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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) PT&T to Spend $1, 446,000 On Jackson County Projects Pacific Telephone ha S9S9 000 allocated for new construc tion projects in its Medford ex change this year. The record high figure brings to $1,303,000 the amount spent during the past three years on construction jobs in Medford cording to Jack Creagcr, local telephone manager. Stalawid Project 'Throughout the state." Creag er reported. "Pacific Telephone is undertaking its biggest expan- sion and improvement program in history. The 1956 Oregon construction program calls for an expenditure of an estimated S30.000.000. Some $1,446,000 of that amount will be spent in Jackson county." The Rogue River valley will be one of the busiest spots in the telephone company's Oregon area for the next seven months, Creager indicated. During that time a number of construction projects will be completed. They will bring seven-digit telephone numbers and extended area ser vice to five exchanges in the county. Office Addition In Medford a two-tory and basement addition is being built on the present central office at 802 North Central ave. An ad dition Is scheduled also for the central office at Gold Hill, and a new dial office is currently under construction for the new Phoenix Talent exchange. The . new building is located midway between Medford and Ashland along U. S. Highway 99. Local dial switching equip ment is slated to be installed In central offices at Medford Jacksonville. Central Point, Gold Hill. Ashland and Phoenix-Talent. Projects Underway More than half a doten Large local aerial and underground cable protects are already under way or scheduled in the county. The largest ueh Job will be a part of the establishment of the new Phoenix-Talent exchange. Two other cable jobs will re quire a total of more than 80, 000 feet of cable. They will help make possible a general tele phone expansion In the Med ford exchange and permit en larging the direct toll-free calling area to include the Ashland, Gold Hill and Phoenix-Talent ex change. Two smaller cable projects are nearing completion In the Rogue River exchange, and two more are slated for Gold Hill. Mere Calling Paths Central office and cable work scheduled will increase the num ber of long distance calling paths from Medford north to Rogue River, Grants Pass and Portland, and also south to California cities. At the first of the year the company had a plant investment of $9,578,000 in the county, and In 1955 paid a total of $161,241 in property taxes to the county. At the first of this year there were 13,731 telephones in the Medford exchange, and on an average business day some 67, 896 calls were being placed. Properly Tax Factor Praised By Commissioner Salem U.R State Tax Com missioner Samuel B. Stewart Friday praised a recent Harney county Circuit Court decision upholding a commission regula tion increasing from 70 to 80 per cent the property factor used in assessing real property. Stewart said a 1933 amend ment to the law authorized the commission to define the true cash value of real property un der "normal conditions." After re-appraising Harney county in 1953. Stewart said the commission set the value of property at 70 per cent of mar ket value. But on Jan. 1. 1956, the commission increased the percentage to 80 because of a leveling off of economic condi tions. Increase Appealed County Assessor John M. Gault Jr. appealed the increase to the court of Judge M. A. Biggs, charging that the commis sion lacked constitutional au thority to set the percentage. However, the court decided the increase did not create non uniformity of assesment be tween real and personal prop erty and that there was no un constitutional delegation of leg islative authority. r Builders Supply -ocALrrr BLOCKS Bricks. Flues. Drain Tile ' 717 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 MAIL TRIBUNE Hie- - 'vLritw Kit & v- a . .-... -V' AUTOMATIC LADDER A device such as this automatic lad der would be ideal during pear picking season. Pacific Tele phone has several such rigs in this area for jobs such as this one. Splicer Gene Rosencrans is splicing cable together along Hillcrest rd. I ' t li Wjvrn I- CABLE SPLICING The job of cable splicing is considered a delicate one. Here Pacific Telephone Splicer Gene Rosen crans connects tiny copper wires in cable strung from poles along Hillcrest rd. The Family Edltor't nM: Th Family Council thr clergymen, ft nawipaper editor, a wotnrn's editor and two writeri. Each article li a mmmiry of an actual report The Fa mil Council does not fiT advice; It merely report on problema that have been dealt with by rofponunie acrncies ana coanseiora. Lynna Father broke up our home. Dannit Mother still depends on him. Lvnne I am 16 and I have brother of 20. For the past 10 years our parents have been divorced, and we have been living with my mother, but there has been a weekly ritual of visiting our father. This was the result of an agreement