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8 AAfrVfcllUNE, Medfrf, Oregon, Sunday, June 29, 1958
Gning Date for Centennial Exposition
Yaar Away; Plans Reported Progressing
Portland Oregon is mo
bilizing for the greatest in
vasion in its history!
Opening day of the Oregon
Centennial Exposition and In
ternational Trade Fair is
about one year away. On June
10, 1959, the 65-acre, 100 day
exposition will open its gates
to an expected attendance of
8 million persons, largest at
tendance ever anticipated at
any event held west of the
Mississippi river with the ex
ception of the 1939 San Fran
cisco World's Fair.
What is more, the 100th an
niversary of Oregon's ' birth,
Feb. 14, 1959, is just eight
months off.
Report en Preparations
Here is a report on what
Oregon is doing to prepare
for the greatest tourist year
in its lifetime.
Nerve center of centennial
planning is the office of the
Oregon Centennial commis
sion and staff in downtown
Portland's Jackson Tower.
This is the headquarters for
the nine member, non - paid
centennial commission ap
pointed by the governor.
Here' also, the rapidly incres
ing responsibilities of plan
ning the biggest celebration in
the united States during 1959
ha necessitated expansion of
th paid staff to a present to
1 of It persons.
Th commission has divided
responsibilities into two
major phases: planning and
directing the centennial expo
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In High Gear
Exposition planning is in
high gear, report Commission
Chairman Anthony Branden
thaler and Exposition Man
aging Director Floyd Max
well. To date 42 firms have indi
cated their intention to exhib
it either in the 11-acre main
exposition building or in the
adjoining 54 acres of exposi
tion grounds. Sale of space to
the 42 firms represents ap
proximately $105,000 of in
come. Total exhibit space is
now about 10 per cent com
mitted. Exhibits Director Ray Smith
expressed satisfaction with
progress of space sales, and
especially with elaborate
plans of exhibitors for anima
ted and extensive displays
within their space. Smith said
exhibits at the exposition
would far exceed in quantity
and expense anything ever
seen in the Pacific Northwest.
Exhibitors Contacted
Smith said all major poten
tial exhibitors are being con
tacted as soon as possible, but
urged those interested to con
tact the centennial offices im
mediately for space reserva
tions. Several large exhibitors
have revealed planning for
complete new buildings to be
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built on exposition grounds.
Portland Gas and Coke com-
any will build a $35,000
building and an 80-foot etern
al flame tower. The lumber
industry has had several com
mittee meetings and even an
architectural plan for a dra
matic, permanent 2 2,0 0 0
square foot building. Other
firms and associations are con
templating special buildings
but do not wish publicity un
til plans are firm.
Probably the most dramatic
of exposition attractions will
be the international trade fair,
which opens at the heart of
the exposition grounds June
10, 1959, as over-all exposi
tion. Here already 23 nations
have reserved space in what
has been termed by the U. S.
department of commerce as
the second most important in
tenational trade fair ever held
in the U. S. (First was in Chi
cago in 1950.)
Centennial officials 'predict
this feature alone will result
in putting Oregon in the inter
national spotlight more than
has ever been accomplished
in all of the past 100 years. A
total of 35 ,nations is expected
to exhibit when all space has
been contracted.
A special 18-acre area has
been set aside for "adventure
land" adjacent to the main ex
position building. Here will
be a frontier town, Indian Vil
lage, Lewis and Clark Village,
and boom town where special
buildings will be . erected and
actual stores and services will
operate, in the tradition of
Disneyland. A mile long rail
road, a pony express ride,
stagecoach ride and actual op
erating lumber mill will be
featured.
Remodeling Underway
Work on remodeling the ex
isting Pacific International
Exposition building for use
as the main centennial ibuild
ing is already underway. The
new 11-acre roof is 90 per cent
complete, the new electrical
wiring to provide load centers
for exhibitors' use is started,
and new floors are being laid
in the west end of the build
ing. By July Multnomah county
crews are slated to begin the
$110,000 job of providing two
new, wide roads through the
old Vanport area to exposi
tion grounds. By fall work
will be completed on grading
for "adventureland" and the
gayway. Then, prior to the
fair opening next June side
walks will be paved in the
outside area and a new fence
built completely around expo
sition grounds.
Most of the interior work
on the main building will be
done by November, report
Centennial Production direc
tor Mel Melvyn and Grounds
Director Walter Holt.
All New Buildings
In "adventureland" all new
buildings will be built in he
spring of 1959.
Total exposition and inter
national trade fair budget is
$5 million, of which $3 million
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$1,100,000 from the sale of ex.
hibit space, and the balance
from concessions.
Phase two of the centennial
celebrations is proceeding
well throughout Oregon, Jack
Lively, commissioner member
from Springfield and liaison
for state-wide activities, ad
vises. State Coordinator Ted
Hallock reports organizational
meetings have been held in all
of Oregon's 36 counties result
ing in 27 county chairmen ap
pointed to date and 120 city
chairmen out of a total of 214
Oregon cities. It is expected
that all city and county chair
men will be appointed by the
end of June.
