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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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