MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Sunday, Aug. 23, 19S9
Local Opiometrisls
Attend Seminar
Dr. A. W. dutch, Dr. Frank
Freeburger, Dr. Robert Har
land, Dr. George Jennings,
Dr. Richard Nelson, Dr. Wil
liam Thompson, all of Med
ford, attended a postgraduate
seminar last week at the
Rogue Valley Country club
for optometrists of the south
ern Oregon area.
Presiding at the conference
was Dr. A. M. Skeffington of
St. Louis, Mo., author, lec
turer, teacher and research
authority "in the vision care
field.
"Urban living and over
protection of our children are
resulting in a generation of
poor readers," stated Dr.
Skeffington. "Educators , are
being blamed unjustly for
faulty methods of teaching
when, all too often, the real
core of the trouble in the
child's inability to read is an
existing visual problem.
"Such a problem may eas
ily stem from the fact that
during the early development
years, the child was never
given the chance to run and
leap and climb or to do those
things for himself that are
such a necessary part of the
development of those visual
skills required for learning to
read," he said.
Cars Collide on
Siskiyous Thursday
Cars driven by Myrtle
Alice Herrick, 39, of Encini-
tas, Calif., and Jack Lester
Downey, 58, of Talent, collid
ed head-on on Highway 99
near the Oregon California
state line Thursday night,
state police said.
No injuries were reported
but heavy damage resulted to
both cars, officers said: The
car driven by Myrtle Herrick
was southbound and passing
another car on a blind curve
when her car collided with
that driven by Downey, state
police said..
The investigating officer
told the California woman
that a complaint charging her
with passing with insufficient
clearance would be filed
In district court.
ILLINOIS VALLEY
Boys Ride to Caves
By MARGARET M. CROWL
Cave Junction - Stopping
in Cave Junction Wednesday
for lunch were eight boys and
two leaders from the Medford
YMCA on the way to visit the
Oregon Caves via bicycles. It
was the second day on tne
road and Grayback Recrea
tion Camp was their destina
tion that night. Grayback
camp is 12 miles- from Cave
Junction and eight miles from
the Oregon Caves.
Those making this trip were
Darryl Stockton, Jim Dunn
ington, Jim Lonzway, John
Foster, David Jones, Mike
Gilhoosen, Paul Jenny, Ken
Rodgers and the two leaders,
Jerry Smith and Curt Salt-marsh.
Melvhi I. Gray, parade
chairman for the Illinois Val
ley Jubilee Labor Day Parade
has announced there will be
awards for 15 classes.
Three awards will be given
for each class. Classes for the
parade are commercial, in
dustrial, non-profit organiza
tion, mounted unit, marching
unit, cowboy, cowgirl, novelty,
unusual, humorous, childrens,
pioneer, musical unit, live
stock, and best out-of-the-val-ley
unit.
The parade will march
down Redwood ave. to Caves
highway and then to the VFW
grounds.
Entries are requested to reg
ister with parade chairman,
M. L. Gray prior to 8 p.m.,
Sept. 6.
Mrs. Paul Glines, Ocean
Lake, visited Mr. and Mrs,
Harry Hartwell and her
daughter, Mrs. Rolland Holm
last week.
Dinner guest at the Robert
Bottel home in O'Brien re
cently was Lloyd Cranford,
supervisor of plant quaran
tine, Sacramento, Calif. He
was' in the Illinois valley to
conduct a training meeting at
the state line inspection station.
Jo Bush of San- Rafael,
Calif., a cousin of Robert
Bottel, was visiting in the val
ley uesday and Wednesday.
Emerson Smith and daugh
ter, Zada, were dinner guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Crowl Monday. Others
present were Bonnie Cavyell,
Kay and Carl Warner.
Jim Champion, Crescent
City, Calif., attended to busi
ness and visited friends in the
Illinois valley Tuesday.
Mrs. A. E. Bottel of River
side, Calif., mother of Robert
Bottel, O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs.
William Bottel and daughter,
Lynn, of Fresno, Calif., Mr.
and Mrs. Don Reed and son,
Del, of San Fernando, Calif.,
cousins of the Robert Bottels
and two teenage friends, spent
Thursday and Friday visiting
at the Bottel home.
