12 MAN. TRIBUNf, Medford, Ort,0. Sunday, Auautt 24, 1951
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Editor' Note: Liring In
trailers has become Ameri
ca's newest "way of life."
Some people, however, still
think of them merely as a
convenience for travelers
rather than full-time hous
ing. . Zoning laws and regula
tions in many communities
reflect these attitudes. Med
ford is typical of such com
munities. In the interests of
increasing public and offi
cial awareness of the new
role of these "mobile
homes", the Mail Tribune
is assessing the situation in
this area. This is the first
in a series of articles on
mobile homes.
By ERIC WENTWORTH
?4ail Tribune Staff Writer
Cecil and Mae Watson ac
quired the Linden Trailer
park. 833 West Jackson st.,
in 1954 when he was 23 years
old. Mae's aunt and uncle
operated a trailer park in
California.
There are 27 trailer spaces
rpw, all filled. And all but
four, according to Cecil, have
been occupied by the same
people for at least a year.
What sort of people ate
they? One man grinds glass
Idnses, another prepares win
dow displays in a downtown
drugstore. A preacher has
lived there, and another man
wio reportedly made a thou
sand dollars a month. Nurses,
salesmen, construction engi
neers, mill workers, skilled
laborers all sorts.
Great Interest
The Watsons take a great
interest in the appearance of
their park. They continually
try to "brighten things up"
by flowers and fences. They
have painted the walls of the
laundry room red to make it
more cheerful in winter.
Some tenants do their own
gardening.
They would like to make
major improvements, such as
paving driveways, providing
patios and more trees and
flowers. But - money, when
you have two children, accu
mulates slowly. The monthly
rate at Linden park is 20 dol
lars and up.
Meanwhile. Cecil and Mae
Watson maintain their park
as best they can in a neat,
well-ordered manner.
'We're very strict," Mae
says. "We have to be. If we
aren't, we hear about it from
the people here." I
Sizes, Standards
The sizes and standards of
other trailer parks in and
around Medford vary greatly.
The Stokes trailer court at
611 South Riveside ave. is
living on borrowed time. It
was purchased by Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Medlin, who plan
to expand their Wheel Inn
motel when the present trail
MODERN DESIGN The Daltons, at the
Royal Oaks Mobile Home park on Highway
99. are improving their facilities with pa
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C. R. ADAMSON, Manager
ers have departed.
"We're in the motel busi
ness, not the trailer park
business," Mrs. Medlin says.
"If you could buy land way
out somewhere wliere it was
cheap, maybe you could start
a trailer park and make
money but not here.
"We paid $29,000 for the
property and that plus the
taxes makes it too expensive.
We clear about five dollars a
month per trailer. We make
more money from our three
apartments than from all the
trailers."
There are only six trailer
spaces at Miller's Trailer
park, 322 South Riverside
ave.
Out of Town
"If I were going to start a
trailer court," says Mrs. Roy
Miller, daughter-in-law of the
owner, "I would hav it out
a way from town. Each
trailer would have a lawn,
flowers and a storage space.
Most everyone likes to live in
a pretty place.
"But you can't make
money with a small court.
You have to have a big
court." The rate at Miller's
is S15 a month.
By contrast, an example of
a big court is the Royal Oaks,
run by Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Dalton on Highway 99 just
north of Phoenix. They hold
to the modern conception by
which trailers are known as
"mobile homes."
The Daltons, who have
been developing their prop
erty since last October, have
25 trailer spaces at the pres
ent time, but expect 125
spaces eventually. The spaces
are planned large enough to
accommodate the big trailers
which have become more
popular.
Cement Patio
Ten spaces so far include a
cement patio and a car port.
Dalton says he plans to pave
and curb the driveways in the
park, and construct a recrea
tion hall and a swimming
pool in the shape of an oak
leaf. The monthly rate at
Royal Oaks is $22.50.
Asked how many of his
tenants are transient and how
many permanent, Dalton re
plies simply, "Nobody . ever
talks of leaving."
