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ntt n,,.., n.ui,:MA I Plans Taking Shape Plans for development of private off-street parking fa cilities in downtown Medford received a boost last week as 27 retail merchants expressed interest in a proposed park-and-shop program. ' SODAICO, a local invest ment club, has secured options on three lots and plans to go into the parking business - if ' response to the park-and-shop idea is sufficient. Participa tion by 30 merchants is consid ered a minimum, but sources involved in present planning express hope that many more will be attracted- The , lots under considera tion are situated on North Central ave., south of the Yel low Cab company at Fifth St.; on the the north side of rrai ana tsaruett st., ana on : South Front st. behind Robin- . 11 tAt-J . -L son cros. cunning siure. Like to Participate A total of 25 merchants said they would like to participate in the park-and-shop program last Wednesday at a meeting of the retail merchants com mittee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Two others, according to Chamber Manager Don McNeil, have Officers Nominated For District Posts ' . New officers for the south west Oregon chapter of the Oregon State Employees as sociation were nominated at a meeting of the chapter at the forestry department head quarters on Table Rock rd. re Cole Rivers, game commis sion. Grants Pass, and Vic tor Van Hoy, forestry depart ment, Central Point, were nominated for president. Oth er nominations include Earl Moe and William Moore, Grants Pass, and Walter Mar an, Medford, all of the forestry department, for vice - presi ddent Secretary nominations were Dana Gerhardt, Applegate, and Jim Fisher, Medford, both of the forestry department; treasurer, Al Curnow, Grants Pass; Frank Helm, Central Point, and William Totten, Medford, all of the forestry department, and Ken Boebel, Central Point, game commis sion. Elections will be held April 22 at the Grants Pass forestry department headquarters. tossed their hats in the ring as well. SODAICO itself, McNeil ex plained, would be concerned only with the lots themselves. It would be up to the mer chants to establish a board of control for the park-and-shop program and tend to its ad ministration. McNeil said ef forts wouia be made to in clude other parking lots in the program later- SODAICO, which stands for Southern Oregon Develop ment and Investment compa ny,, would sign up a profes sional manager for the lots, it is understood. Buy Stamps Under this program, mer chants would buy free-parking stamps in blocks of 100. These stamps, each worth an hour's parking, would be given to shoppers with tickets from one of the park-and-shop lots. The tickets with stamps af fixed, turned in to the lot op erator as the shopper picks up his car, could then be redeem ed by the operator from the fund sustained by merchant's stamp purchases. The merchant, according to tentative cost figures, would pay 20 cents per stamp plus an additional penny for ad ministrative costs. Merchants would also contribute to a separate fund for promotional needs. Hay Been Established McNeil, noting that park-and-shop plans have been established in more than 120 other communities across the country, stated that normally only about 10 per cent of a merchant's customers ask for the free-parking stamps. He stated that so long as the merchant requires a mini mum purchase before issuing a free-parking stamp the cost to him, according to experi ence elsewhere, never ex ceeds one-tenth of one per cent of his gross sales. McNeill said that if all goes well the merchants hope to have the program in effect here by early summer. J " -? ...... L Shait Cert . I V,,'t" Butte Fails I . . tint s . 6J I v I - f ' V CtxriuL Poikt ( Jr Reavt fmj CL, Eire. 1 S Zaclk Feint "? ?H A T-r- -' " . pHOEJtlX APPLEOATt ' mrnf . ' V- mJ Talent W IS : ............. i . : , - ?, i ASMJND I: : PnrtHVRST 0 NEW DISTRICT - Shown above in the left hand lower corner is the new school district formed by consolidation of Medford, Lone Pine, Howard, Griffin Creek, Jacksonville and Ruch districts. The consolidation, which was approved by voters in all districts last Monday, will become effective April 16. A number for the district is not yet assigned, . but administration of the district will be by administrators of the old Medford dis trict. Hearings have been scheduled by the Jackson County Reorganization committee to consider combining districts outlined by dotted lines into the districts to which arrows point. New Military Code On Monday Agenda aaiem - wru senate am 314, providing for a new mili tary code for the state of Oregon, was made a special order of business for Monday at 10:30 a.m. in the Senate. Sen. William Grenfell Jr. (D-Portland) said