William C. Friend, com
mander district 13, American
Legion, Grants Pass, has been
appointed department com
missioner, area 3, to the ora
torical commission by the
state department Commander
Fred E. Bennett for the year
1959-60. The state champion
ship in the oratorical contest
last year was . won by Steve
Hansen, Grants Pass.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Causey
and the Rev. and Mrs. Georee
Gray went on a picnic at Gas-
quet last Sunday.
Arriving in Cave Junction
Tuesday evening to spend sev
eral days visiting were Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Davis of
Burbank, Calif. Mr. and Mrs
Davis are former owners of
the Central Cafe and lived in
the Illinois valley for many
years.
Drive Against Mail
Soliciting Gains
The Medford post office
has reported that the post
office department's drive to
stamp out the activities of
"merchants in filth" who so
licit minor children for the
mail-order sale of obscene ma
terials is making "substantial
headway."
U. S. Postmaster General
Arthur E. Summerfield has
notified the local postmaster
that during the fiscal year
which ended June 30 the de
partment conducted more
than 14,000 separate investi
gations of traffic in mail
order obscenity, of which
about 10,000 were based on
complaints from parents.
Actual arrests during the
year totaled 315, an increase
over' the previous year and al
most double the number of
arrests during 1957.
Phoenix Girl Hurt
In Vehicle Mishap
Gwendolyn D. Feris, 16, of
401 Fourth st., Phoenix, was
reported in "satisfactory"
condition at Sacred Heart
hospital Saturday following a
traffic accident at 8:15 p.m.
Friday on Colver rd. about a
mile south of Phoenix.
State police said she suf
fered a deep laceration on
the right side of her head and
possible back and other in
juries. Police said she had been
driving a pickup truck, ap
parently southbound on Col
ver rd., when she ran into
loose gravel and lost control
of the vehicle.
The pickup rolled over one
and a half times, police said,
and they were told that her
arm was pinned under it for
awhile.
She was taken to Sacred
Heart by Medford Ambulance
service.
Police said she was cited
for having no operator's license.
Tetreault Wins
Contest Trophy
Rudy Tetreault, district
manager of the Oregon State
Motor association (AAA) for
Jackson and Josephine coun
ties, last month won his sec
ond contest trophy for indi
vidual sales performance.
He won a similar trophy in
December of last year.
Tetreault and his staff, Mrs.
Helen Stevens, Miss Nancy
Becken, and Wilbur Arnold,
were the association's dinner
guests at Mon Desir Wednes
day night.
A district trophy was also
won by the Medford office,
1133 South Riverside ave.
Other districts competing in
the' contest were Astoria,
Bend, Coos Bay, Klamath
Falls and Pendleton.
HUNGRY
Burlington, Vt. - (DPD - Ken
neth Simonds received a sus
pended 90 day jail sentence
for stealing 12 dozen dough-
Huts, five cans of orange
juice, 10 packages oi cooKies,
10 loaves of bread, 10 pack
ages of buns and two quarts
of milk.
Sacramento Area Group
Numbers 88 at Festival
CAH VJE AFFORD TO SLOW DOWN
THE GREATEST CONSTRUCTION JOB If HISTORY?
Thirty-seven months ago this na
tion began to construct the greatest
highway system in the world a
project that will affect directly the
lives of more Americans than any
thing our nation has built.
It is the nation's first long-ranged
planned highway program sched
uled for completion in 1972.
Now this bold, imaginative pro
gram is in jeopardy of a costly slow
down. For a nation with over 68
million motor vehicles, such a dis
ruption wiU cost far more than
keeping it on schedule.
What are we building?
We are building hundreds of thous
ands of miles of modern highways.
The most dramatic part of the pro
gram is a massive 41,000-mile sys
tem of Freeways a network of
super-highways connetting every
state, practically every city of 50,
000 or more. This is the National
System of Interstate and Defense
Highways.
Are we on schedule?
Yes, at the end of three years we
are right on schedule. Interstate
System construction is 107 per cent
of its scheduled rate. Contracts
have been completed on 4,050 miles
and are underway on 5,229 miles.
