along either Barnett rd. or Bear creek, Duff pointed out. Cost Lesi Duff said a Barnett rd. trunk line would cost about $7,000 less than a pump house. The cost of a trunk line, if the area is an nexed, would be assessed over a larger area of property bene fitted. Mayor Earl Miller pointed out that present lines, if a pump house is constructed, would serve only a short time before reach ing capacity, at which time other crrangements would have to be made. Residents of Verde Hills de siring sewer installation are in vited to discuss possibilities at the next council meeting and de cide which alternate plan they prefer. In other action last night, the council adopted an ordinance for an emergency fund appropria tion of $1,165 as part of the city's share of installation of a traffic light at the intersection of Stewart and South Riverside aves. Total cost to the city will be $1,865, of which S700 was transferred from traffic engin eering. Total estimated cost of instal ling the light, which will be in terconnected with the Southern Pacific railroad crossing signal, Hearing Scheduled On Water Mains in Northeast Medford A public hearing on installa tion of water mains in the re cently annexed Laurelhurst ad dition in northeast Medford will be held by the city council at its Nov. 15 meeting. ? Residents of the area submit ted petitions for water mains on Stevens st. from Oregon terrace to Crater Lake ave., and on Mae, Marie, Effie, Bessie and Pearl sts. from Saling to Stevens sts., and on Mary st. from Stevens st. to a point 250 feet south. The water commission recom mended installation of water mains in the area because a large section is completely without fire protection from fire hy drants. There are about 25 va- cant lots with no water provi sions, and present water serv ice is thrqugh small, temporary and privately owned pipes which generally are too small to pro vide adequate service. (See story on Page 1) field st., and assessing property on the north side of Stewart ave. and the city one fourth. via""11"" al" iKjL J atnci iiiaiauouuii, An ordinance also was adopted granting California Oregon Power company an easement for a power line through Roxy Ann park. The company also pur chased 9,110 board feet of tim ber from the city for S917.10, which will go into the general fund budget. (See story on Page 1) is S9.900. The state finances hall the cost, the county one fourth Contracts Awarded The council awarded two con tracts for furnishing fuel oil Faber Fuel company received the contract for furnishing fuel oil for the city hall and the cen tral fire station at .127 cents per gallon for number 300 oil, .145 cents per gallon for num ber 200 furnace oil, and .1535 cents per gallon for stove oil. Standard Oil company re ceived the contract for furnish ing oil at the airport at .09456 cents per gallon. Bids also were received from Medford Fuel company and Western Oil and Burner company. Duff was authorized to offer for sale Lots 1 and 2, Block- 5. in the Euclid park addition. The city purchased the lots several years ago for an Eastside fire station, but court action brought by residents of the area, de termined use of the lots was for residences only. City Attorney Frank Farrell was instructed to prepare an ordinance whieh will permit in stallation of bicycle racks in parking strips along Medford streets. The action grew out of a request from St. Mary's school that the school be permitted to have a bicycle rack on Ivy st. near 11th st. Ordinances were approved adopting plans and specifications for sewer construction on South Ivy st. from Holmes ave. to Gar- on Vlanl Wte Viol alet BUY THE NEW Gl" AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC Water Healer. Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR AH Day Long ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN HOME APPLIANCE 115 EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer ENERAlEUCTRIC Water Heaters Paper Products, Timber Discussed At Rotary Meeting A pound of paper for every person in the U.S.- is consumed every day, Emmett Bullard, rep resentative for Blake, Moffitt and Towne, told members of the Medford Rotary club here Tuesday. Speaking at a luncheon meet ing at tne Jackson notei, am lard said that most of the var ieties of trees in riorthwest for fests are useable in making paper pulp. New developments of paper products, with widespread useage from newsprint to nap kins, have built a great industry. It is estimated that 15,000 dif ferent types of paper are now in use. More1 than 2,000 years ago the Chinese invented paper, open ing a new medium for record ing the printed word alter cen turies of inscribing on stone tab lets and skin parchment, Bullard told Rotarians. The first paper making machine was invented by a Frenchman during the French Revolution, expanding the pre vious methods of passing on knowledge and history. It was observation of wasps making their nests which gave inspira tion to the development of wood fiber in paper manufacture. Logging Discussed Robert F. Kline, logging oper ator in Jackson county, shared the Rotary program with Bul lard. The need for improved pub lie relations for the industry was pointed out, as logging and lumber activities here and throughout the state are prob ably the least understood of ma jor industries, yet the greatest contributor to wealth and jobs Kline briefly outlined the con tribution of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm as sociation to this area. Gradual reduction in timber cutting in this area to conform with sus tained yield is inevitable but in creased utilization of timber will compensate as far as jobs and income to the area are con cerned. From 400 to 500 independent logging operators are now doing business in this immediate area with an annual cut of approxi mately 670,000,000 board feet For every logging truck driver on roads and highways there are from three to five men wor king in the woods, Kline said Approximately one-third of the timber cutting in Jackson coun ty is on virgin forest lands while two-thirds is on previously har vested lands. c Jack H. Wood, supervisor of j the Rogue River National for ! est, and Rotary program chair j man, introduced the speaker. : Portland-Salem ! Expressway Opened ! Portland (U.R) Traffic was flowing along the entire length i of the Portland to Salem free- ! way today after the last road- block on the scenic route was removed at 1 p.m. yesterday. State Highway Engineer R. iH. Baldock said, however, -that the 18-mile stretch between Salem and Wilsonville is limited to gross loads under 10,000 pounds since one 7-mile, 2-lane stretch was only thinly surfaced. Oil Heiress Named In Divorce Action Riverside, Calif. - (U.R) Oil heiress Elsinore Machrig Gilli land has been sued for divorce by her husband of 18 months who seeks division of property he said is worth S15,000,000. After the surprise marriage to Mrs. Gilliland, 74, and C. Ray Gilliland, 61, in Las Vegas, on May 3, 1954, the couple threw a lavish S35.000 champagne party in a Hollywood night club. In the same month that she mar ried, Mrs. Gilliland made a Sl.900.000 contribution to the Citv of Hope Hospital in Durate, Calif. Mrs. Gilliland,' widow of George Machris, majority stock holder of the Wilshire Oil Co., sued for annulment last March 15 on grounds that Gilliland married her "with a secret in tent not to consumate it or to enter fully into the contract' The suit was dismissed on June 24. Court records showed that Gilliland had filed for divorce on Oct. 21 in Superior Court here. The suit charged that Mrs. Gilliland treated her husband in a "cruel and inhuman manner." The United States Savings and Loan League has found the aver age home buyer is 35 yeas old and has a wife and two chil dren. ,;: Upper Midwest Feels Winter Sting ' By UNITED PRESS ' The coldest weather of the season knifed eastward today and iri the Rocky Mountains a bulldozer bucked its way through, snow drifts in an at tempt to reach hundreds of ma rooned hunters. The cold front spread from the Northern Rockies through the Northern Plains into the upper Mississippi Valley. Tem peratures dropped 10 degrees in the area and most of them went below the 20-degree mark. In Montana, billowing snow drifts blocked the path of a bulldozer which was trying to reach hundreds of elk hunters who were trapped by a sudden, sub-zero snow storm. Progress was slow and offic ials hoped the "snowing and blowing" might ease today be-cause-another storm was coming in from the Pacific Coast. It would be "suicide" to send search parties on foot into the snowbound Gravelly Mountains, an official said. 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