between my parents. Now that I am old enough to think for myself. I cannot help resenting the compulsion to visit our father. He is suave . and makes a show of being friendly and interested, but I cannot help feeling that he is just making gestures because he is afraid of being regarded in the wrong. If he had really been inter ested in his children, why would he have broken up our family and home? I know that my mother did, everything to keep the family together, and I know she is not the sort of per son who could have been dis loval to her husband. I am sure it was the other way around. My brother feels as I do. but he refuses to take a stand and urges me to evade the issue by continuing the regular visits to our father. Dennis I resent my father's leaving Mother, but I see noth ing to be accomplished by an tagonizing Father. He contrib utes to the support of our home, and it would only be a hardship on Mother if he were to stop do ing that or reduce the amount he contribute. When my sister and I are able to take his place a nmviriers. mv attitude may change, but I don t think we can afford to display our emo tions now. Besides, it would on ly upset Mother if she knew we were not keeping the agreement to visit Father once a week. The Council: We very much fear that Lynne and Dennis have both been sacrificed needlessly in being prejudiced, if not in doctrinated, against their fath- ' It is pointless in dealing with thif problem to make deep in Sunday, September 2, 1958 m1& 't y Council contttta of a Judc. a vsTchlatrlit. quiries into the cause of the di vorce. It is possible that the blame lies wholly with the fath er, but in more than half the di vorce cases the blame is not that one-sided. Children, in any event, are not good judges of their parents, and they should be made very much aware of that fact, since it is a juvenile trait to sit in judgment on eld ers. Lynne Is extremely bitter when she argues that her father is merely posing when he re ceives his children once a week. If that were the case, he would surely tire of posing after 10 years, and any person who is as "sauve" as she says he is would quickly find a graceful way of eliminating or reducing the vis its. The fact that he is an Import ant financial contributor to the family after all these years and that he displays interest in the children leads us to suspect that there is some real interest, and .that Lynne is allowing her harsh Seldom Regular Diett lacking bulk a com mon cause of constipation, Good-tastins KeUosre's All Bran has helped millions to correct this condition. Lax ative drug (for temporary relief) seldom contain the neceaaary bulk. Eaten daily, All-Bran, provides all the bulk you need for gentle, natural elimination. Try Kellopg's tie original, ready-to-eat whole bran cereal for 10 days. If not entirely satisfied with All Bran in every, way, return the empty carton and get twice what you paid. Best liked by millions i&Myftf ALL-BRAN ROGUE RIVER Seafarers Club Meets MRS. MYRTLE WHIPPLE Rogue River The Seafarers club met Aug. 14 at the Fel lowship hall with a small attend ance. A pot luck supper was served. Maxwell Thayer, editor of the Rogue River Time6, gave a talk. After supper a business meeting was held and a program given. Next meeting will be Oct. 4. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Golding at tended the Fair at Crescent City Sunday. Mrs. Lois Morgan and son Hurst were dinner guests Sun day of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Milton at Wolf Creek. The Rev. E. J. Clark of Grants Pass took the Rev. Mr. Barnett's place at the Presbyterian church Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett are on a vacation in California. Arthur Whims, who has been in a Medford hospital, is home and improving. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miller and son of Sandy, Ore., visited recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. liller. Walter, a teacher in the Sandy high school, is the son of R. C. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Ewing of Winfield, Kan., recently visted Mrs. Ewing's sister and her hus band, Mr. and Mrs. Haydn Wil liams of Highway South. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Stock ings of Leucadia, Calif., are visit ing friends and relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Stockings are for mer residents of Rogue River. Recent guests at the Ernest Sandeen home were Mr. and judgment of her father to dis tort her own personality. (Copyright 19S6. General Fea tures Corp.) The U.S. Government does not ptv for this idvertistno. The Treasury I ment thanks, for rhtir patriotic donat Advertising Council and U. S. National Bank Leonard Electric Company Tru-Mix Concrete Company Robert P. Templeton Lumber Co. Harry and David, Inc. Lambert-Voegtly Lumber Co. Trail Creek Lumber Company Jorgensen Dairy Products Hubbard Broi.