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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1963)
Of 8 B fib m f1 FRANK BRANDON Observes 98th Birthdir Local Man His 90th Birthday On Aug. 1 Frank S. Bran. don, .211 North Ivy tt., lacked just two year' of reaching the century mark." And on Sept. 24, he and his wife, Mrs. Brandon, will celebrate their 64th wedding anniver sary.V ';-' ; Flour' miller,; " merchant, . amateur '.writer and historian, . Brandon has witnessed the transition from the bows and arrows and early rifles of the Indian wars1 to . the uranium bomb that devastated Hiro shima;-from stage coach dri vers to. taxicab drivers; and from bread -made at home from stone ground flour to the freezer sections In- today's su- per market stocked with fro- ' ten bread, - When he was 13, Brandon moved to Jacksonville with his parents from Santa Mon ica, Calif.. (His father was an early day goldjnlner in Cali fornia). -One year later -the family moved to Ashland, where he learned the trade of .flour miller. Go Oat-Camping Trip .' ' ; ; In ' 1883 young Brandon, along with another 17-year-old, decided to go on a camp ing trip' by way of Dead In dian wagon road to Crater . lake. His diary records his reactions at, the sight of the lake, , which had been dis covered only 30 years earlier1 by white man, and their escape from a cougar. During his residence of 23 years , in Klamath county, Brandon and his brother, G e o r g e, - Incorporated the town, of Merrill, naming it for a Mr. Merrill who donat ed land for the town site and flour mill. Brandon became postmaster, a position he' held until he left to come to the Rogue valley. He met his wife -in Merrill sal Viiiin el n h im on. SUNDAY. AUGUST 4. 1963 m ..... ill it i in I M FV 4 111 7 or n rij.ii Observes in 1898 at a Fourth of July celebration, In those days parades had ' goddesses ln stead of princesses and queens, and Miss Martha Ann Whitney was the goddess of liberty in one of the parade floats, while Brandon played the cornet in the band. Tne following year she became Mrs. Frank Brandon. Move to Rogua ValUy The Brandons decided to move to the Rogue valley in 1908 during the pear "boom. and they have resided in Medford since. He worked at his trade of miller in Eagle Point and Medford during World War I. Following a period of em plyoment at M&M Depart- I ment store, he owned and op - erated his own men s cloth- ing store until he retired in 1938, The Brandons have three children, a son, Ralph, Salem; and two daughters, Mrs. George Van Fleet, Texas, and Mrs. Melvin H. Lewis, 848 West 14!h St., Medford; and six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Brandon declares "that he has lived in southern Oregon for 85 years and has never regretted settling here." Police Investigate Station Break-In A break and entry at the Enco service station, 126 North Riverside ave., some time early Friday was inves tigated by Medford city po lice. Officers said entrance was gained through the northeast door of the station. An unsuc cessful attempt was apparently made to pry open a metal cabinet. Nothing was -reported missing, police said. America's liml Oil-Fired Home Heaters lifetime Porcelain Enamel finish in Blonde Oak or Mahogany. Jungers heaters are available in various sizes to heal from one room home to six room homes economi cally. Multiple burners operate singly or together and burn like gas. Therefore, there is no smoke, no soot, no odor to cause heat losses. rjng the best in: OIL HssATINkS EQUIPMENT OIL BURNER SERVICE DIAL 779-1515 ii On the Air By ELEANOR WIESE "We'll be back in a moment after this word from our spon sor." Sounds painless enough but when words from the sponsor interrupt a half hour tele vision show at least six or more times, they can be down, right annoying. This is particularly notice able on daytime shows such as "Password and Concentra tlon" where there Is a com mcrcial for about every five minutes of show. The adver. tiscrs have gone beyond the point of tolerance here to where the advertising loses its effectiveness .and becomes merely an annoyance. TV Guide points out that perhaps it's the number of in- terruptions, rather than just the time devoted to commer cials, that deserves study by advertisers and stations. A committee of the Assoc! ation of National Advertisers, which is earnestly and syste matically trying to cut down what it terms the "clutter" in television programs, monitor ed shows to learn how much time was spent for entertain ment and how much for extra neous matter. The committee found: "The results ... are absolutely shocking. Not a single 'hour show monitored has as much as 50 minutes entertainment time even when 'scenes from next week's show' are includ ed as entertainment." Actual time lapsed between the end of the actual current entertainment of one show and the beginning of the en tertainment on the next show averaged eight and a half to nine minutes and sometimes ran more than 11 minutes. The Television Code now provides that not more than about ten and a half minutes can be devoted to commercials during a prime evening hour. Daytime shows can use more. These precious minutes must be used to the very best advantage of the company paying the bill. To make the commercials as palatable to the viewers as possible, per haps the answer lies in quality and not quantity. FRONTIERS OF FAITH, 10:30 a.m. Sunday KBES-TV. James OV-ara, managing