a number of senators interested in the bill were absent on official duties so the bill was removed from Friday's calendar. St. Helens Man Takes Job Here A new employee at Conger Morris, funeral directors, is Sanford W. (Sandy) Bishop, who started April 1,- coming to Medford from St- Helens. Bishop was originally from Lewistori, Ida., and served his apprenticeship as funeral di rector and embalmer with the V. T. Golden mortuary in Sal em, attending the San Fran cisco college of Mortuary Sci ence. He served in the Navy during the Korean conflict, on the A. G. Anderson attack transport. , He is a member of Maritime Lodge No. 193, AF&AM, in Portland,, of the Methodist church, of the St. Helens Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, and and is on the Board of Advisors of the Order of De- Molay. The Ninth KHED Winner Death Rate in Cities Declines Oregon cities were able to record a 28 per cent decrease in traffic deaths last year even though more than 41,000 acci dents occurred ' within incor porated areas of the state, according ' to Medford Chief of Police Charles P. Champlin. Seventy-three people were killed in traffic in all Oregon cities, with 43 of those deaths taking place in Portland, he reported. Deaths outside cities totalled 374. Seven Oregon cities with populations of 10,000 or more were able to go death-free for the year. Death-free cities. Champlin said, were Bend. Klamath Falls, Pendleton, Roseburg, Salem, Springfield and The Dalles. - Chief Champlin said he hoped cities in the state could record as good a record this year as last year in death reduction, but reminded resi dents that it would only be possible if every driver and pedestrian cooperates by being careful and courteous. . Courtesy, he said, will be especially important this sum mer when thousands of out-of- state drivers will pass through Medford. "Since many of these drivers will be unfamiliar with state traffic laws," Chief Champlin concluded, "it will be up to our drivers to be alert for them "and to treat them as courteously in traffic as in our businesses. REP DIDN'T COUNT Brunswick, Ga. (UPD Fed eral Judge Frank Scarlett said Friday, "No man has a higher reputation in this com munity than the defendant." Then he fined defendant Har old J. Friedman $2,500 for federal income tax evasion. OLDEST MINISTER Sag Harbor, N. Y. (DPD Funeral services were to be held yesterday for the Rev, William F. Rohm, 97, believed to have been the oldest Bap tist minister in New York State. He died Wednesday at his home. Robbie Robbins, KMED Personality, presents Mr. Larry Homer, 847 West 2nd, with a cheek for $100. Mr. Homer won the KMED "Better Music" contest by Identifying KMED's Memory Mystery Tunes. 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(Tenny) Moore, staff member of the Rogue River National forest, spoke in Coos Bay recently on "Aerial Fire Attack and Chemical Fire Re tarents." The talk was given to the Coos Bay chapter of the So ciety of American Foresters. Speaking on a related subject was Lon Parsons, of Parson's Air Park, Carpenteria, Calif. The chemical fire retardent sodium calcium borate, applies as a slurry by aerial tanker was first used in the Rogue; River National forest last sum mer, Moore noted. In southern California it is now the ac cepted method of initial at tack on brush, grass and forest fires. About one-half of all males in Burma are illiterate. Revenue Bond Bill For Port Approved Salem-(UPD-The Senate pas sed a bill Friday which would give the Port of Portland the right to issue revenue bonds, a power now enjoyed by all other port districts in the state. However, such bonds could not exceed 60 per cent of the reasonable value of all facili ties controlled by the port. Retired U.S. Judge Died During Vacation Portland-flJPD-Retired Fed eral Judge JoseDh W. Kehnp former U. S. Secretary for AiasKa, aied Thursday at Nes kowin of a heart attack while vacationing with his wife. He was 68. f A native of Portland, Kehoe resigned as Alaska secretary in 1954 and moved here. Sur vivors include the widow, Katherine. . MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Sunday, April 12, 1959 I Traffic Convictions Reach All-Time High Salem-fllPD-Oregon had an was due to better reporting au-iime nign total of traffic by the courts. uuiintuuus in xuarcn, accord ing to reports to the depart ment of motor vehicles. The March total was 16,530. The previous high for any month was in October of last year when 14,986 convictions were reported. The depart ment said much of the increase UNLIKELY NAME Montgomery, Ala. -UPD-The Absolute Security Life Insur ance Co. was placed in re ceivership in Federal Court Friday. Garden Sawdust LMcGinty Fuel Go. 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