Contracts on- primary, secondary,
and urban roads have been com
pleted on 73,709 miles and are un
der way on 30,249 miles. All this
has been done in three years.
Why the slowdown?
Lack of Federal funds. For Inter
state System construction the Fed
eral Government is putting up 90
per cent of the costs, the states 10
per cent. Other highways in the
program are being built on a 50-50
basis.
Federal money comes from a
highway trust fund, maintained by
Federal highway user taxes. The
highways are being built on a pay-as-you-build
basis.
But the fund because of last
year's increased program and other
, factors, is depleted. Money for fur
ther construction should have been
apportioned to the stajtes by July 1.
It has not.
Because of the financial problem,
25 states have been forced to stop
awarding new contracts for Inter
state construction and 16 soon will
follow. The program is grinding to
a halt just as it swung into high
gear.
How much is it costing you?
Talking in terms of "billions of
dollars" can be misleading. You
have been getting all this new con
struction plus maintenance of all
our 3,300,000 existing miles of
roads and streets for just one pen
ny for each mile you drive your
car. It's the smallest cost of operat
ing an automobile. -
Today the average cost of own
ing and operating a car is 9Vz cents
a mile. Seven cents pays for the
depreciation and upkeep of the car.
One and a half cents pays for your
fuel costs, not including taxes. And
only the remaining penny goes to
building and maintaining highways.
And modern highways pay you
that penny back immediately. For
it has been found that driving on
Freeways designed like those of the
Interstate System lowers your oper
ating costs to 8 J4 cents a mile a
saving of one cent, or more than
10 per cent.
Nation saves $2.1 billion
Altogether the Interstate System
will save the nation $2.1 billion
each year . . . $550 million in vehi
cle operating costs; $725 million in
accident costs; $825 million in time
savings for commercial vehicles.
But more than money is in
volved. Modern, limited access
highways reduce accidents by two
thirds. The completed Interstate
System will save 4,000 lives each
year and prevent one million
accidents. Delay of this program
for just one year will cost the na
tion 5,700 lives during the period
of 1960 to 1970, according to the
National Safety Council.
In good faith
In 1956 when the program started,
the act authorized a definite annual
Federal expenditure for 13 years to
see it through to completion. The
nation's roadbuilders geared up for
the tremendous job ahead. State
Highway Departments were en
larged, hired thousands of engi
neers and technical personnel. Con
tractors around the nation tooled
up purchased equipment. Industry
expanded its facilities to meet the
challenge. For the Interstate Sys
tem construction alone requires
each year 49 million tons of steel,
1.4 billion barrels of cement, 13 bil
lion gallons of peroleum products,
five million gallons of paints
The program was accepted in
good faith by those who had the
responsibility of seeing it through
to completion.
A slow down could hurt contrac
tors, work considerable hardship in
industry, reduce the highly techni
cal organizations developed by the
states, and throw hundreds of
thousands out of work. .
What is the solution?
None of this- need happen. There
are at least three ways to keep the
program on schedule borrowing
from general funds, bond financ
ing, and raising the Federal gaso
line taxes.
The soundest of these seems to
be the recommended increase in
gasoline taxes. It will meet the im
mediate fiscal need. It will keep
the program on a pay-as-you-build
basis. It will be non-inflationary.
And most important, it will cost
the average motorist less than one
mill for each mile he drives. Hav
ing the world's finest highway' sys
. tern at his disposal will remain the
smallest cost of operating a car.
There's, a lot at stake. Our eco
nomic growth. Your personal safe
ty and - your comfort. Even our
nation's defense.
Slowing down the greatest con
struction job in history will be
an expensive economy.
Ashland - Mr. and Mrs. I
Howard R. Hagge of Sacra
mento, Calif., first began at
tending performances at the
Oregon Shakespearean Festi
val in Ashland in 1956.
Each season since, Hagge
has brought an increasing
number of friends with him
to the festival. In 1957 the
party consisted of some 30
persons and had increased to
52 by 1958.
For the 1959 season,
Hagge's group numbered 88
people from the Sacramento
area who were in Ashland
from Aug. 14 through 17.