He is confident of his op
portunity: "There's a good
business for good mobile
home parks."
Large-Scale Plans
Harry Elmore is another
man who plans a large-scale,
modern "mobile home lodge."
He has bought a large tract
northeast of the Biddle rd.
Morrow rd. intersection and
expects to develop it as soon
as the Kenwood-Grandview
sewer line is installed.
Elmore has studied a wide
range of literature on the
standards and lay-out recom
mended for such an estab
lishment. "A mobile home lodge is in
many respects a self-contained
community," Elmore
said last week. He described
the strong sense of unity
which often develops, evi
denced by social clubs, toop-1
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tios, car ports and underground wiring.
They plan a swimming pool, recreation hall
and paved driveways.
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eration and a sense of group
identity.
He believes the proprietor
should encourage this com
munity spirit by various
means in order to give a resi
dential character to his es
tablishment. This is good for
business, naturally, and it
also fulfills the changin
needs of "mobile homeown
ers."
Two million Americans
were living in house trailers
in 1956, according to the
American Society of Plan
ning Officials. And the fig
ure is certainly considerably
greater today.
Changing Function
But even more significant
is the changing function of
the trailers. More and more,
they are becoming permanent
residences rather than vehic
les for vacations or extensive
travel. Trailer owners are
looking these days for attrac
tive areas with modern facili
ties where they can settle for
a period of months or years.
"You have to cater to the
semi-permanent and perma
nent classes," says Nick Gier,
who has a trailer park and
sales business at 2902 North
Pacific highway.
Hence the need arises for
more trailer parks which ful
fill these requirements. As
they are developed, the num
ber of trailer owners interest
ed in long stays will increase
further.
A major obstacle to the de
velopment of such parks ' is
what Cecil Watson calls "the
antique idea that people who
live in trailers are gypsies."
This prejudice appears both
in the general attitude of
house-dwellers and in the re
strictions which cities and
towns place on the location of
trailer parks.
Zoning Laws
Generally, if allowed at
all, they are required by zon
ing laws to be situated in in
dustrial or commercial areas.
Here they are faced more
often than not with high
property values and taxes,
and noisy and unattractive
surroundings.
"A trailer park should be
in the same class practically
as a residential area," Watson
maintains. He also believes in
standards high enough to
make a park deserve sucn
comparison. -
"I don't see any reason for
zoning trailer parks any dif
ferent than residential areas,"
says Arthur H. Webster, who
has operated a park at wi
East 12th st. for over 10
vears. Some of his tenants
have been in his park for
eight or nine years. "People
in trailers here," he adds,
"are residents of Medford
like anyone else."
JACKPOT
Naples, Fla. (UPD A radio
listener ended a "mystery
sound" contest on a local ra
dio station when he named
the sound as the whirring of
a slot machine. The winner
the Rev. James Bishop, pas
tor of Grace Lutheran Church.
He insisted he won "by luck."
Hearing Secret
Jackson - Phone SP 2-5904
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YOUNG PROPRIETORS Cecil and Mae
Watson took over the Linden Park Trailer
court in 1954 when he was 23 years old.
Assistant Named
To Jackson County
Library System
Miss Joyce Frances Marlin,
of Gary, Ind., has been ap
pointed to the staff of the
Jackson County library as as
sistant librarian in charge of
adult services to readers.
Her duties will' include
reference, research, and bibli
ography services not only to
patrons of the Medford Pub
lic library headquarters but
service by mail and telephone
to patrons of all Jackson
County library agencies. She
will also serve as readers'
advisor, assisting library pa
trons in the selection of read
ing materials.
Miss Marlin was selected
for the position because of
unusual qualifications in both
reference and advisory work.
She is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Illinois library
school and of the University
of Indiana.
Other Courses
She also has taken courses
at the University of Wiscon
sin, Roosevelt university, and
the American Conservatory
of Music. Chicago. Her ex
perience includes branch
work in the Kansas City, Mo.;
public library, and in the ref
erence and popular library
departments of the Gary, Ind.,
public library.
