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Whopping Predictions Made for 1959; Building Expansion Seen By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York -4JPD- Predictions re piling up for 1959 and they are glow 1 ing ones, v) '35 I Architectur I al Forum has W-C' jtt just added :k construction ';' to the list. Its estimate made by Miles L. W w I Colean, noted cons truction Elmer Walxar economist :ajls for the first $60 billion ouilding year in history for 1959. Colean puts the total at (51.6 billion, a 5 per cent rise Dver 1957 which the forum calls a "whopping expansion in an industry that accounts for more than 10 per cent of total United States produc tion." Tom " Campbell, editor-in-chief of Iron Age, has pre dicted steel production in 1959 will reach 110,000,000 net tons, against around 85 mil lion for 1958. This total of 110 million tons has been ex ceeded by the steel industry only in 1957, 1956, 1955, and 1953. The automobile industry has set a goal of 5,500,000 autos in 1959 against around 4,400,000 for 1958, and Fred erick G. Donner, new chair man of General Motors Corp. believes that "is a good figure as the economy is now run ning." Four Leader Up Standard & Poor's notes that trade sources estimate petroleum demand in 1959 will be up about four per cent from the retarded 1958 rate. The increase for the cur rent year is placed at 2.3 per cent, somewhat below the average of recent years. There you have the four leaders-building, steel, auto, and soil. All of them set a fast pace. The fact that the experts are so willing to make early predictions at a time when there is no pressure to do so such as there is in a period of recession indicates a record year ahead. The talk today isn't the forced kind that tries to oil up a waning industry. This is seen as the boom kind, pos sibly erring on the conserva tive side. Much importance is at tached to the Architectural Forum's prediction since building is regarded as one of the most important indica tors of the nation's prosper ity and prediction of a rise at this time - when there is talk of a slowing in some sec tions by tight money is seen as highly significant. Mora Horn Building Even allowing for prlee rises, physical volume of building will rise by about three per cent overall with public construction giving the biggest boost - up 8.7 per cent to $16.8 billion. The forum estimates that outlays for new single-family homes in 1959 will total $13.7 billion with non-farm housing starts reaching 1,155,000 com pared with 1,060,000 this year. Private educational build ing is expected to rise by nine per cent and public by 3.4 per cent.' No change is seen in church building. Highway construction is seen as rising 13.8 per cent to $6.6 billion "and for at least PROSPECT Family Visits in Area GLADYS GOVENOR Prospect Mr. and Mrs, Vaughn Williams and son, Jan, spent Thursday afternoon visiting Williams' parents and his sisters and brother near Prospect. They spent the eve ning visiting at the Ethon Robinson home. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bayliss and family, of Medford, spent the week end visiting at the Bud Foster home and fishing at Diamond lake. Mrs. Marian Bosler, visited her sister, Mrs. Dee Hedge path recently. Alice Johnson visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Caricco, Thursday. The Prospect Home Exten sion unit met at the Helen Hoffamn home October 8. They studied tin can craft, making toys for children. Mrs. Larson took six children to her place to care for them. Next Friday, October 17,1 the home extension club will meet at the home of Mrs. Jack Rinks, Ross Mill. It will be a work shop day to learn shirt making. Miss Wilda Winningham, of Prospect and Norman Al dredge, were married in Med ford Monday. Wilda is the daughter of Gene Winning ham of Prospect. Mary Sue Bastiano of Copco celebrated her eighth birthday with a party. All of the third grade students were present. Kenny,' Cindy and Sylvia Grange News Central Point Grange Ray Schumacher, county as sessor, has been invited by the lecturer, Mrs. Gaston Fleux, to speak on taxes at the Grange meeting Friday night. Musical numbers will be by Mrs. Effie KurtZ' with Halloween entertainment fol lowing. The chaplain, Mrs. Chet Wendt, is returning home soon from San Francisco where she