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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1963 Sign Variance Request Approved by City Council; Planning Commission Overruled on 10th St., Dakota St., Pearl st. and Whittle ave.; and for resurfacing a portion of South Grape st. Authorize the water depart ment to install a water main on loth st. from Lincoln to Hamil ton sts. Establish funds for water mains on 10th st., Bessie St., and Crestbrook rd. Accept a completed paving project on Hillcrcst rd., and approve an assessment ordi nance for the improvement. Approve additional one-hour ine Medford ritv mnnrii Thursday night overruled a recommendation of the planning commission and voted 4 to 2 to grant a sign variance to the Leland Clark Insurance com pany in the Oregon Bank build ing on Jackson st. The firm had requested a variance to permit erection of a 2 by 4-foot sign parallel to the facade of the building. The planning commission had rec ommended against the request because such a sign would vio late the set-back provisions of the city code. n representative ot tne insur-1 f- Hrr vu r i. . . 2 . the council to exhibit photo-i v graphs which he claimed illus-! 4 - a, V u aieu me point mat a sien tiat " " v against the face of the building which the planning commis sion had suggested would not serve adequately for purposes of identification. He claimed that a sign iden tifying the previous occupant of the building had been virtu ally the same size, and had been removed only when anoth er sign company offered to in stall a new one at about half the yearly cost of the existing sign. Non-Conforming Sign City Planning Director Ned Langford pointed out to the council, however, that the pre vious sign had been non-conforming; that is, it had been erected prior to enactment of the city's sign ordinance. Copy on a non-conforming sign can be changed, according to the ordi nance, but new signs may not be erected which do not con form. Councilman William Singler said he felt the insurance com pany was a "victim of extenu ating circumstances," and that the council "ought of give them their sign." Councilmen Jack Edson and Robert Cunningham voted against the request. Edson, im mediately after the vote, moved that the sign ordinance be amended to provide that signs in a limited commercial zone be installed "flat against the building." The council unani mously supported the motion, anri tha mnllnr will innai. nn the agenda at the next regular j br J V meeting of the planning com-! -i mission. In other action, the council voted to: Grant a change of zone from single family to multiple fam ily for property located at the southwest corner of Crater Lake ave. and McAndrews rd. Annex Properly Annex to the city property situated north of Stewart ave. and west of Chestnut st. Acquire, accept and dedi cate for municipal purposes a 20-foot strip on Barnett rd. deed ed by Luther M. and Anne Davis; a parcel of land on Mc Andrews rd. between Biddle rd. and the freeway owned by the Oregon state highway depart ment; and a 1,500 square foot parcel along Bear creek owned by Leon L. and Dons G. Evans. A p p r o v e a cooperative agreement with the Oregon state highway department for instal lation and maintenance .of a traffic signal at Riverside' ave. and Barnett rd. Authorize a lease with the White City Realty company to erect a sign on city property at Table Rock rd. and Antelope rd. Authorize a lease with Rob ert A. Burk. Eagle Point, per mitting agricultural use of 14.3 acres of surplus land at the municipal airport. Amend Building Code Amend the building code whereby a temporary (one not to remain in existence more than four years) public building may be constructed with a mini mum clearance of four inches from the ground, provided that all wood within 12 inches of the ground be treated with an approved preservative. Award contracts and estab lish funds for paving projects Mrs. Bigalow to Head Hear) Fund Mrs. Earl Bigalow, executive secretary of The Carpenter Foundation. 1005 East Main St., Medford, has been appointed Jackson County Heart Fund chairman for 1964. Kenneth C. Hume, assistant vice president of the First Na tional Bank of Oregon, has been named state chairman for the 1964 Heart Fund campaign in Oregon, according to Dr. Earl D. DuBois, Oregon Heart asso ciation president. Assisting Hume by serving as central region chairman is William F. Gwinn, Albany. Gwinn will be one of thousands in Oregon who will help organ ize volunteers and collect con tributions during the week of Feb. 17 to 23 to support heart and blood vessel research in Oregon. During l2-fi3 the Oregon Heart association allocated more than $100,000 to support re searchers in Oregon. Numerous breakthroughs in medical sci ence are expected this year in order that premature death and disability be halted. parking around the Jackson county courthouse. Accept a report that no defi ciencies exist in storm and sani tary sewers on 10th and Lincoln sts. Prcqualify Firms Prequalify D. A. LaVelle Construction company, Portland, LaVelle Construction company, San Jose, Calif., and Arrow Wrecking company, Indianapo lis, Ind., to bid on city projects. Approve appropriations from the city's park and recreation of $23,000 for renovating Haw. thorne pool; and $18,500 for con tinuation of the Jackson park development project. Deny the request of Robert C. Messer to operate a car rent al agency at the municipal air port. Mayor James Dunley, and Councilmen Richard Travis and Terry Green were absent. Coun cil President Robert Baccus pre sided. The next regular meeting of the council is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, in the A 31 Attendance at Museum Breaks Record for One Month improvement fund in the amount council chambers in city hall. Some 14,901 persons visited the Jacksonville museum dur ing August, 1963, for the larg est attendance at the museum for any month since it was opened. The month's total is 1.613 more than the same month a year ago. So far this year nearly 50,000 have visited the museum with the total since July, 1950, now 588,911 persons. Visitors last month were from 47 states, Washington D.C., and 21 foreign countries. States which did not have visitors reg istering were Vermont, Rhode Island and Delaware. Groups and organizations who toured the Museum during the month included the First Pres byterian senior adults from Portland, Sacramento State col lege study tour, Al Minn's Fun camp from Hawaii, Ashland Assembly of God Sunday school class. Girl Scout Troop 6, Los Altos, Calif., escorted by Girl Scout Troop 192 from Medford; Cub Scouts from Den 3, Pack 60 from Central Point, and the Trailways Grand Circle tour, which made two visits. Gifts and loans presented to the museum in the last month include early day Jacksonville and mining equipment, cloth- I n g, china, bedding, photo graphs, material, tools, and old records. The items were received from Otto W. DeJarnett, Mrs. Wayne Piland, R. Lee Younger, ! Lonny Harris, Miss Mabel Mears, Mrs. Verna Flowers, all j Medford; Mrs. Joseph P. Mar-; tin, Rogue River; A. J. Dur-1 ham, Ashland; Rayford W. Hi-1 att, Grants Pass; Frank A. 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