Because of library closure
for repairs during the first
part of September, the newly
appointed reference librarian
will not report for duty until
Oct. 1, when an expanded
reference and advisory serv
ice wil be instituted in the
library.
i Patrons of the Medford
Public library headquarters
are reminded they may bor
row an additional number of
books prior to Sept. 1 for use
while the library is closed,
according to Miss Helen E.
Webster, librarian. ,
trailers find it
a profit. If they
their facilities,
they tend to.
and a greater
They have "brightened it up" with fences
and paint and set high standards of neat
ness. They have many long-term tenants.
LASHING at President Ei
senhower, Governor Orval E.
Faubus, Ark., says Supreme
Court decision ordering
school integration is not
constitutional.
Salmon Fishermen
Vole End of Strike
Bellingham, Wash. !UPD
Four -day strike by salmon
fishermen ended Friday night
when they voted to accept an
offer from fishing vessel own
ers on the price per pound
for sockeye.
The sockeye price was set
at 28 cents per pound, three
cents above the earlier figure.
Acceptance meant the fisher
men pould share in what ap
peared to be the best runs of
sockeye in northern Pudget
Sound and adjacent waters
since 1954.
Non - striking American
fishermen netted 400,000 sal
mon, worth S650,000, Friday
otf the west coast of Vancouv
er Island and in the Strait of
Juan de Fuca. v
The vote by members of
Local 3 of the Fishermen and
Allied Workers union was
taken here and at Anacortes.
It was 86 per cent in favor, of
accepting the employer offer
althought the fishermen had
asked for 31 cents per pound.
attract less-modern trailers
proportion of transients.
Two Champs Set
In 4-H Cooking
Two champions were
named in the 4-H outdoor
cooking contest at the 4-H
and FFA county fair, accord
ing to Marilou Garner, coun
ty 4-H home economics agent.
Champion in outdoor cook
ing division, class 5, is Penny
Sampert, Oak Grove, who
prepared a menu for a meal
cooked out of doors. Her ex
hibit and that of . Susan
Wright, blue ribbon winner,
both go to the state fair.
Craig Wright, Oak Grove,
is champion in the outdoor
cooking division, class 4,
with his pan of cornbread.
His exhibit and those of Bet
ty Kerr and Jim Waddell, Sis
Q club, all go to the state
fair.
Class 5
White ribbon award Mer
alyn Brewold, Oak Grove.
Award of merit Barbara
Read, Medford.
Class 4
Red ribbon award Linda
Smith, Medford; Steve Stew
art, Sis-Q; Lynn Merriman,
Sis-Q; Nancy Johnston, Sis-Q;
Ann Haviland, Medford, and
Sharon Terry, Meadows.
White ribbon award Har
ry Toney, Sis-Q, and Denny
Retter, Sis-Q.
Award of merit Ken
Stewart, Sis-Q, and Duane
Nelson, Sis-Q.
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Senior Champions
Named in Judging
Home Economics
Four senior champions were
named in the home economics
judging results, at the 4-H and
FFA county fair, according to
Marilou Garner, county 4-H
home economics agent.
Joan Dobort, Central Point,
was named senior champion in
the home living division; Pat
sy Charley, Central Point, se
nior champion in the knitting
division; Ann Darland, Med
ford, senior champion in the
foods division; Susie Palm,
Eagle Point, senior champion
in the clothing division; and
Mary Savage, Central Point,
senior champion in the food
preservation division.
State fair team in the home
living division is Joan Do
bort, Central Point; Glenna
Mae Brown, Central Point and
Carol Myers, also of Central
Point. Alternates are Julie
Ashton, and Laine Donker,
both of Central Point.
State fair team in the foods
division is Ann Darland, Med
ford; Alice Woolfolk, Eagle
Point and Linda Cornutt,
Gold Hill. Alternates are
Nedra Harris, Medford and
Charlotte Bush, Eagle Point.
State fair team in the cloth
ing division is Susie Palm, Ea
gle Point; Mavis Strom, south
west Medford club and Ro
melle Fossen, Jacksonville.