recently underwent surgery. Other members re covering from illnesses are Jim Frink and Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Smith. Juvenile Matron Mrs. Mor ris Frink was presented the merit certificate from the State Grange Juvenile matron, Mrs. Minnie Andrieu, at the last meeting for being prompt and on time with her Grange reports. Stevenson Predicts California Demo Win New York TOPD Adlai E. Stevenson told New York Democrats Tuesday night that the Democratic tide is . so strong in California he ex pects the party will win con trol of "both houses of the Legislature for the first time since California became a state." "The sun has crossed the Rocky Mountains," the for mer presidential candidate quipped at a press conference with Democratic leaders. Walker and their mother of Talent, visited at the Floyd Moore home at Ross mill re cently. - Bob Ells came back to work at the Red Blanket mill. Mrs. Ells, will remain in Washing ton, where they have been living for the past year. Mrs. Pres Wilson's mother, Mrs. Allie Birchfield,.of Riv- erbank, Calif, will return to her home Friday after visiting an picking cones her the past month. Louis Stevenson and Alvin spent the week end at his par ents' home in Bend. Warren Govenor, and La- donna Guild spent the week end visiting Miss Guild's par ents at Woodland, Calif. Jim Slacks visited at the Sam Beck home recently. Mrs. Francis Ring has been taking the census in this area recently. Mr. and Mrs. BillGovenor of Coos Bay, visited at the George Govenor home Mon day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Coley, of Medford, spent Saturday fix ing up their place at Prospect, Mrs. Lyle Pope, and Lisa, visited with Mrs. Don Andie- son Friday. Mrs. Bonnie Peters and children from -Missoula, Mon tana, has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Earl Bliss and family of Prospect for a week. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jones and son, Joe, visited over the week end in California. The Prospect High . school freshman class is sponsoring a hay ride party for students of the high school at Union Creek Thursday evening, a marshmallow and wiener roast is planned. Mr. and Mrs. Nashed and Mr. and Mrs. Gardener will be chaperons. Mr. and Mrs. James Rob erts, from Irriagon, Idaho, are visiting at the Wendall Dou ning home. Mrs. Douning is their daughter. Mrs. Robert Krell has been on the sick list lately. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mather and Sharren and Charlotte, went to Canyonville Sunday to see Mr. Mathers uncle in th hnsnital there. Thev also visited Clayton's mother at Milo. ' v Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Chan dler, from Medford, visited at the Dick Larson home Mon day and Tuesday. FURS'- Repairing and Refining Cleaning and Glazing Restyling v Frances9 Furs 610 Valley View SAME PHONE SP 2-6524 a decade mere snouia oe a mounting level of highway ex penditure." Declines are expected in such categories as industrial and commercial non-residential private construction. "Next year with the econ omy as a whole resuming its forward movement, it is safe to predict the brightest year ever for architects, builders, contractors, building materials suppliers, and mortgage bank ers," says the forum. A push such as envisioned by the prognosticators will easily lift the gross national product to a record high in 1959. For all of 1958, Stand ard & Peer's estimates this measure of activity at $436.6 billion, off only 8-tenths of one per cent. . Candidates to Be At Roundtable The six local candidates for the state legislature are sched uled to answer prepared ques tions before, the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce Monday roundtable in coming weeks. Don McNeil, chamber man ager, announced the program at Monday's roundtable lunch eon in the Jackson hotel. The three Democratic can didates, Gordon Hudson and Robert and Marijane Duncan, are to appear next Monday, Oct. 20. The Republican as pirants, Dr. Edwin R. Durno, Melvin J. Lattie and Mrs. Ev elyn Nye, are scheduled for the following week. Hudson and Dr. Durno seek the Firth District seat in the Senate. The others are con tending for two seats as repre sentatives for the 19th Dis trict. A drawing Monday deter mined the order of appear ance. Wayne Struble, Med ford