edi tor of the Commonweal Maga zlne, will be host for a series of four conversations on the Second Vatican Council. To day's truest will be Dr. Fred- 1 erick Grant, one of the official delegate-observers for the An- glican Communion. TWENTIETH CENTURY, 6 p.m. Sunday KBES - TV "From Jet to Dyna-Soar" fol lows the development of jet aircraft. MEET THE PRESS, 6 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. W. Aver ell Harrlman, who was chief U.S. negotiator of the oartal nuclear text ban treaty in Moscow, will be interviewed. DAVID BRINKLEY'S JOURNAL, 8:30 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. The race problem in Great Britain, as exempli fied In the city of Birming ham, with its 75,000 colored population, is examined. GE TRUE, 9:30 p.m. Sun day KBES-TV. "Escape" (Part I). An English stage magician schemes to effect the escape of several hundred Royal Air Force pilots from a World War II German prison camp. SHOW OF THE WEEK, 10 p.m. Sunday KMED-TV. Cam eras placed in the Emergency Ward at New York's Bellevue hospital, docuir.ent the scries FUEL OIL of crises a doctor faces on hos pital duty. FOCAL POINT, 9:30 a.m. Monday KMED-TV. Rev. Har vey Coovert, Zion Lutheran church, and Carlos Morris, fu neral director, discuss the his tory of funerals, current criti cism of funeral practices, and give instruction in making fu neral arrange ments. Miss Daisy Davis, graduate of the Mooscheart, 111., school for orphan children sponsored by the Moose Lodge, tells about the school. YOUTH POWER, 7:30 p.m. Monday KMED radio. Cam bridge university students Nick Halton, Terry Jenkins and Tony Payne, visiting Med ford through auspices of the Jaycees, discuss with panel members Arvin R e y nolds, Capt. Clyde Fitchncr and Phyllis Pesenti the differences between educational methods in England and the U.S COMEDY HOUR,. 9 p.m. Monday KBES-TV. Broadway singing star Julie Andrews and comedian Phil Silvers join Jack Benny in an hour of music and fun, TONIGHT SHOW, 11:15 p.m. Monday KBES-TV. Sen ator Edward M. Kennedy (D Mass.) will be special guest. FOCAL POINT, 9:30 a.m. Wednesday KMED-TV. Russel Johnson of Evans Valley will tell about a new breed of horse called the "Pony of America" and show his Apa Ilosas. Bill Clark will explain the Jackson County Shrine club's canned food caravan. Boiler Named as Agent for Company Appointment of C. A. Boil er as general agent for seven counties in Oregon has been announced by Mutual of Oma ha and United of Omaha. Boiler was formerly a re gional sales director in the companies home office in Omaha, Ncbr. The C. A. Boiler and Asso ciates General Agency is re sponsible for all sales activ ities for the two companies in Coos, Curry, Douglas. Jack son, Josephine, Klamath and Lake counties. Appointment of Boiler brings to 500 the number of sales and service facilities in the companies' international organization. To date the companies have paid over $70,000,000 in benefits to their policy owners in the Or egon, California, Washington, Idaho and Alaska areas. Picnic Slated for Shriners of Area A picnic for all Shriners in the southern Oregon area will be held Sunday, Aug. 11, at the Indian Mary park, two miles west of Hell Gate Can yon bridge on the Merlin-Ga- lice rd west of Grants Pass. The picnic is sponsored by the Josephine county Shrine club. The park, which is on Rogue river, is equipped for overnight camping, picnick ing and swimming. A chicken dinner will be served. There will be music by the Hillah Temple Ger man band and entertainment for children. Shriners are asked lo wear their fezes and to take their own table service. Area Peaches Start To Ripen; Said Good Some of the early varieties of local peaches are now rip ening and are of fine qualilv, according In C. B. Cordy, county extension agent. The principal peach vari elies will not ripen until late August, and will be in season i until mid -September. These : are the ones used principally ( lor iresn market and home canning. While (he peach crop in the south end of the valley was badly hurl with sprint; (rosl, there is a Rood crop in many ! orchards on the valley floor. There will be more than : enough peaches for local use and many will be shipped to outside markets. This will not : only insure an adequate sup- : ply of peaches, but will also provide work for many local residents, Cordy said. ' CRATER LAKE MOTORS W L CLLRZII SKCUt O Buy At Wholesale! '59 MERCURY 4-Dr, Station Wagon $1A7C RAH., uto.W$ 1299 NOW IU 3 Cui. 77a.594 8th & Fir Res. Ph. 582-3944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON yllSlt i.'j'-i'' ...:-..;") h 7 "It ' FRANK CATALANO JR. Carries on Woodworking Valley Man Carries On Family Trade in Building New Homes By DOT SIMMONS Mail Tribune Correspondent In ,the 1890s Frank Cata- lano Sr. apprenticed in Italy as a woodworker (cabinet maker) using handmade tools. Today, his grandson, Frank Calalano Jr. is a subdivider in the foothills east of Med ford, carrying on a family trade that has spanned three generations. Frank Sr. came lo the Unit ed States in 1898 and went to Rhode Island, where he got married and went to work as a cabinet maker. In 1904 he went west to California. Helps Rebuild City Following the great 1006 earthquake in San Francisco, he was among those who help ed rebuild the city. Then in 1912 he became a naturalized citizen and went into general contracting. John Calalano, his son, ap prenticed at a