Alternates are Ginger Martin,
Phoenix and Ursula Bates,
Medford.
Top club team in the cloth
ing division is the Southwest
Medford club consisting of
Mavis Strom, Ursula Bates
and Jeanette Nouguier.
State fair team in the food
preservation division is Mary
Savage, Central Point; Carol
von der Hellen, Central Point
and Colleen Franek, Central
Point. Alternates are Sharon
Coffman, Central Point and
Linda Cornutt, Gold Hill.
Top club team in the food
preservation division is An
telope consisting of Alice
Woolfolk, Eagle Point;, Char
lotte Bush, Eagle Point and
Paulette Anderson, Eagle
Point.
Governor Requests.
A 'Liffle Summit'
Vancouver, B.C. (UPD A
"little summit conference" of
chief executives of British
Columbia, Oregon and Wash
ington to discuss mutual
problems was proposed Fri
day by Washington Gov. Al
bert L. Rossellini.
He urged talks on utiliza
tion of water resources and
storage problems of the Co
lumbia river system for de
velopment of hydro-electric
power and flood control.
Areas of cooperation also
would include tourist promo
tion, fisheries, highways and
agriculture.
Rosellini addressed a lunch
eon meeting during observ
ance of Washington State day
at the Pacific National expo
sition. Rosellini disclosed that Ore
gon Gov. Robert D. Holmes
has pledged support of the
"little summit" proposal and
was ready to meet him at any
time.
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TALKING IT OVER Sissel Frogner, of Skien, Norway,
and Antonio (Tom) Alberto Valentim Tittle, of Portugal,
talk over their experiences as foreign exchange students so
far. Both young people are scheduled to take senior years
studies in the Medford high school this fall. They are visiting
this area under the American Field Service program. The
Crater Lions club is sponsoring Sissel and the Medford
Rotary club is sponsoring Antonio.
Two AFS Students
To Study in Medford
Sissel Frogner of Skien,
Norway, arrived in Medford
recently to attend Medford
High school as a senior. She
is an exchange student under
the American Field Service.
While here she will be liv
ing at the home of W. J.
Williams, who also has a
daughter, Marcia, in her jun
ior year.
Dr. Frank Wilson, presi
dent of the Crater Lions club,
and David Irving, past presi
dent, under whose administra
tion arrangements were begun
for, bring Sissel here, are en
thusiastic participants in this
project.
Sissel plans to be a teacher
when she finishes tier school
work. As a language major
she speaks German, French,
English and Norwegian. The
exchange student can also
sing and play the violin.
Airsickness delayed Sissel
in New York for a few days
following her plane trip to
the United States from Nor
way. Among her first impressions
of this country are the homes
which look quite flat to her
and luxurious and the large
number of cars. Many of our
fruits and vegetables are new
to her, and hamburgers sooxi
became her favorite food.
Skien is about 120 miles
south of Oslo. Sissel's father
is a police officer there.
A Portuguese student, An
tonio Alberato Valentim Tit
tel, is also a visitor here un
der the exchange student pro
gram. He will be a senior in
the Medford High school
this year. Antonio plans to be
a doctor.
The young Portuguese stud
ent arrived in Medford rec
ently after three weeks travel
EGG CRACKING PRO
Landrum, S.C. (UPD It was
no new experience . when
truck driver John B. Hicks of
Highland, Mich., ran off the
road Friday with a load of
30,000 eggs. Hicks told am
bulance attendants who were
taking him to a hospital that
he had cracked up cargoes of
eggs in accidents this month
in Canada and Ohio. .
from his home in Sintra, Por
tugal. Sintra is a suburb of
Lisbon. Antonio or Tom, as
he. likes to be called here, has
a mother who is a pharmacist
and a father who is, an admin--istratOB
in the Public Health
Service in Portugal.
He is being sponsored "by
the Rotary club and will
spend the year in Medford
with Dr. and Mrs. Brandt
Bartels. He sailed with 800
other American Field Service
students from Rotterdam and
flew from New York with
AFS students to Portland.
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