-Hubbard-Wray Reter Fruit Company Mrs. S. Johnson of Hawthorne. Calif., and Mrs. E. L. Meade and sons. David. Richard, and Jim of White Bear Lake, Minn. Mrs. Meads is Mrs. Sander's daugh ter. Harry Randleman was hon ored Aug. 19 with a birthday anniversary dinner at his home. Helping him celebrate were his wife and son Dickie, two daugh ters and their families, Mr. and Mrs. George David and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Combs and daugh ter Linda of Bakersfied, Calif., a brother, Floyd, from Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Slade Combs, and Miss Diane Mock of Rogue River. While picking blackberries Mrs. C. J. Steihl fell and broke her right arm and hurt her back. Medford Police Force Gets New Patrolman Keith B. VanHorn, 622 South Central ave., has been hired as a patrolman in the Medford po lice department, Police Chief Charles Champlin reported Sat urday. VanHorn Is a 1953 graduate of Medford Senior High school and attended business college in Med ford. He has a wife and one child and replaces Roger Flagg, who has accepted a position else where. DOBBIN GOES MODERN Cartagena, Spain (U.R) Old Dobbin has gone modern in this ancient town. Cartagena's only remaining horse-drawn carriage appeared on the streets Friday sporting a radio with antenna, a coat of fluorescent paint and electric lights. -V - J f;ijpf ''AV1- V jp-p ..v-SilJS-'V'.'. - " '- ' BISHOP CHARLES W. QUINN, CM. Speaking in Medford China Missionary To Speak Here Bishop Charles W. Quinn, CM., expelled ordinary of the Diocese of Yukiang, China, ar rived in Medford Friday and will make several speaking appear ances in Medford over the Labor Day week end. Missionary in China The Vincentian prelate work ed 17 years as a missionary in China before he was imprisoned and then expelled by the com munists in 1951. He is on a leave of absence from his station in the Prefecture of Kaohsiung, Formosa, where he' is a missioner among the Chinese refugees. In an interview here. Bishop First National Bank California-Pacific Utilities Co. Rogue Valley State Bank Medford Corporation Joe Hearin Logging W. H. Daugherty, White City Div. Nye & Naumes Packing Co. Mann's Department Store Alley Lumber Company DeVoe Lumber Sales Co. Legion Head Would Urge UN Withdrawal Los Angeles U.R) Ameri can Legion National Command er J. Addington Wagner says his organization would urge with drawal of the United States from the United Nations if the world organization should admit Quinn declared Formosa is still the primary target of Red Chi nese aggression. "Formosa is the big issue in China. It's like a thorn in their side. A year ago the Communists were warlike, now their -.m is to talk us out of Formosa." he said. Ts Speak (.under Bishop Quinn will speak at all Sunday services at Sacred Heart church in Medford. The public has been invited to attend a spe cial Sunday evening meeting in the activities room at St Mary's school starting at 8 p.m. today. His appearance here was ar ranged by the Very Rev. Nicolas Deis, pastor of Sacred Heart. Bishop Quinn returns to Formosa Sept. 12. ONLY Now Rocket 88 Oldsmobiles DELIVERED IN MEDFORD 2-Door, 4-Door, Holiday 4-Door Sedans and Holiday Coupes. Darrell Miller Co. 415 South Riverside HOW MUCH HAVE YOU SAVED SINCE LAST LABOR DAY ? Here it is Labor Day again and a whole year has gone by jn a hurry. How much have you saved out of all the money you've made in the last year? If you haven't saved as much as you think you should have, don't be discouraged. It's really easy to do you have a simple, systematic savings plan. The Payroll Savings Plan is guaranteed to work. And eight million Americans are already taking ad vantage of it. Here's all you do. Just tell the people in your pay office how much you want to save each payday. Then your money will go automatically into U. S. Series E Savings Bonds, one of the world's safest investments and one where your returns are guaranteed. Say you save just $7.50 a week. In 9 years and 8 months you can count on having $4,278 in cash. In 19 years and 8 months $10,313 enough to make a really big showing for all of your hard work and good management. So think of next Labor Day today, and sign trp for safe and sure U. S. Savings Bonds on the Payroll Savings Plan where you work, or buy Bonds rego- . larly where you bank. FOR THE BIG THINGS IN YOUR LIFE, BE READY WITH U. S. SAVINGS BONDS Timber Products Company Rogue River Orchards Fluhrer's Bakeries Elk Lumber Company Cascade Wood Product Ross Lumber Company Littrell Parts Company Barker's Men's Store Medford Lumber Company Associated Fruit Company OLD TROUBLEMAKER' Honolulu (U.R) Nung Gl Pang was jailed on assault and battery charges for kayqing 85-year-old Chee Nunk Cho at the Korean old men's home. Police labelled Pang, 99, a "troublemaker." Red China as a member. The commander, here for the Legion's 38th annual conven tion, said his organization would immediately counteract such a move by urging the withdrawal if the United Nations should prove Itself so "normally bank rupt" as to admit Red China. Sundays 10:15 A.M. DOWN Phone 2-6209 J CHRISTIAN .1 I SCIENCE i jHEALS Station KWIN 1400 K.C.