southern Cali fornia hardware company as a cabinet maker, building the detailed cabinets of the early phonograph. From 1924 to 1928 he work ed with his father learning Ihe construction trade (his father retired in 1928) and then continued in construc tion until the depression in 1934. Addinn to his knowledge of building, he spent 11 years with the city of El Segundo, Calif., as chief building in spector. In 1945, he went into contracting, retiring from the building trades in 1950. Frank Catalano Jr.. ap prenticed under his father, John, in the carpenter trade beginning in 1947. He, worked as a carpenter until 1953, when he entered the contract ing business in Medford hav ing continued in this capacity for the past 10 years. Most cf his work has been building on contract to the public and building specula tion homes for sale. In 1961 he decided to try subdividing on some Foothills rd. proper ly. After two-and-a-half years of work, he completed several homes, which were opened recently. Has Seen Changes The construction trade has seen some changes in three cenerations. Frank Catalano Jr. commented, but there are other factors which have not changed. Costs have shown quite a change, he pointed out. In his srandfathcrXday. the average quality three-bedroom home could he built for $2.50 per square font. Today the cost is hrtween $10 and $15 a square foot . The tools used today are different from the handmade implements that Frank Sr. used, although Frank Jr. still has some of his grandfather's tools. One thing that has not changed, however, is the role played by the Catalano wives in their husband's businesses. All helped with such details as painting, telephoning and picking up supplies. Persons 15 to 25 pounds be low average weight have the lowest mortality rate and there are more women than men in this group. for those who think young ' f:f . .. A i ; O Sunshine brings more Pepsi! Light, bracing Pepsi matches modern activities with $ sparkling-clean taste that's never too sweet. And nothing drm:b9S,yout) thirst like a cold, inviting Pepsi- Cola. Think young -say'Ppsi. please! ' ' o e f tMTUP Bottled by Pepsi-Col Opinion Refuses Request for Delay In An opinion refusing the re quest of the defendants for delay in the suit of Lithia Lumber company versus R. Drew Lamb and others was handed down July 31 by Jackson county Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly. The case came before the circuit court July 1, 1963, in a ntpariino hv the defendants o - - . ae Ilia latocf aM inn In tho suit of Lithia Lumber com pany seeking $4 million dam ages from Lamb, the Mag nolia Lumber company and others for alleged breach of contract. Named as defendants are R. Drew Lamb and Zelma C. Lamb of Ashland, husband and wife, Magnolia Lumber corporation, and R. Drew Lamb, Zelma C. Lamb, O. C. Carroll, Corrine Lamb and the estate of W. H. Becker, de ceased, co-partners doing bus iness as Magnolia Lumber Sales company. Complaint Is Filed In the damage suit Lithia Lumber company claims that promises made when Mag nolia sold the plant to Lithia in 1952 have not materialized. The last amended complaint was filed the first of the year. In ruling on the request for delay by defendants in the recent action, Judge Kelly pointed out that such delays are granted only when the lit igation is between the same parties and pertaining lo the same subject matter. This is not the case in the recent action, the opinion Roads Improved in Mountain Lake Area Road improvement in the Hyatt lake and Howard Prai rie lake areas is moving along in a satisfactory manner, the Jackson county court report ed Thursday following an in spection tour made by Com missioners Don Faber and Ed Taylor. The resorts at Hyatt lake, the campgrounds at Howard Prairie and the Lily Glen rid ing academy also were in spertcd by the commissioners, who reported everything in keeping with requirements. The road crew was trans ferred from the Butte Falls area lo complete the hard lopping on the two-mile sec tion from Howard Prairie to Hyatt lake. 4 xWsVvXV V people out today -and more pmoplt hriny out v I N AMI 1XP (Ptt tOTUt t GO M(l lirt Bottling Company, Med'erd, kantler Appointment from Pepsi-Cola Compjny, N.'lfJ.Y. states. The defendants are granted 10 days in which to appeal or answer and are Sand The Volk-.vagen is os al horns in desert eoun. try os cactus. Itnever needs water. (The engine's air-cooled.) It can't boil over (Mo radiator.) It goes on sandy roads. (The engine in the rear gives it extraordinary Iraction.l But the desert isn't the VW's only habitat. Put It on o mountain road and it acts like a mountain goat. Climbs up Ihe steep places. Through snow ond ice. Wherever it goes, Ihe VW brings with It re freshing ideas about economy. It averages about 32 miles to the gallon. Some times more, sometimes less, depending on how and where you drive. It rarely needs a major overhaul. Many VWs have gone over 60,000 mile? with the original cylinders ond pistons. It lasts almost indefinitely. Most of the earliest Volkswagens are still around, digging themselves cut of Ihe sand and climbing mountains. In fact, you might call Ihe VW a chameleon. It adapts so well to its surroundings. MORSE MOTORS 6th and Ivy - Call 772-7155 PO?mTtSlM rlpK ( Ft). c v n r Damage Suit given leave to me ai aea answers, consistent wun ina order. o nsvvoittwMl o MiaiB, bug. Pepsi !lin:mit.HttfiiiH- i ! FSFSWCOU 1 2 ITjj " ii j,f o