Financing Events
The centennial commission
announces that to finance
community centennial events,
fully half of pregon's counties
have already received appro
priations from county courts,
chambers of commerce pri
vate firms and other sources.
It is estimated that total local
community pledges for cen
tennial participation has now
reached the $250,000 mark,
with a total goal of some
where between $1 million and
$3 million by the end of this
year.
The commission said local
funds will be spent by the lo
cal communities in two ways:
To finance special local events
and activities as commemor
ative activities or 'as tourist
attractions; .and to build- and
operate exhibits for the indi
vidual counties at the centen
nial exposition in Portland
in space being provided with
out charge by the centennial
commission.
Centennial committee work
ers throughout Oregon al
ready number in the thous
ands and will reach the tens
of thousands soon. Activities
planned in the cities and coun
ties range from special school
emphasis on Oregon history
and geography to construction
of roadside visitor information
booths.
Activities Planned
Here are some of the local
activities in various stages of
planning by local committees,
many of which were reported
at a meeting in June of the
centennial state-wide advis
ory committee held in the of
fice of Gov. Robert Holmes in
Salem: Construction of a mon
ument to Oregon's first school
teacher, Solomon Selias Smith,
in Clatsop county; presentation
of special citations to ocean
going ships as they enter the
Columbia river; charter boats
for tourists; reconstruction of
Oregon's first post office in
Astoria and issuance of Ore
gon's centennial stamp; bus
tours from the exposition
through Clackamas, Washing
ton and Yamhill counties;
pamphlets on . local history
for distribution to schools, or
ganizations and merchants;
sale of wooden nickles as sou
venirs by merchants of Wash
ington county.
At recent local meetings of
the area committees through-
Tribune
out the state these further
suggestions were made: Paint
up, clean-up campaigns; huge
hillside picture in growing
flowers and shrubs depicting
historical scene; reconstruc
tion d"f a store and a home of
100 years ago; planting vacant
lots in flowers by women's
clubs in La Grande; special
Indian pageants in Wasco,
Hood and Gilliam counties;
opening old ghost towns and
old mine shafts as tourist at
tractions in Baker and Union
counties; staging guided tours
of fossil beds in Grant and
Morrow counties; staging a
pageant in southern Oregon's
historic Jacksonville; having
a Baltimore colony festival in
Coos and Curry counties;
building an Indian village in
Lane county.
Attract Tourists
The centennial commission
emphasizes that the purpose
of most of these local attrac
tions, which will be adminis
tered by non-profit corpora
tions being set up in most
counties, will be primarily to
attract each area's share of
the record-breaking tourist in
flux. Simultaneously special in
terest committees with a total
of nearly 500 volunteer mem
bers have been formed to cov
er all possible activities in the
following fields: Fine arts,
elementary and secondary ed
ucation, colleges and univer
sities, and churches, all coor
dinated by centennial com
missioner Mrs. Monroe Sweet
land, Milwaukie; history, and
design and decoration, coor
dinated by commissioner
Thomas Vaughan, Portland;
television, sports activities,
speaKers oureau ana promo
tion, coordinated by commis
sioner C. Howard Lane, Port
land; agriculture, coordinated
by commissioner Thomas San-
doz, Astoria; labor, coordin
ated' by Bruce Bishop, com
EAGLE POINT
Pastor Attends Meeting
By LAURA A. McFALL
Eagle Point The Rev. J. J.
Munshaw attended the pas
tor's conference at "The Firs,"
Bellingham, Wash., recently.
The conference was sponsored
by the Scripture Press pub
lishers and the Sudan Interior
mission. About 60 ministers
attended from the Pacific
northwest.
Mrs. Hulda Rebers, Wood
Lake, Minn., aunt of Mrs. G.
D. Hannaford, and Mrs. Mar
tin Ree, Sioux Falls, S.D.,
mother of Mrs. Hannaford,
have been guests the past
week at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. G. David Hannaford and
family, Butte Falls highway,
Eagle Point. They left Thurs
day for return trip through
southern California, then to
Oklahoma where they will
visit other sons and daughters
of Mrs. Ree.
On Monday evening the
Hannafords, Mrs. Ree and
Mrs. Rebers were guests for
dinner at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Lester McFall and fam
ily. Mr. and Mrs. W. M.' How
land, Rogers, Ark., are visit
ing at the home of their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Herrington, and
family. They arrived on
Wednesday and will visit in
the valley until after July 4.
. Mrs. Etta Orr, Roseburg,
sister of Mrs. Pomeroy, is vis
iting at the William Pomeroy
home on Crater Lake high
way. Mrs. Orr is attending
Southern Oregon college in
Ashland this summer. '
The Eagle Point Commu
nity Bible church missionary
met at the home of Mrs. Carl
Esch on Dutton rd. Thursday.
Nancy Phipps, Corvallis,
spent a week with her aunt
and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Nagel, here recently.
Mrs. C. C. Hoover attended
the Roxy Garden .club at the
state Oregon Federation of
Garden club held at Eugene
last week.