architect and roundtable regular, drew the "Democrat" slip from a bread basket. McNeil said the questions would be presented to the can didates in writing today. He stressed the fact that they would not be specific, and that answers are to be the can didates' own ideas, not criti cisms of what their opponents think. TAXING RIDE Stamford, Conn. -(DPD- A passenger on a train from Boston to New York, is charged a five per cent nieal tax if he pays his dining car bill in Massachusetts, a three per cent sales tax if he's in Rhode Island or Connecticut, nothing at all in Westchester County, N.Y., and three per cent in New York City. Most Prosperous Times Predicted Palm Springs'- (UPD-Howard Pyle, deputy assistant to President Eisenhower and for mer governor of Arizona, pre dicts that the nation is "head ing for the most prosperous times we have ever known." At a press conference Tues day at the 21st annual conven tion of the American Associa tion of Advertising Agencies, Pyle said the only thing this country has to fear now is in flation. "Whether we have inflation or not," he added, "depends on what happens in the No vember elections." "If the spenders are elected to Congress, we are in for real trouble," he explained. Greenland is a major source of cryolite, a mineral used in the manufacture of aluminum. I ' .I i 1, .,.- MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ore., Wednesday, October If, 1951 ( Maritime Leaders Open ban a rancisco-flJPD-An esti mated 2,000 maritime leaders from all parts of the United States today opened the 32nd convention of the Propeller Club, dedicated to promote and support a "strong" American merchant marine. The three-day convention is being held in conjunction with the Merchant Marine SUCCEEDING Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, the Rt. Rev. A. C. Lichtenberger (above), Bishop of Missouri, is named Presiding Bishop of Protestant Episcopal Church at Miami Beach, Fla. OFFICE MACHINE REPAIRS Guaranteed Service en All Makes! Call Us Today VOIGHT'S Medford Office Equipment 41 So. Grape SP 2-41 0C Convention Conference, the first national maritime meeting held on the West Coast in a decade. Watch I for tha 'Jackie' Coming October I 17th I Tomorroiv , . all America sees the one that's truly new! Like all '59 Chevies, the Impala Sport Sedan has Safety Plate Glass all around. what America wants, America gets in a Chevy! It's shaped to the new American taste with a lean, clean silhouette, crisp new contours, beautifully restrained accents. It brings you more spaciousness and comfort with a neiv Body by Fisher, It has a bright new sheen-' a new kind of finish that keeps its luster without waxing for up to three years. New bigger brakes. Vast new areas of visibility. New Hi-Thrift 6. New handling ease and road steadiness. It's new right down to the tires. Never before has an automo bile manufacturer made such sweeping changes two years in a row. And never before has any car been new like this one. The 1959 Chevrolet is, more than a restyled car more, even, than a completely new car. It's your kind of car. Shaped to reward your new taste in style with a fresh Slimline design that brings en tirely new poise and propor tion to automobile styling. In side the new and roomier Body by Fisher you'll find truly tasteful elegance. And you'll have clear seeing from every .seat The new Vista-Panoramic windshield curves over-head-and there are new big ger windows, too. When you take the wheel, you find Chevy's newness goes down deep. A new steering ratio makes handling easier. New suspension engineering gives you a more stable ride. There's a sweet new edition of Turboglide. A new Hi-Thrift 6 that goes and goes on a gallon. Vim-packed V8's.. New and bigger brakes. Even tougher, safer Tyrex cord tires. There's still more! A new fin ish that keeps its shine with out waxing or polishing for up to three years. New Impala models. New wagons includ ing one with a rear-facing rear seat. And, with all that's new, you'll find those fine Chevrolet virtues of economy and practicality. Stop in now and see the '59 Chevrolet. 'Extra-cost' option The Bel Air i-Door Sedan shows Chevy's new Slimline design." 1 fl N i mm n n Wo see your local-authorized Chevrolet dealer COURTESY CHEVROLET MEDFORD SP 2-6115 Use Tribune Want Ads 9th at BARTLETT
