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Buildings Take on Third Relationship By GERALD S. SNYDER United Prtw International New York (UP&- Buildings long have been categorized ac cording to their relationship to the railroad tracks-they're either on the right side or the wrong. Now there is a new direc tion In this relationship Straight up. On March 7, when Gov. Nelson Rockefeller snips the ribbons opening the $100 mil lion Pan Am building, built directly over Grand Central Station in mid-Manhattan, a iad in center city construction may have begun. Talk of Building There is already talk of building a new Madison Square Garden on top of Pennsylvania station here and in several other cities (among them Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis and Cleveland) new sky scrapers either have been or may be erected on top of the local railroad facilities. Not only will the buildings make use of precious "left over" air space, but they will bring millions of dollars into the sagging coffers of hard pinched railroads. The Pan Am building alone will provide an annual $1, 100,000 to the New York Cen tral railroad, the station's owner, which suffered a $3, 835,000 deficit last year. Rising 59 stories above the tracks of the Central and New Haven railroads, the Pan Am is the largest commercial of fice building in the world. Larger Buildings It's 2,400,000 square feet of floor space is surpassed only by the Pentagon in Washing ton and the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. The eight-sided giant boasts the highest heliport, the fast est (18 MPH) elevators-and the biggest human traffic problem of any single build ing. Some 25,000 office workers and an estimated 250,000 vis itors and sightseers will daily come to the vertical metropo lis. Among the mechanical won ders: television cameras in the walls and ceilings to watch over passengers safety on 18 escalators. During the two-and-a-half years it took to build the Pam Am building, a closed circuit television hook-up brought construction closeups to "side walk superintendents" on the main concourse of Grand Cen tral terminal. So great was the public In terest that other receivers were placed along the con struction fence surrounding the three-and-a-half acres of high-price, high-tax real es tate on 42nd street, four blocks east of. Times Square. The crowds saw huge steel columns dropped through holes cut into the roofs sepa rating the levels of track. They saw the spidery network of bracing steel take shape some of it placed within inches of high-voltage third rails of the electrified rail roads. They saw the building iso lated from the noise and vi bration of railroad rumble by a network of triple -decker "sandwiches" of lead, asbes tos and sheet metal placed under the steel columns. Throughout the project, the trains ran smoothly-and with out Interruption. Five workers lost their lives as the network of steel super structure rose hundreds of feet into the air. But the most talked-about tragedy was the death of the builder himself. On June 26, 1962, when the building was 75 per cent com plete, Erwin Service Wolfson died of cancer. Just two weeks before, the dying man took his last look at the building he conceived. He saw it from the window of a big twin-rotor helicopter that circled the summit of the structure for a full ten min utes. According to a friend who accompanied him on the flight Wolfson smiled the whole day long. McGrew Brothers Bids High on Timber Mrfirew Brothers. Medford. was high bidded this week for 830.000 board feci of na tional forest tmiber in the Bijou Blowdown area, Union Creek Ranger district, Rogue River National forest. Forest Supervisor C. E. Brown said 11 e high bid to taled $38,190, compared to the forest service appraised price of $21,301, an increase of 79 per cent. Next high bidder in the oral auction for the timber was G. and R. Logging. Med ford. Other bidders were Elk Lumber company, S. and W. Logging, Arnold Ragsdalc, Oliver and Wilson, and Fir Ply. Inc. Timber in the unit consist ed of 600.000 board feet of Douglas-fir bid at $48 per thousand board feci, 170.000 board feet of pondcrora pine, western white pine, and sugar pine bid at $31 per thousand board feci, and 60,000 board feet of while fir and oth.T species bid at $12 per thou sand board feet. Medford Tribune SECTION D MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1963 PAGES 1 to 8 ji.f 'Mltm-i.""" "tin MlMfiiw,"""wmHii'nMiM;3K' , I i! 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Siebenlist of the SOC science mathematics division as in structor in room 219 of the science building. Designed for teachers of elementary school mathe matics, the course will cover contemporary changes in the field and will emphasize SMSG (School Mathematics Study Group). Biology Class Set On April 2, the first class session for Ed 410 (s) Methods and Resource Materials in Biology (G) will be conducted in science 201 from 7 lo 10 p.m. Tuesdays by Dr. Irene Hollenbeck, SOC professor of science. The course will fea ture materials developed by the biological science curricu lum study committee of the American Institute of Biologi cal Sciences. Biology teachers are turn ing in increasing numbers to the BSCS courses as a satis fying way of teaching science and the college offering is assigned to acquaint them with the best use of the neces sary techniques and materials. Either class may be taken for 3 hours of graduate or undergraduate credit, and en rollment may be accomplish ed during the first class meet ing. Those interested in obtain ing additional information may contact ihe course in structors or the registrar at Southern Oregon college. NEW CONSTRUCTION - A new fad in city construction may have had its beginning when Governor Rockefeller snips the ribbon opening the $100-million Pan Am Building shown here. It was built directly over New York's Grand Central Station. A new Madi son Square Garden to be built over Pennsyl vania station in New York City has already been discussed and new skyscrapers either have been or will be erected right on top of railroad facilities in Chicago, Atlanta and several other cities. (UPI) Medford Students Are Listed on Honor Roll Portland - Two Medford students are listed on the Lewis and Clark college hon or roll for fall semester. They are Susan M. 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Such a turn is legal in Ore gon unless otherwise posted, police explained, but the mo torist must be aware that he must yield to all traffic and pedestrians after stopping, when making the left turn. Right turns also are per mitted in Oregon on a red light after slopping, unless otherwise posted. Motorists were reminded that turns must be made with out "swinging wide." This means that for a right turn the vehicle must turn into the lane closest to the right curb of the street being entered. For a left turn from a two way street into a two-way street, the vehicle must con tinue into the lane to the right of the centerline of the street being entered. In the case of entering a one-way street by making a left turn, the ve hicle should enter the lane nearest the left curb. Making Left Turn For making left turns from a one-way street into another one-way sired, the vehicle must be in the extreme left lane and turn into the ex treme left lane. 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