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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1956)
CO o O o o House of Tin Cans Built by Bachelor Ai Salt Lake City Salt Lake City UR Every thing comes in cans nowadays even houses. A 30-year-old bachelor danc ing teacher named John F. Gree ny is building himself a small house on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. The walls' are made cf tin cans. The idea of using the neglect ed tin can to build a home orig inated with Greenig's brother-in-law, Arnold O. Stags, a tool and die maker. Stagg had hauled some refuse to the city dump when he saw a mound ol discarded motor oil cans and thought some use could be made of them. Two-Car Garage After months of tinkering, he invented a power-driven tool that staples the cans together when they are lid side by side and row upon row on top of each other. cThe first, thing Stagg built with, th cans was a two-car ga rage. This gave Greenig the idea of building himself a home with the empty mc-tal containers. Greenig first stapled together four wails of cans, leaving space for windows and doors.-Next, . he ran tcel rcxls through the '"cans for reinforcement. The rods connett to concrete, posts at each "cower of the houe. Finally he lifted the can walls into place they had been as sembled on the ground horizon ' tally and covered the cans with tuco and plaster. Strong Walls The result is a one-story home : that Greenig maintains is both sturdy and well-insulated. It too: Grcenin only an hour and a half to gather the tin cans he needed for the job. He esti mates that using cans in the con struction instead of regular building materials has saved him roughly "$1,000. The one-bedroom home will cost only S2.000. "These tin can walls are very strong because of the way they are reinforced."' Greenig said. 1 "I'm certain the house will stand longer than one made of brick." f31 HI I I cifr 'tinh1 m : mm mW &m FOOD TRUCK HIJACKED British troops fight Arabs off food truck in Port Said, Egypt after violent street fight ing erupted when some 500 looters raided a British supply dump. The looters were then attacked by estimated ' 1000 Egyptians trying to hijack the spoils. British troops used ciubs to restore order. - A Nichol's Worth cf . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer Westerners are sweet on Spreckels new f i Spreckels new s Superfine Sugar f SB ' SUGAR ' i ...'cause it dissolvej tyice as fast ilk drinks on cr eals. It's the fastest-dis-appeartng sugar you've ever usdl Washington (U.PJ The pheasant shooting season is on in. my home state. I like the yarn my colleague from the Chica go Sun - Times springs about the educated pheasant. Spin ning yarns, is not against the rules if you don't use a name. My uirmiK Mrnm friend Jack R. GViffin, of course, did -not catch the name of the pheasant. All of the birds I ever met don't have a name unless they are in a cage. Jack, I suspect, called upon his imagination, which the very young in our profession some times lack. Anyhow, It seems that this city feller from Chicago went down in my part of the country in Central Illinois and was fixing to do in a pheasant. And there he came upon a ring-necked lovely whjch must have gone to college. "This pheasant," Jack told his readers, "could read and also tell time." The Story The way my yarn-spinning pal put it: The slicker from the city, double-barreled shotgun loaded with No. 6 shot and at the ready, came upon this pheasant. The bird, it seemed, looked at the book of rules and rolled over. It is against the law in that part of the country to shoot a bird unless he happens to be on the wing. This bird apparently had read the book. According to Jack, this candi date for something under glass wasn't about to get off its sitter. So the city feller started pitching apples, trying to get a rise out of the prey. It didn't work. Finally, however, the bird took off on a high wind. The hunter looked at his watch. It was 5:05 p.m.. five minutes after cease fire time in Illinois. That bird was smart. But birds don't have to be smart to out-smart me. I am as heavy-footed as a dinosaur stuck in the mud when it comes to hunting. Dad tride his best, but I didn't cotton much to shotguns and rifles. I wasn't too bad with the rifle but the shotgun had a kick. Not only that, there was the un pleasant business of squatting in a duck island. And in the case of the pheas ants the pants-ripping barbed wire around fields posted with "No Hunting, Penalty of Law" signs. Not to mention snakes in the grass and angry bulls. ,1 don't believe I have ever killed anything in my life, ex cept for the accidental stepping on ants, or trapping mice via the cheese bait. New Hampshire Has High Savings Rate Concord, N.K. U.P.) New Hampshire's r ec e n t economic comeback is best seen in random statistics culled by the State planning and development com mission. They show that New Hampshire enjoys one of the highest rates of personal savings in the United States. Granite Staters now hold more than S500.000.000 in mutual savings bank deposits, and share with Massachusetts residents the dis tinction of owning more shares of stock per capita than any other Americans. New Hampshire also averages the highert family food budget in the country $1,046 per household last year. TRUCK FOR ELDER PRESLEY Memphis, Tenn. U.P: When singer Elvis Presley is away from home for entertainment engagements, he leaves three big limousines at home. But the singer's father, Vernon Presley, prefers to drive his small work truck. "1 can park it and go off without worrying about it," the elder Presley said. Thursday, November 15, 1J5S CO MEDFOID (ORESOR) MATT, TO!BUITZ-OtfC Stalin Degrading Boon To Mappers Pittsburgh (UP.) The Soviet denunciation of Josef Stalin will have an effect on the map busi ness, according to Carl H. Mapes. chief map editor of Rand McNally & Co. He expects places such as Stalino and Stalingrad will take on new names as the present Soviet leaders continue to down grade the late leader. Mapes outlined map -making problems before a convention of the Special Libraries Assn. here. I Another big trend, is the grad ual disappearance of the tra ditional British pink. Once it was splattered in globs on world maps. But now it has all but vanished, save for Canada and Australia. The British pink, incidentally, is the only perennial color in the cartographic trade, Mapes said. It's an inheritance from English mapmakers. The post-war switch from co-1 lonialism to independence has brought about wholesale eras-; ures, especially in maps of j Southeast Asia. The birth ofj a national always brings a col or switch and usually a name change. Mapes predicted the big change will come in the next decade in Africa where several nations already have won inde pendence. ' At home, he said, his com pany's chief research project will be to compile a scorecard on the names and numbers of ; new highways expected under . the federal road building pro gram, j 7812 Daughters Make Corsages From Money Syracuse, N.Y. Oi.P.) The U.S. Daughters of 1812 came up with a different sort of corsage at their 61st annual meeting here. The women sported dollar bills on their lapels in place of the usual orchids. The bills, fancily folded and tied together with ribbon, were returned to the organization at the end of the conference. The money will be used to furnish the 1812 room of the Ten Br.oeck Mansion in Albany. 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