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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1963)
6 B TIIUtSDAY, ()( lOliLK 3, 13 MLUK'WtU MAIL IH1BLNE, MhDrOKU, OKEOON Historians May See 1960s as Gas ticiiht Erar iPifiSlY WiGGLY EES PIGGLY WIGGLY NEW YORK (UPI) - Not only are homeowners cooking with gas these days, they're heating with it, cooling with it disposing of their garbage by means of it and, just for good measure, they're lighting with it again. Indeed, historians of the fu ture may well refer to the 1900s as the 2()th century gas light era m America. More than 35 million custo jijj lj m DM 7 mers now use gas for fuel and it provides 29 per cent of the nation s energy requirements, according to industry sources. Gas for cooking long has been the accepted thing in many homes. Gas for heating has en joyed steadily increasing popu laritv and now gas air condi tioning is growing by leaps and bounds. Many modern fam ilies dispose of their trash and garbage in odorless, smoKeiess. gas-fired incinerators. And, strange as it may seem, the past five years has seen really tremendous growth in gas lighting. No, Americans haven't gone back to reading by gas light but they are using gas lamps for illumination and for decora tive purposes around patios swimming pools and other roc reational areas. Hestaura n t s and other public places have turned to gas light for an added touch of cheerfulness and the U. S. Coast Guard has even ap proved gas lights for naviga tional aides on a causeway near Sandusky, Ohio. Frederick H. Robinson, sen ior vice president of Panhandle Eastern Pipe line, a pioneer in long - distance transmission of natural gas from (he field to Uie consumer, estimates there are 750,000 to 1 million outdoor gas lights in use today more than in the pre - incandescent peak year of 1914 when about 300,000 gas lamps lighted city streets across the nation. So popular have these lights become in the past five years that about 20 manufacturers are working to meet the de mand. Robinson said. These lamns. he said, still use virtual ly the same mantle they have used for 80 years since its in vention by Dr. Carl Auer Von Welsbach. Only the wire lorm crly used in the burner tip has been replaced by a ceramic ma terial. But while many of the lights of the 18110s were fed by so-call ed "burning springs" where natural gas had seeped to the surface, the lights in use lotlay are fueled by natural gas thai often travels thousands of miles before being burned. Today, although few of these springs still exist, HoDin son said, one is to be found near Decatur, 111., just north of the natural gas transmission lines of Panhandle Eastern. The spring, now confined in a small concrete water pit, bubbles up every 45 to GO seconds. Morse Criticizes Portland NAACP WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) Wednes day criticized the Portland. Ore., chapter of the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People for threatening to picket President Kennedy at Portland. "It just isn't good manners to invite a guest to your home and then insult and embarrass him," Morse declared. He told the Senate that "I can not think of anything that would be more im)v lile" than to have the President picketed after he had been invited to the city. Morse said the Oregon mem bers ot Congress requested Ken nedy pass up the dedication of a Portland housing project to avoid possible embarrassment. The Portland Negro group con tended that Negroes were being i discriminated against by the housing authority which operat ed the prcject. The President did not slop al Portland on his recent western trip. Birth Control Clinic Opens Doors PORTLAND (CPU-Oregon's first birth control clinic 0cned here Wednesday under the spon sorship of the Planned Parent hood Association of Oregon, Inc. The clinic has a staff of 22 physicians on a part-lime basis and 20 nurses. It offers services on an ability-to-pay basis. The clinic is operating with private funds, but will be open to state welfare patients who request help. Mrs. Charles fosterling, Port land, association president, said the clinic is set up to aid mar ried couples or couples planning to get married. "We want to promote wanted children," she said. HKCOCM.K NATIONALIST WASHINGTON (I'PrJ;; The Stale Department has Informed Russia, that the United States . aftUl considersNationalist China , as the "legitimate government'! in China." Support Medford High School's ORDER OF M! lit ' ' s GREEN STAMPS WITH The Members of c;.v. P The XV School 4 It! MMPJ w. V Medford Senior Kigt letferman's Club (Order of M) WILL BE IN OUR STORE ALL DAY SATURDAY Demonstrating Various Products All monies the boys earn for their demonstration work plus all money derived from the sale of hot dogs will be put in the club's treasury to aid them in club projects. 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