Each . summer the Sacra
mento party stays four days
in Ashland to view all four
productions of the Oregon
Shakespearean Festival. This
year they, witnessed "Twelfth
Night," with the special
"Maske of the New World,"
"King John," "Measure For
Measure," and "Antony and
Cleopatra."
With the group's increased
size, it more than fills two
Ashland motels. On Sunday,
following the performance of
"Antony and Cleopatra,"
Hagge and his group enter
tained many of the Festival
company members.
Those in the Sacramento
group were Mr. and Mrs. Mar
vin Blanchard and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd F. Bruno,
Miss Pamela Dokken, Mr. and
Mrs. Willis Drew, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Else and family,
Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Fricker
and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Gayman, Mr. and
Mrs. Howard R. Hagge and
family, Dr. and Mrs. Hardre,
Mr. and Mrs. David Harme
and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Hollister, Mr. and
Mrs. Francis P. Jensen and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jo
seph, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Kleps and family, Dr. Her
man Leader, Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Letson, Mr. and Mrs.
Colvin McCambridge, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Nolan and fam
ily, Mr. James Parsons, Miss
Catherine Patterson, Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Pearson and
family, Dr. and Mrs. Glenn
Pope and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Alan Post and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Revilla
and family, Senator and Mrs.
Albert Rodda and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Rodda and
family, Mr. Carson Sheetz,
Mrs. Kathryn Taylor and f am-
Oil prodiitclon in Venezu
ela last year averaged 2,799,
000 barrels a day.
ily, Mr. John Treantos, and
Mr. and Mrs. George White.
A recent survey showed
that only 53 per cent of all
the American pupils who
ranked in the upper fifth of
their high school classes went
on to college.
LAND IMPROVEMENT MACHINERY
NEW BUILDINGS FENCING
FERTILIZER STOCK FEED SEED
We extend credit for all sound farm purposes at low cost.
Let's get together and talk things over when you're in town!
Your funds ore insured here up to $10,000 by
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Your
savings earn interest at 3 semi-annually. -
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MEDFORD
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Published in the public interest by Crater Lake Machin'ey Co.
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Phone SP 2-6207
To all of you . . . every man and woman who had a part in the planning and building of
Sears new Rogue Valley Store . . . we of Sears say "Thanks for a job well done, in record
time." ,
We are grateful to the Medford community leaders and civic-minded individuals who
have played such an important part in the determination that the Rogue Valley should
have these new modern retail facilities in the Medford Shopping Center.
Our sincere thanks go tq our many employees who have worked tirelessly to prepare for
the grand opening, making our new store as attractive as possible.
And we are deeply appreciative of the wonderful cooperation between our contractor,
Buttress and McClellan, the sub-contractors listed below, and the hundreds of skilled
craftsmen who worked together to complete the finishing touches on the structure.
And to the most important people in our store, Our Customers, we extend a special
"Thank You" in appreciation of the generous Grand Opening response experienced
during these past three days.
It is our sincere hope that all who haVe had a part in the opening . . . our customers,
our employees, the construction crews and the Civic Leaders of Medford and all Rogue
Valley Communities . . . will feel that this is their store. And, because it is their store,
Sears says, again, "Thank you!"
SEARS ROEBUCK AND CO.
Jackson at Biddle
Medford, Oregon
1.1. C. Lininger & Sons
McLaughlin Plumbing
Ernest Conrad & Son
Tru-Mix Concrete
Rogue River Paving
A. L. "Tex" Nash
Sleeck Electric Co.
Trowbridge & Flynn
Leland P. Lovejoy
Moore Steel Service Co.
Medford Steel Co.
Selby Glass Co.
Taylor Sheet Metal
Mercer Steel Co.
Elfstrom & Eyre Inc.
Commercial-Home
Insulation Co.
Dutch Farfan
The Bay Co.
Emert & Zedrick Co.
Capitol Painting Co.
Bob Marshall
Steward Griffith Co.
T. R. Florey
Phil & Menill Sfembridge
BarnardVToilet Partitions
Smith Engineering
S&l! Landscape Nursery
Jack Smith
Big Pines Lumber Co.
American Steel & Supply
Hubbard Bros., Inc.
John 7arren Hardware