Recent guests at- the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mar
tin were Mrs. Martin's brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. David H. Shearer, Hood
River. They recently returned
home from spending 18
months in Germany. Shearer
was stationed there with the
Army.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Ireland,
Crescent City, Calif., were
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. William Short last week
end, i
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Cly
mer and Wayne recently re
turned from a trip south visit
ing Mrs. Clymers' brother and
sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
James F. Lee, Menlo Park,
Calif., their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Woody
Wilson, Santa Barbara, Calif.,
and another sister, Mrs. Alice
Mikesell, Los Angeles.
While there, they also visit
ed Disneyland and Marine
land, and her father, S.. Par
ker Smith, San Fernando, and
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Wentzel Cowper,
Newhall.
missioner, Portland. Special
projects, exhibits and finance
are all being coordinated by
Commissioner Glenn Jack
son, Medford.
Special project eommittees
have been formed in the fields
of retail trade, tourist promo
tion and international trade.
Elect Chairman
Most of these committees
have elected a chairman, had
several meetings and are pro
ceeding with hundreds of spe
cial projects.
Special efforts to feature
prominently Oregon's great
outdoor and wildlife resources
in centennial planning and
specifically at the Centennial
exposition, are being coordin
ated by well known North
west outdoor expert and staff
member of the centennial Ma
jor H. C. Tobin, rtd.
D. Donald Lonie Jr., pub
licity director for the centen
nial, reports that already un
derway is the beginning of the
intensified tourist promotion
al push ever originated in the
Pacific Northwest.
Newspapers Releases
World-wide newspaper re
leases, including stories tran
slated into foreign languages,
will carry word on the centen
nial to every nation of the
world. Nation-wide publicity
in newspapers, on radio and
television is planned. Maga
zine articles, promotion tie
ins with airlines, buslines,
railroads, automobile associ
ations, and travel agencies, or
igination of several network
television shows from Oregon
next year, staging of special
stunts in major cities, and
hundreds of publicity projects
are already initiated. A special
television film will be pro
duced for nation-wide show
ing. Also planned, says Lonie,
are drop-ins for national ad
vertisers, bill stuffers for na
and family, Vancouver, Wash.,
spent a week visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Olsen,
here recently. Also visiting for
a few days were Mrs. Olsen's
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Walton,
Naches, Wash
Mrs. Elizabeth Ottosen Is
visiting at the home of her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr
and Mrs. Oscar Frei, and at
the home of her . son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold D. Ottosen. Mrs. Otto
sen was a former resident of
Eagle Point.
Mrs. A. R. Copley, surgery
patient at Rogue Valley hospi
tal for the past week, returned
to her home Tuesday.
Visiting at the Copley home
for a month ; are their sons,
Lion ana waiao. uon is a spe
cialist second class stationed
at Condon Air Force Base, re
cently returned to his base
after a 10-day leave.
Waldo is a specialist first
class in the department of fly
ing training of the Air Force
Academy, Colo. He spent a 30'
day leave here with his par
ents, returning to duty June
1. His wife, Vangie, and son,
Timmy, remained here to care
for Mrs. Copley.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hisey,
Redmond, were weekend
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jake D. Brown. Sunday
callers at the Brown's were
Mrs. Ray Huson and son,
Billy, and Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Bohl, Medford.
On Saturday Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Brown and Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Hisey spent Saturday at
the Lester McFall's to observe
Mrs. Brown's birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. David Kan
naford and family, Mrs. Mar
tin Ree, Mrs. Hulda Rebers
were afternoon callers at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Rolland
Jenks Tuesday.
ANTARCTIC OILS
Boston (UPI) Fifteen
unique Antarctic oil paints by
Boston-born artist Robert C.
Haun have been on exhibition
at Boston's Museum of Sci
ence. Haun spent six months
as staff artist for the Navy's
task force 43 on operation
Deepfreeze. He completed
more than 75 paintings and;
sketches in various media, re1
cording this historic operation
in, a little-known land.
Tin cans f or beer and soft
drinks produced in a. year
may require the use of about
700,000 tons of steel since the
"tin" cans are mostly steel.
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tional mailings by Oregon
firms, and a major paid adver.
tising campaign in national
media. Already tens of thous
ands of folders, tent cards
and pocket cards have been
distributed at national con
ventions through the help of
Oregon delegates to these
conventions.
State-wide Campaign
A state - wide campaign
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Always. Ash for "Jorgensen'n"
evision and outdoor boards is
underway to alert local citi
zens to ways they can pre
pare now for the "company"
which is coming.
Lastly, a special feature of
the centennial exposition will
be the international garden
of tomorrow, a 5V-acre land
scaped garden situated in the
heart of the exposition
grounds and consisting of
plant material and rare and
unusual plants, flowers and
shrubs from every nation ol
the world.
Liaison Commissioner Mor
rie Sharp reports that people
all over the world have shown
tremendous interest in this
centennial project. He pre
dicts that the attention Oregon
will receive from this project
alone will run into publicity
value in the millions of dollars.
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