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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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